Scientification of Yoruba Ignorance and Hopelessness

By Dr Spinoza | 08 Jul 2009

You strongly believe that you know everything about everybody. You operate from the certain knowledge that every other culture or religious practice is evil except your own. Depending on the prevailing winds of political groveling and ass-licking by Olusegun Obasanjo of Yoruba land, you make your determination and pronounce one nation evil or good accordingly. If Olusegun Obasanjo is loved today by the devil, then the devil is good and democratic according to your fine mind.

Yesterday, the Jews and the Igbos were your objects of caricature and denunciations, probably because Olusegun Obasanjo and Andrew Young hinted to you that these two groups were against your selfish interests somewhere in the world stage. Today, Muslims and Islam are evil and backward per your understanding because President Obama refuses to visit you, to legitimize your backward goons in Yoruba land. Because you could not locate another trap to be used to bring down President Obama, you saw your opening in Islam and in his attempts to repair relations with the Islamic world. According to your Yoruba wisdom,

1) “Its been conservatively estimated that over 260 million people have been killed by rampaging Jihadists since that murderous Arab psychopath started the violently intolerant pseudo-religion 14 centuries ago. No religion comes anywhere close to Islam when it comes to religious violence and atrocities”

2) “Until Muslims learn to respond maturely to criticism, the Muslim world will continue to lag behind the non-Muslim world in all aspects of human endeavour – science, technology, democracy, human rights etc”

Obviously, you want your fellow Yoruba automatons to believe that you are knowledgeable in these matters. Hence, in your hotheaded and dogged determination to continue to deceive yourselves, you have been running around with your Yoruba mouth blazing as if you, in fact, know what you are talking about.

If technology, democracy, science, and human rights are necessary for development in Muslim world, why are these things unnecessary in your Yoruba world? If your “intelligent”, “educated” mind knows that self-development is important for Muslims in the Middle East, why have the same knowledge failed your kind in Ekiti, where your kind parades more PhD holders per square inch of land than any other Middle Eastern city?

In your cocksureness to show how “intelligent” you are, you continue to make a fool of yourselves. If understanding one’s self is a prerequisite to self-development and progress, you have proven beyond certainty in Yoruba Land that you are incapable of knowing yourselves. If applying one’s knowledge to one’s situation is the primary condition for development and progress, then you have failed yourselves for lack of self-understanding in Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Kwara, and beyond, because all Middle Eastern nations and cultures are far ahead of Nigeria in measurable vital statistics after a Yoruba Christian ruled the nation for 8 years. 

But you must continue to make your ignorant Yoruba noises because you strongly believe that we are ignorant of your motivations. You doggedly operate from the delusion that we are unaware that this is part of your strategy to divide, to confuse, and to cause conflicts so that you may continue to benefit from the hopelessness and divisions that sustain your parasitic existence.

Yesterday, it is was country X or belief Y. Today, it is country Y or belief X. It is never your culture or your rituals and backward mindset. It is always somebody else’s culture or practices.

Whether or not you like it, you must live with the documented knowledge that Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba animal, produced more deaths of Nigerians in Nigeria between 1999 and 2007 than all the deaths that occurred in all Arab nations between 1999 and 2007.  You must live with the fact that Olusegun Obasanjo and Lamidi Adedibu, and other geriatric Yoruba fools collected more revenues from the Nigerian oil wealth than all the previous Nigerian leaders combined, and yet you produced more deaths, decay, and destruction than all of them put together. These are your facts in the public domain, and nothing you say or do will change your Yoruba Facts.

Nigeria (after Olusegun Obasanjo – The Yoruba “Best”)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/NI.html
 
Infant mortality rate:
total: 94.35 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 13
male: 100.38 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 87.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 46.94 years
country comparison to the world: 212
male: 46.16 years
female: 47.76 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
22.11 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 70

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,300 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 180
$2,200 (2007 est.)
$2,100 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
70% (2007 est.)

Indonesia (The most populous Muslim nation in the entire human world)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ID.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 29.97 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 74
male: 34.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 24.77 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 70.76 years
country comparison to the world: 137
male: 68.26 years
female: 73.38 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
142.4 billion kWh (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 27

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$3,900 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 157
$3,700 (2007 est.)
$3,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
17.8% (2006)

Saudi Arabia (99% Muslims)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SA.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 11.57 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 148
male: 13.15 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 9.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.3 years
country comparison to the world: 69
male: 74.23 years
female: 78.48 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
179.1 billion kWh (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$20,700 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 58
$20,100 (2007 est.)
$19,800 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Iraq (99% Muslims - has been in a war for more than 6 years)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/IZ.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 43.82 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 60
male: 49.38 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 37.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 69.94 years
country comparison to the world: 144
male: 68.6 years
female: 71.34 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
36.92 billion kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 59

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$4,000 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 154
$3,800 (2007 est.)
$3,800 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Qatar (99% Muslims)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/QA.html
 
Infant mortality rate:
total: 12.66 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 140
male: 13.51 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 11.77 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 75.35 years
country comparison to the world: 80
male: 73.66 years
female: 77.14 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
14.41 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 79

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$103,500 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
$94,200 (2007 est.)
$85,800 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Sudan (considered a failed state)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SU.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 82.43 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 16
male: 82.48 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 82.37 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 51.42 years
country comparison to the world: 204
male: 50.49 years
female: 52.4 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
4.037 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 116

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,200 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 182
$2,100 (2007 est.)
$1,900 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
40% (2004 est.)

Somalia (considered a failed state)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/SO.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 109.19 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 6
male: 118.31 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 99.79 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 49.63 years
country comparison to the world: 208
male: 47.78 years
female: 51.53 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
280 million kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 167

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$600 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 225
$600 (2007 est.)
$600 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

West Bank (99% Muslims - this is also a nation with no single drop of oil)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/WE.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 15.96 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 123
male: 17.87 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 13.93 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.54 years
country comparison to the world: 89
male: 72.54 years
female: 76.65 years (2009 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$2,900 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 166
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Egypt (90% Muslims)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/EG.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 27.26 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 81
male: 28.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 25.51 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.12 years
country comparison to the world: 120
male: 69.56 years
female: 74.81 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
109.1 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 30

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$5,400 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 135
$5,200 (2007 est.)
$4,900 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
20% (2005 est.)

Iran (98% Muslims)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/IR.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 35.78 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 70
male: 35.98 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 35.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 71.14 years
country comparison to the world: 132
male: 69.65 years
female: 72.72 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
193 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 19

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$12,800 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 87
$12,100 (2007 est.)
$11,300 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
18% (2007 est.)

Ghana
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/GH.html

Infant mortality rate:
total: 51.09 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 50
male: 55.32 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 46.74 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 59.85 years
country comparison to the world: 184
male: 58.98 years
female: 60.75 years (2009 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.204 billion kWh (2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 97

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$1,500 (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 198
$1,400 (2007 est.)
$1,300 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Population below poverty line:
28.5% (2007 est.)

Question:
If a person does not know his problem or if a person does not admit that he has a problem or if a person spends every minute of the day, 24/7, pretending that he has no problem, will he begin to look for a solution?

The answer to the question seems very simple, but it is not. If the answer was as simple as the question suggests, Nigeria would be greater than America or UAE today. The question is the Yoruba Question that has become the Nigeria Question.
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300,000 Nigerian children die annually of malaria
July 8, 2009, Vanguard
By George Onah

Port Harcourt—About 300,000 Nigerian children die of malaria annually, while the disease also accounts for 30 million clinically diagnosed cases as well as 60 percent out-patients visits, the National Malaria Control Project, Federal Ministry of Health, has said.

Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at a two-day health training for journalists, Head, Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization of the ministry, Mrs Florence Ewoigbokhan, said malaria deaths in Sub-Sahara Africa showed that, 3000 people die daily as a result of malaria attacks.

Further to this, Ewoigbokhan said WHO demographic and epidemiologic models for malaria incidence estimation in endemic areas indicate that about seven in ten pregnant women suffer from malaria.

Disclosing the grim statistics, she said “ it shows that every year 11 percent deaths, which occur during pregnancy, were due to malaria, translating into between one and two in every 10 deaths caused by the disease.

At the training, which was organised in collaboration with the Rivers State Malaria Booster Project of the health ministry, she said malaria contributes to maternal anaemia, low birth weight and other complications in pregnancy, such as still birth, pre-term delivery and abortion.

The social mobilization officer begged non-governmental organisations, media, corporate bodies and stakeholders across the country to join hands in the fight against malaria to achieve the target of the MDGs in 2010.

On her part, the Programme Manager, Malaria Control Dr. Justina Jumbo, said the state government had purchased and distributed one million insecticide treated bed nets and about 3.1 million doses of anti-malaria drugs for pregnant women and other categories of persons.

A communiqué after the training called for an intensive enlightenment campaign on the effect of malaria, formation of monitoring task force to monitor the effective distribution of long lasting insecticidal nets.

It announced that the roll back malaria project of the state ministry of health should collaborate with relevant ministries of environment, local councils, education and NOA to educate the people on environmental management.

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The Nigerian malaise
By Abiola Phillips
Guardian, 9 July 2009

THERE is little to be said about the Nigerian malaise that has not already been said. In my personal odyssey of recantation, whenever faced with the challenge of the blank screen I ask myself - what new perspectives can you offer that have not already been divined? Few are the areas that have not been dissected and distilled, and all to what avail? Such is the unrepentant optimism of the scribbler however that though previous attentions remain unrequited, one continues to return to the arid well in the fading and forlorn hope that the earth shall one day give forth a hint of moisture.

I have for some time now been convinced that our desire and designs for material advancement have become the pre-eminent danger threatening our aspirations to sustainable nation-statehood. They lie at the root of our disabilities. While democracy is rightly prized, it is not and never has been anything other than an expression and reflection of the collective will. It is the very existence of the collective however that stands threatened by carnal cravings born of greed, acquisitiveness and avarice.

Before I am cast in the cloak of the sanctimonious, let me straightaway affirm that we are all daily deluged with ethical, moral and social challenges that test our rectitude - it goes with living in this territory. The degree of angst that accompanies such challenges is clearly a matter for the individual. The degree to which that angst predicates high-mindedness or otherwise, is also within the province of individuality. The consequences of how we react as individuals however speak to the wellbeing of the collective, making it fair and appropriate game for public comment.

Ours is a society where public idealism is constantly desecrated at the altar of private greed - a genre of greed that suspends and then abrogates ethical, moral and social imperatives. It is that form of greed that has facilitated the elevation of rationalisation to a species of reasoning. So it is that the gap between the anarchical state of our existence and our hopes for an ordered and orderly society continues to grow geometrically, propelled by the depths of our desires and our willingness to cast asunder all sense of propriety. In Nigeria, corrupt behaviour is regarded with equanimity, firmly positioning the nation in its own netherworld - a moral and ethical-free zone.

We are trapped in daily existential battles - the battle to be and the battle to have. Ideals are blunted and hope peremptorily denuded and discarded. Materiality subsumes our moral landscape, bespeaking ethical, moral and spiritual compromise and bankruptcy. Individual hypocrisy of Faustian proportions blot out perspective, dissociating the drive to satiate individual needs from the requirement to rise above our baser instincts.

We have neither hope for, nor expectation of rectitude from the guardians of our gates; righteousness has fled the coop and the word honourable is nothing more than a titular taunt our representatives flaunt in our faces. Where we come across these virtues we are struck by such a sense of dissonance that our reflex is to search for an Achilles Heel that will restore our faith in faithlessness. Whether we reflect on the conduct of those who serve the public or those privileged few in the public and private sectors for whom the public purse is their personal fiefdom, there is never a dearth of cause to despair. So it is that the principal impediment to the advancement of the Nigerian idea has become its own people.

There are, of course, deep flaws and structural defects aplenty in the Nigerian body politic - some congenital others not - that shall, with the effluxion of time, be addressed. They do not however obviate the requirement that Nigerians, individually, take responsibility for the nation’s frailties. I speak of Nigerians as individuals rather than as some abstract collective precisely because that theoretical construct is what has allowed the infernal buck-passing that has enabled the guilty evade their just desserts.

The concomitant of a renaissance of individual responsibility and accountability is that the state must not continue to constitute itself as a restraint on the people’s efforts; it cannot continue to be the cause of paralysing fear rather than the enabler of our self-realisation. That process will be by both systemic change and a rejuvenation of the pool of participation in active politics.

We require a deeper, more acute appreciation of the degree to which society’s structures are built and broken, elevated and energised, demeaned and diminished by individual deeds and omissions. What we daily do and fail to do as individuals - our deficits of personal and public integrity - have a direct bearing on the nation’s wellbeing.

Those that ought to be teaching these lessons and living these creeds have severe attention-deficit disorder, and are in dire need of reminding of the nexus between what they say and what they do. Instead of being the engine room of change and redemption, our social, political and economic elite have stymied us by overseeing a body politic founded on rampant dishonesty and rank hypocrisy. This disposition has attained critical mass, leaving us with a society with a collective energy for ill rather than for good.

The delusions that the self-congratulatory messages on the occasion of 10 years of democracy bespoke were mind-numbing, especially as they came from those that ought to be able to read the auguries more accurately. Most disheartening was the fact that much of the breast-beating was amoral; I personally was left feeling I was either witnessing denial writ large or evidence that the propagators inhabit a twilight zone.

Whilst not wishing to rain on the puerile and plentiful parades that commemorated a “decade of democracy”, I invite those that were deceived to please take a closer look. The likelihood of democracy being midwived by the reprobates and renegades that hijacked the opportunity for catharsis provided by the passing of Abacha, is as far-fetched as the idea of a self-reforming kleptocracy. Abandon hope all who look to these for renewal.

May 29, 2009 was the 10th anniversary of the return of civilian government and nothing more. Democracy remains very much in the realm of the aspirational. I have no difficulty in accepting that democracy is a process rather than an event but 10 years on, I find it difficult to discern the green shoots of growth in the parody that has been our lot; and, impossible to rejoice with the very persons that strangle the baby at birth. Even if one were to concede that the nomenclature of democracy is properly attributable to the last decade of bad governance (shameless examples of which abound from the executive, legislature and the judiciary), surely we are not absolved from our duty to be ever watchful. Our rights are repeatedly emasculated by the custodians of our common will and the guardians of our common good; their wanton disregard will not abate unless they are confronted with a high price for their high-handedness.

As a starting point, our public officials must be named and shamed. Most are thick skinned so the shaming must be palpable, shorn of subtlety for they do not do subtlety. People must be held accountable for their words as well as their deeds. The responsibility for and of public service and public office will not allow for the subtleties of similitude. Where actionable evidence exists or can be obtained it must be deployed to demonstrate zero tolerance for abuse in all its guises. There can be no statute of limitations on those acts that have rendered over two per cent of mankind confined and comatose. We cannot afford the leisure of grey areas as we seek to slay the dragon of corruption for it will not be slain while its spore and spawn reincarnate through their vice-like grip on the instruments of representative government.

Phillips, a legal practitioner, lives in Lagos

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‘One Family Is Oppressing The State’ - Oyin Saraki
June 22, 2009
By Astro Jewoola

The daughter of Dr. Olusola Saraki, Kwara state Peoples Democratic Party political godfather, Alhaja Aminat Oyinkansola Saraki, has confessed to a cross-section of journalists that her 75-year-old father and her brother, Governor Bukola Saraki, are oppressing the state and they do not mean well for citizens of Kwara state (a Yoruba state).

She made the confession during her ‘Know-Me-Tour’ at the Nigeria Union of Journalists Press Centre (Ladi Lawal Hall), Ikeja, Lagos. In her words: “Even though, I love my father but I am quite ashamed to tell the world that my father and my brother, governor Bukola Saraki, have been oppressing the state and they have never meant anything good for the people of the state. “For close to three decades, they have bestrode the politics and economy of the state like the proverbial colossus and with nothing to show for it. Only now, an infinitesimal class of selected individuals are getting richer at the expense of the poor innocent people. These group of people are easily traceable to the bootlickers.”

Oyinkansola Saraki, who came in the company of a six-man group identified as The Kwara Patriots, explained how and why the Sarakis are still dominating the political affairs of the state. “But I am now determined to expose them so as to put a stop to it,” she said. The younger Saraki equally berated her brother, governor Bukola Saraki, describing his six years governance of the state as a waste and self-serving. “For the past six years since he assumed office as the governor of the state, nothing tangible could be recorded to his credit, Oyinkansola declared. “Take a closer look at the much advertised Zimbabwe farmers at Singini. It has been fraudulently converted to Saraki’s farm. How long will it take rice to get to the streets and markets of Kwara State? Kwara State consists of sixteen local government councils but the only viable one is Ilorin West, and that is the seat of power. All other local government councils have been completely emasculated. “There must be a change of guard in Kwara State, and the Kwara Patriots, of which I am a member, is ready to fight them with the last blood in my vein.”

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Gov Bukola Saraki walks half–sister out, gives her 2 hours to leave Ilorin in her own interest
By Chidi Obineche
Daily Sun, June 30, 2009

Gov Bukola Saraki’S half Sister Oyinkansola has spoken of how her visit to him in government house Ilorin some yeas ago ended dramatically with the governor walking her out and giving her 2 hours to leave Ilorin in her own interest.

Her words:
“I met him before I decided to contest. Before, I was not interested in contesting. I came to Nigeria. I spoke to him. I saw him at the government house. I was to see him at 9’ o clock actually; but he didn’t see me until 3’o clock; though he was very busy that day. I saw him and we had a chat. And he just looked at me and said, is that what you come to say, and I said yes. That was 3’o clock in the afternoon. He looked at his watch.

He called his P.A, and said, can you escort my sister out here. And I give you still 5’o clock to leave Kwara State, or I don’t guarantee your safety. That was his exact words. Even at that, I didn’t leave. I am as stubborn as he is.

I visited the Commissioner for Women Affairs and a few of his commissioners to speak to them. I said, even if my brother is not doing things, try and do the right thing. But I didn’t succeed anyway. So, I left.

Fighting from the flanks

“Truly speaking, when you look at it from the outside, you’ll ask, why is it this family all the time? It looks like that but I am not on their side. I mean, if you read the papers, they have disowned me. Bukola came out publicly to say, I am not Saraki’s daughter; I’m a bastard; all because of all this. It is very painful when someone comes up to say oh, I am a name dropper. All because I am fighting this cause. It is a shameful thing.”