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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 3:33pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: SW is a mere imaginary geographical expression. Yoruba speaking parts of Kogi Kwara and Edo shall be made part of the larger republic. As usual, they are expected to make the move by themselves and not otherwise. The same way itshekiris invited OPC to Warri. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:35pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:36pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: Is the north ready to release kwara? will they ever let that happen? They need to come out and tell us their position on this, we can't speak for them. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:37pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Julius Ojo-Cole[/size]
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 3:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo + superstar1 Interesting...... So you think Ekiti state would let go of Ekiti LGA of Kwara state? I have families there  It's maddening how they just freaking drew a line on a map and called it " a northern state". |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:39pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Mayoroflagos and others. Have you have more on the story of Julius Ojo-Cole. Please share it on here. I read about him but can't really find the full story now. However, his story did touch me immensely. The man was a genius. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:43pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
There's a book on him written by G.O Olusanya |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by WIZGUY69(m): 3:44pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
The Money gotten from it is use to cater for orphans and the less privileged In Yoruba land. "commendable if the money is going to the appropriate channels" 
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:45pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: My grouse here is the fact that i haven't heard prominent politicians from Kwara come out to make their intentions known on a possible merger with the south-west |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 3:47pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo: You are getting it twisted. 3/4 of Kwara is yoruba and 1/5th of kogi is yoruba and a more minute percentage in Edo. Kwara is not ilorin alone, mind you. They are igbomina clan and a key constituent of the yoruba race. Worst case, a referendum will be carried out there. for them to take their destiny in their hands. 2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by jstbeinhonest(m): 3:47pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
jstbeinhonest: How true is this ?, is the project ongoing?. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 3:48pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Are there any Kwarans on NL? |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 3:51pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo: They aligned with the north because of the comparative advantage it gave them, especially during the days of the military. With the advent of democracy, they are leaning more and more towards SW, having realise they are just making up the numbers. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:51pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo: Yes, that's the book I'm posting from. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:52pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
More on Julius Ojo-Cole (my hero).
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| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:53pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
superstar1: I know BBUT these permutations don't guarantee us of owning kwara state if autonomy were to be granted. How come we've been the only ones speaking for them? they themselves need to come out and make their intentions known.I would have expected the Governor of kwara state to hold a meeting with the guys at DAWN to see what can be done about it but so far we haven't heard anything.There's no communication between him and the governors in the south-west |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 3:58pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
superstar1: Ehnnnnnn ....... humans. Personal interest. Equals life. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 4:00pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo: We do not speak for them. if they cannot speak for themselves, that is their eternal headache. Emphasis have always been on 6core SW states, where the states are almost 100% homogenous with pockets of known migrants. Kwara has 70% yorubas and 30% others -- Fulanis, baribas and Nupes. Their percentge is even lower in kogi and more minute in Edo. It is left for them to make te move to join the core SW and if they are ok with the present political structure, who are we to begrudge them? 2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:01pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Ladipo Solanke[/size]  THE WASU PROJECT - the first anti-colonial movement led by Mr. Ladipo Solanke.  Chief Ladipo Solanke was born in the Yoruba town of Abeokuta, Nigeria around 1886. He was the second child and only son of Adeyola Ejiwunmi and her husband, who had adopted the name of Paley from the Scottish missionary who had raised him. He was educated at St Andrew’s Training Institution, Oyo, Nigeria, and at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1922. Later that year he travelled to England, completed his legal studies at University College, London (1923– , was temporarily employed as a teacher of Yoruba at London University, and subsequently qualified as a barrister.Solanke’s experiences of poverty and racism inspired him to organize other Nigerian students in Britain, and with the assistance of Amy Ashwood Garvey he formed the Nigerian Progress Union in London in 1924. In 1925 Solanke and Dr Bankole-Bright founded the West African Students’ Union (WASU) in London. Under Solanke’s leadership WASU became the main social, cultural, and political focus for west Africans in Britain for the next twenty-five years. It served as a training ground for many future political leaders, and played an important role agitating for an end to colonial rule in Britain’s west African colonies. Solanke became one of the main propagandists of WASU, and in 1927 published United West Africa at the Bar of the Family of Nations, a demand for the recognition of equal political rights for Africans. Throughout his life he wrote many letters and articles demanding self-government for the west African colonies, especially Nigeria, and essays on traditional Yoruba institutions and culture. He was the first person to make a radio broadcast in Yoruba in June 1924, and, styling himself Omo Lisabi, made some of the first Yoruba records for Zonophone in 1926. In 1945 in Nigeria he was awarded the Yoruba chieftancy title atobatele of Ijeun. Solanke was at the forefront of WASU’s attempts to establish a hostel for west African students in London. Between 1929 and 1932 he embarked on a fund-raising tour of west Africa, and became the warden of the WASU hostel that was opened in Camden Town in 1933. He returned to Britain with his future wife, whom he married in 1932, Opeolu, née Obisanya (b. 1910), the first matron of the hostel and mother of his three children. As a result of this tour, WASU branches were formed throughout the region, and Solanke and WASU were able to establish significant political contacts with anti-colonial forces in west Africa, and provide the link between them and the anti-colonial movement in Britain. Solanke also completed a further fund-raising tour of west Africa during 1944–8, prior to the opening of WASU’s third London hostel at Chelsea Embankment in 1949. Solanke’s activities on behalf of WASU periodically brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office and sometimes with other black leaders in Britain. However, as WASU secretary-general, he was also able to establish the union as a significant anti-colonial and anti-racist organization in Britain. During the Second World War Solanke established closer relations between WASU and several leading members of the Labour Party’s Fabian Colonial Bureau, including Reginald Sorensen, who subsequently became godfather to one of his children. As a result of these links a west African parliamentary committee was established, with Labour MPs as members, that enabled WASU to act as a more effective parliamentary pressure group. During the 1950s, due to political differences within WASU, Solanke was gradually marginalized from the central role he had once enjoyed. He continued to run a student hostel in London and formed his own breakaway organization, WASU Un-incorporated, which he led until his death from lung cancer at the National Temperance Hospital, St Pancras, London, on 2 September 1958. His funeral and burial took place on 6 September at Great Northern London cemetery, Southgate. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 4:02pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: That is always the number one thing to every human - personal interest. That is why we need to keep celebrating our forefathers and planners of Western Region and SW for not allowing their personal interest to becloud the interest of the general good. They were able to lay a solid foundation for the region, which the younger generation ought to have built on. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by jstbeinhonest(m): 4:04pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Governor Ibukunle Amosun of
Ogun state, Southwest, Nigeria
has reinstated his
administration’s commitment to
the provision of the social
infrastructure across the nook
and crannies of the State.
He disclosed that all the ongoing
road projects in all the three
Senatorial districts in the state
will be completed soon.
The governor also hinted that
much attention will be given to
rural development in his second
term programme, saying this
was part of his campaign
promises to the good people of
Ogun.
Amosun stated this Monday
morning while signing a multi-
billion dollars inter and intra rail
network project with the
leadership of the Chinese giant
construction company, CCECC.
The signing, which took place at
the state government conference
hall had in attendance the
Chinese Consular General in
Lagos, Liu Kan and the Head,
Chinese Economic and
Commercial office, Lagos, Zhang
Pong.
Amosun revealed that the project
is a landmark achievement of the
present administration, hinting
that, during the 40th anniversary
of the state, something visible
and reasonable must have been
on ground for people to see.
The intra-rail network are those
that will be within the Abeokuta
metropolis, which will depict the
real capital city of the new
industrial hub of the country.
Findings by our correspondent
revealed that the light rail
network project will gulp about
£3.2billion.
On the inter city network, the rail
project will have its terminus in
Abeokuta and will be moving
through Abeokuta – Sagamu-
Ijebu Ode-Redeemed Camp and
Abeokuta-Ota – Winners Chapel-
Ilaro-Agbara-Igbesa and other
areas along that axis. 1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by jstbeinhonest(m): 4:06pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
jstbeinhonest: Is this project ongoing? |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:07pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Herbert Bankole-Bright[/size]  Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (23 August 1883 – 14 December 1958) was a well-known politician in Sierra Leone. Herbert Bankole-Bright was born in Okrika, Nigeria on August 23, 1883. Bright was the son of Jacob 'Galba' and Letitia Bright, descendants of Sierra Leone Liberated Africans. Bright's paternal grandfather, John Bright, was an ex-slave who had been liberated off a slave ship with his mother in 1823. Bright studied medicine at Edinburgh University before setting up a practice in Freetown. At Edinburgh, Bright become 'politically awake' and became involved in a number of student activist debates and policies. In 1918, Bright set up the Aurora newspaper, which he edited until 1925. In 1920, he was a founder member of the National Congress of British West Africa, and was elected to the Legislative Council in 1924. In 1925 he inspired Ladipo Solanke's formation of the West African Students' Union, becoming a founder member. With Ernest Beoku-Betts, he campaigned for increased suffrage and against racism, without success. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:09pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Mojola Agbebi[/size]  Mojola Agbebi (1860–1917) was a Nigerian Yoruba Baptist minister. He was formerly named David Brown Vincent, but during the wave of African nationalism in the late 1880s, he changed his name. Agbebi was a strong advocate of indigenous leadership for African churches. He initiated evangelistic work in Yorubaland and in the Niger Delta. Agbebi was the son of a Yoruba Anglican catechist, and was born shortly after his "Saro" father returned from Sierra Leone to his homeland with the gospel. He left the CMS (the Church Missionary Society) in 1880 and became a Baptist around 1883. He played a prominent role in the March 1888 establishment of the Native Baptist Church (now the First Baptist Church) in Lagos, which was the first indigenous church in West Africa. Agbebi was a part of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Lagos, which was formed as result of a dispute within the First Baptist Church when American missionary Rev. W. J. David fired Rev. Moses Ladejo Stone, the native pastor. David rebuffed requests for an explanation by a delegation and by the church business meeting, claiming that he had the authority to dismiss Stone. Agbebi was an apostle of ecumenism. In 1898 he founded the African Baptist Union of West Africa, and in 1914 he started the Yoruba Baptist Association. He also supported his wife's efforts in establishing the nationwide Baptist Women's League in 1919. He was also politically active, and presented a paper at the 1911 First Universal Races Congress in London |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 4:10pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
jstbeinhonest: Good initiative! I pray it will be completed speedily. Why can't the rail line take off from Isheri North-OPIC Gardens side? There are a lot of Ogun state residents there, and it has such close proximity to Lagos.  It would reduce a lot of traffic on that axis.1 Like |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by laudate: 4:10pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Deleted. Double post. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:11pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
The guy who said he lives in Ilorin hasn't responded.I have some questions for him |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:12pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
Mojola Agbebi (1860–1917) was a Nigerian Yoruba Baptist minister. He was formerly named David Brown Vincent, but during the wave of African nationalism in the late 1880s, he changed his name. Agbebi was a strong advocate of indigenous leadership for African churches. He initiated evangelistic work in Yorubaland and in the Niger Delta. So he brought truckpusher's people outta their cavemen ways  2 Likes |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by zimoni(f): 4:13pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
IlekeHD: There are some of them here. I don't know why they've avoided this thread like plague. God help them. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:13pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Kitoyi Ajasa[/size]  Kitoyi Ajasa' was a Nigerian lawyer who was an unofficial member of the Legislative Council and Nigerian Council from 1906-1933. He was also the publisher of the conservative Nigerian Pioneer. He is sometimes described as a contemporary of Henry Carr, who was an acquaintance of Ajasa. Both men were less involved in the African nationalism movement of the era. However, unlike Carr, Ajasa seemed to be more critical about native African affairs and less critical of British colonialism. This led Thomas Jackson to label his role in journalism as one of flunkeyism. Ajasa was also friends with Lord Lugard, the first Nigerian Governor General. Ajasa was born on August 10, 1866 in Lagos to Mr T.B. Macaulay, his original name was Edmund. He attended C.M.S. Grammar School and later left the country for further studies and better access to health facilities in the United Kingdom. He studied Law in England and was called to the Bar in 1893. He left London subsequently and started practicing in Lagos. In 1906, he was appointed as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council and was later made a member of Lord Lugard's Nigerian Council in 1914. Throughout his career, he was a member of various boards and committees across Nigeria. He was supposedly persuaded to start the Nigerian Pioneer by Sir Walter Egerton, the Governor of the colony and Lord Lugard. He started the paper in 1914 and was designed to balance the views of both the colonialists and the indigenous Africans. He is the father of Oyinkan Abayomi. Along with his friends, Sapara Williams and Egerton Shyngle, the trio were the most distinguished Lagos lawyers from 1893-1902. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by IlekeHD: 4:14pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
zimoni: lol Jarus is the only one I remember. |
| Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 4:16pm On Oct 26, 2015 |
James Johnson James "Holy" Johnson (c. 1836–1917) was a prominent clergyman and one of the first African members of Nigeria's Legislative Council. He was born in Sierra Leone in 1836 to liberated African parents of Yoruba origin. Johnson enrolled in a Church Mission Society (CMS) school, then went on to Fourah Bay Institution, located in Freetown, graduating in 1858. He was a school teacher until 1863, when he entered the ministry. The CMS was impressed by Johnson's potential, and sent him to its Yoruba mission in Nigeria, first in Lagos and then in Abeokuta. He was unsuccessful as a missionary, perhaps because of his rigid morality, and in 1880 was instead appointed pastor of the Breadfruit Church in Lagos. When the Lagos Colony was separated from the Gold Coast in 1886, the legislative council of the new colony was composed of four official and three unofficial members. Lagos Colony Governor Alfred Moloney nominated two Africans as unofficial representatives, Johnson and the trader Charles Joseph George. In 1890, Johnson became assistant Bishop of the Niger Delta and Benin territories, holding this post until his death in 1917. He believed in a puritan, evangelistic Christianity, but was hostile to other aspects of European culture which he felt were not suitable to Africa. |
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