₦airaland Forum

djon78:
The problem we have is that Africa doesn't have the fundamentals that these Asian countries had

Most importantly is sound visionary leaders

Singapore had Prime Minister Lee Kuan yew who Developed the blueprint and template Singapore is using till today since 1960s


Malaysia had Muhammad Mahatir who Developed the blueprint and template for Malaysia since 1970s


China had Chairman Mao who set the foundation for Chinas Development since 1960s


Even Vietnam that fought war with the US in the 1970s also set up same vision.
Today there Economy is doing massively.

Even Bangladesh is doing well


Japan the baba of Asia had Always been Developed since the beginning of 19th century


Japan was so Developed they fought the second world war as allies of Hitler with there factories producing the ammunition's used in the war


So Africa don't have the fundamentals of good visionary leadership
Which is our bane

The bit sound leaders we had small was during the first republic: Awolowo, Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello

Now we don't have such Calibre of visionary responsible leadership

Thank you for your kind feedback.

What would we say is the reason why Africa lacks this leaders IN AFRICA? I write this because many Africans OUTSIDE AFRICA have gone on to lead exemplary teams and units in Europe and America.

From Sports with Mike Emenalo at Chelsea to Finance with Okonjo Iweala and Adesina to Medicine with Badero and Olutoye to Engineering with Izu - and on and on. Let's not talk about President Obama in America. He is African, even if developed in America.

I think the challenge is not a lack of knowledgeable, patriotic and visionary leaders. I think that our democratic structures are subverted - intentionally - by our enemies (possibly from the West), using our people. If we look at the leaders of the Nigerian Second Republic that was truncated by Maj. Gen Buhari, there was a lot of positive development in the first four years of Shagari in 1979 - 1983. By the time they got desperate at the 1983 elections, things went pear shaped and the military found a justification to come in, unfortunately. It was not that Governors Jakande, Bola Ige, Ajasin or Ambrose Alli were not visionary and fantastic leaders.

Now, they (our enemies) neutered us while we slept by 'deleting' history from our curriculum and generously lowering our educational standards to levels where nobody trusts JAMB or WAEC again but even local Universities need to conduct 'post-UTME' and JAMB sets admission marks lower than 200 every year. How?!

International Universities today request that our graduates write the IELTS examination to prove that they can speak, write and understand the first of two official languages in Nigeria. It is so bad that nobody remembers that French is the second official language in Nigeria - when we don't even know how to speak the first official one.

So Sir/Madam, the problem is not leadership. In my opinion, the challenge is that we do not have the critical mass of knowledgeable people in the requisite number to change the trajectory of the country. It is why Mr Peter Obi, even if he became President, would not do anything as good - if he did good - as what he did as Anambra State Governor.

A man or woman can only deliver as good as the support system he or she has. Where everyone around you in the political and administrative system is of poor or suboptimal IQ, are sycophants looking to exploit or predate on the system for personal gain, then what we have is what you get.

Remember that the West needs African economy to remain agrarian, regressive and 'fantastically corrupt', in the famous words of a former UK PM to the late Queen of England.

For as long as that exists, we would be a net importer of finished goods and services from the developed world leaving our economy in a net deficit as compared to that of the countries that export processed goods and services. Countries that primarily export raw materials like unprocessed Agric produce and crude would always be poorer than countries that export refined fuel and luxury items like expensive wines and female artificial hair. It is simple economics.

Now, if such richer exporting country knows that a man who wrote this on Nairaland aspires to be a President or Governor in this Nigerian democracy, what do you think would happen? They would make money available to his/her opposition to sway the media against such person and make the people refuse to vote for such person in order to maintain the economic status quo.

That is the African problem. That is what Patrice Lumumba died over. It is what killed Tom Sankara. It caused Ghadaffi death.

Ask yourself where the South African economy is today. Ask yourself why Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Congo, Congo DR, Central Africa Republic, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, Eritrea, South Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mauritania and all the 53 African countries seem to fail. Ask why the economy of Silicon Valley, a place inside the State of California in USA is multiple times the economy of the whole of Africa.

It is intentional. It isn't because we do not have visonary leadership. It is because our democracy has been 'carefully tuned' in Africa to ensure that poverty has been WEAPONISED to subvert what democracy should be. When that is added to lower educational standards which blunts critical thinking, what we have is what you get.

The Asian Tigers like China and Dubai and Singapore didn't get it right with this Western style of democratic leadership, did they? The West would decry that kind of leadership as 'dictatorial' and undemocratic, but where we are without a knowledgeable population in the necessary number on the base of widespread poverty and lack, what we have is what one gets.

Good morning.

osuofia2:
Bro, they won't answer these questions correctly because they are always looking for who to blame. So the white also made them to be stealing public and private funds. Blacks are not meant to lead

I do not think that leadership has anything to do with skin colour.

I think that Sub Saharan Africa has a lot of catching up to do, while dealing actively with external aggression from the developed economies of the West and internal subversion aided or sometimes instigated by agents of the Western/developed world.

Should Africa get it right, like Thomas Sankara and people like Mummar Ghadaffi sought to establish African self-sustainability, there would be economic challenges in the West, as they would have markets to export their finished and processed goods too. So it is a desperate cat and mouse game.

Unfortunately, we have destroyed ourselves so badly by lowering standards and value of education through bribery and corruption that we cannot see these things. What is worse is that the average one amongst us just ones to be in the eye of the public 'enjoying' and 'spending'.

You wouldn't see that in England or Switzerland. You wouldn't see the average European buying the luxuries we desperately seek here the way we do. There are credit schemes for almost everything in Europe and the West.

When they are tired of whatever merchandise, they either recycle to produce something new or ship the waste to Africa, where African modern slaves in Europe jump at it to send it home as 'Belgium' or 'Tokunbo'.

They do not jump at the newest iPhones in that manner that we do. Even when they do, they trade their old ones in for the newer models on their credit cards. The old ones then come to Africa as 'UK used', making their economy gain double - mortgage from the original user and full payment from the importer while using the same opportunity to dispose what would have been electronic waste!

We simply have to think out of the box and generally import less finished products while exporting more finished products in order to balance trade. Our penchant for luxuries like artificial hair and expensive alcohol/wines, which is one of our biggest imports, is another of our undoings.

We must also rid out examination malpractices and miracle centres and raise the wages of teachers which consequently raise the minimum educational standards in that country and improve the critical thinking capacity of the average Nigerian.

It has nothing to do with skin colour, really.

djon78:
Actually it was emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity
Turned Rome from pagan to Christianity
And founded the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church was already established 600 years before the coming of prophet Muhammad

The Catholic Church held sway for over 1500 years before the advent of Martin Luther, the creating of the church of England, then Methodist Church

Then the migration of pilgrims to the New world America when they were fleeing from persecution from the king's of Europe

The pilgrims founded America on foundation of Liberty, and freedom for every Man

The Americans fought war with the British and gained Independence
Setting up the powerful US Constitution built on Liberty


The Europeans then began to go around discovering other parts of the world aided by industrial revolution they built the steam engine that enabled ships travel thousands of miles to other continents especially championed by the Portuguese and the British

The Portuguese were the first to discover Africa while the British discovered Australia, New Zealand.

The Europeans started coming to Africa and the transatlantic slave trade started for over 150 years
Africans were sold into slavery to the New world, America, Caribbeans

Then the British abolished slave trade and started Trading on raw materials like palm oil etc

With time they formed trading posts in Africa example is the Royal Niger company that First came as traders but later colonised Africa by Force after Africa was shared amongst the Europeans in late 18th century

That's when Nigeria was formed and various African tribes were organized into Nations


This has been the bane of Africa as a continent
And the reality is that Africa may never Develop like other parts of the world
Because the Europeans that gave us form and being are the ones still in control of our world

We Africans are no match for them in Development and advancement

With respect to the bolded, can we learn from Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, JAPAN & China - who suffered the same plight as most of Africa but are economically independent today?

dfrost:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;

Marc Antony - Caesar's Horseman

Here is the summary (and meaning) of Marc Anthony's dirge as obtainable from Wikipedia:

Antony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death; however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins, Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators.

Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. He begins by carefully rebutting the notion that his friend, Caesar, deserved to die because he was ambitious, instead claiming that his actions were for the good of the Roman people, whom he cared for deeply ("When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". He denies that Caesar wanted to make himself king, for there were many who witnessed the latter's denying the crown three times.

As Antony reflects on Caesar's death and the injustice that nobody will be blamed for it, he becomes overwhelmed with emotion and deliberately pauses ("My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me". As he does this, the crowd begins to turn against the conspirators.

Antony then teases the crowd with Caesar's will, which they beg him to read, but he refuses. Antony tells the crowd to "have patience" and expresses his feeling that he will "wrong the honourable men / Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar" if he is to read the will. The crowd, increasingly agitated, calls the conspirators "traitors" and demands that Antony read out the will.

Instead of reading the will immediately, however, he focuses the crowd's attention on Caesar's body, pointing out his wounds and stressing the conspirators' betrayal of a man who trusted them, in particular the betrayal of Brutus ("Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!". In response to the passion of the crowd, Antony denies that he is trying to agitate them ("I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts", and he contrasts Brutus, "an orator", with himself, "a plain, blunt man", implying that Brutus has manipulated them through deceitful rhetoric. He claims that if he were as eloquent as Brutus, he could give a voice to each of Caesar's wounds ("... that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny".

After that, Antony deals his final blow by revealing Caesar's will, in which "To every Roman citizen he gives, / To every several man, seventy-five drachmas" as well as land, to the crowd. He ends his speech with a dramatic flourish: "Here was a Caesar, when comes such another?", at which point the crowd begins to riot and search out the assassins with the intention of killing them.

Antony then utters to himself: "Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, / Take thou what course thou wilt!"

I guess this would help to put Caesar in the right light by our Nairaland audience.

Tonight is the night of reckoning for our Ghana-Kogi small pepper winner-in-wait.

If she doesn't get drunk and fall into Ceec and the other evil women's plots to be disqualified for an infraction,SHE WOULD WIN THE SHOW.

Those women absolutely disrespect her, and it is so unfortunate.

But by the way, what happened between Soma and Angel? I always knew Soma was setting himself for destruction in shipping with a damaged product like Angel.

Currently, there are barely any wife materials left in that human zoo. Possibly only Ilebaye, who is being harassed by the damaged characters who cannot relate responsibly with a young, innocent and naive housemate.

Lauryn41:
Venita is successful

None of the housemates are failures

Drag them with anything except this

I'm not dragging. I met Lekan (Laycon) a few months ago. Somewhere far from Lagos. He was simple and unassuming, and received a lot of love, even as he went about his way quite pleasantly and without airs.

That's success. Success isn't money. Money is ephemeral. Success is the net impression you live in the hearts and minds of people after your time in the lights.

Seyi Awolowo was crying at his exit session with Ebuka a day after his eviction. Imagine Venita's.

Success is what is left in the hearts and minds of the people after watching you round the clock for nearly 3 months in a human "zoo" where your very existence and every action in that period is x-rayed by the entire world.

Viewing it that way, would you say Ms Venita has sold herself as the most reliable and positive person of the lot? There goes "success", not money, even if money is a part of success stories - but isn't essentially its centre.

Tatiana4u:
She no fit tell am say she go invite am come her own wedding?
I thought she’s the queen of gbas gbos?😂😂
Abi na only for Baye body she get mouth?😂
In my opinion,Venita has said worse things to Adekunle and he never held it against her.
She badmouthed him several times,especially when he’s up for eviction and made him miserable,sabotaged their task yet he was the one who begged for reconciliation after she used tears to blackmail him!
She brings out the worst in him,tries to control and isolate him from others while he keeps complementing and tolerating her.
Abeg Venita own too much!
See eh,a woman who really wants to stay in a relationship be tolerant,patient,forgiving and shouldn’t take things too seriously if not,she and her partner will be looking so stressed and worn out!
See as Adekunle dey lose weight despite all the food wey in dey chop!
He looks like a dehydrated homeless beggar to me any it’s as a result of Venita’s wahala!
Venita on the other hand looks worn out and she’s aging rapidly because she has realized that Adekunle’s slipped out of her claws and she knows that people will be laughing at her now.😂😂😂😂

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Lauryn41.

Is this the kind of Venita 'successful' you meant, or were you being sarcastic?

safarigirl:
Funny enough, I want to feel bad for Venita, because low-key, Adekunle did her dirty at the dinner, and said some really hurtful stuff to her, but I cannot find it in me to feel for a mean person.

Na she say na only boys dey person head, yet, sho carry all her money go buy dinner date with man. Money wey she for use buy immunity or even sell to Cross the businessman, she use am go buy date. Now, immunity she no get, money, she no get, man sef, she no get. 0/3. So, whose head is really filled with boys?


Anyway, EmmaRose vs. CrossGel dinner date will remain my favourite dinner date, because romance and laughter wan kill me that day, Shella's was romantic, but I no laugh. Still, it is better than the shipwreck of last night. Just goes to show that shipping is not for everybody.

Yoruba people have a saying. It goes thus, 'when you point a finger at a person', your rest 4 are pointing at you.

Venita is so vile, almost the dictionary definition of WITCHCRAFT. Now, she is everything she described Ilebaye as, and the Almighty has raised Ilebaye above her now and possibly forever.

The whole world now knows that she possibly whores around Lekki and the Island. The world knows about her failures. To compound it all, the world also knows that she is vile. There is almost no place to hide now.

Finally 'finally', the much younger man she was hoping to 'catch' just served her a deserved breakfast and whistled while walking way.

Talk about fire and brimstone on small pepper, Ilebaye's haters!

Tatiana4u:
Kwa kwa kwa
Did you see how Adekunle packed all the food and left?
Lmao!
It was epic!
Venita wan die!😂😂😂😂
She could have just ordered food for herself alone but she wanted to pepper her fellow housemates!
Let her enjoy her breakfast Abeg!

Abeg una get link to the video for twitter?
E sweet me dye!

To finish it all, make Biggie evict both of them on Sunday leave only Pere with the other 4.

Avedonn:
I like Adekunle but I'm very disappointed on how handled the dinner thing.

He'd have declined the the dinner date if he knew he'll waste viewers time with his childish behavior.

Venita can be a lot to handle, but he's a man for heaven sake. He should've ignored whatever issues they're having and let them enjoy the special moment.

How can you be on date with a lady and say you want to see her eat. Who does that?

The guy is too blank and primitive and Venita deserve better than that.

I like him but the guy is too primitive and childish.

So a woman can do anything she wishes to another person, but because the other person has XY chromosome and its attendant physical differences, be should not give back as much as he receives? Like seriously?!

What kind of Gender Equality is that one?

The man doesn't have a mother, or wasn't raised by one, or doesn't have hormones like the woman or has no sisters?

Men, like women, are equal before the law!

ColdHunter:
Doesnt stop him from engaging the lady. They dont necessarily have to discuss their "future". All he needed to do was talk about himself, his interests and all that

Really?
There should be a rulebook about these things.

Another woman would complain that such man was only talking about himself boastfully. You see? She would say he didn't compliment her and talk about how she would fit into his life!!!!

What interests would they discuss at dinner that they had never previously discussed in 9 weeks?

kowema:
Yes, she said it herself that she is not intelligent (bookie) but she is smart.
At least she has been having wins with her smartness.
Who brightness epp when she no be LED screen?🤣

Okay.
I can understand now.
Omo Ologo plenty.
She doesn't have to brilliant at everything.

But what is wrong with Ilebaye?

Na say she no fit read English?

drimzsmoke:
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
But these ones are "awon aro merin"

You garrit.
Dem wear black-looking brown and plotting against a white-looking Omo Ologo wearing lemon.

Tatiana4u:
Just look at the so called bffs!
Evil souls!

Dem be like witches holding a meeting against the child of God in Mike Bamiloye/Mount Zion's Ultimate Power!

Artiiclebeast:
This is a very sad confirmation of the fact that most Nigerians are indeed dull, lack critical thinking, and only thrive on being herded like cows. What the fck?

Do you mean a body that's been enclosed underground for over a week is expected to be exhumed without the expectation of any body fluid seeping through? The illiterate idiots and cheap clout chasers can't even figure out a simple decomposition process..what a shame.

It is indeed true that the leaders and government that we get and have are a reflection of the citizenry and thus, very well deserved.

No one is allowed or expected to think differently or have differing views from the mob or else such one will be termed either a "hater, enemy of progress, insensitive, or jealous".

Majority of the youths who have been pinned down by successive failed governments and a raging level of joblessness have found an opportunity to trend on a "poor" dead boy's sad tale and want to use it as an opportunity to venge their frustrations by way of protests where they'll go destroying and looting people's source of livelihood.

The latest with them now and a very annoying one is hearing all the idiots coming online and on TikTok analyzing and saying all sorts of nonsense. Adults will come in to be fooling themselves that since the boy passed on they can't sleep because they keep seeing him in their dreams. Are you idiots okay at all?

What do you expect to see in your sleep when you are fixated and looking to milk a boy's death for clout all day due to your joblessness?

Disgusting to say the least.

Illiterates with access to phones and the internet.

Thanks for sharing. I'm pleased to come by someone who has broad knowledge like you have exhibited and who is patient enough to share it on NL these days.

Critical thinking capacity is something that is going nearly extinct in the Nigerian society today, and I can quite relate with almost everything you have written.

You deserve a follow on NL. Please write a lot more often.

Regards.

davodyguy:
See bed Alex purse Pere for, is same place Pere is resting in peace, while Alex is not in the same 🏠.

Nothing sweet pass your enemy seeing progress

One if King Sunny Ade's songs says

My enemy must not die, so he can see my progress

kikikikikikiki
Baaaaad boy!!!

Alheeri:
🤣🤣,I agree with you on this ,very very bitter idiot after insulting ilebaye downstairs,she still went up to meet that girl is that not wickedness..
Ilebaye shud send her out of the vip lounge,now I get y Ike collected his bff badge back

If HOH can collect their badge back, then Ilebaye should collect it back from Venita.

She is so pure and innocent at heart, even despite her mistakes, that she possibly doesn't know she can pull the rug from under the feet of the big bad biracial character.

Yuneehk:
Venita is terrorising Ilebaye, but Adekunle would rather ask Venita "why e be say HOH way they pick you as BFF dey always terrorise you."

Venita is a bully sha. Ilebaye is chasing boy and that's bad, but you who has stuck to a guy is good?
LOL.

You saw this too?
I hope ADEKUNLE is evicted this week. He is possibly just as vile as his girlfriend. When I saw him say that, I knew he must be a hideous!
Guy has probably been pretending all the while with his equally hideous girlfriend.

Can't the HOH change BFF, please?
Venita should not be upstairs with our HOH.

Baye made a horrible error that she would never make again in her life: Girl power is a fraud. The girls would never do good for themselves.
I cannot imagine what Mercy is doing with Venita against Ilebaye. It looks like a scene from Jezebel in the old testament. Kai, she goes as far as saying 'don't waste your advice' to Mercy who is having an otherwise pleasant conversation with Baye.

So evil.

Nhazeru:
Very useless stupid hag. I have never seen a woman so vile, uncultured,badly behaved ,toxic ,bitter fool like Venbitter. She thinks she has found a husband in Kuku, my happiness is that Kuku's family will not allow him to be with a demonic possess lady like her. Ike will continue to love-vendor her out to Lekki men.

She'll go home on Sunday and continue drinking old men cum while featuring in asaba Nollywood and watch Baye crown all stars winner

So it is true that Ike said he pimps her out?!
Such a shameful and hideous character.

Tatiana4u:
E pain me say Baye no curse that old rejected hag wey lekki men don run train on!
Chai!

Exactly what someone said today. I was even told Ike mentioned it to HMs inside the house.

Who remembers Ilebaye's Diary Session today? The babe was so sweet and so natural. She was so innocent in her entire discussions. She isn't a saint, but is particularly innocent, expectant of positivity from other HMs and friendly. She even asked Big Brother, very politely, for a set of clothes.

Biggie as a nice gentleman simply told her that her clothes were beautiful but that he would consider her request. Biggie loves his baby!

drimzsmoke:
Biggie is giving Ilebaye time to cool off. My baby is biggie's baby!!!

Biggie loves ILEBAYE. I fell in love with ILEBAYE today.

Until today, although I knew Ilebaye was going to win, I was hoping Adekunle came close - but right now, dammit.

Mercy would certainly come second after Ilebaye. Mercy and Pere were the only ones who went to console Ilebaye anyway. They would have my votes after Ilebaye.

VENITA is very unfair. Very vile.

They cannot hide their bile against Ilebaye. This task where all ladies are grouped together has given the girls the opportunity to attack the poor lady.

To imagine that almost nobody protected Ilebaye. So unfortunate. This would make ILEBAYE WIN.

To imagine that this same Venita has 2 daughters who are much younger than Ilebaye?! To imagine that part of the insults she is hurling at Baye is that she always goes around boys. Who goes after a boy the most in the house?

I cannot wait until she is voted out on Sunday. Adekunle would be so relieved to see her back. Someone told me Ike said during his time in the house that Venita has been an escort for his friends in the past. I do not know how true that is...

Are there leather footmats for Peugeot in Nigeria?

Pere just asked a group including CeeC, Mercy and Cross, 'which would you prefer, a Money-Minting machine or Global Power and Influence'?


Mercy: (jumps in) Money. What would I use Power and Influence for?

Cross: If you have Money from your machine, it would bring power and influence.

Mercy: (again cuts in excitedly) I would stay in my house with the machine for 2 months. When I come out ehn...

Ceec: It all boils down to money. So of what use is the Power and Influence...

Pere shakes his head and smiles before saying 'makes sense sha'. He knows better, but has realised that was not the place to educated the money-driven HMs around him.

Now, this is one of the reasons why I watch BB9ja and why I like Pere and Adekunle. Nigerians worship money and a small horizon. It incapacitates us and blunts our capacity to reason for long-term development.

That is what Power and Influence does. It comes on the basis of knowledge and wisdom, naturally. All these are necessary to maintain values like delayed gratification and systemic thinking and systemic organisation/planning.

Power and Influence is far more valuable than money, but these ones whom Kanayo O Kanayo described as dashing ignorant people 120M apparently do not have this understanding...

Godoverevery:
Guys this another lesson for you in this world.
No one cares and you will always be blamed for everything.

Women are not expected to manage provoking men all the time but men are expected to manage how they react all the time.

Have never seen anyone told women to walk away during confrontation is always the men expected to walk away.....lol.

Someone have been goading you for 5weeks.....you have even reported her 3 times to biggie during your DS and Nothing was done to her......the one time you had enough and reacted they are saying you have anger issues.

Pere has anger issues but no one says Alex have provocation issues.....lol

Anger is bad and provocation is good.......double standards that keep making the world a joke.

You can say this again. Big Brother indeed warned Doyin on goading and provoking, in using her a second strike shortly before she was evicted.

Unfortunately, the larger world seems to encourage passive, and sometimes direct violence against men; possibly in order to make up for centuries that men supposedly maltreated women.

Olodo24:
All this English on top Queen Mercy millionaire fingers? Lol .... Over 70% of Nigerians use some form of skin lightening products. Nothing new. Happy Sunday

If this is true, which there may be no scientific evidence of, it means those who engage in such have problems with their natural appearances and feel inferior in their natural skin.

That's unhealthy.

In addition, skin bleaching has been proven to expose the body to all manners of chronic diseases like skin cancer and kidney failure. It should be discussed and discouraged.

I'm looking at Mercy's hand for the first time as she's eatimg.

That's some hyperpigmentation (darkening) of her proximal and distal interphalangeal joints (knuckles).

It suggests she may be on some skin routine that makes her appear lighter than natural.

That's often unhealthy, if that is true.

What is Soma begging Angel to smoke?

Do they smoke in Big Brother House, please?

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Nigeria is not the only country that imports, some countries even imports their food and drinks because of the barren desert terrain in those countries. And they are doing fairly well

The Fx supply is not properly managed. This man in the process of trying to unify it further compounded the situation, worsening it further than its true value. So now it is even undervalued.

Respectfully, you haven't answered my questions.

Which sub Saharan country has it better? Ghana? Liberia? Congo? Cameroun? Sierra Leone? Malawi?

Which one has successfully done what you are suggesting? If Africa becomes self-sustainable, where would the Western Nations export their products to? You think they'll allow Africa become what China and the Asian Tigers have achieved

VeeVeeMyLuv:
The price quadrupled between 2015 - to date because APC GOVT Failed to effectively manage the Forex rate devaluing the naira from N180 in 2015 to close N1000 to a a dollar in 2023 that is making naira to lose 82% of its value!

Note if a currency loses 100% of its value that currency becomes utterly useless!

Okay now after devaluation these wicked souls still kept salary and wages at the same level it was back in 2015!

That's why now many many Nigerians are so severely depressed, wretched, miserable, hopeless all thanks to this evil gang of so-called ruling party.

Let us have a conversation:

Tell me, how does/can the government manage the exchange rate in a democracy? The exchange rate works according to demand and supply. For as long as there is more naira available to buy the dollar, the value of the dollar would continue to rise against the naira.

Nobody can hold that. The international market price of a bag of rice has not changed as much. What has affected the price in Nigerian Naira is the value of the Naira. If the Naira becomes strong enough to hold its place against the dollar e.g 200 naira, the price of rice would naturally also fall.

The value of the naira would further fall if the government raises minimum wage as there would be more Naira to chase the dollar. The way out is to make available goods and services to every Nigerian in Nigeria as produced by majorly Nigerians inside Nigeria. It makes money flow within the Nigerian ecosystem while adding value to it on the value chain.

The current system sees money flowing out of Nigeria to the international market and developed countries to add value there while we receive inferior quality finished luxuries like artificial hair for women, razor blades, toothpicks and dental floss and refined petrol. I hear PZ even imports Palm Oil for its manufacturing at Agbara! We import bitumen to make our roads. Our net importation is the problem.

No Government can hold the currency down when we import almost everything and export unprocessed (crude) oil.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Earning remained same while others expenses went to the roof, this is where the problem lies. They are not ready to review it upward. The purchasing power has been severely weakened. That's why people are just borrowing money anyhow. A huge chunk of salary is now strictly spent on feeding with little or no disposable income

That party is a torn in the flesh of Nigerians. A plague

It isn't about any of the political parties. All the political parties in Nigeria are same. We don't do ideological political parties in Nigeria.

If anything, APC / PDP Governorship swapping in Edo State should teach us. We have a LP Governor in Alex Otti today, not so? No APGA Governor including PO made his State an Industrial Mecca. It isn't about the political parties.

You may have to consider my comment above.