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Nigeria has some of the most talented people in the world but those talents will never get the opportunity to rule Nigeria.

This country was the big brother of all African countries sending talents and material to manage them after the colonialists were kicked out. Out of spite never hand over to progressives.

This country fought a civil war without borrowing a kobo yet could not get good managers to utilize talents, resources and income out of spite.

Cutting your nose to spite your face. None of the three Presidential candidates can dig you out of the mess pigs enjoy.

Even mumu could have done a better job than vultures.

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Lagos is a case study

Only Lagos!

You said and know it already

Ireke!

Confutionist.

God helps those who help themselves.

Africans have to learn how to strife for excellence instead of expecting manna from heaven. We must struggle for other goals apart for money alone.

Teachers used to be a noble goal even when the salary was low. How about the best manager, role model, novelist, civil rights activist, sculpture artist, carpenter or iron worker?

Ideals Academy Must Replace Greed Academy

When was the last time individual African countries refocused on Ideals Academy? Ethic and morale has never been so low just to catch up with the Greed Academy’s teachings. Influence of Greed Academy is corruption, indifference, terrorism, immorality, power grab and no guilty conscience.  Western Schools of Business, after the 1987 stock crash vow to imbue ethical courses, but learn little until the new crash of 2008. Africa must.

August 22, 2012

By a real life story, some walked miles to the mine fields in the rain, sun and even snow. Many that made it there, came back rich and celebrated. Some died on the way while others died inside the mine. Those that came back look at poor people, not as strong as they were, and wondered why they did not go to the mine fields. They spoiled their own children; but forget those that did not survive on their way back were not so lucky.

Somehow along the way, most people forget when they were at the right place at the right time while those equally industrious as them failed for being at the right place at the wrong time or at the wrong place at the right time. They preach pulling yourself up with your bootstraps. Colo-mentality did not allow them to realize that some do not have boots or straps. Moreover, everybody does not have to be either poor or rich.

Rich people are just as different as the poor. There are rich people willing to give most of their life savings to good causes before or after their death. They realized that, after all the rat race we cannot take anything with us. But there are some people that finally made it rich only to become the meanest to the poor. They figure that if they can burst their butts and make it, so can anybody. They care less about the sick or the weak.

Bereft of ideas or ideals, well-endowed countries are turned to TV beggars by politicians out of touch or mercy. Like businessmen, spend other people’s money. Only that loot is siphoned to contract and cronies. The biggest corporate welfare recipients are defense, building contractors and their children justifying it with impunity. Other’s keeper as our responsibility is dying fast; lingers in Diaspora: our last generation to send money home.

Most African countries failed because we put pursuit of money and greed before the pursuit of ideals and ideas in our schools. No local mega projects to enhance, harness or encourage our primary industries to create primary, secondary and tertiary skilled jobs for our graduates at all levels. So, inept leadership competes with religious fanatics, old retired military men, ethnic militant drop outs, while competence becomes irrelevant.

The quality of our schools has always been a point of reflection especially between private and public schools. There used to be a time when certain public schools could compete or were better than private and mission schools. Unfortunately what we have these days are very expensive schools that do not live up to their hype. Apart from a few foreigners they have, African teachers are too poorly paid to devote the best of talents. We have many parents that would rather spend five years school fees of basic education school in one year exotic schools only to run out of money. The point here is that our poverty mentality that works against us today was created in our children yesterday by greed. As long as our focus is on exotic schools’ taste, not on teaching ideals we need to escape reliance on conspicuous spending; most African countries will linger in poverty.

Therefore, it is not surprising to see parents trying to give children the best education wasting money on unaffordable schools. Nothing illustrated it better than Free Primary Education instituted in old Western Region. By the second or third year, advantages of expensive private schools and eight years in primary school compared to their six years primary; were gone. Indeed, those drop-outs taken into military schools became rulers. It is not a sin to be poor and proud, though embarrassing to many. Consequently, the poor people, even in rich countries make the most noise from their empty pockets. They just want to live it up like the rich. In many cases, we are conspicuous spenders, not needy spenders. The rich can afford to be both needy and conspicuous spenders but even then, the rich are very picky and calculated on what they spend their money on.

The most obvious display of ostentation amongst some of the poor is our clothing and the car we drive. We display gold and silver all over our bodies and carry more cash than the rich. Poor people spend so much money on cars, it’s unbelievable. In many cases, we buy used cars of the rich and spend good money repairing it. Our habit is investing in depreciating materials instead of appreciating ones. Are you poor looking for repair trouble? Buy an old jalopy. You want bizarre estimates? Go to opportunistic mechanics. Yet, Saro say “na poor I poor, no be craze I craze”. Most poor people hate to see others in a worse situation and they usually give a higher proportion of their income or share more of their worth with others while those richer than the poor run away out of fear of exhausting the little they have that makes them comfortable. The fear of returning to poverty once you have been there is real and in many cases drives us to succeed.

This is what drives our leaders into extravagant lifestyle regardless of who is milked dry. Sadly honest homegrown politicians cannot form a quorum. They are always sabotaged. Out of those of us concerned about the poor, some of us try to do something about it. You may know a friend or two that come back home to contest during elections. It is different to the time of Nkrumah, Azikiwe or Michael Manley of Jamaica. Those ones came back home for good into politics. We are talking about those that worked two or three jobs abroad and come home to spend it all hoping to win an election and may be, with altruist determination, help the people govern well. Most of them always loose.

Home grown politicians do not work for European Euros or American Dollars as Tunde Just-Come. Coming home to serve and change the country is a noble cause but not a quick one. Usually home based politicians just watch Tunde until he exhausts his hard earned money only to run back on his last euro. Politics is not the only way to contribute to change of government. Many can help nurture a revolution.

Farouk Martins Aresa
https://saharareporters.com/2012/08/22/ideals-academy-must-replace-greed-academy

Old ugly Aunt could turn off the groom. This would convey a wrong impression to the niece.

Open all borders of Nigeria to all Africans not selective borders to favored marauders.

This is the only way one community will not be overwhelmed by people they have little in common with.

She is to sexy for that role.

She needs to be a sex therapist

limcar:
when last did you have sex

You consider her sexy?

Poor you, anything white is sexy.

Britain has not recovered from the treachery of Boris Johnson and America is still struggling from the treachery of Donald Trump planted as Russian Asserts do destroy the West.

Both Trump and Johnson ignored their own Intelligence that Puntin influence their elecions because it favored them.

Stop it.

He bowed to the Blacks. Imagine if he had bowed to whites and shook hands with Blacks.

[quote]She is not the only one that has spoken out on this, many scholars did. What is more embarrassing is the circular firing squad created by a few well informed African Americans feigning ignorance. The Yoruba word AKATA is not the problem, rivalry between some earlier African American, many before Columbus and recent Africans is older than the awareness of the AKATA word. Prof. Anya is not Yoruba where the word comes from. Indeed, Yoruba call Nigerians coming back from overseas Akata, Oyinbo, Omowale, Sobowale,Tokunbo etc.

When Arthur Ashe came home to Nigeria, they named him Omowale. Though Akata or Oyinbo may not be as faltering, Black Panther is another wild beast meaning AKATA. They were not named by Yoruba! But any name that people feel is not proper must be dropped from civilized discussion. Akata or Oyinbo is not a name most Nigerians find flattering. Believe it or not, some Yoruba, especially some Youths find it amusing when so called. Some even called one another NIGGA for which they were cautioned against like African Americans caution their Youths.

Trying to create uproar out of poor Prof. Uju Anya for expressing the obvious about the Queen that came from the line of those who pride themselves as the conquerors of Africa, Asia and Americas is misplaced. Turning it into a tribal war between Africans and African Americans with the word AKATA or Oyinbo is despicable. Many of us still remember the last time this tribal war raised its ugly head: OBAMA IS NOT ONE OF US!

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/311907/most-make-amends-for-iniquity-of-slave-trade-others-exploit.html

One would have thought that this writer is Igbo defending Prof. Uju Anya.

While on Iniquity and Reparation, some Africans and African Americans have savagely attacked Prof. Uju Anya, an Igbo African that happens to be a Professor in the United States. Unlike the Iniquity here, her sin is pointing to the role of Britain during the Nigeria/Biafran War. By right of her Free Speech, her views on the Queen that presided over the Commonwealth. We cannot hide the decimation and destruction of Native cultures and people in Americas, Asia and Africa.

She is not the only one that has spoken out on this, many scholars did. What is more embarrassing is the circular firing squad created by a few well informed African Americans feigning ignorance. The Yoruba word AKATA is not the problem, rivalry between some earlier African American, many before Columbus and recent Africans is older than the awareness of the AKATA word. Prof. Anya is not Yoruba where the word comes from. Indeed, Yoruba call Nigerians coming back from overseas Akata, Oyinbo, Omowale, Sobowale,Tokunbo etc.

When Arthur Ashe came home to Nigeria, they named him Omowale. Though Akata or Oyinbo may not be as faltering, Black Panther is another wild beast meaning AKATA. They were not named by Yoruba! But any name that people feel is not proper must be dropped from civilized discussion. Akata or Oyinbo is not a name most Nigerians find flattering. Believe it or not, some Yoruba, especially some Youths find it amusing when so called. Some even called one another NIGGA for which they were cautioned against like African Americans caution their Youths.

These people would do anything to get what they want, even using kids!

What is the difference between them and Tinubu that threw his mother under the bus?

By the way, didn't they just ruled Nigeria with full control of Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan, another Biafran.

Pity!

No shame whatsoever.

VeryWickedMan:
Lagos is a federal capital.

Nobody gives a shit about true Yoruba lands like Abeokuta, Ijebu Ode, Ibadan or Iragbiji. Never been there, might never till I die sef.

Ask them.

Please ask them why they cannot do without Yorubaland.

All their anger is over Yorubaland.

Kendo999:
Tinubu.

Look, be sincere for once. The only people that kept Nigeria together from the time of Azikiwe, Danjuma, Obasanjo and Ebele Jonathan are from the South and North Central.

Fulani do not have the manpower, weapons and cooperation without Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.

Atiku cannot last a full term before Nigeria breaks into regions.

You guys can e-vote, e-stat and inflate your ego all you want, Buhari will orchestrate Fulani and Hausa to vote for Atiku. The same slaves since 1959 will scramble and be promised positions.

If you are sure you want Nigeria to break, vote for the Presidential Candidate that will make it happen or make it lose Union where everyone goes back home.

Please give Idi Igbo what they want for peace sake.

Biafra or money like Finance Minister.

Azikiwe was a great Figure Head President. He left Executive Power to those he was most comfortable with.

Nothing has changed since then.

It is surprising that someone that is fake from head to toe is able to get to this stage of competing for President but only in the country of the blind.

Where are the alternatives?

Lawan defected to PDP.

They just start.

By the time some people wake up, PDP would have more Fulani members than APC.

Since Fulani allow money in hand, South back for ground. Fulani control South and their money.

Exchange no be robbery na. South love money, Fulani give dem money in exchange.

They could have sent TINUBU, Amechi, Okorocha and others to jail. They waited until later.

Unfortunately, the South and NorthCentral have not learnt from the regrets of both Danjuma and Obasanjo when Buhari fooled them as a Nigerian patriot. Since he came out to show his true color, it is too late to turn back time. Buhari also realizes that this is his best opportunity to renew Fulani reign because the new generation of Southerners have woken up to the Fulani game plan. New generation of NorthCentral will be a tougher nut to crack with the One-North slogan.

Too late at your age, get a machine or baby doll.

It is ironic that most Nigeria focus their might and brains on separation.

Who told you that Independent countries cannot be invaded?

Ask the Hausa States, Isaac Boro, Emeka Ojukwu, Sunday Igboho, Zelenski, Lumumba etc, even Songhai Empire.

If we cannot deter invasion within a Country, we cannot deter it as Independent countries.

Invaders go after honey pots without poisoned pill.

There used to be a country called Western Nigeria doing well with paltry cocoa income but many left in search of oil money!

There are two sides to a case.

Replacement theory fears (Remember Jews will not replace us!) have raised the angst against the influx of migrants. They elected Right extremist leaders comforted by Christian Right. The angry working classes fell to the lower side of median, not mean incomes. They find themselves competing with minimum wage workers and new immigrants for the first time in their generation. They are the ones that lost their old income which covered all the food they want, cars and houses in the suburbs. They become part of the folks on free food lines for the poor. So, the new immigrants are seen as threats to the middle class life they had without college degrees.

What and how can the majority of the world be better informed to take actions that will expose the burden they carry against their own interests? They are promised freedom of choice while opponents are violently denied. Leaders' choice is between Autocracy, Theocracy, Dictatorship. But are lured into the worst form of governance in the name of democracy! No matter how close we are in origin and history, people will exploit people. Africans should love one another the way other people do, not kill the way they do.

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1158369/brutality-suzerainty-wars-signs-of-killer-insti.html

Who is the picture for, him or her?

Say goodbye to bad memories, especially in your own personal space.

Don't let your mom catch you, she might be jealous o.

Is he ever around or working to support all of una.

Africa The Only Place Sane Black Men Still Retain Their Dignity

May 6, 2022 |

Many of us can no longer live in one country after toiling all our life. There is a friend that returned home after his sojourn abroad. As soon as his plane landed on African soil, he kissed the ground and exclaimed: Thank God Africa, where Black men are men. After clearing Immigration and Custom, we asked him why he fell on his face when he landed. He was not in a rescue mission from Libya, a Muslim praying or the Pope kissing Airport tarmac.

Mind you, his first cultural shock outside Africa was when he saw a Black man carrying a sign in a demonstration that read: I Am A Man! On his return back home, he swelled up, lifting up his shoulder in a pompous manner. Our friend claimed he has just regained his dignity as a proud African. Our first thoughts could have been that he got into trouble with the law, his wife or children abroad. Actually, he was too careful and respectable to put himself into such situations. But he saw too many Blacks in such trouble, he swore that it would never happen to him.

So why would he display such gratitude on landing in Africa? The answers and the emotional tolls he repressed for many years would be told later in a better atmosphere and a lighter mood. Apparently, he left Africa in the good old days and invested back home to enjoy some level of comfort on his return. During his time abroad, he studied, worked as a professional in the day and supplemented his savings with any second job he could get, so that his wife and children could live reasonably well.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/307990/africa-the-only-place-sane-black-men-still-retain-their-dig.html

Oh "poor" innocent whites were corrected in Nigeria, eh?

Let them go to Human Right commission. Better still, let them go to the highest court in the land. They will be provided lawyers.

My only fear is that in their countries where gun taunting thugs were acquitted and cleared of all wrong doing, even met a former President, Nigerians may punish one another.