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UGLY MONEY RAIN PARTIES BY NOUVEAU RICHE TURNED REPULSIVE

There is nothing wrong with growing up in poverty, it is a motivation to do better in life but certainly, not by any means. When you come to New York with nothing and pull yourself up, you thank God and say it can only happen in America. What about those who came to Lagos, Accra, Cairo, Johannesburg etc in Africa, what do you say?

God punishes poverty with money rain at every opportune occasion by the nouvelle riche. They have to demonstrate that the boys and girls that grew up in poverty have arrived. Their means of income is doubtful at best, unknown at its worst. You cannot thank God by dubious means. When the gullible and the desperate folks watch in admiration, they cry: God when is it going to be our turn?

This is how the environment breeds criminals and bandits. What started as compensation to freelance drummers in the communities has gone wild. It used to be only celebrants that were adorned with money on their forehead, it degenerated to sticking money on the breast of women. Boyfriends would be invited to spay their girlfriends with local currency and later foreign currencies.

Young people that have acquired sudden wealth without investing sweat equity, spend freely and ostentatiously without good taste, finesse or sustainable culture. They compete with the old-fashioned ways of long-term wealth but lack distinguished blood and state. They buy the most expensive products or material that are out of place on their person or incongruous with tastes, attire and Arts. Many are usually but not always unlettered.

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These fabricators nor dey Taya?

Camp of water ko, camp of ocean ni.

The days you guys used to go on social media and spew trash are over. Your idle monikers got away with it for too long.

TAOII kudos.

Eko= camp
Ame= waters

I hope you realize that you quoted the author of the article, not me.

isaacola57:
During covid lockdown your government hid palliatives and allowed you to starve..

Have you ever wondered why all the talents and raw materials are leaving Nigeria in particular; leaving governance and management to cow heads, bandits and terrorists.

Then! Wondering why the country and the whole continent is going under?

You left the country in the hands of cats but you expect chicken to grow and multiply.

Go and read the whole article.

Though some foreign countries query or even jail them for laundering African resources and talents, these foreigners can’t believe there is a debate among Africans about who the worst exploiters of earned foreign incomes are. Some Africans believe their leaders are worse than the Europeans that colonized Africa. Indeed, they claimed they would have been better off under colonial rule. Most of the Youths have never experienced a capable African leader.

The African Continent has forever been a plantation to feed the rest of the world with abundant natural and human resources. The African leadership and businesses welcome the exploitation of the Plantation that never stops abuses and keeps on giving. They have moved another step further into self-annihilation by laundering meagre earned foreign income.

By the time you wake up, your head will be shaved clean and will be lucky if it is not completely gone.

Wake up your Mumu Don do.

Nukilia:
Go back to bed because you woke up on the wrong side

OUR WEALTHY LAUNDERED AFRICA DESTITUTE FOR 2nd CLASS STATUS ABROAD

African money and talents launderers know exactly that they are getting 2nd class status abroad before they leave. They comfort themselves by convincing their families, it is their personal sacrifice to get them a good life while killing the same opportunity at home for most Africans. Only to find out that with less diligence, they could have built a better country and more opportunities at home where they are more influential and effective.

Most of them actually toil harder abroad than they do at home, working against all odds to survive with all their money and talents. Despite the money and talents they bring with them abroad, their bad experiences in the hands of people of bad faith, are worse than those told by General Colin Powell or President Obama with sterling accomplishments. It does not matter how many of the launderers are robbing Africa to pay Paul, they are denying Africans basic necessities of life.

Indeed, foreigners ask: if you are that good and talented, why not fix your village or country? Ladies and gentlemen, it is the difference between those that are successful and those that are failures. If you know you are so good and talented, why work for someone else when you can use the same capabilities to make yourself or country a success. It is the difference between ready-made or finished products and raw materials

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Out of youthful or senile exuberance to propagate Bini false sense of suzerainty, our brothers post transparent falsehood any informed reader can drill holes into.

When I saw another repetition topic, it becomes obvious a fellow just started new cyber war.

Well, no matter how many times they try, days of letting them get away with murder are gone.

TAO11:
I dey here for them.

Giving them PTSD is my favorite pastime.

Wa-lie-ta-lie

Thank goodness you are but not too many of us want to deal with their ugly sights everyday.

Without someone like you willing to take them on, the misinformation they have spread over a decade on more have caused disaffection with close families.

We were thinking nobody in their right senses would believe them. But if you repeat lies so many times, even perpetrators would start believing themselves.

All these in the name of freedom of speech.

Dislike button will only encourage hate mongers.

These fake Bini revisionists are something else. They waste so much time trying to revise history common to all.

This only started in the 80s because a Yoruba Oba of Bini went home to Ife and came back annoyed that he was not well received.

No matter how you guys revise it, the Court has spoken and the Ogiso/Ogiamen will never accept Oba. Oba will always "rent" his place during coronation.

E tu IBB?

Dancing on Buhari's grave while still alive.

Every Economic indicator from Income to GDP have declared Nigeria the poorest.

How did we get here from the richest and the country to be?

Even a live cow, head or tail coin, village people and weather predictors could have ruled better than Nigerians Militricians.

Hypocrisy of Oyinbo stinks to heaven.

After identifying Buhari as a long time terrorist, he still got visa out for some silly Education conference. He will use that to get medical treatment he refused to provide in his country at the cost of equipping or building hospitals that would cater for many.

Yet, his people would justify this.

Goodluck Jonathan could have easily been the best. What a waste of goodwill from all Nigerians regardless of ethicity or region.

What a loss

Well, I thought they were talking about the overthrow of our Government.

No O!

Nigerians call these countries civilized climes. Most of them are worse than Africans. Stop calling yourselves derogatory names. These people are blood suckers and flesh eaters.

General Mark Milley Joint Chiefs chairman worried Trump would attempt a coup.

Africans must remind the outside world that even before Madela and Mbeki skilful hands in South Africa, Western Nigeria was better managed than many European countries and Nkrumah proved that a small African country like Ghana could lead the fight to liberate South Africa. Indeed, if it was not for the mismanagement of Africa by planted Afrikaners and Fulani working for the interest of their cousins in foreign countries, Africa could have been better off.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1093629/south-africans-please-riots-for-one-lawless-loote.html

SOUTH AFRICANS PLEASE: RIOTS FOR ONE LAWLESS LOOTER

Former President of South Africa, Jacob Gedleyyihlekisa Zuma has been in South African politics since 1959 and he was among the 45 activists arrested with Nelson Mandela that served 10 years on Robben Island (Mandela University). Jacob Zuma had violated legitimate laws with impunity several times until the law finally caught up with him.

This is the man some Zulu are ready to die for in the hands of militia, Police and Army? Some former Presidents still command followers. It is why folks say a country deserves the leader they elected. Zuma deserves some respect for his past as an activist. Indeed, no leader is perfect anywhere when it comes to hedonic tendencies or misogyny of culture within culture.

We as Africans have to set some moral standard under which we are ready to go out and fight at the risk of our lives. Ethnic loyalty regardless of the intransigence of a man at the expense and indulgence of his own ethnic group does not deserve our empathy. Africans are not blind and we know when to fight against oppressors, no matter where they come from. We cannot shield a law breaker that refused to pay according to the rules like anyone else.

It is one obvious display of impunity when an ethnic group marginalizes another or some planted colonial groups claim privileges over the natives. But anger, riots and demonstrations at the risk of lives must be justified by moral and legal standards that most reasonable Africans can freely and unashamedly support. Other ethnic groups in South Africa would be asking themselves if this latest riot was based on fairness and justice they can support.

Africans riot when a respectable ethnic leader is treated like a common criminal for no demonstrable offence other than fighting for the Rights of his people. When people are suffering from years of oppression under the Apartheid rule put in place by Afrikaners, we should expect a short fuse to let out years of repressed anger. But this latest riot falls far short of an excuse. Others saw an excuse for criminals to plunge the country into chaos.

Like some European and Asian states that failed based on ethnic, religious and economic injustice, some African states have also failed. Countries that Africa has supported and turned into economic giants through slavery and natural resources are rejecting our Youths by closing their borders or sending them back into the sea and deserts.The harsh poverty in villages, towns and cities turned many of us into economic refugees at home and abroad.

If South Africa fails, where are they migrating to as they did during Apartheid? Even little countries like Belarus and Lithuania which Parliament recently approved the mass deportation of migrants are hostile. These are countries that were the poorest in Europe when many African countries were enjoying comfortable standards of living and Firsts In Western Nigeria where Asians and Europeans came to make a living sending money to families during famine.

So, what is the excuse of African refugees seeking Asylum anywhere? Oh, our corrupt leader that violated laws and abused us was thrown into jail and so we rioted! Africans, if you destroy your own countries, call them all kinds of names because you chose to install corrupt leaders, no country outside your village would allow you to turn their land into the same hopelessness as yours. We must fix your countries and stop rioting for looters you should have banished.

No President or leader, no matter how highly placed is above the law. It is a message we must send to the Youths that those aspiring to be leaders must come with attractive and exemplary character. Any leader elected out of spite will also spite his own people. Zuma was a former President. He should not have generated so much bad blood, not to mention the worst riot since Apartheid era.

South Africa is one of the countries in Africa with the highest Gross Domestic Product after Nigeria. Some people even postulated insultingly that it was because South Africa was managed by the planted white population (Afrikaners) and as soon as Africans took over, it would degenerate into poverty like other African countries. South Africa attracted other Africans until the disadvantaged and angry youths turned against their brothers and sisters.

Leaders like Nelson Mandela and Thambo Mbeki proved most of the pessimists wrong because Africans produced leaders that were capable, better and with more equitable management of all people regardless of race and ethnic groups. After Mandela and Mbeki, Zuma got himself involved in one mess or the other. Even those willing to overlook his shortcoming or immoral behavior have been blinded by his impunity against the law.

Africans must remind the outside world that even before Madela and Mbeki skilful hands in South Africa, Western Nigeria was better managed than many European countries and Nkrumah proved that a small African country like Ghana could lead the fight to liberate South Africa. Indeed, if it was not for the mismanagement of Africa by planted Afrikaners and Fulani working for the interest of their cousins in foreign countries, Africa could have been better off.

Those waiting for South Africa to fail like some other African countries should hide their heads in shame. Their reliable biggest democracy almost failed, nursed a military coup and has not recovered from January 6th riot after the fairest election in the country. Before you point to any country, cure the log in your eyes. As indicated before,every country deserves the leader they elected. We cannot blame just one leader, people elected each one for selfish interest!

Africans are the most tolerant people that have accommodated foreigners where all cultures got along until they took advantage of our generosity turning to enemies within to capture. Their Governments have sent Armies to reinforce their cultures as “guests” within Africa. We now live in a world where the so-called “civilized” people have exposed themselves as worse than Africans when they cannot get their way by the same democracy they preach outside.

Unlike Nigeria, South Africa cannot blame planted foreigners within us for this riot. If anything, this riot embarrasses us as Africans wherever we are. Our distractors have been praying for this to happen to justify their false sense of “superior” culture. How fast do they forget the role of Russia in the Brexit and 2016 American elections, even when internal intelligence warned?

We are not going back to the support King Buthelezi got during the Apartheid days while he was actively working for those that were against South Africa’s self determination interest. The bloodshed was too much to even imagine again. There are many lessons learned from those days. This same Jacob Zuma, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) founder Julius Malema and Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, castigated Buthelezi then.

Who is castigating Jacob Zuma now?

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Fragility6:
Asking us to decide between two idiots? Buhari na disaster wey make goodluck look like saint.

PS; Barrel of oil na 77dollars now n no sign on the economy. Abeg i go pick twenty goodluck

I agree with you.

But how could such a promising prospect as Jonathan squander his goodwill given to him from every part of the country to pave way to a worse disaster?

Nigeria should not have resigned itself to the less of two evils when we elected a minority for the first time that is well educated.

Who deserve more blame Jonathan or Buhari.

The South had the opportunity and wasted it.

Jonathan, with all your potential, you were led by the nose into arrogance and impunity.

See your life?

Well, you are not far from the truth. But poverty contributes more to suicide than wealth.

In Nigeria, some part only care about today since they think God will take care of tomorrow. Even in very cold countries where homeless are forced into shelter, some of them escape shelters and a few freeze to death. Not because they want to commit suicide but because they prefer free living with no responsibility. One even claimed he did not like shelters because it is crowded and smelly.

Another part of Nigeria you may know is where people would rather die trying to be rich or commit suicide. They feel they have nothing to live for and that support your point. The third part of Nigeria, lazy poor people hang unto friends and relatives almost like a parasite rather than commit suicide.

The high number of suicide in Nigeria today is an aberration. Nigerians hardly commit suicide. Some years ago, a suicide bomber was paid to blow off a big building in Abuja with a truck loaded with gasoline. Trust Nigerians then, he put a heavy stone on the accelerator to blow the building off. The truck got stuck.

We don't commit suicide, especially over money we could not enjoy. This was why it was a surprise then that a Nigerian was the underwear bomber trying to blow the plane off in the US. But now suicide everywhere.

Londonboyrep:
I think I know why it’s mostly wealthy people that commit suicide. My analogy is this : most poor people when they are depressed always think ‘if only I had money’ things would be better. The prospect of becoming rich 1 day keeps them from taking their lives. They could win the lottery for example. With rich people,when they are depressed there is always the feeling of hopelessness and its usually about things they cannot change i.e sexuality, someone not loving them back, long term illness or even the thought of becoming poor due to debts.

Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan knows Yoruba well but it took him this long to confirm Yoruba egalitarianism.

When is he going to thank Obasanjo publicly.

Jonathan, a well talented academic, that gave hope from North to South became a missed opportunity.

Mumugu,

By your name, read the topic and move on or come back and read the intro.

mumumugu:
can a good Samaritan summarized

Democracy Day is bigger than one person. Abiola himself was a victim of June 12th after sponsoring a few coups.

Nevertheless, he won votes across the country more than any politician.

Jonathan also did before he messed up but got second most popular votes after Abiola.

Nigeria a country of less evil leaders.

Africans and African Americans delight in tracing their origins to Irish, Portuguese, English or Arab slave masters that raped their great grandmother and sold the children into slavery.

The Hausa do the same especially in West and East Africa. Many bleach their skins make their point.

How many pink colored skins have claimed you, even with one drop of their blood?

Look for your Sudanese ancestors.

All President men on medical visits dying in Europe and America will die at home.

Really missed the days Nigerians were trusted and respected worldwide.

Sometimes wonder if those days would come again.

Africans are honest, dedicated and modest when placed in intercontinental and Trans-African positions outside their own country. It may be hard to believe that if some of the same folks are placed in responsible positions at home, they become looters. It boils down to the fact that they realize they are being watched and would lose prestigious positions if caught with their hands in the cookie jar in a different (sometimes hostile) environment.

https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/298862/african-union-needs-foreign-loan-acceptance-commission.html

African Union Needs Foreign Loan Acceptance Commission
May 22, 2021

The present foreign loans are working against Africa. If we were crawling from the past four centuries with African technology, we would be better than where we are today. The point of the Acceptance Commission is transparency and the economic benefit of loans rather than personal favors to negotiators. Those that are competent and skillful in managing financial transactions must not be influenced by kickbacks but subjected to viability of projects.

Africans are honest, dedicated and modest when placed in intercontinental and Trans-African positions outside their own country. It may be hard to believe that if some of the same folks are placed in responsible positions at home, they become looters. It boils down to the fact that they realize they are being watched and would lose prestigious positions if caught with their hands in the cookie jar in a different (sometimes hostile) environment.

Indeed, those Africans that were suspected of wrongdoing and watched for any misstep came out clean after a probe. Koffi Annan as UN Secretary General and Akinwumi Adesina as the President of African Development Bank were exonerated of suspicious activities. So it is a relief that Africa has produced men and women of impeccable characters for inter-country and international offices in health, law and business. The crooks among Africans have not lived up to or been denied reputable positions outside their home countries.

One of Kwame Nkrumah's ideas was a unified African voice to reject the disadvantageous divide and unfair trade tactics of the outside world. It was Cocoa that Nkrumah tried to use in order to break price dictation by Western consumers; not only by cooperation of African countries but world cocoa producers. They capitulated and let short term pain of the Cocoa Embargo cloud their long term gain to the disappointment of Nkrumah.

Though the Cocoa Embargo failed earlier, the 1972 Arab Oil Embargo worked later and turned oil producers into rich countries on the long run; except African countries that wasted the Oil Embargo windfall profit on individual personal aggrandizement. One country actually used the oil income to buy the worst abject poverty in the world. Unified action against exploitation of resources and manpower does not mean surrender of sovereignty.

If there is anything to learn from Africa's failure to implement development, take care of their people with earned income from natural resources; it is the misuse of foreign loans. African countries so far send their skilled personnel to intercontinental and African Union. There are also international bodies that evaluate the efficacy of international loans, assistance and aids.

There is no reason we cannot have the same bodies in Africa Union, even as a transparent advisory body to expose the realities, conditions and terms of each of these loans.

There is a general fact that Africa is still hemorrhaging resources and income. The solutions for blocking most avenues of loss must come from different angles. Some of those abetting and encouraging the bleeding will present themselves as problem solvers are looking for loopholes to sabotage the system. Otherwise, these problems could have been solved years ago. If anything, Africa has been getting poorer and financial problems getting worse. Some have given up claiming crooked Africans are deft in exploring loopholes.

While it is true that some lenders forgave some debts of the poorest African countries recently, the relatively wealthy countries with attractive natural resources were left out since they have the means to pay back. Though most of them cannot demonstrate the initial projects the loans were used for. This is facetious because lenders have other interests when African countries default. See Easier To Capture With Loans Than Guns.

While Presidents have claimed they are using these loans for projects that will pay for itself expeditiously, we are aware that some Asian countries and China specifically have taken over projects in East Africa in lieu of payments like the repossession of family house or car. This is not only embarrassing, it spells the takeover of African land gradually by outside forces that will use it for their self interest.

The benefits of loans are the same for families, countries and businesses. Generally, we use loans on projects that appreciate in value to benefit us. A family uses a loan to get a car and buy a house. The car enables you to get to work and make money to feed and house the members. A country can obtain loans for infrastructure that enable citizens to be more productive generating income that can be used to pay back.

The same is true of businesses that rely on "other people's money" to generate income, expand to meet demands, employ workers and pay back. African leaders know this. Savings should be used for personal vanities not loans. African countries put their population in jeopardy when they use loans for vanities and pay inflated salaries to live like those they borrow from without comparable productivity or GDP.

The way these loans are piling up on African countries, lenders that dictate the terms of repayment will become the major players in Africa's economic future the same way they did during Slave Trade. It is not different from the ways loans are personalized for individuals. Even the loan forgiveness does not come with nothing in return.

How well are returned African loots laundered abroad utilized? We have cases of African looted funds that have been returned to home countries, only to be re-looted by those waiting to collect. Those handing back stolen funds to the Government after taking out high legal and administrative fees know that they would be re-looted.

Foreign loan has become the Trojan horse in African countries. Most of these loans are Odious Loans since the lenders and the Africans enter into negotiations in bad faith knowing full well that the debtors have no intention or means of paying back. When our African leaders are invited to European, Asian or America Regional Economic Summit; they go cap in hand begging for debt relief. Imagine the face of lenders when looters beg for relief of stolen funds!