₦airaland Forum

Brendaniel:
You are not being realistic with your statement, how did the dollar value take care of inflation?

Is dollar inflation not affecting the dollar? You can't use naira inflation on dollar value. Do you want to say naira inflation affected dollar value?
According to the Osun example. Allocations to states have almost doubled by dollar value within 2023 and 2026

Brendaniel:
That is what I am telling you, I only used that as an example, From Buhari's time check the prices of goods and services, I deal on cars, all the cars we were selling as low as 700k in Buhari's time now go for as much as 3 million naira some even close to 4 million.

However if we use dollar value as you said and dollar value has taken care of inflation then allocations to states has almost doubled between 2023 and 2026.

Brendaniel:
That's because you did not also factor in inflation, let me just give you a simply example, my friend in 2013 bought a brand new 2013 Toyota Camry for 7.2m today in 2025, 70 million cannot buy you the same brand new of the same Toyota Camry...

Don't use 2012. Use Buhari time and today.
Then the dollar value is enough. It has already factored in inflation

TotoIsGud4boy:
Let’s stay grounded in reality. Delusions is what is making Peter obi and Atiku think they can defeat tinubu. Same delusional thinking of Nigeria breaking up. Stay grounded in reality man.

I am just saying what is best and which I think everybody should be pursuing

Brendaniel:
I have done the calculation even up to 1999 under OBJ, the value did not increase under Tinubu, it even dropped....

When doing the calculation , use the value of dollar...

I don't think you are correct. Osun budget in 2023 was 138 billion. In 2026 it is about 740 or so billion and Osun is not doing any significant igr. Naira has only devalued from 500 to 1500 and the budget should have increased by only 300 percent

TotoIsGud4boy:
Breakup ke.. it can’t can’t. If you can’t play Nigerian politics you lose… Nigerian politics is not for the weak

Imagine running the whole Europe with one President

AMINDA:
Did anybody put a gun to your tin-god's head before he opted for muslim-muslim ticket? Even now, he has the option to choose a christian V.P but fear won't allow because he still craves that hausa/fulani muslim votes. Yet, his lackeys here on nairaland are attempting to play both sides by promising they will handover to a christian from the middlebelt. No be from clap dance dey start?

Whose tin god? I am a spectator in Nigeria's politics. I want Nigeria to break up so that everybody can develop their land without unhealthy competition. That is the best for everybody. West African map should be redrawn. Let Hausa join their people to the North and Yoruba join their people to the west.

Then can you predict who will win primaries in a country like Nigeria?

Brendaniel:
Naira devaluation, I have done the caluculation here different times, the allocation Buhari gave to states is still higher in value than what Tinubu is giving them now same with Jonathan

Yes devaluation is a factor but without devaluation the allocations still increased. In Osun state the LG allocation was seized and there was no issue at all despite that salaries more than doubled. If you did your calculations very well you will find out allocations substantially increased. The governors have more money now for development. However the money is still not enough

The first thing a government that wants to develop a country must do is tax. Where do you expect money for development to come from?

You won't be buried politically. Just do right by your people

AMINDA:
Were you not aware of his demands previously? Why now pretend? Same you that celebrated the sacking of Ganduje and the viability of the Tinubu/Kwankwaso ticket on here? Everybody knows Tinubu was gearing up to betray Shettima and replace him with Kwankwaso but folded when Shettima and the APC Northeast bloc revolted. Same way he will fold up on Fubara by ditching him for Wike.



Yes. He's setting the tone for the betrayal narrative that will further sink Tinubu in the North. Why else did you think Tinubu panicked and quickly postponed Abba's defection so he can beg Kwankwaso some more? Make no mistakes, Tinubu will be offering him that V.P ticket. Desperado has no choice. ADC's winning strategy have already factored the possibility of a Tinubu/Kwankwaso ticket. The party is not dying to have him in their ranks but he will be a monumental addition. It's Tinubu who desperately needs him.

https://www.nairaland.com/8592443/kano-governor-abba-yusuf-postpones

How can Tinubu sack Shettima just like that? And how about the Northern christians or middle belt? They sacrificed everything for the North during the war. Fact is nobody knows who can win the primaries after Tinubu in the North. It can be Northern christians because we have had enough Muslims.

Kano will vote competence. Kano votes competence. Left to the Kanawa Awo would have been President. He won there. If Tinubu wants to win Kano, he must perform, not beg Kwankwanso

Elliotwaveforec:
This statement is defeatist! Ilorin belongs to us, and will be taken back from strangers from Mali

Balogun Oderinlo unfinished business of 1840 must be completed.

Ilorin were part of the coalition against Ibadan during the Kiriji war. Before the war Ilorin was tributary to Ibadan and Ibadan used to ask them to go on war expedition on their behalf. The British were wrong to put Ilorin in the Northern region. There was no reason for that. The person that even signed the Ilorin protection agreement with Britain was Balogun Ajikobi and he was a descendant of Alaafin Abiodun. Again there was no reason to put Ilorin in Northern Nigeria. It was just a British overreach

Kingray10:
There's is a well paid igp in that state,and the state has a military barracks also.
What's the purpose of the police n military

How many police and military to guide communities against surprise attacks from people staying in their forests? They have to arm themselves and drive all aliens from their forests

We are back in the nineteenth century. Arm yourselves and protect yourselves as did your ancestors

The biggest fault line is the exclusion of the biggest sector of the economy which is agriculture. Not all farmers are small holders. I know a farmer in my local government that has up to one thousand workers including managers and I have heard of a cocoa farmer that sold beans in one year worth over 400 million naira. A big farm is a company and should be treated as such

The other fault line is the exclusion of minimum wage workers. The revenue generation trick of western nations is to make minimum wage high enough to bear high tax and then enforce that minimum wage on all employers of labor. The singular action will increase revenue by a large margin. However PAYE is not for the federal government and any state can increase its minimum wage, enforce it on all employers and reap revenue from that. No business paying less than the minimum wage should be open. That is how it is done in other climes

searchlight:
Same way you guys supported and cheered Buhari up for 8 years until he ran the country aground.

When una go get sense?

Show me a serious country of 200 million depending on 1.5 million BPD of crude. No country can succeed that way. Norway of 5 million produces 2 million bpd of crude and they save all the money. If all Tinubu will do is increase revenue and free the country from oil dependence as he did in Lagos then it will be worthwhile or is Lagos not the best state in the country?

IduNaOba:
Once PBAT leaves office
Some of these stuff will be overturned that's what I guess.

No It can't be overturned. To start a good thing is difficult but once started it can't be overturned. Lagos could have been dependent on allocations like Kano today but it is not. Once you are making a budget of 2 trillion you can't go back to 500 billion.
If the current government reduces oil income to twenty percent of total income it will be a good development

If Nigeria does not break up then someone from the SE will later become President. Igbos are not the only ones missing out. There are over 300 other ethnic nationalities and Hausa and Yoruba are actually much bigger than the rest hence the power that they have. The SE as a whole is lower in population than Lagos or Kano. NIN registration data says the SE is 80 percent of Lagos state and politics is a game of numbers. By using their numbers the NW and SW can actually bully others but in the long run everybody will have some

AlphaTaikun:
There's a deliberate attempt to destabilize Kwara and Kogi States bordering the vast Niger State. Just last week, some armed men speaking Hausa were arrested in Ifelodun LGA a Yoruba LGA ONLY for them to confess that the Kwara State Government knew about their activities and subsequently we read here on NL again that the Office of the National Security Adviser knows about them and we're using them. The DSS and the Minister of Defence MUST be at alert including the Presidency.

NOW who are these people speaking fluent English while kidnapping this traditional ruler in the rural parts of Ifelodun LGA?

For those of us who have advanced knowledge of global geopolitical dynamics and for security to improve in those areas of Kwara and Kogi States, it's time for the 12 Yoruba LGAs out of the 16 LGAs in Kwara State (2 LGAs belong to the Nupes and 2 LGAs belong to the Baribas (or Batoonu who are Farooq Kperogi's kinsmen) to be merged with the Yorubas (Okuns) of Kogi State to form theie own new State so that Amotekun can extend there and ALSO when State Policing is approved, they can have their own State and community policing system.

The Nupes of Kwara North too can be merged with the Nupes of Niger State with a new State created for them as well and the Baribas can choose whether to join Niger State or have a new State created for them. You CANNOT have proper security for the indigenous Yorubas, indigenous Nupes and indigenous Baribas (Baatonu) under the current status quo in Ilorin. A new Oba of Ilorin MUST be enthroned as soon as possible before the end of the 'Bola Ahmed Tinubu Government (as rightly suggested by the British Colonialists before they left at independence in 1960) via a referendum and as suggested again by the 1978 "Ekundayo Panel of Enquiry" which has not been implemented till date.

The rest of the South West States should be forming economic and security partnerships with their Yoruba kith and kin in Kwara and Kogi States right now.

There is no need to dabble into Ilorin kingship affair. The Balogun Gambari family are actually composed of people of Hausa, Bariba and Nupe descent and the stool they gave them was a concession by the Baloguns of Yoruba descent. In actual fact it was Balogun Ajikobi that signed the protection agreement with Britain but the British bypassed the Baloguns and graded the Emir who prior to that was only a prayer leader. During the Northern region era, the Ilorins gave the Emirship stool to Balogun Gambari. Gambari means Hausa and not Fulani but the Gambari compound in Ilorin comprises of people of Hausa, Nupe and Bariba descent. The Bariba fought alongside the Oyo against the Muslims of Ilorin and one Bariba king was killed in the war in the nineteenth century. Let the Ilorin sort themselves out by themselves. They know what they are doing. Then the Okun are a state on their own. They are not the same as Ilorin people. In an ideal setting Ilorin will be a state on its own and Okun will be a state on its own.
Kwara really has no problem. They are not a sharia state and have had a Christian governor

Is it only the bandits that can illegally import arms? Anything you do to protect yourself is justified

Olu317:
Yoruba are never lost siblings of EBIRA or Igala. Does Igala have knowledge of IJAMA writing ideology? Have you checked the development of Yoruba language from the inter land/rural areas? Have you checked alphabetic arrangement and letters being used in Yoruba land in Samuel Johnson book on “ Yoruba from The earliest time ". There isn't any need of this revision on Yoruba history. I don't know where you grew up and your family lineage but Yoruba noble and kingly families had thousands of people from the north who were used as SLAVES in the ancient times. Most of the mentioned here are all modern Yoruba word that existed when Oyo reigned in the 16th century upward. There isn't any iota of doubt about there was connections but not in siblings manner. Let me inform you and many who shared this untruthful idea that I still have knowledge of a families whose GENEALOGICAL SLAVES SERVANTS STILL EXISTS TILL DATE. They are even FULANI SLAVE SERVANTS. AND ALL SPEAKS YORUBA LANGUAGE. CAN YOU TELL ME THEY ARE YORUBA SIBLING ? Every group in Nigeria have their own story. In my lineage, we had Igala lineage that served my Patrilineal grands parents in the past 100s of years .Period!

There are a number of Ifes on Igala land and the onu of a particular Ife does not bow to the Attah of Igala according to reports. I believe there was an ife before the current ife that was located on igala land though there are many such ifes. I also believe that Ife was sacked by the Jukun to cause the relocation to the current Ife. The current Igala are a mixture of Jukun, Yoruba and etc but speaking a language that is Yoruboid in the majority

Oyo state paid VAT of 70 billion in 2024. That is a hard fact. That VAT came from one trillion naira of economic activity since VAT is 7.5 percent. If the companies that paid the VAT represents ten percent of GDP then Oyo's GDP is ten trillion naira. If five percent then it is twenty trillion naira. That is Oyo not to talk of Kano. Oyo population will be over ten million
The published GDP of states is rubbish

DomPerignon:
Others?

Pls define your Biafra accordingly .

Your Biafra is limited to the current five contiguous states that make up the SE geopolitical region.

States created by the military will have no meaning when Nigeria breaks up. Those who own the land will decide how to align it

Tranquillity360:
Yes I am kid as your fader.


Small man you have been noticed.

You are a kid who is bitter for no valid reason

Bulldozer90:
And if it is by viability?

What viability? There is no unviable state. Even a state of just 100k people is viable. They can fund a government and a civil service from their own purse

Fajuyi was killed because he opposed and resisted the coup plotters. If he was not military governor he would not have been killed. There are some of the Yoruba coup plotter that lived till old age and wrote books. So why will the Northerners kill Fajuyi and leave them? He was killed because he was governor and he resisted. Reports say Murtala prostrated and begged him but he refused.
There is no proof that he participated in the coup and it is wrong to accuse him of such. Where is the proof? He was only unfortunate to be governor at the time. Again Yorubas that fully participated in the coup survived and wrote books so why Fajuyi in particular? He was killed because he stood by his boss because he chose the path of honor.
Then stop saying easterners planned coup for a westerner to lead the country. Are you using your minds at all? Can you plan coup for your competition to take over? Please endeavor to be using your minds. It is very naive indeed to be saying Awo was the mastermind of the Nzeogwu coup from inside prison. It does not make sense therefore stop saying it . I wonder how you pass exams. The coup plotters were mainly Igbos and were thereby Zik boys and one of them was even his cousin and Awo was not in the good book of Zik.
Why did the Yoruba not fight back? They were not in power. Power was shared between North and East until fight broke out between them. The Yoruba were in opposition and the army was answerable to the people in government. However after Awo was released from prison he was able to compel Northern soldiers to leave the west. Easterners killed Akintola in Ibadan and the Yoruba were not able to do anything. Northerners also killed Fajuyi in Ibadan and the Yoruba also did nothing. Being in opposition was really shitty

FreeIgboho:
Nope. See the reason below. And by the way, what kind of people appoints a foreigner to be head of their army and lead invasion of his own homeland with all the possible casualties of his own people? Were there no qualified Biafrans at all?
Not very wise people!

They called it a liberation army and Colonel Banjo agreed to lead it. He chickened out when he encountered resistance in the Midwest and realized people in the west would resist too then he also did not agree with Colonel Ojukwu on some issues leading to the delay. Maybe if he had not agreed to lead the army the Biafrans would not have moved their troops westward

Tranquillity360:
I stopped reading the trash after the second line.


You can continue deceiving yourself with lies told you by your parents.

You that your reasoning show you to be most probably a very young man. How old are you?

A wise old man who sees the wisdom in Biafra invading Yoruba land because some Yorubas joined Northerners to attack Biafra from the North while those that defended their lands were wrong. You are definitely a kid

Tranquillity360:
Stop believing lies told you by your parents,go read real history.


Again having one Yoruba man who believe the right for Biafra to go their separate country doesn't mean there were Yorubas Both in Biafra and Nigeria Army.


Yoruba soldiers were fully part of Nigeria army that invaded Eastern region first.

Biafra army didn't start the fight but Yorubas and Hausafulanis Army.


This was how they lied to you that one of your own killed by northern soldiers during the counter coup sacrificed himself by asking northern soldiers to kill him for Igbo Man.

Get your history right. Biafrans started the fight in the west. They were being attacked from the North but they chose to invade the west. Therefore you can't blame those who defended their land as any military analyst would have expected. Yes there were Yorubas in both the Nigerian and Biafran army but there was no Nigerian division assaulting Biafra from the west or Midwest only from the North. Awo can not stop Yorubas in the army from attacking from the North neither could he stop the Yoruba soldiers in Biafra. I hear even that there were Northern soldiers fighting for Biafra. Awo did what he could which was get Northern soldiers out of the west and make sure no attack against Biafra originated from the west prior to the Biafran invasion. If the Biafrans now believed the west would exchange gladly Northern occupation with Eastern occupation without a fight then that is their own miscalculation and who do you blame for that?
Our own version of history in Yoruba land corroborated by eminent people like Colonel Ejoor former governor of Midwest and former chief of army staff is that Colonel Fajuyi was killed because he obstructed the assassination of his boss General Ironsi. The Northerners planned to implicate the west in the coup or rather make them share in the blame hence the choice of Ibadan instead of Lagos and they did not plan to kill Colonel Fajuyi. Even some Yorubas that were part of the coup lived to their old age not to talk of someone who had no link at all with the coup plot. However you are free to believe your own or any version of history. To me Colonel Fajuyi was a gentleman soldier who understood honor. Then why even accuse a dead man of something as heinous as coup plotting when you have no proof and nobody has any proof?. He was just unfortunate to be the governor of the west when they came for Ironsi. Be mindful how you throw mindless accusations about for nothing. The man still has family

The Biafrans may have been right to invade the west and Midwest in your understanding but the people that resisted them were right too. So stop blaming them

Sccarrr:
very exaggerated but I agree with u, but Igbos in Ibadan can start 500 countries 😹

The fact is that anything can take you anywhere especially when there is no border against migration. Federal civil service, marriage, business etc. There are occupations Igbos don't really do. Who will do those works in their cities if not Yoruba?. There are also occupations Yoruba don't major in but that Igbos like. Yoruba are everywhere including Igbo land and the inter migration largely cancels out. The way Yoruba are in PH is not different from how Igbos are in Lagos but only that Lagos has a higher population than PH