₦airaland Forum

uthman4rike: The rerun local government election in Offa local Government area of kwara state has just come to an end and result announced also. it would be recalled that the election of the former Chairman in person of Prince Saheed Poppola was annuled by a court in ilorin. The rerun was between Prince Saheed Popoola of APC and Prince Waheed Olanipekun PDP. the final of result is as follows.
APC-11526
PDP-4668:
APC candidate returned elected.

The first APC electoral victory in history, in Offa!

Patience Faka Jonathan

ngozievergreen: [size=14pt]u opened ur gay brain [/size]to type dat igbos need d FG presence to survive?
Even oda non biafrans will not agree with u.
Where are d FG investments in d SE?
Since d civil war ended, how many policies have been made to benefit d SE?
Since aguiyi ironsi died in 1966( 6 months of unitary system) , y didnt nigeria revert to regionalism or was it igbos that held d govt for 43 yrs?
Y didnt OBJ, earnest shonekan change back to regionalism, same as d northern leaders?
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FYI, the regionalism of western govt was good only under Awo; as for akintola, it was hell.
So tying ur backwardness to absence of regionalism is too elementary.
And worse still, Ur ppl are still wretched even after looting biafran monies in nigerian banks.
Y is dat sef?

I can tell when I hit a raw nerve, the response is predictable.

Did he seek their approval to move the fleet and armament to Meditteranean ? His gra gra has beenchecked by Russia and China and he is looking for a safe way out. Simple!

GEJ needs OBJ's help, fast!

Obasanjo is the backbone of PDP. It is evident.

logica: Firstly, several of these are beyond the syllabus of Primary Schools (the target). All the same:

1. Ìsirò òye
2, 3, 4, 5. Ìsirò pàsí-pàrọ
6. Ìsirò Àgbáyé

"Ìsirò" is the Yoruba word for Arithmetic (a branch of Math) which could be extended to cover Math.

Calculus is the most profound theory in Mathematics. "òye" is the Yoruba word for deep knowledge/intellect.

Exponential, Indices, Surd and Logarithm all fall under Algebra. "pàsí-pàrọ" is the Yoruba word for exchange or substitute/substitution (which is basically what Algebra is all about - exchanging symbols for numbers and vice-versa)

"Àgbáyé" is the Yoruba word for "World" or "Earth".

Secondly, I hope you realize several words in science are actually from the Arab translation and the pointer to this fact is many start with the prefix "Al" (such as Alchemist, Algorithm, etc). There are NO English words for these terms also; and the original Greek/Latin translations had been long lost in the annals of the Dark Ages.

Yorubas have intellectuals and wordsmiths who can within a few weeks provide a diction for seemingly intractable translations. How long did it take Samuel Ajayi Crowther to translate the Bible? Uh huh.

By the way, you can keep the 200 recharge.

Everything to know about Calculus, Trig, Algebra and Applied Maths is contained in IFA.

http://www.self-help-center-langkawi.com/PurpleNotebook/ch471.html

skyfall: Many people seem not to be getting the message. Yoruba leaders have realized that the Nigeria project may eventually fail afterall and are already focusing their long-term plans on self-determination. I hope leaders from other regions are also learning from this and act before it's too late.

Even Leaders of the core North are investing in their own self sufficiency going forward and you can see that in the programs they champion in North.

Eastern leaders are finding it difficult to get the SS or the MB to align with their interests and they therefore are turnig to West but they believe the only way to attach to West is to make Lagos a co-ownership with Igbo.

Ojukwu is dead, Biafra is dead, Igbo has recovered economically but lost its political footing and become like an homeless orphan -

agbameta: And the federal government dictates curriculum and teaching methods in elementary school right?


I know people in your side of the country think the FG is the beginning and the end of life and you can not breath without the federal government's help and say so, but we don't roll like that on our side, we do what's best for us.

FCUKKK your FG..

Yeah, why is that? Why is it the Igbos are the only ethnic group in Nigeria that tie their survivability to the unitary center?

The grapevine is whispering.

Akabueze was in some compromising position and in contravene of his oath of allegiance.
Has anyone heard from Kalu yet? I heard he had sent emissaries to GCFR regarding his house and tax debt.

Who owns Lagos?

sexkillz: [color=#000030]^Dream on. [/color]

I know its business as usual. In case you didnt know, Nairaland is modeled after Nigeria in every way you can imagine. Am i wrong?

Going through the pages I ran into the following suggestion by beaf, written on May 16, 2012; valid back then and still valid today.

Let us have a section to vote to ban mods.
We should have a rule that requires, say 70% of votes to agree the ban, then... Gboa! 
Things to be agreed are:

1. Length of ban (fixed or case by case?)
2. An option for removal?etc etc

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This is example of the disorderliness Fashola wants to root out of society, where insanity impugns on the sensibilities of sane and consciensious members of society. We live in a moral culture supported by ethos and taboos for regulating conduct in public. This is not an act in isolation. If the public sees this as entertainment the govt is not amused by it. When people violate traffic laws they need to understand the consequence of their action and stripping off clothes to protest their initial act of irresponsibility must be condemned by the general public who at large have the interest of upholding the law. We must not condemn Fashola when he responds in kind with a proper treatment for society's eyesore.

[quote author=St_Black]Awuuu omo iya mi

U shuld have used it to shut that omo ita arinihoho up now.

...who even knows maybe he 's not of d Epe lineage but is using his knowledge about Epe history to disguise[/quote]Speaking and writing a flawless Yoruba does not make him an Oduduwa. I have people on ground that will verify his family roots in Epe if indeed he has one.

[quote author=N_girl]Most of the people on this thread are not being reasonable. When did murder become bravery
Some people on this thread are mentioning how they're "proving" that they're not cowards.. SMH!
Everyone knows that the Fulani people are becoming unbearable but for me murder = cowardice.
Their farmlands were being destroyed and the only way they thought to retaliate was by taking human lives? and people on Nairaland are celebrating.
If you guys were living where this thing happened you won't be talking like this.
The massacre of Yoruba people could start at anytime. Those people will have to sleep with one eye open from now on.
They can live in peace anymore. There's nothing about this thread to be happy about..

The state and federal governments need to do something about the situation so that people will not have to live in fear of being massacred and there wouldn't be any more retaliations.[/quote]The amount of responses here where each had expressed or cautioned about fear is indicative of why fulani has successfully terrorized people this long. As i said earlier many are afraid of fulani.

What is it in fulani that put this much fear into people?

There are vigilantes in most of these communities now and they are also arming the farmers and teaching them how to defend their farmlands - hoe in hand, ak47 across chest!. They have been taught how to surveil and how to track. Theyve also learnt how to erect tactical advance warning systems using their own ecologocal resource. Theyve been instructed to shift away from defending and to become the predator. Fulani will be loosing sleep, not farmers.

Jakumo: The Fulani nation straddles international borders accross sub-Saharan Africa, but those cattle-rearing nomadic wanderers are all unified by language and culture. Known historically as a warrior tribe of great tenacity, bravery and ferocity, the Fulani took to military life as Nigerian soldiers, like ducks to water. To this day, much of Nigeia's top military brass comprises men of Hausa-Fulani descent, whose allegiance to tribal stock, and to the Islamic faith, easily supercede their sworn oaths to serve the Nigerian military establishment.

In other words, any organized killings of Fulani tribesmen, such as this recent ethnic cleansing of Fulani cattle herders in Oyo State, Nigeria, could before long lead to a disproportionate retaliation by invading Fulani gangs who have been covertly ARMED with infantry weapons, by upper achelon Fulani members of the Nigerian military.

The recent clashes between southern Christian Yoruba and northen Muslim Hausa beans traders in Ibadan, Oyo State, took place shortly before this latest killing of Fulani cattle herdsmen, so it is imperative that state and federal authorities act urgently to secure the area from a possible escalation in violent reprisals launched from either side of the conflict in Oyo State.

You have a morbid fear of fulani. Nobody cares how wide they are spread in Africa. Their spread now is no different than it was in 1830s and we successfully dislodged them and they fled across the niger.

The army is different than what it was, Obasanjo made many changes. Right now the Joint Chief of Armed Services is Yoruba, plus Kaduna is under the command of Yoruba. I dont see fulani using its army strength to harm Yoruba without a total calamity befalling a number of their emirates. Drop your phobic fear of fulani.

holyvirgin: Farmlands are now valued more than peoples's lives? Hmmmm oyo people should be careful cos a fulani man attaches no value to human lives....
A clear evidence that yoruba's are not accomodating.

Thats the myth they perpetrate and use psychologically to defeat the will of their opponents. Fulani is just as fearful of dying as any man. When faced with terror Fulani will pick race. Their opponents believing Fulani is more deadlier therefore fights him half-heartedly, not confident in his own ability to bring fulani to his knees and make him beg for mercy. Many of us who have this phobia need to witness the mutilation of a fulani so our fear of his immortality can be erased.

Pipsland78: Why is no one sympathizing with the Fulanis? Why so much bigotry amongst the Yorubas? Is a farmland of thesame value as human life?
Learn to show more love pls.

Beside their own kind i dont know anyone in Nigeria who would grieve the killing of a cowherd.

nerodenero: This is the time for Oyo State Government to expedite action towards ensuring peaceful resolution of this matter. The Fulanis are hopeless, deadly and wicked. They would attack, attack and attack. Doma and other nearby villages in Nasarrawa State readily comes to mind.

They attack those places repeatedly because they are isolated tongues and they are sitting targets for them. What stops all those middle belt communities from ganging up on them when anyone of their communitoes is attacked?

What state do these herders come from and why couldnt their state governments restrain them? Its an error of judgement to place the burden of peacemaking on the state government in which the attack took place.

Cowards vs Cowherds!

Cowards are determined, through violent assault, to elicit respect from Cowherds on Yoruba soil. When in Yorubaland behave like you got sense!

Caleboha: And we call this yoruba guys cowards I'm impressed! They should however brace themselves for the forthcoming ceaseless bloody fulani reprisals. Your gallantry will thus be duly assessed over a long time!

If it wasnt for Fulani movement crying out would you know that Yoruba youths are taking assaults to Fulani camps, and have done so every week for past six weeks?

When its time for talk, we talk. Time for execution is no time for talk. They have more surprises coming. OPC has a full registry of their movements updated in real time on a gps database. They can no longer kill and escape into oblivion. They exist as data records now and their escape is short lived before they are tracked down and murdered. They were warned, Yorubaland will not tolerate terrorism of any kind, whether from boko or fulani cowherd or hausa trader.

raytony: While there might not be any justification for this killings, una and una cattles sef no dey try. Una go just dey destroy people farmland dey go. Una no get sense?

When will there be a justification for it?

djustice: What makes you think I don't kniw my own history? You think I'm not aware that Epe is a trading post of Ijebu-Ode? Anyone who is curious enough to dig a little will tell you that. However, that link, though strong, is cultural in nature only. Administratively, we are in Lagos State. Our contributions to the growth of this state cannot now be wished away, after over 45 years of contributing financially and intellectually to the commonwealth of Lagos.

Perhaps you may not have heard of the likes of S.L. Edu and other illustrious sons and daughters of Epe.

Thank God Yoruba have Idile and Agbo'le to thread bloodline and identity.

If our code of identity had been simply language based or name based, google-library subscribers like yourself would have ordinarily used harvested data and info to convince us that you are a bona fide Yoruba.

First, Epe is not a trading post of Ijebu Ode.

Second, administrative affiliation does not give you right of indigeneship as you have consistently used that same post to claim that araokes are not indigenes and Fashola is not indigene. So what makes an adminstered province under the Awujale an indigene of Lagos State? Reconcile the politics and the nativity here for me please.

Third, no one should ever dismiss the presence and contributions of Ijebus in Lagos, neither that of people you call araoke.

Fourth, I know the Edus. Their great grandfather was one of the Baales under the Olu of Epe.
While, according to your claim you belong under Oloja, assuming that is true, you and those under Olu are both settlers in Epe. Oloja originating in Ijebu and Olu originating in Eko.

I need you to prove your indigeneship of Epe and of Lagos mister. Where in Epe is your bloodline? Idile ibo lo ti wa?

djustice: This is you trying to form intimate knowledge of Epe, abi? I'll humoir your sorry behind. My king is the Oloja of Epe. Now, which Epe do I belong to, fooool?

The history of Epe is engraved in the palm of my hand. Don't make me tell you the history of your fathers and how is it you settled in Epe. You have caused enough trouble in here and i dont need to flame it further. I hope we meet again and since you feel araokes are not indigenes I will get the opportunity to show you in future that you belong under Awujale, not Akiolu.

seunmsg: The people of Anambra have given Jonathan 100% support since 2011. Unfortunately, the same Jonathan has turn around to spite them by sacrificing their best candidate on the altar of negotiating and securing his own ambition.

Going forward, the people of Anambra must realise that Jonathan does not consider their interest as top priority. It does not matter to him whether Obasanjo's anointed candidate, Andy Uba will perform or not. What matters to him his winning the 2015 presidential election and anything, including the collective interest of Anambra people will be mortgaged to achieve this.

It is not too late for Anambra people to decide that they will not be the pawn in Jonathan's political chess board. Obi and other APGA leaders have shown that they can not protect the interest of the people. The ordinary Anambra people have to take their destiny in their own hands. This is the time for all well meaning Anambra people to quit party sentiment and support Chris Ngige, a proven administrator and performer per excellence. No more sentimental politics, its time to support a proven performer.

Dude, we are talking about Nigerian politics, it is dirty! It is a competition and dont expect your rivals to be your sponsor, your job is to strategically eliminate them before they eliminate you. Dont blame Gej. Soludo should get out of politics, this is not a profession for those seeking sponsors.

This Soludo has been paraded as one of the smartest Igbo leaders and one of three top messiahs to lead them out of wilderness and into a glorious future. He has been characterised as a future candidate for presidency and even compared as an elite in the class of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, suggestive that his service as ex CBN governor earns him a spot in an exclusive class of national leaders.

Im coming to think that Soludo was a beneficiary of a similar windfall opportunity (federal character) that got GEJ into Presidency and on merit and competency alone he would never have been a CBN governor.

How could a politician be so trusting and gullible as to mortgage his political future to the hands of his competition, what kind of mumu be this Soludo self? They toss him about like a ragdoll. Is this who Igbo is counting on to lead their future?

djustice: Nice but irrelevant story. I am more Yoruba tha you can even begin to imagine. Your handle also suggests that you might be the friend in hoir own story. Mayor of Lagos? Nigga, puhleeze!

All Nigerians living in Lagos are citizens, not of Lagos, but of Nigeria. Lagos is not a country, and as such you cannot be a "citizen" of Lagos. You can be a resident, with all rights acruing to all citizens of Nigeria as enshrined under the constitution, but you cannot be AN INDIGENE of Lagos if you're ancestral roots are not here. All Yorubas are not indigenes of Lagos, and S.147(3) of the constitution makes clear that there is a distinction between a citizen of Nigeria and an imdigene of a state in Nigeria. You get it?

Oh, by the way, I am Yoruba, from Epe, and therefore an indigene of Lagos.

First, which Epe do you belong, Ijebu Epe or Eko Epe?

From our allies... bloody liars!

“The Igbo are key stakeholders in the affairs ofthe state (Lagos). We constitute over 46% ofthe population of the state…It is the Igbo thatmake Lagos what it is and without them Lagoswill go to sleep. The Igbo in Lagos have thecapacity to defend themselves…” -OhanezeNdigbo

It is good to see that the worldwide apex Igbo voice and leadership has recognized and acknowledged that their initial response to the issue was wrong. I bet they were not expecting such a massive common-front return from Yoruba.

These people do not see us allies but they are suddenly alerted to the losses and consequences that will result if Yoruba develop a cold and distant relationship with them. This awareness is a sobering reflection and they are now doing damage control to hold on to their footprint in Lagos.

Whether they recognize us as allies or not, we have learnt an irreversible lesson out of this and we shall correct places where we made errors and ensure, in future administration regimes, that Igbos remain a foreigner in Lagos.

owolabifunke14: Very commendable,there is hope after all

Starlett: More of such encouraging news of intertribal cooperation and commingling, despite the futile efforts of the haters!

This ndigbo honour is misplaced.

Fajuyi exercised a Yoruba moral teaching that a guest in one's house must be honored and accomodated in goodwill. When assassins entered his home to take away his guest he responded in patriotism to his culture and not because Ironsi was Igbo.

This is a backdoor attempt by Igbo leaders wanting to appease Yoruba over their misspeak on Lagos. It is welcome but misplaced.