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Adamawa is probably the most diverse state in Nigeria. The largest ethnic group cannt be more than 5% states like Gombe Kebbi and plateau are diverse.

Rexwalters1:
Mandarin, Maybe na Chinese intelligence you dey work for? Ordinary census you & your people no fit conduct, So we should leave the Central Intelligence Agency’s own report & believe you?

Oh my friend I don't work for any agency. Data has a base which if wrong could be a a big problem. If a good census is conducted in Nigeria and it presents our population to be short of all these data brandished all over the place, then people will fume. When did CIA count the Hausa that make them 30% of Nigerians? You can chose to believe what you like because it's from CIA, we can see how many of such data has been used to convey certain convictions. If we use technology to drive the census with open mind the world will be shocked.

I believe the data here by CIA are incorrect especially if they are estimates based on erroneous population conducted by Nigeria. CIA did not conduct any census and so must have based its estimates on one disputed census of the past.
Nigeria is about the only country with more population as you move into arid region, so I believe its just a systematic of supporting the Northern hegemony which started before independence.
Our population cannot be more than 150million and Hausa alone not Hausa speakers, Hausa ethnic group cannot be more than 15% of that.

Please who have an idea of a good honda mechanic or rewire that can fix the kind of problem stated up here on crv. The person living around Ketu Berger to Mowe axis for ease of reach. Many thanks

The real problem is that these machines can end up with Al Shabab, ISWAP or even Boko Haram while the technology is already a transferred technology to hardliners especially the drones. You can only imagine how destructive armed drones can be to any country.
This isn't looking good for Africa. Its a plus for Iran and Pakistan, May be a boost to China and North Korea. If you know you know how these things work.

These are terrorists. I don't see these as bandits at all. Imagine the trauma on these children!
Cross border arm control must be taken seriously as many may come in as herders or traders. The porus borders in the North must be well controlled while state policing will be a big leap forward.
Now Nigeria must take Combacting Financing Terrorism seriously as these are heavy arms that these boys can't obviously afford. Some people must be behind financing of these gangs

Where did you get all these interpretations?

I've made the call during one of the economic discussion section( side talks) in the office. We cannot afford a dollarised economy with our abysmal exchange rate, it will only impoverished the poor the more. If this is done government will be domestication its debts in naira and that becomes easy to sort especially when dollar request fall

PDJT:
-Lol Keep deceiving yourself. Let the boy see your naked nyash and you go know how far?

-I bet that boy will soon move to Brighton, if he hasn’t already. Many Nigerian politicians will lose their kids to Western societal lifestyles having ruined Nigeria and made it uninhabitable.

This is deep.
I think Nigerian leaders are having many troubles with their children and it would have been better if they were raised in our culture but they created numerous challenges here and thinking keeping them from the public eye will satiate or offering superior education is everything, alas, its not at all. Many children of the elites will be well educated and still amount to some troubles because their upbringing has no elements of the African culture and then what about the collective resources that has been taken undue advantage of? we must all pray for a country in which we all have a say and can produce a generation of children who fear God- Nigeria.

wetdspace:
Yeah I watched a similar documentary about the hormones or genes of Africans transformed from homosapience to humans and they were changed by —oh I forgot their name.

There could be a large amount of truth in it because have heard some stories as well about a particular town in Yoruba where some large amount of trees were turned to humans...

Some other stories where humans were made from a thing just for the purpose of mass farming.

Where do we categorize babies gotten from the gods, where do those babies come from and where are they presently?

What about those Iwins, Oro’s and egbere that exists in our stories then, where are those things now in our modern world?

If the truth could be found, it would explain a lot of things...

This is deep.
I hope people will just look into how this spiritism could affect genetic change

MOD please move this story to politics section. it is an eye opening one that need contribution from all

Ahmeduana:
I think the saying that IFE is where creation starts from, is about to get foothold!

Yes, that could have been true through the worldview of those concerns as there could have been many IFE in history. wE MUST SAY THAT THIS LED CREDENCE TO THE MANY MIGRATION STORY in many African societies.

orisa37:
Nonsense. They have found particles of Covid19 in some DNA.

The world is still discovering many things and even with the challenge of those interpreting the data found to favor whatever narratives that suit them, I think its now becoming clear that African stories may not be folklore after all

romenna:
Africans should be issued heavenly passports as we too often had contacts with the super naturals.

I believe such contact may have happened across different cultures. The fact that such DNA variants were found and labelled as unknown or ghost could also mean that those stories of oduduwa, ogiso and may be Eri may be true as per people coming to earth with some kind of space ship or whatever. The truth is that we are always in contact with the supernatural through a form of spiritual relationships whether for good or otherwise.

CodeTemplar:
400,000 years ago is a lot and probably before Adam going by biblical records. My theory. This lineage could be a result of generation after generation of spiritism practice where disembodied being mix with humans.

The Bible told this story in Genesis 6 as part of the early narratives of God's relationship with man. Whether it falls within the Biblical historical context or not, God acknowledged this event happened and new DNA emerged on earth, the Bible called them mighty men of old men of renown Genesis 6:4. The word those days and afterward caught my attention which could mean prior and later meaning such could still be alive today.
While the practice of spiritism can transform the spirit of a man I cannot say if it can transform his DNA, the blood especially.

I posted this story I found from a science page. I don't know why it was titled this way, ghost could mean unknown origin. The truth is that even the Bible stated in Genesis 6 that some sons of God came and inter married with daughters of men and gave birth to giants and exceptionally advanced children which I presume continued today. The story is worth reading and let's have fruitful discussion as all these Ogiso , Eri and Oduduwa coming from the sky may be true, may be it was actually space ship or they were spiritual people . If history were to be believed then there could have been some descents from other planets whether angels or other being but stating that they were limited to any particular race may be deliberate as I believe that could have cut across all races which may include many so called geniuses as part of their descendants and I have thought privately that Orunmila, who invented the binary model called Ifa may have been a genius or a spiritual person but the factual Yoruba history are largely hidden in the algorithm of such spiritual corpus.

I just want knowledgeable people to make some meaningful contributions please

Scientists Find a Mysterious 'Ghost Lineage' In the DNA of West Africans
Researchers find evidence that a group of still-unknown humans interbred with our ancestors.
By Charles ChoiFebruary 14, 2020 10:15 PM
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(Inside Science) — A mysterious extinct "ghost" human lineage that was an even more distant relation than Neanderthals may have interbred with the ancestors of modern West Africans, significantly contributing to their gene pool, a new study finds.

Although modern humans are now the only surviving lineage of humanity, others once lived on Earth. Some made their way out of Africa before we did, including the familiar Neanderthals in Eurasia and the newfound Denisovan lineages in Asia and Oceania. It isn't completely clear whether these lineages would be considered species or subspecies, but the groups had identifiable genetic differences. Prior work estimated the ancestors of modern humans split about 700,000 years ago from the lineage that gave rise to Neanderthals and Denisovans, and the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged from one another about 400,000 years ago.

The story is a bit more tangled than the timeline suggests, as genetic analysis of fossils of these extinct lineages has revealed they once interbred with modern humans, unions that may have endowed our lineage with helpful mutations as we began expanding across the world about 194,000 years ago. Neanderthal DNA makes up roughly 1.8% to 2.6% of the genomes of modern humans from outside Africa, whereas Denisovan DNA makes up 4% to 6% of modern Melanesians.


Read more: A Genetic Ghost Hunt: What Ancient Humans Live On In Our DNA?

Any number of now-extinct human lineages that once existed within Africa may have hybridized with modern humans there as well. However, the sparse nature of the ancient human fossil record in Africa makes it difficult to identify DNA from such "ghost lineages" in modern humans.

Instead of hunting for ancient human fossils across Africa, the scientists looked for genetic traces of ghost lineages in modern Africans. They compared 405 genomes from modern people from West Africa with ones from fossils of Neanderthals and Denisovans, focusing on DNA that stood out from the West African genomes roughly as much as Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA did from modern human genomes overall.

The researchers detected statistical anomalies they suggested were best explained by interbreeding between West Africans and an unknown ancient human lineage whose ancestors diverged from those of modern humans before the split between Neanderthals and modern humans. Four West African groups — Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria, Esan in southern Nigeria, Gambians in western Gambia, and Mende in Sierra Leone — may derive 2% to 19% of their DNA from a ghost lineage, the researchers said.

"Interbreeding among highly diverged human populations has been common through human evolution," said study senior author Sriram Sankararaman, a computational geneticist at UCLA.


A number of ghost lineage genetic variants were unusually common in the Yoruba and Mende genomes, suggesting they might confer some evolutionary advantages. These included genes involved in tumor suppression, male reproduction and hormone regulation.

Previous research also hinted at interbreeding with ghost lineages in Africa, such as a 2011 study examining sub-Saharan Africa and a January paper investigating western Central Africa. The ghost lineage examined in the January study "is likely the ghost lineage we are seeing," Sankararaman said. "A broader question of the number of these ghost lineages that have survived into present-day Africans is fascinating, which we don't have the answers to."

These findings underscore how "it is not a question of whether our ancestors interacted with other hominins, but it is a question of when, where, who," said evolutionary genomicist Omer Gokcumen at the University at Buffalo in New York, who did not take part in this research. "I think we will need additional ancient genomes from Africa to more properly address these questions."

The scientists estimated this ghost lineage diverged from the ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans up to 1.02 million years ago and interbred with the ancestors of modern West Africans from 124,000 years ago up to the present day. "One limitation of our study is that we have mainly sampled present-day West African populations," Sankararaman said. They don't know yet how far the ghost lineage spread across Africa, he said.

The scientists aim to analyze people across Africa for signs of ghost lineages. "We are beginning to understand some of the complexities of human history, but the true picture is almost certainly even more complicated," Sankararaman said.


The researchers detailed their findings online Feb. 12 in the journal Science Advances.

This article originally appeared in Inside Science. Read the original here.

Many things have shaped human history and had fundamentally redesigned many historical timelines and events.
From the Bible, if we take Adam & Eve to be a generation of people, then when men began to multiply the sons of GOD CAME DOWN AND MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN AND THEY GAVE BIRTH TO HUGE MEN WHO WERE EXCEPTIONALLY BRILLIANT and became great investors and scientist. Now that showed that there was genetic mutation or people with new genetic make up were born. Lets safely assume two set of humans at the time; the original man & woman , and new generations of offspring with new pigmentation and DNA. The bible also recorded that violence began to increase and there were such scientific feats that spurred genetic mutation etc.
As times went on, these new children would marry other children like themselves and from among the normal people and believe you me the intermarriage would be overwhelmingly popular producing and reproducing new DNA and genetic evolution.

Until the flood came and wipe out most of the inhabitants of the earth which spared Noah and his family, at a latter time were the children of Anak, Goliath of Philistia and the Amalekites etc some of whom were giants which could mean that either the DNA continued after the flood or some people survived the flood.
Another fundamental is the many natural disasters that may have separated continents which may have been together in ancient times such as earthquakes, flood and even meteorites from space.

So, what am I driving at, the evolution of man are laid bare in many historical records especially the Bible and just a little research will help us to understand how we are all interwoven.

jumper524:
this na the English part of the who illegalities going on in the foreign exchange and financial policy.

truth is there are many illegalities behind all the English economics taught us.

I studied finance and won't want to go into details but truth is foreign exchange policy and world bank are all scammers.

the US is stronger than kuwait in terms of production but kuwait currency is stronger, china is stronger than UK in terms of production yet euros is stronger than yen.

guy forgot watin economics teach you jare.

iran currency won't be exchanging for over 50k to dollar if economics were to be fair.

Just scrolling through all the comments but wont let this pass.
This is extremely sensible.
If you read someone else's textbook and do not innovate, you can't know more than your teachers.
When zero interest rate was introduced in some European countries it was not in any econometric or economics textbook. We must innovate as it may seem all our Harvard experts will probably think alongside many have said of inflation.
I believe all domestic debts can be settled through printing naira and nothing like inflation now that money is even scarce. We can support many SME's through that, support farmers and pay contractors. This will ensure we factor the money into productivity and stuffs that can stimulate growth.

There are two understandings here:
The Jewish state and the Israelite people or Hebrew. While the former is more recent the Israelite or Hebrew nation is much older. I believe there were a great deal of immigrants as depicted in Yoruba history of Ife in which migrant parties came wave after wave. Stories on the Sultan of Sokoto talk about Hapiru(Hebrews) or migrants and Oduduwa migration among those who also passed through the sea are evidences that across the west coast of Africa, a huge number of people came from areas and borders of Egypt, Abyssinia( Ethiopia, Sudan etc), Mesopotamia, and Canaan. Many conquering parties and war across Canaan and Mesopotamia including Roman invasions led to waves after waves of migration into Africa but threre were indigenous people already existing there which was the overthrow in Ife and guerrilla war by Obatala group on the Oduduwa group that led to Itapa truce. I also believe Oranmiyan was another conquering party. However, when you look at those ethnic groups across west coast of Africa, many had their roots in IFE, from Ijaw to Ewe etc which would put them within the same historical bracket.
Whether parts of Igbo people are Jewish, I cannot say but most probable part of the Hebrew party.

This election depends on a few states of which Florida is a pointer. If Trump wins Florida, he will probably need any of Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin to clinch a second term. Already, democrats are bleeding in their most promising county which has continued to return lower votes than 2016, it was headlined in NBC yesterday. Trump has more blacks and Latinos behind him now. So winning Pennsylvania may be easier because Joe Biden has said he would stop fracking flip flopping over the oil issue. I don't think giving a message with negative outlook on the state economy will earn Joe Biden a win there. The effect of that so called oil transition will be felt negatively in Detroit Michigan where cars are made and also in a state like Texas.
The amount of mail in ballots and pre election ballots are huge at over 80m, but remember both Democrats and Republicans use the mail in and in person systems, it doesn't mean all went to Biden, in fact based on party affilliation, democrats are bleedind in Florida and Michigan but doing well in Arizona.
The campaign against in person voting by Democrats might hurt them on Nov 3 the day of election because the have campaigned against it due to Corona virus, this may cause many of their supporters fear going out to vote which will be to the benefit of Republicans.
With the look of things, Trump look set to return to the white house especially if he wins Florida. I believe he will win in Minnesota , Pennsylvania and Michigan. Once you see Florida in Red alongside any of those, start looking at the senate and house races, Trump is back

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The question is if Trump engaged in illegal acts as a result or may be its just a case of morality. The law cannot be based on the latter, if he is deemed to have paid less as a corporate, then look as his personal income tax, look at his workers tax returns etc. This is not something to get emotional with in the face of the law, many wealthy corporate and people hire tax experts to lower their taxes and this happen all over the world.

I feel democrats only brings the $750 tax returns to influence voters' decisions or perspectives about him and they will weaponize it till the election but you know what, the moment no illegality can be established, it will be turned into a moral compass to compare to how much working Americans pay to IRS. But wait, he employs hundreds of people and pay their salaries and if he declared losses over some years and such were vetted by regulators, you cannot say its a scam. You can only attack his Personal Income TAX RECORD WHICH I DON'T THINK HAS ANYTHING SERIOUS TO OFFER.
Its another case of lost cause to me as far as democrats are concerned.

NGpatriot:
Oil is an internationally traded commodity so he can not buy below international price so he must sell at international price to remain in business.

Besides, the government can not do much because he's operating from a free trade zone.

He can buy below international price. It will be a tripartite agreement with oil producers, FG and Dangote.

NGpatriot:
Leaders of tomorrow thinking like leaders of yesterday.

Investors are in business to make money, compensate their shareholders, create jobs, expand government's tax base and grow economy, they are not in business to offer discounts to do father christmas and operate little or no profits.

Investors are not trooping into Nigeria to build refineries that they know we urgently need for decades because of detrimental government price control and interference, it's always been a turn off, a turn off that we can not sustain if we must grow and develop as a Nation.

We can not keep crying, moaning and blaming the FG for lack of jobs and the poor state of things in the country while still advocating detrimental policies that's crippling our job growth, investments, progress and development.

Nigerians love awoof and they are always trying to have it both ways. You can not keep admiring and comparing Nigeria with advance countries while at the same time refusing to practice what they practice in the same advanced countries. They are where they are today because they make sacrifices.

The price of petrol or gas in the US and other advanced countries is regulated by the markets, not by the government. When the price of crude oil shots up, petrol pump price shots up, when it drops, petrol cost drops without any government involvement.

The FG can not keep subsidizing what should be determined by market forces especially now that we don't have that kind of money and on top of that, investors won't invest their money in environments where governments controls everything, this is also the reason why the Nigerian power sector is rubbish.

Investors refused to invest in our power sector because of government subsidies and interference which prevents realistic business judgements and creates flawed ROI.

Nigerians must wake up and smell the coffee, the FG must remove the feeding bottles and smililac in our mouths and position Nigeria for realistic and sustain growth, we must stop expecting awoof from the government and start paying the real cost of goods and services if we truly want real growth, jobs, money and a good economy.


Btw, just because Dangote is a Nigerian doesn't mean he's father christmas, investors, banks and other people put money in his business, Dangote is a Publicly listed company that must answer to investors aka shareholders who are my parents, you and your parents, your neighbors and millions of hardworking Nigerians. They did not buy shares and invest in Dangote for their money to be awoof money, they need returns on their investments to buy food, pay rent, send their kids to school and for a better quality of life.


Nigerians need to get real and start reasoning above conspiracy theories and petting anti government sentiments.


We can not have it both ways.

You did not get it right sir/ma. There is no competition here, so where will your market forces come in? Two thing must be clear;
1. In building the refinery, did Dangote enjoy any subsidy on the dollar rate? How did he source for dollars? If so, then he must pay back with interest because he benefited unhealthily.
2. You don't earn your income in dollar do you? if you earn naira like millions of Nigerians, then don't you think it is a good thing that to move from point A to point B tomorrow cannot be determined by any so called market forces in Nigeria? Hey, it will depend of the commodity market in the international market which is beyond your consumer behavior or whatever demand and supply you may wish to reference. It will be the third force and the major force.

I once said that you cannot dollarise your economy and expect growth, taken that government will stop spending dollar on fuel imports but what about graft? when govt becomes rich at the expense of the populace you can't achieve growth through diversification. At any given time over half of the country will be running on dollarised fuel for a country on the wheel? Common, its just sickening.

Hmn.

Has been to that city. Really beautiful l loke the city for real.

Churches cannot pay taxes because churches are funded by voluntary donations from members i.e. tithes and offerings. Members of the church are also citizens who have paid taxes at different levels and it will amount to multiple taxation if i have to pay government a part of my income which I deemed to be given to God, its a faith offering and because I don't share same faith with millions of others for instance who don't even want my church in their domain, they cannot be benefiting from my own offering to a God we don't share and this is why I believe taxes from brewery products such as beer should not go to states that do not share in the freedom of drinking beer. its either hypocritical or morally insane.

Churches are registered as Not for Profit, nothing is wrong with churches submitting their financials for accountability purpose but any clause that gives government power to appoint trustee for the church is a BAD as it signifies a covert intention for government to take over churches and other religious groups but I feel its the church that is the target.

The Bishop's position that Nigeria is our collective country is true and let me just advise politicians running in 2023, I believe most Christians will side with him on this issue and vote out against any politician that will not stand for the amendment of that law. Remember the corporate governance law that started it all but was shelved and cleverly inserted into CAMA one way or the other. Why must Nigeria share the same law with the UK? All the traditional altars that politicians go and all the monies they spend there, who gives the financial reports of that? who gives the financial reports of all the Islamic ceremonies like naming etc? The target is the church obviously and this will backfire certainly should the church rally around this in 2023. It will resonate soundly!!!

For Lawretta Onochie, she will pay for her utterance when she will need the church. God is watching.

To all those who complain about pastors holding the church as personal property, what exactly do you want? Your politicians use private jets, you are not holding them to be accountable, except for church members, if you don't contribute to a church you have no right to complain about the church's expenses! To those who complained about pastors riding fancy cars, some also complained when Jesus Christ rode a mule.Many pastors also have businesses that fetch them good money and they pay taxes on them so what are you really looking for? A poor church or poor Christians? The Bible didn't say Christians or churches should be poor because God is not poor, He has a city of gold.

Churches are some of the largest employer of labor in this country e.g RCCG, Winners, Christ Embassy just name it. They also contribute to intellectual and community developments having educational institutions, hospitals etc. I will advise Southerners especially Christians to weigh the impacts of the church on their lives and society and imagine if government has to run those churches through their proxies in the name of trustees!

This is a gift from God to us and we must appreciate it because you don't know the value of what you have until you lose it. I don't think church leaders were part of the enactment of a law that is not in the interest of the church because church members are Nigerians. THE VOTE WILL TALK and I hope people are reading between the lines

We need divine mercy. China, India etc are grasping with flood problems. Gid will keep it away in Jesus name

Trump will win with more electoral college votes than 2016. All these media influence to create false impression, biased polls just to make themselves comfortable. Look, the Presidential debates will expose Biden as he will need to communicate his intentions to the American people and battle a combative Trump. That's what his handlers has been avoiding with noise of shutdown and corona this corona that. Second, Trump is in the oval office and with stimulus package and step wisely recovering job numbers, he knows what's uppermost in the minds of Americans.

FAKE NEWS.

NEVER WILL DADDY ADEBOYE TALK THIS WAY.