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AntiChristian:
Isese day?

Wetin be all these sef?

Abeg, i get work tomorrow jawe!

Chegesnd:
Kwara State nkó?
Forty characters are needed here immediately.

Omoawoke:
A good one

The truth remains that Africa is gone and gone.

In 2025, even the Yorubas don’t even know what Isese means… to them, it is evil and Jesus Mohammed is their lord and savior.
Talk of a lost race!
Chai

But it’s pathetic that with all the resources available to do simple research, or just use a little particle of atom of brain left in their head, they can’t… how will a people worship something that was used to enslave and colonize you… worst of all, the colonizers no longer follow this path.
If you have white friends, or white colleagues… you will realize they don’t even carry Jesus. They rarely or don’t even go to church. They don’t even have Bible

But a full grown adult in Nigeria will be singing and be saying the god of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac they will serve. What of the God of your ancestors?
God of people that don’t bear your names

Lastly, why Africans no to get sense like that… especially this generation of pastor jerrry followers and co… the word “Ancestor” automatically means evil to them.. like just tell them, your ancestors be blessed, they will say God forbid, wetin be ancestors!!! Like for real man!! These people are krazzzzy… and they want to have children and great grandchildren… and descendants, not knowing that they are the ancestors of their own future descendants…

And lastly for the last time

See the Queen Elizabeth whey bring Christianity come meet you, watch a video of Queen Elizabeth undergoing her ancestral initiation… same people whey carry missionaries give you oo, they are practicing their own. Even when she died, they did their traditional rites for the queen….

See below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUtGN2rdyw&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD

Hemanwel:
Kwara State is not a Your.uba land. Roger??

Arostar2023:
Why worship idols and perpetuate backward religions(cultures) that have kept Africa in darkness for centuries? Your revered idols could not save Africa from the transatlantic slave trade. Could not save Africa from invasion by Europeans. Those gods are not worthy to be worshipped. When we cling to Christianity, it get why.

Steep:
Did your ancestors use phones, internet? Why are you using it? Look at the way you are hyperventing for what you are guilty of? Did your ancestors speak English? Did they write in English? Practice what you preach hypocrite.

Arostar2023:
Why worship idols and perpetuate backward religions(cultures) that have kept Africa in darkness for centuries? Your revered idols could not save Africa from the transatlantic slave trade. Could not save Africa from invasion by Europeans. Those gods are not worthy to be worshipped. When we cling to Christianity, it get why.

Omoawoke:
Normally I ignore single digit IQ people

But let me make this an exception

It’s weird that some people still think development automatically means Abrahmic religions. Yet the most technologically advanced countries today like Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore are not Christian nations nor Islam.

Japan leads the world in robotics while still honouring Shinto shrines and ancestral spirits. China became a global superpower while practising Taoism, Confucianism and ancestor veneration. South Korea gives the world Samsung, Hyundai and LG and still celebrates Chuseok, bowing to their ancestors every year. Not one of these countries abandoned their roots in favour of a foreign god before achieving greatness.

So why do Africans believe kneeling to the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (foreign ancestors) is what makes them “civilised”?

What exactly is foolish here? A Lagos State public holiday for Isese is not idol worship. It is restoration of identity. You don’t need to hate Jesus or Mohammed to love your own ancestors. But if your first reaction to anything African is to scream “demonic”, then you have simply proven that mental colonisation worked, your body is free, but your mind is still in chains.

How many Chinese have you seen bearing Mohammad, Ibrahim, Michael, Gabriel??
Just you confused black Africans, that take pride in bearing Arabic and Jewish names

Arostar2023:
Culture evolves... Europeans before now were savages and worship "things". But they have evolved since then... Japan and co wouldn't have made this far if they had founded their society on endemic cultures that are retrogetive. I don't need any idolatrous practices or culture to know and identify with my ancestors and root. Christianity have principles that apply universally. Anyone in India or Japan that subscribe to those principles prospers. But they may not have eternal life, unless they have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.

Omoawoke:
You want to force Christianity on Japan and the rest?
When have they accepted your Jesus ?

Don’t force them please, they don’t want to end up like Nigeria where you people go to church every day and cause noise pollution… then fight and kill each other over Islam and Christianity.

Japan is one of the most disciplined counties in the world and they live based on ancient Japanese principles passed down from thousands of years to this generation.
Please stop exposing your ignorance if you don’t know ow Japan is built.

Go and read about Japanese principles please and learn.

Yorubas my own ancestors had our own principle too.. and isese is a reminder of those principles.
If our society were built on Yoruba principles, we would be among the world powers today.

Go and read please… you have 2025 tech and resources, don’t be ignorant

Omoawoke:
You want to force Christianity on Japan and the rest?
When have they accepted your Jesus ?

Don’t force them please, they don’t want to end up like Nigeria where you people go to church every day and cause noise pollution… then fight and kill each other over Islam and Christianity.

Japan is one of the most disciplined counties in the world and they live based on ancient Japanese principles passed down from thousands of years to this generation.
Please stop exposing your ignorance if you don’t know ow Japan is built.

Go and read about Japanese principles please and learn.

Yorubas my own ancestors had our own principle too.. and isese is a reminder of those principles.
If our society were built on Yoruba principles, we would be among the world powers today.

Go and read please… you have 2025 tech and resources, don’t be ignorant

Arostar2023:
Oga calm down! I never said Japan as a nation accepted Jesus Christ. What I said in effect is that some people practice biblical principles inadvertently. And it works universally...
Up to 2025, some African tribes eat the heart of their dead kings , believe in burying the dead with fresh human skulls and bloody money rituals. Those are the things you want us to practice abi?

oluwaseyi0:
Waiting for Ekiti, Osun and Kwara and by extension the whole of Nigeria unless states that will claim they have no traditions nor cultures

Is04970:
JESUS IS LORD
JESUS IS LORD
JESUS IS LORD
JESUS IS LORD

Mynd44:
Following this year’s Isese Day celebrations on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, the Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun state governments have declared the day as work-free for public servants.

The Lagos State government made the announcement through a circular issued by the state’s Head of Service, Bode Agoro, and addressed to top government officials, including the Deputy Governor, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Chief Judge, commissioners, chairmen of local councils, Local Council Development Areas, permanent secretaries, and heads of state agencies, among others.

According to the circular, the declaration was part of Sanwo-Olu’s reaffirmed commitment to promoting indigenous culture, tradition, and heritage while strengthening support for traditional institutions across the state.

Also, declaring the day a public holiday, the Oyo State government, through the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Olanike Adeyemo, in a circular dated August 18, 2025, indicated that the governor approved the work-free day to mark the Isese Day Celebration.

It would be recalled that August 20 was formally declared a public holiday in 2023, following a motion passed by the Ogun State House of Assembly and the concurrent approval of Governor Dapo Abiodun.

The day is set aside to celebrate Yoruba religion and traditions. In a statement, the state government said the introduction of Isese Day as a public holiday reflects Abiodun’s recognition of the vital role that Yoruba heritage and practices play in the state’s identity and cultural landscape.


https://guardian.ng/features/culture/isese-day-lagos-oyo-ogun-declare-public-holiday/

Omoawoke:
A good one

The truth remains that Africa is gone and gone.

In 2025, even the Yorubas don’t even know what Isese means… to them, it is evil and Jesus Mohammed is their lord and savior.
Talk of a lost race!
Chai

But it’s pathetic that with all the resources available to do simple research, or just use a little particle of atom of brain left in their head, they can’t… how will a people worship something that was used to enslave and colonize you… worst of all, the colonizers no longer follow this path.
If you have white friends, or white colleagues… you will realize they don’t even carry Jesus. They rarely or don’t even go to church. They don’t even have Bible

But a full grown adult in Nigeria will be singing and be saying the god of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac they will serve. What of the God of your ancestors?
God of people that don’t bear your names

Lastly, why Africans no to get sense like that… especially this generation of pastor jerrry followers and co… the word “Ancestor” automatically means evil to them.. like just tell them, your ancestors be blessed, they will say God forbid, wetin be ancestors!!! Like for real man!! These people are krazzzzy… and they want to have children and great grandchildren… and descendants, not knowing that they are the ancestors of their own future descendants…

And lastly for the last time

See the Queen Elizabeth whey bring Christianity come meet you, watch a video of Queen Elizabeth undergoing her ancestral initiation… same people whey carry missionaries give you oo, they are practicing their own. Even when she died, they did their traditional rites for the queen….

See below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUtGN2rdyw&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD

AareGaa:
This does not concern South East region.

Your own holiday is every Monday of the week.

oyatz:
It is a Public Holiday for African Traditional Religion called Isese in Yoruba language.

GIFTEDPLANNERS:
Politics of culture that they that declare don't even know what the culture is about. Declare water for all, light for all, solar street light for all, etc they won't

Arostar2023:
Culture evolves... Europeans before now were savages and worship "things". But they have evolved since then... Japan and co wouldn't have made this far if they had founded their society on endemic cultures that are retrogetive. I don't need any idolatrous practices or culture to know and identify with my ancestors and root. Christianity have principles that apply universally. Anyone in India or Japan that subscribe to those principles prospers. But they may not have eternal life, unless they have accepted Jesus Christ as their savior.

dederocs:
Christianity was created by Romans, same people that executed Jesus, Constantinople...

In our culture, we pray for good yields, pray for offsprings, teach good morals, if your heritage is filled with beasts and savages, you are on your own. The Egyptians built the pyramids and the first mechanical civilisation and Empire, ruled the world at a point, Egyptians were black and brown, they did this practising their own religion, the Benin Kingdom ruled West Africa practising it's own cultural and spiritual ways, how we pray, communicate with the elements and supreme being and our rituals, were ours, original and it worked for the kingdom's good, Timbuktu empire was built by Africans, all these thousands of years ago.

The rise of the Europeans began with the Germanic tribes who ruled Great Britain and the UK, later the Vikings who are Northern Europeans (Scandinavians), began to build power too, all are Europeans, all these nations began ruling the world, just about 850 years ago in total, but Africans, blacks have been ruling kingdoms and empires, as far back as 5000 years ago(Egyptian civilisation), while the Benin Kingdom of Nigeria and Timbuktu Kingdom of Mali started way back, about 1300 years ago.

The Chinese built their strong nation practising Buddhism, Nigerians like you who are zombies, enslaving themselves via a doctored religion, packaged to make them meek and obidient slaves are going round in circles.

With all our practice of borrowed cultures as religion, where is Nigeria now?

Are Nigerians righteous or living right?

We still manage to churn out the most corrupt political class in the world, while other nations that focus on their own cultural spirituality India, China are progressing.

Emancipate your mind from mental slavery.

N.B: You talk about idolatry...what will you call people praying in front of statutes and symbols in our religious churches and centres today?

What will you call handkerchief worship?

What will you call the worship of money?

Idolatry!

Arostar2023:
I am by no means saying that all African cultures are evil or regressive. Like most human-formed cultures, we have the good, the bad, and the ugly. We Africans should abandon the harmful aspects and embrace the values and practices that have built and sustained civilizations.

No man is an island. The so-called traditions and cultures of our ancestors were started and shaped by individuals.

Let me share a quote from the novel Arrow of God:

'And we have all heard how the people of Aninta dealt with their deity when he failed them. Did they not carry him to the boundary between them and their neighbours and set fire on him?' (Arrow of God, p.28)
If what we have currently is not working, we should change it and adopt working ones. That's how intelligent people live. Period.

Yes, we’ve heard of the Benin, Mali, and Egyptian empires—great civilizations and all that. But the question you need to ask is: what happened to them? Why did they decline so rapidly and never rise again?

dederocs:
Do you know how long a thousand years is?

Portuguese was once a power too but faded to the background, the UK is already fading to the background, as time goes on things changes, power changes hands. In the next 100 years the power dynamics of the world will change drastically... don't forget the Europeans are smart enough to form NATO, build nuclear weapons, and keep oppressing Africa and others for resources and advantage... forcing the dollar on our necks as the benchmark on international trade, sanctioning nations and even going to war if their interest is threatened, but despite all these with time power dynamics will change...it has been changing, from Egyptians to Ottomans to Romans to Greece to the British. 1000 years is a long time in history.

Arostar2023:
My point is that righteousness exalts a people, and sin is a reproach to any nation. Any group that practices devilish or unjust traditions will eventually face extinction. If the UK and others persist in fostering moral decadence—a deviation from the values that once established them—they will inevitably decline.

People who practice Christian values, whether knowingly or unknowingly, tend to endure. Africans should abandon false gods and embrace the God who sets free. Mind you, not everyone who calls themselves a Christian truly embodies or lives by Christian values

dederocs:
It is their technology and weapons that makes them endure, though there is power and mysticism in the religion, it is a weapon for Europeans...don't forget the secret rites of the masonry, jesuits, they do rituals and offer sacrifices too, this is common knowledge...all these are European and Jewish controlled, they can't let you into their deepest secrets. Of course there is a energy the religion carries no doubt, but my point is do not condemn our African spirituality, it endured us to become great thousands of years ago.

Arostar2023:
African traditional religion didn't sustain anyone...they couldn't stop the invasion by Whites. The Catholic church went into the so called sacred and evil forests, and built their churches. And the natives were waiting for them to fall and die suddenly. And guess what? Nothing happened to them. The God that rules the whole universe will be my God not one tribal dirty god somewhere. I am against any practices or culture that venerate them. We don't need those...

dederocs:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery... Jesus was black.