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British-Nigerian, Opeyemi Bright, Appointed UK Youngest Mayor - Politics (4) - Nairaland s411i

British-Nigerian, Opeyemi Bright, Appointed UK Youngest Mayor (27384 Views)

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mukthar2000(m): 1:49am On May 19
Were is anuty kemi bouth to come learn how to become omoluabi to achieve ur aim for any position in life.

Don't ever trade ur country, ur people becos u think that is how u can achieve ur aim.


Kudos to the British that teacher her morals that she can't lead the party due to her useless behavior.




Congrats to my pretty sister OPEYEMI BRIGHT.

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adicius: 1:52am On May 19
Fine geh, sexy girl.


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GUNITGuy: 2:12am On May 19
Zooposki:


It's mostly the Ijebus though or a Lagosian. I dont see Yorubas mentioned from other states like Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Kogi or Kwara etc.
A man from Ikale Ondo state is a Mayor in Canada ....
What's the fuss about only Ijebu

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GUNITGuy: 2:13am On May 19
Hope this one won't use are position to take revenge on her own people too like one of my Sister like that

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OgaRico(m): 2:47am On May 19
"There is a Captain in there, Captain Jack Sparrow".

Baronthecelebri:
Her picture reminds me of jack Sparrow
EndBuhariNow(m): 3:35am On May 19
It can be only either Igbo or Yoruba competing to dominate global stage... Hardly for you to hear Fulani or Hausa are in any global affairs, I love the peaceful positive rivery between Igbo and Yorubas but some times yorubas take it too extreme but Igbos in other hand just see it as normal thing and fun.. the day west will wake up and knw they can be better off without their Fulani friends then they the real revolution of success will start in their lives

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shotuns: 4:12am On May 19
Yes, UK may be peaceful, allows immigrants that obey the law, well behaved to climb the ladder of progress and enjoy the benefits of a good governance. The country sees themselves as a people not divided along religion, tribal line, same can't be said of Nigeria that has no foundation except that of the same British colonial foundation, not a particular country or Nation because there are many indigenous societies who were once a sovereign nation on their own but forcefully ed together, so it is an arrangement unlike the UK that is regarded as a country. Such situation cannot be replicated in Nigeria where some other tribe go to other people's land to claim it is theirs, while some are planning total annihilation. Nigerian system of governance is as dark as the night and was, is and can never be transparent till the end of life.








VeeVeeMyLuv:
You all are praising and hailing this very young woman for emerging as a mayor

Yea that's a great feat, not an easy feat to attain. I am proud of that too šŸ’ŖšŸ½šŸ’„šŸ’ÆšŸ‘ŒšŸ½šŸ”„

But instead what we should be hailing is the system that made it possible, that made it happen without sentimental, racial consideration

We should think of replicating such level playing field transparent system here in Nigeria.

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Kingson28: 4:14am On May 19
[quote author=happney65 post=135410926]

See talking points from a paid olodo tribalist. grin

The igbos you claim say this and that do not contest elections in the SW, they do not even have an Igbo party in Lagos. But there is a Yoruba Party in the UK. Imagine o. A Yoruba Party in the UK.

The head of the oppostion in the UK is a Yoruba WHO has even Lead the biggest anti immigrantion drive in over 40years and telling Labour to deport everybody deportable.

But No, those of you tribalists who go abroad,vote,becomes elected,but here fan the embers of ethnicty here are nothing but cowards and hypocrites.

Anyways,it is only igbos you can ledi mo. When the Fulani's invade our lands in the SW and kill and slaughter our people. WĆØ dont see your useless faces, you go and hide in fear and shame.. grin grin

Cowards!


[Are you SURE Igbos don't contest for elective positions in Lagos?
The problem with the majority of you people is that you LACK manners and morals.
You're so disrespectful to your hosts. Thats the definition of parasites.]

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ScarletBrace(m): 5:15am On May 19
Sirmwill:
Why is she giving Jack Sparrow vibes like this...

ā€œTribalists ā€œ have entered the thread associating themselves with achievements.

Omoluabi fire.
Tell all of them to come back home and build a working system, then you’ll know what true intelligence is.
Tinubu doesn’t have it. Soyinka does not either.

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creativejagaban: 5:38am On May 19
LegendHero:


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/opeyemi-bright-29-year-old-british-nigerian-appointed-uks-youngest-mayor/


No be by drugs grin

Omoluabi atata.

Karo ojire. cheesy grin

Some people dey compete with bed spaces on india prison grin cheesy

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Blackdisciple(m): 6:10am On May 19
I hope she will not be saying rubbish unlike the other woman
Congratulations to her

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WizardOfNG: 6:31am On May 19
Kewekubosineh:
Oops!

Clap for yourself!

Mtchweee šŸ˜”

You're allergic to truth ba?

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anonimi: 6:32am On May 19
MightySparrow:
If it is winning accolades, it has to be Omoluabi if durogds, it has to be the usual fifu.

Shay you get?

Yes, Reno gets your empty and meaningless tribal chauvinism fully.


swaggerjack:
Reno Omokri: I Challenge Tinubu To Prove If He Was Not A Drug Lord In Chicago


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA7PoGtSvKo&feature=youtu.be

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anonimi: 6:34am On May 19
creativejagaban:
No be by drugs grin

Omoluabi atata.

Karo ojire. cheesy grin

Some people dey compete with bed spaces on india prison grin cheesy

Any real omoluabi will be ashamed that we are exporting our people to neocolonialist countries because of our failure to make our own communities, region and country good enough.

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzingā€ diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about ing Anthony Joshua the ā€œNigerian,ā€ whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t ? when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ā€˜Ifeoma,’ ā€˜Efe’ and ā€˜Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say ā€œI knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.ā€ It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ā€˜first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly ing Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vlir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

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ElSudani: 6:42am On May 19
GUNITGuy:

A man from Ikale Ondo state is a Mayor in Canada ....
What's the fuss about only Ijebu

Even if all of them are Ijebu they are still Yoruba and I personally would still be proud of them.
When you entertain folks like that you are inadvertently being lurked into their own divisive worldview.

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Juoflife1(f): 7:19am On May 19
She was not told to go back home and vote.
Congratulations Opeyemi
Peperipepe: 7:52am On May 19
Igbo thought it will be an igbo person.
Ebuka78: 7:53am On May 19
but in Lagos, they don't want Igbo nominees.
chris51(f): 7:53am On May 19
Firebox123:
thanks to Tinubu

If not



Nigerians are breaking records abroad because everyone has equal opportunity. In Nigeria, indegene syndrome kills quality.
chris51(f): 7:53am On May 19
chris51:




Nigerians are breaking records abroad because everyone has equal opportunity. In Nigeria, indegene syndrome kills quality.
INDOMIE9090(f): 8:07am On May 19
Zooposki:


Most are not fully Yoruba.
Davido: Half Yoruba/Half Igbo
Ayra Starr:
Ruger:

I meant full Yoruba blood.
when did Davido becomes half Yoruba/half ibo ffs
You ibo just like gumbody ,a little google search would have helped you .

I see you include ayra starr(both parents from kwara) and ruger(kogi) lmao
Those twos are full blooded Yoruba,both parents omoluabi

MightySparrow: 8:41am On May 19
Kewekubosineh:
Oops!

Clap for yourself for the self adulation.

You can't beat descendants of Chosen people from Israel.

Take this to the bank!


Tell us one thing an Igbo man Yoruba man in any field that a Yoruba man is not more.

gringrin

Until you come to our land, you are nothing. This yaminrin may even be typing this nonsense in Alaba or Gbagi market. gringrin
GUNITGuy: 8:59am On May 19
ElSudani:


Even if all of them are Ijebu they are still Yoruba and I personally would still be proud of them.
When you entertain folks like that you are inadvertently being lurked into their own divisive worldview.
Thanks my brother
jaxxy(m): 9:18am On May 19
Brilliant. Congrats
stainzvill(m): 10:18am On May 19
You forgot to add to the list the current Lord mayor of Leeds Abigail Katung wife of Sen. Sunday Marshal Katung from Kaduna state
qtx(m): 10:42am On May 19
LegendHero:


Source: https://www.thecable.ng/opeyemi-bright-29-year-old-british-nigerian-appointed-uks-youngest-mayor/
Which one is Nigerian descent? Abeg all those children of Nigerian parents born in the western world, don't send Nigeria o. Stop adding that phrase "Nigerian Descent." It doesnt make them you guys in anyway She is British, simple!
WizardOfNG: 10:56am On May 19
MightySparrow:



Tell us one thing an Igbo man Yoruba man in any field that a Yoruba man is not more.

gringrin

Until you come to our land, you are nothing. This yaminrin may even be typing this nonsense in Alaba or Gbagi market. gringrin


When a Nigerian views himself and his ethnic group as "Chosen people from Israel" that should indicate to you that said Nigerians is 'cuckoo' and not to be taken seriously.

Take serious, at your own risk, those who insist they are Jews when the people who are proven to be Jewish, by DNA, insist our delusional Nigerian brethren are not genetically Jewish.

What else defines madness and inferiority complex other than such ridiculous famzing of those with white skin by black wannabes ashamed of their African origin?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/messianic-jews-to-nigerians-youre-not-real-jews/amp/

MightySparrow: 11:17am On May 19
WizardOfNG:



When a Nigerian views himself and his ethnic group as "Chosen people from Israel" that should indicate to you that said Nigerians is 'cuckoo' and not to be taken seriously.

Take serious, at your own risk, those who insist they are Jews when the people who are proven to be Jewish, by DNA, insist our delusional Nigerian brethren are not genetically Jewish.

What else defines madness and inferiority complex other than such ridiculous famzing of those with white skin by black wannabes ashamed of their African origin?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/messianic-jews-to-nigerians-youre-not-real-jews/amp/


Na nkpuruminri dey worry them.
babsbolad: 1:07pm On May 19
Who be the igbo mama Davido get? The last time I checked, David's mum is from Edo.
Zooposki:


Most are not fully Yoruba.
Davido: Half Yoruba/Half Igbo
Ayra Starr:
Ruger:

I meant full Yoruba blood.
LegendHero(m): 2:05pm On May 19
qtx:

Which one is Nigerian descent? Abeg all those children of Nigerian parents born in the western world, don't send Nigeria o. Stop adding that phrase "Nigerian Descent." It doesnt make them you guys in anyway She is British, simple!

Okay let me say Yoruba then.

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