₦airaland Forum

FreeGlobe:
And so why are americans finding why yorubas look like chimpanzee on Google search?

You gon make me.pounce between those thighs and turn you to babyfactory if.you dont shut up.

Yeye

Shymm3x:
Bwahahahahaha.

I guess that's why they can't let go and just be decent folks living and thriving on a next man's ancestral land...and the concept of mutual respect and territorial integrity is foreign to them.

It's basically like a lot of Igbos I've met. Every time I ask them where they're from - they'll start saying Lagos, like WTF? I just laugh inside cos I can't let folks know that I know a lot about Nigeria. Yorubas always claim where they're from in Nigeria but only the Igbos always claim Lagos.

Duke,
Its same here in America. Most Americans know Lagos, when you say you are Nigerian they ask where in Nigeria. When I respond and say Lagos they wonder why every Nigerian is.from.Lagos. To add injury to salt they preempt.and declare "so you must be Ibo". Wtf!!! I dont look anything close to a chimpanzee, they have associated Lagos with Ibo because its so many Ibos claiming it when asked to identify their roots in Nigeria.

Death to Ibo!!

bakynes:
@ shymexx Thank you my brother, my fellow Londoner and Yoruba citizen. I have told igbos severally that, the Lagos they say is owned by the Binis was Lagos island and it was reclaimed by the aworis when the Binis left.I told them aside Lagos island all other lands in Lagos is owned by Ijebus, aworis etc. even though I didn't explain it in details like you did, thanks for educating us further. We must open our eyes and be vigilante to the threat from this people(igbos). I even used the Yoruba and Indian MPs in London as an example, does it mean because of them they will start speaking Yoruba or whatever language they speak in Indian.

Now if they say igbos has a 40% Population in Lagos, so the Yorubas who own Lagos are a minorities in Lagos then because we have a sizeable population of Hausas, Binis, Ijaw, Calabar etc in Lagos so Yorubas and the rest of other tribes share the rest of the 60% Population. I laugh out so loud. .

Some say igbos developed Lagos, please help me ask them if the past and present Governors of Lagos are igbos, is it the Government that develop a place or the various igbo traders?
Lets just leave them alone, they have opened our eyes and now we shouldn't sleep with our two eyes closed.

Bini never owned Lagos. Bini owned a throne that ruled Eko (Lagos Island). British never owned Lagos, they owned a Crown that ruled Lagos.

In the tussle for occupation and colonization of Lagos the Idejo Chiefs refused to sign papers ceding their land to Britain and chastised Dosunmu for signing their land over to whiteman. The Chiefs refused to cooperate and the Crown redrafted the contract of the Treaty of Lagos and officially recognized the Idejos as Land Barons.

Shymm3x:
The guy just sounds like an educated illiterate. Copying and pasting all kinds of disjointed historical references with non-existent ownership and conquest. A lot of these folks are just delusional.

I can't believe they folks think they own, control, and conquered Lagos - bwahahahahahaha.

Conqueror that owns nothing significant, not even the smallest representation of his culture in a conquered territory.

Duke,
There are thousands of Ibos in Lagos whose kins back in village are misled to believe they are in London. This is a fact!

They have a well developed mind and elaborate skills in creating, packaging and delivering deceptions and things generally apathy to truth. Hence they excel in manufacturing and selling fake products and convincing their customers that the product is the best anywhere. This is their gift and no one can beat Ibo in the act of deception and mistruth.

So they represent to their people back home, with pictures, that mansions in Lekki and Ikoyi and Ikeja and high end residential areas of Lagos are owned by Ibos. Picture speaks more than words. The villagers are sold on the lies and they in turn startbrumors that their sons own mansions in Lagos. When it passes to the next village the story has been embellished to include all of Lagos. So new refugees leaving village to Lagos come with the impression of Ibos own Lagos.

When you have someone like Jude, allowed by Yorubas, to win a seat in the Lagos assembly and its published in papers and is taken to village for them to see and read, tell me, my brother, how anyone in alaibo, even if they were doubters before, will not now believe that Ibo is the true owner of Lagos.

xtrorse:
Brainless agbo ópá èyín and şépè hawker, you and your fellow clowns cannot try such stupidity with the Great Igbo Nation...

The what Nation

Igalas are beheading you and sacking you from your communities, Fulani is coming behind them....dont vex Yoruba to.follow in after Fulani we will demolish everything that moves ....and even things that dont move!

Shymm3x:
I honestly don't know if you're feigning ignorance or it's basically just the typical vacuous exhibition of arrogance, non-existent sense of entitlement, and emotional impulses that override logical reasoning - hence you keep citing non-applicable references out of context to buttress a non-existence point.

1). When was Lagos state ever conquered and who conquered it? Epe all the way to the other side of Lagos Island and Ikorodu have always been under Ijebu Kingdom and they were only seceded to the colonists under an agreement after the Anglo-Ijebu war...but they remain Ijebuland. The Bini ruled Eko (Lagos Island) for a while but after they left the Aworis took back their land. Badagry was Dahomey territory and since Oyo ruled Dahomey for a long time - it was under Oyo. Oyos founded Ikoyi. Ijeshas and Ekitis founded where the Brits built rail terminals in Lagos (Can't remember the name of the place - someone please help me lol). Egbas own certain areas in Lagos. And Aworis own the rest. All these are Yoruba subgroups - so who conquered Lagos?

Or are you saying Igbos have conquered Lagos now? If so, how come you have only one rep member out of the gazillion of rep members in the house? How come the state has a Yoruba governor and the governance of the state is done by only Yorubas? Why is everything, from language, to culture, to tradition, to kingship etc. in Lagos quintessentially Yoruba? You sound more delusional than I initially thought. A conqueror wouldn't be crying about the language of the conquered in the house of assembly - he would change the language. Perhaps, the bigoted and crying lone-ranger should that - rather than cry everywhere. Agree?

And no, London allowed different folks into the city - so as to keep the heritage and culture alive. Hence the primary thing about being a Londoner is how well you've assimilated into the British culture/way-of-life. If you can't assimilate into what London represents - you need to get the fvck out. You can't force your own opinions on a next person's territory. A couple of Scottish MPs have represented different consistuents in London - and they never complained about the use of English language in an English city. Get with it, or get the fvck out, period.

If indigenous people do not build or develop a city - who built and developed Lagos? Who built and developed London, Paris, Budapest, Tehran, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Abeokuta, Ibadan etc.? Aliens, yes?

2). Igbos have a "strong" representation in the economic sphere of Lagos (this is disputable based on what real economics of a cosmopolitan city is - but I'll agree with you for argument sake) - but how does that make Lagos a conquered city owned and controlled by Igbos.

As for the other tosh you spouted here - I'll just ignore the emotional outburst. That has no bearing on the discourse.

The terminus is at Ido, a sub district of Oto, which is owned by Oloto, the child of Olofin, the migrant from Ile Ife and owner of Lagos.

kaboninc:
Firstly, I do not intend to dignify you by responding to your rants here.

But let me correct something. Fashola did apologize for what his government did. Having listened to him, I do share in his position as you have folks who just find themselves living somewhere and causing nuisance to the safety of the community. Yet when you make effort to get to know where they are coming from, it becomes very difficult and the government just happens to be in a cross road. Besides, taking them out of the streets, sheltering them and providing for them with no end in sight actually costs money.

So I understand he was in a fix. Yet 'dumping' them somewhere across the Niger was the low for him and he did apologize.

As for the other things you wrote, I will ignore them.

You are lucky that happened before Oba Akiolu instructed your Ezes about the Lagoon....if it had happened.after their proper drop off would have been in the Lagoon, not in Onitsha.

Bloody freaks!

chuna1985:
Mexican (spanish) is already an official language in United states.

Really, it is the language of instruction in arts, science, technology...?

Duke,
I got here late and I see your footprints already...and of course the slayed bodies...

I salute o!

kaboninc:
You did not answer the question I posed. Lagos (not Kano) is very cosmopolitan. It doesn't matter who owns a city, but who occupies it. That it why in history, there has always been very strong interest in who 'occupies' a city. For example, today's America used to be occupied by the Red Indians. They are known as the natives. But today, what is the anthropological spread of the American State? What is the percentage of the Native Americans? The Normans conquered Great Britain and till this very day, the royals of the British Kingdom have a trace of the Vikings in their genes. So coming to Lagos, the Igbos have a very strong representation in the city (which is more than 40% - a conservative estimate) and contribute significantly to the commercial and economic activities in the City. Now they have a representation in Government. I understand that the Yoruba folks might want to maintain their cultural heritage but doing so in the Legislative house, where every one has an 'equal' opportunity for a say, and considering that we are diverse in form and substance, it is not good for us. They can have that in the mainstream media, communicating to the public as they desire to achieve a wider reach and audience but not in the House. So if I don't understand Yoruba, and you make it the official language for a particular day, don't you think you are depriving me of something?

I have no problem with traditions, cultures and heritage. In fact, I cherish it and it is one of my motivating factor for wanting to travel and explore. I love to see other people from other culture and naturally take a liking for them. However, for ease of communication, for the benefit of understanding, for forging mutual alliance and strengthening cooperation, the barrier of language must be broken. If by speaking Yoruba we have issues communicating, don't you think it is better for us to speak a language that is very common to both of us?

I can learn your language but should not be out of the fear of mutual distrust and suspicion. But for the sake of my pleasure.

Everytime there is discussion on Yoruba culture and indigenity you Ibos throw an American example to whitewash legitimacy of the points in favor to native rights. Yorubaland is not America and will never be America. There is no validity to Ibo's population in Lagos any other way than to look at election results and voting patterns. There is no way you are 40% in Lagos and APC had a landslide victory in the State at all levels. It is mathematically and statistically impossible.....the only area the number has validity is in the minds of propagandists.

As a Lagos indigene myself my hatred for Ibos knows no bounds, simply because traditionally our motto is Eko for Show....Eko is the land of fancy and merriment, you make your money, live a good life and uplift the community. Since Ibo started smelling itself in Lagos the Show in Eko has dissapeared, what we have now is Eko for Conflict! Every news, every topic, every issue about Lagos Ibo wants to dominate and when you are denied space you turn it into conflict....your Ohanaeze gets involved, your Ezes get involved, you run to social media and insult and denigrate Yoruba culture, its leaders and even the land.

We do not owe you anything.....Iboland owe you a Yoruba free assembly, Yorubaland does not.

I want you also to pay attention to emerging issues in the Nation. Hausas in the North are tired of you and your ignomity in their region and everytime the issue of separation comes up from anywhere they oppose it but when issue of regionalism comes up they are silent.
Yorubas have been agitating for regionalism as a first option and secessiin as a last resort.
Ibos do not ask for regionalism at all, you are focused on either a continous centralized power or a secession.

Even today in ministerial screening we got hints first, of Ibo's sourness and reference back to a transparent action in which every ethnic group was affected by Fsshola's deportation saga, the fact an Ibo senator will challenge that more than a year after a court threw it out speaks volume of your bitterness, hatred and long throat. Second, Fashola introduced into the minds of Senators that decentralisation will be an agenda of the current administration. In fact two Emirs in the North have joined the chorus of Yorubas and begged Buhari to implement the Confab report of 2014.

Regionalism will shift our political center in Yorubaland back to Ibadan. Policies will be drafted by representatives from each of the Yoruba Commonwealth and business in Lagos will no longer be as usual.

Yorubaland has never in its history regretted welcoming others on its soil and providing refuge and solace for their troubles....for first time in our land and history every Yoruba regrets having Ibo on its soil.

Shame and death on Ibos!

Tension in Enugu as man used machette to kill father, 1yrl old baby and 7 other persons.

May their soul rest in peace.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/tension-in-enugu-community-as-man-kills-father-1-year-old-baby-7-others/

Owliver:
put viewers digestion na

Viewers what

Carry the head go.to Iboland if.you want it digested.

There are born scholars and there are trained scholars.
Buhari is a born scholar!

If this guy had ended up in ivory tower instead of in army barracks he would be a formidable and very accomplished policy driver, not just nationally but internationally as well.

He, with his not so impressive academic credentials, is able to see and initiate actions where those with higher academic laurels from Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, have failed to move society forward.

Instead of growing society, our academic excels are wasting time growing vocabulary to oppress and impress.

This Buhari has earned my respect anyday, the only Fulaniman I will ever respect, truly!

wordcat:
Northerners are your real brothers not the Easterners.

Sharrap!!

Wetin concern Yoruba and tsetse flies?
Ewu!

ProfessorPeter:
Did they serve amala with ewedu including hot pepper stew? If not they are fake Yoruba.

Lmao, you are a f00l. Let me clear your ignorance and share with you a Yoruba rite and its lesson to the living.

When we lower the body of our deceased into its crypt we send them on with a message: "Lagbaja, ma j'okun, ma j'ekolo, oun ti won je l'ajule Orun ni ko ba won je".

Meaning - "don't eat that which is native to you in the soil, lavish yourself in whatever is in mainstream when you arrive in the higher realm".

The living observe this principle of modesty...and we refrain from extremities in our conduct and lifestyle.

We will be in violation of our cultural norms to feed amala and ewedu to a people in a place where it is not mainstream dish.

socialmediaman:
My earlier comment was an indictment of NOI. I was a critic of hers without taking away some of her achievements! I didn't say she wasn't guilty, I said she was used, she became complicit because morals was absent in GEJ's government. Yes she's probably guilty of corruption, But NO, I don't think she came into government to steal like many others.

She was used How dare you repeat that!! Used

You just berated her accomplisments at WorlBank with this second input. NOI lacked principles, which is a common trait amongst her ethnic stock.

She was not the only minister under Jonathan, why is she the one out here snitching and indicting those with whom she joined hands to ruin the country?

If she can volunteer this much without being probed, i wonder how much EFCC will get out of her when she is invited in and her probe begins.

First, it appears you are in UK, judging from your entry about 350pounds house rent.

You keep telling us of your bank balance and withdrawals and charges in Naira but each time you withdraw or charge your card the transaction is done in pounds sterling. So the exchange rate and atm fees as well bank fees should be factored in.

Let me ask you, do you play online games? I know you have icloud since you carry iphone, so you used an account to setup your applestore profile. What account did you use, is it the same Wema bank account?
There are games that have subscriptions and often you are tricked in with a 30days or 15 days free subscription trial. At the end of the trial it is your responsibility to opt out, otherwise subscription kicks in automatically. Same for mobile contents like ring tones, sports and entertainment updates and so on. There is no regulation on internet commerce to protect consumers yet....so users of online contents are very vulnerable, particularly those who are too open and ready to sign up for free stuffs at the slightest offer. Remember, they have object metrics that collect metadata about your habits, they use the grading to score whether you are a smart shopper or a gullible one and they act based on that information to push more free stuffs with hidden fees and terms to you.

In addition to checking with bank, i suggest you contact applestore to discover if recurrent bills are charged to your icloud account.

Good luck!

They do not want to ruffle the Chief-in-Charge of APC propaganda machine.

They will need his PR skills in coming days....one good favour deserves another in return!

This will be like a Mexican complaining about English as the language of instruction in American schools.

Que pas habla Espanol

Education matters from Ebonyi State.

...there are no adequate classroom, school laboratories and conveniences for both teachers and students. As a result, both students and their lectures adopt the bush-method, according to one of the lecturers, Mr. Daniel Itumo.


http://sunnewsonline.com/new/ebonyi-school-of-health-where-students-study-in-uncompleted-building/

wytecat:
A lot!
As everyone in SE's attention, soul and mind is on SW, we have to bring the love of SE back to the heart of it's people. Just as Pat Utomi said recently, this is one way we can decongest the SW that has become a mecca of some sort to Ibos and showcase it to the ndibo who would rather live in hell than iboland that home sweet home no matter how bad it is.

Lol. Im sure they threw insults at Utomi after that.

midehi2:
The fulani herdsmen are really becoming something else o, they are all scattered in every part of the country and causing deadly commotion

Each region need to open fire on their @ss and address their madness with a return and sustained madness.

If they start to loose lives and cows their people in the North will soon get the message that fulani does not have monopoly on "ignorance" and madness and they will soon adjust their ways or avoid going in areas that are hostile.

Yorubaland consume 10,000 cows per week....thats not small change at all. Boycott fulani cow....till the mothrfckrs get some sense and know how to act.

omenka:
Savinggracereporters

I'd rather pass.

Edit:

With, www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/191420-okonjo-iweala-backs-buhari-on-corruption-war-says-president-leading-by-example.html , I think it is safe to comment.

Frankly, what more is there to say?? This woman who was referred to as the de-facto president/ prime minister in the last admin his come out to "condemn" and "distance" herself from the rot that was Jonathan's admin while eulogising President Buhari's efforts at eradicating this monstrous malaise which was in retrospect worshipped, pampered, condoned and encouraged.

I fail time and time again whenever I try to rationalise some of Jonathan's pronouncements regarding corruption, like his goatandyamtheory, "stealing is not corruption", "corruption is exaggerated", "how much did Jim Nwobodo stole (sic)", and his knack for granting state pardon to the biggest criminals in the land. He even came out at some point to shamelessly admit he's scared of exposing corrupt individuals www.nairaland.com/1444394/president-jonathan-shamelessly-admits-hes .

We are yet to hear the last of these recent revelations from his closest allies whom to me partook either covertly or overtly in ruining this nation especially in the last 5years. First it was Edwin Clerk, then Stella Uduah and now the Big Fish, NOI- the same woman that used her propaganda NOIpoll to churn out fictitious figures and indices regarding the strength of our economy- she never saw anything wrong!! Now she want us to believe "it was a mistake she made taking up the job of Finance Minister under Jonathan".


What a shameless bunch of people.

Whatever it is, whether they throw Jonathan under the bus or under the tires of a Boeing 747 jet, they are not gonna be spared the hammer if found guilty by any competent court.

I am shocked to see that your comment had been on the air for hours, yet Im the first to endorse you.

In fact i had intended to write a mouthful in donation to socialmediaman, whose entry i find offending and insulting in its inferrence tbat NOI does not act on her own will and the ex MD of World Bank is a victim played and used by others for their corrupt ambitions. A pliable person is a misfit in the arena of finance and economy. If its true NOI was a victim of more assertive and selfis crooks then she needs to resign from public service and stay away from partisan politics, she should go and start lecturing in university, thats best for her to tell students her regrets about being an errand minister for money launderers and smugglers.

Omenka, will you kindly take socialmediaman under your wings and tutor him on PR in Nairaland.

Thanks bro for your input, very well composed, I was drooling in awe!

socialmediaman:
This is a sober reflection. She regrets joining the GEJ Government because she found herself encircled in the web of corruption, having to cover up and make excuses for the corrupt practices of your hero and his powerful cabals. This brought disdain for her eventually from Nigerians and that's her regret! That woman could have lifted this nation with her economic prowess had she served in a government as the present where accountability and prudence is the watch word. Look at Kaichukwu now being a potential icon if he does a great job in Nigeria's oil industry.

Lesson: Never involve yourself with unrepentant criminals like PDP cabals, free yourself from their claws while you still have a chance. The only thing they know is how to cheat and to do this successfully, they deploy the best brains like Okonjo Iweala by buying their conscience with money.

Are you serious Who is this, who submitted this crap? Let me roll through the neighborhood first and check to see if anyone yet reacted to this nonsense. I will be back to comment.

Hhmm... NOI just threw DIEZANI under the bus.

These people at first thought Buhari was joking onvhis resolve to probe corrupt leaders that ruined the economy.

SE people ruined GEJ's government and as we can see the only people liningvup to worship Buhari since inauguration are the 5%ters. No surprise!

What does NOI want, a pardon?

Its time to begin arresting these nay sayers!

Good job! This is a model outcome and what other communities who feel disenfranchized by their government ought to practice anytime govt bullies them....target the face of their representation and gun him down!

From Anambra, can you believe this, MASSOB members thrown in jail? For what


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fake-dsp-43-massob-members-arrested-in-anambra/

maupe:
I guess you are joking. Because no rational thinking person will give credence to a story that was debunked and an apology was tendered for by the same station you are claiming was telling the truth. Citizen Jones of 102.3 FM, personally announced that the news was false and gave the apology, nothing about BBC was said. My God, where did APC find you guys, the class of Dunces.

Apology for their twist, they did not withdraw the truth of the knowledge about consumption of human meat amongst Ibos.

winniz:
Quit lying cos there was no report by anybody on ground, that was purely a concocted story by South West media, the Police at Anambra state refuted that false story. Even Daily mail and BBC apologized for running that fake story.

The story of cooked human meat and consumption in SE is not news. Everyone knows it is true. Even Britain knows this because they have records of it in their archives from accounts given by travellers and missioners in Ibo and wawa land. Babies sold from baby factories end up in pots too. So quit your feign shock at a popular claim that even your own yanmiri people are proud to proclaim to their opponents when enraged. Which tribe no know say Ibo dey eat people?
Abeg go siddon!

TonyeBarcanista:
Hon Femi has presented a very strong argument which I'm in agreement with. The Senate is to screen and approve nominees and not senators from the nominee's state. That said, I think the Senate also said that the controversial 2-approval rule is not sacrosanct. It simply means they are ready to play down on it.

Anyway, good argument for Gbaja though I don't agree with some of his positions on other political issues.

It is fraud when a legally constituted body, instead of conducting itself regularly by the rule book and in harmony with the principles of its oath or charter, is ever busy looking for avenues, loopholes, bypass, to shunt process and amass power to itself which the rule book has not legitimately granted.

The Senate Leadership of the 8th Assembly is an opposition of the ruling party. Saraki must go!