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 Politics › Re: Ancient Africans Were Writers by jara(op): 4:22pm On Oct 23, 2016 |
https://www.nairaland.com/1829695/aroko-yoruba-hieroglyphics. These two articles should be expanded and distributed for African children to learn in school. They are being bombarded by barbarians that they have no history or writings sophisticated enough to those who adapted and adopted Nubian and Egyptian writings. |
| Politics › Re: Ancient Africans Were Writers by jara(op): 5:20am On Oct 23, 2016 |
They have more pressing needs like their share of national cake. |
| Politics › Ancient Africans Were Writers by jara(op): 9:50pm On Oct 22, 2016 |
ANCIENT AFRICANS WERE WRITERS Ancient Africans had artists that were prolific writers on almost everything they could get their hands on including human bodies, slate, rock, caves, potteries, trees, mud and sand. Though the knowledge was confined to some classes and royal houses passed down along those lines, enough record and evidence remain that survived unstable nature of the rain forest until today. http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/08/08/11-ancient-african-writing-systems-demolish-myth-black-people-illiterate/9/ Many African scholars find it hypocritical that while some colleagues and Africanists have been forced to acknowledge Iwo Eleru 10,000 B.C, ancient iron, terracotta, 8000-year-old ancient boat of Dafuna and black Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, they still hold on to the misconception that the ancient black Africans were not “sophisticated” enough or even meet their criteria to put down their civilization in writing. It is one thing to be ignorant of what you cannot read, another to deny it completely. Is it logical that ancient Yoruba counted in thousands but could not read! While Africanists diffidently accept Meroe writing most cannot read or understand, there are many more writings on the staff of Oranmiyan, Idi, Ifa in Ile-Ife Western Nigeria and Nsipidi among the Efik of Eastern Nigeria. We see some of the most striking African writings on arms, bellies, backs and faces to relating back to the place of origin or to identify classes of the nobles and warriors. They are derided as less than hieroglyphs or expression of thought and process. Differences are made between pictures, signs and writings. If they stand alone as structures they pass as pictures but when crowded together, they can pass as writing. Anyone ignorant of Arab or Chinese writing may wonder if they are pictures when separated. The same is true of musical writing or other writings some are unaware of. A writer of these letters or languages may put them together easily while others may see them as pictures, individually. What many call tattoos on the bodies are scarification to others and if they convey thoughts and processes, they are writings many cultures used to communicate. Over the centuries, many of these different forms of writings have been simplified on materials that do not fade or are not easily destructible. The ease of writing numbers in Roman figures or Arabic figure is a case in point. Indeed, living language are still being shortened to make it easier and faster to write. It is interesting that archeologists and anthropologists interpret African artifacts into modern form of writing but missed the interpretation of its original writings, no matter how crude they find them to translate. It is much easier if these are found in signs and pictures than to interpret some musical or Greek alphabet they cannot understand when scribbled together. This is why it is surprising that in the year 2000, we are not devoting enough research to African writings. Senegalese-born Cheikh Anta Diop (1923 – 1986) is an exceptional scholar without whom many African cultures could have been lost forever. The blame must start with African scholars. Some spend their whole academic life studying other cultures and languages except theirs. While it is true that funds and research grants are harder to get for Africa’s study, we must remember scholars like Diop that used his foreign training to advance African cultures and languages. Professor Babatunde Fafunwa (23 September 1923 – 11 October 2010). A Nigerian advocated that school children should be educated in their native language first in order to facilitate their thought processes making it easier to learn other languages and subjects. Their thinking and logic become easier to adapt for invention and discoveries locally. This is how children that cannot speak a word of English or French become great scientists and Nobel prize winners. Most of the mineral or oil rich countries in Africa, export foreign currencies they do not print or mint. Whatever is paid to them in foreign currency for their crude diamond, gold, oil or uranium is exported back to those paying countries to acquire gadgets, cars and mansions they hardly live in but kept for their families and friends while foreign taxes are paid to maintain schools they ignore in their home countries. More foreign currencies legally leave Africa than come in. These are funds that could benefit research, discoveries, inventions and infrastructure at home. Funds that could be used to improve schools so that gifted children with God-given talents that lack the opportunities children of the rich have, could use to benefit their communities. African politicians would rather donate U.S dollars to foreign universities in return for award they could showcase. This is how we stifle our culture and deny future generation of their place in history. African children today can hardly speak their native languages. The rich, famous and politicians train their children outside Africa. Actually, many of the children at home speak English, French or Portuguese as their first language and communicate with their parents in those languages. It shows class and prestige in Africa. Those that do their best to make sure their kids speak their languages have a daunting task. Many of their children answer them in foreign languages. If we are losing a whole generation of African speakers and many of them are highly educated, who are going to interpret ancient Africa writings? Indeed, many Nigerian colleges do not teach history anymore despite the plea of informed Africans that the repercussion on our life, culture and language will be devastating. Aiyelala, Chi and Nemesis will catch up with us. Let us face it, some African countries have been lucky and blessed. It is not enough. What we do with what we have, no matter how small or great in that limited time will dictate the future of the next generation. As we squander their future endeavors, Aiyelala is watching. This is why we always say that until Africans clean up their act and help themselves, nobody will help us. Indeed, no African will be respected anywhere until Africans make their own progress at home. Oil, diamond, gold or uranium may be located in certain part of a country, within one or more ethnic groups, it will not matter much to the next generation of African children. The country, group or people that squander our resources will be held responsible for shaming African children around the world. After all creation of boundaries and countries were made for the benefit of colonial masters not for the benefit of the local African people. Yoruba of the Western Nigeria lead the world in civilized co-existence among people regardless of their religion by the old definition of civilization and they do have ancient writings. Some will continue to deny ancient Africa writings until more scholars like Diop rise up everywhere. Farouk Martins Aresa |
| Politics › Re: Only Little People Pay Taxes Politicians & Corporate Bums Do Not by jara(op): 12:54pm On Oct 09, 2016 |
mikolo80:. Again, you are right. If you cannot beat them, join them. But verily I say onto you, one day these politicians and their cronies will have no poor people to exploit but themselves. Dog will eat dogs. Just look at what Nigeria has turned into. From a promising regional power in the 60s to a basket case today where the main export are American dollars, British pounds and Euro by Vagabonds while new generation flee and die across the sea and desert. |
| Politics › Re: Only Little People Pay Taxes Politicians & Corporate Bums Do Not by jara(op): 3:16am On Oct 09, 2016 |
mikolo80:At least you are honest! People like politicians bite and blow. Corporate bums beat their chests and hide money outside the reach of taxman. |
| Politics › Only Little People Pay Taxes Politicians & Corporate Bums Do Not by jara(op): 9:29pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
Only Little People Pay Taxes Politicians & Corporate Bums Do Not Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana came before Bernie Sanders in United States. But between both was Canadian David Lewis, NDP Leader from 1971 to 1975. In 1972 Lewis published one of the most insightful book called Corporate Welfare Bums on how the system is rigged against people that really carry the society by working for less while paying more taxes. The rich and powerful are called job creators. Yet, without purchasing demands of working class, little jobs will be created. Lagos State tax collectors have demonstrated how taxes from little people and small businesses can be harnessed into mega pool while the powerful politicians collect their percentage, salary and allowance. All the public projects built by our taxes are publicized and propagated as favors for the working-class. When other Nigerians and Africans come to Lagos, it is so easy to fall into the same trap; asking Lagosians to be grateful. Since their own governors achieved far less. Donald Trump gave African politicians a boast recently when it was discovered why he would not release his taxes for years. He is an astute businessman alright, indeed he is called a genius for writing off almost a billion dollars in taxes in 1995, so that he would not pay a kobo for the next 15 to 20 years. How could a genius businessman lose almost a billion in business in 1 year? Like African politicians, Mr. Trump shafted his Government, workers, suppliers, contractors and even those that contributed to his charity. It is called Other Peoples’ Money! He admitted that the system is crooked and rigged against the little people and just like Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, he is the one in the best position to fix it. After all, cyber hackers are so respected today, you need them to prevent others from hawking into government and banking systems! In other words, the rich and the powerful at the top are trained formally or informally in some of the best schools around the world on how to tweak the tax system so that most of the hard work of the working class flow to them in terms of profits, deductions, special land concessions, tax-free zones, credits for employing some workers and outright stealing! European Union EU claimed that the tax deal with Ireland allowed Apple to pay almost zero tax on European profits between 2003 and 2014. As if these are not enough, they learn how to hide their money outside the country, out of reach of the taxman. Does Panama Papers ring a bell? Since they call themselves job-creators, they blackmailed governments to give them the lion share of forex, otherwise they would close factories. They intentionally source raw materials far from home so that they could take money out of the country. In other cases, they source their factory where they can get the cheapest labor. As productivity goes up, they refuse to share the returns with the workers and reap off the profits, setting workers angers at the wrong place. It gets to a point where the working class has been sucked dry after losing the only jobs they are used to. Instead of leveling with them that technology and innovation have replaced their jobs, they blame it on politics as a way to get elected; promising to create more of the jobs they know, no longer existed. Instead of encouraging these working class to train for new technology in free community colleges they rail against, keep them ignorant as their best source of votes. What is more annoying is all the projections from Corporate Welfare Bums on the working class and the poor. They get labelled as welfare queen and bums if they steal food or more than the welfare checks and get blamed for the intentional misdeeds of their bosses and in many cases for reckless misappropriation by the chief executives. If anything goes wrong, banks and other corporate firms lay off their lowest workers first while they retain fat bonuses. We saw these foreign practices in Nigerian banks like Society General of the Saraki(s) and old banks like that of Akinbola in the defunct Intercontinental Bank. Like many others, they got away scot-free after some legal akabradoes. Young ladies in the bank were crying for years that executives were basically prostituting them to bring in customers with big deposits. Many of them could only get paid tiny percentage of the money the moneybags deposited. Is that a job? Deutsche Bank's is under investigation in the United States. Wells Fargo executives were similarly exposed during Committee hearings by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. They forced bank tellers to open fake multiple accounts for their customers so that they could increase their shares and take large bonuses at the top. When malpractices came into open, the executives blamed the bank tellers for what they ordered their workers to do and fired them. Now you know where African politicians, bankers and other business men and women learned their trade secrets from. Since these people get away with it in countries where there are so called law and order, you can imagine how they have squeezed the hell out of us in developing countries when they partnered up with our local politicians as foreign portfolio investors. They of course, give us all types of economic theories about the need for foreign investments. Politicians love the ignorant and the uneducated people because they can be easily swayed and often vote against their own interests. As long as they receive crumbs in form of “free” bags of rice, garri and corn, they are happy. They give them as little as possible to keep them on leach so that they can come back for more. They keep their salary low, so that they do not get too comfortable. It is their way of keeping the poor and workers coming back looking for more. Nigerian politicians make more money in salaries and allowances than other politicians in the world. Yet nobody asks or query them about how much they pay in taxes. Ask anyone of them how they accumulate so much money, they usually claim their wealth is from their businesses. If business is so good and profitable, we wonder why the country has not shared out their prosperity. The fact is most of them only give honest business men and women a bad name. This is why David Lewis called them Corporate Welfare Bums. People that know how to milk and manipulate the system to their advantage. If ordinary folks try to follow their footsteps, most of us would land in jail. There is nothing miraculous or ingenious about the rich and the privileged. They are simply allowed to milk the system unchecked. This is why another Real Estate magnate Leona Helmsley said Only Little People Pay Tax. http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/only-little-people-pay-taxes-corporate-bums-do-not.html 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Recession Is Adequate Reason To Cut Politicians Outrageous Pay by jara(op): 7:46pm On Sep 19, 2016 |
The only problem is: pay cut for politicians has never caught fire up to the point of action, strikes or demonstrations. So politicians remain comfy. |
| Politics › Recession Is Adequate Reason To Cut Politicians Outrageous Pay by jara(op): 11:23pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
Recession Is Adequate Reason To Cut Politicians Outrageous Pay [b]Is anyone serious about cutting politicians’ outrageous salaries and allowance? If this recession is not enough reason to deflate an economy that was pumped up by corruption for so many years, it is very difficult to see what else it would take. Sending that message alone would have reciprocal effect on the economy, driving inflation and prices of goods and services down so that poor people at the bottom of the salary leader can increase their purchasing power with the little they make. We are constantly reminded of how stupid we are by the flamboyant and flagrant display of conspicuous spending our politicians and their families display at home and abroad. Dino Malaye even went as far as United States to display his house, Lamborghini and Ferrari. He is not the only one, the children of these politicians used expensive and exotic cars for drag racing on the streets of Kaduna in broad daylight. On a few occasions, pedestrians and owners of modest jalopies have got caught resulting in fatalities.[/b] These politicians and members of their families export bundles of British pounds and American dollars out of Nigeria, a country that neither print British pounds nor mint American dollars but always in abundance in the hands of the privileged and connected. Many of these people have never worked for a dollar in their life. Yet, in Nigeria, they guzzle foreign currencies. It has never made sense, in the first place for politicians to tag their salary on unstable commodity like oil sold at various prices in unstable markets. In order to drain income from natural resources, politicians made up a body to determine their own salaries. It should not be a surprise then that they jacked up their own salaries higher than the rest of the world’s politicians. Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission’s formula is nothing but a fraud in disguise to take care of one another. The same RMAFC can be used to cut politicians’ salaries in order to reflect the amount of income coming into the country. It did not take our votes to raise politicians’ salaries and there is no need for one to cut the same salaries. This is important since we know many of the politicians will hide behind democracy, rule of law and invoke all kinds of legalities to keep their salaries uncut. Indeed, by keeping quiet, the masses are already encouraging them. Noises are made, politicians just wait for us to pipe down. This is the best opportunity for most responsible government to check inflated prices and outrageous salaries at the same time. Cutting excess funds poured into the market by the vagabonds may cause recession but it will also cut inflation in the market. It can be a win-win situation because the masses will see that leaders are punishing those that fall on surplus money they cannot account for while curbing inflation and workers’ salary demands. Right now there is famine in the land. It is not only the poor that are going without food and abandoning their families out of shame because they cannot sustain them. Many responsible people that paid their dues by going to school, had good jobs in the government or private firms are not getting their monthly pays or being laid off. Many have to improvise by buying and selling whatever they can. But all of us cannot become sellers where there are no buyers to patronize one another. Workers are always in a vicious circle of trying to catch up with inflation. As prices go out of control, especially driven by those with excess salaries and allowances shopping in the same market as the poor families, the poor will demand more money. Right now the price of a bag of rice and other basic food are more than workers’ salary in a month. This is what fuel corruption at the lower level, that is, trying to subsidize the monthly incomes with other means of bribes. Many people have indicated that this recession can be a blessing in disguise forcing most of us to cut our coat according to our sizes. In order to achieve that goal, salaries at the top must come down creating a ripple effect throughout the market. We had austerity measures in the past when real patriots, not vagabonds, managed our financial houses. In those days we never made so much money from oil but local use and outside demands for our agriculture kept our local currency strong. Since the boom in oil production, foreign forces have demanded devaluation of our currency in order to reduce our purchasing power in international markets. African economy has always depended on what western economy wants us to produce and sell from the days of cocoa, groundnuts, palm oil and coal to the crude oil, the so called black gold. They have always dictated the price except for a brief period in the 70s when oil cartel sprung up and dictated their own price. Nkrumah had tried with cocoa but failed. When you feed meat to a cat, you do not expect it to let go. Politicians will not give up their salaries even if the country goes into coma and the foreign income dries up; unless the people stand up to them. This is why they brush it aside each time an uproar is raised about their obscene salary. They just sit on it and wait for the dust to blow over while the common people are owed their minimum wages. There is no specific law that demands citizens to justify their standard of living, even if they live above their means. They have to be either in the wrong party, offend someone, squeal on or report one another if their loot was not shared amicably. In other cases, politicians open accounts for their house boys or girls, drivers and relatives with or without their knowledge. These accounts are loaded with billions. These are monies that should be circulating in the market in the hands of the masses that will spend it locally on basic sustenance like food and shelter. Juicy contracts that used to provide income for many have dried up because most of them have no basis in need in the first place. Houses are built and left empty for years because there are no tenants ready to pay what is demanded. The money that built most of these houses were looted funds without any urgency for repayment. If these were money borrowed from banks, owners would accept reasonable rent in order to make payments on their mortgages. The same is true of many small businesses. Many people get government contracts but by the time they give kick-backs to those that gave them the contracts, there is no way they would have enough to complete the project; resulting in uncompleted projects all over the country. There is nothing new here, it has been going on for too long. Until somebody stands up and put a stop to unnecessary contracts and kick-backs that are so repugnant, nothing and nobody will stop them. It is unreasonable to call an economy driven by corruption as a buoyant market. But if corruption is checked and looters are afraid to make conspicuous spending, blame the cooling on fear of spending. This is how we encourage politicians to engage in frivolous display of wealth. People must learn that we cannot support our economy false sense of aggrandizement based on corruption. Sooner or later, the bottom will fall out in the face of all of us. Those that escape outside the country may find out that a fool and his money will soon part leaving them exposed to the whim and caprices of their hosts. Do not cut your bridges needed for comeback. Read more: http://newsrescue.com/recession-adequate-reason-cut-politicians-outrageous-pay-farouk-martins-aresa/#ixzz4KeGv0A1i |
| Politics › Re: Annual Report Of 1914: Palm Oil Highest Revenue Earner by jara: 1:08pm On Sep 10, 2016 |
Very soon you are going ask for evidence or claim that only the EAST produce PALM WINE! Is there any part of the West without palm trees? In which country did you grow up? Ikechukwu48: 6 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Annual Report Of 1914: Palm Oil Highest Revenue Earner by jara: 10:45pm On Sep 09, 2016 |
Please note very well that most of the oil shipped through Lagos were coming from the West including some from what is later known as Mid-West. Part Harcourt and Calabar were also seaport for oil coming from the East and part of Midwest closer to them. So most of Lagos palm oil came from the West. The total of what you guys are quoting came from all of Nigeria. Note that Nigeria was the highest producer of palm oil before we default to Indonesia lately since of the curse of crude oil. You guys need to stop beating your chest and as usual claiming credit for resources coming from all of Southern Nigeria. Ikechukwu48: 16 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Don't Look Up To Diaspora For Saviors by jara(op): 8:17pm On Sep 02, 2016 |
Don't Look Up To Diaspora For Saviors If Africans at home cannot save themselves, nobody will. We are always looking up to Heaven for manna and saviors instead of looking within us for help. Well, we are now shifting that task to African children in Diaspora. Some of us are so desperate in rage because of the unrealistic expectation placed on our children abroad as if they do not have enough to deal with. They are supposed to get into politics like Israelis, as some have already done: free Africa from demons. This is such an unrealistic burden on poor children trying to survive and accomplish against all odds in Europe and America with all the obstacles placed in their ways. The whole premise may sound optimistic and knocking it may sound pessimistic but empirical evidence already dictates that we have produced politicians in Europe including Russia and some in America. The notion that they can pass for whites like Israelis and come home to lead our rescue so farfetched. The best way to illustrate it is by looking at the most successful African politician in Diaspora. Who else but Obama! Was there anything Obama could have done to save Kenya in particular and Africa in general? History dictates a little. Even returned slaves created classes as in Liberia. Before going into how difficult it is, it is pertinent to know the difference between individual and collective achievement. The first has never been in doubt while collective achievement has always eluded us for variety of reasons after the Independent fighters of the 60s. Indeed, as this writer has emphasized many times, until Africans at home achieve economic independence or salvation and start producing for themselves and others, no black man or woman will be respected anywhere in the world. The place to look up to our children is right in an environment where they live, breed and privileged. Fascination with everything outside our environment has given us the notion that survival is easier where we struggle against all odds. Individual achievements should reinforce our confidence that there is nothing wrong with us. Using enabling environment for lack of achievement is another mechanism for excuse why we cannot succeed at home. By putting the enormous pressure on our children outside as if our children inside Africa cannot achieve what will move Africa forward is self-defeating. It even encourages our children at home to look up to Diaspora for salvation. So they take to the sea! Indeed, anyone that can afford it, steal or borrow the money, educate their children outside by giving up on the educational system at home instead of fighting to improve it for the majority that cannot afford to escape. We have set up our expectation, psyche and prospect for failure inside our own environment. Not only is this dangerous for our future, it has compromised our culture, behavior and outlook. Yet, nobody in Diaspora will give us privileges we left at home. Any African in Diaspora that has achieved some success in a leadership position as a manager must have had some influence on policies. The most frustrating part is how to use that policy to move his or her people forward without losing (i.e. fired) for pursuing agenda more favorable to the minority. It is such a tenuous and frustrating position for managers promoting diversity. You pay a price for mentoring your people left behind in the ghetto, in dead-end jobs, under-employed and frustrated. One of the most frustrating situation our children find themselves after being accepted and graduating from Ivy League schools is looking around to see that majority of those left behind without an offer into that prestigious hospital, law firm and Wall Street; are children of color. Obama couldn’t secure a prestigious job; settled as a social worker. Even then, some of our children get the big offers. The advice to those ones is to save all the money they could because their time with those firms may not be as long as that of their colleagues. When these reputable firms sneeze, our children are the first to catch a cold. Those that have managed to hang on, have variety of stories to tell on what they had to do. Africans place so much premium on degrees, they forget that it is what you do with it that matters, not necessarily displaying it to collect dust. In the words of one activist, once the white man gives you an education, what you do with it is up to you. Those of us that went back home to use it were lucky. Today, African countries can’t guarantee employment for most graduates produced by the universities. Skill plumbers, iron or oil workers contribute as much if not more! We are short of skilled workers needed for infrastructure but not Diaspora degree graduates if they want to go back to Africa to contribute. Those that have secured opportunities in Diaspora would not do anything to jeopardize their positions including putting the interest of Africa first above that of their firms or countries. The same way their parents in Diaspora would not give up their two or three jobs. It’s the only way many are seen as the most successful of all blacks! Coming back to Obama. Some driving force in his country, no matter how small, that took over the command of a major political Party: refused to accept him as American. Not only did they refuse, they publicly vowed they would do anything to make sure he failed. Obama worked against all odds and brought United States from the worst economic recession since depression to the number one most successful economy in the world. It was not enough! Nevertheless, they paint his achievements a failure. Every program he proposed to elevate the poor, they struck down including the ones they supported in the past like rebuilding decaying infrastructure. After cutting the unemployment to about five percent and that of blacks by half, they blame him for their systemic discrimination that kept 25% of blacks in poverty. The same people that put disproportional percentage of native American, blacks and Hispanic in a bind are blaming it on Obama. The point here is Obama, the most successful African child in America has his work cut out for him. Expecting him to lift up Africa or African Americans just because he is the President of United States is myopic and too much expectation from those that do not understand the intricacies of western culture and democracy. Freedom is overrated Africans in each country have to wake up and wrestle their economies away from vagabonds that call themselves politicians. If they do not lead, no African children in Diaspora or people of goodwill can do any better. Even if they come home and try, they will be frustrated out as those that tried before them and ran out. Too-knows! Only those at home know how to stone devils. Farouk Martins Aresa http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/dont-look-up-to-diaspora-for-saviors.html |
| Politics › Buhari Nor Dey Hia Word - Fire Go Burn You by jara(op): 4:57pm On Aug 01, 2016 |
Buhari Nor Dey Hia Word - Fire Go Burn You When you are so cocky under a false sense of security, you forget to learn from past mistakes as if Presidential means of government in a democracy does not have checks and balances. The United States Congress almost removed a President by impeachment over consensual sex by a man they despised with abuse of power. Before Obasanjo’s preposterous 3rd term saga, they were going to impeach him when he demanded salary and allowance cut for political looters. Rawlings was very popular when he overthrew the military government in Ghana but he later overstayed his welcome. He has since become an embarrassment trying to sneak his wife in as a democratic elected President. There is something wrong with Africans once they assume power; they figure there is nobody else, as capable around them. Just look at Mugabe trying to sneak his wife in as the next President in Zimbabwe at his old age of 80s. Buhari must have forgotten how and why he became the President. Give Buhari his dues, he is kicking the butts of Boko Haram; pledging allegiance to ISIS did not helped them. While many Nigerians claim he is fighting selective war on corruption, he gave them more ammunition with the latest exceptions of Burantai and Dambazzau that are implicated; not only in arm deals but made billions from the Army and bought extravagant properties in Dubai and Massachusetts. It is not enough to claim they were trying to soil men around him without evidence because he had lost some credibility as he vouched for Abacha on stealing on one hand, then asking foreign government to return Abacha’s loot on the other hand. He would have been well advised to sacrifice a few crooks around him, as OBJ did with his friends giving Ribadu some bragging right. Fighting corruption and leaking the potency of Boko Haram are strong advantages to capitalize on. The same weakness we saw in him during his first coming as military head of state is reappearing again. This is flagrant disregard for those crying marginalization. It is not coming from those that voted against him alone. It is also coming from those that voted for him and continue to support him hoping he succeeds. It will be devastating for his supporters and embolden his distractors if he stubbornly continues to ignore his blind spots. Most leaders have blind spots especially if surrounded by jobbers from one ethnic or similar ethnic group. This is how Jonathan lost it or how Buhari got an opportunity to assume leadership. It is no more a blind spot when pointed out but deliberate indifference. Buhari has so much goodwill like Jonathan did coming into presidency, there is a growing fear among those who supported him and assured him into presidency that he might lose all the goodwill by being stubborn and blindly appointing “yes” men and women from the North to carry out his agenda regardless of Federal Character. This attitude may become his poisoned pill before he loses most of his followers in the South. Buhari may have secured his power base to make sure people like Babangida or Tinubu cannot overthrow him by military means. However, IMPEACHMENT is a probability for abuse by those that do not wish him well. There are many of them for a few reasons: one of which is his fight against corruption. It is no longer a secret that corrupt powerful men fight back. Yet, Buhari has the support of the majority of Nigerians behind him in this endeavor. Unfortunately, Northern dominated Government is not an unusual habit of Northern leaders. We used to have activists and rebels like Gani Fawehinmi, Tai Solarin; then Wole Soyinka and Balarabe that are too old to be as vibrant as they used to be. But we still have Falana, Agbokoba etc. facing worse abuse of power, trust and treasury than we ever had. Impunity to loot in years 2000s has surpassed all time high. This is why Buhari still has our support to fight corruption. If he fails by thinking only cliques made up of Northerners can solve all these, Buhari is in for a shocker with the only power his enemies have, which is impeachment. When we were growing up, you can trust Hausa because they are honest, you can trust Igbo because they are hard working and you can rely on Yoruba for accommodation and tolerance because more jobs in manufacturing, professional and academic openings were located in their region. Not anymore. Hausa have become greedy looters as Yoruba and Igbo. Even worse is that the source of income is mostly from Niger Delta. Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo with any conscience must know that Nigeria cannot afford to pay outrageous salaries and allowances while the source of income continues to dwindle. When other regions see Buhari appointing Northerners with impunity to positions cornering most source of government income, it creates resentments. What Buhari should be doing is reducing these position and cutting salaries of the high and the mighty in leadership positions, not creating and filling more positions with less income coming in to pay more of his appointees whose goal is to loot. Daily announcements of these cronies to loot, fuels militant demands from other ethnic groups, not only from Niger Delta. Despite these, we have Audu Ogbeh, minister of Agriculture promising to solve the problem of herdsmen invading other people’s farms killing, maiming and raping their women while Buhari ignore their cry even in the North-central by claiming these are not Nigerians but Libyans! Such lame excuses from the head of state only fuels suspicion as indifference to their plights. No one wants him to make enemies out of his people, but he must stand up for justice and fairness. Buhari will find himself to blame when his enemies and supporters that voted for him find some common ground to bring up Notice of Impeachment. The compromise he will need then would be costlier than the one to pre-empt marriage of convenience between foes and supporters. http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/you-nor-dey-hia-word-fire-go-burn-you.html |
| Food › Re: Check Out The Food I Just Prepared For The Week (A Nairaland Bachelor) by jara: 6:25pm On Jul 23, 2016 |
It true that there are things we eat without nutritional value, again palm oil is not one of those as I pointed out earlier. Palm oil has nutritional, medicinal and economic values. Everything must be in moderation. Some cities around the world has declared sugar as poison, yet there are very few food without sugar. We know stock fish has no national value even in the native countries but we enjoy it in Nigeria. Cassava bread has more nutritional value than fine white bread that cause diabetes like sugar, yet Nigerians insist on white bread. |
| Food › Re: Check Out The Food I Just Prepared For The Week (A Nairaland Bachelor) by jara: 5:27pm On Jul 23, 2016 |
Who told you guys palm oil has no nutritional value? It a good source of vitamin A. It is rich in good cholesterol but watch for bad cholesterol as well, so in moderation. Palm oil has no need for hydrogenation needed to make butter and many food you buy solid because palm oil can stay naturally solid. Palm oil is used in many world food you consume for that purpose. So it also has economic value for such countries as Indonesia that has surpass Nigeria in production and as export, even to Nigeria where they got it from. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: France Can Learn How To Subdue Terrorists From Nigeria by jara(op): 5:53pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
Give the devil its due. The author made it clear that Buhari other policies is for anther day. He also credited Jonathan and Yaradua. |
| Politics › France Can Learn How To Subdue Terrorists From Nigeria by jara(op): 1:40pm On Jul 16, 2016 |
FRANCE CAN LEARN HOW TO SUBDUE TERRORISTS FROM NIGERIA The world sympathizes and cries with France for the continual loss of innocent lives in the hands of terror. Nigeria has also paid dearly from the atrocities of Boko Haram, one of the deadliest perpetrators of terrors in the world. Indeed, fighting religious and militia terrorists in Nigeria have occupied the last three Administrations. Each of these Administrations has been able to secure some reasonableness of peace against terrorists while paying dearly. The common strategy in each case is the involvement and cooperation of their people, ethnic or their religious backings. Starting with religion, the present Nigerian Government leaders have come to realize the enormous and unnecessary importance accorded religious bodies. Religions assume some air of awe bestowed on them by God that must not be questioned by ordinary humans exactly like them. They claim special communication with God. The present Nigerian leader, Buhari was a religious fanatic until he had a near death experience in Kaduna as they tried to assassinate him. If he was in government then, he could have blamed it on opposition. There must be other reasons that changed Buhari but that experience; a close brush with death was a major contributing factor. Buhari other policies will be for another day. Boko Haram had chosen Buhari to negotiate for them during the Administration of Jonathan. Others from Buhari side of the North, including Adamu Ciroma, promised to make the country ungovernable. They did, by using Boko Haram to kill and maim Christians from the North and South. However, they did not end there as they were running out of victims, they turned on their own. By the time the world paid notice, Boko Haram became the third deadliest terrorist. Guess who brought them to their knees? The same Buhari they wanted to use as negotiator. The lesson here for France and the rest of the world is enormous. Nobody is asking for the head of ISIS as negotiator or peacemaker. But their followers must be convinced through ideology and sound intelligence that their deadly acts are counter productive to turn against them. You cannot do that by alienating all Muslims and calling them names because you need them. During the Administration of Yar’Adua, militia terrorists from the Delta were kidnapping, killing, destroying and reigning terror on their own people and even bombed the capital City. Ebele Jonathan comes from that areas and it was him that accomplished cessation of hostility after previous Administrations bombed the hell out of them, as the western countries’ conservatives call for today. The tough, no nonsense, approach cannot succeed without involving their people. Most sensible leaders use carrot and sticks against terrorists because they lead disenfranchised and marginalized people that have given up trying to move up the economic ladder without any measure of success. Terrorist leaders promise them virgins in heaven, just as Christian clergy promised slaves reward in heaven. The goal is the same; accept injustice on earth to gain bliss in the next life or fight to death and die as a martyr. Terrorists would try many times to destroy our peace of mind but no matter how much we prevent their atrocities, they only have to succeed once. Most countries have been warned about the latest tactic that destroyed over eighty lives in France, that is why brick barriers are common whenever there are parades in many countries. Nevertheless, the devils succeeded this time to instill fear on the poor and the innocent. Politicians want to win election and they are ready to say anything as quick and immediate solution to very big and complex problems. They know people are sick, tired and felt very vulnerable. Politicians appeal to our fears and emotions, not our brains. They promise what they know they cannot deliver and some people buy it. Otherwise, it does not make sense to promise to ban, alienate and make enemies out of those you need to fight terrorists. Suddenly some of the leaders now realize that occupation of Iraq, Syria, Libya and Lebanon were mistakes after calling and encouraging the same for many years to look tough. Recently, Mr. Trump was even praising Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein as the ones that knew how to handle terrorists. Yet some of the conservatives call Muslims and their religion derogatory names. How can they support you in the fight against their abusers? France needs to take advantage of its Muslim population instead of competing with Muslim terrorists. French Muslims have no economic ladders to move onto and they are isolated in poor segregated areas where they lament their situation in a rich country that has shunned and ignored them. Instead of pledging their trust to France, they are looking for promises in heaven made by selfish terrorists seeking power to head the world religion. There is a big difference between United States and Europe. Every ethnic group has been able to assimilate into the American dream except the Native Indians and African Americans. Irish, Polish, Arabs and Asians immigrants have achieved American dreams even faster than the native-born Indians and African Americans. These immigrants’ standard of living in United States is higher than that in their home countries. The same is not true for Arabs in France. It does not mean United States has accomplished their full potential, but it has done better than France and the rest of European countries. Of course the same is not true when it come to the nagging question of race in United States. No country can divide itself within and move to greater heights. United Sates was built on African American slavery and took the land from the Native Indians. The children of these two ethnic groups will rise and challenge the status quo. So when African Americans say “Black Lives Matter” it does not infringe on the right of “White Lives Matter” that has always been the case since the beginning of America. It is those that have been classed as less than human or three-fifth human that are rising up to claim their full citizenship that “Black Lives Matter” Too! Just like any other life that has enjoyed the privilege since the days of Columbus undisputed. When a country wants to fight terrorists, you do not want to divide yourselves for the enemy to take advantage of. Anywhere United States is around the world, it can boast of the natives and immigrants from that country. In the fight against terrorists, intelligence gathered by those familiar with that country is crucial to defeating the terrorists. Each time politicians ignorantly condemned European Union immigrants, Muslim, Blacks or Women intelligent people cringe. source |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 3:51pm On Jul 10, 2016 |
I am glad you made my point. Your relatively limited exposure covered you up in ignorance like those who lumped all Nigerians together as drug traffickers, fraudsters, looters and 419s. Now go back into your hole. banmee: |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 2:19pm On Jul 10, 2016 |
How many lazy, annoying African Americans have you met in Nigeria or any other country? Where you come from, you have not met lazy, annoying, 419, drug dealers, looters? All Nigerians you know as those, as some foreigners label us. Some of you are ignorant. banmee: |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 12:40am On Jul 10, 2016 |
willibounce1:I hear you bro, but easy on him both of you are on the same side. Sometimes you have to put it bluntly before some Nigerians take to the desert. PhDs, JDs and MDs work so hard, sometimes on two jobs, you will pity them. After some of them leave their day jobs, they go into second jobs just to complete that projects at home. Some of them between jobs or underemployed, waiting to pass state exams or to support spouse would do anything. None of them would do these at home. This is why Nigerians are the most successful outside but creepy at home. As for black Americans, why should they? Do white Americans work as hard as Nigerians? Yet they showcase Nigeria as having the highest incomes. Doing what, two three jobs? Don't you think Nigerians would like to do one job to support their families too and take vacations like whites. Sometimes, I wonder how black Americans even make it in that country against all odds from birth in the ghetto culture when they live in dilapidated lead poisoned houses and water. Yet some of them make it after being told they would do better in reformed schools. Tell that to a boy coming from Africa with all the confidence in the world to succeed, they would laugh and joke about the counselor among themselves. |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 9:42pm On Jul 09, 2016 |
Tiwa Savage is not the real problem of many of you. Your problem is deeper than her. For the third time, I am asking: where, anywhere in Africa do you see policeman in broad day light slaughtering human being like goat in front of people without getting lynched by the mob? Some of you have no blood in your vein and are just as vicious, ritualistic and calculated as those evil eyes devils but in Africa, I dare you and your gods to try it in broad day light in front of Africans, anywhere. |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 4:57pm On Jul 09, 2016 |
I have to stop replying you. Any manager or even supervisor could have given the same experience. Nothing unique just shallow about you on cloud nine. banmee: |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 3:51pm On Jul 09, 2016 |
You see how easy it is to expose your ignorance? Here is a man coming from Africa, grateful to get 3 meals a day after being lucky to pass through immigration officers and expect those born and bread there to be equally grateful. How many people do you know that leave their land to become poor in another land? We never thank Nigeria enough. The fact that you are born in our country imbue with some survival instincts in you with big appetite for education which we are told lead to success, (not in all cases) Are there no destitute in Lagos, Enugu, Abuja and Kano or where do others go there and succeed? Indeed, in Nigeria the children of the poor struggle harder than those of spoiled brats. And do better. However, in America, your whole life is determined by the postal code you are born in. I will like to know how your children and grandchildren would turn out after all your decades in America. They blame the same victim they created. Nigerian children are now involve in despicable crime one would never think of a decade ago. If we only work as hard as we do outside, our countries would be an example of success to others. For a start, ask non natives of Enugu, Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja how they make it. banmee: |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 3:20pm On Jul 09, 2016 |
I am still waiting for those criticizing Tiwa to tell us anywhere in Nigeria, let me broaden it to Africa now, where human beings are slaughtered like cattle by one or two police in broad day light without getting lynched by the mob. While at that, tell us why most of you keep your mouth shut when American and British stars come here to support a cause. No injustice in their countries? And those that have fought and died for your causes here at home, what do you call them today, if not cowards, mumu and selective crusaders. |
| Celebrities › Re: Tiwa Savage Speaks Against The Killing Of Blacks In America, Fans React by jara: 2:50pm On Jul 09, 2016 |
banmee:Those that have been there decades before you, that were born there, that were there before Columbus would never make such self-denial as you just did. Except and of course hypocrites. You are the types that lure our children out of Nigeria into deserts, jumping from fry pan into fire.Keep it up but I hope it never happens to you. For those asking anyone to jump into every injustice in Nigeria first, is there no injustice in Britain where they march in solidarity? More important, which policeman and where would he slaughter human being in broad day light and not get lynched by Nigerians, where? How many policemen have been freed after ritual killings in Nigeria? If you do not know America, keep your mouth shut! 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: How We Destroyed “first In Africa” Pride Of The World by jara(op): 12:46pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
Nigeria, Yoruba Ronu O. |
| Politics › How We Destroyed “first In Africa” Pride Of The World by jara(op): 7:12am On Jul 06, 2016*. Modified: 5:05pm On Jul 06, 2016 |
HOW WE DESTROYED “FIRST IN AFRICA” PRIDE OF THE WORLD HOW WE DESTROYED “FIRST IN AFRICA” PRIDE OF THE WORLDSource http://www.modernghana.com/news/702226/how-we-destroyed-first-in-africa-pride-of-the-world.html |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Bowed: IMF & W. Bank Treat Africa As Foreclosed Properties by jara(op): 12:50pm On Jun 22, 2016 |
O.K Naira has been devalued, I mean float, is everybody happy now? We have all types of economic experts working to the answer explaining why floating or devaluation is good for the market. People want to know the meaning of better for the market, if they will buy tomato, gari, rice, meat or fish cheaper. If dollar will be cheaper at the black market. Nobody is willing to tell them that CBN does not print dollars and cannot keep on supporting naira with money it does not print. In a matter of months, CBN will exhaust its ability to support the naira. Just as Sanusi could not support naira after a while. We will be back to square one again. They will be telling us naira is too strong and must be devalued further, oh sorry, float! Mumu will start arguing again. Buhari will get the price for number 1 mumu after doing what mumu asked him to do. Float, float, not devalue. Instead of concentrating on the fundamental basis of manipulation to buy Nigeria cheap. To prevent that African countries must, we must start trading with one another rather trading with Europe and America. Reduce their insatiable appetite for imports, especially the non-essentials. Cut down their tastes on foreign food and learn how to east cassava bread like the rest of South American and West Indian countries. Stop the mad rush for foreign man made materials (plastic) in exchange for our natural resources as raw uranium, gold, diamond. Forget oil that we are killing one another for. It is dead! Cut your coat according to African size and stop paying outrageous salaries and entitlements to your politicians by revolt instead of strikes for inflation and money you cannot buy anything with. Nobody, no country, no continent can satisfy Nigerians' greed for American dollars or Euro. Not even America or Euro. Disgrace fake economics and politicians that are leading you to the slaughter houses. In another few months this argument will start again. How can any fool supply the market with money it does not print to devalue a foreign currency against the naira? Naira can never appreciate, disgrace liars and shame looters who do not care about you. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Bowed: IMF & W. Bank Treat Africa As Foreclosed Properties by jara(op): 3:50pm On Jun 19, 2016 |
BlackSeptember:Very funny comment. But seriously. Africans nor dey hia wod o! |
| Politics › Re: An Open Letter To Asiwaju Bola Hamed Tinubu- by jara: 1:01pm On Jun 19, 2016 |
Even though I do not think the General wrote this letter, it got the attention it deserved. If you do not agree with everything in the letter, there is enough to think about. It should spur a general debate. Good tactics. |
| Politics › Buhari Bowed: IMF & W. Bank Treat Africa As Foreclosed Properties by jara(op): 12:54pm On Jun 19, 2016 |
Buhari Bowed: IMF & W. Bank Treat Africa As Foreclosed Properties What is surprising is that it took Nigeria’s Buhari this long to capitulate to Foreign countries that make the economic rules for the rest of the world. It takes world power like Russia and China to stand up to them. Even then they could trade with China to spite Russia. While the Japanese surrendered to end the war, their economic brains were intact. Unlike Africans, never gave up local and traditional customs but maximized western quality control in their products to export.http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/buhari-bowed-imf-w-bank-treat-africa-as-foreclosed-properties.html 1 Like |
| Education › Re: Babcock University Graduate Gets Car Gift From His Parents At Convocation by jara: 2:17pm On Jun 06, 2016 |
Even when I stated clearly that I would give a kid modest car to get to work or a modest house as wedding present, you guys still call me stingy. Now you know why children call armed robbers that kill their fathers or ask robbers to kidnap them for ransom. Unfortunately, I do not blame you. Our rational for hard work has changed because of easy money. One person even compared fathers to Bill Gate, the richest man in the world but I must also credit the mention of Buffet. The reason we dot not have businesses viable enough from father to children in Nigeria today is exactly because of these attitude. Let me ask if - papa may have mama may have. God bless the child that has her own.It is no longer taught in school? 1 Like |
| Education › Re: Babcock University Graduate Gets Car Gift From His Parents At Convocation by jara: 9:00am On Jun 06, 2016 |
This is ostentatious and immature. Does the kid have a job to sustain it? It is one thing to buy a car for a kid to get to work or buy him a modest house after marriage. The kid will always look for a bigger toy from the parents. They must be looters who can never encourage a kid to work hard. I will only buy my kid a car or even a house under the conditions stated. |
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