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What would have happened in the Yoruba country and West Africa if no British colonisation?

In the words of the late Professor J F Ade Ajayi, erudite historian and former vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. 'Ibadan in the nineteenth century stood astride the Yoruba country like a Colossus'. It is important to highlight what led to that.

The background

The Oyo empire lost Dahomey, Egba and Ilorin and as Ilorin was the closest to Oyo ile the capital, Alaafin Oluewu decided he must retake Ilorin despite that the Ilorin were not trying to expand. He enlisted the support of King Eleduwe of Borgu. Both of them were captured by the Ilorin during the war expedition. They were executed and buried in Ilorin. Oyo ile was left leaderless and the people panicked because of the unexpected death of the Alaafin. It is a kind of the same scenario of the Philistines fleeing because David slew Goliath. The people left the city in droves and they are the ancestors of the Modakeke. They also went to places like Ibadan, Oyo Atiba, Ogbomosho, Iwo, Ilorin and etc later. Ilorin burnt down the remnants of the city.

It was at that point that Ibadan began to grow. Ogbomosho existed before Ibadan and it was the Ijesa that stopped the first advancement of Ilorin to the South during the Poole war before the Oyo got their acts together.

Ibadan swelled in population and assumed the leadership of the Oyo nation while not tampering with the ceremonial position of the Alaafin headquartered at the new Oyo Atiba. The Ibadan after several wars including the Fejeboju war at Okemesi where a river turned red because of blood flow and etc put the Ijesa under them as a province. The second attempt by Ilorin to advance South was in alliance with the Ijesa who rallied Ilorin support to expel the Ibadan from their territory. Ibadan decisively defeated the Ilorin at Osogbo by the Ibadan infantry attacking the Ilorin calvary camp at night using a predetermined password to know who is who in the darkness and the members of the Oyo royal family apprehended were sent to the Alaafin at Oyo Atiba for prosecution.
There were other battles, skirmishes, operations, expeditions etc involving large scale movement of troops eg the Jalumi war where the Ijesa, Ilorin etc were pitched against Ibadan, Ogbomosho, Offa etc. The Ilorin calvary drowned in the Otin river after the Offa army cut the bridge on seeing that the Ilorin were on a full Northward retreat hence the name of the war Jalumi. It was the war that put Ilorin under Ibadan because it weakened Ilorin. From that time, Ilorin did as they were told by Ibadan though grudgingly. They went to war on behalf of Ibadan and paid taxes to Ibadan and there is an account in Rev Johnson's book 'The history of the Yoruba' talking of when Ibadan queried the Ilorin on why they didn't go on an expedition that they were directed to go on and their answer was 'We set out but we encountered Esu camped along the way and since he is our traditional enemy, we had to camp against him'. That was the relationship between Ibadan and Ilorin before the Kiriji war broke out leading to the Ilorin seizing the opportunity to align once again with the rebels as would be expected until the British came to the warfront on invitation by the Yoruba elite to come and end the sixteen year long conflict.

If the British had not come at all

What would have happened if the British had not come at all was that the rebels led by Balogun Ogedengbe of Ijesa would have buckled. Ijesa and some Ekiti (not all) and some Akoko could not have held out indefinitely against Ibadan, Ogbomoso, Ede, Iwo etc. Either by compromise or by outright defeat, the Ibadan led side would have won even if it took a century. The battleground was on or close to the territory of the rebels.
On quelling the rebellion, Ilesa might have been disestablished traditionally and I think it was disestablished more than twice since Ibadan was established. The attention of Ibadan would turn to Ilorin as the two strongest allies of the Fulani in Yoruba land were the Ilorin and the Ijesa. Ilorin too would have been disestablished by Ibadan. There will today be at most a small village on the site or it might be a forest like old Oyo. Places like Ijero, Ado Ekiti etc that refused to join the rebellion against Ibadan would be strengthened to continue the commission earlier given to Balogun Ogedengbe to operate in the Eastward direction.
Then the attention of Ibadan would have turned to Sokoto afterwards.

On the side of Ibadan would be the Borgu calvary and the other Yoruba nation states and their resources and on the side of Sokoto would be the Hausa states that they are able to rally mainly Kano.

Other Yoruba nation states that were disestablished in the way described above in recent times include Owu, Ijaiye and etc. Ijaiye back then hosted an Aare ona Kakanfo in the person of Aare Kurunmi before it started having issues with Ibadan that led to war and disestablishment. If not for that, Ijaiye would be as big and as prominent as other cities that hosted Aare ona Kakanfos including cities like Ajase (Porto Novo), Ibadan, Ilorin, Ogbomosho and etc.

The winner of the confrontation between Ibadan and Sokoto would have formed something not much different in size and resources from today's Nigeria.

Lagos is 3.5 times the population of Delta. There are poor people in Delta and poor people in Lagos. What Delta has that Lagos lacks is oil and gas yet Lagos have some.

So if per capital income is 1.5 k dollars and Delta is 7 million it means GDP of Delta is like 10 billion dollars while Lagos is at least 30 billion dollars if they are the same cost of living but they are not. Lagos should be up to 45:billion dollars if we correct for the cost of living. If we now add 5 billion dollars oil to Delta GDP it will make it 15 billion dollars against 45 billion dollars for Lagos

But Delta may not be up to 7 million in population.

Space required for the solar panels is like the roof top of four 4 bedroom bungalows

Why well defined borders matter

Lesotho is inside South Africa and any land with traditional sovereignty can define its borders and seek independence. It can also take the land and align it with another country say on another continent entirely. All these are possible. We are in the 21st century. Countries have offshore territories. I believe there is no land in Nigeria without traditional sovereignty. Therefore there is no reason for any group to be intimidated or to fear marginalization by any other group if they are aware of their natural right that the modern world has granted them. Inter Community and international cooperation begins with well defined borders.

Even in a small ethnic nation like the Ijesa, all the settlements have well defined territory under traditional leadership even as they are all Ijesa.

When borders are well defined, the only remaining thing that can cause war between neighbors would be religion apart from if there is an undeniable need for intervention on a humanitarian basis according to the Yoruba proverb 'We can't say a mad man has the right to bury his mother anyhow he wishes. Why? Because he might just decide to roast and eat it!'. Therefore or in that light, circumstances can call for military intervention in a country in spite of well defined borders. When such needs to happen, it would be obvious. An example is when a No fly zone was declared over Libya when the government announced it would mobilize the national Air Force to bomb Libyan cities under the control of rebels.

A national grid of 2 million PV farms for a country of over 200 million people

If all homes are connected to a solar grid of PV farms in a country like Nigeria then a one resident home can spend less than 2000 naira a month on power and no home would spend more than ten thousand naira a month. People that have money for batteries can buy batteries to store power for sundown while those without the means can make do with sun up power only. Most industries will be ok with sun up power only and the main consumer category storing power in batteries will be homes.

This idea can generate millions of jobs in a country like Nigeria. If the average micro power plant is connected to 50 buildings and we have a total of 90 million buildings in Nigeria then that is like 2 million plants meaning two million new business registrations and 2:million new part time jobs with monthly income per plant between 150,000 naira and maybe 500,000 naira. The work is in the periodic cleaning of the panels while a distribution company manages the metering and collects not more than ten percent of inflow as commission or brokerage.

One plant servicing 50 buildings only need to generate like 250kwh per day in Nigeria or let us say 300kwh to make sure there is excess. An installation of 100kW inverter and panels should generate the power and more

If 1000 MW power plant costs 1 billion dollars to build and it isn't up to that for solar, 1000 KW is 1 MW then 1 000 KW will cost 1 million dollars, 1 KW will cost 1,000 dollars and 100KW will cost 100,000 dollars which is around 130 million naira. This installation will have far more than enough power for a mix of 50 homes and SMEs

However a 150,000 to 500,000 monthly inflow is not sufficient for the investment. I only used my current expenses to calculate. I live alone and I do not consume up to two thousand naira a month in electricity but any industry or even a home with a few members will consume far more

However the lowest residential electricity cost in the world is in Iran at 0.003 dollars per Kwh while the global average is 0.17 dollars per Kwh. Nigerians do not use up to 5 Kwh per day on average in a residential home and by Iran's standard, it amounts to 0.015 dollars per day. If by the standard of the global average, it amounts to 0.85 dollars per day corresponding to around 20 naira per day and around 1,150 naira per day respectively. For residential consumers

Conclusion

The investment can actually be as low as under 100 million naira and a returns of 10 million naira will be ok as that is higher than the returns on real estate and for a one worker venture, that will be more than enough. It needs to make just ten million naira per annum from a mix of homes and businesses like fifty in number meaning the average consumer will pay two hundred thousand naira per annum.

A returns on investment of five million naira per annum can also be okay since it is still higher than real estate and that will mean the average consumer will pay around one hundred thousand naira per annum and that is someone using at least 5 kwh per day. Most Nigerians don't use one third of that.

Then if the cost of living on Earth were even then the project would not cost up to 50 million naira. It costs up to 100 million naira now because the equipments are produced in China which currently is also an expensive country to produce in.

Iran is the country that has the formula for cheap electricity since they can't possibly be running at a loss.

What needs to be done urgently in South Sudan? Is it elections?

It is in the news that South Sudan has fixed its first elections for December 2026. South Sudan has a population 12 million people and a nominal GDP of around 6 billion dollars. The per capita income is around 400 to 500 dollars nominally and maybe just over double of that by purchasing power parity.

It is good for a country to have general elections but democracy in itself has never transformed any country. What transforms a country are good policies.

More than South Sudan needs general elections, it needs to formalize it's economy by not allowing any informal activity within its space. All workers must pay personal income tax, all companies must pay company income tax, farmers must pay produce tax including on dairy products and all other industry must pay VAT on products on which it is applicable. No slave labor must be allowed. In a country like South Sudan, the change can happen instantly meaning within one month. One can be sure that presently a bottle of 50 cl coca cola does not cost more than 20 cents in South Sudan and it costs like 1.5 Euros in Germany meaning that the same economic activity in Germany is worth many times it's equivalent in South Sudan and this shows that there is activity in South Sudan more than ten times of the nominal value when compared to say Germany.

Therefore the formalization of the economy is what the government of South Sudan ought to pursue before general elections.

You start at the base by fixing a high enough minimum wage. No business will shut down because of too high wages especially when there are no alternatives. Fixing a high minimum wage alone can double instantly the GDP of a country like South Sudan

It is a simple exercise for any government. No economic activity under the table. No worker without a salary account and no paying of wages by hand. The mere fact that a worker has access to banks gives them access to credit and access to credit is access to business funding while access to funding is the engine of economic growth.

They need to also add licensed pension fund management companies while mandating all workers to have a retirement savings account.

However they should take permission from the US led consortium of nations under whose protection I did the research that led to my conclusions before using the conclusions.

Price of 50 cl coca cola in India

Price of coca cola in Germany

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AMEN!!

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/7659057/how-end-ASUU-strikes-nigeria
https://www.nairaland.com/8156591/university-autonomy-rejuvenate-tertiary-education

Watcharena:
Nigerians are extremely wicked, a passenger will request for a ride when he meet the driver, the driver will negotiate a new price and go offline in this case the company will not make any thing out of it

If a driver is constantly doing that, it will show on the profile and the person will be removed. That is the solution to that.

Then share driving companies should not expect more than five percent of fare and it isn't difficult to determine fare, they have a program for that. If the program is not efficient then that can run the company out of business

No group in Nigeria have more right to self determination just because of their numbers


It is wrong to always focus on natural resources or population size when talking about the viability of a political constituency. There is no ethnic group in Nigeria whose land is not a viable political constituency. The resources in there are the people and not mineral resources

Therefore if your land contains 100, 000 people and you know the per capital income of Nigeria to be USD 1300 then your GDP as a constituency is 130 million dollars and with efficient tax collection your government revenue would be like 60 million dollars per annum from all government tiers. You can also increase the GDP. How? By increasing the minimum wage which will increase the people's purchasing power and thereby stimulate an increase in the GDP. You can increase the GDP easily to something like 170 million dollars or more and it will be a real increase because food production will increase, the cost of rent will increase and the cost of services will also increase. You can infact easily increase the GDP of 100 thousand people in a Nigerian constituency from 130 million dollars to 200 million dollars.

So the big groups in Nigeria should not intimidate the smaller groups to accept only 17 regions because every group have the God given right over their territory and nobody have the right or even the means to stop them in this era of the United Nations. The British colonized everybody together and no group colonized others. No local group is the colonial power.

What problem does communism solve?

People who don't make money are blamed for making poor choices and etc and those who make it are being celebrated as having sacrificed and having paid their dues.
You see, is it everyone that is well off that sacrificed? No. Some just got dealt a better hand
Can we take a cue from Marx and Engels themselves and classify people into two broad classes of workers and those who own the means of production? Obviously yes.
How can this class be demystified? Obviously by making everybody save and invest. Some people already know because they are trained like that but most people don't. Many will never save and invest because they erroneously think it is all about work. No. It is more about owning the means of production than about working. Therefore in a communist nation, two institutions are important to be set up and they are licensed pension managers that manage the retirement savings accounts of workers and then a stock exchange where the proceeds or savings can be invested to protect it from inflation
Communism is indeed possible or what do you call a system where the average 60 year old have passive income that is enough to live on?

Happy birthday to VP Shettima. Many more years in excellent health and prosperity
It is remarkable that both the President and the vice President are brandishing first class degrees and they really are succeeding

DarkJeddi:
Education in the South East is dominated by the private sector compared to what obtain in the North for instance.

The last time I checked, private school enrollment was by far the highest in the SW and the margin isn't small

Access to the sea- The example of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Eritrea became independent of Ethiopia in the 1990s. Ethiopia's population is 120 million while Eritrea's is less than 4 million. An independent Eritrea now blocks Ethiopia's access to the sea but there is a bilateral agreement that says Eritrea can not charge tariffs on goods headed to Ethiopia but they can charge for freight handling and etc. As a matter of fact there should be Ethiopian origin freight handling companies operating on the Eritrean coast that only pay tax to Eritrea. That is the best way.

In the olden days before the United Nations, Ethiopia would not have agreed to let small Eritrea be independent leading to the larger territory being landlocked but it became possible because of the United Nations and it is still the same United Nations that ensured that Eritrea was not able to turn the bigger Ethiopia into a meal ticket. That is the kind of world we have now. Ethiopia has the market and the economy. It will infact be very hard if not impossible for an average Eritrean company to reach even a 50 billion dollar valuation unless Eritrea applies to rejoin Ethiopia and therefore regain unhindered access to the market. That is one thing Eritrea will lose. Ethiopia did not lose much because what is 3.6 million consumers inside a total of over 120 million?

It is in the same spirit that West Africa should operate. ECOWAS should unify the customs and excise department of West Africa and possibly even the territorial waters so that hinterland nations will not be shortchanged. The region can also unify the currency.

erico2k2:
Bro wo wo, this argument of yours has nothing to do with what I was talking about, this is you arguing with you, All I said was Oil , nothing about what is under or on top water, that's for you and you to argue about, all I said was what has 13 percent done for bayelsa state ,I can see you are even yoruba I don't know how you became more expert in things of the Niger Delts even Do I'm from Rivers and Delta states. Bayelsa sate by the way is the least developed state amongst the Niger Deltans.How your argument went to owning whats under the water from Oil revenue,I dont know

My point is that you can claim something on your farmland and even that one the whole world can come to a new understanding on all minerals and the ownership can change but the one hundreds of kilometers offshore is certainly not in the same category. It does not affect your means of livelihood at all like a farm. Territorial waters is mainly awarded for defense and maritime purposes not as a source of livelihood or what are you looking for even 100 km offshore?

erico2k2:
At this point I believe you are confused sorry to say, how can you make income of what you do not have control over?Xplain to me how you make money out of sea area you don't control plz, or are you confusing high seas with international waters?I can see you are despirately trying to sound inteligent but my friend I am afriad to tell you right about now you over shot the runway!

You are totally confused. The oceans contain more than 70 percent of Earth's resources and those resources does not exclusively belong to a handful of people who just happen to be living on the coast. If you think so you are just deluded and if any law says so it will be changed when people wake up.

Things don't get cheaper YOY in any country because of inflation but food prices came down over the past few years say one to two years. Garri, rice, palm oil, beans etc have all come down in the last say two years. Some by more than fifty percent

Bread of 2200 is now 1800
Eggs of over 6k is now less than 5500
Garri was like 1k it is now never more than 500
Palm oil 2k is now around 1200 etc etc

You can get there this year. Just reintroduce the CBN dollar rate and fix it at 150 naira. The GDP will be over 2 trillion dollars immediately.

erico2k2:
You are misinformed, that part of the seas is seeded to a part of Nigeria called bayelsa.If you as Bayelsans do well with the revenues derived from sale of what ever natural resources you got and pay taxes to the FG as it is practiced in true federalism, you will by far better off than most states with untapped and tested natural resources ie Kwara state and others.What do you think happened in the UAE? the people of the UAE DO NOT WORK, go to Doha for example its international Airport is manned by foreigners, no one works there.I just went fru there last week enroute work.

What is inside the high seas does not by any means belong to a handful of people living on the coast. You may argue for the things on your farmland though but even that buried under ground is free money.

I have explained to you that you can have control and less income or no control and more income. So control isn't actually what is most important if you reflect properly. 13 percent of free money on the high seas isn't a small concession. If they were given 100 percent and they don't have a serious leadership there will still be extreme poverty in the land.

If the UN agrees to littoral states owning minerals several miles offshore, it does not mean they are right because the vast majority of all minerals on Earth is in the oceans and any law saying it belongs to a handful of people on the coast is not a well thought out law.

Ofun meji

Ogbaragada!

A difa fun odu mi
A da dede uwa
Eyi ti nse ohun gbogbo to wa
Won ni ko rubo
O si gbebo o rubo
Won ni ko ru igba kan, omo ori igba, opo merin ati ewon
Iwaju ile odu ni won ni ko ri ohun oro na mo
Odu ri ohun oro na mole o si fi ewon de owo ara re mo
Ojo ti odu ri ohun oro na mole ni a mo si Oduduwa, Olodumare abbl
Ti o si je wipe ko si eni to le ye lowo wo mo ni aye!

Yeeparipa odu o! Yeeparipa odu o! Yeeparipa odu o!

Oduduwa melo lo mo?
Oduduwa omo Lamurudu
Oduduwa Atewonro
Eni ti ko ba se ye lowo wo Oduduwa ni
Ti awon to ni o se awon o le de iwaju e so be. Oduduwa ni.

Translation

Ogbaragada!

It was the ifa cast for my odu
A da Dede uwa
(That created everything in existence)
(Created all behaviors)

He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied

He was advised to sacrifice one calabash, one calabash cover, four poles and a chain mail
He was directed to bury the ritual items in front of his home
Odu buried the ritual items and bound his own hands to them with the chains.
The day he buried the ritual items was the same day his name was changed to Oduduwa, Olodumare and etc
And it was declared that nobody on Earth will ever be able to find fault with any of his actions!

Yeeparipa odu o! Yeeparipa odu o! Yeeparipa odu o!

How many Oduduwa do you know?
Oduduwa Atewonro (The one that landed on Earth hanging on a chain)
Oduduwa the son of Lamurudu
Anyone whose actions are so faultless they can't be questioned is Oduduwa
If those who say he or she wronged them dare not accuse him or her frontally then he or she is Oduduwa.


If you are being accused in the public of heinous crimes and you keep mute then you are obviously not Oduduwa. You are probably a crook.

erico2k2:
Im not talking control ,Im talking ownership and also this your 13percent what has it done in Bayelsa state

If Bayelsa takes everything it will not necessarily better their lot. It isn't natural resources that makes a nation develop but the oil on the high seas does not belong to only the people on the coast in reality. The high seas which forms 70 percent of Earth's surface isn't the property of a handful of people.
Believe me if 13 percent of less than 2 million bpd can't help then if it is of 10 million bod it will still not help and 100 percent of less than 2:million bpd will certainly be the same.
However the oil does not belong to Bayelsa just because they are fishing on the coast

This data is obviously not correct. Is it money for chalk or the salary of teachers? That will make Lagos and other states have that differential? So out of the over 4 trillion naira Lagos revenue, just that amount is spent on education?

zikter:
Even within the same age group of people in Lagos and London, you will find out that, higher population will have more internet access in london compare to lagos, even with higher population in Lagos. Their standard of living is higher than ours and they can afford it more either at work or otherwise. Same applies to Lagos and Kano. You have more exposure and higher income earners in Lagos than you would find in Kano. I keep emphasizing that, Lagos as a whole is a big city, where you will hardly find a typical village as somewhere else. Do not look at Kano as in Kano city, but as a state where you can use hours to get to interior villages, some with no access road at all. I don't know if Kano is more populated than Lagos or the other way round. My concern is that, you can not conclude on the basis of internet subscription, BVN or PVC. Several other factors such as accessibility, affordability, exposure, education etc come into play in achieving those statistics.

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You can't just dismiss data like that because if for example people in the North are not taking NIN seriously then their NIN will match their BVN. They register NIN but in the main do not use it for anything. They register PVC only to vote. So don't push the narrative of them being novices who don't know the meaning of NIN or PVC and that they don't use phones would also be wrong because why not say they don't use transistor radios? The only explanation that makes sense is that some of their women are not allowed to use phones and also that they have a somewhat younger population at home. Maybe if Kano has igr, their adults will return home

erico2k2:
People do, Texas owns the whole Oil i n Texas and pay tax to the federal government. The 13 percent derivative earned from oil is basically dead on arrival B4 it get shared. You talking, what benefit have you gotten from these Oil wells if n ot sorry tears and blud?

I know you are talking of control. Would you take control in exchange for 5 percent equity? 13 percent on something you didn't put there that is not even on your farm land isn't a small concession

erico2k2:
Norway owns and export teh OIl, Bayelsa does not own neither export oil, its NNPC vis FG of Nigeria, try and get the fact right, Fish? what fish the ones the oil exploration has killed? or do we have new species? enlighten me more please. Look I am not glorifying this I am only pushing and steering you to the direction of that narrative that says Oil is a curse rather than a blessing i n mismanaged Africa.

People generally don't own one hundred percent of most things. Bayelsa takes 13 percent of oil money from fields found several miles offshore on the Atlantic ocean. That is free money. With even less than ten percent of a company, you are the CEO

zikter:
So are you comparing the network coverage in Lagos and Kano? Seriously? It seems you have not gone out of Lagos and probably south west. I am very familiar with the Northern terrain and currently living in Lagos. So, I know what I am telling you. Not everywhere that is urban and opened up like Lagos please. If you do BVN statistics, Lagos will still be far ahead due to easy accessibility. That doesn't automatically translates to more people in Lagos. If you check some stats of other cities in developed countries that are far less in population than Lagos, you will discover they have more internet subscription than what Lagos has. It is simply because they can easily access and afford it. It doesn't mean they are more in population than Lagos

You can have more internet connection per capital in say London and one of the reasons is that they have a higher average age of like 47 or above. Most of them are adults while most people here are kids. Kids don't have personal internet connection in Nigeria. Then they will also have more connections at work places. However the number of kids here is the main reason our Internet connection density will be lower

I know Kano State is very rural but I doubt there are large settlements there without GSM coverage and places like Ogun and Oyo are also big. Kano isn't bigger than Niger state and etc and if Niger state can pull the weight it pulled then your position about Kano isn't really tenable. There are many states more rural than Kano by not having any settlement up to 300k people despite being as big as Kano.

On BVN, just around half or about 60 percent of adult Nigerians have BVN. It appears people in the North generally do not have bank accounts because I have not met a southerner that does not. They don't really use the NIN they registered for. The number of BVNs do not match the number of NINs and it normally should if every adult had a bank account but there is a very wide gap.

In short, when you are in the same country, differentials in such data should match the differential in population. In the south it would and if the country were serious it would match everywhere

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dreamxhaser:
We dey talk katsina, Kano, etc not niger state. Niger state are not Hausa-Fulani. Most of the north east and north central don’t give birth like the North-west because their way of life is different. Though that of the north east is also high when compared to other geopolitical zones.

Even during the 2006 census, niger state wasn’t ranked that high, so their birth rate has never been that high.
The main people giving birth are the north west and some parts of north east

High birth rate is always accompanied by high infant mortality

dreamxhaser:
Please can you give me a link to the cement data? I am not trying to insinuate that you are lying, i am just curious if there will be reasons why the north consumes more cement and if they stated it.

Anyways regarding the sim users stuff, this are the reasons AI gave me.

These are some




Source: ResearchGate https://share.google/rjk4oujUEOea0jieC


https://www.nairaland.com/8598371/how-come-north-buys-more

What my spirit taught me today

My last post was on Otura Oyeku which means reinvigorated, refired, sustained and etc truth, expertise, honesty and etc. Ifa says it leads to victory or acceptance and etc as anyone would expect.

The question now comes up about what is truth? I then went into a lengthy communion with my spirit. The best person you can have a conversation with is your spirit and this is why ifa of Orunmila is the most significant invention ever because it facilitates conversation with your spirit.

I was informed by ifa that there are three types of truths and they are

1. Irete Owonrin
2 Otura Osa
3.Iwori Ofun

Any thing that satisfies anyone of the three can be a truth but it will not be accepted by everybody. The one that will be accepted by everybody will satisfy at least one and three but a real truth should satisfy all three

That is what my spirit taught me today. Your spirit is more powerful than you and it can really help you. While some of us can not remember at all what happened a few days ago, our spirit knows into details what happened to us in the last 24 incarnations. So put that ability side by side for you to know by how much your spirit outweighs you in data at hand. RAM. Random Access Memory.

Irete Owonrin

This is a truth precipitated as a result of your desire coming to pass as predicted as a result of someone's expertise. You achieved your desire because of someone's exceptionality. You got positive results as predicted by an expert whose advise you followed

Otura Osa

This is a truth that came to be solely because you remained steadfast amidst intense opposition and onslaught. It can be a controversial submission accepted by a large number of people. It can be religion or a scientific theory. It can be an economic ideology etc.

Iwori Ofun

This truth is as a result of a vision you have because of an advantage that you have. You have the vision or plan because you are standing on a platform of convenience. An example of this can be the invention of corporations or limited liability companies. It will never be abolished and it came to be because the English business men were opportuned to not be under the tutelage of their government. A sponsored research is also in this category

A truth fulfilling only one of the conditions can never convince everybody but one that fulfils numbers one and three at least will be able to do that. A real truth should fulfil all the three conditions

dreamxhaser:
It is not because of women alone, though it might be part of it. There are people living in the stone age in the deep north. Your villages in Osun, or Enugu are not same as the villages Kano or Katsina.

I have met a farmer who said, he’s children will never go to school except Islamic education. Now imagine that kind man in 21st century.

Such people are not a significant number of people. Even if they put you in a cage in this 21st century you will break out. How much is a phone that a day labourer can not buy? NIN says the North is around 55 percent of the population but cement sales data says they buy almost sixty percent of all cement. They have money and you can't have money and not enjoy life at all no matter what the Quran says

dreamxhaser:
How did you know? Did you handle the collection of data during that census?

Omo una go just come online the spread watin una no sure about.

Even with the NIN, PVC, and Internet data, it still shows kano has more population if you account to the fact that most of it’s population are poor and engaged in the informal sector. Unlike Lagos that is like 99% urbanized.

Why north no lie about poverty rate, illiteracy, and out of school children, shey you believe those data’s?

If they said Kano has the highest number of out of school children, you won’t say it’s a fake stats abi?


In fact during the census, our entire street was not counted and it was in the north. We lived in the state capital, now imagine what happened in remote villages.

Una no wan gree see north get that population….omo they get that population oooo, make nobody whine you.

Their population are sparsely spread across multiple villages and local governments. Unlike in the south where there is more rural to urban migration.

Till today villagers still dey marry 4 wifes and give birth to 10 children plus. I am not caping.

No current stats shows Kano to be more than Lagos. Not NIN, PVC, Active sims or any other. The only confusion is in the large disparity between the internet subs in the two states which can be because of women not allowed to use phones

zikter:
Those are also not yardstick. As a matter of fact, it far easier to obtain those in Lagos here than over there. In some villages over there, you may not even have access roads for cars except bikes. Do you expect to see kiosk or centers for registration everywhere like in Lagos? No. You may have to travel hundreds of km to obtain them in some instances. The percentage of uneducated is also high over there, leading many not to even not understand the usefulness of a NIN. That they like elections there is not an indication that everyone there has easy access to obtain a PVC like it is in Lagos. So all your points are still dependent on a number of factors.

Those are not excuses. They are well represented in PVC and NIN but not in BVN, active sims, Internet subscription and etc. Which statistics is more trustworthy? I will take the ones that involve money