₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
Probably you send the link to my mail or something

Alright, just sent you an email.

kenpaul0:
Everyone comparing Nigeria to Kenya has anyone of you been to Kenya? See while we stay here on the internet and be praising our country Africa is leaving us behind. As of today Kenya's currency is 3x the Naira...Benin republic is almost at par with the naira, Kontinu talking giant of Africa...

Please stick to the topic of this thread, your grossly misguided opinion will only lead to derailment. Also, try to stick with what you know, Nigropessimism will do you no good. Please go to Kenya, observe their banking industry and compare it to Nigeria's. Don't equate currency to economic development, it shows cluelessness.

Odunayaw:
WhatsApp number

Sorry Sir I have to decline

Okay, was trying to post the whatsapp link here but it doesn't seem to open on nairaland.....would have loved for you guys to be part of my group.....

Xbee007:
What

We don't do that here bro.

oh, I wasn't aware.....trying to post the whatsapp link but it doesn't seem to be open on nairaland

nemesis8u, Covert1, bidexiii, iblawi, Nicheey, Odunayaw and all other interested Nigerians, please PM me your whatsapp numbers to join my group African Political Fellowship.

The character named bidexiii should please keep quiet and listen to correction, for some of us silent participants of this thread you are simply confirming iblawi's observation that you are dull by continuing to insist on your ridiculous argument.

Stick to military matters where you have a semblance of remote knowledge and leave other arguments for more enlightened people. I like your military posts a lot, sometime I even anticipate them, please don't spoil my respect for you by continuing to embarrass yourself like this.

Hardlife:
Well, i took last jamb, i passed very
well to the joy of everybody. They thought i was back to being
normal but secretly i was still playing
virtual. Virtual has eaten deep in my blood. All the money i managed to save
before the jamb period while at home
still ended up in virtual. I want to stop but i cant. Fast forward everything to today the
7th of july. I took the money for my
post utme form to play virtual. My heartbeat was felt by the person
close to me when i lost the last kobo i
came with. Till now i have not
stopped thinking, nobody knows. now
i am thinking how to get the money
back. I am a dead man alive. Gambling has eaten deep into my
soul. i am finished. I AM TIRED AND FRUSTRATED,
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME. I
WANT TO STOP. I WANT TO HAVE MY LIFE BACK
TOGETHER. PLEASE HELP ME IF
YOU HAVE HAD SIMILAR
EXPERIENCE. I AM DYING SLOWLY. I NEED
HELP. TODAY I HAVE PUT A
STOP TO IT. GOD HELP ME.
PLEASE
HOW CAN I QUIT FOREVER

Get a hobby, look for something that you are passionate about(other than gambling) and pour all your energy into it, it may be reading,writing,creative art,dancing,playing football or acting, it may be anything, even politics. Just find another passion.

I often wonder what it would be like for like minds to come together for a common goal, even as a youth, my interest in political affairs and international relations has motivated me to read up on a lot of human history, and from history, I have discovered that the greatest revolutions and nationalist transformations were brought about by the ability of people to unite and forge a common perspective.


Nigeria as a country is in dire need of like minded nationalists to counter the growing spread of afro-pessimism and build a new generation of political idealist that would save us from the current abyss.


African Political Fellowship is conceived as a platform for people of different background, age, religion, and ethnicity to come together to discuss national issues, proffer solutions, build relations and forge a new weltanschauung.


To join this new movement, join the WhatsApp link below:


https:///5XNxspd1eWbHTT2J1vVqYD




Or drop your number and get added.

Blue3k:
Bad link

can you use another browser??
Or
Add 08176914360

Cc: Teejay121 (f ), dalemat , Raphchuks , TheAk, BandAid , elantraceey, Blue3k, GenBuhari, 777philosopher, Proudlyngwa, miebacka , postmann , Nexxy007 , lavita2, overhypedsteve

I often wonder what it would be like for like minds to come together for a common goal, even as a youth, my interest in political affairs and international relations has motivated me to read up on a lot of human history, and from history, I have discovered that the greatest revolutions and nationalist transformations were brought about by the ability of people to unite and forge a common perspective.


Nigeria as a country is in dire need of like minded nationalists to counter the growing spread of afro-pessimism and build a new generation of political idealist that would save us from the current abyss.


African Political Fellowship is conceived as a platform for people of different background, age, religion, and ethnicity to come together to discuss national issues, proffer solutions, build relations and forge a new weltanschauung.


To join this new movement, join the WhatsApp link below:



https:///5XNxspd1eWbHTT2J1vVqYD

@TheAk, check your mail, I just sent the draft to you.

odigbosky:
Nigeria can get Bakassi back if she wants...we just have spineless leaders. Did Khrushev not give Crimea containing ethnic russians as a gift to Ukraine, Well Putin corrected that mistake and today fvck what the world thinks crimea is in Russia. I know a very easy way to get Bakassi back....but lets just forget about it, we don't have the leadership jare

Please share your idea on how to take bakassi back, I am interested.

Moorish:
If the young people of Nigeria can control the lower and upper houses, state and federal and judiciary, under one umbrella and philosophy and political party, then that is the beginning of revolution

I have some plans towards actualizing this

I hope I can meet people who believe same

Can you share your plans?, I am interested.


You can send me a PM.

The Libyan axis of evil: a wake-up call for Nigeria and the African Union

By

Edebhagba Justice

It is a public secret that the fall of Muammar Gadaffi in 2011 opened the floodgate of arms proliferation by radical groups in North, West and Central Africa. In the intervening years, Africa’s Sahel region has been opened up to the gruesome mercies of armed militias and terrorist groups that sprang up or were strengthened by the systematic pilfering of Gadaffi’s armory. Basically, the result of NATO’s reckless military adventurism in Libya is that every psychopathic buffoon and his grandma can now get premium access to high caliber weaponry with just a terse phone call and a fat purse.

The Libyan crisis plays out the symbolic parable of the foolish farmer who looked the other way while his neighbour’s barn was set alight by bandits; it was only a matter of time before the fire grew and consumed his own barn. Nigeria and the rest of Africa represents the foolish farmer; while the kinetocrats of Washington and Paris, in a fit of zealous banditry, made a fiery mushroom cloud out of Tripoli, Africa turned its eyes away and feigned a disturbing lack of concern. Barely a decade down the line, a good half of the continent is now either threatened by escalating internal conflicts or has become a hotbed for terror groups. This rather unsavory turn of events has prompted an ever increasing build-up of military foothold in Africa by the same western powers that started the fire of violence in the first instance, under the aegis of “fighting terrorism”. Truly, it would seem that the concept of “African solutions to African problems” is merely a flowery rhetoric that the African Union (AU) is always quick to mouth only when there is an international outcry against corrupt African leaders.

When French Rafales were laying waste to Libya, African leaders were hastily eloquent in justifying the elimination of Gadaffi for being such a hardened dictator and planning a phantasmagorical genocide. But today, one wonders what went through the minds of the same African leaders when they watched videos of tens of thousands of African men, women and children, shackled and led away under the scorching heat of the Libyan dunes to be pawned off as slaves; a grotesque flashback of a phenomenon we all thought was long abolished. Of course, everyone was sufficiently outraged, condemnations were liberally dished around and new empty commitments were made. Thousand of the victims were retrieved and shipped back home, and everyone went back to bed. In essence, nobody addressed the root of the problem (or at least one of the main roots), which is the crisis in Libya.

What is the way forward?, well, here is a big African problem, and we are in desperate need of African solutions. The fact remains that until the crisis in Libya is resolved, the cycle of violence in Africa’s Sahel region will not abate. Radical groups like Boko Haram, Al-Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQUIM), Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP), renegade Fulani herdsmen and Malian tuareg militias will continue to benefit from the political vacuum and arms proliferation. It is time for Nigeria to make good on its “Africa first” foreign policy to salvage the situation and in the process, rescue itself from the wicked claws of terrorism; there is urgent need for a legitimate government in Libya, and it is of paramount importance that a new, generally accepted government be put in place by any means necessary. Nigeria, being one of the countries chiefly affected by the current state of affairs, must organize a united front of African nations whose mandate will be to immediately restore a working government in Libya. There is need for an “entente afrique”, a coalition of friendly African nations, with a common goal to disarm all the rebel factions in the embattled country, using military force if necessary (which it would be). NATO has destroyed Libya, now the AU needs to restore the country, for the sake of continental peace.

There may be need for one last war in Libya, and that war must be a war for peace. There is need for the African Union to become more than a talk shop, to take the elephant by the tusk and attack the problem at its root. Nigeria must make herself the center-piece in such a worthy cause; a multilateral mandate that would bring African nations together for once to solve an African problem. If the ECOWAS could do it in Gambia, then the AU can do it in Libya.

http://www.opinionnigeria.com/the-libyan-axis-of-evil-a-wake-up-call-for-nigeria-and-the-a-u-by-edebhagba-justice/#sthash.REUvZgk6.dpbs

Harnessing corruption as an unconventional tool for national development

By

Edebhagba Justice

Government sleaze and corruption in high places represent two of the numerous retrogressive leeches that Nigeria has been largely unable to shrug off in her turbulent peregrination to national development. Infact, Nigeria as a country has grown to be notoriously synonymous to corruption, and Nigerians are globally perceived as the figurative cumulonimbus that precedes the thunderstorm of financial crimes wherever they go. This rather unfortunate global perception of my dear country was evidenced when the former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, flippantly referred to Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country; a sentiment which was reflected in Donald Trump’s “shithole countries” remark recently.
To be realistic, corruption is a pandemic phenomenon. Apart from Africa (which is often portrayed as the grand temple of corrupt practices), countries of Asia, Latin America and even the western world continue to struggle with widespread corruption. In Africa, it is estimated that about $148 billion is lost annually through various corrupt practices; the former South African President, Thabo Mbeki’s panel on illicit financial flow (IFF) once put the sum Africa loses annually due to illicit financial flows at a staggering range of $50 billion to $80 billion. If such mind-boggling sums are being siphoned on yearly basis, it is little wonder then that the continent is suffering from such large-scale poverty and under-development.


If Africa is the temple of corruption, then perhaps Nigeria can be aptly referred to as the profane alter. Since 1960 till date, it is estimated that about $500 billion of our collective patrimony grew wings and disappeared to God knows where. Of course, a good chunk of the monies remain firmly locked behind the impenetrable steel of swiss vaults and offshore bank accounts, while the rest have been mummified in graves and suck-aways, left to the nutritional delights of termites and moulds.


Decades of mismanagement and political instability has culminated into a system where corruption has become so deeply entrenched that it is now a norm; the period of sporadic military take-overs and the “oil boom” that splashed the crude gawky soldiers at the helm of affairs with unaccustomed wealth did not help matters either, as it bred a mob of insatiable parvenu who hijacked the corridors of power and turned the country into a cash cow.


Of course, there have been attempts by successive governments (both military and civilian) to fight corruption (even though most of the efforts have majorly been witch-hunting exercises targeted at political rivals), the result of which has been very few high profile convictions and a lot of uncensored comical theatrics. Factors such as judicial technicalities and lack of political willpower have frustrated any serious attempt at keeping corruption at bay. Hence, the question is no longer whether the government is fighting corruption, rather, how is the government fighting corruption?. Over the course of the last 18 years, attempts at nailing high profile corruption cases have been frustrated by endless cycles of litigations and counter-litigations, with nothing to show for it (except maybe richer lawyers and bolder looters). This exposes the fact that the government needs to re-approach the fight against corruption from a more mercurial angle: In 1961, former President of South Korea, Park Chung-Hee, introduced a series of socio-economic reforms that created the modern “Chaebols” and transformed the poor agrarian country into one of the celebrated “Asian tigers”. On seizing power, Chung-Hee was faced with a conundrum, on one hand, the corporate sector was riddled with widespread corruption, and however, on the other hand he needed the industrialists for his ambitious economic policies to work. Chung-Hee’s clever tactic was to reach an agreement with the entrepreneurs under which those accused of financial crimes paid fines to the government and were set free in exchange for their full support for the government’s industrial modernization reforms. This snowballed into a system where the government selected some of the companies, gave them loans and special incentives in exchange for them meeting government export targets, those who met the targets were given more aid, while those who failed got their privileges withdrawn. Today, South Korea has the likes of LG, Samsung, and Hyundai to show for it; big family owned corporations called “chaebols”, which have transformed the country into a developed state.


Nigeria could learn from Chung-Hee’s unconventional model; this can be done by granting corrupt individuals amnesty in exchange for total investment of the stolen funds into the economy. If corruption is as monumental as we have all been led to believe, then it is a fact that should the stolen billions of dollars ever be invested into the Nigerian economy, then we’d experience an industrial revolution within a decade. Government can round-up all documented looters and strike a deal with them that entails them exhuming their loots from the crypts and offshore accounts, and investing it into priority sectors of the economy such as heavy manufacturing industries, education, health care, agriculture and petrochemicals, with assurance that they will be allowed to retain ownership of the industries (though the government would retain shares within the companies). The new industries would be given cheap loans by the CBN, and the governments can even stand as guarantor for them to obtain loans from private banks, along with granting them monopoly priviledges in their respective niches. In exchange for government support, the industries would be obliged to meet government production and export targets, the purpose of this is to build industrial giants that will champion an export driven economic boom. This concept may not be too alien to the Nigerian system, as business-men like Aliko Dangote and Ifeanyi Ubah have been known to enjoy government patronage.


I believe that the government can parlay our corruption problem into national development by thinking outside the box. While the government strengthens the EFCC and other affiliated agencies in preventing new corruption cases, the old “untouchable” cases can be turned into an economic opportunity that will see billions of dollars being willingly repatriated back into the country and invested into the economy, instead of the current system where looted funds are locked up in idle vaults or used to purchase expensive properties abroad which are then left empty.

http://www.opinionnigeria.com/harnessing-corruption-as-an-unconventional-tool-for-economic-development-in-nigeria-by-edebhagba-justice/#sthash.oIyXAVhP.7yb3BeX6.dpbs

@EIGood, can you post a link or caption of the 2013 power share purchase agreement?, especially the clause where November 2, 2018 is the stipulated deadline for maximum prepaid distribution (performance agreement).




I may need it for a write-up currently in the pipeline. Thanks.