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Blue3k:
This piece is great you did excellent job. Anyway it's true the backward nature of these countries can largely be attributed to their crazy French policy. Can you imagine Niger republic having do much uranium and yet sitting in darkness. Then spite most if these nation being in trading block most of their trade is with France.

That's shy I say if Nigeria got its act together it should be the regional hegemony. French interest always interfere with that because it hard to gain ground unless we industrialized and usurp Frances importance in their economy.



It's insane that they don't even control their own monetary policy. It's like Bank of England controlling Australia and Canada's currency. Pure madness.

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Nigeria just need to realize that she is not only responsible for herself,but for the larger African society.

I see no reason why we can't challenge and topple french influence in Africa.

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Echoes of powers: Francafrique and the future of Africa

By Evarn

_“There is no such thing as good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it”_ – Lord Voldemort (JK Rowlings, HP)




After World War 2, a new world order was constituted by the “allied powers”; The US, UK, France, China and Russia. The so called “axis powers” which comprised Germany, Ottoman empire, Italy and Imperial Japan had just been defeated after years of brutal warfare, the kinds of which humanity had never experienced before. New institutions were formed including the United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the likes, all under control of the allied victors. African boundaries were redrawn, colonies belonging to the defeated powers were awarded to the victors, not minding indigenous tribal and ethnic similarities or differences.

As the tide of the new world swept in, it became obvious that African colonies would not remain subservient for much longer, agitation for independence swept through the black continent. Colonies gained their independence either through war or dialogue. Colonial powers like Britain, Belgium, Italy, France and Spain who had continuously milked the continent of its wealth and natural resources for centuries began to reluctantly relinquish totalitarian control of their colonies.

For decades, France had ruled its overseas territories though its policy of “assimilation”; what this entailed was a systemic introduction of French culture, language, currency, education, and military doctrine into its African subjects, in effect, French culture gradually eroded traditional African customs in francophone territories, and those countries became more of French than Africans. This later became the template for the political manipulation and interference in internal affairs of francophone countries after “independence”.

As the clamour for independence increased on the African continent, France under President Charles de Gaulle, aided by Jacques Foccart, a french businessman and close confidant, convened a “colonial pact” involving 14 francophone countries; in exchange for independence, francophone countries were mandated to domicile 65% of their foreign currency reserves in the Bank of France, another 20% was to be kept with France for financial liabilities “inflicted upon” France during colonial rule, and also francophone countries were to pay colonial taxes to France for infrastructure built by France during colonial rule, not to mention the fact that the CFA franc, the official currency used in all francophone countries is issued by the Bank of France. To pave the way for the acceptance and institutionalization of this pact, de Gaulle developed a network of French and African politicians and businessmen who were placed in positions of power and sufficiently bribed to allow free pursuance of French interest. This network was tagged “francafrique”. French masonry began to spring up all over francophone countries, this was made easy due to African traditional practices of native masonry, like the “Ogboni” practiced amongst the Yorubas of Nigeria. Many leaders and politicians of francophone countries became initiated into Grand lodges and pursued the interests of their Masonic orders, which inadvertently, were French interests.

The French neocolonial stance has since been a backbone for corruption, nepotism and underdevelopment in francophone Africa. This policy has been sustained through a vicious cycle of coups, assassinations, bribery, and espionage carried out by France over the decades. The most prominent victims that comes to mind are Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso who was deposed and murdered by his best friend Blaise Campaore under orders from France, President Ange-felix Patase who was murdered in the French-backed coup that installed General Francois Bozize into power in the Central African Republic; it is interesting to note that out of 67 coups in 26 African countries over the past 50 years, 61 occurred in francophone countries. Today, African resources continues to be plundered under the neocolonial supervision of France, according to the colonial pact, France has unhindered access to raw materials like cocoa, timber, uranium and gold which are classified as “strategic assets”, francophone countries are not permitted to sell to any other country of the world except the commodity is not needed by France and French companies are awarded contracts without fair bidding process, the former President of Cote D’ivoire Laurent Gbagbo learnt the hard way when he insisted on awarding the Abidjan bridge to a Chinese company.
It is no wonder a former President of France, Jacques Chirac said, “without Africa, france will smoothly go down to the rank of third world country”, another former French president, Francois Mitterand also corroborated the stance when he admitted that, “If there was nothing like Africa, France would not have had any history in the 21st century”. Why will they not feel that way when France makes about $600 billion from Africa annually?, when France holds more than $60 billion of francophone Africa's treasury in reserve?.

Even with the advent of the 21st century, the wanton plundering of African resources by foreign powers has continued unabated, but this time, it is not through colonial mandate but through the use of neocolonial institutions. African leaders who protest this wicked trend are often either bribed, silenced or frustrated out of power, gory examples like Patrice Lumumba, a former president of Zaire whose death was sanctioned by Belgium to install Mobutu Sese Seko who became one of the most corrupt African leader to have ever lived. Even Nigeria has not being spared in the indiscriminate rape of Africa; during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, IMF policies were introduced in the Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP) under the aegis of liberalizing the Nigerian market, those policies sparked the great decline of Nigeria’s economic stability and an astronomical devaluation of the naira.

Hence, there is need for a new world order, one that will feature a strong Africa. An Africa where poverty is drastically reduced, and everyone can afford to go to school. An Africa that is capable of protecting her resources and projecting her interests. An Africa that will practice less of religion and more of science. An Africa that will rule the world.

Nigeria is Africa’s hope for greatness, we are the future of this continent, and it isn’t about the population or oil or being the 20th largest economy in the world. Nigerian corporations are now dominating African markets, companies like Dangote Group have succeeded in penetrating francophones markets and challenging French giants like Lafarge. Globacoms, UBA, Zenith, Forte oil and the likes are opening new frontiers in Africa and the Middle East. The Nigerian entertainment industry is making waves all over the continent and overseas. These, to mention a few, are testaments of the potential of the Nigerian federation. The potential to break the malicious grip of foreign powers that are bent on leeching Africa dry. But to lead Africa to greatness, Nigeria must first be great. It is a necessity, lest Africa get plundered to desolation.

Echoes of powers: Francafrique and the future of Africa

By Evarn

_“There is no such thing as good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it”_ – Lord Voldemort (JK Rowlings, HP)




After World War 2, a new world order was constituted by the “allied powers”; The US, UK, France, China and Russia. The so called “axis powers” which comprised Germany, Ottoman empire, Italy and Imperial Japan had just been defeated after years of brutal warfare, the kinds of which humanity had never experienced before. New institutions were formed including the United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the likes, all under control of the allied victors. African boundaries were redrawn, colonies belonging to the defeated powers were awarded to the victors, not minding indigenous tribal and ethnic similarities or differences.

As the tide of the new world swept in, it became obvious that African colonies would not remain subservient for much longer, agitation for independence swept through the black continent. Colonies gained their independence either through war or dialogue. Colonial powers like Britain, Belgium, Italy, France and Spain who had continuously milked the continent of its wealth and natural resources for centuries began to reluctantly relinquish totalitarian control of their colonies.

For decades, France had ruled its overseas territories though its policy of “assimilation”; what this entailed was a systemic introduction of French culture, language, currency, education, and military doctrine into its African subjects, in effect, French culture gradually eroded traditional African customs in francophone territories, and those countries became more of French than Africans. This later became the template for the political manipulation and interference in internal affairs of francophone countries after “independence”.

As the clamour for independence increased on the African continent, France under President Charles de Gaulle, aided by Jacques Foccart, a french businessman and close confidant, convened a “colonial pact” involving 14 francophone countries; in exchange for independence, francophone countries were mandated to domicile 65% of their foreign currency reserves in the Bank of France, another 20% was to be kept with France for financial liabilities “inflicted upon” France during colonial rule, and also francophone countries were to pay colonial taxes to France for infrastructure built by France during colonial rule, not to mention the fact that the CFA franc, the official currency used in all francophone countries is issued by the Bank of France. To pave the way for the acceptance and institutionalization of this pact, de Gaulle developed a network of French and African politicians and businessmen who were placed in positions of power and sufficiently bribed to allow free pursuance of French interest. This network was tagged “francafrique”. French masonry began to spring up all over francophone countries, this was made easy due to African traditional practices of native masonry, like the “Ogboni” practiced amongst the Yorubas of Nigeria. Many leaders and politicians of francophone countries became initiated into Grand lodges and pursued the interests of their Masonic orders, which inadvertently, were French interests.

The French neocolonial stance has since been a backbone for corruption, nepotism and underdevelopment in francophone Africa. This policy has been sustained through a vicious cycle of coups, assassinations, bribery, and espionage carried out by France over the decades. The most prominent victims that comes to mind are Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso who was deposed and murdered by his best friend Blaise Campaore under orders from France, President Ange-felix Patase who was murdered in the French-backed coup that installed General Francois Bozize into power in the Central African Republic; it is interesting to note that out of 67 coups in 26 African countries over the past 50 years, 61 occurred in francophone countries. Today, African resources continues to be plundered under the neocolonial supervision of France, according to the colonial pact, France has unhindered access to raw materials like cocoa, timber, uranium and gold which are classified as “strategic assets”, francophone countries are not permitted to sell to any other country of the world except the commodity is not needed by France and French companies are awarded contracts without fair bidding process, the former President of Cote D’ivoire Laurent Gbagbo learnt the hard way when he insisted on awarding the Abidjan bridge to a Chinese company.
It is no wonder a former President of France, Jacques Chirac said, “without Africa, france will smoothly go down to the rank of third world country”, another former French president, Francois Mitterand also corroborated the stance when he admitted that, “If there was nothing like Africa, France would not have had any history in the 21st century”. Why will they not feel that way when France makes about $600 billion from Africa annually?, when France holds more than $60 billion of francophone Africa's treasury in reserve?.

Even with the advent of the 21st century, the wanton plundering of African resources by foreign powers has continued unabated, but this time, it is not through colonial mandate but through the use of neocolonial institutions. African leaders who protest this wicked trend are often either bribed, silenced or frustrated out of power, gory examples like Patrice Lumumba, a former president of Zaire whose death was sanctioned by Belgium to install Mobutu Sese Seko who became one of the most corrupt African leader to have ever lived. Even Nigeria has not being spared in the indiscriminate rape of Africa; during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, IMF policies were introduced in the Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP) under the aegis of liberalizing the Nigerian market, those policies sparked the great decline of Nigeria’s economic stability and an astronomical devaluation of the naira.

Hence, there is need for a new world order, one that will feature a strong Africa. An Africa where poverty is drastically reduced, and everyone can afford to go to school. An Africa that is capable of protecting her resources and projecting her interests. An Africa that will practice less of religion and more of science. An Africa that will rule the world.

Nigeria is Africa’s hope for greatness, we are the future of this continent, and it isn’t about the population or oil or being the 20th largest economy in the world. Nigerian corporations are now dominating African markets, companies like Dangote Group have succeeded in penetrating francophones markets and challenging French giants like Lafarge. Globacoms, UBA, Zenith, Forte oil and the likes are opening new frontiers in Africa and the Middle East. The Nigerian entertainment industry is making waves all over the continent and overseas. These, to mention a few, are testaments of the potential of the Nigerian federation. The potential to break the malicious grip of foreign powers that are bent on leeching Africa dry. But to lead Africa to greatness, Nigeria must first be great. It is a necessity, lest Africa get plundered to desolation.

It would have made sense if the NAF had purchased the YAK-130,instead of those crop sprayers.

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Failure to denuclearize the world will eventually lead to a global nuclear weapons proliferation such as what we are seeing today....

IloveTrump:
that means guinea still ahead of Nigeria then.

Alpha Conde of Guinea is the current chairman of the African Union.... that is why he was there....

Nice,lets talk.

A very commendable initiative; they should however ensure a transparent and well structured process.

The OP is obviously joking....

AWOisaCOWARD:
After they have used it to gain power

Lol....such is the dynamism of the human society.

Hate speeches are a dangerous phenomena, the government has no choice but to nip it in the bud especially at this time when things are becoming rapidly climatic.

Jaqenhghar:
Do they have respect for the average citizen? I dont see any sense in praying for people who disrespect you call you names. What dirty sacrifice? fùck them

Do you know every single soldier in this country?,If you have met ten bad soldiers,does that mean all of them are bad?,do you now agree that not every one of them is bad?....then you've got your answer.


You may not respect them,but those who have been saved from the jaw of death by these soldiers will definitely know their worth,and it is there opinions that matters.


Most of the soldiers that misbehave are the uneducated ones who are either power-drunk or frustrated with the way Nigerians stereotype them and treat them with contempt.

nedu666:
nobody forced them to join army. secondly they are not as important as doctors, scientist, teachers etc.

If you actually believe this then there is a problem.

If you watch video clips of what is happening in Somalia,Iraq,and Syria,how hundred of thousands are being rendered homeless everyday,then you'd appreciate the fact that some people are fighting to prevent that same outcome for us.


Have you realized that maybe you are part of the problem?,you can't demand respect if you don't offer respect in return,respect is earned. It is only a person without conscience that would disregard a sacrifice of blood. If you believe in God,then God will judge you according to your conscience.

Titto93:
No be only Mobile Task Force, ma Phone Task Force.
Nigerian Army remains coward if they didn't capture Shekua in the expiration of Burutai's 40 days ultimatum. 16 days left.
Shame to Illiterate miscreants that only know how to flex their substandard weapons on armless citizens.
mtchewww

Please at least have a modicum of respect for the gallant men and women who have died so that you and I won't be living as refugees today.


The people had families too,some were even breadwinners. Those soldiers you see in the pictures risk their lives everyday just to protect us,protect our families and loved ones. They do not know sleep, they bleed and sometimes have to live on meagre food rations and delayed wages.


The truth is that in every organisation,their would always be bad-eggs,but we shouldn't allow the actions of bad people to deprive us of our humanity and sanity.What makes you better than those people you call "illiterate miscreants" if you are so willing to insult the sacrifice made by these patriots on our behalf?,you think it is easy to leave a family behind and go into the bush to fight for your country?,hell,these guys don't even know when next they will see their families again,or if they will ever see their families again for that matter.


So please, if you have any conscience at all,then try to conform to decorum,and never ever again insult the sacrifice made by these gallant patriots.

Good to know that work has begun on the 2018 budget. Implementation is key,the FG should strive to achieve at least 80% implementation of the 2017 budget.
Also,we should really consider raising funds through concessioning our airports,refineries and railway to private investors.We should also work towards achieving a cashless society in order to enhance transactions and reduce corruption.

Nigeria should target 12,000km rail coverage over the next 10 years. Railway will definitely boost the economy by opening up trade between zones of the country and providing cheap means of transport for heavy goods.
The FG should however endeavor to concede the Nigerian railway system to private companies for effective management and optimum service.

[quote auathor=9jii post=59205836]But the nature doesn’t care who is developed or not, if we contribute to ruin our environment the cost will be much more. Especially on us without any backup plan.
Instead of we wait until they perfect the technology of clean energy and make it ready made cheap for us.it's better if we join the developmental stage and in the future it ll be less complicated to us.
We all like it easy and cheap that's weaknesses[/quote]If it takes 50 years to perfect clean energy and make it cheap,then should we spend 50 years waiting in "developmental stage",while developed nations who spurred their industrial revolution using coal continue to advance industrially?.Why dont we start our own industrial revolution using "dirty energy",until we become advanced enough to afford cleaner energy?.
I dont care if nature cannot differentiate between developed and developing countries,anybody that is so concerned should start planting trees.We need cheap energy for rapid industrialization.

slimthugchimee:
It costs a whole lot for that........

Coal plant is the way, but our efforts with that is being frustrated by america

Nigeria should never have signed the paris climate change agreement.
We cant sign a treaty on climate change and then go ahead to start planning the use of coal for power generation,it just goes to show Nigeria's confused policy direction.
I hope we havent ratified that accord yet.
In any case,if we are genuinely serious about coal,then I think we should look eastward to China,coal plants generates over 60% of their energy.China is a rising power looking to carve out a top spot on the international scene, they would be very willing to assist us in acquiring the skills and components needed for coal power,in return for our diplomatic support.

9jii:
And you didn't here about the Climate change agreement this year

Lets not get too emotional with this climate change agenda; 3rd world countries like Nigeria,need a cheap but efficient means of power generation like coal,not waste the little we have on expensive projects like solar,wind and waste; these are technologies that we dont even have the expertise to produce and maintain.
It is the industrialized nations that should scale back on their use of coal,they have the money and resources to seek alternate sources of electricity.Otherwise,they should get ready to fund "clean energy" projects in all developing countries of the world.

This is probably a suitable aircraft for CT/COIN operations,however,I dont want to imagine what will happen if BH get their hands of Surface to Air Missiles(from Chad,Libya or any of their foreign collaborators).Infact, anti-aircraft guns could prove dangerous to this sub-sonic jet.
We should start negotiating with Russia,China and Pakistan who are more disposed to selling 4th generation fighter jets at a more cheaper price and without frustrating conditionalities.We can also partner with South Africa's DENEL to reactivate the Rooivalk attack helicopter programme,that way,we can get technology transfer and training.

There are many ways to generate 24 hours power in Nigeria:
1.Expand the national grid transmission capacity,and utilize natural resources such as coal and uranium(or thorium to minimize fears of radioactive explosion) to generate cheaper electricity. Loan bankrupt DISCOs funds in order to enable them pay their suppliers and deliver necessary materials such as meters.
2.Scrap the national grid and allow states and local governments to generate and transmit power,probably in conjunction with private investors.
3.Allow generation of power in clusters by private companies.

osymerga:
Tucanos? What rubbish...
Why not go for F16,F22 or F35?
Which one is super tucano? Are we in WW2 era?
This country sef.

The U.S. will never sell F16,18,22,or 35 to Nigeria(except there is a major policy change,which is highly unlikely),those are meant for close allies and strategic partners.

This will not necessarily be a good development; the President is the commander in chief of the armed force,and should therefore have the sole power to appoint and fire service chiefs.
Politicians should not seek to meddle in military affairs, it could become a big problem.

5DMindset:
A laser and Naser EMP beamer designed with integrated Plasma short-circulatory weapon is all you need to fry all these hardwares.

Earth Humans will never learn, that the time for war is over.

As far as I know,there is no such weapon.

It depends on your concept of the term "evil",personally,I believe eliminating obstacles to national interest can be used as an efficient instrument of state.At that point,it doesnt matter if it is good or evil,all that matters is the necessity.
But then again,I am a man of expediency,others may disagree.
As for killing off our politicians; that would only temporarily solve the problem.For any nation to succeed,it needs strong and vibrant institutions(like law enforcement,judiciary,legislature,political parties,academic institutions,civil service etc),a bloody revolution will not automatically create strong institutions,though it can be used to do so.
In a heterogenous country like Nigeria,a revolution has higher risk of spiralling into civil war.