₦airaland Forum

muykem:
Rauf Aregbesola lost his rightful position to Femi Gbajabiamiala. He was unable to let it go in Osun politics and allowed the former governor to take the charge of the state. He fought like a man by collide with opposition to unseat the then governor. He won the battle and lost the war.

proeast:
God have mercy, what did I just read

So, Yorubas have become so insecure and primitive to this extent??!!!

All I could feel for this unfortunate writer is pity. People reading this Lamentations will also feel pity for what Yorubas have become. The other time, we saw many Yoruba men crying on national TV and begging Tinubu to save them in Lagos. They claimed that Igbos have completely displaced them in Lagos and they couldn't afford to rent shops or live in nice apartments anymore because Igbos have priced them out of their reach

I know that enlightened Yorubas who are travelled would be severely embarrassed by all these

Other Nigerians too will be shocked to see Yorubas feeling so inferior and weak Lol, the talk that they see Igbo Giants in their dreams is actually real

Thank God Igbos have never attacked or fight anyone in their lands. Whatever we possess, WE BOUGHT FROM THE NATIVES AT HIGH RATES!!!

This foolish writer doesn't know how stupid he sounds. If Igbos are making the value of their properties to rise, isn't it supposed to be a good thing for them? Everywhere in the world, people pray for investors but these ones are so miserable because of Igbo investors.

I don't even blame you primitive bigots, rather I blame fellow Igbos that invest among these hateful people. I will rather invest in Cotonou than anywhere in SW Nigeria. Their people out of greed will sell lands to Igbos and use the money to marry new wives or do owambe and once it's finished, they will start hating on Igbos for "taking their land".

If not for Igbos, their entire towns will be completely filled with slums. Take a look at any drone picture of say Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Ore etc and see how disgusting they look.

Igbos should stop investing among these people o.

What a shame!!!

pansophist:
So if I am 25 years old tout that does conductor for a living, and has three olosho sweethearts, I am not useless. But a medical doctor that chooses not to disturb himself with women is useless, right?

Now tell me you are mad, without telling me you are mad.

Bobloco:
To go home and do what

Modifire:
Na who call you before? U better geraurahia before sapa finish you

geedot:
That's even better, those getting married immediately their gf got pregnant is mostly a recipe for financial handicap. If you want to have a baby, be financially ready please.

It's annoying seeing a married man asking for urgent 2ks, and married woman disturbing her exes for money too.

olasaad:
3900 because of Hilda hope she hug you too

qtguru:
Thanks to those who attended.

Ibime:
You conspiracy theorists haff come

JP Morgan was booked for the trip but missed it. Rockefeller got no beef with JP Morgan. JP Morgan financed all Rockefeller business ventures.

shegzhkn:
Wetin dey do black people - compete with who ??
First off the folks in the Western world had serious advantage over you - shey you wan compare yourself with someone like Alexandr Wang (Scale AI co-founder), asian American kid, Math prodigy, parents were scientists (worked at Los Alamos Lab in new Mexico), started working as a software engineer at 17 (Quora and Addepar), went to MIT, dropped out to start his own business. That is just one of hundreds of thousands of American kids.

PARADIZEPRIEST:
Those who misruled naija are the problem not Nigeria,this what the ordinary citizens are ignorant of. hold them to account after living govt.

Sheriman:
Na money too E go take buy am now. Nigeria no be country.

pansophist:
I'll say that nairaland made me a better writer. To write here almost every week, for the last nine years, is a sure way to sharpen your usage of words, usage of analogies, and nuances.

Also reading almost every week helps in listening and writing better, since everyone have their own idiolects, reading from everyone makes you know how to write comoplex stuff and laser sharp analogies.

niel63:
Abobi you dey form woke... dem never run you streets before... no worry e dey come.

pansophist:
Try to open a new gmail address. It will ask you to choose either male or female, or if you want to customise it. Choose customise, then write anything there as your gender.

My gender from yesterday when I had to open a new email address was "attack helicopter". So from now guys, I'm an helicopter, and my new pronoun is "engine oil". Lol

LordIsaac:
...they should change "menopause" too

Ghostwon82221:
Can you read ?
Do you understand what you read ? It seems you don't.

Edit. I don't want to be too harsh, I'm at work and I have very little patience. Let me rephrase:
Read what I wrote, and pay more attention to every detail. Look at the proofs which I presented.

Ghostwon82221:
You are being disengenuous, because your reasoning clearly doesn't work. I have given irrefutable proof that Lagos was part of Benin, by the way so was ondo.
You can't reason in history by claiming "if this happened then this should be here today".
And you guys keep talking about conquest ...you still fail to understand that the precolonial world was a very different place from today. Stop thinking you can get history with 100% prevision, of names and events hour by hour, that will not happen.
Lagos was a part of Benin, stop looking for conquest, Lagos was invaded by the British then flooded with people foreign to Lagos. Any true Lagosian, not a migrant from British invasion is an Edo.

Ghostwon82221:
When the British took over Lagos, Lagos was flooded with migrants, mostly local fugitive slaves and foreign freed slaves like the Brazilian slaves.
What happened to Lagos is just like what happened to some Arabian countries with small population in which the number of migrant workers is now more than twice the number of aboriginals.
I repeat and I do so with proof, Lagos was part of Benin. Benin in the 1400's was very different from today. It was a large multilingual country whose capital was named "Benin city" by the European visitors on their maps.
Benin was civilised and had great architecture and military, it was a real powerful country.
You can look at precolonial maps and texts to see what our region looked like hundreds of years ago.
There is a reason why the body of water is called Bight of Benin, that was the precolonial reality.

The problem with many people like you is that you lack the ability to do historical research and you believe that what you see today will necessarily tell you what you had hundreds of years ago. That is not how history works.
European explorers have had this same logical problem, they visited a city in medieval America, then some other European explorers came back to the same site hundreds of years later and found no city, they then concluded that the earlier explorers were lying.
But in reality (as it was discovered 1 hundred years later), the people of the city died of diseases in great numbers and the remanants migrated elsewhere and then vegetation outgrew the city, you had to use scientific means to see signs of the city. The world is not static, looking at a place today won't tell you it's past, you have to actually do the efforts and do competent research, which I did.

DevilsEqual:
Was also thinking if truly the binis owned Lagos,considering the distance between them, Binis influence should have been more profound between ondo,Ogun and other Lagos neighboring SW states


Cause those days, empires tend to spread their influence around an already conquered territory, just as Xerxes of Persia and Alexander the great did their across Asia minors, Europe and Egypt

Ghostwon82221:
1) it is Benin, not Binin and not Bini.
2) Benin did not colonize Lagos, Lagos was part of Benin
3) it is the British who colonized Lagos when they took it away from Benin, Benin people are not foreign to Lagos, it is part of their ancestral lands.
4) Also tell your Yoruba monarchs to carry their original titles and stop copying the title of the one and only Oba.

ItisWell22:
As wide as your head is big… 🤭

ItisWell22:
Actually wide enough to take your head in… 😉