₦airaland Forum

seunmsg:
“You are highly respected by world leaders, including myself. Your person has given your country a positive image.”

World leaders and reasonable people all over the world can see the presidents integrity and its positive impact on the country's image. It's just a matter of time, Nigerians will start seeing the benefits of the Buhari presidency.

your so called world leaders don't know what Nigerians are facing under this administration

btw there's no proof Ban ki Moon actually said this. ..this is just what Femi adesina claims

someone should compile a list of all the Nigerians doing well in Foreign universities

Ralfoosha:
I've been reading lots of interesting post here which made me deviate from my purpose here. Obviously, it's captivating to read.
I'm a filmmaker and I intend to shoot a short film based on ogun the god of iron. The purpose is to praise African heros, encourage our culture and preach qualities that can be emulated from these superheros. It's no gainsaying that, our stories have been taken by Hollywood studios to be monetized and yet with no due acknowledgment. DC comic and Marvel are culprits here; and instead of folding our hands, I decide to tell our stories in a dramatic, sci-fi and 21st century age.

I just wanted to find out if there were any relationship and encounters at any point between Ogun and Sango, so I can complete my script without leaving significant dent to our culture. Thanks guys.

some say Oya was Ogun's wife before she left him for Sango

I don't know but I doubt Ogun is involved here. ..But then again, that name "ogun" has been carried by many men

you might need to take further research

kenonze:
Walahi.

How can u sentence a man /boy (under-age) Who doesn't even know that such law exist?


What happens to the cattle.

The government takes custodian?

Fayose should pray nothing happens to the poor boy in prison

see dem demons always supporting the evil their people do.

all of you are the same ...the ones that commit the crime and the ones that hide the criminals or support their actions

amiibaby:
yoruba and dirty na five and six

slimthugchimee:
soo? what are you ywo saying? are yorubas not dirty?

Enugu!

dreamworld:
Lagos state, kwara state and kogi doesnt have indiginous yoruba people in it
For example in lagos state, the first settlers in it are the binis and while qwara state and kogi which is in the middle belt is predominantly owned by the hausas

for example, Yahaya Bello
The Executive Governor of Kogi State is an hausa man

Abdulfatah ahmed, the executive governor of qwara state is an hausa man,
And also the executive governor of lagos state is also said not to be from lagos state but from ondo state
And also most land in lagos state belongs to people from all parts and tribes of nigeria

hatred for Yoruba will always turn people to fools. ..

look at the iidiot


not only does he speak bad English, he makes an entire post devoid of common sense and basic information about Nigeria

sinaj:
To be a Nigerian u have to look at both sides b4 u cross a one way road coz laws are not been abided

I do that even outside Nigeria

what Nigeria has turned into

Ngozi123:
Erudite Yoruba people here, could you please explain to me the following:



Is this true? Do the Yorubas really believe that they come from the Middle East?

This is a serious question btw .

so far, I have seen only ignorant yorubas take that seriously
I mean, oduduwa coming from bini makes more sense than Mecca

that was a tale invented by early Oyo Muslims

Ihuomadinihu:
Lol. Anyway,certain things about the Ugbo people reminds me of Igbo-Yoruba pre historic connection before they both became distinct groups .
From the popular Moremi story to the Lightskin stuff to Oraife which actually looks like an igbo word.
We have Oraifite in Igboland.
Ugbo on it's own means a Bush or Farm in Igbo.
The word 'Oba' mean different things in Igbo.
I've also been able to gather words from both groups that have similar pronouciation,spelling and meaning.
Take it or leave it, these tribes are offsprings of similar Proto ancestors. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ugbo people are the last yoruba group to differenciate from Igbos and adopt a full Yoruba status.
We need to go deeper in our history.
When it comes to Nigeria,the closest relatives to Yorubas are Igbos, Idoma, Edo and Igalas but Tribalism has taken a toll on them.

and you are just realizing that? with all the hate for yoruba you possess?

YabaLeftist:


I thought Oduduwa fell down from the sky.


Why is there no consensus on the actual progenitor of the Yoruba race?
So many inconsistencies in the stories. Which one I go believe now?

The name " oduduwa" refers to a lot of things.

it can refer to the deity of creation...they were two - the other is Obatala

the name can also refer to the proposed independent sovereign Yoruba nation

or the First King of Ife

the first is obviously mythical but a heavenly entity. ..hence coming from the heavens

the third which people often say came from mecca. .actually had no business with Mecca. he definitely didn't know Mecca existed.... He was a noble man from the Ora hill at the outskirts of Ile-Ife

charijee:
[color=#CD1076]What a superstitious belief.....They've made her their god [/color]

and how do you have a problem with that?

when Oranmiyan gained wealth and power in all his adventures with the founding of Oyo and creation of a new dynasty at Bini
he returned to Ife to fight for his father's throne that had been usurped ..

any sane person will know that an African man of that time will always return home to reclaim his heritage
Oduduwa if we even agree with the Edo that he was an Igodomigodo prince, by the action of not making efforts to go there. .not even to be buried there, shows that he didn't consider himself Edo...he never considered Igodomigodo a home

so just if we agree with Edo, their argument is still silly because Ife's throne still stands above Bini in regards to Oduduwa's full allegiance and obligations to that throne and the ife people and none for Bini. ... not even oranmiyan showed any obligation to Bini

His only obligation was to Ife. ..a place he returned to, and died as Ooni and was buried. .just like all previous Omo n 'oba were buried in Ife...the last of which was Adolo, father of Ovoranmwen

kelvincoll:
This is just the beginning, trust my Naija folks to dig out more copy copy

Can someone slam the copyright infringement bla bla bla on APC already?

The fact that he has been showing he really belongs to some people goes against everything that inauguration statement stood for

idris4r83:
small knowledge makes one an atheist, indepth knowledge makes one believe there's God. Am quite busy now I will give u a detailed answer to your question later.

indepth knowledge indeed. is that what you get from the arabic book? the average atheist 10 year old has more knowledge about the world than your elderly imams you believe the sun rests in a pond

idris4r83:
which of the signs of the Lord will I deny? Oh Ooni of ife is your God that is why you bow down to him. That is ridiculous. I bow my head to the Supreme been, the creator of heavens and the earth. The creator of you, me, the Ooni you are bowing to and every other thing. We are not bowing to the Arabs, even the Arabs bow down to God almighty. My qur'an has taught me to bow down and pray to my God cos even if I can't see Him, He can see me. I mustn't see God with my naked eyes to know that God exists. Look at your environment, do you think everything just happened by accident? If I Tell you that the phone u are using just dissappear into your hands just like that, how would you take me?

how can you verify and prove to yourself, to me and to your children that Allah of the Arabs is the true creator of the signs of the world? every religion claims it's God is true . .you all can't be right but can you prove they are right?


yes, as a yoruba man the Ooni is a God. .to every yoruba man. ... the problem with modern Ooni is that they lack the education...Yoruba education that is, to carry themselves as the yoruba culture expects them to


sure, you really don't have to see to bow, but what you do is madness. how do you draw the energy, how do you sense the sacredness and divinity? you need a physical representation. To not have a physical representation and just bowing. is bowing to nothingness. ..an emptiness with you just deceiving yourself

idris4r83:
I bow down and prostrate to the ONE who the ooni of ife prostrate to

bad example here


you should see the same Ooni venerating Almighty Olokun in faraway USA



again I ask, what are you prostrating to? I see "nothingness" there .... how do you feel the presence of what is supposed to receive your prostration when you don't see what you claim to prostrate to? that's just madness

iamrealdeji:
the stupid tradition that requires everybody on the road to bow down for to bow down for someone when his car approaches? When he ain't God. Free yourself from this slavery in the name of stupid culture. If you by-pass the King of Dubai,Sheikh Muhammad Makhtoum,even he'd say Asalamu alaykum to you,i saw it in a live video,the man was greeting people even before they greet him if he's the first to sight them. That's a whole King of Dubai and one of the richest men in the world,nobody is prostrating to him,people are free around him. They see him as their father and not their master. But here,a king of an unknown ordinary oyo town passes and everybody prostrates,what type of nonsense is that? He should have made people to prostrate whenever he travels to foreign countries too,yeye. Someone that is not even allowed entry into Buckingham palace compared to Sheikh Makhtoum thats very good friend with Quen Elizabeth and prominent people in UK. Dont get it twisted,I'm a yoruba man

if you don't like it, simply leave yorubaland and never come back...Yorubas don't owe you anything
go to forest people where there's no culture

you are not yoruba, stop deceiving yourself. your father, or grandfather might be Yoruba doesn't make you more Yoruba than the White man who adopts yoruba culture. .. since you have rejected your identity. ..go look for your people somewhere else. .not Yorubas with a culture you hate

CosmicWealth:
It reflects a tradition of slaves and master (slave owner). Dont tell me you are owned.

rants of a savage beast without a culture

CosmicWealth:
We dont even bow to God needless to mention bowing to a bleaching human.

how does one even more to something that you cannot see? something that is not there? you bow to nothingness and you say you bow to God


you need a representation, and not just deceiving yourself by bowing to nothing

iamrealdeji:
But what is this man's duty? Just being on the news and walking around with girls?
Yorubaland has a big problem with this rubbish tradition. Why bow down for someone this much the way you can't even bow to your parents?

thank you, now go away. go to the place where you won't be disturbed by our "rubbish" tradition. leave our land for us


maybe where you come from they don't bow to their parents, people who lack culture are just savages. ..animals of the forest that's what your people appear to be

idris4r83:
I am only a slave to God and not any man. So I cannot prostrate to any man. Only God deserves prostration and not any man.

a slave to a God invented by the Arabs. ..makes you a slave to the Arabs
ever wondered why Islamic tenets are actually Arab culture?

And where did u see ur god to prostrate to? u hit your head on the ground to absolutely NOTHING and you say you bow to a god. where did you see the god?

idris4r83:
Craziness of the highest order is prostration before any man.

as per since you don't have a culture, since you are a damned slave to the Arabs you cannot appreciate other cultures

lawani:
I broke it down for you as the old man did. It is a compound word. Igbos call white people Onye ocha while Yoruba call them Oyibo. You just like unnecessary debate. Igbos in the past were like the Koma people discovered not long ago in Adamawa. They never saw a white man until relatively recently whereas Yorubas have known white people since forever hence the name Oyibo which means those depigmented by the breeze. Yoruba use many Igbo words like Una, fufu and many others but Oyibo is not one of them. A word we have been using for thousands of years!.


Yorubas have been dealing with Europeans for over 500 years, going back and forth between West Africa, Americas and Europe. We have been dealing with Arabs since forever. There were normally Arab residents in Yoruba cities. Yoruba were traders, going to North Africa and etc dressed as Arabs. They dealt with Celts, Tuaregs, Moors and etc. So they were using that word all that time that no single free Igbo was outside Igbo land.

Then we differentiate between Oyibos, Oyibo Geesi is British, Faranse is French, Potogi is Portuguese. Portuguese was spoken well by many Yoruba in the past up till the 19th century. I will say the Germans were the Agudas. Arabs are Larubawa and etc.

you are right, yorubas were very well connected with the rest of the world

Brazilians and Catholics are Aguda. as Amaro are Spanish speaking people
funny how "Amaro" actually means liqueur in Spanish...that shows that the Yoruba and Spain traded a lot on liqueur

PassingShot:
I can't exchange anything with someone who says GEJ left office 30 months ago.

Lalasticlala Mynd44 Seun, this guy should not be allowed to get away with the emboldened. It's not different from saying I'm stupid.

and what difference does that mistake make? point is GEJ left office over a year ago

encourage buhari to sit up and stop blaming people for his incompetence

PassingShot:
You'd think being educated translates to being well informed. Unfortunately the first doesn't guarantee the later.
Anyone who keeps saying we should stop blaming GEJ is being economical with the truth. The truth is GEJ wrecked Nigeria with his handling of the economy. He didn't have to blame anyone before him because NO ONE ELSE had been so clueless, dull and Ineffectual as himself.

If we still have any truly sane man doubting that Nigeria would have been long grounded had GEJ managed to rig himself in, such person needs to be constantly reminded where the Ineffectual Buffoon left us:
1. The IB was already borrowing to pay salaries when crude was selling at $75 per barrel. At $40 per barrel, what miracle will he have done?

2. The paper Economist, who supervised crashing of the economy clearly stated that Nigerians should brace up for tough times ahead the moment crude fell to around $65 per barrel. Does tough times mean merry making times at $40 per barrel?

3. Despite earning unprecedented amounts from crude, the IB couldn't grow our reserves but even embezzled what he met.

4. About 28 of 36 States were owing their workers for up to eight months in some cases and there was already hunger in the land. Why didn't GEJ bail them out? Had Buhari not come to intervene just about three months into his tenure, what would have happened to those workers then?

Recently, the Gele woman who couldn't choose to resign to protect her name, revealed in a well publicized video that GEJ had zero will to save. Where there's shame, she will apologize to Nigerians for wasting our resources in times of abundance.

Nigerians indeed lack capacity for critical thinking. And it's the reason we will continue to be taken for a ride by the looters. We see those who genuinely are working for our betterment as enemies while blindly praising the real enemies as benefactors just because of crumbs of today. This is indeed very shameful!

bla bla bla. anyone still blaming GEJ after about 30 months of leaving office for the current economic crisis is a dunce

during the last administration Nigeria was so much better than this


you screamed that buhari had the solutions to the problems we faced. ..rather than for things to get better they have gotten worse and you still out of stupidity say nonsense like this

instead of pushing buhari to sit up

Gpdwise:
I have been trying for the past three (3) hours now to explain the concept of God to my six year old half brother. who recently just returned from the states. I tried reading using the bible and he asked me the most difficult but simple question. Big brother where did God come from if you said there was nothing in world!! I dropped the bible immediately.

I tried using nature to explain that the beautiful flowers, birds and sea were created by God. Then he asked me who created God because mama bird and papa bird will have junior bird and for the flowers I need to plant its seed for them to grow.. so big brother who is papa God

your six year old brother is more intelligent than you.


he is curious, he knows something is off with the claim of God, at that age he already knows religion is stupid


you should learn from that boy, the American education is obviously doing him well

Imenyi:
Wildlife photographer ?? Is she an animal. Though how she dressed was silly!

you know wearing suits in the hot climate of africa is much more silly. ..
#justsaying

I stopped reading where you said suicide is an abomination and you just killed it by saying "buried in the evil forest"

wtf! when did yorubas begin to have evil forests

IamPatriotic:
We won't give you Gov'nor Ambode he's an indispensable asset for now, you can take all or any of Ayo Fayose, Femi Fani Kayode and Buruji Kashamu, they all have flat heads.

and who made you yoruba spokesman? nonsense

jpphilips:
You blame both right? I am sorry to inform you that in the scheme of things, your opinion count for nothing.

.

Actually neither does yours so stay chill.

jpphilips:
Buhari's supporters ran amok after elections and you blame Buhari for that?
ICJ could not convict Kenyatta on that grouds so why should I worry about your position?
Let me pretend that you don't know that while Buhari's supporters ran amok after that election, someone was sitting in Aso Rock like a statue aka commander in chief of all the armed forces.

Do you blame the man whose crowd ran out of control or the man who refused to enforce law and order with his security Apparatchick?

I blame both

buhari for caring more about power, power that he is not qualified to hold, power he is not competent to hold, power he is not accountable to hold

and Jonathan for being such a weakling, and letting the rants of desperate opposition get to him

I just asked around, the foolish op lied as usual. .any attempt to paint the yoruba nation bad is always rich in lies


No Oro in Ikorodu



As for the alleged killings during Oro festivals. ..liars will always like to maintain their lies


Frustrating obsession will soon cause madness and subsequent death for some people