Most people, most Nigerians do not yet realise that they are victims of external and internal manipulation and brainwash! But in this short article, I will show clearly that we are not where we are for nothing! We are in the doldrums because we do not know the weapons of our enemies, let alone making efforts to combat them!

If you are observant, you would have noticed that almost inexplicably, our work ethic and moral values have taken a deep dive into the gutter. Even in communities and cultures that are well organised, you will still find an inexplicable level of decay and abandonment of those values that represent growth, stability, peace and security, and industry! Rather, on the rise are dubious vices, such as enjoyment, sense of entitlement and misplaced bigmanism.

This derogation is found in cities and in rural areas, but it is obviously more pronounced in all areas that consume information from the mass media! Obviously, our leaders are so ideologically vacuous that they don’t even know that a massive psycho operation is targeted at Nigeria so that our country will remain a dumping ground for goods of dubious quality. All this is going on and simultaneously our youths are coerced to imbibe a lifestyle of indolence and mindless violence against themselves thus keeping the country and it’s people constantly distracted.
To achieve this, these forces work though advertising and branding! They work through their companies transported here as multinationals and trans nationals! For instance, you can’t find the biggest foreign telecomm company supporting literacy and education. If they do at all, it is a token compared to the funds they push to support wrong lifestyles among our youth! Virtually all big companies of foreign origin house specialists whose entire function is the creation of morons, who are willing to buy and consume anything that is branded as trending.

The breweries are the second most profitable sector after petroleum, yet their agenda of social fabric destruction drives their marketing. They use music shows to penetrate the youth. They are even allowed to stage shows on campuses where the idea is for them to use such events to recruit more and more drinkers, thus distracting the leaders of tomorrow from their studies.
Are you then surprised that drunkenness is on the rise while reading culture is plunging? For that, hold the breweries and their advertising responsible.

Furthermore, to entice the renegade elite, these forces provide havens and easy routes for our money to be stashed abroad to the detriment of our people and our economy. These agents of foreign governments reinforce the concepts of black inferiority already implanted in these ignorant leaders to the extent that they consider their own people inferior. That is why you see Nigerian leaders eager to console France, condole with America rather than even take notice when catastrophic events occur in our own country!

Behind these operations are all western and Asian powers because they find it profitable to do so. Have you ever wondered why our country finds it easy to import phones rather than encourage local manufacturing? Have you ever wondered why the investments in power failed or why biscuit factories are closing, while we import prodigious quantities of biscuits from Indonesia and Malaysia?

I will tell you. These agents, through subtle means, propagate the inferiority of all things Nigerian! They believe in catching them young through mass media manipulation.

A foreign country once offered me a six months tour of their country on full scholarship and pay. I turned the offer down and my friends were aghast. They wondered why I didn’t take the trip to go and “enjoy.” I made them realise that all such invites are targeted at studying the individuals invited as well as thoroughly brainwashing them to make them psychological hostages. Have you observed the amount of pride with which the Harvard groups meet or the Oxford Alumni? Do the graduands of Nigerian universities have such love for their Alma matars?
Let me repeat it. Every time a leader or budding leader is invited abroad, he is subject of brainwash programmes so sophisticated that most people are too distracted to take notice!

Moreover through their local agents, they groom more and more leaders into weakening the political and economic architecture of their own countries. Who do you think prompted Blaise Campore to take out Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso? If you think the man did it himself, then you know very little about international espionage and distabilsation programs.

Back to Nigeria, you can see how such programmes are distracting the nation. Do you think it is for nothing that our country was degraded after our non-aligned stance in Africa and West Africa? Do you think that the Arab spring was organised from within? If you think so, then you really need a brain recovery surgery!

The way out is first, an ideological education of the elite and then the entire citizenry! For starters, I suggest that Censors Board get back and begin to do its job properly so that our culture will determine and regulate what is beamed to the undiscerning citizenry. Our journalists also need to join in so that we can recover our values and our country! We cannot afford a situation where all manner of corrupting concepts are implanted freely in our populace by those who seek our downfall. No nation grows that way. Uptil now, many discerning nations, including China or even Germany, do not allow ideas detrimental to their national ethos and wellbeing into their country.

That is the way to go. And that is the only way out!

AZeD1:
This has to be a contender for the worst post of the year.

Litmus:
Op is awakening, transitioning from educated to the enlightened.

Gentle034:
Good points raised and I agree with most, but then in the issue of alcohol, which country no dey shayo?

EnkayDezign4:


And why is that?

AZeD1:

Once people start blaming others for their failures, you know they've lost the plot.
Everybody is responsible for his or her life.

EnkayDezign4:


I guess you want to compare "Nation building" to "individual lifestyles". Besides no one is blaming anyone here, any smart person who knows how the global economy operates, knows that it's a dog eat dog world. Especially when it comes to economy, every country works to further promote it's foreign interests and rake in income at all costs.

We in Nigeria however, are still bickering over trivial matters and being heavily distracted by them that we're failing to progress our cause as a Nation. Now with all the wealth and population (population = wealth btw) that we have, there are definitely a lot of foreign corporations/countries/stakeholders interested. Religions are the biggest players albeit deadlier.

AZeD1:

Who's fault is that Nigerians are bickering over trivial matters?
MTN?

AZeD1:

Who's fault is that Nigerians are bickering over trivial matters?
MTN?

ProYouAdminsUK:
Who presents the trivial issues for us to bicker? Our news media. Who controls our media? the white countries.
Yesterday PMB signed an executive order to prevent foreigners taking jobs that Nigerians can do. Lookig on youtube neither NTA or Channels news
posted a video about this instead distracting us with Metuah on a stretcher.

Sapiosexuality:
Nice points. That was the gap I tried to bridge when I created www.mortalpoet.com It's a big task ahead because the spiritual base of a typical Nigerian is too unfounded to lend support.

I hope, op, you are not like Rossike who knows the west had no good intention invading Africa and Nigeria but still against those who hold that this country was structured to fail.

Gentle034:
Good points raised and I agree with most, but then in the issue of alcohol, which country no dey shayo?

MIKOLOWISKA:
don't mind
himYou think your problem is another country's.
It's like waiting for opposing football team to allow you to score
You fight back and find a way

Pepsi101:
Especially that useless BBNaija

AZeD1:

Who's fault is that Nigerians are bickering over trivial matters?
MTN?

wordcat:


Stop forming Socrates in matters you know little or nothing about

ProYouAdminsUK:
Who presents the trivial issues for us to bicker? Our news media. Who controls our media? the white countries.
Yesterday PMB signed an executive order to prevent foreigners taking jobs that Nigerians can do. Lookig on youtube neither NTA or Channels news
posted a video about this instead distracting us with Metuah on a stretcher.

Gentle034:

My brother, the blame game even tire me since 1900 fa, every time Europe, American China? Haba!! All these countries are the real parasite

that can't do without us, but cos of the greed

inherent in The black man they left that for a couple of dollar bills, they changed our economic system

to Foreign standard forgetting our own values all for just a couple of dollar bills?

It's quite shameful, I know the Europeans are crooked, but our black leaders are the biggest crook and they are our problem.

MIKOLOWISKA:

World market price? Who are the determinants of the price? How com they didn't use their people when they needed the human resources to build their industrial base? Why didn't they give their people the works in their farms?
How
Do they not pay world market price for whatever they get from you
Abi you expect them to add value when their own ppl need jobs?
We where not, we were very hard working, that was why slave trade boomed in Africa than any other continent.
Every one is greedy even African . Africans are just lazy waiting for mamma to fall from heaven
These System was developed by who? We had a well built System, our educational system was one of the best, where we talk about the Uni in Tumbukutu, Egypt was also another country that had a sound system and it was on record that civilization started from there. African economic System was centered around communal belongings. Europeans had individual pattern as their predominant system. ( I recommend you read "wretched of the earth. By Franz Fanon)

There are only two systems of economy, capitalism and socialism (which one is foreign, which one is African)

Communalism, the European devise all these economic system in other to just keep siphoning africa's resources. Which African reps was present at the Berlin Conference where African territory was shared among Erupeans?
What are our values besides socialism and capitalism?
The change in the world order brought about the new phase of followism. And the hunger wave brought that into foresight. Africa was never liked this, and we that read history back then in School knows that better, that's why they are trying to erase history from our curriculum they don't want us to know how in-human and greedy the Europeans are.
what about the followers that vote for rice and useless civil servants

Gentle034:
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MIKOLOWISKA:

How
Do they not pay world market price for whatever they get from you
Abi you expect them to add value when their own ppl need jobs?

Every one is greedy even African . Africans are just lazy waiting for mamma to fall from heaven


There are only two systems of economy, capitalism and socialism (which one is foreign, which one is African)


What are our values besides socialism and capitalism?

what about the followers that vote for rice and useless civil servants

AZeD1:

You choose what you consume.

Let us stop blaming others for our failures. It's not a crime to not watch TV, you can literally study for a degree from the comfort of your house.
There are tons of educational material available online for free.
Nigerians should learn to take responsibility for their actions.