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Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 1:25pm On Apr 25, 2023
Christistruth03,

I had said it many times that it is a waste of time arguing with these usurpers of Yoruba glories.

But that was the mistake we made in the past when Pro. Ade Ajayi ignored them despite Prof. Peter Ekeh, an Urhobo dismantling their bogus claims.

It was a Yoruba Oba of Bini who felt disrespected in classification among his brothers at Ife meeting that gave live to their adsorbed claims. He even labeled the foremost Edo historian as having Yoruba mother, a lie!

If they were looking for Ekhalehan or whatever, they know where he was at Ugoton but would not dare face his protectors there. Ife was where they placed him. Imagine a Yoruba Oba of Bini trying to disparage a full Edo historian with Yoruba mother!

The guy you are arguing with never believed accurate history can come out of Africa. He is so ignorant, he does not know who taught the Europeans how to read and write or where alphabet or pictorial writings started. So anything not told or written by Europeans does not exist.

The same Europeans that whitewashed African history, paint Egypt white and Mesopotamia the sole creation of whites before 15 Century classification into colors to divide serfs, workers and freed slaves.

But for the laborious and selfless re-discovery of Anta Diop and many others, these Bini or Edo usurpers would be glad being fed in Exhibition cages all over Europe and Americas.

Thanks for taking the time to educate us.

Christistruth03:
In other words your own Ancestors from whom you descended didn’t exist in the 12th Century because there were no written records to prove or confirm their existence

Therefore according to you they didn’t exist

Do you now see why I didn’t want to waste time arguing with you
Culture › Re: The Most Civilized And Sanest People Are Within Us by googi:
Ethnic rivalry is tearing us apart, so much that we cannot even accept African achievement as genuine enough unless it is accepted by Europeans that destroyed the same civilization in the first place.

The self hate and inferiority complex is deep. The same way some of us think it is Afrocentric to expose Sudan Rule in Egypt.
Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 3:18pm On Apr 23, 2023
Land grabbers in their wild imagination will never give up. The presentation made to the Privy Council as far back as 1921, was clear.

About 1790 Lagos was successfully invaded by the neighboring Benins. [b]They did not remain in occupation [/b]but left a representative as ruler whose title was the Eleko.
The only connection Bini Oba, a Yoruba dynasty that overthrew the wicked Ogiso had with Eko, was giving his daughter to Ashipa the First King of Eko. Some called him Eleko, others called him Olofin. Whatever you called Ashipa, he was the truce King of Lagos that married the daughter of another Yoruba king that conquered Bini after brutal Ogiso King killed a pregnant woman and others like the Urhobo, Itshekiri, Onitcha etc ran away despite the wall to keep them in

The rhetorical question about Oyo Empire means that some people think Oyo only come into existence during the Empire.

Oyo was the same as Yoruba, Anago, Olukumi etc found along West Africa and Americas with different names.

How can anyone ask for proof that Oyo or Yoruba occupy Eko, their land before anyone else?

What a question.
Politics › Mental Health Is Real Try Yaba Left by googi(op): 12:15am On Apr 22, 2023
Una, this Election na wah o. There is a guy that opens a new thread at off hours almost daily to expose his pitiable condition against this site.

I was thinking he should be ignored but for his own sake, I think mental hospitals should start taking some patients in again instead of treating them as outpatient.

Otherwise, some of these guy will start biting people on the streets or worse.
Culture › Re: National Holidays: None Celebrates Our Culture by googi: 2:16pm On Apr 21, 2023
It all boils down to colo-mentality. It is reflected in our names, religions and exotic cultures.

They captured us as slaves, put us in plantations and named those plantations as countries after themselves.

They even called themselves Saints to be worshipped.

Now, we laundered whatever we make back to them. The first good money most Youths make, they ask which country abroad they can japa rather than starting a local business.
Politics › Re: Nigeria 3 Presidential Candidates Cannot Enter Many Foreign Countries by googi(op): 4:47pm On Apr 19, 2023
See hypocrites.

And we always blame our leaders
Culture › Re: Egyptians Demand An End To The Falsification Of Queen Cleopatra's History: Almos by googi: 3:39pm On Apr 19, 2023
Good points.

But "Whites" cannot have it both ways. People around that area were mixed blood that were never considered themselves white or black until arbitrary designation of serfs, slaves and other poor people as white to divide and rule people. They never considered themselves as white or Black but we're so designated to give supervisory role or privileged supervisors of workers in the fields or plantations.

They introduced the "One Drop" rule against others and their own children from raped Black women that they sold indifferently into slavery.

So, Netflix is right to color Cleopatra and many have done the same with Jesus based on the mixed areas they come from.

Even Southern Italians and their descendants today are darker than some Africans.


RedboneSmith:
Egyptians are a tad too touchy about this race thing though. This was how they blew a gasket when Louis Gossett Jr, a black American actor played Anwar Sadat. And then again when they lost their minds and wanted to boycott Kevin Hart's show because Kevin had said in the past that Ancient Egypt was black.

Oddly enough, they never say anything when pasty-white Europeans play Ancient Egyptians. Only when black people do so.

But with that said, Cleopatra probably looked nothing like that woman who played her on the Netflix show. She came from a long line of Macedonian (and therefore European) ancestry. Even if we concede that her mother was a native (and therefore brown) Egyptian, she would have still come out looking a lot more Caucasian than that actor.
Culture › Re: Congratulatory Message To The Oba Of Benin On The Repatriation Of Benin Artifact by googi: 3:07pm On Apr 19, 2023
Great.
Congratulations.

Do we have the dedication and will for the proper maintenance?
Politics › Nigeria 3 Presidential Candidates Cannot Enter Many Foreign Countries by googi(op): 3:03pm On Apr 19, 2023
Atiku has problems entering USA without special permission

Tinubu cannot enter USA without special permission

Obi cannot enter UK and many Asian countries without special permission

Nigerians know it and still voted for them.

Are the people out problems or the leaders we choose to elect?
Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 1:30am On Apr 17, 2023
Judgment
Supreme court
1921
Amodu Tijani v the Secretary, Southern Provinces () [1921] NGSC 1 (11 July 1921);
Court name
Supreme Court
Amodu Tijani v the Secretary, Southern Provinces () [1921] NGSC 1 (11 July 1921);
Law report citations
Media neutral citation
[1921] NGSC 1
The Judicial Committee

His Majesty's Privy Council

Monday, the 11th day of July 1921

Between

Amodu Tijani ....... Appellant

And

The Secretary, Southern Provinces ....... Respondent

Judgment of the Court
Delivered by

Viscount Haldane

In this case the question raised is as to the basis for calculation of the compensation payable to the appellant, who claims for the taking by the Government of the Colony of Southern Nigeria of certain land for public purpose. There was a preliminary point as to whether the terms of the Public Lands Ordinance of the Colony do not make the decision of its Supreme Court on such a question final. As to this it is sufficient to say that the terms of the Ordinance did not preclude the exercise which has been made of the Prerogative of the Crown to give special leave to bring this appeal.

The Public Lands Ordinance of 1903 of the Colony provides that the Governor may take any lands required for public purposes for an estate in fee simple or for a less estate, on paying compensation to be agreed on or determined by the Supreme Court of the Colony. The Governor is to give notice to all the persons interested in the land, or to the persons authorised by the Ordinance to sell. and convey it. Where the land required is the property of a native community, the Head Chief of the community may sell and convey it in fee simple, any native law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. There is to be no compensation for land unoccupied unless it is proved that, for at least six months during the ten years preceding any notice, certain kinds of beneficial use have been made of it. In other cases the Court is to assess the compensation according to the value at the time when the notice was served, inclusive of damage done by severance. Prima facie, the persons in possession, as if owners, are to be deemed entitled. Generally speaking, the Governor may pay the compensation in accordance with the direction of the Court, but where any consideration or compensation is paid to a Head Chief in respect of any land, the property of a native community, such consideration or compensation is to be distributed by him among the members of the community or applied or used for their benefit in such proportions and manner as the Native Council of the District in which the land is situated, determines with the sanction of the Governor.

The land in question is at Apapa, on the mainland and within the Colony. The appellant is the Head Chief of the Oluwa family or community, and is one of the Idejos or landowning white cap chiefs of Lagos and the land is occupied by persons some of whom pay rent or tribute to him. Apart from any family or private land which the Chief may possess or may have allotted to members of his own family, he has in a representative or official capacity control by custom over the tracts within his Chieftaincy, including, as Chief Justice Speed points out in his judgment in this case, power of allotment and of exacting a small tribute or rent in acknowledgment of his position as Head. But when in the present proceedings he claimed for the whole value of the land in question, as being land which he was empowered by the Ordinance to sell, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court held that, although he had a right which must be recognised and paid for, this right was:

" merely a seigneurial right giving the holder ordinary rights of control and management of the land in accordance with the well-known principles of native law and custom, including the right to receive payment of the nominal rent or tribute payable by the occupiers, and that compensation should be calculated on that basis, and not on the basis of absolute ownership of the land."

It does not appear clearly from the judgment of the Chief Justice whether he thought that the members of the community had any independent right to compensation, or whether the Crown was entitled to appropriate the land without more.

The appellant, on the other hand, contended that, although his claim was, as appears from the statement of his advocate, restricted to one in a representative capacity, it extended to the full value of the family properly and community land vested in him as Chief, for the latter of which he claimed to be entitled to be dealt with under the terms of the Ordinance in the capacity of representing his community and its full title of occupation.

The question which their Lordships have to decide is which of these views is the true one. In order to answer the question, it is necessary to consider, in the first place the real character of the native title to the land.

Their Lordships make the preliminary observation that in interpreting the native title to land, not only in Southern Nigeria, but other parts of the British Empire, much caution is essential. There is a tendency, operating at times unconsciously, to render that title conceptually in terms which are appropriate only to systems which have grown up under English law. But this tendency has to be held in check closely. As a rule, in the various systems of native jurisprudence throughout the Empire, there is no such full division between property and possession as English lawyers are familiar with. A very usual form of native title is that of a usufructuary right, which is a mere qualification of or burden on the radical or final title of the Sovereign where that exists. In such cases the title of the Sovereign is a pure legal estate, to which beneficial rights mayor may not be attached. But this estate is qualified by a right of beneficial user which may not assume definite forms analogous to estates, or may, where it has assumed these, have derived them from the intrusion of the mere analogy of English jurisprudence. Their Lordships have elsewhere explained principles of this kind in connection with the Indian title to reserve lands in Canada. But the Indian title in Canada affords by no means the only illustration of the necessity for getting rid of the assumption that the ownership of land naturally breaks itself up into estates, conceived as creatures of inherent legal principle. Even where an estate in fee is definitely recognised as the most comprehensive estate in land which the law recognises, it does not follow that outside England it admits of being broken up. In Scotland a life estate imports no freehold title, but is simply, in contemplation of Scottish law, a burden on a right of full property that cannot be split up. In India much the same principle applies. The division of the fee into successive and independent incorporeal rights of property conceived as existing separately from the possession, is unknown. In India, as in Southern Nigeria, there is yet another feature of the fundamental nature of the title to land which must be borne in mind. The title, such as it is may not be that of the individual, as in this country it nearly always is in some form, but may be that of a community. Such a community may have the possessory title to the common enjoyment of a usufruct, with customs under which its individual members are admitted to enjoyment, and even to a right of transmitting the individual enjoyment as members by assignment inter vivos or by succession. To ascertain how far this latter development of right has progressed involves the study of the history of the particular community and its usages in each case. Abstract principles fashioned a priori are of but little assistance, and are as often as not misleading.

In the case of Lagos and the territory round it, the necessity of adopting this method of inquiry is evident. As the result of cession to the British Crown by former potentates, the radical title is now in the British Sovereign. But that title is throughout qualified by the usufructuary rights of communities, rights which, as the outcome of deliberate policy, have been respected and recognised. Even when machinery has been established for defining as far as is possible the rights of individuals by introducing Crown grants as evidence of title, such machinery has apparently not been directed to the modification of substantive rights, but rather to the definition of those already in existence and to the preservation of records of that existence.

In the instance of Lagos the character of the tenure of the land among the native communities is described by Chief Justice Rayner in the Report on Land Tenure in West Africa, which that learned Judge made in 1898, in language which their Lordships think is substantially borne out by the preponderance of authority.

" The next fact which it is important to bear in mind in order to understand the native land law is that the notion of individual ownership is quite foreign to native ideas. Land belongs to the community, the village or the family, never to the individual. All the members of the community, village or, family have an equal right to the land, but in every case the Chief or Headman of the community or village, or head of the family, has charge of the land, anti in loose mode of speech is sometimes called the owner. He is to some extent in the position of a trustee, and as such holds the land for the use of the community or family. He has control of it, and any member who wants a piece of it to cultivate or build a house upon, goes to him for it. But the land so given still remains the property of the community or family. He cannot make any important disposition of the land without consulting the elders of the community or family, and their consent must in all cases be given before a grant can be made to a stranger. This is a pure native custom along the whole length of this coast, and wherever we find, as in Lagos, individual owners, this is again due to the introduction of English ideas. But the native idea still has a firm hold on the people, and in most cases, even in Lagos, land is held by the family. This is so even in cases of land purporting to be held under Crown grants and English conveyances. The original grantee may have held as an individual owner, but on his death all his family claim an interest, which is always recognised, and thus the land becomes again family land. My experience in Lagos leads me to the conclusion that except where land has been bought by the present owner there are very few natives who are individual owners of land."

Consideration of the various documents, records and decisions, which have been brought before them in the course of the argument at the Bar, has led their Lordships to the conclusion that the view expressed by Chief Justice Rayner in the language just cited is substantially the true one. They therefore interpret paragraph 6 of the Public Lands Ordinance of 1903, which says that where lands required for public purposes are the property of a native community, " the Head Chief of such community may sell and convey the same for an estate in fee simple," as meaning that the Chief may transfer the title of the community. It follows that it is for the whole of what he so transfers that compensation has to be made. This is borne out by paragraphs 25 and 26, which provide for distribution of such compensation under the direction of the Native Council of the District, with the sanction of the Governor.
Culture › Re: Igbos What Are Your Good Morning Greetings Like by googi: 5:54pm On Apr 16, 2023
Ertugrul:
grin grin
Ertugrul take your time o.

For a long time my friends let me brag say ai Sabi.
Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 5:33pm On Apr 16, 2023
Look this is the Culture section where numerous scholastic papers have been presented. Yet this old topic has not satisfied you guys. Every week, you guys come up with different forms of queries. You were ignored for a long time and you grew wings like a butterfly.

Even your own son, an Authority on Benin history was disowned. You prefer foreigners' accounts. Those did not help you either.

Let me rest here by telling you EKO rest firmly in the hand of Yoruba including your ruling House in Bini. Your names and lingual franca cannot be disputed.

Read this for your pleasure and go to other discussions on this topic.

https://nigerialii.org/ng/judgment/supreme-court/1921/1

Bye!


Ologbo147:
corroborate your initial write up with any scholarly work . Lagos was in the firm hold of the Oba of Benin from the sixteenth century until the 19th century. And this fact is corroborated by scholarly work from A list scholars like Ryder, Bradbury etc
Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 1:35pm On Apr 16, 2023
Most of you have been daydreaming the same way your ancestors did and died. Eko remains firmly in the hands of the Owners yesterday, today and until this generation die.

But then, so did the Europeans dreamed about Eko.

Fruitless efforts by wishful thinkers. Turn your villages into Lagos in Portugal.
Culture › Re: The Kingdom Of Benin Was A Massive Slave Trader by googi: 2:15am On Apr 16, 2023
Ologbo147:
Do you have any written proof that the city of Lagos was ever under Oyo,I am willing to learn (any material that also tell of the conquest of Lagos from Benin in the 17th century ?
Yes! Well before 1452 Pope Edict authorizing the capture and enslavement of Africans along West African Coast. Unless you think Spirits were living in Eko then.

Bini Oba, a Yoruba descendant was the last invaders before the British. They all failed.

Tijani Oluwa finally kicked the British out with Privy Council, highest Court in London, Order that returned Eko land to rightful owner.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1221711/yoruba-united-nation-the-most-civilized-ethnic.html
Culture › Re: Igbos What Are Your Good Morning Greetings Like by googi: 2:01am On Apr 16, 2023
Poor me. I was so proud of myself that I can speak Igbo because I know most of the bad words.

Until I saw this thread. I could have bet my last kobo that KEDU means good morning, noon and night.

I know how to answer too: Kedukodi!
Politics › Re: Chimamanda Adichie Gushes Over Prof Wole Soyinka [Photos] by googi: 12:25am On Apr 16, 2023
Wait o, the girl get big boobs nah.

Soyinka nor dey waste time with ladies who take big boobs rob am.
Politics › Peter Must Win All The Supplementary Elections Otherwise by googi(op): 12:12am On Apr 16, 2023
What excuses does INEC have not to conduct Free and Fair supplementary Election all over the country?

If Obi does not win eh, wahala dey o!
Politics › Re: Tinubu Forfeited $460,000 , Woodberry Forfeited $8million Proceeds Of Crime by googi: 4:05pm On Apr 13, 2023
Nigerians should be ashamed of the three Presidential candidates they voted for knowing each of them are drug dealers and looters.

It is now my badass is better than yours.

Obi with multiple personalities in Europe and Asia is ignored because Ms. Chinenye Ezewuzie his drug mule is forgotten in Peru jail. Circumstances leading to his father's death in drug deal ignored.

We then blame our leaders when in fact their voters encourage crime and destruction at home.
Politics › Re: Reasonable And Moderate Nigerian Think-tanks Must Arrest Decadence in Nigerians by googi(op): 4:53pm On Apr 01, 2023
Reinaldo:
We must start by ensuring criminals are far away from leadership positions
True but there are immoral behaviors that are equally or more devastating than crime.

It all started from individual homes and villages. If we don't not know where we are going, we know where we are coming from.
Politics › Reasonable And Moderate Nigerian Think-tanks Must Arrest Decadence in Nigerians by googi(op): 3:06pm On Apr 01, 2023
Most Ethnic Nigerians have turned into Silent Majorities. Extremists emulating repulsive characters in foreign countries to justify the destruction of themselves from within are celebrating deaths and destruction of their own people.

They started this melancholy dance by laundering trillions of American dollars abroad intentionally reducing their people to abject poverty that used to be seen in Asia but never seen in this part of the world.

They graduated to killing and maiming grassroots in their own own cities, towns and villages. Yet, they celebrate and campaigned of "progress" on it for Elections and re-elections

If different Think-tanks do not come out reorienting their people from the villages first, Africa is going back to the Dark Continent in the hands of Nigerians.
Culture › Re: The Most Civilized And Sanest People Are Within Us by googi: 5:09pm On Mar 31, 2023
I find this clarion call for Yoruba to rise up out of their abysmal failures and live up to their God given potential, sobering.

If they are the descendants of the past civilization and children of First In Africa, they must withdraw from the money race that has brought abject poverty to their country and rebuild themselves.

Very sobering.
Politics › Re: An Apology To The Igbo People Of Nigeria by googi: 2:40pm On Mar 25, 2023
Most of us understand how you feel.

But remember that the ball or Keke belongs to Seun. Yoruba have a duty not only to be fair to all but also, to seem fair. Seeming fair can be taken differently by different people. Especially, opportunists without any care.

Admission of quilt in order to move on is what they pounce on. Some people think it is wise to apologize to your wife or husband for a better future.


XAUBulls:
I am just reading this thread Seun and I have deep insights and brutally honest truth to share with you all here that will open your eyes to prevent being guilt-tripped by despicable bigots and ignorant analyses.

That NL ad did NOT contribute to any violence in Lagos State. The Edo no be Lagos mantra which was all over NL is no different from this.


Several very TOXIC, irresponsible LIES and inciting posts by well-known NL Ibo trolls stating that the iconic Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, died via suicide in 1987 from drinking rat poison are FALSE... and further more, the inciting posts that Lagos State is a "no man's land" by some Ibos, the unguarded past history of anti-Yoruba Twitter posts and past Ipob/biafra sympathy by Gbadebo Vivour, etc, triggered the sequence of ethnically charged events in some locations in Lagos State.


Besides, what apologies have YOU
Seun given to over 50 million people of Yoruba descent for the many TOXIC, vicious and criminally inciting anti-Yoruba, doctored videos and fake news that have been posted here on NL threads by irredentist Ibos and Ipob trolls for many years now and during every election cycle since about 2010?


I have been a veteran member of
NL since 2005 with an older
NL account, and there is massive digital evidence of TOXIC online attacks and cyberbullying of
Yorubas (Including the relentless, organised false attacks on the now
President-Elect of Nigeria, Bola
Tinubu), Kanuris (Including the criminal fake news that Kashim Shetima of APC is a Boko Haram terrorist sponsor was widely spread mainly by the Peter Obi supporters of Ibo origin on and off NL, and the false accusation was debunked by The BBC Global Disinformation
Team Report), Northerners, Itsekiris, Ijaws, and other minority ethnicities over territorial claims, geopolitics, rejection of Ibo secession by ethnic minorities and more.


Those who over the years are responsible for initiating hate speech and ethnically-based cyberbullying on and off NL will be brought to justice in sting operations! WhatsApp group administrators, and other online platforms are liable for the criminal incitements and defamation of character of public figures and citizens under existing Nigerian Cyber Crime laws. Ignorance of the law is NOT an excuse. Period.


Cc: Freestuffsng, Kininifoods
Politics › Re: LASG Issued 90-day FINAL NOTICE To Owners/developers Of Distressed Buildings by googi: 1:28am On Mar 25, 2023
Extend loan remission and grants with a clause not to sell, to poor owners to bring these houses up to standard.

Those they want to sell them to are waiting in the corner.

Don't cry later that outsiders bought your houses and land o!
Politics › Re: An Apology To The Igbo People Of Nigeria by googi: 3:25am On Mar 21, 2023
Bottom line, who throw out more hate than Igbo?

Why focus on an advert and blow it up into humogous empty vessel in order to project what they practice.

Did Obi win Lagos fair and square?

Did Gbadebo lose Lagos fair and square?

Why are they crying like Zik who could not be the Premier of Western Region?

Omoawoke:
Seun never jam.

The mistake he just made by creating this topic will be used to slaughter him.
I am sure they would have sent the screenshot to their whatzapp messages worldwide. They will mark him as their new enemy.
This guys look for anybody as scape goat to blame and cast their frustrations.
Seun needs serious media training. Him and Chinedu
Politics › Re: An Apology To The Igbo People Of Nigeria by googi: 3:09am On Mar 21, 2023
Seun, I can understand where you are coming from. Most, not all, Yoruba are brought as OMOLUABI. You cannot translate it into liberal or today's "woke".

This is where AFENIFERE comes from.

You are right, it is not about the money. Give them a billion or borrow a trillion for them. It will never satisfy them. Indeed, it's their justification that they got you. Sometimes, silence works.

At the same time, I am not saying you should brush them off.

You must know how they killed the other popular site before yours. Ewuro warned him when he was trying to please Igbo at the expense of Yoruba. The same Igbo he was trying to accommodate, sent him vicious viruses until they killed that vibrant site.

Be careful, a word is enough.


Seun:
That obviously means that it was not about the money.
Culture › Re: Why Yoruba Culture Accommodates Success In Outsiders - Farouk Martins Aresa by googi: 12:49am On Mar 20, 2023
Jun 03, 2012
Culture › Re: Stop Calling Lagos No Man's Land by googi: 7:04pm On Mar 17, 2023
Only the usurpers think or want Eko to be no man's land.

Olorunsogo!
Politics › Re: African Politicians Boastfully "Developed" Wealth Into Poverty by googi(op): 12:22pm On Mar 14, 2023
Politics › African Politicians Boastfully "Developed" Wealth Into Poverty by googi(op): 11:04pm On Mar 13, 2023
AFRICAN POLITICIANS BOASTFULLY "DEVELOPED" WEALTH INTO POVERTY

There is a President-Elect in Nigeria, but most do not believe any of the 3 candidates could restore our dignity. We dearly missed the days when Nigerians were welcomed and respected around the world. Nigerian institutions from Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Professionals to Police and Military were invited to prestigious institutions in and outside Africa. We contributed to Peace Missions around the world, building and developing budding institutions in Africa.

The face of poverty has shifted from Asia to Africa. Compared to when Nigerians were furious at Umaru Dikko for insinuating that he had never seen people picking food from the garbage in Nigeria as they do in the United States of America. The audacity that anyone in his right sense or mind would compare Nigeria flowing with honey and “wara” then, with poor people in the States was too much to bear. We rain curses on him for being so indifferent.


The Head of State then, General Gowon bragged that our problem is not money but how to spend the much we had. If you are wondering which country this was, we should. It is the same country politicians campaigned and are bragging of today that they have developed into the Poverty Capital of the world. The prodigal developers have passed the nightmare to our children. So, when you hear how they developed a place, understand where it came from.

Nigeria has three leading Presidential candidates that sold and campaigned on selling their country. When Africans exhibit tribal tendencies, xenophobia or lunge at one another's throats based on an ethnic group's control of their towns and cities; they leave politicians that sold most of their precious and productive land to foreigners unscathed.

Lebanese, Americans, Europeans and lately Asians do not generate the same resentment as Nigerian new developers. Though foreign developers bring technology with low paying jobs, they take out crippling profits leaving perpetual credit card (debt) payments. Who do you think are the beneficiaries of Tax-Free-Zones in Lagos, Nigeria?

American, European and Asian politicians campaign and regulate against businesses that invest money and technology (intellectual properties) outside countries in order to avoid living wages and increase profit. High technology manufacturing plants are more difficult to replicate locally because they take time, involve skills and financial investment that cannot be easily replaced by those seeking immediate raw cash.

It sounds unbelievable but it is true that some Africans, not foreigners, would turn the land of wealth flowing with honey and "wara" into abject poverty. It takes humans wasting or bereft of empathy, talents, dignity and callousness to impoverish a people while claiming to be developers of the states they govern. Yet, they have supporters defending any of the policies.

We were taught that it takes a village to raise a child in Africa. Good qualities other continents used to enhance their economic fortune and liberate themselves from the yoke of oppression, some of us used to subject our people to abject and perpetual poverty.

If you are looking for where a deluge of money can turn a whole country into the Poverty Capital of the world called development, look no further than Nigeria. This is where senseless accumulation of money stolen by individuals that should be invested in finished products at home have turned politicians, cronies and copycats trying to live up to them, to money launderers. When caught abroad, some have abandoned millions in foreign cash.

As the country gets poorer, a few individual pockets get heavier. If Nigerians campaign or boast to you that they develop a place, take a good look. They mean their pockets are full, at the expense of the place they wrecked. It is hard to develop people or a place by being clever by half, boasting of native intelligence without sharing, benefiting or respecting your host.

Any means is good for the swindlers, dire ritualists, drug peddlers and desperate voyagers to cross sea and desert at the risk of dear life. Many people from different countries wonder why a country in the Continent so blessed with natural resources and talents could be so selfishly mismanaged. Some claim talents flow to where they are rewarded. Well, most people gladly follow raw materials and money called rewards anywhere. Instead of developing them as finished products at home.

This writer begs to disagree that reward only comes in raw cash in exchange for raw materials. Those that focus on raw cash have not only lost their ways but they have also lost their minds. While it is true that many are willing to make the money first and worry about their minds and morals later, it is always too late when they have nothing to show for the money and are forced to suffer the consequences. Their recklessness and viciousness turn families into circular firing squads, killing progressive ideas that eventually result in abject poverty.

If these Nigerians were so industrious and intelligent, how did their country go from potential Regional Power to creators of poverty at home? Every other continent understands that the greatest returns on exploitation is from Africa; as long as you can get local partners willing to bleed and sell their countries raw. Unfortunately, the Nigerians that cannot wait to get out are not just the poor or unskilled. The best talents in Arts and Sciences are also rushing out, at the risk of their lives or becoming organ donors.

Indeed, Nigerians are now known in Africa countries and overseas in their penchant for their warped "generosity" in underdeveloping unsuspecting people and places. These villages, cities and countries eventually woke up and caught on to desperadoes. They react with lethal punishment, fearing they might turn their people and places into Nigeria, the Poverty Capital of the world. If they only know that Nigerian politicians have used the irony of poverty to gain positions and reelection into power at home.

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Politics › Labor Party Please Calm Down by googi(op): 9:27pm On Mar 07, 2023
Labor Party and PDP need to hold APC down and on edge about Restructuring. Many people do not like Tinubu but you guys crowned him by dividing yourselves while he ran with the Prize!

Presidential is Election is over. The result demonstrated Labor Party as the most clannish, more than ever.

Obi came third. Move on jor.

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