10years ago I was gisting with my cousin in UK and he asked me whether i have registered on the new raving forum in Nigeria, Nairaland. I told him I do not even have any idea that the new Forum exists. I quickly logged on and found one elementary website bearing Nairaland. Not deterred by the perceived elementary outlook of the forum, I registered and was happy to belong to a platform where i can air my view ona ny issue about my country to the world.

I only restricted myself to Sport section, most especially Manchester United thread. I do peep into Politics, culture and tribal sections once in a while, but there was really nothing unusual apart from the usual news we all have access to in the regular media. Culture section was more informative with some NL encyclopedia lecturing on us who we are as Africans and other cultural stuffs. Due respect to AndreUwe and Fulamania.

Fast forward to mid-2008, Politics section started getting hot with waves upon waves of attacks on Yorubas from Igbos who were spewing their remixed version and make-me-happy tales by moonlight of their Fathers and Uncles false heroics. Major cuplrits were Deridegull, Chino, Oneast or Chinology. Most guys ignored them except Dayokanu that made it a point of duty to decimate all their claims, with Katsumoto delivering irrefutable facts to nullify all animosities against the Yorubas. The hours upon hours of lectures and counter ectures from Katsumoto and Deridegull or Duru1 were very informative. By early 2010, subtle warnings were being sent to Seun to curb tribalism in Politics section, he did not see it as anything serious. By mid-2010, other yorubas felt enough is enough of these shenanigans coming from igbos. The likes of OPCNairaland, MayorofLagos, jakumo, IlekeHD, Gbawe, Aareonakakanfo, Shymexx,led the full scale attack, with Desola being the only female, always hitting the mark in a very subtle but effective way.

This culminated in the myth bursting season, monicker expose season, the season of truce with rendezvous at Beerhugz Ikeja. Ngozievergreen will never forget NL. Those were very brutal days in Politics section of NL. 2015 election brought out the good, the bad and the ugly of NL. It was a propaganda and campaign ground for the major political parties. That was the season of PPP -Pay Per Post. Post election ushered in the cry for bia.fra season. Seun responded to this cry in a manner that has never been seen before on NL. I am not sure DSS did not threaten him on that particular issue.

Due to the clamp down on secession cries, some threatened to migrate out of NL and never to come back. They left, they were not missed and voila, they are back. Some even created parallel fora that never had the pull effect of NL and such fora died a natural death.

We are presently in the season of indiscriminate bans. Just came back from a lengthy ban and i cannot even guarantee not being banned before end of today. . We have seen it all on NL.

The diversity of opinion and the scintillating presentations of some are what make NL thick and addictive. It will be the highest hypocrisy if I fail to mention that tribalism and ethic jabs are also part of the fun of NL, that you might not really get elsewhere, except on Vanguard online and probably Facebook. In the midst of the jabs, we learn one or two things. Atimes some jabs make you to read up on such jabs and you will come back to give a merciless counterjabs. . Veterans will understand what i am talking about.

Government agencies, political parties, security agencies and even print media now know that anyone that ignores NL is doing so at his or own peril. This is a classical example of online forum that has given power to the youths and masses. Here, we can report any agency or personnel of government or corporation or individuals that misbehaves in real time without any fear of harassment, which was prevalent in the days of the likes of Fela and Gani Fawehinmi.

By and large, I have learnt a lot from NL in the last 10years. While growing up, I was never interested in who were our forefathers as Africans, who we were as a people, the events that led to the amalgamation of North and South, the civil war, Awo, Zik, Ahmadu Bello or Oduduwa. The contributions of all from every nook and cranny of Nigeria challenged me to read up, to separate the truth from fallacy. I had to read virtually every book or write up ever written on Nigerian Civil War, Pre and post-independence era, the days of the Evil Genius Maradona, the dark days of Abacha and the emergence of the 4th republic democracy in Nigeria. I also picked interest in the top 5-7 ethnicities in Nigeria and I had to read up on their histories too.

Seun thanks for creating this forum. It has been an avenue for youths to air their opinion freely, demand better governance and forge a better country for ourselves. Even the ethnic jabs is forcing all parties to have mutual respect for ourselves despite all the animosities and probably collaborate to achieve an objective of a better country.

I am specially hailing Katsumoto, Dayokanu, Desola, Chino, Abagworo, Shymexx, Duru1, Dede1 AndreUwe, Fulanmania, Aresa, OrlandoOwoh, Ijakumo, Modath, Soundking, Sunnybobo, Anonimi, StBlack, StOla, arewafederation, AareOnakakanfo, cheruv, debosky, PenSniper, eggheaders, oduastates, Ngwakwe, EzeNri, dearpreye, dozzybaba (mad-dest boy on NL), VICTORCIZA, OPCNairailand, NgeneUkwenu, idupaul, MayorofLagos, T9sky, Rhino5dm, pazienza, Jason123 Deridegull, IlekeHD, ACM10, raumdeuter, odenigboaroli, 9jacrip, Aigbofa, Beaf, Passingshot, nduchucks, Iyangbali, fiiznation, Firefire, Omenka, Orikinla, Anonimi, Aljarem, Berem, ijawmilitant, EasternActivist, Babyosisi, JAckBaueress1, Freeglobe, ANAMBRAII, tupacshakur, Zimoni, demdem, kobojunkie, fstranger, barcanista or is it Tonyebarcanista, ezeagu, obiagu1, basilo101, tonychristopher etc You contributed immensely in making NL a vibrant social forum it is today, most especially the Politics section.

Looking forward to another decade.

That cool

I hope you don't get banned now that you are a certified veteran.

General Superstar, it is a very good thing to reflect on the past events. Although some of these newbies today on NL will not understand what we the founding fathers did to sustain the tempo of this great forum/community. We shall strive further to see a better and brighter NL. We shall always stand for peace and love of mankind and preach brotherly love now and always.

Let us always use this e-community to preach peace and love irrespective of State divide, political divide, religious divide, ethnic divide etc.

- Chino

I am specially hailing Katsumoto, Dayokanu, Desola, Chino, Abagworo, Shymexx, Duru1, AndreUwe, Fulanmania, Aresa, Modath, Sunnybobo, Anonimi, StBlack, StOla, AareOnakakanfo, oduastates, OPCNairailand, MayorofLagos, Deridegull, IlekeHD, raumdeuter, 9jacrip, Passingshot, Iyangbali, Firefire, Omenka, Freeglobe, tupacshakur, Zimoni, barcanista or is it Tonyebarcanista, ezeagu, obiagu1, basilo101, tonychristopher, SonofEli, Xtorses etc

It shall be well with you General Superstar.

As one of the veterans on Nairaland that has received the hammer from virtually all warring camps including:

Igbo- During my APC days as well as my post APC days when I openly declared a position on IPO'B

Yorubas- During my Pre and Post APC era, they erroneously assumed that I would hit at them after I left the APC camp...

PDP Comrades- During my APC days, a period where Goodluck Jonathan supporters will NEVER forget in a hurry . Though post APC era brought some bashings from fellow PDP Comrades due to my position on ongoing corruption probe(which still remain unchanged)

APC Comrades- It was A period of blackmail and betrayal especially from fellow Sai Buhari faithfuls (as I then was) that hate seeing their beloved comrade leave them to join the umbrella camp we jointly "dealt with" during the campaign period. It became worse when all missiles in my arsenal were directed at Muhammadu Buhari, my once upon a time Amiable General who I openly fought for (though I still have spot for him sha ).

That said, I have also received a whole lots of love from all groups, from Yoruba, Igbo, APC, PDP, pro-IPOB etc in the past. Love I can never forget in a lifetime.

And I still enjoy some love despite being a trouble sometime




Well Done Seun... Nairaland remains My eConstituency

chino11:
General Superstar, it is a very good thing to reflect on the past events. Although some of these newbies today on NL will not understand what we the founding fathers did to sustain the tempo of this great forum/community. We shall strive further to see a better and brighter NL. We shall always stand for peace and love of mankind and preach brotherly love now and always.

Let us always use this e-community to preach peace and love irrespective of State divide, political divide, religious divide, ethnic divide etc.

- Chino

Respect bro.

chino11:
General Superstar, it is a very good thing to reflect on the past events. Although some of these newbies today on NL will not understand what we the founding fathers did to sustain the tempo of this great forum/community. We shall strive further to see a better and brighter NL. We shall always stand for peace and love of mankind and preach brotherly love now and always.

Let us always use this e-community to preach peace and love irrespective of State divide, political divide, religious divide, ethnic divide etc.

- Chino

The Great General Chino... You came, you saw, and you conquered

Thats nice....Tonye I hail ooo!

Honorable TonyeBarcanista, you really transformed NL with your sound verbosity, intellect and analytical prowess. I will forever respect you as one of the greatest and brightest minds on this e-community.

TonyeBarcanista:

The Great General Chino... You came, you saw, and you conquered

A decade of talking tra......

Nigeria is crumbling because of people like you who enthroned a useless government under Buhari

NgeneUkwenu:
Thats nice....Tonye I hail ooo!

The new generation of Nairalanders on this section have shown their incapacity to sustain intellectual discuss and WAR on this section. They have failed to continue from where the elders stopped. Even the new generation Moderators are contributing to the mediocre nature of the section through reckless bans, promotion of funny contents to FP while neglecting intellectual opinion articles by Political Nairalanders.


Where is Ngwakwe?

NAIRALAND HALL OF FAME
Greatest tribalist of all time yoruba- dayokanu
Greatest tribalist of all time igbo-dozzybaba
Greatest trubalist of all time hausa_..........

Seun suppose giv u award nah...

Interesting. Really interesting.

Amidst the turmoil of corruption, mutual ethnic distrust and struggles, we must not lose that vital element of our humankind. That's very vital.

But for barcanista, I would have limited my foray to the family and religion sections. Thanks for firing my passion for politics and good governance.

Kudos to all the great comrades and pioneers of this precious forum. The attacks and counter attacks have forced me to also hit the history books with such fierceness I've hitherto never had.

Deeply within us, I believe, lie the genuine compassion we feel for other Nigerians, though primitive leadership has forced us to be at each others throats.

It's my deepest desire that someday the loud voices calling for restructuring will be heeded to, and a new Nigeria shall emerge -- one that we all will be proud to call our own.

Thanks, OP!

chino11:
Honorable TonyeBarcanista, you really transformed NL with your sound verbosity, intellect and analytical prowess. I will forever respect you on NL as one of the greatest and brightest minds on this e-community.

The respect is mutual boss. I believe that we all learned life lessons from our experience

Superstar1

Well done...

Lolz....most of those that threatened to go....came back shamefully with anoda moniker..hahaha..Nairaland is addictive

I didn't see my name in the list.

Superstar1 kilo de?

JackBaueress1:
I didn't see my name in the list.


Superstar1 kilo de?

Ma binu omo iya. The list of veterans and old timers is inexhaustible.

superstar1:


Ma binu omo iya. The list of veterans and old timers is inexhaustible.

mo ti gbo!

Respect to you.

someone should please find me Yuzedooo. I registered on Nairaland in 2013 or so even though I had known of the website since around 2010 but chose to view as a guest. It's been fun being here, I've learnt a lot from the contributions, the bashing, the experiences and all. My advice to seun is to retrain the mods a bit on their roles.
cc yuzedo, ymodulus, gbawe,tonyebarcanista,

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superstar1:
10years ago I was gisting with my cousin in UK and he asked me whether i have registered on the new raving forum in Nigeria, Nairaland. I told him I do not even have any idea that the new Forum exists. I quickly logged on and found one elementary website bearing Nairaland. Not deterred by the perceived elementary outlook of the forum, I registered and was happy to belong to a platform where i can air my view ona ny issue about my country to the world.

I only restricted myself to Sport section, most especially Manchester United thread. I do peep into Politics, culture and tribal sections once in a while, but there was really nothing unusual apart from the usual news we all have access to in the regular media. Culture section was more informative with some NL encyclopedia lecturing on us who we are as Africans and other cultural stuffs. Due respect to AndreUwe and Fulamania.

Fast forward to mid-2008, Politics section started getting hot with waves upon waves of attacks on Yorubas from Igbos who were spewing their remixed version and make-me-happy tales by moonlight of their Fathers and Uncles false heroics. Major cuplrits were Deridegull, Chino, Oneast or Chinology. Most guys ignored them except Dayokanu that made it a point of duty to decimate all their claims, with Katsumoto delivering irrefutable facts to nullify all animosities against the Yorubas. The hours upon hours of lectures and counter ectures from Katsumoto and Deridegull or Duru1 were very informative. By early 2010, subtle warnings were being sent to Seun to curb tribalism in Politics section, he did not see it as anything serious. By mid-2010, other yorubas felt enough is enough of these shenanigans coming from igbos. The likes of OPCNairaland, MayorofLagos, jakumo, IlekeHD, Gbawe, Aareonakakanfo, Shymexx,led the full scale attack, with Desola being the only female, always hitting the mark in a very subtle but effective way.

This culminated in the myth bursting season, monicker expose season, the season of truce with rendezvous at Beerhugz Ikeja. Ngozievergreen will never forget NL. Those were very brutal days in Politics section of NL. 2015 election brought out the good, the bad and the ugly of NL. It was a propaganda and campaign ground for the major political parties. That was the season of PPP -Pay Per Post. Post election ushered in the cry for bia.fra season. Seun responded to this cry in a manner that has never been seen before on NL. I am not sure DSS did not threaten him on that particular issue.

Due to the clamp down on secession cries, some threatened to migrate out of NL and never to come back. They left, they were not missed and voila, they are back. Some even created parallel fora that never had the pull effect of NL and such fora died a natural death.

We are presently in the season of indiscriminate bans. Just came back from a lengthy ban and i cannot even guarantee not being banned before end of today. . We have seen it all on NL.

The diversity of opinion and the scintillating presentations of some are what make NL thick and addictive. It will be the highest hypocrisy if I fail to mention that tribalism and ethic jabs are also part of the fun of NL, that you might not really get elsewhere, except on Vanguard online and probably Facebook. In the midst of the jabs, we learn one or two things. Atimes some jabs make you to read up on such jabs and you will come back to give a merciless counterjabs. . Veterans will understand what i am talking about.

Government agencies, political parties, security agencies and even print media now know that anyone that ignores NL is doing so at his or own peril. This is a classical example of online forum that has given power to the youths and masses. Here, we can report any agency or personnel of government or corporation or individuals that misbehaves in real time without any fear of harassment, which was prevalent in the days of the likes of Fela and Gani Fawehinmi.

By and large, I have learnt a lot from NL in the last 10years. Whilefgrowing up, I was never interested in who were our forefathers as Africans, who we were as a people, the events that led to the amalgamation of North and South, the civil war, Awo, Zik, Ahmadu Bello or Oduduwa. The contributions of all from every nook and cranny of Nigeria challenged me to read up, to separate the truth from fallacy. I had to read virtually every book or write up ever written on Nigerian Civil War, Pre and post-independence era, the days of the Evil Genius Maradona, the dark days of Abacha and the emergence of the 4th republic democracy in Nigeria. I also picked interest in the top 5-7 ethnicities in Nigeria and I had to read up on their histories too.

Seun thanks for creating this forum. It has been an avenue for youths to air their opinion freely, demand better governance and forge a better country for ourselves. Even the ethnic jabs is forcing all parties to have mutual respect for ourselves despite all the animosities and probably collaborate to achieve an objective of a better country.

I am specially hailing Katsumoto, Dayokanu, Desola, Chino, Abagworo, Shymexx, Duru1, AndreUwe, Fulanmania, Aresa, Modath, Soundking, Sunnybobo, Anonimi, StBlack, StOla, arewafederation, AareOnakakanfo, oduastates, Ngwakwe, dearpreye, dozzybaba (mad-dest boy on NL), OPCNairailand, NgeneUkwenu, idupaul, MayorofLagos, Deridegull, IlekeHD, raumdeuter, 9jacrip, Passingshot, Iyangbali, Firefire, Omenka, Orikinla, Aljarem, ijawmilitant, EasternActivist, JAckBaueress1, Freeglobe, ANAMBRAII, tupacshakur, Zimoni, barcanista or is it Tonyebarcanista, ezeagu, obiagu1, basilo101, tonychristopher, SonofEli, Xtorses etc You contributed immensely in making NL a vibrant social forum it is today, most especially the Politics section.

Looking forward to another decade.

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Biafra will never come

TonyeBarcanista:

It shall be well with you General Superstar.

As one of the veterans on Nairaland that has received the hammer from virtually all warring camps including:

Igbo- During my APC days as well as my post APC days when I openly declared a position on IPO'B

Yorubas- During my Pre and Post APC era, they erroneously assumed that I would hit at them after I left the APC camp...

PDP Comrades- During my APC days, a period where Goodluck Jonathan supporters will NEVER forget in a hurry . Though post APC era brought some bashings from fellow PDP Comrades due to my position on ongoing corruption probe(which still remain unchanged)

APC Comrades- It was A period of blackmail and betrayal especially from fellow Sai Buhari faithfuls (as I then was) that hate seeing their beloved comrade leave them to join the umbrella camp we jointly "dealt with" during the campaign period. It became worse when all missiles in my arsenal were directed at Muhammadu Buhari, my once upon a time Amiable General who I openly fought for (though I still have spot for him sha ).

That said, I have also received a whole lots of love from all groups, from Yoruba, Igbo, APC, PDP, pro-IPOB etc in the past. Love I can never forget in a lifetime.

And I still enjoy some love despite being a trouble sometime




Well Done Seun... Nairaland remains My eConstituency

Congrats and much deserved accolades from me to you Mr Barcanista and the rest of the "elders" as well as the moderators for being a part of this great forum and for helping to empower a lot of young Nigerians with information about the processes and political intrigues of our slowly awakening but great country. Irrespective of your camps, religious associations and political affiliations, I respect you all. More grease to your elbows Mr Tonye

JackBaueress1:
mo ti gbo!

Respect to you.

Good day ma, please I'd like you to check my signature and consider him.

Voting starts tomorrow ma, permission to mention you tomorrow.

mrkayusfit:
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Biafra will never come

Searchiingforlove alias joborskill e be like you don pull cloth, run enter market.

mrkayusfit:
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Biafra will never come

That's what the Confederates thought about their slaves, that they would never be freed.

fiizznation:
10yrs? You really have balls. Funny enough, I see/view nairaland as an anti-northen forum were baseless lies against the north/northerners are propagated everyday by people who know nothing about the north/northerners, and it should my 3rd/4th year here. At some point I almost deactivate my account, what? I deactivated it but I couldn't complete the deactivating process because I just couldn't remember the password I used for the email account I opened my nairaland account with, so I had to just give up.

That been said, nairaland have been educative, enlightening, entertaining and informative. Kudos to seun and his esteem team of moderators who gave birth to a forum like this, where the average Nigerian can express his freedom of speech freely, without any fear. Nairaland is still a work in progress because I believe there are many things yet to be done by seun.

A decade here; op you really have a iron heart

It is not an anti-north forum. OF course, you cannot deny the fact that there are more southerners on the forum than northeners. The ratio will most likely be 100 to 1.

You do not need a lion heart to stay on the forum, most especially politics section. You only need to develop thick skin to all the venomous posts.

I remember a female friend asking me in 203 whether I am on NL. I answered in the affirmative. She went further to ask whether i do go to Politics Section, I said Yes. Her next statement got me cracking. She said guys that post in that section have sold their souls to the devil and she cannot imagine how a normal human being can last 10minutes in politics section of NL. I could not help the laughter.

dearpreye:
Interesting. Really interesting.

Amidst the turmoil of corruption, mutual ethnic distrust and struggles, we must not lose that vital element of our humankind. That's very vital.


Kudos to all the great comrades and pioneers of this precious forum. The attacks and counter attacks have forced me to also hit the history books with such fierceness I've hitherto never had.

Deeply within us, I believe, lie the genuine compassion we feel for other Nigerians, though primitive leadership has forced us to be at each others throats.

It's my deepest desire that someday the loud voices calling for restructuring will be heeded to, and a new Nigeria shall emerge -- one that will all will be proud to call our own.

Thanks, OP!

What more can I say...

mrkayusfit:
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Biafra will never come

The thread is not about whether Biafra will become a reality or not.

mrkayusfit:
[s][/s]


Biafra will never come

The thread is not about whether Biafra will become a reality or not.

mrkayusfit:
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Biafra will never come

The thread is not about whether Biafra will become a reality or not.