Biodun Oluwaseun Ph.D

Mum of Two Adorable Princes | Adolescents and Youth Counsellor | Counselling Psychologist | Proudly Ekiti.

[Sarki. @Waspapping_]

I don’t know how the North keeps producing governors who think the same way.

You see all the insecurity, poverty, and out-of-school children in the North, and the solution you come up with is organising mass weddings for unemployed youths. It honestly makes no sense to me.

[Maliq @MasterMaliq]

As a Muslim, there's something that genuinely bothers me.

Millions of Muslims live in Christian majority countries, build mosques, preach Islam publicly, distribute Qur'ans, open halal businesses, and demand religious freedom,and rightly so.

Some even call for aspects of Shariah to be accommodated in the societies they've moved to.

Yet in some Muslim majority countries, Christians cannot openly preach the Gospel, build churches freely, or practice their faith without restrictions.

Why?

If we demand religious freedom for ourselves, we should be willing to grant it to others.

Truth does not need censorship.

If Islam is the truth, it has nothing to fear from a church, a Bible, or a Christian preacher.

You can't demand tolerance and freedom for Muslims abroad while denying the same freedoms to others at home.

The double standard needs to be called out.

[Dura,coco money 🇦🇷 @ms0nigghaz]

I love seeing posts like this because they remind me that the best decision I made this year was to stop pandering. ✨ join them to crucify your own while they defend and protect theirs 😹you will learn.

[ADEWUYI Roseline Adebimpe @AdewuyiRoseline]

B.A. French (First Class Honours) – Obafemi Awolowo University
Best Female Graduating Student, Faculty of Arts (OAU)

M.A. French (Distinction) – University of Ibadan
Best Graduating Student, Department of European Studies

Ph.D. French Literature – Purdue University, USA
Student of the Year

DALF C2 (French Language Proficiency)

Chegg Global Student Prize 2024 Top 50 Finalist (Selected from over 11,000 nominations across 176 countries)

I am honored to be nominated by JCI Nigeria as one of the Top 30 Outstanding Young Persons in the category of Academic Accomplishments and Leadership.
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[Eazzy_Ayo🫧🏆 @Eazzy_Ayo622121]

Same thing happens in Nigeria, you'd hardly seen someone from the SW move to another region for greener pastures within the country unlike people from other region... that's why I don't buy into all thos "Yoruba people don't travel" rhetoric.

[Aboderin Bolaji Ayo @AboderinA]

Is there a way we can petition all those Igbos coming from Ethiopian prison to stay in Anambra Lagos is already full

[Foundational Okun man 😂 🇳🇬 @akomscopy]

What illbliss said about Lagos land is completely concerning because even as a southeasterner he can’t even say that about another land from within south east

[lo @Deb_Al100]

@acube_yinka @allibaloo Apt! They will also fill up Lands registry with their people, and the rest is history!

They are already gaining ground in most government ministries in Lagos.

If Lagos state gvt doesn't put a stop to the employment of Ibo people into these ministries, ẹ sọ pe oti lọ!

[Amos Adewuni @acube_yinka]

@allibaloo But who controls the government of Lagos decides on either renewal or revocation of the CofO. They are aware of this, the main reason for their increasing involvement of the politics of Lagos. It's just one goal, to one day produce the governor of the state.

[Dapo @DapoDan]

It’s not even a long lease, any Governor can collect any portion of land back, invoking “Overriding Public Interest”, and use the land for community good, this is the reason anyone doing anything substantial with land never fights a governor, there is a reason, Tinubu addressed Wike as “Landlord”.

Only a sitting Governor is in possession of the entire land in the state.

[Olufemi Adebimpe @femiadebimpe]

Lagos (Lagoon) got its name from the Portuguese, who traded with the Yorubas for about 300 years, long before the arrival of the British or the idea of a Nigeria.

Lagos was even difficult for their ships to dock in. They berthed at the forcados & used smaller boats to come to Lagos to trade.

That the colonial capital was moved to Lagos was also because the British could build on that trading structure.

Even in colonial times, the western region was ahead of other regions because it was built on a civilization state of a Yoruba empire & structured states.

Workers of the western region were better paid than Nigerian federal workers.

Those who came to Lagos came to partake in its prosperity. If they could develop a Lagos of their own, they wouldn't need to come to Lagos.

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Numbers don't lie, men lie and women lie.

Export, trade surplus - ✅️
Diaspora remittance - ✅️
Non-oil export - ✅️
Foreign Capital Inflow - ✅️
FAAC Revenue + VAT revenue - ✅️

All these indices have grown under PBAT. Dispute them with Data. There is only one leader who has shown capacity to raise revenue and create value and that is PBAT. The Lekki freeFree Trade expoExport Zonea living legacy with the Lekki deep Deep Sea Portgote Refinery, and numerous companies operating there. His investment in econet shEconeteturned 5x and 375% net a profit increase for the Lagos
Your man Obi has no track record. He couldnt gcouldn'tenue in Anambra. He tanked the IGR after Ngige, he struggled to add N1bn to the state IGR in 8 years. He levied a regressive flat rate TAX on market women and threatened to shut their markets several times if they didn't comply. He had no economic blueprint , no ecoomic legacy except Hero beer. Left Doctors on strike for 13 months, kept Universities shut for 6 months.

Campaign for your candidate but don't make it seems as seem is a messiah better than the rest on the ballot. He is the worst candidate on the ballot. He is clueless. He has nothing to say about his past achievements. Show me any Anambra budget that suggests any form of austerity...

By the way the Late, PMB was the king of austerity...austerity hasn't helped Argentina as well.

[Dr. Toks 🦇 @fimiletoks]

Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) program used to track and curate transformational leadership at the subnational level in Nigeria.

4 Nigerian transformative leaders were featured. Bola Tinubu, Donald Duke, Babatunde Fashola and Ahmed Makarfi.

Donald Duke was far ahead of his time. He saw Tinapa, Obudu ranch, clean and green Calabar, and civil service reforms.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu saw the Free trade zone, Eko Atlantic, Tax and institutional reforms, Judicial reforms, civil service digitization.

Obi had nothing in his mind apart from saving money in his bank, and investing state funds in a family beer business. Nothing transformative up till this day can be linked to him.

[Olufemi Adebimpe @femiadebimpe]

Yoruba is also tonal language with every word ending in viral sounds. Some dialects are spoken as if you are singing. That is why it has always been a preferred choice for singing by most people - even those who are not Yorubas.

Christy Essien was not Yoruba but her biggest musical legacy is a Yoruba song 'Seun Rere'.

It is a musical language with a family of drums, including one that mimics the language's tonality.

What you call Yoruba tax is a blessing from God to the Yorubas & those who are ready to partake of it.

[DANIEL @DanielWhalee]

You keep telling people you developed their land.
When they tell you to go and develop your land as well. You start calling them bigots.
Is it that your land doesn't deserve development?

[Olufemi Adebimpe @femiadebimpe]

I want to make this appeal again:

If you are Yoruba & a parent of young child(ren) in Lagos living in ethnically diverse communities, please ask your children what their friends may have told them about the civil war.

If it is about how Yorubas 'betrayed' the Igbos, please educate your child out of this lie without leaving hate in their hearts against anyone or planting self hate against their own ethnicity.

Let us stop the cycle of hate being passed from one generation to another from turning our children against themselves because of a lie some parents passed on to their children.

Have that talk today.

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Very intellectually stimulating presentation by H.E Babtunde Fashola @tundefashola @theplatformng yesterday.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

The Federal Government may begin paying salaries, pensions and social welfare benefits through the eNaira under a new Central Bank of Nigeria roadmap aimed at transforming the country’s digital currency into a major payment channel.

The proposal is contained in the Nigeria Payments System Vision 2028, released by the CBN, which outlines plans to expand the use of the eNaira and move it from a pilot project to a core payment rail for government and private-sector transactions.

The eNaira, launched in October 2021 as Africa’s first central bank digital currency, was introduced to deepen financial inclusion, reduce the cost of transactions and remittances, and promote a cashless economy. However, adoption has remained relatively low despite years of regulatory support.

[Ìfẹ́ṣọlá @kootujirian]

Your clarification only exposes your hypocrisy even more.

If the exact same words were recited in Arabic, you would call it a prayer, a dua, or an ayah and praise its spiritual power. The moment it is expressed in Yoruba, you suddenly call it an incantation and shirk.

So let’s stop pretending this is about theology. The problem is that you have been conditioned to see anything Arabic as holy and anything Yoruba as suspicious.

You claim “tribe plays no role,” yet your standard changes the moment faith is expressed through Yoruba language and culture.

If asking God for victory over your enemies in Arabic is acceptable, why does it become a problem when it is done in Yoruba?

The hypocrisy is glaring. Not everything Yoruba is shirk, and not everything Arabic is sacred.

[Ìfẹ́ṣọlá @kootujirian]

The irony is that your entire post proves exactly what many of us have been saying.

You claim Islam does not erase identities, yet whenever Yoruba culture, spirituality, language, symbols, or worldview conflict with your interpretation of Islam, Yoruba culture is the one expected to bow its head and step aside.

You spend so much time studying Arab history, theology, and worldview, yet you seem to know very little about your own. If you did, you would know that the Yoruba were not strangers to monotheism. We have long believed in Olódùmarè, the Supreme Creator, long before Islam arrived in our land.

You say being Yoruba is merely an accident of birth while being Muslim is your true identity. Fine, that’s your choice. But stop acting surprised when people notice that your loyalty to a foreign religious worldview consistently ranks above your loyalty to Yoruba civilization.

Nobody is saying you must accept every Yoruba custom. The issue is your assumption that Islamic standards should automatically sit in judgment over Yoruba culture, while Yoruba culture is never allowed to judge Islam by the same standard.

You are free to put Islam first. We are equally free to put Yoruba civilization first.

What you dismiss as “tribal sentiment” is simply people refusing to accept that their culture, history, language, and worldview must constantly seek approval from a foreign religious framework.

That is the real disagreement. And the more you write, the more you prove it.