₦airaland Forum

Hamilton1:
Afonjas hav Migrated to Rivers

thebiggestgists:
You can pay installmental of 30yrs

OAUTemitayo:
Lagos seaport was built by the British during colonial era from taxes collected from the Yoruba people there.

Lagos airport was built by the British during colonial era

Most parts of Lagos state were under Western region and then Lagos state... FCT was only three local governments..

Ikeja was western region. It was never FCT
Epe same
Oshodi same
Agege same and almost all parts of Lagos.
Most schools, roads and public infrastructures in Lagos were built by either western region or Lagos state government not FCT.
Awolowo built Ikeja industrial estates and almost most of the industrial estates in Lagos.

Apart from third mainland bridge, few projects of worth were built constructed by FG.


Don't be a stark illiterate.

kernel001:
All the infrastructures I'm going to mention now were built by Federal Government, I challenge you to disclaim any them.

Airport
Seaport
Bridges
Roads
Rails
All Ministry headquarters
Lagos state government house


Please which one did your state government build?


Secondly, I will challenge you to travel outside Lagos, go to the East or South, you will never mention states with mud houses in their capital as progressive.

Modsenemy:
Lagidigba.....only old Yoruba folks will know

Guyman02:
Ezeigbos command so much respect that Yoruba Obasanjo feel threatened by their presence, remember the Deji of Akure and Ezeigbo incident, his attire and convoy alone was splendid and majestic.

The Igbos organise social activities and Ofala traditional outings that Accord the Ezes respect by their host communities.
Even Sanwo-olu received an award from then recently in Lagos to boost his political career, don't compare Ezeigbo and Oba Yoruba in diaspora.
In the North Ezeigbo is held in high esteem

sweetjohn:
The northerners don't like and don't trust and will never trust the Yorubas. They trusted the Igbos more and even find it comfortable doing businesses with the Igbo. Their only problem with the Igbos is RELIGION. This is what every average northerners knows. That's why they refer the Yorubas as deceivers that never can be trusted. They don't Ve any bad names for any tribe except for the Yorubas. They never like the yorubas, it was the yorubas that was forcing themselves to the northerners as their free cheap slave. All northerners knows this. I know all this because I stayed in the north for a very long time. And if you have stayed in the north you will also know this. In fact, to the northerners, there are only TWO tribe in Nigeria: the Muslims (Northerners) and the Christians (SE and SS) the rest are insignificance

YorubaBigot:
Lol... I often laugh at some of my fellow yorubas who think they natter in islam.

Although i'm a yoruba Christian, truth is yoruba muslims are often disregarded and seen as lesser muslums when it comes to islam. Theres no point trying to force, we yorubas are visitirs to islam, lets allow the real owners of islam in nigeria to call shots. I see no reason why we should be crying of been pushed aside and marginalized by northern muslims, but we are quick to accuse ibos of having an Eze ndigbo in yorubaland. Thsts hypocrisy

Jayslicky:
How can they be respected when all they do is asslick northerners, they cannot make a firm decision in a situation they only go with the highest bidder, they lack virtes of honesty, integrity and contentment but have vices of hypocrisy, greed and wickedness, who will ever want to associate with such people, they insult whoever is not on their side calling them ipobs even if they are not igbos, I've never seen a tribe so filled with jealousy and hate like them, everything to them is competition.

Chibuhealth:
This is not my problem now. [b]Please who voted for Ganduje in Kano? [/b]In Nigeria there is nothing like voting for a good leader, politicians are just after their own selfish interest that's why they do all manner of things to win. �

HisSexcellency:

Still don't know why after the presidential and my state elections, all other elections seems inconsequential to me.
All i want is the the winner of the presidential election and who becomes governor in my state. A goat can be elected as Governor in any other state for all i care.

mytime24:
Ole,thief, carry am go

OkpaAkuEriEri:
MPA gi

OkpaAkuEriEri:
Let him die,is not ma bizness.
If is Pete edoche or chiwetalu agu,I can fill small pity n donate small thin 4 dem.
[s]Afonja actor DAT HV put hand In juju
Nw juju HV come 4 hm & his disturbn us.

Rest in Piss sir

Acetosyn:
What about the idol gods he worships. He should call on them nöw. They should be able to help faster than Nigerians will

Rajman45:
This our [b]9JA youths [/b]from SS and SE are acting like animals.
PDP won sokoto...... INEC is good,
APC won kano....... INEC is bad.
Whenever politic favours PDP, Nigeria is a great country, but when the opposite occurs, Nigeria is a useless country. Please make una wise up and receive small SENSE biko.

sojiboy:
In case you missed it, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an advocacy group, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Muslim ministers from five south-west states when he constitutes his cabinet for his second term. Why? The group says because five of the south-west governors would be Christians, that is the way to go — to address the “marginalisation of Muslims” in the geo-political zone. Put plainly, what should determine the choice of ministers from the south-west should be religion, religion, religion, religion and religion. The press release said Yoruba Muslims have been marginalised in ministerial appointments for too long “despite being in the majority”.

I seem to understand the game MURIC is trying to play. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has spent the better part of the last 33 years analysing how many Christians are appointed into cabinets, especially when the figure tends to favour Muslims. They are quiet when it favours Christians. In the aftermath of Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in 1986, CAN became more than a pressure group. In fact, it could have been registered as a political party along the line, given the role it played in weaponising religion in the politics of Nigeria. I guess MURIC was propped up as a counterforce to CAN and it is now trying to outCAN CAN.

One problem I can see, though, is that MURIC is not serving as a counterforce to CAN at the national level but has been working very hard to divide the south-west along religious lines. Although I have heard many people describe MURIC in uncomplimentary terms and would want the body ignored or even blacked out of media coverage, the truth remains that it represents a tendency and it is gaining followership. The Yoruba love to celebrate their multi-religious culture and often boast that they cannot be divided along religious lines. However, recent events suggest that this religious harmony should not be taken for granted, not with MURIC on the prowl.

What is MURIC’s complaint? Of the six south-west states, five will be governed by Christians by May 29, 2019. Only Osun state will be ruled by a Muslim, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola. Although Senator Ademola Adeleke has won his case at the election petitions tribunal, Oyetola is expected to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. Adeleke, who goes by the name Nurudeen, is assumed to be a Muslim, although MURIC has rejected this claim and once issued a statement saying the dancing senator is a Christian. If Adekele eventually becomes governor, MURIC will have yet another evidence that Muslims have been marginalised in Yorubaland. It will then demand six ministers.

But how relevant is religion in the politics of south-west Nigeria? Is MURIC trying to solve a problem that does not exist? Is the body genuinely worried that if religion does not become a factor, south-west Muslims might be relegated to the background and be denied what belongs to them in the scheme of things? The south-west is the only region in Nigeria that is evenly divided between adherents of Islam and Christianity. While the north is predominantly Muslim, the south-south and the south-east are predominantly Christian. But no one, apart from MURIC, describes the south-west as predominantly Muslim or Christian. You have Christians and Muslims in almost every family.

From my own understanding of Yoruba politics, I would say religion has never really been a factor. Let’s be clear: religion is a very strong sentiment for millions of Nigerians, the Yoruba inclusive. However, when it comes to politics, it appears the Yoruba have managed to keep religion out of it most of the time. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the revered Yoruba politician, was a Christian, but some of his closest associates were Muslims, notably Chief SO Gbadamosi and Alhaji DS Adegbenro. When the Western House of Assembly crisis broke out in 1962, Awolowo favoured Adegbenro to take over as premier from Chief SL Akintola, a Christian. Religion was not on the cards.

In the second republic, it was even more “ridiculous”. There was nothing like the religious balancing of governorship tickets that we have today. The governor of Lagos state was Alhaji Lateef Jakande, and his deputy was Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo. Both were Muslims. There was no CAN noise. The governor of Ogun was Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and his deputy was Chief Samuel Soluade. Both were Christians. There was no MURIC. The governor of Oyo was Chief Bola Ige and his deputy was Chief SM Afolabi. Both were Christians. Nobody even thought about it. Although Chief Bisi Akande, a Muslim, later became deputy to Ige, religion was not the consideration.

The crisis created by Nigeria’s full membership of OIC in 1986 appeared to have snatched this innocence from Yorubaland. The mutual suspicion created at the national level percolated to the south-west, and suddenly the two religions must be accommodated in a governor-deputy ticket, even when nobody really cared about it. Yet, there was a deviation: when Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola was governor of Osun state from 2003 to 2007, his deputy was Mrs Olusola Obada. Both of them were Christians. In a state that is most probably predominantly Muslim, nobody raised an eyebrow. Nobody discussed religion. This is one thing the Yoruba seem to have conquered.

I will even go one more step. Most of those regarded as leading Yoruba politicians today are married to Christians, though they are Muslims. Name them: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Akande (who lost his wife in 2017), Senator Abiola Ajimobi (the “constituted authority”), Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and a host of others. Akande nominated two ministers into Buhari’s cabinet — Prof. Isaac Adewole and Prof. Omoleye Daramola — and both are Christians. Amosun, a Muslim, nominated Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, a Christian, into the cabinet. That is the kind of liberal and convivial religious atmosphere that has shaped Yoruba politics for ages.

Even the Christians that have been elected governors in the south-west had the support of Muslims. How on earth could Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu have been elected governor of Lagos without the support of Muslim heavyweights? Mr. Dapo Abiodun is governor-elect of Ogun state with the full backing of Tinubu. Mr. Oluwaseyi Makinde has been elected governor of Oyo state with the backing of key politicians who are Muslims, most notably Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja. In the same state, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, a Christian, handed his supporters to Mr. Adebayo Adelabu, a Muslim. It would, therefore, be very wrong to say there is a conspiracy to install Christian governors in the south-west.

I am very much aware that the Lagos branch of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) addressed the press sometime in 2014 asking that the next governor of Lagos should be a Christian because Christians had been supporting Muslims since 1999, but those familiar with the story said it was a game arranged by the big masquerade himself who was eyeing a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. As ridiculous as it sounds, religion was not the motivation for the PFN demand! Fashola was doing well as governor of Lagos and nobody asked whether he was holding the Quran or the Bible on the day he was sworn in. Sure, I support balancing but I won’t kill for it.

However, the controversy over the wearing of the hijab in schools in the south-west is a pointer that the Yoruba are also vulnerable to religious conflict. If you ask me, though, I would think it is just a matter of intolerance and a storm in a teacup. There are churches that ban their members from wearing earrings and even instruct them to wear headscarf — so how is wearing hijab a problem for anybody if not that some people just want to stoke fire? Indeed, if MURIC concentrates its resources on advocating for Muslims in the south-west to practise their religion without let or hindrance, without intimidation or discrimination, it would have my support 100%.
While MURIC has the constitutional right to advocate as it wishes, I would advise, with every sense of humility, that weaponising religion in south-west politics is too dangerous. Northern Nigeria is today sharply divided by religion. The tension is permanent. I don’t envy them. Northerners identify themselves first by their religions before anything else. In many northern cities, it is rare to see Muslims and Christians living in the same area, much less the same compound. But in Yoruba homes, you can have two people sleeping on a bed — one a Muslim, the other a Christian. If religion is, therefore, successfully turned into a lethal weapon in the south-west, who can survive it?

AND FOUR OTHER THINGS…
BRAIN DRAIN AGAIN

You do not need a stethoscope to diagnose the malignant ailment within the medical profession in Nigeria. Most of the doctors I have spoken with complain about poor equipment and low morale. Even the medical schools are poorly equipped and many of the teachers are directly from hell. So I was not surprised to learn that Nigerian medical doctors have joined the brain drain train. This time, it is not to Canada. It is to Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of doctors recently thronged a popular hotel in Lagos where officials of Saudi Arabia health ministry came to recruit them. Soon, we will not complain about poor hospitals again. We will be talking about lack of doctors. Unhealthy.

POLL DANCE

Senator Ademola Adeleke, also known as the ‘Dancing Senator’, has been declared winner of the September 2018 governorship poll in Osun state by the tribunal — and many would say it was not such a surprise. The circumstances surrounding the declaration of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of APC as the winner were strange — especially how some results were cancelled, thereby forcing a supplementary election. The tribunal declared the cancellation “illegal” and proclaimed Adeleke, the PDP candidate, as the winner. Oyetola will definitely fight all the way to the Supreme Court, but INEC needs to save us this waste of precious time and resources in future elections. Justice.

THE PAWN

The story of Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the eight-year-old Nigerian chess genius in the US, has caught global attention. It is the romantic story we all love to read: a poor, little homeless boy conquering the world with a sling and a stone. Tani has won the New York State Scholastic Primary Championship in his age bracket — and he only started learning to play chess a year ago! Even former US President Bill Clinton has invited him for a handshake. The line that the Adewumis were fleeing from Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria may be suspect, but let us just eat the rice and ignore the stones. Tani could have been hawking “pure water” if he was still in Nigeria. Opportunities.

AND FINALLY…

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of reps, recently wrote to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as the governments of the US, the UK and the EU on a “plot” by the federal government of Nigeria “to unleash violence on innocent citizens of Bauchi state” ahead of the supplementary elections. I don’t know if Dogara took the right step or not, but these guys must be getting tired of receiving mails from Nigerians every day. The rate at which Nigerians are writing to ICC, UK, US and EU these days at the slightest provocation must have turned us into a laughing stock. Expect a Nigerian husband to petition ICC soon if the wife is reluctant to open the door for him. Petty.


https://www.thecable.ng/weaponising-religion-in-yoruba-politics/amp

degamemaster:
ZOMBIE! the pic you posted, does it have anything to do with Igbos and dislike for injustice or are you just forcing yourself to display your stupidity?
The pic depicts of poverty and sufferings that people are going through in that hellhole called Nigerian but I can tell you something, poverty doesn't know tribe or ethnicity or religion. It bites everyone including your stupid self who voted for a dullardic terrorist and an incompetent mofo called Buhari .

degamemaster:
[s]Because Igbos hates injustice of all kinds, inequality and bloodshed. Sen Adeleke actually won the the election just like how Akitu won Buhari hands down but was rigged out.

TotoNaRubber:
Ipobs always rescuing Afonjas since 17BC.

stefanweeks:
Igbo helping yoruba since 1960

Igbo Amaka

Willed042:
The north are the major influence of political permutation in Nigeria. Tinubu is only riding on the self acclaimed god-like posture of GMB in the north. A man whose influence could not win election in political capital of south west...Oyo state. He could have backed Ribadu or El-Rufia against Atiku to test his delusional influence in national politics. Even with their federal might and open display of rigging and violent, they could not annihilate PDp. like i once said, wait till 2023 and let APC field someone from south and the mai gaski mantra of Buhari will not be factor then the true political weight of Asiwaju would be measured.

Effiongdbest:
Then let him remove Nigeria from his mouth and focus on his afonja land, involving Nigeria in his speech makes him look stupid by nature. And who told you he developed your region, Lagos has been developed more than other states and earns more that all states right from olden days so nothing special about the bullion van thief that will soon go to jail.

krattoss:
Can Nigeria boast of steady power supply before 2030?

olisaemeka1:
My brother ....the policies of bad governance affects you n I irrespective off tribe and religion ...if VAT is increased there will be a correspondent increase in the cost of goods and services ...the business man ( of which the ibos constitute 85%) will increase cost of their goods n you will still buy ...mind you ...most of the reforms this govt are working on started with the past govt...