If you get an Ethiopian Bible you will see it has remained untouched and has all the content. Plus Ethiopia is still using the correct 13 month calendar and are years behind us.
Let’s not forget that the first of the year is actually April not January.
If Jesus or Muhammad had emerged within Yoruba tradition, they might have been understood as Òrìṣà, specially chosen people known as “Eni Ori sa da”.
Despite repeated explanations, some still view our saints as evil and outsiders as holy.
CONTINUATION: TOTAL NUMBER OF MONARCHS WHO HAVE REIGNED IN YORUBA KINGDOMS:
9Ataoja of Osogbo — 21
10Soun of Ogbomoso — 21
11Owa Ajero of Ijero Kingdom — 31
12Alara of Aramoko-Ekiti — 40
13Oòre of Otun-Ekiti — 22
14Olofa of Offa — 24
15Olota of Ota — 20
16Alaaye of Efon-Alaaye — 43
17Aseyin of Iseyin — 40
18Okere of Saki—
19Onikoyi of Ikoyi-Ile — 40
20Eleruwa of Eruwa — 17
21Owa of Igbajo— 30
22Owa of Idanre— 26
23Olukare of Ikare-Akoko— 17
24Olubaka of Oka-Akoko—y)
25Oloja of Epe
26Olojudo of Ido-Ekiti —42
27Olojudo of Ido-Ile—47
28Ologotun of Ogotun-Ekiti—32
29Oloye of Oye-Ekiti—
30Olosi of Osi-Ekiti—30
31Elekole of Ikole-Ekiti —- 33
The list continues…
The Tax Expert Turned Petroleum Minister Trying To Be Smart By Half
"We don't have 700,000 barrels of crude to give Dangote refinery for now ..." ~ Minister of Finance
First, I don't know when a tax expert turned Finance Minister now equally turns oil and gas expert and Minister of Petroleum - to be the one in the best position to discuss and lecture Nigerians on petroleum matters.
That aside, if it is the Atiku production subsidy plan that the Finance Minister is trying to discredit in this interview on @channelstv, then he clearly missed the mark.
The Atiku Production Subsidy plan is not asking us, neither would it require us to give the Dangote refinery 700,000 barrels of crude per day.
That is a mischievous submission aimed at misleading and emotionally blackmailing Nigerians.
The Dangote refinery itself knew that it couldn't realistically - at least in the short run - depend 100% (or solely) on domestic crude to run its 695,00bpd - now higher - capacity refinery.
It always knew it would need to augment with imported crude.
A question that should be asked is, why does the Dangote refinery have to import upwards of 80% of it's crude need?
The PIA that they love to mouth has provision for crude for domestic consumption. Why are they not respecting that?
It is mischievous to suggest to Nigerians that the only reason Dangote refinery is sourcing crude from abroad is because we don't have enough crude to sell more than the quantity we are selling to it.
The other truth that they won't tell you, is that, the way and manner the pricing is being handled puts Dangote refinery in a position where it finds it more convenient to buy from outside.
That definitely wasn't the intention and expection when we pulled all the stops to support the refinery to completion. The question should be, why?
Beyond those, the critical questions that the Minister (and the administration) needs to answer are:
1. How much crude do we need for refining for domestic consumption? It's not 700,000 barrels per day. It is much lower than that. It has variously been put in the neighbourhood of 300,000 bpd (maybe less).
That's what the Atiku subsidy plan is concerned with - not 700,000 barrels/day.
2. How much oil is our own today after the deductions? The Minister mentioned 100,000 barrels which was in the past according to him. When asked how much it today, he said he doesn't have the figure.
That is critical to the honest conversation. If he doesn't have that figure, how can he legitimately have that conversation?
Meanwhile, the Minister smartly avoided saying that the Tinubu administration itself entered into forward crude sale agreement - Project Gazelle - worth $3.3 billion with the AFREXIM Bank in August 2023, which is one of the most significant crude-backed financing structure that we have.
Under that arrangement, NNPCL under President Tinubu agreed to supply 90,000 barrels of crude per day from Production Sharing Contract (PSC) assets.
As of the time that this administration went into the Project Gazelle arrangement in 2023, I couldn't find evidence that there was more than about $1.5B worth of forward-crude-sale that the administration inherited - which was being duly serviced by its predecessor. So, who is fooling who?
Why did the Minister leave off that significant information?
The government and NNPCL need to come clean with Nigerians on our daily crude for loan obligations. The actual figures - as significant as they are - tell a different story.
It is a problem when a government cannot be honest, transparent and forthright with its citizens - instead of cold bloodedly and calmly lying to them or trying to hoodwink them.
Unfortunately, that is an art that this administration has perfected.
The administration has clearly shown that it has neither the sincerity nor the capacity to handle these issues and to solve Nigeria's problem. It's time for it to give way & I'm glad that the majority of Nigerians have realised it.