₦airaland Forum

BlueRayDick:
Was Boko Haram created based on religious extremism or push for Ethnic nationalist movement?

It was created as a response to the failure of Nigeria. Their explanation of the failure is that it was caused by westernization because they were civilized, honourable and advanced people when they were under the Kanem Borno as against when they became Nigerians

raumdeuter:
The ideology behind Boko Haram is stated in their name and the meaning

States in The North will have the most out of school population

Given their population it isn't surprising the North has the highest number of out of school children but the NW also has the highest number of students in the primary, and secondary schools as well as in the universities after the SW. The weight of sheer numbers can't be wished away

Boko Haram means westernization is Haram and that they want to return to the era of the Kanem Borno under the rule of Islam. That is the meaning

Today is the post humus birthday of President George Herbert Walker Bush


I remember him today as he looks upon us down from heaven May his beautiful soul continue to rest in perfect.

He was provisioned by God to make the most important decision for my life in the year 2000 and in actual fact he was the only person on Earth equipped to make the decision back then. He was CIA director, he was Vice President and he was President.

When he had just become a former President, a Pastor under CIA surveillance in Nigeria after being caught doing human rituals was captured on tape telling my parents he will rein me in and make me become born again. I was only twenty year old at the time and an undergraduate at Ife. He knew the implications of the Pastor's statement and resolve because as an intelligence chief and former President he knew the Pastor.

ODI Aisun was cast for him at that point and he offered the sacrifice. He commissioned his first grand daughter Barbara Bush junior from his first son President George W Bush to be my wife and she started communicating with me anonymously via Yahoo messenger from that point.

That is the only reason I am still alive today. I should have been assassinated by the Pastor latest during my NYSC as I took a young lady who was my employee that he used to upend my business to court and she was about to spill the beans. He paid for my assassination. Two hundred and fifty thousand naira but it was never carried out after which he lured the person he paid to Italy with an employment offer and personally hacked him to death in a private home where he was lured to informally relieve someone as a security because he somehow found out that it was the Pastor that paid him to assassinate me

I will forever be grateful to the late President George H W Bush. He is my Obatala. Yeepa Orisa. The benevolent elder that was in place to save me. We all need the energy of Obatala when we are just youth without means.

Again may his soul rest in perfect peace.

He will come again

Olodumare and their female peers

According to my research using ifa, Olodumare can not be described as male or female because that classification only applies when a spirit is on an incarnation and Olodumare is never on an incarnation. However there is something called the God grid according to my findings and this Grid is headed by Olodumare. It is comprised of Olodumare, light spirits meaning spirits that have never been incarnated but that were born by spirits at the highest empathy rank for the ones inside the grid and heavy spirits with female incarnation. Heavy spirits are spirits with incarnation experience. These heavy spirits can be going back and forth to Earth while serving inside the God grid inside which one term is three hundred years.

Therefore the people whose spirits control the whole world along with Olodumare live among us as women. Though they have also lived in the past as men. All of them are fully matured spirits at the highest level of managerial ability but not necessarily at the highest level of empathy rank. They can even be one step to the base of the six empathy ranks.

A woman in this category will not be among the people mocking what the US led force is doing by trying to end religion and make prosperity possible for all. This is because the plan started from inside the God grid as a result of an Osa Irosun debate and their spirit is privy to it. Debate is all they do in heaven. Osa meji for spirits on incarnation and Osa Irosun for the spirits inside the God grid including the light spirits.

New odus of ifa June 11 2026

Odi Irosun

The commissioning of Olodumare

In the beginning a woman existed that was named Aye for whom our world was named Ile Aye. She was lonely and facing challenges. She therefore approached an Awo named Orunmila. He divined for her and Oyekulogbe was revealed. He told her to offer ebo in a pot and bury it and that a supreme being to solve her challenges will materialize She did so and a rainbow started to spring forth from the pot. On day 303, a mighty supreme being appeared. Orunmila made a divination for them. Odi Irosun appeared. It is known as Idin Aisun or the Idin that never sleeps. That is always awake.

The name of the almighty being is Olodu ikoko to ntan Osumare. The owner of the odu of the pot that brings forth the rainbow or Olodumare for short.

Orunmila told Olodumare that no being will be as powerful as them in this world and it is their wish that will always come to pass in the world but they will never be able to sleep or doze off even for a millisecond and neither will they ever be able to have a child of their own. They must continue to watch upon the Earth forever hence the alias of the ODU being Idin Aisun. The ever awake helper.

The IFA says

Olosun odi ni omode nda
Omode kekere kiida idin Aisun
Idi Aisun!
Ifakifa

A difa fun Olodumare Agotun
Oba Ateniola legelege to Fi Ori SE apeji Omi
Ni kutukutu owuro
Ebo ni won ni ko se
O si gbo ebo o rubo
Olodumare nsun ekun
Omo araye SEBI ojo lo nro!
Ekun omo ni Olodumare nsun o.

Translation

Olosun ODI is the IFA that can be cast for a child
Idin Aisun can never be cast for a mere child
Idin Aisun is a delicate even terrible odu

This was the ifa cast for Olodumare Agotun
The king who spread his throne of honor majestically, using his head to divide the waters

In the dawn of existence
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied

Olodumare cries and Earthlings think it is raining!
Olodumare is weeping because they have no child!

Ose Otura

Whether you gain from it or not, you must do what is right but according to the wisdom of our elders, you will be paid good for good and evil for evil and anyone that does good and does not gain anything from it must have done something sinister or evil along with the good

This was the IFA cast for the person on auto correct who is aliased Oduduwa.

Come rain, come sunshine, they will come out on top.

Irosun Ogunda

Make every worker to rise. A mother hen does not leave any of it's chick behind. As you work for money you must also have money work for you

This was the IFA cast for the communist nation that made it mandatory for all it's resident workers to save and invest

They were advised to sacrifice.
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
It was when all workers also became investors that that the class struggle came to an abrupt end!
A worker turned investor is a promotion

Irosun meji

We should not as a group sleep with all our heads towards the same direction

This was the ifa cast for the whole world on the day they were asking to be united for there to be prosperity

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Diversity helps prosperity and uniformity hinders innovation
When everybody is under the same roof, following the same policies exactly it can lead to less innovation and hence less prosperity
Variety is the spice of life
Earth must cooperate, not unite policy making. Adopt a policy only when you are convinced about it

It was cast for the people of Nigeria whose country must be broken up to increase prosperity in the region.

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Nigeria never needed unity among people who don't even understand themselves. Cooperation is enough

Obara Owonrin

It is either you go in or you go out. There is no going up when inside a non storey building.

This was the ifa cast for the nation of Nigeria in 1967 when there was left remaining only two ways to avoid a civil war

Nigeria could have recognized Biafra or Biafra could have insisted on a referendum before state creation

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened but they did not comply and the nation descended into a civil war
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
May we be alert enough to know when we are out of options

Otura Irosun

Only one informed opinion is never enough on a delicate matter

This was the IFA cast for the Awos of the world who would gather to cast ifa for the world at two different venues each year as inaugurated by Professor Wande Abimbola

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!.
As many informed opinions as possible does the most good
A one question interrogation is never good enough

Owonrin Irete

It is the hunger of the bush rat that leads it into the farmer's trap.

This was the ifs cast for the entrepreneur trying to grow a business from scratch while living an affluent lifestyle

He was advised to sacrifice.
He listened but did not comply

Onlooking people of Po and Offa!

It is only an already big business that can grow fast while the managers live large. When a small business owner does that, then the business will stagnate or crumble

Ogbe Irete

Molten metal obeys the wish of the blacksmith

This was the ifa cast for money that gravitates towards people who really want it

It was advised to sacrifice
It listened and complied.
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!

If all your fixation is on money, money will yield

raumdeuter:
Poverty and illiteracy is a key thing. And you cannot fix a damaged education system of 6 decades in a short time

There are almajiri graduates who are 50yrs old with no means of livelihood and there are those 15yrs who will also live to 70yrs in illiteracy

Plus when you add indoctrination on an ideology, some genuinely believe they are doing it for God.
Thats why you see educated and comfortable people supporting this. These are the backbone of terrorism and they are difficult to detect and root out

Abdulmutallab was educated, could have been living Kidwayya or Davido lifestyle but he wanted to blow himself inside a plane

Bin Laden was educated, he was rich should be living like Man city and PSG owners changing from Beyoncé to Kardashian every night but he spent the last 12yrs of his life hiding from one cave to another

Some are so far gone you cant even threaten them with death or physical harm. Cos thats what they are looking for and its their biggest reward

Actually Boko Haram started as a genuine agitation by Kanuri nationalists to breakaway from Nigeria and reestablish the Kanem Borno. The Lakurawa was started by copy cat Fulani who want the Fulani to be armed just because the Kanuri are armed. It started under Buhari. They have no sound or laudable ideology other than to enhance a Fulani hegemony over Nigeria. It isn't actually a poverty issue because Nigerians are not the poorest and infact you can hardly see a fifty year old unemployed person in Hausa land. They are farmers, traders and artisans and Hausa are not really that backward educationally, their universities rank after the Yoruba universities by global ranking and they have the second highest number of Professors in Nigeria after the Yoruba only that they can do more given their population

SixSeven:
Okupe that went on to defend Obasanjo and Jonathan still worked for Obi and APC. Nigerian politicians have no principles and if that's what this Obidient will get, so be it. We have been so used to abnormalities that people are saying let me teach you politics. That's not politics, that's anywhere belle face politricks. This is why people think Bwala and Reno working for Tinubu is strategy. It's only strategy for hungry stomachs, how much do their bellies cost?

All countries have their own brand of politics. In Nigeria you sometimes have to partner with who you don't like to get what you want either for yourself or for your people

SixSeven:
Okupe that went on to defend Obasanjo and Jonathan still worked for Obi and APC. Nigerian politicians have no principles and if that's what this Obidient will get, so be it. We have been so used to abnormalities that people are saying let me teach you politics. That's not politics, that's anywhere belle face politricks. This is why people think Bwala and Reno working for Tinubu is strategy. It's only strategy for hungry stomachs, how much do their bellies cost?

All countries have their own brand of politics. In Nigeria you sometimes have to partner with who you don't like to get what you want

izzou:
Yes nau.

80% of Nigeria's multi millionaires can be found in those few cities.

Without anyone telling you sef, you will run out of Zamfara when you clock a million USD

There is no state without dollar millionaires. Though they may not be up to 100 or even 50 in some small states. Nobody can employ over fifty people gainfully and permanently in Nigeria with an investment less than around 100 million naira. In the North someone with 500 cattle heads is worth almost 500 million and there are people with thousands. There are farmers selling produce more than fifty million naira a year. There are big traders and business owners but if you are not a big time employer of labor, you can't expect to be worth much. At most you have two houses as a civil servant and maybe one small business or farm and it can be possible to be worth between 50 and 100 million by retirement. You don't really need more than that in Nigeria

What is the meaning of a coalition if a former adversary can not be your campaign manager?

Alaba market Lagos is also over 200 hectares

Ariaria market Aba versus Bodija market Ibadan

The prevalent narrative in Nigeria is that Ariaria market in Aba is the biggest market in west Africa but a simple search with AI tells an entirely different story.

The most persistent narratives in Nigeria are simply false

If you want voter turnout to improve massively, start campaigning for NIN to be acceptable for voting and for INEC to upgrade so that anybody can vote at any polling unit. It is not too late for the changes

Facts you need to know about the economy

1. Inflation does not happen when government increases wages. It happens only when government prints money. When minimum wage is increased it can lead to a rise in the cost of doing business and therefore a rise in the price of goods and services but this is not inflation as there are other costs of production outside labor like cost of capital, cost of energy, cost of raw materials and etc and if they drop the price of goods can also drop to reduce the effect of the increase in minimum wage. Real inflation will lead to a rise in the cost of all costs of production without leaving any behind

2. The world bank and the IMF are not at war with any government but they will always speak against sharp practices by any central bank and against government policies that they deem detrimental to the health of any economy.

3. If the per Capita income of any country is very high then the cost of rent in that country is also very high. The per Capita income of any country is directly proportional to the cost of rent

4.If a country is well developed with good infrastructure, high HDI, high average IQ. It is always because the country has a high government revenue to GDP ratio. The government has money to spend is the main reason. The higher this metric the more developed a country will be in all aspects.

5. A country that makes most of its revenue from natural resources will not value it's people that much nor tend to it's economy as much as one that makes most of its revenue from all sectors according to the size of the workforce in each sector.

6. Above other things, a nation state needs people to live in it to come into its own and retain viability. It then needs quality and visionary leadership to take revenue from the industry of it's masses and use the revenue to improve the fortune of the state

7. A stable currency in itself is a source of forex for a country. When the value of a currency is not stable as a result of frequent devaluation then foreigners and even citizens living abroad will be careful to bring in their monies unless when they are putting it where it is safe from inflation.

8. Most countries have no resident CEO that is worth more than the annual budget of the country

9. If as a community on any level, you are waiting for something outside of your borders or outside your industry to fund your government then you are not different from a NGO waiting for benevolence from donors or from a country ravaged by famine waiting for foreign aid. You have reduced yourself to that status

10. I have calculated that if the housing or real estate sector were as it should be with no highbrow areas in any country then the amount of money a worker spends on food should be more than five times the amount they spend on rent assuming they cook most of their food.

Warri is the Lagos of Delta while Benin is the Lagos of Edo

I believe the Itsekiri can allow the delineation of Warri federal constituency under the condition that a Warri state will be created on Ale Iwere with all the land still under the traditional ownership of the Olu of Warri in council.

What they will obviously not accept is the ceding of any territory that they traditionally hold to any other group. They will not agree to start seeking permission from the Ijaw to access the sea, fish in the sea or use the sea for anything as their ancestors before Nigeria never sought such permission from the Ijaw.

As a matter of fact any Ijaw who none of his or her parents or grandparents did not speak Itsekiri is most probably not from Warri originally because I have read several historical accounts saying the lingua franca of the area was Itsekiri before it became pidgin English as a result of the place becoming very cosmopolitan or more and more cosmopolitan

There are Itsekiri in Urhobo land as well and their lingua franca would be Urhobo in the nineteenth century and if not for the accident of destiny or because of Providence then a city in Urhobo land could have been where there is dispute today just like Igbokoda or Badagry could have been Lagos.

Benin too became very cosmopolitan just like Warri for the same reason of many people of diverse origin entering the city

Create autonomy for each group on their ancestral land and let them secure the land. Those who are agreeable with them will remain with them

Therefore let every group in Warri be careful to avoid conflict. It will be wrong to force create a new status quo that never existed before Nigeria just because of a recent change in demography. Nigeria is certainly not qualified to create a traditional sovereignty that did not exist before Nigeria.

If the Ijaw were not able to get anybody to recognize their claim even in the twentieth century, how will it be easy for those who have been recognized for centuries to relinquish their claim? In our town of Ere Ijesa only the Hausa engage in dry season farming unless it has changed now but they will never be able to claim ownership of the banks of the Koje and Osun rivers that they use for the farming

There would have been Itsekiri on Urhobo land in the nineteenth century but they would be Itsekiri that can speak Urhobo and who have more or less become Urhobo

In the nineteenth century there were Urhobo and Ijaw in Warri but all of them could speak Itsekiri

Ijesa land in the nineteenth century had Urhobo

The same applies to Ijaw land and if all lands have autonomy, the way it was in the olden days is how it should return to for peace and prosperity for all to be possible

Irony1:
Yorubas are not up to 2% of the entire old eastern region writing UTME. You are really living in clear denial. I dare you let us conduct a census and spread the demographic of Lagos by ethnicity the population ratio of Yoruba to igbos in Lagos will not be larger than 55: 45 and this would put igbos as the largest non Yoruba ethnic group in Lagos followed by Hausa/Fulani.

Two percent is something. Igbos are not up to two percent of any state in the SW apart from Lagos

Irony1:
I dare you let us do a census of Lagos, you will see that 60% of non Yorubas are igbos.

I have worked in Lekki Lagos employing people and I can confidently tell you that Igbos are NOT up to sixty percent of non Yoruba in Lagos. Their percentage is maximum of 25 percent of Non Yoruba

Irony1:
What is the ethnic composition of the lagos applicants? Bring the WAEC lists naaaa. Even the top performers in WAEC are consistently from South East. I am happy for one that you cannot even dispute the figures for eastern region. Again I challenge you to show me the population census of Eastern region and show me the percentage of igbos. Look bros you have lost go and hide in shame this bigotry will not work. You are pained because all what you believe about igbos and Eastern region has turned out to be a lie even the free education that you thought was what made west big has turned out to be a lie, it was actually used to bridge the gap with the eastern region.

All ethnic groups are in Lagos not only Igbos and Yoruba can't be less than 70 percent and if they are sixty percent it makes Igbo only ten percent because others are also there and there are Yoruba writing UME in the old Eastern region too

Irony1:
What is the ethnic composition of the lagos applicants? Bring the WAEC lists naaaa. Even the top performers in WAEC are consistently from South East. I am happy for one that you cannot even dispute the figures for eastern region. Again I challenge you to show me the population census of Eastern region and show me the percentage of igbos. Look bros you have lost go and hide in shame this bigotry will not work. You are pained because all what you believe about igbos and Eastern region has turned out to be a lie even the free education that you thought was what made west big has turned out to be a lie, it was actually used to bridge the gap with the eastern region.

I know that it is until Nigeria breaks up that everybody will agree that the Yoruba have had the highest population all along which is almost three times of the Igbo population

Irony1:
What is the ethnic composition of the lagos applicants? Bring the WAEC lists naaaa. Even the top performers in WAEC are consistently from South East. I am happy for one that you cannot even dispute the figures for eastern region. Again I challenge you to show me the population census of Eastern region and show me the percentage of igbos. Look bros you have lost go and hide in shame this bigotry will not work. You are pained because all what you believe about igbos and Eastern region has turned out to be a lie even the free education that you thought was what made west big has turned out to be a lie, it was actually used to bridge the gap with the eastern region.

This is another list. I think that one was by exam center

Irony1:
Are you sure you are blind? I just told you Western region ran a welfarist system. There is a lot of data on enrollment numbers in schools in Nigeria from 1940 till the civil war the East was ahead of the western region in enrollment numbers. Go and read Prof Babatunde Fafunwa's book the history of education in Nigeria. He stated clearly that the aim of free education was to bridge the gap between the West and the East in education Awo himself confessed it in his book.
You are mixing today's outcomes with the 60s just to twist facts.

The attachment is the data from Prof Babatunde Fafunwa's book so slow down with your lies.

You said why not now go and check the latest figures the south East has already reclaimed the top spot in enrollment numbers go and look at NBS figures.

Shame on you for being insulting. Calling me blind? So as the UK is a welfare state, it is not a capitalist state as well? You seem not to understand

Your cities and towns that were sizeable back then were not more than a handful and in 1960 none would have been up to Ilesa or even Iwo. Go there and count all schools that were established before 1960 and the number will be less than half of the total in Yoruba land. It will be less than the total of the three biggest cities in Yoruba land

I have already explained to you that Igbos were not majority of the old East while the Yorubas were over seventy percent of the west. It is not East versus Yoruba but Igbo versus Yoruba

Then why I don't even believe the school enrollment data is because of the revenue of the regions in 1960. A region with ten million pounds in revenue can not possibly be paying more teachers than one with 55 million pounds in revenue and if you have many schools it will mean you are paying more teachers


Top states for UME by state of origin 2026

Irony1:
The east ran a pure capitalist model without a socialist or welfarist system that is why compared to the western region, the East had a surplus budget that is why under Okpara the east was the fastest growing region economically. The west ran a deficit govt that is why there was higher taxation in the west compared to the east. Cool down when you want to lie. Even when you put igbo vs Yorubas in the 60s igbos were far ahead

.So what model would you say the west was running? They had the highest number of high net worth individuals in the country as well and it would be wrong to say the East was more of a free market than the west. So if Igbos were ahead of the Yorubas in the 1950s why not now? Why do the west now have far more schools? Why do they have by far the best universities by global ranking? Why did everything change overnight? It is easy to see something is wrong somewhere and that any data saying Igbos were ahead at any point was wrong. You can still go to city by city to count the number of schools that existed before 1960 and you will arrive at exactly the same conclusion.

Irony1:
The east ran a pure capitalist model without a socialist or welfarist system that is why compared to the western region, the East had a surplus budget that is why under Okpara the east was the fastest growing region economically. The west ran a deficit govt that is why there was higher taxation in the west compared to the east. Cool down when you want to lie. Even when you put igbo vs Yorubas in the 60s igbos were far ahead

The west had five times the revenue of the East. The west did not run a deficit economy but were saving their surplus into a hedge fund called the WSIICC. The ancestor of the Oodua group

Irony1:
Haaaa bros cool down naaa when you want to lie more than 50% of eastern region:s population is igbo. Na wah for you ooooo your hatred for igbos will make you keep fabricating data.

The British put it at over 40 percent but calculate for yourself now. Nine states today were in the Eastern region. Do Igbo have the majority of the population in those nine states? Rivers is highly cosmopolitan even more than Lagos while others are not as cosmopolitan as Rivers. The SE is more cosmopolitan than the rest of the old Eastern region apart from Rivers

Irony1:
Go and check again your data on number of professional prior to 1960. Do you know that the eastern region(igbos) had overtaken Western region in terms of enrollment numbers that was the reason why Awo introduced free education even Awo confessed in his autobiography that the east was ahead of the Western region in healthcare and education.

I don't know of Eastern region data. Is Eastern region Igbo? Not up to half of Eastern region is Igbo. We are talking of Igbo versus Yoruba and not Eastern region versus Yoruba and back then data was being manufactured. The fact is in 1960 the west had a budget of 55 million pounds and the East had 12 million pounds. That can't be disputed

kedeojo:
You are very correct. Awolowo impacted so much lives with cocoa money. it is a big shame when I see some people still talking about controlling the wealth in Nigeria deltan states that others are feeding on. ask them, which Niger deltan state has witness development with the so much money they have received since 1999. Awolowo is not in the league of any politicians dead or living. today no Niger deltan state can boast of the kind of free education awolowo bequeathed on western region when he was governor general and that placed the Yorubas as the pacesetters of education in Nigeria today. Yorubas are very present as decision making in almost the biggest establishment today. it can only be possible because of education. go to the likes of SHELL, CHEVRON, DANGOTE and so many others. we have lack visionary leaders that is why igbos can be celebrating obi for saving money as governor in the midst of poverty.

Before the Action Group there was civilization and development in Yoruba land and many ethnic groups in Nigeria that were not ruled by the AG are doing very well now. The Okun Yoruba were not in the west and they are reportedly the most educated group in Nigeria today with the highest number of Prof per Capita. Offa was not in the west and they are said to be the single town with the highest number of Profs. The AG tried but they stood on thousands of years of civilization to achieve what they achieved. My grandfather was one of them too from inception to the end. He was the first organizing secretary Chief J O Lawanson. All of them including the late Aare ona Kakanfo and second Premier Chief Ladoke Akintola did their very best.

WizardOfNG:
You don't understand my point. I believe ND officially deserves more for being the Goose laying the golden eggs.

Nigeria boxed herself into a corner not developing her human resources appropriately so it can take advantage of our many and abundant natural endowment to be as developed as Singapore God has not blessed as Nigeria.

The oil wealth of the ND belongs to Nigeria but, in the spirit of fairness, they should be properly compensated for being the source of Nigeria's mono-economy wealth.

Moving on from that, and as a businessman raised and educated in the UK since age 13, I see wealth and success is easy to to create in Nigeria.

What we lack is human resources optimally trained to literally pluck solutions abundantly around him/her and create magic. That is what we should invest in optimally.

If I were Governor of a State, say Ogun State both my parents are from, I would invest heavily in high-quality education and vocational training.

I would even facilitate exchange schemes for quality educators from the UK to come and teach/train Nigerians while our people go over there too to acquire high level skills to transform Ogun State.

Japan did it successfully. Our human resources is too poor to the extent it is depressingly inneficient at identifying solutions for Nigerian problems and we have to deploy foreigners.

I am even currently working on engaging UK property building expert to create a vocational training college in Nigeria to standardize high quality level of artisan skill for the construction industry.

Not Rocket science but current challenge is that the money has to be right because those with skills have to be paid what they are worth as expatriates.

We are failing because most Nigerians leaders don't understand that training/educating Nigerians optimally, as Awolowo did, can revolutionise our nation.

Well it's ok to give them more. I even support they control the oil and just pay a percentage to the federal purse but more oil money will not necessarily translate to a better life for their masses. To get transformed, a nation needs to depend on taxes from it's industry and have a high government revenue to GDP ratio with the money spent on improving the HDI, the infrastructure and the economy

However I also believe it is better all income from natural resources such as oil be shared among all UN member nations. It isn't fair to keep income from such resources to only a few nations

Then there is a good side to everything and the good side to a country having a large diaspora is that they will also have a large talent pool that can even bring more talent home from among their friends where they work

Nigerians today are on a much better footing than where Japan was when Japan started. There are professionals, also talent but there is a need for investors that will bring technical expertise. The SW, SE, SS and NC are not doing very badly in education but the NW and NE need to buckle up. Some NE and NW states too are not doing very badly. When Japan started in the late nineteenth century they had only rice for export

The first step is to increase the government revenue to GDP ratio substantially as nothing much can be done without substantial financial resources. The current FG is trying but the number of states trying is not up to five. The problem is for now the government and the people see taxation as a punishment which some people should be excused from when tax is just a facility for nation building and when you fix minimum wage you have already added tax to it

Also, the average westerner can not relocate here to be paid the average wage as it used to be decades ago unless the cost of living across the world is equalized. The ones who do for now have special contracts with their employers

Irony1:
But before Balewa it was the British who were heads and igbos were deputies. Are you saying the British used nepotism? Oga go and do your research stop allowing you hatred of igbos cloud your thinking.

It is not right to be saying people hate Igbos when those people are just protecting their own interests. Where were the British head and Igbos deputy before independence? Yoruba have never had less than double the number of Igbo professionals in any field up till today. Not at any time. There was no time up till today that the number of any type of school in Yoruba land did not double the number in Igbo land. Be it primary, secondary or university. So where will the Igbo get the human resources from to achieve the feat you mentioned?

Don't join people saying Yoruba or any other group hate Igbos because there is no reason for anybody to hate Igbos. Everybody is doing their own thing. Igbo or Yoruba are not doing better than Ijaw, Urhobo, Berom or Tiv if not for population difference. They are not doing better than the Hausas if not that the Hausa are not taking HDI seriously especially western education

KGBKremlin:
Pray hard so Nigeria won't divide, otherwise you're going to find it very difficult inside west Africa, especially Niger delta.

In what way? Please explain. How exactly will any group find things more difficult and not easier as a result of a breakup of Nigeria? Not as if they are enjoying political offices outside their land in any significant way even as Nigeria remains one and not as if they will be barred from participating in politics anywhere when they qualify. So in what way will things become more difficult for any group?