Pidggin:


If women are scarce why are they fighting for men?

^^^^^^
That is the irony here. Well since women
are territorial on the emotional level, they
will seek to take their pound of flesh out of
anyone who causes them emotion pain!

macof:
SOURCES close to the palace, have allayed fears that rites of passage for the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, would involve human sacrifice.
They took exception to the view describing it as a rumour aimed at tarnishing the customs and traditions of Ile-Ife, regarded as the cradle of the Yoruba race.
There had been anxiety among residents of the town, particularly some students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, that burial rites of the monarch might involve some form of bloodshed.

The sources urged indigenes and residents of Ife not to entertain fear or panic but go about their lawful business, and do nothing to contravene customs and traditions of the town.
The Oro festival declared by traditional rulers in the town, and which began yesterday, is still in force.

www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/08/ooni-no-human-sacrifice-in-rites-of-passage/

^^^^^^^^^
This is a nice post from @macof.

Punch, and some newspapers behaved
irresponsibly by publishing fake insider
news allegedly from the Ife Palace despite
the fact that according to centuries of
traditition, it is ONLY the High Chiefs
that can finally say officially that any
king from Yorubaland has translated.

What is so difficult in that? The irresponsible
article of today 6th August 2015 by dailypost
newspaper speculating about the alleged
location of the Ife monarch should't have
made the front page of Nairaland.


In the UK, Japan, and elsewhere, the monarchies
are highly revered and highly traditional
so deluded people should desist from
peddling criminal and libelous rumors on
in the print media like dailypost, Punch,
the Sun, and on the Internet. Punch has a
bunch of young and mentally lazy journalists who do not carry proper
investigations, and lift information from
non-credible sources. The Aboderins
own Punch and as a family of SW ancestry
should not be seen to be desecrating
culture via their publication.

Just on Tuesday, Channels TV debunked the
false article in Punch stating that one
of their camera men in the East was arrested.

Wale Aboderin should weed out any mentally
lazy journalist in Punch for publishing
irritating speculations and sensationalism!

dom:
yeah. IBB, Yohanna Madaki, OBJ etc. Even Gowon was engaged to Edith Okongwu but the marriage was called off owing to civil war sentiments.(Heard she took in for him too).
plenty northern soldiers took wives from the former biafran enclave. If you see any igbo lady (late 20s, early 30s) that says her father is from the North, chances are that her father was a soldier and got married shortly the war.I grew up in the barracks and saw quite a few of them. (dunno where daisy danjuma is from, though)

^^^^
Daisy Danjuma is from Itsekiriland.

I attended a Northern FGC decades back
and had a wonderful classmate whose
father is from Kano and mother from
Onitsha. My friend and classmate by the
name of Mohammed used to travel to
the U.S. for holidays so he came from a
family of proffessionals.

The father was not a military man.

A former Presidential aspirant by the name
of Alh. Galtima, a very articulate man and
ex-student of FGC Enugu or Owerri (I can't
recall offhand which of them) from Maidiguri
is married to an Ibo woman.

trendysturvs:
A 38-year-old Chinese woman, Lin Yao Li was violently stripped naked and beaten senseless by a mob of women on a busy shopping street … but the police never came. Nobody intervened as she was kicked in the groin and breasts as she writhed screaming in agony on the pavement. The reason, onlookers said, was that it was an ‘argument of the heart’ – she didn’t deserve help because had slept with another woman’s husband.

She was ambushed by four women as she walked home from the shops in the city of Puyang in eastern China’s Henan Province. Punching and kicking her to the ground while she writhed in agony, her attackers then ripped her clothes off and continued the beating, pulling her hair and kicking her in the breasts and groin.

The sickening attack they said was carried out by the scorned wife of the man Lin is accused of sleeping with, and her three friends, and it was watched by passers-by who did not think it was their duty to help the defenceless woman. Local man Jun Feng, 30, who helped the woman after spotting her lying on the ground after her attackers left told local TV: ‘This type of thing is becoming quite normal.

‘Angry wives and girlfriends get their revenge on their cheating men by attacking the other woman. ‘People don’t tend to get involved because they see it as being an argument of the heart,’ he said. The woman was later taken to hospital where she was being treated for cuts, severe bruising and shock after begging someone to call an ambulance.

Did the man’s wife and her friends go too far?

I can't post all the pictures here due to Nairaland's T & Cs. See more 18+ pictures here - http://.com/2014/10/14/photos-chinese-adultress-stripped-naked-thoroughly-beaten-humiliated/

^^^^^^
The Chinese are modernising rapidly
but are still traditionalists so this picture
of the beaten woman is not a surprise.

Wife kidnapping also exists in China because
of the scarcity of women who are less than
men. People are ready to pay money to
get wives through kidnapping of young
women in China.

Iluv:
I aim to create awareness about the state of insecurity on our roads at night, especially around traffic hot spots.

I was robbed around some weeks ago on the EKO bridge. Precisely around the spot where the bridge is directly opposite UBA head office. It is worthy to state here that the stretch of the bridge immediately after the down-link leading to Marina till you get to Apongbon is practically not safe while you drive. I hope you all understand my description of the trouble spot here.‎
‎
My story: That fateful evening around 8pm, I was driving home from work and it is normal to experience traffic on the EKO bridge almost from around the CMS part of the bridge till you get past Apongbon(usually on bad traffic days).
‎
I had a female passenger beside me and unfortunately for me, I was low on fuel and decided to wind down the windows both on my side and the passenger side. I only put it down halfway.  I was also hungry and decided to purchase bottled water so I can use that to hold on till I get home. I asked my companion to bring out #100 naira from my wallet which she did and we waded slowly through the traffic looking out for pure water seller.

I was already around that troubled spot, which practically for those familiar with this route, you would find less of hawkers. The hawkers are mostly selling before and around the down-link to marina. 

Lo and behold I noticed 3 guys, 2 on my side of the road and 1 on the other side. What struck my alertness was that they were not holding any items to hawk and I wondered what they were doing at that part of the bridge. Almost the same instant I was wondering, one of them pointed towards my car and they all raced down to me and started shouting "Bring the money, your phone". I replied them "which money" only to look at my companion and seeing she was holding the #100 naira and her phone. As a security conscious person, I have always advised not to have phones displayed while driving at night. But as fate would have it, we were caught off guard.

One of the guys had his hand around his waist acting like he was going to pull out a gun, the traffic was at a stand still and the had put their hands over my glass. The thief on the passenger side managed to collect the #100naira while they were still screaming for me to bring phones. Fortunately for me, traffic eased and the driver of the car beside me was carried away observing what was hapening, immediately I drove right into the space with the intention of bashing right into the car infront. I didn't eventually bash the car in front and had to wind up my glasses while on high alert if those guys would come back. They never did and I lost only #100naira to them. 

This encounter happened within a 30seconds time frame. I realized if they had a gun, they wouldn't hesitate to bring it out, that's what gave me the courage to drive off.‎

The following day I did not see them, but after about 3weeks of studying that route on my way home, I have discovered a pattern for their activities.

My people be highly conscious of mostly 3 guys around that stretch of the bridge. Sometimes they seat on the bridge side while one other would be walking aimlessly along the bridge looking for cars that have their windows down. The make signs across to each other if that one finds a potential victim and they would all rush to the car.

I also noticed they are off some days, like a day in between times I saw them and I suspect they take a break following a successful attempt at robbing people, maybe to sell stolen items and they are back after that day.
‎
To notice these guys, just watch out for individuals that don't have any items to hawk walking around and crossing between traffic on the bridge aimlessly. Honestly I have a very bad plan for them on a good day. I could have lost more than what they took.‎
‎
This is a call to security agencies especially the Police RRS. There is need to station RRS bike patrols at that part of the bridge.

The white car in the image below is at the tip of the down-link to Marina. This is a picture of the troubled area to help your imagination.

Thanks and please share your stories for enlightenment and also propose solutions for security.

Cc ishilove lalasticlala

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks to the OP and everyone who shared
his/her encounters with these criminals
along the Marina/Apongbon bridge axis.

What I observed right up to the 3rd page is
that up to 7 users of Nairaland have posted
there encounters with the criminals BUT
NON of you mentioned ever reporting this
issue to the Police Headquarters in Lagos or
the office of the Lagos Commisioner of
Police - past or current. These Senior officers
will take immediate action on the exact
crime spots.


I visit Nigeria on regular basis and still have
extended family members in Nigeria - so I
have to make my useful/functional post here
for the benefit of all.

In addition to the Lagos Governor has to be
directly informed about these black spots
and the sense of urgency involved before
we lose lives.

Last but NOT least, I'm aware that Lagos
State publishes a magazine called
LAGOS INDICATOR where the direct phone
numbers and emails of BRF and goverment
officials in Lagos State, the Commisioner
of Police, and emergency numbers were
published.

Google Lagos Indicator magazine to get
more info on the free magazine, and please
the print media especially should be informed
about this so that those gangsters who are
usually under the influence of hard drugs
are put behind the curtain where they belong!


PS: More illumination with powerful street lights
will deter these criminals. Those caught
should be well punished, while rehabilitating
them at the same time, knowing full well that
7 out of 10 crimes are commited by REPEAT
offenders in Nigeria based on statistical
data.

opalu:


Buildings and their foundatons can be designed to perpetually remain in water. The truth is that good concrete mix without void and with great protection can last in water for God-knows-when. A smart Engr will assume the worst case scenario in which the foundation of the Lekki building remains in water.
Truth is that there is little a house owner or professional can do to totally remove underground water. However proper drainage must be done to eliminate surface flooding and retention of water around the building for too long since most buildings in the highbrow estates were done without making allowance for the said 'worst case scenario '.

^^^^^^^^^
@Opalu

Thanks for this brilliant reply to my earlier
post. You are a TRUE professional and
any of your clients/future clients need not
fear because they are in safe hands and will
get their housing projects delivered as and
when due.

I will keep in touch with Daystar Shelter soon
for a personal housing project in Nigeria.

Thanks again.

opalu:
I have been involved in the structural corrections of more than 1,250 buildings that were wrongly built in the past 10 years.
In all, I have discovered the major reasons why buildings fail structurally are
1. Lack of professionals on the project. The some sub reasons that owners give are that they don't have money to pay them since their charges are avoidable. And also that they themselves have ideas about buildings etc. When there are no professionals on the project, such project will not have the necessary CORRECT designs/drawings. Such projects won't have the right professionals Supervising the Construction Process.
2. Another major reason for Structural failure and foundation issues is the use of substandard materials. These include reinforcements, Sharp sands, Granites, Cement even Water etc. So many Rebars being used can easily cut or rust. Water that contains impurities is not safe for concrete a since those impurities attack the concrete. (Chemistry 101). A Man wanted quote one day and I gave him. But he went for one desperate Contractor who used filling sand to cast concrete! After 6 months, the suspended slab (decking) started vibrating like water bed. I was also called upon and i corrected it at a cost 3 times the cost to build a solid slab. In addition, using the same size of granite (coarse aggregate ) can weaken the concrete.
3. Another reason for failure in buildings is the use of wrong methodology in construction. For instance there is a method whereby wet concrete is vibrated in order to expel voids and holes inside. If you are using pole vibrator, it has to be poked into it left in there for brief interval and removed and poked somewhere else. Some quack roadside casters just use stick to shook here and there or hit here and there. Even if the vibrating machine is used wrongly, it will trap voids. Every construction work has best practice that if not followed, the result will be bad. Another example is that when a carpenter lays the 1x12 for first floor slab, every hole between the planks must be covered with well sliced cement bags nailed with tiny nails. This should be done before laying of reinforcement. Reason being that when casting is done, the wet concrete usually slip through those holes thereby weakening the lower part of the slab which is subjected to tensile stress. But due to the leakage of the concrete at that bottom, what plasterers usually do is to fill it with mortar before plastering suffix of slab. But don't forget that the reinforcement were exposed before. So structurally, the bottom reinforcement is nonexistent. So when there are tensile forces, the slab cannot withstand them and what do you get? CRACKS!!! Then your fine POP starts cracking, blocks starts detaching at first floor and even crack etc.

Let me stop and await your questions.

^^^^^^^^
@Opalu

This is a GREAT, straight-to-the-point
post/thread YOU have here.

On the other hand, I have a quick question,
with the constant flooding of some highbrow
estates in the Ajah/Lekki axis such as VGC,
during the rainy seasons, what is the medium
to long-term effect of this on the structure
of the gated estate buildings if NOT resolved
on time?

Thanks again for the illuminating info on
this thread.

JAZES:
There is additionally a typical conviction that ladies are compelled to stray subsequent to their spouses are famous womanizers… they are practically denied their matrimonial rights and could starve for a while on occasion. This sold out lady will in this way begin sniffing other men to get even or the much consideration they miss.

We can attempt to apply these hypotheses to the Royal Swazi sex embarrassment. Other than his political duties, King Mswati has 13 wives; one may ponder what kind of a course of action he has made to guarantee every one of them are candidly cooked for.

We have put together the list below:

5. Nothando Dube ( wife of the king of Swasiland)
News about the claimed sex embarrassment including Swazi King Mswati III twelfth wife, Nothando Dube,
with the nation’s Justice Minister, Ndumiso Mamba, hit the features over the world.

Regardless of all the buildup, “LaDube”, as she is broadly known in Swaziland, is not the only one in this.
In 2004, two of Mswati’s wives — Delisa Magwaza (LaMagwaza) and Putsoana Hwala (LaHwala) left the illustrious kraal after disloyalty claim.

4. Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma (SA First lady)

The second on the list is South Africa, another country that has had what’s coming to its of sex outrages as well!
Aside from President Zuma’s adoration for skirts, his second wife Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma purportedly had a hot illicit relationship with her bodyguard Phinda Thomo, who later on took his own life.

Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma was said to be pregnant with Mr Zuma’s 21st kid,
yet the assertions brought up issues over the child’s paternity.

http://onlineleaks.com/here-are-the-list-of-wives-of-african-presidents-who-cheated-on-their-husbands/

Nice post...

tosyne2much:
8. Nairaland Moderators

This kind of job also brings insult. When people violate rules and they are being placed on ban, they quickly open a new account and rain curses on the moderator who sent them to jail. I wouldn't like to mention names

^^^^^^
@tosyn2much,
You got me laughing over here with
that witty post you made...

Bastage:
Here's a wikipedia page that explains the alignment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem#Astrological_event

I'm not for one moment claiming that there was a star floating about all over the place. Therefore my statement is not a farce.

I'm indicating that there was probably some sort of astronomical event that the early Christians found pertinent enough to include in the scriptural text in some way and that it explains how the idea of the Star of Bethlehem came about.
Indicators point to astronomy, the Sun and to a degree, astrology being important to early Christianity. Not really suprising when you look at the pagan religions and ideas of the time that it absorbed. The Star of Bethlehem was very probably based on that importance and there's no reason why the birth-date of Christ wasn't moved to match that occasion. It doesn't matter if an alignment was viewable or not - if they knew about it, it may explain how the star idea came to be. The fact that it has turned into the story that it has where they've got this massive star following everyone around and leading them everywhere, only reinforces the fact that they took astronomy/astrology seriously.
Also, remember that Christ was not born on the 25th of December as that date has much more to do with Mithras Day and wasn't given as Jesus' birth date until years later. From the texts, it would seem he was born September, although some scholars have put forward an argument for May if I remember rightly.

There are also some scholars who believe that the star could have been a very bright comet. Again, I read somewhere that there was one at about the same time of Christ's supposed birth which was recorded by astronomers as far away as China.

It's a difficult thing to pin down without knowing the exact year and time of Christ's birth. Like I said, discard the literal Biblical description, but there are plenty of theories that give quite convincing evidence that the Star of Bethlehem story was based on a real astronomical event of some sort.

^^^^^^

The SUN GOD!= The SON of GOD.

#Fact

Lucasbalo:
It's not the RN that is the problem, its the man that do not understand American way of life. There is something called DIVORCE. My significant other is a RN with a B.SC from a reputable Catholic college and so are many nigerian women and we don't have that problem. A man must come to the table well equipped too. You dont expect your wife to dominate you financially in US even though you brought her here. Killing is never justify unless you are defending yourself.

^^^^^^^^^
@lucasbalo,

Well said! Low self-esteem is at the
epicenter of these vicious attacks by these
men on their RN spouses in the U.S., and
the subconscious fear of losing them to
other "better motivated" imaginary male
lovers.

Markieee:
Hmmmm. Lots of stories,,
I get an RN aunt o, in that same USA, and issues have been going on for a while now,
make them no go kill am for me o..
I dey get tips from her ooo...
Aunt I cover you with the blood of Bro J
Amen

^^^^^^^^
...You got me laughing there!
You like money... eh!

Most Nigerian women in the U.S.
are RNs. Some men who read
microbiology or biochemistry in Nigeria
are also RNs in the U.S. and they
are well-paid!

bigfrancis21:
This is a political move made to make up for the destruction of Ladipo Spare parts market. I can say that Ambode is a strategic politician.

As for Ladipo auto spare parts market, let it be destroyed whatsoever and rebuilt with whatever ultra modern market structure they want to build, give that market 5 years and watch Igbo traders take over the place. Igbos are very resilient by nature, easily bouncing back from any setback whatsoever and can hardly be held back. If they could bounce back from the civil war in just under 30 years, they would bounce back from this small setback in under 5 years. Commerce is just not a thing for the Yorubas, and the Igbos being aggressive at commerce and trading will take over majority of the stores by natural competition. I am not pitching one tribe against the other but I am just stating facts as they are. From observation, Yoruba traders barely survive in trade in the midst of Igbos traders due to the competitiveness and aggressiveness of Igbos in business, who always find one way or the other to stay at the edge.

The ultra modern market complex could be completed and stalls allocated to, say, half Yorubas Half Igbos. Observe nature take its course and see most of the Yoruba traders sell their stores to Igbo traders and move elsewhere because they can't cope with the competition of fellow Igbo traders until Igbo traders take over the ultra modern market. It happened already with Alaba market, Computer Village, Ladipo Market etc. in Lagos when Yorubas were majority but today Igbo traders are in control and it will simply happen again with Ladipo Ultra Modern Market Structure.

^^^^^^^^
@bigfrancis21

Your post about the Yoruba not being good
in commerce is VERY misleading and YOU
need to expand your knowledge about
other people as a Mod. on Nairaland! Re-read
your post again and you will become AWARE
that you sound condescending on the
subconscious level by saying the Yoruba
will sell there shops to your kinsmen. This
statement is UNCALLED for as a Nairaland
Mod.


There are Yoruba sub-groups that are known
for their business sagacity and acumen such
as the Ijesas and Ejigbo people of Osun, the
Ijebus, the Igbominas, and even among
several sub-groups of the Yoruba, You have
highly successful entrepreneurs among the
Ibadan people, Ekitis, Aworis of Lagos and
Ogun States, the Ondo Town people as well
as the Ogbomosos who are into a variety
of commercial activities and even have their
town unions in diffetent parts of Nigeria and
in the Diaspora.


In 1987, I flew on board a Nigeria Airways
A310 [one of the 4 that the national airline
had just purchased] for an international
conference at Hotel d'Ivoire in the beautiful
city of Abidjan from Lagos. I was stunned to
see a large number of male and female
Yoruba traders and business people living
and doing business in Ivory Coast. Many had
been living there for decades and spoke very
fluent French. The same thing is replicated
all over Central and West Africa where you
find thousands of Yoruba who are involved
in big commercial activities.


Ambassador Dele Cole from Rivers State,
who is the father of Tonye Cole, one of the
co-founders of Sahara Energy also wrote
a book which he launch this year about the
History of the Yoruba and their way of life,
and in the 3-part series he wrote in The
Guardian as well he clearly mentioned
the enterprising skills of the Yoruba and
their business presence in several West
African countries.


Sir Allan Burns also mentioned 4 advanced
civilizations in pre-colonial Nigeria. Benin
Empire, Oyo Empire, Kanem Bornu Empire,
and the Sokoto Caliphate. The mastery of
long-distance trading with other Empires in
West Africa such as Mali Empire, the Ashanti,
North Africa via Nupeland and the Hausa
States, etc, is what gave the Yoruba (Oyo Oba)
or Oyo Empire the power and economic ascendancy.


For over 200 years, the Yoruba have had a
strong trading presence in Ghana just like the
Hausa in Northern Ghana. The CIA Country Facts Website
lists over a million Yoruba as being citizens
of Ghana along with Hausas as well!
The late business mogul, Sir Mobolaji
Bank-Anthony was born in Kinshasa, in the then
Belgian Congo, because he came from a
family of enterprising merchants.


So, it is misleading for you to say that the
Yoruba cannot compete in commerce because
from my studies of the business/trading history
of several ethnicities in Nigeria and globally,
nobody has the monopoly of the knowledge of
commerce except if you have some clanishness
like in the diamond industry where a larger
market percentage is controlled by a few people
of Israeli/Jewish descent right from the
middle-ages.

msmon:
Former Interim National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande
has explained how some persons he tagged as
subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned
Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker
of the House of Representatives respectively.

Akande in a statement on Sunday said those jittery
of President Muhammadu Buhari’s constant threat
of anti-corruption battle encouraged and financed
the rebellions against the APC democratic
positions, which led to the adoption of Saraki and
Dogara by the PDP.

He said the party must reposition for it to offer
Nigerians the change it promised.

According to the statement, “Sometimes in 2013,
the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a
merger committee to work out the modality for
glueing together as one political party under one
name, one constitution and one manifesto.

“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An
application made to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim
Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and
factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party
(DPP) was approved in July, 2013.

“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and
Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the
new party should embark on a membership
recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose
main agenda was to see President Goodluck
Jonathan out of power.

“The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to
Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and
Adamawa states. Eventually, five PDP governors of
Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together
with the majority of their PDP National and State
Assemblies members and other PDP National
Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and
Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined
the APC.

“The APC thereafter organised membership
registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units
and followed up by using these registered members
to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000
wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36
states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National
level, thereby creating one united APC party
structure all over Nigeria.

“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to
conduct primaries to select candidates for state
governors and Houses of Assembly and for the
presidency and the National Assemblies.

“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory
all round, a meeting was reported to have been held
by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu
Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be
their share in this new Buhari’s government and
resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a
view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and,
having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an
ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their
future political platform.

“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator
Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate
for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP
tendencies, the theory was being propagated that,
like in most presidential democracies, the APC
minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e.
George Akume for the Senate and Femi
Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives)
should automatically become Senate President and
Speaker respectively, now that APC has the
majority.

“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate
presidents had come from Benue State, which
Akume represented and that Benue State should be
made to assume the traditional home of all senate
presidents.

“At the same time, certain senators were
clamouring for one of the most ranking senators
anywhere outside the Northwest zone that
produced the President. That was how Ahmed
Lawan, who has been in the House of
Representatives for eight years and in the senate
for another eight years emerged as the candidate
for the senate president.

“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on
selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or
sectional considerations. As a result of primary
elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume
emerged as APC candidate for Senate President
and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila
and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker
and Deputy for the House of Representatives.

[b]“Numerous among those calling themselves
businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking
from the nation’s blood largely through various
governments and particularly through the Nigerian
Federal Government. While all these schisms were
going on in the APC, those who were jittery of
Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle
began to encourage and finance rebellions against
the APC democratic positions which led to the
emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of
the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.

“Before the party knew it, the process had been
hijacked by polluted interests who saw the
inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC
governments’ efforts in its desire to fight
corruption.

“Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy
barons and other business cartels, who never liked
Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly
backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong
support. While other position seekers are waiting in
the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a
large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as
a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.[/b]

“What began as political patronages to be shared
into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones,
religious faiths and political rankings and
experiences have now become so complicated that
the sharing has to be done by and among PDP
leadership together with cohorts of former new-
PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of
past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC
legislators and party members who dance round the
crisis arena to pick some crumbs.

“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it
is doubtful if the present institutions of party
leadership can muster the required capacity to
arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President
Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC
as a recking platform that may not be strong
enough again to carry them to political victory in
2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage
control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to
bring about the promised change before the party’s
shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of
governance in their hands”.
.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/29/nass-crisis-akande-reveals-how-subsidy-thieves-corrupt-businessmen-enthroned-saraki-dogara/


Cc: obinoscopy, lalasticlala

^^^^^^^^
@msmon

This is information from dailypost.ng
that you posted is the REAL press release
from Chief Bisi Akande. Chief Akande did
NOT attack the Northerners like the
other post or article from TheCable
sensational headline potrayed, on Nairaland
front page.


Chief Akande should sue TheCable for
Defamation of Character and a FALSE
and misleading headline of his Press Release
that was made on Sunday (yesterday) about
the APC state of affairs.

omenka:
They would rather ignore the facts and hold on tight to their warped understanding of the event because that is what suits them the most after being dealt a bloody nose yesterday.

Imagine the same people claiming SR is under Tinubu's payroll. . Isn't this just a double tragedy?

^^^^^^^^
@omenka

You are absolutely right!

The laws against defamation of character
should be activated rapidly so that people
like PMB or Tinubu can get quick justice
when defamed.

False rumours on FB, twitter, blogs, online
forums, etc, can be monitored using
IP tracking/advanced technology to trace
the originators. When 20-30 of them get
arrested and charged to the court law,
The rest of them will learn to respect Tinubu
and/PMB. That warped thinking that you
wrote about will vaporise from their tribally
bigotted brain cells instantly.

There is NO absolute freedom of speech when
trashy and libelous are done in most countries
of the world.

businessline:
Most dangerous drugs circulated in the country are produced in Anambra –NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has declared that the most dangerous drugs circulated in the country are produced in Anambra State.The state NDLEA Commander, Mr. Sule Momodu, who made the declaration on Saturday at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka to mark the 2015 United Nations

Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, identified one of the dangerous drugs produced in the state as methamphetamine
Momodu expressed worry over the increasing production of illicit drugs, abuse and trafficking in the state and called for a concerted effort to stop the development.

He disclosed that the anti-drug abuse and trafficking agency arrested at least 122 drug suspects between January and June this year. While 114 of them were men, eight were women.

A total of 110.624kg of illicit drug, he said, was seized during the period under review with cannabis sativa known as marijuana topping with 107.26kg.

Other seizures were cocaine, 138.2 grammes, heroine, 100.54grammes, liquid methamphetamine 2.615kg and solid methamphetamine 510 grammes.

The NDLEA commander said the agency also arraigned 22 suspects during the period, out of which eight convictions were obtained while 28 fresh cases were filed.

He expressed optimism that the agency would fight drug abuse and trafficking in the state, asking stakeholders to join hands in the campaign against drug abuse.
He lauded the state Governor, Willie Obiano, for the support he had given to the agency, especially involving it in the State Security Council and the approval of a parcel of land in Awka, the state capital, for the building of the agency’s rehabilitation centre.Momodu warned that if the war against illicit drug use and trafficking “is not won now, the scourge will take over the society soonest.”

Momodu, however, called for the inauguration of the state Drug Control Committee to help drive national drug control plans and objectives.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jesophat Akabuike, who represented the governor at the event, restated the state’s commitment to the fight against crime in the state, including drug abuse and trafficking.

http://nigeriacamera.net/most-dangerous-drugs-circulated-in-the-country-are-produced-in-anambra-ndlea/

^^^^^^^
@OP

Indeed NDLEA data collated over the last few
years shows that most of those arrest for
cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine hard-drugs
trafficking at Murtala Mohd. International
Airport come mainly from Anambra. If you
further drill down the data, those arrested
come mainly from a particular part of Anambra.

The remaining less than 10% of those arrested
at MMIA come from other ethnicities or states.
Just last week a 37-year-old Drug baron
from the same Anambra was arrested for
illegally producing methamphetamine in
his Ajao Estate in Isolo, Lagos residence.
This substance causes cancer and psychosis
when it is ingested, and the waste product
from the meth production can contaminate
the underground fresh water table. NDLEA
usually brings US-based professionals to
into Nigeria to decontaminate the houses
where these illegal meth labs in Lagos and
Anambra were located.

Other illegal meth labs have been discovered
in 5 locations in Lagos in 4 years(since 2011) and
1 location in Nanka village in Nnewi being
operated by these same criminal syndicates.

People need to be aware that methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, etc, are
punishable by DEATH in serious Asian
countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, etc.

Good that Gov. Willie Obiano has been
assisting the NDLEA and other Governors
should be at alert and offer assistance to
curb the menace of hard-drugs intake that
has ruined many young people in the society.

Because NDLEA keeps arresting the drug
pushers and barons at the international
airports and elsewhere, the dealers are now
pushing the hard-drugs such as meth, heroin,
etc, out into the local Nigerian environment
and Nigerians have to beware!

Justcash:


APC needs to do the needful first. They need to sack Tinubu the drug baron and desist from calling him a leader in the leading party. That is an insult to Nigerians.

^^^^^^^^^
@justcash

The post by YOU the OP amounts to a defamation
of character punishable by imprisonment!

Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu is NOT a drug baron.
If he was, the Americans would have arrested
him long ago. Tinubu TRAVELS to the U.S. regularly
and was at the U.S. Congress this year!

The Americans have zero-tolerance for
drug barons or drug pushers, and Tinubu
who is a brilliant chartered accountant has
also been cleared by the Americans.

The story posted here by the OP is very old
or STALE and had been overtaken long ago
by events!

The OP should stop the hatred towards Tinubu
and stop the sensationism.

Tinubu since 2007 has NOT had political
immunity, yet the PDP-government of GEJ in
it's dying days started a print media and AIT
and NTA attack on Tinubu in order to make
people hate this man. Why wasn't he arrested
and charged before the elections?

I'm a bit angry with Tinubu for not taking these
malicious attacks by all manners of people
seriously until he finally sued AIT. By the
time he makes a scape-goat out of these
people spreading Defamatory and
sensational lies about him online and
offline, then these group of Nigerians
will realise that LIBEL/DEFAMATION of
character is a criminal offence all over
the world!

I remember the late Emeka Ojukwu in the
1990s sued a media outfit for publishing
false information about him and he won
by being awarded some millions of Naira
in compensation. Tinubu should be more
serious about dealing with anyone that
defames him online and offline because
there is a well-targeted attempt by his
political opponents affiliated to mainly
the rival political party and tribal/ethnic
bigots to lower his reputation in the eyes
of the public, and it is working especially
among the gullible folks who do NOT
bother to ask critical questions.


#EnoughSaid

new2020:
Ondo is the least producing state of all NDDC states.

^^^^^^^^^
@new2020

ONDO State is the 5th largest crude oil
producer in Nigeria, followed closely by
Edo State, then Imo State, and Abia State
is the least oil-producing state. Some of
us who use Nairaland such as myself have
worked and still work in the oil and gas
industry and know FULL WELL that you
are lying or just plain IGNORANT!

You have been posting this FALSE information
on Nairaland that Ondo State is the lowest
oil-producer on other threads and claiming
that the information is from NNPC. This is
highly mischievious of you!

You must DESIST from this insidious and
petty behavior, so that you don't confuse
people who use Nairaland for educational
and business research.

prophetfire:
the Igbo boys being caught are the street hustlers like this one and they call them barons. The real barons are the kashamus n tinubus.

^^^^^^^^^
@ prophetfire

Don't trivialise this issue... That criminal
that was arrested for producing meth crystals
in Ajao Estate in Isolo Lagos, and later arrested in his home state of Anambra is NOT just
a street hustler but a drug baron. If you
had read the full article on this thread, you
won't be saying this.


The NDLEA agents have arrested several
members of these drug barons in different
parts of Lagos and Anambra who produce
this very dangerous methamphetamine in
their illegal and highly toxic laboratories
in Nigeria. 5 meth labs were discovered in
residential areas in Lagos, and another 1
in Nanka village in Nnewi. Decontamination
of any house used by these criminals is
usually done by experts hired from the U.S. by
NDLEA because of the highly toxic waste
products and cancer-causing fumes which
get embedded in the walls/wall coatings.




Meth causes cancer, delusion/mental
psychosis among users which also leads
to increase in crime in the society. This
is why China, Malaysia, and Singapore
that are advanced societies have death
penalty for methamphetamine, cocaine,
and heroin trafficking!


Lastly, Chief Bola Tinubu is NOT a drug
baron that is wanted in the U.S. If he is
a drug baron, the Americans would have
arrested him long ago. He was even at
the U.S. Congress this year, and he was
never arrested. The false allegations
and the dirty AIT propaganda against
Tinubu were sponsored by the members
of the opposition party. If you don't know,
Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu's house in the
U.S. was used to harbour Nigerian
pro-democracy fighters who were persecuted
by the Military Govt. in the 1990s and had to
flee Nigeria. America does not tolerate drug
dealers and barons and for those of us
who were grown up, we can still recall
HOW American forces invaded Nicaragua
in the 1980s to arrest former President
Manuel Antonio Noriega, and took him to
the U.S. to stand trial for his involvement
in crimes perpetrated againt U.S. interests.


Tinubu was a brilliant Senior Chartered Accountant
with Mobil Nigeria and worked as an
accountant with global financial giant,
Arthur Anderson as well as Delloitte. He is
NOT a criminal. I blame Tinubu for not taking
quick action by sueing/getting those
spoiling his name arrested. It is only now
he is taking action against AIT.


Buruji Kasamu said it is his twin brother
who is now late that was into drugs. If his
hands are clean, then he should fly to the
U.S. Why has he been avoiding travelling to
the U.S. with all the money that he has
and his links with Chitown or Chicago in
the past? Something smells fishy...

Obipat:
sentor kashmu is n igbo man? What of Tinubu? Go and sleep

^^^^^^^
Leave Chief Bola Tinubu out of this. He is not
a drug baron! If he is actually being wanted
by the Americans for drugs he would have
been arrested by them on his several
visits to the U.S.

Tinubu was at the U.S. Congress this year
and he was not arrested. You and some
other people do not seem to realise that it
is a criminal act of defamation of character
to openly lie or accuse someone falsely,
if you are arrested, you or anyone can be sent
to jail.

Buruji Kasamu of PDP's case is quite
obvious! He said it was his late brother
who is his twin that was involved in the U.S.
drug case. If he is innocent, then he has to
go to the U.S. to clear his name. There is
a movie "Orange is the New Black" on
the Kashamu imbroglio in the U.S., If he says
he is not the one but his twin brother, then
he should go to America without waiting to
be disgraced further!

Enough said!

illiad:


While I do not condole any kind of criminality, I found your statement rather too generalising and that is a height of hypocrisy & bigotry. Every single tribe in nigeria is involved in drugs. The guys that produced the killer baby drug 'my piking' were northerners. Many children died before nafdac took off that drug from market & today nothing was heard about these northern criminals. And shall we go into the damage the hausa fulani kanuri & Islamic movement of boko haram has done to our economy lives & image both home & abroad? And if you come down to south west it is an open secret that most if not all their political Leaders are drug barons. Or shall we visit their insatiable taste for ritual rape & incestouosness? Or shall we talk about embezzlement of national treasury?


You see, I hate people playing Jesus once the man in dock at moment is not from their tribe. IF the Igbos are more in number among drug dealers so are other tribes are more in number in various other more heinous criminality.

^^^^^^^^^
@illiad

First off, DID you read and re-read my
original post with understanding? From your
post it shows you were overcome by
sentiments and emotions without looking
at the BIG picture!


Read your post again and you or anyone will
see that it is you who has unfortunately
generized by casting aspersions on entire
people of the S/West and the North in a very
unwise fashion and on your past posts on
other threads, you were clearly cautioned
by a poster for engaging in rabid insult
on the people of the S/West!


The FOCUS of this thread was on the 37-year-old criminal and methamphetamine hard-drug
baron who produces the CANCER and PSYCHO
TIC substance in Ajao Estate in Isolo, Lagos.
This substance when produced is even
highly toxic to residents of Isolo or any
location where it is produced because of
the waste products!


1. The FACT I stated about the over 90%
of Ibos being arrested for hard-drugs among
Nigerians comes from official intelligence
info from NDLEA and the NIA which gathers
info on Nigerian convicts from abroad. Certainly
like you indicated other Nigerians are involved in
the remaining percentages of drug traffickers.

2. The NDLEA and NIA data on drug trafficking
data was well collated so you cannot accuse
NDLEA or anyone of tribalism or ethnicism! The
demographic data from NDLEA also shows
that a particular part of Anambra has the highest
involvement among SEs. This info will even
help to dispel the thinking that Ibos in
general are a nation of drug pushers which is
not.


3. You said the My Pikin owners are Northerners
in your post above. This is false as the owner
is from the West or Yoruba, and he had
members of staff from different Southern
ethnicities in his Lagos-based company
which was legitimately registered.


What led to the death of the babies was a
result of a production or batch error when
a chemical they purchased had been adulterated
by the seller and the negligence of the
production unit in not testing the chemical
used as a raw material. They are serving
jail-terms now contrary to what you stated
in your post.


4. Your tribalistic rant and tantrums against
an entire SW as being the base of child rape,
molestations and ritua.l killings is uncalled
for as we know that such cases have been
reported all over Nigeria and even in the
Western world! If you remember the
ritual killings of Women in Enugu-Ezike,
the rapes of elderly women in the SE, and
just 2 weeks ago in Imo, 6 evil men of SE
origin were arrested for selling human parts
of people they killed. Does this represent
Ibos? NO. When I came to Nigeria on a
visit few years back, an Ibo lady phoned in to
an Agony Aunt program on Ray Power FM
at night to ask for assistance on how she
could be helped to overcome the depression
from the se.xual assaults she was subjected
to by her father while the lived in one of
the S/Eastern States. Her father had divorced
her mother when she was a young girl.


No African society either in the North, SW, SE, or
SS will condone such abominable actions
which traditionally leads to ostracization of
such culprits in the SW and SE communities
for example.

5. About your allegation that most, if not all
SW politicians are into drugs, it is only
Buruji Kashamu that has being clearly indicted
and it is obvious that he has something to
hide by not going to the U.S. to clear his
name even though he said it was his twin
brother who is now dead that was the culprit.

Any other accusation by you will amount to
defamation of character of someone like
Chief Bola Tinubu which can land you or
anyone else in jail if you are arrested and
taken to the court of law.

Tinubu who you are refering to aside from
Kashamu, travels freely to the U.S. and
Europe. He was even at the U.S. Congress this
year, so if he is a drug baron wanted by the
Americans like is being falsely spread online
before and after the 2015 elections, the U.S.
would have arrested him and charged him
to court!

otiigba1:
you talk too much! FYI there is no different between your paracetamol, phensic or panadol and methamphetamine , only that the Big dealers like the American, British and nigerian goverments want people to believe that its illegal, so they the goverments can control and sale it themselves as medicines you can buy from your chemists, if you must know Achohol is a bigger killer of humans, why is it not illegal? Because it creates a huge amount of wealth for the goverments

^^^^^^^^^
@otiigba1
Your post is very misleading!

How can you equate the very deadly
hard drug called methamphetamine with
panadol, phensic, and paracetamol which
are prescription/medicinal drugs?


Methamphetamine causes violence among
the youth in the wider society, psychosis,
hallucination, cancer, etc. This is the reason
SERIOUS countries in Asia such as Singapore
Malaysia, China, etc, have death penalty
for cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin
drug barons and drug smugglers.

Nairaland should NOT be used as a place
to mislead people about methamphetamine,
which is in the same class as cocaine
and heroin. Desist from telling people
that methamphetamine is the same as
Phensic, Paracetamol, or alcohol!

new2020:


Fool...I gave you a chart from NNPC. It's called FACTS! Now get out!

@new2020

I saw one of your posts where you posted
that same false information about Ondo
State being the lowest oil producer based on
the top 80/bottom 20 graphics you
attached to your post on page 6.

That chart is NOT from NNPC. For your
information I worked in the oil industry and
lived in PH as well and it is an open secret
that Ondo state is the 5th largest oil-producer
in Nigeria. Ondo State's onshore and offshore
annual crude oil output is 3 times more than
the combined annual output of Imo and Abia
States. Edo comes NEXT in crude oil
annual output to Ondo State which shares
boundaries with the massively oil-rich
Itsekiriland in Delta State, along the same
oil-rich coastline. The Ilaje-Yorubas of Ondo
State and the Itsekiris of the oil-rich
Ugborodo [Escravos] are direct cousins
who have contributed to the crude oil income
along with other South-Southerners that
is being used by Nigeria.


The largest to the lowest based on the
official data from the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission are listed below:


Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa[the number 1
gas producer in Nigeria, but 4th crude oil producer], Ondo, Edo, Imo, and Abia comes
last.


Cross River had lost some oil wells to
Akwa Ibom State so has dropped off the radar
of oil producing states, but is still a member
of NDDC.

Desist from peddling FALSE information
on this thread and Nairaland with that
attached 80/20 oil-producer graphic on page 6
of this thread. The graphic is NOT from
NNPC and you actually RIPPED it from a
non-oil industry based Website!


There are many well-educated people who
use Nairaland for networking from all over
the world, and BS information can easily be
spotted and corrected. I've been using
Nairaland since 2005, and all I want to see
are FACTS on Nairaland not lies being
peddled by people with low self-esteem
and bogus ethnic supremacist ideologies!

chuna1985:



They don't want us to go because we feed their lazy Asses.

they are not strong , they r just cowards.

^^^^^^
It is interesting to see a 30-year-old
like you exhibiting clear symptoms of
delusion and psychosis. Your childish tantrums
on your previous posts that I've read and
re-read show a person who has not
clearly defined what his GOALS in life
should be.


The SWest if you are NOT aware is the 5th
largest oil producer in Nigeria from Ilaje LGA
axis of ONDO State - onshore and offshore. Next is
Edo, Imo, and Abia is the least oil-producer in
that order. The Yoruba have been contributing
to Nigeria's annual income from the sale
of oil and gas.

Did you know that the Ondo state produces
3 times more crude oil than Imo and Abia
states combined? So how can you say that
your people in your ethnic enclave feed the
Yoruba and they don't want you to go...?

@chuna1985, snap out of YOUR death-wish
state of being and don't allow the hatred of
yourself and others to ruin you!

#ManKnowThySelf

swizken6:
Chai.. lekwanu blessed ooo Ezennunu 1 na Isolo.. Jah be with you!

^^^^^^^
Ezennunu1 of Isolo indeed. Look most of those young
Ibo men in Lagos and elsewhere who are very
loud and build houses outside Iboland
have questionable wealth from methamphetamine drug trafficking and production right within residential areas such
as the guys of Ibo origin who were arrested
by the NDLEA between June 2011 and December 2012 in Satellite Town,
Iba New Site, Majek in Ibeju-Lekki LGA. 4 of those methamphetamine illegal factories were
sited within developed residential areas in
Lagos State, and only 1 illegal meth factory
was discovered at Nanka in Nnewi!


All these men were from Anambra State based
on NDLEA data! Infact one of them had a
methampethamine factory within his house
in Satellite Town and another underground
factory/crude laboratory in his home town
in Nanka in Nnewi, Anambra State.

Methamphetamine
production and the by-products causes CANCER
when these Brainless people pour the waste
into the ground for disposal thereby endangering
the lives of the people living in the immediate
environment of Iba, Satellite Town, Nanka and
other laboratory locations in Anambra, etc. The GROUND WATER becomes contaminated in
those areas with the waste that can cause
hallucinations/delusions/psychosis, weight loss,
etc.


Death penalty has to be introduced for this
kind of crime just like in Singapore, Malaysia,
S. Arabia, etc, because an NDLEA report that
I read 4 years ago indicated that Imo State was
experiencing an increasing usage of hard drugs
among the youth as a result of the tighter
security at the International Airports. Imo
state was said to be targeted because of
the high student population i.e., in Owerri.


Information available to me also shows that
over 90% of drug pushers arrested at MMIA
in Lagos State are of Ibo origin, with most
coming from Anambra. Those on death-row
abroad in especially Asian countries based on
the bi-annual report from the National Intelligence Agency [NIA] which is Nigeria's
equivalent of CIA, shows again than over 90%
are Ibo who claim to be doing Import-Export
as a cover.

Nigeria and Anambra most especially have
to wake up to solve this problem and major
stigma. I remember in 2009, a major newspaper
reported that Ohaneze Ndigbo had a meeting
to proffer solutions as to why young Ibos
like this 38-year-old criminal that has just
been arrested, constitute the majority of
drug-pushers, and other crimes across
Nigeria and abroad, but they STILL haven't
found a solution as a socio-cultural body.

I think from reading the articles of intelligent
Ibo Public Affairs analysts over the years
in the Sun Newspaper and other publications,
it all boils down to EXTREME GREED, and the
pressure from the hometowns and cultural
groups to acquire fast wealth by any means.

lolaredvelvet:



Thanks dear.. V helpful info

^^^^^^^^^
@lolaredvelvet @all

I came across this interesting thread and
would like to say my piece...


It is this sort of excessive show-off in the
Nigerian society that put me off from getting
married to a Nigerian. I had attended a couple
of weddings years back of cousins, friends, etc,
and realised as well that the so-called WHITE
wedding a.k.a church wedding is actually
the TRADITIONAL wedding of the white people.

So a lot of Nigerians are IGNORANTLY doing
TWO wedding ceremonies by taking part in two
traditional wedding ceremonies[the Nigerian
and the white man's traditional weddings].
I think the traditional weddings can be further
modernised so as to do away with the white
wedding in church which isn't our culture. It is
ridiculous when I see Nigerians back home
and some in the Diaspora doing 2 traditional
weddings and wasting money.



The Nigerian women I rolled with were very
intelligent and would have loved to be
married to one of them, but I found myself
gravitating towards a non-Nigerian to avoid
all the loud preparations, pressures from
Nigerian families to conform with the
HERD MENTALITY that is associated with
Nigerian weddings. My wedding was done
outside Nigeria to my spouse who is biracial
and it was done without much stress in the
presence of a few family members and friends
on both sides.

Even amongst the North Americans and
Europeans, weddings usually last between
30 to 40 minutes in a church/civil wedding and
then the reception takes place, and more
people in the West and other locations
are heading for manageable destination
weddings with just a few family members
and friends in places like Seychelles, Maui,
Barbados, etc, then do their honeymoons in
those locations as well to save cost.


I wish you the best on your impending wedding/marriage.

Cheers!

macof:
I just felt I should compile this for my beloved Ekiti people.

The Ekiti people are aboriginal, culturally homogeneous and highly intellectual agriculturalist Yoruboid-speaking people that forms a sub-group of the larger Yoruba ethnic group of West Africa, particularly in Nigeria and some part of Benin. Ekiti people who are well-known for their diverse and quality of traditional arts, music, poetry and witty sayings are reside predominantly in the Ekiti State in Western Nigeria. The Ekiti constitutes one of the largest Yoruba sub-group in Nigeria with the 2006 population census by the National Population Commission putting the population of Ekiti State at 2,384,212 people.


Ekiti State lies south of Kwara and Kogi State, East of Osun State and bounded by Ondo State in the East and in the south. It was declared a state on October 1, 1996 alongside five others by the military under the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. The state, carved out of the territory of old Ondo State, covers the former twelve local government areas that made up the Ekiti Zone of old Ondo State. On creation, it took off with sixteen (16) Local Government Areas (LGAs), having had an additional four carved out of the old ones. Ekiti State is one of the thirty-six states that constitute Nigeria. The capital of Ekiti State is Ado-Ekiti.


There are not less than 120 towns in Ekiti state. One important aspect of the Ekiti towns is the common suffix "Ekiti" attached to their names eg. Ido-Ekiti, Ado-Ekiti, Oye-Ekiti.

Historically Ekiti people like the larger Yoruba are aborigine to the region, until absorbed by the invaders from the East. The term Ekiti denotes a "Mound", and is derived from the rugged mountainous feature of the country. It is an extensive province and well watered, having several tribes and clans right on to the border of the Niger, eastward. They hold themselves quite distinct from the Ijesas, especially in political affairs but have always had a strong brotherhood consciousness.

Ekiti themselves never saw each other as one nation until the Ekiti parapo(Ekiti confederacy) agreement of 1877 in order to raise a strong army against Ibadan.
The 16 foremost Ekiti Obas also went into agreements with Ijesa as Ogedengbe of Ilesa led the Ekiti parapo army

It is believed that the ancestors of Ekiti people who came to combine with the aboriginal people on the land migrated from Ile Ife, the spiritual home of the Yoruba people. According to oral and contemporary written sources of Yoruba history, Oduduwa, the ancestor of the Yoruba traveled to Ife [Ife Ooyelagbo] where he met people who were already settled there. Among the elders he met in the town were Agbonniregun,Obatala, Orelure, Obameri, Elesije, Obamirin, Obalejugbe just to mention a few. It is known that descendants of Agbonniregun [Baba Ifa] settled in Ekiti, examples being the Alara and Ajero who are sons of Ifa from the same mother. Orunmila himself spent a greater part of his life at Ado before going back to Ife to become Oba of Oketase, Ife. Due to this, we have the saying ‘Ado ni ile Ifa’ [Ado is the home of Ifa].

The early Ekiti country is divided into 16 districts (and it has been maintained to this day), each with its own Owa or King (Owa being a generic term amongst them) some of which are Owore of Otun,The Ajero of Ijero, Alara of Aramoko, Alaye of Efon-Alaye, Ewi of Ado, Elekole of Ikole, Olojudo of Ido, Oloye of Oye, Arinjale of Ise(and 7 others i dont know). these 16 Owas controlled other small towns that paid homage to them, Ewi and Owore are said to have had the largest territories.

The Ekiti are very intelligent and have a deep love of home- there has been no large scale migration of Ekiti peoples to neighbouring countries, but Ekitis are in other parts of Yorubaland mostly in Ondo, Oshun and Kwara states. Respect for age and superiors, ingrained politeness is part and parcel of their nature. Ekiti land is reputed to have produced the highest number of professors in Nigeria.It is rather by heritage than by accident that the motto of the present Ekiti state is “Fountain of Knowledge,” since Agbonniregun whose descendants are all over Ekitiland is praised as Akeke-f'inu s'ogbon [the small man with a mind full of wisdom, which could be the source of the popular "Ekiti kete" slogan
Several pioneers academics are from the state. Pioneers like Profs Adegoke Olubummo (One of the 1st Nigerian Professors in the field of Mathematics), Adeyinka Adeyemi (1st Professor of Architecture in West Africa). Others include renowned academics like Profs J.F. Ade-Ajayi, Niyi Osundare, Sam Aluko and others too many to mention


The main staple food of the people of Ekiti is pounded yam with Isapa soup or vegetable soup. NATURAL RESOURCES Ekiti land is naturally endowed with numerous natural resources. The state is potentially rich in mineral deposits. These include granite, kaolin, columbite, channockete, iron ore, baryte, aquamine, gemstone, phosphate, limestone,GOLD among others. They are largely deposited in different towns and villages of Ijero, Ekiti West, Ado - Ekiti, Ikole, Ikere, Ise-Ekiti and other Local Government Areas.The Land is also blessed with water resources, some of its major rivers are Ero, Osun, Ose, and Ogbese. More so a variety of tourist attractions abound in the state namely, Ikogosi Warm Spring, Ipole - Iloro Water Falls, Olosunta hills, Ikere, Fajuyi Memorial Park Ado - Ekiti and so on. The Ikogosi tourist centre is the most popular and the most developed. The warm spring is a unique natural feature, and supporting facilities are developed in the centre. The spring is at present being processed and packaged into bottled water for commercial purpose by a private company - UAC Nigeria


Moreover, the land is buoyant in agricultural resources with cocoa as its leading cash crop. It was largely known that Ekiti land constituted well over 40% of the cocoa products of the famous old Western Region. The land is also known for its forest resources, notably timber. Because of the favorable climatic conditions, the land enjoys luxuriant vegetation, thus, it has abundant resources of different species of timber. Food crops like yam, cassava, and also grains like rice and maize are grown in large qualities. Other notable crops like kola nut and varieties of fruits are also cultivated in commercial quantities


Ekiti Anthem
" Oun abajoro kiipe kun
Oun asepo nileye
Ehin ola wa tidara o
Awa Ekiti ati parapo
Kaparapo katun panupo
Awa Ekiti ati gbominira
Okan lawansee
Chorus: Ekiti, Ekiti ati gbominira (2ce)
Awa Ekiti iwaju laomalo lagbara Olorun
Awa Ekiti okan soso ma ni’wa o lailai."

Oriki Ekiti
omo Owa omo ekun
omo oro ninu waya agbele sebi eko, aidamo ro o yangba
omo otiriki ju Ida, ki keri ogun hun won l'ule Owa
Elila oke isa, okan din nibe eyin ra kan si, okan le nibe inse leyin pa kan je
Omo agesin re popo ukoro,
Omo ogbogan gbogan leti
Omo aroyin royin kan se po e yo run lule aran
Omo ekun peran dagba aya si,
Omo jiwajiwa ileke
Eyin lomo olulu oro kii ro loru.
Omo olupepe ka sokasoka ka mebibo sere, ka
soloko segbe ogiri lule eyigbo
Eyin lomo irafi eemi, omo agbona bi ado
Omo elewure funfun ilasa ki fun bi okin
Omo obanla ba odo, omo arabaribi akuta
Omo Aalaere gbendeke, Omo aji be gbaa ji
Udile Ekiti Omo aji mogun sano omo
opababa lesi lodo ose oko.


ADEYEMI Ekundayo Adeyinka, Prof. Distinguished Professor, 1st Professor of Architecture in West Africa
Adegoke Olubummo, Ekit man and one of the 1st Nigerian Professors in the field of Mathematics
Saraibi Ogedengbe Agbogungboro

^^^^^^
The 3rd man in the picture that was
attached to @Macof's original post on page 1
is the Commander of the Ekiti Parapo Forces
by the name of Ogedengbe Agbogunboro.

I originally saw that picture in the historical
archives in the late 90's. The iconic picture of
the Ijesa-born Commander of the Ekiti Parapo
Confederate Army was taken at Imesi-Ile in
the year 1881 with some of his lieutenants who
took part in the 16-year long Civil War that started in 1879. When I showed the original
picture to a friend from Ekiti in the late 1990s,
he went wild and said he had never set his
eyes on the picture of Ogedengbe who he
said is very popular in the history of the Yoruba
and begged me to lend him the original
archival picture so he could show all his
family members.

I'm a world history enthusiast and would
enjoin the Ekiti/Yoruba and other ethnicities
to acquire and preserve many of the pre-1900
and post-1900 RARE pictures of our people
that are in the British Archives so as to better
appreciate our histories within the 21st Century
scheme of things.

Thanks to @Macof for this post on the Ekiti
history. It is illuminating.

#Ekiti kete!

superstar1:
The Nkwerre Vigilante Network this week arrested a six-man gang specialized in the sale of human parts for rituals and transplant in Nkwerre, Imo State. The men confessed to kidnapping their victims at various locations in the state and using their parts for ritual purposes. Some parts they sold to people who needed them for transplant. Yeah, there are human beings like this amongst us.

The men, who are mostly bricklayers, confessed that they sell the parts from N500k to N1million, depending on the parts in demand. Two of the ritual killers were found to be pastors.

The men took the vigilante network members and some policemen to their hideout which is a forest in Umugara Village in Nkwerre. There, police found the decomposing corpses of some of their victims, mostly women and children.

Source: Lindaikeji

superstar1:
Many atimes we have heard so much noise about SW not producing oil. Ondo has always been an oil producing state and a member of NDDC. The good news of Lagos State joining the league of all producers also gladdens the heart, with Ogun State reserve between Tongeji Island and benin Republic border a welcome development.

Undeniable facts and figures clearly show that the only oil producing state in SW is the number 6 largest producer in the country and its total production, by extension SW, surpasses all other regions apart from the oil rich SS region.

^^^^^^^
@Superstar1 @all

Ondo State is the 5th LARGEST crude-oil producing state in Nigeria based on onshore
and offshore statistics. Ondo State's
production output is among the 20% of
oil production in Nigeria represented by
Ondo, Edo, Imo, and Abia. Ondo State's output
from the Ilaje axis of southern Ondo [onshore
and offshore] is slightly higher than Edo, and
3 times the COMBINED annual output of
Imo and Abia states.

I worked in the oil industry in Nigeria and lived
and worked in PH as well and this fact is an
open secret to those in the industry and others
who are well-informed. I discovered over
the years - even before 2005 when Nairaland
was formed by Seun, [I started using Nairaland in June 2005], that some misguided people had
been posting messages online as far back as
2001 that the Western part of Nigeria has been
feeding on the oil from the SE/SS without
contributing anything.



I thought the topic of
this thread would originally be used to NOT
only set the record straight about crude-oil
production output and contribution to the
Nigerian economy state-by-state, but also
witness positive contributions on how to
maximize oil and gas usage for the benefit of
the main oil and gas producing states in Nigeria
through VALUE ADDITION and internal utilisation
for the BENEFIT of all in the face of reduced
demand for Nigerian crude oil by the traditional
buyers such as the U.S., China, India, etc.

I'm just reading this thread again, and saw another
uninformed and misguided poster BELOW
saying that Ondo is the least oil producer among
all the oil-producing states which is clearly
FALSE! Nairaland should NOT be used to
twist facts but should be used to educate
people, and this is why I usually intervene
by posting facts from time-to-time whenever
some people peddle falsehood online.


The SUMMARY of each of the oil-producing
states output based on the March 2012 data
by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and
Fiscal Commission shows the highest to the
lowest oil and gas producers below:

Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo, Edo,
Imo, and the least is Abia. (Cross River oil output has since dropped).

As for gas production, Bayelsa is the leading
producer, followed by Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom,
Edo, Imo, Ondo, Cross River, and the least is
Abia.

mumbasa:
Ukwuani is not a dialect and it is not Igbo. It’s an ethnic group it’s a language that is linguistically similar to Igbo language.

Something makes Umu- igbo sees themselves as always superior. Igbo, Ukwuani, Ekpeye, Ogba & Ikwerre are familiar tribes. Let everyone respect each other instead of claiming the territories of one another. The greediest among these tribes is Igbo.

All over the world we have distinct tribes with similar language and no one claims that the other person is answering his name so he must be Igbo.

Spanish and Portuguese – they both answer names like Diego, Jose, Fernando but the Portuguese man doesn’t wake up to tell the Spanish man that you are answering my name and you are Portuguese.

When a Portuguese man answers Rodriguez it’s a portugese name similarly when a Spanish man answers Rodriguez it becomes a Spanish name.

NO ONE OWNS THE NAME.

Uhrobo and Isoko – They both answer names like Afoke, Oghene.

Bini, Esan, Etsako – They are also different languages. I don’t mean dialects

Eleme and Ogoni – Some similar names but again different language and no one claims the other.

Ukwuani ,Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, and Igbo language – Big problem because the Igbo’s say we are answering their names but let me point out that if an Igbo man answers Chukwu it’s an Igbo name, If an Ukwuani man answers Chukwu it becomes an Ukwuani name similarly when an ikwerre man answers Chukwu its now an Ikwerre name.

Itsekiri and Yoruba language – they also have same problems with Yoruba’s but let them speak for themselves.

Ụkwụànì (sometimes spelled Ụkwànì) are a distinct ethnic group of people located in the heart of Delta State in the Delta North Senatorial District they occupy three local governments in Delta state and some of them bleed into Rivers state. They are closely related to the Ndoni people found in Rivers states in Nigeria.

They didn’t say they are not Igbo’s because someone drew a map and that placed them in Delta State. Remember that before the war they were all in one state with; Igbo’s , Ikwerres , Ijaw’s and Itshekiri’s called eastern region but they supported the Nigerian cause during the civil war and do not in any way consider themselves to be of the Igbo stock. Ụkwụànì language has 88% resemblance with dialects of Aboh and Ndoni.

When an Ikwerre, Ekpeye or Ukwuani man tells you that he is not Igbo it doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with the Igbo’s or it’s a bad thing to be Igbo but don’t just use your ignorance to discard my identity and give me yours. There are many very intelligent, successful, rich talented Igbo’s spread all over the world so you can see that there is nothing wrong with the Igbo’s.

JUST DON’T DISCARD MY IDENTITY – Maybe the Itsekiris and some people in parts of Kogi and Kwara feel same because I have heard many of them say I am not Yoruba and the Yoruba man says your name is Tunde how can you say you are not Yoruba.

@ Mumbasa

The Yoruba of Kogi West such as Dare Art-Alade,
Senators Smart Adeyemi and Dino Melaiye,
the present Deputy Governor of Kogi State
[Yomi Awoniyi] are Yorubas of the Middle-Belt of
Northern Nigeria and have NEVER denied
being Yoruba. Yomi Awoniyi's late father was
the first Yoruba Northerner to become the
Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, i.e.,
Chief Sunday Awoniyi, never denied being
Yoruba but was proud to be a Northern Yoruba
because the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu
Bello treated non-Hausas in the North with
love and respect.

In Kwara State, out of the 16 Local Governments
12 belong fully to the Yoruba including Ilorin
the state capital, and the language spoken in
Ilorin for day-to-day communication is fully
Yoruba. The Nupes own 2 LGAs and the Baribas
also own 2 LGAs.


Last but not least the Itsekiris have Yoruba
and Edo ancestries, and are righly classified
as a sub-group of the Yoruba and Edo.

Itsekiri language is very close to mainstream
Yoruba but has some Edo, Portuguese, and
English words. The Original Itsekiris were of
Ijebu ancestry in Omadino and Ode Itsekiri and
towards
Ugborodo[Escravos, the crude oil and gas-rich
community], the Ilaje Yorubas founded the
Ugborodu community over 500 years ago.

This is why the oil fields in Ugborodo/Escravos
axis is named in Itsekiri-Yoruba language (the
okan, meji, meta, meren oilfields mean one, two
three and four in Itsekiri and Yoruba).

The Olu of Itsekiri has its origins from the
Benin Royal House when Prince Giniwu the
son the the then Oba of Benin in late 1400s and
born of a Yoruba mother from Ife, had to leave
Benin with 70 of his aides as a result of some
cultural issues and finally arrived in Ode Itsekiri
were he met Lenuwa an Ijebu Itsekiri. Lenuwa
and his people accepted Prince Ginuwa in their
midst and eventually made him the king or Olu.

I observed that the Itsekiris senior chiefs usually
attend meetings organised by the larger Yoruba
and have never denied having STRONG ancestral
ties with the Yoruba and Edoid groups such
as the Bini-Edo and Urhobos.

I remember in 2011, @kpogede77 posted that
the Ilaje-Yorubas came to the military aid of their
direct Itsekiri cousins who they share boundaries
with along the Ondo/Delta State border, with
sophisticated weapons to fight the Ijaw who
had attacked Itsekiri communities.

laudate:


With reference to the part in bold type, I don't think this is true.

Pre-colonial Nigeria, had a lot of Ogbomosho people from the south-western part of Nigeria who were itinerant traders. They migrated up north and settled there. Some of them intermarried with the Hausa communities in those areas. More details can be found in this book: Approaching the Study of Yoruba Diaspora in Northern Nigeria in the 20th Century by Rasheed Olaniyi, IFRA SPECIAL RESEARCH ISSUE VOL. 2. In that book he states that...



You can also read this book Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets, and the State in Northern Ghana by Jeremy Seymour Eades, Africa World Press, 1994 - Business & Economics - 234 pages. In an entire chapter titled The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century , he dwells extensively on the migration patterns of the Ogbomosho traders in Northern Nigeria, and makes comparisons with their entry into Northern Ghana, during the same period.

Also, if you go to the middle belt especially in areas like Ilorin, Kwara, Kogi etc., & some parts of the far North, you would find out there has been a long history of inter-marriage between the Hausa, Kanuri, Fulanis (who are sometimes erroneously referred to as 'Hausa') and the Yoruba tribe, due to the long historical links between them.

Post-colonial Nigeria, also saw a number of northerners, including the Hausa (I hesitate to use the word 'Hausa', to describe a collective group of people, as there are several minority tribes in the North that speak fluent Hausa, but are not core Hausa themselves) conducting inter-tribal marriages with Southerners, including Yoruba people.

^^^^^^
@laudate, that's an illuminating info you
shared there.

I have first and second cousins who are
married across ethnic lines, but my spouse
is biracial and non-Nigerian by birth.

Last but not least, it is important that fathers
teach and expose their mixed heritage kids to
their ethnic languages before the age of 2/3 years to avoid the highly embarassing
scenario where NON of them can speak neither
of the fathers' or mother' languages.

There are Yoruba language CDs/DVDs that
are available in the Diaspora, and these can be
made available for those with mixed Yoruba/other Nigeria ethnicities as well from online
sources. The use of multi-media devices
in audio and video format makes learning
a language easier - be it French, Yoruba, Hausa,
Ibibio, etc, EASY for kids and adults!