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Historically, this was not always the case. Up until the late 1980s, Nigeria's per capita income was double that of China's. However, China's rapid industrialization and economic transformation propelled it into an upper-middle-income economy, while Nigeria’s economy continues to face macro-economic battles and heavy dependence on oil for foreign exchange. [1, 2, 3, 4]

anonimi:
Which politician is not a thief?

What public servant is not a looter

Surprise surprise from you!

All politicians are thieves but in a poverty striken country with one of the highest paid remuneration, stealing everything in sight with impunity attract Death Penalty in some of the countries that reduced corruption.

Can this be Anonimi?

Even the victims of looters are supporters, praise singers and campaigners looking for voters for the lofty dream that time for the national Cake will come.

Those who refused to fight and encourage each of these contenders have melted into a wall when chased by poverty.

Worse than Colonialism their fathers and mothers fought against.

Tinubu Atiku Obi & Their Forty Thieves

Are there many informed Africans, seriously, that do not know there are no ideological parties but a bunch of leaders and their forty thieves wailing for Treasury: Open Sesame! All you need is Any Party In Power for the forty thieves to follow. The leaders contesting or appointed to Presidency can form any party to wrestle Power or better still, jump from one party to another until he finds a suitable landing to avoid Primary into Power.

President Tinubu in Nigeria became Governor after displacing the presumptive choice of AD, Funso Williams, by claiming he was not a member of NADECO struggle. When he became comfortable, he rejected the Party elders: Pa Dawudo. Pa Dawodu regretted replacing Funsho Williams for Tinubu to his grave. Tinubu formed his own party AC, then ANC before he formed an alliance with Buhari in another new Party: APC.

Atiku was a member of PDP. When he realized he could not wield control of PDP because of their prominent members. He formed his own Party ADC and invited others to join him. Since they tried to wrestle and displace him from his Party, as the Presidential candidate; Atiku reminded them of his reason and ambition to become President. ADC is not up for grabs by anyone competing with him.

Peter Obi became Governor of Anambra under the platform of APGA. He joined PDP to become the running mate of Atiku. After they lost the Election, Obi decided to run for the President himself under the existing Labor Party. When he lost under the Labor Party, he tried Atiku ADC, hoping Atiku would retire from contesting for President. Be sure of what you wish for before crossing from one party to another.

Since Atiku let everyone know that he did not take the trouble to form a brand new party for others to run as President, Obi decided to join NDC. What is common to all the three Presidential candidates is their focus on the single goal of the Presidency at any cost under any party. It is the only way they can grab full access to the Treasury like the late Military Strongman, General Sunni Abacha.

Many of the politicians use a couple or few letters designating democracy or liberal ideas to cover up their ulterior motives. The plain language to these parties is what Fela Anikulapo Kuti described as the You Chop I Chop Party. Actually, many of us lost count of the number of members crossing parties. Trying to figure out the first party Tinubu, Atiku and Obi started from and their last party is brainstorming. Ai taya, no be small o!


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Bunch of hypocrites. Those who cry about Drug dealers everyday are known internationally as drug dealers. They have messed up the reputation of innocent Nigerians who are now suspects without any dealings with drugs in their life.

Yet they cry and accuse others as drug drugs peddlers.

Someone will soon tell us Gloria Okon was not the drug courier for IBB.

My drug peddler is better than your drug peddler. Hypocrites!

Hypocrite trying to turn the table.

The case is made.

Probz:
Mhm-hm. I’d stop with the waffle right here, laddie-boy, and can the cheddar. You’re not making any sense.

That post was written with anti-Igbo sentiments in particular in-mind. You can tell. But as for me, wetin I don-talk, sef? Did I call anyone an ofe-mmanu? Eh?

This is ironic. It was not edited from Qfemano Rice to Yoruba Rice for your miscalculated admonitions that could have been uncalled for. Yoruba did not give their stew a derogatory name, some guys did. Stop being a hypocrite.

The irony is, it was supposed to educate those labeling Yoruba stew, as a universal stew, especially among Africans and Europeans. But we never accept our own unless it goes international.

Oil is a universal part of stew. If you do not like Oil in your stew, others do. It does not mean you have to label it at home but accept and eat it in other African countries or Europe acting "civilized".

Another one is JUDE ie Ewedu, loved outside but derided in Nigeria by some group because another group love it with Amala!

Probz:
Stew isn’t intrinsically Yoruba. Most places in the world have some variation of stew. It’s really not a Yoruba-vs-Igbo thing. Or anything like that. From Senegambia to Spain to Peru to Russia, meat/tomato/vegetable-stew of some kind features on the menu. Likewise for curries, between South Asia and the Caribbean. Thinking stew is bound to any-one tribe is very myopic, and tells me you’re clearly not ready to disengage from overly trivialised politics. Cause nah. That’s you to a square. And the rest of us just have to live with it.

It’s very shameful that things like this can even be said.

Op did not put Yoruba rice but understand why it was so edited.

You cannot cook Joloof Rice without Yoruba stew or Italian lasagna without Yoruba stew.

So those who criticize Yoruba stew love to eat and learn how to cook Jollof Rice!

Bahamas95:
What is Yoruba rice?

Some of you just create threads under the influence of alcohol.

How does Qfemano rice change to Yoruba rice.?

There are competitions all over the world about who cook the best Yoruba Rice especially in Africa.

The same about Yoruba lasagna, which is Italian anyway.

When brag inside or out Nigeria, spending conspicuously like drunken sailors, aggrandizing, boast with exaggerated ego, bandits and fortune seekers will follow you home

Check his DNA sharpsharp.

He has greed, conspicuous spending, aggrandizement with the most beautiful housed in the village he hardly visits

Na by force? We destroyed our own communities worshiping money and neglected every traditional value that use to make us proud.

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These retired Generals would drive a hot shaft through their mothers’ behinds to make foreign money. They are willing to sell to the highest foreign bidder. Foreigners and international corporations buy their way into Nigerian resources after making deals with the Generals, village chiefs and militia groups disguised as Muslims and Christians looking for converts. Can anyone in his right mind explain why Nigeria does not know how much Oil and other Resources are going leaving the country?

We have a country where some of us are so obsessed with the little devils like Tinubu, Atiku and Obi right now. We have lost sight of the bigger ones: our retired Generals. Oshiomole was brave enough to point to these retired Generals but Tinubu told some Nigerians that he knows them. However, if he goes after them, they would kill him. He actually confessed to some people. So, retired Generals are so powerful, no Nigerian dare challenge them.

It is easier to snatch meat out of the mouth of a lion than to hold any of the retired Generals accountable. They are so comfortable in their parasitic role as vultures, they would rather burn their own country down than relinquish control of Nigeria’s resources. They are impeccable and deliberately indifferent to the suffering of their fellow people. They watch gleefully as women, children and the poor masses starve to death.

Late Major Ezeogwu, a patriotic Nigerian, thought he was going to clean up the Augean Stable until his acquaintances betrayed him and turned it into ethnic coup, plugging the country in a Civil War. In fairness to Orka Coup against Ten Percenters and Immorality, IBB was able to quash them with loyal soldiers and relocated to Abuja. This gave more impetus to the retired Generals that junior officers that succeeded in Ghana, could not have succeeded in Nigeria.

It is not that Nigerians have not tried to free themselves from Vagabonds In Power, there are more gullible people who refuse to see beyond their selfish individual interests. The promises that were made for almost half a century but never fulfilled can never benefit any ethnic group. Believe it or not, those that have ruled the Country the most, still have the highest concentration of poor people

https://www-modernghana-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.modernghana.com/news/1483265/nigeria-doom-until-rawlings-success-cures-ezeogwu.amp?

Poverty Reduction Gains More Voters

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1480882/poverty-reduction-gain-more-voters-than-mercenarie.html

Why is everything about ethnic and their religion.

Do you even know what your grandfather's religious culture was before they use their religion to capture you as slave and YOU continued to capture more slaves for them from one generation to another

Osariemen12:
Good.

Yoruba Muslims should relocate to these places.

orisa37:
RUSSIA DOESN'T KEEP PRISONS, RUSSIA KEEP MORTUARIES.

True!

But if you think it is only Russia, you are mistaken. When world Powers and Oppressor countries call victims COLLATERAL DAMAGES, who are they referring to?

Dead bodies!

Please note this is Before Mass Deportation & Incarceration in the USA. More Warehouses rented to keep people.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org
List of countries by incarceration rate
Incarceration rates and counts ; India, 41, 573,220 ; Indonesia, 96, 273,541 ; Iran, 228, 189,000 ; Iraq, 179, 73,715.
AI Overview

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Chart: The Countries Imprisoning the Most People | Statista
El Salvador has the world's highest incarceration rate at approximately 1,086 per 100,000 people, followed by Cuba (794) and Rwanda (637).

The United States remains among the top nations with over 530 inmates per 100,000, while the global prison population rate is roughly 140 per 100,000.

Highest Incarceration Rates (per 100,000 inhabitants)
El Salvador: ~1,086
Cuba: ~794
Rwanda: ~637
Turkmenistan: ~576
American Samoa (USA): ~538
United States: ~531–541
Panama: ~522
Tonga: ~516
Contextual Data
Total Numbers: The United States holds over 2.1 million people, while China (estimated 1.69 million) and Brazil (estimated 909,000) also have large populations.
Regional Variances: In 2024, the median rate in Western Europe was 73 per 100,000, compared to 243 in Southern Africa and 310.5 in Central America.

This is why Nigeria lost its footing in Africa and the world. Once a single soul benefits from whatever, the others can put in hell.

Is this how it takes a village to raise a child?

LordIsaac:
Yet, I wouldn't call it a waste. I bet you'd have a contrary view if your brother or son benefited from it.

Most of these students would never come back after wasting Enough State foreign currencies to mis-educate them abroad against their culture and people.

There are schools in dire need of the same money locally. Yet this will be accepted and celebrated because they are going to foreign country.

Sometimes hope is the only way to endure expecting better days.

Does that justify the wish that foreign power invade like they did in Libya and Afghanistan while the citizen of the country invaded celebrate?

Pierocash:
There is no point here. Whether invasion or explosion , as long as it achieves the results, Nigerians are okay with that.

And secondly, don't rejoice too early, there are more decisive actions still coming and the possibility of invasion may still be there. What happened was just testing the microphone

Those praying and wishing for Invasion are so disappointed, they have to settle for Cooperation that the same Tinubu Government has sought all along.

Who work and wish for the Invasion of their own country but Traitors!

If you do not know what Invasion is, try Libya and Ukraine. But these people know what Invasion is. They just want to be installed as President by force or tulasi.

The same President they were and negotiated for under Tafawa Balewa since the Independence while those they hate today remained in Opposition.

Chop and clean mouth.

E don happen in cooperation with Tinubu Govt, not as our brothers wished.

Funny though, the argument about na pain sef, don shift to difference in time zone of the announcement

laiperi:
How is the invasion going?

How is the invasion going?

Fight to stop lump sided lion share of your resources to politicians if your are not hypocrites.

Actually, if Nigerians are taxed enough, billionairs will not be going tax free because they are pastors, imams and drug dealers.

Is it not amazing that a country that hardly pay taxes in a mostly underground economy are mobilizing against fair taxes like countries that are overtaxed?

A complete Distraction from jumbo salaries, allocations, multiple regional commissions and projects to channel loots legally for money laundering.

When are most Nigerians going to wake up to the propaganda of those waiting for their turns to chop but not against legal looting so that they can enjoy it when they gain power by hook or crook.

This is why it is said no one loves Nigeria. Just the opportunity to loot. Aisha was outspoken even when Buhari was alive to which Buhari reacted " the other room ".

SisterAnn:
No wonder buhari wanted to marry a second wife.
I still wonder why he didn't pull through with that.
Aisha buhari is a terrible person!
Imagine descrating the memory of her late husband with so much reckless abandon! I mean who does that?
Ontop wetin nah?
She's just short of affirming that he was truly jubril El Sudan!

Sometimes I think people feign ignorance. How can anyone in his right sense compare activists fighting for their resource benefits turned into a disaster area, with Boko Haram rogues extorting money and land from rightful owners?

Some people madness for greed can be baffling.

Racoon:
MEND is agitating for resource control to benefit the communities laying the golden eggs of crude oil production.

However, BH terrorism is unmistakably trying to enforce an Islamic caliphate while on the Nigerian state which is has not stopped till date.

During the Niger Delta military campaign: Our Oil Our Money. Amnesty and contracts were offered to quell the agitations for justice. Their communities were impoverished by oil spill causing environmental degradation damages. Some people are demanding the same treatment for Boko Haram terrorists as alternatives to kidnapping for ransom. Rehabilitation of members and absorption into the Army to fight in the terrain they know better than regular soldiers.

The problem is regular soldiers could not trust them because those still loyal to Boko Haram became informants and disclosed sensitive military intelligence and locations of the Army. Many Nigerian soldiers including Army Generals have lost their lives in the process. There is no way we can have a unit of soldiers looking over their shoulders, unsure if their battalion has spies of Boko Haram operating within them.

What might have worked under one administration with those who saw themselves as freedom fighters for their Oil resources that the country depended on for survival, may not work for Boko Haram fighters trying to actualize religious domination of an alien doctrine on an African country. There is no discernible similarity between those fighting religious wars to dominate and usurp land to feed their cattle, displacing communities of ethnic groups different from theirs.

Ransom may be common to all terrorists, but it is not sustainable in a country known as the world capital of Poverty. The ransom paid by the government to terrorists could be used to alleviate the suffering of displaced victims and the poor. It is ironic that politicians that cornered every allocation from the top and loot foreign earnings are willing to find money for ransom demands of bandits but cannot find money to improve the impoverished situation of the masses.

Forest rangers or community vigilantes under the supervision and support of local Police will go a long way in solving the terrorist problem in Nigeria. Once outside terrorists realize that the borders of Nigeria are no longer porous for nefarious activities, we may get some peace within Nigeria. Political importers of thugs and politicians who think their ethnic group have free access and citizenship in Nigeria must be put on notice.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/360389/it-is-not-about-saving-christians-it-is-the-fear-of-economic.html

Answer the question. This is how you failed in school.