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Did you mean Queen Bees, our politicians? What is your business if the Nigerian workers are happy?

They have a godgiven roles assigned by the Queen Bee in their Ethnic group, Church, Mosque and social circles. As long as the Queen Bees are happy getting fat, the workers are just as happy: Worker bees are female but are not capable of reproducing. They feed the Queen and the males that give her all the sex she want, do all the work in the hive, and they control most of what goes on inside. Their jobs include housekeeping, feeding the queen, drones and larvae, collecting the pollen and nectar, and making the wax.

Sowore status has been raised beyond that of prisoner of conscience. It is how they bestowed Nnamdi Kanu international status. Even in Nigeria, certain groups are the conscience of the majority. They have and will always be the conscience of most citizens. They have risen up as average Nigerians are scared to speak out. Unfortunately, there are instances they have paid dearly: in detention and sometimes with their lives.

Simply put greed, ostentatious behavior and selfishness

So What Expose African Business Men In Europe And Americas

Many African billionaires on the Forbes List are sleeping with one eye open these days because of Allen Onyema of Air Peace transactions. The gang of Dangote, Adenuga, Tinubu,Innoson, Dantata brothers, Danjuma and many members of Panama Club whose names have not been published. So, they are nervous. They are not limited to Nigeria. Equatorial Guinea may be one of the prominent ones, but we have them in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana too.

When they are caught abroad, they start blaming their village people. Only losers fight along ethnic lines for cash launderers and schadenfreude that thrive at the misfortune or failure of Africa by validating their success that gave them happiness at the expense of those in abject poverty. They are the kings on the hills everyone looks up to but never realize that their riches come from your subjugation. Africans enslaving Africans with the support of ethnic sympathy.

Ethnic enablers of these Prodigal “Akotileta” continue to excuse their chicanery by claiming every business man worldwide do the same and Africans are discriminated against in the same foreign countries they love to launder money so much. If every businessman laundered money like Africans, America and European countries would be the face of world poverty.

One must wonder if ethnic sympathizers cannot connect their champions to our abject poverty. When you destroy and loot your own country dry, you then want to run to their countries and do the same! They are not as stupid as ethnic sympathizers, they will target you as Africans, jail you, seize your loot and ban you from entering their countries again. It only makes sense
that if allowed, you will turn their countries into the same jungle of abject poverty you come from. How many crooks do you know that are bent on paying any price, even jail time abroad to deplete all the foreign income of their countries just to get high for appearing on the Forbes List?

We must look into the mirror today and see who are the enemies of Africa. Gold became our albatross attracting every stinging bees to our Continent century after the Queen of Sheba and Mansa Kanka Musa boasted to the world.

It is not how much profit, loot or how we make it that matters at a certain point in life; but what we do with the gains or profit we cannot take to our graves. Africans cannot claim they have never been rich now or in the past. The consequence of their avarice pushes the whole Continent to the bottom as the poorest people on earth: an example of wasted opportunities.

We used to be our brothers’ keepers. We abandoned - it takes a village to raise a child. In view of exploited enormous resources, we can no longer justifiable blame invited co-conspirators.

Many have wondered why many rich African business men have not been able to pass on their skills to their children or expanded their business beyond the family house. The answer may not be far-fetched if we know how we copy American Investment Portfolio manager Robert Madoff, operation of Ponzi scheme. Like African money launderers, it was a pyramid without foundation.

Madoff destroyed his family, disappointed those that invested money and trusted him, holding empty retirement nests; as Saraki’s Societe General. These scrooges led a Continent to poverty.

Their businesses are decoy to export our products and services bought cheap by the same foreign countries. Here we are, crying that we only get a fraction of what our resources are sold for in retail markets all over the world. Foreign Co. pile their profit on wrappings, advertisement, packaging, middleclass jobs, transportation while the last cents are given to Africa where they got the real products from. Yet they claimed cocoa farmers and other workers live on less than $2.00 a day. This is even less than what they paid us back for our products
and services.

Since crude oil was exported out of Nigeria in the 80s, all the conditional agreement that was put into place if world price increased from $20.00 were never implemented as the price of oil went above $100.00 creating unbelievable windfall profit for oil companies with little crumbs to bribe their boys that kept quiet. Are we so naive or unscrupulous that individual Nigerians willingly conspired against their own Country with oil companies?

However, what good is your gain or profit if it is not invested in Africa to multiply middleclass jobs for the benefit of Africans rather than guiding the financial interest of foreign shareholders that intentionally use you as tools of oppression to subjugate your own people. Africans main trading partners are not Africans but those overseas in countries that live on Africa exploitation.

African business men need them as partners to launder their spoils into abject war against us. Africans business men turned national treasures and foreign income into winners take all. The winners call themselves first finders of loot. Finders are keepers while the rest of us are losers’ weepers. Indeed, many but not all so called declared or undeclared Billionaires are compulsive reverse Robinhood. They are closer to Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves without any conscience, calling on foreigners that our foreign reserves are open for looting: Open Sesame!

What do they do with the money laundered? They first pay exorbitant fees to lawyers and accountants that help them hide blood money in legitimate banks, offshore companies in the Caribbean countries, buy humongous houses attracting high taxes for schools and roads they refused to build or maintain in their own countries, put in orders for exotic cars parked in houses where girlfriends and house-helps enjoy one another. Each time they jet out of Africa, they check their accounts with a smile of a job well done.

South Africa is calling on Government to use private foreign lawyers to get back laundered money like Nigeria but the commission by outside lawyers alone to retrieve Abacha’s loot were paid to inside and outside lawyers. Companies hardly make profit in Africa for 60 years, unlike in their own countries where they provide middle-class jobs and pay taxes no matter how much tax break they get. Shell and Eni’s scandal-plagued oil deal alone deprived Nigeria of $6bn . Some estimated that about half a trillion to a trillion dollars have been looted through money
laundering and other means from Africa. Yet, the same countries cry about their tax in foreign aid that force African countries to buy their products and services including bottled water.

We have successful businesses before Independence and individuals whose basic local products exported might not bring in as much foreign profits. But they cannot compete today as local businesses with individuals who deplete the lion's share of our foreign reserves for doing nada.

If these forex millionaires and billionaires do not get their ways, they threatened retrenchment of workers or pull out to other African countries they can exploit even more.

We must wonder why foreigners grade free and fair market as the most suitable place to do business in Africa. To maximize profit for them or African countries? Indeed, Ghana Gold Mine was sold to foreign investors to generate profit, not for Ghana but Foreign Portfolio Investors.
If you look at the way our natural resources in each African Country were "liberalized" into free and fair market for grabs for foreign Portfolio Investors, you cannot help but wonder what expertise an offshore empty shell company like Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) had to convert crude oil flared into gas energy that no African could negotiate with oil
companies.

Published: Thursday, November 28, 2019
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/283276/avarice-wobia-unclad-many-african-businessmen-abroad.html#

Look, let us stop going at one another's throats because of Allen Onyema, Dangote, Otedola, Innoson and many other Nigerian business men whose Yash have not been exposed yet.

They all have one thing in common, to deplete the money and resources in Nigeria and launder everything abroad.

They do not care about us. They care more about making Forbes list of Billionaires.

Please this is not between Igbo and Agonja.

But then, some unscrupulous businessmen became the greediest ones depleting our foreign reserve. They are willing to import Junk, that is any junk, including toxic waste shipped to African countries from developed countries. They laid such a taunting example for the ordinary folks to follow. Everything and anything foreign became attractive, as if they do not have to be paid for with our earning from what we export.

I must say that I have not read every post but find enough disgusting.

This is why we do not have good schools in Nigeria. A Nigerian graduate that was lucky to get a job with foreign oil company even boast abroad that they prefer foreign graduates, which is true.

This is why most Africans are lured out. The difference is that the first generation that schooled abroad could not wait to get back home after seeing through the deception and hypocrisy of the people they had admired and schools they glorified.

They came back home and fough the hypocrites demanding Independence.

Listen, that you went to Harvard or Oxford does not quarantee success. At the end of your program, the best companies will come to your schools to recruit. At the end of the recruitment, the only ones left without a job in business, law, medicine and engineering are minorities.

Of course lucky token few will be recruited but watch how long they last with those companies.

Disappointed black, Hispanic and foreign students have to use their own initiatives to hustle for jobs, start their own business selling the prestigious schools they attended. Many have to seek counseling because they cannot admit or believe it.

Some of those come back to Africa lying to you and themselves.

The ones you celebrate and beat your chest about, never tell you how they are kicked, disrespected and fired in spite of their success in their fields.

Africans, when are you going to face the truth and realities and learn from your first generation that bitterly fought for political Independence which this generation is selling back as economic Dependence by trying to become foreign currency billionaires?

You go try so tey until you sell your next generations into slavery again.

Ndi ......., Oponu, Barawo!

Why The Rich Live Longer With Less Kids As Poor Multiply & Die Early

The question most people do not want to ask or answer: who is going to feed or care for the poor population explosion in Africa? Rich countries employ a great deal of research in sciences to prevent, cure diseases and live longer. Such as drugs that prolong life; CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) or gene reorientation and therapy; feeding on laboratory meat without killing animals; Beyond Meat or genetically modified agricultural grains to increase production of wheat, rice, vegetables etc.

Africa account for 15% of the global population but carry 25% of the disease burden. Though African genes are more diverse, only 2% of genetic materials used for pharmaceutical research come from Africa while others make up the rest because most of the research is outside Africa. We are not competing with the best of our potential that we are capable of and can do better.

We have what it takes in talents, blessed with fertile arable land and forest begging for exploration and discoveries. But we lack the discipline to pursue more productive values. Indeed, there are some discoveries going on right now all over the Continent but not enough to meet our needs compared to the rest of the world or take care of our population that is increasing while the rest of the world exert birth control and live longer.

If you want to see the future of a people, look at how well they take care of all children, not just their own. How we educate and train our children cannot be overemphasized. Idle hands are susceptible to mischievous and degenerative behaviors. Good schools are not just for the rich and powerful; it is where poor children are turned into productive adults that may save the rest of Africa in Africa. God gave everyone of us a role and talent to explore.

Charles Ofori Antipem in Ghana innovated Science Set textbook small enough to fit on a student’s desk and capable of over 26 experiments. It got the interests and excited Ghanaian school children. Professor Kelly Chibale, Director and founder of Drug Discovery and Development at the University of Cape Town , South Africa is customizing drugs to the needs of Africans. Abasi Ene-Obong, the founder of 54gene in Nigeria goal is to build the first and largest biobank of African DNA genetic pool for drug research in Africa. Wow, “O Pataricious”!

Unfortunately, African countries funding for both agricultural research and biomedical cure for human diseases have been meagre and less productive. Since the average reason Africans want to be rich is to be able to acquire more wives, children and import vanities. We cannot expect others whose dedication is beyond money to take care of us. Indeed, the number of Africans at home or in Diaspora participating in these research are sparse.



The likes of Dangote and Mo Ibrahim are not enough to complement the humanitarian support of Bill Gates, Rockefeller Foundation or Albright in research and scholarships for Africans in Africa. Indeed, we have more looters of Africa’s rich resources from Equatorial Guinea to Nigeria that have never appeared on the Forbes list of Billionaires but display personal planes, exotic automobiles, Bullion Van and wake up the dead ostentatiously. Colo-mentality directed our consciousness to the pursuit of money, refocused our wants to import not Africa’s goodwill.

While the Asians are increasingly visible in technological research, discovery and business, there are only few Africans in those fields. Yet, those few that are barely tolerated in foreign lands, are used for chest beating and celebrations in a few African countries. These are Africans that have to kiss up, are disrespected but succeed against all odds. If they are so good, as often told, why are they abroad? Otherwise their countries would not be ruled by renegade politicians.

It is ironic that when some African countries were getting most of their foreign income from Cocoa, they were better managers of their people. By the time some of the same African countries started making money from diamond, uranium, cobalt and oil; they started wars and their countries and people got poorer. Many of the institutions built with Cocoa money are languishing for lack of nurturing, maintenance and funding. What is obvious is that the more money African countries make, the poorer our corrupt politicians make the masses.

If we can remember how Nkrumah in Ghana and Awolowo in Nigeria spent cocoa money on education compared to how the following leaders spend oil money, we have to feel remorse without feeling sorry for ourselves. We must pick up the pieces from where we fell off the cliff! We have to stop looking into the mirror hoping we would suddenly turn into their image. We can improve on their technologies, the way they improve on Lower and Upper Egypt (Sudan).

Unfortunately, Africa’s economic colonization is now a competition between the Chinese or Asians and the Western worlds. The pitiable meagre amount of returns we get from the End products of Cocoa today, has not taught us any lesson. The same is true of all the mineral resources Eastern and Western world are competing for in Africa. How long can we keep up selling our products for pennies while buying backs plastics in US dollars, Euro, Pounds and Yen?



Education still remains one of the greatest determinants of life expectancy. The more informed we are, the better our health habits. It does not have to be in the sciences alone since we tend to read more and be broad minded on all subjects as we acquire more knowledge. Knowledge also steer us away from bad and expensive habits of smoking, drinking and drugs that are injurious to our health. It might stop us from just being consumers and producers of nothing!

Most Africans have no control over their locations or environment. Actually, many live in areas not suitable for health because of cheaper rent and travel many miles to get to work. So when they escape polluted areas during the day, they go back home at night. By the time they get home, they are too exhausted to try any exercise to keep the body in shape. Yet, the right exercise and good diet are important for good health and longer life.

We are still fighting for economic independence after 60 years and wondering which technology to buy at a cost beyond our means from the Western and Eastern powers to destroy or boast to one another; while we leave our children brains untapped. Even worse, is the inability to copy, steal, pirate or improve technology like the Greeks and Romans did from Sudan, Egypt and Zimbabwe, as the Europeans stole from Greeks. Just as the Americans, Japanese, Chinese or Indians stole technologies from Europeans.

Nov 1, 2019 | Farouk Martins Aresa

https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/282657/why-the-rich-live-longer-with-less-kids-as-poor-multiply-d.html

CANCER SCIENTISTS HAVE IGNORED AFRICAN DNA IN THE SEARCH FOR CURES
By Jessica Wapner On 7/18/18 at 9:01 AM EDT
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When a small group of modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago, they left behind a rich genetic diversity. Charles Rotimi believes that researchers need to capture it, for the benefit of Africans and everyone else.
JOSHUA COGAN FOR NEWSWEEK
HEALTH CANCER AFRICA GENETIC RESEARCH GENOME

Charles Rotimi first realized the future was passing him by around 2005. The Human Genome Project had recently finished spelling out an entire set of human DNA. Following that breakthrough, scientists in six countries across the globe had begun collecting blood samples to find genes responsible for various conditions, including serious diseases, which could lead to treatments. And Rotimi, who was leading that collection effort in Africa, had the sick feeling that history was repeating itself.

Kelly Chibale: Leading the way in African drug discovery
H3D director is overcoming sceptics to take region’s innovation efforts seriously
Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town
‘As an African I cannot demand respect, I have to earn it. Not just by what I say, but also by my actions,’ says Mr Chibale

March 10, 2019 5:00 am by David Pilling
The rag in Kelly Chibale’s rags-to-riches story is the lit one he used to put into a paraffin-filled tub so that he could study at night. Brought up amid violence and squalor in the Zambian copper belt settlement of Kabulanda — whose name, he says, literally denotes “sadness” — Mr Chibale has fashioned a successful career from a tough start.
https://www.ft.com/content/5541440c-38ff-11e9-b856-5404d3811663

Nobel Prize Overdue For Africans In Pharmaceutical Drugs

One of the richest markets in the world is in pharmaceutical companies. Many of them risked billions on research, no doubt. At the same time, most come to rediscover anti bacteria, fungal and other drugs that may be lacking standard dosage or purity in Africa. Medical sciences professors and children of Babalawo are well versed in the use of these drugs from their parents. But most would not publish them in the Science or Medical Journals for fear of losing their patent rights or proprietorships to the West.

Well, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed was just awarded a Nobel Peace Prize which we celebrated. It was in his pursuit of Peace within and around the neighboring countries. Look, no matter where you are, it is a relief to get some good news in view of all these manmade calamities in Africa. Indeed, the intention of Mo Ibrahim Foundation is to promote good Governance and encourage new young leaders in Africa.

So, what is the beef of this writer? They ignore our unique assets from pharmaceutical to cultural uniqueness still imbued in some Diaspora Africans, yet unbranded for popular acceptance. We cannot wait for recognition within and outside Africa in Sciences we taught the rest of the world, especially in pharmaceutical up to the present. Selfishness or branding aside, Africans are just as intelligent and dutiful as many folks in the world.

There are some well accomplished African Motivational Speakers making rounds in Western universities about unrecognized achievements of many African countries including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Ghana as some of the fastest growing economies in the world. One of them labelled the “success” as half full or half empty jar. In contradiction, she showed slides of how the map of abject Poverty moved away from Asia to Africa.

Africans do not be fooled. We have been flattered too many times and we believe those calling us “Emerging Economy”, “Best Country For Investment”, “Free Trade” and “The Fastest Growing Economy”. Western countries are just looking for countries where they could get maximum returns as Foreign Portfolio Investors. The reason we have the highest interest rate in the world is to kill and discourage local businesses trying to survive and germinate while foreigners get highest returns on short term investments.

Most of these speakers are just projecting Western images on Africa. They talk about most African countries with scattered villages where one would think he is in Western heaven like patches of green grass in the desert. Nigerians, more than other Africans would beat their chest bloody on individual achievements except a few in Nigeria lately.

Farouk Martins Aresa

https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/282434/nobel-prize-overdue-for-africans-in-pharmaceutical-drugs.html

These scattered Villages in Africa, also called gated communities have infrastructure and humongous houses as good, if not better than those in Europe and the Americas. As long as you have money, you can live in these villages and think you are in Paradise. The only problem is that on your way to and out of these villages, realities would be staring at you: bad roads, shanty towns, hustlers and thugs waiting to be nice to you.

You can even beat some of these poverty-stricken areas by getting adequate security and well armored Sport Utility Vehicles locally made by Proforce and Innoson. Better still, some of the cities have helicopter services to and from the airports. If you need to go to parties and show off with US “dollar rain” in Nigeria, you can hire real Police Force to protect you while you litter the floor with American dollars. Nobody is allowed to sweep the dollar rain until all videos for social media are completed.

Therefore, these so called African Motivational Speakers do have a point. There are rich people and rich neighborhoods in Africa. It will be too selective to see foreigners taking pictures of only shanty communities or ghettoes as one of the Speakers complained. Haba, there are Africans living better than most people in Europe and Americas!

Similarly, there are many corrupt people everywhere in the world, not only in Africa. Actually, one governor (wey nor get shame sef) even emphasized that corruption is not an African word. Those of us labelling African politicians as floating in corruption may be jealous because, given the same opportunities, we would be more corrupt than these politicians we criticize daily. So, Ai beg, make una go sidon jor!

Please note, not all Africans are perversely corrupt or got rich on oil blogs. There used to be a time that no African would dare steal money in his local area out of shame and repercussions on the family. Today any allocation for: workers’ salaries, a village, town and state are not safe in Nigeria. It has become a game of who has first access. When we are talking of looting 100% of Billions allocation, no looter dares it, except in Nigeria!

It is true that many politicians around the world are corrupt and would do anything once they obtain power, even without majority votes. They can even suspend the Parliament as Boris Johnson did in Britain obtaining the Queen’s blessings; and he almost got away with it until the Court overruled. If that happened in an African country, we would see laughter, jesters and folks that were bred in democracy calling Africans uncivilized.

They dictate our economy and will continue to do so until we go cold turkey on foreign goods and services especially their plastic. They lured us into Structural Adjustment and later apologized because they did not take sociocultural values into consideration. Yet, they came in a different way, asking for Devaluations that everyone knew we can never recover from. We must learn how to make Intra-Africa Trade the rule of the new day.

When was the last time you heard about “it takes a village to raise a child” or “Africans are our brothers’ keepers”? While we have “Esusu” means of monthly contribution to expand and modernize, we adopted small loans practice of Asia and “Trader Moni” we know many people will not pay back. Everyone wants money from the government for his inventions that should be encouraged by “Esusu”. Moneybags could sponsor most.

Intra-African Trade have problems of its own as demonstrated by Nigeria closing its borders to protect it from banned imported goods but smuggled inside by neighboring countries. No country should import more goods than it needs from the same foreign countries we are running from, for sale in other African countries to defeat their efforts to encourage local production. It is not Intra-African Trade but sabotage pure and simple!

Unfortunately, genuine goods and services produced in neighboring countries would suffer as collateral damage until lessons are learned and complications of intra Africa Trade sorted out. African countries need one another before we can wean out of the dependency on overseas unfair and exploitative trade practices. While we indulged and love foreign goods, African goods and services are yet to penetrate world trade markets.

If there is any lesson other Africans can learn from Nigeria, it is that money no matter how much, can never make a country rich as long as there are Vultures as saboteur couriers for foreign partners holding their noses from the stench. Oil income became a curse for foreign consumption, acrimonies and loss of morale fiber in our communities. Many without access to oil money turned to other crimes to keep up with Sule, Tunde and Chukwu.

It was a black that police shot watching TV in his house. Another black woman was shot by police while playing a game at home with the nephew.

This una America Taya me o.

Texas woman shot dead by police in her home remembered as dedicated aunt, 'peaceful woman'
A family lawyer said Atatiana Jefferson, who was with her nephew, was fatally shot while investigating a noise in her backyard.

These are ritual killings pure and simple.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/us/2019/10/13/fort-worth-police-shooting-nr-pkg-vpx.cnn

Wondering What Pierre Taught Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada has been outed for hypocrisy. When he was in high school he wore costumes as a Black Face, then as a teacher, a Sheikh with Brown Face in Arabian costume. While it is common to dress up during Halloween in different costumes, these actions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, even as a youth was out of line and painful to many.

It is one thing to forgive, another to forget. Justin Trudeau comes from a privileged class as the French Canadian son of a grassroot fighter. Pierre his father, fought for the Union and later became the Prime Minister. He was accused of being a hypocrite during his time because he was born into a privileged class himself but vigorously fought for equal rights with the English, promoted bilingual and Multi-Culturalism.

When the Union blasted him as a sellout, he reminded them that during his time as Union Champion, they were fighting hard just to be recognized. He dared the Separatists in Quebec and won there as a Liberal Party Prime Minister. Rascal, he was. Racist, most of us would doubt it. Could his children get confused between rascality and racism? Many of us would doubt it.

How the son of this great man could become the image of a black face or turbaned as a jest may be looked at as that of spoilt brats that have never suffered. Privilege is very intoxicating and may make our children explore the unthinkable like drugs, get drunk, sex and yes, racial intolerance. The wondering here about Justin has to do with the age and time he delve into such racist behavior that would be condemned by those around him and that knew his father.

Pierre as Prime Minister, was generous to the poor and immigrants. Rascality does not merge with racism. If you have a father like Pierre Trudeau that once told some 600 former employees of a private contractor who had delivered the mail in Montreal picketing Parliament: "Mange de la merde." Eat shit. One might wonder. This was not what you would expect from a Prime Minister but Pierre was a rascal that did not mind pirouetting behind the Queen of England.

Look, even many children of core racists turned out to be very good citizen fighting against the racist culture of their parents. The problem here remains that Justin Trudeau did these racist display as a full grown man. He could not have been mad at those taking or competing for his privileges. So, we are baffled about what his problem was. Yes, the father said: what mattered most was to do justice in our own time.

Some people took that to mean, Pierre was not ready to blame others for past mistake or past racism. This writer must confess that while Justin was generous to women (half of his cabinet) and Sikhs, no African Canadian made his Cabinet the first time around which was contrary to his stand and that of his father. But he later made up for that. Indeed, it was not clear why his Cabinet had more Sikhs than that of India. We can now say he was trying to make up for his youthful misdirected exuberance on them.

After all is said and done, there is a greater focus here. Most of the people condemning Justin were really disappointed. But we have to be careful about hypocrites that will do anything to hound him out of politics when we know they are the worst racists. Not only that, these days racists are bold, audacious and unapologetic. Some of them use all types of reasons to justify their insidious actions. Yet, they cannot wait to call out the mistakes of our more liberal friends.

Senator Moynihan was a US Democrat champion of African American causes. Some on the Left, disagreed with his remark or his Report. He was immediately jumped on by Republicans. What they do not understand was why African American would tolerate differences with some of their friends that bear no ill-will or actually made no smear on Africans. People are not fools, we know our friends and even friends do have disagreements and differences sometimes.

Justin Trudeau may have stumbled. Nobody should sacrifice a good one. We can call him in and tell him our minds but never should minorities in Canada leave Justin, the son of Pierre Trudeau to the wolves. There are many cries around the country and around the world about the action of Justin Trudeau. Friends are disappointed, while foes are happy. They see an opportunity to deny him reelection without coming even coming close to his ideas and programs for Canadians.

Canadians must keep their Eyes On the Prize. Justin Trudeau remains their best option in this coming Election. It is too late for the Social Democrats to catch up and give the Conservative a good fight. Since this is a close Election if the polls are right, all Canadians including minorities offended must forgive Justin Trudeau but keep good eyes on him in view of this unexpected revelations during his younger days.

Justin comes from a good family that had fought for the common man regardless of the privilege they were born into. He has been able to show by his action despite some unenforced political errors on his part. Watch out very well for those using the latest embarrassment against him to clinch the positions they would not have gotten but for a few disappointments.

The best option would have been for him to resign as the leader of his Party if there is enough time. He could then contest again as the leader. If the Party and Canadians were comfortable enough, they could then reappoint him for the Election. It is too late now. This is not the time to take chances. We must keep our Eyes On The Prize.

It might remind some of us of how Canadians got fed up with Pierre Trudeau and Joe (Who?) Clark was elected as the Prime Minister then. It was not too long before he lost the following Election to Pierre Trudeau in less than six months. They called it Pierre Trudeau Rope A Dope!

Justin Trudeau must move on and emphasize his progressive ideas to the voters across the Country. The conservatives have mastered plans on how to distract voters from their inward and selfish agenda pretending they are fighting for the masses. When we know, as David Lewis explained to us eloquently in those days; that they goal is always to fatten the "Corporate Bums".

Farouk Martins Aresa, © 2019
https://www.modernghana.com/news/957017/wondering-what-pierre-taught-justin-trudeau.html

CeterisXVII,

I have been very careful with my language with you because reasonable men could agree to disagree. Moreover, I do not know you neither do you know me.

The fact that we have Italian Mafia and every group has their criminals does not justify the amount and proportion crooks take out of Nigeria's economy. These crooks all over the world hardly make a dent on their countries' economy the ways these crooks kill Nigeria's economy.

You seems to strongly believe that we are technologically so backwards that we are helpless and at the mercy of western technology. I will give that to you but only up to a point. This is why I pointed out ODENL.com

As for Redeem University remarkable achievement in the diagnosis of Ebola, take the version or write up of those you want. But it does not negate reality.

Professor Christian Happi I hardly know. Check out his publications and find out how he was able to convert his tools for diagnosis of Ebola. He did not have to rediscover a pin, he made do with what he had. This is what Americans did with British and Japaneses or China did with Americans as I stated earlier.

Now, at the Conference at Harvard, one would think that it was the Harvard Researchers that influence Prof. Happi. By the time he mounted the podium, it was clear this was what he had been thinking about with other infectious diseases including Lassa fever. He and his colleagues worked hard at it and he got it right. As a result, he was invited to Harvard to lecture.

In short at the Conference, by the time he finished, it was a standing ovation led by yours truly. Africans at the conference though few, were happy something good came out of Nigeria without asking for foreign aid. He went to Harvard to teach them his method and some of them went to Ede to train with him.

There is a difference between "contact tracing and "diagnosis". Speak on what you know.

I have to state all these to raise the confidence of Africans and Nigerians in particular. There is no enabling environment anywhere better than Africa. If we only work as hard at home as we do outside, Nigeria will be a better country. Africans work against all odds in these glorified foreign countries and we never heard about those who died in the process working hard.

So with all respect, our salvation is in our hands, not in the hands of foreign profit and bribes.

Hello, I do not want to engage in a back and forth exchange with you, because you are not saying anything tangible or different from what I have pointed out earlier.

In fact your last response confirms that Nigerian scientists and technologists, lack the cutting edge equipment, facilities and expertise, required for a lot of intensive, cutting-edge research, and innovation.

You claim that: "Did you know a new tiny university in Ede of all places, designed and fabricated a machine that diagnosed and confirmed Ebola virus before CDC Atlanta and Pasteur and London School of Hygiene arrived?"

What was the name of the machine fabricated in RUN, Ede? Where were the components sourced from? Who fabricated it? Please do not misinform people.

This is Fraud Upon The Court period. All legal analysis should focus on that.

It must be started again that these are not reputable companies, they are treasure hunters and gold diggers putting investment together to drain developing countries.

They locate Africans looking for profit in dollars and pounds.

Do not make it look like a technical legal or technology matters. Common laws are based on English law inferred from the Greek and Roman cultures. They are written to favor their culture just like Islamic law or Sharia.

BTW, Arbitration is not bidding on non-consenting parties. Even if they can produce any obscure or fine prints where it was written as binding, Fraud can destroy it.

This is not going to be the last. There are many treasure hunters out there and naive, gullible greedy Africans are waiting for money in their foreign accounts.

Ceteris XVII,

[quote]Now, when it comes to manufacturing a gas processing plant, please tell me which Nigerian company can fabricate or manufacture one locally, and has done so from scratch successfully.
/quote]

We could have asked ODENL.COM

the same question years back, yet we are still repeating the mistake we made at 3rd Mainland Bridge, at Eko Atlantic and 2nd Niger Bridge.

You will not believe the skill, expertise and training acquired by local universities including MIT during Big Dig construction in Boston. What did our local universities acquire during the construction of Kainji Dam apart from being Egineer Managers?

Pure and simple, Africans like their bribes, profits and inflated rewards paid into foreign accounts. They do not trust NIGERIANs.

It has been said many times, we have the biggest laboratories in the world, WILD BUSH, that is why foreigners have to do another discoveries here to rediscover aspirin, antibiotics etc.

Did you know a new tiny university in Ede of all places, designed and fabricated a machine that diagnosed and confirmed Ebola virus before CDC Atlanta and Pasteur and London School of Hygiene arrived?

As for equipments, why does it have to be the same Petri dish, Bursen burner or robot? Better still why can't we strip open all the gadgets we have bought for 60 years, copy and break their patents like the Americans did to British; like there Japanese, Russians or Chinese did to Americans.

Again, NIGERIANs like other African countries do not want their bribes and profit in local currency.

Ceteris XVII,

I like the awareness and knowledge you bring into this. But please do not underestimate yourself and Nigerians like you around the world.

We have to understand that technology strive in US based on enabling environment that Nigerians always latch on to. But what produce technology are politics and policy. You can have technology and not implement it as shown by Japan taking technology from US. For a long time, US and Europe claimed Japanese could not make luxury and big cars. Japan came up with Lexus and other Asians follow.

The point here is that Ajaokuta failure was not because of technology but because of politics and policy. Europeans and Americans did not want competition and knew it would lead to steel glut as we now have. We were forced to go to Russia. If the failure was lack of technology, are you saying Nigerians were too dumb in all these years after Independent to be on the job training in Ajaokuta and other industries like Eko Bridge construction. Eko Atlantic is going the same way.

This lack of well trained Nigerians were pushed for too many year until we built our indigenous ocean deep oil rig. Yes, you are right, with the cooperation of foreign and local talents.

http://odenl.com/

So please tell us what technology was so rare that Quinn, a car mechanic and a criminal that beat jail in Ireland and Nigeria, had that no Nigerian worldwide had, to convert gas flare?

An old technology within the capability of International oil companies.

Well said but to think that we just know foreigners are scammers only 30 years ago, is like hiding our heads in the sand. Ajaokuta Steel was not yesterday or 30 years ago.

Let be frank, Nigerians prefer foreigners not because you cannot find Nigerians around the world but because we want our profit in hard currency.

CeterisXVII:
Listen, Danjuma would NOT have hired Quinn, if he knew Quinn would steal the project from him, or eventually scam the govt at the end of the day.

So he must have hired Quinn in good faith, thinking he would do the job.

There are some areas of expertise, that Nigerian scientists may not be able to create equipment or hardware designs to cover projects with complex technical requirements, unless they partner with foreign firms who have such equipment and expertise.

Gas processing plants are not fabricated locally for instance, but abroad. They can however be assembled locally by Nigerian engineers.

Maybe the stage at which Nigerian scientists or engineers would have been brought into the project to add value, had not yet been reached by Danjuma's organisation.

It is only now that the extent of Quinn's scams over the past 30 years in Nigeria, are just coming to light. It is a pity that he is now dead.

I hope his local accomplices will be found and dealt with, thoroughly.

CeterisXVII,

What is the difference between what I stated and your correction?

I actually agree with you except on Danjuma. Nigeria already had gas flaring to power miniplants on paper even before Obasanjo tabled it.

Nigerians were not so daft waiting for Danjuma's ideas that late. You are right that Quinn stole Danjuma project as one of his consultants. But he was already conspiring with big oil companies to frustrate Nigeria's ambition.

Yes, Danjuma funded the project already known and implemented worldwide. Give him that credit. But he could have gathered Nigerian scientists worldwide and locally with that project and money rather than these foreign scammers defrauding us over and over.

When are we going to learn. I still like your point.

It is sad how African perspective, no matter how justified may not make sense, not only to foreigners but to their court of law Africans hold up as the golden sign of democracy.

Since the 70s, successive Governments in Nigeria, in spite of our shortcomings and faults, have tried every possible ways to convince International Oil companies to stop flaring gas because of the environmental damages to Niger Delta where most of the oil come from. But even more important is the benefit of providing Electricity to the population of Niger Delta and 200 millions Nigeria.

Nigeria, despite our greedy politicians have passed regulations, employed consultants from different countries to convince these International Oil companies to help us provide Electricity since we have gas flare wasted that could be converted. All to no avail. Indeed, these international Oil companies have continually disregard our laws, international laws and moral judgment to continue flaring gas.

While the $9 Billion judgment have capture the attention of Nigeria, the real problem of gas flaring to electricity has not. Quinn, the Irish criminal that was supposed and boasted that he could bring the International Oil company around, not only conspired with them and sabotaged us as other foreign consultants in Ajaokuta Steel, HIV Kit factory, Nano Silver for Ebola did. Quinn and co. sued Nigeria and won.

If you can Please read London Guardian perspective presented in London Tribunal Court that included our former AG. that it was Nigeria that failed to provide Gas to its poor people and the good Samaritan Quinn that had no expertise whatever could have:

The intention was to convert wet natural gas to dry gas to power the country’s national electric grid, improving supply. P&ID would sell 15% of the propane, ethane and butane by-products on the international market, with an expectation of generating “$5bn to $6bn in profit over a 20-year period”. In return, Nigeria would receive 85% of the gas at no cost for generating electricity.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/aug/24/nigeria-must-pay-9bn-damages

and Nigerian perspective of how they have been screwing us since slavery days and never stops:

Nigeria tried persuasion, incentives, tax breaks, bribes, law and regulations to get oil companies to convert gas flaring to power and failed since the 70s. The same Lobbyist Quinn that was paid to lobby and convince International Oil companies to use their capable expertise to capture gas flaring from the oil they got, conspired with them for years to sabotage Nigeria’s need for gas fired electricity projects.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/281369/9-billion-judgment-against-nigeria-by-a-court-of-no-conscie.html

$9 Billion Judgment Against Nigeria By A Court Of No Conscience

Watch out for notorious con men from high places at work again in all African countries backed by their governments, court of law and politicians. Canny lawyers, Lobbyists, Foreign Portfolio Investors, Equity or Hedge Fund manager facilitated. Consultants use fake news to convince the world that our meager foreign income is theirs. It doesn’t matter what we call them: Ponzi Schemes, Yahoo-Yahoo, Mercenary or 419; they aid and abet financial crimes against Africa.

Usually, most court of law would never bankrupt one opponent to pay the other so that companies and countries can still function as an entity. A financially viable opponent in court stands a better chance of paying out whatever they incur in judgment. If you kill a country or opponent financially, the chances of recovery are dim. It does not work to the benefit of the creditor or debtor. However, African countries are free games created to be taken advantage of.

Unfortunately, these scams and fraudulent judgements against poor African countries are still active: facilitated by speculators on Broad and Wall Street in Europe, America or African cronies. This $9 Billion scheme was masterminded by a late Michael “Mick” Quinn (P&ID) Process and Industrial Developments Ltd Chairman. A conman saved from jail in Ireland by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and the fear of Irish militia. He rose as a car mechanic to a billionaire scammer in business, law, sciences and arms dealing. Became African Consultant in Nigeria since the 70s.

Quinn was charged with espionage and handling secret military materials, with his son Adam, a close associate from Ireland named James Nolan, three Nigerian officials, and three individuals from Israel, Romania, and Russia in October 2006. Another order came from the top as Ireland: that a case against Danjuma’s Consultant be dropped. The same month and year, Quinn formed P&ID and began exploring opportunities in gas flaring power he knew Nigeria needed for years.

Simply put, faceless offshore companies of no known address, expertise or capability still sell arbitration judgments without authorized signatories to investors and speculators because international oil companies repeatedly refused to capture flaring gas. Nigeria is the victim here. Paid to change oil companies’ refusal to convert gas flare to energy: Quinn dared not sue them!

Nigeria tried persuasion, incentives, tax breaks, bribes, law and regulations to get oil companies to convert gas flaring to power and failed since the 70s. The same Lobbyist Quinn that was paid to lobby and convince International Oil companies to use their capable expertise to capture gas flaring from the oil they got, conspired with them for years to sabotage Nigeria’s need for gas fired electricity projects. Danjuma claimed he spent $40m for his idea. Haba, Allah dey O!

Quinn that failed as paid Consultant and Lobbyist to convince oil companies, turned around and sue Nigeria! The con master himself admitted in court; it was the oil companies that abandoned gas flaring capture, but would not dare sue them! When Africans tried to use the International courts outside Africa to right injustice perpetrated on Africans on slavery or recent gas flaring of oil devastation in Niger Delta, chiefs and fishermen got stonewalled as contributing factors.

Odious contracts are not new in developing countries, especially in African countries. What is new are courts of any jurisdiction outside Africa backing reckless and unfulfilled contracts. Since 2013, Quinn and partners decided that enforcing arbitration judgments in Nigeria’s court was unproductive, they must go outside Nigeria, ideally to London. If foreign companies failed to secure bids; Quinn would clone, usurp or sell the bids to obtain judgment as breach of contracts.

They use foreign rule of law and courts to bankrupt Africa again and again. The company P&ID that got this enormous amount of money judgment has no fixed address or place of operation except as an off-shore shell corporation of a subsidiary of another company that was part of a global equity firm and speculators. If you are wondering now, this is how crooks do business in order to deny people, all governments of taxes and cannot be held responsible or accountable.

Sounds familiar? It is like the colonialists establishing business Neo-Colonialism so that they are not held responsible for their economic exploitation. Even when their contracts look sincere as in the case of Enron, by the time suspicious countries in Asia and Africa tried to back out, it was too late. After all, they had the full weight of the American Presidents: Bush and Clinton with threats of denial of foreign aids as consequences. Cases in point: India and Mozambique .

The study of odious loans and contracts have demonstrated that African countries are duped into inflated contracts by both foreign companies and the politicians holding our countries into perpetual debts. As Nano Silver was a scam during Ebola crisis; HIV test kit production factory failed because politicians wanted foreign bribes on imported kits. So was our famous case of $13 billion Paris Club debt; despite International communities’ pleas of too heavy a burden on us.

The Odious court judgment was a contract that was no different from the odious loans. These are con men from all sides negotiating foreign loans and contracts for the benefit of their personal pockets. In most cases without adding substantive values to the infrastructure or economy of the recipient African countries. They all follow the same pattern since they know African politicians would latch onto any foreign contract for a cut into their pockets.

Ironically, both European and American governments have taken it upon themselves to warn Africans about excessive Chinese debts from many of the loans signed for infrastructure. The reason African governments, approach and take Chinese loans is because of the more favorable terms in the contracts. The Chinese know the interest rates on Western loans and they always come up with a lower rate, even when African countries cannot afford to pay back.

However, developing countries are perpetual debtors and most remain so for life in order for rich countries to feed on them for survival. The simplest example is that of the farm workers and serf that kept on working for farm owners and owing more, no matter how long they pay back. They may even take out loans to buy provisions from the farm owners’ stores. In order to soften or relieve some of the loans, wives and kids are employed into the same vicious circle.

Taking your farm owners to court for relief is like asking to break your Visa or contracts you and your family had already signed. This is the case with developing countries. Some Asian countries have broken out of this circumstance by revolt, renegotiation, cancellation, forgiveness or outright renege on some of the contracts. China is now showing the same pattern of excessive inflated contracts. So, India renegotiated their contract with China recently on that point.

Even the $6.6 billion original judgment was more than three times its original estimate of losses as the $9 billion debt is growing by more than $1 million a day, because of interest. This court judgment of $9 billion is so out of place and not congenial to the financial health of Nigeria, it would set the country back many years. Indeed, Nigeria like most African countries is still suffering from the enormous debts t aking up almost all their yearly budgets .

Apologists of crime culture must be held accountable by international law enforcement agencies like FBI and Interpol to accept their responsibilities for the big boys they nurtured worldwide. Until then, Africa will remain their slave market. We then wonder why Lumumba, Nyerere, Nkrumah, Mugabe and Awolowo failed to complete their missions in each country. All the projects that were to be implemented to give African countries economic Independence were sabotaged for obscene profits by the very same foreign consultant experts we relied on.

But Fraud Upon The Court proving chicanery can save Africa. If you want justice, go to heaven!

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa
Published: Friday, September 6, 2019
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/281369/9-billion-judgment-against-nigeria-by-a-court-of-no-conscie.html#

I HAVE JUST BEEN APPOINTED ELECTION TRIBUNAL JUDGE


Akin – My dream just come true o!
Bimbo – Na wetin happen?
Akin – The thin wey just come my life, eh? Mouth nor fit talk am.

Bimbo – Na wetin now, make you talk jare.
Akin – You remember say I dey pray to God everday say: one day go be one day. Man must become billionaire. Abi no be so I talk am?

Bimbo – Na true, I nor go lie. But I think say nay yeye talk be that. All the time wey you be judge I nor see the money wey you bring come home nao. Abi na Chinwe dey take am from you.

Akin – I beg nor talk that kin thin. Chinwe na respectable colleague of mine wey nor dey mess around o.

Bimbo – O.k o. That is why you dey mention her for your sleep.

Akin – Which kin thin you dey talk. Man say God don hear him prayer, say them don appoint am election tribunal judge and you dey talk about Chinwe. Na Chinwe we go chop?

Bimbo – You dey eat am too? I beg, make you no fex sa. My fear be say na Chiwe go enjoy all.

Akin – Na proper craze, na him dey catch you. You hia abi you nor hia. The day way I see you with Abdu, I talk?

Bimbo – Abdu na medicine man O. Him come sell us agumu dada ni.

Akin – He nor ask you if kosobo dido le?
Bimbo - Me, me me and that malam? Craze wey catch you no be small O. I beg make you get your head examine well well.

Akin – Abdu get medicine for that too?
Bimbo – I beg talk how we go spend our billion jo.
Akin – You know say this judge job na wahala. Na soso wahala I get because I be fair judge and I nor dey take bribe from anybody. But as thins be, it be like say na only me nor dey go overseas for small vacation. Even housu, I nor get there for common London nor to talk say America.

Bimbo – Where and how you think say your colleague dey get all those things now?

Akin – If them tell you say I steal million naira or person take million naira bribe me. Na lie o. But for this election tribunal eh? Them go know say no be craze I craze, na poor I poor.

Bimbo – If say we get money now, I for go look the kin house we want for London or America self. A whole judge like you. Your children dey go Jakande school. You nor dey shame self.

Akin – Na potential billionaire, na him you dey talk to like that?

Bimbo – Na joke na. Ah a! You nor dey take joke again? Abi na so billionaires dey behave?

Akin – Commot jo. Make I go visit mama. He don tey wey I see am.

Mama – Congratulations my son. I don see your name for paper. Me and your papa dey celebrate since. All the neighbors don come hia to celebrate with us. God don hia our prayer o.

Akin – Mama weythin una dey celebrate na, no be wahala work?

Mama – Make I warn you well well, I nor born craze pinkin. No be you be the only judge for this Niger. But na only you be the poor one wey I know. Na soso broke nahim dey you broke. Church self, armed robbers dey carry money commot. Weythin do you?

Neighbor – Akin, Akin de judge. God don butter our bread o. Money don come. How you do am? Na who you know?

Akin – I beg your padin!
Neighbor – He don start with big grammar o. Na soso grammar na him he dey blow. All him colleagues get children and housu for Britain and America. Those wey nor go abroad, get children for international school. Na Jakande school him pinkin dey O!

Akin – Na how much be dem pay wey them fit send children go international school for Niger not to talk about Britain?

Neighbor – Mama, na craze don catch am. Me nor know who put craze for gari giv'am. He be like say na that stupid Bimbo.

Mama – No be Bimbo, na Chiwe dey do am.
Akin – Who be Chiwe?
Papa – My son, my son. Just be careful. I never stole a penny in my life, never stole a thousand, never stole a million but a billion naira na good money o!

Farouk Martins Aresa Farouk Martins Aresa, © 2011
This author has authored 501 publications on Modern Ghana.
https://www.modernghana.com/news/321932/i-have-just-been-appointed-election-tribunal-judge.html

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffered.

Not one of these is African. May God save us from colomentality. Where are the Okrika and Ijebu mades.

One would think Nigerians from all walks of life from academia to traditional chiefs, Obi and Emir would join hands and solve these problems with youth crying for attention and salvation. No they are still pointing fingers at one another. Your bad is worse than mine