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Fear To End Economic Exploitation Is Not About Saving Christians

When have World Powers come out to defend the Economic Interest of the African countries? As they think about Africans, it has always been about economic subjugation. Their ways of getting free resources and free workers is to cheapen what they see as products so that they can take it at bargain base price. If they don’t have their way, Gunboat Diplomacy of Mass Destruction to bomb you into ashes and reduce your country to rubble is their weapon!

The radical extremists pushing or trying to choose religion for any African country are only looking for ways to destabilize and polarize the country along religious lines. These are not serious Christians themselves. They do not belong to or attend any church but are quick to misinterpret their own Bible to justify Slavery, abolition of Civil Rights for women and minorities and roll back gains made by progressive sectors upon which their country triumphs.

It is very difficult to believe that a reasonably constituted authority in the world would dictate to an African country today which religious laws to proscribe. How have you succeeded in China or Afghanistan? Though Nigeria adopted British ways from the Era of Roman and Judeo-Christian laws, Sharia laws are not the problem in Nigeria. Sharia applies to the Talikawa but hardly to the rich Muslims. Otherwise, many hands of Northern political kleptomaniacs could have been cut!

People are very conscious about their very existence and are willing to take help from anywhere for preservation. Most of the time a helping hand always has a price in the face of existential threat. We cannot condemn those who feel so threatened that they become desperate for any salvation, even from the devil, believing that a temporary relief is better than none. Christians are crying for help but so are the helpless Muslims, facing a real impending blackmail massacre.

The blessing in disguise of the threat of foreign invasion is that the Nigerian House finally came together to discuss openly without fear, an agreement on combating Boko Haram sponsors and enablers terrorizing communities throughout the country. One would think this is the first time they become aware of members and sponsors of Boko Haram. Of course, the negotiators are political bandits who hold folks to ransom in order to extort as much money as they can get.

The silver lining is local Police and local vigilantes have become real again, now supported in the North and South of the country. These have always been a difficult sticking point since some powerful politicians and retired Generals want central control so that they could spill military intelligence and call off the Military and Police defenders; whenever sponsors and members of Boko Haram are about to be incinerated as the USA did. There is no way terrorists can become so bold to parade themselves openly with impunity, unless they have backers in the high places.

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Oh gosh, not from you.

I hope none of your children is involved.

Salewa97:
The person wey write this no get any meaningful work to do.

Why are children of Farouk Armed in expensive schools abroad, Expensive Car Racers killing innocent bystanders in Kaduna Port Harcourt, Lagos and Seyi Tinubu protected by a battalion while Nigerians watch in dismay?

They will generate Protests for their parents on the streets like other countries with the huge Forex laundered to pamper them.


https://www.modernghana.com/news/1458912/forex-laundered-abroad-for-miseducation-of-nepo.html

FOREX LAUNDERED ABROAD FOR MISEDUCATION OF NEPO YOUTHS

Many Africans and their parents want their Youths well educated, no matter where. Before African parents were sending money to their children abroad, African students had to go during the day to colleges, work nights and weekends to pay for school fees, rooms and food. When scholarships and loans became available, the Central Bank also facilitated remittance for a few students. This has opened the door for abusers and looters to drain African foreign Reserves.

There was a time Africans needed education in foreign countries because of fewer reputable universities in Africa. Most of our Freedom Fighters and Activists obtained their education in foreign countries and returned home to contribute and share their knowledge. If you qualified abroad in those days and did not come back home after graduation, people said you wanted to kill your mother with grief.

Unfortunately, at the expense of the schools and colleges neglected at home; they suffered. It later became a status symbol for rich parents to send their children to schools abroad. Other parents with little or no money followed the trend looking for foreign currencies anyway and anywhere by hook or crook. It led to looting and cornering every allocation by politicians for money laundering abroad. After all, getting into politics is the easiest way to make money.

Attracting foreign students, sometimes to mediocre schools, became big business abroad. African countries are the place to recruit students to developed countries because they believe any school or college abroad is better than schools at home. Though there are better and more reputable universities in Africa. Since the western governments are restricting visas to foreign students, many schools abroad are now laying off professors and eliminating programs.

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When it comes to religious tolerance, you cannot mention Yoruba and other Nigerians in the same sentence or lump Yoruba worldwide with other ethnic groups, no matter which country they are. Please if anyone know any group's tolerance apart from Yoruba, please educate us.

Generally, I agree with you. The post is not denying the success of some Nigerians in Nigeria or some success of Blacks in America. Of course there are successfully Nigerians in Nigeria, though Structural Adjustment has wiped out middle class.

In America,Blacks succeed against all odds. Indeed, it is easier for American Blacks to succeed outside America including in Nigeria than it is for Nigerians. Why do you think foreigners say Nigeria is a good place to make money?

loffyloffy:
I'm not sure what you mean by 'Black American,' but it's not true that Nigerians only succeed when they're outside their country. The richest Black person in the world is Nigerian, and he didn't inherit his wealth; he made it in Nigeria.

Lots of Nigerians have found success in their fields while still living in Nigeria.

In fact, most people who've found success in Nigeria generally don't move away; it's the ones who are struggling who see migrating as a do-or-die situation.

You've got Linda Ikeji, Seun from Nairaland, and the founders of the new fintech companies—they stayed in Nigeria and made it big.

And not everyone who goes abroad ends up successful, you know.

MILITARY RULE EXACERBATE COLONIAL MENTALITY IN AFRICA

If military rule cannot liberate Africa from vestiges of colonialism, what could? The Activists and Independence Fighters fought and courageously gained Political Independence but Economic Independence still eluded them. Structural Adjustment that Buhari rejected and Ibrahim Babangida accepted reveal the beginning of the end of local Economic Salvation. It gave birth to Foreign Economic Salvation and the rise of Japa flight to foreign countries in Nigeria.

Despite the effort of Herbert MacCauley, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello in West Africa, Jomo Kenyata, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabi, Patrice Lumumba in Central, East Africa. Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Steve Biko, Nelson Madela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Joe Slavo, Albert Lutuli in South Africa and others. African countries lost their balance and have never regained control sixty years later.

We cannot categorically state that the worst form of Civilian administration is better than the best form of Military rule. But Africans can now discern clearly whether Civilian administrations or Military rules made our countries better or worse off. The reason many Africans cheered military coups is because we thought civilian administration was so corrupt, nothing could be worse. Well, the Army has demonstrated that they come from the same culture of greed.

The idealistic goal of the First military coup in Nigeria never materialized because of ethnic betrayal. Military rule in African countries was our greatest disappointment. It erased the progress made by Freedom Fighters and introduced impunity by armed robbery. Nigeria that was supposed to lead as the so-called Giant of Africa collapsed under the military rules with devastating consequences for the rest of Africa.

Everyday Nigerians are reminded of their mistakes and reliance on the Military Force to solve all or most of our problems. All the military leaders with good intentions from Kaduna Nzeogwu, Murtala Muhammed, Buhar-Idiagbon and Obasanjo either were usurped or derailed out of personal ambition, greed or coverup of misdeeds of enormous proportion.

The recent encounter between the Abuja Administrator and a Lieutenant in the Army pointed to the vestiges as a reminder of how far Nigeria has stunted into the colonial past that trained our Army to plan coups and usurped legally constituted authority of elected government. What is even more damning was the cheers from some masses praising and encouraging the same way we cheered when the Army overthrew Civilian governments. An anomaly labeled courageous!

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Have you ever asked yourself why Black Americans succeed no matter which country they go to but not in their own country? If Nigeria turns to Paradise, some people will still japa. Most of the Nigerians that japa, claimed they do it because the society is dysfunctional. What most of them do not admit is that there is no dignity for a Black man no matter where they japa to.

Talking about a dysfunctional society, Africans are yet to confess to one another that outside Africa, all the places they glorify are dysfunctional for a Black man no matter how rich you are. Ask General Powell and President Obama, the two most prominent Americans about their encounters on the streets with police.

Hearing gun shots at night, police siren and ambulances are world poor communities common denominator. Yet, some of them would not leave their community for better areas. Life expectancy in the rural areas with poor whites and in the ghettos with poor Blacks are no different from those in the third world countries. Canadians japa to America to make money until they find out that there is more to life than money.

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Yes, Lt. Yerima is a fine soldier and Mr. Wike is famous for being a brute. Does that justify disobedience to a civilian authority?

Nigerians are so narrow minded, they will quote the Supreme Court to justify their uncivil order and military law to justify a disgraceful behavior.

In the First place, who could have obstructed El Rufai as Federal Capital minister or Okonjo Iweala as Finance Minister under the Civilian Administration on Obasanjo?

Decades on, as the UK marks Remembrance Sunday to honour those who contributed to the war effort, the sacrifices of many Kenyan soldiers, like Mr Ing'ati, remain unrecognised.

The world knows little of their service and they were not formally commemorated in the way their white counterparts were.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2e89eqnvo

Not only Kenyans, all Africans at home and in Diaspora. Yet, gullible Africans are in jubilation of Nigeria invasion by the same people.

This is not the first time a striving or successful African community has been vanquished in the history of the world. Right from the time the Papal Bull of 1452 issued by Pope Nicholas V granted Portugal the right to capture and enslave African people along the West African Coast by the Portuguese. Then there was the Scramble for Africa by colonial brutes in the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.

It did not end there, the British used Protectorate Power to impose their will on Africans from South to East Africa, recruiting Africans they had captured to fight other African entities that were far advanced and more cultured than them but without the killer instinct of war mongering. They ran down the Zulu, Ashanti, Bini, Yoruba and others under the pretext of refined “culture” and Christian religion as if the African did not have their own religion. Even successful African businesses in their communities like Black Wall Street, were vanquished under unsavory pretext. Buffalo Soldiers were denied compensation in the USA and Unregularized in Britain.

Africans still remember how Patrice Lumumba was overthrown and how Kwame Nkrumah was labeled corrupt by the most corrupt countries of the world. When they think of Africa, they see cheap or free labor and exploitation of natural resources. So they create chaos, war or sponsor terrorists only to declare war on them later. Either way, destabilization to cart away rare metals is the ultimate goal.

Here they come again: VID-2025115-WA0002.mp4. We can clearly see here that some of the so-called terrorist organisations were created and financed by the US. Did Boko Haram inadvertently get USAID funds in Borno, the North East of Nigeria?

How much credibility do they have left that allow gullible Africans to believe those who faked nuclear enrichment in Iraq or Libya but would not dare a small country like North Korea. If they are looking for where Christians are persecuted, let them dare China. There is a penchant for invading small countries like Grenada where they could make quick exit and declare victory. But after they were bucked down in Vietnam and Afghanistan, maybe or not they learned a lesson

WHO LOVES NIGERIA: FOREIGN INVASION THREAT MAYBE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

Did you hear about the threat made against Nigeria, the most populous individual Black nation on mother Earth? Africans usually say Nigeria is too big to fail because of the number of refugees that would be displaced outside. Not even those threatening Nigeria would take their refugees. Indeed, they are sending Nigerians with legally obtained visas back and reviewing or recalling the green card holders.They could care less if Nigeria becomes another Libya!

What and who has forsaken the Africans? Nigeria managers intentionally ignored available technology in their possession that can track and calculate how much natural resources, money and people are going out or coming in. So that the country can remain either their Cash Cow without accountability; or forfeit their country’s sovereignty to Foreign Salvation and God. But nothing can stop them from looting, even if it takes making a deal with the devil.

If Nigeria cannot be used as a Cash Cow within, it must be destroyed by any means. It does not make a difference how: Some, luckily not most, either pray for foreign invasion by Christian Crusade or Muslim Jihad. Patriotic Nigerians and Africans are tired of religious violence that invades Africans' peaceful coexistence, violated by Explorers, Christian and Muslim converters with dwindling followers in their own countries since the days of Papal’s Bull in 1452 that granted Portugal the right to capture and enslave African free labor.

Most Nigerians agree that they would resist any attempt to invade their Country unless the Power that be seeks their cooperation, as Nigeria cooperated with many countries on terror, drugs, Yahoo boys in the past to neutralize some unsavory elements that kidnapped citizens or destabilized different communities. This, regardless of their religion, creed or ethnicity. Some have conveniently forgotten the role of Nigerian Soldiers around the World Peace Missions.

If they are serious about religious tolerance, they have a great deal to learn from Western Nigeria, the world’s most tolerant religious community. The Nigerian President is willing to work with them as Nigeria did during the rescue of Phillip Walton in 2020 by all Forces that included the United States Navy Seals. The US Mission in Nigeria that coordinated logistic details locally thanked the Government of Nigeria for its partnership and support during that Rescue Mission. Americans have the capacity to be diplomatic and smooth in their operations if they want to.

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Do you know that 70k has been killed because they are Christians, where and when?

Ask yourself how many Muslims have been killed and how many Igbo have been ordered killed by Kanu.

Hypocrites!

Go to China and defend Christians.

SarkinYarki:
Show us anywhere 7000 christian have been killed in one year ....

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Farouk Martins Aresa writes about Yoruba religious tolerance, highlighting its existence despite the presence of Christianity and Islam within Yoruba communities, citing examples like interfaith families and the mutual coexistence of churches and mosques.

He suggests this tolerance stems from their
philosophy and trading culture, which fostered an open mind to new beliefs, and emphasizes that this approach contrasts with more rigid religious environments in other parts of the world.

Interfaith coexistence: Aresa notes that churches and mosques are often situated side-by-side in Yorubaland, and interfaith families are common, such as a Muslim father and Christian wife who supports his fasting during Ramadan.

Philosophical basis: He points to a Yoruba belief, "A father's religion doesn't automatically mean salvation for the offspring," as a key reason for their open-mindedness toward other religions.

Cultural influence: Aresa posits that the Yoruba people's history as traders played a role in their embracing different faiths. Their culture encourages an open mind and willingness to encounter and accept new beliefs.

Contrast with other regions: Aresa contrasts Yoruba tolerance with the religious conflicts seen in other regions, suggesting that the Yoruba model offers a path to peace and unity. He argues this model is particularly relevant for addressing intolerance elsewhere.

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AI Overview

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Farouk Martins Aresa writes about Yoruba religious tolerance, highlighting its existence despite the presence of Christianity and Islam within Yoruba communities, citing examples like interfaith families and the mutual coexistence of churches and mosques.

He suggests this tolerance stems from their philosophy and trading culture, which fostered an open mind to new beliefs, and emphasizes that this approach contrasts with more rigid religious environments in other parts of the world.

Interfaith coexistence: Aresa notes that churches and mosques are often situated side-by-side in Yorubaland, and interfaith families are common, such as a Muslim father and Christian wife who supports his fasting during Ramadan.

Philosophical basis: He points to a Yoruba belief, "A father's religion doesn't automatically mean salvation for the offspring," as a key reason for their open-mindedness toward other religions.

Cultural influence: Aresa posits that the Yoruba people's history as traders played a role in their embracing different faiths. Their culture encourages an open mind and willingness to encounter and accept new beliefs.

Contrast with other regions: Aresa contrasts Yoruba tolerance with the religious conflicts seen in other regions, suggesting that the Yoruba model offers a path to peace and unity. He argues this model is particularly relevant for addressing intolerance elsewhere.

Easier to do inside Africa than when a fish is out of water.

Foreign police will subdue you!

EmperorIsaac:
A true Nigerian man will not be emasculated by any soul!

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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