₦airaland Forum

ThankYouGod:
His Vice should be FFK.

I concur. Either FFK or Fayose would do as Buafran VP.

At least he managed to snatch Bainca from FFK. I think that should count for something.

Another MOU and still counting.

napoleon77:
As far as you are concerned?

Yes.

BlackSeptember:
And you call Oyo a city? What solid infrastructure are there

Well, as far as I am concerned, anywhere that has a population of 500,000 and above is qualified to be considered a city. The city (or Oyo town as some prefer to call it) is host to several banks, lots of hotels and resorts, private businesses, and educational institutions including Federal College of Education (Special), Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, a privately owned university by the Anglican Communion of Nigeria, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo (ACU), and Federal University of Surveying.

Richy4:
I just want to know, is there any city called OYO, Just asking because i heard it is a state and the capital is Ibadan

Yes. Oyo city exists within Oyo state and encompasses 3 local government areas. It is the Alaafin's domain and not too far from Ogbomosho, which is another major city within Oyo state.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo,_Oyo

gbosaa:
Noted but I have a feeling whoever compiled that unreliable statistics meant Uyo Akwa ibom.

No, the person didn't. Oyo city is big and encompasses 3 Local government areas. Those figures are actually old sef coz the city has nothing less than a million inhabitants today. Even on the Wikipedia list it is bigger than Uyo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_cities_by_population

grad:
Please whats the difference between Oyo and Ibadan. Is Oyo now inside Ibadan, why is Oyo's Population smaller than Ibadan?

There is a city called Oyo within Oyo state. It encompasses 3 Local government areas and is the Alaafin's domain.

Cc Stanleysteno, Godful, gbosaa, glad

Ok, but those are old figures though.

Chiefobdk1:
Really?


Tell this to ur afonja group wen next they hear Obiano

Mehn you childish as fcvk. Wetin concern Obiano in this matter?

givan:
Good news. But remember, garri processing plant is not a company oo.

And where did you see Garri processing in the report??

Chiefobdk1:
Funny afonja people. .

20 phantom company...

Ur company will provide 200 direct job and 100 000 indirect job. Issorite

Chief, in case you don't know, Shea butter, which the company in question is involved in, provides income for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians who go into the wild to source, sell, and even process them (though via a crude method that falls short of international standards), especially in the hinterlands. And Nigeria reportedly loses as much as $1-billion dollars or more annually to Shea nut smuggling alone. Now imagine it being processed and added value to locally to meet international standards as this company will be doing? We're talking billions of dollars here!

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/110007-nigeria-loses-n340-6bn-annually-to-shea-butter-smuggling.html

http://venturesafrica.com/nigerias-shea-butter-market-can-yield-2-billion-yearly-experts/

KingRex1:
20 - 30yrs from now Lagos and ogun would be a single conurbated city

Omo, you can say that again. The state has witnessed an unprecedented/dramatic population explosion relative to other Nigerian states in recent times, if the NBS obtained data below is anything to go by.

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/486

*Modified*

A little perspective concerning Shea Butter production which the company in the report deals in. Shea butter provides income for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians who go into the wild to source, sell, and even process them (though via a crude method that falls short of international standards), especially in the hinterlands. And Nigeria reportedly loses as much as $1-billion dollars or more annually to Shea nut smuggling through our porous land borders alone. Now imagine it being processed and added value to locally to meet international standards as this company will be doing? We're talking billions of dollars here!

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/110007-nigeria-loses-n340-6bn-annually-to-shea-butter-smuggling.html

http://venturesafrica.com/nigerias-shea-butter-market-can-yield-2-billion-yearly-experts/

midol:
There is nothing like odua. We yorubas hate oduduwa and embrace nigeria.

Come, seriously.. E be like say na from village dem dey do you, this one wey you dey obsess over Yoruba people on every thread so. You better go for deliverance.

bigfrancis21:
Listen up, the Congolese, Angolans, Akan may have even been more in numbers than Igbo slaves and all these groups with major numbers had very little bits of culture that survived. It is not an Igbo thing, it is a matter of when you arrived or the period in time when the tribes arrived.

Compare the figures exported from Bight of Biafra and Bight of Benin. Exports from Biafra was consistent from the beginning of slavery (1400), and dropping towards the end, while exports from Benin (Lagos and Badagri ports) did not pick up until half-way into the slave trade era (1751) and rose towards the end (when Lagos sent its most slaves). So once again, it was as a result of the time when Yoruba slaves arrived the new world. Figures show that Yoruba slaves were the last to arrive the new world, and for them their origins were still fresh in mind and they taught other slaves about mama africa and their roots!

Remember, not all Ifa practitioners in the diaspora are of Yoruba ancestry!

Dude, i'm not one to engage you in a fruitless back and forth banter over a non-issue. I already spelled out my premise and didn't even argue or disagree with you concerning the numerical strength of igbos slaves relative to others. No. I am merely stating the obvious fact that the Yoruba culture has, more than any other I can think of, managed to stay alive, endure and even convert more adherents that would rather identify with it than any other amongst the descendants of slaves in the diaspora. There's a higher probabilty that more of the descendants of those slaves would be quicker to identify with Yoruba culture than igbo today, #Fact.

And your comment that "not all Ifa practitioners in the diaspora are of Yoruba ancestry" only goes further to buttress this point. Look i can't shout, abeg.

bigfrancis21:
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It doesn't matter. I was born a Roman Catholic. The Roman Catholic Church was formed in Rome by the Romans, who own the church it has spread worldwide to over 100 million practicing Catholics worldwide, yet it doesn't make every Catholic a Roman or of Latin descent. You get the drift now?

Guy, you are actually buttressing my own point with this your Catholism analogy coz obviously the Catholic appeal must've been too irresistible and desirable enough for you to consciously choose to identity with it over more traditional igbo religion, in the same way the igbo slaves must've felt when they decided to allow their culture to die in the diaspora. . I never really argued against your point about the admixture and varied ethnic composition of the slaves that were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. My emphasis was on the enduring character of Yoruba culture relative to those of slaves that even outnumbered them.

bigfrancis21:
Bight of Biafra equally exported hundreds of thousands, whopping 311,000 - nearlynequal to the overall export from Lagos port at 317000, to the same Brazil and Cuba affiliated to Bight of Benin. In terms of spread, Bight of Biafra has more.

Lol. Well, the igbo slaves that made that journey apparently weren't too proud nor fond of their heritage enough to retain enduring traces of them like the Yoruba ones coz we hardly hear of remnant igbo cultural influence being celebrated in Brazil/SouthAmerica/Carribean corridor like the Yorubas' are. E.g the pix below of Obatala Festival in Trinidad and Tobago.

https://www.nairaland.com/3571959/obatala-festival-2017-trinidad-tobago

YourNemesis:
Infact it is even funnier that the US where a lot of the Igbo slaves ended up as one of the majorities, alongside the Kongos, Senegalese tribes and the Gold Coast tribes will probably end up adopting a majorly Yoruba culture. As Igbo culture does not have any significant anchoring structure in the New World.

Yes o, Yoruba culture trumps in the U.S as well, so much so that the architecture of the Smithsonian Museum of African History that was commissioned by Obama some months back in D.C was inspired by the crown worn by Yoruba Kings in Nigeria.

Isn't it interesting that in spite of Yorubas being exported as slaves in relatively lesser numbers, those slaves still curiously managed to retain essential elements of their culture in the diaspora, and have so dramatically multiplied in numbers that brazil (where the bulk of them ended up) today is reckoned to have the second largest black population in the world, behind Nigeria.

MadamExcellency:
N28 billion in 6 months and additional 6 billion in another 6 months totalling N34 billion. Company annual tax is paid yearly and not monthly hence no evenly generated monthly figures.

All these quotations are estimated and hopeful assumptions.

Can we have NBS source for clarifications.

Lol. You no current at all. The 34-billion you are quoting for Ogun is from 2015. Infact a thread was opened about the mid-term 2016 figures earlier today.


https://www.nairaland.com/3580624/nbs-29-states-generated-n317.79bn

Download the detailed NBS breakdown here: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/download/497

Such move would have prolly resulted in a civil war. And none of the stunt that Ecowas is currently pulling over a relatively much much smaller Gambia would ever fly with Nigeria, dem no fit try am. The best the international community would have done would be to mediate for a peaceful resolution to whatever the crises may be.

Blue3k:
Akwa Ibom improving staying in top 10.

Btw judging by tax list. Lagos port doesn't seem to be biggest driver.

Anyone notice Kano rocket up. They more than doubled there igr this year.

You are correct. Revenues from Lagos seaports, airports, and land borders ALL go to the federal government and not the state government.

MadamExcellency:
Ogun State's internally generated revenue in 2015 is N34.59 billion, an increase of 49.42% from previous year.

Ehr.. Ogun already generated $28-billion within 6-months in 2016 (that's already an average of $4.5-billion monthly from a non-oil producing state where many of its industries are still enjoying their tax holidays and yet to start paying taxes to the state government ) and probaby doubled that by the end of same year, that's according to most recent NBS data.

While Oyo is targeting N107-billion this year N107, so our own ambition in that regard pass una own, by far.

http://punchng.com/oyo-targets-n107bn-igr-finance-2017-budget/

Wicked man.

Lol. These 'youths' wey don collect 'riba'. Yoruba youths my foot.

Justdulla:
same to yah

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Justdulla:
No one ever dies before his appinted time.
I die for freedom than live for oppression.
They still remain my heroes though and if i was alive back the, i would have fought shoulder to shoulder with them.

Dude, if by now you still have not learned any shred of wisdom from the failings of these 'heroes' of yours, hey.. you're free to knock yourself tha fvck out.

Justdulla:
Then you that is educated, what have you achieved lately??
My hero remains Major Kaduna Nzeugo and Colonel chukwuemeka Ojuwku, This men fought for patriotism and common sense. They are the real freedom fighters, if vex yah, IDGAF

Lol Omo, you better be careful with the kind of heroes you choose for yourself lest you die before your appointed time . At least Ojukwu later tamed his restlessness and was successfully rehabilitated into the same system he unsuccessfully led millions of his gullible kinsmen to their untimely death fighting against, enjoying the remainder of his life with a fine younger wife at Enugu before dying at an old ripe age -- a luxury millions of Biafrans that died in that unfortunate war never got to taste or enjoy. Just saying.

Justdulla:
daft daffy duck.
You sound exceptionally clever.
Yeah i mean foolishly clever.
The leaders that have been preserved, have they helped our lot. The obasanjos, Buharis, TY Danjumas, Abduksalaam, Shonekan, Gowon. How have the bettered you lately with their policies. when i say Some Nigerians are quite foolish, you lead the pack, ur the Alpha Stupid.

Odenson, those leaders you mentioned were definitely not as stvpid as your 'hero' who is currently lying dead and buried somewhere Lord knows where, after igniting the fire that needlessly consumed millions of innocent lives (especially those of his own kin). If at this day and age you are still promoting violence as a legitimate tool to effect governmental change then i'm sorry but your folks wasted money trying to educate you.

obamabinladen:
Buhari comes to mind.

I am not amongst those that will EVER consider Buhari a 'hero' in any shape or form, let alone praise him as a 'hero of democracy' so say sonething else abeg.

Justdulla:
Go back and read what led to the coup, then you can come here and we would argue.
If you think policticians started corruption today, then am sorry for you.

Today, Nigerians are clamouring for a return to the same regional system of govt he and his cohorts terminated as a result of the coup. In fact, his actions directly led to the civil war that abruptly terminated/wasted the lives of millions of folks. Some of you people and the way you reason sef.