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Christianity Etc › Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 1:26pm On Oct 04

Maximus692:
When did i tell you my God will burn people nah?

Hope you're still following our discussion o i'm not churchgoers talking about some Hellfire!🙂

I mean your mental image of God is deleting law abiding people from existence for unbelief.

Travel › Re: The New Ibadan International Airport: The ₦41 Billion Project Changing Southwest by lawani(m): 1:24pm On Oct 04

Babaibe:
Oyo people are not fools. You keep arguing as if saying “an airport is more than a building” automatically justifies ₦41 billion. It does not.

Yes, an airport requires much more than a terminal building. But let us look at the figures. For a modest modern airport, the major specialist facilities we discussed—control tower/ATC, CAT III ILS/DME, DVOR/DME, radar/surveillance, airfield lighting, weather system, fire and rescue, backup power, CCTV/security, communications and other aviation equipment—come to roughly ₦6.45 billion.

So the simple question is: how does what we can presently see justify ₦41 billion already spent, when the visible structure itself does not appear remotely close to ₦2 billion in value?

If you insist the ₦41 billion covers substantial runway, taxiway, apron, drainage, utilities and other completed works, then show Nigerians the BOQ, payment certificates, variations and percentage of work completed. Public money must be accounted for with figures, not insults.

And while you are explaining the airport, perhaps also explain the so-called terminal at Iwo Road. How much exactly did that structure cost? The amount has never been transparently presented to the public, and we can already see how rapidly the facility has deteriorated. At this rate, it risks becoming another neglected structure occupied by touts, hoodlums and political thugs.

If that facility was intended to generate revenue from road-transport activities, it could have been properly designed as a revenue-generating project, with the proceeds helping to maintain it rather than continually depending on taxpayers' money.

The airport must not become another expensive structure without corresponding economic value.

We are not against development. We are demanding value for money. If ₦41 billion has genuinely been spent, show us ₦41 billion worth of work. Publish the figures and let independent professionals verify them.

Christianity Etc › Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 1:16pm On Oct 04

MaxInDHouse:
We don't need any of them our God said we will see reasons why He must destroy all those who are not members of our faith because if everyone is our member this earth will become a paradise!

So you have judged yourself as you said it's not members of our faith that's causing the problems leading you people to believe in the use of weapons! Revelation 6:3-4🙂

People who can't distinguish between right and left need the courts more than the average human being. You don't know it is wrong to be saying God is burning law abiding people for unbelief? Then you can't be trusted to make any important decision outside youraelf

Politics › Iwori Irosun (iwori Ijesa) Pms Subsidy In Nigeria by lawani(op): 1:10pm On Oct 04

Iwori Irosun
Iwori Ijesa
PMS SUBSIDY IN NIGERIA

Even if yam is pounded in a leaf while soup is cooked in a groundnut shell, it can still feed a multitude!

This was the ifa cast for the husband that wants to eat with no restraints at his wife's thriving restaurant business

It was cast for the Nigerians who want pms subsidy in Nigeria because Nigeria produces crude oil

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened but did not comply

The thriving restaurant exposed to one person eating without restraints collapsed
Nigeria surrounded on all sides by countries consuming pms at a high rate ended up subsidizing the whole sub region and it still was not enough.

Husband, pay at your wife's restaurant so that she can grow. When she grows, you have gained

Nigerian government! let those who can't fuel their cars park them at home to be boarding buses, you can not as a government subsidize the whole sub region and what needs money to be spent on it in Nigeria are HDI and public infrastructure and not PMS. Spend money on education and infrastructure that support production, ask for higher wages too not for subsidy that has proved to be an avenue to steal money in Nigeria. Subsidy led to a CBN governor building almost a thousand unit of duplexes brazenly!

Politics › Re: South-West Is The Safest Region In Nigeria - StatiSense (Top 12) by lawani(m): 12:34pm On Oct 04

Please kindly join the effort to press the government to pay for the use of my intellectual property.

If your own experts can't solve a problem for decades despite paying them billions of naira then you should acknowledge and pay the person that solved it especially if they have no personal income

How to make universities in Nigeria even more viable and a Mayday call

I was the one that proposed many years ago the policy of sharing scholarships or funding to students instead of giving funds to universities directly and the policy has propelled Nigeria to the status of the African country with the highest number of globally ranked universities. It happened within a few years of the policy. kicking off. It happened exactly as I predicted.

I was not contracted to consult for the government but I did a civic duty for which a one off complimentary gift of one million dollars and a permanent consultancy is not too much considering the problem solved but I can not force any one to recognize or acknowledge my contributions.

Even the present policy of a shift to taxation instead of dependence on oil and gas that has changed the fortune of the country, I am the ONLY one in the country that has been advocating for it as the solution since 2007. Most other people are up in arms against corruption alone.

The current administration is the first since I became active to act as if I am being read. The current President Bola Tinubu is also the only politician that joined the online group I created named Project Free Nigeria. One of the aides of former senate President David Mark also contacted me by mail once in my account that was taken over by hackers, I think in 2008 or 2009 but the only subscription to my group by a top politician is by the current President. The President has his faults of course but he has done well by Nigeria because all former presidents after President Obasanjo also were reading everything I wrote and they knew the solutions that are working today too. The solution that is now working in the universities is in an unsolicited paper I sent to the University of St Petersburg in Russia years ago. It is courtesy of that solution that Nigerian universities have now stabilized. All that is by the way

The issue now is the matter of universities that do not want to be remitting part of their inflow to the federal government.
The British empire succeeded more than it's seniors because it operated or started off as a business that must pay it's shareholders as against the Spanish and Portuguese whose royals controlled everything and reported to no one. No audits and etc. In like manner, the universities in Nigeria will succeed more comprehensively if they follow that blueprint of profit seeking and accountability to their owner that funds them as I proposed. Definitely if they do this then the tertiary education sector can become a net income earner for the federal government within a few years as there will come a point when inflow from the sector will surpass budgetary allocations. Other tiers of government should also be mandated to set up their own version of NELFUND (Student Loans board) and the funds flowing into the federal universities for instance should have a portion sent to the federal government. In the long run, the federal government will start making profit. It will eventually happen since private investors in the sector make good returns on their investments in the same country and government making ten percent of what private investors make will be okay.

I believe federal universities should send fifty percent of their tuition revenue, twenty percent of accomodations revenue, ten percent of any research grant won by any local or staff researcher/scholar from anywhere on Earth while there can be negotiations on the sharing formula for inflows from other possible assets on a case by case basis.
The input of the government can be in marketing the universities to research sponsors, prospective students, partnerships and etc. Universities are entities and they can sponsor research on their own too and profit from it etc etc

The Mayday call

I solved the problem of ASUU strikes with my brain and pen and there has not been any ASUU strike in Nigeria for three years. My paper solved it as you would expect a PhD dissertation to do and this is a problem that people paid billions of naira in total for decades were not able to solve. I solved it without being commissioned but I am under the attack of the RCCG, Deeper Life, Winners Chapel and etc and I therefore have no income from work but only from charity. So do your bit as a beneficiary on any level whether as a student or a parent or even an onlooker to get the FG to pay something for the benefit the country is already enjoying as a result of my civic duty.

Some of the articles in the public

https://www.nairaland.com/8156591/university-autonomy-rejuvenate-tertiary-education

Investment › Re: This Is For The Venturesome by lawani(m): 12:28pm On Oct 04

Politics › Re: BREAKING: "Tinubu Must Go" Protests Rock Yobe by lawani(m): 12:27pm On Oct 04

Christianity Etc › Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 12:24pm On Oct 04

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Christianity Etc › Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 4:07am On Oct 04

Roycemadeit:
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You're creating a false choice between “weapons” and “mentality.”

Of course people need laws, values and a sense of right and wrong. But that doesn't make physical protection irrelevant.

A police officer can believe stealing is wrong and still need a weapon to stop an armed robber. A soldier can believe murder is wrong and still carry a weapon to defend people from someone who intends to kill them.

And if your argument is that criminals would stop being criminals if everyone simply had the right mentality, then you haven't explained why your organization needs courts, police protection, security arrangements or any other institution that deals with people who don't share that mentality.

The existence of moral restraint does not eliminate the need for physical protection.

That's why saying “we don't carry weapons” doesn't prove that weapons are unnecessary. It only proves that you personally choose not to carry them.

Let them go into a bear forest without weapons and see if they won't be lunch for bears. Bears don't run from humans. They see them as lunch. In Northern Europe it is illegal to go into the forest without arms because of bears. Meanwhile some human beings that we live with in our cities are more dangerous than wild animals. They are more dangerous than any bear. They look upon you as lunch

Politics › Tax Policies To Make All Constituencies Weigh According To Their Population Size by lawani(op): 12:09am On Oct 04*

TOPIC- TAXATION POLICIES TO MAKE ALL CONSTITUENCIES WEIGH ACCORDING TO THEIR POPULATION SIZE IN ANY UNION

NAME- LAWANSON, Akinwumi John
DATE- OCTOBER 3, 2026

ABSTRACT

Contribution to revenue at the center is important in determining the equity of a federating unit in a federation because representation can not or should not be arbitrary in a federal state or in any corporate body.

Revenue represents the weight of a political constituency and it should be accepted as such.

This is why government policy on taxation ought to be designed to make this possible. It should be designed such that no section of the economy, income group and etc will be missing.

INTRODUCTION

This work like the many I have published online since 2007 that I became active online was made possible because I am under the protection of a four member consortium of nations. The USA, China, Russia and India. Pastor E A Adeboye of the RCCG kicked off assassination attempts on me as far back as in 2006 during my NYSC when I had no idea I had enemies not to talk of people paying assassins to go after me and before I became active online but I had been put under CIA protection by the late President George Herbert Walker Bush in 2000 which was six years before the first assassination attempt on me. Why? Because Pastor Adeboye a man known to be a human ritualist by the CIA was captured on tape telling or assuring my parents he would make sure I become born again. President George Herbert Walker Bush knew immediately that it was a matter of time before he would deploy assassins after me. He therefore stepped in with US resources and then the CIA solicited for and got that of the other nations later. All the other assassination attempts on me by Bishop Oyedeoo, Pastor Bakare, Queen Elizabeth and etc totalling over thirty also failed for the same reason the first one by Pastor Enoch Adeboye failed that is because of ammunition and other resources not enough.

Therefore if you find whatever I write to be useful, the people that sponsored and protected me are the ones to be grateful to. Dead people don't output anything

LITERATURE REVIEW

Currently there is no framework or generally accepted position that says nations or political constituencies should be weighed according to their revenue and this can be said to be partly because of the cost of living differential across the globe which makes the nominal GDP of nations to be totally not the same thing as their real GDP. However, in regions where countries have similar per capita income, countries can be weighed against each other using revenue, GDP and other like parameters.
If you weigh a country like Ethiopia against Britain using cattle, Ethiopia has ten times the GDP of Britain while if the consumption of crude oil were used, you will get something close to the opposite. Therefore if Ethiopia and Britain were in a union it would be hard to determine how to share the equity because of the confusion caused by the cost of living differential on Earth.
In individual nations, common sense is applied in sharing seats and also they rely on population census which many times is never accurate especially in countries with non formalized economies. In general, most countries do not have the mechanism to share equity or update equity in a federal union.

METHODOLOGY

I observed, especially in Nigeria that representation at the center is arbitrary, meaning that some constituencies are over represented at the center while some others are grossly underrepresented.

I determined that it is not a fair arrangement if the voice of one million people is given the same weight as or more weight than that of ten million people under any circumstances outside when it is a business venture where the one million people contributed an equity equal to or more than what the ten million people contributed as the case may be.

I determined that the people shortchanged in such a manner can only align when they are not being taxed or maybe when nobody is raising the alarm.

I determined that if there is a proper system where everybody is taxed and the tax is the bulk of government revenue then the error will be noticed immediately and if the short changed people can not get more seats and representation at the center, they will at least ask for more revenue automatically or they will end up with a low HDI, dilapidated infrastructure and etc. Even low IQ for their kids despite bearing the brunt of taxes.

I decided that the right thing to do will be for the constituencies affected to ask for representation to be by revenue while fiscal allocation can be by need since in any evenly organized and taxed space, the tax collected will be proportional to the population.

I located the first challenge in a country like Nigeria which is that revenue is not proportional to population in each political constituency and it is when the revenue coming from each constituency is proportional to the population that the agitation for change can be catalyzed. If low populated regions bring more to the center then they can get away with the lopsidedness that favor them.

I then itemized four causal factors for the irregularity between the revenue from a state and the population of the state. I also proposed four solutions.

RESULTS

The causal factors of the disparity between revenue from a state and the population of the state (Why some low populated states have more revenue than some high populated states)

1. Some businesses are excluded from paying VAT (Value Added Tax)and CIT (Company Income Tax)

2. Produce tax is not collected
3. Only the Federal government of Nigeria and a handful of states collect revenue.
4.Revenue sharing is only applied on federal government revenue in Nigeria.

Proposed solutions

1. All businesses with address irrespective of their turnover should be mandated to file CIT and VAT as well as PAYE (Pay As You Earn). It should be illegal not to file.

2.The local governments should be mandated to mobilize for the taxes awarded to them by the constitution. They should collect produce tax and other taxes.

3. All states should be mandated to go after personal income tax at all business addresses within their territories with no wage earner or business owner outside the net.

4. Revenue sharing should be applicable to the revenue of all government tiers and not only that of the federal government.

DISCUSSION

CAUSAL FACTORS AND SOLUTION

Some business are excluded from VAT and CIT

Normally, no city of three million people can pay more tax or even more rent than a city of ten million people if both cities were evenly organized and with the same cost of living but such happens because the economic activity of small business owners is excused. There is no need for it to be excused. A barber paying VAT does not affect the barber. Let barbers, painters, fashion designers and etc file VAT and CIT just like oil companies. It does not affect anybody negatively and it can lift everybody up. What can lift everybody up should be done

Produce tax is not collected.

Produce tax is the VAT of the agricultural sector and if collected it will swallow the VAT from other sectors. There is no need to leave it uncollected. It should be collected in produce too by the tier of government it is awarded to which is the local government

Only the FG and a handful of states are serious about taxes

All states should be mandated to get serious about having revenue and a simple rule of updating federal seats every five years according to generated revenue sent to the center will put this on automatic. No compulsion, just automatic reduction of representation at the center when revenue is short.

4. Revenue sharing should be applied on the revenue of all government tiers.

Presently, only the revenue of the federal government is shared because natural resources was agreed upon in the Constitution to be federal owned.

There should be a sharing formula for the revenue of all government tiers so that there will be a synergy of revenue sources. The FG can calculate total inflow and share say twenty percent to states. The states can calculate total inflow and share say twenty percent to local governments. The Federal government does not need to deal with the local governments and the states should be free to create local governments as the need arises. The local governments should send at least fifty percent of generated inflow to the state by statute because produce tax can be as heavy as personal income tax. The state can also send ten percent of revenue to the federal government by statute.

All revenue generated within a country by all government tiers can be added together to determine national revenue and an agreed upon percentage of it can be paid to the United Nations for the seats the nation was allotted if the UN is nade democratic. The UN seats allocation for sovereign states can also be reviewed every five years.

CONCLUSION

I think the point has been made in this short work that the weight of a political constituency does not surpass the revenue that can be raised from its workers (not from natural resources) and that it would be grossly unfair to give the same voice to ten million workers that was given to one million workers and that if the cost of living on Earth can be evened out then each country should be weighted according to the revenue it can generate internally. It applies to the United Nations, individual nations and the federating units of each nation and etc

REFERENCES

The national Assembly in Nigeria

https://nass.gov.ng/about/item/1548

GDP OF NATIONS

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPD@WEO/DZA/ZAF/MAR/NGA/EGY/KEN/AGO/ETH/GHA/TZA I'm

Travel › Re: The New Ibadan International Airport: The ₦41 Billion Project Changing Southwest by lawani(m): 1:29pm On Oct 03

sharone21:
This airport project isn't so necessary especially as there is train from Lagos to Ibadan for those arriving via international airport in Lagos.

Seems when one governor initiates a project, others just copy and follow without really brainstorming to bringing out the much needed projects for that state.

Our governors seem too to be anti- masses, they prefer plunging billions into 20 flyovers, airports etc instead of 'building ' industries/factories with private partnerships. Whatever Dangote is doing can be taken as a serious assignment ( industrial revolution) in States. Nothing stops state governments from selling bonds and shares of these industries which allows some Nigerians to get employments while others can be shareholders/ external bond& commercial paper investors.

But, using their brains is a problem.

If you establish an airport in Ilesa today, busy routes will be
Ilesa to Lagos
Ilesa to Abuja
Ilesa to PH
Ilesa to New York
Ilesa to London etc
Even Ilesa to Ibadan will be busy. How much more Ibadan that is at least five times the size of Ilesa metropolis in population?
Flight tickets will soon become cheap and places like Ilesa will have airports and there will be less go slow on the roads but for Ibadan there is no reason to wait as it is a big city that has the traffic already. The traffic in Ibadan will rival Lagos because it will capture all the visitors going to the big cities around and to the North of Ibadan up to Ilorin. It will capture some Lagos Ibadan road traffic as well and also Abuja-Ibadan, Kano-Ibadan, PH-Ibadan and etc. It is infact the most viable airport after Lagos

Travel › Re: The New Ibadan International Airport: The ₦41 Billion Project Changing Southwest by lawani(m): 6:33am On Oct 03

VanuatuWycombe:
Stop the misinformation jo. Which traveler will fly from Ibadan? Will you force airlines to fly Ibadan routes, if it’s not profitable for them?

Ilorin has its own ‘international’ airport and no international flights there, other than Haj, which is seasonal.

This is a misplaced priority. Ibadan and Osun don’t need any airport.

This is built for their selfish interests and to syphon resources.

Oyo State doesn’t need to waste N40billion on something like this.

Spending that on highly mechanized agricultural ecosystem alone would have helped on food sufficiency and spur agro-raw materials processing and value chain addition. This would have provided opportunities for people than yeye airport Seyi is spending on. The guy is a total misfit in Oyo State.

For Ibadan it is not a misplaced priority. For Abakaliki? Yes Not for Ibadan

Travel › Re: The New Ibadan International Airport: The ₦41 Billion Project Changing Southwest by lawani(m): 6:27am On Oct 03

An Ibadan airport will overtake Lagos in traffic because it will serve nearby cities too.
Ibadan population is over 5 million and it should have an international airport even on its own. An airport in Ibadan is a decongestion of Lagos

The viability of a city is by population and only Lagos clearly surpass Ibadan in Nigeria.

Later all cities with over one million people in their metropolitan area will have airports as air travel will soon become very cheap. Even 500k people in the metropolitan area can have but not now as there is no traffic yet. Ibadan however have the traffic now. The VAT Nigeria takes from Ibadan every year can build a small city of sky scrapers every year in Ibadan

Culture › Re: Why Do Nigerians Lack Respect Across All Cultures? by lawani(m): 9:08pm On Oct 02

lindqvistbergst:
They have none, not any respect at all. You think you can run around telling everyone to get on their gut on the floor for you.

You like to lord over everyone. Age does not mean you get to treat people like dogs. You think? Do you hear yourself? You think the entire world and everyone in it revolves around you. You will destroy lives over it. And plenty of times those people have deleted others over it.

It is among themselves. They never expect non members to align and even they themselves may not align when not in the right settings. There is a proverb Kaka ka dobale fun Gambari ka roju ka ku. meaning 'Rather than prostrate for a Hausa man it is better to brace up and die!'. This would be because the Hausa themselves don't do such.

Culture › Re: How The World Was Saved By Borders by lawani(op): 8:25pm On Oct 02*

Omnitetris64:
This argument has a name and a sizeable literature behind it, which is worth knowing because it shows where it is strong and where it leaks. Eric Jones called it the European Miracle (1981); Joel Mokyr's version in A Culture of Growth (2016) is the one I find most useful, and he adds a condition you have not mentioned. Fragmentation on its own does not produce progress, it produces isolated provinces. What you need is political fragmentation plus a single unified market for ideas. Early modern Europe had that because scholars all wrote in Latin and corresponded across every border, so a result found in Padua was being argued over in Leiden within the year. Many rulers, one conversation.

The cleanest illustration is sharper than the farms analogy. Columbus was refused by Joao II of Portugal and simply walked to Castile and asked again. Under a single administration there is no second door to knock on. Compare Zheng He: once the Ming court decided against the treasure fleets in the 1430s that was the end of it, because there was no rival court in China to go and pitch to. Same century, comparable shipbuilding, opposite outcome, and the variable is how many people had to say no.

One correction on the chain through the Magna Carta. The 1215 charter is mostly about feudal dues and the barons' own grievances; the principle that taxation requires the consent of the realm develops through Parliament across the 14th century, not in that document. And the chartered companies were not a way around the crown. Muscovy Company 1555, East India Company 1600, both royal monopoly grants, created precisely so the crown could have ventures funded without paying for them itself. So your causal arrow still lands, just through a different mechanism than the one described.

Ok. It is just the same old argument of the free market against socialism put in another form but If I didn't explain it like that the proponents of a one world government without borders will never get it.

Then there would have been no corporations without the magna carta. If no magna carta the monarch would have funded British exploration and there can not also be corporations without government as well because only government can sign the charter and monitor the promoters.

So explain how I missed it?

Culture › Re: Ofun Osa - The Birth Odu Of The Defunct Western Nigeria by lawani(op): 8:15pm On Oct 02

itzadorable333:
Do you know you were created with the gift of the prophetic? And THE CREATOR put it in you so HE can use you to solve your own problems, your family's problems, people's problems and even societal problems. That gift is still waiting to be awakened, and your prosperity in this life as well as the fulfillment of your destiny on earth is tied to that gift.
You have leaned on your own understanding for so long now, it's time to surrender to THE LORD, your MAKER, who is THE CREATOR of Heaven and Earth.
You've been depending on Ifa predictions and knowledge for so long, now it's time to lift up your eyes to THE LORD who Created all knowledge including Ifa, for that thing you are looking for in Ifa is in you. And it is THE LORD who put it in you, it is HE who will activate it in you. And it's time.
You can continue to rebel, or you can finally surrender. But remember this your prosperity, the prosperity of others and the fulfillment of your destiny is tied to this gift and until you surrender to THE LORD the gift remains dormant. And if you go through your life without unlocking this gift, it will passed to an offspring ( maybe yours, maybe not) in your father's family. For this gift is a project THE LORD wants to use to change your family's story and bless the family for service rendered to HIM.
Peace be unto you.

Woe unto the city whose King is a child

Culture › Ofun Osa - The Birth Odu Of The Defunct Western Nigeria by lawani(op): 3:45pm On Oct 02*

OFUN OSA

THE BIRTH ODU OF THE DEFUNCT WESTERN NIGERIA

Ofun smote them with communism
Ofun smote them with the free market
Ofun smote them with plenty of palm fronds
Ofun smote them with free education
Ofun smote them with free healthcare
Ofun smote them with a taxable minimum wage
Ofun smote them with high net worth individuals
Ofun smote them with higher education scholarships
Ofun smote them with a sovereign wealth fund
Ofun smote them with the state being the biggest profit seeker in the economy
It was a cloth of many colors

This was the Ifa cast for the defunct state of western Nigeria birthed in 1951 that broke the entry barrier of the two ideological camps on Earth during the Cold war

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied

The communist leadership in the USSR observed them and saw free healthcare, free education and an economy dominated by the state with no one left behind. They said 'This is communism no doubt'.
The capitalists headquartered in the USA came to observe them and they saw free markets, big freedom, parties, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs everywhere. If J D Rockefeller was 1000, people like Amos Odutola, Isaac Ajanaku, Lawrence Omole were at least 10. They said 'It is certainly a free market'. Some said 'but their farmers have to sell some produce to government boards!. Then after some research they found out farmers from neighbouring countries willingly sell to the same produce board. It is certainly a free market or it serves the same purpose! They concluded.

Western Nigeria broke the entry barriers of the two warring ideological camps on Earth that didn't see face to face.

To the extremist capitalist, the Action Group party of western Nigeria was a communist party and to the extremist communists they were a bunch of state capitalists in romance with their henchmen who were private capitalists

The Ofun (advantage) enjoyed by the Western region of Nigeria as a result of the debate (Osa) was that if nobody was going to help them then nobody was going to harm them either and some people from the two camps will more likely help them!

Note

My late grand father Chief Josiah Oladiran Lawanson was the founding Organizing secretary of the Action Group and he was therefore the most senior founding member that never contested elections and he was also not originally a politician. He was coopted into the arrangement by the traditional rulers of Yoruba land. According to my Dad who was a pre teen back then at Ile Ife, the Egbe omo Oduduwa that later became the Action Group spent days in Ile Ife in a tug of war to convince him to resign his job and join the Egbe full time. The reigning Alaafin Oyo according to Ifa promised him to pay him from his own government money. Prince Aderemi (Lambua) of Ile ife told me he was a traveling teacher back then which may be the equivalent of an Inspector of Education. He also was an employer of labor with a bookshop and a big home lesson. Another older Prince Aderemi also noted he was a disciplinarian who did not use the idea of bringing up children without using canes. The older Prince then asked me to contest elections in Ile ife despite knowing we are Ijesa! etc etc

The AG was not based on ideology but on what works so they did not align fully with either the Soviets or the Americans exclusively. They aligned with both. For example my Dad, late Pastor John Lawanson studied in Britain, his elder sister Chief Mrs Ajijola studied in Britain, his younger brother late Professor Lawanson studied in the USA and their first cousin Dr Olu Omole studied in the USSR. Go after knowledge wherever it can be found without bending to ideology was the creed. The warring ideological camps could not decide on which side they were on!. It became an advantage for them

The only ways the western region of Nigeria was different from the free market communist economic model I have been describing for years is that.
1. There was no right to a means of livelihood
2. There was no compulsory retirement savings account for workers.

So according to ifa the birth odu of the defunct western state of Nigeria is OFUN OSA. You can teach the ifa to your student as an Oluwo or Awo with omo Awo

The orisas of this odu include Obatala and the Iya mi Eleye

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by lawani(m): 11:38am On Oct 02

faoogoke:
I said if he decides to come to the market now compared to some year back when it was doing well.
They may own their equipment etc but what value are they getting in return with their low subscriber base.
Why cant he lease his towers to others or to himself or rather sell like MTN did?
This typical black man mentality of wanting to own everything and be in charge is not helping his business.
He should sell a stake to a reputable service provider who will assist with running the business better.
In my opinion GLO and Adenuga should up their game operations wise.

Ok I agree he should have sold earlier because now other companies have been licensed and to seize market share for any company isn't difficult as the phone numbers don't belong to the companies. It is just that investors have been slack for years

Culture › What Is The Significance Of The Odu Esentaiye? by lawani(op): 11:04am On Oct 02

What is the significance of the odu esentaiye?

The odu esentaiye is the ifa reading gotten at birth for a new born. In the past, before religion, the Yoruba would get an ifa reading for anything that happens or that they want to do and it was for the purpose of clarity and/or guidance. Therefore everybody had an odu esentaiye and also later another one at Igbodu when they were already accountable adults and their life had chosen direction.

What determines the odu esentaiye?

According to ifa, if there is a query for it then the people in heaven will look at the past incarnations of the spirit just starting off on an incarnation and use its past character to predict it's current life. That is how the normal odu esentaiye is gotten. When the person had become an accountable adult about to enter Igbodu then another reading may come up at Igbodu and as the odu of someone already on a path, it would be stronger than the odu esentaiye.

However the odu esentaiye will be right on target for somebody that was deployed to Earth for a mission by the lineage or the God grid because for that kind of person there is a mission and you can't really as a person step outside what your spirit wants to do. You are a robot to your spirit.

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by lawani(m): 10:55am On Oct 02

faoogoke:
I agree with you on the GLO reluctance to list. One can imagine its fate without Mike Adenuga around. The company is poorly managed. Even if he decides to list now it will do so at a huge discount.

The company has solid assets. It owns all its base stations. It has more assets than most others by far. As it is presently, it is sitting pretty, why should it offer its equity at a discount?

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Culture › New Odus Of Ifa October 1 2026 by lawani(op): 10:18am On Oct 02

New Odus of ifa October 1 2026

Iwori Oturupon

DEVOLVED

If there is anything like devolving, it is when you are not up to what your ancestors were.

No human ancestor believed before Christianity that the Father God is burning law abiding people in hell for unbelief

Your belief that God is doing that is proof you have become something. You are now a type of human being that never existed on Earth prior to Christianity.

OGUNDA OWONRIN

A child came to Earth despite having no means and still succeeds
A weak old King that can't stand up can move armies

This was the ifa cast for the Jehovah witness who are trying to change the world without the use of government policies. They want to do it without the government in tow...
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!
Any attempt to make the world a paradise without the government in tow will amount to an effort in futility.
No societal advancement can be possible without government policies.
The JW paradise is an impossible to reach eldorado

Irosun Ofun

Opening up and giving more is a prelude to prosperity

It was cast for them at Ode Ijesa

On the day the Lebanese came to settle in the city
The Ijesa capital was among the biggest cities in Nigeria and there was also gold that attracted foreigners.
Lebanese traders came in large numbers and set up businesses in Adeti Ilesa

The Ijesa wanted prosperity for themselves and not for strangers
They were advised to sacrifice..
They listened but they did not comply
They started troubling the Lebanese and even sent bees to them at their locations to attack them and in the end the Lebanese packed up and left the city.

It was again cast for them at Ode Ijesa when Igbo traders came to the city to sell electronics
The Ijesa did not want strangers to prosper on their land with them as onlookers

They were advised to sacrifice
They listened and complied

The Ijesas started to trouble the Igbo traders for selling electronics cheaper than the local dealers

The Owa Obokun Agunlejika intervened and allotted space beside his palace for the Igbo traders under the philosophy that the sky is big enough for all birds to fly. If you can't beat them join them

Before long meet us in the midst of bountiful blessings at the feet of Obarisa

Today there is nothing the Igbo traders sell that the Ijesa don't sell. There are big Igbo electronics dealers in the city and there are also big Ijesa electronics dealers. There are big Igbo spare parts traders and there is a spare parts market entirely under the control of Ijesa traders and every group including visitors and hosts are prospering.

Note

Opening up, whether in the form of allowing agreeable people in your space, publishing your accounts, not obstructing the free market and etc all aid prosperity. When you are secretive, opaque or inhibitive to participation you are reducing your prospects and limiting your prosperity. No matter how prosperous you think you are, you would have been better if you were more open.

Irosun Ofun

Igbongbon ada ni ko se mu ko igi akuro loju.

A difa fun Olurombi ti nse omo Saloro ni Ijesa
Eyi ti yio fi enu ara re fi omo ara re fun iroko ogbo oko Oluweri
Ebo ni won ni ko se
O koti ogboin sebo
Nje Onikaluku jeje ewure
Ewure won beleje
Onikaluku jeje aguntan
Aguntan won bolojo
Olurombi jeje omo re
Omo re a pon bi epo
Olurombi o
Jain Jain Iroko Jain Jain

Translation

The blunt side of a machete is not enough to face a tree rooted in a swamp

This was the ifa cast for Olurombi the son of Saloro in Ijesa who would use his own mouth to give his own daughter to Iroko Ogbo (the Iroko tree) the husband of Oluweri.

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

Other people promised goats
The goats they brought were fat
Other people promised sheep
The sheep that brought were well fed
Olurombi promised his daughter. His very beautiful daughter
Oh Olurombi
Jain jain Iroko Jain Jain!

Note

The lesson here is straightforward. While giving with the hope of increase according to the principle of Irosun Ofun, also do it with common sense. Balance.

Ela boru Ela boye Ela bo sise

Culture › How The World Was Saved By Borders by lawani(op): 1:46am On Oct 02

OYEKU IKA
II. II
I. II
II. II
II. II
SAVED BY BORDERS
DEMARCATION AIDS PROGRESS
When you have different farms, you have different management and different results leading to an opportunity to compare notes
If the whole world were under a single rule, then such would not have been possible.
If the whole world were under one rule, the Magna carta may not have been possible
The Magna Carta in England restricted government taxation and that necessitated the formation of corporations to fund foreign exploration and trade that would have been funded by the monarchy as it was in other places
Corporations led to career profit seeking which led to research funding and subsequently the industrial revolution.
Take the Yoruba for instance they never needed the magna carta because tax collection was never arbitrary for thousands of years. They had isakole which was produce tax and also levies collected in markets and possibly other government sources of income. It was fair taxation like in any modern state. You only get taxed when you have excess. It is excess that you bring to the markets and farm produce is always more than you can consume by yourself Rome didn't need the Magna Carta nor Greek nor ancient Egypt and etc. They were organized in the same way. It was only needed in a state that didn't have a fair system of taxation.
Therefore if we all had one type of government under one administration as at then, then the industrial revolution may not have been possible if that government had fair taxation already. It may not have been possible since it didn't happen for thousands of years before then.
We were saved by borders.
It is best for borders to remain on Earth
The unfair taxation that led to the Magna Carta

Many people might be wondering what unfair tax system led to the Magna Carta.
The method by which the pre Magna Carta England was taxed was a kind of produce tax that was not fixed. Isakole of the Yoruba was a fixed produce tax. It was similar to personal income tax. If you had 100 palm trees back then, you already know the quantity of palm oil you were owing, if you planted ten hectares of maize, yam, okro or pepper, you knew what you were owing too. It was therefore not different from today's income tax and it was not difficult to calculate for the Ajeles or government officials that were on ground for that purpose but it was not like that in England. The aristocrats of England did not use tax collectors in the same way and they did not collect money too. They were moving from manor to Manor to eat. If 500 aristocrats descended on a manor of say two thousand people without working then it can cause food shortage if they do not leave on time. They can also cart food away to sell in other countries.
The Magna Carta ended all that by saying only a small amount can be taken and anything more can not be possible unless authorized by the house of commons.

Why didn't they collect money?

The manors probably were self sufficient and did not need money as they didn't trade with anyone before the same English aristocrats started collecting wool from them.

Business › Re: The Next Move For Those Who Want More Activity In Eastern Nigerian Ports by lawani(op): 12:29pm On Oct 01

The imported feedstock of the manufacturers closer to the Eastern ports is also up for grabs. This includes steel, flour and many others. Palm oil can also be up for grabs when we get back our footing in production

Business › The Next Move For Those Who Want More Activity In Eastern Nigerian Ports by lawani(op): 12:20pm On Oct 01

The next move for those who want active ports in the Eastern Nigerian area

Presently ships charge more to berth at Eastern ports and importers would not want to pay more making Eastern ports to be running below capacity.
What needs to be done first is to invest in ocean liners dedicated to Eastern ports without charging higher. That is the first step. Then traffic will build up, when traffic builds up is when investors will come. The state governments or one state government in the region should be able to do this. It does not take more than dedicating one ship to start with to the China- Onne route say a 100,000 to 200,000 tonner and the traffic will be building up gradually.

Nigerian ports currently handle over 136 million tonnes of cargo per annum and a lot of it passes through the Eastern ports with the bulk being export cargo

Let us say investors in port facilities average 3 dollars per tonne for the national throughput. It can be possible for at least twenty percent more of Nigerian cargo to enter through Eastern ports to start with which means more than twenty five million tonnes per annum more can enter from there to start with and the inflow to the investors will be around 75 million dollars a year. This simply means they can't afford to go into debt whose interests will exceed say 50 million dollars per annum. If they are borrowing at ten percent, then they can't afford to borrow more than five hundred million dollars even if they are going to get all the cargo but they can't get all the cargo because there are ports there already. This is why investors are not forthcoming. They have checked the numbers.

Therefore the first step is to fully utilize the ports on ground in the region. Let them be handling up to 30 million tonnes more per annum to start with. 30 million more tonnes in import cargo. If they achieve an additional 30 million tonnes from imports then they will be doing almost half of the current cargo..

They can get the cargo from companies using imported feedstock in the old Eastern region as it would be cheaper for them. Imported Steel alone is up to ten million tonnes per annum. Container cargo is low tonnage.

Also, container handling range between 300,000 to 500,000 naira from 20 foot to 40 foot containers. Togo used to be the leader in West Africa but Nigeria has probably overtaken them this 2026. Togo was doing over 2 million tonnes of containers as at 2025 and they can't be making up to 20 million dollars gross from that in one year from cargo handling out of which they will pay expenses. Container cargo handling in Nigeria is not adding up to 40 million dollars a year to the GDP and all throughput together excluding containers can't add up to 600 million dollars to the GDP of which a large part is in the Eastern ports since most of the oil terminals are there. Over 50 percent of our throughput in Nigeria is export while imports is only around 41 percent. The throughput going from the west include farm produce, manufactured goods and a minority of oil and gas while Eastern ports will also have the same things but with a majority of oil and gas. The tonnage of what is coming in is more than what is going out.

Therefore what is really up for grabs is the containers aspect which isn't more than 50 million dollars a year maximum. The way for the Eastern states to get more of the less than 50 million dollars is to dedicate ocean liners to the Eastern ports

Culture › Is Nature Random At All? And Ifa Revelations About Speciation/creation by lawani(op): 6:03pm On Sep 30

TOPIC- IS NATURE RANDOM AT ALL? AND IFA REVELATIONS ABOUT SPECIATION/CREATION.
BY LAWANSON, Akinwumi John
ON SEPTEMBER 28 2026

ABSTRACT

Randomness leading to speciation is at the core of the Darwinian theory of evolution but the very idea that order can happen without intention ought to at least be challenged because nothing we can observe supports the idea. The purpose of this work is to oppose the idea of progress or advancement being totally undirected.
Even Adam Smith who was the foremost social scientist of the pre industrial era posited that an invisible hand exists and that when people act in their own selfish interests that the overall outcome will always be what is best for the society at large

INTRODUCTION

This work is a compilation of discussion points on evolution, randomness and spirit science. It was done by me under the sponsorship of a four member consortium of nations led by the USA. The nations are USA, China, Russia, India. Without their sponsorship that includes protection, I would not have been alive to do any academic work.
If therefore you find this work or any other that I did useful, they are more to be grateful to or be thanked than myself.

Literature review

The position of Adam Smith is that there is no randomness and that no matter how much we think things are happening at random, an invisible hand or I would say the great intention will manipulate everything to manifest the end to be beneficial to the whole

Evolutionary biologists believe that speciation happened at random

The position of Adam Smith is criticized by those who cite monopoly in business and etc as examples of real things that happen which are not attributes of the free market under God (The Invisible hand) described by Adam Smith. However monopoly too is people and etc acting in their own selfish interests.

METHODOLOGY

I have never been comfortable with the idea of chance or randomness leading to high order. Therefore many years ago after being prompted by someone online, I sent a work to the University of Pennsylvania in the USA to argue against the theory of evolution but I did not hear from them which implies my submission didn't pass peer review.

The submission will not easily pass peer review if Spirit science is not recognized as a valid branch of science.

This new paper is just like an addendum or rejoinder to the first one.

I came to more conclusions and I raised more points of discussion to add to what I sent to the university of Pennsylvania in the USA a few years back

RESULTS

I took ten positions that will be discussed

The theory of evolution is self contradictory
We have evidence of living things adapting to fit their environment.
Something that can be accurately predicted can not be said to have happened by chance
Our own little intentions evil or good are pawns in the hands of the great intention which is always good
Environmental pressure is similar to gravity
Perfection is the initial status
Nature works as if it has a good intention
Things that happen at speed or at an instant can also choose to happen over aeons of time.
The LUCA ( Last Universal Common Ancestor) is not an evidence of a unitary or common origin for all living things.
Ifa revelations on speciation/creation.

DISCUSSION

The theory of evolution is self contradictory
If the theory of evolution is saying random natural selection leads to speciation, it can not also be saying environmental pressure is the determinant. Only one factor can be the determinant. Natural selection described in the evolution theory is random while environmental pressure is not random.
If it is by environmental pressure that speciation occurs then evolution leading to speculation is not random while it can be said to be random if it is via natural selection. So the theory of evolution even as it is does not contextually or wholly support randomness as the only path way to speciation, hence the contradiction.

We have evidence of living things adapting to fit their environments

If you work outdoors in tropical regions, you will tan, sickle shaped red blood cells developed in malaria prone regions as an answer to malaria, populations pigment in response to UV radiation or diet, a plant in the shade grows towards the sun.
All these are clear evidence of programming or what can be termed non material intelligence if intelligence can be classified at all to be material.

Something that can be predicted can not be said to have happened by chance
If something can be predicted, then it can't be classified under random events. Living things adapting to their environment did not happen by chance.

Our little intentions, evil or good are pawns in the hands of the Great intention.

This is just bringing Adam Smith’s position to bear on science. No matter how bad things get, the final outcome will be what is best for the overall society. If this is true, it only means an onlooking intelligence will always find the means to do what needs to be done even if there is a general default. It is true because we have survived thus far. On whatever scale, I think it is self evident that the Invisible hand theory is valid.

Environmental Pressure is similar to gravity

It is in exactly the same way the effect of gravity can be measured even at a distance that the effect of environmental pressure can also be measured. Therefore if gravity acting on a body is not classified as something random then environmental pressure acting on a living thing should also not be classified as random.

Perfection is the original status
Everything started off as perfect including living and non living things. It is remaining perfect that is challenging whether structure wise or character wise.
Children for instance started off with quality character but some later become criminals as adults. It is the same from the most advanced species to the least advanced. The first human being had the highest quality of everything. It is probably degradation that happens overtime while perfection is the original condition at least within individual species

Nature works as if it has a good intention

What we have seen with our own eyes shows that whatever needs to happen will happen if it is required to sustain the existence of the whole.

Things that happen at speed can also choose to happen over aeons of time.
In 1955 a White South African couple named Abraham and Sannie Lang gave birth to a baby later named Sandra Lang with negroid features and she grew up and married a Negroid person in South Africa. Her DNA matched her parents’ and her parents are white people with white ancestry. This happened in one generation and not over aeons of time.

In West Africa, a group like the Yoruba have Neanderthal origin DNA which is almost at par with that of some Europeans. This points to ancient white ancestors that may have lived over 20,000 years ago. It definitely can mean that an ancestor group of the Yoruba were white people, maybe all of them were white or half were white but ancient Neanderthals were definitely phenotypically white. We are however sure that the Yoruba were mainly Negroes as at a few centuries back even if we are not sure of five thousand years ago.
Therefore in west Africa it took thousands of years maybe thirty thousand for the mass of the people to become pigmented because there were obviously at least some white people among their ancestors given the DNA but it took Sandra Laing one generation while her DNA still matched that of her white parents.

Therefore things that happen at speed can also choose to happen over aeons of time.

The LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor is not an evidence of a common origin for all living things)

The existence of the Rhesus factor in human blood grouping is conclusive evidence that the human beings on Earth today do not have a common origin leaving for evolution proponents only one argument that human kind appeared in at least two different locations on Earth with one giving rise to rhesus negative humans and the other to rhesus positive humans. This would cause a sizeable dent on the claim that randomness is the basis of speciation because if it can happen at least twice on Earth then why can it not happen even more frequently?

Ifa Revelations on Speciation/Creation

According to ifa, speciation is the same thing as creation.

The odu ifa ruling nature and our entire existence according to Ifa is Ogbe Iwori. It means Planned alignment or Alignment according to plan

The first inhabitable planet is labelled Odi Obara by ifa. It is according to ifa, still an existing advanced and thriving human civilization. Whatever happens to it is what will eventually happen to us according to the Yoruba proverb, ‘Whatever misfortune befalls the people of Iwo will in due course of time become the lot of the people of Ede’.

At Odi Obara, human beings appeared at once. I asked ifa, ‘Can human beings appear gradually?’ Ifa said Yes human beings can appear gradually from whatever is on ground even if only electrons. Something that happened in an instant can also happen over aeons of time. The evidence for this abounds. One has been described already.

Whenever speciation or creation is going to happen, it is ruled by two and not one odu ifa. The two odus are

1 Okanran Ofun
2. Otura Oyeku (Oturagasa)

Okanran Ofun

Speciation or creation is a challenge something experiences because it is enjoying an advantage

Otura Oyeku (Oturagasa)

A new species is what a thing becomes as a result of being saved from a bad and unfavourable situation

The two must happen if a non living thing, living thing or lower species will become more advanced

Then apart from the two odus of ifa that birthed creation or speciation, there are two paths that lead to speciation or creation and the two paths are ruled by two odus. They are

Owonrin Iwori (Owonrin Ologbon)
Otura Odi (Otura Aladin)

A species that will advance only follow one of the two paths

Owonrin Iwori (Owonrin Ologbon)

This is becoming exceptional as a new species because of your own plan. It is self creation. It was cast for the first living cell. It was in fact cast for the first basic element. It was cast for the first electron.

Otura Odi

This is speciation or creation that happens to a thing because it trusted something outside of itself. It was cast for the first wolf that followed a human being home whose descendants became dogs.

CONCLUSION

There is enough evidence showing clearly that white people will become negroes if they settle in west Africa while west Africans will become Scandinavians if they settle in Northern Europe and etc. We can follow the same logic to say that if all men were to die off then some women would become men. It will in fact happen instantly. If all women died off, then some men would become women instantly too.
If all human beings died off maybe due to some mistakes on our part,then what needs to happen will happen according to Ogbe Iwori and this is that animals would become human beings. Many of them will become human beings at once and on the same day.
Speciation and creation is never because of adaptation alone, environmental pressure alone or because of anything alone as it will never happen according to ifa without fulfilling the conditions of Okanran Ofun and Otura Oyeku

A newly emerged species somehow fits the Yoruba oriki of Atanda. Atanda is a man who became something he didn't plan as a result of manipulation by his handlers. In the scenario or path of Owonrin Iwori, the handler would be that person himself while for the path of Otura Odi it would be an extant body.

An argument against my position that the birth of Sandra Laing eliminates randomness as a factor or determinant during speciation/creation is that her case was only a change of phenotype. Yes only her phenotype changed as her DNA still matched her parents’ but phenotype is what is important because what you can not feel or see is non existent to you. Genotype is just the handwriting in which the written message was passed across. It didn't change the letters used or the message passed. The message passed is what matters.

Another possible argument against my conclusion is ‘How can it be possible for animals to turn into adult human beings? Why not a baby?’. My response would be ‘Are we now saying the first human being was a baby?. As said by someone I read on Quora ‘An abandoned baby is a dead baby'. A baby left to fend for itself would die. A baby must be raised so the first human being was not a baby.

REFERENCES

An articulation of dissent to the theory of evolution explanation of the origin of species

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZLQOj0R3gWqjZfYx1jPCk3iuPiXxoxYIOjnAxC5Be84/edit?usp=drivesdk

White South African couple birthed black baby

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2003/mar/17/features11.g2

The wealth of nations by Adam Smith

https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations

Culture › The Ooni Of Ife And The Other Obas by lawani(op): 1:45pm On Sep 30

The Ooni of Ife and the other Obas
Since the beginning of the Yoruba culture there have always been an Ife as the Yoruba believe the first inhabitable spot of land on Earth is the first Ife
There have been ifes that didn't speak the Yoruba language. There are Ifes in Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic. There are Ifes in Igala land but this current Ife is the last one where the last recognized Oduduwa reigned or where his successors settled at. The old name of the place is Ugbomokun a land that belonged to the Ugbo under the Olugbo whose current King is Olugbo Obateru Akinruntan. The Ugbos don't see themselves as under the Ooni but of course their monarchy is descended from another Oduduwa probably the Oduduwa Atewonro who reigned at another Ife. However they recognize the Ife tradition and once an Ife is recognized constitutionally then they have to abide by it even if grudgingly. There is no other Ife outside the one that has been recognized except defunct ones.
The Olugbo is one king that is vocal against the Ooni
There are other Kings in Yoruba land descended from people like Orunmila, Obatala and etc but once an Ife is recognized everybody would be obliged to align according to the constitution
Then there are children of the last Oduduwa who are also vocal against the Ooni and their own argument is that their founders are senior to the first Ooni and the scenario is no different from brothers who are grandfathers mandating their younger brother a toddler as at then to be coordinating headquarters while they go out and build empires. The Obas in this category do not see the Ooni as above them. They may agree that he should chair a general meeting of Obas or they may accord him certain respects which they would expect to be reciprocated and in the olden days they would defend Ife and not expect Ife to go to war on its own but on their own land they are sovereign. They are not under the Ooni of Ife. The Yorubic sphere on Earth has its own traditional constitution which does not need to align with what obtains in other places. The reality is that all the Yoruba sub nations are separate sovereign nations that have been competing among themselves for supremacy since time immemorial.
Evidence in history of Yoruba states destroyed because of Ife
Recent history
Owu was sacked by an alliance of Yoruba states because it attacked and ransacked Apomu an Ife town. The capital was surrounded and blockaded and after a long siege the Oba concentrated his force on a single point, burst through and escaped. The capital was burnt down and the Owu are now scattered all over Yoruba land
Evidence in ancient history
I know of at least one story in the Ofun Osa section or chapter of the corpus talking about a confrontation between an Olofin Aye who would have been headquartered in Ile Ife and an Elerin of Erinmoje a defunct Yoruba state.
The story says
O fun saa
O ya haa
A difa fun Oya
A bu fun Ale
Oya nsunkun omo re ile Ira
Ale nsunkun omo re ode Erin
A wa Oya devile IRA
A o ba Oya
Ija Olofin ni Oya lo re gbe ni Erin
Kawi kawi kawi
Oya so ile Elerin di ahoro
Translation
O fun saa
O ya haa
It was cast for Oya and shared to Ale
Oya was crying in order to have children and she went to Ira
Ale was crying to have children and she went to Erin
We went to look for Oya at Ira
She was not there
She had gone to Erin to fight on behalf of the Olofin
Before any further thing could be said Oya had made desolate the house of the Elerin.
Oya wanted the Olofin to marry her and have children by her
Ale wanted the Elerin to marry her and have children by her
They both went to their Awos for consultation and Ofun Osa was revealed for both. You will get your heart's desire if you fight.
It was only Oya that sacrificed
When they went to look for her at Ira, she was not there as she had deployed her forces to Erinmoje in support of the Olofin and that is why today there is no Erinmoje.
The oriki of ancient Erinmoje starts with a warning

Erinmoje omo Saaja
Erin wagunwagun
E ma Werin logun
Eni ba werin logun....

Erinmoje the children of Saaja
Erin the war monger
Do not seek to confront Erin in battle!
Whoever seeks to confront Erin in battle....

However there have been civil war in Ile ife after the Modakeke had settled there which saw the native Ife being driven out in the nineteenth century to Isoya and etc then returning later

Culture › Ogunda Borogbe by lawani(op): 11:47am On Sep 30*

Ogunda borogbe

I. I
I. I
I. I
I. II

Every new invention was aided by the existence of something that already exists that is only less efficient.

It was cast for Claude Shannon who invented binary computing while standing on the Boolean theory.

Binary computing is the most useful invention of the 20th century

It was cast for those who stood on binary computing to design logic gates.

Without logic gates, circuits would not be able to do calculations for human beings.

It was cast for the semi conductor industry that miniaturized computer circuits to the extent that a circuit that may need wiring of twenty kilometer squared in the early twentieth century to perform its task can be fitted maybe into a few inches in the 21st century.

It was cast for God

Who gets everything done without ever standing up to do anything by himself

Ela boru Ela boye Ela bo sise

Christianity Etc › Re: Is Christianity The True Religion? Debate by lawani(m): 9:15am On Sep 30

MaxInDHouse:
Please i don't mean to be rude but how do you use your power of reasoning?

Surely you need to be schooled on this matter!🙂

A billionaire walked up to Jesus asking:
“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit everlasting life?" Luke 18:18

After proving that he's been a law abiding citizen all his life Jesus told the billionaire:

“There is still one thing lacking about you: Sell all the things you have and distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come be my follower.” Luke 18:22

The man walked away sadly as he couldn't meet up with Jesus' order so he told his disciples:

“How difficult it will be for those having money to make their way into the Kingdom of God! It is easier, in fact, for a camel to get through the eye of a sewing needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Luke 18:24-25

LESSON LEARNED!
You can't keep material things as your choicest possessions and at the same time be a disciple of Christ.

WHY?

Because all eyes will be on you both the good, bad and vicious people all because of worldly riches! Matthew 6:19-21

Now ask yourself:

How can an individual be one of Jehovah's Witnesses but refuses to go out preaching and teaching along with his or her fellow believers?

Have you ever seen Jehovah's Witnesses preaching in your street and some body guards following them because of one billionaire to be protected among Jehovah's Witnesses?

Ọmọ now you know why JWs are the one and only true Christian organization globally because you can't be one of us without going out to preach and teach in your neighborhood so if you're scared of being kidnapped due to riches then you can't be one of us! Luke 18:25🙂

You are just going round in circles. A JW having a business employing hundreds of people (and they exist) will be kidnapped if they live in an area prone to such if they don't have armed body guards. They can go about preaching in areas not prone to such or where their identity is not known. In short if you say policing or national defense is wrong then you are leeching on the system because those things are the reasons you are able to operate in peace in any environment. You leech on the system and you condemn things that benefit you.

Culture › Ndigbo And Ndimmadu by lawani(op): 5:54am On Sep 30*

Ndigbo and Ndimmadu

Ndi Owerri means Owerri people
Ndi Onitsha means Onitsha people
Ndi Aba means Aba people
When they come together they call themselves Ndi gbo
What does Ndigbo mean?
It obviously means everybody
Onuigbo means the mouth piece of all.

Onye owerri means Owerri man
Onye Onitsha means Onitsha man
What does Onye gbo mean?
It means the same thing as Onye mmadu
Onye mmadu just means a random person on Earth not fixed or attached to a particular place. The Yoruba equivalent would be Eda omo Adarihunrun meaning the creature that grows the bulk of its hairs only on its head referring to any random human being. Any living thing is Eda

Ndi mmadu means the people of the world
Another word that is equal or similar to Ndigbo is therefore Ndimmadu.

The Yoruba equivalent of Ndi mmadu would just be omo araye meaning people of the world or literally children of the world

Ndimmadu is more or less the same thing or almost the same thing as Ndigbo only that Gbo means all and mmadu means the world.
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If we were all speaking Igbo in Nigeria. We will be Ndi Yoruba, Ndi Hausa and etc and when foreigners come we will refer to ourselves like that and if we sent a representative together to say a colonial power, the person will be a messenger of Ndigbo or who will such a person say he is representing?. That was how the name Ndigbo emerged. Exactly the same way as Onuigbo
So people digging around for the origin of the word Ndigbo should consider this explanation.

Who gave the name?
It was Europeans who understood a bit of Igbo obviously

How it happened

The messenger of a group of communities called himself a messenger of Ndigbo because he can't say anything else. It became the pattern and the Europeans recorded it like that meanwhile the people of Ozara remained Ndi ozara and the people of Nteje remained Ndi Nteje and etc while Ndigbo or Heebo remained in European books or records where it was harvested by the British and used on all the groups speaking dialects of the same language. So the name came from Europeans who learnt it from Igbo people representing groups of communities.

In a similar way, the name Yoruba came from Malian Muslims who used it to describe the Oyo who were civilized with large cities without submitting to Allah much like Europe or Europa. The southern Yoruba called the Oyo like that up till the early 20th century then the British imposed the word on all the people speaking dialects of the same language and it was accepted at least in Nigeria though not in the Americas or even the French west Africa up till today

Politics › Government Bodies With Revenue Or Potential Revenue Enough To Seek Public Fundin by lawani(op): 5:31am On Sep 30

Government bodies with revenue or potential revenue enough to seek public funding
The NGX group itself which is the Nigerian organization designated to coordinate the Nigerian stock exchange is now a publicly funded corporation with shareholders seeking profit. Why not If it has revenue that is not static? It's scope of operation is also increasing and if there is an upsurge in the number of listed companies in Nigeria its revenue will surge and the shareholders will smile to the bank.
There is nothing wrong in operating all government agencies with revenue in this way. When necessary, the government can hold on to the majority shares for oversight and to retain right over decision making and whenever it is in the national interest the government can buy the owners out for them to become minority share holders or be eased out. There is nothing wrong with that kind of arrangement as it will make public administration even more efficient
Among government bodies that can seek public funding in Nigeria as an example are
The NYSC
THE CAC
THE NCC
Teaching hospitals and Federal Medical centers
Universities
Etc
The NYSC
The NYSC has staff and they must be paid and the money they are paid can come from companies that use their youth corp members according to the number of full time employees of these companies, organisations and institutions including government owned ones. A company requesting any youth corp member at all can be made to pay the one month minimum wage approved by the federal government per every fifty full time worker they have as an annual registration fee to qualify to receive youth Corp members from the NYSC. If you employ less than fifty people but want one youth corp member posted to you, you still pay the same amount.
A million businesses can register if this is the rule and the income of NYSC will be around 80 billion naira per annum. If their wage bill is above this then they should down size as their workers can be posted elsewhere especially as teachers with the same pay or higher. 50,000 workers at an average wage of over 5 million per annum is a 250 billion naira wage bill.
There should be adjustments to a threshold of number of employees where the NYSC or any other such organization will become a profitable venture and this will.make the organization more efficient.
The Corporate Affairs Commission
This is an organization that has substantial revenue in form of registration fees and it can certainly be run profitably. It should be run profitably. Their work is the maintenance of a national register of corporate bodies and also business names.
The NCC. The Nigerian communications commission
This organization can also run profitably. Their work includes
Coordinating the telecommunications companies
Maintaining the register of phone users
Maintaining a platform for inter network migration by telecoms subscribers
In a country like Nigeria with up to 100 million phone lines, it can be possible to have up to one million people porting from one network to the other to and fro every year if the service is easily accessible and if it is only 2000 naira per movement, that would be 2 billion naira per annum of which the larger part will go to the NCC. They will also have other sources of income. The organisation can therefore be publicly funded and run profitably
Teaching hospitals and federal Medical centers
These institutions can become hubs for international medical tourism if they are publicly funded etc etc

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