You try sha, always trying to educate ignoramus.

[quote auth=Rostikol post=124315977]I’m baffled by the barbarism of Christian rites like the ritual cannibalism of ‘eating the body’ and ‘drinking the blood’ of ‘Jesus’ which you do in your churches every Sunday.

Do you know the roots of such barbaric rites are pre Christianity pagan, occult practices of Europeans?

They all had rituals where they ‘ate’ the body of a deity and ‘drank his blood’ as they believed it boosted their lives by so doing.

This is the barbaric practice you colonised asswipes have brought into Africa and claimed you are worshiping God.

Better go and investigate who you’re really worshiping.

Likely Molech.

Disgusting.[/quote]

The backlash has been brewing for a while. Recruited Asian and a few African doctors are protesting of horrible and hostile work environment in UK.

This is how they value them abroad. When Americans cry that immigrants depressed their wages, this is what they mean. It started with teachers, then nurses and now doctors.

Our doctors are saying they would rather work as happy slaves where they value them as slaves!

AntiZikist:
Ten years ago,the average MD earned over $1mil annually.

But since the greedy small hat tribesmen took over the Medical sector, they lobbied the govt to open borders to cheaper and far less qualified MDs from the third world whose residency in the US was tied to their job employer.

This has seen many qualified and conceintious western trained doctors resigning and going into private practice.

The small hat mafia wants to replace professional doctors with third world pliable doctors.

This should tell us that the small hate tribesmen are about to pull another Covid and are set to get rid of the few dissident doctors for drone third world doctors who dare not question their ongoing genocide ...

May we reap a good legacy from decent reputation during our younger days that money could not buy. His children, families and friends must be very proud of the way old students speak about him.

One may even give him some present

This is another confirmation that once you step out of the land of tolerance and accommodation, anything goes wild, barbaric and uncivilized.

For centuries, Ilorin accommodate and celebrated every religion, foreign or local as it is done in other Yoruba land.

When you fall asleep in the name of tolerance and allow strangers to get comfortable, they take you for granted and a fool ready to give up your birthright.

If it is not Ilorin, it is ORE.

If it is not Ore, it is LAGOS.

There is no reason or common sense in the reason the festival was cancelled other than impunity. Those celebrating and supporting this uncultured behavior have not learned their lessons in Lagos.

Men or women, take good care of yourselves in your younger days. Avoid e xcessive habits. Hard Work does not kill, laziness kills.

Exercise to be in good shape as you get older to be able to care for yourselves. Hoping, expecting, praying and looking forward to spouse or children to look after you are false hope these days. If you are comfortable, save a little, just in case for paid nursing care.

The more you keep yourself in good shape the longer you live without assistance. Remember that your spouse also get older and weaker. This is why older men take younger wives.

But you cannot even rely on that. No matter how good you were to your children, they also have personal responsibilities.

Exercise for and in your old age for longer bodily functions.

Even before Ahmed Baba, YoOba were known as MojiRoba, OmoOba, YiOba o, YioriOba, etc

Too many lexicon about and around OBA to make others see or hear them as YORUBA.

Only Americans use gonna gonna.

Fulani did not name Yoruba, they repeated what they heard the same way as Ahmed Baba before they ever got in contact with Yoruba.

As an ethnic description, the word "Yoruba" was first recorded in reference to the Oyo Empire in a treatise written by the 16th century Songhai scholar Ahmed Baba.

Nigeria is full of talented people North and South. So if we want merit, we can find them in Nigeria. But Nigerians deliberately avoid the best talents because those people are highly independent.

Do not forget how happy we were that for the first time we had Jonathan, a PhD, regardless of area of specialization as the President. The decisions of the highly informed people with a broad mind, give them an edge.

But if your goal is to loot the country silly, you are looking for accomplices more than talents or merit.

Do not forget that we were in a civil war without borrowing a kobo and naira remained one to one and a half US dollars.

Look at how Dora Akinyuli was "promoted" into a mess.

If you refuse to use your talents or if your primary primordial instinct is to get rich overnight, what good is merit or talent?

Focus on discipline and endurance, merit and talents will take care of themselves.

The same Nigerian that will work diligently when sent to other African countries after their Independence or that will work arduously in Western countries because they are watching him to fail;

bring him home, he will turn to a looter!

Zxcvbnmghtr:
"Ashiwaju also pioneered merit in cabinet appointments in particular. I want to emphasize this because a major draw back we have, as a nation, is the way we are blindsided into thinking that we can avoid merit and expect to achieve great things. We simply cannot avoid merit.

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Question: mention one country

Answer: all developed countries

DMerciful:
Again, you dont know the difference between running a society on merit and meritocracy.

You're just confused. All developed countries do things by merit.

Africans are gifted.

No other culture in the world can compete with African cultures. But we are brainwashed to hate ourselves and admire the cultures of Western cannibals.

This question is probably more important than some people might think. It has nothing to do with either Merit or Privilege.

1. Emilokan was an Agreement between them. 2. It was an Agreement within a party to rotate Presidency between North and South.

Now, Orisa37 already know this history but for the benefit of others:

Quota is not a bad word. When it was changed to Affirmative Action, they turned that into a bad word also. Then, it was changed to Diversity. Even that will be painted black in the USA!

This is what we call Federal Character in Nigeria. But impunity of the Fulani/Hausa disregarded Federal Character.

We cannot blame the North alone. The South, specifically South East Alliance (call it Preference) with the North created a precedent for areas like the old Rivers states to ally with the North for fear of domination by Yoruba and Igbo.

Akintola saw this as an advantage for the West to do the same. Awolowo refused, even when he was promised freedom from jail, he insisted on working with the East.

What has Merit go to do with all these? It is simply Preference! A good example was when President Jimmy Carter wanted Black judges. They came back to him and said they could not find Qualified Black lawyers. He retorted in disgust: In the whole of the USA?

It only in Western Nigeria that Quota is enforced in the name of tolerance and accommodation. Nigeria did Quota for the for the North, it turned to impunity. Western Nigeria did it, it turned to impunity and worse, hate.

Compare Obasanjo cabinet to Jonathan cabinet for Merit and Privilege.

orisa37:
Which is EMILOKAN? MERIT OR PRIVILEGE?

This is why you cannot name the country where meritocracy is practiced?

DMerciful:
You clearly do not know what merit means!
You're trying hard to advocate for quota system but ashamed to mention it.

If you say the person that will represent the country in a race must beat 10s, then someone that gets 9.9s is off. So if one person beats 10s and the ones you like made 9.9s, by merit, you give the one that beat 10s no matter how little he made it past the rest

I agree with you. Competence is the key but people have a different goal or objective that push capable people aside.

Look at our country. We have so many competent people but they are wasted because of overriding greed or preference. If Nigerian leaders were throwing darts onto a board, Nigeria could have been a better place.

I like competence much better than merit because competence is demonstrative while merit is subjective because it can be skewed to a goal that benefits those in charge.

joyandfaith:

When there are more people that merit certain positions, privileges come into play. But when people who do not merit those positions get there to the detriment of competent people, that is nepotism. No system is perfect but it is not fair for the system for competent people to be pushed aside.

Praxis758:
Advantage of merit include:
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Replace all that with Discipline and Perseverance. I am with you.

Whenever people want to impose their subjective inclination, they use Merit as cover.

The fact is, there is no country in the Western or Eastern world where Merit is chosen instead of preference.

Otherwise, the geeks could have taken over the world. Each of us know that brilliant kid in primary school that never made it to high school, excellent student in high school that never made it to university.

Then, there is that shy and loner college dropout that created jobs for professors, scientists and artists.

Some people even created IQ tests from their culture only to be beaten at their game by good crammer and paste.

Take the U.S Supreme Court that killed Affirmative Action based on ideologies. Merit indeed!

We must wonder if it is merit when you get into these Ivy League universities because of the legacy of:

Your parents

Donations to the university

Football scholarships

Recommendation from highly placed

Military service as Vets

Anything but race that is still prominent in America.

It is worth noting that one area of agreement between Conservatives and African Americans is that AFRICAN children of looters and Drug peddlers with overwhelming amount of money are the ones crowding out poor African Americans.

The poor Africans cannot even attend good universities in or outside Africa.

The day Discrimination ends in the United States is the day Affirmative Action is no longer necessary.

Clap for yourself!

Corruption in Nigeria is so blatant one would think it is their Right!

I like the low hanging fruits Buhari refused to pluck compared to Tinubu that is trying his best to correct the obvious.

But I do not trust these Western Economists chasing the spoils of wars in developing countries. They got us where we are, in abject poverty, in the first place.

Some of the ignoramus just think it is hip to use the N word. They have not visited the airport or may ha e visited for a few months before deportation.

Bottom line is, it is beeped out by decent media.

One of the champions of Structural Adjustment. Actually, no need to reply you but some people may benefit.

He wants scholarly article to back me up, abi? Those scholars that brought Nigeria down to this point backing Structural Adjustment!

So you do not know that capitalism, socialism and communism are economic theories? Ndo, so na you ai dey argue with.

Come up with a list of countries that escape poverty by trading with it's neighbors?

See me see trouble o. You have never heard about European Economic Union, Canada/America/Mexico Free Trade or Asian Pacific?

Na only God go save us from these educated people o.

Let me bring you closer to a country you may be familiar with. You ever heard of Nigeria?

Nigeria traded and fed most of West Africa and beyond. People come and bought Nigerian pounds one to one and later naira at one and a half American dollars. Nigerian pound and naira we're sold overseas, including London. The Nigerian Government had to punish naira exporters.

Actually, Nigerian Government had to change naira. Some of the privileged Nigerians smuggled naira back home. Your Presidential candidate Atiku as a custom officer tried to stop one of them at the Airport until order came from Oga at the top.

My educated scholar, that is just one country that prospered by trading with it's neighbors.

Capish?

ivolt:


From your topic, I had assumed I will be reading scholarly article on economics of floating exchange.
But I was disappointed, you are appear to be one of those who believes that pan-Africanism and emotional
appeal is an economic theory.
Please tell, what is the benefit of selling crude oil to South Africa over selling it to China?


Before you reply, go and do your research and come up with a list of countries that has escaped poverty by
just trading with its neighbor.
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Many men look at Lara, Oshiomole wife and say I fine pass your husband

You are going to crucified this lady just for saying she fine pass?

There are many fine ladies and men that are not married to desirable partners. Some of us know at least, a few of them.

Biko, leave this lady alone jor.

orohbiro:
I fine pass the wife

The problem with many privileged foreign money millionaires is that they never have enough. Always looking for the next opportunity to launder.

If they are willing to risk jail laundering money overseas, there is nothing they wont do.

How hard is it to understand that Nigeria does not print foreign currencies and can never satisfy legitimate and illegitimate avarice.

Even real business and international corporation that have all the materials they need in Nigeria still apply for forex. Including those that source sugar and water!

oyetpel:


And will the dollars be readily available?
Is dollar our currency?
It's because big influential people store dollars, that's what usually make dollars scarce in the first place.
So, definitely sooner or later, the dollar won't be enough to cater for Nigerians who needs it, which will lead to another black market.

My friend, you have specific problem

Ogene001:
Most of those capital flight happen in yorubaland. They are economic iliterates

Let us be constructive with the new Nigerian Government. So far so good.

We do not have control over foreign investors. They can come, inflate our stock market, take their profits and run.

What we have control over are our African investors, some of the largest in the world. They launder and invest every where but Nigeria.

They are the lion share takers of Central Bank foreign Reserve from foreign income paid for our natural resources. Go after them softly and kindly with incentive.

The amount of foreign income stashed abroad is greater than investment coming in. On top of that is the foreign remittance sent in by Nigerians in Diaspora hijacked with unlimited naira at the black market.

Why do we run after what we have no control over?

Some of you might have seen a East African video going round asking why Africans cannot trade with one another in local currencies.

If you want to buy goods and services in Nigeria for example, exchange and trade with one another without American and European currencies to make local currency strong.

Of course, it is not all but we can make it a significant part of our trade. Our basic needs like food, shelter and paying for families are in local currency.

There used to be a time when foreign currencies were illegal. Special permission was needed for travel. Dr. Shodipo and FELA were jailed for violations.

People actually paid to make our pound one for one. Now that the exchange rate has been destroyed, we are all paying

If you are Yoruba, nobody trained you that way, over honest opinions.

Epistasis:


Oponu ni baba eee

Oponu,

Everything has to be along ethnic lines.

Mention one African country that has ever recovered since Structural Adjustment, you no gree.

Epistasis:
We don hear you... Obidafts as usual, if it was done by Obi you would have hailed the policy!

The policy of floating has been going on in African countries for over 70 years when currencies were backed by gold. Is it not ironic that even Gold Coast currency can be weaker than those of countries where the gold is deposited.

Please, it is not about current policy of the Government, it has been implemented years before this Government.

Ko le wok!

sapele914:
Nigeria is credit worthy of a huge IMF & Paris Club loan.

Float the Naira, it has been done, remove subsidy on petrol, it has been done.

How many African countries have ever recovered from depreciation of their currencies?

When it comes to African currencies, it is how low it will go. It has been to the advantage of western countries to buy our resources at low and lower prices. China and other Asian countries have joined.

Compare that to when the Chinese depreciate their currency to corner the market share for their manufacturing sector. The world go to China, even for covid 19 masks.

Making the same argument for African countries without manufacturing products in demand by outside world is so myopic and selfish of Western trained economists working for their masters and pockets.

When Mugabe got tired of promises and took back their land, it was not an economic decision to turn Zimbabwe currency to toilet paper. Zimbabwe was still rich in natural resources but they cut off demand for all Zimbabwe products depriving them of foreign income.

This is how Structural Adjustment was introduced and our Oxford trained economists and importers of pins and junk bought the wish of their masters. What artificial product is in demand from Africa apart from buying our land and Natural Resources cheap?

Strong African currencies can only come from inter African trade not from foreign trade and tastes after a century.

Can anyone today believe we import garbage sent into high sea looking for buyers, used infected clothes, plastic rice etc.

Africans, our Salvation is within us here in Africa, not in foreign countries. Even the common man that trade on each of these items fight to protect them.