₦airaland Forum

tpia@:
ethnicity is much more than wearing clothes.

Eko Ile:
This is really absurd, so the fact that he was born in Edo = Dele Giwa was not Yoruba?

What's place of birth got to do with your life existence? The man called himself a Yoruba man all his life.

The man lived his life as a Yoruba man

ekt_bear:
@PhysicsMHD: For me, Yoruba isn't a race, like most people's conception of white, black, asian.

It is an ethnic group. . . a group of people who share a culture. Sort of like how American identity isn't really racial/tribal/etc, but more shared culture and values.

People are free to enter and leave ethnic/cultural groups, in my opinion.

You don't have to be from one of those sub-groups to be Yoruba. Certainly, at least a few of these Saro returnees didn't know much about those sub-groups.

ekt_bear:
^-- The pictures of the camels that this same tourist took look fine though: http://www.caboose.org.uk/b/archives/2005/09/12/revisiting-sokoto/

This from their website:http://www.sokotostate.gov.ng/investement.html

I don't think those cow pictures are likely to be representative. Otherwise, hard to make sense of that and being #2 in livestock production.

ekt_bear:
Hmm

How do you define "Yoruba", fstranger?

And you, PhysicsMHD?

Similarly, how do you define "American"?

EzeUche__:
Something doesn't sound right about Sokoto.

https://www.caboose.org.uk/media/Nigeria/Sokoto/Sep05/CowsAtMarket_w.jpg

Cattle is worth that much?

zstranger:
You dont get it, do you?

He worked all his life with Yoruba people. He was made in the SW. He became a man in the SW. After his death, where were his people? We stood by him when he was alive, we fought for him in death, and when he was no more, the Yorubas took great care of his family. We will never forget him.

Anyway, that article did not add anything of value to your point.

zstranger:
You cant choose where you are born, but who you are and the people you choose to associate with are strictly within the confines of an individual's free-will.

Dele Giwa is Yoruba, culturally, educationally, mentally, and psychologically. Its like saying Dele Momodu is Edo, really?

theangel:
[size=20pt]CHAI WE DON SUFFER FOR THIS COUNTRY

IMAGINE PERSON WEY DEY SEND TO GO TEACH CHILDREN

THIS GUY NA DISGRACE
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Orton1_0:
@OP . . .

Why you dey stress yaself over someone else's headache? abi na You push am?
abeg leave am make the Aboki man chop him head commot. of his type!!.

After Spending 4-good years in the university, the punny He got there wasn't enough for
him, His own service to the nation is to abuse. spoil and impregnate a little child.

And his silly Mother couldn't hand him over to the Police?
. . .I bet he would get married and have kids of his own one day?
"little Angel" too may experience the same thing. SMH

sbeezy8:
This is what I dont get what does buhari concern him? Stick to the things youve been calling for federalism, resource control, regional govt etc.

GEJ being president has blinded these guys.

Trust before you know it GEJ will no longer be president and Niger delta still wont have federalism.

He should be asking Southerners to leave the north and develop their own region, obviously Nigeria is not one. That has nothing to do with Buhari, it has been going on before buhari!

Rossikk:
These things are not durable. That seems to be the problem, and why they're not more popular. I hear they have 15 - 25 year life span in most cases.

The NNPC, according to the U.S. strategic consultancy Stratfor, "is widely regarded as a corrupt and ineffective organization that enables a broad patronage network" that's closely linked to the country's volatile politics "with decisive power vested in the president.

"Competition for ever-greater allocations of oil revenue has created an artificial reliance on the central government, with the NNPC serving as the chief enabler.

"Hence, any attempt to restructure the NNPC will affect the country to its core, impacting entrenched political power bases as well as average Nigerians."

The PIB, considered the most ambitious attempt yet to reform Nigeria's oil industry, is intended to create a comprehensive legal framework for the oil and gas industry. Through it, the government seeks to attain several important objectives, primarily increasing state revenues by increasing taxes on international companies, freeing the NNPC from dependence on federal funding, deregulating the downstream sector and developing gas production.

"At the core of the rot in the oil industry is the NNPC, the state oil company, which has become a byword for corruption and inertia," Goldman observed in January analysis in the Financial Times.

"Oil production has been stagnant … for a decade; vast reserves of natural gas are for the most part either wasted or unexploited."

Goldman said Nigeria's "toxic political culture dominated by vested interests" was snarling the PIB.

johnie:
Do you know that the official title of Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia is:

“His Excellency the President Sheik Professor Alhaji Doctor Yahya Jammeh.”?

Do you also know that he is currenty working on adding "king" to the title?

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Butty-Gambia-Jammeh-Seeks-New-Title-Darbo-09november10-106938983.html

Kc3000:
Yeah, I've noticed this attitude coming from SOME Ethiopians and Somalis, its laughable to me. Even in college, the Ethiopians broke away from the African Students Association (ASA) to form the ESA. Personally, I remind them that just because they came to America on refugee status, does not mean that they can mouth off to me, and I close by reminding them that we fed them and sent them aid throughout the 90's when they were starving. That usually does the trick.