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I got the job and took a loan
And did the job on Sabbath day
And Jehovah went berserk!


All year long the famine raged
With pork I fed the starving child
And Allah went berserk!



Out the trees we wouldnt breathe
So to the forests we made a bow
And Jehovah went berserk!


70 virgins and booze in Allahville
On Earth, I took a pint of beer
And Allah went berserk!



He sacrificed self to self on a cross
I sacrificed a cock and to eat
And Jehovah went berserk!



The Father God is always there
We follow His lead by divination
And Jehovah went berserk!

AmunRaOlodumare:
We know where ancient Hebrew came from since it's written in the Bible. They are people from Ur in Sumer (Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq).

Captivity in Ancient Egypt:



Since ancient Hebrew were subjugated by Ancient Egyptians (possibly as prisoners of war after the Hyksos invasion), it's quite possible Ancient Egyptians had some influence on the beliefs of those ancient Hebrew people who would later compose the Hebrew bible, but the core belief, language, culture and religion of the ancient Hebrew kept the same core foundation and was quite different than anything in Ancient Egypt. There was a new covenant, so new things introduced in their religions but those new things were mostly based on their own belief as well as people around them (including Ancient Egypt). Similar multiple influences is true for any religion in the world (including in Africa among Yoruba, Igbo, Benin, etc). Christianity was itself based on the religious belief of the ancient Hebrew people (Hebrew bible/Old Testament) adding to it a large number of innovations and changes since it presented itself as a new covenant (again) of some sort. Same thing with Islam with Judaism and Christianity having influenced its writers, as well as being the source of the very idea of writing some sacred scriptures in a book. Islam also present itself as a new covenant of some sort. Every so-called sacred words human write and elaborate is always influenced by the social, cultural and political situation of the individual who came up with them at the time. For example, the Roman subjugation for early Christians writers (speaking Koine Greek). Big changes are often related to big social events.

Abraham came from South Arabia. That is just one individual. The ancient Hebrews are more from the Egyptian and Phoenician culture and that will be in their DNA. They intermarried with people in the surrounding culture and all their theology is from the surrounding culture not from South Arabia where they were all like Abraham with personal deities. Their monotheism or monolatory is obviously from Egypt as are names like Moses, Miriam and David but Sabbath is from South Arabia as well as some stories which they modified like the flood story gotten from the epic of sumer. However it did not come down from Abraham's time, they obviously got it during their relatively recent exile in Babylon which was when they learnt modern writing

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The character I have today, the set of values I live by were set in stone before I turned 17. By that time, I had consciously decided to be living by the golden rule. Treat others the way you would like to be treated, put yourself into people's shoes, decide if you could have done better before blaming anyone for anything, apply reason , empathise with people and things, do not follow the crowd all the time and etc. Those were the values I consciously chose early in life and which still guides me till today.


For instance, I have never deceived a woman to take advantage of her because of the golden rule that I follow and I would not blindly accept my mother's story that her mother in law was a witch, moreso because all her sisters are spreading the exact same story about their respective mothers in law. So I reasoned it must be because of the polygamous setting they grew up in where charms and etc were freely used. So I trivialized the matter by saying 'Even if the woman is a witch, leave her with her witchcraft since your born again is no different and is used for exactly thesame purposes.

I can say I might be the only one of my classmates in the Chemical engineering department of the OAU Ile Ife who despite not being from a millionaire household still decided not to seek employment. I never attended any interview nor write any aptitude test for any job. Not even once as is the fashion for Nigerian graduates with Second class degrees and above. My project supervisor, Professor Akeredolu published my final year thesis in a journal of Drying and suggested that I start my Masters immediately and with his support, i would have been a lecturer but because I had already decided to be in the private sector I did not take the advise. If I had taken the advise, I would be a Chemical Engineering PhD today. So I do not always follow the crowd. I often take the path less travelled by and embrace the risks and all.

The first job application I wrote ever is the one to the Multichoice dealership I now work with after I decided not to go and teach in September 2014.


I never had a girlfriend, save for a short intense relationship during my NYSC. I told the lady there is someone I am asking to marry me but it is not finalized yet, we were able to reach an agreement based on no one knows tomorrow but it fizzled out after NYSC, when I got back to Ife, I faced my business but had a few encounters mainly to assure myself and others that I am fit after a lady who visited me alone in my room without my making any attempt no matter how feeble, to get intimate with her, then in Modakeke Ife despite that she is very okay, derisively asked me in front of other marriageable ladies in their house 'How does a February man (incomplete month) behave? I was dumbfounded. You could hear a pin drop in the silence that followed with the other three ladies staring at me. So I decided that anytime a single beautiful lady closes up on me in a manner that lady did, she will have a story to tell her associates. So later there was a young lady who used to be my employee, very reliable and hard working, she gained admission then stopped but she comes to visit me alone, cook for me from home sometimes and stays alone with me for hours in a bedroom. She does not know anyone as my girlfriend, sometimes they assume then later find out they are wrong. So I decided I need to try to get intimate with her to save my neck from bad report and who knows what it might lead to? Ordinarily she is like a younger sister but that is no excuse in reality. So when we were alone for hours, I made a move and she resisted but I struggled with her until she properly felt and can not be able to deny the excitement, I then released her. We laughed over it together. That was the video submitted to Pastor Adeboye which he manipulated a lady in the UK named Tola Ekunsanmi to submit to the DSS, it boomeranged and he paid the UK lady a first instalment of 10 million naira silence pay with more later. He later paid 20 million dollars to a lady in the US too who taught I was being groomed to marry her but that i had messed up by begging the CIA people not to publish the many videos where Pastor Adeboye slept with all his donkeys.


The lady of the February joke is named Cecilia while the lady caught in the alleged rape video is Opeyemi who finished from OSCOTECH Esa oke, Computer Science HND, married now, very good girl.


My parents reported me to Adeboye in 2000 because I was too committed to using my reason and it was escalated by the CIA operative watching him. My name came up during the FEC meetings in Nigeria without Adeboye's input but due to my character of being concerned about others genuinely which led to all my articles on facebook. Adeboye stopped them from contacting me, asking that I be placed on surveillance due to his character and nothing else.


Earlier in 2000, President George W Bush had realized the danger I was in, upon taking over from President Clinton and being briefed on the matter. He did no less than conscript his first daughter into the affair as my future wife, by so doing he would be able to navigate to his heart's content.



During President George W Bush's tenure, the matter was escalated throughout the top ranks of the CIA and the person through whom I first knew what was going on is Evangelist Bonnke via his facebook page, then President Obama later it became more or less everybody. Evangelist Bonnke took it personally and wanted to contact me, so the top echelon of the CIA had no choice but to beg him to hold on, taking him into confidence as also did Dr Ron Paul in the US who was threatened by the CIA that he would be embarrased by them publishing funny pictures of him if he goes ahead with contacting me thereby upsetting their plan. The late Steve Jobs who was terminally ill also was put into confidence and he noted that at all cost Pastor Adeboye must die, so he included my name in his will, authourised Mr Bill Gates to execute it with the permission of Pastor Adeboye. At this point, the whole CIA people were calling Adeboye sir. He got so full of himself at a point that he had the temerity to say President Obama should call him to finalise what to do about the Steve Jobs' will. That was the time he made a prophecy in 2011 that the riches of the unbelievers will be miraculously passed to his sheep in the RCCG. I was still a RCCG sheep that time. The prophecy never came to pass as I did not cooperate by licking Adeboye's arse. All this was made possible because of President George W Bush who totally dug in with his first daughter, Barbara Bush. He took around ten people in the family and in the US top echelon into full confidence. Having committed his first daughter, he just handled the matter the way he would handle it if I were his only son leading to where we are today. The concern he showed is a true reflection of his character. President Bush is a Pastor, so apart from being a Politician, he is not different from people like Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke who are missionaries but hopefully all of them will become like the Dalai Lama and etc, people who use a sound concept of God rather than the warped one which Christianity instituted by Emperor Constantine for the purpose of ruling people is. So from the time I formed my character which is based upon morality, reason and genuine compassion for others, it appeared God already found a mate for me in Barbara Bush. My parents reported me to Adeboye who mobilized forces against me, going to a Babalawo to make me insane in 2009 but if they had not reported me to him, I would still have been known to him via my facebook activities through which the Presidency knew me and attempted to contact me. Adeboye stopped them. The CIA knew I would not be able to escape being killed since I was a sheep under the care of wolves going to RCCG to worship. Pastor Adeboye had killed many, including politicians and Christian missionaries. He once invited someone for a yacht cruise on the high seas and threw the person overboard. So he does not pull punches. I was on the way to being killed if President Bush had not stepped in in the manner he did. Also if I did not continue to use my reason but relied on prayers, it would not have worked, so it was my character as well joined with his, that of Barbara and etc that sealed it. President Bush took the whole US elite along with him and he did everything under the tutelage of his Dad, President George H W Bush who is the head of the family. Now, I have heard predictions like my parents saying a late relative told them in a party while enjoying themselves decades ago that they were going to become Christian missionaries later in life, they laughed it off. Like the story that my late paternal Granddad Chief J O Lawanson was always lamenting that my Dad Pastor J A Lawanson is supposed to be a clergy man and not a business man that he was. He tried his best to make him an Anglican priest, it never happened during his life time but later after his demise and etc. So such phenomenon have always fascinated me and those accounts are real. However, the mother of it all is that President George H W Bush has email evidence dating back to 1981 when Barbara Bush jnr was born saying clearly that the new baby girl, his first grand daughter is going to get married to someone from Africa or something to that effect. But before the evil doers like my mother start saying I have them to thank, let me make it clear that destiny is unalterable since it is determined by character but it can be delayed and they achieved that. If my parents had supported me, Pastor Adeboye would still have discovered me by himself as he did and tried to kill me as he killed others, leading to the same exact ending of President Bush rising against him. If Adeboye, Oyedepo and etc had not existed, President Bush would have rushed to my assistance after discovering me on facebook via the CIA and I would have married his daughter in 2008. A certain elderly American was warming up to me on facebook back then. His name was Geeorge and he had the phone numbers of the President, Lagos Governor and etc as he told me. That man was definitely from President Bush via the CIA. So it is still about your character determining your destiny.

Then if the 1981 email can not convince an atheist, nothing ever will as it is as final a proof of God as ever can be but not the Bible or Quran Gods.

emrain:
what's with the obsession with idolatry? Don't derail the thread. I'm trying to learn something new.

Cant you see that who I responded to said idolatory is bad? Go back and read the thread. My point is that idolatory is good and beautiful as laid down by Olodumare.


There was an Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten who banned idol worship in Egypt, when he died he was declared an heretic and industry of making graven images resumed operation. I believe ancient Hebrews are descendants of Egyptians that held on to Pharaoh Akhenaten's religion.

It is clear that only the Yoruba can break up Nigeria. Igbos do not want it to end unless all the people with oil and access to the sea follow them while Hausas probably think they have something to lose if Nigeria ends, so the onus falls squarely on the Yoruba to breakup the failed country for serious nation states to emerge but this should be done while reassurring all that there will be no losers.

The God of Abraham was Abraham's personal or tutelary deity. That should be clear to anyone with a semblance of a brain. If not, it would not have been called the God of Abraham. He constructed and installed that deity according to the practice of ancient people and according to the procedure I earlier described on this thread. Please let us stop fooling ourselves and be serious.

If it was not a tutelary deity it would not have been titled 'The God of Abraham'.

macof:
Even Christianity and Islam embrace idolatry. ... although many don't realize
the bible, quran, crucifix, tesbil, the black stone in Mecca etc are all idols

but idol worshipping is a different level. to call someone an idol worshipper is silly and a grand show of idiocy

Lying is bad, stealing is bad, cheating is bad, adultery is bad, rape is bad and etc but what is bad in idolatory? Olodumare commands us to worship everything including idols. We are constrained to bow down and worship everything without exception because everything without exception carries the ashe of Olodumare.


Idolatory is beautiful my brother and it is the will of Olodumare for all humans unless you can explain why it is bad. Please bow down and worship trees, rivers, graven images and etc. It makes us healthy spiritually.

Becoming financially independent is a very simple objective because it merely involves investing and spending less than your profits while reinvesting all the rest. You will not also mind that you will leave a lot of unspent money behind when you die. Some people mind that a lot. So in that wise, the space is open to everybody. Like someone said ‘If you have twenty dollars today and you commit to doubling your capital every year, you will have 20 million dollars in twenty years’ time and a lot of customers because you will achieve such an objective more easily only if you go into business.


I can say investing money and reaping profits is easy because I have been there and I have done that. I increased N4,000 to N57,000 in three weeks in 2002 and N57,000 to more than N700,000 in total from 2003 to end of 2005 despite serious setbacks. I lost and stood up again to be over a million in total before losing everything to Pastor Adeboye who harvested my fish pond and to the Globacom question and answer program amongst others. I liquidated and spent the rest from March 2012 to late 2014 when I got a freight forwarding license and then a job at a Multichoice dealership with a RCCG Pastor while waiting for this Pastor Adeboye business to be brought to a head.

I set up a business, faced challenges and did not relent. I had several employees who knew everything about the business from our cost price to our profit margins, to how much I save per month, so, often, they offer sincere advise because I hid nothing from them. When about to make a risky or bad investment, they will warn me against such like when I invested into catfish farming and etc. Also, I used to pay my employees higher than my competitors because I saw my business as on the way up and not just as a run off the mill enterprise

Two well known people in Ile Ife who are millionaires offered to invest in my business because they respected the organisation and my commitment, two bank managers also did so of their own volition but Pastor Adeboye blocked them all. I was visibly doing well while in Ile Ife and a car dealer was coming to my office everyday trying to woo me to make a downpayment for an automobile but I did not agree because I can not be paying for a car while paying my employees ten thousand naira a month. It looked to me as ethically wrong. So I see myself as a model which all entrepreneurs should copy despite that Pastor Adeboye frustrated me. He could monitor me because reports were being submitted to him on my activities after his suggestion that I be placed on security watch instead of being contacted by government. The watch was mounted by the Nigerian state security in conjunction with Israeli Mossad who were contracted to do the job. I lost my businesses of communications and fisheries in Ile Ife, but a new company I registered Epoch Global Links Ltd have been awarded a freight forwarding license in 2013 by the help of the CIA. With that license, I can make a million naira per month or more with good organisation and efficiency. The journey of the entrepreneur is an up and down affair, you lose heavily and gain heavily too from unexpected sources.

So to a large extent, anyone can be financially buoyant if they apply the right principle and it is not by luck to a very large extent. There was a Mallam, a Yoruba man who was a year or two my senior at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife , he was crippled, chauffeur driven and a devout Muslim, bearded and all, he was my customer and would pull up and ask his associates in the car or his driver to get call cards for him from one of my places. He saw that I operated in many places inside the campus and later in town, he then met me one day and said with a smile ‘what you have started is a Multinational group of companies, it is that simple my brother!’. I thanked him for the compliment, being the best I got that day.

That Mallam in question was crippled, he was a student business man just like me, always surrounded by able bodied associates. he reminds me of the Yoruba saying used in Ebenezer Obey’s song ‘Ibi ti alagbara ngbe sise ti o nse wahala ni aro ti o le dide a de ma rise’. ‘In thesame society where able bodied people are struggling and hustling, a crippled man who can not even stand up will be prospering’.

So as much as I restate my conclusion which is that it is not through luck that people become successful in any field of human endeaovour, I also subscribe to President Barack Obama’s statement ‘You did not build that’ when he was addressing US entrepreneurs about how important the US government and societal organisation is to their success stories. A business needs a foundation built on earlier ventures in thesame sector, it needs dedicated staff, innovators and above all it needs markets without all of which the business will be zero, it would not exist. People who lived a thousand years ago were smarter than modern people because for one, they did not fall for religion, so the only edge we have over them is our population leading to the opportunity to join hands together to work and solve problems and increase prosperity. Outside that, modern people may be dumber on average than ancient people, yet our society is more advanced technologically. This, I believe is more as a result of concerted efforts on many fronts than because of anything else.


I have made becoming financially independent look simple. Save money, invest, make profit, reinvest and etc but you could plan on that and later fall sick or a dependant fall sick. I knew a man in Modakeke, Ife who built two or three big houses in Lagos and a small hut like bungalow in Modakeke. he fell seriously sick and sold not one but all the houses to raise money to keep himself alive. He did not die but had to relocate to the hut like bungalow in Modakeke as a frail old man with more or less nothing. so it can be easily seen that it is not a straightforward thing.
This is why the Yoruba belief is that only God gives financial independence or wealth. Man can just try.


So in that light, I will say we need a new breed of entrepreneurs who acknowledge that they are working for the society, their businesses are actually owned by the society and the employees are number one but their efforts as CEO mean they will get some benefits above others. These entrepreneurs ought to agree that unemployment and poverty must be eliminated across the globe. these entrepreneurs will be THE QUINTESSENTIAL ENTREPRENEUR.

When a currency is devalued, what it means generally is that the central bank of the nation in question has printed more of it and passed it into circulation, so since if more of anything is in circulation, it will lead to a drop in value of that thing (this holds true for everything), such a course of action (printing of money) leads to a drop in the value of the currency in question.


WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS?


The main beneficiary is the government of the country devaluing its currency because they take ownership of the newly printed money which is legal tender in that country.


The second beneficiaries are debtors who borrowed money at the old value. They are beneficiaries because the value of their debts is now reduced without them paying anything out of it.

The third beneficiaries are the business owners because more money in circulation means inadvertently that business will move faster and they will be able to grow faster but they would actually have grown anyway. If you are in business, you are bound to grow. So business owners are not really beneficiaries.

We can therefore say the only two beneficiaries are governments and debtors. Government, if a good one, can use the money garnered to improve the country but that is not often the case in many countries where the funds are just looted.

However if new currency is not printed by the central bank of a country, there is no reason for the currency of that country to drop in value. No reason at all. Except someone can explain that reason to me in simple English.

So the reality, the fact, is that if no new currency is printed except to replace old notes in a normal country where the budget is financed by taxes, then the value of that currency will continue to rise steadily and prices of commodities will drop steadily along with it especially when the population of that country is increasing increasing demand for money . That is the truth that can not be controverted by any Economist. However, the only thing that can upset that cart is an epidemic wiping off a good portion of the population.


What I believe is the solution to currency irregularities across the globe is to stop governments from owning new money, if new money is made, it should be distributed by lottery or shared equally to all adults, so government will not have the incentive to arbitrarily print money.


Then if currency is being inflated, it should be at rates proportional to population growth rate and economic growth rate as a standard. That way, an end will come to runaway inflationary trends.

Another way might be to inflate all currencies at thesame rate or at rates approved by a UN body created for that purpose. This might be in form of a global currency, if in that form, it will remove the forex market from existence, since all currencies will be thesame even if not thesame design, values will be thesame especially if it is agreed that new money should be introduced at a uniform rate in spite of non uniformity of economic factors.


Throughout the period from the 15th century to the 19th century and before, there was no forex, no money used for international trade. Some nations backed their currency with gold in what is called the gold standard which was jettisoned in the early 20th century, so in that wise, we may say gold was the universal money to some extent but in West Africa, not everybody agreed on that. Some people traded with Arabs in gold, but generally Arabs loaded their caravans with salt to sell in West Africa and returned with leather, gold, indigo and etc. So West Africa was basically exchanging gold, leather with salt and etc but farther South like among the Ijesha, Benin and etc, they did not trade in gold viewing it as wrong, they used the cowry shells or owo eyo which is a fiat currency, a shell gotten from the ocean hence the money is called Aje Olokun with the Olu Okun seen as the custodian of wealth. Cowry shells were picked up for free on the beaches unlike gold that is mined. Manillas were also used in parts of Eastern Nigeria, like gold, it is also not a fiat currency. Everything was abandoned during the colonial era for the gold standard and initially all currencies were backed. They were all certificates representing a certain weight of one precious metal or the other and you could return the cash and demand to be given the metal. However all nations have abandoned the practice of adhering strictly to that. So nowadays, a central bank might have 100 tonnes of gold worth 200 million dollars at market rates but thesame Central bank might have 4 billion dollars in circulation implying that the currency is 95 percent empty and central banks of nations are free to go to any percentage of empty unlike before when all currencies were backed with real gold or precious metals. This is the meaning of currency devaluation and the meaning of Keynesian economics where central banks are free to inflate currency without restraints. Only the Olokun (Iba o!) could inflate currency in Yoruba land in the recent past before European merchants brought cowries from other places and collapsed the system. So the reader can determine which system is best easily. It is easily seen that cowry shells is better than gold as it does not require mining and it has no intrinsic value, it is just a tool, a medium of exchange while the glorification of gold has caused its meaningless hoarding by central banks. Central banks still hoard gold today, millions of tonnes whereas gold ought to be used for only jewelry and industrial purposes and not hoarded.


SOLUTION


One may want to say there should be a Return to trade by barter between nations that currency be printed and used only locally, and it should be fiat and not backed currencies, modelled after the cowry shell but the new Olokun will be the Central bank under strict control. It looks solved until you consider that it is now a global village where I can stay in Nigeria and buy something in the US or China. In the 15th century that was not possible. So since people in Yoruba land in West Africa will need to spend their money online to buy things in the US or China or to send to their wards in those places, it means the global society will still need the bureau de change operators if there is a littany of Central banks across the globe inflating local currencies at different rates. So apparently the best way forward is what Europe has done which is to unify all the Central banks, cut out unnecessary forex activities and institute a single currency acceptable everywhere across the globe, a currency whose inflation is controlled by the UN, the way the EU controls the inflation of the Euro.


In the past, there were no bureau de change, changing one currency to the other. Currencies were used only locally. If a Nigerian was going to Britain to buy things in the 15th century, he or she will not go with cash but with Nigerian goods or products to sell in Britain collecting British money which he will use to buy British goods to resell in Nigeria at a profit. He or she will be the one to know how to create a profit margin. For example if I loaded cargo and paid freight charges and expenses totalling 10 million naira, then the British goods I am reselling in Nigeria must bring 15 million naira to give me a 5 million naira margin. It was a sound arrangement but instituting a global currency is better since we are no longer in the 15th century and it is now a global village.

A major benefit that the Chinese will gain in Africa's largest economy this year is the opportunity to build the Lagos-Calabar railway, a project that President Buhari did not care to make provision for in the Appropriation bill. The first bill was filled with errors, inflations and repetitions while the second contained billions of naira in unappropriated funds floating in the budget. The senate promptly put the money under a heading and approved the budget instead of returning the budget again like the first time, maybe in a bid not to embarrass the Presidency the second time but the President has refused to sign the budget. Now, the House of Representatives has offered the Presidency a new chance to re-present the budget.

Presidency staff boasted to reporters a while ago that they have traced 200 billion dollars of looted funds and have recovered some and they will soon announce the figures but the Presidency said a few days later 'No way, the recovered funds will not be announced for maybe security reasons.'

This is the government that is going to China to solicit for the Chinese government's help to raise a bank loan of 2 billion dollars from Chinese banks. A government wasting millions of dollars junketting around the globe, spending billions of naira to maintain maybe 7 private jets. PMB is living far larger than the Chinese President, so if I were the Chinese I would not approve or guarantee the loan of 2 billion dollars, I will advise that the country be broken up because the people are divided and the government insincere.


The Chinese are a serious people who have moved the majority of their people out of extreme poverty in a record short time. Singapore is a blend of China and the US and the result is excellent. A prosperous one party state with no opposition that is worth mentioning. China has not opened up like the West or Japan but they are not a clog in the wheels of human advancement like Nigeria is and I hope they will not allign with this inept PMB Presidency. A government that speaks against Boko Haram but reinstates sacked Boko Haram soldiers and police, that recover loots and refuse to announce the figure. A dollar billionaire President who posed as a poor man, getting young people killed to become President, who cancelled an already paid for Lagos metro and etc. That is not someone I would like to allign with. If China were not a serious nation, majority of their people will still be poor today. So China is a serious nation and I hope they will not allign with PMB's Presidency.

We hear of a currency swap deal with China but our forex problem is because the FG controls a chunk of our forex earnings as a nation in dollars and not in yuans, if not, nothing concerns government with forex rates, their own is to take tax while gently inflating the currency. If China agrees to be giving the FG say 30 million yuans a month at a fixed price below market rate, that is a charity I dont support, because the Presidency will again sell to their cronies who will resell at market rates raking in millions regularly as is the case with the oil dollars they control. So they should not give any concession at all in my opinion. If the FG wants to shore up the value of the Naira, they know what to do but there is no sincerity in PMB's government. If they want to be taking yuan for oil instead of dollars let them announce that.

I would not ally with PMB's Nigeria if I were China.

There is a big difference between China and Japan. If the Japanese see anything being done by a fellow human being, they immediately know they can do better with less resources. So they go all out with that in mind, with that guiding philosophy. It has worked for them so far. What the Japanese have are huge investments in technology, heavy machineries, production techniques and intellectual property. On a per capita basis, their investment in manufacturing and intellectual property may be at least double of the European average. They are number one in the world when talking of investments in infrastructure and manufacturing on a per capita basis.

They have to import power in form of petroleum, even coal to fire power plants which China and the US have in abundance, Japan have to import from Australia, yet they are number one. They import raw materials but export automobiles, heavy machineries, electronics and computers, they produce more than enough food and export.

Inspite of the odds against Japan, Japan is number one in the world on a per capita basis. Only difference between Norway and Japan is that, Norway's excess liquidity is controlled by the government while Japan's is controlled by Japanese corporations that have invested heavily in US bonds. They are the number one holders of US bonds.


China is a country that is befuddled by the unfounded fear that they must tread cautiously because their population is too high and if they are not careful their people will suffer. India also have this belief. In actual fact both India and China are by far more resource richer than Japan. These countries produce more than enough food, exporting the excess, India produces over a million barrels of crude oil a day and have coal mines augmenting their crude oil needs from Iran, Nigeria and etc while China produces at least 5 million barrels of crude oil a day while generating electricity using locally mined coal, so in reality, they had a headstart, a big one, over Japan but MIND OVER MATTER. ARTICULATION BEFORE SUBSTANTIATION, CONFIDENCE OVER BRUTE STRENGTH and etc are the reasons Japan is the winner in Asia today.


If China had seen their population as an asset instead of as a liabilty as far back as the 1970s, their budget today will be at least 3 times that of the US and there would have been an energy revolution years ago on the globe as well as a new world order.


If China changes today to become properly organised by taking income tax like North America and Europe, what will result is Singapore on a mega scale. A one party state with no opposition politics that is regarded as the leader of the free world.

One thing to learn from China, Singapore and most ancient societies is that there is no need for opposition politics.

An assembly without an opposition party, without brawls or rancour is an OGBONI assembly. The Singapore national assembly for example is an Ogboni assembly. The Chinese national assembly is an Ogboni assembly but they are not perfect yet as names of their politicians still emerged in the Panama papers.

In an Ogboni assembly, all members, constantly recite the prayer that all wrongdoers must not prosper, 'Eni ba se ika ko ma la' and that if any omo iya does wrong that one must not prosper. So every discourse is based on common sense and if you suggest something and an omoiya is able to point it out to you that the suggestion is unfair to someone, you will drop the suggestion immediately because it is not a children's club.

China is already ahead of all in real terms, they just need to consolidate by organising themselves properly to multiply prosperity. More prosperity does not necessarily mean more energy will be consumed or that more natural resources will be needed. Economic development arising from new innovations is what is needed to increase prosperity, not more natural resources. It may be possible to halve global crude oil consumption in 15 years for instance, while increasing prosperity three fold. That is the kind of prosperity we need and it is on that front that China should lead the way as the potential owner of the largest pool of income tax payers on the globe.


China should assume their proper position of leadership using the Japanese style or mentality of seeing opportunities instead of inhibitions and start to lead the way.

Your character is key to your destiny. That is the teaching in Yoruba theology. So in the past, when you are trying to use fetish means to alter your destiny, a Babalawo will ask you to deify yourself first which is to offer sacrifices to your ori (head) or eleda who is your real self in the other world. Respect yourself and see yourself as a person of worth which can only be done in reality by building up your character through the avoidance of delinquencies, vices and shady things. The ceremonies and rituals performed by an Awo using snails and etc are merely symbolic in my opinion.


Some may say I got into Pastor Adeboye's mess because my mother is an evil and wicked woman who totally lacks empathy, a predator with no respect for the life of a fellow human being. A person who believes she reserves the right to ruin someone's life just because she is the mother of that person and inspite of the person's efforts. A woman who would go as far as saying 'I will go to any length to make sure this child B is more successful than this child A' despite that she is mother to both children. All because she was told the bitter truth 'You and all your sisters can not be saying your mothers in law are witches, that claim is unbelievable'. People saying I got into the mess because of her have some points but in actual fact, I got into the mess because of my character and I was going to get into the mess anyway whether or not my mother stoked the fire. Pastor Adeboye knew me through my parents who reported me to him in 2000 and gave him the go ahead to set me on the Jesus path ruthlessly if need be. All while the CIA were watching him.

However when I joined facebook and became active in 2007, I carried my character of offering sound advice there with me and joined the discourse on how to change Nigeria with that character. I approached the matter with total objectivity because I wanted change and I was not being controlled by emotions but by reason, by my brain or thinking faculty. Before long people were contacting me to be writing for their publication. One person in the US offered to be paying me, having assessed the quality of my articles, he was ready to start parting with money. He was the only one like that. A number of prominent Nigerians even including Pastors messaged me to encourage me. I have not met them. So it is clear that I would have been and was infact noticed by politicians in Nigeria and abroad and a fresh CIA alert must have been raised outside of the one raised by President Clinton in 2000 on seeing the Pastor Adeboye video. So from that it is clear my character already set me up for a deadly encounter with Pastor Adeboye, a fellow who is in the business of eliminating politicians or change agents who do not bow down to worship him.


When the government was broaching the subject of allowing the taxation of churches in Nigeria at the beginning of the 4th republic, Adeboye was said to have retorted 'You can not tax God!' and the subject was dropped. So a person like me going on about taxation in article upon article was bound to be assassinated by Pastor Adeboye who killed General Abacha, Chief Bola Ige, Engnr Funsho Williams and etc whether or not I was earlier reported to him by my parents in 2000 when I was 20 year old. It is a clash of character. Adeboye is pure evil while I represent good and God. So as a beast and epitome of evil, he had no choice but to act but since the CIA are representatives of God, they moved in to save the day manipulating him to no end. A younger version of the fellow is Bishop Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church. The difference between them is like the one between six and half a dozen.


Adeboye's character cut his destiny out for him as mine has done for me and as yours will do for you.
Then someone’s destiny according to traditional Yoruba belief in our theology, is not alterable, it can not be changed as it is determined totally by the person’s character, it can however be delayed.

So when trying to change or improve your destiny, know that you will be better off to try changing the only thing in the world you have absolute power over, which is your character.


When you have a new character, you automatically acquire a new destiny. It goes hand in hand.

macof:
still I ask, what part of the op contradicts Genesis account of the life of Abraham?

I never said Abraham venerated an idol. ..he was a Pagan who never turned his back against the moon God of his people...totally different thing

is a genuine Christian one that rejects knowledge and truth, to settle for half baked piece of information that most certainly contains distortions?

Idolatory is good. Why do you think it is bad? Is it offensive in any way?

JMAN05:
As Christians we don't think that all the story ends with the bible. However, since we accept the bible as an inspired book and we don't believe Koran is, we thus view it with suspicion.

Any book that contradict what the bible has to say is wrong. If not for you, it is to any genuine Christian. As such, combining the bible with Koran and other sources you have there, and concluding that Abraham venerated idol is unacceptable to a genuine Christian. That makes the info above irrelevant to us.

Google contradictions in the Bible.

That Abraham has a personal God, The God of Abraham' later named Yahweh by his descendants who adopted the Canaanite practice of answering He is 'I am the I am' when strangers ask them the name of the God speaks volume. Today, in Edunabon, Osun state, if you want a personal God, you go to the Alagbaa, the Chief priest of Abobiakuro, the community deity of Edunabon and that Alagbaa will assist you to install that personal God which you will name and you start worshipping it with the things you agreed upon. An Edunabon man I met has a deity he acquired in that manner.

So what was Abraham? I will answer the Yahweh way. 'He was what that Edunabon man is'.

somalia9:
LoL, are we making new allegations now. Arabs never controlled somalia, so how can they control my mind


infact you could argue that somalis have used arabs, as tons of arabs have died over the last thousand of years for the cause of defending somalia against ethiopia, usa, and now the ugly monkeys called the african union peace keeping force

You this Somali9, you are top ignorant. No one is more ignorant than you are. You keep saying blac people are your slaves. How possible is it for a Yoruba or Igbo to be a slave in Somali land in the past? Very unlikely. We dont know Somalians in the past. We knew Arabs, Europeans and fellow West Africans who live amongst us with our permission before Europeans colonised us for around 60 years. India was colonised for centuries and Ireland for centuries. Europeans were under the feudal system which is industrialized slavery. So what is your point really. Arabs were sold as slaves in West Africa, even Europeans and their DNA is in the mix here.

Your Somalia is a shit hole of a country today, easily the worst in the world. Use your energy to address that. You people for now are the lowliest of humans. Try and address that since you are a Somali nationalist. Quit thinking you are better than Bantus because you are not. You are worse off.

The King of Borgu claims he is number 315 on that throne and there is no reason to disbelieve the position. The current Ife has had only 51 Kings for the present dynasty while the previous one had at least 90, totalling a minimum of 141. So even 500 thousand years ago, people were living in Nigeria which is why all the stories of migration are funny stories. The Yoruba or Ife people were never nomads at anytime. They have always being sedentary.

macof:
I guess the biblical references to the Qederites and Mecca are also 100AD .... in fact ishmael did not exist neither did Esau who the Torah claims to have married a daughter of Ishmael



What has Yorubas got to do with this

correction: Abraham was 2000Bc not 3000Bc

Pls quote the Bibllcal reference to Mecca, we are all learning. It is generally acknowledged that Nimrod lived 5000 years ago and Abraham lived around the time too. Jewish accounts say his father was working for Nimrod.

Nimrod is the person referred to as father of Oduduwa in Yoruba stories but he was his ancestor and not his father because Oduduwa lived not more than 1500 years ago.

Anything can be written by Jews but they are not in a position to tell the stories of other people. They just can not go and say these are the children of Esau while others are the children of Ishmael. Abraham was just one man of millions and during his days there were many nations, he himself encountered many Kings in Bible stories. So there is no way he can be the father of so many people. Haggai was an Egyptian or Ethiopian, so when sent away she would have returned with her child to her people and not to Sumeria. There are many prominent people in pre Judaic South Arabian history and it is blasphemous to say those people are descendants of Abraham. They are not.

macof:
and what about Abraham from the Arabs doesn't correlate with the records of the Jews?

most Arabs are descendants of Abraham just like the Jews and have every right to their ancestor. ...except for the Qahtan Arabs(the only surviving aborigines)
all the Arabs of Al-Hijaz are descendants of Abraham through Ishmael

you can say Abraham didn't build (or maybe even didnt lay the foundation of the kaaba) but to say his descendants never resided in Mecca cannot be taken seriously

The name Ishmael was found only in the Torah as at 100 AD. Nobody bore the name. Mohammed was born in the 7th century AD, prior to that Meccans never heard the name Ishmael, except if some Arab Christians heard of it. The whole concept of Arabs descending from Ishmael is a sick notion fundamentally flawed and has no basis. People living in South Arabia used to bear names like Nebuchadnezzar, Haman and etc. Not a single one of them had a Torah or Bible name. Abraham left South Arabia around 3000 BC according to Jews, visited Egypt and many other places, died and was buried in Canaan. He did not leave children behind in South Arabia, neither did his children return there at any time. South Arabians dont know him. He is known only to Jews.

The father of South Arabians is actually Nimrod who was ancestor to people like Nebuchadnezzar and who is known to Yorubas as Lamurudu.

zendy:
It may interest some of you to know that present day England and indeed the English are decendants of Germanic people who migrated from the Engles and Saxony areas of Germany 5000 years ago. That's why the English are sometimes known as the 'Anglo-Saxons'. Infact, 'England' actually means 'land of the Engles'. However, the English rarely ever aknowledge their German heritage

Genetically the British people are 70 percent Celtic and 30 percent Germanic. They are mainly Celts who took up a Germanic language.

macof:
this is so wrong, Mecca might not have been a city during the time of Abraham doesnt mean the land was never inhabited or at least visited.

the wilderness (surrounding Mecca) of Faran was mentioned in Genesis 21:21 as the area Ishmael settled
and arab records have it that the sons of the first son of Ishmael, Nabaioth built Mecca but was later controlled by the Quraysh, descended from Qedar(ishmael's 2nd son).... this is not islamic or mohammed's teachings but pre-islamic records of history

most True Arabs(not the wannabees) are descended from Ishmael, especially through his Two eldest sons Nabaioth and Qedar.

Abraham lived in Sumeria and Nimrod was his King. Nimrod would have been older than his father. Any Abraham story in the Quran, not corroborated by Jews are pure lies, figments of the imagination of Prophet Mohammed because Abraham is the property of Jews just like Lisabi is the property of the Egba. Atiba belongs to Oyo, Atakunmosa to Ijesa and etc. Those who knew Abraham learnt of him from Jews and not from anywhere else. His story got to Arabs through Judaism, Christianity and Islam and that was from whom Mohammed first heard the name., So any Abraham story not corroborated by Jews are pure lies. Then Mecca would have not been there during Abraham's time. There may have been human settlements but not Mecca. Same way Ilesa or Abeokuta of that name was not there 3 thousand years ago.

Since Abraham was a Sumerian, it does not need telling before knowing that he was an original Earth man and his people today are Aborisha, Shinto, Hindu and etc. Not Christians and Muslims who are barbarians.

What happened in the past can be easily visualised. If Nri Igbos were 1 million in total, at leas 2 to 3 hundred thousand Ife people or at least a substantial number of Ife- Benin people must be stationed in the place including families, soldiers and etc as recently as a few centuries ago for them to have the Ife Benin culture, because without that, they would be overwhelmed by the Nri people who will convert them all to either Osus or slaves. The Nri are closely knit culturally and afraid of outsiders. So the Ife Benin- Igala people who settled in Onitsha, Anioma, Ogba land and etc were substantial in number and they spoke Yoruboid tongues originally but when they started dealing with Nri Igbos, going to their markets, intermarrying with them and etc, they dropped their Yoruboid dialects and assumed that of their neighbours as well as aspects of the culture which today makes them ethnic Igbos. In the case of Arochukwu, I think Efik elements of an Efik civilization were eliminated in a series of wars by Nri Igbos who then took over their civilization and rechristened it Arochukwu but today all are Igbos but different kinds of Igbos.

There is certainly a need for a war on drugs just like there is a need for a war on anything with the capacity to compromise the integrity of a society. if you have ever come across people messed up by drug abuse, you will agree there is need for a war on drugs. So it can not be gainsaid that drug abuse like all forms of abuse is a vice that should be confronted headlong with a view to eliminating it in the society. It is up to a society to determine what form their onslaught on drug abuse will take. That is my point of departure from the mainstream opinion.
In the past before the industrial revolution, there were substances capable of being abused and they actually were abused but I have never heard of a pre industrial revolution society anywhere in the world that banned drugs or that were executing drug mules or sending people to jail for drug abuse. In that aspect, they were more advanced than us. they were able to keep afloat without needing to criminalize drug abuse.

How did they do it? We must note that most pre industrial revolution societies were organized in such a way that they had no unemployment or large discrepancies in standard of living among segments of the population. the people were generally employed at various positions of responsibility and thus did not have the time, inclination or disposition to turn permanently to drugs for succor or comfort. We can do something like that today as a form of final onslaught against drug abuse. I believe it will work better than the present method of criminalizing drug abuse and punishing people in the drug black market.

Primary school teachers, Judges, police, business managers, university lecturers, politicians and etc are rarely found messed up with drugs even if they use it. The objective of the drug war is to stop people messing themselves up with drugs, not necessarily to stop the usage as many of the criminalized drugs are used as medicine but with a Doctor’s prescription. So the objective of the drug war should remain stopping the destruction of our human resources which occurs as a result of drug abuse. This can be done by putting everybody in a position of responsibility, that is by putting an end to unemployment. Someone with an important duty and a superior to continually report to is unlikely to turn to drugs as such a person needs to have his or her wits about him or her always.

So to become a drug abuser, you need first to be a sort of island, which makes it easy for you to turn to drugs instead of other people. If the war on drugs is taken to this front of eliminating unemployment and disconnectedness as was the case in ancient societies, I believe it will be a more successful war. Some nations like Portugal have already decriminalized drug abuse. Fighting a war against something people buy and put in their mouth or inject in their bodies is a lost cause already.

oboy3:
anytime i read this guy's post,i normally bursts out into laughter
niggga believes everybody on earth originates from ife


no be only ife na ifunanya

I said Yorubas, Ife people, believe all humans originated from the first Ife which to me is more sensible than any theory of the origin of human existence that I know but not all humans acknowledge this, for example, a former Ife people might be conquered by some other Ife people who had been nomads and have forgotten Ife, the Ife people will now assume a non Ife identity which I believe is the case with Igala while what I believe about the origin of Nri Igbos is in that write up but I am not saying Igbos are not Jews, they might have mixed with a few shipwrecked Jews a few years back and assumed that identity which is not much different from what I believe happened to the Igalas.

However these are all beliefs which are different from facts. You as an Igbo man, listen to your stories and come up with a position but a sensible one, to explain the origin of human existence. It is an ongoing work. Far from being concluded.

Igbos are Igbos and Yorubas are Yoruba, Ife people are Ife people. I am not saying people are what they dont want to be but explaining Yoruba or Ife theology here while using the work of linguists and other modern researchers.


So I believe it is nothing to be angry about.

There was a highly advanced civilization on Earth over ten thousand years ago that could do things we only know as science fiction today. Their various languages, no one alive will be able to understand. The Yoruba call that civilization Ife Oodaye. It was sunk over 10000 years ago and the remnants or survivors established Ife Ooyelagbo, they were far more advanced than us today. Fe means expansion and Ile Fe or Ile Ife means the point on Earth where land rose and started to expand. The first place where human civilization started on Earth. That is the tradition kept in Ile Ife by the Yoruba in songs, stories, national anthem, orikis and etc. It was not made up but passed down from the very beginning. So the Ife tradition started as soon as the Earth became habitable for humans and that may be any number of years ago but the Ife Ooyelagbo tradition started over ten thousand years ago, five thousand years before Igbos and Yorubas became different people. Many things have happened since that time. Kemitic Egypt was established and after several ups and downs, it collapsed and millions of them relocated to West Africa to Ife Ooyelagbo where the languages would have been proto Akokoid surrounded by proto Nupoid, proto Igboid, Edoid, Fon, Ewe and etc in forms that may be difficult to understand today. The language of the Egyptians was adopted over a large swathe of territory encompassing Yoruba, Igala and Itsekiri not farther back than 3000 years ago. Today it is varied into dialects. The spirituality of the indigenous population was carried on but the language changed. A knowledge of the old language is kept among the Awo. A celebration during the Olojo festival in Ife is the Itapa festival which I believe is an indication of the part proto Nupoid past of the Yoruba. The Nupe are called Tapa by the Yoruba while their land is called Enpe and their King called Olu Enpe or Elempe. The Nri Igbos to me, by their language are descended from Ife people who refused to live in huge cities and be under Kings. They were outlaws, they went to live in the forest, groups of them, even before the Egyptians arrived, maybe two thousand years prior to that, living in small villages of 1 to 2 thousand at most. People left them alone with their system, so far they cooperated and did not cause trouble.

The Igalas have Ife on Igala land which is definitely the site of an ancient Ife Olofin, it is said that the Onu of that Ife does not bow to the Attah which indicates seniority prior to the rise of the Attah. This reinforces the Yoruba position and our stories. The Onu of that Ife might belong to a more ancient royal family than the Oduduwa.

Around 1500 years ago, the oracle stopped the selection of a new Olofin Aye in Ile Ife or Ode Ife upon the demise of the old, saying explicitly that a stranger will arrive and that stranger must be made Oba. At around thesame time, the Meccan monarchy claiming descent from Nimrod or Lamurudu was deposed by the Muslims under Prophet Mohammed and the royals fled, probably guided by the oracle as well, they were guided across the Sahara to Ile Ife where their head was crowned Oba and renamed Oduduwa.

Now to the Onitsha question. Onitsha today is Igbo just like Arochukwu and the rest of Anioma but the place was not established by Nri Igbo people. They acquired the culture and tradition through association, trading and intermarriage. A place established by Nri Igbo will have the Osu caste system. Arochukwu, Onitsha were not established by Nri Igbo but by Ife people via Benin and Ife language was their language in the past. There are also Anioma towns established by Igala. Those places were not established by the Igbo Enweghi Eze group, neither was Arochukwu but today, all are Igbos. This is what should be accepted by all.


There is no other group in the world with passed down history, songs and anthems insisting that they are the first human civilization apart from the Ife people. So I believe that all humans are really Ife people.


This of course is my own analysis or thesis based on passed down histories and research works of linguists and etc.

Romans like all original Earth peoples, were not spiritual fascists. they dont kill people over God and they had no hand in Jesus persecution, so far he did not start a rebellion against Rome. To the educated Romans, it was all Jewish superstitions but if you can lay your hands on scholarly works to prove what you are saying, i will like to read it. Jesus claimed to be God and it was against Jewish law and theology and he was executed for that. the Romans remained neutral but later when the heresy started to gain ground and people were becoming Zombies, it appeared the Jews were right afterall, so the Romans started to persecute Christians, only for a Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in the 3rd century leading us to where we are today. In the 7th century, something similar happened in Arabia with the rise of Islam. Both religions are delineated into hundreds of sadist subgroups who hate on each other and on the rest of humanity.

I believe it is better to group who want to be together and allow them form one nation to make things easy. Itsekiri too are in Delta, Edo and probably Ondo. They are up to one million too and that is more than many UN member nation. Urhobo too are there, more than Itsekiri, Ijaw are there in the Delta and etc, but Itsekiri say they related with Europeans on behalf of others in the past and that it is their land. If they can not live together, they should divide the place, so that peace can reign. Personally I believe Ijaws traditionally stay inside water and would not stay on land if they had the choice while Itsekiri are like Ilaje Yoruba that now stay in water and land. Ijaw are more adept in water I believe and all these groups are meshed through intermarriages. Itsekiri claim their language was used as lingua franca in the past by Ijaws and Urhobos of Warri area and that the Olu of Itsekiri was the overall chief who signed treaties with Europeans. I dont know the overall population figures but I know Urhobo is the main group in Delta state though not majority. Warri area is a mixture of Ijaw, Urhobo and Itsekiri. In my view, I will say Ijaws of the West including Delta and Edo are like the Arogbo in Ondo because people in those places were politically advanced in the past while Ijaws in the East were able to build a kind of hegemony mainly because Igbos were not politically advanced in the past save for Arochukwu. Ijaws are indigenes in all those places. I dont know how many millions though but it will be difficult to carve out Ijaw territory in those places because there will be claims and counter claims and none of the groups making those claims are pushovers but if it can be done, I support it. I know many prominent Ijaws are from Ondo, Delta like Chief Clark, Government Tompolo and etc and I understand the situation but many of the Arogbos would describe themselves as Yoruba like the Mr Kuku who served with the former President but I would like them to keep being Ijaw along with their Yoruba identity just like I would like the Olukunmi that will fall in Ala Igbo to keep their Yoruba heritage along with the Igbo. If Ijaws can net even 10 million in Opobo, Andoni and etc plus Bayelsa they should be happy and face the management of those ones. The majority in those places are with Ijaws and Ijaw will be the national language in the new country with Igbo, Efik and etc as second languages.

This access to sea which in the past was used to take advantage of people as the Ijebu did in Yoruba land when the Oyo lost their posts on the coasts will soon become irrelevant, while creeks may become un-inhabitable in the future.

They have indigenous land that was granted them by the Ugbos. Same way Modakeke have indigenous lands in Ife. No difference. To now carry the land to join other Ijaws can not be allowed. It is not even feasible. Ijaw language has been noted to be similar to a language in Mali called Dogon which is also similar to the isolate Basque language in Europe. We, Yoruba are not speaking our original language and only God knows how many times the language changed after the establishment of Ife Ooyelagbo when the Ife Oodaye was destroyed ten thousand years ago. The language we speak now is descended from Kemitic Egyptian but our people have always been here. Itsekiri have been there but the language have changed.

What dont you agree with? How do you think the country should be divided? To make the creeks of Ondo which is the home of Ijaws and riverine Yorubas an independent country or what?

Let me tell you, import duties will be cancelled worldwide and offshore oil can not belong to you because you live in the creeks, especially not when Ijaws were granted the space a while ago.

There is no advantage in the creeks and the Yoruba will not allow Ijaws to create a country on that land that was granted them by Yoruba people. This is why I said leave Arogbo Ijaw as Ijaws of Yoruba and concentrate on the land you have in Bayelsa and Rivers to form a viable country. If Igbos had united in 1850, even that may have proved difficult to achieve today because they would have forced a way through to the Atlantic ocean by all means, taking part of Ijaw land in the process. So take the people you have 7 to 10 million and build on that. Reinforce your culture as a showpiece to the rest of the world. You can not take all the native Ijaws in Delta, Edo, Ondo along with you. No group can take all their people.

Ordinarily there is no reason why a sane person should believe Jesus died for them or that Mohammed is the last prophet but people do not only believe, they also hate on and attack those who do not. So what can we put it down to if not hypnotism and demon possession since such an attitude is obviousy not from the creator God who made common sense.

People died for people, went to war and died for their people. Col Fajuyi for instance died for Yoruba people when he was killed along with General Ironsi. During the various Yoruba wars in the past, many staked their lives and lost it for their people. There are thousands of heroes who died for their people, so that their people can be free and human civilization can continue advancing. The name of Jesus is a terrible insult to their legacy.

Jesus was a criminal who broke Jewish blasphemy laws as did Mohammed and was subsequently arrested and done away with by the Jews. A kind of law we need today to maintain sanity in our world. A simple law saying 'No man must be found going about saying he is something other people can not become. That is a megalomaniac, a mentally deranged man or a demon possessed person.