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NCP:
Too many Firsts by sons and daughters of Odua.
This is how to layout a promising world class business. Leadspace carry go.

"40Years of Excellence History...1969-Harry Ayoade Akande attains MBA from America’s top business school, north western university’s J L Kellogg School of management, to become their first black graduate. Entry to the MBA course was by scholarship following graduation in 1967 from Hampton University with a BSc – Accounts and Finance with the highest honors."

Okway,baba check out http://aiclimited.net/history.php by Harry Akande

• Akin alabi-Nairabet nigeria's first online sports betting portal
• Kunle Soname- Bet9ja (Nigeria’s biggest sports betting website) first Nigerian to own a top European football club by buying Portuguese second division side, Clube Desportivo Feirense
• Chief kessignton Adebutu-premier lotto (baba ijebu) nigeria’s most popular lotto operator
these guys are missing
- Sheriff Olaniyan,Surebet247
- Opeoluwa Fashakin,Merrybet
- Dotun Ajeigbe, 1960bet

Zanana Lorraine Akande(bornc. 1937) is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. She was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1994 who represented the downtownToronto riding of St. Andrew—St. Patrick. She served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae. She was the firstblack woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the first black woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Canada.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanana_Akande?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5902680327

Kn23h,baba could you check out and post on
Nigerite
http://www.nigeritelimited.com/en/
&
Pacific Holdings
http://pacificholdingsltd.com/

StOla:
He is Yoruba from Kogi.
CC: Origamist

Wow thats cool.
Thanks for the info.

laudate:
Egbon, God bless you! Should I research and post their details here, or would you do the honours?

you the boss now.

laudate:
No, never heard of Adkan Group. What do they do?

http://www.adkanservices.com.ng/
construction,paints,food etc.
I came across a satchet of De Royal noodles while viewing this thread so I decided to google the company that produces it.
I discovered it's produced by Royal Mills and Food a subsidiary of Adkan Group whose CEO is one Adeyinka Bibilari .

laudate:
I believe he is. Soyode does sound Yoruba, and Alistair who is British-Nigerian, has never denied his links to Nigeria.

ok bro.
Has Adkan Group been posted ?

Yemi Osunkoya - Kosibah

laudate, do you know if Alistair Soyode of BenTV is Yoruba?

When TRIPOB was put together to antagonise IPOB,most Igbos were quick to expose them for who they were - paid hacks.
But since these individuals bear Yoruba names,most of them don't want to think the same here.

Statsocial:
Must u turn everything to racism. This is really not about funding but that lautech is an Orphan institution by virtue of ownership tussle- that is d underlying issue. At least we all know uniosun isn't dead.

Now that Ajimobi seems to be focusing on the new technical uni,one wonders how Lautech will cope.

elantraceey:
Please I just want to know... what connection does sex scenes have to do with being a good actress or achieving greatness in the movie industry?

Controversy.
Controversy sells.
If there wasn't a sex scene in the movie,no one will be talking about it as fervently as it's being discussed.
The movie industry's saturated with talents and films,so you'll need to push the boundary for you to enjoy the attention of the media and viewers.

ephi123:
You are on your own oh
So, back to the topic. Shouldn't the compensation be given to all the parties affected? That should be the right thing in my opinion.

Dangote is giving out this cheque of over N50 million to 220 victims who are both Yoruba and Hausa.”
http://leadership.ng/2017/07/11/dangote-foundation-donates-n50m-victims-yoruba-hausa-clash-ile-ife/

He's at liberty to give to only Hausas though.
Ooni of Ife and other Yoruba leaders should be the ones to help their kinsmen.

Jonathan39:
Are you reasonable? Yorubas are criminaly minded.so with my account name and account number, you can't check how much is in my account? Today Igbos are better than yoruba

Biafrans never thought they would be returning to Nigeria.
Such details were hardly committed to mind.
Most emptied their accounts before relocating.

QueenOfNepal:
If i follow your analogy then every eastern adult was given 20pounds because everybody will claim to have money in the bank.
History revisionist in this Internet age

You read the article didn't you?
The 20 Pounds was given to them ex-gratia.Extrapolate whatever meaning you want from that and you'll get your answer.

How many Biafrans kept their Nigerian bank documents till the end of the civil war?
And do you expect Awolowo as the Finance Minister to allow the swapping of Biafran Pounds(a currency not recognised globally) for their Nigerian equivalents?

Interestingly,while you'll vilify Awolowo over the 20 Pounds saga you and your likes will never acknowledge Awolowo's efforts towards the recovery of the Eastern Region that even SG Ikoku the Commissioner for Economic Development in the East Central State attested to.Why?Selective amnesia?

irepnaija4eva:
Though, historical facts showed that he was not the one who set up the panel or had anything to do with it other than just executing the panel's recommendations,
Now this statement alone countered all bull crap he wrote up there.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the then Finance Minister of engineering,executed the panels recommendation of 20 pounds policy.
Was Achebe not saying the same thing?
Just negodu this man's angle of reasoning.

what the author of the article is saying is that 20 Pounds were given to those who could not provide evidence of having money in Nigerian banks.

But the widely held belief is that every Igbo received 20 Pounds regardless of their savings.

"The bottom line here is that the issue of this 20 pound gift has become an instrument of blackmail in the hands of Biafran leaders like Achebe who would try to avoid responsibility for the harm they caused their own people. They had to look for someone to blame and Obafemi Awolowo came handy for this. How can any Igbo blame others for losing his Bank Statement? If they could not substantiate their claims in regard to their balances, how did they expect to be paid? Or did they think the rest of Nigerians were fools who would rush to pay any spurious claims they make? Granted that the war could have caused the loss of some documents, why would this be the fault of Awolowo? Is this not a sign of irresponsibility on the part of Achebe and other leaders of Biafra?"

The excerpt above sums it up.

conductor11:
Liee nnukwu nsi

Post the lies in the article

PenisCaP:
Yorubas are chronic liars.

Post the lies in the article

shukuokukobambi:
You're right that its a thorny issue and one we'll have to address in the fullness of time.
The sultan is the spiritual head of all Muslims in Nigeria(Don't know when the authority was granted) so they all are obligated to hear him. The aare musulumi of Yoruba land is a ceremonial title with no real power and was further degraded due to Arisekola's romance with Abacha. I doubt that all Yoruba Muslims even feel beholden to the title holder. Islam isn't like Christianity where a parish pastor can get tired of the overbearing influence of his G.O, start his own ministry citing the call of God. All Muslims are bound to Saudi Arabia and whoever the Saudi crown recognises.
While Christians can separate their christian life from secular life(this hypocrisy, IMHO, made me become lethargic to Christianity) , for the pious Muslim, Islam is his entire way of life and it dictates the secular, political, education etc.
My answer to the issues with both religions made me become irreligious. I'd rather start practicing isese than continue to support the continued despoiling of our culture snd identity by these 2 invasive religions from the middle East.
Apologies to all omoluabis who feel offended or slighted by my post.

Thanks.

Errm... I know this is a thorny topic,but am curious.

What exactly is the function of the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland?
Why isn't he the one to declare when fasting begins to the Muslims among us?

No malice intended.

There's a need to create nationalistic feelings in the hearts of Yorubas both young & old.
A situation where most Yorubas only think Nigeria is unacceptable and a stumbling block.
Charity begins at home: The development of Yoruba enclave should be our primary concern.
Waiting for Nigeria as a whole to be great is waste of time as the country is a welter of different people with divergent mores,beliefs and aspirations.
The focus should be on Yorubaland.
This is the mindset we should have in Nigeria today.
**
In a Yoruba country,children must be taught the language.
The belief that kids must speak only English is borne out of inferiority complex and must not be condoled.
I firmly believe once the fire of patriotism burns in our people - every other thing shall fall in place.

whizraymond:
Pls let change the name to republic of western Nigeria.

can't resist the temptation to quote this post type a "lol" beneath it.

Seun:
@Mynd44

Nice.

laudate:
Bros Ooduapathfinder, if I may offer a suggestion, please also duplicate your thread on the other site we mentioned (i.e. Yorubaparapo..com)
Egbon deedeedee1, it appears you don't know these chaps. If he opens another one, it will just be deleted again. I have seen such things happen on this forum, before. If you don't believe me, let him just try it again. And let all of us wait & watch!

spoken like an old member of nl who knows their way.
Thanks for mentioning that site.
I'll check it out.

Olu317:
I spent close to 1hour looking for the thread. I had thought it was joke until I discovered it was deleted. These mods need serious whooping.. If it were to be some other folks chanting their glorified dreamland, it wouldn't be deleted. Double standard is been used on here.

the funny thing is that while that thread got deleted,there are some meaningless threads still surviving in this section.

JohnXcel:
I have been looking for that thread. Read from page 1 last night; so many great contributions and thoughts from the likes of AkinPhysicist, ColonelDrake and others.
So Nairaland politics section is now in control of an igbo tribalist mod right ?
Hahaha...SMH!

Same here.
Well I don't know o.
Apart from those two threads,there's one created by a markfemi2 moniker that got deleted too.
I can't remember the title.
Something needs to be done.

deedeedee1:
I think they were deleted.

Why?
The thread was civil.

Are the mods deleting Yoruba threads? Or am the one imagining it?
I tried checking the Constitution draft thread created by ooduapathfinder this morning.I could not find.
Same with mayoroflagos's thread.

deedeedee1:
shyshymexx and sukkot. You guys are needed here.

SirShymmexx not shyshymexx

pazienza:
Any evidence to prove that the coup is Igbo coup? Had any of the coup plotters said that the coup was an Igbo coup? Any links?
Concluding that Nzeogwu, a Northern raised Igbo being the leader of the coup that had other non Igbo participants , is an Igbo coup, is a bit far fretched, don't you think so?
No one ever said Ironsi was part of the Awolowo coup, Ironsi was a party pooper that derailed the second stage of the coup that would have seen Awolowo release and enthronement.
No. Awolowo was for real found guilty of treasonable felony, and financial misappropriation. it wasn't just put together like Yorubas want the world to believe. Awolowo wasn't tried by a military court.
Akintola indeed had the backing of Balewa and Saraduna, which even made their(Saraduna and Balewa) elimination paramount, if Awolowo must gain back the West.
His previous antecedent of trying to usurp Balewa, the Jan coup masterminding, makes the story very plausible.

Don't get me wrong.I don't think it was an an Igbo coup.That label's a result of the inability of some of the coupists to dispatch the Eastern leaders like they did to those of the North and the West.

Here again is one of the reasons why your claim does not add up.
There's no way Aguiyi Ironsi could have survived a coup meant to free Awolowo from prison since he was not in cahoots with the plotters.
That would have been a very costly mistake.Nothing would have been smoother than to get rid of him for Ogundipe(a Yoruba like Awolowo) to take over.But he survived,and he was Igbo like the leaders who were spare.
One starts to wonder how Awolowo will plan a coup and leave such key figures from the East out of his hitlist.

The treason and corruption charges were meant to discredit Awolowo.While I don't think he was infallible,the circumstances that led it shows it was all an attempt to weaken his influence in the West.
After the skirmsh in the Western HouseAdegbenro's request for police presence fell on deaf ears,a state of emergency was declared.Zik signed the Emergency Regulation Act.Majekodunmi was appointed as the Administrator.A restriction order was placed on Awolowo and some others.The Coker Commission was set up to investigate him.Can't you see how these events are closely knitted together?
Is this fair to you?
They used the crack in the AG to push forward all those allegations.

You said they wanted to make him President.A gang of coupists with such an aim will make no bones about wiping out the Eastern leaders too.
The Leaders of the North and West shouldn't have been the only ones marked,going by your claim.

There's no antecedent.
What you have is a weak excuse for why he was jailed.

pazienza:
1. The coup plotters clearly stated that enthroning Awolowo was their plan.
So from the word go, this had Awolowo finger prints written over it, if we factor in the role Fajuyi, a Yoruba man played in grooming Nzeogwu and co for the coup.
Awolowo also had antecedents of trying to Usurp Balewa government, the charges were not trumped up, he was found guilty of financial embezzlement and treasonable felony, this is the fact, hindsight also confirmed this, when he again tried to usurp another government(IBB) , leading to his death.
Jakande case makes sense cause it supports a truth we already knew.
3. I don't think so. Awolowo was a corrupt politician, everyone knew this, there was a reason he was in jail. So no, it's too much of a co incidence that he was being touted as one to lead a new corrupt free country.
5. Zik always outsmarted Awo. Zik was no direct adversary to Awo, not after Awo had managed to chase him out of the West. Awolowo main concern as of then was to reclaim his position as the numero uno in the West. Eliminating Akintola as well as the source of his power, ie Saraduna and Balewa, one reasoned would have been priority number one for him.
And all those men dying in that coup, was too much of a co incidence.
So yes, I still strongly believe with a good reason, that the coup was masterminded by Awolowo, using Nzeogwu and co as pawn in his deadly political game.

Do you have any evidence that directly links him to the coup?
A statement by any of the coup plotters or something of that nature.
Concluding that because Fajuyi was a Yoruba(fajuyi's involvement is still debatable)and was at the Battle Course with Nzeogwu et al. Makes Awolowo the reason for the coup is a farfetched.
He was not released by Ironsi after the putsch.How do you stage a coup for some1 and not release him afterwards?

The treasonable felony charge was put together by Balewa and Akintola to ensure that he was imprisoned since his arrest came on the heels of the fracas in the Western House between Akintola and Dauda Adegbenro.

Balewa sided with Akintola and ensured that he was reinstated even when the Awolowo & the majority wanted him to leave his seat.

How does it makes sense?
You mean he'll record himself planning a coup with Jakande and the rest?

Well Zik was a rival,directly or indirectly.So why would he have spared Zik?
And for someone like Awolowo who you all often call a tribalist for his commitment to the Yoruba nation,I don't think he'll allow any Igbo take part in a coup he intend to stage,whether as pawns or not.
It's unlike him.