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I'm the prophet of doom right now.

Nigerians, pray against another civil war and violence. I can see two arrows hitting Nigeria - one from the SE region, while the other is coming from the North via the death squads unleashed from Iraq/Syria, on Europe and beyond. If it doesn't happen this year, it might be next year - so whatever God you lot worship, pray to him/her.

I see a nuclear weapon being used this year or 2016. Ohhhh noooo, that's the mushroom smoke synonymous with nuclear weapons going up in the air...God, save humanity.

So, CIA a la ISIS has Nigeria on its plan?

The Economist never told a lie - be very scared.

They're coming...............

Giggs featuring B.o.B - Don't Go There


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Ibebe:
When we discuss our leaders, are we not being political?

I doubt political leadership and economical development are disconnected.

I only came on the thread to show Yoruba Londoner that should make you faint. But this one looks like my long lost twin brother and I posted his profile already. Don't let the video fool you, he's hench. And he got a first class degree from Uni. Out!

Tobi the big tobz.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYkN2-0N_yo

9jacrip:
I'm surprised this brilliant post from our Aunty never got a response.




Also, while playing catch up on the thread, I saw something about 'now that SWest is now aligned with the centre'.

What happens when the table turns and SWest is no longer aligned with the centre?

And has it gotten that bad that SWest has to depend on the centre?

I was expecting propositions bordering on:

Cutting expenses

Generating/increasing IGR

Cutting down and if possible paying off the debts accrued

Welfare

Agriculture (I presume states should be able to do this without assent from the centre?)

Education

And most importantly, regional cohesion that we have been mentioning since the beginning of the thread.

After reading the thread from where where I left off, all I deduced was the advert of a party or the present government as though the make up of the present government aren't from PDP as well.

A ma ri ibi ti gbogbo e ma ja si laarin odun kan si meji abi se no be electricity don wey dem use start don collapse so?

Loool. Sad.

The funniest thing is that none of them even bothered explaining to sway us, by highlighting (a, b, c, and d) why the recurrent expenditure in each state is that huge and the reasons for the huge debts profile. They just ran over the thread with well-coordinated attacks, saying a lot without saying anything. While heaping all the blame on the civil service.

Every sane person knows that the civil service is just a fraction of the recurrent expenditure. What about the rest? Shouldn't these folks who are card carrying members of these backward political parties with no ideology whatsoever be privy to the information?

Anyway, they won. We all logged out and gave them a free ride on the thread. It's over now - we want our thread back.

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yetseyi:
loool, How are you bro.

I actually just remembered a friend in UNI that dated my "cousin".(His parents and my cousins parents are like childhood friends so we are family).

My aunts 70 birthday a typical Ijebu owambe so I invited my friends, that was 200level. This particular lady came early so we sat on the same table while my cousin sat at the opposite table.

Anyway some days after the party I received a call from this cousin that I should please send the number of my friend. I didn't even think about it I sent it to him.

Some days later my friend told me that someone claiming to be my cousin called her introduced himself and that he would love to meet her and that she should come
to meet him at his XYZ center. I said he is married and his wife is very pretty (although he had been having problems with his wife) but as far as I was concerned that was not a license to cheat especially not with my friend.

She went and told me that he gave her some money (which she didnt disclose to me but she told the other friends) and said he didnt want third party(I am the third party lool).

There was nothing I could do, it was out of my hands and I couldn't mention it to family members (worldwar 3) but I kept on telling her that this guy is married. Now I was in my late teens and this lady was 24 as at then and this particular guy was around 40 and had 2 children with the eldest around 12. I felt so bad about it but there was nothing I could do.

He is very comfortable and had(still has) money to throw around. The next time I would see my cousin was a few months later during a kind off family reunion and normally he would grease my palms as per big brother but this time around it was quite bulky ( I took that as an indirect shut your mouth, dont mention anything about this issue loool).

I didnt see him after that but the next semester I stylishly parted with my friends then I changed friends but I heared he parted with his wife then in 400level she saw me in class and said he invited her to his house and was begging her to marry him but she turned down the offer, she said she thought about it deeply but that If she was really after his money and didn't think of other things she would have accepted the offer(I really dont know what to make of that statement)

Another annoying part of the whole story is that his wife is very beautiful.

Its been a long while the incident happened and of course she is married to someone else and co incidentally the person he is dating now was my classmate in secondary school loool.

Looool.

Another cool story, my Ijebu sis.

I'm enjoying ya stories. Do you have more to share? - but this time, you must be the main character.

It seems you have a lot of beautiful friends, or went to school with beautiful chics, hence folks stay running after ya friends.

Obviously, you should have stories about folks chasing you, yetty. Bring me in.

My type of Yoruba man.

Proud of you, brother.

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Looool

This thread is very entertaining.

You lot went from Pro-Nigeria Igbos, to fisticuffs between IPOB goons and Igbotic Nig.ger-areans, to IPOB youths + Igbotic Nig.ger-areans vs Truckpusher the SS militant, to IPOB goons vs Yorubas, to to IPOB youths + Igbotic Nig.ger-areans + Fulani vs Truckpusher the SS militant.

You can't make this shyte up - Nigeria the cesspit in 3D live on NL. House of commotions.

The Malê Revolt: The Malê Revolt of the Brazilian Yoruba slaves

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The Muslim uprising of 1835 in Bahia illustrates the condition and legacy of resistance among the community of Malês, as African Muslims were known in 19th century Bahia. The majority of the participants were Nago, the local designation for ethnic Yoruba. Many of the "Malês" had been soldiers and captives in the wars between Oyo, Ilorin and other Yoruba city-states in the early part of the 19th Century. Other participants included Hausa and Nupe clerics, along with Jeje or Dahomean soldiers who had converted to Islam or fought in alliance with Muslims

While the revolt was scheduled to take place on Sunday, January 25, due to various incidents, it was forced to start before the planned time. On Saturday the 24th, slaves began to hear rumors of an upcoming rebellion. While there are multiple accounts of freed slaves telling their previous masters about the revolts, only one was reported to the proper authorities. A man named Domingos Fortunato overheard rumors and told his wife, Guilhermina Rosa de Souza, of the rebellion. Guilhermina then proceeded to tell her white neighbor, André Pinto da Silveira. Several of Pinto de Silveira's friends were present, including Antônio de Souza Guimarães and Francisco Antônio Malheiros, who took it upon themselves to relay the information to the local authorities. All of these events occurred between the hours of 9:30 and 10:30 PM on Saturday the 24th.

The justice of the peace, José Mendes de Costa Coelho, took the necessary precautions; he reinforced the palace guard, alerted the barracks, doubled the night patrol, and ordered boats to watch the bay, all by 11:00 PM. At around 1:00 AM on Sunday, justices of the peace searched the home of Domingos Marinho de Sa. Domingos had reported that there were Africans meeting in his house due to fear for his life. However, sensing Domingos's fear, the justices asked to see for themselves. They went down into his basement and found the ringleaders, discussing last minute details. However, the Africans were able to turn the officers out into the streets. Out on the streets, the fighting saw its first real bloodshed; several people were injured and at least one killed. After securing the area, the rebels split up to go in different directions throughout the city. Most of the groups did very little fighting because they were recruiters, calling slaves to war.

However, the largest group traveled up the hill toward Palace Square (Praça Municipal today), and continued to fight. The rebels decided to first attack the city palace of the jail , attempting to free a Muslim leader, Pacifico Licutan. However, the prison guards proved too much for the rebels, who perhaps were looking to supplement their weak supply of arms with the jailers'. Under heavy fire, the slaves withdrew from the prison and retreated to the Largo de Teatro. Reinforcements arrived on the slaves side, and together they attacked a nearby post of soldiers in order to take their weapons. They marched toward the officer's barracks, and put up a good fight, however, the soldiers were able to pull the gate guarding the barracks shut. The slaves had failed. After failing to take several more key positions, the slaves decided to head through the city, toward Cabrito, the designated meeting spot. However, in between Cabrito and Salvador da Bahia was the Brazilian cavalry. And when they met in Água de Meninos, the most decisive battle of the revolt took place. At about 3:00 AM, the rebels reached Água de Meninos. The footsoldiers immediately retreated inside the confines of the barracks while the men on horseback stayed outside. The rebels, who now only numbered about 50–60, did not attempt to attack the barracks. Instead, they sought a way around it. However, they were met with fire from the barracks, followed by a cavalry charge, which proved too powerful for the rebel slaves. After the rebels were completely devastated, more slaves arrived. After assessing the situation, the slaves decided that their only hope would be to attack and take the barracks. However, this desperate attempt proved futile, and the rebels quickly decided to flee. The cavalry mounted one last charge that finished them off.

Fearful that the whole state of Bahia would follow the example of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and rise up and revolt, the authorities quickly sentenced four of the rebels to death, sixteen to prison, eight to forced labour, and forty-five to flogging. The remainder of surviving leaders of the revolt were then deported back to Africa by the authorities; it is believed that some members of the Brazilian community in Lagos, Nigeria, Tabom People of Ghana are descended from this deportation, although descendants of these Afro-Brazilian repatriates are reputed to be widespread throughout West Africa (such as Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of Togo). The term "Aguda" on the other hand refers to the mainstream, predominantly Christian Brazilian returnees to Lagos who brought Roman Catholicism in their wake; which is why that denomination is often referenced in Yoruba as "Ijo Aguda" (The Portuguese Church). Fearing the example might be followed, the Brazilian authorities began to watch the malês very carefully and in subsequent years intensive efforts were made to force conversions to Catholicism and erase the popular memory and affection towards Islam. However, the African Muslim community was not erased overnight, and as late as 1910 it is estimated there were still some 100,000 African Muslims living in Brazil.

Yoruba religion's contribution to the Haitian revolution

The Haitian Revolution was the first incidence of mass emancipation in a colonial society and the only slave revolt that resulted in the formation of a modern state. However,existing canonical works on this revolution have largely concentrated on providing a central symbiotic relationship between the slave revolt and the broader changes in the Atlantic World during the 18th century. It has even been widely assumed that the Haitian Revolution was intellectually inspired by Western cultural values.

Indeed, the Yoruba slave, Dutty Boukman, who ignited the revolution has been reduced to a mere footnote in the body of the prevailing Western-biased Haitian hegemonic historiography. This paper argues that the revolution, which was historically rooted in a legendary Yoruba traditionthat abhors injustice, corruption and oppression, represents the very best of Yoruba’s cultural attainment in the Diaspora. The study further ‘resurrects’ the monumental contributions of Dutty Bookman to the outbreak of the revolution and underscores the fact that the Yoruba god of Ogun was the most portent rallying force that drove the revolution. Thus, the paper situates the cultural roots of the Haitian Revolution in its proper historical perspective and challenges one of the prevailing stereotypes about the“meagre” contributions of enslaved Africans to the emancipation of African slaves. The study, therefore, represents a major revision of the current historiography on the emancipation movement, and further highlights the methodological challenges of reconstructing the history of the slave trade in the Diaspora


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If you want to read more, the PDF paper of the scholarship is on this link: http://www.academia.edu/947729/Historicising_African_Contributions_to_the_Emancipation_Movement_The_Haitian_Revolution_1791-1805

quimicababes

Take this as well.

This is soca though it did crossover to mainstream.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3Exc5tCtc

quimicababes:
I be trini...get a soca song nah lol .

Loool.

I found one soca tune for ya...better whine to this.

I'm still looking for the one I love most at the carnival. Whenever that tune comes on, I just start whining those half-naked carnival chics lool.


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

CSTR2:
I think a brief look at the average Igbo and Yoruba individual can tell who originated from monkeys.
The likes of OBJ and tinubu are the closest to monkeys as you can find.

Lol.

OBJ's dad was an Igbo man, I guess that's why he looks like a monkey. As for Tinubu, once you look at his pictures from way back, he looked different. Perhaps, lifestyle contributed to that.

However, I can post gazillion of pictures of Igbo folks who look like monkeys, starting from Ojukwu. Don't piss me off and make me start posting pictures. Let the thread die.

This is OBJ and his father - not shocking where he got his face from.

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Lol.

It's not Peterkbaba, it's akigbemaru. Thank God he's online.

Akigbemaru, can you please tell us more about ya scholarship on how Igbos are the offspring of the now extinct Idanre monkeys and why they say "amu amu amu" a lot like those monkeys?

FreeGlobe:
But most beautiful girls in Nigeria are igbos?

You mean the most bleached Fela-esque yellow fever bandits, no?

Just delete the useless thread.

You look like a biitch with a fat pu.ssy with this thread. You're a guy for fvck sake.

You went from Mr. Globe, a man - to Freeglobe, a tranny, and lost all the screws in ya head in the process.

FreeGlobe:
Do igbos look like idanre monkeys?

With how hairy a lot of Igbos are and the shape of the typical Igbotic head - it's very plausible.

And don't forget the speech pattern.

Amu amu amu is common in the speech pattern of both primate groups.

FreeGlobe:
Here is a more pressing matter. My state govt is interested in buying osun state for agriculture since it's now a failed state. Tell your people to name their price

https://www.nairaland.com/2736266/photos-ayedire-local-government-secretariat/3#40020948

I'll take you seriously when ya state govt can afford to buy ya lands back from the gully erosion that has ravaged the red lands where the sun has refused to rise.

I reiterate: are Igbos the offspring of Idanre monkeys as posited by Prof. PeterKbaba?

FreeGlobe:
Well I have always been curious to know if modath was genuine with her Buhari fanaticm and I'm happy I just got my answer which is no different from what yorubas have been known to indulge in over the years. You know like they always say, truth is a bitter pill so I dont expect anyone implicated by this thread to be happy with it and you know what? Idgaf

And didn't GEJ fail woefully? Why did the whole nation of wandering support him and are still crying over GEJ?

It's politics, who gives a fvck?

Freeglobe

Oh well, I found the guy.

PeterKbaba, the guy who knows the history of Igbos.

Is it true that Igbos are the offspring of the now extinct Idanre monkeys?

Apparently, those monkeys used to say "amu amu amu" and Igbos also use a lot "amu amu amu" in their speeches.

FreeGlobe:
ok, so is Buhari better than GEJ? How? I dont even expect any response from you, let me just go ahead and serve you

Monkey, just shut the fvck up.

And stop coming to a thread that's got nothing to do with you to steal people's posts and create nuisance everywhere.

You're a biitch with a fat pu.ssy for this idi.otic and senseless thread like a whole nation of wandering Igbos aren't guilty of the same thing.

Just sod off.

FreeGlobe:
Are you also a Buharist?

Who gives a shiit?

I supported him during the election and I was very active on those fake certificate threads. It's politics and interests must be protected.

You Igbos just whine about everything like deranged monkeys. Now I see why you lot never had an intelligible language before Ajayi Crowther.

If my memory serves me right - didn't some Yoruba poster back in the day used to allude to the fact that Igbo are offspring of now extinct Idanre monkeys?

Why did Igbos support GEJ despite the fact that he was an excuse for a human being and dumbest mofo ever?

FreeGlobe:
Apparently all the talk about Jonathan didn't perform, Jonathan was corrupt, etc was just a smokescreen used to cover the obvious reason why the yorubas hated Jonathan and voted buhari which is Political power. The yorubas as represented by this vocal Buhari supporter modath were just envious of the "political power" igbos had under jonathan and believed voting Buhari will give them that leverage.
Anyway, I want to know if they are happy with the present "political power" they have under Buhari or they are just happy to have an advantage over igbos? When next you see modath praising Buhari like a zombie, just know it's all about political power.

You're an id.iot.

And what's wrong in what she posited? Is that the same reason why the whole of Igboland supported GEJ despite the fact that he's dumbest president to ever rule a country? The same reason why you lot supported Iweala despite the fact that she's a m0ron and she destroyed the economy of the country, and all her waivers? Ditto the utterly corrupt Stealer Oduah?

You lost ya brain cells when you became a tranny. You're a guy but you act like a biitch with a fat pu.ssy.

9jacrip:
I'm sure the politicians or at least their affiliates and online sellers read or will eventually see this thread and its content. Not only that, other serious minded Yoruba folks will see it and come to terms with reality rather than revelling in the propaganda these parties are known for.

I don't know what the house has decided on in totality, which will serve as my leaning point.

At the end of the day, that was what Aareonakakanfo created the thread for and Mayoroflagos cosigned it. Yoruba is bigger than individuals and/or splinter groups - it's a commonwealth and our collective destiny is the same.

We can't let folks hijack or dictate what we should talk about to us. We'll discuss the good, bad, and ugly. The purpose of the thread is to enlighten folks about our potentials, what we're doing right, celebrate our history/culture/heritage/achievers/traditions, and our shortcomings. If we decide to start avoiding our shortcomings cos of what romanis think, or cos some folks think we need to cover them - then the purpose of the thread would be deflated. Yorubas believe in pluralism - so why can't we let folks discuss whatever they want to discuss? Ritchiee wanted to discuss the debts and we all added our critiques. That's basically the reason why I locked into the thread.

Personally, I came to NL cos of Yoruba history/culture/traditions and how Yorubas are faring in Nigeria - and maybe Edos to an extent. I don't have time for no partisan politics or personality. These personalities don't even inspire me, and none of them are role models to me. The only Nigerian role models I have are mostly long dead and buried. Awolowo, Julius Ojo-Cole, Ladipo Solanke, Wole Soyinka, Fela Kuti, and Christopher Okigbo. I don't care about these people and they're not infallible to me. So I shall critique them whenever they do something wrong, regardless of whose ox is gored, period. No apologies.

modath:
Of course we'll get partisan, one doesn't have to be a political jobber to be partisan, we are human with emotions..... We live here & know where the shoes hurt!!

Being beaten to death & dying from sudden death are both DEATHS but one is easier & swifter than the other..

Of course we will go with the lesser evil, someone kindly create another party that will solve our problems & see if we won't support it wholeheartedly......

I live in a city where i have seen a family friend go from being a regular level 12 officer to being a serious multi millionaire on school subvention funds simply because of lack of checks & balances in the system....

We can't go with having no leader, it's one of the reasons Romanis keep making political gaffes, we can as well go with someone who is at least SERIOUS about wanting to make an effort...

The result of the last election wasn't close as some may imagine, I'm sure @Osomalo if he wants to be sincere can tell you how much resources was sunk into getting votes for the shoeless one....

I only know about events from most SW from hearsay but i am sure about Omuo-Ekiti , each vote was 2,000..

Fayose spared no expense to get things his way..

We may spend everyday here bellyaching, i still don't see how it will help our region be better in the face of our mono export & non diversified economy...

However, we never even discussed the leaders nor critiqued anyone till the stats profile came up two days ago. And I don't even think anyone would've mentioned it on this thread, if not cos Ritchiee decided to post it here. I saw the thread, though I was mad when I saw it - I just left it there cos I don't rate these.

Before then, we went from page 1 to over 190 pages, and most of the folks crying foul contributed zilch to the thread. Even when the thread was moved, they never showed solidarity. So how come they're now finding their voices and throwing hissy fit now?

A Yoruba person should never put party interests before the Yoruba cause. What is wrong is wrong, we don't have to sugarcoat it. If folks aren't performing, we have to call them out. At the end of the day, there are a lot of pages on here where we celebrated certain developments in the SW. How come these folks never had a problem with that? We're not robots.

Aareonakakanfo:
True words!I agree with you we need to talk about it and point out their errors

If we don't point out their errors, we can't come up with solutions

I think what the other faction is not comfortable with is our language

The language is normal when people are pissed off.

We didn't even abuse anyone too tough.

These folks are rap.ing Yoruba people in the arse.

Have you ever seen Brits and yanks abuse their leaders?

Osomalo:
Being a QS, I would have preferred works ministry but by 2018 I would have become Baba Mutum. I may nomminate someone sha lols.

Seriously, it's annoying. They knew Osun State is poor yet they keep borrowing.

Are they not ashamed of always burrowing? I tired for those guys mehn.

Who's even borrowing them money, when they know they don't have the means to pay back these debts?

The whole thing looks like a big ponzi scheme.

laudate:
Am so sorry. I saw this before, but I just lost track of it somewhere in between my numerous responses.

I will search for data on the total number of workers in state ministries, but that would take a bit of time. I am sure some ministries don't even have accurate figures on the number of workers they have!

As for PPP, it is an operational scheme in Lagos, Ogun and a few other places, but it really needs a lot of fine-tuning and monitoring, and there have been instances to show that the states have not been up to par, in their monitoring functions.

In Lagos for example, there is the Lagos State Public-Private Partnership Office that implements and monitors PPP projects. The AES Nigeria’s 270 Megawatt (MW) - IPP Project, is reported to be an Independent Power Project (IPP) that operates nine (9) barge-mounted gas turbines, producing 270MW of electricity. On their website it says :
However in reality, AES was implicated in a financial scandal a few years back and the project was grounded. I don't know if it is back on stream now. I need to find out.

There is also the Akute Power Project (12.15 Megawatt) - IPP for the Lagos State Water Corporation. The Akute Power Project provides a total capacity of 12.15 MW by using four 3 MW GE Jenbacher gas engines.


To the best of my knowledge this project is still running, but the total amount spent so far and on-going costs are not fully known.

There have been other PPP arrangements in the area of waste collection and disposal, transportation, housing, land use revenue collection etc. You can get more details here: http://www.lagosstateppp.gov.ng/projects/case_studies/transportation/transportation.asp

The construction and tolling of the Lekki-Epe Expressway is another example of a PPP Project. While the1st phase of the road construction was completed in 2012, it has thrown up a lot of controversy and angst especially among the road users. The concession is operated by the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which has a 30 year contract in place to collect tolls and maintain the roads. The profit sharing formula remains unknown, and the promoters were taken to court by residents along that road at one time. The success of that project led Lagos State to construct a tolled 1.7km bridge linking Lekki to Ikoyi, last year with another company.

However, construction on the coastal road has not even begun and the tolled Lekki-Epe expressway has not solved the traffic problem on that axis due to its faulty design and lack of overhead bridges to divert traffic at the roundabouts.

I'll be back with more info on both projects later.

Thanks a lot for that.

We also need to know those behind the "private companies" they're running these PPP projects with. There's Odua Investment Group there, how come they're not making any concessions to this company, since it represents Yoruba interest?

Please, help us post any information you can lay ya hands on.

Sweet.

Aareonakakanfo:
Hmmmmn Shymm3x o ga.E se a je ka ni suuru.

One thing I know for sure is that besides the 2 or 3 posters I've personally called out here, I truly believe everyone here wants good for the Yoruba nation even though some of us are still partisan

We all agree we're Yorubas first before we're PDP/APC so lets avoid any friction as much as we can

One Love!

But how can you want the best for ya people when you want to hide everything wrong with ya people?

Who will look at that debt profile and not be very worried apart from those benefiting from these politicians?

Why should one man have that much power to enslave a whole region of over 30 million people and keep robbing them?

It's not right - we need to talk about it.

Katsumoto left cos of the madness.

Aareonakakanfo:
This one wey everybody just dey jump inside ring

Why una eyes dey red like this.kilode? ehn!

I know some people are waiting to jump in as well

Make una calm dahn ooo before fight start

Oya e je ka jo

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Don't mind the political jobbers.

When we started the thread, they never contributed anything to it.

However, now that they released the damning evidence of how their paymasters have failed Yoruba people - they're crying everywhere. Like seriously, who cares? When the thread was moved twice, how many of them came to show solidarity? Muthaphuck these people.

This section is like every other section on this forum.

In the politics section, for folks to like you - you have to either be partisan or be a tribal warlord.

In the family section, for folks to like you - you have to be a sucker and a fervent supporter of feminism.

In the sports section, for folks to like you - you have to be a Chelsea hater.

Nairaland for you in 3D.

kaybams1:
If this is what this thread is created for, then i can assure you that it will die a natural death. What's the point talking about the obvious. Tinubu is a fool, Fashola is overrated bla bla bla..... Pages keep rolling with unnecessary vitriolics on men that are not less fallible as we are. I think we need to relax for starters and act like progressives that we are. Deliberate more on issues and less on individuals.

And you think three pages of discussing the obvious on a thread we've pushed to over 200 pages will kill the thread, no?

How many posts have you contributed to the thread? We don't need you lot.

laudate:
Yemoya?? I thought it was Yemoja??

Osun State needs to get its act together in tourism and treat it strictly like a business at the highest levels of governance, in order to earn improved revenue from it. Look at Nairobi, Kenya and Gaborone, Botswana. Right from the international airport, you are given leaflets and flyers highlighting all the tourism attractions in their country, and if you visit the tourism desk right at their airport they will book you a hotel, cab, or bus and hand you over to a registered tour operator that takes you straight to their tourist sites. Of course, you would pay the required fees directly to the tour company, but it is worth it.

Their tour operators go out of their way to make your stay comfortable and interesting. There are so many branded souvenirs of high quality at every corner, for you to choose from as holiday gifts. And they do not cost the earth.

These countries are actively represented at the World Travel Market and other fairs around the globe that have anything to do with tourism, travel and hospitality. Osun State can learn how they did it, and adapt some of their methods to drive tourism in their state. For example, can't we get hovercrafts and ferries from Lagos State to transport people directly to Osun for the festival, using the waterways??

Lol.

They call the god "yemoya" in Condombe, Santeria, Voodun et al. These folks love Osun goddess, Yemoya, Shango, and Ogun. Then they do cite Obatala from time to time. But I think Osun and Yemoya are the most revered in Yoruba diaspora.

Imagine. And these are third world countries. Osun states doesn't even need to go to all those tourism outlets - they just need to go to Brazil, Grenada, Cuba, Dominican republic, Puerto Rico, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago et al to create awareness and keep good relations with these folks. In that region alone, there are over 80 million people interested in Osun goddess cos of how intertwined Yoruba religion is with Catholicism out there.

@ Aareonakakanfo

That's what I told you about getting too many folks involved on this thread cos it'll get too partisan. I know this forum cos I've been here for three years and a lot of folks are too partisan.

This is also the reason why Katsumoto stopped posting cos it's difficult to critique the so-called "Yoruba leaders" for their obvious failures. That's why these folks keep taking Yoruba folks as mugs.

Once you use the dynamics of the last elections as a yardstick and how close the election was in all SWern states, you'd see that a lot of Yoruba folks out there are tired of APC. But they just don't have a choice cos it's the lesser devil when compared to PDP.