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chukwukahenry:
if only he had advocated for the construction of the road

abeg epp me tell dem

Emvico34:
one day, all these wicked leaders will enter plane and will never return .

story

5thElement:
You are right, but we won't know who is capable or not until they come out and tell us what their blueprint looks like

Ezzatly
She didn't

. How I wish these things were written on the foreheads of people.

they are
You just have to be willing to open yippee eyes

Pangea:
Apes Obey! 2019 Blues

By Pius Adesanmi

Many wonder why the nationalists were able to return from London or America, lead political movements or parties and took over Nigeria in their 30s or 40s while four men in their forties - 2 from southwest, one from the southeast, and one from the north - have offered themselves today and have been dismissed by nitpicking Nigerian youths as inexperienced.

Nigerian youth are inexperienced
And facts are not nitpicking

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The nationalist generation returned from study abroad to a different set of circumstances.[/quote]Same noni

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They inherited colonial subjects eager to become postcolonial citizens of an independent state. That's a fundamental condition for the emergence of the broad critical masses they were able to mobilize.

The citizenry they inherited was[/quote]Charismatic leadership is whatthey need

[Quote] educated but in a different sense than today's notion of poor education. The colonial state was interested in enough basic education to turn you into a more useable material for empire. The colonial state was not interested in diseducation to manufacture consent because the District officer or the Governor-General was not going to come campaigning for your votes. Your consent was a given, secured by colonial violence and racist condescension.[/quote]Consent stool not needed
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Nigeria's postcolonial elite, in the military and civilian phases of their conquest of the Nigerian, quickly understood that they needed to manufacture consent and also to actively diseducate the citizenry as a path to secure elite capture of the Nigerian state and the Nigerian mind.

In fact, the educational institutions that the colonial state had set up to manufacture a citizenry with just enough basic skills and enough elementary intellectual formation to be serviceable to colonialism became a threat to the Nigerian elite who took over from the nationalists. They thus took cutlasses and axes and went after the Nigerian educational system, its foundation, its philosophy, its bases, its infrastructure.

They have spent the last 30 years destroying education and performing a form of social engineering that would manufacture precisely the sort of mentalities dismissing the candidacy of every youth who offers himself or herself today.[/quote]Incompetence
Is not social engineering

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The destruction of the University through criminal under-funding, the systematic destruction of public education via the rot of public primary and secondary schools in the last thirty years, are all purposed and deliberate expressions of the master plan of the Nigerian elite to produce a massively diseducated citizenry that could be purposed for mass consent - the foundation of their class security.

As they destroyed public education, they came up with enabling narratives to lobotomize each generation of Nigerian youth they had to contend with - you are not ready, you are merely leaders of tomorrow (that tomorrow would conveniently never come), you have no experience, etc.

This, in itself, is cruelly and bitterly ironic. The military wing of this devious Nigerian elite were the loudest in helping their civilian fellow criminals to brand the Nigerian soul with this insidious narrative: the delegitimization of youth.

Thus, military adventurers, who seized Nigeria in their 30s, began to build this architecture of youth demonology. The politicians of the Second Republic continued that sing-song until Babangida turned the demonization of youth into the sole purpose of the existence of the Nigerian state.

You are not ready! Repetez apres moi, you are not ready!

And the Nigerian youth chorused: we are not ready!

You have no experience! Repetez apres moi, you have no experience!

And the Nigerian youth chorused: we have no experience!

Of course those performing this drill had destroyed the social sciences in every University in Nigeria so there was no effective counter-narrative. Nobody to narrate what the combined experience base of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, etc, was when they were in their 30s and early 40s.

Thirty years of diseducation and manufactured assault on the self- confidence of the youth is what these youthful candidacies have to contend with and figure out how to effectively puncture today.

One funny irony is that those who manufactured the delegitimation of youth to secure class and group interest now understand that it has run its course. They are frustrated with the vision and philosophy of society they constructed and are now at the forefront of youth advocacy.

Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida spent the better part of their productive decades constructing the myth of the unreadiness and inexperience of the Nigerian youth. Now, they are the two strongest advocates of youth political agency.

Unfortunately for Obasanjo and Babangida, it is not easy to unlearn 30 years of rote learning. So when these two old men scream today:

Youths, you are ready!

The youths chorus: We are not ready!

Youths, you are experienced!

The youths chorus, we are not experienced!

That is why a man like Sowore could have an undergraduate degree from the University of Lagos, a masters degree from a US Ivy League, Columbia University, teach as a contract lecturer and contract instructor in the same Ivy League University for more than 10 years, while building a global media brand, one of Africa's first online media brands that CNN and Al Jazeera reference for Nigerian news, run a parallel career as a global social movement leader who is solicited annually by social movement organizations in South Africa, Canada, Europe, Senegal, etc, and be dismissed so casually by the youth as inexperienced and deserving only of starting as a Councillor.[/quote]He is inexperienced in Nigerian politicking
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If the youth think that all there is to Sowore is student unionism and Sahara Reporters (and what by the way is wrong with that?), it is of course Sowore's fault and the fault of those who rolled out his candidacy. It is your responsibility to market your multifaceted self and cosmopolitan skills and experiences to the electorate.[/quote]Now ur talking
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I told a youth yesterday that Omoyele Sowore has been a contract lecturer at Columbia University for the past ten years and his jaw dropped. He had no idea Sowore combined an academic career with running Sahara Reporters.

So, somebody who does not have what it takes to stand before pupils at Okokomaiko Community Development Primary School will run to social media and dismiss a Columbia University lecturer as inexperienced.[/quote]Beauty of democracy out is it ugliness

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What I am getting at is the mental block which has prevented the youth from even examining Sowore's and other youth candidacies beyond knee-jerk and default setting rejection.

You are not experienced!
You are not ready!
Start as a local government councillor![/quote]Not mental block but financial reality
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They are saying the same of Fela Durotoye and even Kingsley Moghalu who was born in 1963!

That is the rote, the cliche that Obasanjo and Babangida taught them to repeat like the colonial chant, apes obey, when the two generals were in the youth demonizing phase of their careers.

Nobody will help you, Nigerian youth, overcome this mental block. You have to overcome it yourself by thinking of other ways in which it affects you.

Consider this scenario:

If you hear that one of you, children of ordinary peeps, has an appointment somewhere in Nigeria's technocracy or bureaucracy, you are up in arms screaming he is too young or inexperienced.

Then the elite will do the kind of corrupt hiring they have been doing recently in places like the Central Bank, etc. They will parachute in their 20 something year-old children who have only just graduated from Britain or America. In fact, you saw your Governor or Senator or Minister beaming at the graduation ceremony in London or Washington only yesterday because their aides posted the photos on Facebook and Twitter. You even congratulated your "amiable Governor" or "amiable Senator" and abused those asking if he traveled to his child's graduation ceremony at public expense.

Then that same boy or girl who graduated yesterday is parachuted in and offered a senior position at CBN or any of the Federal parastatals like they have been doing with breathtaking intensity under Buhari.

You scream about nepotism.

You scream about favoritism.

I have never heard you scream that those appointed children are too young or inexperienced.

Why?

You have been conditioned to apply that cliche only to yourselves and fellow children of the poor.

Examine and scrutinize these youth candidacies.

Stop apes obey, default setting dismissal.[/quote]grammar

ItsMeAboki:
Why not click google and confirm for yourself.

na wa o
I don't remember that o.omo see two baba de curse diasef in public

igbodefender:
Against possible theft. Those Benin artworks are valuable and need the world class security.

haha haha
Fuji we value a any art work in Nigeria.do we even value human life.even our president infant property protected

krissconnect:
Nigerian youths, celebrating mediocrity. That's why we'll remain the leaders of tomorrow until thou kingdom come, and never the leaders of today. Nonsense

no.these campaign skills are transferable to politics once youth find candidate they can believe in

Cromcruach91:
No

Our economy won't be able to sustain it.

why not.it's better than the looting that's going on

igbodefender:
Is there enough security for a project like this?

security for what?

ItsMeAboki:
This sums it up.

is that a real paper.or Photoshop

Ladyhippolyta88:
Did I tell you I was a christian or I pay tithe?You can tell any pastor you see to stop preaching on tithes.

did i say you're a Christian or tithe payer

5thElement:
Lol. It doesn't even matter. If she thinks she can do it we'll support her. Let her show us her blueprint first.

If it is viable I don't mind dropping ask I'm doing right now to champion her cause.

We should encourage more youths to come out.

we should encourage everyone that is capable not just youth
No need to encourage delusion

Fineman87:
Gosh. Too many yoruba illiterates here. Eat my poo, you he.goat.

like your fada use to eat his slave master's abi

GloriaNinja:
I CAN EVEN RUN NIGERIA FOR A DAY THAN THE WHOLE YEARS OF BUHARI'S REGIME.

una wen no fit win ward councillor election?

Same way they said APC will not last 1 year is now 5 years old

Oya vote PDP na make you fine out in 16 years

Francis5:
Given that it may never get back to that state, what then is the essence of being in one country? I was born in Nigeria and I live in the US. I am considering running for an elective position as a councilman in my city and I will likely be voted for by Whites. Keep in mind that I was not born in the US and I am brown, living in a city that is 75% White.

How did Nigeria deteriorate to such nadir (lowest point), in spite of the Yoruba and the Igbo famed prowesses? Does it have to do with the innate quality of the black race as a whole?

by people like you running to build another man's country

blazhykowskyi:
Lol. Your uncle employed Yorubas in his company?



What is the name of your uncle's company? We all know how you guys lie on the internet.

you did not ask the fool whether the uncle came to Lagos to do tribalism or profit

Klinee:
This is only way Nigeria can get to the lime light, a detribalized Nigeria.
Why do Yorubas and Hausa always antagonised this good news towards making Nigeria a better detribalized country.
Tribalism never help us rather keep drawing us backward

so only Yoruba and Hausa antagonize abi? That is. The reason why no one likes Ibo

Ladyhippolyta88:
Freeze should stop reacting his message has been heard loud and clear it is left for people to agree or disagree.

And @OP is it not Funke Adejumo?

why don't pastors stop their message. Shebi you heard the message loud and clear

Fineman87:
Go and ask your fathers who is more educated between igbo and yorubats.

No need
It's clear to any with half a brain

And your Buhari is not clueless abi. Your mother will be the next fulani slaughter.

This is the proof right here

Yoruba SANs are noise makers. We know them. Empty barrels shout the most. Name the yoruba equivalent of Prof. Ben Nwabueze and Justice Charles Oputa

Govt pikins lazily collecting govt salary instead of getting in the ring

The igbos surpassed yorubas in education and everything despite a disatrous war. Shame.

really, well whatever helps you get up in the morning. Took 1 Yoruba man to brush your entire generations. Imagine what will happen if you annoy the remaining 20 million

lifestyle1:
What rubbish is this ?

the one their parents paid for

NwaAmaikpe:



It was rationalized.
And very rational of them to lay those folks off.

78% of the Local staff in the Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in the US are Yorubas and are both incompetent and very rude to their fellow countrymen. They make you feel you are bugging them.
I'm sure Buhari will want that to change.

It's not fair that I can't readily find someone to speak Etsako or Igbo with when I go in there.
Nigeria belongs to all tribes and not just the Yorubas and Hausas.

una gree go school or travel out with degree ?

Evablizin:
Most Nigerians are really working and struggling in vain. Sighs..

na dem wan work in vain

permsec:
Bisi Alli-GAY-tor.

Straight guys forming gays everywhere.

Just like our beloved risky fellow that started stuttering in the bank after being challenged by a fearless lady.

Unam ikots!!

Make me president, i will feed every homosexual to the wild animals.

Where kpekus sweet reach? The second sweetest thing after kpekus is cottonboard in the Ear.

abeg send me d risky link

Nasir123:
Lol!
You're right.

But the truth of the matter is,Fela did.
Some people where educated. Especially people like us.

However, that was in the 70s,80s and early 90s.
That was in military regime.
That was when there where no internet but still,some few were educated,and the nation benefited one way or the other.

Today's the story is different. That was why a sitting president was voted out for the first time in history of this nation.
Today we have the internet. One million Fela can be speaking at the same time with little or no restriction.
Today,average people are being informed than ever with Facebook, WhatsApp and the rest.

The mistake done in the past by some sincere elite, who choosed to be quiet, who decided not to participate,who decided not to join hands with Fela,has been the nation's worst regret.
Those of us who are fortunate(informed) today,shouldn't toe the same part,regardless of how comfortable we might be in our homes.



Thanks.
God bless us all.

OK
oJust hope you've got an effective strategy cos grammar is not working and buhari has wasted tinubu propaganda

gidgiddy:
Sowore thinks that Presidential campaign is all about Lagos.

where do you wanthim to land,sokoto?

Paperwhite:
Seriously Nigeria need to address the structure defect of government before determining who rule.Anything less is a charade.

who will restructure the defect,breeze abi?

Nasir123:
It will surprise you to know that most Nigerians that votes, know little or nothing about the Nigeria system.
Most people just want to see one road,one small school building, free bag of rice etc. And these are the people(die hard voters) that are more in our society.

Coming to our class(literates). Most of us are blinded by sentiments (religion, ethics etc) and hate. We hardly give a meaningful contribution in a simple debate.
All these i alighted, have grave consequences for any nation.

What I am doing, and we(people with conscience) must do,is to educate/inform people(the die hard voters), of how the country had/is being run,so they can be smart in their decisions. Don't forget,they are more in our society. We'll need them to gain strength for any positive movement to confront those elites distroying the present/future of this country.

Thanks.
God bless Nigeria.5

how will you educate people that fela cudn't

Pat081:
wen dey dnt ve other job nko n u can nt tell mi dat u dnt ve anybody working with d government

they shud go and farm duo that they can strike for6months Rio crash the govt

tribalistseun:
Useless people, they should come and explain to Nigerians why there are no custom checkpoints in the whole of NORTH. but they're claiming COMMANDO in the whole southern part of Nigeria.

Why form commando on empty road ?

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Go to Seme border machine guns all along badagri road, But in the Northern part of Nigeria our border with this terrorist from Niger and Chad is just a Bamboo stick with few should be retired or sacked custom officers allowing bags of rice, foreign used cars, all sort of weapons from Niger, Sudan, Libya and Cattles to walk into Nigeria like a villager going to the next village to buy pepper.[/quote]Allallowing free or after collecting their share?
Talk true
Southerners no wan pay

Nigerian Budget is almost feeding these useless countries, and during elections, they all have Nigerian PVCs thanks to Northern elders. The day south will see progress is the day we will cut these BACKWARD NORTHERNERS AWAY FROM OUR LIFE.