Abiola & the Emir: The untold dispute

 1993, Babangida attempted to introduce a civilian regime by creating 2 political parties. One to the right and another to the left.  Moshood Abiola a Southerner and another Northerner became candidates for the office of the President. The regime vetted them both and accepted them as suitable to campaign for election under a constitution cooked up by the military.

Abiola an accountant and chairman of multinational businesses surmounted all the difficulties, IBB regime approved of and sponsored him.

As the election approached 3 big Emirs visited MKO. He entertained them lavishly and gave them presents. Before they left the emirs told him they had come for assurances as to the assistance he could give them by lifting oil ( meaning in the sale of petroleum). MKO told them off straightway. He told them that he could not help them.  " But we've been getting private money from oil. What are you going to do about that?  How do you mean MKO asked. The Emirs said " well how about revenue allocation?"

The fate of Kwara in the liberation of the Yoruba people

 What is the fate of Kwara State in our Struggle For Independence.

 We want to use this opportunity to wish our fellow Yoruba Christains Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in Advance.

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Kaduna based Sheik Gunmi advocates for Terrorist

Sheikh Abubakar Ahmad Gumi has never for once concealed his affiliation and support for the terrorist in Northern Nigeria, a stuch Islamic advocate band foundamentalist has  called on northern Nigerians to vote for those who will protect terrorist who the Northern leaders tagged "bandit" Gunmi want these  terrorists to be spared from the punishment of their enormous crimes and has asked Northerners to vote for a president who would protect them if elected president in 2023.

the Kaduna-based Islamic controversial Sheikh Gunmi  made the call with the 2023 general election which less than 90 days away.



Speaking during his proselytizing, Sheikh Gumi urged Northern Nigerians to vote for leaders who would negotiate with bandits when elected into office.

While describing bandits as “our people,” Gumi said Nigeria’s next set of leaders should negotiate and give bandits what they want for peace to reign.

He said: “Don’t vote for those who will fight bandits. The fighters (bandits) are our people. So please vote for those who, after attaining power, will call and negotiate with our people (bandits) so as to give them what they want for peace to reign.”

 

A Lawyer Omobolanle Raheem killed on Christmas day by a trigger happy police in Lagos

A member of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Lagos Branch Mrs Omobolanle Raheem has been killed by members of the Nigeria Police force.
The ugly incident took place Sunday morning at Ajah Under Bridge, Lagos state while the deceased was on her way back from Christmas church service.

A member of Lagos branch and a lawyer working with the deceased revealed that some policemen moved the body to the mogue in Yaba without the consent of the deceased’s family.



The message reads “I am Barr. Yvonne a member of the NBA Lagos Branch, Sir I tried reaching out to you but I guess you are busy.

“My boss Barr Omobolanle Raheem was shot dead today, by a POLICE OFFICER on her way back from Xmas service at Ajah under bridge.

Her family just called me now, that they need a lawyer to stand in for them before the police changes the narrative. They have taken the matter to Ajiwe Police Station.


“The police officer is from Ajiwe station. Her husband was the one driving, Barr. Omobolanle was seated in the front with her husband.

“The officer asked them to park and they needed the vehicle in front to move so they can park well, and immediately the police officer shot at a close range right into her chest. On seeing what happened, the remaining police officers on duty there absconded.

“After a while, some policemen came and moved her body to the mortuary in Yaba, without obtaining any consent from her family members. Currently her family has located where they moved her body to.

“I am currently not in Lagos , I thought of bringing this to you for your assistance and guidance ma. Thank you.”

Your mandate limited to APC, not Yorubaland, O'odua group replies Akeredolu

 Press Statement 

Oodua Republic: Your mandate limited to APC, not Yorubaland, O'odua group replies Akeredolu

The Governor of Ondo State, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu has no mandate to speak on behalf Yoruba people all over the world, Apapo Oodua Koya, AOKOYA has said.

Reacting to a statement by Akeredolu that Oodua Republic is an impossible dream, AOKOYA in a statement signed by its official, Col Abimbola Sowunmi (rtd) said Akeredolu was elected by less that 300, 000 people, about 5 percent  of the people of Ondo State mostly who did not vote out of their conviction but driven by money given to each voter.

This clearly shows that the so called elected politicians have no genuine authority over the people except the mandate stolen through bribery. 

'With mandate lacking legitimacy, making a statement that contradicts the aspirations of majority of Yoruba people is understandable.

AOKOYA said the statement of the Ondo State Governor is opportunistic made to masturbate the ego of Fulani leaders who on the other hand are doing everything possible to capture Nigeria and impose their political desire on Nigerians.

Folayegbe Akintunde A role model

 Folayegbe Akintunde was born in 1923, She was a Women activist and senior civil servant of the old Western region, she was the oldest daughter of a leading Christian family in Okeigbo, descendant of the old Oyo war-time settler at Ife, and Ogbomoso settler at Ibadan, who both camped in Okeigbo from the mid-19th century. With the support of her CMS School headmaster she was able to convince her father, a cocoa farmer. At the age of fifteen, Folayegbe gained a scholarship to study at Queen’s College in Lagos.

She enrolled in a year-long teacher training course at the United Missionary College in Ibadan after passing the Cambridge Senior Certificate Examination in 1941. After the training, Folayegbe began teaching at the Methodist High School in Lagos. In 1949, obtained a teacher's training certificate at the Institute of Education in London. While in London, she also completed a degree course in economics, working during the daytime and vacations while taking classes at night. She took part in campus politics, rising to the position of the Vice President in the West African Student Union.  In 1954, she obtained an advanced degree for which she prepared for a career in the Nigerian Civil Service. Same year, she got married to a two-year older accountant, Aghedo Ighodalo and had her first child.

OMOLUWABI

 OMOLUWABI 

This is another Reason Yoruba People will  EXIT Nigeria, as soon as possible.  The association with Nigeria has robbed the Yoruba People off their Age Old OMOLUWABI ethos and Norms. Yoruba People of like minds MUST see it as a Collective Duty & RESPONSIBILITY, to bring back the Culture of OMOLUWABI to all of Yorubaland.  

ÌWÀLEWÀ OMO ÈNÌYÀN. 

ÌWÀ

To’ju iwa re, ore mi,

Ola a ma si lo n’ile eni,

Ewa a si ma si l’ara enia.

 

Olowo oni ‘nd’olosi b’o d’ola,

Okun l’ola, okun n’igbi oro,

Gbogbo won l’o nsi lo n’ile eni;

Sugbon iwa ni m’ba ni de sare’e,

Owo ko je nkan fun ni.

Iwa l’ewa omo enia,

Bi o l’owo bi o ko ni’wa nko?

Tani je f’inu tan e ba s’ohun rere?

Tabi ki o je obirin rogbodo,

Ti o ba jina si’wa ti eda nfe,

Tani je fe o s’ile bi aya?

Tabi ki o je onijibiti enia,

Bi o tile mo iwe amodaju;

Tani je gbe’se aje fun o se?

Toju Iwa re, ore mi,

Iwa ko si, eko d’egbe;

Gbogbo aiye ni ‘nfe ‘ni t’o je rere.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Chief Mrs Abiodun Duro-Ladipo

 

Chief Mrs Abiodun Duro-Ladipo is the second wife of the legendary dramatist, Duro Ladipo, she was born into a royal family at Ijero-Ekiti in Ekiti State. 

Initially interested in becoming a nurse, on completing her secondary education in 1963, she joined the Mbari Mbayo Theatre Group run by Duro Ladipo, whom she later married in 1964. 

With a soothing voice and a magnetic performance, she became the lead actress in Duro Ladipo's, Oba kò so, playing the role of Oya (Sango's wife) as played by Duro himself. She performed along with her husband's troupe, Duro Ladipo National Theatre, at various international theatre and music festivals, including Berlin's Festspiele (1964), London's Commonwealth Arts Festival (1965), the Festival Mondial du théâtre de Nancy, France (1973), Yoruba Festival in Zurich (1973), Iran's Shiraz Arts Festival and the Arts Festival in Rome.

Imota Rice Mill

Imota Rice Mill 

Africa's largest rice mill and the 3rd largest in the world, the imota rice mill in Lagos, is now complete and has started production.

❤️ The rice mill has the capacity to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg rice per year. 

❤️ It will generate 1,500 direct jobs and 254,000 indirect jobs. 

💙In order to facilitate a seamless supply of input for the facility, Lagos state government has undertaken a backward integration strategy in the form of collaboration with states such as Kwara, Sokoto, Benue to meet the paddy requirement of the mill. These states grow the most rice in Africa and will supply  rice for processing. Rice is a staple accross West Africa.

Congratulations to Ambode for starting it & Sanwo Olu for finishing. 

Congratulations to Lagos 

Congratulations to Africa 

 💪🏿💪🏿

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Who killed Bola Ige?

 It's exactly 20years today that the stupendously talented,unreal and multi lingual Bola Ige was murdered in cold blood in Ibadan.Was he killed by the same questionable characters the majority of citizens are pointing accusing fingers at? Was he consumed by the power tussle within Afenifere where he was genuinely envied and hated? The big question still is,who killed the late Cicero of Esa Oke? His death and events that followed henceforth will remain a big dent and stain on OBJ and his regime forever.

Brave Plateau woman disarms kidnappers

 Brave Plateau woman disarms kidnappers, frees other victims 

A brave Plateau State woman, Lucy Jeremiah, who was among four passengers kidnapped by a Fulani nine-man kidnap gang along the Abuja-Jos road, has done what many men would not dare to do by disarming the heavily armed bandits, making it possible for her and the other victims to escape from the bush where they were held captive.

The lady who narrated what happened to the police after their escape, said she and three other passengers were abducted last Thursday on their way from Abuja to Jos. 

“What happened was that we were coming back from Abuja to Jos in a vehicle last Thursday. On getting to the Government Science School, Kuru, in the Jos South LGA of Plateau State around 6pm, though I was sleeping in the vehicle, I woke up when the vehicle suddenly stopped.  

Esu enforce the law in Yoruba mythology

 Imagine a police officer who won't take bribes or tips to pervert justice, who sees your deeds while seeming to be looking away; One who can take years to build a case against you for your crimes while laughing with you all the way.

You probably won't like such a person, but Èṣù doesn't care about being loved. He does his job honourably, that's all that matters. There are dozens of other Òrìṣà created to teach us and admonish us softly. Èṣu is to enforce the law and use the proverbial cane where needed.

Don't hate OLÓDÙMARÈ's Law enforcer, hate your evil ways.

Face the consequences of your actions, hold yourself responsible for your deeds, misdeeds and successes. Don't blame your mistakes or shift blame on Èsù...

Keesu gbà 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Iyalorisa Omitonade Ifawemimo

The inventor of AYA MASE SAUCE used for Ofada rice

 MEET IYA ONIRESI, MAMA FELICIA AJIBABI ADESINA, THE DEVELOPER OF AYA MASE SAUCE  Around Nigeria, around the world, aya-mase is well-known as that rich spicy sauce made from a blend of palm oil and green peppers, commonly paired with ofada rice, a variety of fermented rice grown in south-west Nigeria.   But what is less known is the history behind this stew and the woman who brought about this delicacy. Mrs. Felicia Adesina, Aya Mase, was born in 1924 in Ikenne, Remo in Ogun state, and without formal education or vocational training, she would go on to create one of the most celebrated items on menus wherever Nigerians congregate.   After marrying and beginning a family with a local farmer in Ikenne, Remo, Mrs. Adesina began to cook and sell food to supplement the family income.  According to her children, she started by walking around town to sell her unique stew, aya-mase. After increasing her customer base and popularity, she set up a stall in front of their home to sell from, to cater to the teeming number

--Anonymous.

THIS IS THE REASON WHY THERE ARE NO BLACK PLAYERS ON THE ARGENTINA TEAM

 

THIS IS THE REASON WHY THERE ARE NO

BLACK PLAYERS ON THE ARGENTINA TEAM




Found this article on the internet by Jude Idada




As I watched the Argentina and Iceland match today and wondered why there were no black players in the Argentinean team when other South American teams had black or biracial players, I remembered a conversation I had last year.




It was while I was on a cruise from Florida to the Grand Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.




Between an Argentinean doctor and myself, who had walked up to me during lunch one day and struck up a conversation with me.




There was no hiding the attraction.




We had bonded much to the chagrin of her three Argentinean friends.




On the deck of the ship that day, she kept going on about how she loves black men and looks forward to traveling so she can meet them.




I asked her.




"Don't you have black people in Argentina?"




She said with a matter of fact candour.




"No. Long time ago, after slavery, we killed them all."




I was taken aback.




She smiled.




And continued.




"Very bad. I am ashamed of my people. It was very systematic though. Very well thought out. First they forced most of the men to fight for Argentina against Paraguay. They knowingly sent them into battles that were poorly planned so that the Paraguay army will do for them what they couldn't themselves do. Kill the blacks. Most of them died there. The remaining of them they forced to live in this province were there was a plague. A disease that the government refused to curb so that it can also do for them what they couldn't do. Kill the blacks. The refused to set up hospitals, clinics, adequate shelter, food outlets, nothing. They created the best environment for the disease to thrive. It killed the rest of the men that had survived the war. The darker you are, the higher the chance they will send you to that place to live or to the war to die. The lighter skinned women they forced them to sleep with the white men, so that their children are biracial, then they forced the children when they grew older to sleep with white men, so that the blackness of the skin of the children became whiter and whiter until there was no longer any visibly black people seen. It was so bad that blacks fled to Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and even Paraquay where they were better treated even though not as well as they should be treated as human beings deserving full equality. Atleast those ones did not want to kill them and accepted to give them protection and a means of livelihood. As a matter of fact in Chile, there was a city called Arica where Black people were so accepted and respected that in the 1700s two black free man, one called Anzuréz were elected mayors. But the white colonial masters from Spain came six months later and nullified the elections, they were afraid of other cities giving black people too many rights. But the blacks who had found succour did not complain, they sent word for others to flee Argentina and come join them. Afterall what was cancelled elections compared to certain death?"




Then she went silent as though trying to replay the magnitude of the crime in her mind again. Then she said it in a sombre tone in order to drive it home to me.




"The ones the Argentineans did not kill through war or disease, and rape and impregnate, fled the country and ultimately we got rid of the blacks."




I listened in rising sorrow.




She continued academically.




"So although they abolished slavery in 1815 in Argentina, it continued until 1853, after that the main preoccupation of the leaders was how to get rid of the black slaves and their descendants. Our president who ruled us from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, wrote in his diary in 1848, this was long before he became president and slavery ended that - 'In the United States… 4 million are black, and within 20 years will be 8 million…. What is to be done with such blacks, hated by the white race?' - It shows that he was already thinking of how to eliminate black people before he became President and when he became President, he succeeded."




"Didn't the world say anything?"




"No. They ignored it. I am sure most of them wanted to do the same thing but failed. At that time, they admired them. I remember when I will go to Brazil as a child, my father's friend will say in disgust as he looked at the black Brazilians - we should have had your guts and finished them off. All of them. Make Brazil white just like Argentina."




"And the Europeans?"




She laughed.




"It is an open secret, just like King Leopold and his genocide in Congo. No one talks about it, but they know about it. Atleast the older ones do. The younger ones not so much. Why do you think all the Nazis ran to Argentina after World War 2?"




I was silent.




She continued.




"Because it was the perfect place for the most evil racists in history to live."




Then she looked out to the infinitely blue sea around the ship and sighed audibly before she continued.




" Sadly, to some extent, it still is welcoming and accomodating of racial hatred. We took the Tango from the African slaves and made it our own. In Argentina, not one person will tell you the true history of that dance. They don't want to associate it with Africa. In fact if you ask them about black people in Argentina they will tell you that there has never been black people in Argentina. They teach them in schools. They rewrite the history. They make it all white. And as I said it is all underneath the surface. They never come out and say we hate black people. Argentina is only for whites or anything like that. They have just fixed the country to only be for white people."




I looked at her friends, Argentineans like her, who were lounging on the chairs on the deck, clad in their tiny bikinis, drinking pina coladas and smiling.




She followed my gaze and then turned to me.




"Don't be fooled by all those smiles, scratch the surface and you will see that all they want is for you to disappear.




Black Cafe Wall posted 16 December 2020

1851 Battle of Abeokuta, A Yoruba history depicted

 Black and white print illustrating the 1851 Battle of Abeokuta, during which Dahomey invaders attacked the Egba’s' capital of Abeokuta. The Egba’s, occupying higher ground, use hatchets, spears, and British firearms to fend off Dahomey forces who climb the great Egba Defense Wall.

Courtesy Internet Archive. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

If you have seen the movie, #KingWoman featuring Viola Davis and John Boyega, the film showed the exploits of the Dahomey amazons against the Oyo Army.

Lagos in 1960 before the migration and invasion

 The highly civilized Lagos before the population explosion 

Muslims cleric urged muslims to support Tinubu

 Islamic clerics uses psychological proselytizing to garner support for Tinubu

The unidentified Islamic cleric Flay's the Christian for speaking against the Muslims - Muslim decision of APC and propelling Muslim to prove a point in the upcoming election 

Nigeria is a union of force

 Nigeria is a union of force 

Obafemi Awolowo wrote in Path to Nigerian Freedom, published in 1947, that Nigeria “is a mere geographical expression”, several people chose to misunderstand the context in which he used the phrase, called him all sorts of names. Yet, Chief Awolowo merely stated the obvious: Nigeria was not a nation. Ibrahim Babangida also at one time used the same phrase to describe Nigeria immediately after independence.

There was never a time when the people in this forced union decided or agreed to live together

Frederick Lord Lugard who was the Governor of the Northern region during colonialism and was later moved to hong Kong returned to the colonial role in the North and  for the sake of his own convinience and ease of governance having been given a role to manage the south forced both the North and the south together

This union has been the debacle for progress and until the forced union is brought to it's halt , nothing significant can ever happen to better the lives of this geographical entity called Nigeria 

Reno Omokri:The Politicking and tribal appraisal for the Yoruba support

Reno Omokri in his desperate attempt to return to politics has embarked on several gimmick at wooing the Yoruba people, a known supporter of Atiku Abubakar and an ardent disciple of PDP.




Whenever elections are drawing near, politicians make several isolated statement and uses reverse psychology even when occasion does not in any way require such , with the  need to seek the support of a group and get  sympathy votes for their candidates.

Reno Omokri is supporting Atiku Abubakar and their tribal political chess is playing out even in their public statements.

He has been seen with Atiku whose strategy for campaign is to make a blank statement or react to public discuss in order to drive himself into the minds of the masses.

In a multi-racial Nigeria, candidate are prone to using blanketed statement psychologically to gannet support. All the candidate are eyeing votes from the the south west knowing it is the most settled region in current day balkanized Nigeria.

In recent times, Reno Omokri has been making allusion to the tribal heritage of the Yoruba people

The Fulani antics before conquest

 When the Fulani wanted to conquer the Hausa states, they used the lies that the Hausa were not true Muslims. That the Hausa Kings were corrupt. The Hausa masses believed the lies of the Fulani and to date they remain slaves of the Fulani. The Fulani have stolen their land, killed their Kings and continue to steal their resources. 

Lesson whenever a Fulani is speaking about corruption, know that he's about to carry out some weapons grade corruption.

YEYE OSUN (The Mother Of Character)

It was then proclaimed in the Holy Odu Ifa Osetura Meji:

Osun must be included in all that you are doing

You must involve Osun in them (women)

Then life will become smooth

Olodumare said that if someone is pounding yamsWithout the knowledge of Osun

His/her pounded yams will not be smooth

If someone is preparing Okra. Without involving Osun in it. His/her food will not come out fine

Osun must be involved in whatever is being done.

Osunmare

 “OSUMARE”🌈

Never existed as a separate Irunmole among the Yoruba Pantheon, it is venerated under Ogun energy,   called 'Ogun Agbejo' which Is also called Damballa.  

Ogun Agbejokorun is celebrated in the month of Agemo' in some parts of Yoruba land like Igbomina, some areas in Idanre, Abeokuta, Ikire and so on. Sadly enough this practice is dying out over time, and with it the important knowledge which it holds. 

The month of 'Agemo' celebrates the renewal of fertility in Nature. 

The story of Phila Ndwandwe

 This is Phila Ndwandwe. In 1985, Phila was recruited into the ANC. She became an MK fighter. 3 years later, she was abducted in Swaziland by Apartheid police. She suffered unspeakable horror and was tortured, in an effort to turn her into an informer. One always gets the sense that the fight against Apartheid, was a masculine one. To a certain extent we can not fault people for thinking that it is only men, through the sacrifice of their bodies who liberated this country, because somehow history chooses to ignore the women who fought alongside glorified men. 

Phila Ndwandwe was breastfeeding, when she was abducted,  (A makarov in one hand and a baby in the other). Aaah! Mbokodo! Her family was made to believe that she had eloped to Tanzania, when the  shallow grave of their child was a mere 10 kilometers from where they lived. Her death and grave came to be known, when her killer asked for amnesty for her brutal murder. Her killers testified before the TRC that she was repeatedly beaten and kept naked for 10 days, until she made herself a pair of panties using a plastic bag. When they realized they weren't going to get the Commander to betray her comrades, her killers blindfolded her, took her to a field and shot her in the skull. When her remains were unearthed, the bullet hole in her skull was clearly visible and her killer testified that she had been shot while kneeling. Other articles have suggested that she was hit over the head and shot while unconscious. One of the men who murdered Phila, described her as "Brave. Very brave". 

This woman's month, I want to celebrate Phila. Her selfless dedication to the emancipation of our people, should not be undermined. It should not be forgotten! One can only hope, that her targeted body is dancing free and light. This is Phila Ndwandwe- the woman who refused to betray her comrades. 

Her memory lives!

Jazzey Bay

Arabinrin Sola 

APC National Chairman Abdillahi Adamu humiliated

 The People of the geographical entity otherwise known as Nigeria are unhappy, their rage is being extended to anyone and anything that bears the tag of the current rulling party

The APC National Chairman Abdillahi Adamu was not spared as he was publicly humiliated in by angry mob in the North 

Kayode Fanyemi another stooge

 Kayode Fanyemi has been unraveling, his posture and politicking has been an unpleasant backstabbing of the Yoruba people. 

The same politics of desperation being played by Bola Tinubu

They all align with the north at the detriment of the Yoruba people, paving ways for the North to use them as tools while looting resources from the south

Credit Alaroye

Billions spent for recoloring of Naira

 Lest we forget in 1984, the Buhari Junta changed the colours of the Naira notes. The thieves said it was to stop money laundering, it did not stop it 38 years ago and it will not stop it now.

Lol!they're claiming they spent billions doing what a savvy 12 year old can do with Adobe etc.

Nigeria will never happen to us again.

#YorubaNation

Credit Arabirin Sola 

Suffering and smiling, as the suffering continues

 It is only a foolish people that experience  fuel scarcity in the abundance of crude oil deposits

Malcolm Omirhobo 

This is what Fela meant when he sang "suffering and smiling "

Oya Batified, Obidients and Atikulated brigade,  you have been having elections since and its gotten worse. Please explain how another joke called elections will end this?

#EndNigeriaNowToSaveLives 

#YorubaNation

Credit Arabirin Sola 

POINT OF CORRECTION: there is no such thing as Nigerian music. "

 

There is Yoruba Music. Igbo music. Hausa music and others. The genre of music dominating the entertainment world today which 7+ billion people enjoy is Afrobeats, which originated from Yørubaland. Fela Anikulapo Kuti is the pioneer of Afrobeats. Yoruba Music rules the world today, not Nigerian music. The Yoruba gave the world Afrobeats, not Nigeria. There is no such thing as Nigerian Music. Credit should be given to whom it is due.”

Adebisi David Edited 

There's nothing Nigerian, even the name Nigeria belongs to the Colonial bandits.

#YorubaNation

Credit Arabirin Sola 

Babangida and the murder of Vatsa in 1986

The murder of Mamam Vatsa by Nigeria foremost dictator Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida 

The concept of two deities

 Concept of Ogun predates the other by centuries

The assassination attempt on Abraham Adesanya in 1997

 In 1997 Pa Adesanya escaped assassination attempt on his life, when more than 40 bullets shot were fired at his unarmored Mercedes car,  Abraham Adesanya asked his driver to hold his cloth and disappeared with him. He died 15years after. 

Ope Yemi

Extinction beckons if the Yoruba throw away their traditional beliefs for foreign religious doctrine  and the Royal Niger Company called  Nigeria.

Why those who run the colonial plantation pump money into religion Christianity & Islam. 

#everygenerationisanewpeople

#YorubaNation

Credit Arabirin Sola 

Teaching Mathematics in Yoruba language

 The Yoruba people are the most educated people in sub Saharan Africa. They dominate the field of science and Arts in Africa, 

They have the highest number of doctors from Africa in western hemisphere, well versed and highly educated

The Yorubas are thriving in  countries around the world, in the United States, in UK, Canada and all across Europe. 

In 10 African doctors outside of Nigeria 8 are Yoruba

In a recent graduating names of African posted online, the Yoruba names dominated the list of successful graduating scholars

For so long the Yoruba people have been disadvantaged by the bad leadership of a forced geographical entity called Nigeria and have received little or no recognition

The culture and the history of the Yoruba people is being eroded in the false union called Nigeria. 

The susessive military tyranny in Nigeria destroyed all the great achievement built by the Yoruba people. 

History was abolished so that the upcoming generation will not know their past and consequently confused about the future

When the cry of the Yoruba people to exit Nigeria became loud, the Nigerian government reintroduce the Teaching of history and later added that academic work be taught in local dialect

To prove the intellectuality of the Yoruba people, An unknown intelligent Yoruba teacher took up the challenge and began the teaching of mathematics in Yoruba language

This is indeed a great development and need to be commended 

The Northern Nigeria and the free passage of terrorist into Nigeria

 Take a closer look at this map, and the countries closer to Nigeria up north. These countries are mostly Islamic countries and 90% of the citizens are Muslims

See where Nigeria is located in this map and see up north, you will find the countries from where invaders are entering Nigeria through a passway from Kano. Mali , Mauritania, Niger, Chad. 

People move in freely from those countries into Nigeria as long as they are muslims, they are allowed entrance. No strict border as you have it down south. 

The North is the entry point for invaders into Nigeria, There is an open border from Niger and Chad & Sudan and up from Libya where where people claiming to be Nigerian are actually migrants from Chad, Niger and Sudan. 

Lest we forget

In the 1970s , when Awolowo was presidential aspirant for one party, MKO was asked to sponsor Shagari on behalf of another party a Northern Party.

The Northern Party did not have any money to campaign.  For the huge sums MKO spent on  campaigning for Shagari  the Arewa promised that after Shagari MKO would be the next president of Nigeria. 

1983 Buhari carried out a coup against Shagari government, then Babangida carried out a coup against Buhari, etc etc.

Yoruba Nation, A new dawn

 The British named them Beuchanaland, they named themselves Botswana. 

The British named them Northern Rhodesia, they named themselves Zambia.

The British named them Rhodesia, they named themselves Zimbabwe.

The Portuguese named them Portuguese South West Africa, they named themselves Angola.

"Pako" The Yoruba oral daily chewing stick

 "Pako" known as chewing stick in English is an ancient method for oral hygiene by the Yoruba people. The natural twig is known for its health and medicinal benefits. It is safe for children as well.

Pako has anti bacterial properties that have  saved people from tooth decay, plaque and worse. Research has shown that those who use Pako regularly have better dental hygiene and require less visits to the dentist than those who use toothpaste and powders.

Pako is derived from the stems and roots of bitter kola, guava, orange, walnut etc. Its organic as it grows naturally infused with minerals and anti oxidants. 

Credit to Mobolaarti Twitter.

Grateful also to our ancestors for leaving such an effective system of oral hygiene. A project for the incoming Yoruba nation.

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The role of George Goldie in Nigeria

 The real Founding father of Nigeria 

Without George Goldie its unlikely Nigeria would exist. Goldie is the brain behind the creation of the place Nigeria. He was present at the 1884-1885  Berlin Conference  meetings where white Europeans  not only carved up the map of Africa, but gave Africans new identity without their knowledge.

The Role of George Goldie in the creation of the place called Nigeria  is similar  to  Cecil Rhodes of Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe. In fact they were going to  name Nigeria Goldiesia.

George Goldie like a thief transferred the ownership of our ancestral lands our territory (your people , your land were seen as a commodity) to the British Government  for the sum of £850,000 (£110 million in today's  money)in 1900; the area transferred was formed into Southern and Northern  Protectorate.

*Armed Fulani storm Abeokuta prayer mountain, kidnap worshipers, Police ask victims for N300,000*

 *Armed Fulani storm Abeokuta prayer mountain, kidnap worshipers, Police ask victims for N300,000* 

By Olubodun Are

Armed Fulani men on Wednesday stormed a prayer mountain in Wasimi, near Abeokuta.

The armed men who stormed the prayer mountain raided the worshipers collecting cash, phones and other valuables from the worshipers.

Some of the Pastors and worshipers were attacked with machetes. Two middle-aged women and wife of a top Pastor on the mountain were taken away by the armed men.

Witnesses told our correspondent that the armed Fulani men came around 1am on Wednesday shooting sporadically into the air before storming the chalets where they broke the bedrooms and robbed all occupants before taking away the women.

Mauritanian Hakeem Baba-Ahmed threatening the south

 The Mauritanian Hakeem Baba-Ahmed threatening & intimidating the Landlords. Speaks truth when he says when we support a Southerner, its because its in our interests.

The Yoruba sentinel at Kabba

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This is a Yoruba sentinel at Kabba Northern part of Yorubaland before Colonial enterprise Nigeria was created. 

After Nigeria, the 21st Century equivalent will be sophisticated computers and well armed security forces.

What does that mean?

The assassination of Olufon of ifon

 The sad and unfortunate assassination of the late Olufon of Ifon is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in the Nation of Oduduwa.

We have seen this Ọba resplendent in traditional regalia, that is exactly what our Ọba are. 

They have forgotten why they are are on the thrones and in the palaces. They are merely there for fashion parade, dirty cash and land grabbing. 

They are appointees of the politicians who provide them support and protection in their naked dance in the market places. Many of them abhor our ancestral deities and pantheon of gods, having been brainwashed by meaningless foreign religions. 

They gleefully boast of having nothing to do with Ifá. All these Ọba bear foreign European and Arabic names. 

They have forgotten that they are custodians of our culture and traditions. They are not made kings to propagate foreign religions. 

The duty of the Ọba is to rally his subjects round the culture and traditions of the land. An example is the late Ọba of Benin who assembled the Edo to curse the armed bandits, kidnappers and criminals in their domain. The Edo respect their king more than the governor.

It’s Ose Obatala!!! Patience is the Greatest Virtue

 It’s Ose Obatala!!!

Patience is the Greatest Virtue

While Èsù’s character is synonymous with impetuous motion and perpetual change, other òrìsàs epitomize unwavering stillness and abiding calm. One such deity is Obàtalà (Lisa, Òrìsànlá, Oxala). As the Yorùbá Arch Divinity, Obàtalà is the venerable father, whose wisdom fills the devotee with aristocratic poise and regal presence. From his oriki we get a glance of Obàtalà’s austerity:

He is patient.

He is silent.

Without anger he pronounces his judgment. 

Here it’s important to note that we all enjoy some degree of Obàtalà consciousness. For example, recall a time when you had to demonstrate deep cool. Maybe you were confronted by an emotionally intense situation, like natural childbirth or attending a loved one’s funeral. Perhaps you were facing a fast-approaching deadline or you were about to present some very important information. Think about what it was like to be “at the eye of the storm”, where, in spite of the fact that everything around you was spinning, you found yourself in a state of deep stillness. This is a flash of Obàtalà consciousness.  After many years of practice and experience, a wise person comes to understand the virtue of stillness.

Like his elder brother Obàtalà, Orúnmìlà is also notoriously serene.  In a verse of the Holy Odù Ifá called Ogbe Ogunda Orúnmìlà teaches us that when he is offended he waits three years before responding, giving the offender ample time to rectify the situation. Even when he does decide to respond his motion is as slow as the snail, even though he has as many feet as the millipede, who has 200 pairs of feet but still moves slowly and gracefully. Orúnmìlà says that if a stone obstructs his path, he coils up beside the stone until falling leaves and branches fall, forming a bridge for him to cross. Likewise, if a tree falls in his path, Orúnmìlà says he will wait for it to decompose before continuing the journey. 

'Kolo Mentally " Fela Kuti

This is what colonial mentality looks like. Taking permission to be overseer of the English colonial plantation and to reassure. Remember as long as they swear under Decree 24 of 1999 nothing will change.  Our lives are the price to be paid for their ambition.

#EndNigeriaNowToSaveLives

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Arab begged for alms on Lagos streets in the 80s

 There was a time in the 1980s when we had so many Arabs in our midst in Lagos. They were clearly Arabs, their looks very unmistakable.

They were usually very fair in complexion, with curly hair, long nose and with the very distinctive quality of LAZINESS of the ARABS.

They were probably Bedouin Arabs from somewhere towards the middle east.

Their major occupation was to find a corner of your city  breed children like idiots and as soon as the children were able to walk they  unleashed them and their mothers on the streets to BEG FOR ALMS.

The men just laid down very annoyingly and lazily somewhere to sleep and wait for returns from their family members roaming the fields.

Abeokuta a YORUBA city in Jamaica

 Lest we forget, there's Abeokuta in Jamaica.

You can take the man/woman out of Yorubaland but can't take Yorubaland out of them. 

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Credit Arabinrin Sola 

History is about to be repeated in Nigeria

No doubt 1 +1 does not = 2. And history is not about to repeat itself.

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Credit Arabinrin Sola 
 

Saudi Arabia is modernizing

 Saudi Arabia launched the new Red Sea International Film Festival which opened in the country’s second-largest city of Jeddah  December 6th 2021.

Bala Baba Dihis 

Not one Hijab in sight, the red cloth is their traditional attire. Saudi Arabia is modernising as it tries to compete with Qatar, etc. Note they hold their own Grand Prix too. 

No doubt the Yoruba Muslims who have lost their way will say they know more about Islam than the Arabs whose religion it is. 

#Oduduwa

Credit Arabinrin Sola 

Yoruba women wearing headties in ile- Ife, 1971.

Wrapping the Head, Crowning Achievements.

"In southern Nigeria, among the Yoruba, where women's headties are considered a key element in formal dress ensembles, the practice of wrapping and decorating the heads relates to critical Yoruba beliefs about the sacredness of the head and its role in defining aspects of personhood".

Picture submitted to UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History by Arnoldi in 1995.

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