₦airaland Forum

What?

They are protesting Muslim/Muslim Ticket Again!

Yoruba do not care whether you are Hindi or Krishna.

OP, may God bless you abundantly and the person you copied it from. The bunch of useful fools that have brought this country to its knees will never get it.

You see, when a dog wan loss, e nor dey hia whistle.

slowice:
You wrote this epistle just to embarrass yourself. Smh

Before you lease, since there are no sale, make sure you perfect your transaction with head of family and government. Otherwise you are squatting.

Most of these buyers look for poor disgruntled members of the family that is looking for stomach infrastructure.

All Nigerians do it to get a piece of the Rock.

Did I miss Burudi, Kush Kush, Igbekere glowing with red palm oil and Adun elepo.

BBC is reporting that ECOWA States unified on no option is off the table.

illicit:
It is ECOWAS

West Africa is not part of West African States?

NIGER BEWARE: BARBARIAN INSURRECTIONISTS DISGUISE AS SAVIORS

The Niger military junta must be left guessing if ECOWA is going to invade or not. Right now, there are more African countries under civilian rule than military rule. Economic sanctions from each of them against Niger is more effective than war, but must always be an option on the table. War is less productive because it is a double edge sword. Any strong man, no matter how ambitious, should not impose his will on the whole country.

May African God forbid another proxy war in Africa generally and the Niger Republic in particular. ECOWA is struggling to find a solution to an age-old problem in African countries. There has been advice from different schools of thought on how best to handle the problem immediately. Whatever side you are on, the consensus should be discouraging the junta in Niger before this aberration of forced rule spreads to other African countries.

We were warned about the dangers of Communism and Capitalism which have been hijacked by those nationalists who appeal to our primordial instinct of greatness. They point to many discrepancies in society to justify their insatiable greed for power. It varies from immorality they themselves engage in, religious intolerance to anger against “lazy Youths”, the poor and those dispossessed getting a breathing chance called welfare.

Imperialism has no special doctrine order than their penchant to get cheap resources and labor. It is true that Russia has come to Africans’ side when fighting Western colonialism. But we must be careful when the same savor asks for a little less than a ton of flesh. We must keep our eyes open when crying. Nigeria asked Russia for the Ajaokuta Steel Plant because Western countries refused. The Steel Plant has been in a coma for about half a century!

The role of the ECOWA has been complicated by at least three countries backing the Coup plotters in Niger, lining up behind Russian support of coup plotters Putin discouraged at home. Soldiers know that they could not get elected to government by votes, so seized power to rule without knowing what they were getting into except to give orders as they do in uniform. African military promise what they are not trained for or know how to accomplish.

It should have downed on Africans that the Military has no magic wand to solve any problem, no matter how well intentioned they were, like when the Military first struck in Nigeria. Soldiers and Police are allowed to use force to subdue unruly elements in the society. Unfortunately, some of them become brutes. Like the Military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso supporting Niger coup plotters. They divide themselves into regular Army and Presidential Personal Militia.

It is not that different from a country with the President's personal militia guards and the country's Army. This actually backfired against President Putin in Russia. In most societies, there are incongruous one third looking for a cause to champion and use to dominate the rest of the two third. Like the Europeans, soldiers succeed themselves, hand over to their preferred candidates or ethnic group when forced to, after destroying their own countries.

The spread of the greed for power and money grab into Africa consciousness, has devastated the developing prospects of Africa. They want to control every institution of government by their whims and caprices. While it is true that liberal democracy has been replaced by the hypocrisy we see in the Western world and rigging everywhere in the name of the people, the silent majority are still the sanest until they are pushed to the wall.

Surprisingly, this aberration to impinge on the freedom of ideas and votes have crept up into liberal democracy as well after rejecting their preference for democracy that represents the will of the people. Even the most powerful democracy is still fighting for its normal way of life after tolerating and electing a power hungry dictator like Germany's Hitler. They always start as little nuisance the silent majority ignore.

World autocracy, dictatorship and theocracy are the surreptitious powers used to enforce a greater grip on society in the name of the useful ignoramus demonstrating in their support; conveniently labeled “support of the masses” to reestablish kleptocracy and serfdom. They start as bodyguards, political thugs and vigilantes until they consider themselves strong enough to seize power.

These Barbarians are back in full gear around the world. Liberalism and Democracy are not working for them, so they grab the bull by the horns. They are militias creating mob actions, confronting migrants and enforcing sit-down at home orders not only at Capitol Hill in the United States but locally around the world.

Their goal is to capture as much as possible before the silent majority realize that they have been caught flat footed in their slumber. No matter what we think about the United States insurrectionists, their Election purged their "undesirables" and extremists that labeled those fighting for civility and their Human Rights extremists.

One of the common economic policies of the rich all over the world and Africa in particular is to pay as little back as they can: into the society, into the common purse as taxes. They pay little wages and raise the taxes paid by little people. Yet, the loudest cry comes from the rich about government spending on the poor, working and middle classes. More money must be left in the honeypot for them to steal. We call some of the Army Generals “militricians”.

Some are even activists at one point but once people start getting rich from favorable contracts, the excessive retail prices paid on food to medication by working and middle classes, they become rich conservatives hiding their profits offshore away from fellow Africans. Remember, only little people pay taxes for the benefit of the rich since they enjoy the little infrastructure and security officers more than the common man.

Source: https://www.modernghana.com/news/1249827/niger-beware-barbarian-insurrectionists-disguise.html

Tingotoe:
I studied abroad for free and the education I got is better than anything that obtains in Naija. Free education doesn't necessarily mean poor education

They taught you how to speak in tongues, renounce your culture, disrespect your parents, Elders and look down on the whole Continent.

Las Las, even in Nigeria, they taught you how to falsify your local and overseas degrees so that you can loot your country and Central Bank dry in order to launder money back to them.

Anofia, clap clap for yourself.

UNIFICATION OF AFRICAN CURRENCIES WILL INCREASE ITS LOCAL VALUE

Africans traded with one another before the arrival of the Europeans. Trade by barter was the world's most common form of exchanging goods and services, locally and across the seas. Cowries replaced trade by barter. Later, coins and gold replaced cowries. The way to strengthen African currency is to increase its buying power within our big population. What we are doing right now is weakening each African currency with euro and US dollar exchange to trade with one another.

Illogically, we are making foreign currencies our common currency. Once we have our one currency, there will be an adjustment period since some countries think their currencies are worth more in value. This is based on the amount their currencies presently exchange for in overseas markets. If Western and Eastern Germany had relied on that notion, there would have been no currency unification there. Currency by itself has no value, it is only when price is put on goods and materials that we come up with currency worth.

People forget that American dollars became the dominant world currency as a means of exchange because Europeans, their cousins and financial partners transfer the power from Pounds to their Dollar. Before then, we had to labor hard to get cowries as the means of exchange for our goods and services. After cornering African gold into their vaults but could not get enough to back their currencies, gold standard was abandoned.

Western world started printing pretty papers without gold backing and made it available worldwide in exchange for their Treasuries, Futures, goods and services. Devaluation worked so well for China, Western countries cried foul! Countries devalue their own currencies to boost demand for locally manufactured goods and services. Reducing the cost of a country’s exports makes them more competitive on a global scale as a member of a trading block.

Imports become more expensive, discouraging consumers with foreign tastes. While Western countries may weaken or devalue their currencies slightly to boost their exports, African countries have no artificial or finished goods that are allowed to enter their markets except cheap raw materials which are sold at the price foreigners dictate.

Even when President Obama was able to allow some African products into the market, AGOA regulations only allow a few in. Indeed, most of the food products allowed into their market rot before clearance. This creates double losses of depriving African exporters of income and limiting available food at home; setting local food prices higher and unaffordable to the poor.

If Africans are forced to purchase goods domestically at a lower price, the increase in domestic spending is supposed to stimulate money circulation within one’s own economy. As exports begin to increase with local production of finished manufactured goods and services, there African and foreign markets to sell into. Due to cheaper prices at home for domestic consumers and high imports prices, it ultimately decreases trade deficits. Unfortunately, a country that shunned its domestic production in preference for foreign imports burns itself from both ends. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/devaluation/

If African countries had unified currencies and traded with one another primarily before outsiders, it would have been more difficult to pick on each country one by one to destroy our economy. The Western countries are even going further into social issues that are not acceptable in their own countries, threatening economic sanction unless they dictate to Africans who they can marry. We have to ask Africans after colonization, religious and cultural conquests, where does it end?

It was many years ago when the Nigerian pound and naira were traded in African countries and overseas. The Nigerian Government had to change its money by a certain date to discourage selling naira overseas. The big boys hurriedly brought back their naira into the country for exchange to the new notes. Before then, there was a Civil War, Nigeria did not have to borrow its way through. When Naira was introduced in 1973, it remained one to a dollar and a half US dollars.

Foreigners branded pop culture from Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley to Michael Jackson; cars, clothing and ammunition. It worked so well, even Japan became rich on automobile exports. The Asians who Americans thought could not make luxury cars came out with Acura, Infiniti, Lexus, Mazda, and Genesis worldwide. These are exports trading in American dollars. When the American Auto Workers revolted against Japanese made cars, Japan started building automobile plants in the United States blurring the preference for local and imported cars!

Divide and rule is not a new phenomenon, it has always been used to disrupt and gain upper economic advantageous relationships. Individual African currencies are not the exception. Every country in Africa has been manipulated through its currency. The only sin Zimbabwe committed was demand that promises after promises be kept on land reforms. The Zimbabwe dollar has become almost useless. Developing countries should not float their currencies https://hal.science/hal-02432744

Awards bestowed on Mugabe to postpone land reform could no longer work unless Mugabe wanted to risk the anger of his people. It is obvious that Western and Asian countries have dominated the exports of finished goods in artificially manufacturing goods like plastics, used goods and garbage into African countries. This enabled the Western world to determine how much to pay by manipulating exchange rates that put African currencies at the lowest trading currencies in the world.

Until the early 70s Oil Embargo, Africans had no say in the determination of prices of overseas goods and materials since foreigners also determine the prices of our goods and materials which they buy cheaply at any price they want. Consequently, with foreign currencies the flow of trade is limited within Africa and exploded with countries overseas whose currencies we use.

Unfortunately, covenants of goodwill play a crucial role on how labor, goods and material are determined in disadvantageous relationships between stronger and weaker partners. Kwame Nkrumah had tried Cocoa Embargo well before the Arabs, but it failed because some African and South American gave up. Embargo worked when the Arabs with a few developing countries held on and were able to determine the price of their natural resources.

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Spoiled brats, poor Nigerians are shortchanged for your rich parents to source foreign reserve from Central Bank to pay for you. Meanwhile, poor children are doing any jobs, going to school and still send money to their poor parents.

Bunch of robbers. Money that should be spent on Nigerian universities.

Paulyaweh:
This part i support.
Why should government subsidize your schools fees.
If you can't pay the fee at open market rate then you shouldn't be schooling where you cant afford.

Form A, PTA, Subsidy on trips to mecca and Israel should all be stopped.
If you can't afford dont pass the cost to Nigeria

Even if the girl is desperate, is this the way you treat a fellow human being?

Since we treat one another bad, we expect foreigners to treat us better. No wonder Arabs circulated pictures of Nigerian girls opening their mouths for shit. Just for US100.00 bill.

International appointments are the ultimate dreams of Africans because they refused to move their countries forward.

The irony is they are smart enough not to steal a kobo while on international appointments.

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!