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Atiku will laugh hard in Zulu when he reads this.

Away from that, 2003 was Atiku's chance of ever being a President.

He threw the chance away and ended up being the last powerful Vice President Nigeria ever had 😏

Back to the third term issue, would Nigeria had faired better if he had continued? Like Tinubu, Obj was big on reforms.

Apart from huge bribery and corruption scandals like the Malabo, Halliburton, PTDF (where the senate was said to have found out that Atiku transferred $124m without due process) and the privatization corruption under the watch of Atiku and El Rufai, Nigeria made economic improvements under Obj. Like the debts relief, Macroeconomy stability and GDP growth.

A 1.5-meter-long, 1,000-pound WWII-era bomb was safely disposed of, two days ago in Hong Kong after the evacuation of around 6,000 people in surrounding buildings. All evacuated residents have now safely returned home.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=China+dispose+ww2+era+bomb

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Can robots literally upstage humans? China's first robot PhD student, Xueba 01, just began its artistic AI journey at Shanghai Theatre Academy, exploring digital performance design over the next 4 years

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DeLaRue:
Interesting. How? And for what purpose.

And why do you people attribute so much to the presence of a seaport.

The UK's largest port is in Felixstowe, a small town with population of about 25,000. The 2nd largest port is in Southampton with a population of around 260,000, less than the population of a small section of many Nigeria cities. How come these towns are not competing with some of the most prosperous cities in the UK such as London, Edinburgh, and Manchester, which don't have ports and have millions of people.

Also the largest port in France is in the town of Le Havre with a population of 270,000. How come it is not on the same level as Paris.

Every little thing, sea port, seaport.

Even if you remove Apapa ports from Lagos (which is impossible) and build massive ports elsewhere in the country, it will not have a major impact as private sector investors will step in and build better ports in Lagos or Ogun. A port in far away Ondo can serve Lagos perfectly. A modern prosperous city does not need a port to thrive.

In any case, Onne port in Rivers is fully operational. If Akwa Ibom can build their port, great.

The UK/France examples don’t really apply to Nigeria. In Europe, there’s strong rail, road, and industrial balance—so a port town like Felixstowe doesn’t have to become London to matter. Trade wealth is evenly spread across regions.

Nigeria is very different. Over 70% of our imports/exports pass through Lagos because other ports were never developed. With weak inland transport, wherever the ports are located automatically becomes the magnet for trade, jobs, and industries. That’s why Lagos boomed.

If Calabar, Onne, or Ondo had very functional deep seaports with proper rail/road links, Aba, Onitsha, and Port Harcourt would have grown into powerful industrial hubs too. Importers in Kano or Enugu wouldn’t have to truck goods thousands of kilometers from Lagos, paying 30–40% extra in logistics costs.

So yes, Lagos is unique and Nigeria’s over-reliance on Lagos ports has stifled balanced growth. Developing ports in other regions wouldn’t stop Lagos from thriving—it would simply allow the rest of the country to thrive as well.

Impressive. Our universities should be special R&D areas and hence, they need independent power generation plants

One political dimension to the Lagos-Calabar coastal Highway is that it will kill the political will and investors motivation to build or develop deep seaport projects in other regions of the country.

The arguments will always be that- if you can move your container by trucks from Tin can, Apapa or Lekki Deep Seaport to anywhere in the country in record time, why spend $2B to build another? This argument doesn't take into consideration the regional development that comes from functional Seaports.

I don't mean to sound tribalistic, but this same subtle economic suppression of other regions is why the Ibom Deep Seaport project has not seen the light of the day. That project is located in Ibaka in Mbo in Akwa Ibom where the natural drought does not need the continous dredging that is required in Lagos Seaports. In 80% of Federal Government's mega economic projects and decisions favours Lagos, I hope indigenous Westerners won't ask why people are leaving other regions to Lagos.

Imagine how relieved Lagos will be if the Ibaka- Onitsha economic corridor is active. And before you blame the State Government, remember that outside investors fundings, 70% of approvals and licensing for Seaports projects come from the Federal Government.

For the Highway project itself, I commend Mr President and the commitment of the Minister of Works, Mr Umahi from Ebonyi.

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Meanwhile this post is for Realtors: https://www.nairaland.com/8523476/cadfund-what-nigerian-investors-should

Caution Mr. Nentawe Yilwatda, that the weight of his office as APC National Chairman demands maturity, restraint, and circumspection, not reckless utterances capable of stoking unrest in Plateau and beyond.

I thought they said this was the current APC National Chairman was the man to make Tinubu win 2027. Does he want to do that through political witch hunting?

danvon:
How many times will they teach you that a country's currency value being high is not always a good thing and it being low is not always a bad thing.

High currency value usually means money is concentrated in the hands of the few, the currency goes down because more and more people are having easy access to it.

Hence, Nigeria in the 1980s was far more corrupt than Nigeria today definitely more corrupt than China in the 1980s.

In 1980, the average Nigerian was living better than the average Chinese — not just because of a strong naira.

There were jobs, our factories were working, and the oil boom kept wages competitive.

Our universities ranked among Africa’s best, attracting students from Ghana, Kenya, and even parts of Asia and the Middle East.

Cities like Lagos, Ibadan, and Port Harcourt had modern infrastructure, and civil servants could afford decent housing, cars, and international travel.

That was before the — the naira crashed, industries folded, public services declined, and living standards fell.

Meanwhile, China doubled down on reforms: rural productivity, manufacturing, exports, infrastructure.

That’s how they overtook us — not because Nigeria was always poor, but because we lost momentum while they built theirs.

DoctorStanley:
Bit they have no freedom in China and atheist CCP monitors everything everyone is doing

First, your narrative on Freedom in China is flawed. On religion, every society develops systems that align with their unique values, history, and needs. What works for one culture may not suit another, and that’s perfectly valid.

Did you know that in 1980, the GDP per capita of Nigeria was higher than that of China?

While China's total GDP was higher than that of Nigeria, an average Nigerian (at $873) was doing economically better than a Chinese (at $195).

​Today the GDP per capita of China is about $13,100 while Nigeria is about $1,300. In all, the GDP per capita of China is nearly 6 times higher than that of the entire African continent.

This isn't just about numbers. It's a powerful lesson on the impact of vision, stability, and a focus on production over consumption.

​It's time we sit up as a continent!

#ChinaAfrica
#NewFocus
#ChinaAfricaYouth2YouthForum

Sadly as a continent, we are confronted by a truth we are taught to always shy away from

Perhaps the most told story of man’s inhumanity is Adolf Hitler’s near-annihilation of the Jewish people. Yet for many of us taught history within Western-scripted educational systems, our own continent’s blood-soaked sagas were conspicuously absent—stories of shared suffering buried under curated curricula.

Not until recently has the world seemed to remember China’s "Century of Humiliation" and horrors like the Nanjing Massacre.

And what of Africa’s centuries of humiliation?

When textbooks dissected World War II, they omitted the Herero and Namaqua genocide, where Germany slaughtered up to 80% of Namibia’s Herero people decades before Hitler.

This was colonialism’s blueprint for racial extermination: bones bleaching in the Omaheke Desert, thousands of skulls shipped to Berlin for “scientific study.”


Or the Congo Free State, where King Leopold II of Belgium transformed a land rich in rubber into a charnel house. An estimated 10 million people perished. Human hands were severed for failing harvest quotas and villages were burnt—all in the name of a European “civilizing mission.”

In Algeria, a brutal war for freedom against the French led to the deaths of up to 1.5 million Algerians.

In British-ruled Kenya, up to 150,000 members of the Kikuyu tribe were held in concentration camps during the Mau Mau Rebellion, where they were tortured and starved into subjugation. And during Tanzania’s Maji Maji Rebellion, German colonizers created a famine that killed 300,000 people for daring to resist forced cotton cultivation.

Like the Congo and Namibia, Nanjing in 1937 was a vortex of imperial savagery. Japanese soldiers stormed China’s capital and unleashed six weeks of orchestrated terror: 300,000 civilians were butchered, an estimated 20,000 women were systematically raped, infants were bayoneted for sport, and families were burned alive in their homes.

This silence is often deliberate. Western histories can appoint themselves the arbiters of atrocity, erecting towering memorials to the Holocaust while leaving the horrors of Africa and Nanjing as historical footnotes.

This pattern reveals a brutal hierarchy: some pain is deemed “universal,” while the suffering of the colonized is dismissed as regional, contextual, almost deserved.

But truth bleeds through the cracks of denial. When Nanjing’s survivors speak, their words echo the testimonies of Congo’s amputees.

When China demands an apology from Japan, it resonates with Algeria’s unresolved bitterness toward France.

This is not a contest of victimhood—it is an act of historical archaeology. We dig through colonial archives to exhume our mass graves and to name our uncounted dead.

So when the Holocaust rightly jolts the world’s conscience, remember: Africa's and China's scars run just as deep.

Our centuries of humiliation did not simply end; they were erased. And so we must reclaim the pen and write our own history.

For the 1 hour train ride, we took three interchanges and paid ¥14 for the round trip😁

**I tried to add follow up images, but it didn't work

Yesterday, I took a bus and train ride to the Zhongguancun market. Located in Beijing, the mall has everything electronics and telecom equipment.

I took particular interest in their motorcycles I saw. They are all electric powered and have charging facilities in front of most malls.

The train is mostly a subway, and you'll walk out of the station to realize that you were like three stories below the ground 😁

I'll be resting today, but tomorrow I'll talk more on China as well as share beautiful pictures with you. With the ongoing trade war and the way things are going, you should consider being in Business with China.

I went from Ningxia to Great Wall yesterday. Believe me it was amazing what was built before the advent of modern Technology.

I'll also be sharing other Pictures of my trip on this thread

Asian women are just very unique. They are industry experts, beautiful and very very kind.

Politics is deep!

Sad

Ask me and I'll tell you this is one of the most unnecessary wars in the history of mankind

Not a good move

In 2023, an estimated budget of five hundred billion naira was spent by the over 7000 politicians who contested for Presidency, Governorship, Senate, House of Representatives and Houses of Assembly.

It is projected that this estimate will grow by 18% in 2027.

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To begin with, the current Akwa Ibom Governor is intentional about governance.

While there should be equal employment opportunities, certain privileges should be accorded to indigenes.

That's why migrants workers can't get certain jobs in places like Canada and Europe

As President, OBJ had all that was needed to transform Nigeria. Did he?

There is wealth in Agriculture

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government, carried out in large part by Elon Musk’s government efficiency team, has left tens of thousands in Washington without a job. That’s threatening a key economic engine of America’s capital city — consumer spending.

And with signs of strain already showing, economists at Moody’s say DC could slip into a recession as soon as this year.

Wolf has already adjusted his behavior accordingly as he looks for a new position in a competitive job market.

There are about 2.4 million federal workers in the United States, excluding those employed by the military and the Postal Service — 17% of whom live in the DC metropolitan area, according to government data. So far, the Trump administration has fired at least 103,452 workers across the federal government nationwide (though some of those cuts are being challenged in the courts).

First-time applications for unemployment benefits in Washington spiked throughout February, likely reflecting contractor job losses, according to economists. That might just be tip of the iceberg: Forecasters at Oxford Economists project 33,700 federal job losses in the DC metro in 2025. And this year’s job market likely won’t be able to absorb all of those federal workers who are expected to be out of work, said Allison Shrivastava, an economist at jobs site Indeed.

The job cuts Oxford Economics forecasts for the DC metro would amount to $4.9 billion in lost wages this year; federal workers’ paychecks account for 1.6% of the total wages earned in the metropolitan area, according to the group’s analysis. Contractors and others who indirectly depend on the government add more, as well.