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When African Men are outside Africa, they are just powerless and any lady can take advantage of them, not only African ladies.

White men, called "kill and go" are not so vulnerable to their women or any woman in the Western world. The same respect is accorded to Asian men in Asia.

But when a fish is out of water, anything goes. Just call the police.

Chairman Mao was right. He would rather develop nuclear weapon and stave rather than stave without nuclear weapon. If you do not have nuclear weapon as a deterrent, those with nuclear weapon will nuke you to death than hunger.

This is why North Korea is poor and some people staving but nobody would dare try Hiroshima on them.

I hope some university in the North or South have developed potential nuclear power.

I am making your case, of course. What else do you want?

abbey621:
You're making my case for me, what makes Nigeria great? Which attributes did you observe that makes Nigeria great? Those countries haven't patronized Nigeria heavily since 1980s, Nigeria is a country that has nothing outside of crude oil and human resources. It is a country spending or stealing more than it is producing, a nation of debt and insanity. The country will continue to languish in poverty for the next 100 years due to population alone but that does not mean there are not worse countries out there in terms of poverty!

Though I agree with your rationale, it still does not justify why a great country like Nigeria should linger in poverty for the past 40 years.

All the countries you mentioned used to come to Nigeria to fetch an income for their families the way Nigerians do abroad now. Our politicians plunder and launder more lots abroad than foreign investment and remittance into the country. A leaking basket.

Yet Nigerian importers, most of whom have no finished manufactured goods to export hailed liberal open market no country in the world embrace or practice.

The only time naira was pound to pound to British money and one naira to one and half American dollar was when people go to jail for foreign money violations. Today, money we can't print are legal tender in Nigeria.

Though I agree with your rationale, it still does not justify why a great country like Nigeria should linger in poverty for the past 40 years.

All the countries you mentioned used to come to Nigeria to fetch an income for their families the way Nigerians do abroad now. Our politicians plunder and launder more lots abroad than foreign investment and remittance into the country. A leaking basket.

Yet Nigerian importers, most of whom have no finished manufactured goods to export hailed liberal open market no country in the world embrace or practice.

The only time naira was pound to pound to British money and one naira to one and half American dollar was when people go to jail for foreign money violations. Today, money we can't print are legal tender in Nigeria.

abbey621:
Statistics without context just to fool the gullible. Define poor? You can survive on $2 per day in 9ja but in China it would take closer to $4. There are more poor people in China than 9ja.

To clarify, 10% of Chinese population lives on less than $4 per day, that's approximately 140 million people, Indonesia about 55 million people, India about 80 million. Even in America we have over 40 million people in extreme poverty based on the standard of living.

Don't just spew stats but analyze it objectively!

Look, let us be fair and consistent. The criticism of Woke Soyinka is appropriate no matter where it is coming from. After all, he admitted that much himself.

It could have been more appropriate if he had suggested Ogunde, the Father of Theater in Africa as the one a well deserved honor should be given to.

There are people who deserve these types of honor worldwide. But Nigeria politicians abuse it just to curry favor.

Interesting read.

Unfortunately marred by obsession to replace Ooni of Ife with Ekaladerhan. The dates were just off!

Nice try 🤣

Sometimes you have to wonder why we are getting poorer with so many intelligent people in the Country as in many threads.

Questions like making quick returns on small fortune and "which country can I japa with Bleep naira" show how greedy and impatient many of us are to get rich fast. It also explains the source of the money. If you work hard for the money, you will not be looking for risky returns or risking your life through sea and desert.

Their sources of money are political looting, Yahoo, drugs and rituals.

Unfortunately, most of those with brilliant minds are overshadowed by crooks that give or make high returns. Until we return to our Value systems, with lower priority on get rich quick, our next generation will curse us as we curse the chiefs that sold us into Slavery.
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Sometimes you have to wonder why we are getting poorer with so many intelligent people in the Country as in this thread.

Questions like this and "which country can I japa with Bleep naira" show how greedy and impatient many of us are to get rich fast. It also explains the source of the money. If you work hard for the money, you will not be looking for risky returns or risking your life through sea and desert.

Their sources of money are political looting, Yahoo, drugs and rituals.

Unfortunately, most of those with brilliant minds are overshadowed by crooks that give or make high returns. Until we return to our Value systems, with lower priority on get rich quick, our next generation will curse us as we curse the chiefs that sold us into Slavery.

Actually, our premier universities then were so attractive, students and lecturers came from abroad.

Peacecore:
The government should make Nigerian Universities attractive to foreigners also.

Chei! Instead of crying for Africa, most people are celebrating local dollarized naira. What finished manufactured goods are these Nigerians jubilating selling in foreign currencies?

Meanwhile, America keep printing promised notes that have no backing. China alone can crash American dollars if they dump their treasure bills, which will happen if Americans push them too far.

BRICs and other countries are weaning off the US dollar. Gadhafi got killed pushing alternate currency. African mumu hooked on foreign goods and services are celebrating. Where are you going to get the naira from?

Oh, from bullion vans, burial grounds, file cabinets and wherever moneybags hide their loots.

Dr. Shodipo, Fela and others went to jail for foreign currency. Independence intellectual Activist banned foreign currencies, the only time naira had any weight.

If you open your yash as liberal market, only fools will not bang it die. Do you know of any country with liberal market preached in Africa?
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Chei! Instead of crying for Africa, most people are celebrating local dollarized naira. What finished manufactured goods are these Nigerians jubilating selling in foreign currencies?

Meanwhile, America keep printing promised notes that have no backing. China alone can crash American dollars if they dump their treasure bills, which will happen if Americans push them too far.

BRICs and other countries are weaning off the US dollar. Gadhafi got killed pushing alternate currency. African mumu hooked on foreign goods and services are celebrating. Where are you going to get the naira from?

Oh, from bullion vans, burial grounds, file cabinets and wherever moneybags hide their loots.

Dr. Shodipo, Fela and others went to jail for foreign currency. Independence intellectual Activist banned foreign currencies, the only time naira had any weight.

If you open your yash as liberal market, only fools will not bang it die. Do you know of any country with liberal market preached in Africa?

Since when has salary settled who is higher on the ladder? By that salary, Ooni is four levels below other Oba.

Yes, Oba of Ijebu said they are not Yoruba, they are from Waddai. He might be right on Yoruba because of the recent efforts to unite all. Whatever you call yourselves from West Africa to Diaspora, they all pass through Waddai around Ethiopia.

Even Oduduwa met 40 or so rulers in Ife before him and Ife moved to safer locations a few times too.

How many Yoruba believe that they originated from Oyo?

Most of the misunderstanding came from all Oba (s) trying to elevate themselves as par with the Queen or King of England.

Ooni is a unique title in Yoruba world. It was the Ooni that crowned Oba, the descendants or children of Ife that established themselves over their domains as they moved out of Ife and expanded.

Alafin was a Prince of Ife and Oduduwa that became a powerful General that came to the rescue of Ife and other Yoruba.

Until them Alafin himself was routed and driven out of Oyo by Fulani.

It was Ibadan that later played the role of Yoruba Protector like Alafin. Ibadan save Yoruba by stopping Fulani at Osogbo.

No English word can fully translate into Yoruba. Ooni crowned Oba (Kings). The title of king is below him.

Haba, dis nah bad bele naow!

Euromillion200:
Lies,his longterm wife is the daughter of their former vice president, they got the citizenship based on marriage nothing to do with ancestors.

It should never have gotten this bad. Igbo and Yoruba love one another in those days. No Yoruba kid dare speak ill of strangers among them. They were welcome with open arms: towo tese!

Unfortunately, today, all the "wars" between Igbo and Yoruba is in the West. Why not in the East?

I missed those days of amicable co-existence, not realizing it could only happen in Yorubaland.

American dollar demand fell in Bangladesh because Government curbed money Laundering.

What about my country the "Giant of Africa?"

Highlights:

Bangladesh Bank now buying dollars to prevent taka appreciation
Dollar oversupply due to weak private sector demand, low imports
Forex reserves target: $30B this year, $40B next year
Exporters, remitters losing out due to central bank delays
Cash dollar rate remains high despite interbank rate drop
Banks sell dollars for taka due to liquidity shortage
https://www.tbsnews.net/

Epistle of why the Face of Poverty moved from Asian countries to Nigeria.

A country flowing with Honey and Wara enjoyed by most Nigerians except some areas in the North. Those were the days conscientious leaders that cared about their own people vanished and replaced by those who cared about their own pockets.

It has gone beyond pity, feeling sorry while politicians brag about how rich they are diverting and inflating allocations. Indeed, the least money monger among them, OBJ, though a rogue himself is now looking like a saint.

Cry, cry for Nigeria!

Pure lie to encourage laziness. When you see your mother or father fat, an incentive to double up and not get fat like them.

OboOlora:
So you typed all this rubbish not to advise but to mock Adenuga for his health issues?
God will help you, you forgot no matter how healthy you eat, some weight gain and health issues are hereditary and almost avoidable.

It is very refreshing to see that the views of more Nigerians about rich man being fat with big belly has changed.

How can anyone enjoy his riches when he cannot live long to enjoy it. People live past 80 and look forward to 100 to enjoy their money.

Exercise might look like punishment especially when you are surrounded by househelps, wives or girlfriends doing everything for you. In reality, they are spoiling to death.

Exercise must turn into hobby to live longer especially these days when medications, vitamins and simple blood tests are available.

Choice of food and fruits are important. You can still eat the best food in small portions but at reasonable intervals.

Skinny people that eat a lot make me jealous and mad but most of them just snack on intangibles often.

When General Ihejerika tried to curb the power and atrocities of Boko Haram: Buhari, a former Military President, attacked him for trying to eliminate his people as a revenge for the Civil War. Gen. Ihejirika was ordered replaced, by none other than President Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to appease the Northern Power and Elders. We were not surprised when Boko Haram named Buhari as their preferred negotiator with the Government. In fairness, Buhari rejected the honor.

Oh the Presidency! It is the turn of Hausa since there was none since Tafawa Balewa, Yoruba never had one until Obasanjo was chosen for them as Abiola compensation, Igbo have not tasted power since 1999. Edo, Berom, Tapa, Erik, etc never even tasted Presidency. This is why an Ethnic group fights for one man to become President, knowing full well that the Fulani that ruled Nigeria most, directly and indirectly, have nothing but violence to show for the Northerners.

Africans prefer the political power of one man as long as he is from their ethnic group; rather than economic liberation and empowerment of the masses. The masses must be kept on little economic strings to make them obsequious to leaders. What have the privileged Politicians, no matter the ethnic group that sponsored, fought and voted for them, contributed to their people since Independence except being the Poverty Capital of the world?

Little minds rest on past heroes’ laurels. Instead of elevating the Talikawa, building more institutions and maintaining existing ones to raise the living standards of the poor, they want them idle and available for hire as political and religious terrorists. We wage wars along religious lines. Open your mind, there are more Christians in Iran than in Israel and there are more Muslims in Israel than Christians. Power is toxic regardless of religion, people or country.

PRIVILEGED TERRORISTS OBSESSED WITH POWER NEGLECT AFRICAN MASSES & INSTITUTIONS

Northern Elders Forum’s Prof. Abubakar Jiddere claimed they were “shaken to the Core” after 18 people in Quan-Pan including women and children were waylaid on their way to a wedding. They were hacked, slaughtered and set ablaze in Plateau State. He said: “This premeditated atrocity is not only a crime against humanity but a stark indictment of a nation losing its grip on the most basic duty of governance, the protection of human life.”

Late Adamu Ciroma insisted in 2011 a Northerner must replace President UmaruYar’adua, not Jonathan to avoid chaos in 2011. What you wish for may come back to haunt you. Our Northern brothers are bleeding today the way many of us bled across Nigeria without any help from those elected and paid to protect us. We remember the Governor of Plateau, a former military officer himself, asked his junior officers in power for help, but ignored. Again and again Plateau bleeds.

Many people have wondered aloud why and where was Sule’s crocodile’s cry under previous Administration, especially under IBB or Abacha that denied Abiola his mandate because of threats from Elders, they claimed. Sule said the denial of Abiola's right to Presidency after the Election he clearly won, his Incarceration and death demand compensation. But some of us do disagree with the enormous amount demanded by Sule Lamido for his family. The money could be better used for some institutions that can benefit many of our poverty stricken communities.

We watched in the North as hoodlums were invading Churches, slaughtering Southerners minorities, before graduating to destroying Mosques and their own people for ransom. Nigeria opens the borders wide for Fulani to cross into the country because they are one people not one country. Whenever they are caught destroying families and properties, they are labeled foreign mercenaries in search of the spoils of war. Even worse, some were rehabilitated into the Army!

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https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/353107/privileged-terrorists-obsessed-with-power-neglect-african-ma.html

Bad bele no go kill una.

Give credit to where credit is due. But for Obasanjo and his Administration, the best military Government ever in Nigeria, Nigeria could have perished the way it is going today.

Soludo said it, Tinubu as much as I cannot stand his character, inherited a dead Economy.

Small small boys conjuring statistics from their empty brains.

Bola Ige asked the rich and privileged that first had GSM before Obasanjo liberated or demystified it, why they are bragging with it. When market women and men were using it in Cotonou across the border freely.

omonnakoda:
Obasanjo just happened to be the President at a time when that specific technology came

All this praise singing is ridiculous

He did not invent the mobile phone technology

We do not praise any president for being there when Land telephones, electricity came to Nigeria , When Television came, When Flushing toilets came , when water started flowing from taps, when the motor car came,

These are ubiquitous technological advancements. whose time has come

The only thing that is senseless here is the senseless attacks on Helinues. You guys cannot make constructive criticism anymore. Only personal attacks based on past political loss.

Not too many people take you seriously knowing where you are coming from from. I do not care about helinues, I can criticize him any time I want when he goes overboard but solely on that topic.

Most of you need to get over your pain, by now.

Though the influence Of OBJ and his role was true in reality, think about where they have all led Nigeria to.

Can any decent civilized people celebrate the return of Trump or the Maccabee dance of IBB celebrating his spoils in his book and where all these have led how brilliant brains across the deserts.

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The vestiges of Colonialism are very much alive with us. We keep on reenacting Slavery and Colomentality in various ways. There is no position in the world that Africans have not occupied at home but it is the ones abroad, even that of the head of the dog-catcher that Africans glorify. What is so much of enabling environments outside Africa for Africans working against all odds; waiting for a soft-landing in a strange land at any cost including giving up your fortune or life?

We now have a new wave of Africans who idolize Foreign Salvation as the panacea to all African problems while successful countries in other continents built from within. It is true that there are Africans that succeeded outside their countries after working against all hope. But to hang on to positions in an alien land demonstrates our lack of perseverance in order to cure our addiction to international brandings. So we want appointments as foreign representatives to any country.

Unfortunately, those gullible Africans working against their own self-interest think Foreign or International African employees would not have succeeded at home. This is despite the fact that no African has ever achieved greater success outside than they did inside Africa. Before anyone mentions Barack Obama, they need to read about his American experience at Harvard or even worse, the experience of Secretary of State, late General Colin Powel with the Police.

So, is it the President, General, Billionaire or Inventors status that has never been achieved in Africa by Africans? Decent Africans are willing to do anything anywhere without blemish or stain.The least likely are lazy, criminal or kleptomaniacs who would describes his village, town or country in a derogatory manner but refuses to work hard at home and swear that he could have achieved more but the lack of enabling environment stunted his potential and growth.

On the other hand, there are Africans who remind us that technological transfer is not enough to change Africa as long as we have a leaking basket of corruption supported by kleptomaniacs that drain whichever gain we make. Americans are calling on Japan, China and other Asian countries to pay for intellectual property stolen from them. American intellectual properties as technologies were stolen from Europe. So, where did Europe get their intellectual properties?

What then do we call the intellectual properties of Sudan (Northern Egypt) where the Greeks and the Romans learned? It is true that Africans cannot cry about Slavery in which every continent participated to build their economic base. The Arabs raided Africa for slaves before Europeans. But we cannot ignore the First Papal Edict from Rome that empowered the Portuguese to raid Africa for slaves in order to build the European economic power base of today.

This Papal Bulls of 1452 gave the Portuguese monarchy a secured unprecedented monopoly over slave trade along African Coast, unlike other powers that never enjoyed the same privilege.
African civilization was not in a vacuum. Indeed it attracted other civilizations and powers from Europe to the so-called Middle East until Morocco traced African Kings like Mansa Musa; Queen like that of Sheba home. The Marauders explored African extravagant wealth displayed outside.

We fail to realize that what is crude technology today, when stolen and refined or built on by others in the intellectual circles, becomes the technology of tomorrow. It was not long ago that the Northern Europeans were called Barbarians by the Greeks and then Romans! The Seven Wonders of the world do not command the same awe as the discovery of Nuclear Bomb and their deployment today. The crude power of Mass Destruction controls every country.

This expectation of manna from heaven or reaping where your fathers did not sow induce the expectation that the grass is greener on the other side. It is the reason the middle class and the children of the wealthy class are willing to sell their land, houses and inheritance in exchange for any crude alien culture at any risk to become richer abroad with indignity. More remain honest abroad for fear and the consequences of being caught red handed without godfathers like home.

Some recruiters prefer foreign trained graduates, not because of their rare expertise in Africa but because they lost their rich African cultures, replaced by foreign accents. Even with our superior technical skills, African accents abroad are not enough to qualify you above lower qualified local candidates waiting for you to fall so that they can replace you. But in many African countries, foreign accent is enough to secure a better position than the locals.

Employers and recruiters have used the number of years spent in school for the quality of the professors’ experience. But foreign professors of African studies gain more respect than those in Africa! The irony is that these excuses are not about science students alone but for art, political and religious graduates as long as they are from foreign universities. They command more respect than local science professors.

However, employers in foreign countries insist on local experience abroad, even for a cleaner’s position. Our acquired preferences for foreign made and trained did not start today. While some of us are shaking it off, the vestiges of inferiority complex remain. This is why we have not produced world renowned engineers since Carter Bridge in Lagos was built without local university graduates as trainees or apprentices.

The rush to study abroad, even in African studies, sending our children abroad for the sake of “good” education are nothing but fallacies that rob us of our good cultural heritage. If you visit the same children abroad, they want you to adapt to their foreign training like ordering parents to move and wash their own plates. Even those that join local politics abroad, stand against migrants from their own continents to gain privileges or attain better political positions.

Seriously, what is the benefit of sending youths like Kemi Badernoch, the new Conservative leader or Dele Ali, the soccer player that rejected his parents abroad;Toni Iwobi, originally from Nigeria, that said his election for the League in Italy shows the far right party has no problem with ‘legal migration”. One Nigerian-born Canadian Kelechi Madu alias Kaycee Madu became the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Alberta, of one province in Canada. They are examples of miseducated spoiled African brats lost to “good education “ abroad.
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Anonimi,

I know you know better than this unless someone stole your avatar.

Who told you anything is free unless you steal or loot it. This is what Nigerians are looAnonymity, in Japajatis. Running to where neither them or their father worked and paid for their children.

Unless your want to reap reparations of slavery.

Anonymity, you know better.

anonimi:
And this will automatically make Yoruba land, Nigeria and all black Africans like British citizens who have free basic education, free basic healthcare, 24/7 electricity and water etc?

Or what else will be the direct impact?

All these to your elder for supporting your comment.

Anyway, what did Ribadu get after returning 419 money to the US? Usually, they give a percentage of recovered money back. But not to Ribadu!

YoungLionken:
Only nincompoops make/commit the error of hasty generalization fallacy. Let me believe you're not one...

True son of your parents shows how you were trained. It is the fault of others never yours.

YoungLionken:
I'm only responsible for what I write, not what you, your father or mother choose to understand...