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Nigeria’s Full Blown Terrorism

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By Adeola Aderounmu

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.

When I go home, I will always be in Yorubaland.

Nigerian Embassy In Sweden Should Support Socio-Cultural Groups

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By Adeola Aderounmu

Nigerian Embassy In Sweden Should Support Socio-Cultural Groups

I was left completely disappointed that the Nigerian Embassy in Sweden have now adopted a policy where financial support is not given to the various socio-cultural groups under her watch.

In a more specific case, the Yoruba Union in Uppsala, which I represent as a member, did not get a financial support for the 2025 Yoruba Day. The event held on the 28th of August 2025. The embassy had no form of representation at the event.  

There are obvious reasons for my disappointment. As a writer and a social critic running one of the longest standing individual blogs on planet earth, I cannot let it pass. These are my personal views and they may not represent the views of the Yoruba community.

I must take a short trip back in time in order to come back to this argument.

Between 2010 and 2016 I was the president of the Yoruba Union in Stockholm. Among the best moments of those 6 years were the collaboration that we got from the Nigerian Embassy in Sweden under the leadership of former Ambassador Amobi.

The high points of the collaboration between the Nigerian embassy in Sweden and the Yoruba Union in Stockholm was the 2014 Yoruba Day celebration. It was the same year that the Swedish Museum brought the World Acclaimed Yoruba Art to Sweden and the Yoruba Union in Stockholm was on hand to present the cultural shows for the events.

To my knowledge, the Nigerian Embassy in Sweden through the efforts of Ambassador Amobi always supported all the ethnic nationalities that approach the embassy and his presence or that of a representative was priority number one. I remembered a meeting at his office where he introduced us (former executives of Yoruba Union Stockholm) to the then head of Mission knowing fully well, we need to be in good hands for the future after his tenure.

Personally, I will remember Amb. Amobi as a very professional career diplomat. Before him, I don’t remember any career diplomat in that office and after him, I don’t know what anyone has done to improve on the progress he made in building bridges and creating new relationships for Nigerians in Sweden.

When I went to the Nigerian embassy this summer (2025) without an appointment, I was hoping to be lucky, like it was in the days of Amobi who would assist anyone (even if he found them at the reception) without an appointment. Indeed, I thought I was lucky until the present head of mission walked past me in the reception. His personal assistant met me and gave me a letter that stated that the embassy cannot support the Yoruba Union in Uppsala.

I pointed to him that that was not the practise and he went to check the records. He told me that what I said was correct. He found evidence that the embassy in the past did support socio-cultural groups in Sweden (and probably in the Scandinavian if I can make a guess). With that piece of knowledge given to someone who worked close to the Ambassador, I felt some “victory” in educating him so that he could (if he dares) educate the rest of the staff that supporting socio-cultural groups should be a standard practise and not a policy that can be adopted or not.

I would like to be clear on the purpose of this article.

Ambassadors will come and go. Head of mission will come and go. The embassy must maintain a standard practice. For as long as Nigerian still exists, the embassy ought to support all activities emanating from the various socio-cultural groups still tied to the British-invented Nigeria.

Members of various socio-cultural groups have shown great courage. They give their time, money and energy to ensure that events and activities happen throughout the year. In addition, our families and friends from Sweden and around the world do what they can to support us in these various groups. The embassy cannot be seen as a failure in financial assistance. Even a token avails much. It’s a symbol of good gesture, approval and encouragement.

For the 2025 Yoruba Day in Sweden, I will like to thank the following:

Charles Adagbon, former president of the Nigerian Union in Sweden.

Lara Lekuti-Taiwo

Bamidele Akeredolu of Houston Texas. To my friends

Samuel Ayoola and Femi Ilesanmi.

Frida Säfvestad and Feyisara Aderounmu.

May Olodumare bless all givers. May they prosper beyond their dreams.

May the glory of Yoruba continue to shine around the world.

aderounmu@gmail.com

After The Rants

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By Adeola Aderounmu

Nigerians are currently ranting on the social media. It’s a welcome development to rant and share the problems of the suffering masses. A long time ago, I defined mass poverty even before other organisations started to use the term. Mass poverty in Nigeria has metamorphosed into population poverty.

The stunning prices of goods and services may not be peculiar to Nigeria but the dimension of it is devastating. If people earn monthly incomes that cannot buy a bag of rice, what kind of country is that? Is that a country or a concentration camp? I cannot understand why your transport fare to work is more than your salary and how people keep traveling to the work daily.

My message in this essay is the same that I have written a thousand times. Nigeria is not going to work for anyone based on the current socio-economic/political platforms on which the country is operating. A lot of people are wishing for a new government. They think one person in Nigeria can become a president and that hope will come, that prices of stuffs will come down. This is the mentality that ic difficult to cure or erase.

Let us be clear, there is no man or woman, living or dead, that could have met the expectations of the people based on the stupid unitary system of government in Nigeria. It would amount to waste of time, waste of energy and waste of everything to finish the rantings and not demand that those useless politicians in Abuja be sent home to their constituencies. I mean, people sit down in a certain national assembly, intimidate women, talk rubbish and make useless laws and cart home millions of dollars every month. Then all you want is a new president to supervise the nonsense in Abuja.

My take is that the system of government in Nigeria must be discontinued for any iota of hope to resurface. The unitary system of government is the most useless form of government in the world. It makes the government and the people unproductive. It creates an economy that is largely importing and consuming stuffs. The unitary system of government puts power in the hands of one citizen and makes him a dictator. This is what we have seen since the implementation of the useless 1999 constitution that Nigeria is following.

There is no more hope of a better life for adults in Nigeria. The best thing that can happen to an adult in Nigeria today is “management of crises” and provision of palliatives that can soothe or alleviate the biting economic realities. Young people have a little bit of hope left if Nigeria is dismantled today. They may still live 1 or 2 decades in their respective “nations” if they process to rebuild starts today. The people who can have the best of lives if Nigerias is dismantled today (2025) are the babies and unborn generations.

Babies and the unborn generations are the ones that a new future should be provided for. But to finish ranting and still be demanding for continuation of life in the present political structure of Nigeria is pure senselessness. It is wickedness to the babies and cruelty to the unborn generations.

Nobody needs APC or PDP or Labour Party in Nigeria. The countries or nations in Nigeria must be set free before any hope of a better future can arise. An immediate consttitutional change would be to adopt the Old Western Region, The Old Eastern Region and the Old Northern Nigeria. These countries must be allowed to emerge so that the competition in food production, proper usage of mineral resources and the development of infrastructure (that has comatosed since the civil war) can restart. A long time constitutional change would be for the countries to become independent of one another and act as neighbours powering one another’s economic interest in order to build the new super power region of the world.

Any other suggestion of election in Nigeria now or in the future is not only a mistake but also a permanent display of deficient intellectualism. Since 2010/2011 I have argued that Nigeria does not need any new elections, that every new election is a sentence to a life of impoverishment, a life of penury and poverty.

I have argue that no man in Abuja will solve the problems in Badagry or Maiduguri. It is the people of Badagry that will solve the problem of Badagry and it is the people of Maiduguri that will bring security to their land when they have to manage their own affairs.

It is unwise to think that Nigeria cannot be broken or that it should remain the way it is. If that is the case, then there is no need to rant, there is no need to complain. Let the people therefore live with the choice of the useless unitary system, the rat race system, the survival of the fittest government and an existence that is profoundly in trial, error and lottery mode.

Let us rants, like some of us have been writing/blogging for 2 decades but let it be clear, rants without the end of Nigeria, are wasteful rants.

That is the way it is, take it, or leave it.

AAA.

Young people in Nigeria