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Anybody can write their own version of history to favor them. The truth is Dahomey was a vassal state of Oyo bringing income worth hundreds of billions of dollars pa in today's money to the empire, the Ashanti marched against Dahomey territory and the Oyo marched against them. The two contenders were Oyo and Ashanti. The Ashanti were routed by Oyo forces comprising of Fon, Ewe and Yorubas in Atakpame Togo. The Oyo removed the Asantehene and put another that became a vassal in 1776. They controlled the whole place as at then! You better wake up from your slumber. Britain colonised Yoruba land by merely settling a 16 year long civil war. Listen to Kwam 1's song to get an idea of what happened E wo iji to ja to gbe Oba Aganyin! Kofi, Nene, Ajonto, Agomoh..... So wake up from your slumber. All of Ghana, Togo, Benin republic was in 1776 part of the Oyo empire. Just like Yoruba fell under the British empire in 1890s.

The Dahomey broke away in the 1820s, the Egba in the 1830s and Ilorin 1840s. Do wake up!

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Igboid:
You need a brain transplant Surgery.

USA has a military complex with which she uses to invade foreign nations and force them to either part away with their natural resources or to continue using Dollar as means of forex.

Thanks to having its currency used in world trade, USA can print as much Dollar as it wants.

Yorubaland has no military complex to invade resource rich countries and entrench imperialism. She is not rich in natural resources, her currency is not used as world trade currency.

Its stupidity to start comparing Odua land and her debt with USA, the appropriate example should be GREECE, ,even that will be a stretch, seeing as Greece has a better infrastructure than Odualand.

The Japanese government is more indebted than the USA and the USA dont print money anyhow, they announce all their QEs. Na Nigeria they print money anyhow! How many times have your CBN ever announced QE to you? Yet N100 thirty years ago is N300,000 today. Without the military industrial complex, the US will be like Norway. They are a serios nation. Norway is a nation of 5 million with a one trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund controlling over 1 percent of Europe's publicly traded shares! A bigger version of Oodua conglomerate. If world security were guaranteed, the US would have such a fund worth over 50 trillion dollars with fingers everywhere.

Then we have no debts in Yoruba land!. How much sef? If we merge all our lands in West Africa, it contains like 100 million people. So how much debt? How much sovereign debt? No debt Mr Man.

SuperS1Panther:
They are bitter set of people, always envious of others that are progressing than them and they are hatred personified. They hate everything and anything.

No two groups collaborate outside politics than Igbos and Yorubas but they believe Yoruba should have surrendered their land to them in 67 when even Urhobos and Ijaws attacked them! They really have mind sef. I used to pacify them but I dont any more. I tell them 'try it again and you get a similar result!'. However all should be encourage to have their own space. Develop your space where you control first and behave yourself in other places even if you want to take it over! But you should not, just maintain your space! Thank God for that space sef! Mixing everything together is not healthy at all. You should not be on Yoruba land if you hate Yorubas. Yorubas on Igbo land or anywhere dont carry on like that.

All should be encouraged to support a total breakup of Nigeria for every group to take care of security, education, health, banking and etc to improve their HDI.

We have failed our ancestors so far. Hausas causing riots on Yoruba land?, killing people burning houses? Awori land being described as no man's land?


I want Igala, Tiv, Igbo, Ijaw, Benin, Nupe, Yoruba to control their ancestral lands with police at least and army divisions staffed by them, even if they decide to give up their sovereignty to form larger unions! That is the only way! However all can stand alone. Igala is a country on its own for instance with extensive land and high population.

After the fall of Rome, the Yoruba and Hausa were more organised and advanced than Europeans. They lived in bigger cities and had more viable nation states, walled cities and many of the walls are still visible today. You ask Julius Berger to construct Eredo rampart today and they will quote for you billions of dollars. Slaves were being sold all over the world. If an Ijesa man needed an assortment of slaves from India, China, Europe, Japan, he would get. He can buy war captives, criminals and etc from anywhere in the world. The Yoruba were streaming to the Americas same way as Europeans like Germans and British, the European rate only surpassed ours greatly after the industrial revolution. All were going initially mainly as indentured servants before it turned to full scale slavery for some time before abolition. Even at that there are Yorubas all over South America that are not descendants of slaves or even indentured servants.


So only Igbos of the three main Nigerian groups were not socially advanced in the past. Such does not really apply to Hausa and Yoruba. If Nigeria had not been one at all, there would have been better results for West Africa as the three main groups would compete amongst themselves.


So if not for the industrial revolution that sprung in England because of their timely invention of corporations which managed capital more efficiently than individuals or the crown, we would still be a pre industrial society! The revolution started centuries after the first Europeans arrived here and the people that arrived here the Portuguese and Spanish were left behind! Britain carried the day! They started the prosperity we are now enjoying, stopped the slave trade, colonised us, gave us independence and handed the baton to the USA.

aribisala0:
I have not said anything about Igboland.

SE is Igbo land apart from other Igbo land outside SE.

PASTOR KUMUYI OF DEEPER LIFE TOO.

One of the first mysteries I encountered on this my Adeboye business happened around 2002 or 2003 or so. I had finished IT in NNPC and I had gone into business, so I was writing proposals and giving it to people before a colleague joined up with me as my first partner. So I went to Ikoyi to see my former Oga, Engr Tim Gbugu, they all liked me back then and he has children my age mates. He said Akin, I have no need to go into partnership with you but I will at least assist you, you have an id there?, let me give you a N30,000 cheque as an assistance and he made for his cheque book and was issuing the cheque already. I halted him 'No id sir, let me come next week'. He said ok. When I returned, I spent hours without being allowed to enter the NAPIMS compound in racecourse then, my boss was looking at me definitely, so I made as if I gave up, then returned after two hours, he had come down to lambast the security for not letting me in or so! So the security apologised when I returned and I went in. I met a new man, he said 'Akin, I made a decision not to assist any business man, I was dumbfounded. But why sir?, okay just invest, this is my proposal, written out now in A4. He said No!. It was like magic to me. I returned empty handed! The man is a Deeper Life Pastor. It was definitely Pastor KUMUYI that did that job. All GOs want you to bow down and worship them or their fellow GOs otherwise they will kill you especially if you are vulnerable. They are vampires.


They want me dead now and if not for the CIA, I would be long dead and these are people who rank far below me in morals. They would have killed me and they tried. Just to maintain their hold on their cattle but back then I had not joined facebook. I joined facebook fully in 2007 after graduation.


So it is better to stop these people. What gospel are they spreading? Of what benefit to humanity is that message? It is all evil and they must be stopped. They are terror mongers. God will kill you, God will burn you in hell and etc for unbelief, give your life to Jesus, submit to Allah and etc must be ended on Earth if this civilization is going to ever stabilize.

WEST AFRICA IN THE PRE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ERA.

It is important for commentators in the public to get a good grasp of history before offering opinions and stirring up emotions, cultivating ill feelings and etc. One of such commentators was being enlightened thus

‘ The first Europeans here were the Portuguese then our people were going to Europe and the Americas, so they knew the Spanish but later on by the 17th, 18th century, the Germans, English, French and etc took over. Togo, Cameroon and etc were formerly held by Germans. Togo and Ghana went from the hands of the Oyo to essentially the Germans who were later driven out by the British as an aftermath of the two great wars’.

He came back to say "then our people were going to Europe and America's",when you write this you meant on slave ships,right ? .

I had to educate him further

‘The Malians were contempories of the Oyo ie the Yoruba who prided themselves as pace setters, not copy cats as is clear in the saying 'Ajisebi Oyo laari Oyo ise bi Baba eni kankan'. I am Ijesa, the Ijesa would not submit to Oyo overlordship, so they taxed Oyo merchants passing their territory to go towards the Atlantic to trade with Europeans which led to Oyo establishing a military post in Ede Osun state against the Ijesa. I am a Yoruba from Ijesa. The Oyo knew the Malians as Imale or Male. Yoruba cities were bigger than Malian cities. Infact the Eredo of the Ijebu was the largest in the world that time. Malians were contemporaries of the Moors, both had Islamic universities as did Kanem Bornu on a lesser scale. Nothing they were doing was strange to the Yoruba back then. They infact saw the Yoruba as superior in mystics. So Malians and Moors were contemporaries and the Yoruba had larger cities than the Malians. The Moors ruled Southern Europe ie Spain and Portugal after being driven back by Charles of the Hammer in France. Spain as a result became number one in Europe looking down on Germans, English and etc as uncivilized, the English saw the Spanish as not only like senior brother but father! Later the Moors were driven out of Spain and Portugal by Catholics. But the Moors and other Muslims still controlled the route to India and the legendary Africa of 'Prester John'. That led to the Spanish and Portuguese risking southward voyages into uncharted West African waters of which stories of boiling seas was told by the Moors. The Portuguese and Spanish appeared on the Yoruba coast but to meet people better organised or as organised as themselves. They were not better than the Yoruba back then and they dealt with us as equals. They learnt our language and we learnt theirs. We went to Europe. South America and settled, they came here too. South America is a Yoruba enclave because of that. There are more Yorubas there than in West Africa. We had European slaves in West Africa too and titled Yoruba in South America but you dont use Europeans for slave labor in West Africa. Why? Because of tropical diseases. Go and sulk somewhere else. My ancestors were never sitting ducks being raped and sold into slavery by foreigners. Maybe yours not mine. Colonisation of Yoruba land started like 200 years after that of India.
When the Yoruba say ilu to wa lehin Ofa o ju Oje lo it means the cities after Ofa is more than the Oje that you know. In the past, the most Northerly Yoruba big city was Ofa but after it is Oje a smaller Yoruba city known to all Yorubas as well but Yoruba travellers must have started the saying that after you leave Oje are still hundreds of cities that you will meet that are outside the Yoruba world. From Oje to Gwari on the Northeast to Bariba in the North west, north to Hausa to Kanem Bornu to Mali to Moor to Europe and etc. So the cities you will meet pass Oje, so be prepared! That is the meaning of the adage.’

This above lecture was what I was forced to give someone who might even be a PhD!
We could have caught up in West Africa as did Japan, Singapore, South Korea and China to a lesser extent but the big nations of West Africa are locked in a death embrace, a bear hug that Nigeria is!

aribisala0:
I do not think the Western Region ever exported more Palm oil than the Eastern region to Britain but like I said it is important to look at the whole picture with facts rather than conjecture

Igbo land produces more consume less per capita and export more I believe but that may not be true, it may be that they export more because they consume less.

aribisala0:
In general I agree with you nevertheless we need to exhaust the discussion on the contribution of palm oil as an export commodity in comparison to other products if not for anything but for history and historicity.
I believe that records were kept from about 1896 and that is what we should be looking at

before oil, even in the 19th century, Europe preferred Nigerian palm oil to oil their machines of the industrial revolution. They swarmed on West Africa for palm oil abandoning one Indian oil that was initially used. Palm oil was preferred as a lubricant, so it was the crude oil back then. far more valuable cos it is also edible. Even now it is still more valuable per barrel or per tonne. However that palm oil mentioned was gotten from 21 states at least if Plateau, Taraba and etc are not there to make at least 23. Yoruba produce a large volume of palm oil from time immemorial. presently we produce more palm kernel oil because we have more refineries. That is not debateable. palm trees on Yoruba land will be hundreds of millions, each one worth more than 20 dollars naira a year to the farmer.

aribisala0:
1955 data are interesting and important but not relevant to the subject of this thread which is 1914 a period of 40 years. That is like comparing today to 40 years ago. Production shifts according to demand. How much cannabis is cultivated in Nigeria today compared even to 20 years ago.?

Let us look again at Cassava. How many people know that cassava is not indigenous to Nigeria or Africa? In Southern Nigeria yam was the staple but Cassava is easier to produce and a more rugged crop. Cassava like Cocoa was brought from South America and the rest is history.

Today Nigeria is the largest producer in the world though we consume most of what we produce . What was the level of cassava production in 1954, or 1914?

When we put data forward we must analyse what it means.
If you want to discuss 1954 let us go there but not just palm oil .Let us look at the whole picture and not isolated data.

This thread is about 1914 . A generation earlier

Export is not economy and exports of farm produce do not equal to GDP. Exports as a whole is sometimes not up to 5 percent of GDP. Why should it be. So export is never economy. Only in Nigeria.

Baaballiyo:
You never betray your nature, twisting and moulding established facts to fit your tale, If Nupe are Yoruba then I agree they have a compound in kano called " Tudun Nufawa" but Nupe are not Yoruba's, and the Kanuris also. In Hausa language there's no alphabet 'P', when you see 'P' in pular, peul, pullo e.t.c. its mostly used by Franco phoney nations ( Nations that speak French). And the mbororo'en are called "Bararoji/Bararo" in Hausa not bororo. Your bitterness to what Fulani did to Ilorin over two centuries ago makes one think may be you are a reincarnation of Afonja. Nonetheless, whether or not u are his reincarnation history had already been made and no amount of twisting and moulding by the Lawanis of this world could change that.

Stop obsessing yourself with Ilorin, Mr Man. You are a foreigner to them. Two or three Yoruba of Fulani descent were chief Imam in Ilorin that is chief priest, now the position has been given to Hausa descent, yet you want to remove the man again as you did to all Habe rulers in Hausa land . Abeg get lost!

nextprince:
U must be a super idiot to just bump into my mention. I can't remember mentioning a monkey or a banana in my post, so I'm quite surprised what attracted u to this place Pls I hate wasting time on fools who can't read and understand simple sentences. Just look at the incoherence in ur post. If the Jews narrated the story of Christ to the Holy prophet, who narrated those of Moses, Abraham, David, Solomon etc to him? Or still, how did he get to know of the books (Injila, Zabur, and Torah,) which ur fellow scammer mentioned in his post. Is it the Jews, who don't agree with christ, that had kept them awaiting his coming? Bro, I really need to borrow ur brain to test this idiot I'm building.

You are a born idiot yet brainwashed again as Almajiri. Where do you think Mohammed got the Torah stories? From Allah? Was that where he got the Arabic language too? You are a shortage to humanity!

nextprince:
Hehe, these people will never cease to amaze me
Rather than quoting the chapters and verses where Jesus christ specifically said "I'm God", u keep going round and round quoting verses of how he said him and the father are the same or where John was referring to him, hmmmmmm. In the OT, God specifically called Himself GOD. My question now is since God does not change His ways and He is not shy to call Himelf God, where did Christ say "I'm God" in the NT? Apparently, he never said so and this is not a coincidence. All these indirect references are not tenable. So it is u that need to be independent in your research and always read between the lines.
And for ur info, the Quran is not like ur Bible where u have so many things like; the gospel according to Luke, the gospel according to this and that. The Quran is a direct word of God. And for the Surahs u have quoted from The Glorious Quran, if u don't understand it, quote it here so that u don't read it out of context. And u claimed that Muslims are also involved in blasphemy, pls state those words of the blasphemy.
And ur admission that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was referring to Books that came into existence before his coming, clearly shows that his prophethood is to mankind rather than other prophets who were sent to specific nations. Did u ask urself how he came to know of those Books? Anyway, this is common sense which u obviously lack.
And as I have said, The Quran is the direct word of God, not mixed with the words of The Holy Prophet and the Quran is consistent with that. Unlike ur Bible which is neither the words of God nor that of Jesus but a report by some writers. So the prayers and instructions of the Holy prophet are NEVER contained in the Quran, stop fooling urself.
Yes, many memorisers were killed b4 the compilation of the Holy Quran but luckily, many were still alive and this is one of the ways The Almighty preserves His Holy Book. Today, there are millions of muslim scholars who will recite the whole of the Quran off-heart and as such, it remains an authentic document which can never be tampered with, no matter how u and ur folks try.
And, rather than answering a simple question of who Jesus was actually praying to if he is God himself, u were asking why The Holy prophet was praying for forgiveness, what a retard? U said Jesus is God and u can't explain who God is praying to but u are asking why a prophet is praying for forgiveness. In that ur "our Lords prayer," who is the "us"? As in "forgive us our trespasses and lead us not into temptation." If the Holy prophet ceases to be a prophet because he prayed for forgiveness (which is just a guide to muslims on good prayer point), then I wonder if prophets were actually sent to the world. Did we say he is God? Do we worship him? If we neither call him God nor worship him, then ur points have been taken to where they belong, the trash can.
Also, on the ratio of conversion between Islam and Christianity, Google is neither a Muslim nor a christian, there are so many statistical presentations by Muslims and non-Muslims, so avail urself of this opportunity to dust off ur ignorance.

Islam was founded by a caravan conductor claiming the status of last prophet. He changed his name to Mohammed and started attacking polytheists and unbelievers. All he knew about Jesus he learnt from Jews and Christians both of whom agree Jesus blasphemed. You better start using your common sense.

SuperS1Panther:
They can achieve that and yet they are running away from their despicable and deplorable backward land to sell gala in traffic.

Our belief that hustling is the ultimate is limiting. Proper planning and organisation is what brings prosperity. Not hustling.

overall90:
The number one problem with you yorubas is insincerity.
A yoruba guy first opened a thread asking what the SE contributes to the economy even though this issue has been trashed on this forum countless times.
The moderators did not deem it fit to close that thread, then same day an igbo chap opened a counter thread but look at you people trying to make it look like it was the igbo guy that threw the first punch.
Having said, you yorubas should know that you owe whatever you think you have to the fact that Lagos was once the administrative capital of Nigeria with all the injustices upon which the country was built which allowed resources to be taken from one part to be used to develop another.
Ask yourselves why your tribes people in Benin and Togo are very poor.
The day this country breaks up is the day you people will be exposed.

How do you mean Yorubas, Ewes and Fon in Togo and Benin are poor? Are they malnourished or going about naked? Are they complaining to you? What is your definition of poverty? They have good roads, stable power and a sincere government! They are better off than Nigerians. They have more foreigners per capita than Nigeria and have many Nigerians in their country! So you are wrong. That you live on less than one dollar a day does not mean you are poor. You are still better than someone living on 1500 dollar a monthe in New York.


Yoruba have not gained from Nigeria. No group has! As you find non Yorubas in Lagos and other Yoruba lands, you find Yoruba all over too. Yoruba investment outside surpass non Yoruba investments here. Go to Accra, Lome, Abidjan, London, New York, Niamey and etc. You find Yoruba billionaires, millionaires and middle class. I can be mentioning them, those that are well known Harry Akande, Late Antonio Fernandez, that Ibadan man in oil business in the US, the man on the board of the company that bought Heathrow airport and many others are not even here. So on the net, we still invest outside. In Yoruba land are world class billionaire Lebanese, Europeans, Chinese and Indians, Igbos and Hausas but we have people outside too. Nupoid people for instance have Abuja and Kaduna, why not complain about them? Igboid have PH.

SuperS1Panther:
Then, they should learn to stop punching above their weight and making noise like empty barrels. Even if they quadruple their population and enlarge their land mass three times the current one, they CAN NEVER contribute 25% of what SW is contributing to Nigeria.

They contribute zilch to the nation.

Dont join ignorant people to be saying rubbish. Let us say 20 million people live in the SE. All of them including babies and beggars can give away N50 everyday if they think it necessary. They wont even feel it. They dont want to know who gets it. That is 1 billion naira everyday! So they can make 365 people billionaires every year! That is a minute portion very minute portion of their contribution to the GDP. Dont join ignorant people to be saying rubbish!

SuperS1Panther:
Watch as the ''Ojukwus'' will keep avoiding this thread that shows verifiable statistical information.

All groups have their share of the GDP. SE is like half of SW population, so dont expect similar economic size.

The land is violated with non Yorubas especially Hausas and fulanis ganging up to lynch people to death, burn down houses and etc. Ijaw militants running things in the creeks and etc while Igbos too stay here and say in public that they do not like the Yorubas! The breakup of Nigeria should be our minimum demand, so that we merge with our people to the West, we delineate into states and give income tax to the center while allowing states to control the police while their army divisions is staffed mainly by them.

As per contribution to the economy of present Nigeria. SW even without Yorubas in Kwara, Niger and Kogi also Delta is number one, followed by NW, then probably SS, NC or SE then NE is last. SW GDP must be over 35 percent of Nigeria's GDP, so if you add all Yoruba in like ten states, it may be 40 percent of Nigeria's economy.


When you talk of the money being mismanaged, as in oil money, a large portion of it comes from Yoruba territorial waters and lands but that is not economy but a hinderance to economy.


All groups have their share of the economy which is a chunk of the whole.

[quote author=OdenigboAroli post=49260734][/quote]The Malians were contempories of the Oyo ie the Yoruba who prided themselves as pace setters not copy cats as is clear in the saying 'Ajisebi Oyo laari Oyo ise bi Baba eni kankan'. I am Ijesa, the Ijesa would not submit to Oyo overlordship, so they taxed Oyo merchants passing their territory to go towards the Atlantic to trade with Europeans which led to Oyo establishing a military post in Ede Osun state against the Ijesa. I am a Yoruba from Ijesa. The Oyo knew the Malians as Imale or Male. Yoruba cities were bigger than Malian cities. Infact the Eredo of the Ijebu was the largest in the world that time. Malians were contemporaries of the Moors, both had Islamic universities as did Kanem Bornu on a lesser scale. Nothing they were doing was strange to the Yoruba back then. They infact saw the Yoruba as superior in mystics. So Malians and Moors were contemporaries and the Yoruba had larger cities than the Malians. The Moors ruled Southern Europe ie Spain and Portugal after being driven back by Charles of the Hammer in France. Spain as a result became number one in Europe looking down on Germans, English and etc as uncivilized, the English saw the Spanish as not only like senior brother but father! Later the Moors were driven out of Spain and Portugal by Catholics. But the Moors and other Muslims still controlled the route to India and the legendary Africa of 'Prester John'. That led to the Spanish and Portuguese risking southward voyages into uncharted West African waters of which stories of boiling seas was told by the Moors. The Portuguese and Spanish appeared on the Yoruba coast but to meet people better organised or as organised as themselves. They were not better than the Yoruba back then and they dealt with us as equals. They learnt our language and we learnt theirs. We went to Europe. South America and settled, they came here too. South America is a Yoruba enclave because of that. There are more Yorubas there than in West Africa. We had European slaves in West Africa too and titled Yoruba in South America but you dont use Europeans for slave labor in West Africa. Why? Because of tropical diseases. Go and sulk somewhere else. My ancestors were never sitting ducks being raped and sold into slavery by foreigners. Maybe yours not mine. Colonisation of Yoruba land started like 200 years after that of India.


When the Yoruba say ilu to wa lehin Ofa o ju Oje lo it means the cities after Ofa is more than the Oje that you know. In the past, the most Northerly Yoruba big city was Ofa but after it is Oje a smaller Yoruba city known to all Yorubas as well but Yoruba travellers must have started the saying that after you leave Oje are still hundreds of cities that you will meet that are outside the Yoruba world. From Oje to Gwari on the Northeast to Bariba in the North west, north to Hausa to Kanem Bornu to Mali to Moor to Europe and etc. So the cities you will meet pass Oje, so be prepared! That is the meaning of the adage.

Hustling builds no nation. Show me a nation built by hustlers. The right way to do business is to have an address when you are big, then employ and pay a taxable wage. No working under the table or hustling is necessary. That is not healthy. If Lagos sit up, Lagos can make 200 billion naira a month from income tax.

15TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11 TERROR ATTACKS ON THE USA.




Today is the 15th anniversary of the Al Qaeda sponsored terror attacks on the WTC towers in New York city USA that killed over 3000 people in a day


It was a date with destiny. The Jews are one of the most religious people on Earth but they dont force that religion on others. Buddhists, Aborisha, Shinto priests are also religious but their religion is more or less only for data taking or similar purposes. For example Obatala adherents among Aborishas dont drink alcohol not because God will burn them in hell for doing so but as a memorabilia to how their patron failed at a task because of alcohol consumption. Ayelala priests dont lie at all because of the sacredness of their duties and the importance of sincere speech to it and etc. No threats of hell fire involved. Jews too keep their religion in a similar way, they dont impose it on others with threats of hell fire for unbelievers. They were on exile from their holy land for around 2000 years then they started moving back in great numbers when the Turk Muslims were dislodged from the place by the British. Then the Nazis killed 6 million of them in Nazi held Europe during the second world war which saw over 20 million other non Jewish Europeans killed as well. So, many of them relocated to Palestine and with British backing they declared a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948 as the British were withdrawing from their posts worldwide. It became a war which the less tech advanced Palestinians and their allies lost, the Jews added more territory. It is a done deal!. Only that 21st century people dont get these things. So, the USA as the British empire successor carried on supporting Israel while Palestinians are distraught instead of finding a permanent solution to the crisis with a policy of pacifying the Palestinians with better opportunities as citizens of other countries. It led to radical Muslims like Osama bin Laden taking up the US after using CIA resources to drive out the atheist communists from Afghanistan. The Al Qaeda turned against their benefactors the CIA and declared that not only atheist armies must leave MUSLIM lands but also Americans and Jews. They declared support for Palestine who are majority Muslims. To prove their point they attacked the USA and killed 3000 Americans in one day. It has been discovered that the funds that funded the operation, training and etc came largely from Saudi Arabia a US ally though they probably did not know what end exactly it went to which shows that only humanitarian activities that can be demonstrated to be so should be registered, funded or allowed to stand and flourish anywhere on Earth. This will exclude churches and Mosques. We have faced many challenges on Earth but religious fundamentalism is the worst! Communists love life while religious extremist love the afterlife. So the Soviet communists were balanced when they were the main adversary of generally acknowledged common sense, they dont want to die unlike brainwashed Muslims and Christians especially Muslims under Allah.


The battle against religious fundamentalists can only be won with intellect! However, President Bush's administration responded well when they struck America. He responded with a clear message 'You will always be on the run!'. No hqs for you!. That is the only way to guarantee peace in the maintime before an intellectual onslaught that will close the affair!


So, the British used the wisdom of the Persians who established the second state of Israel and of the Pharaohs who must have established the first. That is not wrong. Let them settle on their holy land!. Let the Jews settle on their holy land that they mention in daily prayers!. Mine is Ere Ijesa of the Yoruba in West Africa. Jews are harmless, the problem is wannabe Jews! The Christians and Muslims!


So, therefore, we have to buckle up and halt the advance of the various sects of Islam and Christianity on Earth. May God help us.


This is what 9/11 should mean to us. It should be a reminder to end Zombiism on Earth once and for all!

Baaballiyo:
There is not any compound founded by yoruba in Kano, and Fulani is a Hausa nomenclature not yoruba.

Yoruba have been trading all over the place for thousands of years but if we never conquered a place, as in subdue it, we dont say we control it. People like Amos Adamu, Babangida and etc are Yorubas who have assimilated into the culture of their hosts. Go to even Mali, there will be traditional compounds headed by people of Yoruba descent. In Kano, there are Mai Ungwars of Nupe, Yoruba descent. A sizeable percentage of Hausa, Kanuri and etc are Yoruba descent paternally even if 2 percent but Yorubas assimilate well. So a Gambari is a Yoruba man not a Hausa man. I believe you are Fulani and not Yoruba or Hausa, so Ilorin does not concern you! Better behave yourself. You have nothing with Yoruba. The people of Balogun Fulani in Ilorin can only speak with you in English. Those are Yorubas ethnically and by DNA if you test them. A Hausa descended man was made Emir in Ilorin to prove that Hausas afterall can make good Emirs despite that they are not allowed to be Emir on Hausa land. So behave yourself and face your issues. When Nigeria breaks up, Ilorin can not join Sokoto, neither can Jebba, Bariba, Kabba, Igala and etc. Fulani have negligible stake in all those places. They are not indigenes. So it does not make sense for you to be fretting over Ilorin a Yoruba traditional state that appointed a Hausa descended man as Emir to spite the Fulani holding Hausa land by the jugular!

We all know that when Yoruba say f, Hausa use p. So their word is Pula where ours is Fula or Fulani. The cattle Fulani to Hausas are Bororo. The word Pul, Pulbe, Fulbe are used by the town Fulani to describe themselves but Yorubas dont use those words, what we know is Fulani while Hausas see the town Fulanis as Hausas and the cattle Fulani as Bororo. So the word Fulani is a Yoruba nomenclature.

Baaballiyo:
The last time I checked Lawani was saying the Emir of Ilorin is of yoruba decent, and now this coming from him.

The Emir of Ilorin is a Yoruba man whose compound was founded by a Hausa man. There are Hausa people in Kano, Katsina and etc whose compounds were founded by Yorubas. I hope you understand now. Do Hausas call themselves Gambari? Even Fulani call themselves Fulbe, Pula and etc. Gambari, Tapa, Fulani are Yoruba nomenclatures

During colonial times, government revenue was from head tax, cattle tax, income tax and etc. In the western region, they inaugurated the produce board which was a corporation that was involved in West African farm produce export, they bought anywhere even in the East but in the West they buy from farmers and pay later after selling. However in other places they paid cash. It became a huge revenue source for the West but that revenue would be a fraction of value of exports. So dont count forex as government revenue. In today's Nigeria, remittances bring more forex than oil, even Nollywood brings more forex than oil. Then there are still other things but oil forex is under govt control. So exports dont equal to govt revenue, the major part goes to farmers, traders, companies and etc. Govt takes a very small portion. No country relies on export to survive, you survive on your GDP of which export is a small fraction, very small.


Then everywhere you go in Yoruba land, you see palm trees all over but Igbo land capitalises on it while Urhobos are the experts. There are thousands of Urhobos in Ijesa Osun for instance farming palm oil. You find them in the East? We were in that industry in Ilesa, my Dad had a factory back then. So that figure is for 17 Southern states then Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Benue at least 21 states but as a unit Igbo land produce more I believe.

AjaanaOka:
Were Germans ever a prominent feature in Yorubaland in the past? Didn't think so. Why then would there be a word for them?

It was Yoruba returnees who had been slaves in Cuba (a Spanish-speaking country) that had the 'Amaro' tag, not necessarily the Spaniards.

The first Europeans here were the Portuguese then our people were going to Europe and the Americas, so they knew the Spanish but later on by the 17th, 18th century, the Germans, English, French and etc took over. Togo, Cameroon and etc were formerly held by Germans. Togo and Ghana went from the hands of the Oyo to essentially the Germans who were later driven out by the British as an aftermath of the two great wars.

OUR LOVE SONG- LAY BACK IN THE ARMS OF SOMEONE



If you want my sympathy
Just Open your heart to me
And you will get whatever you ll ever need!
You think thats too high for you?
Oh baby, I would die for you!
And when there is nothing left
You know where I would be!
Lay back in the arms of someone
You give in to the charms of someone.
Lay back in the arms of someone you love
Lay back in the arms of someone
When you feel you are a part of someone.
Layback in the arms of someone you love.
So baby just call on me
When you want all of me
And I will be your lover, I will be your friend.
There is nothing I wont do
Cos baby, I just live for you
With nothing to hide No need to pretend.
Oh oh
Lay back in the arms of someone
Oh I know you think thats too high for you
Oh baby, I would die for you
When there is nothing left
I will be with you
Lay back in the arms of someone you love


This song performed by the group 'Smokie' in 1976 is one of my favorite western hits. I just love the flow. I love Smokie too. I got to know of Smokie in 2000 or so on the Addax flow station in Izombe, Imo state. There was an Engineer there, an Owerri indigene whose Dad was an Owerri medical Doctor who has a hospital in Owerri town. He was working in the flowstation while I was on a two weeks visit from NNPC. He was very friendly always telling of his escapades as an undergraduate in ABSU or so. I think it was from him I got acquainted with Smokie, many years later after graduation, I got some of the albums.


So, this Smokie song approximates the romance between me and Barbara. Barbara was married to me, living for me, in the cooler for me. She would not accept that any woman is of better standing than her and any man would pick her first if she is available. So the CIA allowed my enemies to torment me so that it will beat a path towards her to fulfil our marriage. Adeboye would ask 'Why dont you just shoot him?'. And he would be given one excuse or the other, like his fate is already worse than death! He planned several independent assassinations and all were foiled by the CIA with at least two people losing their lives in the process, killed by Adeboye and his hatchet men. Adeboye axed one to death by himself and poisoned another.


I cant be killed but I had to reach Barbara to be saved. So the first line about sympathy is not correct as the CIA can not leave the scene for me to marry another woman that would become a widow within months.


So, kudos and kudos to the CIA and big kudos to President George W Bush and President George H W Bush and their wives, the great women behind them, the power behind them. Kudos to all the people who joined the effort along the line.


God bless you all abundantly

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/smokie/laybackinthearmsofsomeone.html

macof:
you are right, yorubas were very well connected with the rest of the world

Brazilians and Catholics are Aguda. as Amaro are Spanish speaking people
funny how "Amaro" actually means liqueur in Spanish...that shows that the Yoruba and Spain traded a lot on liqueur

But what are Germans? Germans were the most prominent contemporaries of the British in West Africa. Why Aguda o je labe Geesi and not Amaro o je labe Geesi? And the Spanish really were not here, they were in the Americas more. Their era was before the English and the Germans.

ensamy:
$79.5 billion Ortega. The source of thier wealth can be accounted for. Some Nigerians with ill gotten wealth have more than $79.5billion.

Such monies are in share holdings, then real estate. It can not be hidden or stashed in banks really. No Nigerian has such money. Someone like Mrs Alakija has over 100 million dollars real estate then shares.

muyoto:
The funny thing is some countries actually tried printing excess money in the past, eg Zimbabwe. You all know what happened.

what happened in Zimbabwe was probably sabotage. No government can cause that much inflation. They dumped the currency and started using dollars.

TO ALL


What can better your country is economic development which means cheaper and cleaner production methods, then growth which means enough production, money is just to facilitate division of labour. What causes inflation in any country is money printing. If you dont print money and there is no population reduction by epidemic, then there will be deflation instead of inflation.

bigtt76:
Wonder why Nigeria didn't invest in all these stocks sef All they know is share from Federation account week in week out chopping free money #ediots

If Nigerian govt owned controlling shares in any company, that company would be run down in months.

AGAIN FOR THE RECORDS- 5

I had earlier thought it was the Nigerian actress whose name I am not mentioning that paid the Tola Ekunsanmi 1 million naira to block me on facebook but I now know I was wrong. Nobody told me any name, I was just told Tola was given one million naira as first instalment to block me on facebook. Why I felt it was the Nigerian actress that provided the money was because after my employee told me about her and how her fiancee impregnated thesame single lady twice and she was left stranded, I felt drawn to her since I was in much thesame situation. As I was contemplating how to go about it, I noticed on facebook that the CNN International page was urging me on. Later I assumed CNN had no reason to be doing that unless she did something weighty, so I allocated to her the initial 1 million naira given to Tola Ekunsanmi to block me but I was wrong. She did not spend or invest that money. Barbara spent the money, she even spent much more. Tola believed she was been paid by a Nigerian politician to block me. She accused a range of people from Presidents Obasanjo, IBB and etc to others but she has nobody to hold on to! No physical person. Only anonymous facebook ids! What a pity! So it was Barbara who provided the funds, so, having taken the money, she was also promoted at work adding to her airs. Then when things heated up in Nigeria, she tried to gatecrash once or twice in a bid to eat her cake and have it, that was when her boss was used to subtly threaten her with sack since there are some horrible videos of her. She was loaded with videos of me and assurred that if she will meet me at all, it should be after I have gotten the Presidential appointment that is in the pipeline, that she is too big to follow a small trader in Ile Ife. That was the platform she rested on before it gave way under her when Adeboye manipulated her to submit the videos in her possession to the DSS, that one flopped, then she poisoned me via my employee. She then dropped out and went to get married. So it was Barbara spending, she is sitting on top an organisation with like 5 million dollars per annum in wage bills, then she uses CIA resources which includes her Dad and Grandpa.


So it was not the Nigerian actress by any means, infact the Nigerian actress got her jail term suspended in Paris or so for drugs smuggling before she joined my affair. She presently still has a suspended jail term in Europe and I believe she was used as a kind of guide for me to Barbara but without her knowledge just like is the case with the US singer too. That one got songs written for her by the CIA and she made millions of dollars, she was also used as a guide, without her knowledge too. She was thinking the CIA were working for her but she made millions of dollars. She also has crimes to answer for before she was chosen to be used, more serious crimes than that of the Nigerian actress.


So I need to put the records straight. The ladies I refer to as steps, made money out of this affair. None of them spent a dime of her own but rather they all gained monies and favors. To get hit songs, blockbusters written for you by CIA experts, recording deals and etc, to be let off the hook when you should be in prison, to be promoted over your peers and etc are no small benefits. So I am setting straight the records now. It was Barbara all through, though the steps never got wise to her. It was top secret, known to only ten people globally. There was no need to tell even President Obama. He was just asked to give President George W Bush leave over the matter between me and Adeboye and that is not too much to ask a President by two former Presidents. The President can not be getting briefs for every minute CIA activity, so my affair was left to the Bush family and the CIA resources put at their disposal. I believe President Obama got to know about Barbara from my posts on facebook.


I will say the crimes of the steps, the ladies, should be punished in some way, particularly their murder attempts on me and maybe others. My mother's attempt too should be punished but if they are first time offenders, I support leniency but not forgiveness, leniency for their unsuccessful murder attempts on me! Not for successful ones! No forgiveness. That is my own ruling. People are free to write their rulngs.

She used that email for years then mailed to give me a new one chalcedonyt@yahoo.com which she later blocked me from. Let her shed light on the reason for such an email address. So making the second reason I needed to mention her name, first is the money laundered into her standard chartered bank London.
I joined facebook in 2007 and became active there. I only knew a few US artistes as I had disengaged from following them or their songs for years. I was a nominal follower in secondary school but never a big time fan like some of my friends but I knew the big names in rap, rhythms and blues and etc like Tupac, Snoop, Eminem, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson and many others but by the time I joined facebook, I was more interested in oldies including Nigerian, American and etc, so I had on my system IK Dairo, Orlando Owoh, Smoky, Lionel Ritchie, KSA, Obey, Fela and etc but none of the new singers in the US, I did not know them and was not following them but my computer came with an Alicia Keys song or I downloaded it by mistake. I think 'No one' or another song. So I think it led to me liking her page but I did not have her music. I made one update about her after reading that she is into philantropy. Surprisingly her page was communicating with me, it at first seemed funny to me but later she got married 2010 or she was married at the time. Cant remember properly. It was her page that suggested I like the page of the US singer that was used by the CIA, I never knew that one, never heard of her until when CNN page nudged me to start contacting her which I did in 2010 or 2011. I never knew, would not have recognised her picture nor knew any of her songs until then though I liked her page. I spent a lot of energy on her, comparable to Tola, mailing her repeatedly but no way there. She was cornered, so she joined Adeboye against me. She should know that she was used by the CIA as a tool. Alicia Keys could have been used but she was not! She was taken off!. That speaks volumes! It applies to the other steps too. They did not disappoint. All the steps tried to kill me or suggested I be killed! According to their criminal record.
When I say only ten people knew about me and Barbara being married in 2000. That would include President George H W and Barbara Bush, President George W and Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Jenna Hager and 4 other people, billionaires sponsoring Barbara's Global Health Corps with their monies, so that Barbara will be able to finance our nuclear family with her income. One person is the late Steve Jobs, then Bill Gates. There are others, then many others later joined. However, it was only ten people initially. Jenna would have to be told since it is her twin sister and best friend.

So only Barbara was there spending energy and money waiting at the other end, the other ladies were picked and used by the CIA. I now believe that somehow includes Tola. Why? When she was in SS1 or 2 in Ibadan, Nigeria and I was in Part 4 in OAU, she gave me an email address and she was constantly mailing me with it, email is dangerous1@yahoo.com. It is still in my inbox. I can fish it out if I want, with emails she sent. She was like 15 years that time and I was 21 years. So if she was not conscripted by the CIA back then, let her say where she got that sinister email.