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UrVillagePpl:
Toke makinwa get Money.. maybe Linda Ikeji yeah but Toke nah. She's just a broke wannabe

Yimu. Where Toke Makinwa see money buy (not rent o) house for Banana Island as radio OAP?? Guy, dis na confam yarn I give you, as in confam. Some of these chics are dating men, VIPs and fraudsters, who send them on exotic trips abroad to open bank accounts under fake identities for the purpose of money laundering and they get their cut afterward, and I don't mean small money, I mean hundreds of millions. I won't say more than that but you don't even know the half of it.

SalamRushdie:
Nigerian Business men must learn to make these international transfers very transparent as any hanky panky usually get the American feds to start being supicious ... So they have been hiding under the guise of plane purchase to move looted money out of Nigeria .

J111333:
It will be a surprise to see a wealthy businessman with no iota of fraud in him so I'm not really shocked.
I'm only mad that this is coming at a time he is being celebrated for his recent good deeds.
Well, crime is crime and he has to take responsibility for his misdeeds good man or not.
I hope and pray he is proved innocent of this crime though.

You will be shocked when you hear about how many more 'prominent' Nigerians hiding under various occupations are involved in this money laundering 'business' for some VIPs. From a very reliable source, heard the likes of toke makinwa, Linda ikeji, and many other celebs (most especially the 'very successful' ones) are involved, using blogging, oap, etc as fronts, una no even sabi wetin dey happen. If I begin mention names, kasala go burst.

Smh. Some Americans too mumu. See comments.

Lagos needs serious decongesting. The state can barely handle any more influx of economic migrants. Other states should do more to keep their folks from moving to Lagos en masse.

grandstar:
What is wrong in being the 6th largest or even the largest importer of rice in the world? Nothing if the situation calls for it.

Benin and Niger aren't the biggest losers from this border closure. It is Nigeria.

Nigeria does not have a problem with growing rice. Nigeria can even produce enough rice to feed the whole of Africa. Nigeria does not have a production problem.

However, the country has an economic problem with rice production. Nigeria lacks comparative advantage in rice production. We can't produce it cheaply like Thailand, Vietnam and India, the only 3 countries that have comparative advantage in rice production, the 2nd largest consumed grain in the world. The first is wheat. Nigeria therefore will be a net importer of the stuff.

The only way Nigeria can be self sufficient s by a ban. Assuming the imported stuff is 11,000 and the locally imported one is 17,000, a ban makes the imported one unavailable and people have no option but to purchase the locally produced one for 17,000. The question I want to ask you is how does paying 17,000 for something that was previously 11,000 actually help the average Nigerian? Maybe there may be some poor housewives out there who don't mind paying 17,000 for something that was formerly 11,000 but majority will frown at it!

Countries do best when they focus resources on areas they have comparative advantage. The British tried to encourage local farmers to produce rice but they were disinterested. They preferred cocoa, palm oil, rubber and so forth and that was what the country was re-known for. Palm oil was Nigeria's rice while rice was Thailand's palm oil. Nigerians still call this the golden era.

Do you know Thailand exports $1.8b worth of farmed shrimps yearly? Whay can't Nigeria export $2b worth of farmed snails for instance or $500m worth of grasscutters? It is estimated that sheabutter if well harnessed can bring in as much as $2b yearly as exports.

Imports are not the problem. They are even good for you. America found out that for every 1 cent reduction in import duty, it earned 3 cents in taxes in the wider economy. If import duties are low and trade is booming, does the money not trickle down? Don't you see people making money? High import duty achieves the opposite

I have noticed that you are always fond of spewing a lot of textbook economic jargon, perhaps to come across as being smart. But in practical terms a lot of your theoretical postulations are crap, sorry to say. Why is America not sitting back and allowing every 'cheaper' everything to be imported from China, because going by your jaundiced theory, even America ought to continue importing virtually everything from China since China will always have a comparative advantage over the u.s in virtually most if not all areas of manufacturing.

As a matter of fact, hardly do most countries have any comparative advantage over China in most areas of manufacturing, so according to you everybody ought to just sit back and keep importing from China just because they can't compete with their cheap labour, while they watch their local industries die and trade deficits continue to grow. Not even the West (where you get most of your theoretical jargon) practices what you are trying to preach to a developing country like Nigeria.

I suggest you watch the following DW documentary to see how even the hypocritical Western powerhouses (including American, German, and other EU countries) whose economic theories you apparently gulp like eba don't even practice what they themselves preach by stealthily deploying protectionist policies in order to protect their econonies and local industries while hypocritically using the same mouth to spew the exact same jargon you are regurgitating, yet you want a developing country like Nigeria to follow such like mumus?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnW9ZQtI1_E

wristbangle:
Very biased report. Even though lagos lacks the needed infrastructure to compete against other cities, cases of death is rarely recorded and the ones seen could be due to vehicle accident and other circumstances beyond control.

So New York, chicago, etc are the safest yet cases of manslaughter due to gun shots are seen? Local man is disgusted with western news.

As in. Violent crimes hardly occur in Lagos relative to some U.S cities even.

I just saw the list of the culprits on instablog and at least 80% of them are from the SE. No be small thing.

Heard this phone na beast.

Wait. Was it N20 or N20million How can you kill someone over N20? Na Nigeria police I know dey do dat kind thing over N20/N50 bribe money.

doclatom:
True! But you mustn't forget the raison d'être of Awolowo's expressed fears way back then. You said Zik recognised the rulership bequeathed to the north by the British. Well, if that were the case, I think you missed the point that had Zik gone into alliance with Awolowo, take it or leave it, the north would have been emasculated by now because many north central states would've have alligned with the Zik/Awo alliance. I said it earlier that Zik had the joker in his hands. He instead played onto that hands of the north in lieu of more civilised accord with Awo. You see, Zik had felt he would be able to control the north. He felt they were stupid people and not as suave as the south west. He pitched his tent there. When that wasn't working, you know what and what led to the civil war eventually. It wasn't Political ingenuity from Zik. It was political greed and a plan of domination and it backfired eventually. When the civil war was about to break out, this same Awo went to their leader there and ADVISED HIM NOT TO GO TO WAR YET. Read the history very well, Awo was almost killed by irate Biafran soldiers and on getting back home, Awo was arrested by Nigerian government for TREASON! Yorubas contributed soldiers to the Nigerian army fighting the Biafran soldiers but that's where it ended until OJUKWU ATTEMPTED to make inroads here after he overan Asaba. That's when the likes of Awolowo rose up and showed that brain is ultimate, not brawn, when it comes to warfare.
Back to the discourse here, Awolowo RECOGNISED what we are all suffering now. He attempted to SHIFT the political balance with Zik. Zik reneged and followed what he believed was political gain at the expense of many things. If Zik had realised that it's better to work with Awolowo, he'd have laid his joker on Awo's table rather than trying to see how he can subdue a "foolish" north. He was badly mistaken.
Fast forward to today, Igbos are as beautiful as they come. No doubts about that. But history is history. Truth is truth!

Well, for me, there really are no 'saints' or 'sinners' when it comes to politics because it's all about interests. It's the same reason why even during the last election, both the Yorubas and Igbos/SS were ready to vote for separate Fulani men (even though under different platforms) even while there were other ethnicities vying for the presidency under other parties. In other words, we would've ended up with a Fulani/Northerner regardless of who won that election because the major Southern blocs had settled for their preferred Fulani/Northern candidate. If you ask me, I feel the original mistake started from the amalgamation of 1914 and right before independence when the Southerners insisted on the North being a part of the union as a condition for independence.

I can't say I blame Zik for refusing to work with Awolowo because he probably had his reasons which he must have felt was in the best interest of his igbo people. But I fault Awo's refusal to even consider working with the Northern establishment after being rebuffed by the same Zik. I feel that for as long as Nigeria continues to exist in its present form/political structure, the Yorubas cannot remain in perpetual opposition without a concrete strategy of playing mainstream politics (via formidable alliances).

Awo didn't want to pull the Yorubas out of Nigeria (Yoruba indpendence), yet he had no concrete strategy of gaining power at the centre in order to achieve his political aims for the country. Staying in opposition for too long comes at a huge cost, not just politically. He was clearly rigged out twice because he felt he could go it alone in becoming president of the country. I feel his experience during the federal elections of 1959 should've given him enough insights on how to play federal politics, but unfortunately he went on to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

doclatom:
I wouldn't call it a "blunder" for Awolowo. Awolowo's intentions were noble and he believed so much in progressive doctrine of governance. He saw the northern oligarchy as a threat to an even and just Nigeria. They even jailed him because he stood against northern interests. That's what prompted him to approach Zik. He begged Zik to see reason. Zik agreed. On the day when the alliance was to be formed, Zik INSTEAD ran to the north! He left Awolowo stranded and vulnerable. Awolowo was determined. That's why he declared free education, built the cocoa house (first skyscraper in Nigeria), built the first TV station (among many other firsts), in South West to facilitate development. What did Zik call him? A TRIBAL LEADER!
I'm sure their Kanu of IPOB isn't a TRIBAL LEADER right now.
History is there to learn from. We must know where we're coming from. This isn't propaganda. It's the truth. I won't banter words with any Igbo kid that comes here to rant over what is not.
May God heal Nigeria!

Well, personally, I think that Awolowo, in spite of his brilliance, was in some ways politically naive. His intransigent posture when it came to working politically with the North really messed him up. Zik was, in my view, a more pragmatic politician in the Nigerian context. Zik had enough intelligence to realize that the political structure the British bequeated at independence gave the North an intimidating political advantage, and he exploited that by working with the North to advance his people's political aspirations within the Nigerian political space. He wasn't as emotional/sentimental (politically) as Awo was so he was willing to overlook many of the reasons why Awo felt he couldn't work with the Northerners, in order to further his/igbo political aims. That was why he was able to successfully use that political advantage to ensure the igbos occupied and dominated very strategic positions at every level of the Nigerian civil service, army, educational institutions, and beyond at the time.

Awo on the other hand felt that the Northerners were too uncivilized for him to work with politically. But while he may have been right in his estimation that the North abysmally lagged behind the South educationally, he failed to appreciate their political sophistication, hence his limited success at the centre, politically. The North on the other hand, being well aware of its political advantage, is always ready to work with any willing political bloc in the South.

The Akintola/Awo issue came up because Akintola felt the Yorubas were better off being in alliance with the North (by then he had seen what Zik was able to use his Northern alliance to achieve for his people), as opposed to wallowing in the opposition while waiting endlessly for a Zik/Awo alliance that would never happen.

And Awolowo's greatest blunder, in my opinion, was his repeated attempts to form an alliance with a Zik who didn't regard him and saw him as a political threat. On atleast two occassions Awo went cap-in-hand to Zik to try to form a political alliance with him (as a junior partner) but was rebuffed at both times. The same fate awaits any future prospects of a Yoruba-Igbo political alliance. It will never work.

MetaPhysical:
Tinubu is a political leader, not a Yoruba defender.

Even MKO was not a Yoruba defender, much more Tinubu.

Tinubu, MKO, Ige, Akintola....these were political mavericks but not Yoruba defender.

Awo, Fawehinmi, Adesanya, Mrs Ransome Kuti, Gani Adams...these were Yoruba defenders.

What separates the two is first set will sacrifice any Yoruba for their political goal.

The second set will sacrifice themselves for Yoruba's goal.

Yorubaland needs both Yoruba Political leaders and defenders (as you put it). Awo's politics failed in the Nigerian context because he was a centrist; he could never commit nor bring himself to support full Yoruba independence, neither did he want to join/play mainstream politics and consequently the Yorubas suffered for this indecisiveness. That is where Tinubu stands out, in my opinion. He is a hybrid of the Awo/Akintola/MKO tendecies. He is a political realist/pragmatist within the Nigerian context which is why he has remained relevant. Until the Nigerian project dies a natural death (which is only a matter of when not if), Yorubas must master and continue to play their politics with both tact and assertiveness. The reality of pragmatic politics is that you must know that you can't always get what you want, but master how and when to assert yourself to ultimately achieve your political aims.

The same igbos that are currently trying to goad/incite Yorubas into open political confrontation with the current Nigerian political establishment at the helm would not bat an eyelid to take the Yoruba's place at the centre when the chips are down; this they have demonstrated throughout their political history in the Nigerian project, both pre and post civil war. They don't mind working politically with the same Hausa/Fulanis they are currently disparaging if it will suit their political ambitions. For the first time in a long while in Nigerian political history, Yorubas are asserting themselves politically at the centre. A development that obviously isn't sitting well with our Eastern neighbours.

Let the 'Yoruba defenders' (as you label them) continue playing their roles (they suck politically anyway), while the Yorubas who understand the rules of Nigeria politics also continue to do so in the political interest of the Yoruba. Capish.

Na dis kind fake kidnap Osinbajo bin dey talk about dat time.

Smh.

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South Africans should chill with this their incessant igbo-killings. Are they the only ones in S.A?? It's becoming too much.

It's as if South Africans really mean igbos living in that country. They just killing them anyhow. Odiegwu o.

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kettykin:
so when will Lagos Liberation commence

Maybe after Abia 'liberates' itself from the kerosene sharers and perpetual bad governance.

Op, that is actually Northern Foreshore, at Chevron, Lekki, Lagos.

Smh. Even graduates that have not held a job and doing nothing since they graduated over 5-yrs or more ago are complaining about the initiative -- some of whom won't mind doing same overseas. Well, those that are interested will apply while the complainers can keep waiting till they land a job at shell or chevron.

This one na wetin Yoruba people dey call ana pa and ana ya . Niger team dey chop serious beating.

The Ooni really disappointed a lot of people with his immature and infantile attempt to rewrite history.

If this man truly needs assistance his handlers and state govt better allow those that are willing to help him to do so before he dies like a fowl. Prostate Cancer is a killer that mustn't be treated with kids gloves.

Biafra agitation 3.0 loading.

PrimadonnaO:
What does it mean?

It's like saying 'ntor'.

Eyin bloggers sha, na wah for una. Oobi na Yoruba expletive.

Davidio should leave politics and face his music career.

Queseda:
I'm happy to see reasonable Yorubas like you. Even though I'm not from the SW, I grew up there and have a lot of admiration for them. There's a dangerous trend emerging from SW that calls for concern, I don't know when you guys will wake up and realise that Nigeria as it is has gone beyond being too nationalistic, regional interest should be paramount above all, It's everyone for himself, God for us all.
I see the way people from SE abuse you guys online, even those of them who earn a living staying in your region, and it drives me nuts.
An OPC member was alledgedly killed by Igbos today and I haven't heard of reprisals, this can only happen in the SW. Can anyone try that in the north, SE or SS? These guys are the boss in their respective regions, they don't take shit. The SW really needs to wake up from their slumber, else these same Igbos u see abusing u guys will go behind you to form alliance with the north and they won't do it half-heartedly the way u guys do it by splitting votes. I have said my own

Bro, abeg na wetin we gain if after all our 'sophistication', the same beneficiaries of the sophistication will insult you to your face; they will tell you they 'dominate' you in your land, that they developed your land and are taking it over, that it is a no-man's land, they even call you a 'sophisticated m.o.r.o.n' to your face. Abeg na wetin we gain??

dplordx:
As in. Two of my neighbors today voted for Atiku. One said Buhari wants to turn Christains to Muslims. The other said Atiku will make money flow. I mean I didn't even want to argue with those old men. It's strange because we just see several Yoruba shouting Atiku and Obi. The same people who'd happily marganalize them and shyt on us. Maybe we need better sensitisation especially the christians

Well, I think that is because to some of our folks, their religious affinity trumps their ethnic identity. That is why you cannot downplay the influence of Yoruba pastors in this respect. Fortunately or unfortunately (whichever way you wanna look at it), the most prominent pastors in Nigeria are of Yoruba extraction, and some of them are charlatans who promote the whole 'islamization' narrative as a tactic to maintain control over their flock. The likes of Oyedepo, who happens to be an unapologetic islamophobe, is one of the culprits I am talking about.

Buharifanatic:
i understand but most yorubas arent like that


and the igbos have polluted sw


there is an igbo mans shop in every town in south west, they marry our girls and have friends

Our liberalism has started working against us and will continue to do so until we begin to put our regional interests first before petty politics. Imagine, even after GEJ marginalized us he still got almost half of the votes from our region in 2015. That's bullshyt and unacceptable. That tells you that we have a serious problem on our hands.