Ofodirinwa: If tomorrow NIgeria became south Africa, and you as a black are now landless, and jobless like 80% of the blacks in south africa, with the 2nd highest murder rate on planet earth and no hope of ever getting your land back, you will not be satisfied. The GDP per capita of Morocco is on par with the average southern state in NIgeria, and the national GDP of Morocco is 50% of Lagos. So if you are failing in Nigeria that has Lagos, if Nigeria turns into Morocco you will also fail and fail more woefully.
Give me the actual facts and figures that you're using to determine these so called leagues. You're talking about what you saw. Show us what you saw and I will show you the same thing in Nigeria 5 times.
Whites are 1.8% of Namibia and own 70% of all land and resources. But because you saw pictures of empty Windhoek which has not even reached Enugu level, you begin the speak. Have you seen what 90% of Nambia looks like? Where the human beings live?
Again, Nigeria has no rival on the African continent and these baseless comparisons are just Nigerian being emotional and loud without facts. People will just visit the capital city of one dead country and decide your own country's capital city doesn't exist. Below are the average villages in Namibia and Morocco where most people live.
'Let's admit we have a lot to be ashamed of on sports infrastructure. I was at National Stadium Surulere some weeks back and I could have cried at the derelict shanty it has become. A historic venue like that.
Kushites: UNTIL YOU STOP BEING PREJUDICED AGAINST YOUR OWN COUNTRY, AND STOP PROMOTE THIS SICK IDEA OF ITS ETERNAL USELESSNESS AND HOPELESSNESS, DON'T EXPECT ANY POLITENESS FROM ME.
EVER.
IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT ANY OLD AFRICAN RIFF RIFF CAN INSULT NIGERIA AS A "FAILED COUNTRY".
IF YOU ARE FAILED WHY DO YOU EXPECT POLITENESS FROM ME?
ARE YOU POLITE TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY WHEN YOU TRASH IT BEFORE THE WORLD?
I didnt read. I would have read if it started with an apology for the unnecessary insults and rudeness.
Even the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu is undergoing a major upgrade right now.
The problem is that most of you don't RESEARCH what we're actually doing, and don't know what we already have, and don't care to research before coming on social media to type your negative, ignorant nonsense.
I didn't read beyond your first line. I am sick and tired of the aggressive way you start every response with an insult even when no one has insulted you. You need help. Enjoy.
basilico: it was Obama fault. He knew what Sarkozy wanted and didn't stop it.
Okay ,it's not about blacks ,then it's about that one black who'd have stopped it with all the intelligence he had access to. That one who didn't do anything for Africa.
If you don't walk back this statement don't expect me to respond to you.
basilico: I nominate you for the position of High Priest of the liberal cult. Obama knew exactly what Sarkozy was upto. He probably knew much more about it than Sarkozy. He went along with it
So blacks generally are responsible for what the West did in Libya right? If this is what you hold, I give up on you.
basilico: Further proof that blacks are our own undoing. Barrack Obama was behind this all. He planned for Clinton to succeed him . He did nothing for Africa .
Ciao!!
It's sheer madness to pin the US-France conspiracy against Libya on blacks simply because Obama was mixed race.
That is potent insanity. Walk it back.
As for doing nothing for Africa that is one of my issues with Obama in a certain sense. George W. Bush did far better for Africa.
In his April 2, 2011 intelligence memo to Hillary Clinton regarding Muammar Gaddafi's gold, Sidney Blumenthal wanted to alert the Secretary of State that the primary driver behind France's military intervention in Libya was the discovery of Gaddafi's gold stash and his threat to French financial dominance in Africa. According to the leaked Hillary Clinton Email Archive on WikiLeaks, Blumenthal relied on intelligence from a former CIA officer to map out exactly where the gold was being moved and why it triggered the French government.
The Logistics of "Tracking the Gold" Blumenthal's memo provided specific actionable updates tracking the physical movement of the regime's wealth: The Location: He informed Clinton that the 143 tons of gold (and a roughly equal amount of silver) had been quietly relocated from the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli.
WikiLeaks +2 The Destination: The regime moved the assets further south to Sabha, near the desert borders of Niger and Chad, to keep it out of reach of NATO forces and rebel factions. Why France Was "Hunting" the Gold The core point of Blumenthal's email was to explain that French intelligence had intercepted Gaddafi's plans for the gold, which directly threatened French interests: The Pan-African Currency: Gaddafi intended to use the 143 tons of gold to establish a gold-backed pan-African currency based on the Libyan Islamic Dinar.
WikiLeaks +2 The Threat to the CFA Franc: This currency was designed to give Francophone African nations an alternative to the CFA Franc, effectively breaking France’s historical economic monopoly over its former West African colonies.
WikiLeaks +1 The 5 Motivations of Nicolas Sarkozy Blumenthal explicitly listed the five reasons French President Nicolas _Sarkozy chose to lead the military intervention against Libya, driven by the tracking of this wealth: _To obtain a greater share of Libyan oil production. _To increase French influence in North Africa. _To improve Sarkozy's domestic political standing in France. _To provide the French military with a chance to reassert its position in the world. _To address the specific threat of Gaddafi displacing French financial influence in Francophone Africa.
Additional. Of the 143 tonnes of gold , 115 is held by the Central Bank of Libya. The rest was siphoned off by Gadaffi family and allies..
Sarkozy was done in by Gaddafi family after they revealed they had given him millions of Euros for his campaign , in return for him rehabilitating Gadaffi image in the western world. The dude started 5 year jail sentence in Sep 2025.
Regarding the leaked email. A Romanian hacker Guccifer guessed the password of Sid , he found dozens of classified intelligence. This led to the FBI probe of the Clinton scandal. She was using personal email to hide her clandestine deals . James Comey concluded that no same prosecutor would ever prosecute Hillary.
I still dont understand why you are sending me these. Is it not clear to you that this is evidence of the West actively utilizing its power to keep Africa backward - which is something I have not even mentioned in all of my rationalization of the state of Africa (because I know if you guys can argue against the obvious how much more will you dispute neo-colonialism)?
At least you can also see that what I said about the currency motivation and anti-pan African motivation was true.
basilico: Deepsight. FYI. At the moment I can't vouch if it's true.
It has been fifteen years since NATO bombed Libya’s Great Artificial River – a vast aquifer megaproject built by Gaddafi to green the Sahara and parts of the Sahel by tapping into ancient underground fossil water.
The Great Artificial River was a network of 4,000 kilometres of underground pipelines, designed to extract fossil water from the Sahara and turn the desert into farmland. The water would be drawn from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System – the largest underground fossil water reserve in the world, containing pure water that had accumulated beneath the soil 40,000 years ago.
This project would have granted sovereignty not just to Libya, but to all of Africa. And that whole business of sovereignty simply doesn’t sit well with the Western empire. The empire prefers that your country imports food and resources from the West – better that your country stays as poor as church mice, so dependent that it has to go cap in hand to the IMF.
A declassified CIA file from 1987 already warned of the “danger” this aquifer project posed to imperialist interests, stating that it “had the potential to guarantee Libya’s water supply indefinitely and considerably reduce its dependence on food imports from the West.”
That is why, on 22 July 2011, NATO planes bombed the project’s sites and even its pipeline factory in the city of Brega – ensuring that the Sahara and northern Sahel stayed poor, underpopulated, and forever dependent on food imports from the West.
They tell you Africa is poor – but they don’t tell you who is keeping it poor, or who benefits from it staying that way. Gaddafi was a terrible example for the rest of Africa: what’s all this nonsense about having sovereignty and independence? Better to raze the country and drag it back to the Stone Age, so it depends on our loans and hands over all its resources in exchange… that’s how neocolonialism works in 2026.
Why are you pointing this out? It is against your narrative?
Even completely without this story or factor, it is well established that the West had active interest in destroying Ghaddafi in the interest of the Dollar and also against his pan African plans for African Unity.
mastermaestro: Tinubu jazz too strong sha. Look at how the leading opposition figures are helping him divide their own votes before elections. Before it was just LP and PDP splitting votes. But by next year it will be PDP, ADC and NDC.
OgbeniOja1: It's scary but I agree. I will vote Obi and I'm begging God to intervene but if Tinubu returns. I fear for the direction we might be headed.
Obi has handed the election to BAT with his selfish and unpatriotic decision to split the opposition.
franchasofficia: All these goes to show that White people are wonderful people. Imagine Europe have been enduring, tolerating and accommodating Africans, Indians, etc with us trooping into their countries illegally without documentation for several decades now and they never attacked us physically or harmed us but rather created Asylum pathways and more through which many dejected, helpless and poor Africans were able to build a worthy life in Europe and escaped generational poverty, wars, communal crisis and failed governments in their home countries.
Greenodds: It's easy for any man that was raised by a father who provided everything and didn't allow his wife work to provide for his woman. I mumu sha aa but it's only guys that weren't raised by a real man or from poor homes that would think what I did was too extreme.
Everyman has at one point in their life done foolish things for a girl. Hypocrites will laugh and judge but in secret guys like that do worse.
Kushites: OK, fair enough if you don't support Obi, but none of those guys you mentioned is better than Tinubu in managing an economy.
Sowore for starters is a Ford Foundation asset. They fund his Sahara Reporters outfit. He's a foreign stooge and puppet. Dude gives me serious CIA asset vibes. I don't like him.
Atiku knows nothing about building an economy.
Amaechi couldn't even complete, or see to the completion of a small light rail project in Port Harcourt.
Tinubu is smarter and more experienced as a technocrat than all those guys.
If he has dealings with Chagoury, I don't necessarily like it, but it's not enough to get rid of him.
Ehen. This is the calmer you. Now we can reason together.
First of all let me set a few things straight in his favour so you will know I am not full of irrational hatred. One, he has paid his dues. Big time. Right from NADECO days to being patient with gradually finding the right time for him. He has built MANY men. The South West political world is full of them. And he was very strategic in his politics. He is bold and he can fight for what he believes in..He fought Obasanjo to a standstill.
Look, far from having any issues with Tinubu tribe-wise, I am a Lagos boy to the core and the only person I have voted for president for in my life was Gani Fawehinmi.
But it amazes me how you can say that Sowore gives you CIA vibes. Almost everyone knows that BAT is a CIA asset. When the question was put to them they replied saying they don't expose their assets..
You make sweeping claims about the other contenders. How do you know Atiku can't manage an economy? The rail in PH is not something you can use against Amaechi. Because here in Lagos it took successive govts to get rail right and some went off plan like Ambode who paid it no attention.
Sowore however, to be frank, needs to start from a lower rung.
Now let me share with you what I wrote this morning to another poster on the subsidy and naira float issues -
------ .....Now let me give you some cold hard facts. Don't take my word for it, research them.
1. The total removal of fuel subsidy in one day was a first of its kind in the world. Everywhere else where this has been done, its been done gradually. Here, for the first time anywhere, the price of fuel jumped 200% in a single day from under 200 Naira to over 600 Naira. That was too much a shock for the economy and especially for the vulnerable. It had a ripple effect on prices of every commodity and thus the result was a jump in prices at a hectic pace never seen before.
2. Just three to four weeks after this, the naira was floated. The result was another jump from about N700 to the dollar to almost N2000 AT A POINT, even though it fell to generally around 1500-1600. In case you dont understand, in an import dependent economy, this simply meant further rises in the prices of almost everything by over hundred percent.
By the time you add the effects of the two above, the multiplier effect was dizzying. Even if you believe that these steps were necessary (which I dont) at least you will agree that the timing and implementation were terrible. At the barest minimum after the subsidy removal, the floatation of the naira should have been delayed.
Note that electricity subsidies were also partially removed.
And further down the line, the price of petrol was increased again from just over 600 to circa 1000. Cruelly, this was in the immediate aftermath of the EndBadGovernance protests. I dont think it has ever happened elsewhere that prices were jacked up after a nationwide protest protesting high prices.
All of these were shocks, and they have resulted in suffering of an unimaginable kind for the poor and vulnerable masses. So please do not simply say in an insensitive way "inflation didnt start with Tinubu.". ------ Let's start with these. We will come to Chagoury.
Also what do you have to say of his appointment of Atiku Bagudu as Minister of Budget and Planning.
I hope you know his story. He was Abacha's bag man who kept Abacha's loot and he had to refund a lot of it. This is what I mean by open corruption (along with Chagoury another BUSINESS ASSOCIATE of Abacha).
Kushites: Mr Man, Peter Obi your mentor called fuel subsidies a scam, and promised to end them "ON DAY 1".
Should I post the link?
Naira flotation?
You must have been among those making money from Arbitrage!
Have you any idea how many companies and investors fled this country because of that chaotic dual exchange rate system?
I remember VIVIDLY you and your ilk screaming during Buhari's era about how companies were fleeing Nigeria.
DO YOU KNOW THAT THE REVERSE IS THE CASE TODAY?
This country is now an investment MAGNET.
Meanwhile the fallout from these reforms are ending, the country has turned net exporter of refined petroleum products instead of net importer, and ALL Tinubu says is "Give us Time.".
IF THAT WAS PETER OBI YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND AND LISTEN.
As for your "open corruption", Cry Me A River.
What corruption was worse or more OPEN than the PDP era of grotesquely blatant corruption of which Peter Obi was a major part?
Today we see politicians and ex governors being arrested by EFCC.
Unlike your PDP era of free for all looting, with Diezanu and her diamond bra with luxury yachts shared with Jay Z and Beyoncé!!
Why do you assume Peter Obi is my mentor.
This alone shows you are the tribalist here, not me. Otherwise you would not assume.
How do you know I don't favour Atiku? Or Amaechi? Or Sowore?
Answer that first. And if you can get out of that and show that you are not a tribalist then maybe we can have a rational discussion on your defenses of BAT.
I noticed you have nothing to say on corruption. Because if there was Diezani then, there is Chagoury now. An international criminal who BAT does business with and gives corrupt contracts to. We will get back to that.
Image123: Yes, many would vote him as we can see from the primaries. Campaign would also do a big deal. Realistically, no new southerner is getting heavy votes in the North. One, because of eight years, two, because of religion. Tinubu's tactics has not changed much. He's only tightened loose ends. He's banking on cumulative spread, the others are banking on huge wins in their region/particular state. That's probably where the governors and defected senators come in. To reduce the margin. They'd pull better numbers for whatever reason, and would not turn a blind eye this time. The muslim muslim buzz that aided Obi cross country is also out of the way. As you can see, insecurity is not stopping votes. As for economy, Nigerians are incredibly forgiving/forgetful people, and again, campaign vibes will water it down. He doesn't really need to 'force' himself from my projections. He also knows what he can do if he somehow miraculously needs to. In my analysis, only God can stop his victory. Of course, i want him to win(just to add, and pepper you )
GracieX3: The MAGA cultist (basilico) does not even realise that the picture of Trump he posted is mockingly ironic- A 79 year old man that cannot sacrifice eating McDonald's burger for his health is supposedly self sacrificing for America
Sick. What is telling in the image is that it's self said (in the image it's Donald saying that to himself).
Politics › Re: We Call Ourselves The Giant Of Africa, But Giant In What Exactly? by DeepSight(m): 7:36pm On May 25
