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CaseSensitive:
Again, I don't know what's up with Ribadu. I don't keep up much with Nigeria's domestic politics but what I know for a fact is Nigeria has been surgically infiltrated by foreign intelligence - from the political ranks, media houses, social media to religious institutions. They are setting the stage for something bigger in Nigeria and it really should worry everyone.

It shouldn't matter much. We are all in this world together and we can't prosper without each other. It is the same for all countries

CaseSensitive:
I don't know what you're playing at and you can pretend you don't know that terrorist attacks in Nigeria are funded by external players (Unless you really don't know). The terrorists are who I meant by "These people". I don't do Nigerian domestic politics much. Majority of the politicians are assets of foreign intelligence. I don't care about Jagaban - I think he's complicit. Neither do I care about Peter Obi. I am Nigerian first and that's all I care about. Don't hit me with Jagaban or Peter Obi's politics. You don't elect your leaders, they are selected for you.

Even if Ribadu is an asset of foreign intelligence and Tinubu is under pressure to retain him, is he not doing himself more harm than good? So Ribadu is free to continue funding bandits as a government official because he is an asset of foreign intelligence!

Can the foreign intelligence direct him to sabotage his family members?

The era of consolidation


This should be the era of consolidation. For millennia, it has been one group of humans trying to conquer another, trying to expand territory and etc but since the end of the second world war, the unspoken consensus has been that an end should come to that.
All groups of humans should be able to exist in their own space and also thrive there. Everybody can prosper together. Just like one person is an individual and a family is an individual, so also is an ethnic group that took aeons of time to form. They have the right to exist in their own space and keep what they have and their identity for the rest of humanity and for posterity in a living library.

An ethnic group no matter how small should have a measure of autonomy over its own affairs on any land that they have held for long.

It is easy for everybody to prosper when there is a basic code everybody is following. Nation building is not rocket science. You only need to join hands together via a high tax to GDP ratio. A high tax to GDP ratio leads to development everytime

Humanity has been through turmoil and it is time for consolidation. It starts with recognizing boundaries and allowing human groups to thrive in their own space.

cr7lomo:
If this is the standard....we now see why the industry has gone down cos we know the best of Nollywood was in the 90s and 2000s and we know who ran it then

There were no regularly published sales figures back then just claims and pirates ruled. Unlike today.

Svoboda:
Cuba doesn't have any significant Yoruba population. What it has is an afro Caribbean community that is largely homogenous. Stop exaggerating.

The people in Cuba are the most Yoruba people in the world on a per capita basis. By spirituality. Over Twenty years ago they had over 100k Babalawos registered in their country despite their low population

ridwintin89:
Let me test your brain,if you are Tinubu,how would you tackle this situation at moment.

Your solutions to it.

Why is Tinubu keeping Ribadu as NSA after he was caught sending non natives armed with assault rifles to Yoruba land as vigilantes? The locals arrested the men and they had to be released when Ribadu said they are his boys. We are talking of human lives here o.

Mrexcell:
The only solution to all these ongoing endless killings is to booth out the apc from aso rock next year any other thing will just be cosmetics.

El Rufai and his team will be the one to end the insecurity for you? The only solution is to divide the country.

May their souls rest in perfect peace.
Plateau don't need to be part of Nigeria before they can be prosperous. Thirty five percent of whatever they produce redirected to the center will make them a developed country.

Don't be surprised if the assailants are vigilantes on government payroll. The ones arrested were found to be vigilantes!

A sharing formula of 80 20 in favor of farm owner should be adequate. The power board will be responsible for metering and other admin expenses. Once you know how much power you are generating then you will know the estimate of the total you are expecting as an investor from the board every year. If an 100 million naira investment can make ten million naira a year, the problem of power will be solved within a year

Meanwhile it is important to increase tariff temporarily to offset debts and also attract investors.

All monies paid to the board will be in the open since it is all electronic and total installed capacity will also be in the open and a fixed percentage of all income say eighty percent must be for the investors

If any company needs import duty waivers for the purpose of exportation then let them forward a proposal to the government. It can certainly be worked upon so far there is proof they are exporting and that is easy as they export through ports.

However the only advantage Nigeria has in textile and leather works are low wages. No other advantage and Vietnam, India and Bangladesh also have the same advantage

Africans should stop being cry babies

Africans complain of the transatlantic slave trade. Some also complain of Arab slave trade.

The fact is slavery was acceptable globally and west Africans did buy European slaves too!. Any merchant with money can buy slaves. What will it cost someone like Mansa Musa of Mali to buy any number of European slaves?. If Alaafin Sango of Oyo wanted white slaves, he would have bought from the Moors!.
Your ancestors as Africans were not sitting ducks there to be raided and enslaved at will by any passerby more than other people were and infact Europeans were more vulnerable to raids for a longer period of time in recent history. When the people on the west African coast were being raided, the Oyo moved their calvary there to protect them. Your ancestors were not sitting ducks.That was not the situation back then. The Arabs or Europeans did not have superior weapons until late in the nineteenth century. So where is the rationale in the constant bitching about being enslaved? Some go as far as saying blacks were castrated by Arabs when the fact is that many aristocrats in Arab countries are black or were black! No Yoruba man was ever enslaved by Arabs. No Igbo man as well. No Hausa man too.

Thousands of years ago, it would have been west African origin people enslaving others with superior weapons made of iron but nobody is talking about that!

Slavery was something that happened in the past that every culture participated in and if the Indians, Europeans, Arabs or Chinese are not bitching about it then it does not make sense for it to be an anthem for any group just because they think they are not making it economically! When infact all nations are struggling..

If black people exist in Arabia and etc because of slavery which is not necessarily true, why do white people exist in west Africa then? Black people always existed in Europe. They were not strange faces there and even a number of Roman emperors were black people. We have white people even here in Nigeria like the Shuwa Arab not to talk of in more Northerly countries in west Africa. In the USA their records say there was no time that less than ten percent of the Negroid population was not made up of free people including slave owners. If the USA was like that, what would a country like Brazil look like back then? I also gather that the first recorded slave owner in the USA was black and that man would be an African that crossed the Atlantic as a free man from West Africa either from Yoruba land or Angola. It is also known that many of Christopher Columbus crew were black people. There was already a connection between Portugal and West Africa before Portugal sponsored the discovery of the Americas.

Africa was part of the world and it was not behind until Britain came along with the industrial revolution which was copied first by her neighbors then others and it was the industrial revolution that enabled Britain to displace Spain and Portugal. Four hundred years ago, England was behind Spain and Portugal. We can say they looked up to Spain and Spain was not capable of colonizing West Africa

AMINDA:
Lol. Fear is that you? We are now back to "Yoruba Nessan" because Gawuna resigned from the APC? Did you say the same when Abba Kabir and other governors decamped to the APC? Why are you scared of a few individuals when you have all 36 governors? "Let each region start afresh" but Tinubu jailed Nnamdi Kanu for advocating for same after usurping the turn of the Southeast to produce a president from the South. Well, he has between now and February to bring the so-called new Constitution.

The best thing that everyone should support is to break up the country. Tinubu contested in his party and Atiku contested in his party. The SE could not have expected anything in the APC. It was the PDP that betrayed them but then they also can't be sharing anything especiy the Presidency equally with the SW that is around three times their population and if Obi had contested against Tinubu from the PDP, he would still have lost. No group has ever been dashed the Presidency

Kushites:
SORRY, I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHERE YOU GOT THIS FAIRYTALE PIECE OF PSEUDO SCIENCE FROM.

WHEN YOU ARE READY FOR REAL HISTORY, NOT FAIRYTALES, USE CHATGPT AI TO EDUCATE YOURSELF.

THERE, YOU WILL LEARN THAT THE ICE AGE WAS A PERIOD IN WHICH BLACK AFRICANS INHABITED EUROPE, AS WAS SEEN BY THE DISCOVERY OF "GRIMALDI MAN" (40,000 BCE) AND "CHEDDAR MAN" (10,000 BCE) - HUMAN REMAINS OF BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE.

NOT WHITES.

BLACKS.

FIRST SETTLERS. WORLDWIDE.

WHITES ONLY EMERGED AROUND 7,000 BCE.

THEY ARE BABIES AND NEWCOMERS TO CIVILISATION, WHICH EXPLAINS THEIR SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS.

Any group that lived in Europe for a long time would end up light skinned. If you live south of the Sahara for a long time you become dark. In China for a long time you look like Chinese.

Temperate regions get emptied of people as a result of glaciation and that happens from time to time. Black people don't live in temperate regions and their habitat never becomes empty of people. All the people in the temperate regions today will still relocate to the global south driven out by ice. The ice will recede after thousands of years and the people who will recolonize the North will be dark skinned. Does that now mean white people never existed? If you see ruins in Europe in 120 thousand years time, will it mean it was built by black people?

Australoids are black but Europeans are more related to west Africans than Australoids are to west Africans. But with your logic, Europeans are spiritually empty while Australoids are not because they are black. What do you even mean by whites are spiritually empty? All groups on Earth had spirituality embedded in their culture in the same way before religion came to spoil the air. How therefore is any group more spiritually full than any other?.

Chatgpt has no IQ as someone said. It just regurgitates things it found on the internet which are not necessarily true. You don't need to rely on it for wisdom.

Kushites:
USE YOUR BRAIN.

YOU ARE IN THE DAYS OF AI.

YOU CAN GO ON CHATGPT NOW AND CONFIRM.

I DARE YOU NOW. GO ON CHATGPT AND ASK "WHERE WAS MATHEMATICS INVENTED?"

ANSWER: Africa South of the Sahara. LEBOMBO BONE. 25,000 BCE. CONGO.

ASK ABOUT THE OLDEST IRON SMELTING SITE ON EARTH.

ANSWER: LEJJA NIGERIA. 2650 BCE.

THAT IS JUST A TINY FRACTION OF WHAT YOU WILL LEARN.

YOU MIGHT EVEN LEARN ABOUT THE 250 PYRAMIDS IN YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR, SUDAN, BUILT WITH ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES AND GEOMETRY, THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE ANY BUILDING IN EUROPE OR AMERICA.

YOU MIGHT LEARN ABOUT THE BENIN EARTHWORKS AND RAMPART SYSTEM, INCLUDED IN THE 1974 GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS AS "THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE BUILT PRIOR TO THE MECHANICAL ERA", AND WHICH AT ITS PEAK, WAS 4 TIMES LONGER THAN THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.

YOU MIGHT LEARN THAT 16TH CENTURY BENIN CITY WAS DESCRIBED BY VISITING PORTUGESE AND DUTCH TRADERS AS BEING AMONG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND BEST PLANNED CITIES IN THE WORLD, BUILT WITH ADVANCED FRACTAL MATHEMATICS, UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE AIDED BY SUNKEN IMPLUVIUMS, AND PALM-OIL STREETLIGHTS 300 YEARS BEFORE LONDON.

YOU MIGHT EVEN LEARN THAT AFRICANS WERE THE FIRST SETTLERS AND KINGS OF EVERY LAND ON EARTH, FROM EUROPE TO CHINA.

OH THERE'S A LOT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AFRICA'S GLORIOUS HISTORY OF HIGH CIVILISATION.

The ice age drove people out of the temperate regions and in those places are structures that predate the ice age built by the indigenes in that era who would have been white people. The Northern hemisphere was resettled by dark skinned people after the ice receded and the white people in those places now are the descendants of those dark skinned people. All human beings are the same. I as a Yoruba carry Neanderthal genes of over twenty thousand years ago apart from recent European DNA that came recently. Neanderthals were Europeans and were white people. I have white ancestors but no group can live in west Africa for generations and remain fair skinned. Every human being have ancestors from all over and it is only that we belong to specific ethnicities.

bentenny:
Every raw material in Nigeria if properly refined can make as much revenue as oil revenue!

Yes but only if all economic activities enters the tax net and half the GDP is taken as tax as is normal in many countries. Cassava alone could generate a lot of money not to talk of other food.

higgs:
It is very true.Do you even know the usd value of textiles we import from Asia annually? Now imagine if all that domestic demand is met locally and a big surplus is still produced and exported.Lets leave ethnicity and religion and use our brains.Good leadership is critical

He said Aba alone. Leather and textile work is going on all over the country. There are shoemakers and fabric workers all over

Countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam are competitive in garment making only because of very low wages then they have better infrastructure than Nigeria and that will lower their operations cost. To compete with them you have to upgrade your infrastructure and pay even lower wages than them. If there are ten million people working in the garment and leather sectors then the activity will be larger than oil and gas.

Beautifulday:
If rice is imported without restrictions today. It will be cheaper than local produce.

Before the ban, it was around the same price but local rice became a delicacy as produced in Ofada and etc and it ended up being a bit more expensive than imported because of demand

If they have 2 million full time workers not doing other things and also having dependants they will be able to generate close to 5 billion dollars of GDP which will support over 5 million people in Nigeria

New Odus of Ifa, March 29 2026.


Odi meji

Nothing is more important to a tree than its roots

This was the ifa cast for the female body which is the only vessel that can nurture a human life to birth.
It was advised to sacrifice
It listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
The female body is society’s portal to the next generation!

Oturupon Owonrin
I am more than able
The tripod stand is more than able to bear the weight of the cooking pot.

This was the ifa cast for the Muslims who would always leave the orisas to approach God directly.
On the day they were coming from heaven to Earth
They were advised to sacrifice
They listened but they did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
We have access to God but the deference to hierarchy can also make things easier!.


Odi Oturupon
Guidance from status hit home harder.

This was the ifa cast for the wealthy man who explained to younger ones that he was born poor and that anyone can improve their economic standing overtime.

It was also cast for the leader from western Europe who told people from other parts of the world that the region has not always been the richest and most progressive, that they rose from the bottom and that it is something any nation can and must do.


Oyeku Odi

The spirits in heaven will never let our population dwindle because we are the source of their sustenance. They will do everything to make sure we remain plenty enough


Owonrin Oturupon

This was the IFA cast for Aje Olokun, the magnificent deity at the bottom of the oceans.

It was also shared to the National Central banks that print money
On the day they were coming from heaven to Earth.

They were advised to sacrifice so that when they perform their functions people will be honoring them.

It was only Aje Olokun they stayed back to offer the ebo

Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
As the Aje Olokun pumped money into the economy from it's bossoms, it was hailed to the high heavens and revered by the masses unlike the central banks

Note
People knew in the past that the Aje Olokun never increased money supply (cowry shells) in order to achieve any selfish end


Oturupon Irosun

Industrial or mass production only became a thing because profit seeking became a commissioned duty like the post of an army officer.


Owonrin Ogunda

The parent is not always the last hope of the child

This was the IFA cast for President Tinubu of Nigeria who knows the people coordinating bandit attacks on Nigerians but refuse to confront them because they are members of his government

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened but did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!

Not all parents can be trusted to be the last hope of the child that came through them to the world!.

Odi Osa
A parasite is destined to harm the host that gave it a home

This was the ifa cast for Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who as the National security advisor of Nigeria was covertly sending non indigenes armed with assault rifles as vigilantes to communities that are under the attack of bandits who are non indigenes!
He had to admit doing so when some of his vigilantes were arrested by local vigilantes

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened but did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
A parasite is destined to harm the host that gave it a home.

Note

How would you feel say as a Kano indigene if some Tuaregs armed with assault rifles were arrested by locals in a Kano village amid bandit attacks and the NSA is saying he sent them there as vigilantes and that they should be released!


Okanran Iwori

The King has ears both in the city and in the suburbs

This was the ifa cast for the person in Earth’s surface trying to hide after being logged on by a satellite in space
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Some satellites have the resolution to read even what is printed on your hat and once they pick you, it will be difficult to shake them off!


Irosun Ika

If the per Capita consumption in any country is high, it is only because the government imposes a high enough minimum wage on all employers of labour

SisterAnn:
Oga Shattap Abeg. I have seen this happen severally.

I pity you. What you say you have seen happen severally is something that has never happened before. What a shame!

SisterAnn:
Broom that I have seen their household use numerous time to sweep the floor, lamao 😃

You are just saying rubbish since simple common sense says a kitchen utensil can't be used in the toilet. An ewedu broom is never used for any other thing talkless of being used to sweep the floor. An ewedu broom can not sweep the floor as it is far too short for that. It is only used to chop ewedu leaves

I think the PV farms should belong to the owners alone and not to the board at all just like agricultural farms don't belong to produce boards.

It is only what you consume that you pay for when you have a prepaid meter.

Local electric power boards

An utility grid is a form of cooperation and cooperation in any form should make life easier. However like everything about human beings, it can also backfire. Everything is a balancing act. I would not exchange my borehole water for government water from a water grid for instance. My borehole water is cheaper, safer and etc than government water from a grid.

In the case of an electrical power grid, if a large majority of power generated is consumed and paid for then it may be economically beneficial or viable if the cost of generation is not too high but it must be noted that up to seventy percent of power generated and transmitted by high tension transmission (HTT) as is the case in Nigeria is wasted and that is leaving out the problem of customers that are not even metered in a country like Nigeria. In Nigeria for now, most of the power generated is wasted and the cost of running gas fired plants is astronomical.

However if power plants are closer to the consumers then HTT will not be needed and power consumed may be up to eighty percent if not more of the power generated.

If an electrical power board of Ijesa land is established for instance, then the board will supervise all electrical power generated and consumed in Ijesa land. Any body should be able to set up a PV farm on their roof and etc in Ijesa land but they will have to notify the power board who will then meter them, pay them for power generated while they also pay the board for power consumed. The board will owe the owner of the farm for construction costs. The board can also connect other customers or consumers to the generated power and pay the owner of the plant out of what the consumer pays. This is what happens in other countries.

The power board can also build other power plants of any kind including solar, wind, hydro, coal, gas fired and etc to supply any part of Ijesa land with power

The arrangement described above can work if adopted and people will fall over themselves to invest in the scheme all over Nigeria and it will certainly lead to the cost of power becoming mediocre in the country.
With the arrangement, power problems can end in the country before 2027.

The only downside of this arrangement is that those who want 24/7 power supply will have to buy batteries unless they are connected to power supplies that are not PV farms

Can a power grid of PV farms on rooftops power Nigeria?

The answer is Yes because it is already powering some places in the country. It will cost a lot of money initially but it is immensely cheaper than any other power source on the overall.

If the country focuses on this then not all homes will even need to have the PV farms on their roofs. All power generated will go to the grid and every consumer will buy at the same rate. There can be guaranteed power for whenever the sun is up while each consumer can also buy batteries for nightfall.

If solar is already powering hotels with ten air conditioners running as well as small factories then it can certainly power the whole country and that should be the way forward.

The production of photovoltaic cells alone will generate hundreds of thousands of jobs in the country while the power infrastructure is being built.

CaptainGo:
What revenue loss? They want to bill us for darkness?

The main problem is that the gencos are claiming money that the discos were not able to recover. A contributory factor to that is that heavy consumers are off grid though it is not enough explanation.

The only thing that can be done for now is to temporarily raise tariffs to offset the debts then aggressively invest in generation and the decentralization of the power grid

What is cost reflective tariff? They generate and distribute in the Redemption camp and what they charge is insignificant. So what is it that they are doing different? If we pay up to twenty percent of what they pay in western Europe then we are being cheated. Compare the price of coke, beer, groceries and etc in western Europe to Nigeria. You can sell power in Nigeria at ten percent what it is sold in Europe and it will still be profitable

WiseBizInvestor:
You're on point with that... It's another valid view of the situation you've raised here —migration does affect domestic production capacity, especially when skilled and enterprising individuals leave in large numbers. The opportunity cost to the local economy is real.

That said, diaspora and domestic production don’t have to be mutually exclusive. With the right structures, capital, and incentives, those abroad can still participate in productive sectors back home.

Countries that succeed often leverage diaspora investment into agriculture and exports. It’s more about systems than just presence.

That’s where structured, scalable agribusiness models can bridge the gap and drive consistent export growth.

You seem to have big dreams. There are organisations in Nigeria with huge investible funds from the diaspora. Like GTCo, First bank Holdings, FCMB pensions etc. They can and will certainly fund any well-written proposal. They can potentially raise billions of dollars. They are all looking for partners. Approach them with your proposals

brain54:
People are exiting the grid to where exactly...?


Who and who did you see exiting the grid?

Most big businesses are not connected to the grid at all. Small businesses like hotels, restaurants and etc are following. In a few years at this rate, only poor people with low consumption will remain on the grid

Ojuntana:
How can people exiting the grid be a problem
Is the grid able to serve everyone before?

Anybody not connected to the grid is revenue loss and it is the part of the reason distribution companies can not recover the money to pay generation companies

WiseBizInvestor:
You’re right Nigeria has diversified export streams, including agriculture, entertainment, and some manufacturing. Remittances also play a key role in supporting forex inflows and stabilising the economy.

However, reliance on remittances isn’t a substitute for strong, scalable export sectors. Sustainable forex growth comes from consistent production, value addition, and competitive global positioning.

That’s why expanding structured agricultural exports like cocoa and oil palm remains critical for long-term resilience.

Yes I agree with you but the people sending remittances from abroad would have been the ones producing things for export if they had stayed back. You can't eat your cake and have it. If 30 million Americans were abroad it would tell on their economy negatively. It is a real shame that a country like Ghana exports more farm produce than Nigeria