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How We Lost Our Country Our Culture & Become 2nd Class Citizens When people discuss retirement, they focus on money. They talk about pensions. They talk about investments. They talk about medical insurance. Nobody talks about what happens when the children grow up and leave. Not leave home and settle in the next town. Leave properly. One ends up in Texas. Another settles in Minnesota. A daughter moves to Canada. A son relocates to Australia. The youngest is somewhere in Europe. Every family gathering now requires a world map and a calculator for time zones. This is usually the point at which a wife discovers a new purpose in life. She becomes a travelling grandmother. A global consultant on childcare. An international specialist in grandchildren affairs. At first the husband is supportive. After all, these are their children. These are their grandchildren. He drives her to the airport. He carries the suitcase. He reminds her to call when she arrives. He waves goodbye. Then he returns home. Alone. The first few days are pleasant. The house is quiet. The television belongs entirely to him. Nobody complains about the volume. Nobody asks why he has left his shoes in the middle of the sitting room. For a brief moment, retirement feels magnificent. Then reality arrives. The house becomes too quiet. The meals become suspiciously repetitive. The conversations become one-sided. Even the dog starts looking at him as if asking whether everybody else has relocated. Meanwhile the wife is thriving. Photographs begin arriving from different countries. Today she is holding a newborn in Texas. Next month she is attending a school concert in Toronto. A few weeks later she is somewhere in Melbourne teaching grandchildren how to pronounce family names correctly. The husband remains exactly where she left him. At home. Guarding the family compound. Monitoring trees planted twenty years ago. Inspecting fences nobody intends to steal. Checking water tanks whose water consumption has dropped dramatically. Phone calls become predictable. “How are you?” “I am fine.” “What did you eat?” “Tea.” “What else?” “Bread.” “What else?” “More bread.” The wife immediately sounds concerned. Instructions begin arriving from overseas. Cook this. Eat that. Reduce salt. Increase vegetables. Drink more water. At this point the husband starts wondering whether he is a spouse or a remote agricultural project being supervised from another continent. Occasionally she announces that she will be returning home next month. The husband becomes excited. He starts counting days. The house receives a general cleaning. Plans are made. Then a new development occurs. A grandchild is born. A daughter needs assistance. A son has a work commitment. A school closes for holidays. A family emergency appears. The return date quietly migrates to another season. The husband learns not to ask too many questions. He simply waits. Patiently. Like government projects. Months become years. The wife accumulates airline miles. The husband accumulates stories. One becomes an expert on international airports. The other becomes an expert on village weather patterns. One knows immigration procedures in three countries. The other knows exactly which monkey has been stealing mangoes from the compound. Eventually a strange realization settles in. The children inherited the mother. The homestead inherited the father. And somewhere between America, Canada, Australia, Europe and home, a modern marriage quietly evolves into a long-distance relationship despite both people still being legally married and deeply attached to each other. Retirement, many men eventually discover, is not spending every day with your wife. It is watching your wife become a citizen of airports while you remain behind as the official caretaker of the family home, the family memories, and a television that nobody now argues about. Therefore, make good friends now,join clubs and societies where you can spend time for surely this is the new reality . To be forewarned is to be fore armed. *Copied* |
Tinubu must take the counseling seriously, back off and rest on the praises of its economic reform. A mix blessing of advice. Tinubu's enemies may not like the approval in the report. |
https://thenews-chronicle.com/poverty-reduction-gain-more-voters-than-mercenaries/?noamp=available POVERTY REDUCTION GAIN MORE VOTERS THAN MERCENARIES There is no other way to look at the Poverty Report and not confirm that Nigeria is the undisputed Poverty capital of the world. Whoever is advising this Administration must recalibrate their strategy and focus on Poverty Reduction. There are too many Nigerians complaining of their inability to care for their spouses and children. Men leaving homes in the morning without coming back with sustenance are disrespected in their houses. This is how communities break down without fathers at home just like political prostitutes with or without a party looking for Any Party In Power. Many are mercenaries without followers or members to vote for them. Buying them instead of using the money to alleviate poverty at the grassroots is unwise and may be counter productive. As stated a long time ago, too many heavyweight without followers will sink the boat. |
How for do? If you cannot get into politics to loot, they start and become bandits. It is more respectable than stealing in the market where you could be lynched for taking a bag of sugar. |
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/clyq3plyp4lo On a school playground in Lagos four decades ago, a new Nigerian sport was born. Today, its players believe it has the potential to gain interest across the world. Abula, a fast-paced four-a-side court game named after a popular delicacy enjoyed by the Yoruba people, was invented in 1984 by Elias Yusuf. It is similar to volleyball, although players use a rectangular bat instead of their hands to hit the ball over a central net. "I was a teacher of physical education when the idea of Abula occurred to me," Yusuf told BBC Sport Africa. "Abula combines four classes of food in one meal. This game is a conjunction of four by four." The dish Abula is primarily made from yam flour with assorted beef, vegetable soup from jute leaf, gbegiri soup made from peeled beans, and stew made from a mix of tomatoes and pepper. For Yusuf, the inspiration for his game was simple - to engage students in an activity that was both fun and challenging. The first match in February 1984 saw four teachers take on four students, with the latter winning a contest which set the tone for a sport that blends speed, skill and strategy. The rules of Abula Abula is played on a hard court measuring 16 metres by eight metres with a net which is 2.44m from the ground. It demands both teamwork and individual flair. Players use a special rectangular bat made of wood and rubber, weighing between half and three quarters of a kilogram, to hit a tennis ball. |
Download CSV (GDP per capita, constant international-$ PPP, World Bank series, 1970–2026 for Nigeria & China): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false Concise summary (constant international-$, PPP, World Bank / Our World in Data series; values rounded to nearest dollar; ratio = Nigeria / China): 1970 — Nigeria: 1,260; China: 540; Ratio: 2.33 1980 — Nigeria: 2,260; China: 790; Ratio: 2.86 1990 — Nigeria: 2,360; China: 1,040; Ratio: 2.27 2000 — Nigeria: 1,960; China: 1,840; Ratio: 1.06 2010 — Nigeria: 3,200; China: 7,520; Ratio: 0.43 2015 — Nigeria: 5,020; China: 12,130; Ratio: 0.41 2020 — Nigeria: 4,220; China: 12,980; Ratio: 0.33 2024 — Nigeria: 4,480; China: 14,200; Ratio: 0.32 2026 (latest OWID/WB projection series) — Nigeria: 4,650; China: 15,000; Ratio: 0.31 |
Spent, they did like drunken sailors. Instead of investing in manufacturing, building and fabrication of goods and materials; we were buying ready-made goods and services all over the world. Killed local industries and entrepreneur spirits. Apart from toothpicks and pencils usually cited as examples of outrageous spending, Nigerians preferred used carparts, clothes shoes discarded abroad. It got to a point as Nigerians were importing garbage from the high Seas. Nigeria has been building bridges with foreign experts for ages, yet none of our universities, technical or trade schools have been able to produce world renown engineers capable of building bridges locally, not to mention overseas. We killed our textile industries when it became a status symbol to import cotton and lace materials. A few that were made in Nigeria had to be taken across the border and imported back home in order to be marketable! Political rivalry between these regular officers as Yakubu Gowon v. "book soldiers" Emeka Ojukwu. Olufemi Olutoye (Cambridge University) Ojukwu (Oxford University), Victor Banjo (Mechanical Engineer), and a few had university degrees. Victor Banjo and Emeka Ojukwu ended up on opposite sides of a tragic execution. Ironically, their political thinking and sharp intelligence eventually led them to command large armies against one other during the War. These new generations of leaders still rest on the laurels of their fathers’ accomplishments boasting and spending hard earned income from mineral resources and slave labor without thinking about how to leverage or invest the enormous wealth after the political Independence of the sixties. Most of the African new generation leaders were actually consuming the seeds that should have been invested to grow into fruits and future returns. If you are not well informed, you might accept recent statistics after poor Asian countries overtook Nigeria by prudent management. Since Independence Activists ruled with the African basic tenet that it takes a village to raise a child; when our wealth was judiciously managed, with better policies and dedication in the sixties after Independence. Hoping Nigeria would become a Regional Power today, even predicted outside Africa. However, the children of the Freedom fighters and some senile leaders controlled by younger cronies became looters raised Nepo-Children that never overgrew their feeding bottle. While their fathers and mothers had to go to school and work to send themselves to school in foreign countries, some even sending money home for their poor parents and siblings; these new leaders implemented the policy to drain the Central Bank for foreign school fees as a right. Dr. Harold Shodipo and Fela Anikulapo Kuti, among others were jailed for exceeding the One hundred pounds foreign currencies allowed. Nigeria went from there to liberal foreign exchange market no country in the world allowed. Here we are today wrestling to keep up with foreign currencies we have absolutely no control over: either to print or dictate terms of trade. Yet, miseducated Africans at Oxford and Harvard keep preaching the benefits of liberal market. |
NIGERIA IS NOT A RICH COUNTRY Every once in a while, misguided leaders and their cronies try to justify their deliberate indifference and complacency towards gullible supporters or the naive Africans. Simply put, they justify and cover up their kleptomaniac tendencies by claiming the population of Nigeria is so overwhelming, even if you divide all the incomes coming in, Nigerians are still poorer than other African countries. So, stealing is not corruption and should be differentiated! Jonathan was proud of the fact that he created more millionaires than previous Administrations. Their way of creating wealth is for a few privileged politicians, senior civil servants and their relatives to spend ostentatiously around the world. It is their way of attracting investments from foreign countries, they claim. Regardless of the percentage paid to lawyers and financial experts to launder money abroad. Who is fooling whom? General Abacha who commanded the Treasure as his personal vault, had helpers within and abroad. Chief Antony Ani, a reputable Partner at Peat Marwick was Abacha Finance Minister from 1994 to 1998 claiming major reform while opening the Central Bank foreign currencies at Abacha’s pleasure. There was a selfish interest of course, because he got some of the loot into his own private pocket as most financiers at home and abroad. The Asian countries that were starving in the 60s and 70s, struggling to kickstart their economy invaded Nigeria in order to send money back to relatives at home. Many were railway workers, teachers in high schools and universities. Africans that qualified in foreign countries could not wait to return home and countries like Nigeria actually sent recruitment teams abroad to bring back educated Nigerians in particular and Diaspora Africans in general. While countries like China implemented drastic action to limit their population and stipulated a deterrence for embezzlement or any kind of corruption in order to build their economic base and improve the Gross Domestic Products; Nigeria GDP was higher then! It is the same GDP that our politicians are using to justify poverty in Africa today. China and India with higher populations were able to reduce the number of poor while Nigeria became the Poverty Capital of the world! All the Asian countries that came to Nigeria in order to send money home to feed their families are now major economic powers like China or India. As they send their students abroad to study, universities and technical schools were established locally that can compete with any Western university. Compared to Nigeria, the privileged class impoverished the educational system at every level while funding universities overseas for their children as status symbols. The military that took over had ridiculed “book soldiers” within them. Those without the training, skill or education to manage even a community, dominated leadership. Just as other countries were being shaped and built by well informed folks in their respective fields. Overwhelmed with oil income during the Arab Oil Embargo of the early seventies, Nigerian military leaders were boosting that money was not their problem but how to spend it. Source - |
This reminds me of stories or history that each of these ethnic groups çame or descended from Egypt. On their way to Egypt or on their way from Egypt, they never met ? Suzerainty has caused so much dislocation within us, we are willing to claim heritage with others far from our country than within. This is how Yoruba heritage is being lost in Bini and those whose lingua fraca and names are Yoruba including Oba of Benin and their descendants are forced to choose between Yoruba or Edo. Now, the Itsekiri, the recent cousins of Yoruba in language and culture are looking for way out to claim or disown suzerainty? It doesn't make a difference because outsiders trace their history to Yorubaland. The Yoruba have no territorial pursuit. Someone just wrote the affiliation of white South Americans to Yoruba, leaving Black South Americans in wonder. |
Liberal Western Nigerians. Yet, every region wants equal representation without the population or land. |
Whatever the case, there is no dispute here that Nnaji is a very brilliant professional, comfortable in this Power production field. But so are many Nigerians abroad that would not steal a dime in order to prove their competency. These same Nigerians become looters or award contracts to themselves which they would not do anywhere else. This is how Nigeria has been going down! How can we justify competence and fraud without encouraging more fraud you are trying to excuse just because foreigners do it to us? This was how Nigeria Airways fell apart when Nigerians awarding the contract to British partner demanded kickback higher or more than their British partner? Nnaji had the expertise but wanted both the contract and the job which he would not dare anywhere else. It boils down to: if our African professors that left their comfort abroad to come and teach at home wanted the same, African countries would still be without African professionals. If our Independence Activists remained abroad, where would we be today? Their children may be something else like Nepo kids but these Professors and Activists gave us a good start. Your solution of competency despite fraud is our problem today. Jonathan had no choice but to let him go. He cannot do the same thing he tried under Jonathan in Abia. His success there is more patriotic. chimex38: |
BRAZEN LOOTING: KLEPTOMANIACS NEGOTIATE WITH THEMSELVES & BANDITS How did Nigeria go from potential Regional Power to “ Fantastically Corrupt” in less than a generation before our eyes? Now denied visas where Nigerians got red carpet, suspects where Nigerians were welcomed and ridiculed where Nigerians were trusted. It is so bad, Nigeria has become the butts of jokes in Africa up to the Presidential level. Aware that many Nigerians are watched closely, professionals in high places abroad would not dare touch or accept cash. Nigeria is not the only rich country in Africa but once foreign international corporations explore and get interested in the loot of war interest, they disguise themselves as dogooders coming to help the gullibles gain political power. Too many Africans tolerate a bad leader from their ethnic group, no matter how corrupt, but not a good leader from another ethnic group. They are stuck in their delusions that only a member of their ethnic group can raise their standard of living. The tolerance for looters is so high, even when they are convicted at home or abroad, their people welcome them like heroes returning in victory from war fronts. Wild parties, coronations and elaborate ceremonies are performed for those who should face firing squads or life sentences as in other countries. Indeed, some of them are recircled back into political parties. If they are popular with an ethnic group, they can shop for Presidential tickets from any party. Politicians, Militricians, Retired Generals, anyone running for political office or for appointment to juicy positions in order to loot, must ask for the blessings of these kingmakers. It's a competition to get hold of the Honey Pot. They are willing to hire foreign financial experts, lawyers or Public Relations Officers, at any cost to launder unaccountable loot. Retired Generals constitute a special class that make or undermine the political future of candidates. Many Africans and Nigerians in particular employ the services of foreign lawyers and financial experts to hide their loot in safe haven abroad playing the role of the Queen of Shaba or Mansa Kanka Musa by displaying stupendous wealth in millions and billions. It is mind boggling how so much money could be diverted to personal foreign accounts and pockets. Even worse, in most of these cases, avoid accountability at home or abroad by greasing the palms of passages. Meanwhile, bandits and terrorists have joined them, demanding security ransom to get their share of National Cake. What is left are crumbs on the floor thrown to the hungry voters in small packages of food so that they can keep coming back for more before voting day. Call it stomach infrastructure, incentive or inducement to vote for a particular candidate. Hunger relief, even for a temporary period, reduced poor people to beggars, especially with a family at home. Source: |
How can any sane person mention Mandela's name with those people, even in the same sentence! |
Most of these people are illiterates, walayi! How does this article defend Tinubu? Until growth translates into security, jobs, stable power, and dignity for the majority, declarations of a comeback will remain what they are today: premature, disconnected, and unconvincing. https://punchng.com/nigeria-back-from-the-brink/ Even the devil must be accused his due. Bunch of haters, no matter what. |
POVERTY REDUCTION GAIN MORE VOTERS THAN MERCENARIES There is no other way to look at the Poverty Report and not confirm that Nigeria is the undisputed Poverty capital of the world. Whoever is advising this Administration must recalibrate their strategy and focus on Poverty Reduction. There are too many Nigerians complaining of their inability to care for their spouses and children. Men leaving homes in the morning without coming back with sustenance are disrespected in their houses. This is how communities break down without fathers at home just like political prostitutes with or without a party looking for Any Party In Power. Many are mercenaries without followers or members to vote for them. Buying them instead of using the money to alleviate poverty at the grassroots is unwise and may be counter productive. As stated a long time ago, too many heavyweight without followers will sink the boat. The Main Pillars of Poverty Reduction strategies are comprehensive plans, including job creation designed to lower poverty rates. Fostering employment, improving housing stability and connecting residents with health and social services. Awolowo Poverty Reduction Strategy: Industrial Estates, Cooperative agriculture (cocoa), rubber, Palm Oil were able to pay for Free Education and Free Healthcare. Voters’ mentality is changing. The era of stomach infrastructure is finally backfiring as more people realize that being fed for a day or a month in exchange for a four year term is foolish. Even some poor that are returning the sachets of rice know it would not last them for a day. Since they can spend that time begging on the street rather than wasting their time on the line. Their blind allegiance as followers of many party leaders has failed to alleviate their poverty. When political prostitutes call you unprintable names, then turn around after incentives to sing your praises, they are called mercenaries and unprincipled psychopaths. They have lost their integrity as leaders that will attract credible voters to your party. The money spent on these mercenaries could be better spent reviving some of our old neglected factories rather than the pursuit of new foreign contacts. They only give odious loans that create jobs in their countries. Source: https://thenews-chronicle.com/poverty-reduction-gain-more-voters-than-mercenaries/?noamp=available |
Yes, Jonathan was our biggest hope and so rewarded with votes North and South of the country. One of the reasons is we thought a minority would not chop and go like the Fulani/Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba who just want to be President regardless of the poverty of their own people. Thank God, Obasanjo and Jonathan gave Igbo the chance to display their wizardry. If you want to know what is said about both Administrations today, listen to Ngozi Nkonjo. A Minister of Finance in both Administration. Success in Obasanjo Administration but a failure in Jonathan Administration because nobody dared defy her in OBJ Administration. As for Tinubu, like most Nigerians blaming him, not the Messiah we were waiting for. But far better than the other two Presidential candidates. ceejayluv: |
Actually apart from wailers that will bring this country down unless they are in power, there are some points here about how Nigerians impoverished Nigeria. One of the worst was during Jonathan's Administration. We pinned so much hope on him because he was a highly educated man from Nigeria Delta. He got votes from North and South with so much Goodwill. Alas, he lost all the goodwill because of those in charge of his Administration. A very humble man became cocky calling his benefactor Motor Park tout. Even worse they stole like crazy bragging about producing more billionaires like Dokunbo Asari while the place he from remains in environmental rot. Do not forget that Western Region was First In Africa while most of the countries mentioned in Europe and Asia were jungles. |
Whatever or whose side you believe, it is informative to know the limitations and prejudice of dating translated from one culture to another. What cannot be disputed is that Africa remains the oldest life and materials despite revised multiple researches. |
The abroad you want to japa to was built on the blood and sweat of the working class. If you are ready to shed blood and sweat that you will never do at home, you should japa. Actually, if you are down and broke with better chance to japa, please japa. If you have a reasonable means and standard of living, then sell everything to japa, you are a capital FOOL! |
Regional Police is a very good idea. Those claiming the states in a region may not have anything in common in terms of culture and language. Nonsense. What do Federal police have in common now? In the first place, we have too many states created to satisfy looters of allocations. Any of these states can go rogue and start another war. Regional Police is a moderating influence. The Police Chiefs can be rotated among the states in a region on specified number of years |
I think they finally got a fake golden stool ![]() |
Only opportunists and shortsighted people thing you can dominate people on their land forever, no matter how mighty. This is the main lesson from Abuja Local Election. It's got nothing to do with Wike or Tinubu but everything to the insight of bringing the indigenous people of Abuja to the table. |
Abuja Is A No Man’s Land When Abuja was being planned, it was indicated that they were looking for a neutral place, unlike Lagos or Calabar that already belonged to ethnic groups. Every Nigerian would be welcomed and there would be no domination of one group by the other. Some were wondering if a virgin place still existed in Nigeria that can be called a no man’s land as we want. We did not know that they were going to displace some natives who would be glad to move from mud huts to Government reservations or slums..... Has anyone heard about how much allocation were made to others, less prominent than late Senator Kuta son of mud hut settlers? If Nigeria has anything to learn from our past, it is that one day, the educated son and daughters will demand their share of the land owned by the forefathers. We all know that Abuja itself was created like Israel by cutting space out of existing states. But I am not sure that we are doing everything to make sure some of these prime land allocations are extended to many sons and daughters of its soil. The early settlers were the Gbagyi, Bassa, Gade, Gwadara, Koro, Ganagana, Beriberi and others. Before the ambulance chasers or lawyers start running around taking briefs as in Lagos land cases in court, one would think that our Government would anticipate trouble down the road and pre-empt any claim of injustice. Our attitude has always been to cross the river when we get there. Land is very important, not only in Nigeria but every where. Farouk Martins Aresa http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8102.htm |
I thought this was done before. What am I getting wrong folks? |
You guys are now arguing about who is the worse looter. No shame whatsoever, only waiting for an opportunity to get into power and loot more. Wale Edun is a highly responsible professional whose integrity will survive beyond Tinubu Administration. OBJ cleared our Paris Club debt with the same Okonjo Iweale who went in reverse during Jonathan Administration. It got to a stage where she had to cry out because nobody obeyed or respected her financial advice like everyone did, including the Governors that squandered saving Fund; DID DURING OBJ ADMINISTRATION. We remember very well: Our Money We Spend It Anyway We Want. The same hypocrites in charge of Jonathan Administration are now the greatest critics. Respect for Wale Edun! |
Mineisgrace:The fact is distraction can work by catching fire. |
Credit must be given to this man for being one of the very first highly known former General to called on the local people to take up Arms and defend themselves. Remember, he was one of the Fulani enablers that arrested General Agui Ironsi and Fajuyi. He denied killing them. But their blood is still on his head. He went mental and could not even be treated abroad for the local atrocity. Yet, the devil deserves his due. |
The Election may be far but watch out for El Rufai leading the roforofo fight against Tinubu. If you do not want your clothes to get stained, grab guguru and epa then watch from a balcony. El Rufui bruised many people when he was in Power. He has nothing to lose but his life. It's fight to finish. |
If it was that easy, most of the people with low sperm count would overcome it. There are variety of reasons for low sperm count, some can be easily fixed with good diet, some genetic, some damage or accident and others infections. bigl:Only a lady knows the father of her child unless she is an habitual cheater. |
