₦airaland Forum

beautyhd:
To be sincere, that lekki toll gate is not supposed to be reopened.

Lets use it as a sacrifice for the blood of the innocent wasted across the nation during end SARS protests.

Motorists plying that route are happy with less traffic.

Sanwolu, shouldn't listen to those clamoring for it's reopening.

LegendHero:
So if the soldiers shoot at computer village or the Seaport, the next thing is for these places to be shut down and destroyed?

Many of you guys don’t even give a bleep about the victims but you just want it shut for few reasons:

1. People don’t want to pay tolls again because we have been wired to think the government can provide everything so we should use it for free instead.

2. The people that think Tinubu owns it, they want it shut down to get back at Tinubu and have a bragging right.

3. Those celebrity that want to trend again with this.

4. People that are really concerned (unfortunately they are few).

One funny thing is that people are passing the tollgate currently and the only difference is that toll fees are not being paid. So I really don’t understand how people could disrespect the ‘dead’ and keep driving through the place if that’s the narrative they are pushing.

Kaduna1stson:
South west people has been mocking herdsmen the most. They have refused us access to good grass, by planting food on the bushes where we are supposed to feed our flock.

Osagyefo98:
How do adeleke relates to him?

Did Davido marry his mother properly

southniyikaye:
THE SAME LAI THAT BROUGHT HIM TO POWER?

RedPanthar:
Hypocritical old man. Enjoy your alliance


Solarin will be dissapointed at you from the grave.

kingsavage:
You think say fulani be like una wey day betray una selves? Atiku na fulani so why him go condemn the killings....

ThatEnuguboi:
Get the fvck outa here u biased modafucker, if for anything na Tinubu suppose the do the talking bc he's yoruba and his people are the ones affected so he should voice out, and being in APC is utter nonsense, it should even be an advantage for him or are u saying his party membership is worth more than yoruba blood spilled no wonder fulani places cow above yoruba lives

Mysticwebb:
Same reason Tinubu is silent. Come to think of it, is Atiku your President? Focus on the President who has power to stop the bloodshed but chose not to.

dammiecool:
So the issue of killing people is less important abi

internationalman:
At least he has been showing his disagreement with buhari in some other issues.

This question should be directed to Tinubu instead.

CodeTemplar:
I guess there is a time for silence and a time to speak.

cocolacec:
Atiku talk about fulani herdsmen killing innocent civilians.

kingbee90:
In 2015, the Yorubas had 2 options:
(1). To vote for Goodluck Jonathan
(2). To vote for Muhammad Buhari.
They chose the latter. Their reason was because GEJ was from a minority group in the South South of the country. They also accused GEJ of running an omo-ibo government & they protested against his gov. using the hashtag #OccupyNigeria with all their politicians, religious leaders, obas, entertainers, wole soyinka etc.
6 years down the line Nigeria has been littered with Fulani terrorists from Chad, Mali, Niger republic especially in the South West killing their men, raping their wives & claiming their ancestral lands.
Where are the #OccupyNigeria folks? Where is Tinubu? where is Tunde Bakare? where is wole soyinka? where is Jide Kosoko? where is that useless Oba who threatened people to vote for Buhari or be thrown into the lagoon?
The day we Nigerians stop choosing our leaders based on tribal and religious sentiments is the day we'll start experiencing a better Nigeria.
Chai!!!

longetivity:
Edo no be Lagos

longetivity:
Edo no be Lagos

Crimrburster:
Silly gay.

TAO11:
Good write-up! In any case, I’d like to correct some ‘mistakes’ in this write up:

(1) The word “Yoruba” did not originate in Ahmad Baba’s “Mi’raj al-Su’ud”, or in any of his essays.

To originate a word is to coin such word.

The Timbuktu writer, Ahmad Baba (in that essay) simply made reference to different groups of people using their well-known pre-existing names.

The embedded screenshot right below shows a scan of the manuscript folio in question from his original Arabic essay written in the early 1600s.

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The embedded screenshot which follows below shows a translation of the relevant section of the above Arabic original.

This translation below was prepared by John Hunwick and Fatima Harrak for The Institute of African Studies Rabat, Morocco in the year 2000.

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Clearly, the text shows from its phrasing [viz. “... the group called ... Yoruba ...”] that this is a well-known pre-existing name.

Ahmad Baba didn’t name us, neither did he name any of the ten groups in that listing.
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(2) Yes Ahmad Baba wrote “Mi’raj al-Su’ud”, but not in the year 1627 (in case that was assumed).

Rather, this specific essay was written in the year 1615 in response to some inquiries on enslaving black people.

The Arabic text of “Mi’raj al Su’ud” contains the precise year [and month] of its writing (in the Islamic/Hijri calendar obviously) as highlighted in the embedded folio below.

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The highlight in this folio (which is simply the “verso” of the earlier attached folio) basically shows the wording (in translation): “[The year] one thousand and twenty four [of the Hijrah]”.

When converted from this Hijri “AH” calendar into the Gregorian “CE” calendar; the year 1024AH falls into the year 1615CE.

The well-known formula “G = 0.9692*H + 622” proves sufficiently useful for this conversion.

In the light of my above expositions from Ahmad Baba’s essay of the year 1615, the anachronism and contradiction of the Sultan Bello Coinage myth thus becomes very obvious.

For emphasis, the year 1615 (Ahmad Baba) comes before the year 1837 (Sultan Bello). Lol.

And the word “Yoruba” (as the group name for Yoruba-speaking peoples) has been in existence prior to Baba himself as has been observed in that essay.

What then is the word “Yarriba”, or “Yarba”, etc., and what is its connection with Sultan Bello??

Captain Hugh Clapperton who was an acquaintance of Sultan Bello of Sokoto informs us in his 1829 publication on this.

He noted that “Yarriba” is simply the Arab’s and the Hausa’s articulation of the evidently pre-existing name “Yoruba”. To quote Clapperton’s precise words, he writes:

“Having seen the whole of the baggage off, we started in the evening, and proceeded on our journey. We learned in fact that we were not now in the king of Badagry's territory, but in a district of Eyeo [Ọ̀yọ́], which is called Yarriba by the Arabs and people of Houssa, and that the name of the capital is called Katunga, and that it is thirty days' journey.”

~ Captain Hugh Clapperton; “Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa”; (1829), p. 4.


Furthermore, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther also writing in the 1800s makes a note to this same foregoing effect when he writes as follows:

“European Travellers obtained the name Katanga from Hausa People. Yarriba, or Yaruba, is likewise the Hausa pronunciation: Yoruba would be more correct”.

~ Reverend Ajayi Crowther; “A Grammar of The Yoruba Language”; (1852), p. i.
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In summary, the name “Yoruba” did not originate in the writings of Ahmad Baba in the 1600s. Neither, obviously, did it originate in the writings of Arabs and Hausa-Fulanis in the 1800s.

As has been seen in Ahmad Baba’s essay from the year 1615, the name “Yoruba” (in reference to the Yoruba-speaking group) predates the 1600s.

It is evidently our endonym from a long time ago. Don’t be fooled by modern day propaganda, people.


Cheers!

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jullary:
And u people are complain high rate of crime!
See the economy is hard pls live this people for God sake,that's there only means of survival.

Igbochief001:
What about beer sellers ? ...what about rice importers ? ...

Yorubas need to look inward....recent events has shown where the loyalty of yoruba Muslims are ...and trust me it's not in the interest of Yorubas

ScamHunter:
If there are ethnic groups that should understand Fulani agenda well, Yoruba is one of them having lost territory to them. Northerners, especially Hausa are another, having been conquered by them. However, if I tell you that I was not shocked in 2014 when I saw people from Benue, Southern Kaduna and some Yoruba campaigning to enthrone Fulani supremacy, I would be lying. I remember pointing out to the Benue lady the effect APC victory would have on her people in terms of increased genocide but she didn't seem to understand. We Africans should start having strategic insight and not live for our belle only. The reason Arabs and now Fulani are cutting wide swats in tears and blood from North Africa to the Congo basin is that we lack foresight. It is seriously dumb that in an age other Africans have realized this existential threat, foolish Nigerians are still empowering an ethnic group that plans to kill us all.