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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
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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.

budaatum:
It has nothing to do with your "cost of living crisis"!

Now you mention it though. Students in a country arrive in class after spending the night doing holy ghost prayer to be taught by teachers owed 3 months salary, compete with students who had a good nights sleep in their comfortable bed and arrive in class to be taught by competent satisfied teachers. Can you perhaps imagine the difference in their productivity when they grow up and start working, and would yiu pay them the same wage if they don't produce the same amounts?

Low income countries should sit up and learn to be more productive is what I'd think. But if they don't some countries' peoples would most definitely continue to emigrate to serve others elsewhere.

So you think it is because you are productive that you spend half of your income to pay rent? Companies monitor the cost of living in your city to determine how much to offer you. Not because you are more productive than your counterpart who works in Ibadan Nigeria

budaatum:
Thanks for educating me about per Capita income. I missed the difference.

Land in New York does not cost the same as land in say Makoko. In fact, land in GRA Ikeja does not cost the same as land in Makoko, so rent on houses built on either can not be the same I wouldn't think, since the total cost of building differs. And that's not even taking the difference in supply of amenities (light, water, good roads, local tax, neighbours even, and demand, etc) in different locations into consideration.

Just the availability of jobs and demand for housing can create a difference in rent. A 3 bedroom house in my own Orolu Kingdom would cost less than a room in a face to face in Lagos due to low demand alone, and I can't see why or how they'd be priced the same even if building costs were the same.

So the cost of living crisis should continue? North Korea should have a per Capita income of 1000 dollars or Burundi should have 300 dollars while some countries have over 100, 000 dollars? If it continues then some countries will only have an economy based on the service sector and not much else and that will be the high income countries. If all low income countries should sit up to organize themselves by increasing their tax to GDP ratio to work for their people and they are already sitting up then the service economies will start losing people to emigration. Who will want to stay in a country where people are slaving for the real estate investors?

Mrexcell:
It might be the collective game plan of obi, kwankwaso and atiku to have another platform in case tinibu finally use the courts to destroy the adc we saw their press statement in ibadan recently where they agreed for all opposition to support a single presidential candidate this game is like a chess game. You must have plan a, b. c and if possible plan d while fighting a crook and narcissist like tinibu who is ready to deploy anything wether conventional or not to win his reelection.

You are still mentioning Tinubu even when ADC is disbanding because INEC has temporarily recognized David Mark and co? Can't you decipher that ADC can not hold itself together for some reason?

Now that non oil revenue is seventy five percent of total revenue, what anybody that wants the progress of humanity should be demanding for is the breakup of Nigeria

NaWhoTalkAm:
Sir, I think at this point I've pretty much explained how all your points are invalid. I've also directed you on how to find information that can give you an idea on where the Yoruba states sit in global standards. If you don't consider any of these relevant and prefer your own opinions, then that is your prerogative.

Ok let me ask one final question. In 1960 when the west had a budget of 55 million pounds against the East's 12 million and the North's 7 million can that also be attributed to the contributions of other Nigerians in Lagos? Presently Lagos contains like 40 to 45 percent of the population of the SW.

budaatum:
I don't think children are calculated in household income unless you are farming them out for a wage, so the income of a family of 2 parents and 3 children will be $10k per annum at best.

As for your, "No country in reality needs up to three thousand dollars per annum in per capita income if the cost of living were what it should be", rent in New York for a family home is way more than three thousand dollars per month, and cost of living is what it is and not what one wishes it should be!

If you reread you will realize I did not use children for household income but for per Capita income. Everybody in the country is counted to arrive at per Capita income including children.
If the cost of living especially rent in New York were what it should be then the per Capita income in New York will not be more than three thousand dollars per annum. You should be able to see this because there is no reason why the same quality of housing in different parts of the world should be priced differently. So rent in New York and etc is not what it should be. I hope you see the point.

What does a one trillion dollar GDP mean for Nigeria?

Assuming a population of 220 million people, it will mean the per Capita income will be around 5000 dollars per annum and what this means is that the average family of five comprising of two bread winners and three children will have a house hold income of around twenty five thousand dollars per annum before tax. Now, some households will make lower than that and high net worth households will make more while ultra high net worth individuals will make far more but the average will be around that amount.

Twenty five thousand dollars changed to naira at 1350 is around 33 million naira per annum meaning the average pay of husband and wife in a family will be around sixteen million naira per annum or around 1.3 million naira per month.

In a Nigeria of one trillion dollar GDP, the average worker will have a salary of around 1.3 million naira per month whereas presently the average Nigerian does not earn up to 300 thousand naira per month and they are surviving. Nigeria has the highest number of private jets in Africa. Nigeria imports luxury goods, expensive wines, luxury cars and etc probably more than any country in Africa since they can have the highest number of private jets in Africa and etc

It is easy to see that Nigeria does not need up to one trillion dollars in GDP and if Nigeria should have up to that in GDP then the average Nigerian will be living like Kings and Queens because what does a family of five need over thirty million naira per annum for in Nigeria? The cost of living in Nigeria is not high enough to justify that

High GDP and high per Capita income that you hear of in high income countries is made possible or it becomes unavoidable only because of the high cost of living in those countries especially the cost of rent.

No country in reality needs up to three thousand dollars per annum in per capita income if the cost of living were what it should be.

Nigeria does not need up to one trillion dollars in GDP for a population of around 220 million people unless the cost of living spirals out of control.

obitrac:
I don't know why you guys always talk about salary,how many Nigerians are doing salary work, more than 60 percent of Nigerians are self employed and most of them are doing businesses that make more than 100k per day

There are maybe 60 to 70 million Nigerians earning income
Federal civil servants maybe one million
States maybe 1million
Local government maybe one million
All banks maybe one million
There are thousands of small businesses like hotels, gas stations, bakeries, pure water factories, super markets, hospitals, saw mills, factories and etc all needing salaried workers. It is safe to assume most income earners are salary earners though many also have side hustles and many are artisans.

AMINDA:
Does it occur to you that Yorubas will also populate the Southeast today if those number of infrastructure were sited in the East over the years? Why then do you ask them to "go back to their region" every electoral cycle?

The Yoruba are in PH the same way Igbo are in Lagos. Only difference is Lagos is around three times the population of PH. In the SE Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri are all cosmopolitan and there are things there which if you want to do will be done for you most probably by a Yoruba person. The Yoruba don't want anybody to go back to their region because non Yoruba in Yoruba land can't be up to the number of Yorubas scattered around the cosmopolitan cities of Nigeria and west Africa.

naija1stnigar:
that 100k you are talking about can only meet his primary needs! Even in a place like Lagos, how do you expect such a person to live in a personal room where rents for an average room self con is worth over 500k a year, open your eyes man! That money can only be ok for someone who has no pursuit and who still lives with someone.

If you are on minimum wage say in the UK and can not save anything, how are you better than someone earning 100k per month in Nigeria who is saving 40k per month? The person in Nigeria can become financially independent in a few years if they carefully invest and monitor it before the person not able to save is able to find their feet. Don't advise any young graduate around you to refuse a job offer of 100k for a start if they can save

yemre:
I disagree.

If you live in a place like Ibadan or Kwara, that 100k is enough to sustain a bachelor for the month, feeding and rent inclusive. But if you're married with, at least 2 kids, I don't know how you can do that.

Truly, rent is paid yearly but the least accomodation in a modest Lagos environment now goes for a minimum of 200k per annum, and that must be on the bush-like suburb. Not even when Lagos landlords have started the madness of increasing rent every year.

You are saying the same thing yet you say you disagree? If a bachelor then it is ok for a start but not for a family person. Especially in a second tier city as you said. As a bachelor you will still save out of that amount if you are frugal.

How I will approach the Dangote refinery if I were President.

I will get the national assembly to approve at least one hundred million dollars as grant to the Dangote Group so that the group can own at least one hundred million dollars worth of equity in the Dangote refinery without needing loans then the group can then add their own funds but the majority of the refinery stakeholders must be investors who are okay with even less than two percent per annum. It does not matter where they come from or who they are. This is the only way the refinery can be of real benefit to the economy of Nigeria.. With this arrangement the price of pms will not be up to twenty percent of the price in the USA.

No government should support an arrangement where the masses pay three times what they should be paying whether for rice, sugar, cement or cassava.

The government should always support daring entrepreneurs in the way I suggest Alhaji Dangote's Dangote Group should be supported. If the Dangote group is supported in this way then maybe more people will break more grounds in other sectors of the economy as he did in the oil sector.

Flesh10:
I clearly stated my opinion is for Lagos state where I live

Even in Lagos, if they provide you accommodation then it is ok and many jobs in Lagos come with accomodation

It depends on cost of transportation
If cost of transportation were removed, then it will be more than enough for a single person because you can save a large part of it and it is not how much you are paid that matters but how much of it you can save

A country that can feed 1.4 billion people and still export billions of dollars worth of food is not the richest while Nigeria that can't feed 220 million without importing food is.

Will the Boer in South Africa eventually become Negroes? A glimpse into speciation

The answer is Yes and the change is already in motion. A people will always have overtime a phenotype that matches their habitat.

White couples will give birth to black children and the DNA will be correct as the baby will match the parents while the baby will also be physically indistinguishable from black south Africans that match the habitat. This will happen frequently because nature knows what is best for us and overtime there will be no white people left in South Africa while their DNA will still say they have European ancestry. The change happens fully in one generation, so it is not evolution but adaptation.

There is at least one recorded occurrence in the twentieth century, it is therefore not science fiction.

Phenotype change can happen in one generation and if one species will become another species, it will also happen in one generation and not via the much hyped evolution which no one has ever observed

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2003/mar/17/features11.g2

aswani:
I actually believe the South South can form a very stable indigenous federation, the reason being that is the only place they wouldn't be marginalised as everyone would have more or less the same numbers.

Ikwerre in Biafra will be a minority and will have little political power as there will be no one to align with politically, same as Anioma people.

Any land can leave any union anytime under a fair constitution

Osariemen12:
Exactly my point. They was never a time Bini was Yoruba. We are distinct people and that must be respected.

The people that lived in Benin even 250 years ago were no different from the Itsekiri the Olukunmi the Owo or the Ilaje. They didn't see themselves as different from the hinterland Yoruba and your ancestors obviously did not mix much with them. The other Edoid speaking people mixed with the Yoruba more than the ancestors of the present day Benin but the present day Benin have taken over the new city of Benin.
Now there are hundreds of not thousands of Benin stories in Yoruba history contained in the ifa corpus, you should therefore not expect the Yoruba to forget or overlook all that just because the current majority language of Benin city is a strange tongue to them. Would you? So that is the issue. Outside all that, it is quite obvious that current Benin people are not Yoruba. They are the least affiliated to the Yoruba of all western Edoid groups

Osariemen12:
Many of them ignorantly refer to us as Yoruba.

The old Benin city was Yoruba but the present one is not. That is where the confusion comes from. Your ancestors did not live inside the old Benin city

Osariemen12:
Oba gha tokpe'ee!


Yes. We are unique, and we are among the best set of people in this world. Love us or hate us, we go for what is right.


If there is anything I want to change about my people, it is our geographical location: I hate the fact we are bordered by the Yoruba race in the west. The other people I have boundaries with - Itshekiri, Ijaw, Anioma (Igbo), etc, are cool people.

Your land is well defined with borders and it can not be taken from you but why do you hate the fact you share border with the Yoruba? And why are the Yoruba not cool people?

Juliette5803:
Then what you people are practicing is not democracy

What you want is for the GAC to support nobody and let all go for free and fair primaries? That too has its downsides. Let them support someone as well respected elders. How can you not have an opinion when you know your opinion carries weight? That would be unpatriotic

Juliette5803:
What's the essence of primaries when we know the outcome
Did you see Ambode figures when he contested against sanwaolu in the primaries

What is the essence of tested and trusted leadership or stakeholdership if it is expected not to take sides? They are right to deliberate among themselves and support a candidate. Even if they are the only ones ruling Lagos, they will do it successfully so far they are elderly people of proven integrity

Juliette5803:
What are the indices to pick one individual,there should be a level playing field for all contestants,not the decision of less than 100 persons

They didn't say there will be no primaries. They are just coming out as respected stakeholders to say who they support.

stuffs2002:
To you Igbo unification means stealing other people land, steal their crude oil and forcefully have access to the sea.

You people are very funny with you Igbo unification because it is 100% centered on oppressing the people of Niger Delta, stealing their land and oil. Niger Delta are not Igbo, have never been Igbo and will never be Igbo.

If Nigeria breaks up, some lands outside the SE will agree to join the Igbos. If they don't, maybe they will be independent or do you think the Ikwerre will be reporting to Benin? Are you Ikwerre? Will your people be reporting to Benin? If all Igbo speaking people don't unite immediately, they will eventually unite

CharlotteFlair:
Following..

Can you give examples of other nations who went into amalgamation using the method you suggested above?

It was a season of preaching universal adult suffrage and sure the North have the numbers and therefore the economy but they did not have the revenue drive.
If Germany and Austria were merging they will certainly not share seats 50/50 and they will not make Austria fund the union more than Germany is funding it.

There is nothing wrong with universal adult suffrage when there is no census fraud but in Nigeria where the foundation census say Fulani are over half of the Hausa in population and Igbo outnumber the Yoruba, then the regions containing those populations must show workings by generating revenue otherwise let everybody stay on their own. No group should be made to slave for other groups.

Juliette5803:
so it's no longer democracy, it's better INEC cancel all elections and allow the few stakeholders appoint their choices

They control only their own party. In any democracy, have you ever seen party members opposing the legitimate leadership of their own party? What is important is peer review. It should never be one person alone but a committee of people of proven integrity

The revenue drive fault line at the beginning of Nigeria.

The North sure can pay more taxes than the south in Nigeria but they need to pay it as just having the potential is not enough. The south during negotiations at independence should not have agreed for the North to automatically produce half of the representation at the center unless they measured up by revenue. You have to measure up to earn your pedestal. According to AI, western Nigeria had a budget of 55 million pounds in 1960, the East had 12 million pounds and the North had nine million pounds.

It was a huge mistake for the western region to agree to go into the Nigerian union without demanding that others measure up with revenue according to the economic activities within their borders or territory. If they had measured up, then they would have been able to afford free and compulsory education too as well as universal healthcare
The size of the economy and the revenue gotten therefrom is the main wherewithal of a nation.

Nigeria is still suffering today from the unequal yoking together of different nations that were at different levels of economic organization. The level of organization must be the same before a land can be called a nation or before the land can uniformly succeed as a nation.

Juliette5803:
Why should a group of people less than 100 decide who leads a state,no need for elections then...

If they are well respected stake holders, why not? That is exactly what used to happen in a state run by the Ogboni in the olden days. It is actually more efficient than holding general elections that the majority will not even participate in as they are less concerned

Strange statistics in Nigeria

Despite that NIN registration figures put Ogun state at double of Osun in population, Osun state ends up having a similar number of banks and hotels registered in the state with Osun a bit higher.

Despite that Anambra by NIN statistics is only a bit higher in population than Osun or Imo state, Anambra ends up having four times the number of registered auto dealerships of each of the two states and double the number registered in Oyo state. The number of the registered auto dealerships in Anambra is second only to Lagos.

Kano despite being the highest in population in the North is number nine in the North in maize production.

Despite the size of the North, the volume of maize produced in the region is around the same as that of the south.

Despite that Oyo state's capital Ibadan is ranked fourth among Nigeria's cities, the state as a whole still has the second highest number of registered hotels in Nigeria, Lagos being the number one.

Despite that Oyo state by NIN registration figures have just double Anambra's population, the number of registered poultry farms in Oyo state is ten times that of Anambra.


https://intelpoint.co/insights/13-northern-states-including-the-fct-produced-a-combined-56-of-the-nations-corn-output-on-average-in-2-years/

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-hotels-in-osun-state

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-hotels-in-ogun-state.

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-poultry-farms-in-oyo-state

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-poultry-farms-in-anambra-state

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-banks-in-osun-state

https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-details/nigeria/list-of-banks-in-ogun-state

franvincoop:
You still did not reply to me appropriately but I'll oblige you.

Can you tell me the last time APC had direct or indirect primaries in Lagos state? Can you?
Why would the GAC endorse Hamzat if they are not avoiding direct primaries?
How much would it cost APC to have direct primaries now?
Would it not cost over 300 million?

So why would they not refund Ajose 50 million x2 which is 100 million and get him to sign the consensus agreement and avoid spending 300 million+ on the direct primaries?

Nobody apart from you is talking about winning primaries.

Ajose is the smartest businessman in Nigeria in the last 24 hours, his 50 million investment is about to double, sure 2 odds.

Now, the electoral law says that a consensus agreement must be agreed in writing by all candidates.
Ajose will simply refuse to sign and insist on direct primaries, APC/GAC body odour is smelling consensus Hamzat, dem must settle Ajose or do direct primaries.
Ajose don cashout.

There is even another more dangerous reason the GAC is trying to avoid direct primaries, the Ambode factor....
Ambode can snatch it, grab it and runaway with the ticket right in front of the GAC despite this GAC consensus arrangement.

Anyway it goes, Ajose don cashout, to him to hell with whoever wins the primaries, no be him bizness, na win win for am.

He is the man of the week.

They are not afraid of direct primaries. Why do you think they will be afraid? They are more orderly than other parties and if they return any money to anybody, they are only doing the person a favour. It is not the person's right. They are not ADC that is being scattered by Mr Nafiu Gombe