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budaatum:
Due to ignorance, right?

Ignorance of those who put those ignorant people in charge, to start with.

You don't understand ignorance the way you think. It's not every incompetence is due to ignorance.

cococandy:
Or are we the woke cancel culture people who don’t think racists and awful people deserve to hold positions of authority ? Are you confusing yourself?

Please think carefully, pick a lane and stay on it.

All I see is empathy for awful people coming from you guys.

cococandy:
People hiring cops for Texans think he is.

He has faced the consequences isn't it?

Personally, I would not hire him but, you folks are champions of suicidal empathy. Accept this reality so you are consistent

GracieX3:
Keep licking the orange boot

Okay, he cheats in golf, so what?

cococandy:
Right. Because the only thing I need to complete my life now is more kids and an absent dad.

You'd love to do like IjeBos, taking photos in the Benz of his boyfriend. In your case as a baby mama, but you are not qualified. 😂😂😂

raumdeuter:
Too much. He loves crime given his background living a life of crime which led to multiple police detains

IjeBos is a pathological liar.

But they did not shoot him, so that contradicts his phobia of the police.

IjeBos:
Called it.
I wonder if he will be eligible for the weaponization fund? lol

The crazy thing is that the government could have done this the right way, deported him by now and saved the US tons of money.
But all they know is vindictiveness and incompetence.

Where's Raumdeuter to tell us all how this guy was a drug dealing terrorist.
At some point you have to realize listening to and repeating the Trump administrations propaganda always makes you look foolish in the end.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/judge-dismisses-criminal-case-against-kilmar-abrego-garcia-00934244

You love your criminals so much.

IjeBos:
He said Benz.
I guess his "company" "bought" him "another" car and he "upgraded' from "his" Range Rover.

Sooo many quotations.

Cococandy knows deep down she wants to be a baby mama, but I don't deal with women like her

cococandy:
Absolutely correct I’m not your type . I can afford my own Benz. Actually several Benzes, and not the beat down kind.

You can impress some other kind of lady with that Benz talk.. That’s why this conversation is very amusing no to me.Keep it to politics please . And find something safe to do.👋🏽

That's what they all say.
You'd be calling me everyday about how being a baby mama would change your life 😂😂😂

I'd be saying you are not my type.

cococandy:
Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Normally it goes from eeewww to taking selfie photos in my Benz 😂😂😂

You are lucky you are probably not my type.

DeepSight:
Look, I cannot quarrel with disappointment about things like that. And I am not saying you shouldn't be. There are many sixth things. For example I doubt that we will experience steady electricity in our lifetime. Look at the national carrier for example. What can we say across board, so many to point to.

It's just that you have to recognize that it's an arduous journey building a nation. Look at the difference made by the Dangote refinery. That alone probably means the years id fuel scarcity are over. It is gonna be a heck of long rough road, but that is the story of nations.

Rare are those tiny countries that have so much resources that they can just buy everything in one generation like a Kuwait or UAE.

I trust you know that with the UAE for example, the local people are just five percent of the population. The rest are expatriates. That is the kind of country you will try to compare with a Nigeria. That is madness.

This is exactly the point. You are now admitting the failure is real, but you still want to dress it up as nation-building is hard.

Nobody denied that nation-building is hard. The point is that you cannot build a nation without basic knowledge of maintenance, continuity, planning, and accountability.

How do you do that with no vision, no plan, no progress?

Look at Port Harcourt. I have watched them several times destroy roads, cause suffering, waste time, waste money, and bury pipes in the ground knowing very well that water will never flow through those pipes.

And even if water flows once, the system will collapse again because nobody is thinking about maintenance, pressure control, leak detection, service delivery, or long-term operation.

That is not a young nation growing. That is incompetence.

Projects are abandoned all over Port Harcourt because one government does not see the previous government’s projects as part of public interest.

Every new administration wants to start its own thing, award its own contracts, reward its own people, and destroy continuity.

That is why we keep going in circles.

I will be the first to recognize when things change. Our problem in Nigeria is not only with the politicians.

If you recognize the Igbo state of Biafra today, I can guarantee you they will start killing themselves and a new divide and struggle will appear within Biafra.

DeepSight:
And you , who will compare a Singapore that is a single city, and one quarter the population of Lagos to Nigeria that is over three hundred ethnicities and over two hundred million people, you can tell the difference between an apple and an orange?

Let's say Nigeria's water board was functioning at 15% in the 90s, then it vanished instead of moving from 15% to 20%, reaching more people.

That's a fail, it's a failed state.

cococandy:
No. You’re not welcome.

Funny you with all these relationships on the great grandfather’s uncle’s mother’s side 10x removed. Mtchew 🤣

You might just become another baby mama 😂

Women can't resist my smooth talk.

The good thing is, you are probably not my type. I am 98% sure of that

DeepSight:
You really have to realize that you can't compare apples with oranges.

Palestinian land is imaginary? Lol.

Lol,

You can't tell the difference between an apple and orange

DeepSight:
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Israel is a terrible example for the above reasons, but aside from this, it actually already existed as a full Kingdom 3000 years ago.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.

Make excuses and constraints all you want o 😂

It does not explain why Nigeria could not maintain water boards and electricity.

And see how he just robbed the Palestinians off their imaginary land and state 😂😂

basilico:
PH?
My friends sowed wild seeds in America and obtained papers.
You need mentoring on these matters😆😆😆

😂😂😂

If Cococandy gives me her house address, I will go and visit her if I am heading that way.

I have an uncle in California and a neighbour from my grandfather's compound growing up.

DeepSight:
Nonsense.

Sixty years is not one thousand years.

Think for heavens sake, think!

England example is nonsense?

Don't come back tomorrow and take it back and be too dense to see you have taken it back oh.

I asked you a question before you evaded.

Show me one developed nation that is only sixty years old.

If you can, I surrender.

If you can't, you are talking trash.

Israel

cococandy:
But people like Bemeruca have to “leave”.

In parentheses because we know he isn’t actually in the states.

You mean in quotes.

I have been saying I am in Port Harcourt, why do you guys not believe anything I say 😂😂😂

But I am not leaving, it does not apply to me.

DeepSight:
How hard is it for anyone to understand that the life cycle of a human being is not the life cycle of nations? Nations grow and develop over far longer stretches of time.

How hard is it for anyone to understand that a child must make the mistakes of children, an adolescent must have the impulsiveness of adolescents. Why, bemeruca can you not get this into your head. How do you want a 60 year old nation to mirror an England that is over one thousand years old? How do you want a teenager to be the same as an elder?

How are these normal cycles of growth suddenly incomprehensible?

It seems you don’t know anything about building, project delivery, or management.

Nations do not develop by normalizing failure and calling it growth cycle.

Development starts with vision, planning, standards, maintenance, accountability, and execution. You are trying to make excuses for failure by comparing nations to children and teenagers.

Even your England example is nonsense.

Some buildings and infrastructure in the UK are centuries old and still functioning because when they were built properly according to the technology and standards of the era they were built, and they were maintained till date.

The concept. Is called continuous development.

That is the point you keep running from.

We are not asking a 60y old nation to magically become a 1000y old nation overnight. We are asking why, after 60 years, we still cannot maintain basic water boards, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and public systems.

A teenager may not have the wisdom of an elder, but even a teenager is expected to grow, learn, take responsibility, and stop repeating the same foolish mistakes. If a 60y old nation is still blaming childhood for every failure, then the problem is not age.

The problem is leadership, institutions, culture, corruption, bad choices, and lack of accountability.

You are not explaining development. You are romanticizing failure.

bayelsaowei:
Bemeruca.. oya where do you reside?

Come and answer.

🥸🥸

You were asked a simple question. Instead of answering it, you ran away because you know admitting the truth would contradict what you believe in.

The point is simple: something useful can come out of something bad. That does not make the bad thing good.

If you say English is automatically useless or bad because it came through colonial history, then you must apply the same logic to your faith too, because Jesus, Jehovah, the Bible, and the Gospel also came to many of us through that same colonial route.

So stop pretending and deliberately lying. You know the truth

DeepSight:
If you knew they mattered, you would NOT have called them excuses - to the extent of mocking any mention of them.
As for progress, as with all societies, it doesn't happen overnight.

Rome was not built in a day, but since black men cant build their Rome in a day, they are useless, according to you lot.

Its not just that you attack everything black. It is how when the tables are turned, you defend everything white. That is what shows your colonial mentality and inferiority complex.

You cannot be helped.

Goodlawd.

bayelsaowei:
I had no time to waste continuing with the discussion.

Satan has benefits too.. rape has benefits… pedophilia has benefits … yahoo yahoo has benefits..

so continue alone in your discussions..

Just answer the question

bayelsaowei:
You think I will continue to indulge you on this?

I have just left you to continue on your downward spiral. When you’re done basking in your love with colonialism, you’d pull yourself back up.

Only you says colonialism isn’t good

The same you still says it was beneficial.

You see yourself?

And you want me to waste my time answering you.

Like my life would be hell or hopeless if we weren’t colonized.

Why did you go when I ask you that question?

You don't know something that is bad also has benefits? This is new to you?

Wow

cococandy:
So when are you leaving bemeruca?

Trump said non immigrants like you have to go.

https://www.nairaland.com/8676784/all-migrants-seeking-pr-us#139490528

Fuq Trump

RodgersAkpafu:
How can a language be useful to the colonised from the coloniser?
Honestly your mentality is beginning to be concerning

Why all these sent hatred and white worship?

So why are you using it right now?

Bayelsaowei knows answering that question will possibly challenge his worldview and beliefs, so he has run away from it.

The easy thing to do was to just say, Oboy, you are right. Colonialism was bad, but these are some things we benefited from because of it.

Saying that is not the same as saying colonialism was good.

Take Messi for example. The genetic/growth issues he had growing up were bad. They almost ruined his life and career. But the same condition that required about $1,000 a month in treatment in the 90s also became part of the story that shaped him into the greatest footballer of all time.

So yes, he benefited from something connected to a bad condition. That does not mean the condition itself was good.

That is the same point here. Colonialism was bad, but admitting that English became useful to us today does not mean we are praising colonialism.

DeepSight:
I am in the mood -
Here you are. . .



And these are the very things you spent pages denouncing as excuses. Abi you forgot to remove this from the AI draft?

I said -



And Madam C added -



So are you joking or what.

If anything this just proves what a waste of time engaging you is.

It is a shame that you and C lack basic comprehension.

I told you exactly what you would do: take my post in isolation, remove the context, and pretend I said something different. And that is exactly what you did.

You quoted this part:
My point is still that education matters, history matters, racism matters, colonialism matters, institutions matter.

But you deliberately ignored the two main BUTs in my argument:
But internal choices also matter. Leadership matters. Culture matters. Accountability matters. Family structure matters. Greed and selfishness matter. and the other.

That is the context.

My argument has never been that climate, history, colonialism, racism, or education have zero effect.

My argument is that they do not answer the present question of why many African countries are still badly governed, badly maintained, corrupt, tribalistic, and underdeveloped in 2026.

See through this example:
Gravity makes flight difficult, so gravity matters. We humans did not sit down and say, “gravity is a root factor, so flying is impossible.” We used intelligence, science, engineering, to build a mechanism to overcome it.

That is the point.
Climate may create difficulty, just like gravity creates difficulty. But serious societies respond with technology, planning, discipline, institutions, and accountability. Unserious societies turn every difficulty into an excuse.

Many of the climate barriers you are talking about had already been conquered by technology before most African countries gained independence.

You can continue to be ignorant and accept failure because you are normalizing it. Don't just cry when people look at Africa and call it a sheet ole.

DeepSight:
I am not the one who spent forever shouting "excuses!" only to come here and admit that the said excuses matter and then remain daft enough to fail to see that I have ceded the entire debate.

If they ask you to prove this you know you can't.
When you read or take information in isolation, you will never know the context of it.

bayelsaowei:
Yeshua, Yahweh etc.. Ayeba, Olorun, Chineke, etc

English is just one of the languages in the world..

Stop this worship game you’re playing..

Way to sidestep from the question asked.

English is just one language in the world - facts but answer the question, forget shifting the goalpost for a second

bayelsaowei:
Hmmm..

I Dey my own o. You go call Trump.

😃😀.

When will you drop Jesus or Jehovah, since our colonizers also brought that along?

Do you benefit from Jesus, Jehovah, the Bible, and the Gospel, or are they automatically bad because they came through colonial history?

You know better, don't argue for the sake of it like Deepsight.

bayelsaowei:
Did I mention Trump?

🙄🙄

Did I say you did?

I am only begging you not to go there because I am anticipating your next goalpost shifting.

budaatum:
I don't know how many times I need to repeat to you that Nigeria failed because of ignorance, and not because of colonialism.

For your information, I took books from the supposed colonisers to colonise my own people. And no, that is not me in the picture as I was the camera person.

You should be shouting this to DeepSight, not me.

I am not disputing this at all.