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Roboto11:Obi needs to discourage imports if he becomes president. |
Foolishbuhari:Not with the Dangote refinery coming on stream. That refinery, the word's largest single train refinery, is set to transform the Nigerian industrial landscape. |
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We must credit former president Olusegun Obasanjo for the rise of Afrobeats and World Class Nigerian Music Superstars If it wasn't for OBJ's order around the year 2000 that all radio stations must play 85% or more Nigerian music, there would be no Burna boy, Wizzy, Davido, or Tiwa Savage today. There would be no Don Jazzy, P-square, Timaya, Flavour, Olamide, Runtown, D Banj, Mr Eazy, CKay etc etc. Today, these guys have made Nigeria an international musical and cultural powerhouse, admired by nations far and wide. In fact you have to leave this country to know the impact these guys have had on the world's image and impression of Nigeria. It's hugely positive. https://www.okayafrica.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=22166712&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C35%2C0%2C35 See, as soon as OBJ gave that order, suddenly a whole new demand was generated nationwide for new and exciting local artistes who could play something that young Nigerians, long used to US Soul, R&B and Hip hop, could party to. Something home-grown, but funky. And groovy. That was the rise of Afrobeats (as distingushed from 'Afrobeat', invented by the master himself). Today, Nigerian Afrobeats plays on every radio station and in every nightclub worth its salt anywhere in the world. Brazil, Jamaica, USA, UK, Germany, Iceland, Uganda, Poland, Holland, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, South Africa, UAE, Morocco, Trinidad, everywhere... Nigerian artistes are selling out massive iconic international concert venues like Madison Square Garden, New York and the O2 Arena in London. This was something that was unthinkable even 15 years ago. Please, let's thank OBJ for this feat. I remember back when he did it, many Nigerians criticised the move (as usual) as 'draconian', 'authoritarian', 'anti-freedom' etc etc. (The exact same way many have criticised Buhari for his recent ban on foreign models and advertisers/voice-overs etc. In the next 10 to 15 years when Nigerian firms turn world class media and advertising giants, then you will know why he did it.) OBJ just ignored the loud critics, and enforced the policy. Today I went on Youtube and played Burna Boy's Last Last. Then I read the comments from all over the world. One comment stood out for me. The poster from Germany said: ''Damn! Burna Boy makes me proud to be Nigerian, and I'm not even Nigerian!''. The comment got over 4,000 likes and drew much laughter, from folks around the world. Please, let's thank the OBJ administration for this amazing and glorious cultural achievement. If you know how our fellow African countries envy Nigeria over this. I mean, they can't figure out how we did it. We now produce Grammy level artistes in large number, while the rest of them combined, can barely produce 1. In fact it's a huge embarrassment for the rest of the continent. The Ghanaians especially, are in a compete meltdown and state of confusion over Nigeria's fast-growing musical and cultural dominance over the entire world. They don't know how to handle it. Countries like the USA do not downplay or disregard their cultural hegemony over the world, fostered through Hollywood, music, fashion etc. And neither must Nigeria, the undisputed Giant of Africa. |
omonnakoda:Good points. But here is something you forget. By getting to the top of the music world through her fantastic artistes, Nigeria is paving the way for its own future status as a music power base which can issue awards that the world will notice. It's only a matter of time. Nigeria is projected to become the world's 3rd most populous nation after China and India by 2050. She is on her way to becoming a real world player in every facet of existence, including music. A child what washes his hands will eat with kings, as the Igbo elders say. Nigeria is washing her hands very well with the likes of Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, Tekno, Rema, Tiwa Savage, Tems, Flavour, and others flying the flags of the Giant of Africa to the whole world in real time. |
Dreambeat:Shut up. That statement can also infer that it is happening or has happened. Like if you fail your exams and your father says, ''you're too smart to be failing exams'', is he talking about the future? Is he not talking about present or past? Abegi! |
. . . Fantastic development. Kudos to all involved in resuscitating and renovating this glorious national edifice. . . . |
Nawa o. Very long nose. Are you sure the man was ok? |
1Sharon:That is what I keep telling people. If you have money to japa, you have money to start a business that can turn you into a dollar millionaire here in Nigeria. It is your foolishness and ignorance that is making you to japa. |
naijapips04:Honestly bro. I'm sure he's already cramming UN statistics that he will be quoting to confuse everyone after he has finished chopping our money! |
ScamHunter:You are a scammer and a thief. NO, the incoming president will not be a person who refuses to build the country's infrastructure, while talking empty, unquantifiable rubbish about ''building human capacity'' as an excuse to siphon away money meant for capital projects. Never gonna happen. |
mrvitalis:The Scandinavian countries can afford to save money, because they've largely eradicated poverty and underdevelopment. I remember when obi and osibanjo had this debate in 2019 ...has obi not been proven right ? ...if the people are sufficiently developed even the private sector would help provide the infrastructuresYou reason like a very thoughtless person. Oh, so we ''develop the capacity'' of people, and then HOPE that the private sector builds infrastructure, after we have ''developed the capacity'' of the people, whatever the fck that means. Do you even know what infrastructure means to be talking about the private sector ''providing'' it and 'hoping' that they do? |
ScamHunter:Nigeria does not lack skilled doctors. Your analogy is baseless. In fact, build the people and they'll build the nation. That's the difference between Africa and far east, near east and Southeast Asia. Japan, the United States and Europe became what they are today by building the capacity of their citizens. African countries that lack good leaders are fixated on building fake infrastructure that empower outsiders more than Africans.The United States became the world's largest economy by investing heavily in its railroads, which drastically cut the cost of doing business in the country, starting from the 1870s. Europe and Asia simultaneously built infrastructure while investing in human development. They didn't just build schools and hospitals without building roads, rail, airports and bridges. Have you asked yourself why a country that produces oil has no functional refinery?The Dangote refinery, which has the capacity to refine all Nigeria's oil for domestic consumption is virtually onstream, so your point is redundant. Have you asked yourself why billions of dollars have been spent on Ajaokuta but it's still not functional?So, because Ajaokuta is not functioning, we should not build infrastructure? Another baseless point. Have you asked yourself why the best African leaders are those that focused on building the people, yet they are the ones that the West oppose most? A man like Thomas Sankara? What develops a nation is people not fake borrowed knowledge. You see those railways Jonathan built? Give it 20 years and it'll decay like the refineries because it would always require outsiders to manage.AS WE SPEAK, Nigeria is building a massive railway manufacturing plant in Kajola, Ogun state, that will employ 5,000 Nigerians on completion, and that will build and maintain trains right here in Nigeria, by Nigerians. You need to keep up with the news. That's why if you move all the humans in Nigeria to America and move the Americans here, this place would become like America while America becomes another unsafe, bandit infested country with backward people.Err, no this place cannot become like America even if Americans moved here because they would have to invade 195 countries, kill millions of people local and foreign, and enslave millions more for several centuries, exploiting their free labour, for NIGERIA TO BE LIKE AMERICA, BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT AMERICA DID TO BE WHAT IT IS TODAY. GET IT? |
Maybe Obi is using style to cover himself before coming to siphon funds. If you ask him as president what he did with the money he will cite UN Human Development Index for you. |
ScamHunter:And when you build up their ''capacity'' they will enter potopoto road for you. And then you will splash them with your Jeep. Oloshi. |
Why does this man hate infrastructural development? I've heard his own colleagues and ex governors saying the man ''hates infrastructure''. Now of course, I know he talks about stressing 'human development' over infrastructure. But bro, that sounds good on paper, but if you build the best hospital and school in some place, but there's no motorable road to reach there, who did you build it for? Ghosts? HOW DO YOU REDUCE THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS, which is what leads to prosperity, when you frown on multi-billion dollar railway projects that are guaranteed to ease transport of goods and services and reduce cost of doing business? Frown on airport projects that will draw in investors? Flyovers that are being built everywhere do not constitute ''consumption'', as you would put it. They are there to help reduce travel time, which increases business productivity. So you cannot separate infrastructural development from human development. The two go hand in hand. It is not 'either/or'. I keep hearing that the man favours ''saving money'' over spending it. I don't agree with 'saving money' when people are hungry on the street and need development. If you don't know what to do with the money, take a seat somewhere please, let those who have ideas run for office. Thank you. |
GodHatesJews:That an African is quoting ''ENGLISH MISSIONARIES'' - the very same people that came to rape, loot, brutalize, and destroy his land to benefit their economy, is 'QUOTING' their utterances as 'evidence' for the 'barbarism' of his fellow Africans, shows the depressing, disgusting, dehumanising level of colonial brainwashing this generation has been subjected to. Utterly disgusting. Oh, so what would the English missionary have said before? ''Oh, these are a very civilized people who abhor crimes and live in cleanliness etc etc'', to which the obvious question would be ''so why did you attack and invade them then?'' SO OF COURSE THEY WOULD CLAIM YOU WERE BARBARIC AND UNCIVILIZED AND NEEDED THEM TO SAVE YOU, TO JUSTIFY THEIR CRIMINAL INVASION OF YOUR TERRITORY, AND THE MASS SLAUGHTER OF YOUR ANCESTORS. THEY DO THE SAME THING TODAY TO COUNTRIES THEY WISH TO LOOT and INVADE, FROM IRAQ TO LIBYA TO AFGHANISTAN TO VIETNAM TO ZIMBABWE TO CUBA TO CHINA. DEMONISE YOU AND CLAIM YOU ARE WORSE THAN SATAN, THEN THEY INVADE.. SAME METHODS THEY'VE USED RIGHT FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE. ONLY THE ACTORS HAVE CHANGED. THE METHODS REMAIN THE SAME. |
Roboto11:lol...the guy fit japa, come marry for there, born pikin, and then him kids go turn gay for there, like so many others.. ![]() |
ike007:You are a stupid moro.n with no brain. There are far more Chinese and Indian academics, students, and settlers in the USA than Nigerians. In fact there are entire parts of cities like New York, London, and Los Angeles named 'Chinatown', where the signs are written in Chinese. Will your rotten mouth also say that those people are not Chinese but are Americans or Englishmen? What primitive bush did you emerge from to reason like a peabrain? Asswipe. |
NigeriaIsGreat:The sad thing is there are so many like him. They don't even think through their subservience. It's reflexive. Whatever the whites do is ok and what blacks do is always bad. Their heads have been wired that way. ![]() |
QuotaSystem:I bet many Nigerians in Ghana have started returning to the 'zoo' to avoid starving there. |
CoronaVirusRelo:Funny bloke. Is this how you react when you've been made to look an ass? ![]() |
CoronaVirusRelo:You are a mumu and a slave of the first order to somehow find a way to make mass murderers who slaughtered 1 million people in cold blood the ''critical thinkers'', with their ''brains switched on''. So Bush spoke to God who asked him to kill 1 million people, and then he retreated into the White House to ''critically'' organise with his ''switched on brain'' the mass slaughter. You must be Hitler's grandson. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-6262644.html |
CoronaVirusRelo:Dude, is you head correct at all? You said Africans are foolish over religion, so I just showed you a white US president saying that God told him to kill a million people in Iraq, and you're talking rubbish about the senate. What senate? They were lied to by Bush and his henchmen, that Sadaam Hussein possessed WMDs. So of course they supported the enterprise. Mumu with slave mentality. |
CoronaVirusRelo:Oh, ok, let's get more recent then. George W Bush was quoted as saying that the christian god told him to invade Iraq and kill a million people: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-6262644.html Now tell me what is crazier and more foolish - a bishop praying for currency stabilization, or a president killing a million people on the alleged orders of God. This lots will ask God for anything! They spend more time praying that critically thinking and why you will observe that they always fall into same ditch. Repetitive ditchesJust shut your little trap spilling worthless trash. |
CoronaVirusRelo:Europeans and Arabs slaughtered millions of people over religion. Ever heard of the Crusades and the Inquisition and the Jihads? Africans are still learners where it concerns religious foolishness. |
CoronaVirusRelo:Stop talking rubbish. How does one bishop in Ghana represent all 1.2 billion ''AFRICANS''? Get rid of your anti-African prejudice, or get lost from here. I've not time for self-haters like you. |
CoronaVirusRelo:What's your problem? The man is a bishop. What other solution do you want him to suggest apart from prayer? Did he tell you he was an economist or financial expert? Abeg swerve. ![]() |
‘We Prophesy to the Cedi, Let the Cedi Stabilize’ – Archbishop Duncan-Williams leads prayers Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, founder of Ghanaian church, Action Chapel International, has taken the woes of the Ghana cedi into prayer. The local currency has become a major victim of an economic downturn that has been epitomized by massive depreciation against the US dollar, galloping inflation (currently at over 40%, with unofficial estimates as high as 142%), and the general rise in cost of living. The cedi was recently ranked the world's worst performing currency of 2022. The 'Papa' as he is known, however, believes that prayer is a good means of arresting and stabilizing the fast tumbling currency, aside from economic and political interventions. in a recent video posted on his official twitter handle, Duncan-Williams implored his congregation to open their mouths and pray for the stability of the cedi. ''All things are possible to him that believes. I say all things are possible to him that believes. We speak to the cedi. We prophesy to the cedi. Let the cedi stabilize.'' ''Open your mouths, Put your hands together. Speak to the cedi.. Open your mouths...Speak to the cedi. Stabilize it in prayer, in the name of Jesus'', the bishop bawled, in his sermon. See video here: https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/We-prophesy-to-the-cedi-let-the-cedi-stabilize-Duncan-Williams-leads-prayers-1659776 |
dreu2fine:Who is ''you''? Ignoramus. Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan, India and others are into nuclear power. Do you think everything works perfectly in those countries? Do you think everything is ''well-maintained'' in Pakistan? Bangladesh is building 2 nuclear power plants as we speak. BANGLADESH, THAT NIGERIA SURPASSES IN EVERYTHING INCLUDING GNP PER CAPITA, NATIONAL INCOME, AND GENERAL DEVELOPMENT. You know what? IF WE EXPLODE OURSELVES LET IT BE. It means we are not fit for existence. IF BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN can be building nuclear power plants, NIGERIA HAS NO EXCUSE. Your real problem is you think certain things are only for ''oyinbo'', because of your brainwashed head. Did you not read how Nigeria has been managing nuclear reactors safely for the last 34 years? Why would you ignore that to start typing this vomit about some stupid dam? Do you think the same level of safety controls will be applied to a dam as to a nuclear power station operated and governed by IAEA protocols? This is why I say that you need a certain level of IQ and exposure to debate this topic. This topic is not for riffraff off the street. |
Tranquill:NA CRUDE OIL LONG THROAT DEY WORRY AM. IGBOS MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR LAND IS SOUTH EAST, AND THAT SOUTH SOUTH IS NOT THEIR LAND. IF THEY REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT, AND START ANOTHER SENSELESS AND STUPID, GREEDY ATTEMPT TO SECEDE WITH THAT REGION, THEY WILL BE ANNIHILATED. AND THIS TIME THERE WILL BE NO POLICY OF ''NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED''. EVEN GOWON I'M SURE IS REGRETTING THAT POLICY BY NOW. |
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He will cite MDG like literally. That dude is a clown.
