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All these sounds strange to me...
IITA is meant to be an international organisation with international standard and practice.....
so how much influence do these nigerian men have in the institute to be able to establish their exploitative tendencies as a norm...
I'm also aware there are quite a number of whites working in the institution....
Even the M.D is a foreigner.....
Do they also engage in all these practice or they look the other way....
Cos I just dont get it....

kn23h:
Ibos and their obsession with Yoruba.

So someone woke up to create a YouTube video about Yoruba men.

This is the height of desperation.

Tomorrow they'll wake up, claim Fulani and create a video.

There is no better time for enactment of the hate speech bill than now....
Social media in nigeria is no more than a gutter platform where anybody can come n vomit loads of rubbish.....

kettykin:
I never wanted to reply this double mouthed people but the Lion in me thinks otherwise.

What by happend whe Awolowo was giving a life jail sentence over treason, nothing Yoruba's did absolutely nothing.

What happened when Nzeogwu struck and Yoruba top military officers were slaughtered like pigs and rams, nothing, Yoruba's did absolutely nothing.

What happened when the north struck in July 1966 and fajuyi was slaughtered like a beast in his zone nothing ,Yorubas did absolutely nothing.

What happened when ogundipe was kicked out of the seat of power in July 1966 even as he was supposed to take over as the most senior military official, nothing, Yoruba's did absolutely nothing.

What happened when Abiola was sent to jail for winning and election and killed in jail with his wife kudi rat slaughtered on the streets of Lagos, nothing, yorubas did absolutely nothing.

What happened when the mouth maker obasanjo was bundled to prison over trumped up coup charges with all the Yoruba generals and top military officers, nothing Yoruba did absolutely nothing.

What will happen if osinbajo is chanced by the North and displaced from m taking over from buhari ,if chinakwes dog bites the dust, nothing Yoruba's will do absolutely nothing.

Sending awolowo to jail was the single most important factor that led to the truncation of the 1st republic and the bloody aftermath......
As for abiola, the northerners didn't kill him, the international community did. Just like they killed abacha....
Both had to go for semblance of stability to return to the country....
Right now, the unpredictability of nigerian political landscape is too intense for anybody to play game with it....
Best bet is to allow for the rule of law......
A word they say is enough for the wise....

brightnelly:
Oga try and inquire import duty charges and come edit your post.... How can you buy a car of 1.5m with both shipping and clear it with 3.1m is that normal?

In india n South Africa, duty on imported cars is 150%.....
They don't allow used cars into their country....
No wonder they have a booming motor vehicle industry....
There is innoson, Nissan, lizade in this country....
Is their anything wrong if we patronize made in nigeria cars....

win2kwire:
Her husband, John shagaya, one of the people who helped ibb to loot and destroy Nigeria!

her husband isn't John Shagaya.....

Henryyy:
This got me thinking. Igbos here are in the habit of boasting about their women being the most beautiful in Nigeria bla bla bla.I don't get it.They even call women from other tribes ugly
You hear them saying things like: "When Biafra is achieved Nigeria will lack beautiful women". Is it that they haven't visited other regions or what? Because to me as a well travelled dude, Igbo women are not as beautiful as nairalanders want people to believe. Am not saying they are ugly but I can name 5 tribes off the top of my head with way more beautiful women than the igbos. My question is why do you all boast when the prettier ones lay low?
I will be posting some pix of women from various tribes just to show beauty of different tribes. The only Igbo pix I will post are those that have been uploaded on NL by Igbos themselves. Dont want no accusation that I picked 'bad pics to discredit igbos' or shii like that.

Don't let what people post on social media get to u.....
U are getting worked up unnecessarily over nothing.....
Social media is a public toilet where anybody can comes to vommit thrash.....
Stop living ur life for social media n stop taking it too serious......
The real life is offline.........

Omofunaab2:
Lol, i swear d ting shock many of them.. . Infact d ting shock many yorubas too

I'm Yoruba but was taken by surprise....
Especially the real estate n property development in lekki n Lagos in general.....
Thought most of those estates were built by Chinese, Lebanese n some corrupt govt officials.....

I guess most people didn't read the article, only commenting on the begging stuffs.,....
Full implementation of cashless policy and having a real national database will really help in proper taxation and preventing tax evasion......
It should also be a bottom to top approach rather than from federal level downwards....
Thus, local and state govt needs to be carried along if it will be successful...

Igboesika:
I wish Demola Ajayi was a nairalandrer. D man don suffer no b small.
Indeed, he's real representative of afonjass not Tinubu .

The man in the pics isn't demola ajayi...
Demos ajayi is a professional photographer who exhibits cultures thru pictures.....

omooba969:
Typical! You would rather take out your frustration on THE LIBERAL YORUBAS than call a spade ♠ a spade. Even when the abokiz served your sorry arse with a quit notice, all you could do was vent your anger on my dear people.

I know you guys never find comfort in the truth, pain is all you find. It's obvious you're too scared of the abokiz that you hardly launch at them given the fact that they slaughter you guys @the slightest opportunity.

Yeye dey smell. Mind you, if you dare quote me I will crush your balls.

Proudly omo O'odua, proudly omo Yoruba.

As a Yoruba guy, I just love this picture......
I don't know why.....

Decale:
You're contradicting yourself here

Do you have a new iPhone for 120k or 150k?
Do you have new S8 or Samsung flagships for 100k or 150k? Capital NO!!!


Thank Goodness you mentioned BB. That's the iPhone of 2010s. Used blackberries were the best selling phones then cos they wanted to get it

The best selling Samsung phones aren't even the flagships. They are the sub $200 low end waste of phones.

Sell an S8, Mi6 and iPhone 7 all new at 100k to 100 people. 60 or more will go for the iPhone, 30 for S8 and the remaining 10 for Mi6 which is where choice is.

You can't tell me if everybody could afford a flagship phone, you'd see Tecno, Gionee and Xiaomi everywhere. Lmao. Put a 500k price tag on any Android and it's gone with the wind. Only Apple can do that and get away with it.

But samsung s8 plus is close to that.....
And people are buying it....
I'm typing with one now and I bought it for over 800 pounds....
While iphone 7plus goes for like 750 pounds.....
I agree iPhone brands makes it the bestseller.....
But it's all about personal choices not necessary the money....

Osibanjo will complete this term in any case buhari is incapacitated........
Nigerians will decide what happens in 2019.......

Ogbuefi2020:
who created this sensless thread? the Zik Awo debacle happened in the 50s while Igbomen became both UI and UNilag VCs in 1962. Furthermore, the universities were 100% owned by the regional governments and not the central government, so claiming that Zik appointed them is another another afonja's funny brand of history. The tribalism sown by awolowo was yet to infiltrate the academia and they elected their VCs based on track record same way Zik defeated Awo. Babatunde Fafunwa also became the first Dean, faculty of Education and Acting VC briefly in UNN before leaving when the war started.

UI n unilag we're federal universities in the 50s and Zik rightly appointed thier VCs......
Why he chose igbos is left for him to answer.....
But Pls, don't twist history to suit it narrative......

koladebrainiac:
Please if Biafra eventually exist Nigeria through referendum -i mean peacefully

Who will pay their monies dey borrowed from banks
I mean what will happen to their liabilities .

Didn't the bank secure collateral n guarantors b4 granting them loans......
I'm sure if they default or abscond to the new nation, the banks will simply take over the defaulter's property....
I guess that's why most igbo elites are not too enthusiastic about the biafra project....
For those who collected salary loan or via cooperative...
I think those will be used a collective bargaining tool during secession negotiations.......

Markfemi2:
Please read

Nothing to read.....
Tell us igbo political or sociocultural leaders that has come out to support biafra.....
Then u calling Yoruba leaders cowards will be justified....

That's quite explicit asiwaju.....
Since we pride ourselves in education, we should use education as the springboard for National development and economic progress.
We must invest in education, that is the only way out or else we will end up like other mediocre African countries, stuck between underdeveloped n developing economy.....
Great emphasis should be placed on STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The nations that have successfully transited from 3rd world to 1st world had STEM as their educational bedrock......
we must exploit the human resources among our people by educating them properly.......
A new education curriculum that is tailored towards the need of the nation must be designed and rigoriously enforced, right from primary school to university......
The ultimate goal is to produce an educated and equally skilled workforce.
Technical education must be emphasised in our schools, we need to produce a skilled workforce that can work in factories and production companies.......
It's not about wearing shirt n tie, looking for non existent office or govt jobs......
The useless education policy/curriculum that promotes paper certificate we presently use in nigeria must be thrashed apart n thrown into the dustbin where it rightly belongs.....
We must build a substantial part of our economy around the IT/ tech industry and educational policy must reflect this.....
IT is the future, what we see today is just the beginning.....
It has already eclipsed the oil industry as the biggest industry in terms of revenue......
Serious countries are investing fortune into this sector while nigeria is yet to have a IT policy......
Our ICT minister main concern is how to be the next governor of his state.....
The tech industry also has what it takes to create millions of jobs for our youth if properly harnessed, Indian IT success story is a case study......
Agriculture and natural resources can be other source of revenue by using modern technology and IT to develop this sectors.
The era of promoting cocoa as the main source of revenue for the nation is gone and nobody should take us back......
This 2017, not 1960.....

I'll come back and talk more on national development of SW Nigeria in case of restructuring or secession.......

Viergeachar:
shior!

All I see is sheer cowardice and fear of the abookis masqueraded as sophistication.

I'd rather Osinbajo contested and lost in 2019 than he chickened out of the race because of fear of what the abokkis will do.

The abookis themselves will salute our cowardice if he did that.

It is easier for the abookis to agree to restructuring under Osinbajo as president than under a Fulani.

The ball is in our court.

Infact, I see PMB backing an Osinbajo presidency in 2019 from wherever he may be.

Hmmm......
Good one here......
I think osibanjo presidency is the pawn we need to restructure this country.......
We should only support odibanjo in 2019 if he agrees to restructure.....
I know deep down osibanjo wants this country restructured n if given the chance he will do it......
We should push him to do it........
There's no better time to restructure this country than now.......
The present state of the nation demands it.......
Osibanjo should only agree not to contest in 2019 if the northerners agree to restructuring between now and then.....

vanbonattel:
Of course we can move into any part of Nigeria to do business and make money. Doesn't mean the natives are living better than us. Yoruba towns are living in abject poverty, to the extent that they have to cut human parts to survive. Most others turn to touting and agbero to stay alive.

What is the use of your IGR when they are using it to build infrastructure I will still enjoy? I am your king and your ppl should work and create more IGR for me The power plants you build, no be who pay for light them go give light? How much do you have to pay for power? Poor people just making noise.

I know that the international airport is giving your people nightmare as you fear lagos airport will be used as car park.

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pazienza:
And what irrefutable evidence have you provided to support your Igbo coup story?

Tell me why your Opinion should count?

Inukwa.

Did I ever tell u the jan 1966 coup was an igbo coup.....
It's well documented that the whole nation initially welcomed the coup......
Nzeogwu controlled the northern part of the country for a period....
But subsequent action or inaction of ironsi and igbos in general forced people to have a re-think......
What u guys are yet to understand is that the world don't operate on conscience.....
Most especially politics, that's why it's called a dirty game....
When I was young n naive, I read ademoyega book and I swallowed everything he wrote....
The guy never accepted blame or saw anything wrong in what they did.....
But now,I know better......
What ironsi should have done was to ensure ademoyega n his colleagues were tried n executed promptly.....
Their action had caused a lot of tension in the country.....
Forget the motive or that he benefited from the plot......
Action speaks louder than any good intention......
He should have killed them to calm frayed nerves......
That's what ojukwu did with banjo, ifeajuna n co......
And ibb with his best friend, vsata.....

pazienza:
Fajuyi story had since been unravelled. See it here :https://www.nairaland.com/3838439/what-igbo-learn-yoruba-fulani/1

Ejoor is a not a brilliant man, his lies are too childish.

Ironsi was not part of Awolowo coup. He was a party pooper.

The North were still angry that Nzeogwu and his boys killed their leader, and are demanding their heads , Ironsi was still looking for how to appease them,
And you expect Fajuyi to start telling Ironsi about Awolowo release, same Awolowo the Northerners are still angry that he had the guts to try to usurp Balewa government? Do you know why Awolowo was imprisoned in the East rather than the North to start with?
Do you take Fajuyi for a fool? Of course he knew they must bid their time.

Your opinion doesn't count.....
Bring out irrefutable evidence that supports your claim....
At least there's evidence awolowo wrote to ironsi pleading for clemency.....
Why didn't he write to fajuyi.....
Show us evidence linking fajuyi to awolowo and any role they played in the jan 1966 coup...

Origamist:
Do you have any evidence that directly links him to the coup?
A statement by any of the coup plotters or something of that nature.
Concluding that because Fajuyi was a Yoruba(fajuyi's involvement is still debatable)and was at the Battle Course with Nzeogwu et al. Makes Awolowo the reason for the coup is a farfetched.
He was not released by Ironsi after the putsch.How do you stage a coup for some1 and not release him afterwards?

The treasonable felony charge was put together by Balewa and Akintola to ensure that he was imprisoned since his arrest came on the heels of the fracas in the Western House between Akintola and Dauda Adegbenro.

Balewa sided with Akintola and ensured that he was reinstated even when the Awolowo & the majority wanted him to leave his seat.

How does it makes sense?
You mean he'll record himself planning a coup with Jakande and the rest?

Well Zik was a rival,directly or indirectly.So why would he have spared Zik?
And for someone like Awolowo who you all often call a tribalist for his commitment to the Yoruba nation,I don't think he'll allow any Igbo take part in a coup he intend to stage,whether as pawns or not.
It's unlike him.

Pls ignore that guy called pazienza.....
His obsession with fajuyi is appalling n outright ridiculous.....
He's been parroting that nonsense up n down nairaland despite glaring contrary evidence.....
Neutral eyewitness account including ironsi son clearly stated what happened that night.....
Danjuma clearly said they came for ironsi and not fajuyi....
David ejoor even said in this interview that fajuyi was a collateral damage......
As for the nonsense about awolowo, ask him why fajuyi n ironsi didn't release him from jail when they assumed power.....
Since according to him, fajuyi received directive from awolowo.....

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Did you see UK as top giver there?
We saw USA, China and many Asians countries

Nigeria[edit]

A major source of foreign-exchange earnings for Nigeria are remittances sent home by Nigerians living abroad.[22] In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians lived in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each.[22]

According to the International Organization for Migration, Nigeria witnessed a dramatic increase in remittances sent home from overseas Nigerians, going from USD 2.3 billion in 2004 to 17.9 billion in 2007, representing 6.7% of GDP. The United States accounts for the largest portion of official remittances, followed by the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Spain and France. On the African continent, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Libya and South Africa are important source countries of remittance flows to Nigeria, while China is the biggest remittance-sending country in Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance

hammerF:
He already did but one of ur stubborn senators attacked him for mentioning Biafra. That leave the onus on ur Arewa Senators and Reps, since it is u now calling for Igbos to leave.

Back ur words with action.

Which ekweremadu......
The deputy senate president or another one....
Provide the links where he moved such motion......

2016 STATE OF STATES RANKINGS FOR SIZE OF GDP

RANK STATE GDP* GDP PER CAPITA*



#1 Lagos $50,834,641,732 $4,182

#2 Rivers $33,697,048,223 $4,773

#3 Oyo $27,251,181,227 $3,596

#4 Delta $20,795,033,384 $3,791

#5 Ogun $18,478,286,455 $3,660

#6 Imo $18,316,956,593 $3,497

#7 Kano $16,060,452,398 $1,269

#8 Edo $14,690,747,744 $3,563

#9 Akwa Ibom $14,394,934,514 $2,717

#10 Kaduna $14,383,292,476 $1,796

#11 Cross River $12,260,535,098 $3,264

#12 Abia $11,954,295,628 $3,295

#13 Benue $11,463,880,127 $2,057

#14 Ondo $10,986,434,580 $2,423

#15 Osun $10,023,288,394 $2,199

#16 Katsina $8,715,622,952 $1,147

#17 Abuja FCT $8,709,940,093 $2,682

#18 Anambra $8,551,191,419 $1,591

#19 Zamfara $7,758,988,606 $1,774

#20 Niger $7,315,871,445 $1,362

#21 Plateau $6,696,670,490 $1,638

#22 Kogi $6,423,622,338 $1,480

#23 Ebonyi $6,084,268,690 $2,172

#24 Sokoto $5,957,303,706 $1,228

#25 Enugu $5,860,198,009 $1,369

#26 Borno $5,770,088,940 $1,019

#27 Bayelsa $5,517,415,395 $2,493

#28 Kwara $5,028,001,438 $1,623

#29 Bauchi $4,351,446,293 $689

#30 Kebbi $4,265,932,882 $991

#31 Jigawa $4,200,635,064 $742

#32 Nasarawa $4,060,789,133 $1,658

#33 Adamawa $3,995,509,662 $968

#34 Ekiti $3,592,364,990 $1,133

#35 Yobe $2,261,353,875 $711

#36 Gombe $2,162,199,971 $685

#37 Taraba $1,908,888,779 $641


* - 2015 Estimates



Source:
National Bureau of Statistics
National Population Commission, Nigeria
Kingmakers.com.ng Calculations

http://stateofstates.kingmakers.com.ng/GDP/Default.aspx

Tinkybabe:
Thanks for the lecture! I live in the UK so I'm privy to the laws of the land.
A child minder is different from a maid. It's child minders that charge 10 pounds and higher not maids and with child minding, you take your kids to them not the other way round.
The reason is that much is because of the certifications and risks that come with childminding.

So I say again, quit the gross exaggeration.

I don't really think the Nigerian kind of domestic servants exist in UK i.e the living-in maids......
I guess it's just too expensive......
Only the upper class can afford such.....
I don't know how much they pay maids, but I'm sure it doesn't come cheap.....
There was a time I wanted employ the services of a maid to wash my bathroom regularly....
I was told it's going to cost me 20 pounds per hour....
I did the job myself.....

MXrep:
bros, this your wailing is a consolation, urbanization simply implies houses clustering together in a nucleated settlement, as against igboland with dispersed settlement, yorubaland is highly urbanized, but urbanization has nothing to do with better standard of living. zinc takes less than 30 years to rust, so your excuse about age is untenable, secondly, when zinc rusts, the right thing is to change to aluminum, when mud house becomes shaky, you demolish and built decent block house, if you can't do any of these, it is lack of wherewithal and not those flimsy excuses

I agree with u, but another option is to build a new house.....
At least that's what my dad n his siblings did.....
Thus abandoning their grandfather's house.....
Yoruba towns urbanized very early n the development was right in the the town centre....
This explains the nucleated arrangement of ancient houses in Yorubaland.....
New houses springing up are mainly in the outskirts, where land is cheap and purchase has less problems......
If ur notion is Yoruba people don't build modern houses, then u get it all wrong.....
In Yoruba hinterland, people don't live in rented apartment for long duration.....
U gather whatever money u have and build ur own house, whether u be upper class or working class.....
Although,I'll admitt they mostly build bungalows.....

Now coming to erecting mansions in places where u don't live.......
Yoruba elites in the 80s n 90s did just that.......
Building mansions in their home town n celebrating it with so much pomp n pageantry.....
It was the rave then n wealthy men competed amongst each other.....
Unfortunately, those houses are abandoned today........
People now make reference to those houses, not because of their elegance, but......
A reminder of how not to waste ur money in the time of plenty.......
A perfect example is a place called shokaz estate in IJEBU Igbo.....
I remember sunny ade calling it paradise on earth......
It doesn't look so anymore......
Now will u blame the younger generation if they choose to build in places where they live or has prime real estate value......

Statsocial:
Maybe you need to explain that inferiority complex part cos I don't understand the correlation between what I said and inferiority complex. Secondly, drug peddling in the East is a socio-economic problem and I'm sure many easterners aren't proud of it either-with proper reorientation it would be eliminated. I called for a southern secession because there is a whole lot the East and west can offer each other, but with this childish online bickering I doubt it. Also we have to consider the fact that Yoruba Muslims would become minorities hence may resist the idea so the idea of a southern secession may not happen. So we may all have to settle for independent countries. Lastly I don't hate Hausas and fulanis but I think its better everyone goes their separate ways.

Hey, watch your tongue young boy......
There's nothing like Yoruba Muslim......
I wonder where u get that phrase from, a phrase only used by hopeless ipob bigots.....
A Yoruba is Yoruba, we are not divided along religious line.......
Funny enough, the so called Yoruba muslims don't have time for Biafra....
I'm yet to see a prominent Yoruba muslims speaking against Biafra.....
So I really don't understand your thought process.......
I support your stand on an independent or autonomous Yoruba nation....
But that phrase is highly unnecessary and just so wrong....

If u guys don't want traditional rulers to be paid, then return their lands n properties back to them......
They they can lease it out and collect royalties from their properties.....
This was how our traditional rulers earn a living before the white man came and messed things up for everybody.....
This kings existed before the politicians, governors, senators or president.....
So why should their roles be expunged, just because the white man created a system that turned the odds against them.....
Turning traditional rulersto beggars and stooges to governors.....

I'm not sure the queen of England earn salary directly from the govt....
But she has properties worth billions of pounds scattered all over England.....
She makes a living from inherited private estates, personal investment portfolio, land lease, grants......
The UK govt didn't seize those properties from their royal families.......
Thus allowing them financial independence.......
We should do same for our traditional rulers......

wurabecca:
Mhennnn that babe make sense die!, but she no too good for bed
-Seun/Ebuka/Amir


Could you believe the idiat wants sex?? He bought 500 Naira Sharwama and he wants kpekus

-Ada/Bisola/Halimat


Protect your destiny!! You should know Sex destroy's future!..........dont open your legs!........
-Our parents.


Sex is just too overrated!!!!!!!

Can't we hype technology? Agriculture? Businesses?.

85% RT on twitter and other Social media are Sex related topics.......not even SEX EDUCATION, but bullshits!

Haba!

That's why Africa is at the bottom of the food chain....
We hype sex too much.....
Even the white men noticed it when they first arrived 100 years ago.......
Unfortunately, not much has changed.....