₦airaland Forum

bixton:
You are writing politics theoretically stories and have no idea what PBAT is up to.
The only way Kwankwaso may likely become President is that PO wins and they are coordinated within Aso Rock.......
Hope you know who Kwankwaso is and who PO is.......
Nevertheless ,if PBAT retains that office, then it's all APC again when it gets to the turn of the North.
PBAT understands so much more than people even realize.

His analysis is somehow sound because Kwankwanso can decamp to APC and he will still have all his assets intact.

If convicted, he would have been fined and not sent to jail and the fine would not have been able to do for the US what the investment would do.

JimmySwaggart:
Atiku will win it. Amaechi just lost his VP slot to honrable Ihedioha . He would later work against ADC in the south, but even at that, it will be inconsequential in deciding who wins the 2027 general election.
If NDC fail to mobilise party agent across all local governments in the 6 geopolitical zones then ACP will rig them self once again to victory and the court as usual will use technicalities to destroy the oppositions case because they will have a hard time proving how they won the election.

Ok what about if all traditional rulers support another person? How will Atiku win given such a scenario?

JimmySwaggart:
There was no way Obi would have won that primary in the ADC with crops of over ambitious politicians.

Who is it then certain for? Every contestant would have needed to campaign and approach stakeholders from across the country. Do you think it would be easy for even Atiku to win as it is not only his village people or nuclear family that are voting in the primaries? The primaries up till now is not easy for anybody to win

WHAT YOU NEED TO REALIZE IS THAT THE VERY FACT THAT SOMEONE SAID ONLY ONE GOD SHOULD BE WORSHIPPED IS THE CHIEF REASON YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR OTHER GODS AND WORSHIP THEM.

IF SOMEONE SAID YOU MUST RESPECT AND GREET ONLY THEM THEN YOU KNOW THEY ARE NUTS AND YOU NEED TO RESPECT AND GREET OTHER PEOPLE

samuelson06:
Ifa itself is an idol. There's no way an idol god would be fighting its followers from not worshipping another idol.

IFA is a language or communication tool with the spirit realm

MadPolitician:
1)
Lagos is not "70% Yoruba" as you like to parrot when inebriated.
Lagos has millions and millions of non Yorubas from different parts of the country.
That's the fact every free minded Nigerian can easily attest to.
There are sub groups that are indigenous to Lagos that are not Yoruba. The Eguns for instance. They have always reminded you of this reality, but you have conveniently brushed their concerns aside while "fighting" for the minorities of the east..

2)
No one has any sort of anti Yoruba agenda by trying to win elections in Lagos. Yorubaland does not begin and end with Lagos state. We don't see such scrambles for elective positions in different Yoruba states by non indigenes. That obviously validates the point that non Yorubas in Lagos who gravitated towards Lagos because it was the former capital of the country and current financial capital, have now lived long enough in Lagos to be correctly tagged as "Lagosuans"!
If you don't like this, then do what you always advise others to do in similar situations; go to court!

3)
If Yorubas living in other parts of the country are patently scared to get involved in the politics of these areas, it is their own kettle of fish. No one stopped them from doing so. They sto-pped themselves. They have the right to contest. The constitution permits them, and at the last check, no one has been "flogged" nor beaten by MC Olùóma for daring to get involved in elections at say Kano or Enugu . If you are not contesting, blame yourselves for your lack of ambition, and stop making it look like there is a "plan" against you.. We can't be blamed for your debilitating culture of cò-wardice.

4)
Non native Abuja indigenes are contesting all over the federal capital territory. Run your checks. Aisha Yusuf is contesting for a Senatorial position. She is not from Abuja, she is from Edo. Infact, most political representatives of the federal capital territory, are "non indigenes". You may not have noticed this because unlike the South West who inject wayward tr-ibal-ism into issues like this, the average Gbagyi man is too busy doing something Important with his life to be involved in such lazy tribal outbursts..

I think Lagos is more than seventy percent Yoruba because in the seventies according to the census it was seventy percent Yoruba even as the capital not to talk of now that it is no longer the capital but what percentage do you think the Yoruba are in Lagos presently? Bring data to prove that the percentage of Lagosians that are Yoruba has dropped below seventy percent since the seventies. I believe it has increased until you bring your data. There was no Abuja back then and Onitsha, Awka, Owerri Enugu were not big cities. Oyo had more population than Lagos

Egun can't really be described as non Yorubas. They bear Yoruba names and etc. In Badagry, they have Yoruba indigenes that speak Yoruba and Egun and there are Egun towns where they speak only Yoruba and bear Yoruba names. I know at least one in Ogun state but I can't remember the name. How do you then make distinctions between Yoruba and Egun?

I am not against anybody contesting elections anywhere but I am against cheating any group and what is fair is for the SW to have three times the representation of the SE. Check all stats leaving out even tax because tax will mean the gap should be much wider. If Lagos has more population than Ogun and Oyo combined and is 120 percent of the SE then it should reflect in the representation at the federal level. That is my point. Only one percent of Lagos was FCT and the FCT argument is not an excuse. The right argument is that anybody that is a citizen is free to contest anywhere in the country. Nigeria is an amalgam of ethnic nationalities and if the weight of any nationality is being watered down, it will be foolish of them not to complain because benefits are being shared on this basis

The Yoruba or Hausa or Urhobo and etc who don't constitute themselves into an opposition party in places where they have numbers know why they don't do that. There are advantages and disadvantages to every approach. Igbos are a new people and they don't really understand yet how to deal with the rest of the world. They will eventually acclimatize. Igbos voting for Igbos alone can never win anything in any part of Lagos. Igbos are not more than one quarter of non Yoruba living in Lagos is why. Hausas, northerners who are not Hausas, Igbos, southerners who are not Igbos are the four around equal parts. Igbo is just one quarter of maybe thirty or twenty percent of Lagos and do you really think more Igbos have won elections outside Igbo land than Yoruba outside Yoruba land in Nigeria? I don't think so. Only the approach is different. So your belief that the Yoruba lack ambition and drive isn't correct. Why do you think a Yoruba man who is sensible will support someone like you who is publicly saying they have a debilitating culture of cowardice? People like you are the ones messing things up for others. Can you give your examples of why you think the Yoruba tend to be cowards? Because the Yoruba do well in Nigeria. If in battle, they won the civil war for Nigeria. The best known soldier was General Benjamin Adekunle If in politics or human rights struggle, they are over represented. In activism the same thing. Facing certain death without flinching, they are there. So please explain yourself.

If you do not beg ifa profusely and show enough respect, it will not cooperate with you fully. That should tell you all you need to know.

When you deal with IFA, you are dealing with your own Ori and if you don't defer to it properly ie worship it, it will not freely help you or answer your questions

There is nothing to be against in worship of any kind or greeting of any kind

Ifa can get for you any information that was known to anyone that ever lived anywhere on Earth. It may not get it immediately but it can get it. It can tell you the plans of your enemy, the prospects of a relationship and etc because it can read the mind, character and etc of the people concerned

It is those who don't need money from the government that should be making laws

Whether this reality is accepted or not, it will remain the reality. Political parties, trade unions and all associations with financial members should be the only ones recognized as political parties in any nation and when their candidates win, they should pay them by themselves for those who need to be paid and the only people eligible to contest should be trusted elders with clean track records. It should be elders trusted by the masses that should make laws for the nation and they should receive all briefs of the government and be able to sack the President without notice via a simple majority vote.

Ogbeyeku was the IFA cast for the Ogboni and shared to the nation when they went to consult IFA so that life will augur well for both of them

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied

Life augured well for the Ogboni and life augured well for the nation.

Ogbeyeku baba Amulu
Ori Ogbo Ori ato baba edan
A difa fun ile a bu fun edan
Ki aye le ye awon mejeeji ni won difa si
Won ni kan rubo
Won gbebo won rubo
Aye ye ile
Aye si ye edan

Ogbe yeku is unfailing alignment, unending alignment, reinvigorated alignment. Alignment because your salvation depends on it and etc
The Ogboni will always align with the land and the land will always align with the Ogboni

Ela boru Ela boye Ela bo sise

anonimi:
All this balablu ranting from someone who is from the country with the highest number of extreme poverty paupers and out of school children

There are primitive people on the Indian sub continent, in the Americas in Australia and even the Roma in Europe were semi primitive or at least nomadic. Such exist literally all over the world and we also have such in Africa but the Yoruba have never been even a tribal people at any point in their history. They have always been a nation The Ijesa a Yoruba sub nation are a nation and not a tribe. Tribe is low organisation and maybe a maximum of 2000 people living together or less. They don't have cities, advanced skills, advanced societies and advanced organisation and leadership and that was never applicable to the Yoruba at any time and your stats of out of school children and etc don't apply to the Yoruba. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century US and Yoruba urbanisation levels were the same and where you find cities you find civilization. No group on Earth has been living in cities for longer than the Yoruba. This is our year 10068 and it is the most ancient calendar on Earth. As an Ijesa man, should I accept the wrong narrative that my ancestors were tribals? No I will not. They were a well organized and advanced nation with territory that encompassed cities, towns, villages, their markets, industry and farmland

Menclothing1:
Can’t serve a state in a day

It is a twelve thousand barrels per day facility and at 75 liter per barrel, it will produce like 900,000 liters of pms every day

It will cost less than twenty billion naira and if it is decentralized with many owners the maintenance cost will not be significant and it will provide income for over one thousand people but if it is only one company in charge of generation then there will be a higher cost of maintenance including logistics and etc. It will however guarantee twelve hours a day of power.

Universal healthcare or healthcare subsidies

One thing is certain, a nation like Nigeria may not need to spend on healthcare as much as it spends on defense before being able to provide quality healthcare to all. It is certainly true for the USA. Totally government funded healthcare is after all not more than paying the salaries of health workers, buying and maintaining equipments as well as buying drugs. I believe it can cost less than the defense or education budgets in any country.

Government can allocate a small percentage of the budget to deal with health care while all the segments of the sector are run as a free market with government investing in them while leaving the bulk to the private sector.

Healthcare is not something we need everyday like food or shelter and it should not really cost much if the segments are left entirely to the free market with government interventions when necessary.

Some people do not visit hospitals in years but their taxes will still go to fund healthcare as it goes to fund other things they never use and when they visit a hospital, they can still pay by themselves. There is nothing wrong with that and if they can not afford to pay, then that is when the government should step in. There is no need for government to always pay for everybody's healthcare but if you qualify for assistance then you should be able to get the assistance while those who have invested in the sector make profit. I believe a nation like the UK is spending too much on the health sector.

People waste money on frivolities like eating out and drinking expensive wines and many of them will choose to pay for their own healthcare just like they send their kids to private schools instead of government schools and it is only those who can not afford to pay that need the assistance of government and they are the ones that should get it. Nobody should become poor or bankrupt because of health issues.

Kukutente23:
Awwww how sensible to the average mind to hear you say this
It's not about your country it's about who you support as if they care

Did President Jonathan try to save the country from oil dependence? No. The current President Tinubu is the first President to do that since the collapse of the first republic.

Only solar grids managed by small companies preferably owned by local governments can give us twelve hours a day of power in the country before year end

donleo92:
At the end of the day, all this things don't really get to the local masses

Not less than maybe five hundred people with family to feed will work in that place and they will also pay taxes

erico2k2:
Oga subsidy was not and never be removed. The name was just changed in the budge to Energy securities and other relating factors. Some of us Nigerians are to blind to see beyond our nose, You have the internet do a bit of digging

Subsidy means government is paying for you. Government used to buy petrol from the international market and sell at a loss to Nigerians and that is no longer happening

NaWhoTalkAm:
Why would one of your paternal uncles have a different Y DNA? Is Y DNA not passed down from father to son? Anyhow, you are addressing a different point than what I made. My point is that ancient paternal ancestry is not a good basis for defining who is and who is not Yoruba so you're actually proving my point if in your scenario you would consider the uncle with a different Y DNA still part of the family.

With all my explanation you still can't see why DNA should not be able to divide a family? It can't divide nor can it unite a. Family

NaWhoTalkAm:
Yes, a good point. The study was not really trying to compare the genetics of the Yoruba and Itsekiri per se but was just getting some record of various West African groups. However, even if the Ilajes and Ondo groups were tested and and scored near on paternal ancestry, it still shows that shared ancient paternal ancestry is not necessarily a good way to define a group as Yoruba since the Ibadan Yorubas and Lagos Yorubas scored a far off result from the Itsekiris regardless.

So if you discover that one of your paternal uncles has a different origin Y DNA, he will no longer be a part of the family? DNA is just like clothes. The spirit of your grandfather for instance will incarnate in your kids even if your wife was impregnated by another person and if you train somebody and they see you as their father, you can come back as their descendant. Then your own biological son that matches you by DNA can be a spiritual bastard. So downplay DNA, it does not mean much.

MadPolitician:
You are the lawless character here and that is typical of your type. Unrepentant ethnic jingoists like to start projecting there narcism on others, while doing everything humanly possible to advance the cause of political segregation..

You and as Nigerians know very well that the only reason that these ones are contesting is because it is legally right for them to do so. The constitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria did not say that only Yorubas should contest for elective positions in the South West, nor did it make it a law for only the igbos or the Hausas to contest in elective positions in the east and the far north respectively..

Rather, the constitution gave guidelines as it regards the qualifications of any Nigerian who wants to contest in a any particular area. You must have paid your taxes, contributes to these areas in different ways, and lived in these areas for a specified period of time. These folks met the bill thats why they will be on the ballot to your eternal chagrin! Some of them have serious businesses and companies paying heavy taxes and rates to the Lagos state government for eons. They have definitely lived over ten years in lagos and should have been disqualified if not..

But it is you who is maybe living in a dingy hole in Ogbomosho, that wants to dictate who gets what when and how in Lagos state, a former national capital. You do so without any recognisable investments in Lagos. You most probably is jobless and only have your laptop job to deal with, but because of your ethnic chauvinistic mindset, you somehow feel it is in your rights to say who talks and who does not talk in Lagos. .., all the way from Abeokuta.

Well, I'm so sorry to inform you that things do not work that way. We follow the constitution. Some of us who only listen to the constitution are now determined to find ways to practically drill this all important point into your Oshogbo òblõngì head...
We will always do.
When you're ready for action, bring it on..

Thanks you for your attention to this message..

You just continue with this line of argument that isn't logical. Igbos are less than thirty million in this country and Yoruba are over sixty million. Igbos have 15 senators in the SE and Yoruba have 18 in the SW. Is that fair to you? Yet you are saying Igbos can take part of Lagos slot to add to theirs. Not that it is possible as they lack the numbers as Yoruba lack the numbers in Awka or PH etc but it is a wonder to me how you can't see it is unfair. Lagos should have more representation in Abuja than the whole SE put together if Nigeria were a fair country and Lagos is most probably more than seventy percent Yoruba presently since it was that percentage in the 70s and now focus have shifted to Abuja so it is expected to be more. Your politicians are now in Abuja and no more in Lagos. It is some of your hustlers that remain in Lagos

When nobody brags about being financially better off.

When nobody brags about being financially better off is when you know as a society that you have arrived.

In such a society, people who have an ultra high net worth will be like activists or the early Christian missionaries who pour their all into their activities. They will be people that got there by adding value, people who lead a lot of workers and people who chose that path because of the freedom associated with it and not because of greed or because of only the money in itself because there is nothing more noble than pursuing financial freedom so that you can always be free to do the right thing. As the saying goes in Yoruba 'Sanan laarinn, aje ni NMU ni pekoro. We all are straightforward if not because of our finances.

There are societies close to that on Earth today and they are the ones that have succeeded the most in fighting poverty.

THE RSA- FORMALIZE THE ECONOMY INSTEAD OF XENOPHOBIA

The current median wage in the republic of South Africa is 350 dollars, it should be pushed to 500 dollars so that all workers will be able to be captured into the personal income tax net so that like 110 to 130 dollars minimum per month will be going to the government from anybody resuming to work anywhere on South African soil. There are reportedly between one and four million immigrant workers in South Africa and if they take this advise, then all those workers will become assets immediately instead of the liability that South Africans and their government think them to be. No worker is a liability or should be considered a liability in a civilized country.

If you are self employed anywhere in South Africa, you must pay yourself this wage and pay the required tax. If you have an employee then you must pay that employee the taxable minimum wage too while paying yourself something higher, all taxable. If this is done, then anybody leaving the country will be a minus for the government and by extension the citizens and the only people benefitting will be the immigrant community that will fill up the place or take the person's business and also local south Africans seeking employment.

This needs to be done urgently before the situation escalates as Nigeria especially can retaliate via a hostile takeover of South African controlled companies in Nigeria. They will be edged out of the management of those companies and they will lose substantial income as a result. What Nigerians make in South Africa is not much compared to what South Africans make in Nigeria or at least it will weigh equally.

A stitch in time as the saying goes can indeed save nine.

GeneralOuki:
A civil war as per how?

You come to me to say somebody is bad and I help you remove him to place you there and I allow you to have two shots. I now got there and you are going back to the same person to stop me from having two shots? And that is not enough to you for someone to fight over?

The only way GEJ can contest is if the Fulani go to beg him to contest and if they do that they are only preparing the ground for a civil war

Lithiumite:
Spot on,thats what we have always been telling everyone shouting hunger and how they cant afford to fuel their cars...... Nigeria is a poor country pa capita and govts revenue to gdp is too low......yes we have abundant crude oll but that doesn't mean we have an endless pit of money.

Crude oil the main revenue earner of our govt is just 5% gdp,tax revenue to gdp jist shored up to 13% under tinubu from an abysmal sub 10% and way short of the African average of 18% and nowhere near world average of 30%......how then do nigerians expect govt to give them American,European or dubai grade service,its impossible..

Yes and with this metric you can just ask a nation's GDP and it's government revenue and be able to predict instantly it's level of development, HDI and etc

Kewekubosineh:
Oops!

Continue claiming Lagos and allow your state to die because you abandon it. You are many like that and found in Alausa.

But hear me. All Nigerians developed Lagos and we have a share in the patrimony. From Otuoke in Bayelsa state to Kaura Namoda in Zamfara state northern Nigeria have equal stake in Lagos because we jointly developed it.

Know this and you will have peace!

Why only Lagos is what I don't understand. The Yoruba leader in Anambra claim 500k Yoruba live there and that will be ten percent of the population. Igbo in Lagos are not more than ten percent. The Yoruba have huge presence in major cities across the country and are more represented in PH than Igbo in Lagos. However the fair thing is to give Lagos the number of seats it deserves according to it's population as there is actually nothing wrong in any citizen contesting elections anywhere in the country whether they will win is another matter.

21lucky:
You are talking nonsense.

Continue deceiving yourself with your lies.

History says that south south region was part of old eastern region later called Biafra.

Any argument you are talking is baseless and lack facts. You can not change history with your baseless argument.

Four states in the SS were part of the old Eastern region and the remaining two formed the Midwest that was originally part of the western region

Government revenue to GDP- The metric that tells it all

I have tried to use revenue per Capita saying the higher it is in a nation the more developed the nation will be but the cost of living differential across nations makes it useless as a metric. If the cost of living were similar across board, it would have been the perfect metric

I have also tried to use tax to GDP ratio saying the higher it is the more developed a country will be but there are many low populated countries that export a lot of natural resources therefore having a lot of revenue without needing to have a high tax to GDP ratio. They will definitely have a high HDI but their main problem is that the economy is not tied to the government and the government do not regard the citizens as important since they are not a source of substantial revenue. The development such countries can have can only be superficial and not organic. A good example is the Libya of the late Muamnar Ghadafi.
Tax to GDP ratio as a metric to measure or predict development status does not work well because a small country with a lot of sellable natural resources can have a very low tax to GDP ratio and still have very good infrastructure as well as very high HDI because of it's revenue from natural resources.

I have therefore arrived at an infallible metric which is simply GOVERNMENT REVENUE TO GDP RATIO. This metric must be high enough for any nation to be economically successful. A nation whose revenue is only five percent of GDP certainly can not be a successful nation

MIKOLOWISKA:
that is parliamentary system

It failed woefully

No not really parliamentary. Parliamentary do have opposition parties and parliamentary system did not fail in Nigeria as it was running well before being truncated by the military. In the system described, Presidential election can even be among the lawmakers with the position open to the general public. The executive can be entirely recruited by the lawmakers while the lawmakers themselves are part time lawmakers. In Germany presently, parties that win do share power instead of sidelining any party and in China only one party and independent candidates in some constituencies contest elections. Germany and China are doing something that can be called a government of national unity because no bloc is ever left out

Laladre1:
I'm not surprised at your comment, your parents are still feeding you so you actually don't have ani idea what this is all about, the little Economics you know from reading online is making you feel like you understand Economics, 1 questions now, you'll run to Chatgpt to seek for answers, Anyways I don't blame you, very soon when your parent's send you packing, you'll understand life.

How old are you? What experience of life do you have? What management experience do you have? I believe mostly negligible because you expect a country of over 200 million to be depending on less than one quarter of the government income of a country like Saudi Arabia that is only around 30 million in population. It is also basic common sense that if you did not collect money from someone you don't really owe them any explanation of how you spent the money. Lastly high HDI, good infrastructure and etc cost money and all governments that provided it sustainably took almost half of their GDP to be able to do that. Mention one good country where government revenue is less than twenty percent of GDP. NO COUNTRY WILL EVER BE RICH UNTIL THE TAX TO GDP RATIO IS HIGH ENOUGH OR RATHER THE GOVERNMENT REVENUE TO GDP RATIO.