banki: @Policewoman; let's talk about the message and not the messenger is it fair that with all the resources available iN bayelsa it is shortchanged by its leaders
So the problem is definately from the leaders and yes gej is part

Wsdm:
Someone took his precious time to put up this fantastic and awakening piece and all you can ask is picture? A BIG SORRY to you.

Dudu_Negro:

Afam,

I dont mean this response to insult and i hope you or anyone else do not view it as such. Your view here highlits the difference between "individualism" and "collectivism".

Yoruba social contract is a collective one. When the central authority issues an order the citizens uphold its tenets. This is not so in Igboland.

If an Igbo person is in Yorubaland the individualism must give way to collectivism.

OAM4J:

Since the whole Lagos became the subject of Oba of Lagos which preceded the colonial era.

Prof Corruption: Just a minute ago at Sambisa Forest.

dayokanu: God punish those PDP members who were using Boko haram to kill people

God punish those who had to retire Azazi and eventually killed him

God punish those who bomb Abuja on October 1 and exonerated MEND

In summary God punish retardeen Jonathan and his gang of bombers

Obiagelli:
Most of all God punish those that took two years to come to a decision on how to solve this problem, God those that played politics with the crisis.

OAM4J:

Does that also mean you have no respect for our traditional rulers since they are no longer the government of the day?

Anyways Iyalojas and her team are part of Local government recognized market administrators. You might need to confirm at your nearest Local government office.

Desola:

Before there was nigeria, there was natve law and custom and this is recognised by the constitution and indeed part of the constitution. Why do you think there exists customary courts?

ilugunboy:

It's is the kind of stupid and warped model of federalism that we practice that is beclouding your sense of judgement

Desola:

Jesu olugbala!

When did it become fashionable to think with the anus na?

What has constitution got to do with tradition nitori oloun?

OAM4J:

She was not just the mother of Tinubu, long before Tinubu became known, joined NADECo, became a senator and later a governor, there was a powerful Iyaloja of Lagos, Alhaja Abibat Mogaji.

You might need to read up on the functions and powers of an Iyaloja though.

A lot of people think she became influential because she was Tinubu's mother whereas this woman had been dining with kings and head of states long before Tinubu became anything.

Desola:

Five pages down the line and something comes to ask a stup1d question??

Seun, you see yourself? See those whom you appointed as awodi?

Demdem:

U dey mind the fool.

Afam4eva:
Pls, let's not overstretch it. Let's be happy that now Nigerians don't have to worry about where the next bomb will go off and let's walk on solving the armed robbery situation cos it's still rife in the country.

take dat: Ogbeni, you get problem. Stay off drugs for good

Sibrah: Its been a while now . . . Though i heard they are still killing.

misterh: This further proves that Lagos state is indeed a Yoruba state. A friend of mine who wasn't Yoruba used to claim that Lagos state is a no-man's land. But he forgot that Lagos state has an oba who is recognised by the authorities, indigenes bear Yoruba names et al. This debacle is fueled because the late Iyaloja's son is a prominent opposition politician. Some people are saying that in order to move forward, we should throw away our tradition. Smh for this kinda people. We aspire to be as developed as Europe but this does not mean that we should forget our own identity. Even Europeans have their own cultures. Nuff said!

9jadelta: well, you have a point but there is little difference.. When government declares public holiday, everyone sits at home. Now imagine someone like me that will need to go to the bank and save my money but cant simply because, christians/muslims are at home celebrating one dead man from 2000yrs ago. Jauxtapose these two things. You will realize that we both have a point

9jadelta: @thelostpope
what will u say about the idea of declaring public holidays for easter or christmas when we are fully aware that not everyone is a christian? It has become tradition even when its meaningless to people like me? Same goes for declaring public holiday for muslims. People dnt care simply becoz the holidays didnt hurt anybody. If those market women and men are not cool with the idea of closing shops to respect the dead, then there would have been a protest or things like that. The same way i dnt complain when government declares public holiday for easter. You cant compare that to traditions that kill people (human sacrifise etc). We'll respect the dead somehow. For example. Remebrance day, there will public holiday in some countries. does that mean every family has dead soilder?

Wise_old_man:


Question my intellect? "Oooo Serious"


Funny you...For your information i'm quite intelligent (I think? lol)
Buy seriously, they have been doing these kind of things since..... and its obviously not new, i don't know why this is different?

I guess its because its Lagos State sha...there are parts of Imo that i dear not kill a snake (even if it crawls under my bedsheet) and parts of Oyo i dear not walk after 7pm for most part of the month...

Let Lagos enjoy its culture too....lol

ilugunboy:

Stop arrogantly insulting people that don't agree with you here Mr Man......this place has been relatively civil..at the rate you are going throwing insults...we can return the favor adequately.

django1:

Why u wan kill yourself? Is it because you realise lagos is not a no man's land like you dolts always say?

If the day comes the oba says don't come out, you take your flat head and go out claiming lagos was once fct maybe you'll ever return home!

This is what I call a rude awakening for some flat heads out there.

Wise_old_man:

I really wonder why u would insult me?

Nonetheless i would advice you to petition the Oba of Lagos or other Oba's in Yoruba land to have such customs removed from our culture as it is backward, the same way an european feels prostrating for ones parent is backward..

ilugunboy:

You are the hypocrite here...those traditions you quoted are basically accepted to be bad because they bring grave or bodily injury to individuals..

How does closing market bring injury to anyone?

sure way: Then we shud also assume boko haram 2 dey follow their religion

misterh: Thank you, sir! You done?? As i learnt in sociology, no culture is bad as long as those who practise it see nothing wrong innit. In this part of the world, we tend to judge other people's culture using the indices of our own culture. E.g an Igbo/Hausa man will condemn this culture of the Yoruba simply cos it's not done in his town & vice versa, forgetting that each culture have values and morals.