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RTSC:
Are you supposed to get a medal for despising a criminal?

Clowns.

In Nigeria you should since criminals are the heroes of many.

You don't get it.

Your obsession with Tinubu make him useful as fire to fight fire. The more you hate him, the more useful he is but only up to a point.

To knock you off. Capish?

toplinetrtrend:
You don't apologize for hushpuppy, but you apologize for Tinubu, who is also a criminal.

So, how is your life better than those supporting hushpuppy?

Boy, you belong to the same category like them. You are both supporting criminals.

How many Yoruba do you know celebrating or apologizing for the bastard as some people do

Criminals have no sanctuary in Yoruba land. No one is as vicious on Hushppupi.

Even when they use you as fire against fire, they will put you in your place if you aspire beyond your areas of competence.

this is the best i have ever read on nairaland, if only everybody means well for this country let all the youth join IPOB and send all our politicians abraod home, inrespective of his religion or tribe, atleast ipob start with one of their own.my brothers you will see development in Africa and wealth will circle fast and the western wolf will respect black man when he sees him, and our youths will stop crime , we can do it friends .

Covid-19 has brought our leaders home and some of them are dropping dead like flies.

Be careful what you plan for fellow countrymen, it may come back and haunt you.

Even Oga at the Top has not travelled for medical checkup.

Lost Nkrumah & Nigeria: The Safe Haven We Relied On

What happened to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and how did Nigeria lose its Potential Power as the place to be for all Africans at home and from Diaspora? Seriously, both cease to exist when we need them most! It must not be left to Nigerians and Ghanaians alone to wonder how we lost both. All African countries must learn from those glorious past and use the lessons constructively before we can move forward progressively.

We have had some successes in Africa but we woefully refused to sustain or build on them. Sustainability of progress takes successive generations to redouble their efforts, not to relax, live off the fat and be complacent as we face persistent enemies.We were told Nkrumah stole so much money, he had houses and girlfriends all over. He died with very little in his possession.

One of Nigeria's leaders once said money was not the problem but how to spend it. The money he was bragging on was not ours but printed in Europe and America as vouchers in exchange for our resources. We could only spend them in their countries, on their terms, on their inflated finished goods and services creating jobs overseas while we got hooked as consumers and patrons.

African Youths have been led to lose focus because they hardly know the causes and contributions of Nkrumah as a world respected leader, invited as peacemaker outside our Continent and Nigeria as the Potential Regional Power that could have displaced international powers' menace in Africa. This generation has no respect for one another, they lack confidence in their own talents but are too eager to seek salvation from the same colonialists that kept us in the Dark for almost 500 years.

Africans or Black people melancholy at home in Africa and abroad must not end in feeling sorry for ourselves but reinvigorate our survival spirits. How we survived after so much denigration to overcome is a testimony of our resilience itself. The George Floyd treatment has been going on for about three to five centuries but this one shocked the heck out of black and white conscience. Some blacks claimed most of the crowd protesting are black and white.

But we must give credit to those few brown protesters as well, especially those that did protest in their own countries. It is time to unite all the ethnic races regardless of color. Remember, they had divided us into colors to prevent further revolts and now in order to spite one another with the progress some of us are making. They used the Jamaicans as the richest at one point, then moved on to Nigerians. Now they are using the Indians and Chinese as evidence of progress in diversity. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/world/indians-migrant-minority-black-lives-matter-intl/index.html

While Nkrumah established reorientation schools for most professions including musicians in Ghana, a few countries like Nigeria stopped teaching history until it was reversed when most people raised alarm. The damage was already done because the notion that led to it is still manifested in our new generation of Youths.

Africans! We once had sterling leadership and country that were potential Regional Super Power. The world might not like Kwame Nkrumah because of his ideology and principles but they respected him. The same world was cheering on Nigeria as a regional power to take blackman's burden off them. We lost both opportunities in Nkrumah and Nigeria as we watched the poverty basket of the world move from Asia to Africa.

The world powers did it by Economic fiat unless someone can explain how a country that was named Gold Coast lost the value of its currency by Gold Standard or how Zimbabwe currency became worthless. Yet, our Oxford and Harvard trained economists have not got it right. What have we learned?

Nkrumah and Nigeria at the time had the foresight to look beyond Ghana and Nigeria to provide financial and material support for all African freedom demonstrators regardless of country while confronting police and dogs trained abroad. Our local currencies had value then more than American currency. They used the World Bank and International Monetary Fund for Structural Adjustment to destroy our standard of living while providing "Foreign Aids" and loans from the huge profits they make in Africa. Who is fooling who?

It is surprising how ignorant some of our Youths still think that their talents are appreciated in Europe or America and are being "rushed" when in fact they sell themselves cheap as our raw materials. It is even sad when our best trained go abroad and refuse to come back because they enjoyed a higher standard of living outside when better conditions were provided to those that returned home when our countries were functional. Jerry Rawlings during his first coming actually detained at least one of them on vacation, as an example to others until he paid back his grants and scholarship.

There used to be a time when those who paid their ways, went to full time school and worked full time, could not wait to come back home. Now those that leave with Government scholarships, whose exorbitant school fees depleted Foreign Reserves and those that laundered money as business men, abscond. It is debatable if one set of students should be pampered with money from home while other African students work to pay their fees and send money home to parents and siblings our Governments refused to take care of.

Africans have to study the reasons we lost Nkrumah and why we lost Nigeria as the Safe Haven for Africans before we lose it all. Only then can we discover how Africans were re-colonized again in the name of Foreign Aids and Development. Until we come to our senses and rescue Africa from within, our Youths will continue to self-hate, internalize derogatory names and no black folks worldwide will be respected.

It is difficult to distinguish the difference between activists, politicians and the militias that started as freedom fighters these days. They demand meetings and concessions from politicians. As soon as their bank accounts are loaded, they forget the causes that propel them to notoriety leaving their bases in the same shambles.

If we do not know where we are going, we must reach back and learn from where we are coming from. Unfortunately, Nigeria never had a conscientious President like Nkrumah.

Jul 3, 2020 | Farouk Martins Aresa Nigerianvoice

You are right on point.

Yet headless Nigerians worship the coconut head.

Jimi24:
Yes he did. He has successfully divided the country.
Most Republican Presidents are fiscally conservative but Trump has piled even more debt on Americans with his tax cuts for the rich.
What about restrictions to H1B Visas, highly skilled talented people now head to main Europe, China and believe it or not.. Turkey.

The US will give way to China and Trump is the instrument to actualize that. Already hundreds of thousands have died from his tepid response to coronavirus.
Did you watch his last campaign rally?. Even by the lowest of standards, his rhetoric was low brow. If you doubt it watch it again. Biden is not even campaigning. Probably does not need to. Trump will talk himself out of office.

Afrobeat to Award to Burma Boy.

So he plays Afrobeat?

The only relevance Tinubu has for Yoruba is that he knows how to make Igbo happy and comfortable.

Jonathan single handedly elected Buhari.

It could be worse, look at America!

no country in the world is so gifted with talents and skills including cheap labor and F...ed Up big time as America.

Not even Nigeria!

God gave Ghana Nkrumah, what did they do with him?

Believe me, we all knew Buhari. It was a choice between two devils.

The question, if you want to go there is:

How did Jonathan lose all the goodwill from North to South that got him Acting President and got him elected as President?

Back to the topic, no country in the world is so gifted with talents and skills including cheap labor and F. Up big time as America.

Not even Nigeria!

You are right, thanks

EzzyCarter:
Op, I'm sure God didn't create you to punish us with your English . Check ur topic heading again

Do you remember Rev. Wright the former Obama Chicago Pastor.

His words are ringing true.

America worst enemy could not have impose what is happening right now in a country full of talents and skills but that are wasting or unheeded.

Even if read the article, you will not understand it.

Carry your wahala go

curfew:
There is no oil in Lagos. There is non in any of the local governments in Lagos, non at all. There is also no oil in any waters near Lagos.

What they have done was to pipe oil from Imo state and empty it in Lagos, just as they piped natural gas. Lagos has no oyeli.

You people are fraudster, oluwole people. One day we'll just go and switch off that pipe. Owon brawo.

When We Were Lagosians - Before Oil Income
Mar 14, 2019 | Farouk Martins Aresa


Many Nigerians, Ghanaians, Dahomeans, Sierra Leoneans, Liberians to South Africans were happy as one family; they would gladly tell you gleeful stories when we were Lagosians. But that was before the Oil Income which turned politicians into greedy, selfish and uncaring souls. Luckily we thought dreaming, we would get the old Lagos back once the bureaucrats and Federal politicians moved out to Abuja! For whia?

You ge[i]t money o, you no get money o, na soso enjoyment. Lagos na soso enjoyment: released by Osita Osadebe in 1959[/i]. It was an obvious testimony that you could never be destitute, even as a beggar, within Yoruba generosity in Lagos. Before that song went viral to the later years, were Bobby Benson, Sam Akpabot, Victor Olaiya, Zeal Onyia, Roy Chicago, Eddie Okonta, Rex Lawson rocking our souls in Lagos. Then Uwaifo and Fela.

Ghanaians influence on the music scene in Lagos cannot be denied, if anything we were proud of it. E. T Mensa’s Bobobo Bonsue caught fire. Sammy Obote once led the professional Uhuru Dance Band of Ghana before he came to Lagos. But it was Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah that directed all members of Ghanaian music groups to undergo a six-month training in African music, at the Arts Council of Ghana in 1960. It certainly influence the appeal of highlife, not only to Lagos taste but in Africa.

Lagos area was mostly within walking distance unless you wanted to cross Carter Bridge. But why would you want to do that? The older Lagosians were so mad when University of Lagos was constructed all the way, in Akoka. They fumed: these folks could not find land anywhere inside Lagos, but had to go into the swamp outside to build a university. They prayed - God, please never should we see anything that would make us cross Carter O! Olohun maje ka ri ohun to ma gbe wa koja Cater Bridge O!

Many Lagosians even refused to move to Surulere, called New Lagos. A new development with indoor bathroom, flower garden in front, farm garden at the backyard and paved road with good distance to houses front entrance. LEDB (Lagos Executive Development Board) created special areas for recreation and club houses for youths. Government or mission schools were within walking distance. No need for scholly bus.

However, if there was heaven, it could not be better than Lagos for children. Our ingenuity spoke for itself. We manufactured and constructed our own toys. Something African countries are still trying to do with all the money wasted on technology, imports and “boskona” oyinbo used clothes killed local tailoring business. We made our little boats out of papers and used them to compete inside free-flowing clean gutter without obstructions. Of course, gutters were regularly cleaned by the “Town-Council” workers.


Kites were made out of newspapers and bamboo. But clothing threads for machines of our mothers disappeared into the sky. “Stations” were made from agbalumo seeds and ikoto, the dancing cones were used, which could spin smoothly or rotate on floors. The longest spin with the twist of two fingers won. We made our own Y shaped slingshot to trap or capture birds, fish slings and swings (janguava). City Council provided parks for recreation at Race Course, Ajasa playground and swimming pools by Onikan Stadium.

“Felele” as soccer balls were locally made cheaply from rubber and we practiced on some streets. When cars came, we gave them the right of the way and continued playing until the next one arrived. We had tournaments on soccer fields located in most neighborhoods from Campos, Towry, Onola, Elegbata and Evans Sq. to White Sand.

Oh, the girls created their lines on the floor to step on squares by certain rules; they skipped on ropes in acrobatic display of inventions. They also devised a way of clapping their hands while shuffling with some impressive feet moves, oya. The girls played netball while boys played handball. There were inter house-sports in primary schools and soccer matches. By the time we got into secondary schools, Onikan Stadium was where we played qualifying knockout matches.

Those of us that spent early years either in boarding schools outside Lagos, or Government Reserved Areas (GRA) in Ikoyi, Ikeja, Ibadan, Ondo to Warri (GRA) could not wait to get back once schools closed for holidays. We could not miss the taste of good life in Lagos Island. You have to understand that GRA were dry and not built with children in mind. It used to be called European Quarters since most white people left their wives and children in Europe. Those that had families with kids did not play like us. European kids were dull. Their fun was building toy houses on trees.

Lagos Island was also rich in food and cultural activities. Fanti, Kareta and some religious festivals like Catholic Corpus Christi, Muslim Weree; and our Eyo were too much to miss in Lagos. Some of us even started our own Fanti. This writer was the captain until one of our mothers warned us that if we were caught by police without a license, nobody would bail us out of police station. The fear was enough to cut it out!


The food were something else, made in heaven like tuwo, kenki, ewa Agonyi and abodo. There were two types of abodo: one made from corn by Yoruba and the other made by Ghanaians. Some food were also sold on the street but there were specialties like frejon made from black beans and coconut during Easter, special salted meat during Muslim festival and on special occasions. So were Jollof rice, pounded yam and amola. If you do not like amola, ewedu and gbegiri, what are you doing in Lagos?

Other food and snacks were tinko; meat pies and sausage rolls from Kingsway, De Facto and suya specials from Obalende; gurudi and kushkush from Tinubu Square. Race Course featured Atowotunra, (taste it and buy more) special buns. On Sunday mornings, there was a lady selling seke-shi, fried dough across Catholic Church Cathedral on Mission Street where we deposited some change on our way to Church. Note: nobody said it came out of the money given to us as offering during collection O!

Until we got older, we never knew some of our friends parents came from Calabar, Ghana, Benin, Onitsha, Togo etc. In those days, nobody dared stop Yoruba crossing from Benin Republic Cotonou to Badagry to Lagos. Our parents gave us first any name they liked, even names that were not from their ethnic base. How else could we reconcile first names like Kobina, Kwesi, Latee, Lati, Etim, Sule, Ajua, Sonji etc with Yoruba names in Yoruba land? They were better than Arab and English names!

Lagos architecture were imposing from Brazilian Quarters to Olowogbowo. The returned free men and women from Americas and Europe had different skills to build bridges, roads, electricity and Water Works. London tailors could make a complete suit with needle and thread! Unfortunately, the same skills that African countries are paying so called “expatriate engineers” with all our foreign incomes today. After all Yoruba gave the world Terracotta.

Da Rocha (1860-1959), the first Nigerian millionaire in British pounds started several businesses from banking to Water Works that were eventually sold to the City Council. Businesses under papa’s “Petesi” were flourishing. Every Lagosian knew one another and their kids dared not get out of line. We never disgraced our family names. Ma ba oruko je!

Adebayo Ojo Ogun Martins that died 8th Febuary 1857 had a street named after him in the center of Lagos by the then Governor Glover for his business enterprise at home and abroad. Aso-Matin so named because Adebayo Ojo Ogun Martins imported them, was popular among the rich and famous in Lagos. His tombstone, those of Taiwo Olowo and Maja were moved to Breadfruit Street. Other families, too many to mention here but for later article.

After all, Lagos was a small village comfortable and prosperous before the curse of oil.

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So what are you? Republican abi na conservative.

If you only know what you are. Did you say boast?

You must be one of those Nigerians beating your chest all over the world pointing one finger at others as stupid while four fingers point back to you.

I am sure you are a loser who could have achieved more if you only and only.....

Charity begins at home.

Elimon:
I know you are these pro African liberalists and claim Africa could have fend for themselves... but its a lie we all know...
Even Asia that far developed that us fell to the need of globalisation (Westernisation)..
We boast more about the glories of Egypt and the rest while we forget that we ourselves never appreciated or developed what we had till the Explorers came
AFRICA WAS A DARK CONTINENT

I really enjoyed the Kenny's Abia story.

Did you and those that like what you wrote below think hard? It is what you consider adventure and exploration that turned you into Dark Continent for 500 years!

Elimon:
Africa itself is here today because of peoples efforts and crazy ideas about adventuresand explorations of the wild..the unknown..
please lets take a of silence for those who died on crazy adventures to make the world what it is today

Where will the war star?

Can someone please quote where she praised any criminal or Ramoni so that I can hammer Abike Dabiri.

One quote is enough.

Still waiting.

Can someone please quote where she praised any criminal or Ramoni so that I can hammer Abike Dabiri.

One quote is enough.

It could be worse. She could have accused a black man for RAPE.

Discrimination!

I did not see one Fulani or Hausa name there. Nonsense.

Written 2016


African Lives Matter
Recent police violence in several African countries underscores the urgent need for law enforcement reform backed by strong civic movements.



Credit: Rory Mizen (Flickr/Creative Commons).

by Donald Rukare, Chief of Party, Rights and Rule of Law Activity, Uganda

Recent police violence in several African countries underscores the urgent need for law enforcement reform backed by strong civic movements.

In highly publicized incidents over the last few months, police have shot, killed, or brutally beaten civilians in countries including Zambia, Kenya, Burundi, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. The violence came mainly in the context of elections in these countries or labor-related protests. While there is no doubt that the police play an essential role in maintaining law and order across the region, the latest spate of abuses do not bode well for democracy, the rule of law, human rights, or economic development in Africa.

In Kenya, police were caught on camera beating up peaceful protesters in May, and officers are suspected in the June abduction and murder of a taxi driver, a lawyer, and the lawyer’s client, who had filed a complaint against a police officer for allegedly shooting him during a traffic stop in 2015.

South Africa, long heralded as one of the continent’s democratic jewels, has suffered an increase in police brutality, with officers accused of killing and raping civilians. There were at least 244 recorded deaths in police custody in 2015, up 4 percent from 234 in 2014, according to a report released at the end of September by South Africa’s Independent Police Investigative Directorate. The agency also found that 124 police officers were linked to rape cases in 2015, up from 121 in 2014. Forty-two of those officers were allegedly on duty during the rapes. Incidents of torture increased by 86 percent to 145 cases, up from 78 cases in 2014. The horrifying scenes of South African police shooting protesting miners at the Lonmin Marikana mine in 2012 are still fresh in our minds.

During the recent election period in Uganda, police used force against opposition members. The Uganda Law Society, religious leaders, and women’s rights groups have all spoken out to demand an end to police brutality in the country. Amnesty International reports that police abuses and restrictions of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly increased in 2015 and 2016. Attacks against activists, journalists, and other media workers continued with impunity. Opposition politicians seeking to participate in the February 2016 elections were arrested and detained, along with their supporters. High-profile incidents in the last few months have included police killings of civilians in the Rwenzori region and the ruthless beating of opposition supporters along the streets of Kampala as some waved to former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye.

More research is needed to clarify why such abusive behavior by police seems to cut across countries, regions, and continents. A recent assessment by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa came to the conclusion that negligent police management, poor training, disrespect for law and order, criminals within police ranks, and blatant disregard for internal disciplinary procedures are the chief causes behind the scourge of police brutality gripping that country. However, it is quite clear that there is no justification for shooting unarmed civilians or beating nonviolent protesters.

A number of steps must be taken to ensure that police across Africa use only proportionate and reasonable force, and that their operations are subject to effective civilian oversight. People-centered or democratic policing efforts, such as a much-appreciated community policing initiative in Uganda, are required. Governments should invest more in training officers and equipping them with nonlethal tools so as to minimize the harm they inflict in the execution of their duties. Individual police officers who engage in acts beyond the scope of their authority should be held to account. The creation of professional standards units like the one in Uganda is recommended to handle cases of this nature, but the work of such units needs to be active and visible, and they must be given the independence, authority, and resources to do their jobs. This would serve to rebuild public confidence in the police.

To achieve crucial police reforms, civil society activists in Africa could follow the lead of their U.S. counterparts and initiate an African Lives Matter movement. The Black Lives Matter movement in the United States advocates for dignity, justice, and respect. These are critical values and principles that should apply to and be enjoyed by every human being, regardless of their color, sex, political opinion, or religion. African civilians, no less than any other civilians around the world, need to continuously engage with the police, holding them to account and reminding them that our lives must be protected.

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Despite all the atrocities thrown at Africans, they preached forgiveness, love and only longed for happiness in return. As much as many Africans would like to forgive and move on, they are constantly shocked into the reality of their predicament. In 1962, John F. Kennedy famously said, “those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Where in Nigeria would a crowd be surrounding four police or even more and watch for over 8 minutes as one snuff life out of a man?


Nigeria has many police problems but the crowd would apply jungle justice that that police man.

Color line was created in the 1600 by laws in Virginia to divide and conquer people along the "racial" line. It may have been shattered or cracked into partial pieces by the children of the same white, black, red and brown people demonstrations around the world. Before then, it was Pope Nicolas the V in 1442 that gave Portugal the Papal bull to capture Africans for slave labor.

It is not yet Uhuru!

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No mind Dem o. Abi na rape?

Some of the same girls will snatch any man they can from their friends or even sisters and then blame the man.

Elxandre:
It just shows you how hypocritical women can be.
I've never heard a single woman label Wizkid or Davido deadbeat and reckless, even with their serial impregnations. Lol
They still have crush on them despite their obvious ill manner same,. In fact, most will gladly join the legion of baby mamas if given the opportunity.

But they'll quickly label a normal guy as irresponsible.

How do we explain to the children that we have lived a borrowed and fake culture all our life? An African adage implore we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We pride ourselves as International Boy or Girl v. Local Boy or Girl!

The language we speak with children is not ours, the Religion in which we baptized them is not ours, our Political-economy was not taught by Nkrumah, Nyerere, Luthuli or thought out by African brains. But are dictated by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. They are designed to keep African economies as raw material suppliers at subsistence level of survival so that we can be indebted to Developed countries. If you cannot believe it, you can accept that you are living it. As long as some leaders live well from crumbs that gave foreigners advantageous relationships, they drag the African masses along. Preached it as the only way to achieve economic prosperity.