Johndoe100:

At last you have found another traitor. It must make you so happy. We are all for keeping politicians on there toes, but the ACN has malice as their primary motive.

Ogbonaikenna: I said it. Yes i know the yorubas very well. They are back stabbers, betrayers. They can never be trusted to align with the south south or south east. They are the one still holding the various groups in this country from attaining their full potential. They are the parasite not the north. Smelling tribe.

Johndoe100:

At last you have found another traitor. It must make you so happy. We are all for keeping politicians on there toes, but the ACN has malice as their primary motive.

Tony Spike: I don't like commenting on tribal threads but can anyone honestly give us a comprehensive list of the Minister of Finance, Commerce, Petroleum and all policy makers that have been with the "so called" Hausa and Yoruba rulers of Nigeria for the past 25 years? I am more interested in this list because a President (or head of State) makes decision based on his ministers.

edicolove:

I would be interested in such a list but again, you cannot say people like Abacha or IBB really cared much what their ministers thought or said. Their agendas were cast in stone from day 1. Awo was the first finance minister if I can recall. He definitely set the tone for where we are now as a nation. His people did benefit from him and you have to respect that but in the context of Nigeria, his divisive ideologies set us up for the big divides we see today.

edicolove: @Edo_girl, if you think the non indigines in Lagos really "Love" the Yoruba, you are truly delusional. I have several Yoruba friends but when you talk of the Yoruba as a whole, the perception is very different. When you talk about them in the context of Nigeria, the perception is very different. Edo state is ACN but majority of Edo state citizens will never go with the Yoruba.

I am talking about the way they try to address national issues. I am not talking about individual dislike for persons. The Yoruba man will always vote for his own. They are the most tribalistic people in Naija. They can isolate themselves and I am not talking about GEJ's government. I am talking about a time that is coming when decisions will be made and they will affect everyone of us, whether we like it or not. The SW states are not very bouyant states aoart from Ondo. Lagos income or wealth is artificial. It is not natural. It is because Lagos was capital of Nigeria and enjoyed things like being the major sea and airport for many years. That is changing and could change even much more in the near future.

I have worked in several sectors. The Niger Delta people are the most detribalised in Nigeria. A ND man will never employ another ND man just because he is from ND. A Yoruba, Hausa or Ibo man will do exactly that. That is what has been going on for years in the federal ministries and multinational companies. They can come here and pretend to be saints but we know what is really going on.

Like I said before, Nigeria, for about 5 decades, was ruled and destroyed by the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba leadership.

9jadelta: Hahahahaha I can see some Igbo and yoruba here trying to claim what they don't have...trying to form alliance with us in the south south ...well we are d richest tribe so I won't wonder much about that....but I will rather have naija Delta republic that all my oil will be use to develop or my area than join any other stup!d tribe be it biafra or odua republic to form a country or better still united southern nigeria .... So all if u igbo mor0ns and yoruba ass...can kiss my butt..hihihihihihihi *wicked laff*

ENEONWO: But for the fact that Nairaland has been infilterated by ethnic jingoists and latent moral underdogs like Beaf, Ekeke's position as quoted by Gbawe would have ended this thread. Yes, Ekeke has said it all, but do people listen? Someone says 'no one is so blind as he who has functional eyes but refuses see'. Thank you Gbawe, for that informative piece.

jason123:

Her point is, we don't hate Yorubas, we don't care about how they run their politics. How can you hate your host and yet remain in the state? Does that not defeat your point?

They are tribalistic cause they isolate themselves? These are a people that are known opposition since the first republic, even against their own in 1999. How is that tribalistic??

Other SW states except ondo are not buoyant because they do not have oil? C'mon, you know better than this. . . .

You call Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba but spare the ethnic group that started the first coup ever in the country and the first civil war? The ethnic group that killed other leaders but left theirs? The ethnic group that has EQUALLY been in power, if not president, but they produced a VP and senate presidents throughout these period?

edicolove:

I live in Lagos and understand the politics of Lagos. Lagos is not being ruled by the Yorubas because they are more in number but because the non indegenes or other tribes shy away from the politics. My point is very clear. If you make the issue one of Yorubas against the rest of us, you will create a situation where non indigenes will begin to allign themselves against the Yorubas. This is not about insults or name calling. My warning is very clear and about facts. I saw a bit of that in the last elections. The ACN folks at my polling booth clearly told us during the presidential election that it wasn't their day and that they weren't really interested. They boasted that we should come back and see what will happen during the following weeks gov election and true to their words, they turned out en masse. I observed that in at least 3 polling stations.

The non indigenes in Lagos far outnumber the indigenes. Places like Surulere, Ketu, AJ, festac, etc are majorly other tribes. That many of them can speak Yoruba doesn't make them Yoruba. The truth is, if you want to criticize GEJ, by all means do. But when you create this situation where everything ACN peeps do is right and whatever GEJ does is wrong and you want to claim you are being objective or that you have Nigerias interest at heart, you are creating a divide that will come back to hunt you. And to think that everyone else cannot see your real agenda and motive is very delusional.

This church building issue is sooooo petty that it will really lay ACN out in the sun to dry, believe me. If you think Nigerians from across the country is really going to take this serious, then you have truly lost it.

edicolove:

The irony of life is that we have so many people who think they see and the rest of us are blind. Do you know Hitler thought the rest of the world was blind. Even Boko Aram and Al Qeada thinks e are all blind. That is why Nigeria is where it is today. Because poeple like you think they can see and the rest of us are blind. False sense of superiority complex is the proper name for it.

@Jason123, I did say that "if I can recall" meaning I wasn't too sure if he was the first. But I think he did set the tone for modern day Nigeria in terms of economic policies. Like I said, on one hand, they ere good policies that favoured his people but in the National context, they were detrimental to the national interest in the long term. So sincerely, it is hard to fault him. I do have big issues with Zik too. Zik was one of those that pushed the one Nigeria stuff to the point where we ended up with this fraud of a relationship. But Zik was a ceremonial head. Sir Ahmadu Bello was the prime minister and had all the powers. Ironsi was a weak military ruler who didn't even want to rule.

edicolove:
@Jason123, I did say that "if I can recall" meaning I wasn't too sure if he was the first. But I think he did set the tone for modern day Nigeria in terms of economic policies. Like I said, on one hand, they ere good policies that favoured his people but in the National context, they were detrimental to the national interest in the long term. So sincerely, it is hard to fault him. I do have big issues with Zik too. Zik was one of those that pushed the one Nigeria stuff to the point where we ended up with this fraud of a relationship. But Zik was a ceremonial head. Sir Ahmadu Bello was the prime minister and had all the powers. Ironsi was a weak military ruler who didn't even want to rule.

ekwy nwa:

pls get your facts right, they were not against their own, they preferred Olu Falea to OBJ, they perceive OBJ is a northern string-puppet. In 2003 they voted OBJ en mass and they even lost SW states to PDP.

edicolove: @Jason123, I never said I hate the Yoruba. I am discussing issues here not persons. I did say before that I have several Yoruba friends. I am talking in the context of Nigeria and the Yoruba nation. My problem with them is the hypocrisy they show when they try to make us believe they are fighting for our collective interest. I will respect them a lot more if they just come out and state it like it is. At least that's one thing you have to respect the Hausa/Fulani for. They always come out to say what they want. If all the tribes in Naija just come out and make their demands and positions, we would have been a great country by now.

The reason people like Asari say the things they do is because they know Nigeria is all about sectional interest. They have seen how over the years, the north and the SW have pushed their own into key areas of the oil and gas industry and continue to do so. They have seen how you couldn't get choice jobs or contracts from the FG except you were Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba. They have seen how a whole country was thrown into debt and poverty because the nations resources was used to build a new capital territory in record time. They see these stuff everyday so you can't blame them for how they feel. Honestly, I feel their pain too.

9jadelta: ..hihihihihihihi *wicked laff*

jason123:

Regardless, you don't dislike your own and yet you remain tribalistic. Some Igbo dislike Zik, are they tribalistic?

ekwy nwa:

I reiterate, try to get your facts before posting, there is nothing to disregard as you suggested above OBJ lost SW in 1999 because of Olu Falae factor. If it were b/w OBJ and another ethnic group the person would ve lost to him in SW. If they re not tribalistic as you said why didn’t AD field a presidential candidate for 2003 election. the decision of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) not to field a candidate for the2003 presidential elections, stemmed out of ethnic consideration, occasioned by the emergence of President Olusegun Obasanjo as the candidate of the ruling PDP. AD found it proper to go into alliance with the PDP because President Obasanjo, a Yoruba man, is the candidate of the PDP.

ekwy nwa:

pls get your facts right, they were not against their own, they preferred Olu Falea to OBJ, they perceive OBJ is a northern string-puppet. In 2003 they voted OBJ en mass and they even lost SW states to PDP.

LASU may lift students union suspension.
[url="http://www.punchng.com/news/lasu-may-lift-students-union-suspension/"]Punch[/url]
April 10, 2012 by Sodiq Oyeleke

There are strong indications that the authorities of the Lagos State University may lift the suspension on the Students Union Government of the institution.
LASU suspended the SUG on November 31, 2011 after the students body led a protest against the hike in school fees. A close source, who craved anonymity, told our correspondent on Sunday that the students union and the authorities were set to resolve the issue.

He said, “The suspension is likely to end soon. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa, has assured the Students Union of quick resolution.
“Although, the issue has not been finalised, the VC has set up a committee to look into the activities of the students union and demanded that they provide a resolution on the way forward.”
He said despite the suspension of the union, its members were allowed the full rights of a student union.
He also said there were still challenges with infrastructure in the school, noting that the school management was working towards improving them.
“The school management has started erecting some buildings like the Students Union Arcade, Senate Building, and some faculties but there are still challenges when it comes to academic development,” he said.

The Secretary of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Lagos State, Mr. Hakeem Salami, appealed to the school management to lift the suspension to promote freedom in the school.
He said, “We have met with the school management and they told us it was just for a short period. The VC assured us three weeks ago that the suspension would soon be over.”
He urged the school management to be transparent in their dealings with the students, saying that was the only way the school could develop.

Also, some students of the school have said the fees they paid do not correspond with the facilities available.
A 100 level student, who identified herself simply as Tosin, said she was dissappointed with the facilities available for the students.
She said, “When they increased school fees, I thought it would improve the standard of the school but I am surprised to see that nothing has changed up till now.”

Desola: The British are indeed very greedy and destructive!

How could they have thought it right to amalgamate these different nations and foist false nationalism on us?

One just have to look at the ethnic discord in this thread to see that Nigeria is indeed a curse on each nation that belongs to the nation. This unholy union truly has to break! No more patching, there is no longer cement to cover the huge crack. So i say bring this lie to an end already!

kingoflag:

When you use words like "Vote En Mass", are you just trying to make your country look "good" or are you just trying to feel civilized, because as far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A FAIR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA since 1999. All, you've had are rig-fests, so I don't know if it'd be accurate to characterize the shams you've had over the last 13yrs as anything close to an election.