One thing is clear, Buhari like Yaradua, is not in charge. Cabals rule in unison.

DrNefeNefe:
Buhari is deaf and blind.

The good thing about Revolution is that it cleanses most of the corruption.

The bad thing is that some innonocent people and projects including useful ones are destroyed.

Those castigating unfortunate destruction of valuable properties must wonder why.

Why it took this long to Revolt since Yaradua.

Your problems are many

Elvictor:

PEOPLE CREATE WEALTH NOT THE GOVERNMENT

Africans have come to understand that we elected most politicians whose mission is to enrich only themselves and their nuclear families; not to give a decent life to their people or communities. They have been taken by Western Individualism and are overwhelmed by the gratification of exotic tastes and culture that value individual interests over the commonwealth. Making a living in Africa to afford such exotic indulgence requires a great deal of foreign cash.

We have to go back and examine the history of our wealth. Not only how we had developed so much wealth in Africa that attracted many individuals and groups from Europe, America and Asia but how individual leaders sold out and lost most of the wealth due to greed. Those of us old enough remember the saying that nobody dares steal money from his village.
We had developed African wealth from the ground up by collective contribution to a pool of money called Esusu; upon which we took turns to collect contributions, started many businesses and built projects. Each of these projects benefited not only the individuals but the whole community that patronize one another within the local society. These were how our local Transportation, Banking and Insurance survived. Local patrons nourished them by trust within towns and villages.

Government sets political agenda and economic policies. But at the end of the day, individuals have to figure out how to attract patronage that will put money in his pocket. Many of us have become so reliant on Governments we think it is the answer to all our problems dulling our mental acuity to create wealth from which a good tax base can be generated to enhance an enabling environment. People react differently if money is stolen from their personal taxes than income from Natural Resources. Politicians get it, stealing from natural resource income.

Unfortunately, politicians can no longer distinguish between individual self-interest and government or community interest. Over-reliance on Governments have been disappointing. Only jobs that cannot be done by individuals like schools, hospitals or big projects and safety against abuse like regulators, inspectors and police should be done by the government. This is when government business is everybody’s business compared to nobody’s business.

People are blessed with individual ideas, talents and skills that can only be manifested from personal reflections into discoveries and refinements of old ideas. It does not eliminate brainstorming with others to refine and shape national interest and new ways of improving our lives. The old forms of creating wealth are no longer efficient. Agriculture used to be the biggest employer of labour, not anymore.

Machines and better technologies have replaced the cheapest labour. Tricycle tractors locally made and other new skills are needed to operate those machines just as the computers have evolved.

When there are endeavours beyond the capabilities of one man, communities can get together. These have to be a collective effort. Some individuals gain from this collective effort than others that do not know how to sell their services or goods to a wider audience. In order to be successful, personal drive and responsibility matter. Even as a landlord, you need good paying tenants and maintenance managers today.

African countries must accept that we put too much trust on leaders that have failed us miserably. We cannot regal on past history of the Great African Empires, they no longer exist. But a reminder of what Africans are capable of. Our successes have been replaced by Poverty while looking up to the rest of the world to bring us to their ways of survival out of the goodness of their hearts. It is not going to happen.

We are the tolls they continue to exploit to enrich themselves. They expand their markets looking for patrons by dumping new, used and discarded goods and services on us. There is nothing wrong with trading with the rest of the world, but it was wrong when we exchanged Gold for mirror, slaves or cheap labour. In the name of trade, we batter valuables for superfluous insubstantial goods.

We have to go back to the drawing board and the pillar of our Economic Success. We traded with one another before we traded with the rest of the world. But we have lost the trade within in search of outside trade. Africans’ worst mistakes were the exposure of our wealth by Mansa Kanka Musa and the Queen of Sheba prompting seekers of fortune to follow them home to the source of their riches. It was foolish and unproductive from day One.
It is true that the world elected their leaders in their self-interest to defend themselves by sending standing Army everywhere protecting missions. Even when on Adventure, ensure an enabling environment: Laws or Papal Edict of 1452 to encourage groups and individuals to create wealth by enslaving others for plantations. More importantly, they created hierarchies as pyramid schemes to load up wealth at the top and paid taxes to their home governments.

The Catholic Church discouraged kinship and extended families in favour of individualism, monogamy and banned marriages within families. Not bad. Their monarchs still married within families though. While Africans focus on: It Takes A Village To Raise A Child, valued close relationships and interaction, Western society went beyond Catholic doctrine to Me, Myself and I doctrine as seen in African leaders today. Wealth and Riches that were shared within the families and community were bequests to the Catholic Church. Today as tithes, zakat and for building Church and Mosque instead of factories.

WEIRD Society (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) by Joseph Henrich at Harvard University described the characteristics of the cultures that value individualism at the expense of the community. “As European societies became increasingly dominated by monogamous nuclear families in the High Middle Ages, for instance, the laws being created centred increasingly on the individual and on their intentions, rights, and obligations as separate from their kin groups.” These laws and forms of government were imposed on Africans by colonial powers as the new Gospel truth.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies/

Take the case of monogamy and polygamy. Wealth created by an individual goes to an individual nuclear family, that is, the wife and children in a monogamous family. If there were no surviving children, the wealth went to the Catholic Church. In a polygamous family, wealth went to immediate and extended families. Most people do not realize that the Catholic Church enforced monogamy in the Western Democracy for self-interest.
Some Thinkers have concluded that this Catholic doctrine that spread worldwide but culturally resisted in Asia, is one of the contributing factors to the wealth disparity in the world, greatly leaving Africa naked culturally and poor. Individualism culture competes with African traditions for obedience to authority and other factors that help Africans protect assets, like land and farms from outsiders.

Brothers Keepers Do Not Rescue Lives Ruined By Prodigal Economy

The best way to rebuild African Brother's Keeper spirits economically again, is to start from each country. No more soft landing anywhere. Please, do not infect their country with your problems. Some Africans wasted their God given talents, skills and resources, then rushed to other countries for rescue missions. For whia?

Poverty Alleviation is a well planned deliberate action not charity, Zakat, Tzedaka, Tithes or "gifted" used to satisfy conscience or our bloated ego. This is how some of the reasons Poverty in the land of plenty, flowing with milk and honey are justified. A false sense of security that fed into ostentatious ego.

How do we accomplish the tasks of persuading our Youths that find themselves in the worst economic situation since their Independence to stay home and fight for their future? Some Youths risk their lives hoping against hope that if they do not get to their Promised Land, life is not worth living.

African countries have high unemployment rates within and have been throwing fellow Africans out. This has been happening not only in Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or Ghana but in smaller countries like Somalia and Somaliland that have enough problems to deal with Internally. The days of your Brothers' Keepers are dwindling unless African Youths hold the leaders they elected at home responsible. A country like Nigeria, had been so blessed, other Africans wonder how things could have possibly gone wrong with so many educated and talented people.

It is true that no matter what you do or say, some Youths are bent on bailing out, trying their luck outside their countries. Only when they face deadly situations do they cry and appeal to their Governments to bring them back home. After they have been rejected, humiliated, abused and unfortunately maimed as organ donors outside their country. Yet, there are those insisting they are going to be the lucky ones to survive these existential threats.

Seriously, does it really make sense that the same life you are willing to risk as worthless can be preferred and cherished by those struggling and trying to stay afloat in their own countries? People in desperate need of survival confronting their leaders for a better life are called inhuman and lazy because they do not rescue invaders looking for the same food and shelter they are fighting for at home. Brave angry people against hungry coward people!

This moral dilemma must be viewed from each side of view. One gave up on life, the other was holding on looking for a lifeline at home. One deserves to live for hanging on to life demanding justice at home while the other that refused to face their devils, expects to be brought back to a life they had given up at home.

There are accusations about those in Mediterranean countries refusing to rescue refugees drowning near their shores. "There have been repeated attacks on journalists and humanitarian workers by angry mobs and vigilantes," Panagiotopoulos, International Rescue Committee (IRC) Senior Area Manager for Lesbos and Chios, told CNN.

We have been told of wicked coast guards that allow Africans and Arabs to perish in the sea, about Arabs Sama boys selling Africans as slaves and for body parts; yet more Africans are departing their countries aware of these facts. It is hard for any African to claim they did not know what they are going to face during the deadly voyage. Even the skillful and talented ones were waiting at the airport to board any 707 plane.

Despite this, there are new business agents in the travel industry charging life savings that could start local trades, exploiting many of these naive Youths with promises of better life abroad. The truthsayers are ridiculed and condemned as envious (bad bele). But worse, are those struggling overseas lying to those at home that they are enjoying Promised Land. Knowing fully well that those Africans that are at the top of their careers are disrespected, humiliated and told to go back home to lift up their masses, if they are that good.

Groups of vigilantes are sending Arab refugees from Syria, Libya and Tunisia back into the sea without European rescue ship's in sight. While Arabs are exploiting African refugees demanding money from their families back home before they are freed as slaves or used as organ donors. Others have been noted for starving and abusing refugees apart from selling them as slaves.

The idea that you can bail out of a sinking ship into the mouth of sharks or ride the back of a tiger to freedom is not only short sighted but outright foolish out of self-delusion. There are some Youths today whose countries especially in Africa are going through fundamental changes for the worse, never experienced in their lifetime. You do not extinguish fire in a burning house until you turn off the gas from the source.

Our focus has always been on the inhumane treatment they received but not enough about the reasons African Youths do not revolt at home against Leeches that drove them out in the first place. Do not expect others to do what you are capable of and able to do for yourselves. The penchant for succor for other lands or that must come to help your country change, is a double edged sword. It may work for you today but work against you tomorrow. Change and "Freedom" must come from within the country.

World powers are very comfortable with Regime Change, even when they say otherwise. Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Congo and Libya at different points in their histories welcomed other countries onto their lands. Each and everyone of them have been left worse than before. The reasons are not far-fetched. One country invades another in its personal interest, not for the interest of the country invaded with religion, culture, language. If all failed, they flamed civil wars within you.

However, the real jobs creators are the African consumers that can afford to patronize and demand goods and services. Africans are prodigal consumers of expensive goods and services imported into the Continent. If Africans can only rediscover their lost tastes for their goods. Without local consumers, African businesses will die. If you start a one man business from your front house, garage or basement; as demands grow, you work extra hours. When you realize that you cannot meet local consumer demands, you employ your wife, children and then more people.

African businesses cannot depend on slaves like Foreigners did, they must empower more local consumers at affordable prices to increase sales and profits. Right now we drive prices too high as fewer people can buy basic needs. Africans must turn their lives around, starting businesses from individual countries instead of patronizing others and creating jobs outside your countries and Continent. Country by country, each must attract and tailor our tastes to home products to create more jobs for others locally.

Paul Krugman is right: My spending is your income and your spending is my income. Buying local products and services creates local incomes. The spending from more sales at affordable prices grows your income higher than hoarding. Indeed, trade by batter has not changed since we have been exchanging cocoa for tractors. The problem is, tractors are expensive and not locally made. It is currencies that have become medium of exchange. Keep more trade at home, save our jobs and increase local values of our currencies.

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Atounrinwa spotted

Oro agba, ti ko ba se laro, ase lale

Better late than never.

United States rapid Covid-19 testing is still limited to some areas and schools.

Of we have to buy it, we have to wait and pay through our nose as usual.

Great!

Nigeria Police Shoot You For Money Like While Black Abroad

Is it only outside Africa that a police would shoot you while Black? In many African countries, lack of respect for the sanctity of lives are increasing while we protest about the lives of our brothers and sisters wasted for no other reason than the color of their skin abroad.

There is a difference. Regardless of who you are as a Black man, you can be harassed abroad. A sitting USA' s Senator, Tim Scott is not above par. So in America, they Internationally remind you that you are Black. Ask Harvard Professor Louis Gate. When some Africans claim that they are free from harassment and are appreciated abroad, some of us laugh. In Africa, if you are rich, a politician or a big man, Police will protect you. But if you decide to become a member of the Opposition or criticize the politicians they would send the Police after you like in Turkey. Most African politicians cannot stand the scrutiny of vigorous and Free Press.

Police brutality has reached its peak worldwide but African Police know that the people they arrest, brutalize and kill unnecessarily look and belong to the same "race" like them. OBJ once gave the Police "shoot on sight" order in Lagos. Oppressors have been treating people without voice or power as less than human since the beginning of time.

The worst victims of Police abuse are Youths for fear of their political activism and to suppress their concerted efforts demanding the change of status quo promoted by the major political parties. One political party would succeed the other without any difference in ideologies but the same players jumping from one party in opposition to the one in power. If they cannot get nominations in one party they jumped to where the nomination is assured by throwing money around.

Nigerian Police are going further by arresting and putting innocent people in holding cells until they cough up money. It was some form of "tax" on transport workers who in turn raise fares on the passengers. It extended to almost any vehicle and now to moving on the street if Youths look exotic, well or fancifully dressed.

Police have become "tax" collectors in Nigeria for maintenance purposes. Some years ago, some of the junior officers were bold enough to table the reasons they collect "taxes" from the people while moving. Usually they concentrated their attention on motorists but on a "dry" day they may raid any Bus stop and load those waiting into their vehicles straight to the Police Station. This is where you bail yourself out or a relative has to bail you out. The junior officers sometimes working without salaries testified that they have to repair Government vehicles, buy their petrol and pass on money up to Oga at the top.

Nevertheless, the practice of harassing people for money never stopped. Each time there is a new Chief of Police, each vowed to stop brutal street panhandling by police officers. Indeed, transport conductors and drivers have been shot for moving or their vehicles without paying police on the streets. As far back as the regimes of Babangida and Abacha when it was called Family Allowance. Later on, the Head of State OBJ called police recruits thugs and members of nefarious activities. Little has changed since.

"In practice, these checkpoints have become a lucrative criminal venture for the police who routinely demand bribes from drivers and passengers alike, in some places enforcing a de facto standardized toll. Motorists are frequently detained and endure harassment and threats until they or their family members negotiate payment for their release. Extortion-related confrontations between the police and motorists often escalate into more serious abuses. The police have on numerous occasions severely beaten, sexually assaulted, or shot to death ordinary citizens who failed to pay the bribes demanded."

https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/08/17/everyones-game/corruption-and-human-rights-abuses-nigeria-police-force

A friend was told by a foreign police officer that if he was in Africa, he would have been brutalized for claiming his right. It was enough to keep his mouth in check because he realized the foreign police uttered the truth. The point he was making here was; Africans are treated worse in their own countries. Opinions vary on this but African Police generally respect those that are well placed in their communities for fear of losing their jobs while the poor are treated shabbily.

We can say the same shabby treatment is perpetrated on the poor abroad until the video phones and some court cases expose the injustice. The reason for comparing cases of Police abuse in Africa to those abroad has to do with the fundamental rights of people no matter where they are in the world. African leaders and politicians must be held responsible for the abuse of their people, not only locally but Internationally, especially during elections. These leaders have experiences of how foreign police and immigration disrespect them from the Airport, in their cars to their houses.

Nigerian politicians are being put on notice and even outright banned by the British and American authorities when they rig elections. All it takes is the threat of withholding their visas to Europe or America, their dream destination point; where they launder money to live comfortable lives they refused to provide in their own countries. This type of threat has a double edge sword. Africans resent foreign powers influencing African local policies. They have done it in the past at the expense of our sovereignty or to the detriment of our political and economic interest.

We have to be careful. Humans unguarded indulgence shows up when nobody is watching. Once we realize other people, community and countries are watching, we are put on our best behaviour and do act accordingly. This is why International Observers are invited during elections by many countries claiming they have nothing to hide since voting is free and fair. It also serves International Human Rights Organizations watch. This boils down to trust and verify the commitments we make as members of high moral values, which is dwindling worldwide today. Otherwise people with ulterior motives would hijack the process for their own self-interest. No Country or people are free from bias out of self-interest.

Anyway, who listens to the Youths at home or abroad these days without confrontations and Police brutalizing them? Youths cry out so that they can be safe at home or abroad. If we want them to stay home in their countries, villages and cities we must encourage and incentivize them. The same way a Londoner or New Yorker thinks the world starts and ends in their gloried ghettos.

Political and religious organizations exploit these hopeless situations the Youths have found themselves; to be recruited as followers. Instead of the Youths demanding better governance like their parents and grandparents, they have been anesthetized to find solace in mobile phones, crumbs as handout, travel agents promoting foreign countries and infatuation with foreigners or promise of rewards in Heavens by pastors and imams. They ignore the fact that Heaven can only help those who help themselves, by not waiting for God to pick up their calls. Youths cannot call on dead or old Freedom Fighters to fight for them. Your Freedom is in your hands.

Sep 18, 2020 | Farouk Martins Aresa
TheNigeriavoice.com

It is true that many Nigerians want to leave the country. We forget those that want to return to Nigeria, those in the North and South that feel comfortable at home and shun the hype.

But if you cannot find a husband or wife in Nigeria for whatever reason, try somewhere else.

Many Black couples are worried about giving their sons the "talk" on what to do when approached by Police abroad, no matter who they are or what they achieved like General Colin Powell, a former Secretary of State stopped by Police. If African ladies are your choice for a wife to bring home, there are many of them in colleges all over Europe and America looking for husbands to take home. Going back to Africa becomes easier if that is one of the reasons you want a lady from home. Young men do not have to work and sweat only to regret bringing ladies over after educating them into high paying professions.

laiperi:
So sad.

Young men and ladies, watch both sides before you cross the street.

Ladies Do Pick & Chose Who Pursue Toast Or Chase Them

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Son, rules of pursuing, chasing and toasting ladies have gone global. We used to hang around the ladies we like trying to make the best impression on them or pursue them from some comfortable distance without being a pest chasing them. It was a given that, even if she liked you, do not expect her to say so at one try. So, you had to try again and toast her until she said, yes.

Fast forward, pursuing or chasing a girl could land you in trouble and if you do not keep your distance, it could become sexual harassment. There is a law in Canada, the last time I checked where No means No. It can be tricky. Out of being polite, some ladies may just give you the vibes of Bug Off without saying it. Some guys do not take a polite snub as an answer, until they get a resounding No!

When trying to acquire companies in the business world, Warren Buffet gave an obsolete joke: “Well, if a diplomat says yes, he means maybe. If he says maybe, he means no. And if he says no, he’s no diplomat. And if a lady says no, she means maybe. And if she says maybe, she means yes. And if she says yes, she’s no lady.”

Dating environment has changed since the billionaire days but he is still a jolly old man in his eighties. Personal relationships are different from business, though some people treat them exactly the same way with prenuptial agreements. These days, there would be ladies waiting to sue Buffet for some of his money just for the look.

Therefore, we are in a different so-called global world where a lady or a boy cannot express true feelings for each other without being misunderstood. The other cases are easy, waving her hands off would convey her feelings. The process of letting a guy know she wants him around without appearing eager can send mixed messages. She wants to appear old fashioned because guys see that as a wife material. On the other hand, she does not want to lose him. How for do nah.

These days we see young men rolling on the floor crying after their proposals on their knees to ladies they should have known would reject them. It is foolish to think that without doing your homework toasting, grooming and sounding a lady's interest, she can be embarrassed into saying Yes to engagement she is not prepared for. Usually, ladies cry for joy when a man proposes to them. The fact that she rejected you means you want to rush her, when she thinks you are not yet a man or she took you only as a sidekick!

Ladies keep boyfriends for several reasons. Sexual partner does not necessarily mean she has made up her mind about you. It could mean that she wants to satisfy a physical need or she is hanging on until she gets her dream boy. Granted that some ladies have a hard time making up their minds, hoping that there is someone out there better than you, it does not mean you must rush her. Let her love you for the man you are. If you are not her type, do not smudge her, the relationship will break down sooner than later.

A man should not be judged by his humble beginning nor should class play a domineering role in a relationship. We have seen hard working young men that are respected right from their potential during school days to when they are ready to get married. You probably remember the Maths Maths Physics guys and how many girls follow them. Even neat clothes or clean white shirts got attraction then.

Poverty has created another class of ladies that are not even that interested in what is between your two pockets but what you have in each pocket. Do not break your neck because she called you brokeass man. Your time will come when fast money runs out and your pockets are slowly but steadily getting filled through hard work. Slow and steady horse wins the race.

You may be displaced by some guys that come back home from foreign countries to marry ladies they would not dare talk to when they were home. Since these young men have crossed overseas they come back for the biggest gem or leftovers. The girls usually go along until each of them realize their greed. One for money, the other for marrying up to a lady beyond his dreams.

There was a friend that never went to school in all his years abroad. He came home to marry a lawyer with a good government position. She ended up committing suicide abroad after some depression. If anything, the hype about African marriages abroad are overblown. The cultural shock in a new environment follows the trends of broken marriages and high single family households in their new countries.

Another friend summed it up when he was advised against bringing a wife from home. He told his relatives that if his wife became indifferent to him, she would at least take care of their children with her higher income. There are too many stories about nurses but they are not the only professionals making more money than their husbands abroad. Indeed, we never heard about the loyal ones that added value to the lives of their families. Most cities abroad have professional ladies but it only takes one bad egg to spread a nasty reputation to many.

Many Black couples are worried about giving their sons the "talk" on what to do when approached by Police abroad, no matter who they are or what they achieved like General Colin Powell, a former Secretary of State stopped by Police. If African ladies are your choice for a wife to bring home, there are many of them in colleges all over Europe and America looking for husbands to take home. Going back to Africa becomes easier if that is one of the reasons you want a lady from home. Young men do not have to work and sweat only to regret bringing ladies over after educating them into high paying professions.

By Farouk Martins Aresa thenigerianvoice.com

God told you?

Gosh, you should have asked me.

No Amount Of Foreign Jobs Money & Aid Can Lift Africa

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If Africans cannot help one another as their brothers' keepers, who is going to help them for free? Heaven only helps those that help themselves. Prayers, incarnations and belief empower and strengthen your nerves to be strong and durable to lift yourself up. There are different ways of pulling yourself out of poverty, stretching out your hands for handouts when you waste ten times as much energy throwing good money after bad money is nothing but just folly.

Africans are still laundering trillions of foreign currencies out of the Continent. Even when getting billions back from past looted funds, they still beg for millions in charities. There is no free lunch anywhere, you must be willing to give something in Return. Preferably what they dictated, not what you want. It is a Disadvantageous Relationship because of imbalance exercise of negotiating powers between masters and serfs or servants.

African mentality of a white knight coming to their rescue must change in order to gain Economic Independence. The world pursues its self interest in exchange for Charity that makes some, certainly not most feel good. They see slave labor as necessary evil that can be mitigated by charity or aid. This is why Foreign countries always threaten to cut Foreign Aids off if we do not bend to their wishes or follow the direction of their fingers.

We have to ask ourselves at what point are Africans going to understand that Charity only comes after Profit, not before Profit. Some people do not realize that even free samples are teasers to get you addicted. Once your taste buds are hooked, you patronize more forever as Africans. Every Foreign Investor works in his own interest just as any African seeking fortune. What we see as a big deal or fortune is crumbs to them compared to the Fortune Bounty they seek in Africa. The same businesses that employed you knew full well that you do not have legal papers, do so to pay you less and call authorities to deport you when they do not want to pay after working your hearts out!

When you are willing to sell your country out of self-interest you are blinded into cognitive dissonance by Self-hate indifferent to realities and the welfare of your fellow citizens. Some Africans have decided it is better to borrow their Countries out of existence on everything Foreign, than to depend on their local talents and resources. After all, if they import contracts, they will be reallocated to the countries they sold their souls to.

There is no way a man who borrows to feed and shelter himself would not beg forever. Some Nigerian businessmen staff their factories, schools and other companies with foreigners that work Africans like slaves in their own countries. They pay less educated and skilled foreigners more than they pay Africans. Since these African owners are treating local workers as cheap labor, foreign companies get the green light to do the same or worse.

It is very disturbing that in this day and age after political Independence in African countries, we still cannot differentiate between legal and illegal mining because the same leaders are behind both without accurate accountability of what is leaving our Continent. Yet, we expect Foreign Investments in our favor. The new generation have never learned the courage of our liberation fighters as young activists against colonial powers.

Those that come to Africa are fortune hunters looking for trillions in profits while those Africans that seek fortunes outside hardly make a million or may break even after expenses with credit cards debts. The difference is clear to blind men except when intoxicated by Branding and Window shopping for goods that can be made and perfected with practice at home since Independence. Everything that glitters is not gold.

P&ID and Enron are only two of the prominent International duper companies that have shady business influence in Africa and have sued in overseas courts asking for billions of dollars for projects they did not perform. While Enron defraud other developing countries, P&ID specialize in Nigeria. P&ID's $9 Billion scheme was masterminded by a late Michael “Mick” Quinn (p&id) Process and Industrial Developments Ltd Chairman. Indeed, operations these shell companies do not have the technical capacity to accomplish in Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/enron-faces-bribery-charges-1.10909 81. It usually takes a developing country's insiders like the Attorney General, Finance Minister and/or the Central Bank Governor to defraud their own country from their Foreign Reserves.

No matter how much income we have, no rich African country can ever import itself out of Poverty. It is illogical to cry or beg for Foreign Everything asking for jobs, loans, goods and services from used to discarded materials instead of borrowing sense from your heads. Banks make their money, pay their staff and others expenses from loans, and borrowers. Even those targeted African countries with attractive Reserves are asking for Loan Forgiveness. Some lenders laugh in Chinese at the jokers. All the pleading to forgive Paris Loans, nko. For whia?

You may not like some ideology or differ in respect of a few positions Imperials take. But you cannot deny that they depend on the poor for surplus, disposable labor and low wages. It creates millionaires and billionaires faster. Indeed many poor people accept it as the risk of feeding their families. If you think it is only poor folks that accept it, wonder about highly trained and talented Africans fleeing and those willing to risk jails overseas for money laundering, cut off from seized money to avoid going there to defend themselves or doing hard labor for prison wages when the money they are caught with could be judiciously put to good projects at home.

On the other hand, we must also understand that Africa is making some progress and our younger generations are creating sources of income. The problem is that the wheels of progress are not turning as fast as the wheels of regression. As soon as people of goodwill create and make conscientious efforts leaping two or three steps forward, forces of evil drive us back and export many of our gains.

No Amount Of Foreign Jobs Money & Aid Can Lift Africa

If Africans cannot help one another as their brothers' keepers, who is going to help them for free? Heaven only helps those that help themselves. Prayers, incarnations and belief empower and strengthen your nerves to be strong and durable to lift yourself up. There are different ways of pulling yourself out of poverty, stretching out your hands for handouts when you waste ten times as much energy throwing good money after bad money is nothing but just folly.


By Farouk Martins Aresa
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/291058/no-amount-of-foreign-jobs-money-aid-can-lift-africa.html

Igbon, Aresa And Ikoyi are found in most Yoruba towns and cities from Ife to Lagos.

It is true that the Political system in Britain has the Executive Power, yet the relevance of the British or European monarch has not diminished.

American political system abolished monarchy, yet they continued to worship a few indivividual dynasty the way they worshipped kings.

Onikoyi, Aresa and Igbon after Ooni are second to none, no matter how politically powerful any individual creation is.

What is the end of those that have flauted Yoruba Omoluabi for money?

Historical Research Letter www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3178 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0964 (Online) Vol.15, 2014
Igbon, Iresa and Ikoyi: A Pre-Historic Relationship Till Present Time

https://www.nairaland.com/4813294/igbon-iresa-ikoyi-pre-historic-relationship

It is absolutely wrong and disrespectful for Gani Adams to accept a bow from Onikoyi. He should have held him up or immediately go on the floor.


https://www.nairaland.com/4813294/igbon-iresa-ikoyi-pre-historic-relationship

It is absolutely wrong and disrespectful for Gani Adams to accept a bow from Onikoyi. He should have held him up or immediately go on the floor.

See the history of Onikoyi above.

The significance of these Yoruba kingdoms are aptly captured by a popular Yoruba proverb thus: “Leyin Orun Olugbon, Orun Aresa, Orun OnIkoyi, Orun oun lori ile”. This proverb indicates that the sun (Orun) was used in the ancient times as symbol of power and authority; and the proverbs means that apart from the authority of Olugbon, of Aresa and of Onikoyi, there was no other authority on earth.1

Puppy love may last in some cases but matured love lasts much longer. Young love is like the first money a kid makes, she spends it all in candy stores. Looking back at those that marry their first love, many of them grow and mature into different people when they expect to grow together.

People around the same age see one another as mates, which they are. But in a family relationship, the old saying still holds. There can only be one Captain in a ship. The children watch and learn from the interaction of their parents. Respect and tolerance for one another is so important or lost when mothers and fathers compete for the love of their children. Usually, it is only a foolish father that competes for children with the wives. They hang on and belong to their mothers. Se o get?

Nature, as in the biological ticking clock, favors ladies that marry early. Life as community family support, favors those that marry later. By late, those that wait to learn the tools to be independent income earners through education, skills and training. Any man that married his childhood friends without those skills must be prepared to be house husbands, put up and support his skillful or trained wife with the hustling and bustling of normal life outside, to support her family.

Working ladies that support their families behave and act differently. Some are very proud that they make their husbands look good and will deny to their friends that they are the backbone or the financial support of the family. But other ladies would throw it in the face of their husbands whenever there is a problem. So ladies, like men, behave differently. If you are the type of man that chases women with your wife's Mercedes, you deserve some abuse short of mutilation we see these days, as if they own a slave.

Those ladies that waited to get a good education and acquire skill also face certain risk of not marrying early. The chances of missing out on the best time to have a baby, losing a few of her favorite friends as husband and later competing for younger men that prefer older ladies. It is a big task to overcome but better to be an old lady that could take care of herself later in life than one that would wait on her children to eat.

Families that married in their matured years after acquiring means of survival understand they need their husbands as reliable friends after the children are gone. Women must learn to live and tolerate their husbands just as husbands must respect their wives. The difference between an African in a polygamous relationship is the duty to take care of the women and their children. Better than those in serial monogamous relationships that left divorced wives to penury unless saved by prenuptial.

The ugly view of punishing an African man for having another lady by the new "liberated" women is alien to African culture. The liberated women of those days that ignored their husbands are faced with unanticipated challenges: their sons. They are better off if they can support themselves in their husbands' homes. Otherwise, they have to obey the curfew and rules their son set out for their families, if grannies live with them. They no longer live in your old house with your husbands. Remember now, you rejected any nonsense from your husbands, the same father of your son. Do not try that with your sons, unless you are self-sufficient. Some women have to take permission from their sons to get a visitor or for Girls Outing!

These liberated grandmothers were the favorites of both daughters and sons that are now welcomed to their Children's house at home or vacations abroad. The fathers, not so much. Fathers hardly obey their Children's curfew anyway. They would rather stay in the house they are used to. Mothers and grown children make plans for vacations and tickets before the fathers even know. If children decide to come back to their parents' home, mothers support them. Even if they stayed on their own and came back to raid the house for groceries and more, their mothers would support them. In the wealthy families, some of these married children retained their old rooms for their visits. Haba!

The old ladies that have "Old Girls Out", go to places in and out of town. If they are living with their children; they better ask for approval of their sons and make sure it does not violate his curfew rules. If it does, they risk being kicked out for some reasons including undiplomatic attitudes towards a daughter-in-law. So, if you thought your husband was controlling, wait until you move in with your son.

Most fathers know their place and hardly fight for the attention of their sons with the wives or the husbands of their daughters. But the mothers are the ones competing with the wives of their sons for the front seat in the car. Actually, some wives oblige mother-in-laws to the front seat and indignantly take the back seat in the car.

Please mothers, do not take it for granted. Some mother-in-laws have been rendered homeless if they had no place to go. Even when they have more than one child. When the children of a well known mother were confronted about the plight of their mother being homeless. They feigned ignorance and claimed they thought she was living with the other children.

Some children actually cam out candidly that the mothers could not get along with their wives, they were not wealthy enough to accommodate her or they had no stable homes to live either. Well old boy, country hard O. So, they blame it on the politicians!

Most people do not worry as much about homeless Dads. Children have all types of excuses against him: he had been too strict a disciplinarian, loved his favorite child more, spent more time with his friends, too many wives, cared more about his job and had an obsession with his job and making money. There is always a reason to blame the old man and many more to excuse their mother. So, there are warnings going round for fathers to save some money for their old age when all the blame is on them. It was the same advice given to women years back.

However, it is usually the same mothers that would come to the defense of their husbands that he meant well. A very good man that did all he could for the family. If you have been following, what would come out of mothers about their husbands would be the old lasting flame. Call it Puppy Love or Mature Love for the best friends the mothers ever had, their husbands.

Young Puppy Love Is Fun But Not Durable As Mature Love

Puppy love may last in some cases but matured love lasts much longer. Young love is like the first money a kid makes, she spends it all in candy stores. Looking back at those that marry their first love, many of them grow and mature into different people when they expect to grow together.

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Political assassination in Nigeria has become so common regardless of party affiliation; it makes one wonders who in his or her right mind would dare into such a dangerous game. There are "nest of killers" alright, but not in Lagos as if it is not part of Nigeria. They got Funso the same way they assassinated others. This has struck too close to home because Funso was a childhood friend. Politics never had a good name even in my childhood days. However, there is some good feeling when ordinary people like us go into politics. You feel being part of the system without really being involved.

I have never been close to Funso since those childhood days. But I was home when he was in the Lagos State Ministry of Works. He spent most of his career there as a senior civil servant until he became the Commissioner. We met at parties thrown by our friends. Yet, I had some reservation about going to him or anybody for anything. Our friends would always say Funso was in that ministry, in case you need a problem solved, I shied away. That he was there and if I need something, I could go to him was enough. It is the same feeling we all have in case of anything to know we have somebody there.

It should not be a surprise that he eventually went into politics. Funso peaked in his career very early and human beings always look for the next challenge in life. There is certain section of Lagos, especially those from Popo Aguda that always looked down on politics as the profession of Boma Boys. If you are well bred as Funso was, why would you go into politics? During one of his campaign, a mutual friend of ours asked me for donation. It boils down to the fact that we can not complain if we refuse the opportunity to serve and if we can not all serve, we should sponsor capable people.

Many of us were bitter that he lost to Tinubu. As people would later say, he was rigged out of that primary. How could Funso be rigged out in Lagos? Politics is a game of numbers. Needless to say, that is now history. Funso has been rigged out of life. They went to his house in the morning and ended his life. Is politics that important? How many people are they going to scare out of the race of the dogs?

I can see the silent majority reinstating their warning that politics is for the dogs, that is "ko si omoluwabi la rin won". In some cases, it works in reverse. For that reason, I hope many youths will see this as a reason to take control from these callous killers who will stop short of nothing to snuff the day light out of decent people. It is not a reason to give up but a reason to clean the animal stable.

Funso, we will miss you. Your accomplishment even in your boyish days will always be something our children will look up to. You came and you accomplished. Your time and your spirit will remain for ever. Every dog has his own day, that is, Kokumo, baba e da? May his soul rest in peace. Funso sun re o!

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Funso Williams Left Politics To the Dogs

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If this was ten years ago, planners that are sane should have prevented today's calamity.

Imagine another ten years, Nigerians will become the Slave Labor Market for the World, including in sane African countries!

It is not a curse but reality of today. Nigerians are selling to even the lowest bidder. Cry, cry for your country.

The end of the blame game is 707 ticket and visas. The rich are running out of the poor to eat, they are eating one another.

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Don’t Call Me An African

The cost of this self inflicted inferiority complex is enormous. It destroyed our economy and those of African communities in Diaspora. We do not patronize ourselves anymore turning us into consumers of other people’s services and products because subjectively, we see them as superior to ours. The minority middle class we want our image makers to celebrate push many to glaring crime, poverty and meager infrastructure foreigners see.

Many people take pride in being called Native or Indian American, Italian American, Irish American, and Polish American, etc but don’t dare call this black man African or African American. It was only yesterday he was called Negro and later graduated to black. It takes a while, please, to get adjusted to African or African American. A popular singer said: he is an American period; otherwise everybody is African American in man’s origin. Relatively, the denials are not that many but they heavily put Africans at economic peril.

One Trinidadian university student once told Stokely Carmichael all African slaves died in the sea. Stokely, an American Civil right activist born in Trinidad, said his ancestors must be seamen. At the same time, they claim we are all Africans, as long as black, white and green are included going back to the migration of man from the Continent. The comfort in it has to do with lack of inferiority complex attached to African origin of man. Black or African American is based on a sole African relationship. Socio-economic disarray within Africans, West Indians or African Americans disenfranchised us of economic power.

We also have those that just want to be called Nigerian, Jamaican, British, or American period – black, white or green. The complex shows with the way some protest against or how they deny any association with Africa, even in Africa. We have been cautioned that black Australians have never been associated with Africa and they would be mislabeled if called African. This is ignorance on their part since black Australians are fully related to Africans by geo-anthropology. Identity of the minds revolution across waters is overdue.

Informed Africans from Africa or Africans in America or Europe are not free from this form of inferiority complex either. Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba pride themselves as Oyinbo, Fulani, Jews, Aje-butter, Akada or Adaka. So they patronize or kill for the goods, services and religion not theirs. “Colonial mentality” passed on to kids discouraged to speak local native languages at ages best suited for bilingual training. The freed slaves brought back to Liberia assumed different culture to the indigenes. The same is true in East African where some refer to their Arabian ancestors, even with darker skin than Africans.

African freed slaves from Brazilian quarters in Lagos and other coastal cities in Nigeria still refer to countries they have never been while those in the North, Central and South American and Arab world struggle to keep their culture closer to the point of their great grand/parents departure. So it is not unusual to hear an African Diaspora dialect difficult to catch. A perfect Yoruba may sound archived to the new generation in home Country.

Therefore this inferiority complex is not limited to Africans in Diaspora but to some of us at home. We know the basic reason some downplay our association with the so called “Dark Continent”. While the candidacy of Obama in America brought pride to Africans including tiny Basra in Iraq, it created envy between Africans just coming from home and some that have been there before Columbus without their chance to be President.

The factor of inferiority complex and first come first served, in combination, bring out discomfort rarely seen in others from Germany, Poland or Russia. The Irish American welcome Irish from old Country and so do Italians and others but when it comes to West Indians and Africans in America, there is some uneasiness spreading the welcome mat.

Africans in Africa are just the opposite. Their welcome mat for Africans from Diaspora is so long, those who have lived abroad and experience opposite treatment from African Americans become envious. If you wonder why we were so readily taken slaves by the missionaries and re-discoverer, it is because we generally treat strangers well.

The opposite is true in the case of those we patronize even when their products and services are not superior. Until recently American cars are the norm in United States and those buying foreign cars are seen as either unpatriotic or so rich, foreign cars was one of their fleet of cars. Politicians would sell their foreign made cars before contesting for elections. Workers of auto plants could be fired for buying foreign cars for some other excuses. These biases have diminished but are coming back with the recession.

Foreign auto makers got smarter and stated to build and assemble, manufacture car and truck in the USA. Not only has jobs been created in for the locals any bias against foreign cars and services has divided the communities between American makers and foreign plants in the Country. In Nigeria, where foreign contracts reigns, they left local assembly plants to purchased cars overseas until our assembly plants closed. Self hatred is suicide.

From self inflicted inferiority complex to loss of business in the African communities to loss of jobs within consumers of other people’s products that are makers of none. The best contracts in African countries have foreign taste. In African American communities, even sneakers are not made there but the advertisers are African American sport heroes pushing products and services outside their communities like African politicians.

The basis of our economic problems that turns us into consumers of other peoples’ products and manufacturers of nothing was demonstrated as far back in the fifties when African children in the United States prefer white baby dolls to black baby dolls. CNN’s Anderson Cooper replicated the same studies 60 years later and still found the same results. We cannot blame the white society for pushing their products and services in their best interest. The fact that same study still apply to our children in Africa or in Diaspora shows that we do not buy in our own interest. Self-discrimination is economic.

Since we hate what we produce, we pay with the little we are given for raw materials.

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Farouk Martins Aresa

27/10/2010

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Minority Health Workers Are Pushed To Covid-19 Deaths Abroad

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Why is Covid-19 killing Minorities doctors abroad where they are better equipped than in Africa? Yet more African health workers are ready to jump into airplanes arranged by the same unsrewpolous Agents that sold naive youths to Arab countries as body parts, prostitutes, slaves and househelps. If these youths are greedy half illiterates, what do you call our trained doctors?

Let us face it, many of us are looking for greener pastures because capital expenditure that could have created a livable environment at home are used for personal emoluments of our political leaders. Their salaries are so high in Nigeria, no politicians even in the United States, the richest country comes close.

Therefore, all the professionals and other workers think they are poorly paid since they shop in the same market as their politicians. Moreover, these politicians shop abroad with laundered money. They and their children relish the display of conspicuous spending everywhere including social media in disguise for how God has blessed them for working hard!. As a result, many Youths jump at the lure of promised opportunity to work in Britain and the United States in order to earn what they could not at home.

Even if we give a copy of Treasury keys politicians have to those bent on leaving for overseas, it will not stop them. We will only encourage them to launder as much money as they possibly can. If they had the brain to improve their own environment, they would not be running abroad using any and every opportunity they get. It has more to do with ready-made convenience than building their country up: Surulere v. Olorunsogo.

Instead, come out clean that a country like Kenya or Nigeria does not have the income of the United States to support such outlandish salaries. Kenya cut salaries after outcry. But Nigeria politicians could not let the outrageous salaries go. So they started borrowing outside to pay unsustainable emoluments. They are ready to sell the country to foreigners while they and their children relocate to foreign countries. It does not matter how they get there.

We should not be surprised that African Youths argue ignorantly to justify jumping into the desert, sea, planes and ships without visas at the risk of their lives. It is even sadder that some of those that are exposed to adversities and suffering abroad send pictures and videos home lying about how lucky and great they are. Pointing out realities to them is pointless when they see Sakawa boys like Hushppupi, Invictus Obi, Nana Wan or Criss Waddle.

Angola and Nigeria kleptomaniacs made more money from oil that hardly benefits their masses. Some of the Youths have given up while the others resign to crime and corruption as the way out of poverty. They are only waiting for their own turns to loot. No allocation of money from anywhere for any project or to any destination is safe. There are too many waiting to strike first and embezzle. If they cannot get one chance, they are bailing out of Africa no matter what they do outside. The problem is many jump from fry pan to fire.

However, how do we explain the same risk or anger from the children of politicians and their cronies that are still plugging African countries, looting and laundering money out. Their children cry louder after African resources have been wasted to train them in the best professions and schools all over the world. The irony of blaming the poverty in the land being created by their parents is staggering. If their parents had used the same resources to improve infrastructure, there would be less youths risking their lives to venture out.

One of the best answers given by a South African nurse for traveling out claimed she made enough money to send to her parents, send her brothers and sisters to medical and nursing schools back home. In order words, by venturing out, she was able to triple what she could for her family than staying home.

Indeed, we can say the same about missionaries, explorers and foreign Investors making killer profits in Africa than anywhere else. They make enough money for their services in Africa to retire early in luxury in Europe and America. Even a mercenary in Africa takes certain risks to make much more fighting in Africa than a subsistence living at home with all the freedom taunted.

While Africans go abroad to make enough money to live from one paycheck to another like most of their hosts, Europeans, Asians and Americans come to Africa for fortune to live in luxury they never imagined in their countries. The difference between cheap and inflated salaries for labor.

However, if coronavirus is hitting Britain’s minority doctors harder and dying more, you are useless to yourself, your families and your Countries. Twenty- seven out of the 29 doctors who have died of covid-19 in the UK were ethnic minorities, most born overseas according to the British Medical Association. www.washingtonpost.com May 20, 2020. It is mere hypocrisy that the "grim toll has confounded health experts, alarmed minority physicians, and startled a nation that relies on immigrants to swell the ranks of its public health-care system".

It sounds like those health experts in the United States trying to explain why blacks that make up only 13% of their population, die at a higher rate or more of them in correctional institutions than whites. They blame underlying pre-existing medical conditions. The same endemic risks these new African immigrants are going to face.

If you are looking for international fame that will translate to wealth, discover or produce something at home that can compete with international products and name your price. No matter how much you wish to be like them, copy them or bleach your brain white, you can never be them, the real thing is your unique self.

These young professionals that are fleeing African countries always complain that their laboratories at home are not well equipped for them to make 21st century discoveries in Arts and Sciences. The fallacy of that narrow excuse is that African countries have the biggest laboratory in the world - Bush. The same Bush and jungle that foreigners come and discover pharmaceutical products that turn them into multi- billion companies and billionaires. Our youths are too busy cramming for foreign examinations instead of searching for discoveries at home.

By Farouk Martins Aresa
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