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This is not true. GJO Moshay published another book "Anatomy of the Quran" in 2007. How did he renounced his earlier publication in 1997 when he still published another similar book ten years later.
What I expect is for people with good Islamic knowledge to refute all he wrote in the book with evidences.

Eleyele0410:
May Almighty Allah forgive the past of Mr AbdurRahman- Gabriel Jayeola Olajide Moses (a.k.a G.J.O Moshay)
Not many of those people now using his book as a weapon to attack Muslims knew that he has reverted to Islam. Not many people knew that he made several attempts to withdraw this book from circulation. Not many people knew that he is an Offa born Yoruba man.
Those that were in Arewa house in Kaduna when he came to deliver lecture in 1997 would bear me witness. Yusuf Mabera knew about it. Nuraen Ashafa, a popular comparator knew about it, and even coordinated some of his several lectures he held in Kaduna. A very big assassination attempts followed his conversion from the well know organisation and with a big silence since those series of lectures, I am not sure he is still living.
But for the benefit of all of us here, Pastor Gabriel Jayeola Olajide Moses has since late 90s reverted to Islam and has condemned this book he wrote with his own hands

googi:
I thought his mother is from Abisogun family.

Do you disqualify him based on his mother?

If his mother is from the family then he qualified to be nominated. Every man either from paternal
or maternal line qualifies to come forward. Becoming a king in most Nigerian settings nowadays requires government patronage except in Benin. The new Oniru was a commissioner and in good place to be favored over others. The only thing that can disqualify him is a proof that he is not from the ruling family that is next in line. Any aggrieved individual should go to court.

1. The main Yoruba cities are: Porto-Novo (Ajase), Ouèssè (Wese), Ketou (Ketu), Savé (Tchabe), Tchaourou (Shaworo), Bantè-Akpassi, Bassila, Ouinhi, Adjarra, Adja-Ouèrè (Aja Were), Sakété (Itakete), Ifangni (Ifonyi), Pobè, Dassa (Idasha), Glazoue (Gbomina), Ipinle and Aledjo-Koura.

2. They constitute more than 12% of the total population. There are various sub-groups such as Ana-Ife, Anago-Ketu, Anago Shabe, Idaasha, Isha etc. Most of migrated from Nigeria between 12th -17th century. Earlier migration was mainly from Ile-Ife while later ones were that of Awori, Egba and Yewa people.

3. Porto-Novo (Ajashe) is the capital of Benin. It is Benin's second-largest city. Porto-Novo was once a tributary of the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, which had offered it protection from the neighbouring Fon. The Yoruba community in Porto-Novo today remains one of the two ethnicities aboriginal to the city. Historically the original inhabitants of the area were Yoruba speaking.

4. Tchaourou (Saworo in Yoruba etymology, meaning rattle) is a city located in the Borgou Department of Benin. It is the birthplace of former Beninese president Yayi Boni. It is home to people of various ethnic groups, mainly Yoruba people, also known as Anago or Nago, Bariba and Fulani peoples.

5. Dassa-Zoumé, also known as Igbo Idaasha or simply Dassa, is a city in central Benin, on the Cotonou-to-Parakou railway and the main north-south highway. The indigenous population of Dassa are the Idaasha. They migrated from the Egba subgroup of western Yoruba in present-day Nigeria to settle here.

6. Save kingdom is the most northwesterly of precolonial polities in the Yoruba-Edo region that claimed its authority through descent from the founding kings of Ile-Ife. Shabe kingdom was protected by Oyo and the subsequent weakening of Oyo led to recurrent In Sabe the Oba is referred to as the Onisabe of Sabe.

7. Ketu is one of the oldest capitals of the Yoruba-speaking people. They are related to the Egba sub-group of the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria. Ketu is considered one of the original kingdoms established by the children of Oduduwa. The kingdom was one of the main enemies of the kingdom of Dahomey, often fighting against Dahomeans as part of Oyo's imperial forces. Many of Ketu's citizens were eventually sold into slavery and this which accounts for the kingdom's importance in Brazilian Candomblé.

Sources:
Parrinder, E.G. The Story of Ketu: An ancient Yoruba kingdom. Ibadan, Nigeria.
Gurstelle AW. Settlement history and chronology in the Savè area of central Bénin
Forde D. The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria: Western Africa. Routledge

Seun and his moderators should stop posting disgusting and unverified information about Nigerians on Nairaland. Is every black person on the streets of Europe & America a Nigerian. This is now a regular feature on Nairaland.
I strongly advocate for sanctioning by the law for posting fake news.

Goal tot.

@OP
The title is misleading.
From this write up, Bishop Alexander Akinyele was never a king. His brother became a Baale (ruler) of Ibadan.

This is false news. Dr. Balarabe is not the first female deputy governor of Kaduna State. Pamela Sadauki was deputy in the early 1990s.

Kylian Mbappé father is Cameroonian / Nigerian while the mother is French / Algerian. Kylian's middle name is Sanmi (Adesanmi) while the brother is Adeyemi. Mbappe case is more or less like that of David Alaba who has Nigerian, Filipino and Austrian heritages. Kylian is French by birth and current nationalities of his parents. I believe the father love his Nigerian heritage and that is why he gave his children Yoruba names.

My family not from Benin, says Musiliu Obanikoro
FORMER Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday, refuted claims that his progenitor, Obanikoro of Lagos, was not from Bini Kingdom, Edo State. Obanikoro Setting the records striaght, the former Minister clarified that the legendary Obanikoro was an Awori from Idiluwo-Ile in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos. He, however, faulted the account of the former Minister of Works, Chief Femi Okunnu who said Obanikoro was from Benin saying the account was false. He said while he personally had a link with Benin City through his paternal great grand mother, who was from Eletu-Odibo family, the first Obanikoro was not from Benin. Obanikoro said the descendants of Chief Obanikoro, including Ajayi-Bembe, Ogunlana Arewa, Abisawo Otun, Osadeko, Aregbe and Oyerokun, were conscious of their Awori root. He said: “Chief Okunnu said Obanikoro was from Benin, we are not from Benin. We are from Aworiland. We are from Idiluwo-Ile in Ojo local government. Personally, I have Bini blood. My paternal great grand mother was from Eletu-Odibo family. Eletu-Odibo came with the Oba of Benin to Lagos. She was the daughter of Ogabi Eletu-Odibo. But, Obanikoro was not a Bini man. He was an Awori.”


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/family-not-benin-says-musiliu-obanikoro/

Diplomaticbeing:
It's obvious he's suffering from Guillian-Barre Syndrome.

@ Diplomaticbeing

It could be GBS as you said but you do not say obviously (which is 100%) in a case you do not have a good clinical presenting details
Only a magician or traditional healer with have a definitive diagnosis without full history and examination or even investigations.
If you are a medical student or an aspiring one, never say such during bedside teaching, ward round or examination.

AyakaDunukofia:
A good nation brings out the best from his citizens. Anthony Joshua is a British born and not 'Nigerian born' as claimed by the OP. Born in Watford by Scottish father. He is a member of the British Empire, MBE, flying the Union Jack Flag. Would die and be buried honorably in the UK. Any sublimal, subtle claim of this man is laughable

His, is a story of grass to grace. Anthony Joshua, nine years ago was a BRICKLAYER ecking out a living from London's construction sites. No one remembered him then.

Simply done well for himself, his family, his British trainers and the UK government.

Can anything good come out of Nigeria? I am beginning to think some people get sad if anything good is linked to Nigeria.
As a Nigerian in diaspora, this is the question I am faced with on daily basis by colleagues who only read about Nigeria been an extensively corrupt country, suicide bombing haven, super fraudsters etc.
On my own I have chosen to celebrate good news that are linked to Nigeria. At least I have a good news to share with colleagues this week.
For your information Nigerians will celebrate Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua because he has forever been linked to Nigeria.
If he turned rogue tomorrow, British media will disown him and remember his parents are from the "crime infected Nigeria".
His father is of Nigerian and Irish parentage while his mother is 100% Yoruba Nigerian. (Sagamu, Ogun State origin)
The fact that he was born in UK did not change the reality that he is of Nigerian descent who is very proud of his origin. Nigerian constitution allowed anyone who can trace his great-grandparent origin to Nigeria is qualified to be a Nigerian citizen.
AJ spent two years of his life in Nigeria. I am happy that he was discovered by someone while he was contended to live his life as a bricklayer. Mind you it was his cousin that encouraged him to take boxing and not UK government. However, UK government created an enabling environment for him to thrive. He would have turned agbero or a bouncer in Sagamu, Lagos, Abuja or Abeokuta if he was still in Nigeria.
He went as far as making a tattoo of Africa and Nigeria on his shoulder as his trademark.
He tried competing for Nigeria at the 2012 Olympics but was messed up by the Nigerian system, rejected by the egoistic boxing coaches.
Nigeria loss was Britain's gain.
The reality is that many Nigerians were brought up to be tribalist, nepotistic, sadist etc.
His story gives credit to the belief that many Nigerians who were grossly invested on by the Nigerian system will rather stay out of Nigeria
and live as citizens of other countries because of the vicious and unfavourable environment in Nigeria. It is Nigeria's loss on the long run, losing critical human resources.
Anybody from the commonwealth can be bestowed with MBE. MBE does not mean he is going to live and die in UK. IK Dairo, Sir Alakija also had MBE in the past. Many UK born Nigerian descents are retracing their path back to Africa in recent years.
I celebrate others like Sade Adu, Seal, Tunde Baiyewu, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie etc

Find below the links that showcased AJ as a proud Nigerian even if he presently represent UK.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/3445770/anthony-joshua-vs-wladimir-klitschko-aj-was-rejected-by-nigeria-for-2012-olympics-before-he-went-on-to-win-gold-for-britain/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvKQydyzDY&feature=youtu.be

This is getting out of hand. These guys are not the only ones feeling the heat of a bad economy. The elders should come together and say NO to this craze for fast money and show off of wealth.
There is need for a complete re-orientation

petra1:
That's not correct . He's one of the ministers that have strong stand on morality and virtue as part of ministerial ethiques . He even host a popular annual ministerial interdenominational conference called "MINISTERS WITHOUT BLEMISH". In one of the conferences that I watched . He was very furious against ministers traveling for Programes with female secretaries saying. "IS SHE YOUR WIFE? ..

It's obvious that the scandal was a set up . Even if he fell short at all in the set up . It's still a set up .ive monitored his programmed for years . I never saw any compromise tendency not to talk of him being a predator .

I only know about myself. It is always the so called trusted people that always have big skeletons in their cupboards.
How do you explain about 20 women coming up with allegation against one man.
I will not judge anyone but I will not beat my chest for anyone no matter the title they gave themselves. We have had many proven cases in the past.


http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/may/will-embassy-of-god-punish-sunday-adelaja-multiple-affairs.html

This is becoming interesting and boring at the same time

In my own personal opinion I believe the Prof is right. He came up with the diagnosis of Anaemia due to the story of blood transfusion as part of PMB treatment. He also stated that the anaemia is due to something the public is not aware of.
An House Officer or Registrar cannot do clerking of a patient and said his diagnosis is just Anaemia. What is actually causing the anaemia? There are over 100 causes of anaemia. Any medical student or even patient relative can actually tell you there is blood deficit due to pale features of the patient and the work of a good medical practitioner is to find the definitive diagnosis.
Reading the medics comments here takes me back to the days of grand round muscle flexing by my chiefs.

Abeokuta was a sovereign nation for 20 years and 11 months before the British almagamated her with the rest of Nigeria. She had her own laws, Police Force, Civil Service and was well organized. The Alake was the head of the defunct government known as the Egba United Government (1 February 1893- 1 January 1914). The almagamation with the rest of Nigeria did not go down well with the Egba people and this resulted in the Adubi War (1918). I have compiled some facts about this ancient and paramount city that seats as the capital of Ogun State and also the pride of Egbaland.

Abeokuta was founded in 1830, with Sodeke as her leader. The initial name of Abeokuta was “Oko Adagba” meaning “Adagba’s farmstead”-Adagba was an Itoko farmer. Sodeke who led the Egbas met him there.

Abeokuta means ‘under a rock’, signifying the protection which the Olumo Rock offered the Egbas during attacks.

Since the discovery of Olumo Rock, no one has fallen from it. Not even once.

Eastern side of the Olumo Rock in Ikija, Abeokuta

The first church in Nigeria, St. Peter’s Anglican Church, is in Abeokuta.

The first Baptist Church in West Africa and the first local government in Nigeria (Abeokuta South) are in Abeokuta.

The first University in Nigeria should have been located in Abeokuta but due to infighting, it was established at Ibadan as the University of Ibadan in 1948.

The first secondary school in Nigeria was sited in Abeokuta before it was relocated to Lagos as CMS Grammar School due to unknown reasons.

The first hospital in Nigeria, Sacred Heart Hospital, is in Abeokuta. It is still functioning.

The first bridge in Nigeria (Sokori Bridge-1903) built by a Nigerian (Mr. John Adenekan) without European supervision is in Abeokuta.

The first Newspaper in Nigeria (Iwe Iroyin) was founded in Abeokuta in 1859.

The first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers and the first woman to drive a car was from Abeokuta. They both married each other. They were also the first male and female admitted to Abeokuta Grammar School.

The first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria (Justice Adetokunbo Ademola) was from Abeokuta. He was the son of the longest reigning monarch (Alake) in Egbaland.

Okukenu Sagbua I, was the first Alake of Egbaland. He was enthroned on August 8, 1854. His descendant, Okukenu Sagbua IV is the current Alake of Egbaland.

Alake Gbadebo I, was the first monarch in Nigeyou
to visit England on a state visit. He spent 20 days at sea-May 5-25, 1904.

The first time a white man came to Abeokuta on January 4, 1843, everybody (both young and old) left their homes and market places to catch a glimpse of Henry Townsend, the white man.

During the American Civil War (1861-1865) which interrupted the U.S cotton trade to Europe, Abeokuta exported cotton to England.

The most influential woman in the history of Egbaland and the first Iyalode of Egbaland was Madam Tinubu. Tinubu square in Lagos and Ita Iyalode in Abeokuta are named after her. She died in 1887.

In 1893, the Egba United Government was recognized as an independent nation by Britain. She had her own laws. Many developments were made until 1914, when she was amalgamated to form Nigeria. The Sokori Bridge was constructed in 1903 and Abeokuta Grammar School was founded on July 16, 1908.

Abeokuta has produced many outstanding persons in the nation: In Academics (Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, Professor Saburi Biobaku), In Accountancy (Akintola Williams, Folorunso Oke, Bola Kuforiji-Olubi), In Law (Justice Adetokunbo Ademola – first indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olumuyiwa Jibowu, George Sodehinde Sowemimo, S. O. Lambo, Chief F.R.A. Williams, Prince Bola Ajibola), In Medicine (Moses Majekodunmi, Professor Thomas Lambo, Koye Ransome – Kuti)), In Military (Olusegun Obasanjo, Oluwole Rotimi, Enitan Ransome-Kuti), In Civil Service (Simeon Adebo), In Literature (Ajisafe, J.F Odunjo, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka – of Egba mother), In Music (Josiah J. Ransome-Kuti, Fela Ransome-Kuti, Femi Ransome-Kuti, Fela Sowande, Ebenezer Obey, Sina Peters, Adeola Akinsanya, Prince Adekunle, Ayinla Omowura), In Journalism (Olusegun Osoba, Reuben Abati), In Women Rights and Entrepreneur (Iyalode Tinubu, Eniola Soyinka, Elizabeth Adekogbe, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and Iyalode Bisi Tejuoso), In Politics (Olusegun Obasanjo, Ernest Adegunle Sonekan, M.K.O. Abiola, Moses Majekodunmi, Dimeji Bankole, Ayotunde Rosiji, Olusegun Osoba, Ibikunle Amosun) and others countless to mention.

In 1925, Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti (1855-1930) Fela’s grandfather, became the first Nigerian to release a record album after he recorded several Yoruba language hymns in gramophone through Zonophone Records.

The most enlightened clan among the Yoruba tribe are the Egbas. Her chiefs had been interacting with the Queen of England as far back as 1868 which continued till a century later. English and Egba monarchs did exchange gifts.

The only South Westerners ever to rule Nigeria are from Abeokuta (Olusegun Obasanjo and Ernest Shonekan).

It is widely believed that Egba women are more independent than any other Yoruba tribe in the country e.g Eniola Soyinka, Elizabeth Adekogbe and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.

Popular Egba Song:
Egba ile, ibe ni 'gbagbo ti bere;
Egba ile, ibe l'olaju ti bere;
Omo Egba won m'aye je.;
Baba mi se die loro mi emi l'omo Lakesin.
Bo ni male ma wi ni mosalasi, won a ni ka ma ro'ko;
Bo ni 'gbagbo ma wi ni Soosi, won a ni ka ma s'agbe.
Eni yo s'ore agbe, a jinyan koko, a senu kabata;
Ewele wekun ewele,
A ko ma f'oju sunkun ara wa;
E e wele wekun e wele.
Awa omo Olumo, awa Egba a ho yaya, awa omo Olumo (2ce).

Modified: Akindele D.W.

ettybaba:
Never knew he's a Nigerian.
Happy birthday sir.

Brazilian father and Nigerian mother

They were called the “A-men” people when they first surfaced in my father’s farmstead in the mid 80s. We were used to hearing Christians say “Aamin” to every line of prayer. Our village was a majorly Muslim community. But there were orthodox Christians with their small church building. Once, we sneaked in there fascinated by the enchanting songs and the expressive dance. The drumbeats, the soulful songs and the measured dance steps were as alluring as the delights of paradise. We thought Christianity was just about those sounds and symbols. Then these new people came. Two struggling young bachelors sauntered into our stead, primarily propelled by the exigencies of life and living. They came and altered the routine we associated with Christianity. They were our village primary school teachers whose new church spoke not the language of the villagers. This new church strangely spoke English and scanty Yoruba. The shout of heavily accented “Amen!” particularly marked out the members. That “A-men!” soon became their sobriquet. For a long time, they remained few but they were unrelenting.

Those two teachers were friendly with everyone and discriminated against no one. They were generous and very affable in their dealings with all. They loved their hosts and they were loved. But their brand of Christianity was strange. And, it was clear even in those early days that these people were very unusual. They never got angry no matter the degree of provocation. They gave freely, even in their obvious need. They were gentlemen as defined by the creators of that English word. Those two represented my first contact with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Years later, when I got to know the person leading this men, I looked back and understood where their distinction came from. Whenever their General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, speaks, his deep voice gives the depth of the divine. He carries on simply living the words in Thomas Tallis’ (1505-1585) hymn: “I want to be like Jesus/So lowly and so meek;/ For no one marked an angry word/ That ever heard Him speak”.

He confounds with his simplicity. “His appearance is straitlaced: he always wears a pinstriped suit, a gleaming white shirt and a bow tie.” That is a description of him by frontline American news magazine, Newsweek, which in 2009 named him one of the 50 most powerful persons in the world. If anyone doubted the judgement of that magazine, the events of the last one month should convince such people that in this world, a Daddy truly reigns. First, he was in Ekiti where he calmly ruffled feathers and then asked ‘someone’ to “shout Halleluyah!” He did the unusual, endorsing Ayodele Fayose’s therapy for the Fulani herdsmen’s atrocious afflictions across the nation. His position was popular in beleaguered places. But it must have jolted some men of power. You remember one powerful politician promptly attacked the message and the messenger. You also remember that the attacker’s ruling political party, within 24 hours, ate their leader’s words — red hot. Then came the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria with its governance code. The noise that followed was as loud as the June 12 annulment cries. Just when the council thought it had scored a big win with the RCCG reshuffling its own ruling council, the government that owns the FRC went prostrating. It yanked off its agent and burnt the scroll upon which the offending code was written. It is when such things as the above happen that you know “everyone (truly) needs a Daddy.”

There is something celestial in a man before whom kings bow and presidents kneel. The wise won’t be frontal in taking such people on. Newsweek, in x-raying Adeboye and his aura and the quality of the crowd he commands, reminded its readers of the 2008 scene of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, United States, “in church, head bowed, palms turned up toward heaven, standing silently as Thomas Muthee, a Pentecostal preacher from Kenya, prayed for her freedom from witchcraft.” Even the most agnostic knows this inversed the natural order of sociopolitical relations. Adeboye is powerful because he is credible. He is called ‘Daddy’ because he is loved. A loved man is not a commoner. A credible man cannot be a common victim of power. There will be fireworks — and we saw it.

Religion is sensitive. It is ruled by passion in its most intense form. It is the singular experience that takes the whole of the believer — body, soul, everything. Comparative religion scholar, Francisco Demetro, says it is man’s response to the final reality behind all things. The one who experiences that “final reality” empties his everything into it. It sucks in the believer, leaving him utterly helpless, changed inside out. This is what you see across the religions. The unpretentious believer is dissolved in the transcendent solution bucket of the immanent. A multitude of such transformed beings won’t give in to any ‘unruly’ code. They will bring down the Bastille of any insolent government agency conceited in its earthly powers. To the ardently religious, earthly codes are constructs of the devil. They cannot regulate the heavenly. They cannot stand. They must fall. If you doubt them, ask Obaze who thought he had a job to do and would do it no matter whose toe was smashed.

Should a government agency determine the appointment and tenure of leaders of faiths? The answer won’t come now as long as the congregation is pleased with the conduct of the leader. But outside the worship house, the debate will rage for as long as we continue to see business and cool cash in everything we do. Many feel Obaze and his FRC should have stopped at asking for audited accounts of not-for-profit organisations where religious bodies belong under our laws. If you collect from the public, you should account to the public. It is logical and it is in order. It even sounds democratic and stabilising. An outside check will likely save these organisations from internal crises associated with monies and how they are spent. But Obaze went further. With his swagger stick, he strolled into the Republic of Religion. He wanted to be INEC — choosing and dethroning presidents and governors of churches and mosques and monasteries and shrines. He got mortally fractured as INEC bosses routinely get.

Religion is powerful. Its radiation mocks the nuclear. Its lava is hot, ever ready to erupt and rupture societal peace. Even me, as I write this, I look unto heaven, eyes unto God, praying: let me not use the wrong words. Obaze used the wrong words and picked the wrong figures. Then the candle of his resolve flickered. But Obaze’s misadventure notwithstanding, shouldn’t we do something positive and firm about the excesses in religion? It may be true that religion has become part of the problems it is meant to solve. I will be surprised if religious organisations do not have their fair share of the afflictions of the society in which they operate. We hear stories of politics, intriguing schemings and unbelievable drama about money and its associated evils in places of worship. My people say when mashed locust beans threatens to go bad, you rescue it with salt. Salt treatment cures crushed pepper too from going rancid. But, how do you save salt itself when misfortune assails it? It is the tragedy of religion today everywhere. And I am not talking only of Christianity. Some time ago, I witnessed some Muslim eggheads querying why community central mosques experience construction in perpetuity. Building committees become standing committees. You see everlasting construction, everlasting contributions. Projects and the select few who supervise them pass from generation to generation. Things that religion preaches against are what its ‘adherents’ do. We have lost count of the number of political parties we have; so is the number of worship houses. Every failed businessman diversifies into religion and is soon counting his blessings. That is the tragic reality of religion as we have it today. But I fear, if society is too morally weak to rescue religion from itself, it will one day unravel the society. And when that happens, we will reconfirm if truly, “the devil is a liar.”

MONDAY LINES

Federal Republic of Religion

By Lasisi Olagunju (Columnist of The Year).

January 16, 2017

http://hotnewsnaij..co.za/2017/01/monday-lines-federal-republic-of.html

This is a false news. David Oyedepo Jnr has been the resident pastor at Faith Tabernacle, Ota for almost year now. False news from fake blogs trying to generate traffic.

OBAGADAFFI:
Well most Churches in Nigeria are smarter.

These Churches assist their members to the registry and they issue the Government Certificates right in the Church.

These are big Churches, like Catholic, RCCG, Methodist etc

You are right. I actually did my wedding in church and got a registry certificate right there.

OBAGADAFFI:
What is the confusion here.
If had Church, Mosque, Traditional or in Court premises.

All Certificates most come from the Marriage registry.

There are Two (2) types of Marriage Registries in Nigeria

A. Federal Marriage Registries

a) LAGOS – Ikoyi Registry (covers all those resident in Lagos, South-South, South East and South West)
b) ABUJA – Wuse 2 (covers all those resident in the Northern region)

B. All States have various Registries at the State and Local Government level.

@OBAGHADAFI. Thanks for the explanation.

fados4sure:
My sis did her wedding in court why my friend did his own in Local Govt & i was a witness

Please i will advise you to withdraw that statement of consent and court wedding since you are not a legal expert or have done a court wedding yourself.
Wedding may take place in a court premises but the certificate is issued by a LGA marriage registry.

fados4sure:
You are wrong sir
Witness is for local government marriage registry not court marriage

I am confused about the difference between local government registry and court weddings. Is it not the same thing? I want the legal experts to clarify this.
Please get your facts right before we end up miss informing people. I got married over a decade ago in a church but got a local government registry certificate not even the church certificate because we registered the marriage at the LGA and the certificate was released to the Pastor and we signed it during the wedding.
My wife and I have used this certificate to travel round the world and for our permanent residency in another country. 2 of my family members got their EU papers with LGA marriage certificates. There was no need for parental consent when we filled the forms.
I have legal consultations before my wedding and there was nothing like court wedding but LGA registry wedding. I have never met anyone who had court wedding. I know court only dissolves marriage after irreconciable differences between the couple but not to wed.

arabaribiti:
If a wife packed out of a court marriage without giving the husband a divorce and you can't find her and her parent said they don't know are whereabout can the husband re marry what is the implication and if the husband find out dat the wife has re marry what is the implication

Marriage without dissolution of the first marriage is an offense - bigamy. Let the man approach the court to dissolve even in the absence of the woman. The law allows such dissolution after certain no of months.

ariesbull:
all u need is witness but your parents must consent

Please stop giving wrong information. i married over 10 years ago there was no parent consent, unless the law has changed. What is required on the marriage registry form is the details about the couple's parents- name,age,address, occupation etc.
Marriage is expected to be between 2 consenting adults not babies why presence or consent of parents.

Registry is not church, nikai or customary marriage which require family involvement. All you need at the registry is just 2 witnesses , therefore only 4 people could be at the wedding.

This brings up the memory of Jesu Oyingbo. He operated in similar fashion.He eventually died in late 1980's leaving many confused members and kids who never venture out of his compound in Maryland during his life time. Lagos is full of scary cults masquarding as church.

Goal Nigeria Oparanoize

I do not support CAN arming the Christians but it is imperative of everyone that is been harassed especially by the marauding herdmen to take up arms to defend themselves.
This government is not interested in defending them. The Patron of the marauders is in the government.
The case of Kaduna town came to mind. From the 1990s the Christians were on the receiving end virtually every 3 years but the Sharia crisis of the year 2000 taught everyone a big lesson. It was tit for tat. There was peace for 11 year until 2011 post election crisis. Both groups slaughtered each other and I was surprised the aggressors could call a truce.My pious neighbours took up arms and went on rampage after their Pastor's only child was slaughtered for no just cause.
It is easy to say no to Omatseye's suggestion if you are not on the receiving end.
No one has monopoly of violence.

skywalker001:
populated but not more than Akure south alone... This election shows dat Akure pple are not selfish cos d is d 2nd time dy wil vote against their son...

As a capital city/LGA,Akure is populated by many non indigenes either from the state or other tribes who do not have the sentiment of "he is our son" therefore voted neutrally unlike more local or traditional place like Owo.

Eyitayo would have performed better if not seen as Mimiko puppet. Aketi learned his lessons well and showed himself a man of his own not a Tinubu puppet as in 2012.

Prof Toyin Falola is an authority on Yoruba history and I will not dispute him. What I wrote concerning no. 9 is an addition. I will modify my previous post. However, the Oyo Yoruba being the majority and kicking the Ifes and Egbas out but the Ijebus and some Egbas and Ife were still there.

Good one. That oriki is more of Egba Alake or what you can refer to Egba omo Iya marun, that is Ake, Kenta, Itoku, Ijeun and one other part of the town.
Egba meji ki jara won niyan, bi kan ban puro ikeji a ma wipe bawa- Two Egbas do not disagree with each other (especially in the presence of a stranger even if they are lying).

This is of the older generation. Recent history of disagreement between Fela Kuti, Abiola, Obasanjo and Soyinka proved this to be wrong.

Good historical thread, however, I will like to add to no. 9. The original war camps had mainly the Oyo (Yoruba), Ife, Ijebu and Egba groups. The Egbas were the original owners. The Egbas were oppressed by the others and this led to their fleeing in batches to Abeokuta. Then majority of the Ife people also left. However these two groups had substantial number of their people in Ibadan who stayed back. Late Chief Debo Akande SAN who was an high chief of Ibadan was of Ife stock. Efunseitan Aniwura the powerful Iyalode of Ibadan was of the Egba stock and Ojo area of Ibadan is Egba Gbagura people and that is why MKO Abiola an Egba Gbagura man was made Basorun Ibadan.