₦airaland Forum

PapaBrowne:
The greatest mistake the Benin made at the time was to make the Edo language an elitist lingual spoken only by the Binis. If they acted like the English, they would have forced their subjects to speak Bini and the rest would have been historically. The entire SW would have been speaking Bini today.

I think you people have now accepted that the Benin empire was one of the many Yoruba empires in West Africa that spoke the same language and practiced the same culture?. The sister states were Ijebu, Ijesa, Oyo and some city states in Ekiti and Ondo. Benin bordered Ijesa directly and they spoke the same language. The capital of the empire was the Benin palace containing more than fifty thousand souls that spoke only Yoruba and established cities with Yoruba names. The present Benin language was spoken by Edoid people in the suburbs who are the original indigenes of the area. The Yoruba was used in the past to run the empurw throughout it's length and breadth up to Rivers state but those people have now become Igboid people. The Benin were not the only Yorubas with many non Yorubas in their empire. The Oyo empire contained Nupe, Bariba, Fon, Ebira, Hausa and many groups in Northern Nigeria that were tributary to it in the past. Benin however still contained many Yoruba citizens than any other language group. The people now claiming they own the empire did not get their language spoken in the palace in the past but they are the real indigenes of Igodomigodo before it was rechristened Benin. That is the right history but the Benin monarchy and the city today is owned by them

If you know any organisation promoting the language and culture you can donate to it. If you or anybody else want to learn the language, you can master it to passability in six months. Igbo is a living language with millions of speakers and once Nigeria breaks up, you can be sure it will be kept alive among millions in West Africa. Anybody can learn from them at any time in the future and people from all over the world will learn possibly including some of your own descendants who take interests in West Africa and your origin and if they don't, complete strangers will.

PetroDolla2020:
Yorubas and associated people in Eastern Ghana? Where in Eastern Ghana?

Go and make the research. I have never been there but there is Yoruba land in Eastern Ghana. I think around fifty towns in all and there is Ife in Ghana that is not even on Ghanaian Yoruba but owned by people who believe they are the same thing as Yoruba. Amadzofe. qualifies as the site of an ancient Ife.

absoluteSuccess:
"There's no place in the Bible where God asked you not to defend yourself..."

"When they slap you at the right cheek, turn the left, when they slap you at the left, what do you do?"

"Do you know what it means when God is silence? It's over to you."

God bless Pastor E.A. Adeboye,

God bless us all.

Plagiarism! By Enoch Adeboye. I was the first person to use that analogy in that way but I am not sure I wrote it down but since he had cameras and listening devices planted all over my living space to eavesdrop on me I am not surprised.

macof:
We need to concentrate on West Africa, African continent is too big for this project of unified currency and military

Another thing, we need to reconstruct our boarders, this colonial countries must be dismantled and we rebuild new nations, true nations built on ethnic homogeneity

Even West Africa is too large. Not needed. The Yorubas in West Africa and associated people in Togo, Benin republic and eastern Ghana will be over 100 million in population all having attachment to the Ife culture and having sites of ancient Ifes on their lands. To merge them together under one sovereign nation is the right thing since they already see themselves as one.

emmanuelbrown26:
I hv being asking dis question on and on, what's d benefit of marriage to a man, I'm yet to get an answer

You will have a primary partner to share your dreams, plans and future with and raise a family together with. You will also get a chance to raise kids that you can train with all your experience for them to turn out well so that when you die you can be sure your estate is in good hands and that your plan will continue to be carried out. It is a gimmick to live forever.

Olu317:
I do not know why many people including yourself differs from the real concept of God's acknowledgement by condemning Abrahamic's ways of life. Kindly direct me to any stanza that Yoruba's God did so.

Please sir,it is ideal right not assume for Yoruba God and affix him with a non identity. Whatever you call foreign religion stn't what you think it is.

Rather be patient to learn Yoruba tradition or aptly be involved in Iṣẹ̀ṣé even if it is on a lighter note to knowing more about recorded knowledge on Yoruba God.

Precisely, I am sure you know that having open heart acquaintance with Ifaodu exposes one to higher understanding of God but, you seem to have hatred towards these semitic ways of life which is enshrined as part of means of worship heavily in Yoruba mode of interaction with God.

Although these mode of worship were hijacked and partially taken away by intruders in ancient Yoruba land,which does not give room for hatred.

Anyway If you are 100% sure , of what you think you know more than us all,then answer these questions before you condemn my views.

1. Why do we genuflect when we pray in Yoruba traditonal ways as the ancient Hebrew did and later Arabs Islamic worshippers do same ?

2. What is the name of the only one whom to be worshipped solely in terrestrial level ?

3. Does Yoruba God has a definite gender ?

Please, use Ifaodu verse to support your view.

4.What is the significance of Ọlọ́jọ day which just finished on the main day fews days ago ?

Akinbọrú
Akinbọyè
Akinbọṣiṣẹ́.

Anybody can use God or god as they like really makes no difference but Pagannaija himself knows that Ubangiji is different from the deities and is the same as Olodumare which is what is called God or Gott in Germanic languages but that Almighty God has no special people is how it is different from the Bible God.

Olu317:
We aren't . Anyone whose family isnt connected to the people at ILE IFE isnt/aren't Yorubas. Oriki(panegyric) and Ebi system nailed who is/are of ancient Yorubas. The same way Ibariba(Tapa) intermarriages brought about the relationship with Yoruba is the way Igala-Idoko is related to Yorubas. I don't belong to the group of Yoruba that's economical or emotional about the truth. I say it as it is. Ebi system knock 'em all off.

I have deduced that the Oduduwa ruling family must have come from Egypt but at the time Egypt was ruled by a dynasty originating from Sumerian hence the mention of Nimrod by the prince that was crowned in Ile Ife. There is a good possibility that Ife was in Kogi state when Oduduwa came because there are some Ifes in Igala land till now and the Onu ife there does not bow to the Attach Igala. My belief is that the Jukun sacked that Ife or troubled them a lot and they relocated to Igbomokun in Osun state which they renamed Ife. I believe the bronze work found in Ugbo Ukwu is of Ice origin and it should be Ife Igala as Igala land is also in Anambra state with ethnic Igalas. The Igala as they are now are being ruled by a Jukun origin dynasty but their political system is still of the Ife. I think the human being ruling does not matter since many monarchs inside Yoruba land are also of varying origin. They have the equivalent of Ogboni which they call Oboni and the Attah Igala us under such a council called Igalamela meaning The nine elders of Igala. They are the ones actually in charge of Igala land but the dynasty is Jukun origin while the language is Yoruboid and they have at least two ancient Ifes on their land whose kings are definitely descended from ancient Ife royalty.

I finally found out that the first catholic mission in Nigeria established in Lagos was established by missionaries from Lyon France implying that the missionaries were French men and they were the ones initially referred to as Aguda in the saying Aguda o je labe Geesi use Owo mi ni mo nje!. It therefore means The French are not being fed by nor are they serving under the British, I eat from my own labor. The Aguda in the saying appear to mean French since the first Catholic missionaries were French.

The language spoken by the Yoruba is academic evidence enough even without DNA evidence that the population was infused with a minimum of between 20 to 30 percent Kemitic Egyptians less than two thousand years ago. Maybe in batches. There is no need for any DNA test before we accept that. The language we speak today which is Kemitic Egyptian in majority of vocabulary and structure is enough or even conclusive proof. The language landed here over the head of more than one thousand languages. I read here that a study showed a genetic link of Yoruba with Germans. There also will be with Greek because those people were a part of Kemitic Egypt from the onset. Among those that brought the language were people of Greek, German and general Celtic descent. That is for sure. I think the person that led them to Ile Ife was an Egyptian of Sumerian descent. He was renamed Oduduwa but made sure to mention to his children that his ancestor was Lamurudu which is Nimrod but if we assume he founded the present dynasty that started using the title Oba and that brought the present language then he was an Egyptian. An Egyptian can be of any descent. Then we don't have non human ancestors. There were humans of all types including three feet tall humans but once you can speak, make tools, are intelligent, make fire etc. That iis a human being. A human being should be able to mate with another human if size is similar but offspring will have defect if they are of different species despite both being humans but none of our ancestors were hominids. They were all humans. If by any chance a human being, say Enoch Adeboye mates with a donkey and the donkey gives birth, the offspring will die without leaving any issue. It will not be able to procreate. Therefore only humans can mate with humans to give birth to viable offsprings and if those humans are not of the same species, the offspring will not be fully viable. Simple. For example we have no Neanderthal fathers only mothers as a male offspring of Neanderthal male and homo sapiens female were infertile. They all died out. However there are Y chromosomes descended from non Homo sapiens making four ancestors already if Denisovan is counted but so far only Homo sapiens and one other yet unmapped are our fathers. There are many human species in our ancestry and they were not hominids but human beings.

The Ilaje are higher in population than a number of sovereign states and is one of the longest standing nations on Earth. The least that can be done for them is to put them under one administration with one capital one judiciary one government and one future in a union with the rest of Yoruba land. They have a lot to offer the world.

Respect55:
You are right and intelligent. They were actually importing cement for rebbaging. Dangote actually needed to run total monopoly and the powers that be danced to his tune. You could imagine holding consignment in the water for 3 months. Then sanctions upon taxes till they folded up. Just regretful.

Dangote is not running a monopoly since there are other plants across the country and more can still be opened. He only raised money from the capital market and other means to invest in cement production facilities which any other company can do. Anyone of the companies in the industry can triple production and drop the price and still remain very profitable.

Respect55:
Dangote with his federal support cut out supply from the waterways.

But I guess the majority were rebagging isn't it? They were not producing cement in the country which only requires a technology that has been in existence for over two thousand years introduced by the Romans. Dangote is taking resources from Kogi state and Ogun state and I think others should have done the same rather than importing cement through the waterways to be rebagged. I never knew Eagle cement depended on importation too. I thought they were producing.

Respect55:
Not so. Government blocked their water way

Please explain what you mean because I do not understand what exactly happened to the company which is one of the main companies of note ever founded indigenously.

Gerrard59:
Using the HDIndex, none.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Nigeria should first surpass fellow black-dominated countries such as Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica and Botswana before attempting to equal let alone surpass a white-dominated country.

Nigeria and many other black dominated countries are better than some countries dominated by white skinned people but not better than any European country. Afghanistan is dominated by white skinned people who are Aryans and there is at least one very poor Turkic country. There are very well run countries in Africa whose only problem is a high dependency ratio that will soon correct itself with time

A nation may need a special relationship with some other nations above others. Take a Yoruba nation for example, the nation like all others will need a special relationship with the super powers who help guarantee peace. These are the nations who spend most on defense presently, led by the USA, China, Russia, India and etc.

A Yoruba nation will need a special relationship with the nations where millions of Yoruba citizens reside as immigrant workers led by Britain, USA, European Union, Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Hausa land, Igbo land, South Africa, UAE etc. Those are the places you find Yoruba citizens in large numbers outside their own homeland.

Then, the Latin American nations led by Brazil where there are over 100 million people in total who practice the Yoruba theology and spirituality with the majority of them claiming Yoruba descent but without interest in land or citizenship in West Africa. A good portion of these people are Caucasoid by phenotype. These people in Latin America are more Yoruba than the people in West Africa. A small nation like Cuba among them have more than one hundred thousand trained Babalawos. A sovereign Yoruba nation will surely need a special relationship with the Latin American nations that contain millions of Yoruba descendants in the diaspora whose communities were established before the industrial era.

Then the nations whose citizens have substantial investments in corporations in Yoruba land which includes the Chinese, Indians, USA, Britain, South Africa, Germany, Japan and etc. Many publicly listed companies in Nigeria originated from Europe and they are generally better run than Nigerian founded companies most of which don't last more than one generation. There are Yoruba or Nigerian founded companies in USA, Britain, Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, South Africa and the EU with some doing well and listed on their stock exchange. There should be international relations based on this interraction.

The present platforms on which nations relate with each other are not good enough. Many of the African Union member states have absolutely nothing to do with each other for instance, some do not even trade with each other at all. The majority of AU member nations have no business men or workers in Nigeria or Yoruba land. The people we deal with in Yoruba land or Nigeria are Chinese, Indians, Americans, Lebanese, British, EU citizens and some West Africans. There are a sprinkling of Turks, Arabs and others too.


Kenyans, Botswanese, Somalians, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Zimbabweans, Namibians, Congolese, Angolans and the majority of others in the African Union can be said to have more or less no stake in Yoruba land or Nigeria

Therefore, if there is going to be an international relationship with some nations outside the United Nations, some nations should come first before the African Union members that have negligible interest in Yoruba land or Nigeria as the case maybe. Not up to ten of the fifty five nations of the nations in the AU can be said to have any presence in Yoruba land or Nigeria while a country like Japan is funding the Ifa heritage institute in Oyo Alaafin and there are some Japanese doing research work in Nigeria. What then is the purpose of a Yoruba state or Nigeria's membership in the AU?.

To show that, what any nation needs is the organisation and proper harnessing of what it already has, US investment in Nigeria is valued at 5.5 billion dollars in total as at 2019 while Nigerian investment in Ghana is surely more than that since 7.07 million dollars was invested in six months of 2021 alone. January to June. Nigeria is presently investing more in Ghana than any other nation including the USA and Britain and possibly China and India.


In conclusion, the association any entity needs starting from individuals up is that between kindred followed by that needed for trade and economic prosperity, then the one for good neighborliness and brotherhood of mankind. It is definitely not the one based on skin color. In any case, a German is possible to be more genetically related to the Yoruba than a Kenyan or Ethiopian. It is after all a fact that Europeans are more genetically related to West Africans than to the black people of Australia.


Spending money on associations that serve no purpose is surely not the right path to follow for any entity from individuals up.

There is a need to know the value of stock owned by Oodua group that has been sold by the SW leadership since the beginning of the current democracy. The conglomerate was the biggest in Africa and how much is left should be public knowledge. For all we know, twenty billion dollars may be missing.

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.
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

There are no ethnic nationalities, no matter how small, that do not deserve to control their own destiny by means of having their own police to prevent crimes in their own neighborhoods with their own leaders controlling their own markets and economy. With their own people calling the shots on their own land and in their own sphere. There is no ethnic nationality or community too small to be afforded this freedom.

Naturally as has been normal over the years of human existence, everything including farmlands, people, markets and etc on a land belong without any reservations to the government and people of that land. Take Yoruba land for example, there have always been people including other ethnic nationalities living together inside precolonial Yoruba states. Hausas, Fulanis, Baribas, Nupes, Arabs and different communities of Europeans and etc and they all lived together harmoniously under the rules of the host nation or community. There are many Yoruba families who claim descent from such settlers but now identify as Yoruba It would not be possible to have a break out of inter ethnic clash, the sort of which is now common in Nigeria. Such happens in modern Nigeria because no group really is in charge or in control of the space. In the past, Egba people that want to settle among the Ijesha who are Yoruba as them will have to bow down to and live according to the rules of the Ijesa.

The Yoruba have people and lands in eleven states of Nigeria including Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kogi Edo, Delta, Niger, Kwara, then Togo and Benin republic and Ghana. These Lands were not tributary to any non Yoruba entity in the decades before British colonisation. This applies to groups like the Olukwumi in Delta state as well as the Itsekiri in the same Delta state of Nigeria. It also applies to non Yoruba speaking groups across West Africa who traditionally allign and identify with the Yoruba in the past. For example, the Bariba will most likely feel at home to share market and economy with the Yoruba. The same is most likely true for the Nupe who are considered somewhat as a Yoruba subgroup by the Yoruba even far more than the Igala who speak a Yoruba dialect. The Nupe took control of the Oyo capital for over eighty years in the past with the Oyo royalty forced to live in exile for so long in the Bariba country, before, they, with the help of the Bariba retook their capital from the Nupe. The Ebira are also more integrated with the Yoruba than the Yoruboid Igala. The Fon in Benin republic are also well integrated with the Yoruba being an integral part of the defunct Oyo empire for almost a century before they became independent in the nineteenth century. We also have the Ewe and some Edoid groups like the Afemmai who traditionally speak Yoruba and bear Yoruba names in the North of Edo state. They see themselves as part of their own nation followed by the Yoruba nation and then the whole world. They speak their own language, Yoruba and English in that order. The main group in Edo state that will want to be separate from the Yoruba are the people of Benin city. Most of the others are likely to choose to be part of the market and economy of a Yoruba commonwealth. If a people did not settle on a land as refugees that were granted space by some others, then they primordially own the land they are on and should be able to allign the piece of land with any group as they deem fit and if they arrived as refugees, traders, asylum seekers and etc, they should still be able to bond with one other, send money back home to help their home nations and people progress and etc while abiding under the rules and regulations of their host.

All groups especially the Edo-Benin in Nigeria who are very fundamentalist in their nationalism must control their own affairs. Even smaller groups with less land must be given full control of their space even if they choose to be part of a bigger bloc. They should not be given these rights only for themselves and their nations but also for the world's academia, as a living store of some of humanity's intangible heritage by way of language, culture, arts and etc.

What applies to the Yoruba also apply to other nations of the Earth. It can be possible for the Yoruba and some others including Fon, Nupe, Bariba, Itsekiri, Afemmai, Ebira, Western Ijaw, Olukwumi, Ewe and possibly Igala to together form in West Africa a new nation of around 100 million people. The Igala are the closest to Yoruba linguistically and they are one of the largest groups in Nigeria as well but they are not as integrated with the Yoruba as the Nupe, Bariba and Western Ijaw. They are big enough to be a sovereign nation and they have been that for centuries before colonisation. They are around the same population as some of the largest Yoruba subgroups. The aim for every nation should be to have as large an economy and market as possible comprising of willing constituents while not inhibiting any group, no matter how small from going it alone. A large market is important as a bargaining tool to attract foreign investments and to have money to fund pet projects and etc.You can not compare one person to two or two to a million as a resource to draw upon.

On taxation

Taxes should be largely even across the globe with a good percentage of the GDP taken by the government for the purpose of being used for the nation as it is presently done by the industrialized nations of the world.

On education, health, security and infrastructure

These are the social departments on which most of government money is spent so as to increase the quality of life of a nation's citizens. As important as education, health and security are, there is no need to monopolize the sector by the government since the private sector will continue to provide the services for those who can pay but government should endeavor to provide high quality education and healthcare for the generality of the masses. The money spent on the defense industry can be greatly reduced, especially the amount spent on the salaries of the personnel. It may be better for many citizens to be given military training after which they are placed on reserve while working in other sectors of the economy after completing a short term of service say one year. The development of technology for defense can continue since they are additions to know how but the money spent on personnel can be greatly reduced since peace can be guaranteed by the United Nations under a mutually agreed upon terms.

On national identity and history.

All entities from individuals up need space to exercise their freedom. They need to be able to propagate their own version of truth to their children, associates, friends and other sympathisers. The dangers of a single story is real as posited by the popular, novelist Ms Chimamanda Adichie My own account of any event will be a little different from that of my own father. The official position of the Ijesa nation on any issue will differ a bit from that of the Ibadan but as is done in academic circles, dissent should never lead to brawls. It is normal for a Yoruba account of any event to differ from that of the Benin even as Yoruba sub nations differ amongst themselves on almost all accounts of all issues. Since the invention of writing and the further invention of publications in journals, more problems have been solved via pen and ink for the advancement of humanity than could have been solved by thousands of years of savage war mongering. People should come up with more view points, summaries and etc on general knowledge on Yoruba/Oyo/Benin/Ife history and etc. I am going to be posting many insights I found online here because it is a topic I am interested in. I found new articles that I will post together with old ones. I am an Ijesa man and we have our national accounts that we are obliged to abide by as Ijesas but I also want life to remain in other accounts from different quarters for the sake of records. The list I am posting first brings a kind of closure I agree with to a large extent to some of the issues in contention. I do not know the US authour but it is a US journal or the equivalent of a US journal. Any published work nevertheless is merely a rejoinder to an ongoing debate.

On the banking sector.

We all know that there is not much specialisation in any industry. Anyone can learn the basics of trade in any industry within two years, moreso in a straightforward sector like banking. The expertise required is not very complex like what can be encountered in other fields like medicine, nuclear energy, cloud computing, car parts manufacturing, oil exploration and production or even commodity trading. What banks do is pretty much straightforward but the sector is very sensitive and voluminous as a part of the economy. Therefore since we want a free market, it is good to allow any properly incorporated company operate in that sector if they choose to, but national governments should as a matter of urgency set up commercial banks of their own and use whatever means they have to compete for customers. Such can only make the sector more efficient as well as more productive. If private companies can drive out the government, they should be encouraged to do that. The basic duty of banks is to facilitate the trade in financial assets as brokers and the job description is straightforward and simple, albeit, it goes on in tens of different ways and because of the intricacies that can be involved, it will be better to let the sector be run as a free market. Government owned banks do not need to be one hundred percent owned by government but it is better controlled by the government with the leader chosen by the government with the government responsible for the failure or success of such a bank.

On natural resources

The oceans and all the resources therein is best declared property of all the people of the world and not only the property of littoral states.

All essential natural resources in Yoruba land and other places should be taken over by the United Nations the same way the Norwegian government is in control of Norway's oil and gas assets. The UN can then sell and share to different nations according to need. This will allow fossil fuel rich nations especially to focus on organizing their nations to increase tax revenue for the proper running of those nations as was the case in all nations before the industrial revolution.

On relationship between employers, employees and governments.

Any business venture where more than one person are working should have all the workers including working business owner placed on salaries and it is only after all salaries have been paid that a business owner should be able to spend money on other non expedient expenses. All salary earners should have salary accounts declared to government for the purpose of monitoring income tax. All companies should have liaison officers between them and the government for the purpose of calculating other taxes apart from income tax taken from the workers.

On Migration.

If natural resources is taken from sovereign nations by the United Nations, then no nation will stop migrant workers and potential consumers from entering their land since taxation of workers and control of markets will be the main source of government revenue. There will be no need to force any nation at all to take migrants. All big earth nations of fifteen million people and above are represented in all countries of the world and the fact that they dare not close their borders to immigrants is apparent. However, with natural resources removed as a source of government revenue, what will follow naturally is a struggle for human resources from wherever.

On Spirituality and theology.

Spirituality comes inside the package of each human culture and there is no human being that is not from at least one culture. No organisation or individual should be allowed to project God as something less than a Gentle man and father of all human beings. Any theology portraying God as brutish and lacking common sense is better banned. There was no such theology on Earth during the first century when everybody believed in God according to their own language and culture and fully expected others to be the same way. That is the only way to avoid billions of people becoming brainwashed zombies permanently with their essence being drained out of them, turning them to mere nodes or robots that can be programmed to do anything no matter how wrong or even harmful to themselves and/or others.

References

Interesting articulation by an unknown authour. I however do not agree that the original inhabitants of Lagos were a mixture of Benin and Yoruba. The Benin people who came to Lagos were Yorubas who spoke the Yoruba language as L1 speakers. The Portuguese that frequently visited Benin have written records of Yoruba being spoken in the palace which traditionally contained over half of the city population. The Benin language was spoken outside the walls of the palace. Those were the Benin people that came to Lagos and they can not be rightly regarded as non Yorubas since they spoke Yoruba among themselves while also understanding the Benin language.
It therefore can not be said that Lagos started off as a mixture of Benin and Yoruba. Benin is only in Benin city and nowhere else and the language can not be understood by the Edoid groups located only a few miles from Benin city. How then can we go over all those Edoid people to say some Benin are indigenes of Lagos?. Benin only became prominent a few centuries back, while there have always been people in Lagos claiming descent from Ile Ife for thousands of years. The Benin who saw themselves as Yoruba ruled a small part of Lagos island. The Oyo and Ijebu also had territories in the present Lagos state. Since Britain ruled Yoruba land for over sixty years, can we then say Yoruba land was originally occupied by British and Yoruba people? That would be wrong but there are many British people buried across Yoruba land and they still have interest in Yoruba land till now. Therefore, all Benin that settled in Yoruba land including the family of my maternal grandmother named Alawiye in Ipetu Ijesa were Yoruba speakers who saw themselves as Yoruba and ran their empire using Yoruba as the lingua franca. They probably would have been able to speak the Benin language as well like the people that lived outside the Benin palace. The Olukwumi for instance came from the defunct Benin empire which I believe is probably Benin city itself rather than Owo and Akure that is believed by many and are now settled in Delta state speaking Yoruba and on a land not contiguous with the lands of other Yoruba speakers.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/africa/yorubaBut.htm

A viewpoint published in the vanguard Newspaper in response to Chief Femi Fani Kayode
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/benin-kingdom-of-the-sky-kings/

Article by Chief Femi Fani Kayode
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/137358-who-are-the-yoruba-people-part-3-by-femi-fani-kayode.html

An account published by an Edo promoted website
https://www.edoworld.net/Ekaladerhan.html

West African states in history
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/west-african-empires/

Opinion shared online by an Ewe national from Ghana
https://www.nairaland.com/950471/ewe-people-ghana-same-yoruba

An opinion published in the vanguard
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/yoruba-in-badagry-are-from-ile-ife-not-ghana-high -chief-wawu/

The only proof I found online that the Oyo empire stretched over the Ashanti empire at some point which may mean the Oyo empire alone without Ijesa, Ife, Ijebu and etc was comparable in territory or extent toppp modern Nigeria at some point in the past if you consider that Oyo bordered the Kanem Bornu and massed hundreds of thousands of calvary at the border on one occassion. A history not taught anywhere presently and which I presently can not find online anymore.

https://punchng.com/in-togo-atakpame-keeps-yoruba-language-alive/

Ashanti empire 100,000 square miles
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti_Empire

10.Extent of the Oyo empire 270,000 square kilometers
https://thinkafrica.net/oyo-empire/amp/

11. The Ooni on the Ga people of Ghana
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/514570-ga-people-of-ghana-originated-from-ile-ife-ooni-of-ife.html

12. Nigeria 928,000 square kilometers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria

13. The Fon people Around 4 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon_people

14. The Igala. Around 2.5 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igala_people

15. The Ebira people 2 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebira_people

16. The Afemmai around 2 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afemai_people

17.The Ewe. Over ten million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_people#:~:text=%22Ewe%20nation%22%2C%22E%CA%8Benyigba,the%20Gbe%20family%20of%20languages.

18. Western Ijaw Apoi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Apoi_tribe

19. Western Ijaw Arogbo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arogbo_tribe

20. The Oodua Investment company.
The sole purpose of establishing this company by the Action Group is to invest the money of the masses into profitable companies or business ventures starting with those companies operating in the national economy and market of the then Western Nigeria state. They initially started by founding companies and controlling them which largely failed. Most of the successes came from partnering with successful companies but now the current managers of this company which is the present Yoruba state governments may have depreciated the legacy of the company. The company has no shares in profitable and well established public companies like MTN Nigeria and Dangote group which are operating massively in the national economy despite that these companies are listed on the Nigerian stock exchange

The Western Nigeria Development corporation that preceded the Oodua group was formed to invest in the economy of the western region in particular and maybe that of other places in general but successful companies like MTN Nigeria and Dangote group were listed in Nigeria without the Oodua investment company being reported as having acquired stakes. The stakes they had in Guinness Nig and IBPlc have been disposed of while money is being spent on projects and ventures whose profitability or success is not certain. It is unfortunate but the situation can be easily redeemed because the company can afford to invest ten billion naira every other day if there is need for that because the money can be easily raised from the economy of the owner states.

Thesame is true for other parts of Nigeria and indeed the whole globe.

I wonder what can be the reason for selling a stake in a comoany like Guinness Nigera. What can be the reason for not acquiring stakes in the best and most valuable companies listed publicly in Nigeria which is MTN and Dangote. Given that you do not need the permission of the board of a public company before bringing your money to invest and these are companies serving over one hundred million customers that all our people are buying from!

The details, particularly of value of assets and liabilities of a company owned indirectly by millions of people should be accessible online by anyone. Oodua group is an institutional investor which is probably the first of it's kind on Earth. All institutional investors like Vanguard group and etc have all details about them available online. How come there is no such information on Oodua group available anywhere online? Even as the Oodua group is one of the oldest among these companies? It is a question begging for an answer.

List of biggest institutional investors

https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/largest-institutional-investors/

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

There is no valid reason why the USA, Australia, Canada, Ireland, England, Wales, Falk lands in the Argentines and other extents of the British realms who are essentially one people that started the journey together as one people should not come back inside one economy and one market. It is much cheaper for all concerned to run such a system and there are similar associations like that across the globe. Despite having half a dozen languages, the people descended from the British isles are still one. It merely means that all the people will be able to vote in US Presidential elections and funds expended on diplomatic relations will be put to other use. Funds expended on choosing a national leadership for England, Wales, Ireland, Australia and etc will be saved. A nation state can have an offshore component. All parts do not have to be contiguous and resources can be pooled together even over the head of other people and nations. Alliance for War has been forged in that way, therefore peace and prosperity can be built in the same way. The British or Yoruba people having a dozen languages does not make them not one people. None of the British people today would be where they are without the institution of the British empire.

The Irish still need land the way they needed it in the 19th century, so does the English, Welsh and Scots and even other Europeans and other human beings and there is no valid reason why any one from the British isles or any citizen of Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Wales should relate with Britain or the USA as with a foreign country. They all should be under one government. In one economy and inside the same market using the same resources.

A similar thing that happened in the 20th century is the reunion of East and West Germany to create a bigger economy and market for the benefit of the German people.

Similar economic or trade unions that did not result in loss of sovereignty include BRICS and others. The European Unuon is a big example of such a consolidation of sovereignty.

As it applies to the lands in the possession of the people from the British isles, it also applies to other ethnic nationalities whose people control more than one sovereign nations.


The European Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

The British empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire

BRICS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS

The reunification of Germany
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification

Per Capita income, economic Activity due to population with Nigeria as a case study

The income in well organised nations is high mainly because taxes are high and inevitable. In a country like Nigeria, wages are higher in Lagos than in other states because taxes in the state are more efficiently collected than in other states. Lagos should not have double the money Kano has for instance since they both have human resources and advantages in different areas peculiar to each state. The actual resources in place or on ground for government to tax in Lagos and Kano should be about the same by value but Kano seem poorer because of the way they are less organized in the place.

If you double down on tax collection in Lagos the way they do in a place like Berlin in Europe, income levels in Lagos and Berlin would meet up and become almost at par.

If any nation want to help her workers, to lift up her workers, the first step always is to increase minimum wage to an amount that is taxable and do so periodically to stay ahead of inflation. This is what they do in the West that result in a fifty thousand dollar per annum wage in a place like the US. It is that high because government must take a cut of everything and that is the only way to run a nation. The government plays middle man in everything and until the government assumes the same role in Ibadan, fifty thousand dollars a year in New York will continue to be worth little more than ten thousand dollars a year in a place like Ibadan for the same job.

When the regional governments established by the British in Western Nigeria fixed wages in the region, Europeans stayed and took up appointment. No European or even Ghanaian would take up appointment
in Nigeria with the current status of wages.

If a government were collecting taxes and fixing wages for civil servants based on expected revenue inflow, foreigners would size you up, weigh the options and join your civil service which is the way it has always been even before the modern era but if the practice is to wait for oil to be mined, sold and the money shared for salaries to be paid,,then it will take a toll on everything from per Capita income to inflation to nominal GDP and etc.

To further elaborate, take the wage if a high ranking civil servant, say a Professor in Nigeria. It is much less than 20 thousand dollars a year if we add other possible benefits while the contemporary in the USA can get paid between eighty thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year on average before tax. If you consider that what they can achieve with the pay cheque in their different countries is almost at par by way of building houses, buying cars, supporting their children, making investments and etc, you will realize why GDP is calculated in two ways which are GDP by PPP purchasing power parity and GDP nominal. The PPP value shows what you can achieve with the same amount of dollars in different countries. The disparity becomes more pronounced with untaxed income from the informal sector of an economy which equals the overwhelming majority of income in a place like Nigeria. In the case of the Professors, the main edge the US professor has over his or her Nigerian counterparts are better equipments to work with and the financial capability to afford expensive holidays. I can't think of any other major edge presently.

One hundred dollars in Nigeria can be actually worth two thousand dollars in the USA in some rare instances. Therefore one hundred billion of the over five hundred billion dollars of nominal GDP in Nigeria can be worth 2 trillion dollars in the USA if spent in some areas of Nigeria or in some sectors of the Nigerian economy.

The only way therefore to bring parity is to evenly organise the whole globe with even taxation.

Therefore, presently, the appropriate annual per Capita income for an average nation may not need to be as high as that of the industrialized world. The level of China, the Berber nations, the Turkic nations and Latin America is probably high enough at least for West Africa.

I checked and found out that official population size do not correlate with observed economic activity of Nigerian states as is the case in a country like the USA. It should correlate to a large extent since all states operate within thesame space and under the same conditions and the demographic structure of the population is largely thesame or not very much different since there is no barrier against migration. If census data is established not to correlate with volume of economic activities as I have observed, then census data must be rejected immediately as a tool for economic planning.unless the authorities can explain why the data should not be rejected. GDP size and population size for administrative components will correlate to a large extent in any nation of Europe and/or North America.


Purchasing power parity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

Nigerian states by GDP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_GDP

Nigerian states by population size

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population



US states by GDP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

US states and territories by population size.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population


List of countries by population size

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/


List of countries by GDP (PPP) which shows 24 countries as richer than Nigeria because GDP by PPP is assumed to be around double of nominal GDP but prices can be up to four to seven times even ten times for some goods and services like house rent, power, workmanship of any kind and etc which includes the majority of goods and services

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

Conclusion

Nigeria can not have a much larger workforce than a country like Germany or Turkey because we have a high dependency ratio while the German population consists of a much higher percentage of highly skilled productive workers. Average age in Nigeria is around nineteen years while that of Germany is over forty five years. If the whole globe were well organized and taxed like Western Europe, then I believe the German economy will not be over two times bigger than the Nigerian economy.

Unless the whole globe is uniformly organized, it will remain impossible to determine the true size of the economy of nations dominated by the informal sector.

The Nigerian census data that does not correlate with reports of observed economic activities in the country is not valid to be used for planning purposes or any other purpose for that matter and it therefore has to be rejected.

This is the approximate present standing of the most prominent Earth nations. Each of these nations spent aeons of time to forge the identity they are today known by. What they share in most cases is more cultural than genetic because any human being can be brought up or trained to be a member of any human culture.

The Han Chinese
They number over 1.3 billion in number and are in full control of three markets and economies by way of China, Taiwan and Singapore. Singapore is a very small nation but among the best organised and richest. China is the biggest economy on Earth but it is not among the richest per Capita.
The descendants of Spain.
They number over 300 million and are not a single race but most of them can trace part of their ancestry to Spain in Europe. They are in control of the market and economy of Spain and a number of Latin American nations including Mexico, Argentina, Colombia etc. Their tightest grip is on Spain which is the richest among the market and economy under their control
Hindi-Urdu nation
They are the largest group in India with 250 million people speaking the language as first language and up to 500 million people in total able to communicate in the language. The language is useful in India as English is useful for the world. They do not wholly control any sovereign nation and are poor in India.
The Bengali nation
They are 160 million people in Bangladesh making up over 90 percent of the population in full control of the market, economy and destiny of Bangladesh but they remain poor in Bangladesh. The least performing big Earth nation with a huge economy and market having control over their own affairs is the Bengali but if they have peace, good roads, portable water, stable electricity, high life expectancy and etc, it may mean they learnt to do it cheaper.

Germans.
They are over 150 million people in population, in full control of the market and economy of a number of prosperous nations including Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein that are among the foremost on the globe. They are also a major stake holder in the USA with Germans being the number one ethnic nationality in the USA by numbers but behind the total of the ethnic nationalities from the British isles consisting of the English, Irish, Scots and the Welsh. The Germans should be in one European state to be able to properly pool their resources together

Turks
They number over 150 million people in all. They are in full control of six states in Europe and Asia with good results. Their states of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz have per Capita income well over sixty percent of European average with only the smallest of them which is Kyrgyz operating at the level of a third world economy. Kyrgyz is only six million people. The Turks are a success story and I do not know why they are yet to pool resources together as one nation.
Russians.
The Russians are over 150 million people with full control over the market and economy of only the Russia federation which is one of the most successful nations on Earth as well as a major world power.

English.
The people number up to 150 million people in total and as the main promoter of the defunct British empire are also the founding fathers and owners of the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a number of other realms. They have under their control along with the Irish, Scots and Welsh the economy and markets of close to 500 million people living in some of the most affluent nations on Earth. The English along with the other British people control the largest amount of well structured wealth on the globe.

Arabs
They number over 147 million people in control of eight nations, some of which are very resource rich. It will be a good thing to see this Earth nation become properly one too.

Punjabi
The Punjabi nation is 120 million people, a member of Pakistan and India. Majority in no nation. Poor in both Pakistan and India

Marathi
They are 112 million people in India. They control no economy or market in any sovereign country. They are poor in India

Berbers.
They are 100 million in population. A North African people in full control of the market and economy of four countries. Morocco, Algeria Tunisia and Libya. A branch of them are fighting for independence in Mali. They are on the average as rich as China and are successful almost to the level of Europe. They should bound together to form a common market and economy.

Egyptian
They are around 100 million people and are in control of the Egyptian economy and market. They are as rich as China.
The French
They are 90 million people in control of the market and economy of France. They are also in partial control of some other economies and markets in what may be called a Francophone sphere. They are very successful in France which is a rich country. The nations under the sphere are stable also but not as rich as France.
Italians
They are 80 million people. They are in full control of the economy and market of the nation of Italy which is a very rich nation.

The Koreans.
They are an Asian people of a very ambitious breed. In full control of the economy and market of two nations of South Korea and North Korea, total of 75 million. South Korea is a very technologically advanced and rich country with well known brands like Samsung while North Korea also has the profile of a technologically advanced nation but it is not a free market, socialist, no stock exchange and etc. It is therefore classified as nominally poor by the standards of the United Nations.
Hausa.
The Hausa are up to 70 million people if the whole of Kaduna population is counted for them. They are in majority control of the republic of Niger and one of the major Frontline nations of Nigeria. They are poor in both Niger republic and Nigeria. The Hausa also have their people in the new world who can be traced mainly via DNA testing. A lot of them were captured and sold into slavery by the people of the old Oyo empire a situation which fuelled the call for the Fulani jihad that eventually culminated in the sack of the Oyo capital by the jihadists.Their brethren will run into millions in the new world.

18. The Irish.
The Irish number up to 70 million people with the largest of their number being Irish descendants in the USA who went there under the British Flag, persecuted by the empire, driven by famine, poverty and etc and they are the smallest nation from Europe to stand almost abreast with the Germans and the English by number of descendants in the USA. They control along with the other British, the USA, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand etc as members of Britain because in actual fact, the whole of the British isles and the USA should be one market and one economy. Without the resources of the British both mental and spiritual, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and etc would not have been possible.

19.The Portuguese.
The Portuguese claim only 70 million but given their head start in seeking out new lands and the long standing of their dominion in the new world, it is possible that the size of their diaspora is much more than this. They are in control of Portugal as well as culturally in control of Brazil. Portugal is rich as an European country but Brazil is on about the same prosperity level or a bit lower than China.

20 The Gujarati
They are 60 million in population. They control no market or economy as a sovereign nation and are poor in India

21. The Rajasthani
They are 58 million in population. They control the market and economy of no sovereign nation and are poor in India

22. The Yoruba.

They number well over 50 million people in West Africa and have ancestral lands in Nigeria, Benin republic, Togo and Ghana. They do not control any sovereign nation and are poor in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana. There is a large number of people in the new world who are descended from the Yoruba and who actually are more Yoruba than the people in West Africa given their way of life and etc. The proportion of Portuguese home nation to Portuguese diaspora maybe applicable to the Yoruba as well because they arrived the new world at around the same time with the Yoruba having a larger reservoir of new world explorers while the Portuguese had more means. Nevertheless the Yoruba had been crossing to the New world before the beginning of the slave trade and how many Yorubas are there in the new
world is a question open for debate. Also towards the end of the 19th century, the Yoruba sold members of rival Yoruba states into slavery as if it was running out of fashion. Both across the Atlantic via their own ports and to the Ijaws who sold them via Eastern ports to Europeans or to Igbos who used the slaves as farmhands. The volume of the slave trade multiplied during the second half of the 19th century feasting off the Yoruba civil wars of the period. The Yoruba should have a nation state of their own carved out of West Africa with control of their economy, market and their destiny.

23 The Oromo
They are 40 million people with majority control over no market or economy. They are poor in Ethiopia.

24.The Mucakili.
They are 34 million . No sovereign control over any market or economy. Poor in India.

25. The Kurds.

They number over 35 million across Syria, Iran, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq. They have no control over any market or economy as a sovereign state and have been at logger heads with many sovereign states for decades in a bid to secure autonomy. They are rich or poor according to the fortunes of the states in which they find themselves. The Kurds should have their Kurdistan.

26The Igbos.

They number over 35 million with ancestral lands in Nigeria. They have no control over any market or economy of any sovereign nation. They are poor in Nigeria. There is also a large number of African Americans of Igbo origin in the new world but unlike the Yoruba they can know their origin mainly by conducting DNA tests because they did not cross the Atlantic in large numbers as free men and did not settle in the new world as free men from the beginning as did the Yoruba and has must have done some Angolans that engaged the Portuguese in wars. The Igbos nevertheless have their people in the new world in large numbers that can be traced mainly via DNA testing. The Igbos should have their own nation carved out from West Africa with their market and their economy under their control as one of the Chief Earth nations.

27.The Amharic

They are 30 million in population. No control over any market or econimy. Poor in Ethiopia

28. The Sudanese

They are 29 million people in control of the market and economy and are poor in Sudan.


29. The Chattisgarrh
They are 18 million people with no control over any economy or market. They are poor in India.

30.,The Sinhala

They are 17 million people with no control over any market or economy. They are poor in India


31 The Jewish people
This ancient people number over 16 million. They have full control of the market and economy of the state of Israel which is one of the few states that emerged and achieved the status of a fully industrialized nation after the second world war along with Singapore and South Korea The Jewish are technologically advanced and rich. They are at par with the bests of Europe having been largely groomed in Europe for millenia. Israel is a market and economy of ten million people which they control. Over 6 million of them are also in the US as leaders of industry, business, innovation, science and technology. They are important stake holders in the US like the people of British origin and the Germans. The prominent branch of the Jewish nation called the Ashkenazi are mostly Europeans of German and Russian backgrounds with remote but primordial connections to Israel their revered homeland.


What is important is to set all Earth's nation states that took ages to form loose and let them allign or be independent as they deem fit, then remove restrictions on immigration as it was in the past because in the past, no nation would refuse entry to workers coming in to till the land. They always want more. What we need is a standard way to relatebetween workers, employers of labours, governments and the United Nations such that no party will feel cheated. If different nations join together to share market and resources, the union must still respect the individuality and uniqueness of each participant in the union and subsequently give each other space.

The most successful ethnic nationality so far is the trio that originated from the British isles that control more wealth than the Han Chinese if you calculate the GDP of the nations under their control. Followed by the Germans, Japanese, Russians, Hindi,Spaniards, Turks, French, Italians, Berbers, Arabs, Egyptians etc

If you consider it on a per Capita basis, the Indians or Hindi representative of Indians would rank just above the Bengali behind all the large nations.

On a per Capita basis, the Germans, French,British,Japanese, Italians are almost at par, ranking above the Han Chinese. The Turks and Berbers also rank above the Han Chinese ranking almost equal to Europeans. The Han Chinese rank a little above the Arabs and Spaniards on a per Capita basis.

The nations of Africa Yoruba, Igbo, and Zulu probably rank above Bengali and Indians on a per Capita basis if considered as separate nations but Bangladesh is a huge country and it is probably a world of its own! With its own peculiarities.

The back benchers would be the Hausa of Nigeria, the Oromo and Amharic of Ethiopia with the last two better off because they stand a better chance in Ethiopia which is currently one of the fastest growing economies on Earth.

Then a thing that makes à people like the Yoruba and Igbo better off is their relative integration into the rich economies of Europe and North America. On a per Capita basis they are more integrated into these economies than other Africans, even more than the Chinese, Arabs, Turks and Berbers who have a developed place to call home.

Africans generally are the next most integrated into the new world after Europeans from the North to the South. There are a number of African majority nations in the Americas, some founded by rebellious slaves while others were granted independence and a number of them are successful above global average.

Methodology

I got all data and information from Wikipedia and other sources online.

For the populations of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. I used the 2006 population of the states they own as if all the people were one ethnicity, derived the percentage and used the same percentage on the Nigerian 2022 population estimate of 213 million. Then added figures from other countries for Hausa and Yorubas While leaving the Igbo figure as it is since they have no home land outside Nigeria. I got 53 million for Yoruba, 70 million for Hausa and 35 million for Igbos but some of the states claimed for Hausa have records saying there are little or no indigenous Hausa land owners in those states for example Kaduna while others claim Fulani or other groups as the majority. I took a bit of Edo, Kogi, Niger and Delta states to add to the figure for Yoruba and a chunk of Delta, majority of Rivers, bit of Edo, bit of Kogi, Benue, Cross River to add to Igbos because of the Likelihood that some of those people will feel the same way. I used all of Kaduna for Hausa despite the claim that there is no Hausa land in the place and etc.

I did not bother to calculate for Fulani since they are more or less same as Hausa as far as Nigeria is concerned.

1British Americans

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Americans


2Who are the Kurds?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29702440


3.Demographics of Nigeria with various useful data including depiction of Okene, Warri and Ilorin as one of the first twenty high density population centers in the country.

https://www.statista.com/topics/6477/demographics-of-nigeria/#topicHeader__wrapper

4. Some countries are mountainous, Drothers have long stretches of deserts while some others are filled with cash crops already. Some others are too small.
Below is the list of countries according to how much land they have available for seasonal farming. Seasonal farming is the means by which 90 percent of the food we eat is grown. Rice, maize, beans cassava, sorghum, yams, tomatoes, pepper. The vast majority of what we consume is grown seasonally on land classified as ARABLE LAND.
This is the list according to how much each country got

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/arable-land-by-country


5. Agricultural land. Check what percentage of the land mass of your lcountry is useful for any kind of agriculture. If your country is small and the percentage is big, it is not of much use to feed eight billion people. Part of agricultural land is used for cash crops, animal grazing, fisheries and etc reducing the land available for the all important seasonal farming.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS

6. List of countries by effort and money spent to deepen human knowledge by publications in reputable journals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_scientific_and_technical_journal_articles

7. Steel production by country

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production


8. Mention one thing a huge resource filled nation like the USA will not be able to produce enough at home?. Only more workers to produce more plenty which is why there is a plan in the USA to take one hundred million more workers from nations who have no need of them. They used to take less than one hundred thousand a year but there is a plan to grow the workforce by one hundred million within a few decades. If China can array six hundred million workers of 1.4 billion people, so can the USA but not more than a few nations have the capacity to house such a huge workforce but every nation should be competing with others to attract as much human traffic as it can to itself.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/

Commodities performance 2021

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/best-performing-commodities-2021-energy-supply-chain-bottlenecks-lithium-price-2021-12

World traded goods in brief

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-of-the-world-s-most-traded-goods.html

Why would you want to keep an edifice or anything, an empire etc built on a faulty foundation? You are going to lose it anyway!. You will not be able to keep it together by any means!. It will disappear like a fart. The only way to make something last forever, outlast you, work properly for you and etc is to build it on a sound and solid foundation. That is the only way. Something can last forever or at least last for as long as the Earth remains, if the foundation and subsequent fortifications are up to standard. If something was founded well with a laid down guiding principle for succeeding leaderships, then it will last forever. That can not be gainsaid. For example, most companies known as institutional investors will last forever with their level of success determined by the different energies of their promoters, given that the nation state that houses them remain in existence because something can not stand on nothing.

The most successful states ever built in history were built on principles of truth and fairness to all without which the promoters believed fervently that they would fail. From the Alchaeminid empire to the Han Dynasty in China to the Greeks to the Romans to the.Communists in China and the USSR to the British to the present USA and etc. They all believe you will succeed only to the point and extent that you remain level headed and are fair to all. They depended on logic to resolve any issue and whenever ego sets in is when decline begins apart from when decline is caused by 'other' phenomenon like the European powers that agreed to give political independence to many states as a gift. That was something unprecedented in human history. The majority of those states didn't succeed or prosper relative to the Europeans, as did their ancestors. It must be noted that people in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan etc were as advanced or more advanced than Europeans a few thousand years ago. This just shows that you have to deserve everything you get before you can properly possess and utilize it for the benefit of yourself and the rest of humanity. Otherwise you will be serving as a clog in the wheel of the wellbeing and progress of humanity as a whole especially if you are in effective control of the possession in question that you did not found properly. I will like to know if there is any real life situation that runs contrary to this simple logic.

Any problem can be solved if there is at least one individual determined to deploy his or her God given resources to solve that problem. I joined Facebook around 2007 with a determination to solve the problem of under development in Nigeria by the means of writing articles and publishing same online. It seemed simple and straightforward to me and I did not see why I would not succeed given that many other nations of human beings are being run properly.

Someone brought up the issue of problem in other nations, especially the problem of sovereign debts in western nations and I pointed out that the people concerned will find a way to get out of the problem. I said this because you obviously have to solve your own problems before you start thinking of helping others.

As is normal for anything started by a single person to go out of that person's control, the whole thing went haywire and spiralled completely out of my control. I lost my small business and was admitted into a psychiatry hospital over some of the articles I published online on Facebook. I spent around one year in total in psychiatric admission and till now I am on the drugs.

People including some billionaires have contacted me to invest in my business before everything collapsed but were blocked by other people who felt it was not yet time for all that. As a result of that I have a string of HNIs trailing me who trailed me to where I took up employment as PA to Chief Prest after being introduced to him by my younger brother. I have now left his company as a result of an incidence.

I believe the first phase of my online work is about to end and I am seizing this opportunity to say a big thanks to all the invisible hands from all over the globe that have rendered help in various capacities. The returns shall definitely be in millions of folds for the betterment and advancement of all of humanity.

A very big thanks to everybody.

According to our culture, you will gain from every good you do without exception. You can not do good and be set back as a result. That is impossible. In the theology of the Yoruba and according to the Ifa corpus, all the orisas became orisa by doing good to others. If you do any kind of good and you do not gain anything, then you are the greatest loser of all and your condition is pitiable.

However do not expect returns from where you have not invested. If you expect such kind of money then you are in the same category as an armed robber. Nobody gives anybody free money. You will not get free money from any reasonable person. Even a beggar must present self as beggar despite his or her real economic conditions before he or she can be given money and begging should be illegal in any properly organised society.

Therefore, for investors, payback is automatic and it can not be held back by anybody but anyone who is seeking to reap where he or she has not sown is simply a criminal and will soon get into trouble.

If we all do not follow and obey authority, ninety percent y of the time, then civilization as it is, would collapse. This is because we are building up on accumulated knowledge that we consider trustworthy. One generation after the other. It is the only way we can become a race of super humans. Authority is made up of accumulated knowledge and wisdom.

For instance, we follow authority to learn how to speak, walk, eat with the hand and etc. We follow authority to learn our human culture and be a proper human being. You follow authority to write a research paper and improve knowhow in the specific areas of human endeavour. You can't publish a paper derived only from your own mental exertion or prowess. You can only add a small icing on the cake that has being in the baking for thousands of years and that is true for all fields of human endeavour. There is no totally new thing under the sun that has never been broached by any human culture even if presently forgotten.

So people who follow authority can not be blamed because you can never have time to prove all existing theories to yourself. No single person does that for everything. You can not do that for all accepted theories in mathematics or physics for instance because some of the theories took one lifetime to formulate and may need the same length of time to properly assimilate. Maybe not even in philosophy will you be able to do that. You have to take hundreds of theories basically as they are.

However in science, it is acceptable practice to take authority apart and create a new authority with a published paper. It should thesame in all departments of human endeavor, moreso in theology because of the nature of theology.

So we all act like computers to a large extent by following authority without question. We all do that and you can not survive as a member of a community without doing that and doing that will never really put anyone in harm's way unless they are already in harm's way.

It depends on the prospects of the business. If the business can double your monthly income, then you should sell the house.

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