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He Jonathan has set a standard the drug convict can not match.


Jonathan show that education is kept to building. A sustainable nation

Honestly keyamo is a daft.

You call insecurity, kidnapping, terrorism progress.

Nigeria is dying slowing we need innovative, honest, good leaders to bring Nigeria out of APC mess.

almayda:
Under your nose,are you seen as a leader in your house?

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Sanwo Olu Tinubus house boy can not call OBASA to order. Don't compare a man that was elected to a man that was selected.

Tell tales of a thief.

That reminds me of Sanwo Olu dissing Peter Obi.

Sanwo Olu should be ashamed of himself under his nose the Lasg assembly did not see him as a leader to go to. Butt a house-boy doing Tinubus chores.

Welcome to the meat grinder.

ledaman:
Am not a Christian, but you are not being fair with this your statement to the African Christians.

Do you know how many times cele pastor or cherubim&sheraphim prophets were arrested for human sacrifice.

Browse nairaland for cele or C&S pastor arrested for rituals you weak.

nairalanda1:
Even then, don't hate your race

I don't hate my race but my race hates me.

Russia keeps wasting their time no amount of friendlies can put them back into the FIFA games.

What a shame 😔

nairalanda1:
Well anyone who has reached cardinal level can't be a pagan at all. Kind of disqualifying.

You know only yourself and not the other. we are living in a crazy world.

A black man can not be pope because black Africans as a whole are not emancipated.

A black man as pope will bring his tradition into the papal office.

Be sure rituals and ritualist and native doctors will start to thrive.

The way leadership is done in Nigeria is an example.

This write up reminds me of a similar incident, A Nigerian student wanting to study in Cape varde he was deported because they said his yellow card looks like a fake.

Cape vardeans are extremely racist, many of their women fall for white American men that will always jilt them, they respect anything white skin

Aside the high number of mulatos and beautiful beaches there's nothing there.

Lol minding your business. Then someone proposed an offer you know sounds fraudulent.

I hope this is one of those skits Nigerians make if not you're going to suffer double.
Long jail term and deportation.

Don't rush to conclusion yet, that was how they said Obi has no polical structure. Obi will be online president. Yet Obi put his critics to the sword by beating the boudulon drug addict silly.

Social media can't win election but real people can. These are the hungry, poor, out of jobs, ethnic blind, enlightened Muslims and Christians. People that stand for uprightness.

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Every nation is trying to copy trump India 🇮🇳 first

I. Don't know the purpose of this visit. SA is Russia ally,

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Shame on you sheriff for being a lap dog.

That's why China is rich and Nigeria is poor. Two nations that achieved independence almost the same time.

But in Nigeria there's no principle. For money and sex. A Nigeria man can kill his mother for worldly things.

Only a northern alliance can kick that drug sniffing, tribal bigot, certificate forger and mandate Thief, fraud out of Aso Rock..

I'm so loving the Northern vibes. The same method tinubu used against Jonathan will be applied unto him.

I hope that other Indian hemp addict. Sowore can see how to build opposition.

Coming at a time, when impunity is rewarding. I hope you're not going to the Dracula party.

APC is darkness and Tinubu is their god. Tinubu have used the judiciary to scatter opposition parties even the judiciary is now in disarray.

Rwshd:
Instructive read!

Thanks for the read. Hope our so called leaders can read this too.

By.
Dakuku Peterside



China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 decision to “open the windows” and let the world’s capital know-how to blow in. In Nigeria, the same decade ushered in the oil boom that encouraged governments to depend on volatile export rents rather than the hard grind of production.

Nearly half a century later, the contrast is stark: China ships $3.58 trillion worth of merchandise each year to the US, runs the world’s biggest high-speed rail and electricity networks, and has reduced extreme poverty to the low single digits, whereas Nigeria still relies on diesel generators to power most factories and holds the unfortunate record of hosting the planet’s largest pool of people living on less than $3 a day.

I was recently in China as part of a Nigerian business delegation that wanted to revolutionise rail freight. We toured Chinese rail manufacturing factories and saw the cumulative effect firsthand. At Yiwu, a market city once famous only for cheap toys, outbound trains roll directly into the customs yard, clear export formalities in hours and join a trans-Eurasian schedule that reaches Madrid in 18 days. We counted five layers of the process—terminal handling, port queue, ocean leg, inland haulage, and warehouse sorting—that would each add days and dollars back home.

China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 decision to “open the windows” and let the world’s capital know-how to blow in. In Nigeria, the same decade ushered in the oil boom that encouraged governments to depend on volatile export rents rather than the hard grind of production.

Nearly half a century later, the contrast is stark: China ships $3.58 trillion worth of merchandise each year to the US, runs the world’s biggest high-speed rail and electricity networks, and has reduced extreme poverty to the low single digits, whereas Nigeria still relies on diesel generators to power most factories and holds the unfortunate record of hosting the planet’s largest pool of people living on less than $3 a day.

I was recently in China as part of a Nigerian business delegation that wanted to revolutionise rail freight. We toured Chinese rail manufacturing factories and saw the cumulative effect firsthand. At Yiwu, a market city once famous only for cheap toys, outbound trains roll directly into the customs yard, clear export formalities in hours and join a trans-Eurasian schedule that reaches Madrid in 18 days. We counted five layers of the process—terminal handling, port queue, ocean leg, inland haulage, and warehouse sorting—that would each add days and dollars back home.

The macro numbers simply crystallise what we observed on the ground. Manufacturing generates roughly 27 per cent of the Chinese GDP and employs more than 100 million people. In Nigeria, the share by 2024 has slid below ten per cent and continues to fall. Chinese logistics costs average seven to nine per cent of a retail item’s final price; Nigerian goods often surrender a quarter to a third of their value to the road, the checkpoint and the generator. The pertinent question is: what made China succeed and Nigeria fail?

Policy consistency is the first, and perhaps most underrated, source of that divergence. Beijing’s five-year plans differed in detail but never in direction: everyone sought deeper industrialisation, more export capacity, and a higher rung on the technology ladder. By contrast, Lagos, Abuja and the 36 state capitals have veered from import substitution to outright deregulation to state-owned “transformation agendas,” each abandoned as soon as the next political cycle arrives or the oil price slumps. For investors deciding where to put a steel mill or a chip assembly plant, the difference between a 20-year horizon and a four-year horizon is the difference between “build” and “walk away.”

Infrastructure magnified that gap. Beginning in the early 1990s, China poured roughly eight per cent of its GDP every year into roads, ports, airports and—most outstandingly—rail. A lattice of 45,000 kilometres of 250 to 350 km/h track now links almost every provincial capital; freight versions of those lines move 10,000-tonne trains from Chongqing to Shenzhen in a single day. One academic study finds that high-speed rail access lifts a connected city’s GDP by more than 14 per cent within five years, mostly by slashing logistics times and widening labour catchment areas for firms.

Nigeria, meanwhile, rehabilitated a few colonial-era lines and launched several standard gauge projects, but even its showcase Abuja–Kaduna and Lagos- Ibadan routes move fewer passengers in a week than China’s busiest corridor handles before breakfast. Most cargo still crawls along cratered highways where police checkpoints and kidnappers impose an unofficial “fear tax” on every bag of cement or basket of tomatoes.

[b]Reliable energy is the next faultline. Guangdong province alone generates more electricity than the entire Nigerian grid, and it does so continuously; Chinese aluminium smelters, textile mills and data centres are designed around the assumption that the power will stay on. Nigerian manufacturers assume the opposite. They buy diesel gensets, pay triple the Asian price for each kilowatt hour they consume, and pass that cost on to consumers—[/b]who already face some of the steepest logistics mark-ups in the world. When energy constitutes 30 per cent of a product’s ex-factory price, no patriotic marketing can keep that product competitive abroad.

China’s factories also had people who could keep the machines running. A high school graduate in Jilin can programme a PC and interpret a process control chart because technical and vocational colleges occupy a place of prestige that academic-heavy universities once monopolised. As a result, Chinese employers can field 3,000-strong shifts of technicians able to retool a smartphone assembly line on the weekend. Nigeria’s educational culture remains firmly certificate-oriented.

Yet none of these gaps is destiny. Nigeria’s poverty is a product of a mix of bad leadership and bad choices. Nigeria’s heavy reliance on oil causes economic vulnerability. Nigeria’s education system emphasises certificates over practical skills, creating a gap between what is taught in schools and what employers need. Over 85 per cent of Nigerian graduates lack digital skills, making them less competitive in the job market. The SMART schools championed by the Enugu State government aim to start closing the IT gaps, and other states in Nigeria are expected to create more of these schools.





https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/choices-not-chance-why-china-is-rich-and-nigeria-is-poor-by-dakuku-peterside/

That no human that can not be tempted. Only God that can not be tempted.

This is how Grace looks like.. Some may think otherwise. But for the Elect, all they have to say is thank you Lord.

This man is too fat for a public servant. II hope he hits the gym every now and then.

A Welsh tourist who was detained in a US immigration centre has spoken of her experiences.

Becky Burke, 28, spent 19 days in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing centre in Washington State after being denied entry into Canada, over a "visa mix-up".

Ms Burke believed that her case was "prioritised" following a combination of media, social media and diplomatic pressure since her case was first made public.

A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection previously told the BBC they could not discuss specific cases but travellers were treated with "integrity, respect and according to law".


Speaking to BBC World Service's Outside Source, Ms Burke said she had planned a four month backpacking trip across North America, Canada and other areas.

She had flown from New York to Portland, Oregon, where she spent time with a host family, helping with household chores in return for accommodation.

At the end of February she travelled to Seattle with plans to travel to Vancouver in Canada to stay with another family.

"After I bought my tickets I saw that Trump had come into power so I was making sure that I left the country well within my ESTA," she said.

She described how she spent six hours at the border waiting while officials were "trying to determine if what I had been doing in America counted as work".

"I was getting quite worried.

"I then had an interrogation for about an hour in a small room where they were asking me loads of details about what I had been doing in America and at the end of that, they had determined that I had been working in America and violated my ESTA.

Ms Burke said while in the ICE centre many people were telling her that she was "lucky" to be in this one, as it was known as "one of the better ones".

"A few of the woman had come from San Diego and they were telling me how awful [it was] and how they were treated.

"The officers would shout at them and throw them in the shower for like five seconds [max]."

She added that she wanted to use the spotlight on her to share the stories of the other woman in the centre.

Ms Burke believes pressure from the press coverage helped with her early release.

She said an ICE officer told her that her case had been brought to "the top of the pile" after they received an email from the British consulate.

The following day she was told a flight had been booked to take her home on 18 March.

Paul Burke Becky Burke stood on Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The sun is shining, and New York's skyline can be seen in the background against a bright blue sky. Becky smiles at the camera with her hands in her pockets, she wears a navy and green raincoat, and has a tote bag over her shoulder.
Paul Burke
Becky Burke had planned a "life-changing" trip around North America
A Welsh tourist who was detained in a US immigration centre has spoken of her experiences.

Becky Burke, 28, spent 19 days in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing centre in Washington State after being denied entry into Canada, over a "visa mix-up".

Ms Burke believed that her case was "prioritised" following a combination of media, social media and diplomatic pressure since her case was first made public.

A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection previously told the BBC they could not discuss specific cases but travellers were treated with "integrity, respect and according to law".


Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Tourist detained in US back home in Wales, dad says
Speaking to BBC World Service's Outside Source, Ms Burke said she had planned a four month backpacking trip across North America, Canada and other areas.

She had flown from New York to Portland, Oregon, where she spent time with a host family, helping with household chores in return for accommodation.

At the end of February she travelled to Seattle with plans to travel to Vancouver in Canada to stay with another family.

"After I bought my tickets I saw that Trump had come into power so I was making sure that I left the country well within my ESTA," she said.

She described how she spent six hours at the border waiting while officials were "trying to determine if what I had been doing in America counted as work".

"I was getting quite worried.

"I then had an interrogation for about an hour in a small room where they were asking me loads of details about what I had been doing in America and at the end of that, they had determined that I had been working in America and violated my ESTA."


Paul Burke Becky Burke smiles as she hugs Bo Jangles. She has long plaited brown hair and is wearing glasses. A bottle of sparkling wine - possibly champagne - can be seen on a table behind them.
Paul Burke
Becky Burke has been reunited with the family dog Bo Jangles
Ms Burke said while in the ICE centre many people were telling her that she was "lucky" to be in this one, as it was known as "one of the better ones".

"A few of the woman had come from San Diego and they were telling me how awful [it was] and how they were treated.

"The officers would shout at them and throw them in the shower for like five seconds [max]."

She added that she wanted to use the spotlight on her to share the stories of the other woman in the centre.

Ms Burke believes pressure from the press coverage helped with her early release.

She said an ICE officer told her that her case had been brought to "the top of the pile" after they received an email from the British consulate.

The following day she was told a flight had been booked to take her home on 18 March.


A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) previously said it could not comment on specific cases for privacy reasons, but added: "All persons arriving at a port-of-entry to the United States are subject to inspection.

"CBP officers treat all travellers with integrity, respect, professionalism and according to law."

The spokesperson said in the event of a foreign national being found inadmissible to the United States, CBP would "provide the foreign national an opportunity to procure travel to his or her home country".

"If the foreign national is unable to do so, he or she will be turned over to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) for repatriation," they added.







https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj4w91vz7jo

Don't think everyone you meet on nairaland is like you.

I am LARGE but I don't brag.

kiddkash:
You a man of wisdom, have you achieve quarter what he has at your age?

In recent years, China’s dominant position in the rare earth resources sector has attracted widespread global attention. On April 14, a report from The New York Times once again focused on China’s global influence in rare earths, pointing out that China, with its absolute advantage in the rare earth supply chain, has a significant impact on the U.S. defense industrial base.


Rare earths refer to 17 elements, including neodymium, yttrium, scandium, and dysprosium. These elements are not rare in the Earth’s crust, but the extraction and refining processes are complex and environmentally costly. Rare earths are widely used in high-tech industries,including aerospace, defense, new energy vehicles, and electronic devices, and are often referred to as “industrial gold.” For example, each F-35 fighter jet requires about 408 kilograms of rare earth materials, while certain models of nuclear submarines require more than 4,173 kilograms of rare earth materials.

China holds an unshakeable position in the global rare earth market. As of 2023, China produces 99% of the world’s heavy rare earth metals and 90% of refined rare earths. Additionally, Chinahas mastered the core technologies for rare earth refining and processing, forming a complete supply chain from ore extraction to finished products. For instance, the Mountain Pass mine in California is the only rare earth mine in the U.S., but two-thirds of the rare earths extracted still need to be sent to China for processing.


This dominant position is not accidental; it is the result of decades of meticulous work by China in the resource and technology sectors. China not only possesses the largest rare earth resource reserves in the world (accounting for 40% of global reserves) but has also become the global center for rare earth processing through technological innovation and industrial chain integration.


Although the U.S. government has long been aware of the potential risks of dependence on Chinese rare earths and has attempted to reduce this reliance by promoting domestic mining and stockpiling of rare earth minerals, the results have been limited. The Pentagon once attempted to replace a component containing a Chinese alloy on the F-35 fighter jet, but ultimately found that it could not circumvent the supply chain controlled by China.

This predicament exposes the shortcomings of the U.S. in the rare earth industry chain. Even with abundant rare earth resources, it lacks complete processing capabilities and technological reserves. Moreover, the U.S. rare earth stockpile can only sustain demand for a few months, rather than providing long-term supply. This high level of dependence makes the U.S. extremely passive when facing Chinese export controls on rare earths.....



China’s dominance in the rare earth sector not only reflects its economic strength but also serves as an important indicator of its global strategic position. This phenomenon offers valuable lessons for third-world countries and presents new possibilities for reshaping the global resource allocation pattern. In the future, finding a balance between resources, technology, and policy will be a common challenge faced by third-world countries.



https://thenationonlineng.net/chinas-advantages-that-the-u-s-cannot-circumvent/