duro4chang:
HISTORY OF YAGBA PEOPLE

The Yagbas are a major group in Okunland in terms of population, land size and in the number of local government areas. They have three local government areas. These are Yagba East, Yagba West and Mopamuro LGA, formerly northeast Yagba) with headquarter at Makutu Isanlu, ODO Ere and Mopa respectively.

The other local governments where the Yagbas make up a good part of the population are Ikole and Oye LGA,s. Aiyede in Oye, Ipao, Irele, Oke Ako, Itapaji and Iyemero in Ikole LGA of Ekiti State are all Yagba Towns. These towns could have made up a south west Yagba LGA if merged with Koro and Eruku in Kwara State, as the people are in all respects, Yagba.
The Major towns in Yagba are Aiyede, Irele, Ogbe, Egbe, Isanlu, Mopa, Ife Olukotun, Ejuku, Ponyan, Ipao, Effo-Amuro, Awoyo, Ilae, ODO Ere, while the earlier settlements are Akata-Ere, Awoyo and Ilai respectively. Altogether, there are about 75 towns, villages and hamlets in Yagbaland, all Yoruba speaking from Ile Ife and the old Oyo.

Samuel Johnson (1921) in his history of Yoruba remarks the Yagbas are the most north easternly tribes of Yoruba, they are distinguished by three long tribal marks on each cheek far behind, converging to a point at the angle of the mouth.
The tribal marks can only be seen among very old people now as it is no longer the vogue. There is only one stroke difference in the tribal marks between the East and the Western Yagba people.

The Assistant District Officer (ADO) in charge of Lafiagi Division in his report titled " The Separatist Movement in Yagba District of Pâtégi Emirate and dated 1/6/32
" The Yagba appear to be an offshoot of the Yoruba tribe speaking a dialect of the Yoruba tongue. Formerly they consisted of a number of units independent of each other and recognising no central authority. They suffered severely from Nupe and Yoruba raids and had it not been for the British occupation, they would probably have disappeared as a separate race. A century ago,

johnie:
[size=14pt]I have a strong feeling these people and clothes are of Nupe origin and not Yoruba.

What do you think?[/size]

lawani:
21. Published paper on the performance of the Western Nigeria Development Corporation WNDC that preceeded the Oodua investment company by Akinsanya 1981.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pad.4230010105

22. The CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund on level of returns to expect from the funds." Nice write up".
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/norway-wealth-fund-returns-14-5-in-2021-as-stocks-surged

23. List of sovereign wealth funds.
Note that one of the firsts if not the first is the Western Nigerian Development corporation which is not on the list since it is now defunct and the successor is not owned by a sovereign entity. The largest of the funds which is owned by the Norwegians operates with the same objective of the WNDC but was created to save income from Norway's oil and gas sector while the WNDC was created to invest a portion of government revenue in general into viable and profitable business ventures. Not only funds from one or more economic sectors are used but government revenue in general. I think this is the main difference between the two funds. The source of invested funds is the main difference but how the funds are meant to be invested is largely the same.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276617/sovereign-wealth-funds-worldwide-based-on-assets-under-management/

24. Banking in a communist nation

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-
-transcripts-and-maps/banking-system-soviet

25. A Covenant university paper on the Oodua investment company
https://www.academia.edu/40149432/Bleeding_the_Commonwealth_An_Assessment_of_Odua_Investment_Company_Limited_1985_2008

26. Brief history of the Oyo empire

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oyo_Empire

27. A nairaland thread on the Oyo
And Hausa states.

https://www.nairaland.com/2792472/lies-oyo-empire

28. Creating an Oyo successor
https://www.nairaland.com/5858411/oyo-successor-stateppppppp

29. Benin was a Yoruba speaking empire
https://www.nairaland.com/5846948/benin-yoruba-speaking-empire

30 Aare ona Kakanfo Afonja was a Yoruba nationalist.
https://www.nairaland.com/3230287/late-aare-ona-kakanfo-afonja

31. Communism in a free market
https://www.nairaland.com/4024653/free-market-communism

32. Why I want Nigeria to break up
https://www.nairaland.com/3059277/why-want-nigeria-break-up

33. If enough citizens are members of an association or associations that are sworn to always be on the side of truth and fairness to the point of death, then there will be no need for political parties of any sort so far the people in government report to the hierarchy of these organisations. Among such organisations are the Rotary club, The Freemasons and the ROF. I have not seen the manifesto of the communist party of China to know their rules of engagement with others and their guiding principles but it is evidently based on Confucianism and etc. Also, any gathering where people have to meet to make crucial decisions while not being allowed to fight or curse themselves qualify as ab Ogboni gathering especially if such a gathering is not operating with a rigid ideology but is interested mainly in what works. It is however better to have a basic and simple rule that is easy to remember and follow. Party manifestoes can be too complex.l

https://www.nairaland.com/3319460/ogboni-state

34. Why Oduduwa did not come from Benin

https://www.nairaland.com/5907870/why-oduduwa-not-benin

35. What is the use of a multi party democracy?

https://www.nairaland.com/3272815/what-use-multi-party-democracy

36. My Over view of the struggle to unite the Yoruba since the 19th century

https://www.nairaland.com/3228426/ibadan-19th-century-hq-yoruba

37. Another view on a one party system of government.

https://www.nairaland.com/3202152/ogboni-government-only-government-acceptable

38. Casualties of the Third world.

https://www.nairaland.com/2979223/casualties-third-world-economy-option

39 Nigeria must be broken into pieces
https://www.nairaland.com/3030903/nigeria-must-broken-into-pieces

40. Dissociating from Nigeria is the right thing to do for Kano

https://www.nairaland.com/2745981/why-kanawa-should-consider-breaking

41. The origin of human civilization according to Yoruba thought.
https://www.nairaland.com/2724351/inferences-yoruba-thought-origin-man

42. A short summary of my recommendations arising from my online work of article writing in conjunction with many other people starting from around 2007 till the present moment on Facebook, Naira land and partly on Twitter.

https://www.nairaland.com/6985560/globe-sovereignty-nations

43. Why Yorubas will leave Nigeria by Bayo Oluwasanmi


https://www.nairaland.com/5644688/why-yoruba-leave-nigeria-bayo

44.Aare Gani Adams write the Attorney General
https://www.nairaland.com/5635735/amotekun-iba-gani-adams-writes

45. Article on Sun Tzu

https://www.nairaland.com/3252501/yoruba-stratagem......sun-tzu

46. A 1994 Memorandum
https://www.nairaland.com/3300946/nigerian-structure-yoruba-memorandum-may



Conclusion.
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I think West Africa and indeed the whole globe should be restructured to allow for ethnic nations to enjoy autonomy and independence with those who have affinity for each other joining together to form larger economies and larger markets for their mutual benefit. This article is using the Yoruba as a case study. Fifty thousand population is not too small for any group that wants to go it alone but no nation should be made up of unwilling co travellers or strange bed fellows like the three regions of Nigeria created by the British to form Nigeria. It was the British that created those unions which did not work over time even as the larger Nigeria has not worked or prospered till date. It may work, given a lot of time, patience and effort but it is better to disband the union and work with something that worked before the British came on the scene, to save time. It does not seem right to divide into four different countries people that have seen themselves as one for thousands of years.

All nations should thereafter be enjoined to form investment companies and avoid going into debt as much as possible. Debts should mainly be to fund ventures that will yield profit.

All nations should propagate their own history in the perspective with which they are most comfortable with.

All nations should prioritize the incorporation of national banks for the purpose of providing commercial banking services for their citizens. It can be done by taking over
the board of an existing bank.

The UN should take over the oil and gas resources across the globe including the ones in the oceans as well as other resources in the oceans for the whole of humanity and share revenue according to need. This is very necessary so that all nations can face squarely the development of the economic activities their workers are more directly involved in as it should be.

A government agency should be given the task of imposing Management remuneration on all registered companies which will be determined largely by the shareholders' funds under management along with other approved parameters. This is to ensure that the management pay income tax in the same way that the rank and file of workers pay, since the expenses of the average member of managemement in most big companies is sometimes over 200 times that of the average worker.

Expenditure in defense, especially on personnel salaries should be greatly reduced. The majority of the citizens can be given military training with constituent parts or regions of nation states mandated to constantly send personnel to the armed forces for short service after which the vast majority of such personnel will return to their duty posts in other sectors of the economy while remaining on reserve for the military. They can also continue in the military on a part time basis by working remotely.

This article, though partially directed to the Yoruba, it is also valid for all the earth nations not sovereign over their own lands, especially the Kurds followed by the Hausa, Igbo and others. It also applies to the ethnic nations that have sovereignty and are the majority in more than one sovereign states. Most especially the Germans, Turks, Berbers, Arabs and others including the British people. There is nothing stopping these nations from joining themselves together to form a common market and economy after the fashion of the European union.

There should be a United Nations effort to control theology by means of the peer review of theological literatures which billions of people hold on to as absolute truth. Nothing written by any human being should be taken as absolute truth. WE ALL HAVE SEEN WHERE SUCH HAS LED HUMANITY

richmondefosa:

richmondefosa:


For a GT role, no you cannot join.
You need to have an NYSC too.