seunmsg:


Fine. Let Fulani rule forever.

We'll rather secede from the nation. A Yoruba president is none negotiable in 2023, the easterners like it or not.

seunmsg:


You all Fulani slaves shall be put to shame. Atiku the Fulani rogue will not be allowed to get anywhere near Aso rock gate. The south shall prevail in 2023 against you saboteurs.

Bro, forget about these inconsequential easterners. Their hatred is follow come. Despite all the atrocities they have suffered in the hand of the core north, they will rather pinch their tenth with them rather the liberal the westerners.

I don't have any pity for them and in 2023, with or without them we'll push for a Yoruba president, whether they like it or not. We would never allow the children of hate to blackmailed us.

Brendaniel:


a very big lie, Abacha's government was economically better than all the governments in Nigeria since 1999, he was a thief yes but looting was restricted to only a few of his clicks, unlike what we have today, he was a tyrant yes, but he only terrorised politician and big men who stepped on his toes, he had no business with the masses, lastly it was a heavily militarized government which had soldiers everywhere doing the work of police too, but economically Nigeria was better...

I will take it that you were too young to understand anything when Abacha was the head of state. In 1998 when Abacha died, less than 500k Nigeria had access to telephones, less than 50k to the internet. poverty was rive. Schools were underfunded. In fact, Abacha was a disaster

Sirjamo:
Christians wants to have the same privileges with Muslims in the Muslims dominated States, but they marginalize Muslims in their own states.


There are thousands of mosques in Kano city alone, but mosques in SE and SS combined are not up to one hundred.



The real religion persecution happens in Christian States. You can't even practice openly, let alone looking to buy land and acquire C of O.


Plateau, Taraba, Ondo and Ekiti are Christian States with substantial number of indigenous Muslims, both governors and deputy governors of those states are Christians, completely sidelining the Muslims.


The notion of Muslims being intolerant to other religions is a myth that has been peddled for too long, it's about time we set the record straight.





I AM DONE TALKING

Where in Ondo and Ekiti are Muslims not allowed to practice?
You can peddle any lie but take the Yorubas out of your permutations.

Northerners are one of the most intolerant people on earth. They even find ways to have a problem with Muslims from other ethnic groups not to talk of ethnic minorities in their area.

The ethnic minorities in the core north are prosecuted based on their religion. Take it or leave it.

JorgedeToledo:


I don't see him as a monarch but a religious leader. Same with those northern emirs to an extent.
The sultan is the equivalent of the national chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria.

Who made him the leaders of Nigeria Muslim?
His grandfather was a warmonger that uses religion to actualized his selfish political ambition. Sultan is a king and should be address as such.

seunmsg:
The headline should be: Buhari, monarchs meet in Ado Rock. Sultan is also a monarch, he does not deserve a special mention. There is no sense in separating him from the other monarchs. We in the south always complain of northern domination but we are the ones encouraging it by putting them ahead of us through our media outlets.

The Fulani are so domineering. Imagine the president inviting three Fulani kings to represent the north. A place with three regions and diverse huge diversity.
under normal circumstance, the following kings are supposed to be invited. Northwest ( Sultan) Northeast (Sheu of Borno), Northcentral (Atah of Igala), Southwest (Alafi of Oyo), South-south (Oba of Benin) and southeast (Obi of Onitsha)

FODA:
so ,police station na investment right ? I m not a fan of tinubu,but destroying of properties will not ameliorate anything ,if our president has addressed the nation ,thing wouldn't escalate to this level
The destruction of oba palace show some enemies of Lagos incited all these damages against the state.

Don't mind these foolish ediots. There plan all along was never about SARS brutality but how to destroy Nigeria and set the country on fire.

Also, they now see an Avenue to go after their number enemy which is Tinubu. There hatred for Tinubu is not because he is a corrupt politician but because in their mind they believe he is an obstacle towards completely taking over Lagos.

No matter how they try, they will never succeed.

helinues:


Stop the protest ,Dem no gree.

You do not have to tell a blind man it's raining.....

Bro, this is not a laughing matter!

The manner, core northerners turn every issues to ethnicity and religion is wearisome in Nigeria. The people causing these havoc are Hausa settlers in Abuja

oyatz:


Even people in the core North don't regard Kwara as part of the North.

When I was working briefly in Kano State and one of my colleagues was trying to let me know he understands greetings in Yoruba language. Then I asked him how did a Fulaniman from Kano learnt how to greet in Yoruba and replied that he served in Yorubaland. So I asked you were posted to Ibadan? He said no, he served in Ilorin.

Apart from the ruling elites in Ilorin who (correctly) have partial but distant Fulani ancestries and try to connect to the POLITICAL Fulanis for Gov't patronage/protections, most Ilorin people see themselves as part of the S/West.

This is what people that has never been to the core-north don't know.

In many part of the core-north, if you speak Hausa with a Yoruba accent they will even laugh at you and called you this Ogbomosho or Ilorin man.

DonroxyII:
That's how we feel ... I feel I'm in Southwest not North ... What's the difference ... we blow Yoruba everywhere anywhere ....

North is just a geopolitical zone .... when North become Hausa is what I can't understand....

Yoruba in Kwara and Kogi can never have their desires fulfilled .... I would rather we even stayed in the north than conscripting ourselves to SW ... We should be expanding towards River Niger and up to Niger state ... not fallen back to Atlantic Ocean

Joining the southwest doesn't mean the people living there will need to vacate their land but it means the people of Kwara state politically can be referred and counted together with the greater Yoruba commonwealth.

With the current geopolitical grouping, it will be impossible for Yorubas from to become the president of Nigeria. An Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Lagos, Osun, Oyo man has a realistic chance than a Kwaran.

NaijirianKing:
Forget all this big grammar haha, let's talk simple, Ilorin is an Emirate in Northern Nigeria, under the control of the Fulani.

Why will I continue to argue with IPOB that doesn't know his right from left.

Remember the Otoge movement that happens in Kwara, it was spearheaded by the Tinubu, the Yoruba muslim you all love to hate on.

NaijirianKing:
My point exactly, people moving there are starting to claim it. Like I said, that doesn't change it from being a Fulani state.

The king has no power. His position is just ceremonial. The real power are with the Omoluabis

ruffDiamond:
don't know anything about kwara and Ilorin people? be grateful I even i responded back ,.(cos it won't happen again) ,you think I'm yr generation right?
OK bye

You are very stupid!
I'm very sure that I'm much older than you. Who the hello do you think you are?

Just because this is a faceless forum should not give you the audacity to come here to make baseless arguments and hubris.

NaijirianKing:
Exactly, you like others may visit and even decide to live there, like Lagos, many people visit and may even live there, but that land is not their land, it belongs to the host community and it is rude for anyone to claim Lagos who isn't in this group.

Likewise, Kwara belongs to the Fulani, but anyone can visit, recently people from the SW due to closeness have started moving there seeking greener pastures, which is increasing numbers of Yoruba speakers, but they do not truly own the land. Fulani are the owners.

Saraki even explained this.
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2018/09/20/from-the-archive-controversy-over-bukola-sarakis-ancestry/

Ilorin is my second home. My mom is from there, wife from there and most of my associates are from their.

Dotn worry, Ilorin is already a Yoruba land. An Osun, Ondo, Oyo and Ekiti will feel at home in Ilorin than even Nupes who even part of the state.

hmohammed:


I have no problem with the Fulani. If you do, then that personal to you. Enjoy your weekend

My mother is from Ilorin and I was born in the core north. I will tell you that, whatever Yoruna that remain part in the event that Nigeria disintegrate will suffer.

In the event that Nigeria disetengrate the southwest will be 100 times better than the north and the opportunity to live in a Yoruba only country will be much better to become a third class minority to the mostly power hungry Hausa-Fulani.

For economic, social and political reasons, it makes perfect sense for the Yorubas in Kwara to join their Yoruba brothers in the southwest.

NaijirianKing:
Let's not rewrite history to fit a narrative. I suggests you go to Illorin and tell the Fulani they are in your land and need to leave, they will chase you out of their land. It's only online that one can claim another's land.

SW is Yoruba land, Yoruba sub groups, and Ijaw all claim the SW. Illorin is middle belt, or NC.

I already go to Ilorin every year to know that Yorubas are the owner of Ilorin.

NaijirianKing:
Does this look like Yoruba land?? Exactly, my brother, this is clearly geographically, ethnically, and culturally a Northern State. We don't need people rewriting history to fit their narratives....

Even Abubakar Saraki stated that he was a Fulani man, whose ancestors came from Mali, and his family recently learned to speak Yoruba. The same way Fulani speak Hausa based on being around that language, but Fulani is Fulani, and Hausa is Hausa. Just because a small population there may have learned Yoruba, doesn't make the entire state Yoruba.

Ilorin people are majorly muslim and they have borrowed element of northerner culture but that doesn't stop them from being Yoruba.

Have you ever being to Ilorin to begin with?

If you haven't, I will be wasting my time going back and forth with you.

NaijirianKing:
Kwara was part of the Sokoto Caliphate, it is a Fulani enclave, does this look like a Yoruba state? Yoruba may have migrated there very recently within the last few decades, but that doesn't make them the new owners, Kwara is a northern state, we have bigger problems in this country than settlers claiming to be of the soil.

Kwara is a firmly northern state.

Ilorin fell to the Fulanis in the 18th century while Ilorin became an Oyo military outpost in the 15th century. There was a continuous Yoruba presence in Ilorin for more than 1000 years before the first Fulani man knows his ways to Nigeria.

You either delusional or stupid to say that Yoruba are recent immigrants to Ilorin. Even the Emir of Ilorin knows that Yoruba is a Yoruba enclave.

ruffDiamond:
well said bro,succinctly put.that's exactly what's happening.. the ilorin people are the problem, they've forgotten that AFONJA(the late aare ona kankanfo )was from Ife
,in south west Nigeria .a General serving under Alafin Oyo,Aole! just that his success in battle went to his head and hence ,his defeat by a more cunning Fulani normad ,Alimi..meaning that Ilorin was founded originally by Afonja ,a pure Yoruba man a and by today's definition ,a south Westerner! imaging one one stupid ilorin man (Yoruba o)telling me there is a place in Sokoto called Ile Sokoto!!omo ,I just weak for am!check out their name,mostly mostly Muslim! meanwhile, Afonja is a pure Yoruba name!it has serious meaning! unlike the Islamic one they were forced to bear..!imaging, how can somborry who calls him self Yoruba be answering name lime Rahman,Taju,Rashidi,Jimoh,Sule,Kashim etc! though, it's a mixed grill now,but the fact still remains that 80℅ of people from southern kwara are Christian! when someone said the Sarakis of kwara are Yoruba,citing the bukola included in his name, I just laugh at their ignorance,saraki is pure Fulani name and has no meaning whatsoever in Yoruba! it's like someone saying his name is Gambari Adeboye Al-rahman and saying he's Yoruba, pray,what s the meaning of gambari in Yoruba??the ilorin (Yoruba) people have inter married with fulani conquerors over the years and have lost the heritage, identity, preferring to align with their Master out of utter helplessness and lack of ball to do what's necessary to liberate themselves and return to their rightful place in history... sorry this long thanks

You don't know anything about Kwara and Ilorin people. I'm half Ilorin and I can tell you that most Ilorin Yoruba see themselves as pure Yorubas.

There are have been attempts by the Afonja family to take the throne back and many still see the King as a religious leaders.

Sarakis are not even from Kwara. They are from Ogun and Oyo. The question you should ask yourself is, how will a Fulani man named Bukola Saraki married a Christian from Ondo state. Gives his daughter out in marriage to a Christian from Ogun state.

Even the current governor of Kwara, Abdulrasak is married to a Christian woman from Lagos state.

One thing you need to understand about Ilorin people is that they are no different from any muslim from the south west. They are tolerant, practice core Yoruba traditions, have Yoruba mannerism and most of their elites are trained in Lagos.

NaijirianKing:
Kwara and Kogi are not SW states, as such they are not Yoruba. Some Yoruba people may have migrated into the zone many decades ago, but those states were historically part of the Sokoto Caliphate and are more Hausa/Fulani than anything else.

Your head is actually painting you!
Ilorin became an emirate in the 18th century. Before then, Since the 11th century Yoruba were ruling and living in Ilorin.

Ilorin doesn't equate Yoruba kwara, even at that over 95% of Ilorin people are pure Yoruba of Oyo stock.

Okun land was never under sokoto caliphate, they were rule by obas that traces their origin to Ile Ife.

The northern Nigeria as its today was created by the British and the Yoruba always know their history.

Ademoore07:
MY TAKE: It would had been better if the yoruba speaking LGA in kwara share same boundary with their counterpart in kogi state. I will just approve them as a state if i were the president. But since the boundary is far apart, it wont be easy for the national assembly to oblige to their demand. By the way, how many LGA do we have in bayelsa state.

Go and look at the map and also educate yourself about the geography of Nigeria. There you will see that these groups already have a common boundary.

The Okun people of Kogi share a common boundary with the Yoruba people of Kwara south.

justosee:
they are free to leave the North if not comfortable there.
they can migrate to any of the 6 Southwest states

Kwara is a Yorubaland. No inch of Yorubaland will be left behind in the event that Nigeria disintegrate.

Minsk24:


With this Buhari regime, the anti_fulani sentiment is very high.. The northern minority tribes will rise up one day to the menace of the Fulani...
FULANI IS THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA

It will be duplicitous to say that Fulanis are the problem. Yes some elements in the Fulani communities are criminals! Yes Buhari's government hasn't handled the issues of criminality, insecurities ad terrorism well but to say affirmatively that the Fulani is Nigeria problem is borderline insanity.

candidtalk:


Indeed. We don't chestbeat or make redundant noise, driven by inferiority complex, like IPOBians.

Yet I think Yorubas can do more and encourage each other to greater heights. This begins with us familiarizing ourselves with the greatness of Yorubas home and abroad.

We still have Yorubas who go online to ignorantly sing the praises of Igbos because they have been brainwashed by the empty chestbeating insecure Igbos, forever envious of the Yorubas, flood cyberspace with.

A lot of Yorubas need to educate themselves and stop wallowing in ignorance. We do not brag and remain modest but the factual truth is that no other Nigerian or African ethnic group is individually, not nationally I clarify, close to Yorubas across all aspect of human endeavours from entertainment to literature, professional excellence, culture, religious sophistication/tolerance, artistic expression, business/trading acumen, diasporan greatness etal.

You are point bro.

Time for political correctness is over. Yoruba need to see Nigeria for what it is. A country where everyone takes as much as they can take.

Our politics and business should be Yoruba centric. We should as a matter of fact only vote Yoruba centric politicians to position and get as much as we can get from the center before the country finally crumbles.

DerideGull:


What built Igweocha did not come from Igweocha. Where did you get the silly 70% land and resources. Port Harcourt (Igweocha) came to limelight due to coal exportation. What did minorities produce to swell the pocket of eastern region? I guess smoked fish.

Palm oil, rubber, timber, the port was in the land of the minorities.

Poten111:
They dont stand for anything and atmost are double faced and double mouthed. Insecure and insincere.

That sums it up.

Kudos to the writer

A fool like you want Yoruba that you hate so much to fight your war

The question is what do Yoruba stand to gain for supporting and fighting for a people that always plot for their downfall?

Igbos without any history of state building, without any history of fighting for a good cause, also have the audacity to call others coward. The original coward are the Igbos that live in their villages and chased for centuries by minorities tribes that raid them for slave.

My advice to you is go back the history lane to understand who the real coward is.

DerideGull:


There absolute no discrimination in the defunct eastern region of Nigeria. The minorities almost led the government of the defunct eastern region.

Say that to those without an iota of idea about Nigeria history.

The Igbos dominated the minorities that owns 70% of the land and resources of the region. Reasons why most properties in PH at the time were own by the Igbos.

sirjamesjnr:
. We learned our lesson in a hard way.

I can see that. I spoke extensively with lots of Igwere people and I was told that there are lots of Yorubas that work in the big multi national oil companies that buy and build houses in PH but these Yorubas will never beat their chest or called the Igwere drunkard or lazy but the moment an Igbo buy a peace of land from you they will begine to say PH is no man's land.

I saw through the charade of the Igbos. All they care about is taking what doesn't belongs to them, reasons why they go around making enemy for themselves anywhere they go.

wizzakosh:
[s][/s] Outright junks from a lowlife worthless soul.

You Igbos are not cunning when you evil race was holding Nigeria then, shouting you are born to rule. That made your cunning tribe to end regional system of government and changed it to central because it was favouring you idiots.

What made your worthless Azikiwe went against secesion clause if not your cunning way of life.

Now that your evil plans on other came back to hunt you idiots down, you are shouting yorubas.

Very wicked race.

You are on point my brother.

The Igbos are the most selfish people on the face of earth. These are people that values money more than their brothers and fellow compatriot.

We all rememberd during the Jonathan gov't when things were good, how they were beating their chest about them continue to dominate Nigeria politics. How they were abusing others and calling Yoruba leaders Agbero for complaining about Yoruba discrimination by Jonathan gov't.

The average Igbos when to be in a position to steal the oil wealth alone and think carving out a country with only the oil producing minorities alone will guarantee this.

sirjamesjnr:
. Grow up in a Port Harcourt gra, have friends mile 3 and PH main town. So watch your mouth.

Sincerely speaking, the first time I went to PH for my NYSC, I really taught the Igweres were indistinguishable from other Igbos.

As a Yoruba all I can see are Igbos. They speak Igbo language, bears Igbos name and eat and socialized like Igbos. Bu after sometime I begins to see the enimity between the core Igbos and the Igweres.

I think most of these enimity stems from the discrimination the Igwere people face in the hand of the Igbos during the time of the old eastern region. Also, the tendency 0f the Igbos to always beat their chest and called their host name when they are given a small opportunity.

GavelSlam:


In Nigeria, even if you are a saint corrupt people would tag you as corrupt.

Why not expose the so-called land he allocated to himself and stop playing spoiler on the internet?

El rufai was a corrupt man. He did well though to bring some sanity back to FCT but he was so corrupt that land were allocated to family members and even girlfriends.

Seriously looking through is performance as the governor of Kaduna state. He has tru to divide the state further by playing the religious and ethnic cards.

He knows that the fighting in southern Kaduna is a form of terrorism where some unscrupulous elements mostly Fulani herdsmen terrorist are busy maiming and killing defenseless villages. Withings his power as the governor there is nothing he can do but a wise and honest man will not stoke up the fire. But since he wants to score cheap political points and exert himself from the whole thing, he is busy blaming the victims.

Finally, it is also through that some section of Nigerians (most southerners) scrutinised leaders from outside their ethnicity and religion more than that from their own. They sometimes over flock an issue that has nothing to do with them.
I expect them to demand more for good governors from leaders from their part of the country since we all know that their states are shambles.

lucasalves:


Man man.... Is Ghana anywhere as big as Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam deals majorly with rice exports guess what? they are 10 times better than Nigeria because they know how to position their products in the world market and are not lead by some clueless mallams. Common sense will say if you are selling sth for 2billion and the company is making 10 times more than you then its time to reposition yourself and up the price. Guess what from that you have money to develop other sectors of the economy (that's how economics works).
Where the hell did I mention government sharing money fairly? mate anyone with a working brain will know if government provide the basic amenities like 24hr electric, security, good roads the country will attract a lot of investors who obviously wants to make money selling to the largest population size in Africa.
Seriously the quality of graduates our education system in this country keeps churning out by the day is alarmingly disturbing.

Thailand is highly industrialized country that export automobiles, phones and other high tech products. They also have a highly developed agro allied industries which means they had values to all their agro export.

When you look at both country you begin to see a rising power of only 70m people that has an export value of over $230b while the other is a glorify slum of 200m people with a meagre export value of $43b