NewStats: 3,262,340 , 8,176,869 topics. Date: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 08:52 PM 1s4s22

@internationalman, well we understood the intent behind that expression. And it's not difficult to grasp what he's saying on the surface level. We've gone much deeper to unearth what he's encrypted, like a corpse in a tomb, in his post.

What's so difficult to grasp in his lazy narrative anyway? I know you pander towards the same already-made cliche and tired, very tired metaphor.

@Blitzerz, thank you, bro. I had wanted to reply him but was caught up in a task. We've got to acknowledge his ignorance, which is long on hysterical jibes and emotions, but very short on knowledge and logic.

London has the highest number of clubs in England, I think. We also have Sheffield Wednesday and some other clubs. But in his manic rush to hasty judgement, he, more likely, didn't know of those other London clubs that didn't win any silverware this season.

Arsenal have become so important that other clubs seek their relevance from associating with anything Arsenal, just as a particular tribe in Nigeria only lives once it, in local parlance, ' body' with the Yorubas.

It's becoming very tedious, these lazy argument of Arsenal not winning trophies in 5 years. It's even more annoying that these clubs that blindly get into these fits of comparisons with Arsenal are below Arsenal on the domestic ladder.

Success cannot be bought in a super market. Neither can it be procured by a band of ruthless mercinaries. It's a process, and Arsenal fans and the management understand this.

In the Face of this Surge of Jihadism

The northern governors cannot be absolved of even the most nuances of blame. They are as useless as they are as hypocritical. This is one of the reasons I want Nigeria to break up. A lot of pretenders are cloaked in inefficiency. If everybody goes their own way, a lot of them will be exposed and their agendas and proxies would be found out .

@Richtaiwo, how pathetic can they be! It's sad and undoing when one loses one's rational mind because of some trivial ethinc sentiments. They never see any good in this government despite some of the positives coming its way. This stems from the bloody nose they collectively received from the 2023 general elections, which their professed god and messiah lost. They are still reeling from that defeat. As a result, it's very difficult, near impossible, for their rational mind, if it's still intact anyway, to rein in their utter bitterness.

A Giant Step, Accompanied by Cymbals of Wailings

A good shot by Mr President. Any economy that's too import driven will not grow. That said, most of those kicking against the policy are those whose trade is import driven.

For those saying Tinubu stole mandate, I ask whose mandate? Peter Obi didn't have any won mandate, to start with. You can cry all you like, Tinubu is ur president and there is precious little u can.do about it.

To the mentally deficient, as u careen from one emotional outburst to another, try to see things from the prism of logic, not tribal lenses.

My Disquiet About Burkina Faso

Hitler once said that with persistent propaganda, one could present hell as heaven and the most wretched life as paradise to a people.

Traore has succeeded in using this tool of the state to court sympathies of the weak and narrow-minded. Yes , he's pretended to astute leadership, with revolutionary veneer, but it doesn't remove the blight that he's a dictator like Paul Kegame of Rwanda- they are both in bed.

I do not see Traore morphing into that messiah that Africa needs. He has to deal with his domestic issues, which are masked away from the rest of the world. He also needs to curtail his excessses. This is what khaki boys or political bandits cannot do, for they are power-driven.

If he's serious about his revolutionary ideas, he must first set in motion a timeline for transition to civil rule, where the rule of law, not the rule of the gun prevails.

@dominique, I can.assure u Dembele is injured . Hamstring injuries don't heal in a jiffy. I know this as an.athlete and fitness scientist.

All Arsenal need to do is go there, beat their press by going long , by ing the midfield and.outmuscling them.

@Imka, last time I checked, the Yorubas still dwarf many tribes in Nigeria in a wide range of fields; from the intellectual space, which we dominate, to the entertainment industry, which is our sphere of influence. Or, should we talk about the tech world? Names like Tope Awotona, Silas Adekunle etc are shining lights.

In your reverse logic, you try to gaslight us into thinking we are not.good enough or are second best to other tribes. You're wrong. For every agbero on the streets, which u guys try to highlight, we have doctors , engineers, and of course original thinkers, who outthink their peers from other tribes.

@Ulunne777, if it's a bubble, as you put it, then it's a protective one, not an abstract or fictional one.

The peace dividends Lagos currently enjoys, and has always enjoyed have been earned by those who put their sweat and efforts into making it what it is today. Lagos is the product and function of Yoruba visonary leadership. Scoff all you like about the Ibadan media. Their efforts have spoken the truth to power throughout Nigeria's history. And, ironically, you're a beneficiary of its efforts today, because they stood up to tyrants who hounded dissidents into silence.

Titanic Disaster, The Worst Transport Accident in Human History

In the early hours of April 15, 1912, Titanic sank after its compartments had been destroyed by icebergs.

This incident holds a lot of lessons for us. Its managerial failures, presumptuousness and all other things in between .

The ship had been warned well ahead of icebegs ashore, but Mr Ismay, who owned the ship, goaded the captain to speed blindly into disaster. The warnings were ignored.


There were no safety drills before embarking on the voyage, and the lifeboats were not properly managed. Built to take 70 people at once, many took far less. In some case, 20 people boarded some lifeboats. It cost over a thousand lives.


The disaster redefined safety culture and standards in the maritime as well as transport business.

It's now a legend that left so much in its trail.

@mrvitalis, and who cares what you and your kinfolk and kinsmen feel about the Yoruba race. I know most of the hurt, filtered as anger comes as result of the fact that the Yoruba race is way above your tribe in many spheres; and the fact that your kinsmen have to stream to Lagos and other SW states as economic refugees is emotionally and psychologically unnerving. I can understand the stress. I'm also sure that Obi's loss at the 2023 polls helps to magnify the pain.

You lot attack Soyinka unreasonably. In a couple of weeks, July 13, he will be 91. The UN recently invited him for a conference . How many of his contemporaries still has the clarity of mind to accentuate their thoughts?

@Bluntemperor, in fact, ehn. You know, one can't always vouch for people 100%, but her inconsistencies and flickering would make even Akpabio's worst critics give him the benefit of the doubt.
Social media has eroded a lot of soul from our humanity: wrong is now right, lying is being smart etc,etc.

'Liars Don't Have Good Memories.' Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president

It's very hard for liars, I mean brazen liars, to stay on a particular course. Vacillation is their undoing. They flicker like bulbs in loose holes.

From the get go, I doubted her credentials as an honest person. She lied to her husband about his curiosity and all that. She also lied about Reno Omikri sometime ago.

People who are championing her defence should be ashamed of themselves. This woman is weaponizing her gender and beauty to manipulate the world. She can cry a river all she likes, we won't fall for her antics.

A Rambo that Shoots Before Marking His Target- @Racoon

I Had wanted to reply the poster directly on his comment about Wole Soyinka being incoherent and all the nonsense in between that the poster ascribed to him. So, I listened to the interview. From the beginning to the last letter, I didn't spot anywhere Soyinka struggled with his speech or expression of thoughts.

@Raccoon, you began this effort at a very emotional and jaundiced level. In fact, you put your emotions on a higher pedestal than your intellect- I doubt its efficacy. Your whims ruled you instead of your head. Second, you couldn't sieve his thoughts and place them into what he was trying to say. I'll help you with that. Even if I don't agree with Soyinka on this, I think he made his point unequivocally. From a legal standpoint, he didn't arrogate the knowledge of lawyers to himself. He asked lawyers to, in concert, determine what is constitutional or not. On the political side, however, he felt the SOE was not in the spirit of federalism. @Racoon, why is this difficult for you to grasp this simple experience. This is a 91 year old man, whose intellect is still intact, whose contemporaries are battling Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. His intellect would dwarf many of today's missing, irresponsible and oft empty-headed mortals, whose cryptic space of bellowing expression is social media. Dem no born them well to talk am outside.


Those chorusing that it's not about English, you're bloody hypocrites. Aren't you expressing your disted, largely insipid, skeletal and hollowed opinions in English? If you don't like the way people are using it, you might decide to use another medium, perhaps your mother tongue. Do you think it's easy to be a Nobel laureate? Only three black people have won it. And he was the first.


This generation has allowed a group of cabal to think for it instead of thinking independently. They have allowed an extraction of what is left in their brains.

@12inchess, is it the text of my response u didn't grasp or its deep structure?

I don't know how well informed, not to mention how educated, you are? But common sense should tell you that a president can act if there is a state of anomie, a term coined by Emile Durkheim. It's not out of place, in such situations, for the president to act. Now, I mentioned the case of the Little Rock 9 only in ing, and of course, to show some of the interventions of a president in a federal structure. Did u even think we are operating a federal structure of government?

It's clear you're driven by whims; you're carried away by your sentiments. You had already taken a jaundiced position about Tinubu, the Yorubas and the APC. Otherwise, I still don't see why you should ascribe that tag to me. Is it for lack of imagination or what? Can you not think deeply and separate facts from emotions?

A Bold Response In the Face of Simmering Political and Social Inferno

Tinubu has only exercised his duty as the Chief Security Officer of the country in the heat and face of the build up of political and social disasters threatening Rivers State.

To those blaming him for declaring a state of emergency in Rivers, what would you have done if u were the president, given the circumstances?

To those that set down words without considering their import, are you so dumb to know that the Constitution has provisions for such emergencies? Well, this is a missing and irresponsible generation, whose ignorance and lack of a sense of history is very evident in their interaction with present realities.

OBJ declared a state of emergency in Plateau State in 1999, I think. Such an exercise is not out of place within a federal structure.

In the US in 1959, a group of black students were hectored by white racist students at a school, Little Rock. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort 9 of those students back to school after the state had acquiesced with the racists in what became known as Little Rock 9. So, Tibunu hasnt done anything wrong here .

Those asking Wike to be removed, u need to hav e your brain checked.

And those saying the SW stands alone. I see it as a prophecy for the final break up of Nigeria. The Yoruba nation is not scared of being alone. If anything, it's the Nigerian project, flawed in every aspect, that has held back the Yoruba nation. In of human resources, we can match any peoples anywhere in the world. So, save your promise of 2027.

@Decidetolive, and the rathole u came from doesn't reek of dung? U mean your crisis-ridden region is devoid of filth? We know you're also plagued by the issue of waste management. Thus, I say with certitude that the stench oozing from ur shit hole is more competitive than that of Lagos.

Too Late

Too late to apologize. Like an egg dropped on the ground, she had already verbally assassinated Lagos.

Her Outburst Blows Up I in Her Face

It's hypocrisy wrapped up as criticism. How can u enjoy what u condemn? It's just like the idiots labelling the US for all the ills of the world, yet want its good life.

If Lagos reeks of odour, she and her kinsmen might as well get out of Lagos.

The streaming exodus of people to Lagos from environmentally disadvantaged regions is pressing on the ability of the state to stay afloat socially.

But I say one thing: anyone who lives in the state and then scorns it will not prosper by it. The land will not yield its good to them!

The Crouching Tiger About To Pounce, On the Cusp of Something Special

This is so heart -warming. One, it shows the innate resilience of the Nigerian economy. Two, the economic reforms of PBAT are yielding fruits.

Lagos was 'lured' into the Nigerian project because of its development not otherwise. In fact, Lagos economic prosperity informed in no small measure the almagation of Nigeria in 1914, when much of Nigeria was collectively no more than a village square. Lagos had wheeled away from the pack in of development.

Another thing the report showed is that people's purchasing power has improved, and things are looking up gradually.

To those guys that opined that Nigeria's GDP was 199b USD, u need to know what GDP really means. When Nigeria rebases it, it will be somewhere in the north of 500 billion USD.

It's not surprising that Lagos s for more than half of our GDP. For centuries, this small island has always a tour de force in economic , long before pretenders to the throne of Maximus unconscionably claimed they developed it with their vacuous commercial efforts.

Fake and Counterfeit Drugs Cartel, A Clear and Present Danger to Nigeria's Health and Social Life

No matter how one looks at it, this is a war on our corporate health and social life. This danger has become clear and present. It's a national emergency. Those who have sympatheties for these unconscionably-driven drug dealers should be arrested and tried.

If we look at the demographics of these perpetrators, it's easy to see that most, if not all, are Igbos, and their businesses are situated either in Lagos or the East. But most of the production lines are in the East.

There should be urgent legislation of death penalty for offenders. I hope men of good conscience will see the urgency of the now and act to save the nation from these death merchants.

Igbos Acquiescence With Evil

It's not shocking that this kind of thought has been nursed in the first place. In spite of the weight of ghoulish evidence surrounding this immoral act of selling fake or expired drugs to of the public, they are asking for soft landing for these malefactors.

Culturally, something is amiss in this people's cultural system: their moral sense has been turned off for filthy gains.

Killing Me Softly Originally Sung By Her

In 1994, the Refugees modernized this hit track, removed a verse, and laced it with resonating vibes of Lauryn Hill. The result was instant hit.

One never knows how far an act of creative genius would produce.

Adieu, Roberta! Your memories will live forever !!!

Ineffable Jihad Dressed or Propped Up as Sharia Legislation

I'll take some lines from Wole Soyinka's Samarkand and Other Markets I've Known: The poem is a tribute to the late Egyptian Nobel laureate, Naguib Mahfouz:

The ink of Kandahar has
Turned to blood...

Another line:
He is that fixture in the
Market place cafe,
Sipping cups of mint
Oblivious of the bitter
One that would be Served by shadowy one,
A waiter, stalker.

A youth fed on dreams
Of sarabands of houris,
Doe-eyed virgins, wine
And sweet meats in
The afterlife

But to this paradise,
A key-the plunging knife!

Islam, through its self-righteous crusades and meaningless conquests, have killed more people than the two World Wars put together.

Why would anyone in their right senses conceive such an ineffable, intolerably doctrinaire justice system in a multiethnic nation like Nigeria?

African traditional religions have been very tolerant, and this is why we have the kind of ecumenism we have today.

Allowing Sharia law to take roots in the sw, I'm sure, is setting the stage for an inferno that would consume those who sponsor it. Historically, the SW or Yoruba people have been very tolerant of the beliefs of other people within or without their culture. Any attempt to nullify that tolerance and balance in the name of some arrogant belief would be met with stiff resistance.

@Sirheny007, you know it's a black man problem- we don't read. Those saying it wasn't an Igbo coup, how many s on the coup have they put together, even if it's piecemeal by piecemeal?

In a multi ethnolinguistic set up as Nigeria, every act that tilt towards tribalism, favouritsm or selective justice is viewed with suspicion.

The slaughtering of northerners and Yorubas cannot be explained away. These people were killed whilst the Igbos were spared, or in some cases, were asked to flee the country.

Six months later, the brutal reprisal was justified because the Head of State refused to bring the malefactors of the coup to justice.

Ojukwu's argument for declaring war in 1967 was that the north had killed a lot of Igbos in a counter coup six months later. If January 15 1966 coup wasn't an Igbo coup, why the reprisal attack on officers of Igbo extraction six months later, given it had never happened like that before?

What the north did was to give them the north of Fulani treatment. What followed- still follows- is wolf cry of victim hood.

The civil war exposed a lot of things about the fragmentation of the Nigerian state. One, it showed that lumping the ethnic nations into one format or contraption would not work. Two, it exposed the ego, expansionist tendencies of the Igbos- for Ojukwu faced Lagos when he declared war instead of him to head towards Biafra.

The coup was an Igbo coup, but it waa unnecessary.

Truths Cannot Be Revised

It's not surprising that the Igbo group has pitched its tents towards the com of falsehood from the maradonic and unrepentant political bandit, IBB. Being history revisionists themselves, they've aligned to the lie that the Jan 15, 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. From all indications, facts, empirical data and anecdotes, it was an Igbo fashioned coup, carried out to entrench an Igbo oligarchy, which woefully failed. It was this coup that terminated regional government in Nigeria. It would later set the stage for a 30 month civil war, engendered by ego, deafness to common sense and sheer stupidity.

The number of Yorubas and Hausas killed in the 1966 coup would point to it as a sectional putsch. It has to be restated because every detail is well documented.

The Igbos even went as far as mocking the slain in the north, making a loaf, depicting one of the slain. Six months later, the north retaliated in a counter coup that wiped off the actors of the Jan 15 1966 coup. Since then then Igbos have been playing the victim card.

IBB is not saying the truth. He has turned the truth on its head.

Terse Response To the Litany of Emotional and Oft Hysterical Outbursts

The DG issued a terse statement regarding the outcry against NAFDAC sting operation in some quarters: ' We are not against trade ...we want to protect lives...'

How horrible and unconscionable can people get? We are talking about human lives here. The unconscionably-driven would kill everybody but himself in order to make money. This is a cultural problem among the Igbos- I won't sound politically correct here. Their culture of making money at all costs even when human lives are the costs should be reviewed. There can be a cultural introspection. Igbo elders can have periodic fora, where these issues can be reviewed.

For NAFDAC, good job! Keep on pushing them, ferreting them out of their ' rabbit holes'.

As a parting shot, I suggest stiffer legislation- DEATH PENALTY- for the malefactors of this dastardly act.

@GeneralPula, thank you for showing these ignorant people the light. The original Yoruba land extended up to Togo and some parts of Ghana. It was the British that bulkanised Yoruba states. So, culturally and spiritually, these Eguns and the like still see themselves as Yorubas, just as many Brazilians, some Portuguese, Trinidad and Tobagoans and Cubans also see themselves as Yorubas.

It's shocking, the rate of stupidity on Nairaland.

@Thewrath, just shut up already!!! Skull mining or whatever you call it is not peculiar to the SW. In recent memory, the SE region has become a haven of some sort for this trade in human parts. Added to that is the dastardly acts of non-state actors like UGM, who have reduced the SE to a sinkhole of social instability, and bestowed upon it a crisis of habitability. Such that people there run to the SW for refuge. The same SW they willfully scorn.

You questioned the energies of SW leaders to provide good leadership that translates into a better society. If only you could lift the lid of prejudice from your eyes, you would see that your people, who move to the SW as social and economic refugees are already enjoying the fruits of visionary leadership. But because you're a product of self-inflicted bitterness it's very hard for you to acknowledge this.

In a multi ethnolinguistic arrangement as ours, it's very important that the rights of the indigenes are preserved, and that is being distilled as this effort. This is geo-politics, if you understand it. Is that too difficult for you to perceive

Beyond Unconscionable

I'm still trying to wrap my head around why a herd of people would choose to systemically kill their compatriots all in the quest for filthy wealth. Perhaps, in order to be hailed as 'Odogwu!' And to maybe brag that they are the most industrious in the world.

This effort by NAFDAC is laudable, bold and should be sustained. But it's only the beginning. There should be punitive measures- far reaching ones- that would deter others- DEATH PENALTY for people who sell fake and expired drugs. It should be primus inter pares on the list of these punitive measures.

@IpobAntidote, for the live of me, how does celebrating the greatness of one's people translate into bigotry or tribalism. It's one reason I posit that Africans are the most stupid of races in spite of our innate cognition and other unmatched natural abilities.

The way language is twisted to serve a narrative on social media is, one, very misleading. And second, very irresponsible.