9jacrip:
A worthy experience to have been part of ogboru Sijuade's spiritual exit procedure as well as the installation of the Giesi Ojaja Ogunwusi.

Nice pictures.

This one is very ironic [if irony is the right word to use]..... I'll let you figure out why



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3109628_image_jpeg_jpeg6f95b5e7a24ad4fc0808d6698fd37362

@Ilaje44

I just had a chance to listen to your videos.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=sdtMSrqQpNI


I love this video....I love the accent.... I really do.



@IFELEKE

Doesn't it sound like Ekiti?

Ule
Ufe

And people are doubting that Ilaje is Yoruba? Really?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgNT55ABdU4

^^^ Not me

Aareonakakanfo:
You made a good point with the emboldened.Talk about long term benefit

But at the same time,you have to approach issues according to their order of importance

At this moment,key word "moment".I will rather pay salaries than build a school

In fact.you can destroy the future of students by non-payment of workers because the teachers lose motivation which can be detrimental

There's nothing wrong with building a school,but its definitely not the right time to do that in Osun state

When would be an appropriate time to build schools? Would there be a time salaries wont be due? Or would there be a time when workers wont demand their salaries?

You see the state of some schools what kind of serious learning could be going on there? And not just paying salaries which wouldnt bring any end result at the end.

Aregbe started the school projects during the oil boom, SHould he abort it now and leave the whole state littered with uncompleted schools? His tenure ends in 3yrs, whats the guarantee that finances wont get worse than it is currently and whats the guarantee that the next govt would complete it?

Secondly how many of these workers teachers are actually teaching productive subjects

For example a town like Ejigbo might have 7 secondary schools all with about 50teachers each and all with dilapidated classrooms and no materials

If the govt build 3 mega schools and bring 150 quality teachers into the schools I believe they would achieve more

One thing you shouldnt underestimate is that Wole Soyinka is championing this educational reform in Osun. Soyinka is one of the people we really want in power and this is the closest he can get to making policy changes especially in a field familiar to him (education). Since realistically he cant win elections

So Yinka Ayefele is from Ekiti?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsT2nEAMoTo

Aiyefele is from EKiti

Didn't know. That would explain why my mom love his music like kilode.

IlekeHD:
Didn't know. That would explain why my mom love his music like kilode.

Funmi Aragbaiye too is Ekiti

raumdeuter:


Funmi Aragbaiye too is Ekiti

OMG That explains a lot!!!

I love her!

Should have known...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdaKY_KgZk8


^^^ #athiestlovesyorubagospel

Fayose too is EKiti

raumdeuter:
Fayose too is EKiti

Mtchewwww.....why evils?

Aareonakakanfo:



Haba! ko le to yen.Speaking of Kabiyesi,he's really going through tough times.

WELCOME TO NIGERIA:The country where everything is just for the moment.When the time comes,you'll be dumped and forgotten



[size=14pt]"I am the poorest paid actor" Dejumo Lewis cries out[/size]

Veteran Nigerian movie star, Dejumo Lewis, popularly known for his role as Kabiyesi in the classic NTA TV series ‘The Village Headmaster’ has opened up on how poor he is.
In an interview with Punch, the 72 year old actor cried out that he has never been financially stable despite his legendary status.
“I must admit that I have not been rich. I am the poorest paid actor even though people call me a legend or an icon. My pensions were not paid at a time even though it is stipend. You would be shocked how much I receive as pension. ‘I had to struggle to pay my rent and my staff. I must admit that right now, I am indebted to the management of the hotel that I am staying. I also owe two of my staff more than three months salary. They have been so loyal and committed to me” said the thespian.
“I must tell you that I have been living on charity and that is why I have not been able to publish my book or run my publishing company. It has been very rough and tough but because of my focus on what I am doing which would be of great benefit to Nigeria, I have been coping until things become better. I must admit that I am broke” lamented the TV star.

Dejumo Lewis’ story is one of many movie veterans in the Nigerian film sector who are not financially well-off.

Do you think the Government should be the one helping out these legends or their Nollywood colleagues?

Neither of the two if I really wanna play the Devils advocate and here's my reasons.

If the Nigerian state worked half as much as she should many social problems that hammers folks down will actually not be a problem per se.

Like if the hospital worked fine to a certain degree, am sure many sicknesses will be tackled at the onset and not at the advance stage and as such this actors would not be soliciting for funds in the first instance publicly.

The Nigerian acting sphere is not well runned and a true/discerning person or actor should know when to leg it even best when the ovation his highest and law of diminishing returns yet to set in. They can leverage on whatever fame or money or connection they have earned and diversify as in run run run from 100% acting as source of income.

In the real sense of things actors or actresses were not readily paid good money especially circa Dejumo Lewis era unlike what is obtainable now, even now its still not El Dorado for many.

But again would it be fair to morally ask the present crop of actors to shoulder the welfare of their older members? When it's not like a well organise country where the young working class are taxed more to look after the older retired folks in the country.

Mind you the Nollywood industry is more like a capitalist venture, bar a few folks who are in it for the love of acting, but a large percentage are in for the fame, money and to use as a spring board for another profession.

So really how do u rally this guy's to crowd fund everytime a member is down on his luck. What criteria would be put in place to disburse this funds? Tribalism as ever will come up for sure, the ibos guys will definitely not be excited to be seen contributing to tidy up a Yoruba actor or actresses and Yorubas too will not b too enthusiatic doing same.

For me there is no magic wand except folks don't stay too long on this career, they should branch out at the earliest opportunity or combine acting with another source of income n live within their means.

To think government will interven at every twist and turn If they have members down on his luck is wishful thinking. Same to expect present Nollywood actors to readily assist will b a miracle else every man should look after his career v well cos am sure they will say they are not an insurance organization promising to be there for every sick member.

Occasional crowd funding fine but government/Nollywood actors as constituued presently will not buy into this when most are living fake life themselves.

^^ What should the priority be on?

Why do you think Soyinka is wrong on this and what should have been done differently

Aareonakakanfo:
Soyinka being the intelligent man we know him to be should have advised him better on this move

Even a 10 year old knows the priority should be payment of salaries

What should Soyinka have advised him? to NOT build schools just continue paying salaries? WHat would become of the state after 8yrs? Paid salaries and no developmental project?

I actually believe some of the workforce should be laid off for any state especially Osun to make any progress

Aareonakakanfo:
I agree with laying off the workforce as well but pay me my money first before you send me comot

I also support building of schools as well but tackle the current salary issue first before building any school

He was paying salaries regularly until state allocations nationwide plumetted

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From Car boot to top Nigerian children’s brand: The story of Ruff ‘n’ Tumble

by Kate Douglas on '20 November 2015'
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Adenike Ogunlesi is the founder of Nigerian children’s clothing brand, Ruff ‘n’ Tumble.
“Whatever thy hand findeth, do with all thy might.” This was the advice that Adenike Ogunlesi’s mother would repeatedly give her as a child.

“And my mother’s voice still echoes in my head today.”

Ogunlesi is the entrepreneur behind Nigerian children’s clothing manufacturer and retailer, Ruff ‘n’ Tumble. The brand has 15 stores across five cities in the country and has another opening before the end of the year. There are further plans to open an additional 28 stores between 2016 and 2018.

It all started during a rainy season in 1996 when Ogunlesi decided to make her three small children pyjamas. They were cotton, colourful, and trimmed with lace with a Peter Pan collar. There was nothing like them in the market.

They caught the attention of her sister-in-law who ordered seven pairs. And this planted the thought in Ogunlesi’s mind: maybe other mothers would be willing to pay for them.

She began selling them out of the boot of her car after dropping her children at school. When they sold, her husband suggested she make other clothing for children too. “So I took all my kids clothes apart to see how they were made, developed patterns out of some of them, and just started making trousers, shorts, shirts and skirts, and all kinds of things.”

It wasn’t long before she was selling them at church bazaars and school markets. And the day she realised she had a business was when she took 120,000 naira (about US$600) worth of clothing to a market and sold almost all of it.

“I just closed my eyes to everything else and thought: ‘Okay, what exactly is going on here? There must be other people with this need’,” she recalled.

“So I did a market survey, although I didn’t realise it at the time. I looked around at what was in the market, and found [children’s clothing] was very restricted. The colours were very bland and it wasn’t very creative or attractive. I wrote a list of what I felt other companies were doing right and wrong, and from there I would draw my own competitive advantage.”

For example, one of the mistakes she felt other retailers and brands were making in Nigeria was selling three-piece outfits, without the option to mix and match.

“So I thought if all they want is a shirt, they should buy the shirt and be able to mix it with the shorts or trousers of their choice – just to be free to create a style for their kids, the way they would like their kids to be dressed. I think this was what we were offering,” she explained.

She hired some tailors and started producing for a supermarket, where she was given her own corner to sell her clothes. But every time she visited it she felt disappointed.

“People had tried on the clothes, and then they were just dropped on the floor. The whole thing was just a mess. And I thought this does not represent ‘whatever thy hand findeth, do with all thy might’. My mother would be upset if she saw this. The standards were very low.”

A household name

“I can’t remember where I was when somebody told me he was converting an old building into tiny little stores, but I said, ‘Okay, I am coming to take one. I am going to brave it. I am going to open a store.’”

Using personal savings and money borrowed from her older brother, Ogunlesi opened her first store in Lagos in 1998. And after having a long queue outside her shop one Christmas, she rented out the adjacent space next door and expanded her shop.

At the time her husband was studying towards an MBA and she started reading his textbooks, and eventually attended a short course with a focus on customer experience and supply chain management.

“One day the lecturer asked the class if they are going to be that small business that remains the same 30 years later… And I just thought: ‘Never! That can’t happen to me, not in a million years.’”

While returning from lectures that day she came across a retail space for lease. She rented it, and opened her second store.

“That’s where we introduced computerisation and started using an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. We put in place all the customer engagement [strategies], such as getting customer data, sending them text messages, thanking them when they shop, and calling them when we haven’t seen them for a while,” she highlighted.

It wasn’t long before she opened a third outlet in Lagos, then expanded to Abuja, followed by Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Kano. Today Ruff ‘n’ Tumble has become a recognisable brand for “aspirational” and “professional” Nigerian parents, and employs over 200 people.


A Ruff ‘n’ Tumble outlet in Lagos.
Ogunlesi said her brand has also developed a reputation for supplying durable, quality clothing that can be passed down to the next child. “As a mother, durability is key. I didn’t want clothes that after two or three washes are finished.”

Rapid expansion planned for next two years

Ogunlesi wanted to be a “present mother” in her children’s life, and admits that this meant slowing down the growth of her company.



“But I am glad and thankful for those years,” she emphasised. “Now my youngest child is going to finish university next year, and about four years ago I just decided that they are old enough now and I can do what I want to. It is a privilege. It is a good place to be as a mother.”

Over the next two years Ogunlesi plans to bring her number of stores in the country to over 40. “It is a huge thing to take on, but we are talking to some investors and we are hoping that it is going to happen. It is very exciting times for us.”

The business is also opening an e-commerce store, which she hopes will be ready by the end of the year.

Competition in the children’s clothing market has also become more competitive in Nigeria over the years, alongside the entrance of a number of clothing brands. Ogunlesi said she has recently commissioned some market research to see how the brand can improve its competitiveness.

“Nigeria has a very aspirational society, and people want to look and feel good. So we have to make sure our marketing is very emotive and very engaging.”

To compete with larger brands and stores, Ogunlesi is also training her sales assistants in professional styling, to add to the customer experience. And in Kano she is adapting the business model to better suit customer needs, where she has discovered many women would prefer to have sales reps visit them in the home, than shop in the mall.

‘Create your own universe’

Ogunlesi was initially supposed to become a lawyer. But after two weeks in law school she realised it was not for her and dropped out. “It was the most boring thing I had ever done in my entire life.”

Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, provided her with the “freedom to create your own universe” and “the power of choices”.

She advises other aspiring entrepreneurs to continue their learning by reading any business or management book they can get their hands on, and to draw up vision boards to help them see where they want to be in the next three to 10 years. “Because the choices you make will come from the direction of your thoughts and that’s what will become your reality. So it is very powerful,” she explained.

“And when you think you have made a mistake… take the learnings from it, dust yourself off and move on. Don’t stay in that place, just move on. But if you hold onto your vision and what it is you want to create, the universe will align. It always does.”. http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/from-car-boot-to-top-nigerian-childrens-brand-the-story-of-ruff-n-tumble/

9jacrip:


The emboldened made me smile, an experience many are yet to have even me

Yes, he was at Iranje Ile (Igbo Itapa) where the tenple/compound is on Sunday but the process of crowning was at the forest sir.

Agba o ni tan nile, iseese a gbe wa.

Ase wa.

E ku ile la n ki ara ile, e ku ona la n ki ero ona. Mo ki gbogbo ile, oni a dara fun wa ooooooo.

Good morning Brother Mii. I have some questions again, hin dabo hin mo bi'nu si mi gbain.

Is it true that Oduduwa came with the Are Crown from Heaven/Saudi Arabia where he came from or the Are Crown had been worn by the King in Ife before the arrival of Oduduwa.

Who was the King? Was he Lamurudu or not?

This one is controversial. Please help me out. Did Oduduwa really come down from Heaven or he came from Saudi Arabia? I only know he arrived with chains, the chains are still in a fenced compound(I think it's called Ile Oduduwa) beside Olomowewe Maternity Hospital Enuwa. The machine(I think it's payloader) that some Oyinbos wanted to use to dig out the chains is still there rotten in the compound. Legend has it that some white men went to Ile-Ife many years ago to dig out the chains and take to their country but the machine stopped working and white men were bitten by bees.

Please respond.

Agba O Ni Tan Lor'ile.

Oodua A Gbe Wa.

raumdeuter:
modath ^^ I served in the North,

My town has a great trading relationship with the North, every Northern village you go there is always someone from the my town there

A lot of my townsmen are naturalised Northerners and even my grand parents were

Ogbomosho?

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IlekeHD:
Didn't know. That would explain why my mom love his music like kilode.

Mama doesn't do Elemure & femi ariyo?

Concerning the hausa stereotype,just wanted to feel the pulse of the thread..

I've seen people who assume they are all grazers living in barren wastelands... They are mighty clannish but they are 100% better than "those" people...

What they don't know, they don't drag or try to share the glory, they also don't "chop" alone, they take life easy as long as it doesn't have to do with their CULTURE & RELIGION.


Mummyejire ... E kaabo ma..

IlekeHD:


Nice pictures.

This one is very ironic [if irony is the right word to use]..... I'll let you figure out why



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3109628_image_jpeg_jpeg6f95b5e7a24ad4fc0808d6698fd37362

A church in the background

IlekeHD:
I beg to differ.

I've heard otherwise from different people. I heard that Fulanis have their own traditional religion and almost all muslim northerners are Hausas.

@Fulaniman/Fulaman/Fulanigirl Your take on this?

Fulanis are rich tho. One bought a new mercedes [$40+ in cash] and he didn't even have his license yet. That day, I made up my mind to either become rich or marry rich Poverty na bastard!

Yes, Fulanis have their own traditional religion too, but a lot of them are muslims. Not all Fulani's are rich. A large number are quite poor and uneducated. Some are nomadic herdsmen, others are quoranic teachers, a few are artisans...they are all different things really.

And no.....almost all Muslim Northerners are NOT Hausas. It is just that Hausa is very widely spoken, even in the Middle Belt and far north, but there are several different tribes in the north. We have Hausa Christians too, especially in Southern Kaduna, Zaria etc.

The Fulanis that are rich, are not that many....but yes, when they are rich, they tend to be filthy rich!

IlekeHD:
@Ilaje44

I just had a chance to listen to your videos.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=sdtMSrqQpNI


I love this video....I love the accent.... I really do.



@IFELEKE

Doesn't it sound like Ekiti?

Ule
Ufe

And people are doubting that Ilaje is Yoruba? Really?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgNT55ABdU4

^^^ Not me

Yes it does, faint though, the ilajes have more in common with the itsekiris and of course, they are Yoruba, they migrated from Ile Ife to the coastline of the present day Ondo State-according to oral and written history.
Okun O!

Someone called my attention to the radio biafra facebook page. Those bastards wants to bring their nonsense protest to Lagos.

IlekeHD:


Nice pictures.

This one is very ironic [if irony is the right word to use]..... I'll let you figure out why



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3109628_image_jpeg_jpeg6f95b5e7a24ad4fc0808d6698fd37362

The church in the background

Musiwa419:
Someone called my attention to the radio biafra facebook page. Those bastards wants to bring their nonsense protest to Lagos.

Protest is not a problem if it's approved by the police. But this their Biafra protest in Lagos, in my opinion, may cause problem. They should have done their protest in SE or SS.

Police should not have approved the protest, it's wrong.

They'll be chanting songs to bash Yoruba during the protest which may lead to confrontation. If 'awon boys' attack them in Lagos, they would attack our people in SE then we would descend heavily on their people in SW.

It looks like a setup to me, we shouldn't fall for the bait. They are hell bent on involving us in their Biafra wahala, we should ensure we don't involve ourselves whatsoever.

I wish them luck in their agitation, yet I believe it's none of our business.

God Bless Yorubaland.

9jacrip,
Nice work sire!
I am always deeply fascinated and humbled by the richness of our culture and tradition, I yearn to safely know more.

zimoni:

Ase wa.
E ku ile la n ki ara ile, e ku ona la n ki ero ona. Mo ki gbogbo ile, oni a dara fun wa ooooooo.
Good morning Brother Mii. I have some questions again, hin dabo hin mo bi'nu si mi gbain.
Is it true that Oduduwa came with the Are Crown from Heaven/Saudi Arabia where he came from or the Are Crown had been worn by the King in Ife before the arrival of Oduduwa.
Who was the King? Was he Lamurudu or not?
This one is controversial. Please help me out. Did Oduduwa really come down from Heaven or he came from Saudi Arabia? I only know he arrived with chains, the chains are still in a fenced compound(I think it's called Ile Oduduwa) beside Olomowewe Maternity Hospital Enuwa. The machine(I think it's payloader) that some Oyinbos wanted to use to dig out the chains is still there rotten in the compound. Legend has it that some white men went to Ile-Ife many years ago to dig out the chains and take to their country but the machine stopped working and white men were bitten by bees.
Please respond.
Agba O Ni Tan Lor'ile.
Oodua A Gbe Wa.

Interesting!
9jacrip, e ba wa tan ina imole si oro yi.