LegendHero:



Tell us more.

Also tell us how much GDP is lost for every Monday sit at home in Anambra for the past 3 years.

I guessed from my earlier text, that you must have assumed that I must be an Igbo person by your reference to Anambra. Well, partner sorry to disappoint you I am a Yoruba man, from Ijebu Ode, and had you taken the time to read some of my postings you would have found this out, To be honest with you I ain't got no dog in the fight when it comes to Nigeria matters. I am just giving you the facts as an unbiased observer. I still say it the Yorubas are the holdup as to why there is no unity within the people of southern Nigeria. This is mainly due to the Muslim population within their rank. Yoruba Muslims have more in common with their Northern brethren than with their fellow Yoruba Christians. The rest of the people in the south of Nigeria will always wonder where the loyalty of Yoruba Muslims lies.

You must either be a stranger/foreigner in Yoruba land or one among those that have been blinded by fake foreign religion.

coputa:
What is the significance of this Isese, Yorubas love idol worship too much

t2luv1:


I guessed from my earlier text, that you must have assumed that I must be an Igbo person by your reference to Anambra. Well, partner sorry to disappoint you I am a Yoruba man, from Ijebu Ode, and had you taken the time to read some of my postings you would have found this out, To be honest with you I ain't got no dog in the fight when it comes to Nigeria matters. I am just giving you the facts as an unbiased observer. I still say it the Yorubas are the holdup as to why there is no unity within the people of southern Nigeria. This is mainly due to the Muslim population within their rank. Yoruba Muslims have more in common with their Northern brethren than with their fellow Yoruba Christians. The rest of the people in the south of Nigeria will always wonder where the loyalty of Yoruba Muslims lies.

My name is also Shinedu and I am from Abakaliki

LegendHero:


My name is also Shinedu and I am from Abakaliki

A quick look up of your profile says otherwise.

LegendHero:


No work for public servants all across Lagos from the island to the mainland.

Tomorrow is for Isese day, next month we will do the Yoruba week in Lagos too and it’s going to be a massive celebration.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wish they will just try this in Ilorin let's check something.


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oodua agbe gbogbo omo oko Yoruba. Ogun afi eje gbogbo omo ale arinwa we ase eee.

shotuns:
You must either be a stranger/foreigner in Yoruba land or one among those that have been blinded by fake foreign religion.

how has the traditional idol worship help the Yorubas,has it help develop their regions

See as this man they chop Yoruba chants like the Nigeria Yorubas

UncleAyo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW7IpDrK7AA
Ojumo ti mo




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWq56gPn-M8




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLq_SGZHaUY

TimeTraveller:
This makes me happy. Watch how the land grabbers without any history, heritage or respect will start foaming about this post.

Notice I didn't mention any group? They will still complain. Narcissistic bigots!

No need to mention any name all Nigerians know them they never mind their business na to dey put mouth cho cho cho for matter wey not concern dem dey cry ontop anoda pesin headache.

LegendHero:
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Tuesday, 20 August, 2024 as work-free day for public servants to mark this year’s Isese Day celebration.

Although the United Nations had declared August 20, as World Traditional Religion (Isese) Day, this is the first time the Lagos State Government declared a public holiday for adherents to celebrate the day.

Source: https://leadership.ng/isese-day-sanwo-olu-declares-tuesday-public-holiday

A Yoruba state celebrating Yoruba culture, wonders shall never end.

grandstar:
Yoruba slaves were taken in large numbers to Brazil, especially towards the last 50 years of the final abolition of the practive in 1882 in Brazil.

Those white guys singing may have African ancestry. They may be Quadroons who have a black grandfather, or octoroons who have one black great grandfather.

Santeria is a kind of Christian worship mixed with paganism.

konquest

Thanks for the mention @Grandstar. I just logged in and saw your post.

Indeed, you are right about enslaved folks of Yoruba descent who where deported on slave schooners to Brazil. It wasn't ONLY Brazil, but also Cuba which both received about 250,000 men, women, and children from Yorubaland with even members of Yoruba royal families being deported as well due to wars within the same timeframe from the late 1700s, but it accelerated after 1800 due to the Yoruba Civil Wars and other wars till about 1860 when the last infamous American slave ship, called the Clotilda (with most of the 110 Africans on board being Yoruba people) landed in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A on July 9, 1860 from Whydah in Benin Republic. They all were mostly modern Benin Republic Yorubas (the Bante region), modern Nigeria Yorubas who were going on a trading expedition, a Fon nobleman from modern Benin Republic, some Tapas (Nupe), and about two Hausas. They eventually formed a community called Africatown after the American Civil War ended in 1865 and their descendants are still alive as of today all over the United States engaging in successful career paths. One of the greatest American musicians and entertainers, QuestLove who is in the video right BELOW is a direct descendant of the Yoruba families on the infamous Clotilda (Charles and Maggie Lewis who were born in Africa).

Oscar Winner QuestLove Reacts to Family History in Finding Your Roots | Ancestry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rbuzThk7oc?si=AIlHIUntSYXAS4hO
Ancestry • 2021


Yes, Santeria is the name used for the Yoruba religion in Cuba while Candomble is what it's called in Brazil with Bahia being the epicenter of Yoruba religion and ulture in Brazil.

Santeria essentially came into existence in Cuba because the Spanish tried to prevent Yorubas who made up one-third of the ethnic groups brought to Cuba and others from practicing their cultures, so the galant Oyo, Egba, Ijesa, Ekiti, etc, people who were the recorded Yorubas in Cuba in the 1800s had to hide the Orishas (Deities) behind the Catholic images to prevent being detected while worshiping. Santeria or Lucumi religion is essentially the Yoruba religion (Ifa) which today is internationally recognize as a world religion.

Thanks again for the mention.

Cheers.


UPDATED: @ Grandstar, I've just updated my post to you with an Ancestry DNA video above of the Oscar winner "Quest Love" who is descended from those on the Infamous Clotilda slave schooner

t2luv1:


I guessed from my earlier text, that you must have assumed that I must be an Igbo person by your reference to Anambra. Well, partner sorry to disappoint you I am a Yoruba man, from Ijebu Ode, and had you taken the time to read some of my postings you would have found this out, To be honest with you I ain't got no dog in the fight when it comes to Nigeria matters. I am just giving you the facts as an unbiased observer. I still say it the Yorubas are the holdup as to why there is no unity within the people of southern Nigeria. This is mainly due to the Muslim population within their rank. Yoruba Muslims have more in common with their Northern brethren than with their fellow Yoruba Christians. The rest of the people in the south of Nigeria will always wonder where the loyalty of Yoruba Muslims lies.

Let me step right in to correct your assumptions here.

If you are indeed from Ijebu Ode and a Yoruba, you would NOT commit the grave blunder of casting aspersions on Yorubas who are Muslims. INFACT the majority (over 50 percent) of Ijebu people who are indigenes of both Lagos State and Ogun State are Muslims (because Ijebuland extends from Lagos State right across the border into Ogun State with Ikorodu, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Areas, and Ajah being Ijebuland located right in Lagos State).

I dare say with your assumptions about Yorubas who are practicing Muslims, that YOU are NOT a Yoruba person for ignorantly casting aspersions on Yoruba folks who are Muslims. I'm NOT a Muslim, but as an internationally well-traveled man with a vast knowledge of world history and world religions for decades now, I know FULL well that Islam has been in Yorubaland (starting with the Oyo Empire) for over 500 years now, and that is even why in Bahia, Brazil, Yoruba folks who were Muslims led the deadly revolts against the Portuguese enslavements in the early 1800s called the "Male" revolts. "Imale" from with "Male" was derived is the old Yoruba name for Muslims because the religion ORIGINALLY came to the Oyo Empire from the Mali Empire. Other Muslims from other West African ethnicities also joined the Yorubas then to revolt because they were NOT allowed to do their prayers and also to break free from the shackles of enslavement. I say all these to let you know that Islam alongside the Yoruba religion (Ifa) have been in existence for centuries back long before Xtianity even came into Yorubaland in the 1800s.

Tolerance and flexibility are important keys in life. So, this talk of Muslims of Yoruba descent holding back the so-called Southern unity of Nigeria is LAME! It's the complete restructuring and decentralization of Nigeria from the bogus unitary system being practiced over there that would liberate Nigeria and make the country globally competitive in the New Economy age we are currently in... NOT your false assumptions against Muslims of Yoruba descent, many of who I'm aware have brilliant minds and are extremely impatient and tired of the highly retrogressive state of an overcentralized system of governance in Nigeria.

LegendHero:
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Tuesday, 20 August, 2024 as work-free day for public servants to mark this year’s Isese Day celebration.

Isese means tradition and it has millions of adherents in Yoruba land. The announcement is contained in a circular issued by the State’s Head of Service, Mr. Bode Agoro.

According to the circular, the Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu had approved that Tuesday, 20th August, 2024 be declared work-free for public servants in the State.

The circular directed public servants to resume work on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 by 8.00am.

Although the United Nations had declared August 20, as World Traditional Religion (Isese) Day, this is the first time the Lagos State Government declared a public holiday for adherents to celebrate the day.

The circular reads: “COMMEMORATION OF YEAR 2024 ISESE DAY – DECLARATION OF WORK FREE DAY

“It is hereby notified for general information that this Year’s Isese Day Celebration will hold on Tuesday, 20th August, 2024.

“In emphasising commitment to give necessary support to traditional institutions, as well as enhance the promotion of indigenous tradition by preserving cultural heritage, Mr. Governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has approved that Tuesday, 20th August, 2024, be declared a Work-Free Day for Public Servants in the State.

“Consequently, work resumes on Wednesday, 21st August, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.

“Accordingly, all Accounting Officers are enjoined to note the contents of this Circular and give it the deserved Service wide publicity.”

Source: https://leadership.ng/isese-day-sanwo-olu-declares-tuesday-public-holiday

Brazil already has a public holiday for the celebration of the Yoruba religion of Ifa. It would have been an embarrassing thing for Lagos State and other Yoruba States NOT to have an annual public holiday set aside to celebrate their religion which is an international religion as well with adherants of all "races" in the United States, UK, Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Haiti, and more.

Goodvibes007:

Hausa, Ibo, Fulani, Yoruba, Ashanti, Dahomey, Senegambia, Angola e.t.c. were all taken as slaves, but the Yoruba culture survived. They also led the imale revolution in Brazil. What a colonialists in the Bahamas wrote about the Yorubas.

The colonials in the Bahamas also had something to say about some others 👇

True that.

Check out the critically acclaimed Netflix documentry entitled "Beyond Africa" which details out the role that the Yorubas played in the liberation struggles in Latin America and also how the Yoruba folks dispersed to many countries in the Americas through the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1800s. The folks at the Yoruba American village in South Carolina, Oyotunji including their recently translated Oba were interviewed and they told about their involvements in the Civil Rights struggles in the United States and how they teamed up with the members of the iconic Black Panther Movement in the U.S.

Konquest:

Let me step right in to correct your assumptions here.

If you are indeed from Ijebu Ode and a Yoruba, you would NOT commit the grave blunder of casting aspersions on Yorubas who are Muslims. INFACT the majority (over 50 percent) of Ijebu people who are indigenes of both Lagos State and Ogun State are Muslims (because Ijebuland extends from Lagos State right across the border into Ogun State with Ikorodu, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Areas, and Ajah being Ijebuland located right in Lagos State).

I dare say with your assumptions about Yorubas who are practicing Muslims, that YOU are NOT a Yoruba person for ignorantly casting aspersions on Yoruba folks who are Muslims. I'm NOT a Muslim, but as an internationally well-traveled man with a vast knowledge of world history and world religions for decades now, I know FULL well that Islam has been in Yorubaland (starting with the Oyo Empire) for over 500 years now, and that is even why in Bahia, Brazil, Yoruba folks who were Muslims led the deadly revolts against the Portuguese enslavements in the early 1800s called the "Male" revolts. "Imale" from with "Male" was derived is the old Yoruba name for Muslims because the religion ORIGINALLY came to the Oyo Empire from the Mali Empire. Other Muslims from other West African ethnicities also joined the Yorubas then to revolt because they were NOT allowed to do their prayers and also to break free from the shackles of enslavement. I say all these to let you know that Islam alongside the Yoruba religion (Ifa) have been in existence for centuries back long before Xtianity even came into Yorubaland in the 1800s.

Tolerance and flexibility are important keys in life. So, this talk of Muslims of Yoruba descent holding back the so-called Southern unity of lame! It's the complete restructuring and decentralization of Nigeria from the bogus unitary system being practiced over there that would liberate Nigeria and make the country globally competitive in the New Economy age we are currently in... NOT your false assumptions against Muslims of Yoruba descent, many of who I'm aware have brilliant minds and are extremely impatient and tired of the highly retrogressive state of an overcentralized system of governance in Nigeria.

Once I read that guy's discussion about Yoruba muslim this and that, I immediately knew that he is not Yoruba. Yoruba don't discriminate against religion because it is like wishing evil on your own sibling. In many Yoruba home is a mixture of in the same family, observers of different religion (Isese, Christianity, Islam) living in harmony even with their non-religious (e.g atheist ) members.

His hate-filled, segregation, discrimination and condescending mentality already pointed to who he likely is and where he is likely from.

LegendHero:


No work for public servants all across Lagos from the island to the mainland.

Tomorrow is for Isese day, next month we will do the Yoruba week in Lagos too and it’s going to be a massive celebration.

Senior mugu!

UncleAyo:


Once I read that guy's discussion about Yoruba muslim this and that, I immediately knew that he is not Yoruba. Yoruba don't discriminate against religion because it is like wishing evil on your own sibling. In many Yoruba home is a mixture of in the same family, observers of different religion (Isese, Christianity, Islam) living in harmony even with their non-religious (e.g atheist ) members.

His hate-filled, segregation, discrimination and condescending mentality already pointed to who he likely is and where he is likely from.

@UncleAyo,

I appreciate your impressive feedback here in confirming my suspicions about that poster's dodgy post.

I wanted to ignore his post but then I saw the lame and divisive adjectives he used (because there are a couple of trolls and fake monikers on NL that are used for assuming another ethnic identity just for triggering toxic ethnic incitements from one thread after the other) and knew he couldn't be of Ijebu-Yoruba descent, so, I had to fire him just so that other readers don't come off with the wrong impression that Yoruba folks are fighting one another over religious differences.
I have him in my radar now and will watch if that moniker will continue with that same divisive format then get to take the moniker down.

Do have a great day ahead.

Cheers.

UncleAyo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW7IpDrK7AA
Ojumo ti mo



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWq56gPn-M8



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLq_SGZHaUY

The FIRST video song is incredibly melodious.

The third video is an impressive Yoruba liturgy recital by the White-skinned Ifa priest or Babalawo in Brazil.

Ndi 'Lagos is a no man's land' in the mud.
It will only get tougher for those scheming to take control of Lagos State politics.