I honestly think we over-flock, praise meritocracy in the USA. In the first place, it only exist in the private sector where immigrants and their first generation children work hard against all odds to break through.

America practice Branding by taking credit for the talents of diverse group. No matter how talented you are in the USA, English, Irish and later Italian whites are your bosses and managers until recently when Asians start heading major private corporations.

Is that meritocracy? Mention one major private corporation headed by African. Please, please do not mention white South African.

VeeVeeMyLuv:

Not really,

How about USA where there are individuals from different and diverse nationality.

Can you explain a TIV man that is about to become Governor in US?

Guy until we start operating pure meritocracy thoroughly marinated with accountability, then there is no hope!

If meritocracy is in place, everyone will strive to be the best version of themselves knowing fully well they will be remembered and rewarded appropriately. We will have no other choice than to be the best in nearly every facet of life just like US.

All these nonsense witnessed today will be rare.

Sir, that is scary. It is an indictment of a whole group of people. You may be right about the mentality of readymade generation today.

It was based on Niger Delta Oil Income of Gowon: Money is not the problem but how to spend it.

Nigeria was richer and a potential Regional Power in Africa before Oil Income.

pacespot:
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The resilience, perseverance and innovativeness needed to achieve this are lacking in the black culture.

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In the first place, Nigeria has a population of over 200m people. God did not put anyone in this world without potential.

Stop blaming the North for your predicaments. You installed them based and calculated on preference since 1959 even when you had majority to do otherwise.

You started military Government experiment and empirical evidence shows it was a failure everywhere. You do not put zombies to manage a country with knowledgeable middle class they can easily eliminate.

Stop beating your chests about Yoruba and Igbo achievement outside. It creates false confidence, satisfaction and resignation that kill local incentive. Indians, Chinese and even hated Russians do better than Nigerians outside. Nigerians are only used to spite Diaspora blacks as comparison.

You always use Okonjo Iweala and Adeshina as example, yet you cannot point to their private sector achievements or any country they lifted out of poverty. Africans value International organizations but other countries only put political, used and retired workers there.

Now, if either Adeshina or Okonjo pulled the stuff they did in Nigeria outside, both would earn big prison years. Ngozi used her bother to negotiate commission on Paris Loans. OBJ could only change her position. She paid off Paris loan but encourage loans in Jonathan Govt.

Adeshina and Kofi Annan were investigated for appearance of what Ngozi did inside and cleared outside. It shows you that the same Africans you celebrate today would not dare try what they did in Africa outside.

Stop beating your chests. It is getting nauseating when you celebrate people who would rather be in their own countries than outside.

It is their frustrations you are celebrating.

Celebrate the intelligence of people like Dr. Maduka who saw frustrations in America after some staged malpractices against him, sued and lucky out of many blacks like him and won. He brought his money home.

I still do not understand why he is in politics with sharks.

Allen do you have the Force to back you up like USA if push come to shove?

The world is still a jungle for the survival of the fittest.

I guess Sango and Ogun worshippers
in Voodooo are also Igbo.

Everybody wants to usurp Yoruba culture.

Secret companies are robbing Africa of billions
Joseph Kraus
January 13 2020

For more than a decade, Teodorin Obiang, the eldest son of the president of Equatorial Guinea, held a modest government post in his native country that paid him US$80,000 a year. But according to the US Department of Justice, Obiang siphoned off $300 million through corruption and money laundering to finance luxury purchases in the US, including a $30 million seaside mansion in Malibu, California, and a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet. He even purchased Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket and diamond-encrusted Bad Tour glove.

How did a foreign government official halfway around the world make such extravagant purchases on his modest salary?

In part, by funneling public funds through anonymous shell companies with innocent-sounding names like “Sweet Pink, Inc.” and “Beautiful Vision, Inc.” Meanwhile, more than 1 in 7 children under the age of 5 were dying from preventable diseases inside his country, and as much as three-fourths of the population lives in poverty. Corruption is considered to be widespread in the country, with members of the ruling family the subject of corruption investigations in the US, France, and Spain.

Sadly, this is just one of many examples of bad actors abusing corporate secrecy to siphon money out of some of the world’s poorest countries.

Anonymous shell companies are secretive entities that enable the identities of their true owners to remain hidden. In some US states, you can set up such a company in under an hour on the internet, with no one the wiser. In all 50 US states, less information is required to create an anonymous shell company than to get a driver’s license, or even a library card. Once your company is created, you can open a bank account and anonymously move or hide large sums of money – including money obtained illegally — with zero accountability. Even law enforcement agents won’t be able to track your activities.

Sound crazy?

It is. Anonymous shell companies have long been the vehicles of choice for the criminal and corrupt, who rely on secrecy to get away with crime. Anonymous shell companies have been at the center of some of the world’s biggest corruption cases, and have been used for terrorist financing, drug and human trafficking, money laundering, fraud, and much more.

How anonymous shell companies affect poverty

At ONE, we advocate to tackle corruption because every single dollar lost to corruption is one less dollar available to combat extreme poverty, including the financing of quality health and education systems. In the case of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang funneled public funds through anonymous shell companies that could have been used to address poverty in the country, such improving the country’s poor health and education systems or providing clean drinking water to half of the country’s population living without it.

Fortunately, the world is paying more attention to this issue (including Hollywood, with a new Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas movie). And policymakers are (finally!) starting to do something about this corruption. Dozens of countries have taken action to curb the abuse of anonymous shell companies in recent years, making it harder for corrupt actors to remain hidden.

Now it’s the US’s turn to act. In October 2019, the US House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation that would eliminate anonymous shell companies. Now, the Senate is considering similar legislation, the ILLICIT CASH Act, which, if passed and signed into law, would for the first time provide law enforcement agencies with a key tool to investigate and prosecute complex crimes.

OUR MONEY LAUNDERERS CREATE ABJECT POVERTY TERRORISTS & BANDITS

Africans no longer go into politics out of dedication to make their countries a better place than they met it or fight the yoke of colonialism. Indeed, the Army and Police armed terrorists, bandits and thugs that were used to fight political opponents. They have seized opportunities to help themselves into political power as a means of enrichment creating terrorists and bandits out of poverty. They have crowded out the Youths' protests for fair and equal playing fields, reforms as communities go deeper into poverty or demand regional self-determination. Many African countries are managed with impunity by force, empty heads, lack of common sense, education, skills, talents or useful experience.

Look around you for the most successful politicians and policy makers today and compare them to those that fought for Independence. The Mau Mau in Kenya, inmates of Mandela Prison University in South Africa to the members of Youths Movements or Trade Unions in Nigeria and Ghana, they came from very humble backgrounds. While it is true that some of them ruled beyond their usefulness and some of their children became foreigners in their own countries, it can never be compared to the aberrational rulers of today manufacturing terrorists and bandits daily. https://dailytrust.com/bandits-shoot-22-dead-at-zamfara-gold-mine

Of course there are exceptions. Mandela came from a line of wealthy chiefs and so was Kenyatta. Today’s money launderers and their children are part-time residents in foreign countries whose only mission is to loot mercilessly and live comfortably abroad; oblivious to their countries' disasters. Unfortunately, their fake lifestyles are so infectious, most of our Youths see their salvation in foreign countries, giving up on their country of birth. These Youths are willing to sacrifice everything they have at home, their first million, talents and their lives to start all over in strange places as second class slaves.

Money laundering is the main difference between African leaders of today and the past leaders that pursued Independence angrily. When you leave a country in the hands of a privileged class that has never struggled and felt the hunger for excellence, mediocrity prevails. Instead of learning from the struggle of the past, their children look for salvation in the hands of their past oppressors. Their love for past colonial masters is not limited to Stockholm syndrome, it is facilitated by branding and vanities without economic value locally: the driving force feeding money laundering. Some, risk forfeiting everything in foreign banks.

The only goal of this unproductive middle class is to launder money abroad depriving their folks with divide and rule ethnic tactics. While the new crops of bourgeoisie have crowded out the old middle class in Africa, they are not enough or capable of spurring local trade and businesses since they mainly patronized foreign products and services. Independence leaders discovered that education abroad and at home were not enough to attain a viable economy without local strategic reorientation, African trade and Independence.

In retrospect, African cultural education can never be left in the hands of those trained abroad in boarding schools from Primary school. Compare the achievement of those that went abroad for university education to our children that have been brainwashed and sometimes abused while with foster parents without the presence and love of their real parents in Africa. Some of them still resent their parents for the neglect. Their tales of loneliness in strange countries where they look different and were so treated touches the heart. Though their parents show them off as being foreign trained, encouraged to succeed them as like Isabel de Santos of Angola.

The same is true, we must hastily add with their spoilt children at home. Apart from the emotional trauma of not being raised by their parents, both sets of children were not short of money and have never worked hard to achieve the success of their classmates that had to work two or three part time jobs to pay their school fees abroad or at home. Most successful people learn the hard way to become productive in whatever endeavor they choose. Privilege breeds complacency which translates into failure without their godfathers.

Therefore, African oligarchies left vacuums filled by too many poor Africans falling deeper into poverty. The more these money laundering continues, the more communities are created in Africa joining the Poverty capital of the world. It is very important to understand that these angry poor people can never remain peaceful. They protest, agitate and take up vicious crimes at any risk to make money and celebrate it like those oppressing them. Indeed, they gain a certain level of respect and fear (awe) forcing the oppressors to negotiate with them for unsustainable peace within the community.

Once negotiations between bandits and oppressors pervade, it becomes the criminals' source of income that cannot be stopped, a vicious circle. Bandits and kidnappers of children like Chibok Girls and Zamfara victims not only gain international notoriety but as the negotiations to make more income. We see this vicious circle in Nigeria with Niger Delta Militia and Fulani cow owners that refuse to send their poor to school but create cow rearing jobs and send their Talikawa to beg in the South. Callous ways to avoid Revolts at home.

Otherwise, no African youth would risk the desert and sea, well aware of the risk or danger against him. But looking up to the criminal privileged class and the galore of ostentatious display of wealth, it becomes irresistible to shun. The story of those that work hard abroad or at home, warning them “no pain no gain” are seen as obstacles to their dreams. The easiest way to wealth becomes the political ladder. Those unsuccessful in politics become pastor, imam or take to nefarious activities as bandits to feign riches as if they are hard-working men.

Most of the progress in any society is implemented by the middle class. Their goals vary from greater good for the community they are part of; for example the noble profession of teachers; to enhancement of existing mechanisms and discoveries. Traditionally, the chiefs, war generals and leaders have successful businesses like farming established before they are called to service. While some of them are rich in terms of possessions, others depend on the goodwill of the people they lead. So, voluntary community gifts were the norm for most of the traditional exalted positions, not blood money from political leaders to sell out their people.

So, where did Africa go wrong? Our Youths and future have been sold and bought in exchange for glamour, branding and vanities that substantially killed our economy and culture. When you speak African to your children and they answered you in foreign languages, you know they are sold and bought. It did not happen by accident, we encouraged and bought it with all the resources at our disposal, acquired illegally or by brow. We left our countries in the hands of those that want to be more like those that colonized us instead of reorientation, reinvigorating, modernizing and improving the culture that gave us civilization before them.

These Fulani cow owners see the threat to their privilege if herdsmen and Talikawa beggars returned home idle without jobs and schools to keep them productive. Let them graze their cows where they diverted food to, until they are forcefully repulsed in Africa. Any opposition to grazing outside their homes is a direct threat and revolt in the communities of Fulani Cow Republic rulers. Let Cow Republic grant Amnesty to terrorists, kidnappers, bandits and thugs in Niger and Cameroon while Youths that play by the rule are maimed and killed.

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You guys need to stop this madness and concentrate on making your communities a civilized place for the world to emulate.

A Nigerian was appointed to that commission almost 50 years ago.

Please stop this chest beating and achieve local developments. The Nigerians outside are not better than the ones inside. If anything, it is the home discipline that makes them better citizens outside.

Greed, money laundering and selfishness that deprived others' children good formative years killed Nigeria.

Igbo, Yoruba, North-Central and South Central Regional Army with Police will stop Fulani herdsmen, bandits and kidnappers from outside your Regions stone cold.

Ogbeni O-Beef that was going to flood Oahu to Lagos with beef and save us from Fulani cows.

Where is Deomelo his PA and propaganda machine.

I have always thought that Aiyelala is Karma. We need more people to contribute to this.

Yoruba has Esan a ke.

Aiyelala and Esan satisfy the role of Karma.

Nigerians are creative hostage takers and hostage negotiators.

Admitted, the new waves of negotiators are Fulani and Hausa Seriki in the West.

But it started in Niger Delta, then Evans and company.

Only God knows where it will end.

Deomelo!

Where is Aregbesola O-BEEF after your propaganda and trip to launder money for him?

We need Sound Beef for the common man more than ever in the face of Fulani mauraders.

deomelo:
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Stop blabbing like a sad puppy, your plan did not work and you've been properly lectured.

Find another rubbish to cry about..

These new plants should be constructed in virgin areas to lure Youths away from the cities.

I am not sure how Nnewi that already has Innoson would fit by creating competition so close. Especially Government with unlimited resources and no accountability.

Sir, this is the last time I am going to reply you. Sometimes, I just want plane discussion. The sentence after my first answered your question. I do not worship foreign trained, new or used goods and services that has preoccupied Nigerians.

This is about the value and encouragement of local talents to solve local issues upon which other countries can learn and make it international

WoundedLamb:


You still didn't answer my question. What exactly is the end goal of this thread?

WoundedLamb:


But Soludo didn't ask to be defended. He is more than capable to do that himself. Besides, this was long ago. They had thier issues, they have moved on. I don't see the need to make people take sides now. That's all I'm saying. Else, what's the end goal of this thread?

Look, shed your ethnic unity mentality. This is about the value and encouragement of local talents to solve local issues upon which other countries can learn and make it international.

Charity begins at home. Our fantancy and infactuation with anything foreign has killed our ingenuinty and sent our talents and youths to their gallows outside.

Most local talents in their fields are invited outside on paid fellowships into the world's most prestigious universities. E.g. Ebola test developed locally.

Nobody sings but just taking a flight out is a big accomplishment in Africa.

WoundedLamb:
Unnecessary comparison in my opinion. It would be more worthwhile to strive to be like any of them than to pit them against each other and make people take sides.

It is not a matter of pitting them against one another. Ngozi attacked Soludo once and he put her in her place.

Saying Soludo only had theoretical experience is ill informed as he was the Governor of Central Bank. But I can understand .

Nigerians value foreign experience than local experience. The only country where people do that in any successful economy.

Objective choice for any position should be in merit on accomplishments in previous positions.

They are both economists but only one has proven accomplishments.

Who said Fulani do not love their Hausa slaves?

You must have ignored how they stand up for them and arm them with AK47 outside States and communities.

They even call Yoruba to task whenever Yoruba failed to live up to tolerance and accommodation they will never render in their own land.

Feeding on Yoruba nativity.

They say it because Yoruba are cowards. So they take advantage of Yoruba tolerance and accommodation.

Another meathead.

Na dis obsession with Eko in Lagos go kill una. Another Eko dey for Osun State nah.

LH,

There is a consensus at least within Yoruba that Fulani and their Hausa slaves can only be decisively dealt with by underground warriors and funding.

Enough interviews, since this Government will never deal with them like Government of Ghana, actions speak louder ...

O to o! The slang by old time kekere to the driver

LH,

Your integrity has never been in doubt, even among some of those that disagree with you.

As much as I cannot stand Tinubu, it amuses me when his ethic haters cannot take him out. I think some folks support Tinubu for that alone.

LegendHero:


Yes you are right about people and their usefulness.

Yes, the Yorubas have a lot of individuals to lead us and it does not necessarily need to be Tinubu. In fact if I’m allowed to have the final say, I prefer Fashola to Tinubu.

Firstly, the attitude of people labeling anyone that speak in favor of Tinubu as his agent/under his payroll always seems disgusting to me and I only see it as a strategy to silence dissenting voice.

Do you label anyone that defend Atiku, Peter Obi, Wike, El-Rufai, Osinbajo, and Kalu as agents of those guys? How many times have we accused anyone supporting Peter Obi or Atiku as being under their payroll, they why single out Tinubu.

Secondly, I don’t follow bandwagon and I will speak my mind without minding what people think about it in as much as it’s based on my ideology. Let’s check Tinubu credentials and his educational/economic capacity, how is he any lesser than Atiku, Peter Obi, Osinbajo, and Kalu? Does he present an inferior credentials or why must we be silenced when we mention his name?

Thirdly, let’s look at corruption. Has he been convicted of corruption or how is Atiku any better than him such that people that voted for Atiku in their millions will want to silence anybody that dare speak up in support of Tinubu.

To me it’s just hate and a strategy of silencing dissenting voice and no matter what Tinubu does, these guys will still not be contented.

Lastly, I am not a card carrying member of any party, never met or solicit any politician in my life, I don’t know Tinubu from Adam, and I don’t even desire to be a politician in the future. But I reserve the right to support or oppose any politician if I think it suits my ideology and I don’t think because I speak in support of Tinubu should reduce my integrity because this is politics section.

If speaking in support of Atiku, Peter Obi, Kalu, El-Rufai, Fayemi, Fayose, Wike, Ekweremadu does not affect anyone’s integrity then why must it be Tinubu? Is he more inferior to these guys?

People can Atikulate in their millions BUT I can’t speak in support of Tinubu? Is there something I’m missing bro?

My brother Legendhero,

A statement of yours from another post caught my attention. It is hard to disagree with your main points.

But Tinubu has his role as a devil you send after another devil. Fire for fire.

Nevertheless, Yoruba have many more people with integrity to lead us. If we all follow a man so desperate for power that he would throw his own mother under the bus, we are hypocrites.

Adedibu, in his days was useful as a thug. All of us have our useful call in life as a teacher, scientific officers, historian etc. Politics is not for everyone.

I will support Sunday Igboho as a General but not as a political rep, senator, governor or president.

I understand why you defend Tinubu because his ethic enemies are worse than him. But your defense of Tinubu has branded you as his agent.

I personally think that is an insult to your integrity. Please make your defense of him clearer.

As usual, we agree more than we disagree. Two reasonable people can also agree to disagree.

Cheers.

Let us be sincere, Buhari played the same old game, using Southerners and Middle Belt against themselves.

There are many Yoruba that have had enough like Sunday Igboho.

But please go underground and your message would be louder and clearer than on CNN or BBC.

Tinubu or Ameachi can only make a Fulani Northern or Hausa with one drop of Fulani blood like Buhari President, you have no power to break them.

Once the Fulani cows leave the barn, you cannot control it.

Note that Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen become successful as world's number one and fourth World Terrorists because their actions and support from underground speak louder than CNN/BBC.

TAO11,

I completely concur because it is easier for the culture and speakers in different dialects to relate to, since it had always been part of their language and familiar to those they trade with in kola and other items across the desert and sea.

(2) The only explanation which checks all the boxes still remains Farouk Martins’s observation, viz. “Oyo r’Oba” which, as I have demonstrated, is the much older form of “Oyo l’Oba”; or “Oyo ni Oba”; i.e. “Oyo is the King”.

This explanation checks the consonantal structure box, it checks the history box, and it checks the linguistic box as well.

TAO11 ,

Your research, consistency and endurance on this subject must be published not only at the university level or academic papers, but for the sake of secondary and primary school pupils.

This is serious stuff. We also have to thank our distractors for provoking academic research.

Thanks and lots of hugs.

Many more Hausa need to wake up and even much more educated and we'll informed writers like this must come forward and educate the Hausa youths bribed with Western toys.

Fulani jihadist terrorists from the Sahelian North of Africa many of who were mercenaries in Libya