₦airaland Forum

Husty:
Awon omo Oduduwa da? Awa re o eh eh.
The best tribe in the world. If I come dis life trillion times I go still come as a proud Yoruba boy.


Meanwhile, I can't imagine putting this badluck-laced headwarmer on my ORI RERE in my life

DeLaRue:
This is the type of unnecessary divisive tendency the Governors talked about.

And how on earth is Kwara more Yoruba than Ondo

Marcelo290:
There is no need to imagine bro, we all understand nature didn't give you that privilege, you should imagine more about your badoo brothers and skull miners in Ogbomoso.

Meanwhile here comes the real best tribe in the world.....

musicwriter:
The best means of doing that is pay priority attention to study of Yoruba language in schools and encourage widespread use in society at large.

And when they say western Nigeria was better-off before, that's very correct. In fact, Yorubas seems to be the worst losers in the Lord Lugard creation called Nigeria. Sometime ago, I was reading something about Yoruba people in pre-colonial Nigeria and how advanced they were already at that time, and at a point I was asking myself "how did such an advanced race surrender to colonialism?".

taoheedoriloye:
Good but not best news.untill kwara state gornernor , some delegates from kogi too before I will take them serious. We can't neglect them, kwara is even more of yoruba than ondo.

SoldierBoy1:
True but the problem is the majority in Kwara prefer to be classified as Northerners by virtue of religion... It's just the minority that are at a loss. As for Kogi I don't really know probably they should meet with Yoruba community leaders in places like Kabba.

evilyoruba:
Diabolical cowards, why haven't you gotten your regionalism with your fetish suffocation Now, Nnamdi KANU has you all mouth to talk rubish...cowards

EdCure:
True. But they seem to be the only Southerners that are yet to accept the fact that Nigeria has failed beyond repair. Their large moslem population is their weakest link.

It is very disgusting how some of them defend abokkis as if their own lives depend on it.
Agbayas like Kayode Ogundamisi can never survive a day without making a case for his Fulani masters and patrons on the social media.

BabaRamota1980:
Governors subscribe to 25-year master plan

Governors of the six southwest states yesterday agreed to work in line with a 25-year master plan.
The 11-point communique read by host Governor Ibikunle Amosun,said the governors would set up an inter – State security task force to tackle the menace of fulani herdsmen and other crimes, establish agricultural produce export processing facilities, adopted the 25 years Master Development Plan designed by the DAWN, and hold regional agricultural summit in Ibadan, Oyo State, to tackle food challenges.
They also agreed that the artificial boundaries of states, religions and political affiliation will not act as barrier to the regional development, adding that all the states had been encouraged to improve bilateral cooperation and foster development.
The forum revealed that it would set up a committee to codify the values and ethos of the Yoruba race, in order to strengthen the identity and unity of the people of the region.
It was also decided that the forum would henceforth be known as the Western Nigeria Governors’ Forum.

Southwest governors yesterday lamented that the splitting of the Old Western Region into six states robbed the people of their spirit of oneness and hampered the pace of socio – economic development.

The six governors – Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti) and Rotimi Akeredolu(Ondo), expressed this sentiment at a meeting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a regional meeting.

At the end of the meeting, they approved the 25-year decelopment plan designed by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) and agreed to collaboprate on security of the region, agricultural development and improvement of infrastructure.

Amosun, who hosted the meeting, said instead of state creation to “build bridges,” it left the Yoruba land “digging trenches for protection against their own brothers and sisters” as well as fostering boundary disputes and security challenges among them.

The Governor recalled that many landmark achievements were recorded in Yoruba land when it was under one regional economic umbrella during the time of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as Premier. He advised that the time had come for them to unite, promote and re -enact the pre-eminence and achievements of the South-West in the Nigerian federation.

According to him, the onerous task on the hands of the Southwest governors today is to lead the people to further prosperous living and “Economic Self-Determination for South-West Nigeria” which formed the meeting’s theme.

“We will recall those laudable feats made us the envy of other Regions.

“We have physical infrastructure such as the Cocoa House at Ibadan, which was aptly named after the source of its funding; the Agodi Secretariat at Ibadan; and the different roads that connect our towns and cities some of which are still standing the test of time. We also have the educational infrastructure of which we are still benefitting from today.

Indeed, many of us seated in this room are beneficiaries of the Free Education Programme of that time. It is the same Free Education Programme that culminated in the establishment of a University that was once the most beautiful campus in Sub-Sahara Africa, the then University of Ife, and now appropriately named the Obafemi Awolowo University, at Ile-Ife.

“We cannot also forget the economic infrastructure; we have the O’odua Group as the umbrella Investment House for the commercial enterprise of the Region such as the Sketch Publication; the Wemabod Estates; the Lafia Hotels; the Premier Hotel at Ibadan; the Area J4 Forest Reserve, etc.

“However, the creation of States from the old Western Region in 1976 which should have been an impetus for further socio-economic development have been allowed to create artificial boundaries between our people.

“And to further worsen the situation, some of our people are also making themselves available as instruments of division because of their selfish political gains. The consequence is that our people begin to see themselves as a people of one state or the other rather than as a sub-unit of the entity of the Yoruba people.

“This is not without its attendant challenges of intra and inter-state boundary disputes which have worsened security in some states and, hampered socio-economic development. Instead of building bridges, some of our people are digging trenches for protection against their own brothers and sisters.

Aregbesola said the old Western Nigeria recorded greater feats when it operated as single state than what obtained today as six states.

“We must be mindful of the fact that as singular state then, we achieved more than now when we are divided into six states.

“We must identify our strengths, unify those strengths and explore the strengths for the benefit of our people. We use the development to galvanise our potentials,” Aregbesola said.

Ajimobi explained that there were gains to be tapped from the numerical strength of the Yoruba, stressing that should the six Southwest states elect to pull together, they would amount to over 60 million population and fit to become a country.

“I will like to plead for not only inter-governmental relationship but also inter personal relationship. Six of us combined, we are talking about more than 60 million people and that is more than a country.

“We are also talking of landmass of 60km square. With that we can stand as a mini country. If you look at each state in Southwest, if we make use of the potentials available to us , we are bigger than many nations in the world.

“We are as a region, very formidable region, we must not only talk it, we must act it. We reinstate and reinvigorate the concept of Omoluabi. Success is not money but character and industry,” he said.

Ambode aligned with the economic and political integration of Southwest states as espoused by his colleagues, saying it was of great significance to the nation while his Ekiti State counterpart said the forum represented the interest of the Yoruba nation.

Fayose said there was the urgent need for the cooperation and collaboration of all the governors to make the region a place of success again.

For Akeredolu, the “development agenda for Southwest Nigeria is a great idea”.

“It is a forum where the governors meet to discuss issues of common interest. It is a great task for all us. We have great challenges and we must be prepared to face these challenges; united we stand, divided we fall. This meeting transcends political interest, we are brothers,” Akeredolu said.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/yoruba-better-off-regional-govt-say-governors/amp/

magoo10:
And I ask why are so many Yoruba's pained by the Biafra movement ?
Why are they feeling so jealous when there is no reason to be?
why will they not mind their business in this struggle and headache of ours?

IJOBA2:
KWARA STATE IS ISLAMIC CALIPHATE AND A CONQUERED TERRITORY.

Nwakaumu:
You mean oba lagoon rilwane akiolu,oba of lagos is an 'uncultured boy'.for a king to be uncultured that means his entire subject will be hopeless.yoruba people can lie.

Kockane:
I don't totally agree with you. I am from Egbe, Kogi state and grew up in Ilorin. Grew up thinking Ilorin was Yorubaland, which it is. People from places like Offa, Erinle, Shao, Oro, etc don't see themselves as northerners. Yorubas first, kwarans next, but definitely not northerners.

As for those in Kogi, identity crisis, infighting, and lack of unity of purpose got them to be lumped together with strange people in a strange land. Akure and Ekiti used to be under the old Kabba province, how we ended up in present day Kogi state is still beyond me.

guterMann:
Good stuff from the governors from south west,I like their resolve,if they can work the talk,it would go a long way in achieving regional development.This is a 'coded' restructuring,which is good

I wish our south eastern governors will emulate them and build a seaport,regional modern railway lines,invest in power especially renewable energy.

But,no they wont,my governor Rochas Okoroawusa is busy organizing one million-man match for Buhari,telling the nation when he will be back(as his spokesman).Or the clown at Ebonyi state banning civil servants from facebook and other social media platforms,or Ohaneze supporting one Nigeria.

ColonelDrake:
Oh, na now morning dawn abi. Are they tired of succkingg Abokiiii dicks?

Nice one. God bless Ambo for spearheading this.

michoim:
As una don abandoned cocoa, how na no go better off then. Una no thank God say dey use oil from Niger Delta develop Lagos for una?

taoheedoriloye:
no part of ondo speak oyo language called yoruba now.
Note:I am from ondo ok.here is my point, bro they should include those I mentioned earlier not excluding them from their plans

AreaFada2:
Although Yoruba people like to deny it now, swathes of Eastern Yorubaland came under Benin Empire influence. With a sizeable population of Benin descendant people (Ado-Akure) in Ondo, Akure, Owo, Ikare and Ekiti to some extent.

Benin Empire Denial Centre (BEDC) people like to masturbate over the topic.

Kwara was properly part of Oyo Empire, a large and fairly well-centralised nation until less than 200 years ago. So yes very Yoruba.

However, I do not consider Ondo less Yoruba in modern times. I think Yoruba land was never a homogeneous entity as many make it out to be now.

Most countries had to standardise their national language like Ajayi Crowther used Oyo lingo as standard. France used the French spoken in Clermont-Ferrand area as standard, Germany used Hanover area German as standard, etc.

ShobayoEmma:
Their message is loud and clear; restructure nigeria back to regionalism.

PenSniper:
Your forefathers, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe, sucked the anus of those you refered to as Abokis from the fifties to the seventies to your collective regret. You can't change history. Everybody in Nigeria knows Nigeria's slaves who are being declared persona-non-grata in the north.
Beware the ides of Oct. 1. Don't let clowns like al-Mustapha who is scheming to use you as political tools the way his forefathers used Zik and his ignorant followers to deceive you.

TheRealestGuy:
Bro, there's something called concurrent and executive list in the useless constitution of ours.

Things like seaports, railways, even massive agriculture and mineral exploration lies with the FG in the executive list. Thus, most governors' hands are tied when it comes to them. Only with the FG's approval can so many developmental decisions and moves be made in this god damned country.

Guess what? They play politics with it and it never ends.

The more reason we have to all support restructuring of Nigeria such that most of those things can be handled by states as the need arises.

It's either we restructure or we part ways. One has to happen and soon too...

michoim:
As una don abandoned cocoa, how na no go better off then. Una no thank God say dey use oil from Niger Delta develop Lagos for una?

schoolhelpng:
My problem here is why is Kwara state not included?
Have we give up on the state

ConcernedNL:
Kwara is hausa fulani, they have chosen it and that is how it will remain

wawappl:
IF THE FED CANT GIVE IT TO US,LETS DO IT OURSELVES. REGIONALISM AND RESTRUCTURING