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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 11:18pm On May 26
Progress is being made on the Ekiti Ring Road Project (Phase 1)

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by GoodLife4live: 6:39am On May 27
Ibadanpikin:
This one u are posting nice pictures of Lagos,if u check very well,out of 1000 people living in those places yorubas are not up to 100.Lagos is already captured,forget Nigerians just leave yorubas to be playing their dirty politics but time is coming una eye go clear.
2023 Igbo eye don clear now say Yoruba dey control there place abi you still want more evidence

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 12:53pm On Jun 01
76.6 km Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomosho Road Completed in Oyo State

The road links Oke Ogun zone with Ogbomosho.

Kudos to Gov Seyi Makinde

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 3:59am On Jun 23
Ibadan, Oyo State

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by WizardOfNG: 6:37am On Jun 23
Tonim:
76.6 km Iseyin-Fapote-Ogbomosho Road Completed in Oyo State

The road links Oke Ogun zone with Ogbomosho.

Kudos to Gov Seyi Makinde

Commendable from Makinde. 76.6 km road is a big deal anywhere in Africa.

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 12:31am On Jun 30
Oyo State Government Opens Job Portal For 7,500 Secondary School Teachers and 3,000 Non-Teaching Staff

The Oyo State Government has approved the recruitment of 7,500 teachers, and 3,000 non-teaching staff into the state teaching service, as part of its efforts to improve the post-primary education sector.

The Chairman, Oyo State Post-Primary Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) Pastor Akinade Alamu made this known on Friday in Ibadan.



The TESCOM Chairman said interested candidates with the requisite credentials can apply through the link

https://tescom.jobportal.oyostate.gov.ng for about two weeks.

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 8:37pm On Jul 21
Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge, Lagos

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by INDOMIE9090(f): 5:37pm On Aug 08
Newly reconstructed Ringroad-Challenge,Ibadan

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by INDOMIE9090(f): 5:37pm On Aug 08
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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 4:55am On Aug 17
2024 Ojude Oba Festival, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State

Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 11:37am On Aug 27
Nigeria Customs Service Training School Under Construction in Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by maxell(f): 8:41pm On Sep 01
walefresh3:
[b][/b]Tribute To The Yoruba
by Reno Omokri

People often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy.

And their culture is often mistaken for what it is not by others who do not understand them as a people. What some people ignorantly call cowardice, or sycophancy, is stooping to conquer. It is both a military and diplomatic strategy.

This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”. Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.

But are the Yorubas even cowards, as some people accuse them to be? Well, let us let the facts speak for themselves.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenaghen.
He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.

He returned to face almost certain death.

What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.

Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

In addition to the above, in my opinion, they are the least likely to maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.

I love how they retain their full culture when they travel abroad. It is a rarity amongst Africans. When you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.

A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second generation Yorubas who were born and brought up in England,

I have been traveling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider [/b]spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.

They may speak it privately in their homes abroad. but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.

It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.

Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.

[b]Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’

This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to Yorubas.

Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.

They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).

The reason why Yorubas are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners. They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.

There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa.

US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.

77% of all Black doctors in America, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.

I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). You guys are oni te si iwaju.

#TableShaker #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

Wow.

God Bless the Yorubas

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 2:16am On Sep 07
Lagos State signs MOU with Chinese Firm for Green Line Rail Project


Lagos State has signed a Memorandum of understanding with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC)
for the Green Line Rail Project.

The Green Line is a 68-kilometre rail line that is designed to run from the Lekki Free Zone to Marina,
with a connection to the Blue Line at Marina. It will serve key areas like Victoria Island, Lekki, and Ajah,
transforming the transport infrastructure of Lagos

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 9:20am On Sep 16
President Tinubu recently met with King Charles
at Burkingham Palace

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 9:31am On Sep 16
Chinese Firm to build Lekki-Epe Link Bridge in Lagos



Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) for the construction of the
Lekki-Epe Link Bridge in Beijing, China.

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 6:51am On Sep 18
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, purchases tractors
to boost agriculture and food supply in the state


The tractors will be distributed on Public Private Partnership among Farmers Associations, Youths, Women
and People Living with Disabilities (PWD) and others for their farm operations.

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 7:56am On Sep 19
Gov Makinde awards contract for Ibadan Airport Upgrade

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has awarded the contract for
the upgrade of the Ladoke Akintola Airport, Alakia, Ibadan (to international
standard) to Craneburg Construction Company for N41 billion naira.

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on Wednesday, September
18th, 2026.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/makinde-awards-ibadan-airport-upgrade-to-craneburg-at-n41bn/

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 6:42am On Sep 29
Banana Island, Lagos

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Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by hafeeanubasy: 7:09am On Sep 29
Tonim:
Lekki-Ikoyi Link bridge, Lagos
This bridge needs a repaint.
Why are we so poor with maintenance in Africa.

European bridges don't always look this mouldy
Re: Western Nigeria Development And News Thread by Tonim(f): 1:22am On Oct 05
THE JAGZ Hotel, Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan

Opened Oct 1st, 2024

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