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Alaafin Sets The Record Straight, Refutes Ooni's Claim On Yoruba Ancestral Ties With Igbos

SCRIPT OF THE LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE NIGERIAN TRIBUNE ON THURSDAY, 2 MAY, 2019 PAGE 9

In recent time, I have been inundated with calls and even visits to my Palace on a recent Video Tape showing His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife during the Aje Festival in Ile-Ife, Osun State. With all sense of modesty but candour, I cannot recall exactly the number of the video tapes that have been sent to me by well-meaning Yoruba elders and patriots.

(2) In the same vein, the traditional rulers have not been left out of this concern and legitimate worries. All across Yoruba speaking areas of Nigeria up to Kwara and Kogi states, the situation to say the least, has been breathless. Even the Yoruba in the Diaspora; Republics of Benin and Togo, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada etc have also expressed indignation about the current issue.

(3) Initially, my reaction was to stand by my age long resolve, as the king and Head of Yorubaland, not to interfere in the running of the affairs of other Paramount rulers in Yorubaland of which the Ooni of Ife is one. But after listening thoroughly with meticulous assessment and analysis of the tape, I did not hesitate to come to the conclusion that the time for me to interfere was ripe and absolutely expedient less the cherished historical and cultural heritage of the Yoruba is wantonly dragged in the mud. My interference, therefore, is daintily anchored on the sanctity of Yoruba history, origin and custom which I am convinced the said video tape by Oba Enitan Ogunwusi did not observe.

(4) Yet, even in my response, one should be cautious enough against any inter ethnic hostility and malice within Nigerian context, especially between Yoruba and Igbo. But this should not be turned into historical fallacies. I doubt if any Igbo man familiar with the history of his origin will be happy with the fallacious claim that they originated from Obatala.

(5) Also I do not think the Igbo with a record of highly respected origin will feel comfortable after tracing their origin to ancient Israel with lineage to Eri, the fifth son of Gad who was the seventh son of Jacob, who was the youngest son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Eri, the son of Gad was said to have entered the present Egypt, journeying down Africa, crossing the Nile to Ethiopia (present day Sudan) and finally into the present day Enugwu Aguleri (for more details about this see: THE BOOK NIGERIA 2.O. CARAPACE PUBLISHERS NIGERIA LIMITED. Pg 46 ORIGIN OF THE IGBO: OBU GAD (HOUSE OF GAD) ANAMBRA STATE. Khartoum Street, Wuse, Zone 5, Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria or www.dayoadedayo.com). Certainly, the Igbo people who are proud of their origin will not feel comfortable with any pseudo history that will make them superior to Israel.

(6) I am not aware of any business relationship between the Yoruba and the Igbo until the 19th century, leading to the amalgamation of the Southern Protectorate and Northern Protectorate that resulted into Nigeria in 1914. In other words, we are related as fellows Nigerians who have been enjoying mutual relationship for each other. Culturally, linguistically, traditionally and historically, we are basically different. We have always striven to promote harmonious understanding in our diversities.

(7) AJE Coming back to the origin of Aje – Commerce, the cowry (Owoeyo) had been the Yoruba medium of exchange long before the Europeans came. Hence the decoration of Sekere drum with cowries in appreciation and honour of Aje deity it is to say the least, instructively abominable for anybody, no matter how highly placed to put any tribe above the Yoruba race as far as legitimate trading business is concerned. This is because Aje remains one of the early deities of the Yoruba whose imagery creation is the popular Sekere music played everywhere in Yorubaland.

(8) Alaafin Onisile 1738 – 1750: Alaafin Onisile was remarkable for his indomitable courage and lion-hearted spirit. He was moreover very artistic, and was said to have made seven silver doors to the entrances of his sleeping apartment. During his reign, the Sekere (Calabash) drum was ornamented, not only with cowries, but also with costly beads e.g. Iyun (Corals), Okun (Stone beads, Benin), Erinla (stripped yellow pipe beads) and Segi (blue pipe beads), strung with silk thread dyed red; all of native manufacture. He was a great warrior and for his exploits was nicknamed “Gbagida! Wowo I’ewon ab’esin fo odi (Gbagida, an expression of admiration), a man with clanging chains (for prisoners) whose horse can lead over a town wall). The History of the Yorubas. Pg.176 by Rev, Samuel Johnson.

(9) Besides, some families in Yorubaland are classified adherents of Aje deity. Some of these families named their children in honour of their chosen deity, i.e. Aje. Such names include: Ajebandele, Ajewumi, Ajifowobaje etc not to talk of those who dedicate time to worship the deity.

(10) It is also a truism that some cognomen, lineage panegyric, such cognomen include: Aje ti so eru d’omo. Yet another is special request and plea to Aje such as “Aje dakun ma na mi ni pasan re ko se nani” and many others like that.

(11) Coming back to modern trade, I make bold to say that it was the imitative of Alaafin who opened the Yoruba to Trans-Sahara trade with West African Countries as early as the fifteenth century. This was especially between the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani across West Africa. Trade routes led from Timbuktu in Mali, Goa, Tuareg and Tripoli. Still as far as (Oceanic) Coastal trade was concerned, the Alaafin used the Port of Allada in Wema to control European shippers. “By the middle of the 18th century, when Oyo had grown into an empire in the full bloom of life, Oyo was bounded to the north by the Niger, to the West by Modern Togoland, to the east by its sister Kingdom of Benin and to the South by the Gulf of Guinea, and Porto Novo and Badagry were its main coastal outlets. Dahomey, it may be recalled, became a tributary state of Oyo in 1730 see: Topics in West African History, pg. 90 Paragraph 22 by Adu Boahen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, University of Ghana. Published by Longman Group Limited, London 1966.

(12) One other imperative of Yoruba in the pursuit of commerce is that any such pursuit must be legitimate with norms of the society. It is on this note that Yoruba sweat and labour as necessary partners; Yoruba do not encourage cheating and unlaboured wealth. Yoruba work very hard to be wealthy.

“Ise ni Oogun ise Eni ti ise nse Ko ma bo orisa Oro kokan torisa Ibaa bo orisa Ibaa bo obatala O di ojo ti o ba sise ko to jeun”

“Work is the medicine for poverty Who ever is poor Let him not worship divinities Nothing concerns the divinities He may worship the divinities He may worship Obatala It is not until he does a profitable job that he would eat”

(13) The above quotations underscore the fact that the Yoruba are very industrious from the beginning with strong emphasis on legitimacy. We have such wealthy and successful businessmen in Lagos who invested heavily on the education of their children. Few examples would suffice. For instance, in 1884, Obadia Johnson, a Yoruba qualified as a Doctor of Medicine. John Randle, son of Thomas Randle an Oyo man who settled at Aroloya in Lagos qualified as a Doctor in 1888, followed by Orisadipo Obasa in 1891. Sapara Williams became the first Lawyer in Nigeria in 1888. In 1893, Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba man, became an Engineer and A. Agbebi followed in 1911.

(14) Earlier on a Primary School had been established in 1842 in Lagos by the Missionaries. The CMS Grammar School was established in Lagos in 1859 by T.B Macaulay who is the father of Herbert Macaulay. The Methodist Boys’ High School followed in 1876 and in 1879 Methodist Girls’ High School, 1881 St Gregory’s College, Lagos and in 1885 the Baptist Academy (see J.F. Ade Ajayi “The Development of Secondary Grammar School Education in Nigeria, pg 523.

(15) It also on account of such entrepreneurship backup with distinguished scholarship that the Yoruba established the first Television Station in Black Africa, the first five-star Hotel – Premier Hotel, Ibadan, first Stadium, first dualised Road – Mokola – to State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, first Food Canning Industry, first Skyscrapper – Cocoa House, Ibadan, first farm settlement, First Free Primary Education, free Medical services for school children; all in the former Western Region of Nigeria under the premiership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The first African Bishop was Bishop Ajayi Crowther, who spoke twelve languages: English, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Fulfulde (Fulani) Nupe, Kanuri etc, Bishop Ajayi Crowther discovered the first ever Igbo Alphabet ‘ISIOMA’ just as the first Newspaper to be published in Nigeria. These are just a few of the “firsts”.

(16) In summary, let it be stated that Nigeria, despite the multiplicity of its ethnicity has been together in harmony in spite of their heterogeneity. All of us leaders should guide against any utterance that can create an atmosphere of suspicion and rancor among the various ethnic compositions.

IKU BABA YEYE

Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, JP. CFR, LLD, SAP, D.LLTS, DPA The Alaafin of Oyo and Permanent Chairman Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State Chancellor, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State Pro-Chancellor, Keisie International University South Korea Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

#Alaafin of Oyo #Ooni of Ife

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olubodebabajidepeace · 6 years

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ON ATIKUs 2019 BID.

People arrogates to Atiku structures he doesn't possess. Titi is his first wife but has never been able to deliver Ijesha not to talk of Osun state to him in any of the elections he has been involved in. Buhari has always beaten him in Adamawa his home state in all the elections they both have been involved with. Go and check your data. Who is the power broker in the north that can beat the cult followership Buhari enjoys there? Except for Saraki in Kwara, Atiku has no advantage anywhere else in the northcentral and I can assure you, this time, Saraki will be given a run for his money. Mark it Bukola will struggle to return to the National Assembly. I concede the entire southeast to him and that is being magnanimous. However APGA might embarrass him there. The entire south south is free for all. Nobody can take Edo from Buhari, Delta is an open fight. Wike must keep an eye open when sleeping otherwise he is a goner; ditto Akwa Ibom and perhaps Cross River too.There is absolutely nothing for Atiku in the southwest. Forget about Afenifere. Baba Adebanjo cannot deliver his Iperu or something like that to Atiku. They are just grandstanding. The took Jonathan's money in 2015 yet the poor guy was thoroughly embarrassed in the southwest. The only vulnerable state here is Ondo and there is nobody of substance to deliver Ondo to them.

Yes,Buhari is nepotic, tribalistic, who is not? Jonathan's DSS- Ekpeyong from the south south, his chief of Army Staff - Ihejirika from the southeast and General Minima from the south south. The entire Financial architecture were Ibos from the Finance Minister to the CBN Governor, to AMCON MD to the Sovereign Wealth MD. Mention it, they were either from the southeast or South South. The only position of substance the southwest got under Jonathan was the Minister of Agriculture, all other yoruba people were either town criers like Doyin Okupe or Shola Omole. Don't be deceived, Atiku will not do any better. Buhari's government is the best the southwest has ever got in the history of the Federal government of Nigeria.Shine your eyes, Atiku's government will only turn yoruba people to Tea boys and Messangers in Abuja. Wike has already shown us in clear terms what to expect when he said we don't deserve the position of the chairman of the party.

Yes, the economy is still limping, the fact is, only a miracle worker can turn the Nigerian economy which was destroyed over 16 years around in 3 years. Don't be deceived, no democratic government has the nerve to take the kind of decisions that can turn the economy around in 8 years. But we can arrest the hemorrhaging of the National treasury by these looters.

Other than working in custom where has Atiku worked that he made the difference and we all know what goes on in Custom. His other experience is in Aso Rock as VP where he and his Oga in 8 years couldn't add a megawatt of electricity to the National grid, ran all the refineries aground that today Nigeria is importing 90% of its fuel consumption. Even ordinary Lagos - Ibadan Express road they could not reconstruct in 8 years. Rather than adding value to that government Atiku was busy amassing wealth in the most despicable way that his Oga has no kind words for him. This is apart from undermining the same government he was the second in hierarchy. A perfidious character. No wonder, his Oga gave him a Testimonial that cannot be presented anywhere in the world.

Yes, age is not on his side, he is not technologically savy and ancient in his ideas, however, within a year of assuming power Buhari completed the Kaduna - Abuja rail line. He had the choice of abandoning this project to start a new one like Ambode did in Lagos, he is completing a brand new Lagos-Ibadan Standard gauge railway in just about one year period. He is building the biggest Deep Seaport in Africa in Lekki, a 3050 Megawatt Mambilla Power station in Taraba which has been on the drawing board for over 50years is under construction, the second Niger Bridge that his predecessors have been budgeting for year in year out in the last 16years with no bridge in sight and budgeted money disappear is advancing under his administration. The biggest Refinery in Africa will come on stream in Lekki in about 18 months and at least 4 Modular Refineries are unader construction. One will be operatioal before the end of the year. All these in less than 4years. Haba e e beru Olorun. Give credit where it is deserved.

I am surprised that even people who otherwise are very intelligent allow these scoundrels to scam them for the umpteenth time.

Atiku has nothing to offer this country. He is only coming for another heist and a fulfilment of a personal life ambition which is at variance to the people's interest.

If in less than 10 years Nigeria has lost over N10 trillion to corruption you will agree with me that Nigeria's Public Enemy no1 is corruption. Atiku is the "wrongest" person to fight this war, rather he will only compound our misery. Buhari is not a Saint and he is everything but not avaricious. Of all the contestants with the best chance of winning the election, Buhari is the most disposed to fighting corruption.

* WE REASONABLE NIGERIANS WILL ENSURE THAT NIGERIA DOESN'T GO BACKWARD

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thisdaynews · 6 years

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'I belong to every race' - Oluwo of Iwo says as he rocks traditional Igbo attire

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'I belong to every race' - Oluwo of Iwo says as he rocks traditional Igbo attire

The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun state, Adbulrasheed Akanbi who recently faced serious backlash for rocking a Northern attire and reportedly saying he wants to henceforth be addressed as the ”Emir of Yorubaland” is back again.

This time, he dressed in Ibo garment at the installation of the first Asiwaju (Leader) of Igbo Assembly in Iwoland saying his dressing is an insistence on the unity of Nigeria.

The Oluwo tasked government to relax policies militating the oneness of Nigeria such as the state of origin certificate, restriction of political aspirations to once immediate environment and many others. He said ethnic divide has done the nation much damage, beseeching people to appreciate modern practices obtainable in developed nations for national development. He pointed only Lagos and Osun State are accommodating and voting people of different ethnic attachment into the positions of authority. He advised the wearing of other tribe’s clothes for love and unity to make Nigeria one and preparing a better future for every Nigerian regardless of where they chose to live. He equally implore other kings to adopt every Nigerian as their own child

He pointed palaces are central actors in vital exclusive decisions most especially in the promotion of unity in the country, appealing to monarchs across the country to treat Nigerians equally and make their palace open to everyone. In his address at the installation ceremony held at Oluwo’s palace square today, noted the religious and ethnic clashes have seriously dwindled Nigeria economy to the incoveneincy of all

He said many ethnic clashes would have been foiled should people see every monarch as their father and central authority. He pointed the authority of the palace discriminate nor stigmatize but only acted as father to all parties involved in an issue. I AM A FATHER TO ALL !!!

#'I belong to every race' - Oluwo of Iwo says as he rocks traditional Igbo attire

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Ibo Boy obssesed with Yorubalitics – Episode 2

I travelled back home d next day in order to pack my bags and get set for take off to NYSC Osun camp. As i glanced through the window of the rickety bus i boarded, i just recalled the stories we were told by some barracks boys dat have finished serving how their NYSC camp experience was; some said it was fun while others said it was their worst experience. Well, as a “sharp barrack boy” that i…

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aare-babatunde · 4 years

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*The transcript of Adeyinka Grandson's speech on Ibeju Lekki: A Ride To The Future.*

Ibeju-Lekki is a local government area of Lagos State, Yorubaland. The name of the local government was derived from two autonomous Yoruba communities, Ibeju and Lekki.

Ibeju Lekki has potential for tourism as it is endowed with beautiful lagoon views and ocean fronts. The development in the area is rapid and ongoing. Ibeju Lekki is expected to become a central hub for business, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics.

Forecasts have been made that from 2025, Ibeju Lekki will be the richest local government in Nigeria as well as richer than the entire Iboland combined with the whole of Hausaland, Kanuriland and the Middle Belt of Nigeria in terms of its revenue generation to the Federation Account of Nigeria.

Currently, the Apapa local government area in Lagos, Yorubaland is the richest local government in Nigeria. It contributes more revenue to the Federation Account of Nigeria than all the 504 local government areas from Hausaland, Kanuriland, Middle Belt plus Iboland.

Apapa local government area contains a number of ports and terminals, including the Apapa Wharf and the Tin Can Port Complex. Apapa Wharf generates the sum of N6 trillion while the Tin Can Port Complex generates N4 trillion every year to the Federal Government under the sham unitary system. The money does not benefit the Yoruba nation, but the Fulani and the Ibo.

Apapa local government is also the site of major houses, commercial offices of many shipping, clearing and transportation companies and refineries. All these companies are paying taxes to the Federal Government.

This is a major loss of revenue for the economic growth and development of Yorubaland.

On the average, Apapa local government area generates more than N15 trillion as revenue every year to the Federal Government, but everything goes to Abuja under the sham unitary system to fund the economic growth and development in the North and Iboland while Yorubaland remains poor and underdeveloped.

Apapa local government is just one out of the 159 local government areas in Yorubaland, yet it generates more money to the Federation Account than all the local government areas in Iboland and the entire North of Nigeria.

Apapa local government is the richest local government in Nigeria, but the poorest in terms of its infrastructural development commensurate with its wealth. This is because 100% of the revenue generated from this local government every year goes to serve the Fulani and the Ibo. This is one of the reasons why the Ibo and the Fulani are against a return to the regional government. It is also the reason why the Yoruba nation will go to war with the Ibo and the Fulani before the end of this decade.

However, by 2025, Apapa local government will no longer be the richest local government in Nigeria. The position will be taken over by the Ibeju Lekki local government.

There are 9 reasons why the Ibeju-Lekki local government area will be the richest local government in Nigeria and generates over $5 billion dollars from 2025.

But first, let us look at the two things destroying Yorubaland as a nation:

1. The unregulated influx of the Ibo to Yorubaland.

2. The seizure of the Yoruba’s wealth and resources by the minority Fulani through the unitary system introduced by the Ibo.

The influx of the Ibo into Yorubaland is so bad that you see them everywhere and that puts a huge strain on the resources meant to be enjoyed by the Yoruba and also keep the government in a cyclical repair expenses.

Our political class, especially the PDP-Yoruba, is complicit in this nonsense. It hardly thinks about the interests and welfare of the Yoruba citizens.

The citizens of a nation that has responsible government always enjoyed 10 basic human rights, which includes but not limited to the following:

1. Marriage and Family:

Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated.

2. The Right to Your Own Things:

Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.

3. Freedom of Thought:

We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.

4. Freedom of Expression:

We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.

5. The Right to Public Assembly:

We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.

6. The Right to Democracy:

We all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.

7. Social Security:

We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.

8. Workers’ Rights:

Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.

9. The Right to Play:

We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.

10. Food and Shelter for All:

We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for.

It is saddened to note that the people across Yorubaland lack these basic human rights. Not merely because of the sham unitary system imposed on the Yoruba nation by the Ibo and the Fulani, but also because of the irresponsible nature of our parents’ generation who had never placed Yorubaland and its people first and foremost.

The livelihoods of our people are being threatened as a result of the failure of the past and present government in Yorubaland to restrict the mass influx of the Ibo to Yorubaland. We are also suffering today because the past generation did not bring about a return to the regional system of government.

Our generation has a duty to the next generation, and we should protect their rights and freedoms. There must be a proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in Yorubaland and all over Nigeria.

The failure of our parents’ generation explains why there are 774 local government areas in Nigeria, in which there are 504 of these local government areas in the North and Iboland with all of them totally dependent on the blood and sweat of the Yoruba’s wealth and resources.

The 774 local governments in Nigeria are divided along the following six regions:

The Hausa/Fulani region has 186 local government areas in seven states, including:

1. Jigawa (27)

2. Kaduna (23)

3. Kano (44)

4. Kastina (34)

5. Kebbi (21)

6. Sokoto (23)

7. Zamfara (14)

The Yoruba region has 159 local government areas from the following ten states, including:

Delta (3)

Edo (1)

Ekiti (16)

Kogi (6)

Kwara (12)

Lagos (20)

Ogun (20)

Ondo (18)

Osun (30)

Oyo (33)

The Kanuri region has 113 local government areas from the following 6 states, including:

Adamawa (21)

Bauchi (20)

Borno (27)

Gombe (11)

Yobe (17)

Taraba (17)

The Niger Delta region has 111 local government areas from the following six states, including:

Akwa Ibom (31)

Bayelsa (8)

Cross River (17)

Delta (16)*

Edo (17)

Rivers (22)*

The Middle Belt region has 103 local government areas from the following 6 states and the FCT:

Benue (23)

FCT (6)

Kogi (15)*

Kwara (4)*

Nasarawa (13)

Niger (25)

Plateaux (17)

The Ibo region has 102 local government areas from the following seven states, including:

Abia (17)

Anambra (21)

Delta (6)

Ebonyi (13)

Enugu (17)

Imo (27)

Rivers (1)

The addition of the North-West, North-East and North-Central together will give us the total of 402 local government areas.

The addition of the total number of local government areas from the North plus those of the Iboland will add up to 504 local government areas.

The Yoruba region has 159 local government areas, but only one of these local governments, the Apapa local government area, contributes more revenue to the Federation Account of Nigeria than all the 504 local government areas from the North and Iboland.

From 2025, Apapa local government will no longer be the richest local government in Nigeria. The position will be taken over by the Ibeju Lekki local government.

From 2025, Ibeju-Lekki local government in Lagos, Yorubaland, will generate over $5 billion every year and become the richest local government in Nigeria.

If a full blooded Yoruba citizen like Tinubu does not become the president of Nigeria from 2023, Ibeju Lekki local government area will also become the poorest local government in Nigeria. It riches and wealth will benefit the minority Fulani and the Ibo if Nigeria remains under the current unitary system.

If we continue with the unitary system that steals the wealth of the Yoruba people to build the North and Iboland, here is what the Yoruba nation will lose to Nigeria.

The 9 reasons why the Ibeju-Lekki local government area will generate over $5 billion dollars a year from 2025:

Ibeju-Lekki local government is the fastest developing local government area in Nigeria. It is also the first and the only local government area in Nigeria to have an oil refinery, a sea port and an international airport.

Ibeju Lekki local government area is like having Port Harcourt, Apapa and Ikeja in one place. You can imagine what the local government will become in the next 10 years from now.

�How Ibeju Lekki local government will generate over $5 billion yearly from 2025:

1. LEKKI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: �

The N7 billion Lekki International Airport is a Lagos state government project situated in Ibeju-Lekki. It is designed to drive urban development and tourism in the Ibeju-Lekki Area of Lagos state. It is located about 10km from Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ).

2. LEKKI DEEP SEAPORT:�

The $1.5 billion Lekki Deep Sea Port, the Lagos State Government started constructing in 2015. At completion, it will be the largest seaport in Nigeria by the time it starts operation. The Lekki Deep Sea Port will be able to handle around 6 million twenty-foot equivalent unit of containers.

3. LEKKI FREE TRADE ZONE:�

This is the prime project that will boom Ibeju-Lekki by 2027. The project has attracted over 64 companies both local and foreign who are ready to invest over $25 million in the zone. Lekki Free Trade Zone is also an historic project that Lagos state government is very proud of.

4. LEKKI SMART CITY PROJECT:

Lagos state government and Dubai went into partnership to build the first Smart City in Nigeria. This $300m Lekki Smart City project is located in Ibeju-Lekki. The Smart City has been acknowledged to be the first self-sustaining eco-friendly smart business city in Africa. The aim is to create Yoruba’s version of Silicon Valley to serve the ever growing Tech Industry in Nigeria. In case you are still wondering what a Smart City is, just take a good look at your smart phone to get a good idea of what to expect.

5. LA CAMPAGNE TROPICANA BEACH RESORT:�

La Campagne Tropicana Resort located at Ikegun, Ibeju-Lekki LGA, Epe Expressway, Lagos. This resort is situated on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by the fresh waters of Ikegun Lake. It is a breathtaking epitome of natural splendor and man-made beauty perfect for fun seekers and holiday makers who wish to escape the hustle and bustle of the Lagos metropolis. It is currently the most visited beach resort in Africa.

6. DANGOTE OIL REFINERY: �

The $17 billion Dangote Oil Refinery which is the largest single line refinery in the world with a processing capacity of 650,000 barrels of oil per day.

7. LAND REVENUE:�

Land is the most precious asset in Lagos state and the government is working hard to make sure that they make the most revenue out of it since they do not have much of it.�Last year Lagos state made $7 billion from land use charge.

8. PAN ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY:

Pan-Atlantic University is a private, non-profit educational institution in Lagos, Nigeria. The university had its origin as the Lagos Business School (LBS), established in 1991. The Ajah Campus was completed in 2003 and in 2010 work began on the Ibeju-Lekki campus. We all know what the presence of an institution does to an area.

9. POPULATION GROWTH:�

According to Citypopulation, Ibeju-Lekki area has over 150,000 people in 2015. Imagine what it will become by the time all projects starts operation. And you know what that means to the state.

By the time the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Dangote Oil Refinery, Lekki SmartCity, Lekki International Airport, Lekki Deep Sea Port will be completed and the La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort and other resorts attracting people all over the world, Ibeju-Lekki will become the Silicon Vally of Yorubaland and generates over $5 billion yearly as revenue from taxes.

�If we do not get the presidency of Nigeria from 2023, the Ibeju Lekki will only benefit the Fulani and the Ibo at the expense of the Yoruba nation and her people.

God Bless Yorubaland.

God Bless the Oduduwa Republic.

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beardedenemyballoon-1b8253dd · 7 years

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IGBO SCHOLAR DISGRACES Femi Fani-Kayode •Demolishes claims on Igbo/Yoruba history with facts and figures

An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo-Yoruba relations.In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-baked intellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “the most reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.”Below are Okafor’s words:FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795.Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we can discuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of them came back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics:•The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man•The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man•The police was run by an Ibo IG•The military as a professional institution was also run by elite-ilk Ibos.Facts can never be hidden. To be first does not mean you would win the race; let us open up all our institutions and may the best man win. Let us not depend on handouts or privileges but on heard work. Let us compete and give the best positions to our brightest – be it Ibo, Yourba or Fulani, and then we shall see who is the most successful Nigerian.I find it difficult not to respond to some of these long-held lies that are constantly being peddled by Yorubas. One is that the Yoruba have the largest number of professors in the country. I would again ask that we stick to facts and statistical records. The Nigerian Universities Commission has a record of the state with the largest number of professors on their records and as at 2010 that state is Imo State followed by Ondo State and then Anambra State; the next state is Ekiti and then Delta before Kwara State. I am sure you Yorubas are surprised. When you sit in the South-West do not think others are sleeping but I wish to address another historical fact and that is who were the first Nigerians to receive Western education. It is important that these issues be examined in their historical context and evidence through research be presented for all to examine.I have continued my research for as the great sociologist and father of modern sociology – Emile Durkheim – put it, the definition of a situation is real in its consequence . What this simply means is that one must never allow a perceived falsehood to become one’s reality and by extension individuals who accept a defined position act as though the situation is real and apply themselves in that narrowly defined perspective.Why is this important to state it is because for long the Yoruba have peddled lies that have almost become accepted as the truth by other Nigerians but it is important that we lay down the facts for others to examine and come to their own conclusion for facts are facts. Let’s go back to education. Historically, Western education resulted as a product of indigenous ethnic groups interacting with the whites through trade. The dominant groups sold slaves, ivory gold and a host of other products to their European counterparts in exchange for finished goods – wine, tobacco, mirrors, etc.The Bini who were the dominant military force from the 15th to the 19th century raided and sold other ethnicities to the Europeans. Top on the list of those they sold were the Yoruba, Ibo and Igala. Various other ethnicities suffered as a result of the Bini military expansion. And the Benin Kingdom stretched from present-day Benin up to what is now geographically referred to as Republic of Togo. Indeed, the influence of the Benin Empire extended to the banks of the river Niger to present-day Onistha. There are huge Yoruba settlements in the Anioma part of Delta State who fled Yoruba land as a result of these attacks and constant raids. Yes, there are Yoruba people who are currently living with Ibos in the Ibo-speaking part of Delta and they are full citizens of the place no one refers to them as strangers and there is no talk about the Ibos being the host community like we hear from the Governor of Lagos State. But let me return to research. Slaves were moved from the hinterland to the coast and many were sold through Eko to the New World. These slaves were the first to encounter the Europeans and by extension their way of life – this included education in a Western sense. The Bini King had taken pains to establish a diplomatic presence in Portugal and the relationship developed into areas that extended beyond trade in the late 15th century and lasted well into the early 19th century. Scores of young Bpni youth were sent to Portugal and studied there, coming back with advanced degrees in various disciplines. The next set of people to receive Western education were the slaves themselves. Some of them managed to buy their freedom and develop themselves further.For the Ibo it does not matter who your father is; the question is: Who are you? Who was Obasanjo’s father? Was he the most educated Nigerian? I am sure the answer is no. Yet this Great Nigeria led this nation two times as a military Head of State and as a civilian President. What about GEJ? Who was his own father? Was he the first Nigerian to go to London? The answer is no. In fact, he had no shoes, yet he is fully in charge. So it does not matter if your father was the first Lawyer or first Doctor in Nigeria but rather what matters is what an individual does with the talents the Almighty has given to him. Let us open up Nigeria for competition. That is the solution to our problems. Those who want privileges keep reminding us that their fathers were the first to go to school in London. Every generation produces its own leaders and champions. Like Dangote who is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria today and the richest man in Africa. Was his father the first to go to study in London? Yet he is the master of people whose parents gave them the best. My brothers, the answer to the Nigerian problem is that we should establish a merit-driven society.

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