₦airaland Forum

DerideGull:
I simply request you quit writing about IPOB or Biafra if you can humanly indulged. Pretense is the hallmark of insincerity and most Nigerians are marked for it.

felicitywe:
I live in Mushin and it has more of Yorubas.

Um, you can take a man out of the slum, but cannot take the slum out of the man..?

felicitywe:
My friend go to Mushin down to Olorunshogo,to Iasle eko, to Alaba, Iganmu, to Obalande , bariga,apapa etc, i wonder why u wont see facts.

Education is good, but knowledge triumphs over all, but the greatest secret of living is imagination. I sincerely believe that what each of us does with his/her life is up to us but no one is an accidental being. Success too is not a serendipitous discovery for after all, the Great Alone has given us all that we need for life, and it's up to us to harness those creative and in-built talents in furtherance of one's purpose on earth.....

Local kibitzers have woven all kinds of tales and rumors on the success of the richest man and family in Owo and Ondo State,, but the taste of the pudding is in the eating. Look at their lifestyles, scrutinize the choices they made in life, analyze their philosophy and approach to life and you'd see while the Fagboyeguns succeeded.

Reverend once told me that, money and success are everywhere, opportunities are abound in any clime, but what is important is how you'll discover those opportunities. "You can be successful anywhere you're, because as a child of the Most High, you're like manure and will germinate and give birth to success anywhere if you can imagine it," Reverend once told me.

Mama hated waste and if you lived long enough with them and know them intimately, you would find out. "If this is how we spend and fritter away everything, we'd not reach this level," Mama would tell anyone straight faced who came to take advantage of their generosity. Some relatives couldn't stand Mama, while some like me would defend her till death, and thereafter.

Mama was icy to some relatives but warm to some and I asked her why this was so. "Not everyone would love you, and you can't get along with every one, because some relatives do not have direction for their lives and so believe a rich relative would help them, but we only assist those who are serious, determined and are focused." http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/fayemiwo/052013.html

In the history of local capitalism, three magi pioneered indigenous entrepreneurship in the ancient City of Owo: Chief Ajanaku Makun, Chief Aruwajoye and Reverend Fagboyegun. Because Chief Obafemi Awolowo bestrode the political life of Owo and western Nigerian like a colossus, and for the fact Owo was the birthplace of the Action Group (AG), the interplay forces of politics and business could, and often get blurred and even the reluctant businessman would find political pressures irresistible.

As the political direction of Owo was devoid of media lane of opposition, getting nominated into the AG and later UPN as a candidate for office was intensely acrimonious, more so the struggle for internal political hegemony was fought between the royal and elite wings of the party represented in the First Republic by Oba Olateru-Olagbegi, the Olowo of Owo and Chief Adekunle Ajasin respectively. Of the trifecta, only Reverend Fgaboyegun withstood political temptations.

During the Ajasin administration between 1979 and 1983, shortfall in financial allocations from the federal government of the Shagari Administration warranted a loan by the defunct Ondo State to pay the salaries of civil servants in the state. The government approached local banks for deficit financing, and when it approached First Bank under the late Chief Samuel Oyewole Asabia, the Ajasin Administration was directed to contact "one of their most dependable customers/depositors: Jide Fagboyegun."

Always the willing party financier and one desirous of seeing a fellow Owo man like Chief Ajasin succeed, as the state's first democratically-elected governor, Reverend approved the loan with the understanding his money would be paid back, as soon as money arrived from Lagos. It was not to be, for soon Shagari's austerity measures took off, bureaucratic bottleneck set in, and a military coup swept the civilian administration out of power on December 31, 1983.

Former retired Col.S.I. B Ademulegun of Owo of the then Supply & Transport (S&T) of the Nigerian Army and now the king of Ipemen Land was being penciled down by the Buhari-Idiagbon regime as the military administrator of Old Ondo State until it was discovered after the coup that he failed to report at his place of assignment on coup day: December 31, 1983.

General Idaigbon promptly gave an order Ademulegun should be retired, while Commodore Bamidele Otiko was posted to Ondo State as governor. No sooner than Otiko arrived in Akure than he began to pursue the anti-UPN cum anti-progressive policies of the Buhari-Idiagbon military regime (1984-1985).

Otiko opened the books and discovered the Ondo State Government owed Chief Fagboyegun several millions and alerted Doddan Barracks. In Nigeria, people purloin government finances, but it's rare to hear government owes business people not for contract works done, but for a promissory debenture loan worth millions of Naira.

Pronto, Idiagbon showed uncanny interest in the report, wishing to gain political capital out of it. The men of the NSO-the precursor of the present SSS-were dispatched to Owo and Akure, to check out this businessman stupendously rich enough to give a loan to the state government. They looked and looked and discovered nothing, absolutely nothing incriminating or deals under the table that could be used to indict Reverend Jide Fagboyegun.

As the late Chief Festus Adetula, an Owo indigene and then permanent secretary in the cabinet office of the defunct Supreme Military Council (SMC) under Buhari noted, Jide Fagboyegun made his money in the old-fashioned way, he didn't depend on government and the Buhari-Idiagbon regime didn't know there were still remnants of such indigenous businessmen and women in Nigeria. http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/fayemiwo/052013.html

Bifwoli:
This is pure BS and balderdash.You can't tell me that Makoko ,Ajegunle and Ijora Badia is your yardstick or people who move around alot don't have the skies as their limit.Your argument is really flawed.SERIOUSLY flawed.

PenSniper:
Bro, hysteria or not, anything that will enhance or accelerate their exit is welcome. They naturally act on emotions and with brawn. Please refrain from posting enlightening message as above for them. My only prayer is they get it without bloodshed so they do not use that as excuse for their certain under-development in future.
During the first republic, their regional government sent a delegation to the SW to under-study how the AG was able to provide free education and still recorded so many feats just with revenue from cocoa. Guest what ? They fell far short of putting what they learned to effect.
When Jankande repeated the same feat in Lagos, rather than learn to do same for their people, they encouraged them to embark upon a mass exodus to Lagos to enjoy the programme, only for them to turn round to vilify the same fingers that fed them. I've never heard of people so ingratutous in the entire globe.
They hardly succeed in any venture that does not involve crime and fraud neither can their so-called business acumen make them excel in ideal climes like Europe, etc, where the rule of law is sacrosanct.

yelanst:
Which right steps are you talking about? When you opined pushing for a referendum through our law makers, I surmised that you are one of those folks that are far from the reality on ground in regards to Nigerian gross injustice and inequity. In which senate are they going to raise that issue? It will be a foolhardy step for one to raise such kind of issue in a senate that has been fundamentally skewed to support the northern course- the course of a primitive and stone age kind of creatures that has been the bane of Nigerian development. Why has no one mustered the courage to talk about the outright disappearance of our president when Nigeria, bedeviled by political, economic and social problems, needed an agile president that will set the ball rolling, commanding his foot soldier to get things done expediently ? In sane clime, that buhari dude would have been advised to resign or out-rightly impeached. My brother, Nigeria is a ruse and a legendarily failed entity that is not salvageable. The only feasible remedy-although as crude as it might be- is what Nnamdi Kalu is doing: Destabilizing what is left of the destabilized country and forthwith balk-anise the shit.

DerideGull:
I suggest you quit posting write-ups that indicate you are against the movement of the actualization of Republic of Igbo land or Biafra. Please write to encourage the IPOB movement and other seemingly movements that may fellow the footsteps of IPOB. The cesspit called is dead and probably was too large for airheads termed leaders to manage. There is nothing proper in Nigeria. The dumbass country cannot manage ordinary gutter. The executive branch of the silly government does not obey or uphold the decisions of judiciary branch. The legislative branch is made up of bunch of hangers-on and moronic dingbats. A country were a naval ratings will burn down a police station because naval officer was questioned by the police. There are no good road and electricity is a manna. Look pal, if anybody wants war in the cesspit called Nigeria, he/she will definitely get it and the massacre will make Rwanda look like a child's play.

DerideGull:
Most deluded Nigerians write about Nigeria as if it is a matured or advanced society. If Nigeria society is even half civilized as some goons want to believe, this issue of cession should not be a thing public discussion. Many ninnies in Africa even realized that USSR and Czechoslovakia disintegrated? Must Ndigbo, Yari.ba, Hausawa, Fulde, Nupe, Munchi, Usobo, etc live together to form a country? What is actual wrong with certain Nigerians? If certain people in Nigeria want to vacate Nigeria, they should be allowed to do so.

vena92:
Abeg guy help me look up and post about these guys;
Segun Fagboyegun MD/CEO JOF NIG. LTD.
Muyiwa Bakare
Kn23h laudate markfemi2

The JOF Ideal Family Cashew Processing Plant in Owo, Ondo State, started exporting cashew kernels in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s using labor-intensive Indian technology. The owner hired an experienced Indian cashew production manager to start up the 2,5000MT per year raw nut capacity plant. In less than two years, the Nigerian owned and managed JOF Ideal was fully operational, exporting cashew kernels to the UK. Since then, several other processors have successfully copied JOF’s strategy, hiring seasoned JOF employees to start up their own plants. Jof trained managers and employees are highly sought after by new processors. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pnacy675.pdf https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/114096/florence-olawunmi-fagboyegun-1929-2013-an-exemplum-of-a-v.html;

udokpuenyi:
You are a mere onlooker and the that is the reason you have this skewed view of Biafran movement. I was expecting you to comment on the Aburi accord and Gowon 3R programme but you mischievously avoided that and concentrated on how Ojukwu fled. I wonder what your conscience told you when you read pass that line.

Biafran cannot push for insertion of referendum into a false document. A document that started with a brazen lie " we the people.." .Even the common attempt by greedy eastern politician to push for the SEDC into that false document was thwarted at the same National Assembly where you want them to push for referendum. So who is fooling who?

A bill for the creation of a South East Development Commission (SEDC) recently met with conflicting reactions in the two chambers of the National Assembly.

In the House of Representatives where it was first introduced, the bill failed to make it to the crucial Second Reading as members voted to throw it out, after its introduction on the floor by the sponsor Chukwuka Onyema. The House stopped the bill’s progress on several grounds including its unintended coincidence with the fresh wave of agitation by some Biafra irredentists clamouring for secession of the same South East geo-political zone from the Nigerian federation. Some members also called for further consultation by its sponsors.

In the Senate however the same bill sponsored by Senator Samuel Anyanwu found favour as it was passed without much debate for Second Reading following an appeal by the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu for ‘fairness and justice.’ The bill’s success in the Senate attracted cheers from the South East Caucus which applauded Senators for the gesture. The Senate move opened the way for the bill to proceed to the next stage of public hearing where stake holders are expected to make inputs. This situation also conjures the prospects or otherwise of the resurrection of the bill in the House where it had failed the first time. https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/editorial/south-east-development-commission-bill/202875.html

realhumanity:
If you need history, read from the invaders too. Afonja promised alimi that if he fights with him, he will give them lands in Ilorin. When he became victorious against the Oyo empire, he wanted to renege on his promise. That was why the Hausa's have laid claim to the state.

Moreover, kwara state is not a complete Yoruba state. we have the jebba ppl, the gwanara ppl and other ethnic groups in the state. What do u do about them?

udokpuenyi:
There is nothing like mass hysteria here. Nnamdi is only speaking loud what most biafran families have been murmuring in their closet out of fear. It has been a case of who will bail the cat until his arrival. The biafran war did not end, only the the warfront battle ended end the cold war continued. That is why Gowon's 3R programme was implemented in the west and north but not in the east where the battle was fought.

Ojukwu did not lead the biafrans to war rather he defended his people after the treacherous Gowon reneged the Aburi Accord. While you all war mongers wish war for the biafran people, make sure you defeat bokoharam first to avoid fighting war in all fronts.

On January 15, 1970 at Dodan Barracks in Lagos, in the presence of General Gowon, Effiong announced the end of the Biafran conflict.

"I, Major-General Phillip Efiong, Officer Administering the Government of the Republic of Biafra, now wish to make the following declaration: That we affirm that we are loyal Nigerian citizens and accept the authority of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria. That we accept the existing administrative and political structure of the Federation of Nigeria. That any future constitutional arrangement will be worked out by representatives of the people of Nigeria. That the Republic of Biafra hereby ceases to exist."

At the time of the surrender, Effiong believed that the situation was hopeless and that prolonging the conflict would have led only to the further destruction and starvation of the people of Biafra. At that time Effiong said, "I am convinced now that a stop must be put to the bloodshed which is going on as a result of the war. I am also convinced that the suffering of our people must be brought to an immediate end."

Nnaemeka L. Aneke wrote, "General Efiong’s handling of Biafra’s surrender is one of the most tactical and devoted maneuvers ever seen on the Nigerian scene. Those who do not appreciate the depth of it may not have appreciated what was at stake as Biafra capitulated."

In a 1996 interview, Effiong reflected on those events: "I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .
I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .
At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and Ojukwu had fled, I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . "
Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Effiong

Theleutenant:
. i know you wrote this with tears running down ur cheek and a heart full of pain and anguish, but am not sorry about that ,is ur choice!,

but in case you want end ur misery and pain ,ratak,awolowos diet,now sells for #30naira at ogbomosho Sunday market.

PenSniper:
That's why we have to let everybody know the evil that these people personify and for themselves to know that we know them.
They constitute the primitive Hitler of Nigeria. The war had not gone much distance when they started to use the Calabar Ogoja people as canon fodders at the war front - sort of dispensable entities. Little did they know that those people were intimating the federal government of their predicament. Had they succeeded in breaking away, they would've subjugated the minorities and taken over their land. Azikiwe attempted to take over an entire street in Lagos for igbos. Such is their nature.
Give them an inch, and they would want to take a mile from you.
They are like fire on one's roof.

raker300:
Clarence Peters: capital hills

PenSniper:
This man got the people.
Politicians got the media.
And power belongs to the people, not the media.

kn23h:
Thanks for telling us your story.

vena92:
Kn23h, has anyone posted about the Eletu Ofibo brothers,namely; Princes Kasim,Ademola and Alhaji Mudashiru Eletu Odibo,.

raker300:
you get mouth to talk now he's away

afonjadie:
You are a goat being tutored to sit, if you had any shame you would have followed the same path Laudate afonjadie took and he became a floating corpse.

afonjadie:
Good loyal slave afonjadie, you must never speak cause I have bridled your tongue.

I love what I have done to all the silly Afonjas on this thread, slave posters.

GoldNiagara:
That is my boy, he kept vigil cos of his master. Still yapping like a little dog. Chief simpleton of nairaland. The giant is awake, I am still gonna step on your head and balls. 2.00 am he was up keeping vigil. Told you that is how I roll. Warning I take no responsibility for your suicide, I repeat.

afonjadie:
I have said it a number of times you have no shame, this fool even thinks it's about him no shame at all.. take a cue from laudate Afonjadie, at least he is a shameful bigot. But you and your likes are shameless with pride. A Disgrace to Afonjas at home and diaspora.

With all your copy and paste sentence you don't know how to apply advice and advise in a sentence and still you are shamelessly proud of it. Well what can I say are you not the Illiterate president, chairman, CEO, bad grammar group of companies.

ariesbull:
Its not about learning its about population and femographics...freom my engagementr, most yoruba lads wants to be some kind of Alaye and Agbero controlling garages when they grow up

I doubt this list of yours...its different from what I see on the streets of lagos and Ibadan

realhumanity:
Yorubas will not say I am lying. And when you ask for the history of Ilorin from fulanis or hausas , they will tell you the truth. Stop listening or reading from one side of history and come to kano museum to see history for yourself and listen to how they took over Ilorin. An average Hausa man will tell you that they cannot cede Ilorin to yorubas because its their land.

Alimi fought for afonja with his own ppl doing business with then in Ilorin. I know my history, do you know yours?

kengodson:
still for sale

Readonee35L:
It's a classic doesn't mean its valuable .
Not all classics worth something .
Some are worthless

kn23h:
The Teens who made Nigeria proud at the First Global Robot Olympics

https://www.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/robogennigeria-600x400.jpg

Meets the Teens who made Nigerians proud at the First Global Challenge 2017Seun Omotayo, Tawa Giwa, Fetisimi Adegbamigbe, Ayodeji Umar, Toluwalase Agoro, Ayomide Adetunji, and Niyi Talabi represented Nigeria at the First Global Robotics Challenge 2017, the first robotics olympics in the world, which held in Washington DC, U.S.

With the provision of access to clean water as the overall theme, 163 teams from the world over, including continental teams, all made up of students ranging from 15 to 18, fought to win the First Global Challenge 2017.

“We are Robo Teens from Nigeria!” Team Nigeria’s bio says. “We are a team of robot enthusiasts, consisting of four boys, three girls ages 15-18, and three coaches. Our team inspiration is based on our goal to make our country great and to better understand the advantages of collaboration both within and outside of our country.”

Jetleeee, Totit, deedeee1, Laudate, etc

CastedDude:
The power of social media can not be over-emphasized. A newly wed lady identified as Chinyelu has revealed how she met her heartthrob/husband Ifeanyi via social media in the United State. According to her, Ifeanyi was going through his social media account when he saw her lovely photos on one of his friend’s pages. He was mesmerized and decided to drop her a message. Read what she shared below;

It was truly unexpected for me to meet Ifeanyi. I had just moved to Atlanta, GA and was at a point in my life where I wanted to focus on myself and get adjusted to my new city. All of my friends and family knew that I didn't care for blind dates. So, if they wanted me to meet someone, I told them to have them contact me via social media. That way, I can see his picture and decide if I wanted to respond or not. On August 4, 2014, I received a message from Ifeanyi who is a great friend of one of my bridesmaids. He saw a picture of me and my good friend, and thought I was beautiful.

It wasn’t until he told me he was a University of Miami Hurricanes fan (my college’s rival) that I became intrigued. I ran track at Florida State University and love my alma mater, so why would anyone want to be a University of Miami fan? I clearly had to find out why. Since then, we continued to message each other back and forth and I was starting to like what I saw in his personality.

After a while, we decided to talk on the phone and our conversations then became even more heartfelt and meaningful. In November, while I was visiting family and friends in Houston, he arranged for us to meet at Fish and The Knife, a beautiful sushi restaurant and lounge.

Dinner was amazing and throughout the night I saw he had an amazing smile. After our first date, we traveled back and forth between Houston and Atlanta so that we could see each other at least twice a month. With every conversation and every visit, I saw myself falling more and more for this man. His words, his smile, his heart, and the way he looked at me, made me feel so special that I knew he was the one for me. That December, we had an amazing date at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint in Atlanta, GA. With jazz music filling the air, he told me how special I was to him and how much I meant to him. He told me he has never met anyone like me before and could see himself spending the rest of his life with me. It was at that point that he truly touched my heart. I had this wonderful feeling within and right then, I knew I was in love.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/07/nigerian-couple-met-social-media-us-photos.html

kn23h:
Only Yorubas can save Ibo people from their backwardness.

Wetin concern una if old mama youngie wan lick young blokos?

Miserable people won't let the woman rest.

You need another Ajayi Crowther, a Yoruba man, to save you from going back to the Biafran days of underdevelopment. When we give you Biafra, we will govern you for 50 years to make sure you don't cause your own genocide.

afonjadie:
Laudate Afonjadie the father of Illiterate Afonjas, Osus, I called you to come help your brothers, it appears you were more committed to your bread and ewa awof education as such you are less emotional and temperamental like the other Afonja Osu soldier in diapers.

Hope you have done a hard reset to your brain I would not want it to crash after 5 post as usual

GoldNiagara:
Still yapping the mouthy slowpoke won't shut up. See error galore. Iti little wonder he is a dry cleaner.