Akinleye retweeted
Nothing concern Yoruba people with religion extremism! Let love lead.
FYI: Bishop David Oyedepo has family members that are muslims infact one is even head of an Islamic sect in Omu Aran. Koko Zaria the Deputy State chairman of Lagos NURTW is his nephew.
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I'm a prince of Oyo, thru d lineage of Adesina, the Arole of Oba Abiodun, and lemme tell u dis 4 free: d fact dat Oyo became an empire doesn't make it greater than our fathers' stool. D Alaafins of old understood this, but u guys keep fighting over unnecessary supremacy contests.
Akinleye retweeted
There is no how a nation can be great without leveraging their cultural heritage and identity. A foreign way of life can not lead you to sustainable development.
Akinleye retweeted
When you study history, it will be very difficult for people to deceive you, cus all the tricks have been used in the past.
Akinleye retweeted
Seun: Is Lagos smelling?
Gbadebo Rhodes: Yes, Lagos is smelling…
Dr Hamzat: We are working on loading + material loading stations…
Funso Doherty: As a Lagosian, it is difficult for me to agree with anyone who says Lagos is…
Again, GRV’s loyalty doesn’t lie with Lagos.
Akinleye retweeted
Cus tell me why a grown man, a Yoruba at that would say Ife never brought global recognition to Yoruba
Don't you know abt the Ife glass beads, Ife Bronze heads, Ife legacy as source of several monarchies in the West Africa forest belt
There is no Yoruba w/o c. 13th century Ife
Akinleye retweeted
Binis that greet Layeru are from this lineage of the Okeluse. In Bini language, he's called the Ezima of Okeluhen. This shows that many Binis are of Yoruba origin.
Lauhe = Ile-Ife
Laoni/Lamogun = Ooni/Oranmiyan dynasty
Laloke = Oloke family of Akure
Layeru = Ojima of Okeluse
Akinleye retweeted
Mid-West Creation (itsekiri decision to remain with western region)
Resolution of the Itsekiri Nation, Aghofen, 15 May 1957
On the fifteenth day of May 1957, the Olu of Warri, together with the Traditional Chiefs of Itsekiri land, assembled at Aghofen in the name of the Kingdom of Warri, the Warri Traditional Council, and the General Assembly of the Itsekiri Nation. Having carefully considered the resolution previously adopted by the Divisional Council on the ninth day of May 1957, they unanimously endorsed it and recorded the following determinations:
“The Itsekiri people being an integral part of the Yoruba Nation desire that their association with their kith and kin the Yoruba of the Western Region must remain unbroken. That the proposed Mid-West State is inimical to the interests of the Chiefs and people of the Warri Division and the Council of Traditional Chiefs here sitting dissociate themselves from this proposed state if and when it is formed”
This resolution stands as a formal expression of the collective will of the Itsekiri leadership and the itsekiri people.
📸; Olu Erejuwa II 1951-1986
Akinleye retweeted
Feminism doesn't believe in equal rights. That's just what they say to pretend to be reasonable.
Akinleye retweeted
The student loan was first mentioned by Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a campaign promise in 2014
2 years later in 2016, the bill was pushed by Femi Gbajabiamila , the bill passed second reading in the house but never scaled through after that
9 years later ; President Tinubu came!! The rest is history !
Akinleye retweeted
You’ve lost so much touch with your language that you think Yoruba words are Igbo words, and that’s even if you’re truly unaware and not intentionally being stupid. This tweet should be a big slap to your entire tribe. You all neglected your own language and culture and suddenly want another person’s culture because you can see how they adore theirs. It’s not too late because if you all don’t start learning what is truly indigenous to you, you will end up erasing your existence. Ole Barawo, Egusi is a Yoruba word. 🤡
Akinleye retweeted
When I was a junior staff member eight years ago, I hardly ever ate out because my salary couldn’t sustain that lifestyle. If I worked late and got home hungry, I still had to cook, even if it was just a small pack of Indomie.
Three years later, my pay had increased. I could afford to eat out on stressful days, go on dates, and have drinks with the boys. What does that show? That I had a new source of income and could now afford more.
Back to your tweet: in a thriving economy, people are more willing to spend. One person’s expenditure becomes another person’s income, and the cycle continues.
Let me just say it: NOTHING thrives on your side of the country. That’s why so many of your people have had to move to other parts of the country, and why your IGR figures are peanuts.
Thanks again for saying what we all knew all along.
I don't really know much about Akwa Ibom or Calabar , but let me speak on behalf of my Igbo people.
We Igbos don't really believe in buying cooked food. We prefer to prepare our own meals.
One reason I think the Yorubas have thrived more in the food business is that they are more accustomed to buying prepared food rather than always cooking at home.
Growing up, our Yoruba neighbours would give their children ₦20 every morning to buy food before going to school. Our parents, on the other hand, rarely did that. They made sure we had food prepared at home before leaving for school.
Years ago, if you opened a commercial food business in the East, you might struggle to make sales because people weren't accustomed to buying cooked food. Almost everyone prepared their own meals at home.
So, I think this difference in food culture is one of the reasons the Yorubas gained an advantage in the food business.
Akinleye retweeted
A slave trader spent three episodes of Game of Thrones calling Daenerys a bitch and a whore right to her face, because he was positive she didn't speak his language. Turns out it was her family's language. He was speaking a busted, watered-down version of it, and the guy HBO hired to invent it made it that way on purpose.
HBO brought in a linguist named David J. Peterson to turn George R.R. Martin's handful of made-up words into real, working languages. He built High Valyrian as the language of a fallen empire, the one Targaryens were raised on, with eight grammatical cases and four genders.
Then he built the slaver's dialect as whatever's left after a few centuries in a slave city. Most of the cases got stripped out, and the four genders collapsed into two. Peterson has joked that making it meant taking a bat to the pretty, proper original.
So up to this point, every line of Valyrian you'd heard on the show came out of this guy's mouth, in the busted version, while his translator quietly cleaned up his insults into something polite.
When Daenerys finally answers him, that's the first time anyone on Game of Thrones speaks real High Valyrian beyond a stock phrase. It took 24 episodes to get there.
And Peterson slipped one more detail into her line that most people never caught. When she says "a dragon is not a slave," she uses buzdari, the slaver's word for slave, and skips her own word, dohaeriros. That's the same root as Valar Dohaeris, "all men must serve," which is what the season premiere was called. She grabbed his word on purpose, so the second it left her mouth he'd know she caught every insult since the day she walked into his city.
The producers were honestly nervous about shooting it, between how many people they needed on set and how much effects work goes into a dragon that doesn't exist. Alex Graves, in his first time directing the show, got it done in two or three days. They said a movie would've needed eight. And those walls behind her are Ridley Scott's Jerusalem from Kingdom of Heaven, still standing at a studio outside Ouarzazate in Morocco.
Emilia picked up her first Emmy nomination that year.
By the time the dragon opens its mouth, Kraznys has already lost. She beat him with one word from his own vocabulary.
