₦airaland Forum

feldido:
Just as we love and value rare gem, so we value what we spend so much time and attention to get.
But I can't guarantee what's gonna happen if I got it on a platter of gold. Such is life

If a lady wants a man she fancies, she displays behavior typical of all animals in the kingdom to get noticed. Once she is sure that the attention is secured, she plays hard to get. She expects him to come after her before she gives in. Some ladies may boldly initiate romance. Dominated female world include Aka of Congo, Masuo China, Sworn Virgins’ Albania and India’s Meghlaya.

There are many characteristics females display in the animal kingdom to get chased. One of the most beautiful displays of animal behavior is that of the avian species with beautiful rainbow feathers spread to attract attention of the opposite sex. It is also natural in human behavior. Yet, ladies tell us most of the time that she just wants to look good to please herself. Cosmetic display has gone crazy these days. Some are actually overdone and scary to some men.

Usually ladies are trained not to give in easily to men because once they mate, men’s attention span is less than that of a boy. So in order to get their maximum attention, let them sweat for romance. More ladies actually believe that the longer men wait, the more attention they get from them. The problem is if you play too hard to get, you may lose out to competitors that are ready. Not only for romance but also for family. Note career ladies want to wait a little longer.

After romance at the earliest or marriage at the longest, women have to chase after their men to retain their attention. It sometimes goes both ways but as usual, it is more beneficial for the adult in the relationship, mostly women to keep their men focused. Again ladies have been told never to lose sight of their men. After getting attention and being chased, the role is reversed.

Black men’s appetite for curvaceous buttocks as bootylicious has created market for designers selling clothes to shapely and sexually attractive ladies with more than just bones on the body. Pretty ladies that have been shunned in the past as too fat, now feel very proud in their skin. It has always been the case in Africa and African communities in Diaspora. It is a new fad though for white or Asian ladies expressing their black “genes” clearly in leotards and skintight clothes.

Of course women do not wear tight to be sexually attractive, they wear it to please themselves. So they readjust it for girl-watchers! It seems that some women do not know when to stop and hand over to younger ladies. Even the skintight clothes do not look good on every lady. Some women are better off in flowing clothes leaving the rest to suspense in imagination. But when ladies force themselves into clothes that do not argument their bodies, they look unattractive.

Designers sell artificial padded butts and boobs. One cannot but wonder what happens when a lady captures a man and takes off her artificial padded stuff. The clever ones would postpone eventuality claiming they want to get used to the boyfriend. Brazilians would go to doctors’ clinic for quick operations to add body fat. Just like face lift, some of them have turned awry.

Other cultures have their way of attracting men that may not be appreciated elsewhere. They apply different colors, painting of the body, scarifications or tattoos. Sometimes cultures may have a subculture within, each frowning on the designs of the other. Generally initiation of sexually attractive display suggests certain amount of maturity and age. But some younger girls have defied their parents because they cannot wait to be seen as matured and older.

We have very successful ladies that wished they had gotten hooked earlier, if they had to do it all over again. The choice between career and family could be tough for ladies. Most attractive ladies get snatched first and may lose out on their careers, unless they had decided to work on it later. We have very supportive men that have encouraged their wives in that direction after she had supported them to facilitate his career by staying home.

There were very strong women like Mrs. Ransome Kuti, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s mother that broke every rule in her days. She never stopped after having her children. Her life was a whole story by itself. She will always be known as a pioneer of Women’s Movement in men’s dominated world before her contemporaries in the Western world gain attention and recognition.

Africa’s first lady Prime Minister of Liberia Helen Sirleaf, married at the age of 17, before her long career in politics unlike many African women. United States former Speaker, Nancy Pelosi reminded the press that she started her career late after supporting her husband and children. So she was not retiring anytime soon. So was Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher of England.

However Hear Word an African play featuring Joke Silva, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, Bimbo Akintola, Rita Edward, Omonor, Elvina Ibru, Ufuoma McDermott, Zara Udofia-Ejoh, Adenike Odetola-Odeleye and Debbie Ohiri directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa told lady’s deeply emotional, disturbing yet funny stories. But for ladies that fought back in the play to standing ovation at Harvard few men might have lost oyinbo wives. Romance is equally pleasurable for ladies and inevitable for procreation

The crude habit of genetic choice of male over female has consequences not only in Africa but worldwide. It is the root of indignities ladies encounter in male dominated world. It is very disturbing and may predict the end of procreation, as we know it. Arrival of designer babies is just like going to show rooms to choose a car. The next generation may be able to choose the gender, eye and hair and skin color of their children, leaving romance by the way side.

Moreover some crazy scientists were speculating about the time ladies would not need men for procreation anymore since other means could be used to stimulate the eggs for fertilization. Nature has a way of disposing our proposals by the law of unintended consequences. It will deprive us of the joy of romance, courting, all the cultural ceremonies, hide and seek that go with mating. A different type of world that most of us would not desire or enjoy might emerge.

If ladies and gentlemen can no longer look forward to the moment they can romance, get one another into the sack, there would be a great deal of behavioral changes and wonders about what else to do. Pursuit of happiness by the way of coupling, hugging, entertaining and eating together make up most of our world. Other important activities like working is to provide for the families by making ends meet. One without the other may be worth very little.

Romance revolves around a couple as a company of each other; and by the time children are introduced, they become a crowd that can throw a party and enjoy themselves within.

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Drabeey:
It takes a lot of balls to generate your own......

How big does multibillion businesses have to be before they started generating their electricity and foreign/hard cash? They must stop depending and blaming our unresponsive governments they control. Generate your foreign money like poor students, entertainers, sports figures. Start selling your surplus electricity back to national grid, right now, not in five years or in the future.

We have to thank God that finally Dagote and Chukwuma of Innoson motors are promising to generate foreign money and depend on local raw materials for their products. There are more of you out there like OBJ, Dantata, Otedola, Danjuma that have multibillion businesses but are still competing with little start-up companies for meager Government foreign reserve, national grid; not Panama accounts. Stop or give up your Central Bank foreign allocations and PHC/NEPA.

Certainly the gesture of Dangote and Chukwuma are the right moves in the right direction. Our fear is that all the promises made by African political and business leaders featured in blue prints were always postponed when it came to due date. We are so sick and tired of rosy road maps and plans that never materialized. Many of these companies except Innoson motors have been in business long enough to implement these promises right now.

However, Africans depend on government as the biggest employers and our big businesses depend on government for allocations from foreign reserves. It is important to note that for budding businesses and start-ups, this is expected. But once they started generating profits from sales inside and outside, they should source their own foreign money from their profits. Ikechukwu had to source dollars from oil companies, a historical first. Owo Abu nse Abu lalejo!

When Hubert Ogunde started entertaining us with our own culture for shillings in those days, most people never believed he would make money from what is now known as Nollywood! They are now one of the foreign currency earners in Nigeria. These young men and women achieved their success without depending on the governments for handouts, allocation from foreign reserves or crying for NEPA. Indeed, they built their own world of infrastructures.

So are our young students around the age of twenty-three while studying, also working to send money home to their parents and siblings: pumping foreign money into our local economy. If many of us knew what the hell it took to do this, we would not venture out of African countries. But when young men and (pregnant) women swear they are ready to die in the deserts than stay at home and suffer, we must examine how and who are the managers of our resources.

It is not western governments that make their countries rich, it is the people and the businesses they created worldwide selling goods and services that brought foreign riches to their countries. The roles of their governments are limited to laws, regulation and rules that further their effort and protect their existence. In some cases, these businesses are so jealously protected abroad to the detriment of ours. Enron was a case in point that defrauded some developing countries.

When Dangote goes to establish plants in African countries, he never complained about lack of infrastructures, electricity and water. Dangote made his own electricity, roads in and out of the jungles and created his own water. Indeed, in most cases he leveraged his own money from the profits of his companies in and out of that country. He does not have to wait for five years to do that in Nigeria. He can start right now. Rankadede!

Dangote self-reliance in other African countries is not unheard of. Some African companies and many foreign companies know it is good business. Oil companies usually generate their own electricity, roads, staff housing and schools. A few even extend social functions to neighboring communities close to their established oil companies’ villages or sell surplus power to national grid. Apart from generous “bush” allowance to staff, they just want to make them comfortable.

If we ask African businesses not to depend so much on governments, foreign big corporations that have been in Africa for ages making profits, have no reason sharing or asking for allocation out of the little government reserves which is much less than theirs. These are companies that paid less wages compared to foreign staff, get most of their raw materials locally and export declared and creative accounting profits out of Africa. Reinvestment of some profit is good biz.

We are not asking these companies to take over the responsibilities and functions of their local governments, we are only asking them to be responsible corporate citizens. They should not poison the well they drink from. If they can hold their noses long enough to make profits while here, they should not drain the governments’ foreign reserves. They can plough some profit in.

In essence we have Panama looters, local big businesses and foreign companies competing for the little and dwindling foreign reserves of countries overwhelmed with the basic needs of folks. They are vultures threatening jobs and meagre salaries paid, unless they get their lion profit out.

Some of the conditions laid down by Chukwuma are fair responsibilities of the Government. It is disgraceful that we have local auto plants but our government ministers and officials are driving vehicles whose makers have not contributed anything to the economy. Yet our producers of nothing and consumers of everything cannot wait to purchase these foreign cars with our hard earned reserves at the back of fishermen in environmental polluted swamps.

Right now in United States, the Government has introduced corporate inversion regulations to prevent their big corporate companies from dodging their taxable profits on paper by merging with small companies overseas while retaining their advantages in U.S.A. Making big companies accountable is the reason for government in the first place. Article on African inversion later

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/big-biz-must-generate-their-electricity-foreign-money-now-by-farouk-martins-aresa/#ixzz45Avm3ZDe

[b]So unless Nigeria opens up its limited foreign reserves to everyone that desires as much foreign goods and services as he wants, the Country is going to blazes. But if the Country exhausts all its foreign reserves, it will be saved from economic ruins? If we are to believe these foreign trained economists, their magazines, newspapers or prostitutes, Nigeria has no choice but to devalue its currency so that it can pay more in local currency for their odious loans, goods and services.

Once Nigeria pays more in devalued naira, goods, services, transportation fare and service loan fees will increase accordingly. Housing and car purchases increase will follow and workers will demand more to meet daily expenses. It is illogical to think that paying more in devalued naira will automatically solve the problem of a market without abundant local products to export.

All foreign loans would need more naira to maintain. As well as foreign goods, housing estates, constructions and infrastructure. In order to pay lenders, more would have to be demanded from users to meet their obligation to buy dollars with devalued naira. These increases would fuel more inflation as workers work harder or take other jobs to pay their rents. More naira would be needed for freely imported food, pencils, secondhand materials; killing local goods.

Manufacturers that need essential raw materials that are not available in Nigeria would have to compete with pencil, water and tooth picks importers paying more devalued naira. If they could not generate enough naira to buy dollars, many would have to close shops, plants and factories. Workers would be laid off increasing the number of people in non-essential markets eking out a living. One would think that these manufacturers would be the first against devaluation.

Yet, some of them are threatening to lay off millions of workers if they do not get their free and open way to buy dollars as they wish as if Nigeria prints American and European currencies. The foreign companies have money in their foreign banks 10 times the amount of African countries’ foreign reserve but they will never reinvest it in Africa. They will rather exhaust the little income these poor African countries have so that they can be destabilized after sucking their blood out.
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However, they have another reason for free falling devalued naira. Most of them make so much naira from their undeclared profit in Nigeria, they are ready to buy dollars at any price so that they can export unreported profit as well as profit made in dollars from export. Use different methods of creative accounting where they could hide undeclared profit as expenses. Their foreign and favored local employees are paid so much naira, they could buy dollars at any price.

One of the head of Mobil claimed they could not establish oil refinery as Dagote is planning to because they had to report to their American shareholders with different interest from Dagote. This is a Nigerian Director being manipulated against his own country and must deliver even if the interest of Nigeria is at stake. It gives an insight on how divergent our interests are. They are in Africa to milk us dry and pollute our environment in the process without responsibilities.

Take gas flaring for example. These same oil companies claimed they needed time but many deadlines passed and there was no action. Many African countries had to pass laws against gas flaring because each time they try to work with oil companies, they reneged on their goodwill and promises. They ignore and flaunt these laws while intentionally wasting valuable resources and polluting the environment. They install African directors to further neo-colonism interest.

In order to get hold and exhaust African Country’s foreign reserves, they refused to establish refineries and agricultural farms partnerships to create jobs. They would rather import oil and modified genetic seeds from the farmers in their home countries. Better still, would operate refineries and farms there and import the products into Africa. They are now one step further. They are buying farms in African countries dictating what to grow, the price and where to sell.

What type of PMS, sugar, milk, cocoa or alcohol beverages do they need to import that cannot be refined, grown or established in African countries? They use machines and equipment as excuses. After fifty years, none of these machines and their parts are made locally so that they can have reason to import them and bring glorified mechanic as engineers to service them.

Most of these foreign companies have been in Africa for ages and they sell many finished products made in Nigeria outside without reporting profits in dollars or paying taxes on these. Foreign companies claim they need all the foreign currencies they could get for raw materials imported. Even when we know that most of their raw materials are available locally. You may wonder what raw materials are needed for sugar and water companies like Coca-Cola.

Cocoa and beverage companies that have been in the Country forever are competing with star-up companies for foreign reserves when they should be the source of foreign exchange earners for the Country. The raw materials of most of them are cocoa, sugar, milk. Even those that claim they need wheat or barley for beverages could have established farms across the Country to grow their raw material after all these donkey years. But that will defeat their insidious goal.

They would rather grow wheat in North Africa and import it to Nigeria but if we grow cassava in Nigeria they would only export it to China at their own price. The common mean spirited policy here is their freedom to grow anywhere and export. As long as the country of operation has no control over the movement of currencies. It is their way of beating the currency restriction. Foreign companies get subsidized at Central Bank and use illegal earnings to buy local currency.

Ironically, western politicians decry most of the trade agreements as taking well-paying jobs away from Europeans and Americans. You can imagine what they get away with in Africa where selfish local managers and politicians collude with foreign companies to defraud Nigerians.

None of these companies would dare operate this way at home without bilateral agreement or multilateral agreement. This was the reason European and American local unions campaigned against cheap labors in Asia where they could pay starving wages to maximize their profits. We must give some credit to Asian countries since their governments get cuts in profits from shares in the companies, taxes on profits they must declare to patriotic local managers.

Most men of all ages want ladies in their twenties but most ladies in the 20s want men closer to their age. Unfortunately, there are not enough men in their twenties to satisfy the needs of all those ladies in their twenties. Some of the men are just not ready for huge responsibilities of marriage at that age anymore unless they have rich families insisting they get serious with their girlfriends. They would rather wait to plan until they accumulate wealth or save enough money.

What drives other ladies to older man other than money? Plenty: elevation of status or security. Most women, more than most men, are very educated consumers when it comes to choosing a partner, even in their twenties. Though as men get older, they become wiser. When it comes to young tote, the older they are the easier they lose their senses. Many have been taken for rides!

While delaying marriage, young men join others in their thirties and sometimes those in their forties. We know that at this point, families would become worried wondering if their offspring are going to get serious about producing grandchildren. In some cases, the ladies these young men would love to get married to may be wishing to hook up with a different young man in his twenties. An irreconcilable mismatch posting some women into their thirties may be regretted.

The same is true of the young men, as they procrastinate into their thirties and forties, they are no more in the favored age group most ladies in their twenties would like to marry. Since ladies in their twenties prefer young men around their age. Remember that men of all age groups prefer women in their twenties. By the time men wait until their thirties and forties, they are not looking for women in their age group anymore. They want younger ladies, in the twenties!

When many of the ladies get to their thirties, they have become highly matured, wiser, many with good careers and knowing what they want from men. Sometimes, it is turn of these ladies to attract men in their twenties. Especially those young men still struggling to find a niche. One pretty lady brought her case to family court against a man in his twenties that ditched her for younger girlfriend. She was ten years older, but still pretty as a rock, better off with older men.

This lady never saw herself as a cougar in her thirties, if anything, she looked as young as the boyfriend. The court and the boyfriend�s mother could see through the young man as a user that lived between her mother and his girlfriend�s house driving her car. She demanded in her claim, most of what she gave him including money as loan contingent on payback as soon as he got a better job. Well, it sounded like a code word for � only if he finally married her.

Women in their thirties are not so frantic to get a man but they harbor a feeling of helplessness if they get squished closer to their forties. They have to make the decisions whether to look for more matured and older man that will cuddle them like a gem. Either keep hope alive for a man around their age or continue their careers and settle down as cougars later on. They may not be so desperate if they have good jobs but they also longed for a satisfying relationship with a man.

Factors career ladies in their thirties preferred in a partner include gentleman that is just as educated, carry himself both in the relationship and in a circle of friends. But there are many single men with good paying blue-collar jobs looking for educated ladies. These ladies would keep them on the side to satisfy their sexual needs but will never go out with them or even get pregnant for him. How can anyone claim she is looking for a man, when one is right in her bed?

Well, if you work hard and paid your dues, there is nothing wrong with desiring someone in the same class. Sex is important but not the overriding quality most women desire in a man. There was a survey that asked married women if they want more sex in their marriage, most women said yes they do. But when asked if they would leave their husbands to get married to someone else for more sex, majority said no; they would rather stay with same man. Which country!

There is a general consensus that by the time ladies gets into their thirties, the age of partners is no longer a big deal. It comes from the notion that nobody should be getting into the sexual preference of a grown woman, no matter the age of the partner. This article stated that men of all ages prefer women in their twenties and ladies in their twenties prefer men around their age. In their thirties, ladies relax age preference to accommodate prevailing market for good men.

By the time women get to their late thirties and forties, single or divorced, they are ready or prepared to play cougars. The same ladies that dress older as teens for older men, would do anything to look younger for men of any age: diet, cosmetic surgery, bleaching, padded butts or boobs, fake hair. Even then, women are more discreet than men, with taste for younger partner. It may have something to do with community norms, double standard or men�s dominance.

Older men have more to gain from ladies in their thirties and forties than they do in preference for ladies in their twenties. As stated earlier, ladies are very educated consumers in their choice of men from their late teens. The general observation is that ladies in late teens or twenties looking for older men want a lot more than relationship. They want money, as everyone but not necessarily as much security as older ladies: young ladies may have no intention to stay as long.

It is the same relationship cougars crave for, in younger men � older ladies get excited and toy boys get enthralled. Both realizing their relationship is not going to last. Older men are sucked into believing that the relationship with young ladies would last forever; as some plan escape!

What is clear though, older men with young ladies last much longer than young men with older ladies. Reason: if young ladies stay long in the relationship nature holds them with children that are improbable from older ladies with young men. Try a Iara Oshiomhole or a Monica Lewinsky

abah009:
I feel like committing suicide. Iam depress.When i reach hell, iam gonna Bleep sexy ladies with my fourtteen inches dick.

Well, nobody forced Africans to change tastes to conform to foreign food and goods enabling Bureau De Change. They are proving to the whole world that they are “civilized”. In the same way, only a greedy fool would fall for a scam that that millions of dollars is waiting for him in some poverty stricken country or even relatively potentially resource rich country in Africa.

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[b] Do poor children generally love their parents more than the spoilt brats? It depends on the parents is not the answer. No matter how strict most parents are, rich kids have this notion of entitlement unavailable to poor kids. They develop some resentment if they feel their parents are “stingy” with imagined wealth. It’s like the university graduate that complained bitterly that his father gave him a Volkswagen after graduation while his friends got Peugeot or Mercedes.

We all love our children and expect them to love us forever. As we get older and they become adults, their responsibilities and focus shift to their own families. In order to attract them back, especially mothers, “bribe” them with gifts within their means. It could be with their favorite dish as a kid or a little money from her pension if paid. When you see old people playing lottery with a little they have, they want to share the winning with their children to gain affection back.

Unfortunately, the way parents make their money, in most cases determine how their children love them. Children, like adults, are usually proud of the parents that struggle hard to put food on the table and strive to meet their obligations. However, children cannot be proud of efulefu parents, are actually ashamed of those communities stigmatized as: onye-oshi, barawo or ole!
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Children are usually adaptable to their environment. There are families living on environmental dumps on the lagoon and on the streets. Yet, in these desperate situation some families are better placed than the others. One may be able to get better shelter made of aluminum, wood or readymade cave. Yet the bond between children and parents remain in those dire situations. Some of the parents have given their children to others to look after because they are too poor.

Just as a reminder, African children are more than investment. When Yoruba say – a jeun omo o – it is more than expected returns on the care we rendered them. Unfortunately, this is not the generation we can claim that much from. Even rich countries and parents fail to see rosy future for their children unless the top 5% spreads economy gains around. Some will argue it is the reason politicians think they can loot their way into the future so their grandkids will not suffer.

Mind you, riches even the one obtained the old fashioned way, can become a game of numbers. When we have enough to take care of our needs and wants many push for more than the other guys. A bigger house, better car or many more. If an Edge Fund manager, you want to create more profit than the other managers. At some point, some of us realize that more money does not give us happier children orfamilies. It may even deny us of quality time with them.

The relationship between a child and the mother is sacred and most fathers realize that. It takes an overbearing father to assume otherwise unless there is a contingent factor that renders the mother unfit. As in a true story of a toddler and his father struggling to survive. The father was homeless and one could not imagine a poorer mother. Children, no matter how poor, curious if mother or father in jailed. At some point, that child would find them. See HYPERLINK "http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thepursuitofhappyness/" Pursuit of Happyness.

What is evident is the love of those children for their mother or father. They always miss the poor homes they left and the affection of their parents. When it gets to the point that a poor homeless father has to shelter his son or daughter without the comfort of a mother, it becomes a sadder story. There is some deep lasting affection from poor children. Giving back to parents, a big motivating factor to succeed. Unfortunately, armed robbers and prostitutes use it as excuse.

We also have great humble kids. Comparing their deep affection to those of children that grow up in poor families where the children think parents owe them less is sobering. While it is true that children compare themselves to their neighbors in either rich or poor environment, taking rich life for granted begin at an early stage. The attachment and obligations poor children have for their poor families can hardly be compensated by those of rich parents that hire helps.

Most parents love their children so much, they are willing to go without food, water, sleep and other necessities so that their children may have. Fathers work in camps for months and return home. As these children get older, their reluctance to leave home change from affection to survivalalone on their own.This behavior with children also exist within the animal kingdom.

There must be a continuum from affection stage to survival stage as children grow older. If the parents are rich, there is room to accommodate them. But if they are poor that option is very limited. Since parents always pray that their children do better than them, in the days of less opportunities, children may want to hang on longer at homes where parents are rich. They do not want to give up their comfortable rooms. The poor children do not enjoy that choice.

So poor children look for jobs more diligently. Psychologists have preached that rules have to change once the jobs situation is not favorable enough for children to take the plunge. They must look for some jobs even if it is not their ideal jobs and must contribute to the house. Parents must learn to set limits otherwise children will take over and kick out the parents. Most African parents are willing to accommodate their children longer, just as upper class Europeans.

Indeed some of these children bring their husband and wives home with the promise that they are saving for their own houses. Middleclass Africans and Europeans may accept it but it is less common among Americans until the recession hit. What we see during the recession in America are two generations of middleclass families living together in the same house. Generations of families living together is more common in Africa and Europe.

In short, children only realize fully what their parents went through as they become adults themselves. That is why children never forget the poor homes mothers struggle so hard to keep.

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Operation Declare Your Assets Or Forfeit Your Surplus


Please let us stop chasing the ghost, cut the chase and go after the individual surplus. Every Nigerian knows where the money is. We know there is even more money outside the Country, foreign Governments have been sensitized to the source and they are now embarrassed as receiver of stolen properties. The problem is those conspicuous spenders who are spending the money in our face, living it in our face and no one can query them. Actually, Obasanjo had to negotiate with one to keep some stolen millions to avoid lengthened litigation, only to renege on the terms of his release.

Once upon a time, a Nigerian would take ten percent kickback from the central Government contract, but never from the local area where everybody knows everybody. Time has changed. Conspicuous spenders have taken over. They are encouraged by praise singers who eulogize them. There are two ways to dislodge their ill gotten surplus – 1. By revolution or 2. By due process.

There has to be due process. It has to be done with human face so that it does not become a class or an ethnic thing. I do not think Jerry Rawlings is better than those he killed in Ghana in the name of revolution.

Many of us are copy cats. If it is done in American and Europe, fine. If that is the only way to catch the fat cats, I will tag on. Well, the best way to catch a drug dealer, a spy, a terrorist and a rogue in these countries is to demand accountability for any conspicuous spending. Can you imagine a Nigerian oppressor without conspicuous consumption?

Conspicuous spending is a major part of our moral bankruptcy. It sends a powerful message to the have-nots to make money by any means possible. The armed robber, Oyenusi confession did not teach us any lesson. They always return to the crime scene.

Oppressor, for fear of dying, has to spend his money sooner than later. Watch out for his cars, his houses, political donations and funding of privileged organizations. We have a tax system in Nigeria but we have deliberately not used it to catch the oppressors. We are on the right path though. If anyone needs Government service, they ask for three years income tax receipts. Great! Let us move a step further. If you under-declare, explain how you are going to finance your proposals.

Buhari The Democrat Or Buhari The Dictator

It has been over six week since Buhari took over the new Government in Nigeria but looking at the criticism he has received, one would think he has been there for a year. Comparing this to the last time he took over as a dictator, when the impact was immediate after initial celebration that welcomed him and Idiagbon. What he lacks now is ruling by decree or fiat. While his voters may be patient for the next 100 days, the criticism by those that voted against him is startling.

All of us have to decide which Buhari we want. It has to be one that will let some criminals go scot free to our dismay, so that the right of most innocent people is not jeopardized or punish a few innocent people so that every previous government must be held accountable. It is easy to probe into ages in a kleptomaniac society as Nigeria but impractical even in western democracy.

Published: Friday, July 24, 2015

It is ironic, when the new administration in Nigeria delayed the appointment of ministers since there were permanent secretary working on the job anyway, people became suspicious. They were not concerned about the amount of money saved in terms of salary and support of these political appointees or recovery from looters. There was even one lawsuit to force the President to immediately appoint ministers. Are these agents of contractors looking for goodies?

Read more at: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/183484/1/propagated-states-ethnic-champions-ministers-empty.html