₦airaland Forum

[quote author=re@lchange]sometimes i wish that igbo absence from lagos would last for just 3 months just for you to see the speed with which your governors will rush to the east cap in hand begging them to return.
you think that owambe pays taxes.[/quote]Owambe has been part of our culture back when our Obas taxed their tributaries. We are a blessed people. We no longer have tributaries, we have evolved a new way of exacting fund and its called economic mules, imported to make a living locally on our land and fund the wealth and needs of our people. Owambe shall never stop.

redsun: I agree it leaves the roads free for you guys to party,but obviously with little or no economic activities,especially for the area boys/girls that rely on begging and extortion for their livelihood.

The essence of lagos as a economically viable will be defeated without he igbos and even the malams.You guys need to accept that and see beyond the tribal veils.

Thank God its winter in Europe. White man must have his hot cocoa drink and savour the delightful taste of dark chocolate. Ships are loading their request at Apapa as you enjoy your xmas in isialanga. Alhaji must store and dry his kolanuts before end of harmattan and in time before the stimulant dependent farmer come for his gorro. Yoruba is always busy serving clients,domestic and international, they come to our land...you included! We are a world market. The exit of one is not disturbed by the entry of another.

God Bless Yorubaland for me!

Be safe and be on lookout for kidnappers. You dont have that problem in Lagos but now you have to look over your shoulder and worry about ending as parts in okija juju shrine. Shame!

[quote author=Ngene-Ukwenu]In 2011 towards the presidential election, people all over the country were canvassing and mobilizing support for Jonathan without recourse to Religion and ethnic groupings. In fact it was hard for some of us who were ardent followers and supporters of Buhari to make headway outside the Nothern region, as almost everybody had been brainwashed by the dubious "I had No Shoes" mantra of Jonathan and a need to have a "fresh air" as he was not seen as part of the Establishment.

However three years down the line, Nigerians across regions bar the south east and some parts of south south have realized there were duped in 2011 and have vowed to sweep Jonathan and his gang out of power in 2015. When Jonathan and his men discovered the mood of Nigerians, they tried to counter it by applying force and shortchanging the party structure in favour of the president, but that failed as soon it was hatched, they then resorted to Religion and Tribal sentiments, which they found the Igbos a willing tool and quickly took advantage by unleashing what can be qualified as the most divisive statement ever to come out of a sitting president the now infamous propaganda of the South west and the north which is THE IGBOS ARE THE PILLARS OF MY GOVERNMENT. Swiftly following that, was the opportunity presented by Fashola on the alleged "deportation" or "uniting" ( choose as it pleases you) the Igbos, Jonathan handlers again milked this opportunity to high heavens. The stage was now prepared for the most vociferous tribal and religious politics ever noticed in the annals of the country. Trust my Igbo brothers, when given assignment or work, they tend to do it with utmost energy and unequaled skills. Consequently the debasing of other parties and religion begun, and we started hearing things like , Boko haram party, terrorist party, Alhaji Okorocha, Efelefu, Ndi Ofenmanu, Alhaji Ngige, parasites and other unmentionable adjectives to humiliate any Nigerian that speaks against their God-given President.

Time For Stock Taking: Other regions have now taken notice, and see 2015 as their time for revenge, they want to at least make a statement to the Igbos and Jonathan that, he did not win 2011 elections with only the Igbo support hence the recent campaign against him in these vilified parts of the country. Or are you surprised that almost every Yoruba, Hausa irrespective of party affiliations sees Jonathan as a common enemy that they need to do away with?. In 2011, you would find a large number of online Yoruba PDP members teeming up with The Igbo counterparts on NairaLand to haul invectives on Buhari, in order to help their party man ,Jonathan clinch the president. But the reverse is the order of the day, mainly because of the way Igbos handle Jonathan's campaign

Now the big Question is: Have the Igbos unknowingly whittled down Jonathan's support base by employing ethnic and religious calumny in the course of protecting their "Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan"

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You Are Free To Rain Insults On Me, But The Message, I have Passed.[/quote]Up until 1999, Ibos were still sitting in the backburner and the civil service was headed by Yoruba and Hausa, but here and there in few pockets you will see a deputy diector general or a head of department that is Ibo. In the military Ibos were retired before they advance to Chief level. Obasanjo came in as President and changed all that. Ibos owe him plenty gratitude for bringing Ibos into prominent positions in his cabinet and as well promoting them into militaryChiefs and also putting them as heads of civil service. He did that with balance, each ethnicity was fairly represented. He did not bring Ibos in to kick Hausa or Yoruba out, he just created a balanced field with quotas to the federating people.

No Ibo person could have done for Jonathan what Obasanjo, and by extension Yoruba people did to rescue Jonathan from Northerners plan to snatch the Presidency from him. There is a precedence in that action. In 1966 Ibos snatched the Prime Ministership from the Northerners after killing Balewa and gave it to Ironsi. This was the start of military rulership. In 2011, it was again snatched from them after the death of Yaradua and given to an Ijaw.

They recognized it as a repeat of 1966 and were ready for another breakdown of law and order and general bloodshed but Yoruba leaders stepped in to calm things down and allowed for the constitution to guide succession of the throne. This was the only reason Jonathan could have become President. He was powerless to fight for himself and Ibos were too timid to fight for him. The bombing on October 1st was a scare tactic employed by Ijaws to bring everyone back to their minds.

The only region in Nigeria that does not have PDP governor is West. West was anti PDP but went on a limb to safeguard and fight for Jonathan's right to the throne - we voted enmasse for PDP in Presidential.

Obasanjo is the face of PDP in West. Jonathan has fallen out of favor with him. Obasanjo will never leave PDP but he will campaign for an alternative to Jonathan for 2015. There are currently 7 ex Presidents alive - Gowon, Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Shonekan, Abdulsalami, OBJ - and none of them is speaking for Jonathan. None of his predecessors is in his camp! Thats unheard of. So how does he expect to win 2015 exactly?

Jonathan has doomed political future for the Ijaws and it would have remained just that if he had not schemingly attached the Ibos by association, as co riders in his failed and highly unpopular administration. The Ibos are politically uncalculating; they took ownership of the praise and glory and cheered and popped champagne to their newfound status as the pillars of a failed government that no ex president support. Ibos are now sitting in the same political basket as the Ijaws as ACN take helm of affairs post 2015.

Olugbenger: Bro, no mind the guy always claming nationalist. Next time, pm mukina2.
He hasn't changed either. He still has my sympathy though, because he is not sexkillz.

Im giving him opportunity to self correct. If I go to my darling Mukinatou ( ) it will be too late for the guy, I will run an anti-afam campaign at that point. He is still redeemable for now.

redsun: Lagos tend to become a ghost town with the igbos out for christmas.A time when only the hard up igbos or the ones afraid of socalled village witches remains in lagos.

It is a sad time in lagos for those unfortunate to be caught up there at that time of the year.

Lagos return to orderliness and sanity when Ibos are out. Yorubas are known for merriment and enterprise, your absence or presence does not stop our owambe, neither does it stop alhaji coming from Kano to buy kola, neither will it stop our exportation of cocoa.

Just be safe in iselle uku whem you get there and watch your back your kidnapping brothers are hungry for xmas money

cheikh: It appears that Nigerians, especially those of them from the southern part of the country are afflicted with the 'tribalism' virus. It seems also that the 'Yoruba' are unfairly accused of being 'tribalistic' by other Nigerians/ neighbours, without actually understanding the source or reasons for such 'behaviour'. The 'Yoruba' geographically are 'victims' of the 'colonial' incursion/ settlement in Nigeria via 'Yorubaland' e.g. Much of the so-called economic 'development' and administration of Nigeria(civil-service)etc., schools/colleges were cited in Lagos/western region. The 'Yoruba' did not have the need/desire to travel to the hinterland/ beyond their region, besides travelling out of the country. Such a people inadvertently will beome 'victims' of circumstance having 'narrow' or 'skewed' view of the world around them. It's almost like expecting the 'English' to speak/learn a foreign language. After all it's the majority/dominant language of the ruling power that governed two-third of the world(British empire). The 'advantage' of the skewed colonial economic development of Nigeria have conspired in some perverse way, to make the indigene/ Yoruba - 'victims' because they did not have to reach out/ travel to other parts of Nigeria in search of- work, education or other reasons most 'Nigerians/ non-Yoruba, flock to Lagos in search of the proverbial 'golden fleece'. It's rare to encounter a 'Yoruba' who speaks other Nigerian languages and whenever you do, it's almost 'exotic' and interesting. I am not trying to make excuses for the 'Yoruba', or for 'small mindedness' or 'tribalistic' tendencies as perceived by 'non Yoruba'. If 'Yoruba' language is the majority/dominant language in Lagos/ environs , it's also natural, perhaps wrongly, to assume that everybody residing in Lagos speaks/understands the 'Yoruba' language as most people/ 'Yoruba' in Lagos are wont to assume. Is it not unfair to blame/accuse somebody who has never had the good fortune/misfortune to leave their 'home' for being parochial or 'tribal'? A little bit of understanding and empathy will go a long way in assuaging much of the pent up misunderstandings/misconceptions/ignorance of fellow Nigerians. Other Nigerians had reasons to migrate/gravitate towards Lagos since the colonial encounter and nothing much have changed except the moving of the administrative capital to Abuja.

Your observation on Yoruba exposure outside Yorubaland is incorrect.

Yorubas do not travel to East. You will not find us across the Niger into Iboland and beyond but we are settled among the many cultures in Northern Nigeria and beyond and as well West Africa.

The notion that Yoruba does not travel beyond our boundary is a wrong one. Ibos dont see us in their land and assumed wrongly that we are not present in any other land.

It will be an interesting topic to trail the root of why Yoruba choosed to go everywhere else but Iboland.

Lebanese caught with heavy cache of weaponry in Kano.

High grade weapons found in Lebanese supermarket in Abuja.

Lebanese abused pregnant Nigerian and caused loss of baby.

Nigerians beaten and killed in Goa, India.
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Why were her coworkers not on her rescue when this was going on? This must be a normal way for this lebanese to treat his workers. There are many accounts of Lebanese and other expatriates generally maltreating their Nigerian workers and if they fight back the boss can call in Nigerian police who, for a bribe, will add to the punishment. NLC needs to come up with punitive measures for these abuses.

By all means this Lebanese should be deported to his war torn nation for murdering a Nigerian and attempted murder on the victim's parent.

What did i write that called for a ban, please tell me.

But you banned me from 19th to 26th for something i dont even see or know to justify.

He was around on 21st no ban.

He was still around on 19th, no ban.

On 18th look at what logica wrote and i brought in for complaint.

Afam,

Im bringing charges against you for favoring and protecting Ibos by restraining Yoruba hands. You have banned me multiple times in past for nothing more than calling an Ibo person idiot. Ive never complained after the ban and you have taken that silence at liberty to continue to ban me unjustly. Im speaking out now. I just returned from another of your unjust bans. You need to stop. Dont make me run an AFAM MUST GO campaign here with plenty captions to send you the way of Ikenna and Sexkillz. I will set you up and send you out!

Review the following and please share what i wrote (which you deleted) to justify ban. Also, I brought a complaint about "logic" because I didnt want to get a ban, ordinarily I would have cursed out his entire lineage, household and clan. I can defend myself and dont need mod's help but I did so out of courtesy anyway and no action was taken but I was targeted and banned.

Becareful bro, dont let that happen again!

I love this guy. Lets see how it works in an election cycle, if worthy of deployment beyond Osun.

No problem sha. There is light ahead the tunnell. The bridge can be repaired but the head of this village already admitted they are not capable of crrtain things. We have a solutiin for how to prevent this disaster going forward. We definitely hate the villagers have to go half a day trip just to make it to other side.

ngozievergreen: counter the guys claims nah .
More of these bridges traverse the SW, no wonder Lagos with the lowest investment from Yoruba is the front u all have

If this bridge was in SW we will have toll on it. Exactly for reasons like this. You see why we smart pass una?

lygn19: LoL...how do I contact them?

I thought you own Warri? You are in trouble if you dont know how to find OPC in your own town.

atlwireles: This people are good comedians on NL. Let them come to Warri and open their mouths.

OPC is in town; if you have grouse about who owns Warri you should approach and tell them to vacate.

lygn19: From the ocean to the river, not only d river self also to the desert... Naija big o...lol

We are Yoruba, remember, we do not put nose where we dont have claim..and equally, we do not back off from what is our rightful claim.

alj harem: Fact

Other borders are lokoja, jebba up north

Bini city, warri to the east

Lagos Oyo to the west

From the Ocean to the River!

Chamackh: In as much as I acknowledge the development, let us not distort what other has been doing for ages. Heart surgery has been going on since 70's till date at UNTH.

Yorubas here are focused on their homeland and dissociated from Nigeria. UNTH is not in Yorubaland, why would Yoruba praise what is not theirs? Thats your job in East to do. Open a thread and celebrate what UNTH has done since 70s. I think that will be good patriotism to your land.