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Life but a walking shadow, says Shakespeare. News has just filtered in on the demise of Oluremi Oyo.
May her soul rest in peace. Good night, great amazon.

You served your fatherland to the limits of your strength.
You will be missed.

nigeria-wealth..com

happy independent folks,

As our country match forward in her quest for robust development, the leaders need to diversify the mainstream of Nigeria's economy off crude oil, the regular targets of the west. With this, we may be out of the chess-game of "the almighty US" and her allied forces. We are a people full of surprises, we are capable of self re-invention.

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The search for alternative energy by the Barack Obama administration in the United States of America (USA) has begun to take a toll on Nigeria’s crude oil export as the US for the first time failed to import a single barrel of crude oil from Nigeria.

This troubling scenario experienced in the month of July, according to industry watchers, may spell doom for the Nigerian economy.

Obama’s vigorous search for alternative energy to drive the world’s largest economy poses grave dangers for Nigeria whose economy is highly dependent on revenue from oil.

Nigeria used to be the fifth largest exporter of crude oil to the US.

However, experts said despite declining revenue, depleting foreign reserves and pressure on the exchange rate, Nigerian economy remained “robust enough to withstand the shock waves hitting the economy.”

While US crude imports rose by 569,000 barrels per day in July, imports of Nigerian crude fell to zero for the first time.

Data obtained from the US Energy Information Administration during the week showed that US imports rose to 7.623 million bpd up from 7.054 mbpd in June.

Despite being at their highest since December 2013, imports are down from 8.058 mbpd in the same month a year ago.

Imports from Nigeria fell to zero in July, down from 89,000 bpd in June, all of which had gone to the US Atlantic Coast.

Nigeria had remained remarkably upbeat despite lower-than-expected revenues, low foreign investment and a weak infrastructure base.

While President Goodluck Jonathan has rolled out a slew of robust, but seemingly disjointed plans in several sectors of the economy, his government has failed to articulate a stimulus package to deal with the current public revenue crisis and record unemployment, or to weld the plans into a coherent whole.

Reports indicated that before now, the US has reduced crude imports from Nigeria by 91 per cent, putting the country’s crude exports in disarray.

The US, which was hitherto the biggest importer of crude from Nigeria with over one million barrels per day, early this year imported an average of 100, 000 bpd till June 2014.

Data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) revealed that by the end of last year, the US dropped to the 10th highest importer of Nigeria’s crude, with 1.438 million barrels.

Specifically, Nigeria exported 1.438 million barrels of crude oil to North America by December 2013, down by 15.111 million barrels in December 2012.

Obviously, Nigeria has started witnessing the negative effect of shale oil exploration in the US and other parts of the world. Prior to July, the country’s crude oil export to North America had dropped by 91.31 per cent in one year.

North America accounted for 22.19 per cent of Nigeria’s total crude export by December 2012, but it dropped to 2.23 per cent by December 2013.

According to an NNPC report, “Prior to the decline, the US was the highest buyer of Nigeria’s crude, purchasing 14.279 million barrels in December 2012, thereby accounting for 19.15 per cent of Nigeria’s total crude export and 86.28 per cent of total crude export to North America. By 2013 end, the US dropped to the 10th highest importer of Nigeria’s crude.

The NNPC report stated that by December 2013, Europe was the highest importer of Nigeria’s crude, accounting for 47 per cent of Nigeria’s total export, followed by Asia and Far East, accounting for 26 per cent, while Africa accounted for 12 per cent.

The report stated that South America accounted for 10 per cent of Nigeria’s total crude export, while Oceania/Pacific and North America accounted for three per cent and two per cent respectively.

Also, India emerged the highest importer of Nigeria’s crude in December 2013, with 13.086 million barrels, followed by the Netherlands with 9.866 million barrels, and France 4.497 million barrels.

Nigeria exported 4.869 million barrels of crude to Brazil in the period under review, 4.6 million barrels to Spain and 3.895 million barrels to South Africa.

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest crude exporter, depends largely on crude proceeds to service over 85 per cent of its budget.

The present scenario, no doubt, compels President Jonathan and his economic team to roll up their sleeves and come up with a way out for the country’s economy.

http://leadership.ng/news/385833/

macof: lol chill ghost we need to examine every possible assertion tho many people have been so dumb in this issue. And Nothing can tell Yoruba history and the history of this region than Ifa.

I never resolve on a conclusion until I've examined all accounts

Gbam! All we have to be is flexible and keen. Time is the revealer of all secrets. With time and patient, good materials will force their way out of the closet. @sparta, Its good to be able to stretch and accomodate variant views. Don't conclude yet until you supply the Ifa tradition, if not you will only complain and your peers would be doing things you don't like with our common heritage.

macof: Every civilization from The Ewe people of Cote d'ivoire to Igbos and Efik are of the Yoruba league. Tho I prefer to use the word 'Oodua'

The problem is that so many of us don't care about our history.

Perfect. Well people do in their own ways, they were just more confused by the dynamics of our history than we do. At least no matter how small or childlike, we often have intricate ideas to talk about. We do not have a luxury of a powerful authority somewhere to put us through. Yet here we are with bit and piece that each person has. Together we are doing some ground work for the future where people will value their history. Each person's opinion here is closer to the user than the conclutions of a prof. So we are involve in the big picture of the future. We are already casting and crafting our history for the next generation. These threads are library. This is how far scholarship has evolved, from classroom to chatroom, sort of.

Touching the work of Revd. Samuel Johnson, it is one of the 100 must influential book of the 19th century, according to CSS Bookshop. It is a breathtaking research open to critical review. Most of terms you use and stories we share are shaped because Johnson gave impetus to it. You can be right, he can be wrong somewhere, but you do not condemn an irreplaceable work when there is no way of verifying his or your claims on decisive points. My vote, for Johnson as we progress.

macof: I can't even remember who the writer is and I never saved the page.

One thing I remember is dat the 'ogiso' is an ijaw name as well as the name 'igodo'.

some geologist have described This region- that is South South Nigeria as a very old habitation dating several Years on BC(the figures I can't remember).

Two set of inhabitants is known
1. Ancient People from the sky known as Oru (possibly a variant of Horus- Egyptian God of the sky)
2. migrants from The North who settled in Ile-Ife and claimed descent from Oduduwa and Osara- must be Okanbi's followers or unrecorded children

The ijo seem to know a lot about Oduduwa even better than some Yoruba people(that is if their records are accurate)
They know his wife Osara and some claim descent from her.

Oduduwa according to ijo came from Nubia.
That could explain why Oduduwa was very friendly to Ogboroganda who also came from Nubian territories

This is beautiful, as for me, Ijaw are of the old Yoruba league.

Macof, where have you been hidden this lovely refinement all this while? You were cheating all of us and your audience for a long while, thank God we now have a very fair macof. That's a blessing for all of us, not that we need to agree, but we have to turn out as a very prudent and comprehensive scholars, irrespective of our philosophical inclinations. Our unique vision and future depend on it. We can be angry couple of times and be honest and move on. Welcome dear brother, I've lost you a long while ago. Kaabiesio!

Only my father Jesus can save, grass can only make you guys feel high ire. Remember Surgeon General's warning!!! Come out of skunk, kpoli, ganja and win your ticket to the kingdom of our father, God

As to ete daye, ashaa dapomu, the king told us that during the Yoruba civil war, the 'pax britanica' English banned gunpowder. The Apomites have to con things up after smuggling the stuff to the town. So they no longer call it 'etu~ibon', (Yoruba for gunpowder) but 'ashaa' a black, powdery tobacco stimulant. So the buyer would ask for 'stimulant' when asking for gunpowder in the real sense. This 'deception' is what is call 'ete' at Apomu, who depend on the gunpowder for self preservation in spite of coming under british protectorate.

Radoillo, you ask the king question. @Africa, a soul is turn apart if all these bug forms the core of your value. This 'messiahnic complex' is the crux of how you see the world? It is a form of 'megalomania' from which 'world war' often spawn. People are problem: the racist somali beefing the black are finding consolation for not being their obsession, Arab/white. Yet like somali king here, some want to be blacks or Africans. Enter our brother, the Liberator. I take this from Wyclef: two wrongs don't make a right.

The Eastern Origin

This Eastern curve is exactly what RandomAA was trying to do somewhere in his "east west south north" thread. The East was product of Samuel Johnson's assertion that Mecca is the East and the East is Mecca in the History of The Yorubas. Johnson emphasis East, not because he was aware of possible Benin curve, but to make some noise as to Mecca being the place in the East and not Jew or Egypt or Mesopotamia.

However, all the people are one big mix. But the joker is not always who come from who. Why not claim Igbo or Hausa for Benin? No 'lexical bridge' exist in classic times to burrow the link, such as you have it in Oba between Yoruba and Edo. The Igbos have Obi, had it been its Oba, they would be more involve in the equation now.

The Yoruba have Obi, it is not developed, just as the Igbo has not developed her version to tangible institution till recent time. The saying Ijesha Oshere, Onile Obi is not just a fancy talk, its talking about Onile (land owning) Obi (matriarch). this is patrilineal Africanus, so matrilineal is not going to survive. But thats where we may have started before the "Princedom" stole it from the "Queendom"

The Yoruba/Benin "Oba" competition?


So, the term Oba is the problem. Without it, Yoruba historians wont border include Benin in their historiography, I guess. Who has the lexicon? Is it Benin that was calling her kings Oba before the Yoruba or they switch from Ogiso to Oba at some point? What has the Yoruba being calling their king? Oduduwa? Ogiso? What?

This is how to find out: how many variants of the world occur in a language in current usage at Benin and at Yoruba? we have benins to ask for this, but in Yoruba, a man on the street is familiar with Oba as loba, i.e meet him. Oba is when bird also perches, eye ti ba le okun, then it is found in Obakan, same father siblings. Other variant is Obi and Iba, from Ibadan axis.

Oba is the variant of Iye. So it is said Obakan or Iyekan. The Yoruba are people enough to come up with their historical identity and lexicons. It is Benin that should come later to claim Yoruba emanated from them, that's backlash for the long century of Yoruba doing the same.

macof: I read the first ogiso was from ijawland

You know that the Benin in the house will take that as sacrilege. The writer was not on ground when it happened and was he (the author) of Benin ancestry? If yes, did the Oba appoint him for this and accept his position? If no, is there anything in it for him as a non Benin to see Benin in this light, like his biases?

I personally have seen what I am saying happen in the court of the king of Apomu. Until the king came out, all his subjects who were as informed as he is refused to speak up. Even there was a case of a simple proverb about the place that a chief wanted to chip in, he ask me to ask the king, "your highness, please what does Ete daye, asha dapomu mean?" I did.

Then Apomu story has to get us asking question as to what we were told at Ikoyi Ile. You know, people present a story to favour their side, but in the core of it the truth can be easily decipher.The point is, everyone have their way of seeing things.

Did Benin came from Ijaw?

The main people that introduce us to the lexicon Ogiso are Benin, not Ijaw. And they told us that the Ogiso are king(s) from the sky. Now as to Oduduwa, the first people that introduce this lexicon to the world are the Yoruba, and they told us it is a name from the heaven. it is not from Benin that Yoruba picked the word Oduduwa, but now, the Benin says ekalediran(?) is Oduduwa. Why is it so tough and so recent?

Oduduwa should have been "aka" Ekalediran, and a variant of the story should have been going on from the days of yore, not a sudden evolution. The thing is, the new school of Afrocentric historian on this Benin curve for Yoruba were adopting the "East" as if Yoruba were particular about East in their story of origin. afterall, Orun simply connote heaven, five, neck, destroyers or annihilators.

Finally, in all guises, Nigerians are receptive people.

Its not inferiority complex as some of us likes to see it, when such natural warmness to outsiders is shown by some. It is shown to all that have one or two things to earn it in the first place.

Some of the emotional wars going on is not quite obvious to the everyday man, but our enlightened recriminations and all sort of things do put everyone on edge, and spoils the mood for others.

But life will always find a way through our emotional barriers and other preferences to keep going on.

just saying, as usual.
farewell.

Greaaaat apocalypto!

we'll always give peace a chance,
We will always treasure our history.
But the black race will never ever experience
anything so evil like it happen in the past ever again.

KoloOyinbo: Thank you pslm23.

I will do so. Although I some of my Naija friends here in Belfast (we have a large Nigerian Community) have put me in touch with two people from her area (they all speak Etsako) and they are now helping out.

hmmmn I'm happy for you that you found a damsel to make your life complete.

hammedkola: Yes oooo

E wa o, se a o le beere answer si ibeere yi lowo ifa ni? Egba mi, Okan mi ma ti foo ke!

Last night, I saw you in my dream. You are fair as rose, supple and so regal. I tried to call you, oh no, but I can't. This is my dream oh my delutions! How I long to talk to you and whisper sweet nothing and caress you. I long to see you, to share sweet memories with you. I long to hold you again and again through the time. If I can see you again in this life we'll be leading one sweet life 2gether. Yinka, godbye and be fine wherever your spirit go.

But where bini con come from?

The Nigeria superiority complex derived from the blessed assurance of the upbringing of the Nigerian child. Your radar pick it everywhere that 9ja is the most blessed country in the world and that there is nothing Nigerians may want to do that they can not do. How do you start to question that as a child? You grow up singing and humming 'everything e dey for Nigeria ooo' Foreigners on the street says the same thing. You just become it naturally. 9ja is a great country. But we use neighbouring country to spite our leaders.

hammedkola: You catch fire like Zaaki

Mo ti lanor bi Zaaki, No qualms, mo maa wa tonnor bi daddy showky. Let's go, eazy, oya, fire dey burn, wall no run. ok, alright, I be ajebota! Ibo ni mi ti so pe mi adore vanacular? Aha, Never. Butty nimi rep. meeeeen. aha butty nimi reprezent. Butty nimi reprezent. Chorus till fade.

Good, that Olori pupupu ought to be mentioned somewhere when my brother went tailoring his tales. I'm begining to think we may be dealing with a man with abosute poetic license in amo4ce. Did Yoruba pantheon exhibit all these exhortic aura for God sake?Anyway, I cherish your power of choice to make a word perform to orchestra any role you chooses. That's absolute power. IMPREGNATO!

What does WTH have to do with this?...

This is beautiful and dramatic. Bring more resource in please. When we engage tradition, secret will reveal itself to us. Will add little from the book Igbo language and culture.

This is beautiful and dramatic. Bring more resource in please.

hammedkola: Who is real Yoruba that can tell me the answer,

Gbogbo re je Oke kan igbio o le onini eedegbaaji. Emi ni mo koko gbaa o.

Tony, I salute your courage on this. How I wish you can find a cute title and launch this as a book. The youths of northern Nigeria are not being equally empowered compared to the south where ethnic competition is rife and enhancing rebirth and per capita growth. Let's forget all the true morality for a seconds: If we don't fight it, it will fight us.

Winston Churchill said "you are not interested in war, but war is interested in you" With the attitude of suspicion and victimism that is seemingly inherent in the north for all this 'golden era', of northern hegemony, the region ought to have favorably tag along or catch up. But for how long?

We definitely need towering figures such as Dangote as much as a successful, next door abokina that mix freely with others shoulder to shoulder in different places in the country.

We need them as 'glorious potentials', not as 'dangerous potentials'. If we refuse to help, we become the target. Whatever happens, education wont water down Islam or whatever the stumbling block is. Even the Islamic tenet is to seek knowledge. Isn't sufi 'sophy' sofia or safiat? Thats "Arabo-hellen" mix for you. NAGODE!

TIMED BOMB

Were you born this month of the year? Well I was, on the tenth day, 'when school children close', (that should be 1 o'clock or 2). To me the sun was at the centre, and everybody love sunlight, so thats why love is paramount to me than hate ooo. Do we have numerologists in the house? I want true seance session on this, whatever. On a more serious note, does birthday have significant impact or does birth date? I know astrology is the philosophical preoccupation of the orientals, Aztec and sumerians. Does this find expression in black Africa? I need to know, if it is all for the day, then I am okay.

@Op, thanks so very much for the post. Have to be law abiding this year on nairaland especially. But I pray that the law abide with me too. We are made for each other, the law and me.

Ado-Odo:

Ado adogbo,Ado Adoye.
Omo Alado moro Okege Agbon.
Ado Ekun 'mawopa.

Ado Ilaje, Ado Itako, Ado Amuwa.
Omo Afepoorun je'su.

Olisa Ere,
Omo Olofin Ejigiri sise
Ise lafi dale Ife.
Osupa kodede ran lasan,
Ise laago nse lojoojumo.

Olisa Ere lo kan omi Osa,
lo so Ogbun d'ilu l'owode.
Awayo Ogun ko k'Ado ri.
Odo lade, lade layo. Odo l'Ado si o.