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Juleeee:So you agree all these people are bad, we just need to move the scale to find the least bad. We should be looking for good people and move scale up. Yoruba Nation on my mind! |
Ochoiho:Why then were you vociferously loud against fulani from futa djallon presiding over Nigeria? |
Solution is division. Yoruba Nation on my mind! |
Thanksful:Have you even considered the underlying reason behind Labor bending to admit two loyal PDP members, Obi and Datti, to be its front runners? Nigerians are hoping for revolutionists to rescue them. Revolution is a junior brother of war...it involves bloodshed, injustice and abrupt loss of comfort and liberties. Nigerians that cheer in revolutionists will also erupt on the streets to condemn them. I saw something on Jstor last week and it awakened my curiosity so I went into archive to read about a coup in 1990 led by Orkar. Orkar had succeeded, militarily, in dividing Nigeria along North/South boundary. If civilians in South had trooped to streets to jubilate his success Abacha's response in far away Kaduna would failed to recover Lagos and the injured Babangida had no command left to revive Nigeria. Instead, while North was still stupified in shock, civilians in South were on street cheering Abacha and Babangida. A second example is Endsars of 2020. Youths had succeeded in South in bringing state governments to their knees. Yet, same youths are pouring out today to rally for government empowerement. Govt that will be led by their oppressors from two years ago. Im curious, did Obi, Atiku, Tinubu, give any public speech in support of youths in 2020? There is none of them that will revolutionize Nigeria. Politics in Nigeria is a commodity. Buyer beware! There will be no refund or exchange for 4 full years or more. |
budaatum:Ok, these guys are running rackets (racketeers). Startup and capital equity ventures have become the staple of entrepreneurship these days. Slow and uninitiated guys build startups and invest long term operations to grow the company. Smart guys on the other hand build startups with breakthrough vision then sit & wait for cash, stock or merger offers from capitalists. They are not interested in staffing for long term. The startup itself is a commodity. Se you get? Politics in Nigeria has become commodity. I'll leave you to fill in the blank...... |
One leg is headed by Atiku, paired with Okowa Second leg is headed by Obi, paired with Datti Four PDP loyalists split into a parallel stream. They will reunite right before election. Here is Datti... Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed withdrew from Governorship race in Kaduna. Speaking to journalists he said.... I hereby respectfully withdraw from the 2023 governorship contest of Kaduna State under our great party, the PDP. I, however, remain loyal and supportive. I pray for the day we get our politics right for the sake of Nigeria.” |
Presidential Candidate of Labor Party, Peter Obi, has replaced Doyin Okupe as his VO and replaced with Datti Baba-Ahmed, younger brother of a notoriously bigotted Hakeem, who is an executive member of Northern Elders Forum, a major think tank that works in the promotion of Northern interest in supremacy of Islam and Fulani in Nigeria. Below is a revelation recently published on who the Baba-Ahmeds are. ______________________________________________ Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to pay for his cows. Is it not the law that every seller must collect the proceeds of his sale? This was not the case with the cow seller who was not a son-of-the-soil in Dahomey. The options before him were very limited. My people say if the landlord offends the tenant, it is the tenant who must go; again, if it is the tenant who has wronged the landlord, it is still the tenant who must go. This trader from Mauritania had to move out of Dahomey, leaving his money behind. And he moved, crossing over to Nigeria; first to Sokoto and later to Zaria. He entered Nigeria all alone but soon found Zaria a very conducive environment for his business, for his Islamic scholarship and for raising a family (See Daily Trust of Saturday, January 13, 2018). The Mauritanian finally settled in Zaria around 1920 – that was about 100 years ago – and died on November 5, 1987 in Zaria, reportedly at the age of 104 (see Facebook post of Abdulrahman M. Baba-Ahmed of 9 July, 2021). Alhaji Baba Ahmed loved all and was much loved by all around him. He prospered in Zaria, Nigeria, had 33 children – and got all soundly educated. One of the 33 children of that Mauritanian businessman is Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) who spoke down to the entire southern Nigerian people last week. What did the south do to him? Because southern governors met in Enugu days earlier and demanded that the next president of Nigeria must come from the south, Hakeem, mouthpiece of the north, came out, emitting fire. The son of the Mauritanian immigrant shouted down the south and its 17 governors and boasted that his north had enough votes to defeat them and produce the next president. “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria. We have the majority of the votes and democracy says vote whom you want. Why should we accept a second class position when we know we can buy a form and contest for first class and we will win?,” he was heard saying so on television and in viral video clips. He said more: “If they don’t like the fact that it is a northerner who may emerge as the next president, too bad…” I feel that was rather crude – and rude. Is it no longer the case that a guest does not break the dishes of his host? I am from the south of Nigeria and I feel hurt and insulted by what Baba-Ahmed said of my people. If you say you won’t ever play second in a game of two supposed equals then who will? Baba-Ahmed’s father was not an indigenous Nigerian but so was Joseph in the holy books. He was not an Egyptian yet he ended up as Prime Minister of Egypt. But could Joseph have achieved that lofty height and lasted in grace by spitting in the face of those who prepared the grounds for his ascendancy? If a first-generation northern Nigerian was that audacious and so condescending in talking to the south, I wonder what those whose fathers’ placentas were buried in the soil of Nigeria would do. Ethnic converts are like religious converts in zealotry. They swim in extremism. Remember Enoch, the “proud, zealous, and belligerent” Christian convert in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Remember, how, with his mouth, he serially provokes violent clashes with ‘the other side’ – his own south. And, remember that with his belligerence, he rips apart the mask of the sacred Egwugwu finally putting a knife on the things that hold his land together. That is the import of that insult from Baba-Ahmed. Even if the south were his cows’ grazing ground, it should still get some measure of respect. Baba-Ahmed spoke to a south he took as his inheritance, a vast land of slaves. A carpenter thinks always of hammer and nails and there is an eternal connection between the earth and its fruits. The taproot of this talker is Mauritania, the very last country in the world to officially outlaw slavery. It did so as late as 1981 – 40 years ago. Even then, there are still castes of generational slaves in that country. The fair-skinned there are freeborn; the dark-complexioned are serfs. They are still there. The way Hakeem spoke against the south and the applause he got from his ABU, Zaria audience could only mean that he and his people thought (and think) the south is a camp of bondsmen and women; an enclave of enlightened slaves – with no useful votes; a band of hapless states whose governors are second class. The north holds the hammer of incumbency, and they will do anything with it. The people Hakeem Baba-Ahmed speaks for see the south and its loud denunciation of Nigeria’s current structure as impudent nails that must be hammered down. And they are hammering and breaking the nails one by one. I heard Baba-Ahmed say something like ‘we’ will produce the next president then let’s see what ‘they’ will do. Whenever I hear that kind of fire-rhetoric, I look at the chirping bird and the branch on which it stands. How about you produce your president, and I produce mine? Something like nail driving out nail as said by Desiderius Erasmus. But whose purpose will that anarchy serve? If Nigeria burns, descendants of the Mauritanian have Mauritania to relocate to. They are citizens by descent under that country’s laws. Mauritania’s Nationality Code of June 12, 1961 says any child “at least one of whose parents is a citizen of Mauritania, regardless of the child’s country of birth” is a citizen by descent. Their old man died 34 years ago, yet the road to Mauritania has remained a familiar terrain for his surviving children. On Saturday April 17 this year (2021), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed with his brothers and sister and uncles had a family get-together in Nouakchott, Mauritania (see his Facebook post made on 18 April, 2021). That is the man threatening fire unless ‘his north’ has its way in Nigeria’s 2023 and at all times. When a man that has more than one home stirs trouble, the Yoruba have for him a saying: Asa o naani a nkun’gbe, igi da, eye oko fo lo (Kite does not care if the bush burns; when the tree falls, the bird flies away). Now, let us look again at the words of the kite: “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria.” If you boast that you have led Nigeria all the time, including when all you had was Vice President, and the nation is this down and out, what does that tell you about your score? You failed; you are a failure. And do you think any sane people would put its future in care of such castes of failure? We go to his next sentence: “We have the majority of the votes and democracy says vote whom you want.” Baba-Ahmed’s north is so proud of its Almajirai population buoyed by ceaseless streams of illegal immigrants. Beyond using the overcrowded households to vote on election days, what else has been the benefit of that ‘majority’ to Nigeria? Omo beere, osi beere (many children, much misery). Every Yoruba child is taught that sense very early in primary one. If you can’t feed them, don’t birth them. Beggars give birth to beggars who also give birth to beggars on the streets of Lagos and Ibadan. They are there as I write; they procreate every minute and suffer generational misery. They are northerners without the care and empathy of northern elders. What excites their strange elders are the next elections and the veins of gold in their vaults. There should be no pride in birthing a pack of millions without skills beyond the menial and mendicancy. You hatch them in billions and load them in open trucks for your southern neighbours to house and feed and you mount the mountains now to proclaim your supremacy over that same south! Shamelessness has no better definition. It is strange and surprising that Baba-Ahmed’s north still think southern agitation and restiveness are about posts and positions. No. That was the case years ago. The spirit roaming the streets of southern Nigeria today is not about Nigerian presidency or about who sits in there. It is about how to escape the north and its curse. The experience of recent years has told the south that having even a southern president won’t ever make any positive difference. Baba-Ahmed confirmed exactly that in his impudent statement. He said on the very few times when the north did not have the president, it was still the captain of the ship. Or what else did he mean by: “We will lead Nigeria the way we have led Nigeria before. Whether we are president or vice-president, we will lead Nigeria.” He added forcefully that a southerner would be supported only if the person would serve the north’s interest. When a sheep says it wants to grow horns, it should be prepared to have its ears cut off. Baba-Ahmed’s Mauritanian people have some other interesting proverbs which should have guided his lips. They say: “He who begins a conversation does not foresee the end.” They also warn that “one must talk little and listen a lot.” And this one: “He who wears too fine clothes shall go about in rags.” That is rather deep! Now, apart from its production, harvest and circulation of terrorism, banditry, mass death and mass misery, what has the north achieved for itself and for Nigeria with its decades of being in power? If you spit in your partner’s face and tell him it is saliva then you are bold. But you can’t do that and forbid a reaction from the assaulted. Nigeria’s case now borders on the insane; it is the folkloric Omoye who has entered the market stark naked. When you listen again and again to Baba-Ahmed and you remember that this is a highly educated man who was even at a time the secretary of our electoral commission, you conclude that Nigeria’s ailment is truly beyond cure. But if you are right behind someone on a journey and you discover that the person does not behave normal, what do you do? You retrace your steps without letting him hear your footfall. The southern vibes and vibrations are exactly about that. https://tribuneonlineng.com/2023-for-hakeem-baba-ahmed/ |
Marvhaz:You mean one of the greatest thieves and terror sponsors in Nigeria. In terms of corruption this Gusau is in the rank of Babangida and Abacha. If Datti is brother of Hakeem, then we are dealing with a family of bigots. Hakeem is worse than Ango Abdullahi on bigotry. Politically, Datti is a poor choice. Obi will become a boy boy....like Emefiele was to Isa Funtua. |
.I am disappointed with the intelligence system. How can terrorists organise, have weapons, attack a security installation and get away with it? How did the defences at the prison fail to prevent the attack? How many inmates were in the facility? How many of them can you account for? How many personnel did you have on duty? How many of them were armed? Were there guards on the watchtower? What did they do? Does the CCTV work?” Buhari had asked.Terrorists have invaded almost every military barrack in North West and NE. They invaded the biggest and most secured military installation in Nigeria in Jaji and for two hrs nobody could stop or chase them out. They left when they were done stealing weapons and tanks. They attacked NDA and abducted officers, till today the culprits are not caught in any of these military assaults. Don't the military barracks and cantonments and command centers and academy have securities with armed guards, cctv, patrol and intelligence, checkpoints ![]() ![]() ![]() Why is Buhari asking stewpid questions on Kuje? It pains me they did not free Kanu. |
VoteTinubu2023:Tinubu's name is AHMED....not hammed. Hammed does not exist as a name in Islam or in Arabic |
I respect and love the way Abombola writes. Beautiful inside & out. God bless her! |
Yoruba Nation is on my mind! |
laiperi:You are correct Sir! |
Sammy07:Omo Eko Akete! ![]() |
This is what I call patriotism. Ekiti kete! ![]() |
HonNL:Thats bullshit. How can same Buhari was on early break for Sallah and on his way to Daura yesterday where he almost got ambushed...and is back now in Abuja. What kind of bojuboju is this? |
Quite honestly I admire Seun for even entangling himself with Obi followers. I say the shit I want to say to them and move on. I dont do back and forth with them. |
VoteObi2023:This is opportunity to prove your braveness. Go snatch Kanu from Abuja. |
.While the rest of the country rooted to a fulani supremacist in 2015, we Igbo warned youSince you are good at foiling plans, why did you not act to foil the plan to install Buhari in 2015? Afterall you were the only who saw ahead, nobody else did. |
Maybe next time sha. Buhari said ipob is terrorist. So the terrorist in SE should negotiate a deal with the terrorist in NE to break Kanu free. |
Where is oyigboupdate? Any update ![]() ![]() Whats going on in kuje? Ugm trying to snatch Kanu again? |
MXrep:The words "urban" and "development" have become co-dependent and interchangeable, to the extent that "municipality" has completely been eroded in nomenclatures of city planners and public policy makers. When was last decade you heard anyone for instance say, Lagos Municipal? Your post proved a part of the point I made earlier. Urban is not a well understood term. Many people are ill-informed and throw it out loosely. |
hammer567:Thank you jare! I already told many people I am not voting any candidate. My vote is reserved for referendum. I want out of Nigeria. Yoruba Nation on my mind! |
Abiodunstephen:Thanks for opening this thread. This is a very beautiful architecture, it would be nice if govt could acquire it as a historical monument and forbid it from ruin. There were many beautiful architectures like this on the landscape of Lagos Island, they are all wrecked and demolished. In their place we have ugly concrete with poor aesthetics. It is profoundly questionable why churches built in that era remain standing but private residents are torn down. Anyway, on the above highlight, I want to add a piece of education here today and beg people to desist from calling Lebanese textile dealers merchants...or investors. They were not. Many of amongst us are unaware the reason behind thousands of people from far away Middle East suddenly became residents in middle of Africa. In the armed conflict for liberation of Palestine and Jordan and Syria from clutches of foreign invaders from Europe many Lebanese and Syrians were impoverished in the war and became refugees. Britain had responsibility for their welfare. These refugees were resettled in British Africa. This is how Lebanese and Syrians ended up in West and East Africa - Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, Somali, and so on. Here in Nigeria they were resettled primarily in Kano, Ibadan and Lagos. This is why a large population of their descendants remain till today as citizens of Nigeria. From these three cities they spread out into other communities in small numbers. Britain provided secluded place and built homes and stores in similar styles they were used to back home for them to live and trade. To prosper in a hostile land, Britain bent trade rules in their favor and forced indigeneous merchants to market through Lebanese & Syrian middlemen. Hence our local businessmen were forced to accept exchange rates and commissions at Lebanese price. You could not be a successful gold trader if you did not first subscribe to a Lebanese gold merchant. Your textile business did not prosper if you were not listed with a Lebanese textile agent. Out of ignorance we called them Kora (Korea) because they had skin complexion and hair texture close to the Koreans. Britain was an evil empire. They destroyed our resources, ruined our potentials and then used famined, homeless and impoverished Lebanese & Syrians to ret-ard our progress. |
Patrioticbreed9:You are still using scale to compare. The reason it is agreed that Yoruba is an ancient urban dweller, even ahead many European cultures, is because our cities comprise the full characteristics of an urban center. I have written and gave my theory online that the word "urban" is etymologically derived from Yoruba word "Oba". If you want to see my contribution on cognates between Yoruba and Latin/Roman root words go to Nairaland Culture Section. The characters of an urban settlement comprise geo-labels such as Upper; Lower; Cross or Tri; Center; Outer; Market; River; etc... These characteristics are fully captured in every Yoruba town, such as Oke; Isale; Orita Merin (for cross) but Orita Meta (for tri); Arin; Ita; Oja; Odo; and so on. These characters are found to repeat in every Yoruba town. You will also find it exactly mirrored in foreign places Yoruba have settled. It is part of the culture. Metropolitan buildup is foreign to us. The characters of metro or mega city are, Main Street or Broadway; City Hall; Mall; Boulevard; Waterfront or Marina; Bridges; Highways; Drainage & Waste treatment; Statues, and so on. In contemporary times Ibadan is far much bigger urban city than Lagos is. Towns linked into towns are inside what we call Ibadan. Lagos does not have that. Meanwhile, Lagos comprise all the characteristics of a mega or metro city, far more than Ibadan. |
Patrioticbreed9:Urban is the traditional pattern by which a people organize their society through a heirarchy of cultural norms. Lagos is a developed metropolitan city. Metropolitan development is the planning of a city around economic functions and interchange of sustainable infrastructures. In an urban city culture is the predominant factor. In a metro city life supporting infrastructure is a central factor. Sometimes an urban city can also acquire a metro status but there are distinct lines between the two. Lagos is #1 metrocity...or megacity, but not the biggest urban city. |
fregeneh:Emi L'okan does not need me to become President of Nigeria. ![]() Even if Tinubu no campaign, the man will win. How do I know this? In his role as godfather, Tinubu will never choose and support Atiku Abubakar as governor in any state. The highest capacity will be an aide to a commissioner. Atiku Abubakar has been in politics a while and acquired many mileages but he has not yet broken out of the pack mentality and establish a Atiku brand of politics. People Tinubu mentored, like Aregbe, Ambode, Fashola, each have created a brand. You know you have a brand when your own godfather start to be wary and fear your strategy against him. Tinubu is silently wary of what Aregbe could do...or how Ambode might trip him....or Fashola might oppose him. Tinubu fear each of these acolytes more than he fears Atiku as a competitor. It's because Atiku does not have a political brand. Likewise, Tinubu as godfather would probably appoint Obi in same position Igbokwe is today, as head of a clan for indirect influence of a ethnic group. Obi is a super hero in SE, in West Tinubu would never put him a governor or even commissioner like he did Akabueze. Obi would probably be appointed trade leader for ASPAMDA or Ladipo. Tinubu has advanced gift in political strategy. I mean, look how he outsmarted Buhari and Adamu at the primary. I bow to the godfather of godfathers! Asiwaju of Africa. I remain patriotic to my Yoruba Nation, not Tinubu. I will speak and praise him online but Im not voting anyone. Yoruba Nation on my mind! |
Madmohamed123:I will tell you why that Biafran jew has tribal mark. You will notice it is just a simple line on his cheeks. Ibos that do not intend to ever return to alaibo are known to get this single marks to portray as non-ibo. I bet you that Chinonso speak fluent Yoruba. They want every privilege of Yorubaland so they get this mark to belong by force by fire. His likes plenty in Oshodi and Ladipo. Many like him are lost. He would claim Biafra with his half yellow sun but never fight when Biafra calls, claim Yoruba with his cheek mark but online denigrating Yoruba, claim jew with his followership of Kanu but abandon Kanu in prison, aspire to go to Israel and reunite his ancestor...but freak is in Ukraine fighting a non-winnable war. Ipobs are confused. They told us biafra or death. But today are chanting Obi for president of zoo or death. |
How can Peter Obi be separated from ipob? I don't get it. His son is seen wearing ipob shirt and stomping Nigerian flag. Can the son be separated from the father? |
Patrioticbreed9:You still don't get it. Urban areas are not determined by scale but by spread. Ibadan has biggest spread in Nigeria. |
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