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Hollywood legend, Samuel L. Jackson recently did his ancestry DNA test and discovered he is from GABON.

He went there and was welcomed home by the people...This is happening a lot among Black American celebrities.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opiuprlimv0

budaatum:
Iseyin is in Ibadan, Oyo State, lol.

On a serious note, this was huge in my hometown of Ifon Osun in the 70s, but died off in the 80s. I once went to Mapo in Ibadan and was surprised how much Made in China there was, which made me think a lack of innovation is killing us as we don't evolve what we do.

You are WRONG. Traditional weaving is Traditional weaving.

Even in China there is traditional weaving that's very similar to this.

We also have modern textile factories in Nigeria.

The presence of traditional weaving does not signify stagnation or ''lack of innovation''.

Don't come and inject your negative mind here.

Tizmamoney:
European countries and their leaders becoming irrelevant day by day

The new players are US, India, China and Russia.
The next big is Brazil.

AFRICA is the biggest new player.

WE hold the resources, and have become extremely assertive in no longer wanting to be mere raw material suppliers.

We have serious leverage. If you don't know, know it now.

The US should not be on your list.

Once the world abandons the dollar, they are finished.

Iseyin. A small ancient town where a frustrated graduate who couldn't get an office job, decided to enter and start weaving cloth for ASO-OKE, using our ancient weaving technology, and is now earning millions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZc5OFEKark

Miggs:
I truly admire folks like you who try to educate these people.
I tried to in the past but I have simply given up.
Niger,the so-called dirt poor,poo hole, halted the sale of uranium to "almighty" France via the Orano corporation and look how that nation is floundering today.
Look at what Burkina and Mali are doing to foreign,crooked gold mining companies like Barrick by seizing control of the mines and how those "omnipotent" corporations are pleading with those "dictators" to remain in those territories
Yet all some folks here do day in & day out is talk crap about Mama Africa because they don't know any better

Omo, the entire France is in a terrible economic crisis. People have filled the streets in protests.

All this because just a couple of Francophone nations kicked them out.

Africa is very powerful, something OTHER African people are finally realising, except Nigerians.

spiSeyi:
They have a point here and I wish more countries to follow soon, the same ICC who arrested the likes of Charles Taylor has suddenly become toothless dog in dealing with Nathayahu and his cronies who committing genocide daily in Gaza . ICC is just a colonial imperialism tools for Africa

100%

It's an INSULT for an African country to be a member of the ICC.

Slimm01:
The truth is that Africa being third world countries cannot stand on their own without looking up to those advanced countries. In as much as we keep saying Africa is great, Africa is self sufficient and so on....we need to kiss the truth.

YOU ARE WRONG.

Africa has ALL IT TAKES to ''stand on its own''.

Africa ''STOOD ON ITS OWN'' and was PROSPEROUS before the colonial invasion.

We have NEVER needed ''white people'' to survive and thrive in Africa.

UNDERSTOOD?

It is the OTHER WAY ROUND.

It is the WEST that needs AFRICA to survive. It's why they built guns and firearms, and came here looking for people to enslave, to build their countries, and later came again to colonise, to loot our natural resources to build their industries, while selling you a fake white 'lord and saviour' to make you worship them as they rob you.

In fact, if CONGO ALONE decides to HALT exports of Cobalt, the ENTIRE world economy would crash the same week.

DRC is the ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH with cobalt, an essential mineral used to build computer chips and conductors in every single computer.

Or should we talk about LITHIUM?

Do you know the world is relying on AFRICAN LITHIUM to power the new technological age?

Do you know that LITHIUM valued at over $12 TRILLION was discovered in just Nigeria alone?

Do you know that Elon Musk's TESLA came to NIGERIA begging to be sold raw lithium and Nigeria said NO?

That if you want Nigerian lithium you must build the Lithium battery factories IN NIGERIA?

This world is INTERRELATED.

Africa today is no more isolated. It has powerful allies like China, Russia, India, and Brazil.

Look, you Nigerian youths need to get rid of this idea that the west is the be-all-and-end-all of this world.

You are living in the past, and it's an embarrassment.

If tiny Burkina Faso can tell the west to get lost, AND NOTHING HAPPENS, and in fact their country is now developing faster, what are YOU afraid of as NIGERIA?

SmartPolician:
Their people need to take to the streets and protest this evil decision. ICC is perfectly good for African countries because their leaders are some of the worst in the world!

Without African leaders you would be a village illiterate with no electricity..

The British built no public schools and no power stations. Our first power plant was Kainji dam commissioned in 1964 by Balewa.

Without Independence you would be in your village farm right now eating roast yam and palm oil.

But THOSE TWO LEADERS oppose and condemn the mass slaughter of innocent children and genocide in GAZA, while you “REAL CHRISTIANS” support the GENOCIDE, in total CONTRAVENTION of your New Testament.

Those two men are more RIGHTEOUS than all of you combined.

Ndi “Jesus”.

PurestBoy:
How about we adopt same style of having invisible agents instead of causing traffic and making it look like the president is going to war

Funnily enough, if it was BRITAIN with a large convoy for their PM, and the Nigerian president with only one car behind him, you would attack Nigeria and say “See how serious and professional the British are with security, while we are so useless and lax.”

I know how your mind works.

Whatever “white man” does “must be better”.

Tragic.

Serenitys:
I clearly stated a president and governor because I was referring to a democratic setting, but your brain is lacking the ability to relate. Was Nigeria on a democratic system when the assassination happened? You brought in Yar'Adua because you couldn't figure out I used Abacha to remove such mentions to my replies. You mentioned Google, but sorry, Google can't think for you. You lack the ability to make good use of your senses.

But America has a “democratic setting”.

Have you seen Trump’s convoy?

When their former president John F Kennedy was assassinated in the 1960s, was it not in a democratic setting?

Don’t just type because you have Internet access.

Nigeria’s central bank has lowered its benchmark lending rate for the first time in five years, delivering a half-point cut amid cooling inflation and continued stability of the local naira currency.

Tuesday’s decision lowered the bank’s key interest rate to 27 per cent and was in line with the median forecast in a Bloomberg poll of economists.

Central bank governor Olayemi Cardoso said at a press conference in the capital Abuja that the decision of the 12-member Monetary Policy Committee was based on disinflation in the country — which is expected to continue — and the need to support a still-struggling economy.

Headline annual inflation slowed to 20.1 per cent in August, down from 21.9 per cent in July, marking five consecutive months of cooling prices.

Razia Khan, Standard Chartered’s head of research for Africa and the Middle East, said the central bank’s stance showed there was the possibility of “more easing to come”. The central bank holds its final rate meeting of the year in November.

“This easing signals confidence in FX stability, [with] higher reserves and a healthy current account surplus,” Khan said. “Much more importantly,” she added, the central bank “sees sustained disinflation in the months ahead, the result of previous policy choices — hinting at more easing to come”.

The latest consumer prices data marked a more significant drop compared with the same month last year, when the inflation rate was at 32.15 per cent. In January, Nigeria’s statistics agency changed the base year from 2009 to 2024 and modified the weighting of items in the consumer price index.

The publicly-funded Nigerian Institute of Social And Economic Research think-tank argued in a paper published in April that the rebasing was crucial to “reflect current economic realities, including shifts in consumer spending patterns, the emergence of new industries, and the impact of technological innovations on production and consumption”.

Cardoso also announced on Tuesday a reduction in the cash reserve ratio, the percentage of commercial bank deposits to be kept with the central bank, from 50 per cent to 45 per cent.

The naira has been stable for more than a year, after falling to record lows last year following two devaluations by President Bola Tinubu as part of wide-ranging economic reforms that included removing fuel subsidies.

The currency has gained 2.5 per cent against the dollar this month. Nigeria’s foreign reserve position has also steadily improved, with the bank reporting liquid reserves of $41.4bn at the end of last week. This year, Nigeria has attracted an influx of dollars from foreign portfolio investors enticed by high yields on its local bond market.

The rate cut will be welcomed by businesses, which have long complained about the high cost of borrowing in Africa’s most populous country.

Tuesday’s decision is the first rate cut since the Covid-19 pandemic when the central bank was led by former governor Godwin Emefiele, who is now on trial for a range of charges including obtaining money by false pretences during his tenure. He has pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations.

Cardoso, who in 2023 became governor of the apex bank, as the central bank is known locally, had pledged to embrace economic orthodoxy after the bank was plagued by scandal under his predecessor.

https://www.ft.com/content/208f71b3-b6bb-472b-bccb-62529ef9ff35

The thing about these public officials like Wike is that they don’t even need to loot money in public office to get rich.

Just use basic common sense and use your influence to get some legitimate earning enterprise going with your family etc, and you are made.

Why loot?

shacks99:
This one go choke Wike aswear, US no de send any body when it comes to corruption issues.

Except their own president, a criminal convict on 34 felonies including fraud.

Tinubu needs to SPEND MORE on fortifying those remote border military bases.

He needs to recruit at least 100,000 new army recruits.

This HAS to stop, Mr President.

I’m still wondering when Igbos began to see drug trafficking as the way to get rich.

Even in the 90s and early 2000s there weren’t like this. Back then it was Bini boys and Yoruba guys that used to be caught with drugs - occasionally - and even disgraced publicly by the govt, especially the military regimes.

It was likely due to the logistical difficulties of getting food around in war conditions. It wasn’t a “famine” which occurs due to lack of rainfall etc.

guass:
Anytime Tinubu visits the US, he doesn't go out of the airport. He knows what he is hiding from.
I told my friends some days back that nothing on earth would make Tinubu attend the UNGA in US. They thought I was joking. Even next year he will not still attend.

Trump their president is a CONVICTED CRIMINAL ON 34 FELONIES.

Why should Tinubu go to America and subject himself to a whims and caprices of a CONVICTED CRIMINAL?

Tell us!

Kennyfancy:
keep deceiving urself, everything was stolen from you yet you can't even build the simplest of things, abeg who is ur weed plug ?

Who is ''You''?

Are you not referring to yourself?

If YOU have not 'built anything', it doesn't mean OTHER Africans have not built or are not building.

It is YOU that has done NOTHING.

Don't project your inertia unto other AFRICANS.

Okay?

You have AFRICANS doing all sorts of brilliant things YOU know NOTHING about, because you don't read or research anything. Just like 95% of people on this forum. Allergic to knowledge.

capatainrambo:
shut up. Taking nonsense. Bello stole 80 billion. Paid millions a feed for children. Get roll you do about that ? As long as there retrieves like him. Forget it

Use your brain.

There is no country or continent without massive corruption.

Understood?

It only slows development. It doesn’t prevent it.

MadamExcellency:
Light doesn’t beg darkness for development.

Black Africans ruled Europe for 800 years between the 7th and 15th Century.

They were the LIGHT of Europe, not the darkness.

It was Black Africans who brought literacy to Europe. The Black Moors built the first universities in Europe.

The statues of Black Kings and Queens are all over Europe.

In fact every year Europeans hold festivals where they dress up in African costumes and paint their faces BLACK, to celebrate the era of the Moors.

Without the Black Moors, Europe would still be in the Stone Age today.

Okay?

If you don’t know your Black History, you will learn it by force.

Europeans Celebrate Their Black Kings:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCbjRLvPfs?si=k7ZbrQRweuDf4nu0

Many inventions Nigerians attribute to “white people” are actually the work of blacks.

The INTERNET has so many AFRICAN-DESCENDANTS responsible for its invention, from our own Philip Emeagwali who built the world’s fastest supercomputer, to African-American Mark Dean who co-invented the IBM Personal Computer in 1981.

Now we are learning of an African American woman who was the very BRAIN behind the whole Internet Technology.

She was so pivotal that you might as well say the Internet wouldn’t EXIST without her.

Happy learning:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsfY0Tw15F4?si=BeN5T8dqPLTOIwaq

aswani:
As long as greedy African politicians are alive being paid to sabotage their countries economies, it wouldn't happen.

What ''greedy African'' what?

You are stuck in the past, Mr.

Follow the News. Go on Google and research what's happening among African countries. Not sitting there with just prejudice in your head.

Excellent summary of how the West will be BEGGING AFRICA for their sustenance in the coming years.

France is already feeling it, with their economy virtually collapsed since they were driven out of Africa.

Today, Africa is no longer isolated. She is backed by China, Russia, India, Brazil.

With strong economic and military alliances.

So African countries now can stand up and tell Europe and America to go to blazes with their exploitation and unfair deals. No more cheap raw materials. If they want African resources, they must come to Africa and build factories to process those resources.

And that THEY need Africa far more than Africa needs them.

Very insightful video..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8T_CKqDrE

More like Hungry since the British invasion.

Your colonial forbears were village peasants with nothing.