₦airaland Forum

WizardOfNG:
My point is simple. ND region suffer the brunt of oil exploration and commercial extraction that has negatives for oil-rich communities.

They should receive more to deal with how their communities have become Nigeria's transactional asset.

Also, it is condemnable a nation claiming to host many brilliant and educated people is focused mainly on oil and gas when we have so much to utilise becoming rich and privileged.

While they can argue for the well heads in their farms, the ones that are miles offshore is in another category entirely and the majority of Nigerian crude is gotten offshore. It is wrong for Nigeria to depend on oil but it is not wrong for government to take the oil as is done in most countries. Would you say individuals should take the oil? Government is not wrong to take the oil but they are wrong to have depended on it for decades. Government is no longer dependent on it. Then which ever government tier is controlling the assets, there is a sharing formula that favors the states bearing the oil. It is just like having a huge stake in a company without being the CEO. Bill Gates today is not the CEO of the Microsoft that he founded but he is gaining from there. You can give the assets to the states to manage while retaining the sharing formula and the difference will not be very significant

Irony1:
You guys seem to miss the point Ojukwu never wanted to rule over any Yoruba person that was why Bajo led the troops. You guys are too shortsighted walahi. Imagine you said igbo led NCNC govt. Was Balewa In NCNC? Balewa was head of the govt not Zik. You people are the ones that see igbos as your enemy whereas the real enemy is already upon you.

It isn't a matter of enemy but self preservation. Was it Balewa that made Igbos to head like ninety percent of parastatals in the first republic? To make the VCs of all federal universities Igbos when the highest ranking Igbo Prof became a Professor eighteen years after the most senior Yoruba Prof who became a Professor in UI in 1948?

If I don't want my neighbor to take over all my properties it does not mean I see him as an enemy. I just need boundary

The Igbos will not allow the Yoruba to take their property just because the Fulani too are taking their property. They will fight both

I guess you did not see Ojukwu's letter to Banjo? He said he will choose the governor of Lagos and appoint Banjo to Ibadan and Banjo must not do anything at all without his written approval. The western region got a better deal from the British in 1951

WizardOfNG:
Yeah, I know he is Igbo. I just had to explain to him that his empty noise is misplaced. SS oil and gas wealth should primarily benefit the region the most and then be a secondary asset to Nigeria because we have enough endowment, human and material, to not be depending on ND oil and gas alone for a nation of over 230 million people.

It is wrong how the entire Nigeria is feeding from the crude oil endowment of the SS while pollution and environmental degradation is all that many communities have to show for their endowment sustaining Nigeria.

Ken Saro Wiwa was advocating about this very fact. The 'tool' Obi, trying to be President today, was in bed with Abacha who executed Ken Saro Wiwa.

Nigerians overate themselves stupendously. Look at how much endowment we have yet everyone is focused on oil and gas.

We must invest heavily, perhaps even the highest percentage by far ever, in upgrading our human resources.

It will produce massive returns because Nigerian human resources currently is too poor.

There is nothing wrong in the government taking the oil as it is standard practice in the majority of oil bearing nations and in Nigeria the states are paid thirteen percent as derivation percentage which is something. Most of the oil are miles off shore

WizardOfNG:
@OP.

💯% correct. Yoruba Governors already bravely and unitedly agitated for this in 2021. The problem is that Nigerians are not serious people .

If we want the best life we can live, only a month of downing tools and going on strike demanding regional government, then Government will oblige.

Government is never greater than the people if a people recognise their own power and are ambitious enough to be ready to sacrifice for what they want.

Nigerians should have come out massively to back the agitations of the guys below in 2021 but they are too divided, too unserious, too unfocused and lazy to do what must be done when it must be done.


https://punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/

The problem with the proposed six region structure is obvious. You can't put people in a box as you like as you would just be creating six new Nigerias. No ethnic group is too small to have autonomy.

Irony1:
I understand your point. If truly Banjo was a competent infantry man(he was commanding Engineering corps) he knows that his orders are to advance why keep a batlle hardened detachment in the midwest? He should have advanced meet with the elders give them assurances and move forward, it was simple. That move complicated everything in the war and we are paying for it, because that move further entrenched northern domination. If he hadn't made that blunder, perhaps the other communities would have been looking forward to work with the Advancing army to route the northerners from Lagos. Because Gowon would know that he is not safe in Dodan Barracks at that time.

My longer and more explanatory reply was deleted by the bot.

The meat is the Yoruba would never have allowed the Igbos to rule over them under any circumstances neither would they allow the Fulani or the Hausa or the Ebira etc. For the Igbos it is easy to see why. Just consider how the Igbo led NCNC government excluded the Yoruba in appointments. Even the western Igbos fought the British for over thirty years using Dane guns. How much more a Yoruba land invaded by three thousand Biafran soldiers?

So in short, the Yoruba were ok with Igbos having Biafra but not with Igbos coming to Lagos and Ibadan to rule them or colonize them

suleimanshehu:
Ok! Out of the 16 LGAs in Kwara State, it is only in Offa, Oyun, Oke-ro, Isin, Irepodun (Omu-Aran) and some part of Ifelodun & Asa LGAs that you can find pure Yorubas in Kwara State

Maybe five percent of Ilorin Emirate can claim non Yoruba paternal ancestry. It is not a Fulani emirate like Sokoto and Kano but Ilorin emirate. A Yoruba Oba Momoh has been Emir paternally from Iwo and that was before independence. The current Emir is from Gambari which is a mix of Hausa, Nupe and Bariba by paternal ancestry. Ilorin is only a Fulani emirate in the minds of ignorant people. In Ilorin anybody can be Emir and not only Fulani and they have been Emir. Then the non religious owner of the land that put the place under British protection is Balogun Ajikobi or don't you think who signed the protection agreement is the owner of the land? Ajikobi was traditionally in charge of the place in the 1890s.

There is no pure anything. Nobody in Ilorin is pure anything. You belong to your father's compound.

Irony1:
Look I get your point. No doubt, but my issue is why did Banjo accept to lead that Biafra division to head to Lagos? If he knew that he had misgivings he should voice it out to his high command. He even got Ifeajuna to be his deputy commander for this.
The truth is Ojukwu felt with a Yoruba leading it would appeal to the Yorubas considering that they have been complaining about the heavy presence of northern soldiers in the west. As Banjo accepted it would have been better to continue the advance and probably surrender if he was encricled. That would have been the extreme case scenario if it failed, but clearly a fast advance as was noticed initially when they entered Benin put Lagos in fright mode. Imagine what would have happened if they had reached Ijebu Ode? Trust me Gowon would have abandoned Dodan barracks because if Yorubas were On Banjo's side, Gowon wouldn't feel safe and Britain would be forced to do business with the West and Eastern region than the north.

They were young people. That should not be forgotten. Colonel Banjo should not have agreed to lead the invasion at all and maybe Colonel Ojukwu may have called it off. They are both to blame. The Biafran army was attacked by civilians in the Midwest and that must have been when Colonel Banjo realized what was waiting for him in the west. Going further would be suicidal even if he was able to pass Ore. He had only three thousand soldiers and not much of weaponry. To move an army into the west and Midwest without the permission of the leadership of those regions is something Biafra should not have done

What will happen to a Kanawa calling himself a Yoruba man?
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There are indeed Kanawa whose paternal ancestry has at it's apex a Yoruba man and there are many of them. I infact believe there must be more of them in Kano than Kanawa with Fulani paternal ancestry just like we have more Yorubas with Hausa paternal ancestry than Yoruba with Fulani paternal ancestry in most Yoruba enclaves

If people have been living side by side for centuries, then that will be the result. I am Ijesa today but my paternal ancestry of four hundred years ago was not Ijesa but Ijero in Ekiti state and it would be wrong for me to claim that place now when my ancestors swore allegiance to Ijesa and were granted part of Ijesa land as their eternal heritage

The royal family of England was established from Normandy in France and before then they originated from somewhere in Scandinavia but today they do not describe themselves as French or Vikings. They can describe their ancestor William the conqueror as such.

There is no traditional state in Yoruba land where there are no traditional compounds whose founding fathers are non Yorubas. There are family compounds founded by Hausa, Fulani, Ebira, Bariba and even Europeans all over Yoruba land but all their descendants today are bonafide Yoruba just like all the people in Kano and the rest of Hausa land are bonafide Hausas. This is why the aristocracy of the Hausa founded by Fulani always insist on calling themselves Hausa-Fulani because in all but a tiny bit of their ancestry, they are now Hausa people.

So what will happen to a Kanawa calling himself a Yoruba man? He will succeed in turning himself voluntarily to a second class citizen. The same is what will happen to an Ilorin man calling himself a Fulani, Hausa, Nupe, Bariba and etc and to an Ijesa man calling himself a Fulani or Nupe or even Oyo because those ethnic nations still exist and you can not serve two masters. Your ancestors would go to war against them if their adopted nation declared war on them.
There are infact Nupe monarchs as I gather who are Yoruba in origin but they are now Nupe in everything apart from the apex of their paternal ancestry. All of Igala, Bariba, Kanuri and etc up to Timbuktu in Mali and farther will have indigent families whose apex paternal ancestor is Yoruba or rather they will have at least one family compound in major cities designated for the Yoruba but none of those people from those compounds will be right to describe themselves as Yoruba today because they have to align properly.

Even among the same family, your brother's family is distinct from your own family. So if your family have lived in a city for centuries, you have traditional land in that city and no relation anywhere else, then you belong to the culture of that city. Align properly

Pastor Adeboye boasted to his followers that Nigeria will soon change and asked them to wish each other a happy new year for Nigeria. He did so publicly and General Abacha died a few days later

Now if a stranger arrives in town and is pointing to the burial ground of the blind old man, you will know there is the hands of an insider in it

It was Adeboye that killed Abacha. He used magun, a charm placed on a woman that will cause anyone that sleeps with her to collapse and die

budaatum:
Gods are innovations that never existed until human beings created them and used religion to propagate ideas of them. It is for this reason that there are so many gods, as each civilization created their own. And it is globalisation that has enabled the religious spread of information about some gods around the world that now seem universal.

If it weren't for globalisation, I'd likely be worshiping Obatala, the ancient local god of my community, and our own recent locally created Owala, which was created when an area was flooded and a huge lake was formed and deified. If I hadn't bothered to pick up books and read to educate myself, that is.

Basically, it's not just NGOs that spread religion and belief. People do too, just as you have done here. But indeed, you are free to. It is the responsibility of those that religions are spread to to ask and knock and seek with their own senses so that they may stop just believing and instead know.

P.S. Do know that religion, as in, the spread of ideas about gods, were what created the first schools. Unfortunately, early education was about telling people what to believe and accept as the truth, and some have not evolved to use their own senses to ask so they may know.

Ref:
https://www.nairaland.com/7707569/how-gods-made#123445154

https://www.nairaland.com/4260792/graveyard-dead-gods#63734763

The NGOs doing those things I highlighted above should not be allowed to exist in any civilized nation. Do you have any sensible reason they should be allowed to exist?

Then the Igbo call stone okute, the Yoruba say okuta and the English say stone. We all know they refer to the same thing. Therefore when the Igbo say Chukwuabiama and the Yoruba say Olodumare or Olorun and the English say God we know they are referring to the same entity or person. Your argument that there are millions or thousands of Gods does not make any sense because even physical human beings have different names they are called in different languages used by different cultures and how much more God?. I hope you get it. There is no multiplicity of God and it is only mischievous people that use that argument

If God which has a name in all cultures is an innovation why not say stone, air, water and even language and etc are innovations too?

You are not correct to say or infer that religion introduced science. What is correct is that religion is the opposite of science or what do you think is the opposite of science?

Religion and human civilization

People incorporate NGOs (churches)to be spreading the ideology that the deadly crime you will commit tomorrow has been died for two thousand years ago.

People incorporate NGOs (mosques) to tell people that God is burning people including decent people in hell for unbelief and/or idolatry.

Both groups have one book each whose contents they say must never be questioned by anybody despite that a simple Google check will show hundreds of contradictions inside the same two books

While there is freedom to believe anything you want to believe including absurdities and that is mainly because no one can enter your brain to change your belief, the society should however not allow the incorporation of NGOs of the kind described above within it's space for obvious reasons

God has always been there and will always be there but religion is an innovation, a very new thing which if left to fester can and most probably will bring down our civilization.

Secretbloodline:
Forever trying to put King Louis into the White Box. Is your father a pauper or son of a coloniser? British men had children with Nigerian women too and set up favoritism for them.

King Louis never saw himself as a white man but as a Frank. Who mentioned King Louis in particular? I never did that. I only said Gaulish people are not an offshoot of the Hebrew people just like the Hebrew are not an offshoot of Gauls

Secretbloodline:
Not all European men were of the same bloodline and Europe had diversity of y DNA.

The Romans were G2a and J2 and J1 they ranged from yellow to tan with Mediterranean features. Because the Roman Empire was so vast it crossed into the Middle East and North Africa. The Roman nobility married various people for trade and power consolidation especially to win over against competing Roman families. This is why Rome was brown complexion in many portraits.

The Franks were Trojans and their ranks filled with J2 tribe of Benjamin and Yudah and G2a Mediterranean people who formed their kingdom. Eventually the Franks take over Western Rome territory and formed alliance with Gauls later Accadians aka G2a haplagroup. The Gauls were tanned skin but G2a haplagroup whilst the Franks were very brown complexion more like Syrian looking. Clovis and Charlemagne both kings looked like Arabs.

The Visa goths and Asa Goths were men from the steppes R1B haplagroup but married alot of Gaul women so they looked tanned. The Lombards and Saxons, Basques, Celts, Picts, Vikings are all Ice Men the R1B who flooded into Western Europe from the Steppes. The R1a is akin to the R1B as Persian men aka Aryan Nobility King Cyrus ruled and conquered the Steppers. These men spread the R1a bloodline to steppes women and the sons became R1B.

Let go of the Race Box.

If not for the Roman empire, no Jew would have been in Europe and the Franks were Galatians an European people whose ancestors must have been there before Abraham. How then can you say the Franks are members of Judah, Benjamin and etc?

Godfullsam:
I keep saying it...

No sane Nigerian should ever consider voting for obi, Atiku or tinubu.

These guys are one and the same. They just want to be in power to loot and ruin the country.

Just imagining what is coming out of Obi's mouth 👄 . This guy is a heartless desperado who cans stoop to any levels just to get power.

Shame on these guys and their supporters

So sane Nigerians should not vote? Somebody will still win even if you do not vote.

Of all the people interested in the job, Tinubu understands the problem most. For example if oil money stops now, Nigeria will still be able to function and that is an achievement but the same Tinubu is not doing enough regarding security.

Security is the main challenge now. Please don't vote for anyone who is not in support of the decentralization of security

Gerrard59:
Again, this has never worked anywhere, and last I checked, it is Nigeria not North Korea.


That is what the govt should do - build mass public housing across selected states and cities. I have written here on NL - build in Suleja, Lokoja and Jos for Abuja. Build in Ota, Abeokuta and Ibadan for Lagos. Build in Abakaliki, Uyo, Owerri and Yenagoa for Port-harcourt. Connect those areas via train. Rents would collapse because of easier and faster transport networks, plus an increase in supply.


No, they cannot and should not. The economics differ.



Because of black market rates and scarcity in foreign capital. It was not a true representation of things, especially for the locals. Luanda has had such an infamous rank, but the quality of life and costs are different for the majority Angolans.

Something has never been tried anywhere is different from something has never worked anywhere. If you say a three bed apartment must never cost more than five hundred thousand naira per annum in Nigeria, people will still build because you can build such for less than twenty million naira. All that is needed is to leave a generous margin for investors. In the 60s and 70s the sign that you are well off is real estate. I know people in Ilesa with hundreds of units of real estate in the past if not far more and rent was not over bearing back then

Government can build but it is wrong policy to leave any sector for only the government except the sensitivity of that sector requires that but the government of Nigeria does not have the resources to do that presently

Whether because of black markets rate or not there was a time Lagos was ranked the most expensive city on Earth which isn't possible today for any African city and that is mainly because of the cost of living differential between high and low income country

Happy year 10068 of the Yoruba calendar!

This is the year 10068th of the current Ife era

Ifa readings were obtained for the whole world at both Oke Igeti Ado Ekiti and Oke itase Ile ife

At Oke Igeti, Irosun Ogbe was revealed with ire Aiku or longevity

At Oke itase Osa meji was revealed with ire Aje or economic abundance

Irosun Ogbe with ire aiku

The ODU is saying the world's prosperity this year will depend on cooperation or working together.

In this wise, countries should collaborate more and focus less on working alone for this year. The UN can be used as a platform for this.

If you are a corporate body, try and partner with others and it will most likely lead to prosperity.

Doing this will bring with it longevity

Osa meji with ire aje

This is talking about dissent, paradigm shift, departure and/or conflict

It is talking about policy reversal or policy change. It can also be war.

The world can radically change its mind this year. Don't be afraid to have a change of opinion and be ready to confront people. Don't be afraid to be in the opposition. Don't be afraid to dissent, fight or go to war. It aligns with the Earth this year

It comes with economic abundance

Note.

I took no readings of my own. I only analysed readings that were published after being cast before the priests from all over the world that were assembled at the two venues

Burob:
Please with all due respect, point to the law that gives them the fundamental right to do that?

The same law that gave the founding fathers the right to fight for independence

The right security architecture for a diverse country


In a well run country that is diverse and large, there might be a need for a unified defense department for national security but there is certainly no need for a unified police service for internal policing especially in a very multi ethnic and diverse nation and if in a nation like Nigeria some people are saying the police service must be unified then their ambition is clearly internal colonisation of the whole country. If you are afraid the country will break up if policing is decentralized, your ambition still remains internal colonization and not development. The purpose of the struggle for independence is already defeated ab initio if the ambition of some of us still remain to colonize others from different ethnic groups and stunt their growth. We are now fighting for freedom after independence?

In actual fact, even the unified ministry of defense must still have army divisions in each federating unit to be made up of local people while there is only one command. Anything short of that can not be described as adequate for a multi ethnic nation.

The system in Nigeria has gone beyond broken as some political leaders have armed ethnic militias to the tune of tens of thousands of men under arms and these politicians can not pay those they have armed salaries as can states or local governments etc. They have no income stream to do that. As a consequence, these armed men now roam the country imposing taxes on communities and extracting ransom from the families of kidnapped victims in order to continue funding their operations and livelihood. There are thirty thousand men with families in the Lakurawa alone not to talk of the Boko Haram and other groups and they have to feed themselves and families. A while ago, Boko Haram was reported to be collecting revenue in excess of two hundred million dollars per annum. The Muslim groups legitimize what they do as halal since the prophet also collected jizyah from people by force. The non Muslims just do their thing.

It will not be easy to dislodge them but it will hardly be possible at all without the decentralization of internal security. All ethnic groups have to be empowered to defend themselves and secure their territory. Don't say they will secede as they have the fundamental right to do that.

codemaniacs:
I am just updating your brain.

Only reason there's poverty in the SE in 2026 is because in 1966 certain SE soldiers and leaders who had zero knowledge of economics could not forecast the oil boom that awaited the SE region and due to their superiority complex and mindset to always dominate non-SE people they ignorantly chose to destroy the regionalism that would have made every SE person filthy rich and stinky rich and start a civil war..

Biafla was a war used by wyte people to impoverish the SE region and turn SE people eyes away from the oil.

Filthy rich because of how much oil? The oil is less than three percent of GDP even now and less than twenty times of something like kolanuts.

Why the bickering over Warri?

According to AI, Itsekiri have land more than one third of Osun state and Urhobo have land three times what Itsekiri have while Ijaw have more than twenty percent of the landmass of Delta state and Delta state is almost double the size of Osun state

These are de facto independent nations in their own right. They can live among each other but they should not by any means be fighting each other over territory.

All these groups have members in excess of one million souls.

CrownedPhoenix:
Very clear and visible.

The handwriting is clearly there.

But some of these muslim guys without foresight will keep defending.

Muslim-muslim was part of agreement for tinubu to have northern votes in 2023. Against all odds, he went ahead with it. Maybe the grand plan was unknown to him and perhaps not clear to him though.

The demand for sharia in Ibadan is a direct affront and statement to Yoruba that Ilorin is gone.

Now there are demanding Ibadan, the heart of Yoruba civilization. Alaafin is napping first before realities dawn on him

If Tinubu were a Christian he would still have won the election. Prof Osinbajo would have won too. A Christian from the North can win as President even with running mate as a Christian from the south

Demand for sharia in Oyo does not mean Ilorin has gone since Kwara is not even a sharia state

lightwind:
Since you claimed Lagos Nigeria has an infrastructure masterplan created by the Yoruba Leaders, why can't they Yoruba Leaders in Ogun state bordering Lagos State to also stretch that infrastructure masterplan to their own state as well ?

Do you know Bola Tinubu's state of origin, i mean where he came from ? I heard he is from Iragbiji in Osun state Nigeria, only this supposed to teach you something about Lagos.
Why are they Yorubas running away from their various state of origin and flooding Lagos State, claiming Omo'onile! all over Lagos. Many have even denied and abandoned their original state taking refuge in Lagos.
Just like i will run away from my beautiful Imo state to Anambra because non indigenes have developed Anambra state, so i now come and be claiming Anambra first Son because i can also speak Igbo language and also have Igbo name same with Anambra people do8)

For your information, the Yorubas didn't create any shiiit infrastructural masterplan in Lagos Nigeria, rather it was the British colonial masters that did all that for our former capital Lagos Nigeria. Don't come and educate me on what i know already since 35 years ago! I won't take that from you.

Do you know when the Igbos started migrating to Lagos Nigeria, dem don born you by that time... I am not sure if your dad don reach adult time sef.

So you are saying nonsense.

Any state could have done what Lagos did. Enugu and Rivers are doing it currently. Enugu just started last year while Rivers started a long time ago. They will succeed as Rivers has already succeeded and you will still come here to say it was all Nigerians that built those states too.

Gerrard59:
Again, this has never worked where it was implemented. In fact, it led to higher rent rates after it was introduced in Berlin.


It cannot work as people would outrightly refuse to sell their lands. Also, it cannot work because many states aren't completely homogeneous for them to come into unison.


This is done in many countries, but there is a place for private real estate developers. Singapore and Hong Kong do this effortlessly.


Rent would be more than 300 usd per annum in Lagos because of its demographics, geography and economy. Transport links to Ogun, Osun and Oyo would ease things greatly. This is a lived experience - we need metro lines.

Government can value housing and say the rent must not exceed a certain amount. What happened in Berlin? People will still build for rent if the margin is attractive.

If people don't sell land they can lease it out and one way or the other houses will continue to be built. Government can take any land and build on it anywhere in the country. If it is your family land then the person holding your family title is probably collecting salary from the government and the land still belong to your family. Our land in my family still belongs to everybody and there is a family head in charge

Rent in London and Akure can be the same not to talk of Lagos and Akure and it would have been roughly the same some decades ago. The runaway cost of living in some countries has not always been the case. Even in the 1980s Lagos was more expensive than London at a point. Lagos was the most expensive city in the world at one point

lightwind:
Someone else have also asked this question here.

If Yoruba really developed Lagos State, why can't the same Yoruba develop Ogun State their next door neighbor.
Are they Yorubas living in Lagos different from the Yorubas living in Ogun State ? I thought the Yorubas are one!

Fifth of United States population are Canadians by birth, United State is developed if you go to Canada their next neighbor, is also developed. The only thing holding mexico down is drugs, and bad leadership.

So what is holding the Yorubas of Ogun State underdeveloped, they all depends on Lagos for survival ?

So what is wealth to you?. The wealthiest state is Lagos followed by Rivers followed by Oyo. If you don't have it you can't pay VAT, you can't flaunt it. The most expensive neighborhoods in Nigeria exist in Lagos, Ibadan, PH and Abuja. Mansions spring up in Ibadan everyday thousands of them but you go to photograph a century old part to push a certain narrative? In my immediate surrounding within a small town in Ilesa metropolis mansions are constructed constantly and they are all modern, so you are not right to be saying only Lagos is developed in Yoruba land. No place in the East apart from Anambra has anything up to Osun state despite that NIN stats say some have a bit more population. Use google

lightwind:
Lagos Nigeria belongs to all TRIBES in Nigeria! I will repeat it over and over again if you want.

Yoruba developed Lagos, so why can't they also develop Ogun State that is very close to Lagos ?

Yoruba and Igbo are not contemporaries by population and that means by any other thing. Lagos not to talk of Ibadan makes it very obvious and all this going back and forth is to not accept the fact. The Yoruba are almost three times the population of the Igbo and if you accept that many things will be easier for you to accept. How many Igbos even are in Lagos? If you give Yoruba 70 percent it means Igbo is 7.5 percent, if Yoruba is eighty percent it means Igbo is five percent, if Yoruba is sixty percent it means Igbo is ten percent. If you now go to the extreme and say Yoruba is 40 percent, Igbo still will not be more than fifteen percent. This is because whatever is left after Yoruba is deducted must be divided into four around equal parts before one part can be assumed Igbo. The four parts are Hausa, Igbo, other Northerners and other Southerners. No survey has ever put the Yoruba at less than seventy percent of Lagos and it may be as high as eighty percent. The English control London, the Germans Berlin, the Americans New York, the Russians Moscow, so the Yoruba are sufficiently big to say they control Lagos. After all they win 99 percent of elective posts in the city. However as long as Nigeria remains one, any Nigerian city is owned by all Nigerians as they are free to live and contest elections there.

If you are waiting for Lagos to become a non Yoruba city, you will wait indefinitely

New odus of ifa June 6 2026

Ose Owonrin

There is always a calm before a storm and a reconnaissance before a decisive assault

This was the IFA cast for Olodumare Agotun the almighty father in heaven that spreads his throne above the waters The glorious King resplendent in his Majesty. He stopped the generation of new odus of ifa for decades starting from the 1950s up to the twenty first century in order to prepare the ground on Earth for the final onslaught against religion

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
When truth has been scarce or absent for long enough, it becomes more valuable and more effective when it finally reappears!
Ela boru Ela boye Ela bo sise

Obara Ofun

As the physical master is teaching, the inner master is also teaching

This is the ifa cast for the reincarnated spirit of an expert who have to learn his old trade during his new incarnation
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
He will have to learn but he will qualify much faster than the average novice apprentice and he will also reach the expertise level he reached during his last incarnation

Irete Okanran

A child born out of wedlock is a child still and an already born baby can not return inside it's mother's womb

This was the IFA cast for the Nigerian constituencies that got states created for them via military decrees or via illegal constitutions under dispute

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Come rain come sunshine. A child already born can not be unborn.

Oturupon Otura

Your economic well being depends only upon how savvy you are financially

Owonrin Oyeku

It may be necessary for citizens to suffer so that their compatriots can prosper

This was the ifa cast for the rice consumers of Nigeria who had to be buying rice at more than double the international price because the Nigerian government is protecting the local producers by banning imports

Oturupon Irosun

One can survive. Two can be better off but it is only when there is a multitude that there can be billionaires

This was the IFA cast for the bustling
market without which no one can be a billionaire on the day it was coming from heaven to Earth
It was advised to sacrifice
It listened and complied
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
It is always at the end of the day because of the bustling market. The desire to be well off and hard work alone can not get any billionaire to that status.

Owonrin meji

Spending a fortune a day is amazing but being able to meet all your needs with income under the minimum wage is also a feat. Opposite extremes have their unique virtues

Oyeku Osa

A factory reset is sometimes the best alternative left

This was the ifa cast for General Gowon and Colonel Ojukwu who were the head of state of Nigeria and the governor of Eastern Nigeria respectively on the day when the disagreement over the Aburi accord that they agreed upon in Ghana offered them an opportunity to return the federal republic of Nigeria to democracy

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened but they did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
Instead of hanging their guns and handing the country over to elected leaders, their disagreement descended the country into a terrible civil war

Ofun Oturupon

The lowest paid worker is served with a cup while the managers are served with bowls

This is the IFA cast for the wage earners
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!

A minimum wage worker will never be paid an amount that can cover their basic needs many times over but it can happen for managers

Irete Irosun

Too much can still not be enough

This was the ifa cast for the Igbo people of Nigeria whose land in the south east of Nigeria is allotted fifteen senators for nineteen million people but yet they are still trying to secure seats in seat starved Yoruba land that has just eighteen seats for over fifty million people

Irete Owonrin

The plan is more important than the process. A wish does not have to be secured by proven methodology

This was the IFA cast for the people of Nigeria on the day they were desiring a prosperous country without factoring in high revenue financed by high tax

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened but they did not comply
Onlooking people of Po and Offa!
A mighty edifice can not be built on a weak foundation

Mrexcell:
Lagos doesnt get paid but still gets the highest faac monthly allocations in nigeria today and still economically benefits locally from the modernisation of the ports. The niger delta only gets only13% from their oil resources while the rest 87% is shared to other states including ur lagos while their ports is also deliberately made to be redundant so that lagos ports can reap the huge dividends that comes from the redundancy u guys in the west should continue feeling smarter than anyone else in nigeria.

Cotonou and Lome are busier ports than Lagos yet they don't have the population of maybe Abeokuta. Lagos population is increasing because the government has igr. If you have igr then you can employ more and each person you employ will marry and have children and you will have contractors who also marry and have children. You invite investors with your good infrastructure provided with the revenue and the population keeps increasing. Development is a fight over population and if Enugu continues in its current path of igr increase it will surpass Anambra and Abia in population by ten years and it will be able to generate even more revenue. That is how it works and there is nothing special in Lagos which does not have the land mass of Ekiti state. What they have is a more serious leadership that sees the local industry as it's revenue source. If I have just 5 million dollars now I will invest here and employ at least one hundred people and the manager will be well paid. One hundred people will bring their families and etc etc

Then there are ports in the East but they are not busy. The question is why and it is because importers believe it is cheaper for them to use Lagos. If PH had twenty million people, the port in Onne would be busy

Lagos has the highest population and it is not the most cosmopolitan. Why should it not receive the highest allocation?

ZombidiotFools:
The problem isn't that Tinubu can't secure SW, he can if he wants to.
The problem is that he doesn't want to, I've been following this very closely.
Like I said earlier, I didn't vote for him because he's Yoruba, I voted for him because I believed he was the best among the candidates. I'm an exposed person, and I have grown past basic human sentiments.

For Tinubu to decentralize Security, the only thing he needs is to send prayers into the mail of lawmakers, they will sign the bill.

But I believe there are Elephants behind the scene who are against it, have you heard of state police since then? Rather 744 terrorists were released instead.

what Nigeria need is a president that can look at the Fulani hegemony and call it bluff, and Tinubu has shown he's not that person.
As hard as it is to admit, only the Igbos have shown it time without numbers that they don't bow for them.

Tinubu has from now till January to retake his steps. But luckily for him, there are many sentimental people to vote for him.
The future doesn't look bright.

This tweet was made in 2022, and it sadly looks like true.

The only solution is a break up of the country or who do you want to vote as President? It is better to fight for a breakup and fail than to do anything else

Mrexcell:
So what about the recent loans worth over $1b tinibu took from the UK to modernise lagos ports who is going to pay back those loans is it the lagos state govt?

They make more than one billion dollars per annum from the ports. Any money put there or in the oil sector is to make more money and that does not negate the reality that the oil states are being paid derivation while port states are not paid

Mrexcell:
Only stating the hard facts nothing is stupid here show me the proofs that nigeria used the north groundnut oil money to develop oil wells in the niger niger? If the western region had a budget of 55m pounds how then did the nigerian state preferred to rely on ground nut oil money from the north with a mere budget of just 7m pounds instead of going to the western region with enough wealth to take funds if we are to even believe this ur story? It doesn't make any sense to me.

You don't understand. People say federal money was used to develop oil resources but it is a stupid assertion because the regions controlled oil before the resource control decree. The idea that oil resources built Lagos ports is even more stupid because Lagos is a natural port that was very busy centuries before the formation of Nigeria