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Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Nobody: 8:54am On Oct 16, 2015 |
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Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Ebukaobi: 8:55am On Oct 16, 2015 |
@topic The rate at which my Igbo brothers use Yoruba names in the press these days is so funny Lolzzz |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by hinwazaka: 8:56am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Ebukaobi:Point out the rule, I broke |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by hinwazaka: 8:58am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Ebukaobi:So you are so useless, you have decided to hide your conehead behind an Igbo moniker. As shameless as it gets. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by brofula(m): 9:00am On Oct 16, 2015 |
homosapien: you dont need to list ten achievements here, go home and reflect about the truth in this write up, OP mentioned a couple of things go round and confirm how true they are. In all the new developing sites in lagos how many new houses under construction belongs to yorubas that is another way of measuring success, who is going to take over from your Adenuga and Otedola? may be the touts and omonile will do that I guess? 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Ebukaobi: 9:04am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Seun Lalasticlala This poster is breaking the rules Thanks hinwazaka: |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by FKO81(m): 9:14am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Crisis in Yoruba future [b]Ulli Beier: There was a short time in Nigerian history — between Independence and the first military coup — in which we lived through a period of great optimism. Financially the people of Nigeria were relatively well off, and they assumed that with independence, things were going to improve steadily. In the West, people believed in the benefits of universal free primary education. They were proud of being the “First in Africa” to have set up a television station. The University of Ibadan was functioning and had a good reputation. Night life was boisterous; people could afford to go out, drink beer and listen to really good bands. Even in Osogbo, which then had 120,000 inhabitants, one could hear three or four bands at weekends. The Yoruba Travelling Theatre was booming. A decade after independence, Biodun Jeyifo counted about a hundred Yoruba theatre companies —all managing to survive somehow off their performances. People actually preferred the theatre to the movies. But then, those were the days of Ogunde, Ogunmola, Duro Ladipo and the Orisun players. Where in the world could you find a comparable constellation? Wole Soyinka: There was ferment! Ulli Beier: There was no official planning; little government interference. It was a natural growth. If you now think back to this period, how do you view it with hindsight? Why does it appear to us now as a “golden age” rather than a mere beginning? (From Ulli Beier in conversation.) Hmmm. Really. Why would a period that was supposed to be our beginning appear to us as actually the golden age? If the take-off of an aeroplane is the only memorable moment of the flight, then that journey is not just a farce, it is a tragedy. When a people have nowhere else to turn to with pride but the past, then they do not need to be reminded that generations after that “golden era” have all failed. And I am not talking about Nigeria now. I am talking about the old Western Nigeria from Ikeja through Benin to Sapele. Nothing can be more devastating for a pupil whose reputation of being the constant first in class is shredded by a distant competitor. Ex-governor Peter Obi of Anambra State got me thinking. Two weeks ago, he was giving an account of his eight years stewardship and he announced some figures: N75 billion as credit balance in the state’s accounts and no debt over-hang. That figure, he said, included balance in savings and in investment. Then the big one: Anambra State under him invested in bonds issued by other state governments. Since he made that statement, I have not heard anyone say he lied. It was a combination of these that actually got me thinking —Anambra State that was not paying salaries post 1999, pre-2003; Anambra State of war and lawlessness in Chris Ngige era; the same Anambra that was home of violence and inexplicable crimes. Obi said the state he was leaving behind was not owing anybody a dime; rather, the state invested in bonds issued by other states! Then, I remembered that out of the six states in the South-West, only one has not gone to the Capital Market to take money through bond issuance. What has that told me? It means that my South-West is indebted to South East’s Anambra State — and that is serious. I know some partisan fellows will say ‘and so what?’ They can say so because for such fellows, the only reference they make to the past is using it to cover up the eczema of today. None of the founding fathers of Western Nigeria would ever imagine that a day would come when Yorubaland would owe Iboland. Some international financial experts have warned that the current craze for bonds by African countries, including PDP’s Nigeria, will soon lead to what they call “Eurobond curse” just as the continent is wracked by “resource curse.” Some queer commentators would say the warning was directed at national governments. At the state level, the alarm bell should really sound louder. A recent report quoted Joseph Stightz, a Nobel prize-winning economist, as warning that “the financial sector loves to find people to prey on and their most recent prey are governments in developing countries.” The same is happening at the domestic level. Cash-strapped state governments should know that there are no friendly financial institutions. They are in business to make money and it does not matter how. I do not know what economics is behind the current craze for bonds. Some are even saying bonds are no loans. What are they? Gifts? Won’t they pay back? And at what interest rate? They would even pay costs of the transaction — they call it ‘issue costs?’ Are there consultants packaging these bonds? If there are, who are they? What are their fees? Yorubaland currently suffers unprecedented, unfortunate and insulting, venal shut-out in the affairs of the PDP Federal Government. The alternative regimes in the states ought to give reasons for hope, not debt over-hang. Nothing should be done by anyone to bond the race to a future of criminal servitude. Governments have to provide amenities, yes. But have we forgotten what our ancestors said about he that eats benefits derivable from a child even before that child is born? Exactly what Niyi Osundare described as “eating tomorrow’s yam today ”! [/b] The rate they are going down the will soon discover something greater than oil, hating Igbos online and offline can't slow our progress |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by FKO81(m): 9:17am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Emerging trend of social almajiri in Yorubaland By Hakeem Jamiu [b]There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food. I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms. Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony. After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his death has led to the proliferation of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers. The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money. But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.[/b] Progressive and sophisticated governors from southwest really need to think progressive not retrogressive,that's my own you can report me to mod, I have said my own, the first step is to identify problem and second best way to solve it, not hiding my post or illegally prohibit me 4 Likes |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by homosapien(m): 9:34am On Oct 16, 2015 |
brofula: You must be funny to use tout and omonile to generalize the entire Yoruba youth. there is absolutely nothing to reflect because the Yoruba's youth I know are hardworking. it only on nairaland that yoruba are lazy and depends on igbo's for their survival. Seun too must belong to your category of tout and omonile unless if you are now saying he his not yoruba. |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by homosapien(m): 9:38am On Oct 16, 2015 |
meccuno: If the entire igbo population has been listed among forbes list of billionaires, they I will answer your question. until then, go and remove the sand in your eyes before removing that's of yorubas. |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Wulfruna(f): 9:50am On Oct 16, 2015 |
Yoruba movies lack creativity compared to the English-language movies? Hahaha! |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by BushidoBlue(m): 10:18am On Oct 16, 2015 |
YUSUPH1986: In that case you need to see Ilekeh and MayorofLagos parents. I wonder what you will say then. 1 Like |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by tubolancer(m): 10:28am On Oct 16, 2015 |
No yoruba man can write this thrash, are my jealous of the Ibo man living in my father' house or what? What did an average ibo man possess that I do not have? What are they dominating? Rubbish write up by an Ibo monster. |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Marpol: 12:38pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
hinwazaka: Who provoked you this morning? |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by God2man(m): 12:49pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Why the Yorubas? Why? |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by dsquare33: 1:04pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
hinwazaka:The Op has given you mouth to talk,why you no go misyearn.yeye de smell. |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Malawian(m): 1:31pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
i think the problem was awolowo making them think the igbo are their rivals. i will explain. with the end of the war, as well as the imporvishment of the igbo, they did not feel any need to bucle up. then there is the indigenization policy that just gave them money on a platter, i wonder if they even repayed the loans they used in buying up thoses multinationals then. they settled down to party and to drink. the thing with kids, they are only good at learning by observation. the present generation of yoruba youths learnt their trade by watching their fathers party away with abandon. igbo youths on the other hand learnt the dignity of labour form their parents hell bent on recovering. my father made money so fast, we never lacked anything, in fact we even had a measure of luxury but he taught us stuff. i mean, they will deliberately starve us until 3pm on some days before we eat breakfast. some other times, we had to even 'work" for our feeding (by making us stay in my mamas shop - and we only eat after we have sold a certain amount of money). we are talking about the 80s when we already had a number of buildings to my fathers name, when he was already driving a V-Boot (a luxury car then) and my mother a 505. they taught us fairplay. we were all made to eat from the same bowl. it was turn by turn all six of us (then) gatered around a mass of eba and soup. they will deliberately put only 4 piece of meat in the soup spo that we will share. the rule was who ever does the sharing of the meat will pick his/her piece the last. those things are deliberate parenting skills they unleashed on us, in fact i was at a friends place only to see the guy using the same "agabari" for his children. accross the fence, we will see even the mothers of our yoruba neighbours calling mama put to buy food for their kids. i shudder at what the next generation of yoruba youths will be like. 4 Likes |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by tonychristopher: 1:36pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
inlandtaipan: Truth is despicable and bitter but must be said and swallowed Nice article |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by tonychristopher: 1:44pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
tobimillar: I think in terms of education today it is Igbo..Igbo is the most educated tribe and also the tribe with widespread income 6 Likes |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Nobody: 1:44pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
SLIDEwaxie: Well some lazy tribe rush to those 4 × 4 shops to extort the owners. Their life depends on the money that they extort. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by vladimiros: 2:16pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
[size=13pt]As a Niger Deltan , This does not only apply to Yoruba youths but everybody we youths are getting lazy, and need to appreciate hardwork,[/size] 1 Like |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by mikolo80: 2:31pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
inlandtaipan:monkey De work baboon De chop. it's called working smart |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by mikolo80: 2:33pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
AustineE1:nope it favors those who are SMART working |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by ahamonyeka(m): 2:47pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Do you need any herbalist to tell you that yoloba youths are lazy? Igbos has been industrious right from the creation of the world. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Goke7: 3:06pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Yoruba's are not lazy as this article suggests, what is happening is this: Yoruba's no longer have forward thinking and visionary political leaders any longer, secondly the top management corporate yoruba guys and entrepreneurs aslo share in the blame, let me explain. When an Igbo or niger delta guy assumes managerial position in any firm in lagos, he sees it as an opportunity to begin to mentor and bring in his fellow guys or younger brothers from his village into the company via influencing or recommendation during recruitment and before you know it graduates from schools like enbonyi state uni anambra state uni, imsu and so on are already getting jobs in Lagos before their Yoruba counterparts from LASU or UNILAG. Pls check any company in Lagos where you have Igbo guys as top management staff to confirm this, ditto for the Igbo entrepreneurs or agents at the ports, they have a way of bringing in their kinsmen into Lagos to set them up for business purposes. Meanwhile our Yoruba mds and entrepreneurs do not help their kinsmen like their Igbo fellows, let's not deceive ourselves Nigeria is all about who you know, forget about qualifications, the opportunities available are far more than those who are in need so its man know man basis. You have a situation where an entire youruba family will be begging a top youruba guy to help his kinsmen all to no avail. This is where the gap is. Our politicians esp the governors are only interested in individuals or firms bringing or investing their monies into the states without thinking about empowering their citizens, they are only interested in collecting revenues, taxes to increase IGR. This gives undue advantage to outsiders who when they set up industries in their States bring in their own people to employ. They do not have intentional or deliberate agreements with investors to empower their own people. This is where Yoruba governors are missing it leaving their citizens at the mercy of outsiders, even industries owned by yorubas are not regulated enough to ensure local content. Until the issues above are addressed, am sorry the sw future looks bleak as it is no longer the case where its only guys from the sw are going to school 1 Like |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Philistine(m): 3:11pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
The rubbish was written by an igbo guy using a yoruba name.All i see is lies everywhere! Igbos love massaging their egos with lies and false imaginations. My hatred for dis people just keep growing everyday. |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by onyepapa(m): 3:12pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Ebukaobi:you can change your name but you can't change being a coward |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by FKO81(m): 6:25pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Philistine:Bastar.d who cares about the way you feel about us, silly ponk 1 Like |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Nobody: 6:47pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
YUSUPH1986:Who is this fool that couldn't even type correctly? You must be a Yellow-bar goat! 1 Like |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Nobody: 6:49pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
Philistine:Where did this goat originate from? Are u ok? Or u need some good deal of beating? |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by Nobody: 6:53pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
tubolancer:U poor goat! |
Re: OPINION: Today's Yoruba Youths Are Too Lazy, Egoistic -adeyemi Adeleye by YUSUPH1986(m): 7:26pm On Oct 16, 2015 |
[quote author=StephanieEzeh post=39053408. U av lost the pride of a woman! Basic character deficiency. O she |
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