₦airaland Forum

musiwa7: you will notice. i never talk about south . when you want to run from fire. you cant help your owm mother. your mother as to help himself. so if igbo still they shout 6 zone.you leave them and run from fire. they never get the truth.. say naija dey wahala.

mutiply: This can only happen when you have cueless people called politicians in the helms of affairs.

Calabar — EMBATTLED paramount ruler of Efuts in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, Muri Munene Effiong Mbukpa, was, on Friday afternoon, removed from the throne following a fresh selection of a new monarch, Prof. Itam Hogan Itam, as allegedly approved by the state government.

But, in a swift reaction, Mbukpa said that he remained the paramount ruler, describing the alleged selection as a nullity and out of the tradition of the Efut land. Besides, the Efuts Combined Assembly, which claimed that, by the traditional of the Efuts, it was the assembly that has the right to conduct any selection of any Muri Munene said that there was no vacancy in the first place for anybody to contemplate filling any position.

Secretary of the assembly, Ndabo Godwin Bassey, explained that the Mbukpa had been on the throne for about four years now and was recognized by Governor liyel Imoke on many occasions, adding that when the governor visited the palace during his electioneering campaign, he commended the Munene for maintain the peace in the area.

He said that Mbukpa had performed all the traditional rites to mount the throne and that, according to the tradition of the Efuts, whoever performs the burial rites of the late monarch automatically takes over and that the rites had been done many years ago except otherwise somebody wants to exhume the corpse.

According to him, "The only people who are qualified traditionally to vote or be voted for in the purported selection were the three Muris that did not come, the other five are not qualified and there has never been a time they are up to five that are qualified.

"The two other persons there are challenging their suspension by the late Muri Munene in court and the court has pronounced that they cannot partake in any thing on selection. To start with, there is no vacancy there. It is the duty of the Efuts Combined Assembly to conduct selection where there is a vacancy.

"It is also the conclave of qualified accredited Muris of the ancestral clans that select Munene, this one was conducted by government, there has never been any place in the world where government conducts the selection of the traditional ruler."

The Cross River State government had, in a letter dated September 18, 2012, entitled, "Filling of the vacant stool of Muri Munene of the Efuts," signed by the Special Adviser to Governor Liyel Imoke on Chieftaincy Affairs 'Hon. John Eyikwaje' directed that the purported vacant position of the Muri Munene be filled.

The letter, addressed to the embattled monarch and seven other contestants, read: "Please be informed that His Excellency, the governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has given approval for the filing of the vacant stool of Muri Munene of the Efuts in Calabar South Local Government Area."

Some Efuts indigenes claimed that the selection traditionally should be conducted at the palace of the Muri Munene but it was gathered that it did not take place there as the palace for several months now had been under lock and key following the attack on Mbukpa by people suspected to be area boys who were allegedly hired by the opposition to take the place by force.

It was gathered that the alleged filling of the vacant stool took place at the Calabar South Council secretariat instead of the palace and was supervised by the Secretary of Chieftaincy Affairs, Calabar South Local government Area, Charles Obo, under the watchful eyes of the Special Adviser to the Governor and the Chairman of Calabar South, Hon. Ekeng Henshaw.

afam4eva: I just checked the the Alexa ranking for state government websites and Ekiti actually comes high and above every state in Nigeria. That shows that when it comes to IT, Ekiti know what they're doing.

There seems to be a resurgence of a new kind of nationalism on the political landscape of the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria. A number of meetings, conferences, scenario-building and subterranean and overt activities of the region's elite should give the nation's leaders some cause to reflect and perhaps react.

Earlier this year, the governors of the six states of the region, joined by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, drew a template for regional economic integration. The penultimate meeting in Ibadan convened by civil war veteran Gen. Alani Akinrinade introduced a curious dimension with its call for the fundamental restructuring of the Nigerian state, where each region would have a quasi-autonomous status.

Unlike the other regions, the people enjoy a long history of nationalism. Drawing on elements from local mythologies, traditions and cultural values, the Yoruba educated elite have established a common interest which is the basis for the people's imagination of the nation.

Transformed from pre-colonial group identity to a cultural phenomenon during colonial times, Yoruba nationalism has increasingly radicalised, at times violently, during the post-colonial period. Now, Yoruba nationalism seems directed against the Nigerian nation-state and other ethnic groups in Nigeria, hence the worrying dimension to calls by its leaders for regional integration and the fear of national disintegration.

We wonder what kind of arrangement that would be, given that Edo, Kwara and Kogi states where some Yoruba hail from are outside of the south-west arrangement of the late and immediate post-colonial Nigeria. Though the conveners argued that the Yoruba are "federalists" in their political evolution, the aspect of "independence" owing to marginalisation by the [/b]Nigerian state does not seem congruent with their stance on how to strengthen the Nigerian union and make it more productive.[b]

We think it tends to heighten the disunity into our diversities. Indeed, it is not right to say that the people of the south-west have been short-changed more than the other regions on political leadership plain. Short of the watershed of June 12, 1993, the Yoruba have been fairly compensated in terms of appointments, elections and participation in the Nigerian project.

Perhaps the most disturbing of the Ibadan Yoruba Assembly's communiqué is the suggestion that vigilantes should hold a pride of place in the region's security architecture. This suggests impatience with the present debate over the Nigeria Police. Vigilantes are no substitute to a decentralised police.

Even with the glaring challenges of insecurity, they must know that they risk the putative reign of ultra-nationalist militias. We do not appreciate this Yugoslavian recipe. Naturally, the imbalances in the Nigeria enterprise call for concern, but pandering to ethnic sentiments would worsen the state of affairs.

ochukoccna: Just silly can our president get?
If 'ordinary' people i.e. masses were not involved,is it savvy people who flooded Ojota for plate of food&a musical concert?
All the 'sponsors' did was harvest public anger&redirect @ Aso rock
Were SW protesters 'sponsored' to attack SW senators in Ibadan?
Was the protest 'sponsored' in 4 geo-political zones?
Were SS&SE not 'sponsored' to sit @ home?
For him to speak 8/9 months after indicates he's still bleeding from it
Let him beware cos blood draws in sharks

The 170 year old church says it will build a cathedral at a site in Badagry “where Christianity was first preached in Nigeria.”

The Methodist Church of Nigeria will celebrate 170 years of Christianity in Nigeria with the foundation laying ceremony of the Badagry Tourist Chapel on September 24.

The Bishop of Badagry Diocese, Emmanuel Ahisu, said on Monday in Badagry that Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State would perform the foundation laying ceremony.

Mr. Ahisu said that arrangements are being made for the historic event to commemorate how Christianity came to Nigeria through Badagry.

The chapel will be built at the site of Agia Tree Monument in Badagry, where Christianity was first preached in Nigeria. As history has it, Christianity was first preached in Badagry on September 24, 1842, by Thomas Birch Freeman of Wesley Mission (now Methodist Church).

The Agia Tree was uprooted by a heavy rain storm at exactly 11.45 p.m. on June 20, 1959. Mr. Ahisu, however, said that as part of the anniversary, an inter-denominational service would hold at Freeman Memorial Methodist Cathedral.

“We are also converging on Shagamu for the inter–zonal football competition, while the U-21 female and U-17 boys and relay race would take place at Gate Way International Stadium,’’ he said.

Mr. Ahisu said that other activities lined up for the celebration include an evangelical service at Melon Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Shagamu in Ogun.

Desola: What your myopic mind sees as shanties, others see as a preservation of history.

Moreover, we don't need never do wells easterners who cannot point to any regeneration or innovation in their backward states to tell us we are visionless. We can see those who lack clear vision and direction and believe me when I say that those people are most certainly not the Yorubas.

This same state you refer to as a shanty town boasts of the first tower building whilst your forefathers were still living in mud houses and even before you could see a radio, it housed the first tv station in Africa and was the custodian of cocoa production in Nigeria not to mention university of Ibadan which your backward okoros would kill to get into. so, tell me, okrika, who lacks vision.

Moraforkers!

seunfly: IBADAN dirty? YES, Tribalistic? NO, number of igbo man from anambra, imo and enugu in ibadan is more than the same peaple find in abia and ebonyi put together. So who wellcome visitors more?

hrhobi1: Lagos to Ibadan is about 45 minutes by road. So why the need for a train? is it to make the journey 15 minutes or what ? Why not Lagos to-Ogun-Ondo- Benin-Asaba- Onitsha- Enugu and to the north, which is economically viable to me. Just another waste of funds. IBADAN THAT OLD DIRTY CITY FULL OF RACISTS, IF YOU DON'T SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE YOU BE OUTCAST.

gboss4sure: GBAM, even me ooo I have never liked that woman from the onset, her BIG eyes and hmmmmm.

karl max: “We are alerting Ondo people to be vigilant and we are still investigating details of our resources that have been channeled to run Osun state because the fact that the ACN leader and its Chairman are from Osun does not mean hard earned money of Lagos tax payers should be used to run the state."