I am also late on writing on this recent upsurge in terrorism in Nigeria. I mean for several years on this blog, I warned that this day would come. In fact, it would get worse. If the terrorist decide to run over for example Yorubaland as we write, there is nothing that could stop them.
I wrote immensely about the unregulated influx of unknown people into Yorubaland, Lagos especially. Let the governor of Lagos State take a tour of the state and see how the population of undocumented people have increased astronomically. There are several potential terrorist cells across Yorubaland. I present to him Festac town as a case study. Let him visit 3rd avenue. He should get to 7th avenue and now 24 road by 721 road.
Lagos and infact Yorubaland has been under siege and the terror cells are there.
So, during the recent attack on Yorubaland, I didn’t know what to say or write because the things I warned about on this blog were playing out like a movie.
Nigeria is not a country. We do not want to come to terms with the fact that we need to split the senseless British colony into the precolonial countries.
Imagine having the Yoruba Army, The Yoruba Navy, The Yoruba Armed Forces and the Yoruba Police, how on earth would we not defend our Yoruba country?
Yoruba country need to wake up and emancipate itself from the oncoming domination of her country by the Fulani.
If the US comes, it may end up in negotiations and Yoruba soveregnity might be lost forever. The US has a history of leaving bitter pills behind.
It is only the Yoruba that can defend Yorubaland.
Nigeria is not a viable country and the stupidity of the british in joining countries that have nothing in common in 1914 ought to be reversed immediately so that we can defend our country and our ancestral land,
I am unable to write about the useless unitary government here, I don’t even have the time to write about the nonsense Abuja politics.
How many people know that most European countries will perish if the money wasted on Abuja politics and Abuja politicians disappear from their countries. They won’t last more than 6 months or a year. That is how expensive, foolish and meaningless Abuja politics is.
As far as I am concern, it is Yoruba country or I shut up. I don’t believe in Nigeria. I have only sympathy and empathy left for Nigeria/Nigerians.
I have not been writing regularly for some reasons. One is the fact that my blog which is about 2 decades old contain most of the issues that plague Nigeria. I could also blame the nature of my work and working hard to make ends meet.
Tinubu released some names this week regarding possible ambassadorial posts. One of the criminals on the list is one Omokri who participated in the looting of Nigeria under Jonathan. I consider him a criminal and therefore take almost no interest in what he post or spew. I do come across reactions to his posts so invariably I know a lot about the nonsense he propagate.
My take is still that Nigeria is a business empire more than it is a country. That is why criminals parade themselves as politicians. That is why, like I always state, rather than living in prisons, the politicians are in Aso rock and all over the government houses in Nigeria acting as leaders.
That is why a former criminal under Jonathan’s regime who is a known liar and haters of certain ethnic groups in Nigeria would get a nomination to be an ambassador. The same criminal who boasted that he will never under any circumstances accept a position under Jaguda Tinubu.
It can only take a jaguda government to employ criminals all over the place.
Until my last breathe, I will be for the dissolution of Nigeria and the emancipation of all the powerful nations entrapped within it.
Therefore, though I detest the situation in Nigeria, I should care less of a certain nonentity called Omokri.
My focus is still about the Yoruba country which I would like to see in the fore front of world affairs (even if I have to see that from the grave).
Those hoping that another government other than Tinubu’s jaguda government can fix Nigeria are myopic. I always say, after observing Nigerian politics since 1979, and seeing no changes in all those years, I’d be a fool to believe in a regime change. Nigeria will never work!
It is only the nations entrapped in it that can rebuild and bring their people closer to the meaning of life, allowing them to pursue happiness, peace, love and prosperity with what nature has endowned on them and with the human resources at their disposal.
Do I need to say again that the unitary system of government is the most useless, most senseless and most stupid system of government any country can practise. Until that system is abolished, until Abuja politics is erased and the criminals in the useless senate/house are sent back to the constituencies, we are all just complaining in vain.
We are used to addressing symptoms, and always afraid to kill the disease. Since 1966, that is what “Nigerians” have done. The day we are ready, the demands are clear: take us back to pre-1966 coup or give us our countries: Yoruba Country, The Igbo Country and so on.
It has been 18 years since I started to write this series: My Random Reflections. Usually, they bothered around my personal life and Nigeria. In recent years my focus shifted from Nigeria to what I expect of the future: a future that Nigeria would be dismantled so that the entrapped nations/countries in it can be set free to attain greatness and align with the super powers of the world. It is such a shame and a waste of human resources that both the intellectuals and fools in Nigeria are talking about a certain 2027 elections 2 years into the useless reign of the present regime. Invariably, each successive regime since 1999 govern stupidly and loot for 2 years out of four and spend the remaining two years planning for the next elections thereby bringing an already useless government to a total halt. This is the cycle since 1999 when one dictator called Abdulsalami finally handed over to Obasanjo to usher in a civilian regime. The return was overdue because in 1993, another criminal and dictator called Babangida refused to hand over governance to MKO Abiola who won the 1993 elections.
My stand on Nigeria.
I do not support Nigeria to exist as a single country because before the senseless and useless coups of 1966, Nigeria as it was, was a rising superpower courtesy of the regional government where each region supported itself through her own resources and the competitions between the regions meant that development was fast-paced and the regions were at some point faring better than almost all the European countries.
Yes, Western Nigeria was ahead of London and Paris before the coups of 1966 that brought a unified system of government to replace the regional government. I have flooded my blog with this historical perspective several times and since many young people do not know these historical facts, they are being fooled quarterly with fake elections that have buried Nigeria permanently as one of the worst places to live in the world.
I refuse to accept any tourist or tourists’ slogan that rate Nigeria high. The minimum wage in Nigeria is about N70 000. It cannot buy a bag of rice! Any Nigerian living on minimum wage cannot afford a 1 – 3 hour stay at any internationally rated tourist destination in Nigeria. So, please let that rest. There are several other arguments to support my claim that Nigeria is one of the worst places to live on earth. Drive around Festac and see a trip to hell. Drive off Lusada road. Drive Matogun area. Forget about Lagos Island where the distractions blind you from the realities of our lives in this country. For the past 3 weeks, from the end of June 2025 to this day the 13th of July 2025, you cannot register a SIM CARD in Nigeria. Is that even a country? Please…! Where else on earth does network that bothers on national security stops working? Where? Then you don’t get any official information and no date for activation of the network can save or take the lives of 200 million people.
The Value Of The Naira. The Black Out Factor.
The naira which is the official currency of Nigeria used to have more value that the pounds and dollars a few decades back. Today in 2025, the value of the naira is next to useless. A medium fancy mama put in Nigeria will demand N5 000 from you for a decent meal. In the lowest of category, maybe N2000 when you finish ordering 2 spoons of rice, one meat, 3 for N100 dodo and water for N200. In some places where they serve you meat, the meat is as small as a SIM CARD. It’s not better to cook at home. What can a minimum wage of N70k do? You can spend it in a few minutes buying bread, rice and yam. A lot of good food substances in Nigeria are out of the reach of the ordinary citizen today. What a tragedy for the value of the naira and what it can take home.
The value will continue to depreciate as long as the government remains corrupt. The politicians pay themselves huge wages, several millions per month to be sure. The country relies heavily on oil that belongs solely to the people of the Niger Delta. Production and manufacturing are declining or non-existence. A key factor here is the near total absence of electricity in Nigeria. In 2025, electricity remains scarce in Nigeria and it is essentially seen as a luxury. The Power Holding Companies are grossly incompetent and the infrastructure to maintain constant power supply in Nigeria does not exist. Several homes and companies that used generators or power plants have given up. The cost of fuel to run their generators and plants have increased astronomically. Nigeria is a typical scene for survival of the fittest. Eat or be eaten! The government does not work for the people. The government is dissociated from the ordinary citizens. The politicians and the people live in parallel worlds.
Our Health
One familiar news that came up this week was Buhari and Abdulsalami as patients at a London hospital. These 2 useless former rulers in Nigeria are old and receiving treatments abroad. If you want a reminder of how useless all former Nigerian rulers are, this piece of news is it. How can you be a president in a country and you do not deem it fit to build a hospital of international standard where you, your family and other citizens can receive treatment? I made a recent post on this topic. How crazy, how stupid can you be not to use your position to build hospitals across the country? People will not shout tribalism if you started it in your hometown and extend it nationwide. These rulers are fools!
What Next For Nigeria? Where Do We Go From Here?
Nigeria is planning an election for 2027. Already in 2025, governance is almost at a halt. It is the 2027 elections that is on the mind of the gullible citizens as the politicians formed new fronts, now coalitions as if anything is new. In a post on this blog, I have tagged Atiku as Nigerians biggest political prostitutes based on the number of parties he had formed or joined and in 2025, he lived true to that tag. In Africa, Atiku is the greatest political prostitute ever. Now, I have lost count of how many political parties under his arms.
In 2011, I dismissed any new elections in Nigeria. In 2025, my stand is the same. Elections in Nigeria will bring more poverty, more impoverishment, lower standard of living, ever sinking value for the naira and a life-long experience of hopelessness for a population approaching or probably over 200 million people.
Nigeria jagajaga in the lyrics of Abdulkareem.
There are flashes of comfort and affluence here and there but those in my opinion are distractions.
To get a picture of Nigeria, you need to visit places where the ordinary citizens live. Live among them, experience their pain, fear and anxiety. Those who said it is fun to be in Nigeria are the rich and powerful. They also include the people Fela described as suffering and smiling. 44 sitting, 99 standing!
Is there anyone in Nigeria today who can survive on a minimum wage of N70 000 naira which is less than USD 50/ month? How can a human being live on USD 1,5 per day? In 2025, you are expected to live on 1.5 dollars or less per day.
So, where do we go from here?
This generation of people or citizens preparing for the 2027 elections are wicked, callous, and selfish. The politicians and the general citizenry alike are evil.
Nothing good will come out of those elections. I have seen Nigerian elections since 1979 and the outcomes are the same and the culmination is staring at us in the face. Why do you want to do another useless election to promote insecurity, poverty, impoverishment, sadness, madness and total citizen disorientation? Why? Why?
There was a system before the 1966 coups that put the different regions in “Nigeria” at par or even ahead of the rest of the world. It is that system, an adaption of it or an outright dissolution of Nigeria that is the way forward.
I make bold to state that there is no politician or group of politicians that can save Nigeria under a unitary system of government. It is senseless, it is barbaric, it is madness, it is unheard of. It is not the solution. It is the ONLY PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA because it gave birth to all he myriads of problems we are facing.
So, why do you, why do we want to keep doing something that has been tested since 1966 and proven to be a failure? Who can explain that to me? I am a teacher and, in my training, you are not supposed to be planning to fail. Your goal is to succeed.
2027 elections in Nigeria is an affirmation in the belief of Nigeria to stick with failure. I will never understand it now and for the rest of my life. Never!
The system of government must change or the nations or countries in Nigeria must be set free. This is the only guarantee that greatness can come to this region in the next 2 to 3 decades. The fact that the change has not even occurred means that we have one or two generations already programmed to fail through the senseless unitary system.
I hope that our children and grandchildren will prosper in the Yoruba country. I have no hope other than that.
The month of march 2025 has been a remarkable month in Bongo-Nigeria. There has been a back and forth laceration, mostly online, between those who criticized and those who support the useless and terrible government in Nigeria under the rulership of one Ahmed Tinubu, a man whose real names and identity are unclear.
I am Yoruba and if you think that I am behind any form of criminality or unclear personality, then you are probably crazy or out of your mind. I do not confuse Yorubaness with criminality or stupidity. There is no Nigerian politician that has won my heart in terms of service, decidation and selflessness.
My arguments on this blog have moved beyond sustaining Nigeria so I almost have no sympathy left for the agitations of the Nigerian. If I had a choice, I would be carrying a Yoruba Republic passport and would lay down my life for the Yoruba race, for the unborn generations so that they don´t get wasted like us, our parents and grandparents. Nigeria is not really my business nowadays.
A lot of people are complaining about Nigeria, as if things will get better. Is Nigeria the country of your dream? How old are you now and what do you know about the fraud called Nigeria? Do you know the meaning of life? Do you know what it means to live and let live?
The youthcorper girl may think she was making honest remarks about Tinubu and Nigeria but the matter is beyond all of that. Such a street-wise girl should be in her region contributing to the development of her people and her community. If she was in Lagos as an expatriate or for a business trip (in my fantasy Yoruba Republic), she would only need to do her business and go back to develop her state. She would not have any reason to call the president of a Yoruba country a terrible president. (We would do that ourselves and probably the gods would have used thunder to deal with him even before he becomes a terrible person).
Nobody can fight for and liberate Nigeria (as long as Nigeria is still one country created for the pleasure of the Queen of England). Nigeria which means nothing to the Youth corper or to any of us for that matter is not worth fighting for. It is only worth getting liberated from.
What is worth fighting for, worth living for and worth dying for, is the freedom of all the nations that are enslaved within the British colony called Nigeria. In private communications and severally on my blog (which is probably the oldest individual blog in Africa), my take is that Nigeria will NEVER get better to such an extent that an ordinary citizen would live a good life in it.
Nigeria as a “collection” of several nations is not sustainable. The amalgamation of Nigeria was done to establish Nigeria as a business enterprise, and not a country. The name Nigeria was probably coined by a mistress to one gangster called Lugard.
Little wonder history was removed from the educational curriculum in Nigeria. The politicians are oppressors who have taken the ways of the colonialists and descended it on a real hell called Nigeria.
If there was a return to the regional governments or totally independent nations of Yoruba Kingdom, Biafra/Igbo Nation, Delta South and Arewa North, by now, we would all be making progress and competing again on all fronts: science, medicine, sport, infrastructure, healthcare, music, housing and clean environments. These are the issues that our struggles ought to revolve around.
The government is terrible, we the people are more terrible. We will never speak with one voice, yet we do not agree to go our different ways and develop our communities and our regions. I see and hear how Yoruba have been defending their terrible Tinubu (a man whose real identity, origin and age are still unknown).
There is so much to say and so many points of views. It is more than time to end Nigeria for good, Those supporting the criminals in government since 1960 and those opposing them will line up like zombies in 2027, they will repeat history, call it election, and expect different outcomes. You cannot convince me that we don´t have collective dementia in this enclave called Nigeria. it´s been a cycle of idiocy telling ourselves that we have political parties representing us. What we have are opportunists (you and I) waiting for our time to capture some political offices and steal money. It´s a general mad situations.
Historically, “Nigeria” under independent regional government was one of the best places to live in the world. The different regions within Nigeria were pacing to “global peak” because of the competitions between the regions. They tried to outdo one another in several aspects of life and only became a country mostly in sports as team members were picked or selected on merits from the different parts of the land.
Fast forward to post civil war Nigeria, what exists today is a bloodsucker country. There are no level playing fields. All politicians are criminals. All the religious citizens are hypocrites. The same people who go to mosques and churches daily are the same people perpetrating all the hates and wickedness across land. There is no strength in our diversity, we hate and kill.
How do you even want to start governing Nigeria? A cattle rearer would move his cows into all the farmlands on his way from the North to the south. How do you talk to someone who does not understand you, your language, your culture, your heritage and your ways of life? How can people who have nothing in common claim to be citizens of the same country? How can you come from the same country when you cannot live freely across it? The insanity across the land is profoundly indescribable. We are living a lie. We are living in denial. We are not one people, we will never be.
Those who capturte the center steal, loot, merry, cart away and then die (the part they forgot exist). Their accomplices, their children and their heir apparent would carry on the same shit. The rest, more than 200 million people, would be shouting one Nigeria but never experiencing the true meaning of life. They live predominantly in a blackout country having no electricity, no good roads and managing decaying or non-existent infrastructure. What kind of country is that?
I could go one. Indeed, Tinubu is a terrible person, so was Jonathan, Obasanjo, Atiku, Babangida, Buhari, Shagari, Abacha, Sonekan, all the past governors, all the present governors, all the sexists in the senate like Akpabio; have you forgotten one David Mark, a Bankole? They are all terrible, they are all criminals!
Their types will continue to exist and dominate until you sit at home during the next election and force the disintegration of Nigeria into the different regions. This would not even be the EUREKA. It is not the final solution. But it may serve as a step in the direction that may give hope to the next generation.
The emergence of the regions would give positive outcomes in 2 or 3 decades. To have not even started the journey and hoping that the price of garri would come down tomorrow is pure madness! How would Lagos not smell when the youth corper and her types across Nigeria flood to Lagos for the “goodlife”? What happened to developing business, social life, infrastructure and better life across all the nations that that entrapped in Nigeria? We knew that the population in Lagos is over exploded with many more tropping in on the limited infrastructure on ground. If we all go back to our independent countries and leave Yoruba Republic alone, maybe Yorubaland will stop smelling.
Nothing is going to get cheaper in Nigeria, a consuming economy. It is a rat race and it is the classical survival of the fittest environment. You adapt and survive or you go through life in the most worthless way. Nigeria does not care about you!
You should care about those whose life may also be wasted like yours and mine, you should care about your children and unborn generations. There are no immediate fix to any problem you see. No problem is fixable in Nigeria. But all the problems can be fixed if we go our separate ways and talk to those who understand our respective languages, those we share culture, customs and tradtion with. We need to sit down in our respective lands that our ancestors left to use and find a way to prepare the future for our coming generations.
No matter how much you wish for, or complain in a British colony called Nigeria, it will never get better. I have been hearing and engaging in this type of discussions since 1979, and this is 2025, nothing has improved. You have zero chance in Nigeria but you have all the world to prepare for in your country, the one the imperialists and the colonialists stole from you. It is there you have hope. It is there your children will find peace and prosperity.
A rethink on Nigeria’s independence. Is it worth celebrating?
By Adeola Aderounmu
The idea of Nigeria celebrating indpendence from the British gangsters should actually be re-considered. Is it worth celebrating in ways that glorifies the slave masters? I do not think it is worth celebrating that way, or in any other way anymore. We ought to get over the hangover of an unnecessary occurence (enslavement of our grandparents and the plundering of our resources). 64 years after the scam called independence, we the people do not still have any control over our resources and how we want to use it to improve our lives.
We need to get over the disappointments of the failures of our grandparents and parents in securing their dignity and self-preservation. Self-preservation is probably the most powerful instinct in safeguarding the existence of any (living) species. Therefore we need an affirmation that, for example, I am a Yoruba and that I existed before the British gangsters and fraudsters created a colony over my head for the pleasure of the Queen of England.
In a way, it hit me bad to see how the British colonial thugs would sit back and watch us dancing annually, laughing at us as we dance to our escape from their shackles. Sadly enough, many African countries are not even free yet. Several of them are still tied to their slave masters one way or the other. The influx of the Chinese and the continuous draining of our resources-material and human-attest to the fact that the Nigeria created by the British is far from being free and independent.
So, what the heck is the celebration for actually? Is it hard to see why Nigeria is in shackles and shambles? Is it not obvious that Nigeria will never be free? Is it hard to see that the nations within Nigeria need to be set free before we can even talk of anything close to independence?
Our days of ignorance can be overlooked. However our days of stupidity are unforgivable. There are so many traditional days and events in the nations that are entrapped in Nigeria such that everyday could be a holiday. There are so many days in the Yoruba calender as much as there are in the Igbo calender about our original Yoruba New Year, The Igbo New Year. Our festivals abound and there are countless number of days we could set aside to honour of our deities. We cannot even exhaust all the possible things we can celebrate in our different nationalities yet we stuck as real slaves choosing to celebrate the Nigeria that was created as an entrapment by British thugs who fooled and dishonoured our grandparents.
There is a reason why the so called nonsense independence day is held high. It is not unconnected to the criminal politics and waywardness of the people who own Nigeria. Imagine how sad they will become to know that we disregard British-made Nigeria and sought our own nationalities to lift, behold and uphold. Those who spend several billions of dollars annually celebrating Nigeria’s ”independence” are happy to keep it going. They are happy the way Nigeria is today, a wretched, worn out and devastated country where poverty and penury have shred into pieces the souls of the citizens,
My personal opinion is that Nigeria should stop celebrating October 1st. What has the British-made country achieved compare to the most advanced countries in the world? A country that cannot produce electricity is celebrating independence. Independence from what? It is laughable. A country that is not navigable in and out by road network is wasting funds on celebrations. I am not going to bore you about how disgraceful it is to flaunt the Nigerian identity in some situations. It is mostly on personal levels and the achievements of mostly young people over the years that the British-made Nigeria have made global impacts. A national identity will remain a mirage and all attempts to achieve prosperity for all will never come to light in a British-made country.
In all, it is not about forgetting the efforts of those who partly set us free from the shackles of the colonial thugs. The likes of Awolowo for example, I can honour as a Yoruba man. Let the other nationalities within Nigeria lift their heroes and let us ”worship” them as we like. But not on any fake date like October 1st.
We need to stop glorifying the colonial thugs and we need to stop flaunting our inferiority complex in the name of ”independence day”. Every man was born free and that glorification of those who chose to infringe on the universal rights of others either through slavery, colonisation or outright invasion must be stopped, now!
On Yoruba Kingdom, I shall stand. I was created a Yoruba, but forced to retain a British-made Nigerian identity. I celebrate my identity. Yoruba, Omo Oduduwa.
A View From The Scandinavian 