₦airaland Forum

safarigirl: Father Lord, please help these pathetic, hopeless grandfathers that have wasted their lives bad belleing everyone around them and are now senile, poverty-ridden cretins to accept that for the first time in our history, Nigeria did the right thing and fielded BOYS for an U-17 tournament. But if this is too much for them to digest Lord, kindly lead them to the nearest otapiapia seller in their vicinity, and give them the courage to jump off 3rd mainland bridge after swallowing 6 bottles of otapiapia and licking a packet of confo. Thank you Lord for answered prayers.

safarigirl: Father Lord, please help these pathetic, hopeless grandfathers that have wasted their lives bad belleing everyone around them and are now senile, poverty-ridden cretins to accept that for the first time in our history, Nigeria did the right thing and fielded BOYS for an U-17 tournament. But if this is too much for them to digest Lord, kindly lead them to the nearest otapiapia seller in their vicinity, and give them the courage to jump off 3rd mainland bridge after swallowing 6 bottles of otapiapia and licking a packet of confo. Thank you Lord for answered prayers.

solowork: Judging from your previous posts on NL I don't expect you to comprehend anything longer than one sentence, let alone offer a more constructive argument than "What is this one saying" Mr. Linguistics Student. More like Lameguistics.

f.ool. Nov16 will soon b here. oloriburuku, omo ofo, omo iya. Aye e ma baje ni.

Laurent Fabius, French foreign minister, speaks to journalists in Paris about the two journalists killed in
northern Mali. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, and agencies Two French journalists kidnapped and shot dead in northern Mali on Saturday were killed in cold blood by the "terrorists" that France is fighting in the west
African country, the foreign minister Laurent Fabius
said on Sunday. Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude Verlon, 58, two
highly experienced Africa specialists for the French
state radio station Radio France Internationale (RFI), were abducted by gunmen just after interviewing a
senior member of the MNLA Tuareg separatist group
in Kidal, northern Mali, on Saturday afternoon. Less than two hours later their bodies were found
about eight miles outside the desert town. One had
been shot twice, the other three times. The four-
wheel drive in which they had been taken was found
metres away, locked, but with no traces of any bullet
impact. Fabius said everything would be done to try to catch
the killers. "The assassins are those we are fighting –
the terrorist groups that refuse democracy and
elections," he said, calling the killings "heinous and
revolting". He added: "Security in the area and the surrounding
areas, especially for French nationals, will be
increased." On Sunday the French president, François Hollande,
held emergency Elysée talks on the killings, after
expressing his indignation at what he called "a
hateful act". Kidal was the birthplace of a Tuareg uprising last
year that plunged Mali into chaos, leading to a coup in
the capital, Bamako, and to the occupation of the
northern half of the country by Islamist groups with
links to al-Qaida. In January, France led a military intervention into its former colony to drive out the militants, which it hailed as a victory, but there are still pockets of
insurgents, and the journalists' deaths have
highlighted the continuing security risks. France still has about 3,000 soldiers in the country –
alongside Malian troops and UN peacekeepers under
a special force known as Minusma – although it only
has about 200 troops in the northern desert town of
Kidal, which remains tense and unstable, and another
100 in Tessalit, several hundred miles away in the north-west. Dupont and Verlon were kidnapped just after they
interviewed Ambeiry Ag Rhissa, a local official with
the MNLA in Kidal. Rhissa said: "When they left, I heard a strange noise
outside. I immediately went out to see and when I
opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at
me and told me go back inside." RFI said in a statement that the station was "in shock,
profoundly saddened, indignant and angry". The
station, which broadcasts widely in French and
English, has a large audience in Africa. Marie-Christine
Saragosse, head of the state media group that
includes RFI, said it was "more than a radio station – in Africa it is an institution". Saragosse, who flew to Mali on Sunday to bring the
bodies home, said the two journalists, who had
worked at the station since the 1980s, were not hot-
headed and had never taken any unconsidered risks. Dupont, a senior correspondent who had spent the
bulk of her career in Africa, including difficult
assignments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
was a well-known authority on the region. Verlon,
divorced with a 23-year-old daughter, was one of the
station's top technicians, having had experience in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as numerous
assignments in Africa. Both had been in Kidal in July during the presidential
elections, and had since been preparing a special day
of broadcasts in the runup to the parliamentary
elections this month. Saragosse said the journalists
had prepared their trip thoroughly and had told
editors that Kidal felt more relaxed than this summer. They had travelled to Kidal with UN troops on the
ground after the French army warned that Kidal was
too dangerous. The killing of the journalists comes less than a week
after France rejoiced when four of its citizens were
freed by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, allegedly in
exchange for a large ransom, after being held captive for three years. They were kidnapped in 2010 from a well-guarded compound in the northern town of Arlit
in Niger, where the French state-controlled nuclear
giant Areva operates a uranium mine.





www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/03/french-journalists-killed-mali-terrorists-laurent-fabius

Enjoying cooking!! And dis Gbagaun made fp.... Smh for nairaland

ABUJA—FORMER Polish Ambassador to Nigeria,
Grezgorz Walinski has said that Nigeria has spent
about $13 billion on peacekeeping operations since
1960 and has also sent over 250,000 members of the
Nigerian armed forces to the United Nation’s
sponsored missions worldwide. Ambassador Walinski disclosed this at the
stakeholders’ dinner reception for the Nigeria
Security Exhibition and Conference, 2014, organised
by First Security Guards Limited in Abuja. He noted that despite the numerous contributions of
the country in peace operations, it was assumed that
the country had not taken full advantage of its active
participation in the numerous peace operations
around the world by not getting commensurate
economic, military and political remuneration for its participation. He cited countries like Ghana that had also
participated in numerous UN PSOs but generated funds
through the process to defray the costs of sustaining
its military, while Nigeria on the other hand had
largely allegedly deprived itself of such benefits. According to him, the country started peacekeeping
operations few days after her independence in 1960
in Congo and since then, the country’s forces have
participated in many operations across the globe
under varying international legal authority executing
a variety of operational mandates. He said: “Her contribution to the UN peacekeeping
operations is only surpassed by those of India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh. Over 250,000 members of
the Nigerian armed forces have participated in UN
sponsored missions worldwide.” “Having been involved in 40 of the 55 peacekeeping
missions of the UN, Nigeria has now participated in 73
percent of all UN peacekeeping operations. Four of
these missions have been commanded by Nigeria
senior military officers. Nigeria currently has about 6,
000 peacekeepers in various flashpoints, 4, 000 of which are in Darfur, Sudan,” he stated. The former Polish Ambassador to Nigeria further said
that many potential conflicts were effectively
prevented due to Nigerian diplomacy. Therefore,
Nigeria’s direct involvement as chief mediator in a
number of territorial disputes and crises effectively
allowed to avoid them and in consequence eliminated the threat of their development into full-scale conflicts. Ambassador Walinski noted that the international
community was getting fatigued and increasingly
reluctant to intervene in Africa’s conflicts, adding,
“During last two decades, we witnessed gradual but
inevitable shift from foreign intervention carried on by
European military contingents to establishments and strengthening of Africa’s own capability to prevent,
to monitor and to resolve crises which inevitably will
erupt.” He said that the country was faced with myriads of
security challenges but added that the “Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Professor Viola Onwuliri has assured
the international community that Nigeria would
continue to work in the area of preventive
diplomacy.” He said the main problem of the country was
terrorism, though it would not change the country’s
position as regional leader, stressing that the country
had always succeeded in learning from her
experiences and making her experiences the source
of even greater power. He also said that the idea of organizing the security
exhibition at the FCT was important as it served as a
forum where all actors both state and private sectors
and those that have the right to use power and those
who can supply them with the products would come
together and discuss security matters and also proffer solutions. Speaking earlier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of First Security Guards who also is the chief organizer
of NISEC, 2014, Frank Ohwafa said the reception was
organized to bring together all stakeholders in
preparation for the 2014 Nigeria Security Exhibition
and Conference, NISEC, homeland security show. Ohwafa said First Security Guards had in the past
collaborated with other security agencies in areas of
capacity building and competence needed in an ever
changing environment to fight and combat crime and
criminality. “In year 2007, First Security Guards signed a
partnership with the Nigeria Police to train and retrain
her personnel in contemporary policing and crime
fighting,” he stated and commended the National
Security Adviser for using his office and appointment
to promote peace and security, enduring lasting security platforms for better coordination of the
security agencies.



www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/nigeria-spends-13bn-peace-keeping-ex-polish-envoy/

Chuksemi: Iran will win Nigeria, who wants a bet?

wallahi, o ti yawere

Who cares?

Evestar200: Damn! Who is excluding my beautiful Warri out of the cities to host a world cup,,,we can make it happen when we are ready cuz we Warri pple are sports lover,,,Ask CAF,,we still hold the record of having the highest number of pple to watch AWC in Africa

Warri ke? Kidnapping tinz o. No offence

[quote author=Gondar]You can't even spell right let alone call one an illiterate. Chillax.. don't go all crazy on me now . We're coming for the kill.[/quoteogbeni, go commit suicide abeg.]

Gondar: boy, don't need your pity. Pity your team cos a big fight is coming in calabar...you must be a fool to think we came this far and leave without a fight . In fact..it will be nasty.

sharappppppp, u fvctaaard... Ethiopia wants to go to World cup Wonders shall never end, are u gonna take those illiterate players to d world cup? Can't u c aw ur player was behaving wen his goal was disallowed by d referee? Smh.

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Gondar: ghanians..rejoice more ...you will be all over naija boys when we beat them and snatch the ticket to brazil from their hands . Expect some more professors to suffer heart attack in calabar

I pity u. U fool.

I was born on October 16, 1960 and consequently I
celebrated my 53rd birthday last Wednesday. It was a
quiet low-key affair in which, as is customary with
me, I spent most of the day in fasting, prayer and
sober reflection, surrounded by my loved ones,
thanking the Lord for granting me yet another year of life and for delivering me from the hands of my
numerous detractors and enemies. I also took the time to thank my dear wife and soul
mate, Regina, for standing by me through thick and
thin and for being such a blessing and my darling
children who have had to put up with a father that is
fast becoming one of the most controversial,
misrepresented and misunderstood figures in Nigerian modern history- a title which I neither crave
nor relish. It is because it is my birthday that I decided to share a
few home truths today that will gladden the hearts of
some but that may sadden others. Yet the truth must
be spoken and even if my voice is drowned by the
cacophony of dissent and rancour that sometimes trail
such literary interventions, let it be on record that on this day the seed of truth and liberation was planted
and the idea of a new beginning for a people that I
have come to love more than life itself, my people, the
Yoruba people of south western Nigeria, was berthed.
And for these views, these ideas, these contributions
and these philosophies, as disagreeable as they may be to some, I offer no apology. One of the basic
truisms of nationhood is that we as a people must
appreciate our roots. We cannot despise our roots and
set them aside and expect to flourish. We cannot deny
our family and claim to be a responsible member of
the wider society. Yes we are Nigerians but every Nigerian has a foundation and a root out of which he
sprouted. *Fani-Kayode There is no such thing as a Nigerian who did not come
from somewhere or who did not come out of a
nationality that is a constituent and vital part of the
wider nation. Nigeria is blessed with many proud,
strong, distinct, noble, enlightened and sophisticated
nationalities that make up the whole and each of them brings something or other to the table. From the Fulani to the Hausa, to the Nupe, to the Bini,
to the Ijaw, to the Igbo, to the Kanuri, to the Idoma, to
the Tiv, to the Urhobo, to the Itsekiri, to the Bacahama,
to the Ishan, to the Igbira, to the Igalla, to the Efik, to
the Ibibio, to the Isoko, to the Shuwa arab, to the
Kataf, to the Kwale, to the Jaba, to the Zuru, to the Kilba, to the Kalabari, to the Ikwere, to the Gula, to the
Gwari, to the Margui and so on and so forth, we all
have something to offer and we all have a sense of
self-worth and self-respect which was established
and cultivated many years before Nigeria even came
into existence. None of us must ever forget that beautiful root from whence we came for without it we
become worthless. For Nigeria to be great each, and every one of its
nationalities must first flourish and they must all be in
a position to achieve their full potentials. I am a
Yoruba man and I take immense pride in that. And
contrary to the views of many, the Yoruba, like all the
other wonderful nationalities that reside in the Nigerian space, are not a mere tribe. One of the most unfortunate aspects of not being
properly educated is the fact that those that suffer
from that affliction often accept everything that their
slave and colonial masters and ethnic overlords tell
them and, without thinking, they swallow the fables
and labels hook, line and sinker. When a supposedly educated person insists on labelling a nation of highly
advanced people, who have existed for thousands of
years as a distinct race, who have had their own
empires, who are the most educationally and
culturally advanced on the African continent, who
have a single language with approximately 20 different dialects within them, who have contributed
more to the industrial, commercial and intellectual
growth of Nigeria than any other, who have a rich and
illustrious history and heritage which few in Africa
can match, who number at least 50 million in Nigeria
alone and who constitute the largest number of African people living in the diaspora on earth, whose
people have spread all over the world and have
strong historical, cultural, religious and ethnic roots in
Benin Republic, Ghana, Togo, Haiti, Brazil, Cuba and
many other places, whose people have settled into
and legitimately lay claim to Ilorin, Kaaba, Akoko Edo and other parts of northern and mid-western
Nigeria, whose offspring and progenitor established
many kingdoms including the Bini Kingdom, whose
pantheon of gods and traditional religion of ifa is
respected and practised in many parts of the world,
whose historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contributions to Ancient Egypt are well known and
well documented, whose level of sophistication and
exposure to the knowledge of western education is
second to none and whose sense of liberalism, justice,
decency, hospitality and fairness is not understood,
appreciated or reciprocated by any other ethnic group or nationality in Nigeria and so much more and that
supposedly educated person still insists on calling
such people, despite their sheer numbers and their
homogenous geographical setting, a mere “tribe”,
then you know that that person is truly misguided. You may call others a tribe if you so choose but not
the Yoruba. We number as many people as almost the
whole of the UK or France and far many more than
three quarters of the countries on the European
continent and our history dates back as far as that of
the Celts, the Normans, the Vikings, the Romans, the Greeks, the
Egyptians and the Anglo-Saxons. Our forefathers are
amongst those that went to the best institutions of
higher learning and citadels of excellence in the world like Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Durham
universities as far back as the early 1800s and they
became the first lawyers, doctors, scientists,
intellectuals, poets, writers, journalists, philosophers,
priests and free thinkers on the African continent.
Little wonder that our former colonial masters resolved in their hearts that we must never be
allowed to take power at the centre because they
saw us as their equals as opposed to being their serfs.
We were right at the top whilst others were still living
in villages in the deepest and darkest parts of the
African forest. We forged and built great empires that we nurtured and protected with all that we had. Ours was not a primitive inheritance but a noble and
righteous one that was established by the Living God
and the hard work of our forefathers. And it is the
memory of those great and powerful forefathers that
I invoke today when I ask how far has our noble
heritage taken us in the contraption called Nigeria? How have we fared as a people? For better or for
worse? Our children ask us, ‘’Was it always like
this’’ and who ‘’were’’ the Yoruba? They
no longer ask who ‘’ARE’’ the Yoruba but who
‘’WERE’’ the Yoruba? Sadly that is our plight
today- a people whose children regard them as ‘’once were’’ and no longer ‘’are’’. We are still who and what we once were and it shall
always be so no matter what Nigeria and the world
does to us. We are a nation, not a tribe. And we are a
nation that is craving for recognition and nationhood.
A nation borne out of centuries of sacrifice, hard
work, perseverance and diligence and whose foundation is unsullied, noble and pure. We are a
nation within a nation that is beginning to berth and
that is eagerly waiting to be born. Today we invoke the spirits and rekindle the
memories of our forefathers and we weep for our
people. What do we tell them about how we fared
after they left us and went into eternity? This struggle
belongs to our generation yet the question needs to
be asked- have we lived up to expectation as they did? Have we asked the relevant questions, provided
the appropiate answers and fought the good and
noble fight as they once did? We remember with great
pride, great men and women of Yoruba stock that
have passed on and we reflect on their noble struggle
through the ages. Men and women that stood up when it mattered the
most and made a difference like Samuel Ajayi
Crowther, Sapara Williams, Richard Akinwande-
Savage, Kitoye Ajasa, Cissie Obasa, Eric Moore,
Herbert Macauly, Joseph Egerton-Shyngle, Curtis
Adeniyi-Jones, Adeyemo Alakija, Theophilius Adebayo Doherty, Victor Adedapo Kayode, Akinola
Maja, Joseph Akanni Doherty, Kofo Abayomi,
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Wuraola Esan, J.C Vaughan,
H.O. Davis, Adegoke Adelabu,
Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Ladoke Akintola,
Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode, Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, Bode Thomas, Adesoji Aderemi,
Odeleye Fadahunsi, Oduola Osuntokun, Emmanuel
Okunsanya Okunowo, Moses Majekodunmi,
Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola, Benjamin
Oluwakayode Osuntokun, Josiah Olawoyin, S.L. Edu,
Samuel Shonibare, Matthew Abonmagbe-Okupe, Dauda Adegbenro, S.O.Gbadamosi, Adeniran
Ogunsanya, T.O.S Benson, Augustus Meredith Adisa
Akinloye, Adekunle Fajuyi, Samuel Ademulegun, R.A.
Shodeinde, Olusola Saraki, MKO Abiola, Bola Ige,
Micheal Ajasin, Abraham Adesanya, Ganiyu Dawodu,
Adewale Thompson, Solanke Onasanya, Kudirat Abiola, Emmanuel Omotehinwa and dozens of others
that are too numerous to mention. These names shall never be forgotten and those who
bear them should hold their heads up high for theirs is
a noble lineage. Yet many ask what is next for this
great and illustrious nationality and this berthing
nation called the Yoruba? How do we achieve our full
potentials and become that which God has ordained us to be? Can this be done within the confines of the
Nigerian state? Some have argued, quite rightly, that
the way out is to have a Sovereign National
Conference that will renegotiate the terms of our unity
and revisit the very question of our existence as a nation. Yet the
truth is that the forces that control the centre in
Nigeria and that have controlled it since 1914 will
never allow that to happen without a fight. It is their intention and desire to keep us together as
one in a flawed and failed unitary state with it’s
federal facade in perpetuity regardless of the grave
damage that such a venture has wrought upon our
people over the last 99 years. Successive
President’s in the last few decades have offered government-sponsored national conferences none of
which are sovereign and each of which could not
possibly solve our fundamental problems or properly
answer our nationality question. The mantra has always been that the unity of Nigeria
is ‘’not negotiable’’ and our resolutions were
always subject to their approval or the approval of
some unrepresentative and questionable National
Assembly which hardly represented the interests and
views of the numerous nationalities in our country. We have one year to go before we achieve 100 years
of being together as one entity and I believe that it is
time for us to have a rethink and determine how we
want the next 100 years to be. It is time for us to
question all these so-called ‘’settled issues’’,
‘’no-go areas’’, ‘’non-negotiables’’ and ‘’givens’’. We can no longer be satisfied and content with the
failed answers and ideas of a vain and fanciful unity
that exists only in our minds and in our imaginations.
An illusionary unity that our fathers and forefathers
held so dear and even fought a civil war to maintain
and uphold. Given the nature of those that control the centre today and their unholy intentions for the rest of
the country we must revisit that question of unity and
we must ask ourselves ‘’at what price?’’ The world is not static- it is dynamic and it is changing
fast. Kingdoms come and kingdoms go. Empires fall
and empires rise. Nations break and new nations are
formed. The world is changing and the great people
and numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria must
espouse that change, accept it and not be left behind. What was good for yesterday may not be good for
today. And what is good for today may not have been
good for yesterday. That is where we are today- on the threshold of
change. And I believe that the time for that change is
now. It is a new dawn, a new day and a new era. And
I fervently believe that the God of heaven and He who
sits above the circles of the earth is about to do
something new, something refreshing and something very dramatic. Why? Because we are a nation, not a
tribe
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/nation-tribe/

A nation, not a tribe on october 20, 2013 at 2:00 am in news By Femi Fani-Kayode I was born on October 16, 1960 and consequently I
celebrated my 53rd birthday last Wednesday. It was a
quiet low-key affair in which, as is customary with
me, I spent most of the day in fasting, prayer and
sober reflection, surrounded by my loved ones,
thanking the Lord for granting me yet another year of life and for delivering me from the hands of my
numerous detractors and enemies. I also took the time to thank my dear wife and soul
mate, Regina, for standing by me through thick and
thin and for being such a blessing and my darling
children who have had to put up with a father that is
fast becoming one of the most controversial,
misrepresented and misunderstood figures in Nigerian modern history- a title which I neither crave
nor relish. It is because it is my birthday that I decided to share a
few home truths today that will gladden the hearts of
some but that may sadden others. Yet the truth must
be spoken and even if my voice is drowned by the
cacophony of dissent and rancour that sometimes trail
such literary interventions, let it be on record that on this day the seed of truth and liberation was planted
and the idea of a new beginning for a people that I
have come to love more than life itself, my people, the
Yoruba people of south western Nigeria, was berthed.
And for these views, these ideas, these contributions
and these philosophies, as disagreeable as they may be to some, I offer no apology. One of the basic
truisms of nationhood is that we as a people must
appreciate our roots. We cannot despise our roots and
set them aside and expect to flourish. We cannot deny
our family and claim to be a responsible member of
the wider society. Yes we are Nigerians but every Nigerian has a foundation and a root out of which he
sprouted. *Fani-Kayode There is no such thing as a Nigerian who did not come
from somewhere or who did not come out of a
nationality that is a constituent and vital part of the
wider nation. Nigeria is blessed with many proud,
strong, distinct, noble, enlightened and sophisticated
nationalities that make up the whole and each of them brings something or other to the table. From the Fulani to the Hausa, to the Nupe, to the Bini,
to the Ijaw, to the Igbo, to the Kanuri, to the Idoma, to
the Tiv, to the Urhobo, to the Itsekiri, to the Bacahama,
to the Ishan, to the Igbira, to the Igalla, to the Efik, to
the Ibibio, to the Isoko, to the Shuwa arab, to the
Kataf, to the Kwale, to the Jaba, to the Zuru, to the Kilba, to the Kalabari, to the Ikwere, to the Gula, to the
Gwari, to the Margui and so on and so forth, we all
have something to offer and we all have a sense of
self-worth and self-respect which was established
and cultivated many years before Nigeria even came
into existence. None of us must ever forget that beautiful root from whence we came for without it we
become worthless. For Nigeria to be great each, and every one of its
nationalities must first flourish and they must all be in
a position to achieve their full potentials. I am a
Yoruba man and I take immense pride in that. And
contrary to the views of many, the Yoruba, like all the
other wonderful nationalities that reside in the Nigerian space, are not a mere tribe. One of the most unfortunate aspects of not being
properly educated is the fact that those that suffer
from that affliction often accept everything that their
slave and colonial masters and ethnic overlords tell
them and, without thinking, they swallow the fables
and labels hook, line and sinker. When a supposedly educated person insists on labelling a nation of highly
advanced people, who have existed for thousands of
years as a distinct race, who have had their own
empires, who are the most educationally and
culturally advanced on the African continent, who
have a single language with approximately 20 different dialects within them, who have contributed
more to the industrial, commercial and intellectual
growth of Nigeria than any other, who have a rich and
illustrious history and heritage which few in Africa
can match, who number at least 50 million in Nigeria
alone and who constitute the largest number of African people living in the diaspora on earth, whose
people have spread all over the world and have
strong historical, cultural, religious and ethnic roots in
Benin Republic, Ghana, Togo, Haiti, Brazil, Cuba and
many other places, whose people have settled into
and legitimately lay claim to Ilorin, Kaaba, Akoko Edo and other parts of northern and mid-western
Nigeria, whose offspring and progenitor established
many kingdoms including the Bini Kingdom, whose
pantheon of gods and traditional religion of ifa is
respected and practised in many parts of the world,
whose historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contributions to Ancient Egypt are well known and
well documented, whose level of sophistication and
exposure to the knowledge of western education is
second to none and whose sense of liberalism, justice,
decency, hospitality and fairness is not understood,
appreciated or reciprocated by any other ethnic group or nationality in Nigeria and so much more and that
supposedly educated person still insists on calling
such people, despite their sheer numbers and their
homogenous geographical setting, a mere “tribe”,
then you know that that person is truly misguided. You may call others a tribe if you so choose but not
the Yoruba. We number as many people as almost the
whole of the UK or France and far many more than
three quarters of the countries on the European
continent and our history dates back as far as that of
the Celts, the Normans, the Vikings, the Romans, the Greeks, the
Egyptians and the Anglo-Saxons. Our forefathers are
amongst those that went to the best institutions of
higher learning and citadels of excellence in the world like Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Durham
universities as far back as the early 1800s and they
became the first lawyers, doctors, scientists,
intellectuals, poets, writers, journalists, philosophers,
priests and free thinkers on the African continent.
Little wonder that our former colonial masters resolved in their hearts that we must never be
allowed to take power at the centre because they
saw us as their equals as opposed to being their serfs.
We were right at the top whilst others were still living
in villages in the deepest and darkest parts of the
African forest. We forged and built great empires that we nurtured and protected with all that we had. Ours was not a primitive inheritance but a noble and
righteous one that was established by the Living God
and the hard work of our forefathers. And it is the
memory of those great and powerful forefathers that
I invoke today when I ask how far has our noble
heritage taken us in the contraption called Nigeria? How have we fared as a people? For better or for
worse? Our children ask us, ‘’Was it always like
this’’ and who ‘’were’’ the Yoruba? They
no longer ask who ‘’ARE’’ the Yoruba but who
‘’WERE’’ the Yoruba? Sadly that is our plight
today- a people whose children regard them as ‘’once were’’ and no longer ‘’are’’. We are still who and what we once were and it shall
always be so no matter what Nigeria and the world
does to us. We are a nation, not a tribe. And we are a
nation that is craving for recognition and nationhood.
A nation borne out of centuries of sacrifice, hard
work, perseverance and diligence and whose foundation is unsullied, noble and pure. We are a
nation within a nation that is beginning to berth and
that is eagerly waiting to be born. Today we invoke the spirits and rekindle the
memories of our forefathers and we weep for our
people. What do we tell them about how we fared
after they left us and went into eternity? This struggle
belongs to our generation yet the question needs to
be asked- have we lived up to expectation as they did? Have we asked the relevant questions, provided
the appropiate answers and fought the good and
noble fight as they once did? We remember with great
pride, great men and women of Yoruba stock that
have passed on and we reflect on their noble struggle
through the ages. Men and women that stood up when it mattered the
most and made a difference like Samuel Ajayi
Crowther, Sapara Williams, Richard Akinwande-
Savage, Kitoye Ajasa, Cissie Obasa, Eric Moore,
Herbert Macauly, Joseph Egerton-Shyngle, Curtis
Adeniyi-Jones, Adeyemo Alakija, Theophilius Adebayo Doherty, Victor Adedapo Kayode, Akinola
Maja, Joseph Akanni Doherty, Kofo Abayomi,
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Wuraola Esan, J.C Vaughan,
H.O. Davis, Adegoke Adelabu,
Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, Samuel Ladoke Akintola,
Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode, Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, Bode Thomas, Adesoji Aderemi,
Odeleye Fadahunsi, Oduola Osuntokun, Emmanuel
Okunsanya Okunowo, Moses Majekodunmi,
Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola, Benjamin
Oluwakayode Osuntokun, Josiah Olawoyin, S.L. Edu,
Samuel Shonibare, Matthew Abonmagbe-Okupe, Dauda Adegbenro, S.O.Gbadamosi, Adeniran
Ogunsanya, T.O.S Benson, Augustus Meredith Adisa
Akinloye, Adekunle Fajuyi, Samuel Ademulegun, R.A.
Shodeinde, Olusola Saraki, MKO Abiola, Bola Ige,
Micheal Ajasin, Abraham Adesanya, Ganiyu Dawodu,
Adewale Thompson, Solanke Onasanya, Kudirat Abiola, Emmanuel Omotehinwa and dozens of others
that are too numerous to mention. These names shall never be forgotten and those who
bear them should hold their heads up high for theirs is
a noble lineage. Yet many ask what is next for this
great and illustrious nationality and this berthing
nation called the Yoruba? How do we achieve our full
potentials and become that which God has ordained us to be? Can this be done within the confines of the
Nigerian state? Some have argued, quite rightly, that
the way out is to have a Sovereign National
Conference that will renegotiate the terms of our unity
and revisit the very question of our existence as a nation. Yet the
truth is that the forces that control the centre in
Nigeria and that have controlled it since 1914 will
never allow that to happen without a fight. It is their intention and desire to keep us together as
one in a flawed and failed unitary state with it’s
federal facade in perpetuity regardless of the grave
damage that such a venture has wrought upon our
people over the last 99 years. Successive
President’s in the last few decades have offered government-sponsored national conferences none of
which are sovereign and each of which could not
possibly solve our fundamental problems or properly
answer our nationality question. The mantra has always been that the unity of Nigeria
is ‘’not negotiable’’ and our resolutions were
always subject to their approval or the approval of
some unrepresentative and questionable National
Assembly which hardly represented the interests and
views of the numerous nationalities in our country. We have one year to go before we achieve 100 years
of being together as one entity and I believe that it is
time for us to have a rethink and determine how we
want the next 100 years to be. It is time for us to
question all these so-called ‘’settled issues’’,
‘’no-go areas’’, ‘’non-negotiables’’ and ‘’givens’’. We can no longer be satisfied and content with the
failed answers and ideas of a vain and fanciful unity
that exists only in our minds and in our imaginations.
An illusionary unity that our fathers and forefathers
held so dear and even fought a civil war to maintain
and uphold. Given the nature of those that control the centre today and their unholy intentions for the rest of
the country we must revisit that question of unity and
we must ask ourselves ‘’at what price?’’ The world is not static- it is dynamic and it is changing
fast. Kingdoms come and kingdoms go. Empires fall
and empires rise. Nations break and new nations are
formed. The world is changing and the great people
and numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria must
espouse that change, accept it and not be left behind. What was good for yesterday may not be good for
today. And what is good for today may not have been
good for yesterday. That is where we are today- on the threshold of
change. And I believe that the time for that change is
now. It is a new dawn, a new day and a new era. And
I fervently believe that the God of heaven and He who
sits above the circles of the earth is about to do
something new, something refreshing and something very dramatic. Why? Because we are a nation, not a
tribe
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2015 Poll: APC Targets Sanusi, Kwankwaso Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso By Vincent Obia Given the age and disposition of former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, towards the 2015 presidential election, a few of his associates, some northern leaders and young turks in the North have begun searching for a credible alternative to vie for the ticket of the opposition coalition All Progressives Congress in the election. This group of northern leaders and elite have, therefore, as a first step, penciled down those they want to persuade to take up the gauntlet and run against President Goodluck Jonathan in the election. THISDAY on Sunday can reveal today that top on the list of such northerners the group has zeroed in on are Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Sanusi, a blue blood from Kano, is being considered, the newspaper learnt, because of his credentials and experience.
As CBN governor, he introduced far-reaching reforms,
which helped to sanitise the banking sector in the country. His first term expires in June next year and Sanusi had indicated that his task has been accomplished and will not seek re-appointment. Kwankwaso is one of the Group of 7 Peoples Democratic Party governors who broke away from the party to form a splinter group called New PDP. The court has, however, stopped the factional group. The Kano State governor, THISDAY learnt, won the admiration of the group because he had demonstrated political sagacity and ability to deliver to the people of the state. “Kwankwaso is not a core-PDP man and he is not pro-Jonathan,” one Northern leader aware of the new political calculation said last night.
When contacted, Sanusi confirmed to THISDAY that some leaders had spoken to him in the past (in 2011) and at present to run for the presidency, but that he had given them the same answer that he was not a politician. “I have no preparation and experience in politics. What I have education, competence and professional experience in is what I am involved in at present,” he told THISDAY. He described himself as a banker and risk manager, stating that when he was made CBN governor in 2009, he used that experience to sanitise the banking system. He pleaded that he should not be dragged into politics. The Kano State governor could not be reached last night to react to the new development but one of his aides who spoke with THISDAY said he would not rule
that out, but added that whether Kwankwaso would run on APC or PDP platform is premature at present. “The governor will do what the people of the North and Kano State want,” he said. The aide who pleaded for anonymity, however, expressed surprise as to why PDP would be accusing Kwankwaso of not sufficiently supporting President Jonathan in the 2011 election. “Kano has reputation as a bastion of progressives politics, of the NEPU genre. But Kano gave President Jonathan 16 percent in the 2011 poll, higher than what former presidents Shehu Shagari and Olusegun Obasanjo got during their time. President Jonathan even got more votes in Kano than former governor of
the state, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau,” he said.
He said Kwankwaso lost in 2003 essentially because the people of the state thought he was supporting former President Obasanjo.www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2015-poll-apc-targets-sanusi-kwankwaso/162158/

Scrambling for food amidst
plenty .
THERE is so much blood in the land that one
wonders whether life meant anything to us
anymore. Avoidable deaths occur with such
frequency that one seems to have lost count of the
occurrences and it was no different during the just
concluded Muslim festival. Opening the papers on Thursday, one was greeted, not by the atrocities
expected from the Boko Haram terrorists, but by
the news that about 10 people were feared dead in
Ilorin the Kwara State capital, while scores were
reportedly injured the previous night, that is
Wednesday 16th October, following a stampede near the residence of a former Governor of the
state, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
As at the time of this writing, the death toll had
risen to about 20 with the victims being
predominantly women three of whom were
pregnant and have been confirmed dead. The incident occurred when some members of the
Peoples Democratic Party in the state and some
other hangers-on were receiving yearly Sallah gifts
from the Sarakis and other philanthropists at the
venue popularly called PDP Charity House. Similar
incidents happened in 2010 and 2011 at the Mandate House, which serves as one of the
campaign offices of PDP where scores of people
lost their lives in similar circumstances. One of the
victims, who was simply referred to as Alhaja and
who resided at Ile Onibon, Ilorin, was close to 64
years of age. One may wonder what such an old woman would want scampering for gifts rather
than spending time with her children and family
during the Sallah celebrations, or why others keep
going back despite the fact that scores of people
have lost their lives in similar circumstances twice,
in the past. Trust Nigerians, some commentators have
attributed the gift sharing and the attendant deaths
to occultism. Hear them, “That is what they do
always: impoverish the people, form a dynasty, call
the impoverished people out in the guise of sharing
them food and suck their blood to re-invigorate their voodoo, upon which their powers lie.”
Even if some political stakeholders did not say so in
so many words, they at least imply it in their
comments. For instance, the governorship aspirant
of the Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulhakeem Amao
while calling on all residents in the state to pray for Kwara State said, “We in Labour Party are very
sad and feel bad about the whole thing. This thing
occurs too often and there may be a lot behind it…It
is becoming too regular.”
A leader of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji
Bashiru Bolarinwa also said, “What is important is for our people to learn from what has been
happening and to take precautions. If something
had happened in the past and this is the third time it
is happening, I think that is enough to teach the
people a lesson,” he said.
I would want to take it beyond such simplistic approach and view it in a more holistic way. What
happened in Ilorin and which happens almost
anywhere where there appears to be free lunch is
a result of the pervading poverty in the land,
nothing more. Why for instance, would a 64-year-
old grandmother leave the comfort of her home and the joie de vivre to be derived in the company
of her children and grandchildren for a morsel of
bread? Why would pregnant women who probably
have other children at home endanger their lives
for crumbs from the slave master’s table? Truly,
people claim that politicians engage in all sorts of voodoo to retain their power, fame and money; and
it is also true that these so-called leaders do not
really care about the welfare of the people. But the
crux of the matter is that these people – the masses
- live in abject poverty and would do whatever they
could to get a piece of the cake, even if it is only the crumbs.
One of the comments I read goes thus, “This has
been happening for too long, I have witnessed this
on my way from school in the late 70s…” That is
the truth. I remember a flight I took to Ilorin in the
70s. I happened to be on the same flight with late Dr. Olusola Saraki, father of the former governor,
himself an accomplished politician. The Ilorin airport
tarmac was flooded with ordinary people who had
come to welcome him, not because they loved him,
but because of the largesse, they knew he was
going to bestow on them. The question that crossed my mind then, was,
“why is so much wealth held by a few while the
majority wallow in poverty?” that question is still
very relevant today, some four decades after my
first experience of how some families exploit their
fellow citizens and give them pittance out of what they have illicitly acquired. It is a pity, that despite
poverty alleviation programmes the nation is still
ranked 153 out of 186 countries in the 2013 United
Nations Human Development Index. Any wonder
people risk being trampled to death for just N50 or
is it N500? And to think we are so naturally blessed!

SEARCH Open heart surgery patients
hale and hearty - UCH CMD Written by Sunday, 20 October 2013 00:19 font size Print Email 1 comment раскрутка сайтов Patients of the open heart surgery carried out last
month at the University College Hospital (UCH),
Ibadan, are hale and hearty, just as the Chief
Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Temitope
Alonge, has reassured Nigerians that the cardiac
programme of the hospital would provide succour to Nigerians with various cardiac conditions. Professor Alonge asserted that UCH was the first
tertiary health care (public hospital) to have cardiac
catherterisation services, and added that “prior to
the commencement of the full cardiac programme
in UCH, various cadres of health care professionals
had been trained outside the country. A visit to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the
North West 1 ward of the Hospital by Sunday
Tribune, where the patients were recuperating,
confirmed that in few days, they would be
discharged from the hospital. The CMD stated that “full cardiac programme
kicked off at UCH in June with cardiac
catheterization of eight adult patients who suffered
coronary heart diseases and cardiomyopathies,”
he pointed out. “In October 2013 (last week), two open heart
surgeries, Miral Valve Replacement, were carried
out in a 19-year-old boy and closure of a large atrial
septal defect (2.2cm in diameter) in a 10-year old
girl. “All the procedures were successful and the
patients are doing very well,” he said. The Open heart surgery had been performed at the
UNTH, Enugu, in 1975 and UCH in 1978 while in 2006,
a medical mission from the USA performed some
open heart surgeries in collaboration with UCH.
tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/24350-open-heart-surgery-patients-hale-and-hearty-uch-cmd.html

The Ekiti State government has said it has attracted $300m investments in the agriculture sector in the last three years. A statement on Thursday said the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this while speaking at the 2013 World Food Day held in Ado Ekiti. According to the statement, the Governor added that the investments were from reputable indigenous and international agricultural institutions, including an agricultural company, which had partnered with the state government for the establishment of 2000 hectares of mechanised rice, soybean and cassava production. He said Dutch Agricultural Development and Trading Company was also working on the establishment of high quality cassava flour processing factory, while Vegefresh had taken over the moribund Orin cassava
processing plant and has successfully upgraded the capacity of the plant from 10 tonnes to 60 tonnes per day production. Fayemi, who said the state government had inaugurated a credit facility worth N80m as well as tractors worth N100, explained that the tractors were
targeted at farmers whose operations would impact the agriculture sector. The Governor, acknowledged the support of multilateral institutions including the World Bank, African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, Department for International Development and Food and Agriculture Organisation for the various drives in the sector. He said a Youth Commercial Agriculture Development programme, created to boost agriculture in the state had empowered 250 youths to cultivate 1900 hectares of cassava, 53,000 cocoa seedlings, 109,560 oil palm seedlings, 60,000 fingerlings, 6,230 kg of fish and 60,000 broilers. “The ongoing construction of broiler processing facility at Erifun in Ado Ekiti which is first of its kind in the State will not only strengthen livestock value chain but also enhance the availability of hygienic and fresh chicken for the consumption of the citizenry,” he said.
www.punchng.com/news/ekiti-attracts-300m-investment-in-agriculture-2/

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Ormania: 9ja are your readyyyyy...gbam! gbam! 5-0

Shey dis one craze for head ni?

Go, Eaglets Go.

Thumbs up to supersports

solowork: I’m quite confident that the eagles will lose the match against their Ethiopian counterparts on the 13th. You ask why? Well because lately Nigerian’s have been pre-occupied with proclamations of a sure victory over the Walia antelopes. Some say if you “put it out in the universe” that you want something you will get it. I’m superstitious like that sometimes, but I don’t think we’re getting positive results from the universe this time, because we’ve been badgering it a tad much. I think the universe is fed up at this point and is going to tell us to go Bleep ourselves with a shameful loss. In the past weeks there have been a deluge of posts on Nairaland about this game. Enough already!

What is dis one saying

Edo state ko, Borno state ni.

Yes of course

Foolish pple, holding prayer sessions to avert plane crash and terrorism without implementing laws that will avert dem. Smh.

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