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Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Ofunaofu: 6:49am On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
The British gave room for secession, other opportunities arose to separate. The Northern political elite once stood against a one Nigeria. Even Awolowo, the Yoruba political elite was determined to not to be part of a one Nigeria.

The person wey God no go forgive sabi himself.
With a Yoruba president in office today, what is stopping him, the current Yoruba elites, and coupled with the ongoing Yoruba Nation agitators from pushing for secession from Nigeria?

Let’s not forget,Tinubu himself once said he doesn’t believe in 'One Nigeria.' So, what exactly is holding him back now?

Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Gerhards: 6:50am On Sep 14, 2025
sreamsense:
You should have given or sold those your information to Obi and his lawyers when he needed it most, but sadly; you allowed south west to use their sopstication in knowledge to thrash obi best lawyers. Nzogbu, nzogbu approach doesn't solve issue like this, humble yourself and accept them as your boss and leader of the south. Sell your information to Obi against 2027 so that his lawyers can make use of it
You have not answered my question, why did Tinubu forfeited over 460 million dollars to the united states in 1990? There's nothing like sophisticated knowledge with your charge and bailed lawyers, do you want us to talk about our judges who are there for the highest bidder? The joke is on you 🤣
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Softmirror: 6:52am On Sep 14, 2025
Ofunaofu:
With a Yoruba president in office today, what is stopping him, the current Yoruba elites, and coupled with the ongoing Yoruba Nation agitators from pushing for secession from Nigeria?

Let’s not forget,Tinubu himself once said he doesn’t believe in 'One Nigeria.' So, what exactly is holding him back now?
Nothing is holding him. Except his respect for the foundation laid by Azikiwe, Ironsi.... 😁

The truth is, he is doing that already, systematical from Lagos State but you have been crying. 😁
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Gerhards: 6:53am On Sep 14, 2025
seunmsg:
Tell the lawmakers from your region to present a bill to the National Assembly to get legal backing for your referendum and eventual secession.
You mean your selected rubber stamp lawmakers or another one? I feel irritated when I see a unity beggars here
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Ofunaofu: 7:08am On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
Nothing is holding him. Except his respect for the foundation laid by Azikiwe, Ironsi.... 😁

The truth is, he is doing that already, systematical from Lagos State but you have been crying. 😁
so let me get this straight, softmirror. Tinubu, the same man who once loudly questioned the idea of “One Nigeria” when it suited his political ambition, is now suddenly being held back by "respect" for Azikiwe and Ironsi? That’s a reach even for a loyal tribálist like you. 😂

Listen, what’s really holding him back is power.
Tinubu didn't fight, grab, snatch his way to Aso Rock to break the same system that gave him the presidency. Secession is no longer profitable to him, he is now the system.

As for this imaginary “systematic secession from Lagos,” that’s just typical delusion. Lagos is still feeding the federal structure, still bound by the constitution, and still a part of Nigeria. Or are you now calling marginal infrastructural upgrades “secession”?

You can't scream One Nigeria when it benefits your own, and then gaslight others when they demand equity or self-determination. If Tinubu really believed in Yoruba Nation, he’d act but he doesn’t. Today, He believes in Tinubu Nation. You softmirror, other Agbadoos are not part of it. Big difference.
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Softmirror: 7:11am On Sep 14, 2025
Ofunaofu:
so let me get this straight, softmirror. Tinubu, the same man who once loudly questioned the idea of “One Nigeria” when it suited his political ambition, is now suddenly being held back by "respect" for Azikiwe and Ironsi? That’s a reach even for a loyal tribálist like you. 😂

Listen, what’s really holding him back is power.
Tinubu didn't fight, grab, snatch his way to Aso Rock to break the same system that gave him the presidency. Secession is no longer profitable to him, he is now the system.

As for this imaginary “systematic secession from Lagos,” that’s just typical delusion. Lagos is still feeding the federal structure, still bound by the constitution, and still a part of Nigeria. Or are you now calling marginal infrastructural upgrades “secession”?

You can't scream One Nigeria when it benefits your own, and then gaslight others when they demand equity or self-determination. If Tinubu really believed in Yoruba Nation, he’d act but he doesn’t. Today, He believes in Tinubu Nation. You softmirror, other Agbadoos are not part of it. Big difference.
He is already doing it in Lagos and you have been crying. A litmus test. 😁
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Ofunaofu: 9:03am On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
He is already doing it in Lagos and you have been crying. A litmus test. 😁
Doing what exactly
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Brenbentondiaz: 9:04am On Sep 14, 2025
Skeyskey:
What do you do for a living?
He tortures you deveropers for a living. And the way he regularly triggers you lot, he's really successful at that career.
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Brenbentondiaz: 9:04am On Sep 14, 2025
ibechris:
The western Yorubas holds the position of the richest but the wealthiest are the igbo tribe.
Any lie to reduce your agony is OK.
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ZombieDredd: 10:32am On Sep 14, 2025
LegendHero:
The irony here is that you are from the ethnik with the most drug trafficking arrest from a single entity in world history.

Everything in that text in 1960 still hold true today.
What about sexual offenders in the UK, from what tribe?

What about schol miners? and ritual killers?

What manner of sophistication is that?

What about the ebimpawaa cryers? Are they also sophisticated?
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ZombieDredd: 10:34am On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
He is already doing it in Lagos and you have been crying. A litmus test. 😁
Lagos is no mans land......Bwala and FG.

Argue with your yard people
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by MichaelSokoto(m): 10:40am On Sep 14, 2025
sophistication carry bag of rice go #100k, fuel #1k, dollar #1600

who sufferstication epp?
angry
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Softmirror: 10:51am On Sep 14, 2025
ZombieDredd:
Lagos is no mans land......Bwala and FG.

Argue with your yard people
Argue ke. I can only quote Bwala own words back to you.

“Don’t misinterpret what I said in my interview this morning. Culturally, historically, and constitutionally, Lagos belongs to the Yoruba people, and that has never been in contention.”

“The unique identity of Lagos as a Yoruba homeland is settled and beyond dispute. What I emphasised was the special place Lagos occupies in Nigeria and indeed West Africa — a city that, much like New York, Paris, or London, serves as the commercial nerve centre of our economy.”

Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ibechris(m): 11:01am On Sep 14, 2025
Brenbentondiaz:
Any lie to reduce your agony is OK.
To shock u further,igbos are the richest tribe in Africa.

I just hope u will sleep well?
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by yungpowers(m): 11:08am On Sep 14, 2025
MasterJayJay:
Time magazine should visit Nigeria again. Currently, the only stadium in Nigeria approved by FIFA for football matches is not in any of the region of those 3 tribes.
Akwaibom is in the east geographically, what we call south-south is a geopolitical zone
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Amumaigwe: 11:10am On Sep 14, 2025
LegendHero:
In 1960, when Nigeria won its independence, it became at birth the world's most populous black state and Africa's biggest question mark.

Held together in uneasy federation, the country numbered some 250 tribes and languages, three principal religions (Moslem. Christian, animist), and three big, traditionally hostile regions:

—the feudal, Moslem North, which claims half the entire population of Nigeria;

—the East, dominated by the astute, industrious Ibo tribes; and

—the West, richest and most advanced of all three, whose Yoruba tribesmen are Nigeria's most sophisticated citizens.


As big as Texas and Oklahoma combined, with some 45 million inhabitants-give or take 10 million-Nigeria seemed less a nation than a concatenation, a haphazard creation of British colonists who ruled it for 60 years and dubbed it the "white man's grave."
Sophistication in what sense? Unless the sophisticated Yoruba generation of old produced this current largely clueless generation
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ZombieDredd: 11:35am On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
Argue ke. I can only quote Bwala own words back to you.

“Don’t misinterpret what I said in my interview this morning. Culturally, historically, and constitutionally, Lagos belongs to the Yoruba people, and that has never been in contention.”

“The unique identity of Lagos as a Yoruba homeland is settled and beyond dispute. What I emphasised was the special place Lagos occupies in Nigeria and indeed West Africa — a city that, much like New York, Paris, or London, serves as the commercial nerve centre of our economy.”
You go explain taya.

It is still no mans land....FG and Bwala
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by EvilMerodack(m): 12:16pm On Sep 14, 2025
ibechris:
The western Yorubas holds the position of the richest but the wealthiest are the igbo tribe.
No be you dey claim say you dey spend 1billion per month? Which school you go sef?

Just drop links to any verifiable data and let's see for ourselves. We don't dwell on hearsay in the SW
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by EvilMerodack(m): 12:18pm On Sep 14, 2025
ibechris:
How many rich men in Saudi Arabia,Dubai,Oman,Qatar and Egypt are topping the Forbe's list yet they are the richest in the world by wealth distribution.

Go and read more about wealth distribution I no dey like argue with blind people.
Drop link,bro.

So, according to you, Saudi and Egypt have more wealthy men than the USA 😂
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ibechris(m): 12:21pm On Sep 14, 2025
EvilMerodack:
No be you dey claim say you dey spend 1billion per month? Which school you go sef?

Just drop links to any verifiable data and let's see for ourselves. We don't dwell on hearsay in the SW
Face the topic and don't derail it.

I am financially comfortable and I still stand by it.

May ur insecurity not kill u.
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by ibechris(m): 12:26pm On Sep 14, 2025
EvilMerodack:
Drop link,bro.

So, according to you, Saudi and Egypt have more wealthy men than the USA 😂
If common sense is common to u,u will know the difference between wealth distribution and individual wealth.
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by kabillion(m): 1:06pm On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
The British gave room for secession, other opportunities arose to separate. The Northern political elite once stood against a one Nigeria. Even Awolowo, the Yoruba political elite was determined to not to be part of a one Nigeria.

The person wey God no go forgive sabi himself.

Azikiwe. Say it boldly
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Wahabfuture: 1:31pm On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
He is already doing it in Lagos and you have been crying. A litmus test. 😁
What is he doing in Lagos that other past governor’s has not done? You must be in your late 20’s, you are being scammed by the Escobar aka bobo Chicago who forfeited millions of United States dollars to the US Government to avoid jail😁🤣
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by Wahabfuture: 1:35pm On Sep 14, 2025
Softmirror:
Argue ke. I can only quote Bwala own words back to you.

“Don’t misinterpret what I said in my interview this morning. Culturally, historically, and constitutionally, Lagos belongs to the Yoruba people, and that has never been in contention.”

“The unique identity of Lagos as a Yoruba homeland is settled and beyond dispute. What I emphasised was the special place Lagos occupies in Nigeria and indeed West Africa — a city that, much like New York, Paris, or London, serves as the commercial nerve centre of our economy.”
Lagos is a no man’s land, and it’s high time you get it into your head, nobody is going to change that status

Remember Ewe’s own some part of Lagos
Re: Picture: How Times Magazine Described The Major Three Region In Nigeria 1960 by T9ksy(m): 2:05pm On Sep 14, 2025
ZombieDredd:
You go explain taya.

It is still no mans land....FG and Bwala
Okay o, Lagos is no man's land however it's administers by yorubas and we shall continue to show shege to those who have always hated us.
The name-changing you all saw recently is just the beginning...............

Btw, the phrase "Lagos is no man's land" was first said by Jaja Nwachukwu in 1947.
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