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AllenSpencer:
Exactly!

Reno is one of the most brilliant people we have in Africa!

Lol.

What a very very low standard you have for Africa.

Is it no wonder that Nigeria, the big boy of Africa, is such a basket case.

tolue42:
That is your trademark in the East, we don't do that here

The news headlines, from authoritative sources, say otherwise.

DrGoodman:
The issues that sank Nigeria are Tribalism triggered by unhealthy competition initiated by people who couldn't stomach the rise of a particular part of Nigeria to greatness.

So they lied, cheated, fought, killed, and destroyed the whole process in the country that can bring a level playing field for all the country, because they know that tribe will race ahead again.

The fight against that tribe meant that they had to cut corners with the truth, cutting their chances down just to make sure nobody rises, if it means the successful region will rise faster. So standards were lowered, educationally, financially and socially, it became okay to lie about things on national TV, as long as you will be seen to be against that tribe, you will be forgiven.

Institutions had to be killed, processes had to be destroyed, procedures had to be abolished for the tribal Lords to unfairly climb up to twist the truth. Of course the end result became the elevation of haters, criminals and illiterates who cares less about the general wellbeing of the country. As the criminals took over, and are still in power, expect no meaningful developments, because

YOU CANNOT PLANT CORN, AND HARVEST COCONUTS

100% correct.
Unfortunately, suffering and hopelessness knows no ethnicity.

Alliswell248:
List what you have achieved in life apart from making noise online.....

Hateful soul....enemy of Nigeria.....
We really dodged a bullet on February 25th....

Name what other nation in the world that produces cheap crude oil , but imports petrol ?
What other oil producing nation that whose fortunes go down when the price of oil , their principal commodity, goes up in price ?

What other nation spends close $30b on a steel plant , and in 40yrs, no single steel rod has been produced?

What other nation has its entire economy RUN on imported generators that RUN on subsided imported fuel ?
What other nation has swaths of local government areas permanently under the control of terrorists and bandits?
Gosh, I can go on and on .

Nigeria is failed state.

Alliswell248:
List what you have achieved in life apart from making noise online.....

Hateful soul....enemy of Nigeria.....
We really dodged a bullet on February 25th....

I'm not sure how old you are, little person, but if think that Nigeria has delivered even 10% of the promise of nationhood it had in 1960, then I sincerely hope you do live in Nigeria, proud of the flag.
Nigeria is not a nation, and unfortunately, never have been since perhaps only on the October 1st 1960.
And unfortunately, tribalism and blind bigotry is the main reason it will probably never be a nation.

obembet:
Source: https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1708411118300155995?t=V4VKTz0_tip4gc-s6RulYA&s=19

Nlfpmod
Seun
mynd44
Lalasticlala

Nonsense from a shameless, jobless , desperate political jobber.

Laughing out .
If these are the things to proud of in Nigeria, then it's easy to see what high and low level political contractors have done to this once promising country.

For every one of those supposed things to be proud of, there are 1000 for each to weep about.

October 1st should be a day of mourning for every Nigerian.

Fools like Reno Omokri blow hot and cold depending on where the next meal is Coming from.
I'm not sure who gives this fool audience and gives him front page.

floret23:
At 63, Nigeria Is A Failed Country With Corruptly Mismanaged Economy, Has Nothing To Celebrate, Says Activist Nwanguma

He explained that Nigeria is richly endowed but corruptly mismanaged.



https://saharareporters.com/2023/10/01/63-nigeria-failed-country-corruptly-mismanaged-economy-has-nothing-celebrate-says?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

I agree 100%.

October 1st should be a national day of mourning for the death of the dream of nationhood

Pentecostal Christianity , by default, is a private business enterprise usually run by a family.

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/nigeria63-10-takeaways-from-tinubus-independence-anniversary-speech/

The usual Unicorn meat.

Kobojunkie:
The country has been trading national progress for the sake of the poor for decades now and what has been the response from the poor in that time? To breed and multiply like rats. The population of Nigeria is expected to Ballon to over about 370 million in the next 25 years if current trend continues. Before the removal of subsides , the situation was already bad for the poor. Do you think it is going to get better 25 years from now if no drastic changes are made to correct the many problems in the country now?

2. The poor need to change. And adversity typically presents the best opportunity for the change needed.

What am I just reading?

The poor need to change?

Are in your right mind ?

This is how psychopaths reason.

Absolute nonsense.

How gullible people can be.

Hindustan Times is now the source of credible information ?

Canada has just recently outed the government of India as sponsor of international terrorism.
And this is how India is responding?

ganisucks:
These are not the best of times. But I believe the FBI will take national, regional and global security into consideration and so will redact most of the parts that are likely to be misconstrued and manipulated by the opposition.

I agree that it would most likely be redacted, but for a different reason. The main reason would be that the FBI would not want to out their former government informant and possibly spy.

CandidAdmin:
Nigerian based abroad, please share your experience with racist or when you are being discriminated because of your color.



Note: This is not an Anti Japa thread.

I
face more discrimination in Nigeria than I have ever faced anywhere abroad.

Emekaphilip360:
Nigeria Air - Scam
Subsidy - Scam
Palliatives - Scam
Minimum wage 30k, no one is complaining
EFCC only chasing boys surviving on their own leaving politicians to have a field day. Food prices keep soaring, Increase in house rent. No protest, No complain. Everyone acting like everywhere is good. Suffering and smiling on the low.
We are just too docile in this country. Everyone just looking for where to eat. It’s crazy out there!

Yes, we are.

And the most stuupid too.

Programmer47:
This is how am average batidiot thinks. No sense, no direction, just how to drag Obi and throw insults.

Blaming a country's citizens for importation?
Like, which brain una get?
4 refineries and no one is working and you correlated with Individuals importing?
Most of you need real help, not just with finance but with your mentality.
At this point, you can't think rationally again. The next thing is to insult me and throw tribal slurs as usual. Very senseless mob of individuals

Don't mind that fool.

That same fool that pretends to complain about importation by Igbos also surrounds himself and his family with imported products.

I think that, unfortunately, the quality of minds our system produces is directly proportional to the quality of leaders we are saddled with.

Programmer47:
This is how am average batidiot thinks. No sense, no direction, just how to drag Obi and throw insults.

Blaming a country's citizens for importation?
Like, which brain una get?
4 refineries and no one is working and you correlated with Individuals importing?
Most of you need real help, not just with finance but with your mentality.
At this point, you can't think rationally again. The next thing is to insult me and throw tribal slurs as usual. Very senseless mob of individuals

Thank you very much.
The way the average literate Nigerian thinks is what really makes very pessimistic about the possibility of turnaround of the Nigerian situation.
Nigeria started importation of refined petroleum from the Abacha era. Abacha awarded the contract for refinery maintenance to his late son for $500m. When the boy died in a plane crash, the contract was left in a limbo. Then Abacha decided to award a contract for the importation of petrol to his daughter. As soon as they tasted that sweet nectar of importing fuel , all the big thieves in Nigeria joined fuel importation wandwagon. The idea of fixing the refineries became unimportant. This is how the whole fuel importation racket began.

Now, an educated fool is someone trying to blame Obi and Igbos for the importation of fuel.

mrvitalis:
Lmao and Europe love themselves?

Are you ready for for tribal identity to die? Because that's the only way to make Nigeria work

Yes, even Europeans spread to conquer, they did so for their countries, to secure the future of their nations. They went out , knowing that they may die in their journeys and they might not ever personally reap the fruits of their efforts. Their effort were for the future generations of Europeans. Today, they still plan decades ahead for their future generations.
The African man can betray his own mother, talkless of his nation for a loaf of swewt bread now.

So tribal identity , as you mentioned, is just another name for self-hatred.
It is cutting one's nose to spite one's face.

SmartPolician:
You people always look for ways to make excuses for your failures, but you never take responsibility for them.

What's wrong with the black man?

Let's even say that Nigeria is not working. Is the white man stopping us from splitting the country? No way! We are our own problem!

Listen, there's rarely any country in this world where everyone comes from the same tribe. A people understand what nationhood means, set goals and work towards it on the framework of justice, equity and fairness.

With a population of over 300 million immigrants from all over the world, the United States is more diverse than any other country you can think of. I am not writing about different tribes, but different races! Yet, those guys understand there's strength in diversity, they are tapping into it and making progress. Today, the whole of Nigeria wants to empty into America.

We have a country of just 200 million people of entirely black people, but we cannot manage ourselves. While more diverse America is making progress, Nigerians are busy blaming the colonial masters for the same evil they do unto themselves. When we say that Nigerians lack creativity and are too mentally lazy, some people get angry.

Go and read about how the white man arrived cold and unfertile Canada. Despite the terrible climate of the land, they never left until they made something out of it. Today, again, Nigerians want to empty into Canada.

We have seen how Rwanda has two major tribes but keeps electing Paul Kagame from a minority tribe to lead them for years because they saw the huge potential in him. In Nigeria, we elect idiots and wail that they don't know what the are doing because electoral decisions are based on tribe and religion.

Lest I forget, in Nigeria, we are full of evil, greed and wickedness clothed with religion. We hate one another. Even if you split Nigeria into 50 units, there won't be love among the 50 countries that came out of defunct Nigeria because the only thing we care about is oppression, selfishness, showoff, wickedness, crimes, avarice, and we cover all these evils with religion.

This country needs to be totally reshuffled because we are a sick people!

Well said

mrvitalis:
You obviously don't have ambition so you won't notice the obstacles placed... The low ceiling faced by people

This is the same question people ask igbos

Colonial masters left Africa in a structure that is almost impossible to progress... We were set up to fight and kill ourselves ( there was a reason France insisted to be sole arms supplier to its colonies)

Restructure Europe like Africa and watch them kill themselves in 3 years

Every country progressing today is either structured along ethnic lines or settler nations where indigenous people have insignificant population

You can't have a country like Nigeria n work it's impossible

Pure nonsense.

Africans hate themselves. That's the reason we don't progress.
Africans harder plan for the future. They only think about their personal needs t at any given instant. Africa breeds the worst leaders in the history of the world.
Sure, the Europeans are Greedy, but the greed of African leaders is the primitive, self-serving greed.

Deepspirituals:
Which Title is this one talking about .

Destroy Property ,Render People Jobless .what a wicked acts .

What is it about Title ,Didn't they pay for it or they just took over and occupy,if there are a y title the Government want from AIT it has to do with Money to procure can't they just name it.

Wicked Souls Everywhere

I am thoroughly ashamed of my race.
It's funny that Africans still blame France, Britain and the West for all the problems in Africa. Yet the African produces the most heartless and worthless set of leaders in the entire world.

Uyomiya:
Black man .



🤣🤣🤣

A horrible species .

DeepSight:
These three things are a huge part of the explanation for where we are today - but please note that I hasten to add that I do not say this as any excuse. We have utterly failed and need to brace up and take responsibility and do better.

I just wish to note that people often tend to dismiss the impact of these three things in retarding Africa.

Long time bro.

Long time indeed.
My salutations to you wordy sire

That colonialism existed and that the west still exert negative influences in Africa are facts etched in stone. No one can dispute these facts.
But, remember that our leaders fought hard to wrestle power and control of resources from the colonial powers. They fought hard because of the promise of controlling our own destiny for the future generations of Africans. Over the past 6 decades, what can we look and say that our leaders have achieved for us since we started controlling our own destiny? Zero.
Instead of bread and milk that they promised, our leaders have offered us stone. And rather than for us to do genuine self-reflection, we are today still pretending that we are redoing the jobs that Azikiwe, Awolowo, Herbert Macaulay , Nkrumah, etc, had already done 60yrs ago.

My fear is that in the next 30yrs , our children would still be singing this same old, stale song.

DeepSight:
I believe it is fair enough if Sangoamadioha1 says that some of the pre-colonial societal arrangements in Africa were socialist or akin to socialism.

Not all, just some. There were actually very warlike and predatory African Empires and States all over the place. Also many were trade kingdoms with a highly mercantile nature. There were also despots and blood thirsty tyrants.

Agreed.
But any society where there is private ownership of land and property, and where goods are traded for profit, cannot be classified as socialist. Socialism itself is a modern concept, a reactionary ideal.

In order to say that free market capitalism is somehow bad for us, one should be able to show a comparable system, and that system has to have been successful somewhere at some time.
The free-market system is an equal opportunity system that rewards the most efficient allocation of resources.
The so-called socialist system that puts power and control of resources in a few hands on behalf of the people cannot ever work in Africa, even if had ever worked anywhere else.
If free-market democracy, as imperfect as it , gives the masses the power to elect representative governance, and it still gives Africans the wicked and avaricious leaders, just imagine what it would look like if that same power and resources are allocated to even fewer hands on behalf of the citizens.

What I find particularly dumbfounded and annoying is this rehashing of a very very old and stale song of how the west is responsible for our woes. African leaders have caused more wholesale destruction of the African dream that the colonialist ever did.
Even the colonial economic , infrastructural and administrative legacies left behind have been totally obliterated by successive regimes of wicked African leaders.
How can anyone look at daily events in Nigeria, a Dystopian Paradise, and still be able to point fingers at the west?

Sangoamadioha1:
Try all these on a less intelligent person. You are ignorant of the issue you are arguing about but hiding under a facade of false superiority.
I thought i would even gain some knowledge from you through your thought process but I never knew i was wasting my time with a dullard with a superiority complex.
I am through with you.

Laughing out loudly.

Capitulation by any other pretenses is still Capitulation.

Sangoamadioha1:
And the guy does not even know about his culture. Go and read up about African culture before the white man came. As an advocate of capitalism, you should be able to pay for your knowledge, so i refuse to educate you for free.

This guy can't be serious.
This is not happening

You postulated something.
I only asked for where and when it happened, and you cannot even show me ? You're asking me to read up on African culture?
Are you kidding me ?

My dear friend, now I know why you failed most of your courses.

I find it very amusing that people come to a public forum to pontificate on issues for which they have half-baked knowledge and zero verifiable facts.

Sangoamadioha1:
In the olden days, the community will give you land to farm. You and your age grades will work on each others farms. You give some parts of your produce to the community. The community in turn helps those that need help with these contributions.
Now lie to yourself if this is not how the average African society is before the white man.
Like I said, you don't know the meaning of socialism.

Where exactly was this practiced ?
Name the place and time, please.

Sangoamadioha1:
I should be asking you if you know what socialism is if you dont know that Africans practice socialism as a cultural norm.
Capitalism and democracy are western cultures not suited for us. Please show me one African country doing well with pure capitalism and democracy, just one example.


An example of African society that practiced socialism and succeeded is Libya (Gaddafi's era). There are other examples but let's start with this.

Ha ha ha.
I challenged you to show proof of something, and then you throw it back at me to show you proof of the opposite.
Very very brilliant

You failed to give me even one single example of a precolonial culture in Nigeria that practiced socialism, an obvious repudiation of your earlier statement.
Congratulations! You just scored an F in common sense, and an A+ in fragmented thinking.

As for Libya being your example of a successful socialist nation, that is soooo laughable.
I actually feel a tad embarrassed just reading such nonsense in defense of Africa's perennial failures in governance in a public forum.

Sangoamadioha1:
Does civilization mean copying the west. Africans by our heritage and culture are more socialist in ideology than capitalism which is a western culture. Our economic model should be socialist in nature. That is looking at your peculiarities to resolve your challenges and not just copying in the name of civilization.

First of all, kindly name any tribe in Nigeria whose economic culture was socialism. And I hope you understand the meaning of socialism.

Secondly, If you name any country on earth were socialism has succeeded as an economic model, I would be willing to listen you a bit more.

The funny but sad thing about Africa, with Nigeria as a good example, is that we continue to fail at every single subject , every year, and rather than do a thorough self- examination, we keep blaming our teachers and our schools for not being good enough.

We blame slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism. We blame the free market capitalism ,and then we blame the democratic system of government as not being suitable enough for us, even though the free market system and democratic system of government is working very well for our ThirdWorld peers, who were also previously colonized like us.
If we were a child, we would be treated as a dysfunctional child with learning disabilities.
And that's the bitter truth we should be telling ourselves.

misano:
Bro, what you should understand is that Nigeria is a special case. We have to change those policies to fit our behaviours, lifestyle and culture.

For example the FBI is being managed by the American president and still it's not very corrupt. But in Nigeria the DSS and EFCC are like guard dogs to corrupt politicians.

Now look at this way, what if we break the EFCC and DSS from being managed by the FG? Let the EFCC make their money directly from the lots and fines of the politicians and the money stolen from by the Yahoo boys. I think it will drastically reduce corruption in Nigeria.

I disagree.

What we need is to nurture and allow institutions of governance to grow mature and strong.

Sangoamadioha1:
We are aping the white man. When we plan and develop with solutions Indigenous to our local situations, then things can start making sense.
We are applying western solutions to our local problems that is why no foreign economic model has ever worked in Nigeria. What works in other countries never seem to work in Nigeria.
By the time we get a proper nationalist or Afro centric leader then we can start developing, for now we just dey catch cruise.

I guess you mean that common sense, patriotism, prudent economic planning and management, constitutional democracy and the rule of law are all western solutions that cannot work in Africa.
RIGHT?

Well, So far, that has proven to be correct.
So maybe we should abandon civilization entirely and just live like animals.