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Nation building starts from ethnic base. To be a true Nigerian| African, you must first be a true Yoruba.

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@EbiriGbonka
Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Let me tell you how this will end... CSU will release Tinubu's details.... It will show that he is a man.... It will show that he went to CSU from 1977 to 1979..... It will show that he majored in Accounting ... It will show that he was awarded with a Bachelor of Science in
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Wole Soyinka, the man who spent three years in Jail for supporting Biafra is now the enemy and Obasanjo, the man who intercepted Biafra & chased ojukwu to exile is a hero to Zik’s sons. Exact traits of propagandists. They hate the truth from anyone when it opposes their agenda.
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All hail the master strategist……conqueror of Sons of Zik…. Prior to election… He told his people…. ‘E lo fi okan yin bale’ when Obi won Lagos and his followers got a bit jittery… He responded…. ‘E lo fi okan yi bale’ When I think of how Jagaban controls their emotions
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Dr Adeyemo Alakija was one of the top members of Action Group that championed Yoruba nationalism. A strong believer in the sage Obafemi Awolowo and the philosophy of Yoruba people standing as a formidable block within the framework of Nigeria. It is such a shame that someone who
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Dr. Ayoade Alakija
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Please take the Alakija’s name out of your mouth. For educational purposes, ALL Alakija’s are of mixed heritage. Brazilian, Egba. Igbo, Delta. Itshekiri - we are not tribal bigots.
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Imagine. This protege of the King at Ife comes to Lagos… the Governor rolls red carpet to welcome him…. Lagos people embraced him with open arms…. Only for him to start moonlight stories This is what we say about Yoruba people. We are too accommodating….. will he go to
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Ebora Owu will go to the grave a broken man. All his life, he fought hard to make sure no Yoruba man ever equaled him with regards elder statesmanship on Nigeria affairs. He believed having ruled Nigeria, he surpassed any other Yoruba man politically. This is why he never
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Yoruba to the world…. Benjamin Adekunle Black scorpion… The Eze Gburugburu of Biafraland… conqueror of NZOBU NZOBU… Legend from Ogbomosho… land of ancient great warriors…. Toyeje…. Balogun Ibikunle and the great Kakanfo Akintola.. and Balogun Ibikunle….. In just a few
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1944: NCNC was founded with the president being Hubert Macaulay.... Madam Kuti, Lioness of Lisabi, was a founding member. At the time, she was one of the two most celebrated women in Yorubaland and the most celebrated woman in Nigeria…. Women in Egbaland looked up to her as
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The first two modern leaders of Yoruba and Igbo people was Awolowo and Azikiwe. There is only one legacy of Zik remaining today….. that is UNN Nsukka. Zik group of companies is not in existence anymore. West African Pilot, one of the biggest media giants of the 40’s has gone
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Maryam Babangida once said that wives of military men, even though civilians are always one rank above their husbands.... If he is a colonel, then she is a brigadier general. Her influence was so strong in Dodan barracks that she was able to get her husband to create Delta state
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Efunsetan Aniwura was an egba woman. She came to Ibadan during the reign of Bashorun Oluyole. She rose to become super rich at Ibadan and politically emerged to be the most powerful woman as well as an important member of the council of chiefs. Efunsetan had close to 2,000
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Mohbad is our son.... our brother.... I remember one of his songs that electrified parties when it was green... the ajinomoto song.... awon omo ajilomoto... ajigbawire... awomomichokchoko.... I belong to the group that took what was done to him personal.....but the point
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1967: Ojukwu carved South/South into Biafra, claimed it was to protect them from Nigeria, used emotions of the time for conquest agenda. In Biafra, they went through worse hardship, he starved them to death in concentration camps, used them as cannon fodder & seized their lands
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In 1940… There was a football match between two high schools in Yorubaland and the East…. St Greogery’s college of Lagos and Christ the King College of Onitsha…. Onitsha won the match…. Zik could not hide his tribal ethnocentrism… He turned a football match into a conquest
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Sanwo Olu, nothing good ever comes from romance with Zik’s sons. With all that Balewa|Sadaurna did to help them advance in Nigeria, they slaughtered them cold blood. Jagaban opened Lagos for them, they paid back with insults. Stop acting timid. Borrow sense from Wike.
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The hate on BAT and the obsession of a fast-decreasing mob to bring him down is not based on principle…. It is hardcore tribalism and unreserved Yoruba hate at play. A people who hail Ojukwu, Azikiwe and a federal convict... Nwafor Orizu as heroes are not a people that value
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The current tension at Ilorin is not a religious issue. It is a power issue. The sons of slaves that Afonja conscripted into his elite army are the ones desperate to make sure Yoruba people of the interiors do not unite with their brothers in Ilorin. They use religion and
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This is not about Atiku or what he did in Chicago.... We have no issue whatsoever with a man who went about his protest against a fellow Yoruba Man with utmost respect for the judicial process. This is about a people who insulted Yoruba Obas This is about a people who
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A classic example of 'Hit the ground running.' For eight years, Obasanjo with the help of Okonjo Iweala tried so hard to remove fuel subsidy and failed..... GEJ after him did the same and it cost him a second term in office. Tinubu achieved that in less than one year in office.
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Self preservation of Yorubaland is much more important to Yoruba people than the price of fuel.... exchange rate... cost of transport and price of garri. We do not support any candidate whose presidency becomes danger to our right to self preserve on the land of our fathers.....
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Our Dear Biafra Brothers, We duly appreciate all the advice you have given us… The wonderful advice on what to do with Ilorin… How to fight Atiku back…. We thank you for your advice when you teach us how to be omoluabi…. We learnt from you that to be Omoluabi is to reject
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The hate for Tinubu by sons of Zik is not based on fear of incompetence. It based on bitterness that the North has never supported them and also that it is now impossible to conquer Yorubaland as they have obsessed since the 50’s.
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This is a movie celebrating worldviews of Igbo and how the system integrates youths into the Igbo community. The language of the movie was in Igbo... so why was the background for the scenes in Lagos? This has to be a big show of shame for a people who lack self pride when it
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The reason Yoruba people are slow to take aggressive stands is because if we go on that lane…. The damage of a militant Yoruba people is like a tsunami We have seen what Ibadan did when it went militant When our fathers did Wetie. Nigeria went on a panic When farmers
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FG…. Make laws that will make if possible for Igbos to have a referendum and if they want a country…. let them go. We will help them pack so that their bright minds can go home to build a new Dubai….. We fully support their right to leave our space and go back home to build a
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All hail Jagaban. The man that got a whole race of bitter people doing night vigil on a degree he got before they were born like blind men touching an Elephant…..Nothing is more flattering that that. This man is a minigod. Even Emeka, spare part seller and Uche…. Bend down
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All the targets killed in the January coup died in the hands of Igbos…. this is how their propaganda works… they claim they are working with you as one people… but keep you away from the action and reposition themselves to the center of power at your expense. Ademoyega was
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So Ilorin has an emir….. The busy bodies always telling other people how to put their house in order constantly reminds us…. Does Onitsha not have an Obi… Is Obi not a Benin title….. the emblems that the Obi holds, is it not a Benin Emblem???? The Eze Title that many of you
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Israel as a nation should have a special place in the heart of Yoruba people. England wanted to keep Yoruba land underdeveloped because they wanted to keep Nigeria as a place to get raw materials and sell finished goods. This was the concept of commonwealth and neocolonialism
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This is Lukman Gbadegesin…. The prince chosen by Oyomesi. Governor Makinde rejected him. He said the process was flawed and manipulated to favor him. He insisted on a new process free and fair…. Before we talk about him, let’s talk about his grandfather His grandfather was
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Yoruba to the world…. Sons of Zik beware… outshining the master always ends in your disgrace. While you had many writers in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s….. the first and only noble Laurette to come out of Africa is Yoruba. While you have a lot of artistes…. Majority of the
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Tribute to Governor Seyi Makinke. Since 1823, Sokoto Caliphate has had a near obsession to annex Oyo into its estate, using the proxy emirate at Ilorin. The first Alaafin to stand up to the caliphate was Alaafin Amodo, great grand nephew of Alaafin Ajagbo, the warrior king
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The first visit into Igbo heartland was a voyage led by Samuel Ajayi Crowther.... He opened Igboland to the outside world and introduced them to the white man for the first time... Rumor has it that he named them Igbos because they were people of the bush. He said when he
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Ifeajuna, the leader of the January 1966 coup…. led a convoy towards the residence of federal officials at Ikoyi (They did not live far from each other)… …. He drove ahead in his red Mercedes Benz.... When they got to the street that led to the Prime minister’s residence, he
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Afonja is a Yoruba ancestor. He made his mistakes….. but he still has his legends. We are not ashamed to recognize him as a hero and we learnt a lot from his mistakes that accommodating too much foreigners who don’t mean well in your space poses potential disaster The mistake
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Everything that goes wrong with Yorubaland since the 1800's starts at Ilorin... It starts like a minor issue and then it expands. The peace the Yoruba people enjoyed for many centuries was lost after the death of Afonja and the takeover of his great-grandfather's estate by the
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Lets talk about this Yoruba wannabe.... Foot soldier of alien conquerors. He denigrates Yoruba traditional norms and customs… But openly celebrates chieftaincy title of ‘Grandson of Igbo people’ given to him in Igbo land He openly said he does not think in Yoruba…. For
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Awujale Afidipote of Ijebu ruled over the merchant kingdom from 1850 to 1883. The coastal trade with Europeans was controlled by his kingdom. Ijebu had wealthy merchants who profited as middle men between the Europeans who docked at their ports and the people of the interiors.
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No matter how bad your leaders are. NEVER LET AN OUTSIDER INCITE YOU AGAINST THEM. They will use the divide for their agenda. When you join sons of Zik to insult Governor Abiodun, you are falling into the same trap as Ademoyega who joined with sons of Zik to do a January 1966
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Yoruba Ronu is giving thousands sleepless nights. Mariwo leshi ri, eeti ri Egun. Your fathers hated Awo…. Championed propaganda against Egbe Omo Oduduwa…. Always remember how their obsession for expansionism led them to shame. It turned Zik from glorified Zik of Africa to
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Yoruba people are 'Omo Alades'.... It is understandable that this will always breed envy... Especially from the sons of Zik.... Everything they are proud was not original to them That small land they own, a large part of it was borrow borrow join... Onitsha used to belong to
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If you are not Awori, Ijebu, Egba or Ijaye, you have no ancestral rights in Lagos. If you don’t ‘Think in Yoruba’…. in a million years, you will never rule a square mile of any part of the precious land our ancestors preserved with their blood. Yorubaland is not a territory
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Gbonka Ebiri
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There is a popular word among the elitist saros saying ‘Gedegbe Leko wa’ When Awolowo tried to block Zik from politically capturing Yorubaland and annexing it into his Igbo expansionist estate agenda… He teamed up with the elitist saros that worked with Macaulay before his
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Tribute to the Baribas: 1828, Emir Shitta of Ilorin sent word to Alaafin Oluewu to make a visit to Ilorin and swear allegiance to him as his sovereign. Oluewu responded that he was second to the gods and swears to no man. Emir Shitta ordered the raiding of cities in the
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Bode Thomas was a saro, Nonetheless, unlike many saros of his time, he was a hardcore Yoruba nationalist. Few years prior to independence, the British secretly courted him to help defend Ahmadu Belo who would later take the title of Sadaurna of Sokoto in an embezzlement case
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Sage Awolowo observed in 1940 that Igbo politics was built on hate for Yoruba people and obsession for their heritage. As it was in those days, so it is today. Embracing from a people obsessed to destroy you to rise at your back is ethnic suicide. A quick walk on history lane:
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1953, Awo and Zik had a pact that if the North continued to refuse to support independence struggles, that they should both declare a southern country independent of the North…. Zik’s condition was that Awolowo should stop agitating for Yoruba regions placed under the North…
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My Yoruba brothers and sisters... Yoruba nationalists are not against your right to be a Christian, Muslim or free thinkers.... The point of emphasis is that any form of spirituality that will make you trade your land and birthright is dangerous.... God in heaven will never ask
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Rwanda President, Paul Kagame is a reincarnation of Namdi Azikiwe.... Under the guise of trying to build a united country, he abolished all laws that recognized ethnic identity and their right to autonomy in their ancestral space and totally removed its importance in social
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther... A saro returnee.... we know where he was from.... The place is called Oshogun.... In present day Osun state.. Samuel Johnson.... We know where he is from..... He was from Oyo province.... A descendant of Alaafin Abiodun. Darocha, we know where he is
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On May 6, 1967, the sage visited Ojukwu in Enugu to persuade him to join in a meeting with Gowon so terms of peaceful talks could be discussed. He assured him that he would support the demands of the East in the meeting and stand with them. Ojukwu bugged the room, started to
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We have no regret in Yorubaland for choosing self preservation over price of oil and garri. As Yoruba people, we will always think SELF PRESERVATION first…. However, this will not stop us from being a critic of a Yoruba elder and we will say this without reserve…. If by the
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In the 1940’s, Zik fought against the Macpearson constitution because it broke Nigeria into regions and allowed each region to operate as regional governments. To deceive Yoruba people in the desperation to politically invade Yorubaland….. Zik presented a Fulani man… Malian
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Gbonka Ebiri
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Brigadier Ademulegun… A fine gentleman and senior ranking soldier in the Nigerian army.. A disciplined career soldier and great friend of the Sardauna… They met frequenlty for lunch…. For weeks, he had kept a close check on Nzeogwu and his mock trainings…. At some point, he
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My message now is for my people… sons of Zik have said we should not involve them with what is going on with Tinubu and Atiku… so saying… we would expect them to stay in their lane and not give any unsolicited opinion on this thread. Tinubu is recognized as a man at CSU.
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The January 1966 coup did not happen because some ‘revolutionaries’ Loved their country and wanted to preserve it…. It was not a coup to impose Awo leadership.... Plans for a coup had been in place as a plan B agenda of Zik and his followers since independence. The coup was
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The North, Yoruba people, Niger Delta people… have accepted Tinubu as the president. INEC has made its decision….The Judicial system has made its ruling…. Tinubu is president constitutionally and legally…. Cry from Chicago to China, it won’t move Aso rock where God placed it.
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Our fathers indulged the sons of Zik a lot and it emboldened them to the greatest heights of rascality. They turned the other cheek, not out of fear, but out of maturity. Awolowo never debunked the lies that he started ethnic politics, while we know Zik was the first to build a
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Yoruba people have always been the ones to take the pain for Nigeria…. Awolowo, Akintola, MKO, Gani, Fela, Madam Kuti, Bola Ige…. This is because we have always fought from the opposition To have a Yoruba man as president and still yet people have the audacity to invade our
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Our immediate ancestors made it clear that they do not want our region to be the battle ground for Nigeria struggles... This was why Zikism was rejected... The leader of the movement wanted to politically capture Yorubaland for a Zikist agenda.... This was also why Yoruba people
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Zik built his politics on bringing down Awo and every policy he embarked on… he and his people ended in disgrace Obi is building his political legacy on bringing down Tinubu and every policy he embarks on. He and his people will end in disgrace When Awo embarked on free
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If at this point you are Yoruba and still argue that this is about competency, you are a lost cause. No need to even bother about you again. Every Yoruba in the Obidiot camp, you are confirmed b #stards So Lagospedia had not justification for what he wrote but the ‘Nigerian
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Lagos is so special to those people who come in night busses with bathroom slippers. Very much like America and other first class worlds are to Yoruba people. Do you remember most story lines of Nollywood movies while growing up….. 80% of it is about guys from the east
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Gowon released Awolowo from Calabar Prison. Ojukwu did not release the sage Awolowo…. There never was a pact between the sage and Ojukwu to declare Oduduwa and Biafra….As at the time Awolowo was released Ojukwu had not decided to declare Biafra…. The decision to declare
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There was a cold war between Babangida and Abacha..... when Abacha ruled the country, many people in the military remained loyal to Babangida. This made Abacha uncomfortable. One among these people were Lawan Gwadabe and Colonel Adisa. Abacha reached out to Gwadabe to ask him
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Theophilus Danjuma…. A living legend….. This great man spontaneously set the momentum for the second coup and made sure sons of Zik paid for the barbaric murder of innocent people and their wives on July 28, 1966…. The brains behind logistics of the second coup were Major
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Karara was the Balogun Gambari of Ilorin in the 1870's, a very intelligent Hausa man but very eccentric and unpredictable. He waged many wars against Yoruba people of the Ibolo province. He was hot headed and feared even by Emir Alihu of Ilorin (1866 – 1891). He was ruthless and
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Achilles heel…. Azikiwe wanted to build his political influence on the destruction of the Yoruba momentum in the 40’s…. He desperately wanted to bring down the Yoruba intelligentsia….. He left his homeland and desperately wanted to politically capture Yorubaland… The
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The biggest nemesis to Yorubaland. As military head of state, he socially engineered democracy in the second republic to disenfranchise Yoruba people. He used his powers as an incumbent military dictator to block Awolowo from ruling Nigeria and handed over Nigeria to the North/
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The biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria in the first republic were sons of Zik. Through their coalition with Ahmadu Belo, they held the most powerful parastatals in Nigeria… they head the military (Ironsi), stock exchange at inception in 1959( Ojukwu), foreign affairs and all
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Anytime you see the sons of Zik accuse you or try to shame you about something… like cowardice… backstabbing…. Tribalism or their favorite jab… dirt…/ know for a fact that they are trying to play reverse psychology….. no humans on earth are as filth as Igbo people. Pigs
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It is not the politicians that divide us from sons of Zik…. Stop deceiving yourselves….. no politician told them to be territorial at Alaba and Balogun market. No politician tells them to gang up against Yoruba people in commercial places they are in high numbers even outside
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In Yorubaland... when we talk of invasion and the need to protect our space.... The focus is not only on herdsmen/farmer clashes. The much bigger tension is also on those who saturate our markets with fake goods.... frustrate natives from their ancestral markets.... sell fake
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Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi’s coup The morning after the January coup… Shehu Shagari got news that the Prime minister had been abducted… he tried to reach out to the Sadaurna.... His phone lines were down. He reached out to his neighbour at Ikoyi… minister for Housing and survey,
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This protest is too heavily centered on Yorubaland and it is a cause for concern. When Buhari was president, protests did not target his region…. When Goodluck was president, protests did not target his region. Why is Lagos, Ibadan, and Oshogbo target bases…. What exactly
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The wealth of Lagos is due to its strategic location. It has nothing to do with its position as capital. Lagos is no different from Mombasa, Istanbul, Hong Kong and New York City The wealth of Lagos came from the industrial estates, Port activities and Ooda group of companies.
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Propaganda lies against the leading Yoruba politician of the 1960’s Awolowo is the father of tribalism in Nigeria Awolowo’s victory in the western region was through carpet crossing Awolowo betrayed Ojukwu after they had a pact to both secede Awolowo ordered blockade to starve
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Gbonka Ebiri
19 days
Vote for Olusola Umeadi for a better Alimosho 😊😊 Yoruba people, you go get sense by force.
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Tribute to ogo Adulawo…. We do not compete and we do not brag…. But we are pace setters since the days of our ancestors. This is Michael Okpara…. The greatest leader to ever emerge from the Eastern region. He was super obsessed with anything Yoruba that he dressed most of
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 month
While he grew so large and his head became so big that a jollof rice cooking pot was named after him….. He refused food corridors into Biafra so that his people can starve to death from kwashiorkor because he wanted the use pictures of the same people he claimed he declared
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Gbonka Ebiri
3 months
I am a member of Think Yoruba First. The thought is as important as oxygen to me. I rarely ask favors but I want all lovers of the platform to please do something for me. I want us to email Netflix in the thousands to show support for @aimakhutoyin Going forward, Yoruba
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Gbonka Ebiri
2 months
There is a common saying in Yorubaland: They say eat meat… You say it has too much bone….. They say leave bone…. You say it has some meat You said you are tired of Nigeria and want Biafra…. You say investment in Lagos Yorubaland is at your peril… Yoruba youths tired of your
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Everything that went wrong with Nigeria can be traced to people of the defunct Eastern region Coup plotting started from the East Unitary system of government that holds everyone hostage today started from the East. Kidnapping for ransom started from among people of the East,
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Gbonka Ebiri
3 months
In the current revolt in Kenya, the people went to each house of the parliament members and burnt it down…. Their businesses, they set them ablaze. They were not selective or tribally motivated in their mission. Yoruba youths, do not join people of the East for any such revolt
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Since the 40’s… the sons of Zik have had a near obsession to politically capture Yorubaland…. Their greatest leader of all times… Zik was more obsessed about capturing Yorubaland than leading his people. He tried to use the struggle for independence as distraction… The great
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Gbonka Ebiri
8 months
Legends of Benjamin Adekunle Black Scorpion…. Conqueror of Biafra When Biafra war started….. The division trusted to invade the breakaway country and arrest Ojukwu was the second division under the command of Murtala Mohammed…. Murtala’s many attempts to cross into the
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Gbonka Ebiri
29 days
In sequel to my audio recording that is being peddled by some individuals where I made certain statements against the Oba of Benin…. I hereby openly apologize to the Oba of Benin stool. My outburst was because some Bini Supremacists in a session mocked the gruesome killing of
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Gbonka Ebiri
7 months
There are three people in recent politics that sons of Zik will tear their shirts to defend.... They will troll you to defend them when private Yoruba issues are being discussed Olusegun Obasanjo Gbadebo Rhodes David Hundeyin The ancient Greek would term them as trojan
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Gbonka Ebiri
5 months
Isola Fabunmi…. porpularly known as Fabunmi of Okemesi ( 1830 – 1903) was born into the royal house of Imesi Igbo Ododo ( Okemesi). He moved to Ibadan in his 30’s to train to be a soldier and enlisted under the banner of Akintola…. Son of the greatest general of all times at
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Gbonka Ebiri
5 months
In the war to preserve Nigeria, I need Awolowo more than I need the military ( Yakubu Gowon) These were the challenges Awolowo faced as prime minister: 8 new states were created the same day. He had to manage the creation and administration of each of these states…. Setting up
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Gbonka Ebiri
10 months
Don’t choose a leader trying to tell you he knows how to help Nigeria save money. That he knows how to manage resources. Choose a leader who can bring a golden age to the people. Awolowo is not celebrated today because of the money he saved. He is celebrated because of the golden
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Gbonka Ebiri
10 months
January 1966 coup… was it an Igbo coup? Colonel Yakubu Pam , Adjunct-general of the Nigerian Military was kidnapped in his house, in the presence of his wife and kids…. He was arrested by Major Chukwuka and Lt Godwin Onyefuru…. Both are Igbos Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi,
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
To those who claim the plan is to Islamize the country…. A pastor is chairman of EFCC… what say you….. We do not want religious distractions. Yorubaland is not interested in a religious war.... nationalism is not determined by religion in any great nation. Since its return
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Gbonka Ebiri
19 days
‘Gbadebo’Rhodes has changed his campaign tactics. He says he is fighting for ‘Lagosians’ and has been frolicking with the monarchy like his saro ancestor ‘Macaulay’ did with the monarchy to divide Yoruba people in Lagos before teaming up with Zik Who are the Lagosians…..
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Gbonka Ebiri
6 months
It is very dangerous to embrace a leader whose real legacy is built on lies, propaganda, bullying and harassment. The same man who asked the church to take its country back is breaking fast with Muslims in the North…. We have a duty as Yoruba people to totally destroy any
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 month
Adeyinka was targeted in London…. They celebrated Amaka is targeted in Canada for the same reason. Whataboutism starts. Adeyinka was a bigot but Amaka is a victim 😂 During election season…. Same people will come to you and say…. We are one…. Our common enemies are the
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Gbonka Ebiri
8 months
You can never gaslight us to be reckless with our struggles. Your grandfathers that did not count the cost of war before bragging about it ended up with death from kwashiorkor in the thousands. Your warlord that bragged about how no army in Africa can defeat him ended up
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 month
A movie director is a very important person in a society…. Especially one who has chosen to represent the history and Legends of his ‘so called people’ You cannot seek a living from the richness of a history of your people and at the same time openly denigrate them…. Insult
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Gbonka Ebiri
1 year
Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja is the new chief of army staff. No Yoruba man has held this position in the last 40 years. Many soldiers in the past that held the position do have great legends to their names. To mention six of them: Ironsi: First non European to hold the
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Gbonka Ebiri
14 days
I hope when we eventually come for this guy…. Break down his IPOB sham and really take on his childlike buffonery to put him in his place, his people will not go on the usual rhetoric that they were minding their business in their 4 by 4 shops. Gradually running out of steam,
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