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ItisWell22:
Really few.

I know some in Nigeria sef.

Not oil companies, and not general managers. 😁

The few wey school and good grades no scam.

Before you can be certain of such income for yourself as a business man in Nigeria, you must have invested in your business up to 100 million naira. If you have the investment and you know the business, you will make the money but such a business will be paying up to ten million naira monthly salaries or close to that.

Gerrard59:
The problem with this is ASUU strikes. Your returns are never consistent.

But rent continue to count whether or not the school is in session.

When you seriously like a woman and you are sure she likes you. Even if both of you have no money, you would save rent by living together. Propose immediately, don't waste a woman's time because they are not like men that can marry anytime. They have a rush hour.

iamrealdeji:
You folks are very good in lying though.
Richest man to ever live,Mensah Musa was a good Muslim.
Richest West African in the 60's,Alhassan Dantata was a Muslim.
Richest Nigerian before Dangote,Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was a Muslim.
Richest man in Africa,Dangote is a Muslim
Second richest man in Nigeria,Rabiu Abdulsamad is a Muslim.
Unofficial richest man in earth,Muhammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is a Muslim
Richest Company in the world,Saudi Aramco is a Muslim company.
Richest Region in the world,Golf Arabia comprising Dubai,Qatar,Abu Dhabi,Oman,Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,etc is a Muslim region.
What else are you saying?
You Isese folks,before you make $3million,you have to use like 50 people for money ritual,use fetus, women's womb,use virgins,use man penis,etc for money ritual. Before you can have bullet proof power(ayeta) and fortifications,rather than approaching technology,you have to use a women's pregnancy,new born baby,etc l and pound in pestle and eat,you have to eat human flesh to obtain power and wealth.
I'm a core Yoruba from ancient city of Sakiland where Ogun got consumed by the earth with the chain in Ogidigbo Saki.
But the ancient devil worship they call traditional religion is what we Africans should abolish. Isese religion is what has ruined our environment to this extent. It promotes money rituals,black magic and human sacrifice,etc. In ancient city of Sakiland,Egunguns(Masquerades)were once beaten black and blue by the good Alisunnah brothers and since then they know their boundaries and they even hide their Isese name. No Saki woman wants to marry them,no Saki man wants to marry from an Isese family. They get forced to adopt Islamic names and hide their Isese religion,many of them convert to Islam. ISLAM IS GOING TO RULE THE WORLD. That religion from Arabia is the world's fastest growing religion. Isese religion has no place in our society. The religion from Arabia is from God,Isese is from devil. That's why they don't even mention Olodumare in their incantations. They would rather mention Ogun lakaye or Sango. Isese is a religion of the past,Saki people are Muslims to the core now even though our grand parents and great grand parents practiced Isese but many converted to Islam. Family masquerades and Idols are been burnt by the brave boys in families in Saki everyday. If you dare come to Saki trying to rise Isese again,you might get beaten or worse might happen,Saki people are good muslims. Ilorin is now following the steps of Saki in being better Muslims too. Kudos to Dr Imam Ali Again,Dr Oloun Oyin and the great Sheikhs and Islamic scholars of Ilorin for urging the King to take action in banning Isese festival. I believe most Yoruba kings will start banning it now too. Oba Tijani Abimbola of Saki was the first to ban those ancient Isese festivals. The present King of Saki is now in Mecca in Saudi Arabia practicing that beautiful religion from Arabia and the best gift that could be given to any one,Islam worshipping,Allah.
Isese religion is dying so fast,Islam is the way of God,Isese is the way of Satan,vengeance,rituals,human sacrifice,etc

But you are misguided. Those known for human rituals for power are pentecostal pastors like Adeboye, Oyedepo who are yet to be caught then many others who have been caught. Google is your friend. No Babalawo or isese person has ever been caught for human rituals. The people known for money rituals are Muslim Alhajis The people who practice a theology of thuggery in Nigeria are Muslims but why not? Since Mohammed was a thug who would stab you for not facing Mecca to pray or behead you for praying in Yoruba language. I encourage you to retrace your step and abandon Islam at once. You can adopt the Bahai faith which is a reasonable and tolerable form of Islam. They see infidels as brothers. Mohammed is not even a gentleman and can therefore not be a prophet. There is no crime which Mohammed did not regularly commit.

If you are not poor, why do you need the man to be wealthy?. It will be understandable if you are poor though. If you are well off you should go after other qualities and even support your man with your money.

Peaceagain:
Remember, it takes two to tango. Tell women you are preparing for wedding and they keep coming after you not minding the fact that you are getting married to a woman like them. Any small space to chook head is what they are looking for. Yet, Men get the blame. Sadly!

Men are equally guilty. There is nothing men are guilty of that women are not and women would have been marrying more than one husband if not that the paternity of the kids would be ambiguous. There is nothing like hypergamy. Even if you are penniless and without income or job, you can fall in love with someone who loves you back and when that happens, when you meet that person you will marry as a man or woman. Feeling you need money to marry is a sign you are yet to meet the right person. You can be ready, find the right person, the person agrees without you having money or both of you having no money. Such as happened on many occasions that I know of. Those are real love stories. Not in films o but to people I know

The main reason why polygamy was justifiable in the olden days was because there used to be a lot of wars over territories and a single war could see thousands of men dying in one day, resulting in an excess of women. Women generally did not take part in wars and the number of women on your land determines your population growth and that is why Osun is a woman. Later, men started to also fight wars of theology in addition to war over territory and even more men died. On one occasion Mohammed was said to have personally beheaded over 800 war captives, I think for breaching a treaty or so. All were beheaded one after the other by him. Such things lead to justifiable polygamy. In some pre industrial west African communities that were peaceful and in which big men still wanted to be practicing polygamy despite the peace, they had a public house of community sponsored comfort women which any unmarried young man can go to, to relieve his urges at majority community expense. Now there are no wars over territories in most part of the world (which is why we have development dichotomy) and there is no longer a shortage of men as it used to be in the relatively more unstable pre industrial society

There are many women in modern and ancient times who have the means to marry more than one husband and the only reason they do not do that is because the paternity of their kids would be ambiguous. Men not thus inhibited is the reason for polygamy. The original plan of the creator is monogamy and that is why gender ratio at birth is more or less 1:1 If God intended polygamy he would have made the gender ratio to be much tilted against men but presently we have countries like China even states in Nigeria like Kano where there is a shortage of women according to the census.

Ogbe Irete (Ogbe Ate)

Ogbe (Support) being acted upon by Irete (Forger).

The sign implies the forging of support. Implies a support or alignment that was not in place originally but later attracted or forged from what is on ground. It is like taking a piece of iron and forging it into what you want that is needed by you which may be a tool and etc.

Ogbe Ate was cast for Muhammadu Buhari when he manipulated the Hausa and Nigerian masses to support him by claiming to be a poor man when infact he is a dollar billionaire and one of the largest shareholders of Julius Berger Plc and also owner of over thirty thousand cattle heads as at 2015. The support would not have been given to him if they knew who he is for real.

It was cast for Orunmila on the day he wanted to take the Afejere ide title. He invited all and sundry but nobody turned up despite that he had prepared food and drinks for thousands. He therefore approached Esu who went to the house of Ogun Obatala and etc to ask why they are not in Orunmila's party, they were giving one excuse or the other but Esu pointed a talisman in their direction which made them very hungry and they therefore rushed to Orunmila's house. Ogun's children carried his drum Agere and as they were singing and dancing Ogun heard from afar and recognizing the sound of his Agere he also joined them at Orunmila's house, Obatala too joined and etc and Orunmila was thus saved from being disgraced. Ogbe Ate

Eniyan won
Eniyan soro
A difa fun Orunmila
Nijo ti Baba o joye Afejere ide
Ti yio si lo re ba Esu odara mule
Ti yio ba okanlenirinwo irunmale je ajoje
Won ni ko rubo
O gbebo o rubo
A ni eniyan won
Eniyan soro
Ko si eniyan mo
Mo ba ikun mule

People are not dependable
People are very difficult
This was the Ifa cast for Orunmila
On the day he was going to take the Afejere ide title
When he entered into a covenant with Esu odara
And prepared a feast for the 401 irunmale.
He was advised to sacrifice
He listened and complied
People are not dependable
People are very difficult
There are no friends again
I have made a convenant with their bellies.

Ogbe Ate is cast for the new born being given extra ordinary care by his or her parents as if he or she were a royalty. After all what has a child done or achieved for it to deserve being treated like a royal?. Support is forged for that newborn. Ogbe Ate

Ogbe a woo!
Ologun eru
Elegbeje iwofa
Bi a ba bi Omo tuntun tan
A fi ese re kan ile
Bi a ba fi ese re kan Ile tan
A gbe gun Ori eshin
Ori Eni ni agbalagba ndagba si
Aboru Aboye Abosise

Ogbe a woo
A master of twenty slaves
And a master of 1400 bond servants
Upon giving birth to a newborn
We touch the Earth with his feet
After touching the Earth with his feet
We mount him on a stallion
An old man grows old on a mat
Aboru Aboye Abosise

Raf4:
Are you a human being or something else? You think mohammad was born in Ilorin or what? Dey deceive yourself.
Dr Olusola Saraki's wife (Bukola Saraki's mum) is a practicing Christian still living in Ilorin, Bukola himself was raised as a Christian, he's just a political muslim. His wife and children are Christians.
The immediate past governor of Kwara state (Abdulfatah) is married to a Christian, Late Tunde Idiagbon's wife is a Christian. Sara Alade (Former CBN Ag Governor) is a Christian, Bukayo Saka's family are now Christians, likewise Taiwo Awoniyi. I know more than 20 Pastors who are from Ilorin. You're here foaming in the mouth as if Ilorin was established on quran.

I also know one Ajikobi who is a Redeem Pastor, looking at him, you will think he is a Fulani while some from Balogun Fulani look like they are Ibadan people

What is the use of IQ?. If it is to solve problem, then it is the nations that solve the most problems that have the best IQs. We could say the nations with the highest per Capita academic publications but some countries have a lot of young people and therefore academic paper output will be low. Some countries have their people travelling for masters and PhD, therefore output will be low as their scholars are publishing in foreign journals. Rich countries publish a lot but they have quality post graduate programs with many non nationals publishing there. In that regards the UK is number one on a per Capita basis but in gross number China is number one while US is number 2. Papers in China are written more by local scholars but the USA and the UK have many people from all over the world etc. Then to be really considered as being intelligent, you must be able to point to a thesis you have written, IQ test counts for zero if there is nothing concrete to show for it. If you are not an English speaker, you have already lost IQ points etc etc

Gerrard59:
First bold; GDP per capita cannot be used to fully assess a country's level of development and wealth because it is too simplistic. In that case, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea are richer than Ghana. Those places with their wealth ought to be like Qatar and Oman, but are terribly poor.

Second bold; has to be Cayman Islands or Bermuda. Those places are smaller and scattered in islands than Bonny Islands. Ikeja has more residents than both combined. So tell me, when the leader of say Cayman Islands makes a declaration, does it have more clout than when the German Chancellor does the same? Does anyone even know the leader of Luxembourg? So, why use the Cayman Islands to adjudge blacks as wealthy folks when compared to other races?

Those islands are under Britain's control sef. The White man wins, again.



So, which black dominated country with the population of Norway is as rich as Norway? Which black dominated countries are like Germany and Japan even though the US is more innovative than them?



Yet Oprah Winfrey was "disrespected" in a luxury store in Switzerland. Are those black men richer than her? Heck, she is an African American, yet she got "disrespected". Na for their pocket say dem know Pope and Trump. I am talking about the layman and vast majority. An ordinary Chinese man will enter the Oprah entered shop to do window shopping, and he won't experience the same treatment because HALF of the luxury goods sold globally (an industry Switzerland is a major player) are bought by Han Chinese. The store attendant might hate Chinese, but she will NEVER disrespect the Chinese because of that singular fact. How many black people dey consume luxury goods? See Bernard Arnault, he visited China this month to see the market behind his company's success and personal wealth. I bet you that man cannot point where Ghana is on the world's map, but hey let's use the Cayman Islands to assess black people as wealthy folks.



We agree on something.



True, but they are poor. Ivory Coast is poorer than Malaysia. Ghana is poorer than Taiwan. Considering Laos has a wealthy neighbour in China, I dare say she can be richer in the next decade than Cameroon even though she is landlocked.



Agreed, and she has to be rich to afford those infrastructures. The loan she got from China was used to build railway tracks to go-knows-where-Maradi is rather than economically viable places.



Not true. Asian Americans come top all metrics. However, if you oppose, please provide the source where you got that Russians are the most successful on per capita basis.

P.S. Please define "successful" in this context.



Agreed.



While that is true, it does not cover the majority because they know where you come from. They know you have few choices and little or inconsequential consequences for any disrespect. I am immune to it, but black people especially black Africans should have it at the back of their mind rather than chanting everybody must like us.

No one likes poor people.

Like yourself first before anybody can like you. If you hate yourself and think low of yourself then you have been bankrupted and are starting from negative. Then the only or main reason any country especially non income tax taking country is better than Ghana or Cote dIvoire is because of a large number of children in those countries. The average age of Ghana will be around twenty something while Poland or Germany will be over 40 and that is the only or main reason Poland or Germany is richer than Ghana on a per Capita basis. Western Europe is expensive to live in and Eastern Europe is still more expensive than Ghana but cheaper than Western Europe. If rent were fifty dollars in Germany, then average wage can not be up to 1500 dollars, as rent is cheap in Ghana, you don't expect Ghana salaries to be high and therefore GDP figure will be low while quantitatively the economy is larger. If you live in Accra, you get anything you need just as if you are in Berlin or London and many Europeans are settled in Accra, Abidjan and etc. African Americans have an understandable persecution complex and anybody can have issue with anybody, that is what I feel about your Oprah Winfrey story. I don't have persecution complex. I don't want everybody to like me. That is a feeling of inferiority complex. More than enough people already like me. I don't do anything for people to dislike me etc. The reason you think people hate you is likely because you hate them yourself or you hate yourself. I don't have that feeling and many Nigerians don't have that feeling. What you feel about yourself is most important and you attract with your power what you have inside

Russian Americans are said to be the most successful migrants in the US in business or so according to a report I read.

I am not saying blacks are wealthy. A very young population can't be wealthy but they are not poor. To have money to travel is an indication you are not poor. Poor people are stuck where they are as someone pointed out. You may be rich and think you are poor.
Han Chinese are a large population. You can't compare them to any group and their average age is up to that of Germans meaning they will be rich. Any over forty year old is economically well off than people in their twenties.
To get people to respect you, first respect yourself, then respect them and then they will respect you. It has nothing to do with money. What you give is what you get. What a sense of entitlement to even think everybody will like you!. Good people like good people while criminals may be drawn to people similar to them etc etc.

Then I use GDP per Capita because that is what everybody use. However in actual fact, if rent were priced reasonably, a per Capita income of 3500 dollars per annum in a nation where average household size is five people with two workers only will be okay for a good life.

FacilitatorLekk:
Pastor sending assassin to Bola Ige?

That's a new one, never heard that before. Anyways be easy.

Enoch Adeboye sent assassin's after Bola Ige. The same guy and his friend David Oyedepo sent assassin's after myself for writing social reform articles and they did so without consulting each other. It is standard practice in the industry.

FacilitatorLekk:
Just calm down, don't let religious overzealousness make you act like an extremists, this is a civilized world and life. Live and let's live... religion is not something to be fighting for.

Urging the government to do something is activism not extremism and if they don't do it, am I the only one to suffer the consequences?. However doing my part remains the right thing.

FacilitatorLekk:
Killing for what?

For practicing her beliefs?

I mean killing of infidels by Muslims and ritual sacrifice of random people by Pastors as well as Pastors sending assassins after people who don't bow to them as happened to Bola Ige. These things happen literally every minute

FacilitatorLekk:
Even if they do in public glare you have no right to accost them, or go to her house to harrass her, That woman can sue those people that came to harrass her. Our courts work only with constitution not with religious books.

Yes she can sue them but if she is doing that she should approach them with caution because of juju

FacilitatorLekk:
Even if they do in public glare you have no right to accost them, or go to her house to harrass her, That woman can due those people that came to harrass get. Our courts work only with constitution not with religious books.

Yes only the government can stop them and it is the government that will stop them, hopefully before the next killing

Raf4:
Fulanis themselves know that they're guests in Ilorin. The only thing that is giving them huge level of comfort is islamic religion that's in majority in Ilorin. That's gradually changing as many notable and illustrious indigenes of Ilorin are converting to Christianity, some becoming Liberal Muslims or non practicing. Yorubaland is generally accommodating to all irrespective of your religion background.

There are no Fulani indigenes in Ilorin but people belonging to the Balogun Fulani compound and they are no less Yoruba than yourself. Majority of them have more Yoruba ancestry than the Owa obokun of Ijesa land

FacilitatorLekk:
That's what I have been telling you...you have no right to force anyone to do or not to do anything, especially when it's not in your private property.

They can not do it on my private property, should be able to do it in their private space out of public glare but not within earshot or sight of the public. They are afterall free to worship anything including mad Gods

Josephkabila12:
The woman should write to the Governor of Kwara state so that she can carry out her festival

You are right but if she is afraid to fail, she will not be able to succeed. People afraid to fail never succeed.

FacilitatorLekk:
Next time you see someone on a podium, attack them, you either end in jail or beaten up thoroughly, public space is not your house, you either report to the police or authorities, doing anything else is going out of your boundaries. If you think am lying try and see, when and if the case reach station, you will see what police will tell you. If everyone start attacking others willfully, what type of society will we have?

You sound like an ignorant person, it doesn't matter if you hate religious people or not, you have no right to attack anyone using public space.

Who wants to fight them?. You think I am a thug like you?. My own jihad is intellectual. It is the government that will be compelled to stop them.

FacilitatorLekk:
Try and read what I wrote, or are you one of the intolerant religious extremists, who are you?
A mere human to tell another human and citizen not to practice their religion, you have no powers or rights to do that, even your cleric have no right to do that...only the police has the right to stop anyone from practicing their religion (if it's going against public order or infringing on others rights), you approaching people and forcing them to do your will, can lead to violence that can even end your life. Don't be a religious fanatic, they cause wars.

If you use your brains a bit, you will suddenly realize that nobody has the right to stand on any public podium to condemn law abiding people to hell. That you allow it in your country is the only reason people in their thousands have been killed over God in this country. If you support them, the blood of the innocent is also on your neck

Bukola94:
lol,them no born am well true true,except if he won die miserably. Alfa like Shaikh Adam and Alfa Qudus Kooro will make sure he died a painful death if he accepted any 1st class balogun chieftain title

In Ilorin, no Balogun is above the other but the Balogun that was traditionally in charge before colonisation was Balogun Ajikobi, the Balogun Fulani used to produce Emir but now the privilege has been granted the Balogun Gambari. The Emir is now traditional ruler defacto since they are jihad people but it was not like that in the past, the Emir was just to lead prayers while Ajikobi administered the town. Sulu Gambari is the King now but it is of course not a family title but the Ilorin people are okay with him even Islam aside.

FacilitatorLekk:
Religious freedoms of all Nigerians regardless, is non negotiable, as long as the religious practice is not encroaching on the fundamental rights of movement and safety of others.

Can you in all honesty say Christians and Muslims don't infringe on public rights?. Muslims kill publicly and Christians kill secretly. How do we deal with that?. Continue supporting public practice?

STRI1:
Your goal is to divide the Yoruba with Yoruba Muslim nonsense. Thousands of not millions of Yoruba married interreligiously. Okay ? Go to Yoruba land to see for yourself.

Muslim husband and Christian wife, some children will be christian while some are Muslims, Christian husband often goes with wife who is a Christian raised as Muslim, father may even be Alhaji

MrAndre07:
But Saraki is more Yoruba than Lawal.
Why did he do that?

Saraki denies being Yoruba descent saying he is Mali descent though Ilorin people say he is Egba but Lawal never did that.

olisaEze:
The first Oba of Eko/Lagos was a Benin exile, Oba Ado. The Aworis were there in the 1500s, but they were hunters & fishermen who did not bother to develop an organized society or government. Lagos has always been developed by outsiders. From the Benin empire to the Portuguese, to the British who built it up as a colony on its own different from the Southern & Northern Protectorates, and finally the Nigerian government after independence. Precolonial Lagos was not built by the Yorubas, neither did they define its boundaries. They just migrated there same as everyone else.

None of the Benin that came to Lagos could speak the Edo language. They all spoke Yoruba since they all came from the capital/palace which contained over fifty thousand souls. Edo speaking was restricted to the Benin suburbs and the first Edo man to see Lagos was in the 20th century. Centuries prior to that, two people speaking Edo language only happen in the Benin suburbs. Yoruba was the language of the state and it was a sister state to the other Yoruba states. I hope you understand now?.

The Prof is right but not firm enough. We are going to put an end to the public practice of Islam and Christianity in Yoruba land and the world. They should practice in private. Islam turns people into terrorists and Christians turn people into haters and criminals with a sense of entitlement. Only normal theologies describing God well will be allowed. Then Ilorin belongs to Ilorin people. Jebba to Jebba people, Offa to Offa people etc etc. Why are some here saying Ilorin is Fulani?. No Fulani in Ilorin but they have people of Fulani descent, Hausa descent, Mali descent Nupe descent Bariba descent etc. Ajikobi who was sired by Alaafin Abiodun put the place under British protection. If you put anywhere under British protection, what does that make you?. People should stop saying rubbish they understand nothing about. Ilorin are majority Muslims but they have not been able to stop churches and many scions of the Emirate are now Christians. They place ebos in Ilorin as much as any Yoruba town and what they lack which they will soon get are Egunguns. As I pointed out Islam and Christianity will soon be practiced only behind closed doors in Yoruba land. I mean of what use are those barbaric practices?. There are no positives about them.

Even if they don't sell land as some communities truly don't and I support them, you can still have an arrangement and be able to build and there are many Yorubas that have built houses in the East. The selling of land is unethical and that is part of the reason why the price of real estate is sky rocketing. Land should cost zero.

Gerrard59:
Like which ones? Please don't use GDP per capita as your sole basis to assess wealth. Na so one talk say Bahamas and Barbados are examples of well-run black dominated countries. But what are their population figures in contrast to the over one billion blacks globally? Do they get respected as African Americans? Using Barbados and Bahamas is like using Singapore or Taiwan to judge Han Chinese as very wealthy (pre-2000) or Andorra for white people. White people have Germany, Switzerland, US, Australia to boast of using GDP per capita and HDIndices. These places are more populated and can be used to assess how rich white people are. For blacks, you use Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC and South Africa. If these countries are as rich and developed as Malaysia, the way blacks will be viewed globally will change drastically.

Like I mentioned earlier, black people seem to have this belief that everyone MUST like them. Na lie. Everyone must not like you (figuratively speaking). Why should a Swiss like you? Do you have money? What positive importance are you to him compared to the Han Chinese? If he makes a piece of equipment with ABB, you go fit afford am? Can you visit his tourist attractions, spend money and vacate on time thereby enriching him? However, everyone must respect you and to gain respect since it is not offered on a platter of gold, black people must provide value in terms of economic viability and functioning societies. Once you do that, everyone gets to respect you. This is applicable at individual levels. You might hate someone, but you won't disrespect the person because of the income status the person is on.

https://www.nairaland.com/5886610/racism-against-blacks-reduce-drastically



https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/09/why-black-people-must-help-africa-develop-racism-pan-africanism/

Black lives will matter when sub-Saharan Africa which is home to more black people than elsewhere gets prosperous.

GDP per Capita is what we know for now and I read about one small slightly majority black country of sixty thousand population with GDP per Capita over 120k, then there are many others with income well over global average. If you are talking about tech know how, it is now not more than automobiles, smart phones jumbo jets and now electric vehicles then very few others and we know that only a handful of countries are on the stage. A country can be very developed without much tech and even richer than those with tech. How much tech does Norway have but it is more developed than the US and they are respected for that. There are many other countries like Norway respected mainly for their organisation and not necessarily know how. Organisation is a super power. Japan and Germany are respected for thoroughness and development but they don't innovate as much as the USA. There are well respected black people based on how they carry themselves, people like Oluwo Fernandez before his death. When the Pope was in the US he lodged with him on his private island, he relates well with big shots across the world including the biggest people like the late President Bush. What about people like Adebayo Ogunlesi who was appointed by Donald Trump to work at a very high level with the US government, so it depends on how you carry yourself and the value you are adding. However if your own country is well run, it add points to you and many African countries even immediate neighbours to Nigeria are well run. If Nigeria can at least have infrastructure, the problem will reduce. Russia too is rated as corrupt but their citizens are nowhere near as criminally minded as Nigerians and Russians are said to be the most successful immigrants per Capita in the USA. The only solution remains to build your country and if Nigeria were at least like Ghana or even Niger republic then the problem you speak of will be largely solved. However as an individual, you can succeed if you cooperate with and bow to the system where you find yourself and of course it starts with being law abiding. Then there are many well respected people who don't have money. Chinua Achebe did not have money, Mahatma Gandhi don't have money, Nelson Mandela and many others just to debunk the claim about the Swiss and etc

sukkot:
thank you , much appreciated, but I seriously don't think the solution is money. Europeans are not money obsessed like that however you mentioned what the solution is which is WE BLACKS NEED TO IMPROVE OUR HOME COUNTRIES. That's the only way we would get any kind of respect and of course like you said HAVE SOMETHING OF OUR OWN

Yes what is owned as a nation by way of organisation technology know how etc are what a nation can be proud of, not individual achievements by nationals in foreign countries. However it is not a black thing as they are a number of very wealthy black majority countries and the average African country is like Eastern Europe, China, India etc only smaller by population and with a higher dependency ratio because of an exploding population. Nigeria is the black majority country that is the odd one out though it is not necessarily the most corrupt in the world but it is at least among the most challenged with dearth of infrastructure, lack of strong and inspirational leadership and etc