₦airaland Forum

DeOTR:
Which positive impacts did Yar'adua make if I may ask? Say something else apart from reducing fuel price by N5. Anything meaningful economic plans, or targeted policies? I'm waiting!

He started the amnesty programme for the aggrieved youth of the Niger Delta to bring peace to the region and no doubt he was not a waster of resources. He was honest and was not there to enrich himself. Honesty is always the best policy.

He publicly declared his assets and nobody has ever been able to match that

Ijesa versus Nigeria

Ijesa was established over one thousand years ago as it is on its 48th monarch or so presently. At its height say five hundred years ago, it would have stretched beyond Ede covering Osogbo and also beyond Akure. Ede was established on Ijesa land by Alaafin Sango to curb the Ijesa that were forcing Oyo traders to pay tax when on their way to the coast. A military garrison was established there under the command of Timi olofa ina and it is now the fledgling city of Ede. Osogbo was an Ijesa town whose traditional leadership is still of Ijesa origin but which acquired a part Oyo identity when the Oyo settled there after defeating the Ilorin calvary in the 1840s. The Akure crown too originated from Owa Atakunmosa of Ijesa and the full title of the Deji is Owafadeji of Akure meaning the Owa granted him a diadem. The first Deji was a grandson of Owa Atakunmosa through a daughter.
Therefore on the Ijesa land of over five hundred years ago are now living around five million people and this is more than the population of many successful modern nations in today's world.

However the modern Ijesa in Nigeria is only six local governments in Osun state and it is sharing a senatorial district with Ile Ife which has four local governments. The senatorial zone is the Osun east and the last census put the population at 54 percent of Osun state making it the majority of the state by population. If Osun state is between 5 and 6 million in population then Osun East will be like 3 million and out of that 3 million Ijesa will be the majority. There are two House of Rep seats in Ijesa land.

The population of Ijesa land will be at least 1.8 million and this means like one percent of Nigerians live on Ijesa land. This percentage would have been higher say in 1960 before our people started leaving home in large numbers to Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, North America, Europe and etc. Many currently big Nigerian cities that the Ijesa now migrate to did not exist early in the twentieth century when Ilesa was the fledgling capital of Ijesa. It is therefore balanced to say if Ijesa is one percent of Nigeria today it might have been over two or even three percent back then.

Let us just use one percent. If we are one percent of Nigeria, it means we deserve 1.09 senators of 109 and we should not be sharing one with the Ifes and we deserve up to 3.6 seats in the house of representatives and not just two

Ilesa is the traditional capital. It is the main center
There are three higher order centers namely Ibokun which is the site of the first capital, Ijebu Ijesa and Ipetu Ijesa
There are twenty intermediate centers
There are 45 lower order centers
There are two hundred villages and there are other settlements
There are in total sixty defined central places starting from Ilesa including the higher order centers and others like Esa oke, Ifewara, Iwaraja etc

The newly approved University of Ilesa is no doubt the fastest growing university in the country currently and there is also another university in Ikeji Arakeji owned by the Anglican church, there is a government polytechnic in Esa oke and a private polytechnic in Ijebu jesa and etc

Ijesa is a major producer of cocoa and also a major producer of kolanuts. Kolanuts alone is worth more than 1.5 billion dollars a year in Nigeria and a large part of that gravitates towards Ijesa every year. The famous IB Plc was headquartered in Ilesa. It is more or less the first very successful Nigerian manufacturer to be listed on the stock exchange. The founder, Dr Lawrence Omole headquartered himself in Ilesa and from there navigated Nigeria's corporate world. His real estate portfolio even in death can hardly be matched by any person in Nigeria living or dead by spread and etc. He also founded Access bank. He along with Chief Ajanaku and Alhaji SB Bakare were the titans of Ijesa industry in the twentieth century. He also personally financed research in the generation of electricity from solar at the Obafemi Awolowo University.

The Ijesa merchants of antiquity are also the founders of the Hire Purchase system now used worldwide

It was Balogun Ogedengbe of Ijesa along with Fabunmi of Okemesi that ignited the Yoruba civil war that led to the colonisation of Nigeria. They were fighting for self determination and this same self determination is now being denied them in Nigeria. They are now deemed by Nigeria as not civilized enough to have their own police force. Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, and etc are all states in Nigeria with three senators each and many house of representatives seat while the Ijesa have to make do with whatever they get. They have to adjust to whatever status they are granted by the Nigerian state!

Would you say this is fair?

Out of 3 billion dollars budget, nothing wrong in using twenty percent to pay salaries. They use ten percent presently and even Rivers is using more than that percentage

Rebelutionary:
ADC is a done deal for Atiku...his body language and recent conversation proves that and they are not willing to play that game.

Why didn't Obi post or even talk about that Amala Summit at Ibadan because if they are are pushing for a consensus-Atiku has it!

No not in an open primary. There are many stakeholders across the country that can collectively determine who wins the primaries of any major party

They should have stayed in ADC until the party announce that there will be no primaries then they would be justified to leave.
The right thing to do would have been to conduct primaries in ADC and let anyone that wins carry the day. Nobody among them can guarantee who will win. You will need to negotiate with many people to win and if you can't win such a primary then you will not be able to win the general election

Lovemaester:
I have dated four Yoruba girls- 2 from Ibadan 1 from Lagos 1 from Kwara they are very poor chefs all they know is to pack pepper full food. So I corroborate his story

You don't like their food don't really mean they are poor chefs. Most old Yoruba people can not eat Igbo soup for instance because of oil not enough and etc and that does not mean Igbos are poor chefs. One man's food is another man's poison

Fujiyama:
^^^


I'm sure you have time to explain to us. The majority of us here do not understand exchange rate management and balance of payments issues - and we need someone to guide us through.

BAT came into power and devalued the currency because 'it didn't make sense' to continue defending (or subsidizing or whatever you want to call it) the Naira. He is being accused of defending or subsidizing the Naira today - the very policies he and his team said were wrong. Can you explain?

Tinubu was not the one that devalued the naira. That was Buhari. Buhari printed thirty trillion naira and he was borrowing dollars to sell so that the value of the naira will remain high. He also depleted the reserve for the same purpose. When Tinubu came there was no other way forward then to let the naira rest at it's true value. No dollar in reserve and you can't be borrowing dollars at interest just to sell again. The CBN announced they have not printed any naira since they took over and that is why naira has been stable and that is why they won the central bank of the year but I believe they have gone back to printing money now as naira should have risen considerably in value if they have not. If it is well managed, it may not be bad. There is no country that does not print money.

They may have started printing new money while depleting the reserve to defend the naira as is traditional here

Everybody wants a good person for their sisters. Marriage is a major step in life. You will support a responsible person who is your friend to marry your sister and become a part of your family. If the person really want to marry your sister you will support them but to just date is another matter

KingAzubuike:
It's total nonsense.

While some ogas treat their bois well upon completion of their apprenticeship,

Some do directly the opposite. I know someone who was given just 500k after 5 years of loyal service.

You know what will be paid still depends on the growth of the business and growth is not guaranteed for any business. The best way is for the government to be the broker. The apprentice should be paid minimum wage while the government help them to save half just like with the pension contribution arrangement. It will be growing at over five percent per annum and it will be paid to the apprentice after they are free. The master can also add anything he wants to add.

However the best way to run a business is to employ people who will grow with you. Not everybody is provisioned to be a business owner

Predictor3:
Not long ago, they told us our GDP was about $500bn. Of what impact was it to the average Nigerian then?

$1tr GDP is still too small for a 200m population. What's South Africa's GDP?

In South Africa, real estate that costs 20k dollars in Nigeria may cost up to 200k dollars. It is better to own your own house in Nigeria while driving a ten year old car or even using public transport than to buy a house for an outrageous sum and spend a lifetime paying for it. That is the issue. You don't need a brand new Apple phone too when cheaper options exist for less than one tenth of the price. If your home that is perfectly finished cost only 20k dollars then you don't need a 20k dollars per annum income in such a country. Your annual pay can't buy you a house in most cases in any country

Kukutente23:
The companies paying the PAYE and land use charges were created by Tinubu and Ambode abi
Lagos has always been the richest part of Nigeria since the colonial times
This your story is wack

No there was a time Oyo state land had more population in it than today's Lagos and was therefore richer. There was a time Ibadan and Ogbomosho had almost the same population and Oyo, Abeokuta, Ilesa, Iwo, Ede, Ijebu etc were trailing behind them. All these cities have emptied themselves into Lagos. There was a time Ilesa alone was double the size of Onitsha or Owerri, Jos and etc

Lagos has not always been the richest part of Nigeria but it would have been a bit richer than Oyo in 1999 and there is nowhere in the world where the government is the one setting up all the companies not even in Cuba and other socialist states

Sheuns:
Tinubu and APC cannot achieve 1trn dollars GDP by the 2030 they target at this trajectory they set the country at.

It took Saudi Arabia almost 100 years to achieve $1trn GDP.

Do you think we need the average income earner to be making 1.3 million naira per month? Top civil servants don't make up to 1 million naira and presently the average Nigerian worker makes less than 300k per month. A one trillion dollar economy means the average worker is making 1.3 million per month which is more than five times what they make now. We don't need that much unless rent becomes very expensive in all cities and we shouldn't be praying for such

Most country have cattle and they don't kill people over it. Government should lead the way in establishing ranches. Train people too. 50 cows can feed a family. I believe revenue will surpass fifteen million per annum from 50 cows. Milk and beef. Government should go into it and support people to go into it. Nomadic cattle rearing is archaic

budaatum:
I do not realise any such nonsense, and It is not true that "high pay in high income countries is because of the cost of living mainly and not because of your productivity"!

No one will pay you "cost of living" if they are not producing the revenue to pay it!


Dude, please! It is not simply because the minimum wage earner in London is more productive than "permanent secretary in Nigeria or even a consultant medical doctor" is why the minimum wage earner is more productive, but because workers in London are more productive on the whole than workers in Nigeria on the whole.

You will not pay a living wage anywhere if your company is not productive enough to make the revenue to pay a living wage!


Stop being disigenius!

You can only solve the cost of living crisis by increasing the revenue of those paying it. And you increase revenue by increasing productivity!

Do know that when electricity goes off productivity decreases and companies lose money. London knows this, so they hardly ever have blackouts.

Study the below. It might increase your understanding.

In 2026, the United Kingdom's nominal GDP per capita is projected at approximately $61,006, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. When adjusted for purchasing power (PPP), this figure rises to $67,585

In 2026, Nigeria's nominal GDP per capita is estimated at $1,556, marking a significant projected increase from approximately $1,223 in 2025. When adjusted for purchasing power (PPP), the figure is much higher, estimated at roughly $9,990 for 2026

If you think it is no disadvantage to an economy if rent is fifty times what it is in another country or an automobile is sold twenty times the market price to the masses then there is no words for me to exchange with you. We are entirely not on the same page.

budaatum:
Actually, my productivity makes me own houses that I rent out. And the rent I charge is not set by any company, and nor do I determine how much I charge by how much you can afford, but by the going rate for similar houses in the neighbourhood my houses are in.

I'd of course love to charge for my house in the Orolu Kingdom what I charge for the ones in Ibadan, but despite the one in the Orolu Kingdom being larger and on more land, no one will pay me what I get for the ones in Lagos.

And it's not because the people in my Orolu Kingdom are not as productive as people in Ibadan and Lagos, but because there is more investment in Ibadan and Lagos than in my Orolu Kingdom, so more jobs and created in Ibadan and Lagos, and more productivity, and hence the huge demand for workers and places for the workers to live in Ibadan and Lagos than in my Orolu Kingdom.

Do you now realize that high pay in high income countries is because of the cost of living mainly and not because of your productivity? A minimum wage earner in London is paid many times more than a permanent secretary in Nigeria or even a consultant medical doctor and it is not because the minimum wage earner is more productive. It is because of a cost of living crisis that needs to be solved. We are different in that I see it as a problem that needs to be solved and you don't

Igbophobia:
Look at the bolded. We all know that AMINDA people and others like Wike and Oshiomole took advantage of LP's lack of agents to rig for Tinubu. It is obvious that Obi won the election. It's PDPs loss that they couldn't take advantage of his popularity to unsit APC.

Didn't LP do the same in the South East? If you remove only thirty percent from SE votes, how many will be LP votes temaining? How plausible is it that LP would have won in places in the NW where they had no polling agents and an insignificant number of votes? Those people did not even know Peter Obi talkless of voting for him

You people keep saying Obi won without realizing how difficult it is for someone who didn't win the Yoruba or Hausa vote to win a Presidential election. Someone with no agent in tens of thousands of polling units? The number of votes in Hausa land and Yoruba land is over 55 percent of the total and I don't think anyone with poor showings in both constituencies have much hope of winning any Presidential election. Obi did not win. He came third

Happy 47th birthday to Genevieve Nnaji, Nollywood veteran and role model. Many more years in excellent health and prosperity. More wins!

AMINDA:
Lol. Kogi and Kwara are now Yoruba states? No wonder Tinubu has channelled every appointment meant for the Northcentral to Yorubas in those states. Yet he wonders why he's been accused of tribalism. Even the other regions of the South are marginalised, hence why Tinubu's quest to build a "Southern conscensus" is failing. There's no "middlebelt" as a geographic region. There's only Northcentral. In 2023, the Northern Christians who mostly identify as middlebelt voted Obi. No matter how you turn facts on it's head, Tinubu lost Lagos and Osun and never won Rivers. The North made him President.

What is now Kwara and Kogi west? What are Porto Novo and etc? The Yoruba are the second largest group in the North after Hausa with three to four senators. Hausa have at least eighteen. Why would you ask if Kwara is Yoruba?

Every ethnic group in Nigeria is big enough to stand in its own and if they need to align with any other it should be their decision. They should control their own security. Imagine handing over the security of Europe to a government controlled by only one nation that see others as competition?

If we want Africa to rise then Nigeria must disband. Let the Hausa pursue unity with their people to the North and the Yoruba with their people to the west and etc.

I am Yoruba and Yoruba is one of the major groups on Earth by population. The ones in west Africa alone form around one percent of Earth's population and many more claim descent in the Americas. They need to be able to thrive in their own space without any other group breathing down on them and the same applies to other groups. Any group that joins the Yoruba will be totally free to leave at anytime and they will control their own security and army divisions. Use your language and learn Yoruba for the center as well as English. Enough of the merry go rounding and time marking. Let's join the rest of the world to build civilization rather than just be marking time.

Nigeria is shortchanging and has shortchanged the Yoruba. They are not less than thirty percent of the population spread across the southwest, north central and south south and they sure pay up to forty percent if not more of the taxes. Why then are they given less than thirty percent of the states when the states are used to calculate what is due to each group? If there are thirty six states, the Yoruba should control at least eleven because states are deemed equal in the Senate and when determining the winner of a Presidential election.

The present government has freed the nation from dependence on oil as non oil revenue is now seventy five percent of total revenue and rising. During Buhari, oil revenue was ninety percent. Nigeria can now survive without oil as it was during the first republic. Nigeria is reset and has been rescued from the abyss of dependence on oil that it was thrown down by the military and everyone that wants the progress of humanity should now support the move to break up Nigeria so that we can all breathe. Possibly sovereign debt will be cancelled or become bad debt and this means more money for the emergent nations.
Trying to make Nigeria work is more like flogging a dead horse. We are not one nation. No basis for nation building and we will never be one nation but we can be good neighbors

BigCowHornn:
I'm


Keep deceiving yourself


Migos mixing trillions in revenue each year but you will never see it reflect in all those bad road oh but environment

Yoruba's from older state will always take that money away from you beginning with tinubu

Lagos is the number one Yoruba state. Ogun and Oyo only contain around ten million Yoruba people each. They are dwarfed by Lagos.

Which party has the wherewithal? Maybe PDP and what do they have to campaign with? Which state have they changed and etc. Wil Lagosians risk it to hand Lagos over to them as they have nothing in their CV?
Is it worth it to hand Lagos over to people who just want to eat? Why don't they change one state first? Many states in Nigeria could have been like Lagos but only Rivers state is close a bit for now.
If any state mandates all companies to file PAYE returns as did Ambode in Lagos, they would be financially independent within a few months though most states are just being given back their monies now courtesy the Tinubu revenue drive from Abuja. For PAYE, the FG can't do it for them.

If no party can do it in any other state, why do they think they are entitled to the benefit of what another party has pioneered?

Yes they inflate contracts to steal money and their investment portfolio is negligible. If it were the AG running the place they will by now have an investment company worth billions of dollars and they will have huge equity in all major companies in the economy of Nigeria. Their own mode of operation is collect revenue, borrow to add to it, do some projects, invest a little and steal the rest of the money. It is still better than the modus operandi in other states that have no revenue apart from allocations and are also not accountable

Kukutente23:
Was lagos GDP the lowest in the country before Tinubu and APC?
Too many brainwashed souls
Lagos made Tinubu not the other way round

Lagos would have been only a bit higher than Oyo in GDP in 1999. Because of the seizure of Lagos lg allocations Tinubu started collecting land use charges and gradually made Lagos to stand on its feet financially. Ambode made PAYE the main revenue source. No company can operate in Lagos without filing PAYE returnsas at today and Lagos is the only state like that in Nigeria made so by Ambode. PAYE is now majority of Lagos revenue
Left alone without these proactive moves by the leaders then Lagos would be ni different from Oyo state or any other state. They definitely would not have had the revenue to do all they do

Lagos with NIN registration of like 13;to 14;million has population in excess of 20 million.
Nothing wrong in people in the same party voluntarily stepping down for themselves. The GAC is not one man o but a committee of well respected Lagosians.

Then many elections have shown that Lagosians are the ultimate determinants. The NRC won in the 90s with Sir Mike Otedola when the main party was the SDP but because of the lack of cohesion, over competition and thuggery of the SDP, Lagosians voted NRC. Lagosians also voted LP for Presidency in 2023, so Lagosians know what they are doing. They can abandon the APC if need be. It is after all a democracy. Any party that wants to take over should buckle up not try to force the APC into disarray. The APC are still acting within the ambits of the law

Does Free market communism mean there will be no billionaires?

No. It only means everyone including those on minimum wage on all labour fronts everywhere in the country will be statutorily obliged to join the race to accumulate wealth whether they have that plan or not. It also means all hands will be joined together to lift everybody up together in all ways.

There is no way there will be eight billion consumers on Earth and some people will not become stupendously wealthy. If you bring something to the market that everybody wants, you will become very wealthy. If you have exceptional management expertise, vision for expansion and drive, you will become very wealthy. It will be the same way it has always been and there will be millionaires, billionaires and probably trillionaires. Who knows? But there will be nobody left behind because everybody will be growing even if not at the same rate. There will be no cap or upper limit for any entity since it is called a free market.

Many so called billionaires in the high income world especially in the USA, if the number of people they employ were considered would not be billionaires in China or India even if they have all the same assets not to talk of in countries like Nigeria or Pakistan etc US billionaires are not that wealthy in reality but the US economy is bloated up and made heavy with the weight on the low income earners is the problem. The value of stock is brown up like the value of real estate. The owner of a private company employing only 500 people in New York is a billionaire while someone employing as many people in the same line of business in Ibadan Nigeria maybe worth between 50 to 100 million dollars or less. THE BILLIONAIRE IN NEW YORK IS NOT THE PROBLEM. The system in the USA is the problem. The free market was given a free rein in the real estate sector and anything given a free rein can run amok.

For instance there is nobody in the USA employing tens of thousands of people with their own money. Elon Musk is doing maybe five thousand or a bit more with his own money. So HNIs in the USA and etc are not really disruptors of the economic space yet. There is just a need to reform the system to be more inclusive of everybody, to carry everybody along..

THE HNIs are not the adversaries though no doubt they benefit from how things are presently but entrepreneurs would benefit more and the economy would grow more if there is a reform.

Labour and other unions need to ask to be given same rights as political parties and any agreement on minimum wage should apply to any entity employing labour from one person up.

AMINDA:
Are you having a laugh? Northerners voted Tinubu into power. You didn't. Northerners are well represented and positioned in the APC, you aren't. A Northerner is currently VP, Deputy Senate President and speaker. Your man is proud of his "Number 6" position and wears it with pride. Who told you there aren't Northerners interested in seeing Tinubu continue till 2031 when they fully take over? "Let Tinubu continue" is not the threat you think it is to the North. Northerners are always in power, just different power blocs. The bigger question is, what's in it for your region? In 2015, Tinubu was in the same position the Southeast currently is. He seized the opportunity by travelling all the way to Daura to convince a retired Buhari to come get his Southern brother out of power. The rest is history.

The Igbo don't have more than 40 percent of Yoruba vote if they align with Fulani now, Fulani can spend eight years and then still go to another party to contest to spend another eight years as they went to the PDP to contest against Tinubu. That is how the game is played in Nigeria and the Igbo unlike the Yoruba do not have the numbers to offset them as did Tinubu.

Decided by God just like your past, future and present crimes were died for two thousand years ago and you don't need to add effort to be responsible

New odus of ifa April 2 2026.


Okanran Ogunda

When a battle goes on for long enough, the gladiators often forget why it started at all.

This was the IFA cast for the communists who were fighting for the abolition of private property when the stated aim of communism ab initio is the eradication of social classes


Oturupon Ose
.
A General that fights alongside the rank and file is the true General

This was the IFA cast for King George the head of the British empire who became an Omo iya soon after Yoruba land became a part of the British empire

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
A General that fights alongside the rank and file is the true General.
All Ogboni are Omo iya and the Ogboni is the largest and broadest fraternity among the Yoruba


Ogunda Oyeku

More tasks shall be conceived and assigned to be done as soon as someone is idle

This was the IFA cast for the nation where all citizens are entitled to a means of livelihood
They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Their sacrifice reached heaven and was accepted
They stretched their legs and danced!
They praised their Awos
Their Awos praised ifa
Ifa praised Olodumare
They started to sing
We never knew it could be so simple!
We never knew it could be so simple
We deployed ourselves and ended unemployment
We never knew it could be so simple

Osa Ofun

A child being force fed fights back, not knowing it is all for its own good

This was the ifa cast for Akin Lawanson
On the day he was being insulted by someone who was learning spirituality free of charge from him online
He was told to go and look for job because he is a poor man!
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Not too long after
Come and meet us in the midst of blessings as is normal for Awos at the feet of Obarisa


Note

Give people what they need to be quality humans if you have that thing even if they think their debilitating condition is what is best for them. No right thing done ever goes without reward.

Oturupon meji

You are what you are now and in the next life. Your inclination remains your inclination

This was the ifa cast for the incarnate of Jesus Christ who will be a Jew with sympathy for Christians

It was cast for the incarnate of Orunmila who will certainly become a Babalawo even if born into religion


Osa Irosun
It is what you have that you use to get what you want. It is only a vehicle with a full tank that can go very far

This was the ifa cast for the person who sold his inheritance to travel abroad for greener pastures
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
People who embark on a journey of no return are always launched by what they have in excess

Note
People who leave their homes to travel abroad do so or are able to do so because they have excess and they would not have been able to do so if they were poor. The poor in any country are stuck where they are. They are stuck in their countries

Oturupon Otura

A corporate body can not have two boards of director

This was the ifa cast for the nation that cancelled it's bicameral legislature and instituted a unicameral one
They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
A set of parents is more than enough for a nuclear family



Ofun Owonrin

That people have more than their fair share does not mean they will not be granted even more

This was the ifa cast for twenty million people with five states who are being offered an additional state when 55 million people have only six states

Oyeku Irete

When the son of the righteous is walking in the dark and is about to fall into a ditch there will certainly be a lightening flash for illumination

This was the ifa cast for Akin Lawanson who was battered by those who intended to kill him.
His cap was seized by those who intended to cut off his head
He was totally devastated
He added two cowries to three cowries and approached his Awos
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Not too long after
Meet us where we celebrate victory like Ogun as is customary for Awos at the feet of Obarisa
His adversaries were neutralized by onlookers without him lifting a finger to help himself

Osa Oturupon

No empire wants to be divided. No dominion wants it's extents to be reduced.

This was the IFA cast for the British that fought a war against the USA to stop them from being free. It was also cast for the British that would not leave their former colonies alone to chart their own path even after independence

It was shared to France that was issuing currency for her former colonies and routinely forced regime change in them

mrvitalis:
Jesus!!!!!!!
I have read economic rubbish on this App abi site but none comes close to this

Like let me get you, you don't want economic growth because it would increase cost of living?

Mehn this is a human being that votes,
I must have been bad in my past life for God to punish me with sharing a country with you

Your brain will only be able to process up to it's installed capacity and not more than that.