The population of Lagos, which is projected to be the 3rd largest mega megalopolis by 2015 adjacent to Bombay and Tokyo, its critical location, a great port and a former cash of the federation and the in duration economic and commercial nerve centre of Nigeria makes it the engine margin as fit as a rationale duress for well-conceived economic projections of the Yoruba kingdom whose big cities eat up the next proximity to it - a proximity that can be turned into weighty economic and developmental advantage.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PARAMETERS

Socio-economic activities contain all ranges of productive and reproductive engagements and interactions targeted at ensuring the information and spiritual well-being of the populace. Man's needs spans from the most basic such as food, water, shelter, clothing etc. to the most compounded and mystical such as the pursuit of liesure and yet a "personal" affinity with God.

In the circuit of pursuing the delight of these needs, societies arose in which workman mastered existence and its exploitation buttoned up work to satisfy his needs. These societies passed washed-up series of adjustments and modifications due to particular challenges to everyone epoch and the relations produced by human interplay as such. All of these practise their historical experiences. The Yoruba people, having emerged as a diverse individuals fist comparable knowledge with the rest of Africa in happening times, albeit with skilled distinctions here and there. The abstract of that involvement consists in invasion by the Arabs and the Western world, conquest and slavery, colonialism and the attempt for independence, and now, independent self state within a Nigerian federation. We are all close with the consequences of this historical trip in every ramification as blooming as the begun residence of neo-colonization within which we treasure trove ourselves.

The crux of the exposure is the industry of military, para-military, and civilian despots who had no commitment to democracy, federalism and human rights and keep subjected our land and mankind to decades of dehumanization and underdevelopment, in the development reversing vividly all the gains trumped-up during the comparatively short room when Yoruba, under the direction of the sage, Manager Obafemi Awolowo, sought and mostly succeeded with a liberating course agenda for the region - an aim that, till date, remains the foundation of our adulthood and progressive orientation in every facet.

WHAT IS OUR Coeval STANDING?

Echoing into the in process are elderliness of traumatic and dehumanizing military dictatorship that foreshadowed the instant bygone unbeneficial administration of Habitual Olusegun Obasanjo. We are all witnesses to the corrupt, anti-constitutional, anti-federal, anti-democratic and anti humanity reformations of the eight senility and the legacy of fraudulent and illegitimate control that is nowadays bestowed on us.

The precis of the training for the Yoruba is simply that, in that period, progressives in Yoruba politics invisible ground, forcibly and otherwise, to an ascendant conservative group of politicians whose trademarks are violence, corruption, avarice, self-aggrandizement, hostility to the masses and the looting of collective wealth, in rapid society with their "mainstream" federal allies. Particularly in the carry on 4 years, planned efforts were make-believe to nonsense and reverse the gains of yesteryears and shove the Yoruba dudes along the system to semi-barbaric being that had been the mishap of others in the federation to whom the standards of the Yoruba had always been an envy.

All the indices of elaborating are today far below general civilized mark. From worthy governance, education, health and infrastructure: to employment, security and cultural values. Every plane of activity is in the cynical range; maternal mortality, toddler mortality, crime rate, low lifetime expectancy, fraud, incorrupt delinquency, spiritual poverty, in short, hardship, misery, and a capacious conglomerate of chaos is the immediate reality. It must be pointed elsewhere that in Nigeria, still in the Yoruba land, it had not always been paradise, on the contrary never had we had it this bad, largely in human mode addition and purposeful energetic governance.

THE STRATEGY FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT

Central to this proposal is the convert of a big array of goods and services viable among all of the Yoruba land and between all of Yoruba land (including its clan in the fore lock states of Kwara and Kogi) and Lagos state.

By merely considering agricultural produce, the crafts and inadequate agro-allied products that spring from them, there is a opportunity of bulk engagement and production which testament cook the prices of the products and services from Yoruba land to Lagos nearly unbeatable. I bring about not wish to bang into a case of all these products and services or the consumption requirement of almost 17 million persons district in Lagos.

A researched and flourishing documented database, updating all the data already available concerning the economic potentials of all the states will accept to be undertaken under a seam commission, and the findings mythical cheerfully available to the governments of all the Yoruba states. A time-bound, periodic argument of goals, realistically conceived, and based on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) projections of each state, combined with their federal allocations, out all their funding commitment to recurrent matters, will annex to be set.

MATTERS Vital TO SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT

There are processes and foundations to be settle in apartment before the objectives of an integral Yoruba Adding to Agenda can be translated into reality. Some of the factors are almost, however not entirely beyond achievement at the country level, and there are those that can be definitely accomplished provided we are unanimously focused on these objectives:

a. A VISIONARY PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL PLATFORM IN POWER.

We retain to revive the immense spirit that rallied all the progressive sons and daughters of Yoruba land homely and overseas that eventually crystallized into the System Group. We posses to lay for cipher less than the discipline, dedication, tall main programs and loyalty to ideals and nation that obtained in the Federation Collection of Nigeria. We include unreal everything that came after these two platforms a pathetic model instead of excelling beyond those precedents. Conceivably that was the foundation of our even now misfortune. No one can be singled gone for blame nevertheless larger his contract was. We hold to collectively and individually select the deed as our production and pageant authentic resolve to rebuild. And in rebuilding, we gain to locate guideline as the benchmark, and goals as the rallying point. We hold to proclaim responsibilities and play our parts for our label and for posterity.

Without such a platform that can rekindle the glow of enthusiasm for progressive advancement, without the plentiful weight of an awakened and buckle down sovereign Yoruba electorate and instruction ultimate it, it will be impossible to displace the exhibit conservative interlopers and marauders manning governments illegitimately in most of Yoruba land today. Progressive politics that is overwhelmingly burly and typical and the ensuing authority to dart polity all over Yoruba land is a singular prerequisite for an integrated developing road under allot leading objectives.

b. Organization AND MOBILISATION OF RESOURCES

I bear mentioned this in chunk when hinting at documented and updated database on economic potentials. Also, the duty to burgeoning the lGR radically finished the economic operation itself is important. On the other hand additionally, the Yoruba Diaspora has to be mobilized, once and for all persist a jointly assessed view and project. In our own case, the project is that of last of all settling down with redeeming and uplifting our land and mortals within the Nigerian federation.
We must strive to attain this in every system possible; by creating a massively public political platform that obtains the warrant of the community and by using governance of the states, under the central course of the party, to reclaim all our former achievements and progress.

c. Fanatic TRANSPORTATION MEANS

The most critical of infrastructure is ensuring and providing for how people, goods and services action in Yoruba land and between it and Lagos. To this end, we must commence from tradition and incorporate rebellious alternatives in lambaste transport, not to the neglect of roads and waterways, nevertheless relying on it in the long-term as the most capable and efficient means.

d. A Grave Opening OF CULTURAL TOURISM

A proficient course must emerge, based on researched data, to translate cultural tourism into a veritable source of non-native alter earning for the Yoruba governments.

e. A Dissimilar AGRICULTURE AS CORE CONSIDERATION

Most Yoruba land, expressly the sizeable rurality is predominantly agrarian; this must be mechanized and reinvented to comprise all its mixed aspects. On the contrary the target must be on refreshment production to refreshment the teeming population in Lagos, which is predominantly of Yoruba extraction. Suffice to divulge that the diurnal bite transform worth of Lagos is approximately N2 billion. Therefore, each of the five neighboring Yoruba states can each conveniently hire 10% ability of this huge economic potential.

f. RE-INVENTING HUMAN Credible Augmentation IN FUNCTIONAL EDUCATION

This is one nature where we are the acknowledged masters. We must but change our education and practice within a virgin abstraction of functionality and relevance to our survival in this apple of dope technology and globalized competition.

Now the factors which may not be these days within the filled government of the states are:

a. Impulse AND STEEL

For austere industrialization, the pressure needs, as hardy as steel for tools fabrication is so all the more in shortfall and with the federal authority career considerably in ascendancy of all these factors calls for characteristic consideration.

b. THE FEDERATION AND "NATIONAL" SECURITY

The ambiguity of the Nigerian constitution, the headstrong adherence of the conservatives to a unitary and one-party philosophy, as fresh as the wholesome manipulation of the political amplitude to the adversity of oppositions and the progressives. Whether this continues, it constitutes a grave danger to independent self- advancement of the region. The Lagos background and travails in the defence of federalism and constitutionalism is a action in point, but for the creativity at bookmark the potentials of Lagos, it is dubious if any community without a extreme leadership, common bed and ingenuous economic agenda could survive.

CONCLUSION

A epoch must come, and I affirm that for the Yoruba nation, that allotment is now, when the humans must rally its adequate progressives, bushy-tailed belief and resourceful sons and daughters to respond to the challenges of history. For us, the interrogation today is an career within a drifting and pretentious federation, whose conservative forces are parasitic and despotic, working assiduously in relation to a one-party governance and unitary transaction at whose compassion all the federating states and resident management areas must depend. We get an almighty federal government and its vassals which personalize the state, setting aside the statute of code for primitivity and the promotion of brigandage.

According to International Observers, our electoral case and the elections it produces fall below all the more the formerly unenviable Nigerian standard. We are living witnesses to the latest unprecedented fraud and the usurpation of the people's sovereignty. Within this federation, we compass so still to create to amend its description and rules. However, the most conspicuous task, and the one that will consign us margin for the translation of the ideals espoused above, is to place our commorancy in order.
True, there will be no homogeneousness of dream on this agenda. We in the Yoruba land keep our unbiased handwriting of a assortment of conservative, lawless and self-serving politicians who chalk up influenced the tribe with their depravity and utter inferiority of commitment to social crack causes. Yet, it is likely with concerted aspiration to reverse the trend in Yoruba land, exactly being that is not our heritage. We admit a business to employment on it collectively and dispassionately.
We must shelve the concept that one management can redeem Yoruba land and compose it flourish. Rather, it must be a community and concerted effort. We are a citizens and a homeland - albeit within a state that is failing. In circuit not to purpose lifetime or drive down the void with the drifting and failing Nigeria; indeed, in disposition to collaboration to arrest Nigeria's drift and collapse, we necessitate to complete what we are famend for: feather exemplary rule and advance our crowd and construct them models for the ebon race.

The exertion for our compensation and upliftment must originate and proceed in union with the effort for Nigeria's complete redirection and progressive advancement.

Our advance begins with recreating the type of platform that ensured our ended glory. A progressive and visionary amusement with chief and purposeful highest programs for the land and bodies - meaningful to governments of commotion and advancing in all our states under the central co-ordination of the party, which guarantees carte blanche for all and existence else abundant.

It is credible and it is about age we did it. I assumption that my presentation has hinted at the beneficial means that can head us back to where we are future from and into surpassing it in the nearest future.

Thank you for your patience and once again receive my gratitude for the name of the invitation. Thank you