₦airaland Forum

diadem10:
Sowore be PDP appendage na.

APC appendage today, PDP appendage tomorrow.
Make una choose one abeg.

Oyimeoyimemua:
Getting this man out of the house was a big win for the APC, he brought the Jack Bauer role on them.... Take it or leave it, he is intelligent

He is not that intelligent. He just has no restraint. He won the battle but eventually lost the war.
In four years he has thrown away everything his father worked for just because he failed to stoop to conquer.
If Buhari had not being playing neutral at the beginning he would have been crushed.

justi4jesu:
My Arsenal club is playing and won

Do you do escrow service. I want to buy something from someone online. Can you be the middle man for a fee?

XhosaNostra:
I read that the Ethiopian famine happened in '84, but I guess the effects were long reaching, because the pictures were still all over the news, well into the 90s when this was said to me. I'm no spring chicken either But I honestly don't remember the hunger in Somalia, even though we could be closer in age by the sound of it.

I started hearing about starvation in ethiopia in the late 90s/2000s when American celebrities started going there. Before then everything I saw on local TV about the country was positive. I however knew there was was civil war in Somalia as early as the early 90s. So I saw a lot of pics of starving women and children on TV that was caused by the war.

neksummi:
@superman1073,

Please what does BDSP stand for?




This is very confusing. They've told someone who applied in 2018 that there's not enough time to process his application and they're still asking people to submit application latest today! Which kain confusion be this now?

Me and you are in the same April 2018 batch. Are we still in this thing like this, my brother?

XhosaNostra:
The bolded is true. Same thing my mother used to say when I was growing up. She'd tell me not to waste food because other children were starving in Ethiopia.

OK, now I get your reasons. Understood.

In my household Somalia was the country used for that purpose. Maybe it's because I am in my mid thirties. I think the Ethiopian Hunger thing came after the war induced Hunger in Somalia.

TEYA:
You are not ashamed of anything!

Get behind me! you impervious and angry creature!

TEYA:
Now where were you guys when a truck pusher eloped with Ese to kano, or when that Emir in the north kept her in his palace. Why didn't you speak in defence of Senator Yerima when he married a poor Egyptian girl? Where were you? I think you guys should be ashamed of yourselves drooling all over XhosaNostra like hounds over stinking poo! Mstchew.

I have no interest interreligious or interethnic arguments. I did not take part in that Ese or Yerima conversation. I am saying what I am saying because I researched Nigerian law as a person who creates content for an NGO. That was how I came about the information I am giving her. I cannot be ashamed of my decision to share that knowledge.

kolaxed98:
Yorubas too smart.

I knew it will involve technology.

just as two Yoruba women are part of top women in technology in the world

Are you not tired of all these pedestrian talk?

As a fellow Yoruba I consider these kind of competition among tribes really weak.

How does it help your personal growth?

Why don't you get inspired silently and pursue your own dreams?

Why are you living your life vicariously through other men who have made it and librerated themselves and their loved ones?

It's not cool.

This is what the least intellectual men spend their time doing.

It gets you nowhere.

Pursue your own dreams and become recognised yourself.

Nukilia:
you're new to Nigerians politics

We have to choose between two evils... Which one will you subscribe to?

AAC is the third force. Sowore is the Messiah Nigeria has been needing.
It's time for the masses to #takeitback

MuttleyLaff:
1/ A governorship candidate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos state, Mr. Akintoye Branco-Rhodes, has said that All Progressives Congress, APC, has put the state under bondage.

Akintoye, who expressed hope that the PDP will take over power from the APC in the state in 2015, described Governor Babatunde Fashola as over-rated, saying he hasn’t done anything unusual.

“Fashola is over-rated, he has not done anything unusual to attract the accolades being showered on him by some people”, said Branco-Rhodes.
Published on October 17, 2014

2/ My recent academic research tour of Lagos State proved that Fashola was overrated. The Jimi Disu media conspired with elitists politicians to sell dummies to the general public about Fashola. What I saw during my tour was an eyesore, by Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
Published on June 14, 2015

3/ Fashola: A charade and overrated politician, by Jacob Ogunseye
Published on Oct 20, 2015

4/ He has always been overrated, his appointment as a Minister further exposed his ineptitude’
Published on December 13, 2018

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason"
- Mark Twain.

I see you are quoting people. It's good. But it's better you watch him for yourself so that you can form your own independent opinion.

MuttleyLaff:
I'll be there to listen to the interview with Fashola, who thinks too highly of himself and his popularity is totally overrated

I hope you really keep the appointment and listen to him. Only then will you know that he is not overrated.

Konquest:
^^^^^
Brilliant post!

Thanks you sir

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XhosaNostra:
Because I'm the only one with enough gumption to say it publicly Don't you want a brave warrior for a wife?

I'm off to bed lol. Gnite.

You tried lol.
I will sleep over this point of yours and make up my mind soon. You know this is a very delicate matter lol. Sleep tight.

XhosaNostra:
Brilliant. I fully agree.

As for your superhero status, I'm 1st in line. Save meeee!

Oya, this is your elevators pitch. Tell me why among the millions of ladies on this long queue you should be the chosen.

XhosaNostra:
Brilliant. I fully agree.

As for your superhero status, I'm 1st in line. Save meeee!

It's, this is your elevators pitch. Tell me why among the millions of ladies on this long queue you should be the chosen?

XhosaNostra:
When you make good money, come do the Lord's work & save me from spinsterhood Sounds great. All the best with that & more.

So you're not voting? It's election season here too, but I'm not voting. Politicians bore me with their empty promises, so I'm sitting this one out. Plus I don't like any of the parties either.

What kind of wahala is this? Too many ladies want me to save them. Soon the saviours's gonna run out of blood. Lol
I want to vote for one of the smaller candidates but my voters'card is in Lagos. That's where I registered. I hope I can travel to Lagos before 8th ofFebruary, the deadline for voters cars collection, to get my card.
My candidate won't win but I just want to help change this culture of voting for people just because we think they can win instead not because we believe they are the best.

XhosaNostra:
LMFAO. That's funny but sad at the same time. People & their weird beliefs! Smh.

So anyway, how have you been? How's the year so far?

I have been okay. I think it's going to be a good year. I should make some good money this first quarter, all things being equal.

Everyone is caught the election fever. It's every where on TV, public transportation and at work. It's all everyone is talking about.
But I am not supporting any of the two major candidates.

XhosaNostra:
I believe she was arrested. So yes, she survived the famine. Her uncle was a traditional healer. I can't remember the whole story now, but yeah, she fooled everyone & they paid dearly for it.

Reminds me of a time I visited my mum's hometown in the year 2001. They are fishermen over there. The sea brought silth to the seashore that made it difficult for fishermen to enter the sea with their boats. The villagers were so frustrated that they tried all sorts of things to make the silth disappear. Some of the things they tried included bringing a prophet who came to pray on the sea and a witch doctor who told them to offer sacrifices of soft drinks and other things. I could not help laughing. They were so frustrated that they would try anything. They gave up eventually when nothing worked.

About six years later, the damn thing disappeared on its own just the way it came.

XhosaNostra:
Oh, I see. Well each people have their own share of blunders & miscalculations. Ours is the most shameful & embarrassing one lol. Back in the time of colonization. The Xhosa people were so fed up with white people. They wanted them gone, "back to the ocean where they came from". So anyway, one girl claimed that she had a vision, where the ancestors told her she must tell the people that the solution to the "white problem" was for them to slaughter all their livestock & burn all their harvest. In return, the spirits were going to drive white people away. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so most people did as they were told. They destroyed everything they had & waited. They waited & waited, but nothing happened lol. After a while people started dying from hunger. Some were looking for her, wanting to kill her for making a fool of them. To this day, it is speculated that she either had mental issues or played a prank on those gullible enough to listen to her. One stupid move impoverished the Xhosa people for generations to come.

Wow! How did she get to be so influential being so young? Was she from a special family with supposed spiritual powers?

I see there was photography already. What year was this?

Did she survive the famine herself?

XhosaNostra:
Very insightful. Oshe So how do Yorubas feel about him?

Not many Yorubas know the story. I studied History in the University. Until then I did not know anything about Afonja. People just know that Ilorin is part of the Fulani caliphate. The military systematically discouraged my generation from studying history.
The whole Afonja thing is really just a nairaland thing. This place has its own lingo sometimes.

I personally don't see anything negative in it. He was an ambitious human. Things did not turn out as he planned. What he did is what many attempt. The ones who succeeded are those we now call great.

XhosaNostra:
I think I read it somewhere here on NL. He was a traitor or something like that. But you can tell me more about it

Afonja was a general under the Yoruba Oyo empire. There were many youruba kingdoms but Oyo was the only one that became a great empire. It conquered other Yoruba groups and it's dominion got as far as part of present day Republic of Benin. However, at no time in its history did it annex all Yoruba land. Where I am from, for example, was never part of the empire, even though it's part of Yoruba land.

Oyo had the tradition of transfering their most senior and troublesome general to the most troublesome part of the empire-Usually newly conquered peoples who were still resisting conquest.

So during Afonja's time it was at Ilorin he was posted. He planned with a Fulani Scholar Alimi and Hausa slaves to break away from Oyo. He succeeded.

Then the son of the Fulani Scholar after the Scholar died overthrew him and made Ilorin part of the newly establish Fulani Caliphate.
That's the story. What do you think about it?

XhosaNostra:
Yeah, I know. I know the rest too, I just like that one the most lol.

Lol really funny

But do you know the story behind it though?

XhosaNostra:
I don't.

Lol

You know it's Yorubas they call that on this forum, right?

XhosaNostra:
LMAO. Come at me, Afonja! Nice attempt at a racial jab. That word has little to no meaning to me. I wasn't raised in that era, so it doesn't phase me. It's like calling me by a stranger's name

How do you know he's Afonja? I no find wahala. I just dey curious.

Westaslave2:
some1 said he is d junior brother 2 sanwo olu d madman governor in d waiting in amala ewedu state of yarubas

Lagbaja is from Kwara state. Sawonolu is from Ogun.

Earthbound:
My own principle is this, if you give with your right hand, even your left hand mustn't know about it.



Telling the whole world is just vain.

He is just copying his master, David.

This social media generation.
Nigerians have become so immodest

Biglittlelois:
You can't be in sync with someone you don't love, it goes both ways.

This one na women sentimental reasoning.

momoyama:
What do you mean by asking what I am trying to 'achieve'? I am interested in visiting Nigeria and I have a special interest in it. I just do not like those who use the 'travel' section of this site (which I thought was about travel to Nigeria and by Nigerians to other countries) to attack the country and repeat ignorant stereotypes in order to keep people from visiting. I do not want to get into arguments about things that I admittedly do not know, but when people talk in extremes and with exaggeration, it is difficult not to comment. I certainly will visit Eko. As to hotels, I have a Nigerian friend here whose cousin owns a hotel in Ikeja, but I am tempted to stay in the Radisson Blue, where my Nigerian employee here has worked in the past and recommends. Wherever I actually stay, I will make sure I see the city and experience it in its entirety.

Been reading some of your posts. I like your comments. Have you eventually visited Nigeria?

What was your experience like?