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Lagos, Nigeria
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Dear Yoruba people,
Politics is tribal let us give Asíwájú Bọla Tinubu our 100% votes across Yoruba Land.
Ọmọ ẹni o ni sedi bẹbẹrẹ, ká fí ilẹkẹ sidi ọmọ ẹlòmíràn.
Ẹsẹ pupọ.
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
REVOLUTION OR REFORMATION: WHAT DOES NIGERIA NEED?
Is Nigeria in need of a complete system overhaul or a fundamental reform of its existing structures? What kind of change can truly move the country forward?
Join another insightful episode of The Thought Builders Podcast as we examine Nigeria’s challenges, explore the necessities for meaningful change, and discuss the path towards a better future.
The question is no longer whether Nigeria needs change, but what kind of change will deliver the desired results.
Revolution or Reformation? What is the way forward?
Join the conversation and be part of the ideas shaping Nigeria’s future.
📅 31/10/2026
⏰ 8 PM YLT
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Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
Decentralize NAFDAC!
The growing circulation of fake medicines, adulterated food and substandard baby products across Nigeria demands stronger regulatory action. These dangerous products threaten lives, destroy families and weaken the nation’s human capital.
One proposed solution is to decentralise NAFDAC’s operations, giving state governments greater capacity to monitor markets, identify offenders and combat the production and distribution of counterfeit products within their territories, while maintaining national standards and coordination.
The geopolitical lesson: protecting public health requires effective governance at every level. States must have the capacity to defend their people against threats that directly endanger their lives.
Geopolitics with Oladimeji Bolarinwa
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
14 years imprisonment! Are we a Muslim country, or a constitutional democracy where every Nigerian enjoys the freedom to choose their religion?
The Liyatu Samuel Dawa case raises uncomfortable questions about religious freedom, constitutional supremacy and whether Nigeria’s fundamental rights mean the same thing across the country.
Read Ademola Adekusibe’s provocative opinion on The Yoruba Times as he asks the questions Nigeria cannot afford to ignore.
Fourteen Years for Changing Someone’s Religious Conviction? Nigeria Must Answer.
Read here
theyorubatimes.com/opinion-b…
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
The longest strike by health workers ever recorded anywhere in the world was Anambra State Doctor’s strikes of 2012, under the then Governor Peter Obi. The strike lasted 13 months.
There is nothing like juju at all. Since there is nothing like Ayeta, there is also nothing like Egbe, Afẹri, Ofe, Kanako. All are fables. It is well
I would have been the proudest to declare it, if we had real bullet-repelling charm, known as ayẹta. But I can categorically tell you it doesn't exist. I know a lot of people will have a problem with me for saying this. But they don't have the charm. Their fathers don't have it. All they heard are fables and stories.
Just look back at the people who claimed to have it. What happens to them when they had encounter with people who have guns? They either ran away or they died.
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
Most of you know this story, but none of you have heard it from me.
Back in September 2018, Femi Hamzat wanted to be Governor of Lagos State. He had thirteen years of public service under Asiwaju and BRF, with the record and backing to win. Then party leaders asked him to step aside for me.
It takes a rare man to put down what he wants without nursing a grudge. Femi shook my hand and five weeks later, agreed to run beside me. I have never forgotten that.
Anyone can read a CV but only the person in the room with a man when the cameras leave can tell you who he really is. For 2,711 days, I have been in that room with him.
When COVID-19 hit, when we faced our hardest weeks, when the Blue and Red Lines ran and when the Lekki Deep Sea Port opened, Femi was there. Long before any ribbon was cut, he was asking the tough questions an engineer asks.
In many states, deputies are kept in reserve. On day one, Femi promised to be the best deputy governor in Lagos history. He kept his word. In seven years, there has not been a single day I wondered whose side he was on. We have had one government, one direction, and one voice.
Lagos runs on a relay system. The baton is never passed to a runner standing still. You run at full speed inside the exchange zone, together, before the pass. That is how Lagos has been governed for 27 years, from Asiwaju to BRF, to Ambode, to me.
Femi is a deputy governor like no other. He built the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge under Fashola, digitized government under Asiwaju and holds a doctorate in engineering. His father served Lateef Jakande. This is in his blood.
Critics say Lagos keeps choosing from the same pool. I say Lagos trains its people. With major projects underway and a master plan stretching to 2052, this is not the time to experiment. What Femi presents today is not a campaign promise cooked up on a bus, it is the next leg of a race we have been running since 1999.
Lagos does not hand the baton to a man standing still. Today, you have seen the man who is already running. Let us move forward together with The Lagos PROMISE.
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
The rehabilitated Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos showcases a refreshed facility and upgraded airport infrastructure.
The development forms part of efforts to modernise Nigeria’s aviation facilities and improve service delivery.
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
Yorùbá "Ẹ kú/A kú" Greetings...
In the beginning, the people called Yorùbá today used to call themselves Ọmọ ilẹ̀ káárọ̀ o jíire (Children of the land where they greet you “Good Morning, Hope you woke up well”).
Káárọ̀ is a diminutive of Kú-àárọ̀ (Good morning). For this reason, the Yorùbá are also called The Akú from their salutations.
"Ẹ kú" or "A kú" is a reoccurring phrase in Yoruba greetings and when it comes to greetings, the Yorùbá go the extra mile! We have greetings for every situation you can think of.
In fact, we have greetings for someone who farts - Ẹ kú ìtàdí and for someone messing around - Ẹ kú òṣì or Ẹ kú ìranù!
We have greetings for different time of the day/night:
Ẹ kú àfẹ̀mọ́jú (dawn): 4 a.m to 5 a.m
Ẹ kú ìdájí (very early morning): 5 a.m to 6 a.m
Ẹ kú ìdákọmu (early morning): 6 a.m to 7 a.m
Ẹ kú àárọ̀/òwúrọ̀ (morning): 7 a.m to 10 a.m
Ẹ kú ìyálẹ̀ta (mid morning): 10 a.m to 12 noon
Ẹ kú ọ̀sán [Ẹ káàsán] (afternoon): 12 noon to 4 p.m
Ẹ kú ìrọl̀ẹ́ (evening): 4 p.m to 6 p.m
Ẹ kú àṣálẹ́ (late evening): 6 p.m to 9 p.m
Ẹ kú alẹ́ [Ẹ káalẹ́] (night): 9 p.m to 11 p.m
We also have the following greetings:
Ẹ kú àbọ̀ [Ẹ káàbọ̀] - Welcome back home
Ẹ kú ilé - Thanks for holding the fort at home (a reply to Ẹ kú àbọ̀)
Ẹ kú ayẹyẹ - Greetings to someone celebrating a happy event.
Ẹ kú ilé dè - Greetings to someone whose close relative has just travelled.
Ẹ kú ìdúró - Greetings to someone standing.
Ẹ kú ìsinmi - Greetings on your well-earned rest. Also a Sunday greeting.
Ẹ kú ìjoko - I hope your are seated pleasantly and comfortably.
Ẹ kú iṣẹ́ - Greetings to someone working.
Ẹ kú ọdún - Greetings during festive occasions (e.g. Ọṣun, New Year, Easter, Eid, Christmas etc)
Ẹ kù òǹgbẹ - Greetings to someone fasting.
Ẹ kú ẹ̀rín - Greetings to someone laughing.
Ẹ kú afẹ́rẹ́ yi o - Greetings to someone during a cold weather.
Ẹ kú òṣì/Ẹ kú ìranù - Greetings to someone messing around.
Ẹ kú ọwọ́ lómi - Greetings to someone who has just given birth.
Ẹ kú ọ̀rìnrìn - Greetings during the raining season.
Ẹ kú ìgbeyàwó - Greetings to a bridegroom on his wedding day.
Ẹ kú wàhálà - Greetings to someone going through challenges.
Ẹ kú ọjọ́ ìbí - Greetings to wish someone a happy birthday.
Ẹ kú ìtàdí - Greetings to someone who has just farted.
Ẹ kú ìrẹjú - Greetings to someone relaxing or having a nap.
Ẹ kú àlejò - Greetings to someone who has visitors.
Ẹ kú ọjọ́ mẹ́ta - Greetings to someone have not seen for a while.
Ẹ kú ẹwà - Greetings to someone dressing hair.
Ẹ kú ìkalẹ̀ - Greetings to people sitting down deliberating most especially elders or group of persons.
Ẹ kú àfojúbà - Greetings when someone has just arrived from a journey and you want to greet the relatives.
Ẹ kú ara fẹ́ ra kù - Greetings to the bereaved. (My heartfelt condolences)
Ẹ kú ìgbádùn - Greetings to someone that is partying/enjoying.
Ẹ kú àsówópò - Greetings to people collaborating with us.
Ẹ kú àforíjì - Greetings to thank people for forgiving us our wrongdoings.
Ẹ kú ìpalẹ̀mọ́ - Greetings to people preparing for an important event (festival, wedding, new year celebration etc).
Ẹ kú àmúmọ́ra - Greetings to someone showing restraint.
Ẹ kú àdúrótì - Greetings to thank someone for their support.
Ẹ kú àfaradà - Greetings to someone showing endurance.
Ẹ kú sùúrù - Greetings to someone showing patience.
Ẹ kú íkómọ - Greetings to parents during their baby's naming ceremony.
Ẹ kú ọrọ̀ èèyàn - Greetings to people mourning or in grief.
Ẹ kú ọrọ̀ Ajé - Greetings to encourage a trader.
Ẹ kú ọrọ̀ wa - Greetings to someone for being there for us or in solidarity with us.
Ẹ kú ọrọ̀ ọmọ - Greetings to someone going through a tough time caring for their child.
Ẹ kú àìríni àìbèrè ẹni - A cheeky way of saying "long time no see". Literally, thanks for not staying in touch and not asking about my welfare.
and many more...
Olobe Yoyon
#yoruba
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
“Any child who reaches the age of 10 and refuses to pray Salah should be killed.”
— Islamic Jibwi scholar
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
Esq, distinguishing figurative intent from literal, is simple. And please, drop your abstract examples of metaphor; the case at hand involves two real, verifiable conditions.
If a teacher says 'my class is a zoo,' and a staff says 'no, students are not animals,' the teacher won’t produce animal charts to prove her point, she just laughs and says 'it’s just a figure of speech.'
But when Mum Zee said 'pregnancy is not a death sentence' and people kept giving cases of maternal mortality to prove her wrong. You didn’t take that as a sign that the exchange wasn’t about a metaphor but a literal assertion of fact??.
When a dispute is fought using factual evidence, it is a literal debate over actual outcomes, not a literary exercise. You don’t use factual evidence to argue “the class is a zoo”, nor “life is a journey” nau😂.
It was AFTER sufficient medical opinion saturated the air on the subject that they tried taking the “literary” license to evade the critic of the travesty.
Fẹ́mi Ọmọ Dàda retweeted
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