₦airaland Forum

CaseSensitive:
You're magnifying your own ignorance and lack of basic comprehension and it's getting embarrassing at this point. You're reframing issues to dodge my points. I'll repeat for the umpteenth time, the colonial legacy created economies built to extract and export, not refine and reinvest. Then you cherry picked on Indorama petrochemical which succeeded because it’s foreign-owned, not because privatization fixed Nigeria. Profits still flows outward, not back into the local economy. It’s a continuation of dependency, not self-sufficiency.

You went on about Guinea who's policy is very recent. After decades of IMF-backed structural policies that prevented local processing. It’s an exception born out of pushback against that same system. And even then, the smelters are largely foreign-financed, still proving my point that dependence still exists.

I partly agree with you on Venezuela in my previous reply but you don't read to understand. You read to cherry-pick while ignoring major touch points. Venezuela’s corruption and mismanagement made them vulnerable. (Clap for yourself, I agree with you) but you failed to recognise that sanctions directly cut off their access to markets, equipment, and credit which crippled recovery. You can’t claim “bad policy” and ignore a decade of US-led financial blockades. That's like spewing gibberish like you always do, about how the titanic sank without mentioning the iceberg that it crashed into.

"Africans should just process resources themselves", that also like saying "Just build airplanes" while ignoring roadblocks and bottlenecks such as the lack of industrial infrastructure, global trade barriers against African manufacturing, Western-backed loan conditions discouraging subsidies or protectionism, and sabotage or destabilization whenever nations try to do it independently (e.g., Congo, Libya).

"Do I think without the West, Africa can explore or market resources" - That's more of a confession than a question. You're admitting Africa’s dependence and mistaking it for natural inferiority instead of engineered dependency.

Next time, READ!, when and if you do, make sure you read slowly. Comprehension is free.

Then you KO'ed yourself by referencing theafricareport.com articles for me. The Africa Report is published by Jeune Afrique Media Group. It is owned by the Ben Yahmed family who has strong connections with France and the French Media. Their connection with France is not even incidental or peripheral but deeply central. What do you expect from such editorials? Expecting them to critique CFA Franc is like expecting BP to publish anti-oil propaganda. What editorial are you going to reference next? BBC? CNN? France24? Arte? Le Monde?

But no, I didn't run. I just don’t argue with people still trying to Google their way out of an intellectual corner. You’ve been sprinting in circles around your own confusion while thinking you’re keeping pace. It’s not my fault you mistook my silence for surrender. Reading and comprehension are still your biggest opponent, not me. Keep shadow-boxing facts from The Africa Report and Google. You’re doing great.

DiarisGodoo:
Are you saying the Bible lied here?

Akinpresident:
I agree

Let's also not forget the girl's part and the role of her brother in supplying her drugs

shortgun:
Can you list what you have gained from learning the white man's civilization in his schools?
Let's start from there.

I still find people who went to the schools who are still poor, homeless, suffering terminal illnesses and dead. So what changed with all the education the colonialists gave them?

flokii:
The spirit is like the innermost core that links man to the spiritual world and divine order.. the spirit links man with God.
Look at it this way..
1. Body (outer part) that later becomes dust.
2. Soul is the middle part that makes your existence possible.
3. Spirit is the innermost part that links man with God and the divine order.

So you see spirit is embedded within the soul.. both spirit and soul are eternal but the body isn't. The body (flesh) came from dust and must return to dust.

Remember the saying.. God is a spirit and whoever will serve Him must do so in spirit. The spirit is that connection each and everyone of us have with God. He can program and reprogram us to do His will whenever He so wishes.

flokii:
Man comprises of body (flesh), spirit and soul..
When a man dies, the body is buried and flesh returns to dust.. the soul on the other hand is eternal and that is what will go to face judgement..
What is responsible for your consciousness is your soul.. the moment the soul leaves, the body is as good as carcass that termites can feed on.

Moses died and was buried by God Himself, but his soul lives on in the bosom of the Most High.. same with Abraham and the saints.

shortgun:
What have you gained from the white man's civilization?
Are people not still dying of diseases?
Has his civilization stopped wars, poverty or violent crimes?
What makes you better than your ancestors, who lived freely without the poison of colonialism?
Just because you are forced to learn your oppressor's language and taught to obey his laws without question does not make you smart or better.

koladata:
My brother, I have fought this severally before I came to this acceptance that the whites are far better breeds of human than the black, don't get me wrong, we have our own quota to contribute as human especially when it comes to the development of the world but the fact still remains the same and It has nothing to with culture, the whites have been adopting black kids since time memoria but nothing changes, raise a black kid and a white kid from the same home , the outcome is still going to be different, the most you will get from the black kid is high grade doctor or engineer but you won't get the Albert Einstein type of brain from the child. It's a nature thing, it's just like comparing "border collie" dogs to "afghan hound" dog, they are both dogs but with different looks and different level of intelligence.

Once in a while we have some black people doing great things but come on, are you saying there are no black Harvard graduates or black MIT students, why is A.I invention still coming from a white man in the twenty first century when slave trade is long gone, why is bill gate a white man, why is telephone invented by alexander graham, why is vint cerf and Bob kahn the inventor of internet , slave trade was over and we already had black people in USA living like normal citizens !!!

Now let's come to south Africa, a black nation. Why is Johannes Henoch Marais the founder of Naspers, why is Christo Wiese and Whitey Basson founder of shoprite, why cant you talk about mtn without talking of christer hohenthal, why is it that all the three founders of Firsrand are white (gt ferreira, laurie dippenaar, and Harris something, i can't remember but i know he's also white) .... and these are the major companies in south Africa o.

You have no idea how much these things have bothered me over the years and i just had to come to the realization of how superior this people are to us particularly when it comes to intelligence and empathy, you can do all you want by contesting everything I've said, but you will just be deceiving yourself like I've done over the years. As a matter of fact, the growth of dangote today is powered by a white skinned colored person working underground but that one is a story for another day. Dangote started out almost the same time mukesh ambani started with almost the same kind of business but go and check what that guy is doing with reliance digital today while dangote is still selling petrol in 2025 when countries are already switching to self-driving electric cars. Because for him, its not about the uplifting of the people, it's about the money (black man).

The bottom line is that you can't solve a problem without knowing the course, grass root and available data. Maybe if newer generations like us who is ready to face the truth is given the opportunity to government, maybe we would make a difference but if we keep deceiving ourselves, we won't make any progress. Nigeria was even better under the colonial masters; how do you explain this to a 7-year-old. If I have access to precedency today, 99 percent of my cabinets will be white people because I know their antecedents and I won't deceive myself by shying away from the fact that my people have a very small brain.



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3kay945:
I don't know how you arrived at this conclusion but I have for recent times concluded that African especially the black do not have what it takes to effectively and efficiently governed themselves.

It is a fact!

Until superior fact shows it face in future.. it will continue to be.

Bahamas95:
Up till today nobody has been able to convince me how Mongo Park discovered River Niger.......These oyibo people nor well walai!





It's just like a stranger telling me he discovered the birthmark in my büm- būm.

koladata:
When I tell people colonization is not the reason why all African countries are poor. The only countries in Africa that are not poor have a mixture of whites. The black nations are poor because our mentality was created poor by God's. We are designed this way. Africans and whites are not the same type of human.

shortgun:
Colonialists are nothing but pure evil especially that evil country called Britain. The evils they did in Nigeria is not going away anytime soon.

Racoon:
Nice one for them. No wonder the were better countries comparable to those colonized. Ethiopia has the oldest and biggest carrier in the whole African continent - Ethiopian with many A380 in its fleet.

The unfortunate ones conquered by the western imperialists were simply exploited and treated as their fiefdom vassals with political crisis in their aftermath.

Akinpresident:
This is exactly what I want remind everyone.

Before the man will even consider to touch her, he must have endured a lot of bull shit.

Imagine the type of stuff she made public and the ones not public that brought all these.

I condemn domestic violence no matter the provocation. I believe that when people discover that they can no longer be in their relationship, it's best to part ways so there's no casualty.

That aside, people shouldn't pretend as the girl haven't been doing things that could prompt the man to assault her.
His generation and this generation of simp men aren't the same. No one should expect him to endure a lot of stupidity most ladies exhibit in the name of being someone's wife. Not all men have that level of tolerance and it's best to respect it and honor what makes him happy.

DiarisGodoo:
So when will this "eternal life on earth" happen? Before or after the raptured? Where will those raptured go?

CaseSensitive:
When someone (who I assume to be African) says “Blacks deserve to be recolonized,” they’ve already told on themselves, there’s nothing “global” about that worldview, only self-hate disguised as intellect. You confuse criticism of colonial legacy with denial of African responsibility. I never said the West owes Africa a solution, I said Africa is still navigating systems that were never designed for its success. There’s a difference.

Yes, Shell’s refinery existed but nationalization wasn’t the issue. The real failure came after, when maintenance, funding, and transparency collapsed. Shell ran it for profit; Nigeria took over without the institutional discipline or technical continuity Shell had. The refinery could’ve been sustained under proper governance, but instead it became politicized. That’s not proof against colonial legacies it’s proof of how fragile postcolonial institutions were. The same happened with Ajaokuta Steel that you previously mentioned. It was constant external interference, shifting contracts, and funding bottlenecks that made it a monument to dependency, not development.

"IMF advised privatizing telecoms, and we saw the benefits.” Are you seriously comparing telecoms to refineries? Privatizing telecoms worked because the sector had low infrastructure barriers and high private demand unlike refining or steel, which need capital, protection, and stable energy to survive. IMF advice is one-size-fits-all, it often prioritizes market efficiency over local development. In telecoms, it fit, in refineries and heavy industry, it hollowed out local capacity. And since you claim to work in oil and gas, I expect you to understand that control of upstream doesn’t equal control of value chains. That’s precisely why resource rich nations can still be poor because they export raw wealth and import finished dependency.

You talk about Togo then threw Niger into the mix thinking you're making sense? Togo’s phosphate, Niger’s uranium, Congo’s cobalt are all exported raw with foreign companies dominating logistics, financing, and refining. France’s Orano mining company has been running Niger’s uranium mines for DECADES until recent months when Niger military leader kicked France out of their country and fought to bring their gold and uranium mines under true and sovereign state control. Togo's main phosphate mining industry also has direct/indirect link to France. "State-owned" on paper, but profits and strategic leverage still flow outward but if you think it's completely state-owned without external involvement then I have a bridge to sell you. That’s the pattern, Africa digs, others refine, others profit.

Then again you went on about Brazil, Chile and threw Australia into the mix? Those countries control their value chains and reinvest resource wealth. Brazil developed steel, aerospace, and energy industries, Chile built local processing capacity, stable institutions, and control over their fiscal policy. Most African states couldn’t, because they were economically designed as export nodes for Europe.

As for Venezuela, their decline only reinforces my point that external economic pressure and internal mismanagement are two sides of the same coin. Sanctions crippled their ability to sell oil, while mismanagement weakened production. It’s a mirror of what happens when a nation’s economy relies too heavily on raw exports and external validation which is exactly the dependency Africa was specifically built into. You can't condemn our leader's corruption and mismanagement without criticising the system that created and sustains it.

And if it's not obvious to you, I stand on my point that the rise of Africa is a threat to the world powers of today (insert EU, America and cronies) and they will do anything and everything to maintain control over the continent to make sure Africa is underdeveloped. Despite the vast land that we have, you think it's coincidence that Nigeria imports rice and other food but export cocoa, groundnuts, cotton, ginger and other products? Have you cooked some cotton & cocoa today? You think it's coincidence that herdsmen and other armed groups are destroying Rice farms across Nigeria? This is all by design to keep us dependent both by internal and external influences. Certain cabals in Nigeria make millions of $ on rice importation.

So yes I'm not refuting the fact that domestic mismanagement and entrenched corruption exists, of course they do but you keep thinking this is about blaming colonialism, No I'm not saying colonialism makes up the entirety of Nigeria/Africa's problem. It’s about understanding the systems that keep countries dependent. You can’t fix what you don’t diagnose. Mocking history doesn’t make you “exposed to global business” it just makes you loud about what you don’t understand. That's my point and I’ll leave it there. I debate ideas, not people who rely on Google for information.

themanderon:
Village people. Failure at the edge of success. We need to be careful of those we tell our plans to. No everyone that smiles with you is your friend.
It could be a coincidence though, but a very bad one.

oalandAgents2:
If man get brother, his brother should use his international passport and visa to japa so that all his investment won't go to waste.
Oyiba think we all look the same, so his brother won't have trouble impersonating him at immigration control desks at the Oyibo airport.

kingthreat:
Sometimes he doesn't need to broadcast. Spiritually, some shyt can be put on people to ensure some certain things don't happen to them.
Millions running to churches are not fools. They have experienced some things that defy logical explanation.

motymop:
if it was a hit and run, there will be signs

could be the individual swallow wraps of drugs and it open up in his stomach

godofuck231:
The thing enter WELLLLLLL

akpumping7720:
No talk that one for where Kalu Aja and his Ibo gangs dey, naaa Lagos be their own village.

federal9:
Nigerians and backwardness

Nothing like village people


The idealism of village people should be wiped out

God will punish the people who came up with that slang because village people are doing well.


We shall all retire to the same village when we all get old.

Let's watch what we say. Age is fast catching up on us all

It's an insult and we all have to correct that notion.



It's a tragic accident.

Chachalogo:
This really broke my heart 😭

May your life not be cut short while at the verge of your breakthrough. When your success shall be celebrated, may you not be missing IJN 🙏

Rexnegro:
Jeez 😫, may we not die before or during our glory coming forth to shine on us amen 🙏. So sad 😭 if it's true

tosyne2much:
I'm tired of all these nonsense heaven and hell bullcrap we've been hearing for centuries

Even the people that sold this crap to you do not believe it.. They've move past that and are so focused on technology, science and inventions

Religion is the 4th arm of Government used to exploit and control the masses... It's a manual for colonization and a tool for enslavement used by politicians and dictators

Religion and Government are 5 and 6.. They're one bird with different wings 🦅

ConDawah:
It's not fake, just that people give their own meaning of what hell is.
You can read from Genesis to revelation but you'll never a single verse where people burned for eternity for short life of sin. Even one of the most popular verses in the Bible, John 3:16 says "... whoever believes in Him shall not PERISH, but have EVERLASTING LIFE.
What the pro-hell believers can not tell us is how sinners can perish (the word means death;to go into oblivion;to cease to exist) and still live forever in hell fire.
Will God destroy sinners with fire? Yes. Will they burn forever in the fire? No. But how do we explain some verses that says the smoke of their torments ascend forever? The Bible used the same wording when it talks about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorah. We all know it's the effect of the destruction that's permanent, not the torment itself.

destinychildolu:
Tinubu achievements according to Bello: student loans, subsidy removal and floating of exchange rate. I can conclude by saying that he has not achieved anything.

olaric:
These evil politicians are making it look like Nigeria is home to all deported demons from hell...

G0odharddick:
At the end, whatever he sends back home in a month is by far higher than your minimum wage. That's his point. Besides he's living a good life far more than you. Better healthcare better infrastructure better environment etc
No bandits[b] no tinubu[/b] no disturbance

planetx:
Sometimes it's also about patriotism and love for your people, Nigerian doctors will never be paid on the same level like an American or British doctor, so if because of that all the doctors leave who is going to take care of the medical needs of 200 million Nigerians. The oyinbos you are running to their country, their doctors will never leave their fellow oyinbos in large numbers to die because of money, there are things that are of greater importance than money despite the importance of money.