₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
It is you who don't know what indigene means
You are an indigene of Ife not Lagos
Stop claiming to be an indigene of Lagos
Where's your agbo ile in Lagos

Don't ask for Agbo ile, ask for Oriki and landed property that predates Nigeria.

To give you dirty slap dey hungry me

DeepSight:
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Do I really have to explain this? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many commodities there are? And you want to say if one single commodity is bringing one fifth of your forex, that is not major?

Why is it that you cant accept it when you goof? That is silly pride. And it only makes you look worse than necessary.

The argument is not about commodity it is about region contribution in the 50s and early 60s.

Why trying to fabricate your hypothesis. Your AI copy copy don fail you you now look for escape way

DeepSight:
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1960 export data shows groundnut export accounting for 17.5 per cent of Forex earnings.

Go and read, no, I know everything.

Stop misusing AI.

You do crash course on how to use AI like a professional.

You don't just type a direct question to get full understanding.

Your direct question will mostly give a direct response that are not likely to be accurate

Kukutente23:
There are Ijebus that are indigenous to Ibadan
The late Olubadan Odulana Odugade was of Ijebu ancestry

Stop whining yourself, that you have certain ancestry doesn't qualify you as one.

My ancestry is from Ife yet an a Lagosian, what the problem with you guys trying to tell people you don't know their history

malali:

It seems some people don’t fully grasp how Lagos generates its revenue. Tinubu isn’t “printing money in his house.” A large number of non-indigenous Lagosians contribute significantly to the state’s income , through taxes, business, real estate, and commerce.

So why object if Lagos uses part of that revenue to pay for WAEC or JAMB fees for all children? Everyone has contributed to creating that pool of resources. Sure, some state governors could do better with allocations, but taking a bigoted, xenophobic stance against inclusive benefits is beneath anyone claiming intellectual credibility.

Consider this: if federal government were to take over all federal assets within the state , ports, federal hospitals, universities, offices, federal roads(put a toll on third mainland bridge), the revenue derived from those alone would far outstrip the state’s own internally generated funds. Estates like FESTAC, and many others, were built with federal money. Separating federal from state contributions would cut Lagos’ effective revenue by more than half.

Using state revenue to fund inclusive programs is fair because all residents, indigenous or not, help generate it, and access should reflect contribution, not ancestry.

Stop talking like an illiterate, we talking about estates you are mentioning Festac, compare it with Lagos state built estates.

If federal government can move those things out and relinquish our land for a bigger and better project the better.

As if there are no FG infrastructure in other states.

Envy is always an impediment to logical reasoning

Justiceleague1:
There are free buses available for voluntary relocation to iragbiji and Oshogbo Ibadan Ogbomosho....there's deadline sha....

You are blocked

Racoon:
Lagos was former Nigerian capital city. So it is natural that we are interested whenever discussion concerns it.

Remind me how many former capital do we have?

Why don't you salivate over them abi na for Lagos Dem bury ur placenta ni

Racoon:
The landlord of Burdilion have caged and kept it underdeveloped for more than 20 years while claiming to tame the Atlantic ocean.

Talk about your state abi na only Lagos dey Nigeria?

Even if na Sambisa don't be ashamed to mention it na

Kukutente23:
That Ambode is ilaje does not automatically make him an indigene of Lagos
There are ilajes that are indigenous to Ondo and even Ogun state
That someone is Ijebu does not make them indigenous to Lagos as well
There Ijebus that are indigenous to Ogun while there are Ijebus that are indigenous to Oyo state, ibadan to be precise
You claim to be Yoruba yet you don't even know much about indigenous relationships in Yorubaland
Are you going to say all Yorubas are indigenes of Osun state now?

Oga Ade there are no Ijebu in Oyo state you only have Ijebu in Lagos and Ogun state.

State the local government in Oyo state where Ijebu are found?

malali:
None of the above is government approved or constitutional.
You are mentioning examples from a separatist movement. Someone thats is of questionable sanity ?
The Hisbah police and the likes are all over Nigeria, Amotekun, OPC ,vigilantes ETC

These are not state sanctioned programs. If these are your evidence. I wont argue with you, because you don't seem to have a good grasp of how things work.
You are arguing based off, since once person has done something wrong.....The whole world should legalize wrongdoing.

Someone has done something wrong instead of you to go to court and also address same here you are here beefing Lagos state.

If it were not constitutional is there no single lawyer from SE to take up the matter to court,?

Let me inform you today that in a Federation it is within the law to do all those things. Don't always view things from the viewpoint of Ironsi who in at attempt to dominate abolished independent power of each region and collapse everything into a Unitary formation.

Nigeria have since ceased from such abnormality and true federation is gradually taking its course

Kukutente23:
A major source of revenue? What evidence do you have to back this up or we should just swallow it because you nor dey lie
Nigeria's major revenue source from the 1920s-1970s was cocoa and oil palm. Groudnut was never a major revenue earner for Nigeria
It has always been the south feeding the north. Even from colonial times till now

The guy doesn't know how to use AI to get the right information, he doesn't know difference in quantity and quality/ value.

He rely on the lie shunned out about groundnut pyramid that is all political tool to remain relevsnt

malali:
Are you okay...what was ?
Educate me. I am listening.

Stick to the Indigeneship story.

Why is it constitutional for SE to observe Monday sit at home.

Constructional for the North to enact Sharia law with Hisbah police.

And unconstitutional for Lagos to digitalised her Indigeneship record system

Don't derail the topic

Justiceleague1:
Let Lagos breathe please.
Go back to oyo nahhhhh

Present your Indigeneship certificate snd oll present mine.

Stop obsessing in others heritage. That's covetousness.

I ban every spirit of covetousness in your life

malali:
The Kano groundnut pyramids were a major source of revenue for Nigeria from the 1930s through the late 1960s, with their peak commercial influence in the 1950s and early 1960s.

This is blatant lie

christopher123:
and he is even claiming Lagos leaving his state to rot

We have indigenous Ilaje in Lagos. You can never understand us, even if you spend 5 Generations in our territory

Tochi3:


..you have said the real intention of Lagos state in conjuction with using a yorubs man at the Federal level to bring tribalism, parapoism, nepotism & bigotry into Lagos state..

..when other state embark on thesame line..i wonder what Nigeria will turn to...

..the actions of the people of SW towards other Nigerians has even shown that they are the ones who want out of Nigeria..they want to be on their own..because their policies & actions against the constitution of one Nigeria proves to that..

..but why hiding under one Nigeria to want to be on your own..why not form Oduduwa republic..& make laws as they like..

..they should tell their senators & rep members to push for Oduduwa republic
..afterall they also have tilumbu..their kinsman...

..why hiding under one nijeria..to make discriminatory laws..telling Nigerians to go back to their villages...while your politicians are collecting federal allocations & federal constituency funds derived from one Nigeria..

You don't know what you are saying.

You don't know what federation entails

You need to read more books to understand the fundamentals and principles of what a Federation country is all about.

Let me tell you, in a Federation what binds the Federating units together are.

Currency
Federal Army
External affairs

Anything outside that is no longer a federal tenets.

Each federating units can control it
Revenue
Police.
Resources
Internal laws
Education
Health
Etc

Don't get it twisted
Police

Kukutente23:
I hope he remains one of the best lawyers to you when he attacks your gods

Who is your God, MNK or Pitobi

malali:
This is illegal and unconstitutional on a federal level.

The Lagos State Indigeneship Automated Certificate is a sleekly disguised form of digital discrimination.

By institutionalizing “indigene status,” the government effectively divides residents into first-class citizens and others, contradicting the 1999 Constitution’s guarantee of equality and freedom from discrimination (Section 42).

In a cosmopolitan state built by migrants, codifying ancestry into a digital gatekeeper for access to schools, jobs, or benefits is regressive. It risks excluding millions of Lagos-born Nigerians whose families migrated generations ago.

Automation doesn’t sanitize bias, it only makes discrimination more efficient.

The Attorney General of the Federation Lateef Fagbemi should step in and uphold the constitution.

Next time, I suggest you read the constitution before you comment on the constitution.


Indigenes of states is recognized by the constitution.

Section 147 (3j recognizes indigenes of states

Section 46 4 (b) 1 also differentiates between indigent citizens and citizens. Therefore recognizing indigenes as separate qualification from ordinary citizens.

The constitution under “definitions” in Part IV. Section 318 (1j also recognizes indigenes of a state as people whose grandparents were members of the community indigenous to that state. Not a member of a community in that state but a community indigenous to that state.

Under the constitution as defined in section 318, you are only recognized as “belonging” to a state if your grandparents are a member of an Indigenous community from that state.

An ibo man can never be an indigene of Lagos under the constitution no matter how long he is resident in Lagos.

casualobserver:
Next time, I suggest you read the constitution before you comment on the constitution.


Indigenes of states is recognized by the constitution.

Section 147 (3j recognizes indigenes of states

Section 46 4 (b) 1 also differentiates between indigent citizens and citizens. Therefore recognizing indigenes as separate qualification from ordinary citizens.

The constitution under “definitions” in Part IV. Section 318 (1j also recognizes indigenes of a state as people whose grandparents were members of the community indigenous to that state. Not a member of a community in that state but a community indigenous to that state.

Under the constitution as defined in section 318, you are only recognized as “belonging” to a state if your grandparents are a member of an Indigenous community from that state.

An ibo man can never be an indigene of Lagos under the constitution no matter how long he is resident in Lagos.

Thank for educating Shinedu

That was my position all through the debate over the land matter.

This is coming from one of the best lawyer in Nigeria. All the emotion induced opinions can now be thrashed into the dustbin

FreeStuffsNG:
OP, it's obvious that you are dabbling into what you don't know.
Lagos indigenship Certificate is as old as Lagos State itself. It has always been in use for all those things including admission, bursary, employment, filling national character slots meant for Lagos.

If you are being honest, you will admit that your own state has same so drop the hypocrisy

Thank you for schooling the ignorant boy. Indigeneship certificate has been as old as the state. Oooo Ibo, face your state and get your Indigeneship certificate

Racoon:
Agreed, there are many wicked Igbos like any other ethnic national. However, the generalization or feminization of a tribal group is totally uncalled for.

Shooooo, this coming from Racoon the ancestor of the great grandfather of the grandfather of the father of bigotry.

Ayam not belifin what ayam ridin

FuglyGurl:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/wike-vs-naval-officer-military-uniform-represents-state-authority-says-gen-irabor/

Is it not the same uniform the bandit and Boko Haram are. wearing when they murder people.

Oga abeg pack well

Not only you, reasonable Nigerians wont allow military undermine our democracy, our civil rule and the rule of law

SalamRushdie:
As someone who grew up in a very military family and even served briefly I was thinking about how some officers became very popular in the country and I decided to make my list of the 6 most popular officers that have come out of the Nigerian military ...This is my list but your are free to add yours .

1 Kaduna Nzeogwu

2 Odimegwu Ojukwu

3 Murtala Mohammed

4 Sani Abacha

5 Mustapha Hamza

6 A M Yerima

Obasanjo is not popular,, IBB is not popular, dey play

dragunov:
If it was an ordinary person that the soldier prevented like that, you would be saying something different. Your hatred for Wike should not color your judgement.

Go back and read my post this time slowly and you will understand my point

AMINDA:
Earlier in the year, Wike revoked the C of O of the residence of the first man to join the NDA and reallocated it to his friend, Kingsley Chinda. He has taken it upon himself to square with serving and retired military officers, indiscriminately revoking properties that previous administrations have rightfully allocated to them. All green areas in the FCT have been converted and reallocated to friends and cronies, putting the environmental sustainability of the FCT at risk. He continues to be accommodated, aided, and abetted by Tinubu. All the FG does is to order probe with no action taken. What's the outcome of the probe ordered on Wike's allocation of hectares of choice lands to his sons?

https://x.com/Verydarkbackman/status/1988693781982638421

You even have the temerity to accuse Wike, when mess done by the Northern cabal are still plaguing the country up till today

Where is the anchor borrowers money?
Where is the security budget supervised by Dasuki.?
Where is the direct cash transfer that only benefits the north.?

Remember Buhari categorically stated that foreign grants should be focused in the north?

Today same North are the one shouting foreign military should not come and help us solve the problem your politicians created.

It sweet to chop US foreign aid, but bitter to absorb their military to terminate your bandits and BH,

Continue

AMINDA:
Okay. They didn't get it the right way. It took the coming of Wike after several FCT ministers to discover that and rightfully hand it over to Joan and Joaq Farms and Estates, and to cronies like Kingsley Chinda. Don't think what he did in Port-Harcourt, forcefully grabbing lands at Slaughter market and several other places for his Hyper-city malls and filling stations are unknown to Nigerians. Let him continue.

A lot of people have been civil about the discussion but fiam you dabble into the issue with your northern supremacist mentality.

If you chose to go that way, know that there are more intelligent people with history rubbish whatever political undertone you want to insert into the argument.

The era of call a dog a bad name to hang it is all gone, Southerners may have there differences but be rest assured that situation where the north manipulate the Southerners to displaced Jonathan will never occur again in Nigeria.

You blamed Jonathan for corruption but we're the arrowhead of people who destroyed his government through Dasuki who shared security money to cronies.

What happened to anchor borrowers money where you use Emefiele another Southerner to satisfy you instaiable greed in the north.

Wike is the best FCT minister building and correcting what you all allocated to the northern clique but you are here throwing up baseless propaganda.

I don't blame you, I blame some southerners who doesn't know when to separate politics from northern agenda.

Save us these cry of Wike giving land to his friends, why didn't you put up the same defense when previous ministers where messing up FCT.

Racoon:
"The officer, by every account'was acting under lawful orders from his superior, the former Chief of Naval Staff; his duty was to obey the chain of command, not to improvise under political pressure....."

That argument doest sell in a civil matter. The instruction from the senior military man was not in line with military primary role of protecting the country from external and internal aggression like insurgency

I civil matter should be handled by police and not a military personnel. Let's free mind from the hoax of military mentality

I ve been expecting FG to intervene in the embarrassing display of power by the state actors.

The position of the FG should be clear and succinct and not play politics or appeal to the sentiment of any section.

FG should establish that Nigeria is a democracy where we have civil rule where the rule of law is the guiding principle.

Military should be put in its rightful place while government representatives should guide by the rule and not emperor means.

The interest of the public is paramount, it should be guided jealously in order to have egalitarian society where citizens rights are protected