₦airaland Forum

Yellowson:
Guy you are a useless bastard and a ccunt

You are just the son of your bastar.d father.




Elect the Dilector as your Governor and we shall start taking you serious.

I will start taking the agitation serious, when ----

1. Nnamid Kanu is elected as the governor of Abia

2.The Dilector is a Senator for ENugu State.

3. The Lunatic Albino is a Representative for Anambra state.

Feel free to add yours.

Before then, biafraudsters are still kidding and merely making noise.

CabbieAC:
Really? Well it wouldn't have mattered though.Whether Lagos agrees or not, the North would still have rejected the Confab report

Yeah.

I do not think presenting a divided proposition was the best and it was setting a bad precedence.

CabbieAC:
True words! I foresee some nice chemistry between Ambode and Amosun though.Fashola was a stubborn man so the chemistry wasn't really smooth especially when Lagos and Ogun state were dragging the ownership of Ode Omi.Ambode is calmer even though he's more concerned about his Canon Camera than any other thing .That's our own "Becky Oloye"

FAshola seems to me like a self centered person that wants all the glory. What stops him from partnering with Ogun, a sister state.

My dislike for him was born out of Lagos position at the last national jamboree or is it national conference. Lagos was against the regional system of governance being proposed by the SW delegation.

CabbieAC:
Yeah I heard the place has a lot of tourism potentials,Same with Ode omi.There's nothing you can't find in the South-west trust me.

I remember Amosun warning the FG against any form of laxity that could make Nigeria lose it to Benin republic.I hope we don't experience another Bakassi

I believe the Nigerian Navy is protecting it as we speak

Ogun State Elders Consultative Forum (OGECF) yesterday tasked President Mohammed Buhari to ensure more presence of federal government in the Tongeji Island in order to further ward off intrusion of the Republic of Benin from the oil-rich border island.

Coordinator of the Forum, Aremo Taiwo Alimi gave the charge in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital during a press conference heralding the 10th year anniversary of the Forum.

Alimi, who was flanked by other members of the anniversary committee of the 125 – member being chaired by former Justice of the International Court, Hague, Prince Bola Ajibola said if schools, hospitals and link bridges are built in the area, such would give residents a high sense of being Nigerians and at the same time, ward off the Republic of Benin’s inordinate desire to usurp the nation’s rich resources.

The forum further emphasised that the recent visit of President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Ibikunle to Benin Republic was in part due to the Investigative reports of OGECF on the Island.

Alimi said a link bridge if constructed, would connect the Island to the nearest mainland in Ipokia, Headquarters of Ipokia Local Government of Ogun state, and spared the people of the pains of circuitous journey of first entering Republic of Benin before accessing their Nigerian Island and mainland.

Alimi noted that the said reports which were submitted to Governor Amosun and the President, gave the two leaders insight into the situation of things at the Oil – rich Island and said this in part, informed the visit to the Nigeria’s french speaking neighbour by Buhari.

According to Alimi, a renowned journalist and broadcaster, the visitation saved Tongeji Island, from being annexed by the Republic of Benin as the report was acted upon by the President.

Afenifere derailed at the point when they could not segregate their role as a cultural group from a pseudo-political party that they metamorphosised into overnight, promising and selling votes they do not have.

There is an urgent need for the group to go back to its core ideology and role playing, by being an umbrella body for all yorubas from all works of life, both at home and in diaspora.

Odumakin's utterances has suddenly turned the group into PDP affiliate or subsidiary and they s themselves as opposition party to APC in yorubaland or better put, opposition to Tinubu.

Failure to re-engineer the cultural group as soon as possible, will see to the demise of the group, as evident in its waning clout of influence.

It is only a matter of time before a more youthful and vibrant group of intellegensias will emerge, because nature cannot abhor vacuum. Though they might be hot heads that might lack the ability to see beyond 2-3years of politicking, rather than the usual 7-12 years of political machination , positioning. This will also be detrimental to the progress of the yoruba nation.

Let all yorubas see this write up a a clarion call to save Afenifere from its self destruct button, for general good of the yoruba nation.

If the land is for army, it is a no man's land.

The Republic of Fulani or is it Fulani's republic in Abia, is a no man's land.

Someone should just ask the writer and the wailing blackmailer whether there was a month they were not given a share of their Federal Govt allocation?

Is it SW or SS or Northern people that are spending their IGRs?

Someone should ask this writer how have they been able to stem the outflow of human capital from their region on a daily basis, causing enormous loss to the region and putting pressure o the infrastructure of other regions where they migrate to?

How many of those elected into position of authorities are vocalists of pro-biafra?

If you are indeed serious, you would hav elected Nnamid Kanu, the Lunatic Albino aka The Dilector as a governor or a senator, likewise his drunken and deluded cohorts.

I will take them serious the day they show me just one cause they have doggedly pursued and achieved.


For now, they are still noise makers, chest beaters and clowns.

This lawyer is as corrupt as the person he is defending.

He said something yesterday and today he is denying what was caught on tape.

Like Saraki like his lawyer.

GstringAngela:
I am Nupe. We are sandwiched between the Yoruba and Hausa in Kwara and Niger state respectively. Yoruba people use to refer to us as Tapa. If you go to Lagos or Ogun state there is a masqurade called Igunnuko. Our fathers were the one that gave the Yorubas that masqurade. We share cultural and historical ties.

Shango Olukoso's(the god of thunder) mother was a Nupe woman. Infact, they had to send emissaries to him to bring him back from Nupeland for him to be made the new Alaafin.

MayorofLagos:
Yep yep!!

There is a wisdom in your proposal and it strecthes over many derivables and deliverables as well.

When we talk of Yoruba Commonwealth, Im not sure that many of you will not view me as deranged but in my mind Im looking at the continental land mass that cover from Volta region in Ghana to the Delta in Warri to the hills of Idanre on up to Lokoja and Westerly to Jebba and cut across on that latitude through the Savannah to Togo. All these people have SELF-IDENTIFIED as a Yoruba culture and they include the Ewe, Ajase, Egun, Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Awori, Ekiti, Ijesha, Igbira, Okun, Offa, Ilaje, Itsekiri, Oyo, Ife, and so on...

If we go beyond our continental Yoruba dominion we have indigeneous Yoruba in diaspora, places like Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and so on....

In our discourse here we have defined Yorubaland moderately to include just those in the politisphere of Nigeria. New challenges of national unity daily serve us reminders and provoke our conscience to define ourselves as an indivisible unit commonly bonded by the proprietary rights shared under the sacredness of our dynasties and Crowns and we label it Yoruba Commonwealth.

Time markers, supported by records, show that there was no town in Yorubaland that did not have a tarred road surface connecting to next towns upstream and downstream, forming a web of road networks that facilitated transportation and interlink between communities....all done under the leadership of Awolowo. He covered entire Yorubaland all the way to Jebba and Lokoja, and back then Kwara State included Lokoja and was called West Central. He even extended this development to Asaba and parts of Delta, back then Western Region ended on the bank of River Niger at Asaba.

Some of the roads built by Awo in the 50s and 60s are still in good state and of better grade than roads built in modern times that wash away when water sit on them for too long. Awolowo was not joking when he told the colonialists that they were incompetent and inferior to him and what they could not accomplish in 100years he did it in 10.

Historically Awo was not the first Yoruba to view the foreigners as inferior race, Livingstone wrote and lamented on how the Oyos refused to carry him or his luggage as was customary for the other race of blacks he visited to serve as porters to whitemen. He shared his humiliation in public when he motioned to sit on a spread of rich fabric used to sit the Chiefs in Kabiyesi council and upon sighting the attempt a female Ilari yanked the spread from under him with contempt that he was unfit to sit on such a richly woven fabric. The miscalculation landed his butt in the dust. This was in the hintherland. On the coast an Awujale imposed tax and ordered the arrest of any colonialist that entered into his domain before his consent was obtained. In Lagos Beecroft's solicitation for partnership was rebuffed and told by the King his friendship was not needed.

We ought to take lessons from these history and raise our heads high. There is no race of people in Nigeria today that we can call peers. We regarded colonialists as inferior beings....those who the colonialists liberated from the vagaries of darkness and primitive subsistence are no peers with us. So our leaders need to take cue from our history and uplift this land.

We have savannah, we have forests, swamplands, riverines, hills, valleys, Lakes, Springs, ocean, salt water rivers, fresh water rivers, falls....we are blessed! Which other region in this country can boast of such variety of ecology on its land? None!

Our Governors must act to diversify and , as you correctly say Duke, ....depopulate Lagos. They must act and redistribute our economies based on the comparative advantage offered by eco class.

If you locate a car assembly plant in Idanre instead of Lagos, there are many vertical economies that will also relocate or perharps as a startup. Of course the supply chain will need now to go extra miles from the ports and to Idanre to drop off parts inventories but the extra cost to their shipment overheads is exponentially offset by the new economy in staffing, home construction, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, tax generation, schools, rebates and so on...

The frequent haulage of supply and distribution will put demand on the road. Therefore gives legitimacy to road upgrade and expansiin. ....this is more employment and growth for communities along the construction route.

When you redistribute development, you also redistribute income. The more people are employed the greater the flow of discretionary spending and the upliftment of society generally....all the way down to the akara seller by the road side, no one is left out of gainful income. On the flip side, when men in community earn income their eligibility to find partner and start a home improves....crime reduces and civility and sanity begins to take footing in the neighborhood.

I must stop here.

Thumbs up for this.

There is an urgent need for re-awakening of our identity. In most homes, most kids are being more British than the British themselves. They know the history of America than their country of citizenship, talk less of the history of their ethnicity. The minds of the present generation seems to be shallow and fickle minded, where they celebrate being an air-head as being cool. The likes of Awolowo were highly cerebral and revolutionary deep thinkers. No wonder they could lead the whole yoruba nation at such a tender age. They were not all about looking cool, sagging of trouser or cutting some embarrassing hairstyles. If you want to do all that, at least have something upstairs.

Why will yoruba people not see themselves as being superior to colonialists? The yoruba culture is rich, the empire was awesome structurally and the people were orderly already. It is high time up-coming yoruba youths and kids know that they are blessed to belong to this ethnicity and they should be proud of it.

I watch a documentary where the Ifa-logist Supremo Yemi Elebuibon was addressing a UNESCO gathering, He spoke fluent yoruba and they had to interpret to others in different languages. That is being proud of who you are and knowing his worth. Do you know the volume consultancy he runs all over the world, just by being proud of his heritage.

I will forever be grateful to Seun for creating NL, it actually challenged me to read extensively on the nation and my ethnicity. For 2 years i was just reading without contributing a single line to politics section and those beasterners were always bashing yorubas. I was more active in the sports section. NL brought out a call for soul searching and for discovery of my identity, root and who we are and we can achieve as yorubas.

Aareonakakanfo thanks for creating this educative thread too.

anonimi:
Were black people making anything near Nokia 3310 less than 15 years ago?
Why did our white "superiors" not stay at that ASPIRATION level since no other race was making mobile phones like them?
Instead they kept and continue expanding their horizon continuously to the smart phones we have now that are even been developed further?
I have tried to avoid calling YOU stupid or foolish but you leave me no choice at this point but to call you what you are.
BTW what other solution do you have to depopulate METROPOLITAN Lagos
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If God was unfair to you by not giving you a digital brain, at least you should also beg the old witches in your lineage to allow you to upgrade your pentium 1 brain a little.

Your words are going southwards, whereas others are going northwards.

I repeat, your mental capacity is below par to make meaningful contribution to a thread of progressive minds. Find yur way to romance section or better still Linda Ikeji's blog.

anonimi:
Your ASPIRATION level must be very low indeed.
No wonder you are on this empty "feel-good" thread. I hope it is not a reflection of how you are offline.
Have you heard of the Ebenezer effect?- Titi de ihin ni Oluwa ran wa l'owo de i.e. na up to here God helep us reach

If there are too many people in a place supposedly with money that they are making from the area then TAX them until the peripheral low lifers drift away to other outlying places.
How can that be so complicated
Just make sure the money is reinvested to make the place very nice for those who remain and pay the HIGH taxes/levies/fines etc.

Another below par post from akpu filled cerebellum, typing gibberish and calling it communication.

I repeat which state is driving IGR and tax collection like Lagos? name just one. Is that too difficult for you to answer?

anonimi:
Whose fault is it that the dumbos who have been in charge of Lagos for the last 16 plus years have not struck an optimal DIVERSE tax/levies/rates/fines etc structure to benefit from this "comparative number of people in this axis that have purchasing power"?
Why has this not been done till date and continuously re-invest the IGR into:

- education,
- tap water
- health clinics & general hospitals
- good railways & roads
- electricity


that will allow the state and LGAs to generate even more money

You must be high on 3 for 1naira weed.

Which state drives IGR as much as Lagos? I have told you, you are not cut out for this kind of thread. Migrate to any of wailers or PDP or sexuality threads or linda ikeji's no brainer blog.

modath2:
Or the Ocean liners don't go there?

Is it not an FG controlled port? Why the price discrepancy? If truly that is the fact, why don't they agitate for a price parity, but methinks they just prefer Lagos..

Shymm3x made a lot of sense with the depopulation idea , there are too many people in that city!!

The infrastructures & the population are miles apart.

The only way Lagos can ever be depopulated is if and only if Biafra sees the light of day.

Those guys keep migrating to Lagos on a daily basis like the Syrians are migrating to Europe.

Though, if other congruent cities also up their game, it will stem the wave of migration from other places into Lagos.

LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

Even if they make those ports duty free, they will still prefer Lagos ports, because of the population and the comparative number of people in this axis that have purchasing power to buy those goods being imported.

SIX-LANE HIGHWAY LINKING CAPITALS OF ABIDJAN-LAGOS CORRIDOR COUNTRIES TO BE CONSTRUCTED

The Nigerian Minister of Public Works and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Abidjan-Lagos Highway Development Project, Mr Mike Oziegbe Onolememen has urged the five ECOWAS Member States implicated in the project to avoid delays in its implementation. Opening the meeting of the Ministers of Road Infrastructure, Transport, Public Works, Finance and Justice of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, the five countries involved in the project on Monday, 15th July 2013 in Abuja, the minister emphasised the onerous responsibility imposed on the Committee towards the realisation of the project. “We must adhere to the deadline set by our Heads of State with a view to ensuring that construction works on the Abidjan-Lagos Highway commence in 2014,” he said. He urged his colleagues to closely consider the report submitted by the experts and development partners to ensure that its conclusions are consistent with the vision of the Heads of State. Earlier, the Commissioner for Infrastructure of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Ebrime Njie, delivered the address of the President of the Commission in which he welcomed the support provided by the development partners and the private sector for the implementation of the project. He then assured the ministers that the ECOWAS Commission will provide the required support to facilitate the attainment of the objectives defined/set out by the Heads of State. The Commissioner said the highway will help “stimulate sub-regional integration and translate the vision of the Heads of State into a concrete reality, namely, transforming ECOWAS of States into ECOWAS of people through the realisation of physical and visible infrastructures During the meeting, the ministers considered the reports of the sectoral experts, also held in Abuja between 12th and 14th July 2013 dealing mainly with the legal framework to govern the Abidjan-Lagos corridor, the procurement process for the construction of the Highway and mobilisation of funds for its construction. The conclusions of the sectoral experts’ deliberations and the recommendations of the ministerial meeting will be presented to the Heads of State of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo at the next Summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government scheduled for 17 and 18 July 2013 in Abuja. On the margins of the 42nd Ordinary Summit of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government held on 27 and 28 February 2013 in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, the five Heads of State of the countries along the Abidjan-Lagos corridor had agreed to work towards the construction of a six-lane highway to link their respective capitals. The 1,028 km Abidjan-Lagos corridor will impact on 30 million people and serve as a transit route for 75% of West African trade. It not only links some major West African cities such as Lagos, Cotonou, Accra, Lomé and Abidjan but also, and more importantly, the dynamic sea ports providing services to the sub- region’s land-locked countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.


Culled from ECOWAS Homepage.

anonimi:
And if I don't?
You will also invoke one lame god to punish me abi?
Definitely you are a bloody joker https://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-happy023.gif

lame god? I pity your life.

Just get the hell out of here, if you do not have enough medulla oblongata to make meaningful contribution.

Go to your pathetic PDP thread, where you are wailing collectively.

anonimi:
Na you dey derail the thread by posting LIES to which I feel obliged as a concerned citizen to correct.
If you do not want my riposte, then don't post LIES that may attract my attention.

Understood

If you cannot see yourself above PDP and APC nonsense, get the hell out of here.

We only discuss Pan-Yoruba issues here and also celebrate successful personalities from the ethnicity -- be it straight or gay, muslim or xtian or shango worshipper, male or female and PDP or APC.

Just respect yourself.

anonimi:
Please permit me to re-post your comment with highlights of issues that are dear to me as well.

Thanks.
Mass education is the cornerstone for any meaningful development and we have LOST it in Yorubaland after the glorious, sacrificial work by Awo in the ate 50s and that of the five UPN governors in the early 80s.
Today, Anambra is the leading star of education in our country while Yoruba states are lost in the crowd.
How shameful!
Pathetic!!!

what is the essence of doing so well in SSCE and fizzling out at higher level.

The secret of anambra's SSCE success is well known to all --- millions of examination miracle centres, just like the millions of baby factories.

IlekeHD:
We can't even build a railway or maintain consistent electricity, yet Nigeria wants to dabble into nuclear energy abi na nuclear bomb.

They should keep the nuclear plant in the SE or wherever they planned it to be located. As long as it is outside SW, i am game.

Aareonakakanfo:
The 8 lane from Mile2-Badagry is part of it.I think two lanes are supposed to be for trains.Please correct me if i'm wrong

The 2 rail lines are the project of Lagos State Govt.

The road lanes are being done by Ecowas. It is meant to be a regional super highway for west Africa. I have not been able to understand where Lagos road construction stops and where that of Ecowas starts.

Aareonakakanfo:
Mid year of 2016? Na jazz dem wan use? They started the one from Mile 2-ijanikin/Badagry around 2009 or so.Novemeber 2014 when i passed there,It didn't even appear like they were going to complete it in 5 years time and that's even the most completed line.There's still a lot of work to be done and lets not forget there are 6 more lines to be completed.

I am talking of the light rail and not about the expressway.

The super highway was meant to be an Ecowas project running from Lagos to Abidjan or Dakar or Accra.

IlekeHD:
To ba je pe ilu oyinbo ni, mo le so pe a sele.
Sugbon mii mo limitations ti a ni ni Lagos.

1. When was the project awarded? (I think 1 year is unrealistic)

2. What does a light rail need to perform? To be maintained? Do we have those resourced in abundance? If not, how much will it cost the Lagos-Ogun-Oyo to get them?

3. How much will it cost us to operate them in Lagos?

4. Is this an underground or surface light rail?

It is a surface light rail. I am sure it can be completed by end of next year.

Based on my amateurish assessment, the bulk of the work that remains is around Lagos Island and which is majorly the joining of the already standing pillars that are meant to hold the rail tracks.

The Mile 2 axis is 90-95% completed.

If Lasg us serious and the fund is readily available, it is something they can even achieve by mid year of 2016.

Gbawe:
The problem is that Yoruba leaders of the past were myopic and obsessed with frivolities. I don't see any reason why any well-led region in Nigeria cannot be exemplary, developed and united if led by visionary men and women who can focus on what matter the most. For example, the SW should be able to cobble together efficient solutions for things it can control like the provision of potable water, adequate healthcare, transport infrastructure et al. The current crop of Yoruba leaders simply need to be visionary, highly dedicated and disciplined. No region is constrained to work at Nigeria's pace if its leaders are driven, talented and dedicated.

I think we need to forge a regional front and develop accordingly.

We also need a forum that is devoid of political affiliation, that will be the think tank of the yoruba race in SW and other parts of the world. The forum should unite all under a common umbrella.

IlekeHD:
What united us during the June 12 saga?

Why don't we have the same elements today?

The sense of injustice to the region and to the yoruba race played a pivotal role in uniting us.

I believe there is conflict of philosophy and interests in the current bunch of perceived yoruba leaders, which is not making all of them to sing the same tune.

I believe there must be a forum that will jettison politics and be a front for advocacy of yoruba agenda, irrespective of political affiliation. Afenifere did this very well in the past before they suddenly turned to SW PDP Arm. Egbe omo odua of Awo did that very well too.

kobonaire:
"korokoro eyes" witness account is for the 90s .... Now we need pictures ....

I am using 3310, apologies I could not take pix for you to authenticate the claim.

Shymm3x:
I never said he's worthy of emulation. I just like the policies.

At the end of day, for a country to grow - you must invest heavily in education and make the kids interested in school. And he did try to do that. He just never executed it properly.

In terms of having a clue about what a leader should do, I give that to him.

He lacks implementation skills totally. Some of the ideas are laudable and novel but he lacks the discipline and administrative skills to see them through.

IlekeHD:
Problem is, if Yorubas don't play this power play game, I fear the North will suck Nigeria dry. We're the only ones in their path.

Nigeria is a chess game.

We can when the chips are down.

We did it during June 12 actualisation struggle. We are the only ones that can checkmate those guys in this country, provided we are united the way we did during the June 12 wahala.