₦airaland Forum

Ababadada:
This is my nine times of hearing that . In Ijaw land we don't make news about oil

We will keep ringing it in your ears, for you to know no one has monopoly of God-given "oyel".

Ahmedhussain3463:
oga ondo is nt fifth bt is surely an oil producing state

Ondo is 5th. It produces more oil than all the Northern regions and SE.

zuchyblink:
do Anambra produce oil? Yes or no

Anambra or Kogi State?

zuchyblink:
List Of Oil Producing States In Nigeria and
NDDC Facts You Must Know
The list of oil producing states in Nigeria will
be arranged according to the highest
producer of crude oil from the top oil
producing states in ...
No 1. Akwa Ibom
No 2. Bayelsa
No. 3, Delta
No. 4, Rivers
No. 5, Cross River,
No. 6, Imo
No. 7, Abia
No. 8, Anambra
No. 9, Ondo State

How dubious can you be?

When did Anambra joined NDDC?

Who made Anambra a member of NDDC?

You can as well add Kebbi State to it.

This is very commendable and it is long overdue.

Finally the Class Captain is getting into his groove.

freshdude99:
Please is orient petroleum a yeruba family too? The thing with u SW is ur hatred for any good thing from the SE. Its only good if its SW right? Let me educate u more yerubaz, orient petroleum been drilling oyel for Anambra tay tay. Anambra been declared oyel producing state by the last administration but the wickedness and hatred of SW no let Dem instead they connived with kogi to come share am with us. The same people want us to come celebrate with them. Isn't that hypocrisy of the highest order. Yeruba Yeruba Yeruba, how many times did I call u? Be careful with ur greed

You are a liar from the Hades.

The same Oil field that Kogi is laying claims to. No wonder Kogi State people nearly sacked Umuleri.

Obi wantedto smuggle Anambra into NDDC with his good rapport with the Ineffectual Buffon.

Senate did not approve the admittance of Anambra into an oil producing state league because the quantity being produced is very small and it is also being disputed by Kogi.

Discordant tune as always been their trademark in the land of the setting sun.

gidgiddy:
Maybe finally they will start thinking about their sovereingty and Oduduwa Republic instead of running around looking for who they will do 'one Nigeria' with.

Whether One Nigeria or disintegration, we are very comfortable with both.

Sons of Hatred can only hate a blessed region that God has made covenant with to forever bless. Guess what haters can't do nadal about it.

Ondo is oil producing.

Lagos has joined.

Waiting for Ogun.

The land of Oduduwa is just too blessed.

Who God has blessed, no man can curse.

Haters can jump off Olumo Rock for all I care.

The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Tuesday held that the ban on wearing of Hijab in public schools in Lagos State was a constitutional matter.

The judge, Justice Amina Augie, also held that since it was a constitutional matter it must be decided by a five-man panel of the court.

Augie noted that the appeal bordered on the rights of the appellants to wear Hijab to school in line with Quranic injunction.
Augie added that in the interest of justice, the appeal will be adjourned, to enable appellant counsel apply to the President of the Court Appeal for constitution of a full panel of the court to hear the appeal.
Augie therefore adjourned the appeal to a date to be communicated to the parties.

In his response, Counsel to the appellants, Gani Adetola-Kazeem, urged the court to make the record of proceedings available to enable him write to the President of the Court of Appeal.

Justice Modupe Onyeabor of the Lagos State High Court had On Oct. 17, 2014 dismissed the suit instituted against the Lagos State Government by two 15-year-old students, challenging the ban on Hijab. They had filed the suit under the aegis of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Lagos State Area Unit.

The Lagos State Government had banned the use of Hijab on the grounds that it was not a part of the approved school uniform. Following the ban, the students had filed the suit on May 27, 2013, praying the court to declare the ban as a violation of their rights to freedom of thought, religion and education.

In her judgment, Onyeabor had held that the prohibition of wearing of Hijab over school uniforms within and outside the premises of public schools was not discriminatory.
According to her, the ban did not violate Sections 38 and 42 of the 1999 Constitution as claimed by the plaintiffs.

The trial judge had also noted that Section 10 of the Constitution made Nigeria a secular state and that government must maintain neutrality at all times. Onyeabor had held that the government had a duty to preserve the secular nature of the institutions concerned.

She had noted that since public schools were being funded by the government, it was therefore competent to issue dress codes and other guidelines for its students.
According to her, the use of uniforms engenders uniformity and encourages students to pursue their mutual academic aspirations without recourse to religious or any other affiliation.

The judge had further observed that the uniformity sought by government in issuing dress codes, would be destroyed, if the prayers of the plaintiffs were granted.
Dissatisfied with the decision of the trial court, the appellant had urged the appellate court to set aside the judgment and protect their constitutional rights.

MrMcJay:
Hope you participated in the fast as instructed by your effeminate governor?

Whose gov?

It is appalling an pathetic that your Govs attended a meeting where the Northern Governors issued a communique that says we dare not call the murderous Fulani herdsmen names.

Start by demonstrating to your Govt Houses and ask him to apologise to you, over his insensitivity to you pain and plight.

SmartMugu:
What about the people that got killed? I mean the heardsmen? Lol

In the case of the herdsmen, rest in pieces to them.

I can remember remember this thread vividly.

Some jokers from the land of gully erosion were running their mouths like tap water.

Igbo land was invaded.

Igbo people were massacred.

Igbo people were maimed.

Igbo people were turned to refugees on their own land


...... and an Igbo man was sacked for all these.

OK ooo.

This is CHANGE.

RIP to the dead cows.

Jegudu Jera Democratic Party ---- JJDP.

I watched his interview and that of Bode George on Channels TV yesternight and i can't but laugh at the jest of an opposition PDP is turning to.

Give it to Fayose, he is blunt, though he might be dumb upstairs. He told Bode George the bitter truth.

CSTR2:
You obviously have a warped sense of boundaries, and don't know where your forefathers land begin and end.
There is no point in history where igbos sat down with Yorubas to decide a shared destiny.
Pursuing Yoruba ethnic interest would be the wise thing to do at this critical period in this country's history. But then, most of you are not wise.
We hear how Yorubas are this great and that sophisticated, but proving it has been a Mirage.

Your fore fathers never achieved anything. Same with your fathers that did not and your generation are on the same path of self destruction too.

If you do not want comment on Biafrau.d, get off NL and go to many of your failed NL-wanna bes. We run the market here.

When will you and your ilk stop deceiving gullible people? They will keep deliberating till Jesus comes.

Let the Queen and Obama even deliberate on it, they cannot create a fraud of a land that killed our leaders and soldiers, wasted our national resources and that we had to bail each of them out of their misery with £20 within a sovereign state called Nigeria.

Queen can excise part of Welsh mountain for you and settle you there or Obama can relocate you the the desert f Nevada and call it biafrau.d, we care less.

lawani:
Most of the people being touted as Emirs of Ilorin were mere chief Imams who were not allowed to negotiate with the British.

http://unilorin.edu.ng/publications/omoiya/The%20Colonial%20Conquest%20of%20Ilorin.pdf

Thanks for this publication.

It made me to understand better that the Ilorin Emirate was created by the people of Ilorin willingly. The Emirs were mere figure heads because of their religious status as Imams. They NEVER had absolute power like in the other Emirates and they still do not have absolute power till date.

I thought they said they have ran away!!!

Please burn down the entire forest with them.

Chiwude:
Hmm! Never knew you to be this objective. So why the sudden change!

I am always objective, it is only dependent on the side of prism you are using to view it.

GorkoSusaay:
Do you realize that the Osogbo war was an attempt by Ilorin to conquer Osogbo?
Basically, Emir Abdussalami sent the Balogun Gambari Ali to conquer Osogbo. Osogbo asked for reinforcements from Ibadan and at the end, the Ilorin army was routed.
The battle checkmated Ilorin's advances to the south but on a strategic level, it did not change the state of play with Ilorin still being one of the key players in that part of the world.

Ilorin has never been a strategic nadal in yorubaland. It was only a military outpost, that later turned to refugee camp from people fleeing the jihadist madness in Hausaland and other northern places. It later became a place of solace for muslims in yorubaland. It was a town founded by Afonja, the yoruba Generalissimo of that time because an Aare Ona Kakanfo cannot stay in the same town as the Alaafin, who is the Emperor.

Ilorin lacks any influence. Hence, the emirates or whatever you call it, never extended beyond the town Ilorin. Even Jebba that is our closest town to the north was never conquered. How can fulani walk 100km into the heart of yorubaland without waging any war and conquering any land and suddenly declared that they conquered Ilorin? Ilorin emirate came to be as a result of the active connivance of the yoruba muslims in Ilorin, as at then.

When the yoruba muslims and their foreign mercenaries of hausas and fulanis took their jihad nonsense beyond the gate of Ilorin, they met their waterloo. Till date, the whole of Ilorin is still surrounded by yoruba Obas. That says it all.

Get your fact right.

GorkoSusaay:
I posted it two pages ago.
It was your chestbeating that made me post this excerpt.
Anyway, have a good day

Chest beating?

An Army was defeated resoundingly in such a manner that they never recovered from the defeat and you are calling it chest beating?

In fact I should be dancing on my head for such a victory and not only beating my chest.

It still remains a fact that, no inch of Yoruba soil was EVER lost in battle.

lawani:
Compare Ibadan to Ilorin today and you will see they are no match. Offa was allied with Ibadan as well as Ogbomosho, Ijesa allied with Ilorin during the Kiriji war. The Ibadan did not occupy Ilorin simply because they were fighting on five fronts at thesame time, Ijesa, Ijebu and etc. The Muslims were not removed from Ilorin because the other Yoruba were not united and were fighting each other, then there were Muslims in other Yoruba cities, the Balogun of Iwo was a Muslim, his name was Ali and he was allied with Ibadan, they practiced Sharia as well. The people in Ilorin were afraid of an Ibadan massacre and would not allign with Ibadan if they could avoid such, so they allied with Ijesa who were opponents of Ibadan. The Fulani never invaded Ilorin at any time but at a point, Abdulsalam was the leader and he was Fulani, later Oba Moma who was Afonja, then Oba Sulayman Dan Aliyu who was Ajikobi, he was the one who placed Ilorin under British protection, the one whose father was executed by the Alaafin for treason. So in that wise, Ilorin was on their own as a renegade Yoruba Muslim state not a Fulani one. Iwo was a Yoruba Muslim state as well but they were not renegades as they did not conduct jihads.

Iwo is my home town.

The founder of Iwo was a direct prince from Ife. There was no way they could have turned to renegades, no matter what they could have chosen to worship. Iwo remains the only town that has a quarters in Ile-Ife till today. Their tie to the Yoruba spiritual centre outweighs any religion they could have embraced.

Ilorin's story was simply of renegades like you pointed out. Their saving grace was the fact that the whole yorubaland was locked in a civil war and that was what the treacherous fulanis took advantage of. If only a unit of Oyo Army dealt Ilorin so much eternal blow that they could not expand their Kingdom or emirate beyond Ilorin again, imagine what a united yoruba Army would have done. Maybe they would have placed the head of Dan Fodio on a stake and blot out Sokoto from the surface of the earth.

We have had centuries of trade Relationship with the hausas and other Northern ethnicities before the arrival of the blood thirsty land grabbers from Fouta Jallon.

GorkoSusaay:
This is how the battle of Osogbo happened, according to the very Yoruba Samuel Johnson. According to this account, the Ibadan army stumbled into a victory, which might explain their reluctance to engage again Ilorin's formidable cavalry.

"When the Ibadan army arrived at the seat of war and saw the situation they had some misgivings as to the probability of success without the aid of Elepo their champion. They could not show their face in the open field for fear of the Ilorin horse, and for about 20 days after their arrival at Osogbo, they also could not fight outside the town thickets.

The Basorun himself having some doubts as to the hopes of success of his generals in the absence of Elepo was much depressed in mind on hearing the news from the seat of war, and he was minded to send Elepo to meet them ; he gave him a cow to worship his god Ori and told him to prepare to join his comrades in the field.

The Ibadan war-chiefs hearing this were fired with jealousy lest the honour of the victory might be his and hence were resolved to risk a battle at all cost. Again and again they held councils of war, and at length they fixed a day for the venture. Still they were afraid to attack the florins during the morning hours, Osogbo being practically in a plain, the Ilorin horse might have the advantage of them with disastrous results : from prudence therefore they resolved to make the attack in the afternoon, as they might be able to hold on until dusk when the florins would no longer be able to use their horses to advantage, or if defeated, the shades of night would assist them in their retreat.

About 2 p.m. the standard of the Ibadan army left the gate of Osogbo for the battlefield. Again, another council of war was held and it was finally resolved that they should not proceed until dark, as it was necessary that their movements be as private as possible. About sunset they were again on the move and the vanguards were instructed to keep a strict watch and arrest anyone suspected as a spy on their movements"

Complete your story by posting the routing part, which Ilorin NEVER recovered from.