LAGOS: INDIGENOUS OMO EKO-ILE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ILE-IFE

It is indisputable who the owners or Omo-Onile of Lagos are: The Olumegbon, Suenu, Ojora, Onitolo, Onitana, Onido and others. They know their own history before the first Europeans or Arabs set their foot in Africa on their mission to pillage our resources, capture slaves, debase African cultures and people with religious platitudes. Most historians trace the Ogunfunminire Awori, Aresa, Onikoyi and Olugbon from Ife to Oyo, Ilesa, Oshogbo, Ogbomoso, Abeokuta to Lagos. Ife is the cradle of Yoruba Civilization.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348907760_Igbon_Iresa_and_Ikoyi_A_Pre-Historic_Relationship_Till_Present_Time Leyin Orun Olugbon, Orun Aresa, Orun OnIkoyi, Orun oun lori ile: apart from the authority of Olugbon, of Aresa and of Onikoyi, there was no other authority on earth. There is historical and geological evidence by Professor Babajide that Ile-Ife, the cradle of Yoruba Civilization had moved about seven times before the present location. The evidence of the Yoruba spread from the present North Central of Nigeria to the Atlantic Ocean.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/324474/lagos-indigenous-omo-eko-ile-are-descendants-of-ile-ife.html

All you look for within Yoruba is a fault line.

You have United them more than ever with your cynical moves.

Ofodirinwa:
The person typing this is a young person and likely ignorant but not by his own doing. Yorubas who are descendants of Ile Ife are not up to 50% of the Yoruba population in the immediate area surrounding Ile Ife, and Lagos indigines are not Yoruba nor originally Yoruba speaking. And they will tell you. It is only online that all Yorubas are from Ile Ife. An Egba Abeokuta man will never say as much talkless of a Lagosian

LAGOS: INDIGENOUS OMO EKO-ILE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ILE-IFE

It is indisputable who the owners or Omo-Onile of Lagos are: The Olumegbon, Suenu, Ojora, Onitolo, Onitana, Onido and others. They know their own history before the first Europeans or Arabs set their foot in Africa on their mission to pillage our resources, capture slaves, debase African cultures and people with religious platitudes. Most historians trace the Ogunfunminire Awori, Aresa, Onikoyi and Olugbon from Ife to Oyo, Ilesa, Oshogbo, Ogbomoso, Abeokuta to Lagos. Ife is the cradle of Yoruba Civilization.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348907760_Igbon_Iresa_and_Ikoyi_A_Pre-Historic_Relationship_Till_Present_Time Leyin Orun Olugbon, Orun Aresa, Orun OnIkoyi, Orun oun lori ile: apart from the authority of Olugbon, of Aresa and of Onikoyi, there was no other authority on earth. There is historical and geological evidence by Professor Babajide that Ile-Ife, the cradle of Yoruba Civilization had moved about seven times before the present location. The evidence of the Yoruba spread from the present North Central of Nigeria to the Atlantic Ocean.

Some are named Aromire (ocean friendly) and Oloko (ship builders). This is the reason Yoruba have a visceral reaction to any attempt to dispute their origin in Lagos. Whatever your ethnic group, you cannot take Yoruba amicable relationships with others for granted. You call them Unity Beggars only to become Unity Beggars when contesting for the President of Nigeria. You cannot have it anyway you want. We must appeal to attract votes beyond our ethnic groups with love not with force or hate.

We got along better before the foreign Oil income. The African culture facilitated by Yoruba relationship of accommodation between each ethnic group: later abused in Lagos, resulted in a melting pot of all Africans. Each ethnic group has great qualities that outshined the bad eggs within them. The Igbo were known to be hard working, Hausa honest, Ghanaians neat, South Africans dedicated, some Europeans obsequious to make amends and Yoruba tolerance for all.

So, where are the hard working proud Igbo our parents told us about? Indeed, Ndi-Igbo had no better friends and supporters in the world than Yoruba. You must then wonder why they would rather ally with anybody against Yoruba interest. While parents in Lagos were telling their children to welcome every stranger in their midst and made sure anyone that entered Lagos by dawn must be fed, clothes and given a place to sleep by dawn. Igbo parents were telling their children not to trust Yoruba.

A great deal changed after the unexpected Arab Oil Embargo that earned Nigerians more money than God! Nigerians lost their heads and bearings. All the viable and budding industries that fed the whole of West Africa paused in favor of any import that foreign income could buy; including pins, pencils, used clothes, even garbage stuck at the high seas!

The same country where its Western Region managed meager Cocoa Income to create many First in Africa attracting many Africans and Europeans joined the rat race for money at the Federal Level and began losing their heads too. Skilful managers of primary industries and natural resources from Lagos to Ilorin became Federal politicians. None of you could have done what you did for Western Nigeria in a Nigerian context.

Gullible Jaja Wachukwu, tolerated in Lagos in 1947, provoked his hosts that Lagos is No Man's Land as the Federal Capital. During the Ojukwu Ore Debacle they thought: Lagos was at Reach. These were dreamers nobody took seriously then until it became the mainstream cry of Igbo Youths on Yorubaland. They even made up fake stories to justify it as the developer of Lagos whose taxes built their newly discovered virgin land. Do we expect the Owner of the land most Africans were welcomed warmly into, to accept their aspiration or provocation?

It is in the spirit of tolerance that in the last Election, their Presidential candidate came first in Lagos beating Yoruba Presidential candidate because of his opprobrious character. Yet, those who voted over 90% for their Presidential candidate at home, are accusing those who voted against their son so that Igbo came first in Yoruba state: as tribalistic and intolerant. Haba, see logical thinking O! During the choice for President between Hausa/Fulani Obasanjo and Falaye, Yoruba Choice. Igbo voted with the Hausa/Fulani choice.

They actually claimed that it was out of their love for Yoruba. Yoruba have never stopped criticizing their own, especially when anyone regardless of ethnicity is unfairly treated. A case in point was how they championed the fight for Jonathan to become Acting President when Yar'Adua was incapacitated. Yoruba also voted for him to become President. Obasanjo was the first President to assign Igbo to powerful positions after the Civil War.

Yoruba love Igbo but the Youths with a different experience would not love Igbo to death at their own detriment. Wole Soyinka almost died in prison for Igbo cause, they called him a traitor. Fajuyi actually died with Ironsi rather than surrender him to mutiny. Yet, Igbo called him a traitor. Banjo led the Biafran Army against his fatherland until he was stopped at Ore. They called him a traitor. When asked why Igbo kidnappers operate freely in Yorubaland but Yoruba kidnappers would not dare it in the East, they claim it is because Yoruba are cowards

So, what did the Yoruba do apart from producing every prominent rich Igbo old money in Lagos? After voting for Azikiwe to represent Lagos in the Western House, he wanted to become their Premier. NCNC, the Party that nominated him to represent Lagos in the Western House was founded by Herbert Macauley. The Party became Igbo Party after Azikiwe became the Leader. The same way Western Region could have become Igbo controlled Region if Azikiwe had become the Premier with Yoruba votes.

They hated Awolowo who had insight of their God ordained mentality to rule others. The Yoruba Youths used that to point out that their parents were foolish to accommodate those whose intentions were to dominate, rule and take over their land. Indeed, both Nnamdi Azikiwe and Emeka Ojukwu never hid their intentions since Zik wanted to become the Premier in Western Region and Ojukwu wanted Banjo to capture Ore for him first before naming an Administrator for Lagos. Both believe Igbo are destined to rule Yoruba.

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The characters you listed are condemned. Indeed, Tinubu lost Osun his home state and Lagos his adopted state because of his character.

Funny though, another Drug peddler that won 95% of clannish Ndi-Igbo states also won in Lagos called intolerant state!

Some, I hope not all of you have no shame or remorse. So you called drug peddlers facing death penalty brave heroes!

franchasofficia:
Buruji Kashamu
Dapo Abiodun
Bola Tinubu
Agbele
Hush Puppi
Momfa
Gbajabiamila
And many other globally known Yoruba born drug kingpins and wire wire fraudsters are not Igbos, are they?

When we were growing up, our parents spoke about Igbo glowingly.

They never realize this new generation of Igbo would replace the hard working and humble ones we grew up with.

Any Igbo that has made a fortune anywhere is under suspicion. What do they need so much money for?

To buy Lagos.

It is time for community and cultural reorientation by those old money still around. These boys are not only soiling your reputation, they are destroying Nigeria and Africa's reputation.

The same people that sold them the planes and ammunition will sell them grains, peace and reconstruction equipment.

Foolish African Power hungry soldiers looking for the spoils of war to loot. Who knows, they could have been better graduates of London School of Economics than Sandhurst Military Academy.

Good mis-"education" eh

Timbuktu has better universities.

RaptorX:
Who dash monkey banana, they can deploy their audio warplanes all they want but that junta is living on borrowed time.

There are also three important families of Lagosians whose prominent sons were buried at the center of Lagos near old Layeni Street leading to Broad Street. Traders have surrounded and obscured the tombstones.

1. Ojo Ogun Martins whose tomb was removed from the Street British Governor Glover in Lagos named after him and reburied near Bristlo Hotel

2. Taiwo Olowo, a prominent merchant like Ogun Martins that was well respected for his contributions

3. Dr. Maja, another professional contributor in Lagos of those days.

Their children, like other Lagosian families live very quietly and humbly since they have nothing to prove. They do not take part in politics because they believe it has been invaded by riff-raff.

African currencies will continue to decline like Zimbabwe dollars until we come to our senses and realize Europeans, Americans and Asians used it to buy our talents, labor, resources cheap and brand our culture inferior by training our Youths.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/323164/unification-of-african-currencies-will-increase-its-local-va.html

Chei! All of unah missed the point after 8 pages.

How easy is it to take all your life savings to overseas and settle?

It will be exhausted in One Month!

After that, you can come and real all the 8 pages. If you can find a job or run back to Nigeria to loot some More.

Igbo proud be be second to white man.

Yoruba proud to be the Most Civilized Group in the world.

Go figure

MODERN SLAVERY IS ANOTHER COLONIAL & RELIGIOUS SALVATION

Victims of Modern Slavery are not only illegal migrants used as slaves and sex workers in the Middle East, Europe and Americas. While African and Indian physicians have gained sympathy from the International Press in the United Kingdom, one of the most exploited legally, are the Care Workers. Modern Slavery gang masters have taken advantage of the shortage of health and care workers to channel Africans into the United Kingdom through relaxed legal means by unscrupulous agents inside and outside the U.K and USA.

One of the Care Workers was told her salary would be 29,000 British pounds. She was happy to leave her abusive husband in Africa. She took her three children and her mother to look after them while working. The promised salary was enough to rent an apartment for her and the family in the UK. She was forced to work 20 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week.

This is in a country where the minimum wage was 10.42 pounds, she was paid 2 (two) pounds an hour! She could not afford an apartment. Of course, they became homeless while she was still working long hours. If the exploited family did not gain the attention of Human Rights and Authority, she would still be laboring in squalor in her dream Western world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66260064.amp

Migration has become the leading cause of human displacement creating hard feelings and used to elect members by the extremist parties and world's religious Right across Europe and America. Political opportunists are seizing on hard sentiment locally against outsiders to push their agenda at home as our Youths flood abroad seeking greener pastures. Regardless of backlash against them, they brush it off as Salvation and send cute pictures back home.

Unfortunately, the hostilities Africans face outside their Continent is getting worse. Despite this, those outside the Continent rationalize and even glorify the problem they face using any token appointments, jobs and education to justify greener pastures. We flee African countries, blame the problems on those that have no choice but to stay put and make a living anyway they can. If you can do better, we will be at home fixing the problems.

Migration has turned us against one another locally and internationally. If you want peace and prosperity, charity begins at home. It is sheer false hope and aggrandizement to think life can only get better at the other side of the river. Despite the growing problems of Climate change and food distribution, there is more arable land at home. People have to till the ground to survive. We may be paid to do the hard work but that money can neither spring up from arable land or grow on trees.

What we do with whatever money we are paid abroad or locally is what makes the difference. Nobody pays you what you are worth anywhere, they pay you just enough to make sure you keep coming back for more, to render your services. They know you must buy food, finished goods and services. If you do not have the money in hand, banks and lending institutions are waiting to pay your masters off while you pay banks monthly for the rest of your lives.

One of the best illustrations are big corporations selling seeds to farmers they cannot reproduce. The more seeds the farmers buy, the more they owe. Using their land as collateral to borrow money ends in a vicious circle; losing their land and getting poorer than when they started. Big international corporations know the end game and work in connivance with the politicians that take their cuts upfront as kickbacks or political contributions.

This is the case in point for farmers going bankrupt after borrowing money from the banks to buy seeds. Genetically modified seeds that cannot replicate themselves are not the answer. We cannot depend on a few corporations making money for a few shareholders to feed the world. It has to be a cooperative farming process that turns Western Nigeria into Paradise for Africans and the rest of the world's adventurers looking for accommodation in the Region.

We have to wake up to those who tell us to bow our heads or close our eyes while they pray for the salvation of the country. The days God or Allah coming down with miracles are gone, Heaven only helps those that help themselves. Nigeria is not the only country where religion, especially foreign ones are used to perpetrate the worst form of man's inhumanity to man.

Politicians are using worse tactics than the Europeans of encouraging one ethnic group to dominate another. Vagabonds In Power are distracting us by creating problems within since the Curse Of Oil in Nigeria. The more foreign income made from Oil, the more environmental Degradation and less money to take care of the basic needs of the local people in particular not to mention the whole Country.

It is no longer the active participation of the colonial masters, even with the vestiges of slavery. Africans have come to believe that they are better off outside the Continent than they are inside and would sell their conscience and birthright to get out of their countries. We no longer think there is a future in African countries with the xenophobia and killing within each ethnic group to gain access to the National Cake.

It was bad enough when one ethnic group crossed the border to attack another. It is getting worse: we are killing one another within the same ethnic groups. When “My People Are Killing My People” in Warri, we thought it was madness for Ijaw, Urhobo and Itshekiri to get absorbed in inter tribal warfare. It has now spread beyond that in Southern and Northern Nigeria in disguise for enforcing ethnic and tribal loyalty.

Source: ModernGhana

I am developing a mixed feeling for the daily excessive celebration of young graduates and professionals on social media these days. It has turned to competition between each ethnic group.

This used to be personal celebrations, sometimes with parties for families and friends.

The excessive celebration has put some professionals in envious and hostile environment with their colleagues resulting in loss of jobs in already difficulty environment.

This is how "gifted" started as show off in the midst of abject poverty encouraging others to commit crimes to do the same.

Celebrate when these talents are put to use since our natural resources are begging to be turned into finished goods for export.

My gosh, Crompton is a slave trader and chronic capitalist. A Free for all breeds anarchy. Even primitive societies collect taxes to build wells, roads while building one another's houses and paying tribute to the village heads.

Esusu, a modified form of Capitalism and Socialism allows individuals to use their turns to build businesses.

There is no corruption in capitalism reminds me of President Reagan (nothing like excess profit) when defense contractors were selling a hammer that cost one dollar for 100 dollars. Then came Boesky and Milken: Greed Is Good. They were jailed in the world's most capitalist country!

Capitalists do not call it Bribe, they call it Kickbacks or Campaign Contributions. Who do you want to enslave to Kickstart your riches?

Cromagnon:

If there was no govt to invade everyone will dey their dey and compete on level playing ground
[b]
They're is no corruption in capitalism
Only in socialism
You need a govt to bribe
No bribes in capitalism
[/b]they got rich first before they tried to be fair
And they've all started scaling back in that fair nonesense realizing that life is not fair and fairness is unsustainable

Cromagnon,

The same greedy people that make up the private companies make up the government. Some invade the government to weaken it and make it powerless against private companies.

They even invade the Supreme Court and if the government does not go their ways, they become issue reactionists and sack or overthrow the government. Both Socialism and Capitalism are corrupt until you find a middle ground where there is effective check and balance.

The Scandinavian countries do not want to be the richest countries, they want to be the fairest countries between the rich and the poor.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-GWQEPmo8

Cromagnon:
socialism does not work

There are deadly competitions with African industries from overseas foreign industries. [b]It is not about capitalism or communism as political robbers would want us to believe. [/b]But about finding African partners willing to kill their own industries. There are no better examples of Africans working against Africa than in Nigeria's Electric Power system. More hard earned money has been poured into it than any industry with little to show.

Apart from the sabotage of Electric Power by Nigerians importing Generators, converting Gas Flaring from the Oil wells were flagrantly ignored despite law and regulations by each administration. You cannot regulate International corporations into making your industries efficient after the same politicians took kickbacks from them.

Nigeria had a car prototype by Professor Ajimobi of the University of Lagos as far back as the early 60s. After those days we killed our Peugeot and Volkswagen assembly plants with imported luxury cars. Right now, cars are still built in the Western and Eastern Nigeria begging for orders from patrons within.

It is not a matter of technical graduates refusing to train in mega projects but politicians that prefer foreign workers in order to launder money abroad. Unless anyone thinks that since Nigerians have acquired plants, factories, roads and bridges; no Nigerian graduates in training on the job are capable enough to be world class after 60 years.

This is how Nigerian politicians wanted to use P&ID to achieve what International Oil companies with the technical knowledge could not do at any profit after paying kickbacks. Enron defrauded many developing countries with the full backing of the United States President demanding access to African "free and open" markets that do not exist in their own countries. The political parties get corporate political contributions in return.

Bribes or kickbacks are not only practiced in African countries, we have seen progressive growth in Asian countries, increasing their middle class while poverty was reduced but poverty increased like never before in Africa. Nigerian politicians do not only inflate contracts, they leave projects uncomplicated and abandoned to start a new one for their own kickbacks. It was the same reason Virgin Airlines backed out of the Nigeria Airways deal.

Every major natural resource is mined and built by the experts from Western and Asian countries: from Gold mine in Ghana, Diamond in Sierra Leone to Oil in Nigeria are few cases in point. Even more painful are those mined in African countries surreptitiously in local villages without the full authorization of the Regional or Federal Governments. The local chiefs are paid off like they did during the slave trade.

Nigerian politicians without any contribution or investment want the lion share of the profit. There is more to African leaders' indifference and hero worship than we are willing to accept when we choose and vote for the same losers willing to repeat the same inefficiency for over half a century in a delusional sense of grandeur. The race to make money at neck breaking speed is so intense, Youths looking at their elders behavior cannot wait to get rich like them.

Some industries were bought and killed to avoid competition with foreign industries. Ajaokuta was a case in point since Russia, the builder, with a glut of steel in the world market, wanted no competition. The industries that were supposed to liberate and kickstart Africa's economy in order to reduce dependence on foreign imports. Indeed, with Structural Adjustment imports grow and they have become more expensive draining Africa's foreign foreign reserves.

How difficult is it for an oil producing country to have enough refineries to be self-sufficient and export refined petroleum products? When a country is named Gold Coast, it cannot be that difficult to produce and maintain a gold plant competing with the best in the world. If countries backed their currencies with gold or diamond, African countries should have the strongest currencies in the world.

African countries are encouraged to privatize the major industries they heavily invested in: as cheap scrap to be salvaged by the magic of another free market into the hands of leaders in cahoots with foreign partners. Usually experts were brought in to establish the industries. One would think if the so-called efficient partnership they claim is the best in the world, worked in the first place, there would be no need to sell again. New fraudulent experts replace another!

What is pertinent here relates to the Ajaokuta Steel Industry. Steel was supposed to liberate Nigeria economically so that other primary and secondary industries could take off from a solid base. The same argument or discussion on whether to scrap, revamp or sell the Steel Industry to private investors and how much would be saved are what we face with Nigeria refineries today.

MAJOR INDUSTRIES SOLD CHEAP IN EXCHANGE FOR DEVALUED CURRENCIES

Rich African countries have fallen from grace to grass in less than half a century. The reasons and solutions are obvious but not rectified for advancement and progress. There are about two or three repeated assumptions with 1. Cheap Natural Resources 2. Currency devaluation. 3. Foreign economic advice that collapses the value of both natural resources and African currencies. Repeating the same thing for over 60 years without success is known as insanity.

The saga Nigeria faces today of the pros and cons of removing petroleum subsidies can be traced to the history of mismanaged mines and plants, sold in turn to fake competent private indigenous and foreign firms. This was how Nigeria, a major Oil producing country turned black gold into a curse. It was not too different from Ghana Gold mine or Sierra Leone Diamond Industries.

Though all the three Nigerian leading Presidential candidates agreed that oil subsidies must be removed, stopped or eliminated entirely. Yet, two that lost the Election are faulting the one that did exactly what all of them promised during the campaign. Of course, they could have done it differently. This selfish attitude points to one of Africa's weaknesses when it comes to National industries. The reason our new administrations abandon predecessors’ projects.

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Most of our people cannot even remember what our daily BREAD was before we got hooked on wheat bread.

It was ABGADO and PLANTAIN!

Yes we have Mosa made from Agbado and another type made from Plantain. Sometimes they are fried or baked.

Outside Nigeria Corn Bread from Agbado is a delicacy sold in stores at premium price. Jamaican Meat Patties rapped in Corn Bread sold like hot cake, not only in Jamaica and other South American countries but in the Western world.

Africans forget that wheat bread was introduced as daily bread with Christianity. Even Middle East Bread we enjoyed as Syrian or Kora bread came with Islam. I am surprised that DATES used by Muslim to break fasting has not caught on.

When Nigerian bakers started adding AGBADO to bread, our people revolted because they tasted the difference. The bakers are still adding Agbado today but the people do not realize it.

Local palmwine was substituted for yeast and people revolted against the taste. Today it is used without people realizing it.

By the time we import food we do not grow in the most fertile land in the world throughout the year; import used goods and services; kill our primary industries, Oyinbo dey laff O!

Most of our people cannot even remember what our daily BREAD was before we got hooked on wheat bread.

It was ABGADO and PLANTAIN!

Yes we have Mosa made from Agbado and another type made from Plantain. Sometimes they are fried or baked.

Outside Nigeria Corn Bread from Agbado is a delicacy sold in stores at premium price. Jamaican Meat Patties rapped in Corn Bread sold like hot cake, not only in Jamaica and other South American countries but in the Western world.

Africans forget that wheat bread was introduced as daily bread with Christianity. Even Middle East Bread we enjoyed as Syrian or Kora bread came with Islam. I am surprised that DATES used by Muslim to break fasting has not caught on.

When Nigerian bakers started adding AGBADO to bread, our people revolted because they tasted the difference. The bakers are still adding Agbado today but the people do not realize it.

Local palmwine was substituted for yeast and people revolted against the taste. Today it is used without people realizing it.

By the time we import food we do not grow in the most fertile land in the world throughout the year; import used goods and services; kill our primary industries, Oyinbo dey laff O!

Is this Nigeria or USA!

I could have sworn that it could not happen in Nigeria without instant jungle justice

God will not come down and save us from ourselves.

We have to help ourselves.

Heaven helps those who help themselves.

Nukilia:
A synergy between the trads and orthos will fix a lot of our health problems at a very minimal cost.

Nigerians do not like or believe in local treatment, even for upstairs disease. One big man a General, after exhausting good allocation from Central Bank in London; took the referral to his village seriously.

He was haunted by one of the Generals he killed during counter-coup.

There are many Nigerian physicians out there that are children of Babalawo. Many of them were recruited during the time of Prof. Olikoye Kuti and Lambo.

Could you please publish your empirical evidence so that African medicine can contribute to the World Health. Europeans would never admit they steal African medicine.

Asians are contributors. A good example is how Acupuncture became mainstream medicine. Many African medical graduates passed foreign exams before they complete their internships. But ignorant of African traditional medicine.

They cannot wait to take coal to Newcastle!

Thanks for your bravery to understand. Most of the people that differ from you did not take the most important point made into consideration: he is the type of son that will quickly upgrade her mother.

Indeed, buy his mother a house before himself and his family. You never indicated that what he did was good. He was overwhelmed by shame, poverty and guilt of denial at the same time.

Some of those condemning your points have kicked their mother out for not getting along with their wives, have hardly visited their mothers in the villages, have left the responsibilities of their mothers with their sisters etc.

It does not make his action right. Some of the children ignore the same mothers who paid their fees, in a corner. Many Nigerians wasted millions and deny the rest of Nigerians income earned from natural resources to train children that do not speak their language, that call their parents uncivilized or uncultured. They hardly eat what their mothers cook.

We justify those in Nigeria and even proud of them! The boy in this story can be easily rehabilitated, not those I mentioned. Sometimes, the mothers do not want to embarrass their kids. Reminds you of your classmates whose mothers are teachers!

nokspos:
Its take maturity to handle such situation well, i understand him , it doesn't mean he hate his mom, obviously he's not comfortable with his mother's current situation and who do anything to upgrade her. Even though what he did was wrong. it shows he's not matured enough to handle the situation better and he's desperate to upgrade his status. He should just go back immediately to apologies to the mom or even help her sell for a few hours to make her understand that he's 100 percent with her. It's not a big deal if the mother understands.

Don't blame him, people borrow 10million naira to join big boys' clubs, i know a few clubs like that, and trust me , you will start getting big contracts ones you join their clicks, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it, he didn't handle the situation well because he's obviously not matured enough, but he could have gone back immediately to apologies and even help her sell for a few hours.

Good write-up. I think most professions go through similar situation if you want to be successful.

It is silly to say one study is more strenuous than another. Music, RKRK Yoruba are easier or such chest beating. Professor Babalawo Abimbola has done more for African Humanity in culture and medicine than or equally with Professors Lambo and Olukoye Kuti. The irony is that while Prof. Abimbola is revered worldwide, Professors Lambo and Kuti have been overshadowed at home critics.

Nevertheless, the professors contribution to medicine inspired the children of Babalawo and barefoot doctors world wide to excel in medicine. You may not know it because they do not publish for fear of losing patrons (patent secret). They are the ones that sell their fathers' know-how individually.

But they combine African medicine with Western medicine like their colleagues in Asia.

HONEYMOON PERIOD FOR TINUBU IS DUE LIKE MOST NEW LEADERS

Nigerians have just elected a new leader. No matter our differences with Tinubu as a person, his character or our party affiliation; we should accord him the goodwill and benefit of doubt given to new leaders for the hope of a better country. Africans have had their share of bad leaders but Nigerians always have this optimistic view of new leaders, even the military ones: he go better. It could be an indication of how bad the situation had been before they came.

The first coup d'etat by Nzeogwu gave hope after condemning the corruption of our “ten percenters". Some jubilation and humiliation followed while others watched until Nzeogwu was betrayed by his comrades. All the leaders were going to be eliminated. They spared certain leaders. A grave self-inflicted wound that led to counter coups. Nobody has monopoly on force, threats and deadly force without repercussions. It resulted in a false start.

By the time Gowon took over, people had been traumatized. Only the benefit of doubt remained. Gowon promised no victors, no vanquished at the end of the Civil War. We had a series of military and civilian governments after, with the wish that one of them would restore Nigeria to its glorious days and hope for Africa’s Regional Power. Nigeria has not recovered from the bad legacy of the horrible war.

Most new governments enjoy a honeymoon but a section of the Country wants to make sure Tinubu fails from day one. So far, in less than a month, Tinubu has impressed most of the people including those that did not vote for him in his Osun home state and his adopted state of Lagos. When you win an Election, the President must cater for those that voted for and against him. We don't have to agree on everything. But failure is not an option at this point.

Nevertheless, the Country must move on either by granting the aspiration of the people for a federated state or into confederated nations. The days of Unity Beggars are gone because people are weary and tired of blackmails. Nigerians still love one another but the noise of hate and uncompromised aspirations have confounded the Silent Majority ruled by extremists. Their goal is to get what they want by any means necessary without building bridges.

It has not stopped some of the Youths, especially those from the Eastern and Western part of the Country from going after one another on social media. It has not spilled onto the street and we all pray that it will never get to that point. The political rivalry is mostly manifested in the Western part of the country where people from different states have traditionally been elected into City councils, the House in the state and at the Federal level. Regardless of non-Native concentration in an area, it hardly happened outside the West.

Unfortunately, the opposition to the new President is mostly coming from the South-Eastern Youths. They are galvanizing support by threats and deadly force in their areas declaring curfew whenever they feel like. This menacing threat has not spread to other states. But in a country where many people are related one way or the other, including by marriage, many innocent folks are affected. It should not have gotten to this point 50 years after the Civil War.

When people believe and feel they have not been accepted into the mainstream, we must listen, no matter how serious or justified their grievance. The people and the country must move on while those aggrieved must ask for demonstration of goodwill from the President, not Interim Government. The people of Lagos and Osun states that voted against Tinubu have accepted the reality on the ground hoping for the return to a prosperous country. Brothers and sisters in other states must reconcile and join hands with other Nigerians.

Even when you disagree with a new President, during the honeymoon period, you can be constructive, not disagreeable. Take the case of floating the Naira, a “simple” problem of Demand and Supply. Nigerians depend on foreign currencies to buy necessary and useless unproductive items from overseas as if the Country's ability to print dollars and euros could meet demand. Instead of facing this reality: complicated, bogus and superfluous theories taught in world's famous universities including local ones are postulated as solutions.

Most politicians have been floating the naira when it was one to one under matured supervision to the point of 1 to 600 today; with no end to devaluation in sight. Though they do not make their income overseas, they exhaust the meager income made from selling natural resources. Though during the Election, the three Presidential candidates promised to end petroleum subsidies. They still attack Tinubu for doing so.

The same Western world that controls their currencies by manipulation of the market, preaches a free market to African countries in order to buy their natural resources cheap. Everyone is aware that no country can satisfy Africans demand for the currencies they cannot print. The last time Nigerian pound or naira had an appreciable value of one to one pound or one naira to one and a half US dollars; control exerted worldwide was in place in Nigeria.

It is universally insanity to continue floating your currency for over 50 years, and to keep on doing the same expecting a different result. No country in the world freely floats its currency but African countries are always given that advice in the name of the free market. Indeed, there is no free market. American politicians campaign on, made and manufactured in the USA. While Africans desire very little of what is manufactured or made in their own countries.

Western countries print money without Gold backing that are used to create demand for Western goods and services at their dictated prices. Whenever it's advantageous to their economy, their currencies are manipulated stronger or weaker to corner the market. Therefore, African currencies only get weaker, never stronger.

When Americans and European politicians realized that objective economists are threatening their advantageous relationship in the domination of world currency, they introduced Structural Adjustment to devalue the African currencies so that African natural resources can be bought for little or in exchange for "Foreign Aid". It was even more surprising that Western trained economists bought the Structural Adjustment urging Africans to adopt it to their detriment!

If Western countries railed on China for not playing fair by manipulating their currency in order to sell their manufactured products cheaply, it is pure hypocrisy to tell Africans with little world demand for manufactured goods and services to sell their finite land and natural resources cheap. African countries have little artificial manufactured goods the world demands and buy in exchange for their local currencies.

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Dangote indicated sometimes ago that he would no longer need Central Bank for dollars since he would be generating enough foreign income.

Well take him up since he, Otedola, Ibeto, Innoson, the international corporations and big boys get their lion share from Central Bank. Give them license to open kiosk as in the Western countries to sell dollars competing for the best rate.

Our International stars generating foreign incomes should also be encouraged to do so. Anyone else selling dollars or any foreign currency must declare where and how they got it.

This will push Central Bank out of chosing winners and become competitive. In other words, show us where and how you are getting your foreign currencies. This is the real meaning of floating, not black or privileged markets.