Look at the richest countries in the world, they become rich through invention, discovery and and and stolen patents or designs of others.

America stole intellectual properties from Europe, Japan and other Asians stole from America. E.g the Automobile Industry.

Europe stole invention, discovery and intellectual properties of Africa.

Today, Africans are in pursuit of printed papers, a promissory note. The derivatives of invention, discovery and stolen intellectual properties.

Africans Think beyond your noses!

Wealthy people are now creating their own charity and scholarships rather than giving it to those who use it as salary and give peanuts or crumbs out in the name of poor children.

If you are that smart why are you so poor or if you are that wealthy why are you not smart?

We keep on hearing and reading about BILLIONS since the former Vice President made a staggering revelation last year about one soul making off with Billions. He promised they are after them.

Who is after them? Are they untouchable? Are these people too close to Buhari?

Yet, some Nigerians are coming out to defend them! If they cannot touch Buhari, leave Emefiele alone.

My gosh, are these Nigerians or they are from space?

It is ironic that it takes a great deal of money to cross legally and illegally into the borders of European and North American countries. The fortune is not coming from the poor people in Africa or South America but from the middle class based on the perception of freedom and better life which they could have fought for in their own countries. Every country has the oppressors class that live on the cheap labor of the lower class.

What about individuals that made money from legal and illegal activities? They also squandered it like their leaders, monkey see monkey do. It demonstrates that when Africans, even from other countries make money, they do not know how to invest in legitimate businesses that would catapult their communities and countries into development for the benefit of their masses. What good is wealth that only benefits a few leaders and their cronies?

Those who stood up, fought and died for Civil Rights again and again in every generation become jealous when they see those who refuse to pay the sacrifices cross their borders looking for what they refused to fight for at home, in their own countries. Even worse, they resent migrants who filled or take advantage of the opportunities their Freedom Fighters made possible in their own country.

People who believe that the pursuit of personal pleasure is more important than the common good or liberation of their communities from abject poverty are simply incapable of moving their children or any African country forward. They are pleasure seekers at the expense of their people. Most of them have sold their children abroad the way our chiefs sold their people into slavery. They lose those children that hardly look back forever.

The difference between the old slavery by the chiefs and the new political money launderers is paying foreigners to take us into their countries. While most African leaders sought foreign investment abroad as salvation, they laundered more money out than most foreign investors can bring in. Since they follow the advice of foreign investors, their focus is how to make more money outside than to invest inside.

Though some African artists are finally breaking through, personal fame is not enough to lift a whole community, country or continent out of poverty. Even Michael Jackson could not lift most African Americans up the economic ladder in the United States. A tree cannot make a forest. But if Nigeria with a huge population of 200 million could not lift up Africans, we must look for other countries; even as small as Losoto, to lead Africa back into wealthy forest.

Foreign money that is taken to foreign countries to purchase goods, materials and services create factories, jobs and value there while local currencies depreciate in value. The more local currencies it takes to buy foreign currencies, the more local people have to work to buy the same goods, materials and services year after year. In other words, the price of the same imported tractors doubles every couple of years because it takes more local currencies to buy. Money that can be used to uplift the same communities they call zoos.

Yet, a token few Nigerians lucky enough to be managers in foreign countries know that they are being watched daily waiting for them to fail. They dare not steal a penny! It does not make a difference what balance and check are instituted at home, Nigerian managers would beat the system and go to jail knowing there are ways out of jails. Those that ran away regretted it when they saw how those convicted in foreign land for money laundering got a hero's welcome home. The ones that stayed home and bare the consequences got absolved of criminal charges.

PRODIGALS THINK MODERN SLAVERY ABROAD IS WORTH DYING FOR

African politicians knew that some wealthy and middle class voters sought a foreign country they could relocate to, with one to ten million local currencies. One politician started thinking about election promises. He promised to make traveling overseas easier to divert attention from their failures, if voters would elect him. He would then govern over deserted country so that he could loot it blind without opposition. After all, he had sent all his children and wife abroad too.

Many Africans are worse than the leaders we always blame in order to excuse ourselves for the same actions we blame leaders for. Given the chance, many Africans would do the same thing. If the first hard earned fortune prodigals make is to look for a foreign country where they can squander it, imagine what they would do with the country's Central Bank. Even villagers conspire with foreigners to loot natural resources without the knowledge of local governments!

Some talented poor African children had to be supported with grants and scholarships so that they could return home to build because the number of universities were few then. These days, private students that were pampered with allocation from the Central Bank through moneybags are given foreign scholarships. The exchange students loved their stay abroad so much that they refused to come back home!

What we have are African countries that cannot furnish or rehabilitate primary schools buildings, supply chairs and desks but have hard earned foreign incomes from natural resources allocated to “good” education abroad. We know that anyone that cares more about patronizing both private and public schools abroad at the expense of local schools at home is worse than prodigal parents and children.

It used to be our pride that Africans that studied abroad working hard to pay their fees could not wait to return home to start businesses, become Activists and teachers. Today, wealthy Students patronize private schools with high tuition for courses that are widely available in African countries. Mind you these are not Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics students that can come back and make their countries grow or become world class rivals of the developed countries. Most of the Youths have the vigor to fight for justice in their countries.

The Nigerians Middle-class and the leaders must stop laundering money and talents that can start local projects and small businesses out of their Country. Most foreigners in Nigeria know that it is one of the best places to make money in the world. Yet, greedy Nigerians think they can make more money faster in the Western and Eastern world. Only to be disappointed when they face reality outside and too ashamed to go back home as failures. If they work half as hard in Nigeria as they do outside, Nigeria would be a place to point to and reclaim its past glory as the world's most successful African community.

What do Africans do when Africans make their first million? They sell everything they have in exchange for tickets and visas to countries that despise them. The fact that Africans are no longer forced into slave ships but break their necks risking sea and desert or fly on Boeing 747 to reach modern sugarcane plantations diminished their worth all over the world. They point to their communities as zoos only good for the burials of their dead bodies.

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See what Nigeria has become. Old men are not perfect and do go overboard sometimes. But the solution us to beat up an old man?

Do not take the law into your hands. Report him to proper authorities or his family members.

You can imagine how Ashewo survived with different sperms without any adverse or allergic reaction by the fetus.

Some babies might develop skin reaction.

Funny though, some women that are prone to miscarriages are advised to stay away from sex for the first trimester.

Opportunity for other men to knack!

Congratulations!

There is this thing call LOVE that has overcome the most powerful men and women. It is not a physical chain, gun or anesthesia but so strong, even the strongest minds have been mesmerized.

Religious opium, war and slavery have never captured so many.

Be watchful and careful. You cannot always be on alert.

Folks, this is 2024!

The same money could have been used to increase or initiate local production like TRYTOR one Nigerian adapted and was useful for both small and big farmers.

Even some DEER company "experts" could have been brought in for loca production.

Every wise country includes local production in any big contract. Nigerians know better since Carter Bridge, Eko Bridge etc were built, we still have no trained engineers in the league of world class engineering companies.

Haba! Why do we do this to ourselves in 2024?

As long as Africans keep on worshipping the American dollar, praying for foreign investors to come and exploit their talents, resources and refuse to trade with one another as they do with their colonial masters that control the lionshare of trade in finished goods; Africans' minds will never be free from slavery.

So you can only come up with Western Union and Moneygram. I could have helped you with more.

Not only are these companies well regulated and controlled inside and outside their countries, they are subjected to heavy fines. Indeed, they supply or report your information to Government. It is why people like you avoid them.

Can you compare them to mushrooms one man businesses used for roundtripping in Nigeria? You must be one of the people that must be investigated before Naira can appreciate.

Burob:
How many western union, or monegram exchanges dey The UK?

Don’t know why you things just like wailing over much ado about nothing, always complaining as if you are not Nigerian, & part of the system?

Go Accra, if you done tire for Nigeria, na free entry.

A loophole created by each Administration to recruit for its own new appointed managers.

Dollars will continue to fall when every big man at the Central Bank has his own Bureau Du Change operators for round tripping.

Every corner has Bureau Du Change operator that has direct connections to Central Bank manager or director that know how to beat the system.

Too many dollar to naira changers, many of which are subcontractors with no stable address, business or known regulated hands operate Dollars like a business.

Regulate and allow banks to employ more workers for this major part of the economy so that dollar allocation can be as transparent as possible.

This is what happens when you sell your souls for profit in neighboring countries. Somali would pity and feed you because you don't care for you own people.

Zero conscience and pursuit of money at any cost, even for yourselves as body parts sellers.

Respect Ma.

I was wondering about her children too. But Femi maybe too young to be her son. I may be wrong.

Exousiang01:
No be Femi mama be that?

It is true that whites outside Africa encourage and fuel white companies inside Africa mainly for Slave labor. They do the same inside Black African countries for cheap natural resources also.

If you want to blame Black Africans for selling out in return for pittance like foreign currencies, do so.

But you should know the reason South Africa had Nuclear Power and now without. This is the reason for the white South African privileged Edge.

Whites have no magic wand for economic success otherwise they would not be using brutal survival of the fittest nuclear barbaric Power to maintain Economic Power.

Is it only politicians that take money out? Why do you think black market is booming if not for importer of pins, pencils, chalk, waste from high seas, used clothes and electronics.

All the dollars and Euros sent by Nigerian working two three jobs, students working full time are exchanged at the black market.

Monkey dey work bamboo dey chop.

BitterTruth01:
You mean politicians ?
Or …

How did you know if you did not read your image there?

frankyychiji:
Burma

If I read that trash make I bend.

Omoaresa1
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/331512/tinubu-the-poor-catch-dollar-fever-without-foreign-taste-or.html

TINUBU: THE POOR CATCH DOLLAR FEVER WITHOUT FOREIGN TASTE OR MONEY

The poor cannot afford foreign food, wear foreign designer clothes or use foreign goods and services, yet foreign enablers rope them in one way or the other as the victims of Naira devaluation against the almighty dollar. The working class jobs are also threatened unless they get allocation to import raw materials. How did importers of junks turn the dollar into local currency for basic needs?

The continual fall of the naira has taken a new turn since the advent of the duly new elected government that cannot put a stop to it. Protests have grown louder, even among those that have never protested before now. It has taken on a new spirit as the continuation of the last campaign. But just as Americans complain and protest against the price of gas (petrol), which is cheaper there than other Western countries, so can Nigerians on cheaper goods at home.

The fact that Nigeria remains one of the cheapest places to buy food and do business with cheap labor is besides the point right now. What is true is that Nigerian businesses smuggle cheaper food, petroleum and other goods to neighboring countries. Sell them at higher prices without paying taxes in both countries. These saboteurs come back home and fund protests to undermine the man that outsmart them and defeat them at the polls.

Regardless of the right to shout and cry of hunger, there are saboteurs at work doing everything they can to encourage chaos. They hate the same Tinubu they conspired with to overthrow the only lady Speaker, Olubunmi Etteh, so much. They are now willing to pave the way for the Military Takeover. We had military governments. Experience demonstrated that they are more corrupt and worse than civilian governments. They retire into civilian clothes as Presidents.

This Tinubu Government never had a honeymoon period for a day. Everything, justifiably or not, has been blamed on him, not only by his opponents but by those that voted for him in the last Election. It has always been a matter of time before the last straw breaks the camel's back. Many people always look for the opportune time and place to cry out for revolt as long as their kin is not the President.

President Tinubu, who won clean and fair, comes from an ethnic group that have always been known as protesters against any or their own leaders when it comes to Injustice. This is unlike other ethnic groups in the Country when their own sons were in Power. Indeed, Tinubu was a member of NADECO that protested against Abacha, the brutal army dictator, to a standstill. Every dog has its day for accountability.

After Abacha, Tinubu took on President Obasanjo, by creating more local government in one of the most populous states. Obasanjo suspended Lagos State Allocation for many months. Yet, Lagos State survived. What was noteworthy about this was that both Tinubu and Obasanjo belong to the same ethnic group. Apart from Aminu Kanu, we've never seen this within the same ethnic group in Nigeria because they always follow their Presidents.

Nevertheless, Yoruba do not shield their reservation about Tinubu's character. This was the reason he lost both his home and adopted states in the Presidential Election. Honest Nigerians realize none of the three Presidential candidates in the last Election deserve to lead a country but only Yoruba would vote and say that about Tinubu. The other ethnic groups supported their own blemished Presidential candidates.

Tinubu removed subsidies from refined petrol and byproducts imported to resurrect local refineries that lay idle. This has generated mixed reactions, even from the poor that do not drive but depend on private and public transportation. The working class at checkpoints pay private taxes to Agbero, Police or Army. As the dollar appreciates against naira, these collectors adjust 20 naira to 200, more depending on the locations. Anything less than 500 naira is frowned on.

So, why are those Yoruba who had their reservations about Tinubu supporting him now? The hypocrisy of supporters of Atiku and Obi stinks to high heavens. While they all campaigned on removal of Petrol Subsidy, they are against Tinubu for doing exactly what they all campaigned on. Oh, they could have done it differently. Just to generate more hatred for Tinubu.

Tinubu and all the Presidents that came before him are all wrong on the Devaluation or floating of the Naira. No developing country has recovered from floating their currencies or Devaluations. It got worse from the intentional imposition of Structural Adjustments. A country like China only devalues its currency because it has diverse abundant goods and services to export. Nigeria has no diversified exports like China.

Export first, import later to balance up. It is suicidal to devalue or float the naira when we do not have diversity of finished products to export. Yet, Nigerians import garbage from the high seas, import used goods like electronics and clothing. They do this against their country's self-interest because, unlike any other country in the world, we liberalized the local market after the surge of Oil Income during the Arab Oil Embargo of the 70s.

We got away with it until the early 80s because we had had restricted selective imports with a total ban on foreign currencies as local tender. The result of the forced discipline with criminal penalties as a deterrent resulted in a strong Nigerian pound that was equal to the British pound and naira that was one and a half US dollars. Ironically, it is the importers of junks and exporters of little that are crying the loudest about the high cost of the dollars they created.

Since when has Nigeria become the importer of raw materials in order to be an exporter of finished goods? Every foreign manufacturer of finished goods imports their raw materials from Africa. They sell finished goods at ten or more times than the prices they pay for African raw materials. So we wonder what finished goods these African manufacturers export from the raw materials they claim are needed into the country?

As some pray that when they come back to this world, they want to be Nigerian, some Nigerians claimed their country is a zoo or shithole before other foreigners tagged on and echoed them! Yet, every foreign country thinks Nigeria is the place to make a great deal of money, as long as you can hold your nose. Nigerians are known to export what we do not have or print like US dollars and import what we have like petroleum.

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I guess you know yourselves.

Guilty like hell!

Until African countries, Nigeria especially must learn from Zimbabwean dollar, we will never get out of our addiction to any foreign import, used, new or junk.

Nigerian importers unlike any country overseas think they are entitled to imports even if it is killing the country.

Importers of junks and foreign school fees that does not benefit the country are proponents of the slow poison.

Where do you get the money you take out of Nigeria?

It is either from black market or if you are privileged, from Central Bank.

Even the foreign school fees you pay, scholarships and loans, how do they benefit Nigeria?

You are the African enablers and parasites.

Good gesture. It will not prevent Japajantis.

What about nurses, technicians, mental health workers and Community Health Officers?

Either All or None?

jaxxy:


Then u will open many other cases including funsho williams.

Either All or None?

IBB must be put on trial for the sake of new generation, set example and a lesson or notice to others.

Who is afraid of this weakling today?

Karma cries on Putin.

But he made up his mind that until then, others before him.

Die trying to be successful has taken another meaning in Nigeria. It used to be die struggling, working hard, preparing for success.

It has always been study hard, play by the rules legally so that younger children can emulate and admire you.

When we were younger, if you see a beautiful house, you say: No Be Dia Ime Mama Born Am O.

Indicating his blood, sweat, brow and effort to succeed. Today, if you see beautiful houses on a street, children call it: Cocaine Avenue.

Only Nigerians would dare death penalty in Asia, organ donation in the desert and drowning in the sea to make money.

Not glory, honor, respect or valor in our Value System.