Gagare1: Rubbish. I am a Hausa man from Kano, but I strongly disagree with the way this Fulani idiots are over hyping this whole issue. We the Hausawa already see through their hypocrisy. Their aim is to incite hatred in our hearts against other Nigerians from the South, because that is how they isolate and control us. Yes, Hausa people were killed because they were confused for Fulani Terrorists. Of course we seek justice for the people killed and nothing more. We know that Fulani Terrorists are the reasons for the unfortunate incident.
Please Southerners, this should not in any way I intimidate you into cowardice as regard dealing with Fulani Terrorists. The moment you identify them, KILL THE FUCKERS.
The Fulanis politicians are trying to use this incident to minimize the backlash against their Terrorists down South. Don't fall for it.
Have you ever seen any of them blink an eye when Fulani Terrorists destroyed and killed entire Hausa villages up North? No. So why the sudden activism against killing of Hausawa now? We clearly can see through their hypocrisy.
As for Edolites, your governor is clearly a useless person. No Fulani governor would have done what he did. Why travel to Kano yourself? Why not send your SSG or SSHA?
Vote him out.
@Gagare1
I agree with you in the bolded section of your post BUT I disagree STRONGLY with you on one point.
It was a very good thing that the Edo State Governor personally traveled to Kano State to commiserate with the indigenous Hausa hunters from Kano State. Based off of the FACT that the killing of those men was videoed before being set ablaze, it was horrendous and could have triggered a major spontaneous ethnic backlash and reprisal killings of innocent non-Northerners living in Kano State due to the FACT that the video of the killings went viral. It's ALSO CLEARLY good that the Edo State government has offered compensations to the families of those killed. If you say you are a Hausawa and a Kanawa as well, then you shouldn't see ANYTHING wrong here.
We can deal with the highly criminal activities of Fulani bandits in Edo, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Kwara, Kogi, Delta, Zamfara, and other states after this to a FINAL conclusion.
Last but NOT least, I expect you the indigenous Hausawas of Northern Nigeria and Niger Republic to lead the way and throw the yoke of these migrant foreign Fulanis and Fulani Emirs off and have your indigenous Sarkis or Kings installed as traditional rulers. NO Hausa man has ever been President in Nigeria's history and most Governors of Kano State and far Northern Nigeria States that I know have NEVER been Hausas. I'm not sure if former Kano State Governor Kwankwaso is a pure Hausa or a Fulani though.
It's time to FINALLY END and BURY the minority Fulani hegemony in Nigeria because all the Fulanis in the whole of the West African countries are NOT more than 25 million (and they are even less in population because Fulanis are notorious for individually claiming to be citizens of multiple countries in West Africa) while the indigenous Hausas are over 80 million in Nigeria and Niger Republic alone. The Yorubas are over 80 million in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and around the world. The Kanuris and some other ethnic groups are more than Fulanis in Nigeria as well.
It's shameful that a minority Fulani ethnic group of foreign origins are terrorizing larger indigenous ethnic groups in Nigeria that has an estimated population of 230 million people, and this elevation of the minority Fulanis over other ethnic groups with larger populations by the British Colonialists for administrative and tax purposes, and further propped up by the past Nigerian military rulers after the British Colonialists had left Nigeria in 1960 MUST be STOPPED by all Nigerians! President Tinubu has to initiate the full restructuring of Nigeria to reduce the criminal grip of a minority group like the Fulanis in controlling Nigerian local and national politics along with their intimidation of Hausas and many other indigenous ethnic groups of the Middle Belt of Nigeria
Indeed, I'm aware that before these killings of Southern Nigerians by Fulani bandits started, the indigenous Hausa farmers and communities were the FIRST major victims of Fulani killings right in the early 2000s when Olusegun Obasanjo was the Nigerian President in Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, parts of Kano, and more unknown to the Southern people while being underreported by the Southern media. Today, I've seen Hausas who are crying out in videos online over the current killings of Hausas and the displacement of Hausa communities for resettlement as of 2024 to 2025 by foreign Fulani bandits!
So, it's time to stop these criminal foreign Fulani herdsmen from coming right across the borders into Nigeria based on the ECOWAS protocol on free movement since MOST of those foreign Fulanis are even coming from Mali, Niger Republic, Cameroon and Burkina Faso which have already left ECOWAS and created their own region organization. Cameroon is NOT even an original member of ECOWAS because it is NOT geographically located in the West African region. Enough is Enough of this insidious minority foreign Fulani hegemony [hiding under the FALSE cover of being part of indigenous Hausawas in the Hausa-speaking parts of Nigeria and Niger Republic Hausaland]. Period.
The deputy Governor of Edo State, H.E. Rt. Hon. @IdahosaDennis, received the deputy governor of Kano State, Alh. Aminu Abdusalam Gwarzo, the Emir of Rano, Alh. Muhammed Isa Umar,and their entourage to Edo State.
The deputy Governor of Edo State, H.E. Rt. Hon. @IdahosaDennis, received the deputy governor of Kano State, Alh. Aminu Abdusalam Gwarzo, the Emir of Rano, Alh. Muhammed Isa Umar,and their entourage to Edo State. pic.twitter.com/p6ju5gORr1
davidotokiblog1: The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr Emomotimi Agama, has said Nigeria may soon exit the Financial Action Task Force grey list.
This came following the signing of the Investments and Securities Act 2025 by President Bola Tinubu.
According to a statement from the SEC on Wednesday, Agama said this while speaking during an interview in Abuja.
The statement noted that Agama said the inclusion of digital assets regulation in the new Act provides a pathway for the country to address long-standing deficiencies in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regimes.
“It may interest you to know that the AML/CFT issue is what brought about our inclusion in the grey list.
“The inclusion of this law today provides us an avenue to exit that grey list, and that is very critical to the international community. We are telling the international community that we are ready for business and we are ready to protect every business that operates within Nigeria and all those involved in such activities within Nigeria,” Agama said.
Nigeria was placed on the FATF grey list on February 24, 2023, over identified weaknesses in its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing framework.
Countries on the list are subject to increased monitoring until they resolve the deficiencies.
Agama stated that the new law empowers the Commission to properly regulate the digital asset space and clamp down on unregulated entities, thereby improving investor confidence and safeguarding national interests.
“This SEC now has the power to clamp down on such entities. So, we encourage everyone who is in this space to come under regulation, to seek clearance, to seek guidance for whatever reason, and we are ready and able to provide solid guidance so that at least the national economic interest is truly protected,” he said.
“The essence of regulating is to provide fences around the institutions, the products, the persons involved in it, and to make sure that they do not involved in things that are illegal.”
The SEC boss also dismissed claims that cryptocurrency trading automatically weakens the naira, noting instead that regulation would provide a safe operating environment for stakeholders and support economic growth.
He added that the Commission is working in collaboration with relevant government agencies to ensure the effective regulation of digital assets.
“It is important also to note that we are working with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, and the Office of the National Security Adviser on the regulation of this space, in order that it should not be inimical to the existence of Nigeria as a country.
“What we are doing is to make sure that everyone who is involved in this space is properly guided, because for every investment—even when it is a traditional investment—there’s usually the risk aspect of it. That risk aspect is what we are managing,” Agama said.
He disclosed that the Commission is currently adopting a phased licensing approach through two programmes, the Regulatory Incubation Programme and the Accelerated Incubation Programme aimed at evaluating the risks posed by operators in the space.
“It is a process, and in the next quarter, we are going to release the next cohort,” he said. “After the evaluation of what has happened in the last two quarters, we are going to do that release in this next quarter. We are happy to note that the processes around that is almost concluding, and we will inform the public of the outcome very soon.
To further strengthen investor protection, Agama said the Commission is introducing risk management as a legal instrument to guide capital market operations and securities issuance.
“Once this happens, the tendency is that investors will be more confident, because they know that we have their back. That certainly will improve investor protection,” he said.
He added that Know Your Customer processes would also be enhanced under the risk framework, allowing the Commission to better identify genuine investors and weed out bad actors.
NewDigitalWorld: Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, Femi Otedola, chairman of First HoldCo, and four other Nigerians, have been named among the World’s Black Billionaires for 2025 by Forbes Magazine.
In its annual World’s Billionaires list released recently, Forbes said out of 3,028 billionaires around the world, only 23 are Blacks.
“Twenty-three of them are Black—just 0.8% of the list—but they’re a wealthy and impressive bunch,” the report said.
“Overall, these 23 have amassed $96.2 billion in wealth, mainly from the finance, energy, and technology sectors.”
Forbes said out of the 23 billionaires, only six of them are Nigerians.
Here is a list of the Nigerian billionaires in order of Forbes’ ranking.
DANGOTE Aliko Dangote | $23.9 billion
Based on the magazine’s ranking, Dangote, chairman of Dangote Group, topped the list with a net worth of $23.9 billion.
Forbes said the billionaire’s fortune skyrocketed after the Dangote refinery finally began operating in early 2024, boosting businessman’s fortune by $10.5 billion since last year’s list.
MIKE ADENUGA
Mike Adenuga | $6.8 billion net worth
With $6.8 billion net worth, Forbes said Mike Adenuga, the owner of Globacom, a telecommunications firm, is the second Nigerian, ranking fifth on the list.
ABDULSAMAD RABIU
Abdulsamad Rabiu | $5.1 billion net worth
Abdulsamad Rabiu, founder of BUA Group, is ranked sixth on the publication’s world Black billionaires list. With $5.1 billion net worth, the billionaire is the third Nigerian on the list.
ADEBAYO OGUNLESI
Adebayo Ogunlesi | $12.5 billion in cash and shares
Another Nigerian on the list is Adebayo Ogunlesi, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), holding a net worth of $2.2 billion.
Forbes said Ogunlesi is the 11th Black billionaire in the world. In October 2024, the entrepreneur sold GIP sold to BlackRock for $12.5 billion in cash and shares.
OTEDOLA
Femi Otedola | $1.5 billion
Following closely in the 12th position, Otedola, chairman of Geregu, boast of a net worth of $1.5 billion.
Forbes said the billionaire “made his first fortune in commodities before selling his shares in Forte Oil to invest in the energy business”.
“Today, he is the chairman and majority owner of Geregu Power, a power generation business whose other investors include the Nigerian government and the State Grid Corporation of China,” the magazine said.
TOPE AWOTONA
The last Nigerian on the World’s Black Billionaires 2025 list is Tope Awotona.
Forbes said Awotona, in 2013, founded Calendly, a scheduling software startup, which private investors valued at $3 billion in 2021.
"When he emerged as the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, people were surprised."
"But we weren’t surprised at all because his love for the North was second to none. He would be the first to tell you that he was a northerner, a Christian and a Yoruba man and that Lord Lugard did not consult him when he decided to carve Nigeria and place Mopa, his hometown, in the North." "That he was a Christian and he had no apologies for that, and he was a Yoruba man who loved his great culture of song and dance. These are some of the things he said many times. People appreciated his honesty, selflessness, integrity and ability to speak truth to power."
Where were you when he died? I was in my office in Lagos. I spoke to him in the morning of that day, and he said he was going to Kaduna. I told him I would be going to Abuja two days later.
FuckFuckPastor: 23 of the 71 appointment from the North are Yorubas, and 34 of the 63 Southern appointment are from south west. The presidency has indicted itself more.
Yoruba folks are ancestrally indigenous to Northern Nigeria (OR part of the Middle Belt) because Yorubaland extends from the Middle Belt to the South West, parts of Edo State right down to Delta State with the Ilajes and Itsekiris having direct ancestry with the larger Yorubaland, then Benin Republic, Togo and Ghana, have indigenous Yoruba towns such as Ajase (Porto Novo), Ketou (Ketu), and more in Benin Republic with the country alone having up to 27 Obas or Kings who I'm aware attend yearly meetings with the rest of the Yoruba population in Nigeria and other countries.
Are these imbeciles insisting that the Yoruba folks of Kwara and Kogi States who are Northerners should be excluded from corporate or political appointments? Those highly uninformed posters right from page 1 of this thread who are largely Ibos do NOT even realize that an iconic nationalist and Yoruba man from Mopa in Okunland in Kogi State, Chief Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi was the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum but he passed on in November 2007 while in that Chairmanship position due to the injuries sustained in a car accident while traveling.Chief Awoniyi's biological third son, Abayomi Awoniyi, an Architect, was the Deputy Governor for 4 years from 2012 during Captain Idris Wada's administration as the Governor of Kogi State. What is more impressive is that Bayo Ojulari and Ahmadu Musa Kida who are both top oil and gas technocrats recently appointed in April 2025 by Tinubu's administration into the NNPCL management are from Kwara and Borno States, and they both attended the famous Ahmadu Bello University which is a major University that a lot of Northern students (including many indigenous Yoruba Northerners attended over the decades).
Just like the Igalas, Ebiras, Nupes, Gwaris, Baribas, Idomas, Tivs, Igedes, Jukuns, Biroms, Anagutas, Afizeres, Angas, Taroks, Bachama, Bura, Katafs, Zurus, etc, Yorubas are ancestrally part of the Middle Belt or North-Central Nigeria (UNLESS there is a major boundary adjustment today to merge them with their kith and kin in Southern Nigeria which I'm in support of because in order to prevent marginalizations, it's good for people of the same ancestry and culture to be together in one geographical bloc), then they are still Northerners just like 'Seun Okinbaloye of Channels Television who is from Kwara State always calls himself a "Northerner" which is a FACT of Nigerian geography. Period.
Great100000: [b]Nigeria responds to U.S. tariff imposition, says new policy to disrupt non-oil exports.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has acknowledged the recent imposition of a 14% tariff on Nigerian exports by the United States, stating its commitment to mitigating the impact while accelerating economic diversification.
In a statement signed by the Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, which was released on Sunday, the government noted that while oil has long dominated Nigeria’s exports to the US, non-oil products—many previously exempt under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) now face potential disruption.
It added that the new 10% tariff on key categories may impact the competitiveness of Nigerian goods in the U.S.
“For businesses in the non-oil sector, these measures present distabilizing challenges to price competitiveness and market access, especially in emerging and value-added sectors vital to our diversification agenda.
“SMEs building their business models around AGOA exemptions will face the pressures of rising costs and uncertain buyer commitments,” it stated.
Nigeria’s exports to the U.S.
According to the statement, Nigeria’s exports to the U.S. have averaged $5–6 billion annually over the past two years, with crude oil and mineral fuels accounting for over 90%.
• It added that non-oil exports such as fertilizers, urea, lead, and agricultural products make up less than 5% of total shipments.
• With the new tariffs, Nigerian businesses in value-added and agro-processing sectors may face reduced competitiveness in the U.S. market.
• The government, however, said it sees this as a catalyst to fast-track export diversification and improve compliance with international standards.
“We are approaching this moment with pragmatism and purpose—turning global trade challenges into opportunities to grow our non-oil export footprint and build a more resilient economy,” said Dr. Oduwole.
She said the Tinubu administration has rolled out policy, financing, and infrastructure measures to help Nigerian businesses adapt, including:
• Expanding alternative export markets outside the U.S.;
• Enhancing quality control and traceability for Nigerian goods; and
• Strengthening trade diplomacy to secure favorable terms.
Nigeria engages U.S., WTO over tariff The government described the U.S. as a “valued trade and investment partner” but emphasized Nigeria’s resolve to strengthen economic resilience amid global trade uncertainties.
The statement noted that Nigeria remains in active consultations with U.S. trade representatives and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to address the implications of the new tariffs.
This follows a recent meeting between the U.S. Ambassador and the Minister on March 26, 2025, where both nations reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral trade ties.
The statement highlighted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a critical avenue for reducing dependency on Western markets.
Nigeria is pushing for accelerated AfCFTA implementation, leveraging tools like the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) to boost intra-African trade.
Backstory
The United States President, Donald Trump, recently imposed a global tariff on all U.S. trading partners, in what he dubbed “Liberation Day.”
• The decision sent global markets into a tailspin, as foreign investors sold off assets over fears of heightened uncertainty and potential reciprocal tariffs. In response, China retaliated with a 34% tariff on all U.S. imports into the country.
• The United States also imposed a 14% tariff against Nigeria, claiming the country operates a trade surplus.
• Based on Trump’s stated policy, this should have warranted a 28% tariff, but Nigeria received what Trump called a “concessionary” 14% rate.
FreeStuffsNG: US trade with Nigeria has been shrinking over the years. Our money spinners are the trades with China, E.U , India and Africa. Whoever is hyping trade with US is wasting time. We should increase our trade with our good customers.
InfoGuru118: When listeners in northern Nigeria tuned into Voice of America last month, they found music playing in place of their regular broadcast — a telltale sign, historically, that soldiers had seized telecoms offices, and even the government, Times of Nigeria reports.
“Was there a coup in the US?” Babangida Jibrin, a VOA journalist, recalled one worried listener asking, as he and colleagues fielded unending calls after the US-funded station abruptly went off air on Friday.
The dismantling of VOA by President Donald Trump’s administration has left a particular dent in northern Nigeria, where a now-shuttered Hausa-language service that Jibrin worked for served tens of millions in Africa’s most populous country.
The radio broadcasts to Hausa speakers across rural Ghana, Cameroon and Niger, where print media is sparse and internet service spotty — was a key resource for those not fluent in official languages like English or French.
“People are now cut off from news, especially international news,” said Moussa Jaharou, from southern Niger, among the many VOA Hausa listeners living in poor areas prone to conflict and jihadist violence who now find themselves further isolated.
– Difficult media environment –
Established during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda, VOA expanded amid tensions between the United States and communist countries during the Cold War.
Though backed by US government funding, it was considered in modern times a source of reliable, professional journalism in Nigeria — and an important alternative when other outlets were sometimes seen as too close to the government or business interests.
Trump’s first term, however, saw accusations that the president was politicising the outlet. His second time around, he gutted its funding as part of his administration’s massive budget cuts.
While it’s hardly a death blow to Hausa-language media, which serves an estimated 80 million people and banks on a strong radio culture in west Africa, it represents yet another hit against an already fragile industry, taking out a service with a widespread network of local stringers
In addition to daily news, VOA’s health programming — including on HIV, and, right as the rainy season starts, malaria — has also come to an abrupt end.
“It’s really, really a shame,” Sadibou Marong, West Africa chief for Reporters Without Borders, said, noting that VOA reported on areas hit by armed groups in Nigeria and Niger, even situations where the military pressured journalists to report favourably on their campaigns.
The dismantling of VOA — currently being challenged in a US court — comes as Radio France Internationale (RFI), including its Hausa service, has been banned by military authorities in Niger. Britain’s BBC was recently hit with a three-month suspension in the country.
– Strong radio culture –
The establishment of radio stations in Kano city in 1944 entrenched a strong radio culture across northern Nigeria, which had a low English literacy rate during British colonial rule.
With its syndication across local stations, VOA’s service, established in 1979, could broadcast to millions in otherwise hard-to-reach rural locales.
Nigerian listener Muhammad Mukhtar, who picked up a habit of waking up for the 6:00 am broadcast from his father, said he was not worried about losing out on daily news — there are still plenty of local stations. But the 50-year-old was worried about the loss of VOA’s in-depth shows, including those on health, Islam in America and a Nigerian political debate programme called “Hot Seat”.
“I still have not come to terms with this shocking reality,” he said.
The service was also known for its “solutions-based journalism,” such as a story on a young inventor in Kaduna who used drones to monitor crop diseases, said Alhassan Bala, another laid-off reporter.
Other times, the network’s stories prompted government investigations, including into concerns over dangerous heavy metal exposure in children from mining operations in Zamfara state.
– Journalists laid off –
For the journalists, the decision to shut down the service is heartbreaking.
Recounting the harassment he faced during the junta leader Sani Abacha’s rule during the 1990s, Jibrin recalled through tears that “there are places we used to go where they would address us as CIA agents”.
“So now who will have the last laugh?” he asked, unsure how he will now be able to provide for his family.
Bala received the news while working on a story for his Hausa language fact-checking website, Alkalanci.
“I just said, ‘Oh my God,’” he told AFP. “This is bad.”
Then he went back to his story — reckoning his fact-checking work is now more important than ever.
NdiLucifer: Calling Abuja a no man’s land is an insult to the Hausa/Fulani people who built the city from scratch.
It’s just like calling Lagos a no man’s land. But it’s no surprise — we all know the tribe that’s always trying to take credit for others’ hard work.
Abuja is NOT only indigenous to the ethnic Gwaris but also the Ebiras and 7 others being that Abuja was carved out of 4 existing States in Nigeria with Niger State providing the largest chunk of land to the new FCT.
aswani: I only just happened on black soup a few months ago, I ended up in an argument with my Ilaje friend who swore the soup was theirs.
The amount of bashing Ewedu in particular gets here from the usual suspects makes me laugh. We all know the criticism is coming from a dark place of bigotry so nothing to worry about there.
Indeed... Because of the centuries of cultural blendings and interactions along the Ondo/Edo/Delta States border areas, variants of the black soup and owo soup indeed exist with Benin-Edos, Esan-Edos, Ilajes, Itsekiris, Isokos, and Urhobos, etc, having their unique styles of recipe. I've always loved reading about multiple cultures and culinary histories as well for years now and that's how I got to know some of these interesting specifics.
Your last paragraph is a total fact and it's done insidiously on all online platforms... A pure sign of organized attacks by paid troll farms as revealed by the "BBC Global Disinformation Team" in a 2022 undercover documentary exposing the activities of that criminal secessionist gang.
Slytiger: British-born Nigerian computer scientist, Dr Kunle Olukotun is well-known in the engineering industry for his substantial contributions to the field in the form of tactile inventions and in-depth research.
Olukotun worked as a student to earn a bachelor’s degree from Calvin College in Michigan, then a master’s and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987 and 1991 respectively.
The same year he earned his doctorate, Olukotun joined the faculty of Stanford University as the Cadence Design Systems Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
While at Stanford, Olukotun became the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project. The project, described as “a promising way to build a small-scale MP-on-a-chip with a fairly simple design while maintaining excellent performance on a wide variety of applications” allowed for the development of “one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS).”
With this groundbreaking experience and prolific research under his belt, Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop “high-throughput, low-power multicore processors for server systems”. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems which used Olukotun’s previous technological innovations to create the UltraSPARC T1 microprocessor, more commonly known as “Niagara”, a multithreading, multicore CPU1.
Olukotun is now known as the father of the multi-core processor.
His research interests include computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems, domain-specific languages and high-level compilers.
Kunle Olukotun was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006 for his “contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi-threaded processor design”. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008.
Olukotun has used several words from his Yoruba heritage in his research. Afara, the name of the company he founded, means “bridge” in the Yoruba language, and he has named his server at Stanford Ogun after the Yoruba god of iron and steel, a play on words since large computers are frequently called big iron.
Olukotun holds 12 US patents. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and written two textbooks.
aswani: Once more sir, great read and I doff my hat to you.
Please permit me to add Victor Osimhen to your notable list of Amala lovers who also extolled it's virtues lately when nominating it as his favourite food.
But of course, although with a proud Esan heritage, he is Yoruba using any yardstick.
Greetings @aswani.
I appreciate the extra info on Victor Osimhen and I just Googled him and found out that just like you indicated in your post, he said he loves Amala which of course doesn't stop him from identifying with his Esan-Edo roots and Yorubaland birthplace and there are a lot of Esan folks who I'm aware were born and live in Lagos and other Yoruba States. I've come to realize that a lot of people with deep low self-esteem simply like to needlessly show off by claiming some foods are overated or that they do NOT eat some kinds of foods, but in reality, they secretly crave to eat them.
I've seen posts by some of these relentless bigots online over the years dissing the tasty Edo black soup (because of the natural dark color) or owo soup. For me, I think when people are open to trying out new and creative things in life, they will not go about deliberately casting aspersions on other ethnic group's national foods on an open discussion forum like this.
It's not enough to have basic CCTVs. Early warning systems to aid the arrest of these criminals right on the spot are very important and they already exist.
LegendHero: Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, said 23 indigenes of the state are currently on death row in Indonesia for drug-related offences.
Soludo made this known on Wednesday while addressing a group of All Progressives Congress members who defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance in support of his re-election bid.
“Go to Indonesia, 23 Ndi Anambra are on death row there for drug-related offences,” he said.
He attributed the development to the influence of fake native doctors who deceive young people into believing they can evade security checks when smuggling drugs by using charms.
“These native doctors will deceive you that they will prepare a charm that when you carry drugs and enter the airport, the white man’s scanner will go blind.
“These young people believe them, and today, many of our people are languishing in jail across the world,” he stated.
Soludo warned that anyone caught making such deceptive claims would be arrested, noting that many of the self-proclaimed native doctors could not even use their so-called powers to improve their own lives.
The governor added, “One of the native doctors who is in detention, his son is a waiter in a hotel in Nnewi. If it was that simple, why didn’t he make his son a millionaire?
“One of them that we arrested has sworn that he is just a content creator, yet he has used things like these to deceive our young people that you can become rich without doing any work, as far as you have done oke Ite (money rituals).”
The governor said such beliefs were damaging the mindset of youths in the state.
“That is why you see young people who wake up in the morning and retire to beer parlours drinking, hoping to get rich later in life,” he added.
He clarified that the state is not opposed to traditional religion but is determined to clamp down on those who promote dangerous practices in the name of spirituality.
“We are not against traditional worshippers; what we are against is people who are doing dangerous medicines and charms.
“We have always known those who are into traditional practices, they have things they believe in, and they were about the most upright people then.
“Those were people who believed that if you did the wrong thing, you could be killed by the gods of the land. But what these new crop of criminal native doctors are doing is deceit, and we will not allow that to continue,” he said.
That Anambra State has the highest numbers of drug barons and drug traffickers from Nigeria and they come from notoriously specific towns in Anambra State such as Nnewi, Ozubulu, Ihiala, a few from Obosi, I hardly saw Onitsha indigenes on the lists, etc, (NOT all Anambra towns) based off of official crime data that I've gleaned from the NDLEA and the NIA over the past decades.
These criminals (who often don't use their real Igbo names, but use alternate Igbo names to commit the hard drugs crimes) don't care and they are largely noisy online and offline and this is partly why the crack teams of Asian anti-Narcotics trafficking and Intelligence Agencies have already profiled them based on ethnic origins and this is why whenever Nigerian citizens travel to Thailand and other Asian countries, one of the FIRST things they will ask you during interogations is: "are you are Igbo?" There's a viral video from Thailand which shows a Thailand intelligence officer BLUNTLY referring to Igbos as the CURSE of Africa while he was interrogating a boy who was caught in his country for hard drugs!
Of the the over 20 drug barons caught by the NDLEA for producing methamphetamine hard drugs (ice) in illegal meth laboratories right within elite estates such as VGC, Satellite Town, Ajao Estate, Iba New Site, Ibeju-Lekki, etc, in Lagos State right to Asaba (while pretending to be legitimate multi-millionaire Alaba International traders) over the last 25 years in major sting operations are ALL Anambra State indigenes. These ones caught in Indonesia are largely as good as dead if the death penalty is implemented to the letter in that country. Period.
Quarterpast: People hype some food a lot, meanwhile, such foods aren't worth such hype.
No disrespect to my brothers from the southwest, to me, Amala and ewedu remind the most overrated food. I see absolutely nothing spectacular about the food.
1] First off, contrary to what you stated on this insidious thread post by YOU, it was essentially created for ethnic baiting and that's unwise. YORUBA folks are NOT indigenously limited to the South West ALONE, but are indigenous to the North Central [Kwara and Kogi States], Edo State [Usen and some adjoining towns in Ovia South West LGA of Edo State], Delta State with Ilajes and Itsekiris being direct kith-and-kin with the larger Yoruba folks, and right into Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, where you have indigenous Yoruba folks, and much more. In all my international travels and within Nigeria over the decades, I've tasted a lot of foods from multicultural set ups and they are largely OK with the exception of a few.
2] Second, just to educate you and others who are NOT well-informed, there are 3 kinds of Amalas namely Amala Isu [made from Yam flour or Elubo Isu], Amala Ogede [made from unripe plantains flour or Elubo Ogede], and Amala Lafun [made from cassava flour or Elubo Lafun]. One BIGOT on this same page even posted about the "black" color of Amala as the reason for his revulsion, BUT unknown to the creep, Amala comes in different colors from BROWN Amala Isu, WHITE Amala Lafun, DARK BROWN Amala Ogede, etc.
3] Third, contrary to your post, NOBODY eats Amala and ewedu as a stand alone. Amala is eaten PRIMARILY with a tasty mix of soups from pepper soup mixed with ewedu and gbegiri OR with efo riro OR egusi soup OR just any of the many kinds of Yoruba soups and non-Yoruba soups.
4] Over the years, I've read of and heard many folks from across multiple ethnicities and racial groups say they love eating the different kinds of Amalas. First off is the late Herbert Wigwe who is an Ikwere by ethnicity from Isiokpo in Rivers State who clearly stated in an interview that his BEST food is Amala and whatever soup goes with it. Second is the IT and renewable energy specialist, Wiebe Boer who is a Nigerian-born Dutch guy [whose White Dutch missionary parents adopted the Nigerian rapper MI Abaga's mother in the 1960s] said he loves eating Amala in Lagos because of the taste of the whole mix, and there are many more. I remember a travel YouTuber from the South East visited Osogbo as well and said he fell in love with Amala being his first time of tasting it just a few years ago and the video is still posted here on NL.
Last, but not least, if the soups you're gonna eat the different kinds of Amala with aren't the traditionally tasty types OR are made by highly inexperienced cooks who deviate from the standard recipes, obviously your Amala Isu, Amala Ogede or any kind of swallow from eba, to semolina, to tuwon chinkafa, etc, WILL NOT taste good in the mouth. Period.
GistMedia0: A Nigerian woman has sparked both amusement and admiration online after proudly celebrating what she describes as a groundbreaking achievement — being the first woman from her community to enter an airplane.
In photos that have gone viral on social media, the lady is seen posing next to a large, custom-made banner that features her standing in front of an Air Peace flight, proudly dressed and smiling. The bold text on the banner reads: “First Woman to Enter an Airplane in My Community.”
The unexpected celebration has drawn mixed reactions from netizens. While some users found the gesture hilarious and over-the-top, others applauded her for owning her moment and inspiring others from underrepresented communities.
“This is funny, but at the same time, it shows how different our realities are,” one commenter wrote. Another added, “She might just inspire other girls from her village to dream beyond limits.”
Kosiso12: Itsekiri Natives Shut Down 28,000 Barrels Per Day Oil Facility In Warri | #Politicsnigeria
Some natives of Itsekiri on Wednesday, April 9, shut down a 28,000 barrels per day oil production facility in the Ogidigben area of Warri, Delta State.
The natives in their numbers thronged out to the oil production facility previously operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
At the facility recently acquired bu Renaissance Africa Energy Holdings, the protesters consisting of women, youths and me protested the recommendation by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the delineation in Warri Federal Constituency.
According to the protesters, the protest would continue to other critical national assists and facilities in the Itsekiri land if immediate action is not taken.
ogododo: THE price of Bonny Light, Nigeria’s premium oil grade, yesterday, dropped by 5.09 percent to $59.62 per barrel in the global market at the backdrop of the on-going ripples created by the tariff war that has followed the series of tariff hikes announced by the United States of America early this week.
The oil price was also hit by the decision of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies to increase oil production by 411,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, 2025.
Experts said the development would negatively impact the nation’s N54.99 trillion 2025 budget, which is based on oil price of $75 per barrel and 2.06 million barrels per day (bpd).
This indicates a massive setback in terms of price and output as the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, puts the output, including Condensate at 1,671,953 bpd in February 2025.
In an interview with Vanguard, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, CPPE, Dr. Muda Yusuf, said: “This is a serious problem as we have just completed the first quarter of the year. We have three more quarters to go, meaning that we have serious issues in our hands, if the situation persists.
“It poses a very serious challenge to our economic management team. First, it poses a risk to our revenue. Second, it poses a risk to our exchange rate. Our economy is dependent to foreign exchange earnings. The low oil price would put pressure on foreign exchange earnings. We all know the implications on a weak exchange rate on the economy.”
However, findings by Vanguard indicated that the low crude oil prices may culminate in low prices of petroleum products in the domestic market.
The findings showed that major players in Nigeria’s downstream sector would announce a reduction in the prices of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol.
In an interview with Energy Vanguard, the Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, Ehimen Joseph, said: “This should be expected in a deregulated market. If the fall in crude oil prices persists for a while, it would impact developments in the value chain.”
Similarly, another operator, who pleaded anonymity, said: “Everything is pointing towards pump price reduction this week. One of the nation’s refineries has stopped printing its petrol tickets.
“There are claims there would be a petrol price review before Tuesday. All those who paid for the program are likely to get a discount on the new price, and then tickets will be issued.
“This is a reflection of the general fall in the prices of crude oil in the international market. Crude oil prices started falling after the Organisation of Oil Producing Countries and its allies, also known as OPEC+ decided to increase oil output by 410,000 barrels per day starting in May 2025.”
According to petroleum price.ng, the depot prices of Mainland, A.Y.M and Ever have dropped to N918 per litre from N920 and N919 from N920 per litre, respectively.
Also, the depot prices of Prudent, Eterna and Soroman have dropped to N912 from N913 per litre, N897 from N900 per litre and N915 from N916 per litre, respectively.
Meanwhile, in a report, OPEC stated: “The eight OPEC+ countries, which previously announced additional voluntary adjustments in April and November 2023, namely Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman, met virtually on 3 April 2025, to review global market conditions and outlook”. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/crude-oil-price-crashes-puts-2025-fg-revenue-target-in-jeopardy-2/
RichBoy247: This is the man that Kemi Olunloyo who is his daughter said the man has been sleeping with all his biological daughters, same as Olusegun Obasanjo, Baba Ijebu and others in their clique. I have no way of confirming this
Kemi tends to exhibit a split personality sometimes and if she stated this in reality, then she is talking B.S. Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo was an upright man. Period.
I just logged in and saw your mention. Thanks for pointing that "Oguntoyinbo" error out and I've edited my original post. The autocorrect feature of my mobile device caused that unintended error.
The brilliant mathematician and administrator remains Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo in the annals of history.
NewDigitalWorld: Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has concluded plans to deploy new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security machines at the screening point of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.
Director of Aviation Security Services, DASS, FAAN, Afegbai Igbafe, said as soon as the installation of the screening machines and monitors was concluded, customs tables would be removed.
He spoke to newsmen during an airport at the weekend, saying FAAN would upgrade the machines to include six different monitors, one for each of the six agencies at the airport, to enable officials to sit and monitor baggage directly from their screens.
He said, “The tables you see will be a thing of history; you will not see any table here. There will be no physical contact, because what we are also doing is that when we fix those monitors and the machines dictate unaccepted objects, the concerned officials will take the passenger and his or her baggage to designated areas for physical checks.
“The designated areas will also have CCTV cameras. This is to ensure the passengers are not being exploited. When the machines dictate something, the Aviation Security, AVSEC, calls the relevant agencies, such as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Customs, and quarantine, amongst others, to follow up.”
On AVSEC’s collaboration with the NDLEA in terms of drug investigation, he said: “Before we bought the new machines, our machines were not detecting some drugs, but with the new machines, we will start to train some of the security agencies, like the NDLEA, the DSS, the immigration and the quarantine.”
Meanwhile, Head of Department, ICT at MMIA, Chima Oge, said one of the new pieces of equipment, the Orion 927DX machine, would help in expediting the identification of organic materials.
Oge: “It has features that would help with the identification of organic materials accurately and quickly, either in range mode, which highlights the areas based on the range selected by the operator, and/or in interactive mode which provides the operator the option to display the areas based on the value of the pixel.”
However, an aviation security analyst, Group Captain John Ojikutu, retd, faulted the acquisition of the machines.
Ojikutu said, “Would this stop the foreign airlines from stopping their secondary hold-baggage screening? I very much doubt it. The machine can not work alone but is operated by someone. The machine may be TSA approved, but have the foreign airlines discarded secondary screening for their hold-luggage or checked-in luggage and are now relying on the FAAN baggage screening? After the Abdulmutalab exit through the MMA, the TSA bought and gave us a body-screening machine for free. What happened to it after a year is what we were asking ourselves and should be asking ourselves today.” Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/faan-moves-to-end-manual-checks-at-lagos-airport/
That's an impressive leap in the removal of the inefficiencies at MMA.
Towncrier247: President Tinubu Celebrates The Man Who Changed The Face Of Real Estate
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Aare Adetola Olaniyi Emmanuel-King, Chairman and CEO of Adron Homes, as he marks his 50th birthday.
In a statement from the Presidency, Tinubu praised the real estate mogul for his contributions to affordable housing in Nigeria, citing his work as vital to bridging the country’s housing deficit.
With over 62 estates and a 3,000-strong workforce, Emmanuel-King is credited with reshaping Nigeria’s real estate landscape. His journey—sparked by a vision during a hospital stay—has grown into a multi-billion-naira enterprise focused on accessible housing for all.
Marking his 50th in humility, the Adron boss has opted for philanthropy over fanfare, pledging to commission 50 impactful community projects nationwide.
Industry leaders like REDAN President Prince Akintoye Adeoye hailed him as a visionary, while the Epe Local Government Chairman applauded his grassroots impact.
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