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2000 people unemployed in New Plymouth, but this factory has somehow found they need to hire Indians ffs
It’s hardworking Kiwis like those I met at Dialog Fitzroy in New Plymouth this afternoon who National is fighting for this election.
You deserve an economy that is growing faster than the US, UK, Australia and Canada - because that means 220,000 new jobs on the way with wages growing faster than inflation.
That is what National is delivering, but three years just isn’t enough time.
Reckless spending from Labour and the Greens would put all of that at risk, with more debt, higher inflation and higher mortgage rates as a result.
Stick with the plan. This election will be tight. Party Vote National.
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I have been looking for this video.
Before Dan Shagamu was assassinated and beheaded, he made a video begging for his life, that assassins which he alleged as Izala sect members were trailing him and asking the government to protect him. He was later ambushed and killed.
This is why we are raising alarms about SarkinFoto, Mufti Iwo and those who think like him in Yorubaland.
Nobody is safe!
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That is what is unique about Chinese civilization and culture. As opposed to Yoruba people that will choose tolerate and dine with people who express contempt for them for their selfish interest without any ethnic dignity even when the said people are dependent on them.
Major Chinese brands drop Mbappé as backlash grows over Mao joke bbc.in/4ijeU1E
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Wars don't even erase common ancestry.
Do you know how crazy it is that some of the tribal identities we are so fixated on were engineered by Oyinbo?
Let’s use the “Yoruba peoples” tribal identity as an instance.
The Yoruba tribal peoplehood was artificially engineered for easier colonial administration.
We were not a monolithic group. The Ẹkiti, Òndó, Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ìgbómìnà and others were not always “Yorubas.”
If you time-travelled to 1825 and insisted that an Ẹgba person was Yoruba, they might not only be confused — it is likely that they could be offended.
Treating Yoruba as an ancient, primordial tribe is anachronistic and historically indefensible.
It is well documented that the word “Yoruba” was an exonym — a tag given by outsiders. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu used “Yariba” around 1613–1615 for the Oyo. Northern traders (Hausa and others) applied it specifically to the Oyo peoples.
In fact, there is no evidence of self-use of the word Yoruba by the precolonial Oyo peoples themselves as a broad ethnic label, and none whatsoever among the non-Oyo groups.
During the Kiriji Wars (1877–1893), the Ẹkiti-Parapọ alliance (Ẹkiti, Ìjẹ̀ṣà and allies including elements of Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìgbómìnà and others) fought the Ibadan military state (heir to Oyo imperial power) for autonomy. It was not Yoruba fighting Yoruba — they were independent nations fighting to protect their sovereignty.
So how did everyone become Yoruba?
The colonialists homogenized all of us by mechanically standardizing the Ọ̀yọ́-Ìbàdàn speech into a uniform, artificial written language called Yorùbá Àjùmọ̀lò.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s 1843 Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (and subsequent Bible work) was based on the Oyo dialect. To save money on printing Bibles and schoolbooks, European recategorized distinct languages as “local dialects.”
Then, through Lord Lugard’s Native Authority system after the 1914 Amalgamation (formalized in the Native Authority Ordinance of 1916 and later revisions), the British state turned this missionary work into a tool of governance.
Our ancestors became stuck in rigid “tribal” census categories, they appointed standardized rulers to collect taxes, and turned sovereign citizens of independent city-states and republics into predictable, manageable colonial subjects.
Yes, this identity is real today. But its reality is relatively modern, administrative, and politically charged, not primordial.
Many of us mistakenly wear our tribal identity as though it were a sacrosanct, eternal or primordial delineation: it is not.
Like the Yoruba tribal categorization, many others are just neat little folders they fostered to organize us.
If it was a bond formed for your enemy’s convenience, then it is malleable enough to be reformed for strategic survival, defense, and collective prosperity.
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One Nigeria when it's time to copy Yorùbá wedding practices....but not one Nigeria when other men take 40 strokes of the whip so they can marry a wife o...or when wives are supposed to be camped inside a fattening room...you all know what you're doing.
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o n y I y n y e -c h u k w u.
I checked the origin of the name; it has no connection to Yoruba people or culture.
How does this discussion concern you?
Even Yoruba men aren’t sticking their noses that far into it.
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You people don't disappoint us, this is what we know you for.
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the disrespect is largely due to the fact that almost all african countries primarily consume nigerian media, & are actively a part of nigerian social media spaces, so whatever disrespect we do to ourselves on there they see it, consume it & replicate it in real time
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We must do more to confront the dangerous ideologies of takfīr and infidelisation, the practice of branding people as unbelievers simply because we dislike them, disagree with them, or consider them insufficiently religious. Too often, these labels become tools for exclusion, persecution, and even the attempted justification of murder.
Calling people Arne because they are not Muslims, declaring fellow Muslims kāfir because they fail someone’s personal religious test, or casually labelling others munāfiq is deplorable and must be challenged relentlessly.
This is why I have consistently advocated that we call non-Muslims non-Muslims and Christians Christians, rather than weaponising terms such as Keffiri and Kuff as insults. Our language should clarify differences, not manufacture hostility. After all, one person's disbelief in a particular proposition does not mean they believe in nothing; we all hold convictions, even when those convictions differ.
My own experience in Northern Nigeria is instructive. Despite obvious signs of my Muslim identity, I was called Arne. This made me realise that, in some contexts, the term has less to do with religion than with regional or linguistic identity, particularly when directed at non-Northerners or non-Hausa speakers. Its reported invocation in connection with the murder of Shaykh Yahaya Masussuka makes the weaponisation of such labels even more disturbing.
Let us be clear: nobody deserves to be killed for being a non-Muslim. No personal grievance, ethnic prejudice, or religious judgement can turn murder into a legitimate act of faith.
We must challenge not only the violence but also the language and ideologies that make it conceivable. Defend your faith without demeaning others. Disagree without dehumanising. And leave the ultimate judgement of people's hearts to Allah.
Religious conviction should never become a licence for hatred, and no label should become a death sentence.
Ansaru Claims Responsibility for Killing Islamic Cleric Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka in Katsina
By: Zagazola Makama
The terrorist group Ansaru, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated faction, has claimed responsibility for the killing of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka at his residence in Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The group reportedly made the claim in an audio message released on Tuesday, in which it accused the cleric of being an infidel without specifying any particular offence he allegedly committed.
In the message, the group said the attack was carried out at about 8:30 p.m. However, while the speaker reportedly referred to Tuesday as the day of the incident, available accounts indicate that the killing occurred on Monday.
Ansaru also accused the cleric of opposing what it described as Islamic teachings, although the allegations were not supported with publicly established evidence.
The killing has raised concerns over the growing threats facing religious leaders and advocates of peace and interfaith dialogue in parts of northern Nigeria.
Barrister Audu Bulama Bukarti, a legal expert who has followed extremist groups in the region, reportedly said Sheikh Masussuka had been planning to organise a major peace conference, raising questions about whether his peacebuilding activities may have contributed to his being targeted.
However, the motive for the killing has not been independently established, and the group's accusations should be treated as claims rather than verified facts.
Ansaru emerged in 2012 after breaking away from Boko Haram over disagreements with the leadership of Abubakar Shekau. The group has been associated with extremist activities in parts of north-western Nigeria, including areas of Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger states.
Its claim of responsibility for the killing underscores the security challenges facing communities in the region and the risks confronting individuals working to promote peaceful coexistence.
Security agencies are expected to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing, establish the perpetrators' identities and motives, and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.
The incident has renewed calls for stronger protection of religious leaders, community figures and peace advocates, as well as sustained efforts to counter extremist violence and prevent attacks motivated by ideological intolerance.
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This is elegant and oozes Royalty!!!!!
If some people have the opportunity, they will steal it.
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Chances of what? To be with a Yoruba man that is trying to erase Yoruba women identity. You are our enemy marry out, how else would we quickly identify you if are posturing with a Yoruba woman by ur side u.
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It has never made sense to me that people willingly and eagerly throw away their roots and culture.
If as an Ekiti woman I marry an Osun man, it doesn't make me an Osun woman. I will always and forever be an Ekiti woman, and my children are both Osun and Ekiti.
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The ‘issue’ being discussed here is misappropriation of YORUBA cultural rites.
No one cares who Yoruba men marry because that narrative remains disingenuous and largely stupid.
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Did Sango's mum tell you that she's yoruba? If she assumed her husband's ethnic identity, how do we know that she's Tapa?
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We don't see òyìnbó woman calling Yorùbá dirty and using all sorts of derogatory names to describe us, you will not tell us to love those that preaches hate towards Yorùbá woman at every opportunity
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Same applies to the woman from new york. She will be married according to the customs of the New York.
Her parents will not write list if yams and ẹja abori. She can wear the man's cultural attire for reception but that is where it ends. She won't do any Yoruba bridal rites.