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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.

The US is blamed for the trans atlantic slave trade whereas the European nations that really profitted from the slave trade are Portugal and Spain. The West African nation that most profitted from the transatlantic slave trade was Oyo. A fact which embittered the Muslim nations that bordered Oyo to the North in West Africa and the selling of Muslims into slavery by the Oyo was a main catalyst for the Fulani jihad.

The US is accused of monetary imperialism via the IMF and World bank but the policies they propose are the ones they and other industrialized nations use themselves. It may not be the only way but any way you choose will bring good results if you are focused, honest, hardworking and etc and if you are a nation dependent on or tied to income tax for government revenue. So there are African American majority nations in the Americas with more than double the average global per cabita income of around USD 10000 pa because they are organised while there are others like Haiti whose per capita income is much less than half the global average.


The US is blamed for having military bases all over the world which many say is for the purpose of imposing themselves on others. While lazy and impotent countries who may be said to be cursed with inept and visionless leadership whine and complain, visionary leaders in other nations seize the opportunity of the atmosphere of peace to develop and grow while having a very minimal budget provision for the defense of their sovereignty as used to be the case in the past. Smart nations like this include Singapore, South Korea, Norway, Malaysia and a host of other prosperous nations. In the past, defending a nation's sovereignty was the main job of its government. For instance, during the middle ages, the men of England were divided into two. One half to fight Vikings raiders and one half to farm. It was like that all over the world before pseudo nations under UN cover emerged. If the US military bases are vacated, Indians who have a defense budget more than double the size of the whole Nigerian budget may feel obliged to fill the gap. Iran will occupy Iraq and a Sunni-Shiite war might break out within months with nukes being used. The Chinese may feel obliged to back the Shiites because of Iran while Pakistani nukes are Sunni nukes. Africa, Arabia and parts of Asia will be partitioned between China and India immediately if Russia hands off. Only Iran and maybe Turkey will be given a measure of respect in the Mediterranean.


They say Saddam Hussein and the Taliban should not have been toppled. Meaning a Dictator who answers to no one, does not obey any court, that has killed hundreds of thousands should be able to say he will not allow inspections for nukes. Everybody should be answerable to some people. No one is an island. So nobody should be allowed to take such a stand that can compromise global security. Also, Afghanistan under the Taliban was the headquarters of Al qaeda, where Osama bin Laden was holed up, a place where the CIA could not access. The place was under Sharia law while the US is opened up. So they had to be toppled.
No nation will be allowed to be a sanctuary or headquarters for renegade Muslims.


They say Ghadaffi should not have been removed but the Arab spring that spread to Libya was real and Col Ghadafi was ready to kill any number of the around 8 million Libyans to stop it. It means nothing for such governments to kill its people since people are never important to such governmemts like Libya and Nigeria whose government revenue are not from income taxes. So the Libyan government under Ghadaffi mobilized the Airforce to bomb out Libyans in Libyan cities. If only a few Libyans are left, its ok for the government, once the oil wells are secured and the government is in place. So the NATO imposed a no fly zone on Libya to prevent the intended carnage and Col Ghadafi was later killed by Libyans. Libya is now in a mess but that is the fault of Libyans. Not that of the US. Norway produces as much oil and they are ok. The US is not Libya's Daddy or Mummy.

What applied to Libya applies to Syria as well. The bottom line is that the people must be armed in case there is the need for a struggle with the government and only fascist governments are afraid of an armed citizenry. If you are a landlord, buy a good automatic weapon.


As the saying goes 'A ngba oromodie lowo iku, oni won o je ki oun lo si atan lo je' meaning. While trying to save a chick from imminent death at the hands of preying hawks, the chick complains bitterly that it is being prevented from going to scavenge at the refuse dump!' Not knowing that hawks are waiting there. So do not be going about blaming the US, IMF, world bank and etc for the misfortunes you brought upon yourselves as a third world nation because doing that betrays a lack of insight, hindsight and foresight. A people with dignity, pride, resilience who believe they are not sub humans will find a way against all odds to be economically at par with their fellow humans as have done the Singaporeans, Japanese, South Koreans and etc.


If you can not develop your place, it is a sign of inferiority complex. Period.

A government whose revenue is dependent on income tax can never see its revenue reduce by 70 percent within a year. That can not be possible unless there is an epidemic that killed 70 percent of the population but when the budget is financed by the sales of natural resources, that can be the case. So it can be clearly seen that the global society needs a treaty that mandates all governments to depend only on income tax. Such a consensus will do well to promote economic stability all over the globe.

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Who converted the ancestors of the Fulani Gida or town Fulani, people like Othman Dan Fodio and etc to Islam? The answer is Yoruba, Hausa, Bariba, Kanuri and etc Muslims. I believe this will come as a shock to people who see themselves as scholars.

Money is one of the most ingenious inventions of man, if not the most ingenious so far. It is the most important facilitator of division of labour. In a very advanced human civilization, labour is infinitely divided and hundreds if not thousands of people have to contribute daily to the enrichment of the daily life of an individual and all must be compensated in some way. If a farmer wants to buy clothes for instance, he can not pay for the clothes with farm produce, since the clothes seller may already have the produce the farmer is placing on offer, so, money was invented to represent value. Money is a tool to facilitate trade and division of labour and therefore should never be seen as property in itself. My daily life is enriched by thousands of people. Transporters, Landlord, phone companies, satellite companies, pay tv companies, internet companies, tailors, traffic wardens, shoe makers, soldiers, UN, online blog operators, face book people, Police, CIA people and etc. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom have one contribution or the other to my daily life. It is only made possible because money was invented to facilitate the division of labour. If I were a member of a tribe in the Amazon forest in Brazil or a bush man in the Kalahari desert of South Africa, I would not need money and my life would subsequently not be as rich as it is today, though I might be happier. I would not be able to communicate with someone on the opposite side of the globe or access stuff on the internet and etc.

Having thus established that money is invaluable for an advanced human civilization to keep thriving, we now come to the question of which is the best form of money? We must keep in mind that money should not be seen as an end in itself but as something fluid that must never be hoarded, only used as a tool to facilitate trade and division of labour. It does not need to be valuable and should in fact not be valuable in itself but merely agreed upon by consensus to be used as a store of value.

So I will say money should be a substance agreed upon to be used by all as a store of value for the purpose of facilitating trade and division of labour to make life richer. This agreed upon store of value should not be valuable in itself and should preferably not be useful for any other purpose. The introduction of new money should not be at a runaway rate and should not be monopolized by anyone or group. Government or individual.

The most widespread money ever used by different human cultures across the globe is the cowry shell and it fits the definition above. Among the Yoruba, the custodian of Aje (money) is the Orisa Olokun or Olu Okun. Owner of the seas from whose belly cowry shells come from. Not some Central banks who inflate currencies anyhow. The Yoruba used to use Central bank money in the past in the form of Akun beads and etc produced by the Yoruba, then the Oyo traded in gold with the Malians, Arabs and etc.

Later in the modern post industrial revolution era, we have the gold standard by which currencies are backed by gold. A dollar used to be a gold certificate, then silver certificate but nowadays, it is no certificate as it has been inflated away just like other currencies. In the past, all issued currencies were backed with precious metals in bank vaults. You deposit your gold with the bank of London and get issued a certificate saying you have so, so amount of gold with that bank and traders will take the certificate from you in lieu of gold but nowadays, banks issue currency of a million gold tonnes while having 50 thousand tonnes of gold in stock. However, central banks across the world still hoard gold and other precious metals as a capital base and they continue driving the price up as a result. So, gold mining activities are still on to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per annum. This demand for gold for the purpose of hoarding, skyrockets the price of gold.

What the world needs nowadays in my view is to singularise its currency by inflating all currencies uniformly or at agreed rates determined by consensus. This maybe necessary as population and economic growth rates are not equal across board. Once such a consensus is reached, the obsession of central banks with gold will end and gold will be used only for jewelries and industrial purposes leading to a price fall since the Central banks will cause a glut by offloading their vaults to the market. Gold mining activities will be down for some time after that.

There was a human civilization that came to Earth, landing in South Africa to mine gold around 200 thousand years ago, they must have moved thousands of tonnes for their central banks to store in vaults, those gold worshippers. That is the energy sapping path we are following with our current monetary system and I daresay it is not the right path as gold is not food that we need to eat or water that we can not do without. We have no reasons to be slaves to gold.

Many people say they are not perfect and that nobody is perfect for them to have an excuse to rob and kill other people while some others have no definition for perfect yet say they are not it because they look out for themselves first. Everybody should look out for themselves first and that does not make anyone not perfect. To me, when you stop being perfect is when you stop using the golden rule when dealing with others. If you dont have a definition for perfect, do not say you are not it because it means a lot, as so many criminals are around looking for just that encouragement to validate their behaviour.
An adult must be perfect.

Ilorin is a huge city because of the influx of Muslims from Yoruba cities of the Oyo, Ijesha, Igbomina and etc. Some of my ancestors must have sought refuge there in the past and their descendants are now Ilorin because my paternal ancestors were Muslims and Ijesha Muslims relocated to Ilorin in huge numbers.

It started when the Alaafin Aole became despotic. He asked his Aare Ona Kakanfo to attack a certain town because the Baale of that town once caught and flogged him when he was a young prince dealing in slaves. Later, on becoming the Alaafin, he decided to punish the Baale, so he let the Aare Ona Kakanfo loose on the town as an obligatory expedition for Aare Afonja who was the Kakanfo. Afonja found out that the town in question is the origin of the first Kakanfo and that one had placed a curse on any Kakanfo that attacks the town. It led to bad blood between the Alaafin and the Aare ona Kakanfo. Afonja himself was a prince who contested for the throne but lost to later become the Kakanfo. He chose Ilorin as his headquarters as the Kakanfo does not stay in the capital. The rivalry between the Kakanfo and the Alaafin heightened. It came to a head when the Basorun, head of the Oyomesi council in Oyo ile, the Onikoyi, head of the royal guards and the Aare ona Kakanfo Afonja joined forces against the Alaafin and surrounded the capital. Thus cornered, the Alaafin had no choice than to commit suicide, making the second time the imperial army would be used to achieve such an aim. The first time was when a civil war broke out between the supporters of Alaafin Abiodun and that of Bashorun Gaa when the latter tried to remove Alaafin Abiodun as the fifth Alaafin he would remove, it is said that Alaafin Abiodun would have been removed like the four others before him if the Aare Ona Kakanfo Oyabi had not marched on the capital to save the Oba, leading to the routing of Gaa.

In thesame way, the Onikoyi, Basorun and the Aare Ona Kakanfo surrounded Oyo ile and Alaafin Aole had to commit suicide but not before placing the legendary Aole curse on his detractors.

Aare Ona kakanfo Afonja retired to Ilorin and placed the Igbomina and Osun division under tribute. He asked a Fulani onion merchant and Islamic preacher to relocate to ogbomosho with him and that one obliged. Later as is normal with Muslims, he started to become uncontrollable, so the Aare asked him to leave but his students who were mainly Yoruba Muslims refused and turned it into a street fight in which the Aare was slain, the other Yoruba did not come to his support as he himself had withdrawn support to the Alaafin but the Yoruba turned against Muslims across the land which led to Muslims fleeing in large numbers to Ilorin, swelling the city’s population including royal Muslims and commoners. From there they ganged up and started planning jihads with support from Sokoto. All initial efforts of Sokoto with the subdued Nupe to compromise the Yoruba and Bariba failed, their successes started when Yoruba Muslims established a state in Ilorin. it was Ilorin that burned down the Old Oyo ile.

Thus Alaafin Aole lost out in the struggle with Aare Afonja but Ilorin did not become fully independent until after more than 30 years after three Alaafins during the reign of Alaafin Majotu. The Dahomey declared independence from Oyo when the Alaafin refused their terms in 1826 and defeated an Oyo punitive force, the Egba declared independence and etc. It was the season and the Ilorin declared independence as well as a Muslim city just like Iwo in Osun state was once. Ilorin once surrounded Oyo ile but did not destroy the city. They sent to Sokoto for a flag but were not accomodated at first since it was not a Fulani but a Yoruba jihad. Later the Fulani jihadists started cooperating with them. It was Ilorin in alliance with the Fulani that burnt down Old Oyo known as Katunga, then they pushed down South into Ijesha territory led by one Mallam Abdulsalam but were stopped in their tracks in the Pole wars which means Down! in the Ijesha dialect.

After the establishment of Ibadan, Ijaiye and Ogbomosho and after the rise of Ibadan, Ilorin was checked. Ibadan defeated them in Osogbo, drove them back and tried to take Ilorin but the Aare Ona Kakanfo Edun of Gbongan was said to have messed it up. Ilorin was not taken but were later allied with Ibadan then later the Fulani allied with the Ijesha via Ilorin during the Kiriji war.

So as the other Yoruba groups fought for their independence from Oyo, Ilorin did same and they were not the only one to adopt Islam, Iwo also did but allied with Ibadan throughout the Kiriji war while Ilorin allied with both parties at different times. North of Ilorin in Niger state are Yoruba towns with Obas and they are surrounded by the Igbomina. So even if Ilorin will like to be separate from the Yoruba, their land will be completely surrounded by other Yoruba and Bariba.

But actually when the British arrived in Ilorin in the 1890s, the chief who signed the protection agreement with them was a Mallam, the Balogun Ajikobi, a descendant of Alaafin Abiodun. However after parts of Yoruba land were put in the North arbitrarily, the NPC manipulated things to appoint another person as Ilorin chief, a Yoruba man with recognised Hausa and not Fulani ancestry. It must be noted that all Ilorin people are Yoruba and the NPC did not love anyone more than the other but they had to do something to spite the Yoruba who were their opponents as the APC under President Buhari did when they stopped Mr James Faleke from becoming Kogi governor. Not that the Ebira were favoured.
The last Afonja descendant to be Oba in Ilorin was Oba Moma who committed suicide in 1895 after he realised that his Baloguns were going to upend him for trying to smoothen relations with Ibadan and Britain. He set his palace on fire and died together with his slave, Ogundojere. So the Afonja family had returned to reckoning as at 1895. The British saw the last Afonja descendant as a great man and ally, so a WW 1 Gun carrier was named after him. However, with him removed from the scene, the onus fell on the Balogun Ajikobi, a descendant of the Alaafin Abiodun to put Ilorin under British protection, not on the Balogun Fulani or Balogun Gambari whom the Ilorin people saw as not adequately representative of them to sign the protection agreement on their behalf.
The principal chiefs in Ilorin are the Balogun Ajikobi, Magaji Aare, Balogun Gambari, Balogun Alanamu, Balogun Fulani, and Baba Isale , all of whom without exception are ethnic Yorubas.

However, in Ilorin, Lagos, Ibadan, Ilesha and etc, there are families who claim descent from Hausa, Bariba, Tapa, Fulani and etc. Just like in Kano, you have whole quarters claiming descent from Yoruba. That is all a result of centuries of trading with and dealing with each other and it does not change the ethnic affiliation of those individuals from that of their primary constituency.


What the Ajikobi family need to do now is to go to court to retrieve their right to produce Ilorin chiefs. Try and lose first. People who do not try have already lost.

Hausa Sarkis were deposed on their land by Fulanis. So installing a Yoruba as Emir of Ilorin because of his part Hausa ancestry does not add up. It is better to restore the Ajikobi despite that it is still Ilorin Afonja.
Afonja was not a traitor, he did in the Northern parts of the empire what the Ibadan later did in the South and what Dahomey did on the coast.

One of the post Afonja ruler of Ilorin was Oba Moma who was from Idi Ape from the Magaji Aare family. He wanted to ally with the British and Ibadan but committed suicide when he was frustrateed by the baloguns, Ajikobi, Gambari and Alanamu in 1895. He and his slave, Ogundolure or something like that. The person who signed the protection agreement with the British was Balogun Ajikobi, a descendant of Alaafin Abiodun. The British respected Oba Moma, saw him as a great man and as a result of that they named a World War one gun carrier after him. Oba Moma Ilorin WW1 gun carrier.

Oba Moma of the Afonja wanted to ally with the British and Ibadan but committed suicide at the end. Balogun Ajikobi signed the protection agreement. Who is then the rightful ruler? That was the debate that the Northern region capitalised on to promote the Sulu Gambari family as Emir. The Sulu Gambari are not Fulani but Hausa descent as the name shows but as the Balogun Fulani stood no chance of being accepted as Emir despite being Yoruba as well though of part Fulani ancestry, the Northern government chose a Gambari descendant to be chief to spite their Yoruba opponents. When Gov Lawal, a member of Afonja became governor, he raised the Magaji Aare to first class, a move reversed by Gov Saraki while the Balogun Ajikobi is brandishing the protection agreement in his custody.

Solution? The Yoruba know Ilorin as Ilorin Afonja but the protection agreement is with the Ajikobi family. So the Ajikobi have more claims. Out of the 6 principal chiefs in Ilorin, 4 are paternally from Yoruba while all are ethnically Yoruba, the masses are 99 percent Yoruba like other Yoruba cities.

The Ajikobi should go to court while the Aare family should be compensated in some way.

We dont need a conference as Yoruba, we need out of Nigeria with our lands and people and the banning of Islam and Christianity on our lands.

We dont need the help of Igbos which is conditioned on making Lagos a no man's land and the present leadership of the Yoruba are conceding this by going to the National assembly to ask for a special status for Lagos. This is sad.

I urge all reasonable Yoruba persons to start agitating for the pull out of our people and lands from Nigeria along with the Bariba who are traditionally allied to the Yoruba, then we propose a merger with Benin and Togo, then delineate the resulting giant of Africa into states.

We need the help of Britain, US, China, Russia, India and all the good people of the world not that of Igbos or Hausas. Nigeria is a failed experiment.

Let Igbos, Hausas and others go and arrange themselves without Yoruba help, the mudslinging and bad mouthing is sad. If Yoruba need help, they know who to ask, not Igbos, Hausas and etc who can not even help themselves.

As for some renegade Ilorin Muslims who may want to be against such an arrangement, you are totally encircled by Jebba, Igbomina, Ibolo, Ekiti and etc who are all Yoruba towns with Obas, then the Bariba. So how possible is it to say you want to prove stubborn? So far it is not possible to find an Ijesha town in the NW, it is also not possible to have a Fulani or Hausa town on the spot where Ilorin is. When somebody is named Gambari, Tapa and etc that person is Yoruba because only Yoruba use those nomenclatures.

Go to Kano, you have hundreds of thousands of indigenes claiming descent from the Yoruba quarters of the city. So no place in the world is 100 percent of anything.

YourNemesis:
There will NOT be any Ijaw state in the West. They wanted to have indigenous Ilaje (Ondo), Bini (Edo) and Itsekiri (Delta) lands on which they are not indigenous to, carved out to become an imaginary "toru ebe state". None of the aforementioned tribes will allow it..... Ijaws are like the marine nomads, and that is why they are currently at loggerheads with every single ethnic group in the niger delta, because they were always moving from place to place.

I know there are Ijaw indigenes in Ondo and probably Edo creeks, surely in Delta creeks in Warri too but it is Lagos I have never heard of. Ijaws are in control of Bayelsa and some Rivers state towns, if Nigeria is broken up, they will have a fairly large population to manage in those places while there will also be indigenous Ijaw in other places as well. The Ijaw country will also contain non Ijaws. It will be a good deal for them in my opinion.

Even for us the Yoruba of Nigeria, we are not speaking our original language but we are all Ife people and the language of Ife people has changed severally over thousands of years. In Akoko area we have languages that are not Yoruba language at all but they are still Ife Ooyelagbo people.


The people of Bonny in Rivers Nigeria are Igbo speaking Ijaw people. So if the Ewe say they are Ife Ooyelagbo people, no one should try to take it from them. Language is not determinant, even DNA is not the determinant. Heritage is the determinant. Do not confuse them into abandoning their heritage. It does not change them from being Ghanaians.


In any case, we Ife people see all humans as Ife people but many have cut the ties. If the Ewe people have not cut the ties, please let them be. That is my humble opinion.

Ethiopia is a more serious country with more serious leadership than Nigeria. If their cities have constant power, then they are better in that respect as Nigerian cities do not have that but I believe poverty may be more rampant in Ethiopia than Nigeria. As an Ethiopian that you are, please start pushing for the organisation of your country. A taxable minimum wage must be introduced and working under the table must become illegal, in that way government revenue will unavoidably increase by multiple folds. Government will have a lot of disposable cash which they will use to intervene in the economy by assisting entrepreneurs heading Ethiopian corporations, the economy will develop faster. That was the Japanese approach. The first step is income tax.

Better start the crusade in your country as I am doing in Nigeria.

Ednite:
I just wanna know what relation Ethiopia have with yoruba, igbo and biafra. I've never heard of these names before i join this forum. But it seems like every body knows some thing cuz when i search about Ethiopia, i can say i always get these words mentioned together. I need the answer

No relationship except in today's global world. Apart from the fact that we Yoruba or Ife people see ourselves as the first human sedentary culture since the last worldwide one called Ife Oodaye was destroyed over ten thousand years ago. So we insist according to our theology that Ife Ooyelagbo is the mother to all subsequent sedentary cultures on Earth today.

But Egypt is seen as most prominent of the old cultures despite that Ethiopia is believed to be older. We Ife people, the Yoruba see ourselves as the oldest though we have no pyramids of Egypt or churches carved in stone of Ethiopia to show for it.