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SmartyPants:


Did you read that speech at all?

You didn't absorb all these?

This is my first address before the General Assembly. Permit me to say a few words on behalf of Nigeria, on behalf of Africa, regarding this year’s theme.

1. Many proclamations have been made, yet our troubles remain close at hand. Failures in good governance have hindered Africa. But broken promises, unfair treatment and outright exploitation from abroad have also exacted a heavy toll on our ability to progress. Given this long history, if this year’s theme is to mean anything at all, it must mean something special and particular to Africa.


2. Today and for several decades, Africa has been asking for the same level of political commitment and devotion of resource that described the Marshall Plan. We realize that underlying conditions and causes of the economic challenges facing today’s Africa are significantly different from those of post war Europe. We are not asking for identical programs and actions. What we seek is an equally firm commitment to partnership. We seek enhanced international cooperation with African nations to achieve the 2030 agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.


3. First, if this year’s theme is to have any impact at all, global institutions, other nations and their private sector actors must see African development as a priority, not just for Africa but in their interests as well.

Due to both longstanding internal and external factors, Nigeria’s and Africa’s economic structures have been skewed to impede development, industrial expansion, job creation, and the equitable distribution of wealth.

If Nigeria is to fulfil its duty to its people and the rest of Africa, we must create jobs and the belief in a better future for our people.

3. We welcome partnerships with those who do not mind seeing Nigeria and Africa assume larger roles in the global community. The question is not whether Nigeria is open for business. The question is how much of the world is truly open to doing business with Nigeria and Africa in an equal, mutually beneficial manner.

Direct investment in critical industries, opening their ports to a wider range and larger quantity of African exports and meaningful debt relief are important aspects of the cooperation we seek.

4. Yet, to fully corral this threat, the international community must strengthen its commitment to arrest the flow of arms and violent people into West Africa.

5. The world economy owes the DRC much but gives her very little. The mayhem visited on resource rich areas does not respect national boundaries. Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, CAR, the list grows.

6. Foreign entities abetted by local criminals who aspire to be petty warlords have drafted thousands of people into servitude to illegally mine gold and other resources. Billions of dollars meant to improve the nation now fuel violent enterprises. If left unchecked, they will threaten peace and place national security at grave risk. Given the extent of this injustice and the high stakes involved, many Africans are asking whether this phenomenon is by accident or by design.

7. Member nations must reply by working with us to deter their firms and nationals from this 21st century pillage of the continent’s riches.

8. African nations will fight climate change but must do so on our own terms. To achieve the needed popular consensus, this campaign must accord with overall economic efforts.

9. The pillage of one nation’s resources by the overreach of firms and people of stronger nations must end. The will of the people must be respected. This beauty, generous and forgiving planet must be protected.

10. As for Africa, we seek to be neither appendage nor patron. We do not wish to replace old shackles with new ones.

It's still same old tactic. Looking to guilt- trip western nations by accusing them of being behind economic exploitation and the political instability of African countries.
Meanwhile, the West will also fire back by showing the African countries a long list of African leaders with wealth and properties scattered all over the West. So who is going to blink first by then?
One of such fiasco birthed efcc

For those saying he has plan he has plan…no president or leader comes on without a plan, the issue is is the plan seeming to succeed?

He did cited our main good points for Africa not only Nigeria alone…..
I just hope the world listens..

Kukutente23:

It's still same old tactic. Looking to guilt- trip western nations by accusing them of being behind economic exploitation and the political instability of African countries.
Meanwhile, the West will also fire back by showing the African countries a long list of African leaders with wealth and properties scattered all over the West. So who is going to blink first by then?
One of such fiasco birthed efcc

So is the birth of the EFCC a bad thing? If both sides hold each other accountable then the society develops - no?

Not sure what your point is here.

Speech after speech, nothing changes.
Na speech we go chop

SmartyPants:


Did you read that speech at all?

You didn't absorb all these?

This is my first address before the General Assembly. Permit me to say a few words on behalf of Nigeria, on behalf of Africa, regarding this year’s theme.

1. Many proclamations have been made, yet our troubles remain close at hand. Failures in good governance have hindered Africa. But broken promises, unfair treatment and outright exploitation from abroad have also exacted a heavy toll on our ability to progress. Given this long history, if this year’s theme is to mean anything at all, it must mean something special and particular to Africa.


2. Today and for several decades, Africa has been asking for the same level of political commitment and devotion of resource that described the Marshall Plan. We realize that underlying conditions and causes of the economic challenges facing today’s Africa are significantly different from those of post war Europe. We are not asking for identical programs and actions. What we seek is an equally firm commitment to partnership. We seek enhanced international cooperation with African nations to achieve the 2030 agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.


3. First, if this year’s theme is to have any impact at all, global institutions, other nations and their private sector actors must see African development as a priority, not just for Africa but in their interests as well.

Due to both longstanding internal and external factors, Nigeria’s and Africa’s economic structures have been skewed to impede development, industrial expansion, job creation, and the equitable distribution of wealth.

If Nigeria is to fulfil its duty to its people and the rest of Africa, we must create jobs and the belief in a better future for our people.

3. We welcome partnerships with those who do not mind seeing Nigeria and Africa assume larger roles in the global community. The question is not whether Nigeria is open for business. The question is how much of the world is truly open to doing business with Nigeria and Africa in an equal, mutually beneficial manner.

Direct investment in critical industries, opening their ports to a wider range and larger quantity of African exports and meaningful debt relief are important aspects of the cooperation we seek.

4. Yet, to fully corral this threat, the international community must strengthen its commitment to arrest the flow of arms and violent people into West Africa.

5. The world economy owes the DRC much but gives her very little. The mayhem visited on resource rich areas does not respect national boundaries. Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, CAR, the list grows.

6. Foreign entities abetted by local criminals who aspire to be petty warlords have drafted thousands of people into servitude to illegally mine gold and other resources. Billions of dollars meant to improve the nation now fuel violent enterprises. If left unchecked, they will threaten peace and place national security at grave risk. Given the extent of this injustice and the high stakes involved, many Africans are asking whether this phenomenon is by accident or by design.

7. Member nations must reply by working with us to deter their firms and nationals from this 21st century pillage of the continent’s riches.

8. African nations will fight climate change but must do so on our own terms. To achieve the needed popular consensus, this campaign must accord with overall economic efforts.

9. The pillage of one nation’s resources by the overreach of firms and people of stronger nations must end. The will of the people must be respected. This beauty, generous and forgiving planet must be protected.

10. As for Africa, we seek to be neither appendage nor patron. We do not wish to replace old shackles with new ones.

Obviously they did not read the speech. The issue of action or inaction, fair it might be, is a different take entirely

SmartyPants:


So is the birth of the EFCC a bad thing? If both sides hold each other accountable then the society develops - no?

Not sure what your point is here.

It's not the point
How's the efcc now? The same people it was created to haunt are how hounding it.
But that's not my main point
The main point is that Tinubu's speech is not a new trick. It's a old as Africa itself.
The West and rest already have the antidote
Stop blaming us for your woes
You're as complicit if not more

I expect BAT to take his orders from the west regarding Niger and make an announcment next week as the slave he is.

limeta:
Nigeria Africa do not need weak ass licker as leader right now
Tinubu did not raise dust with this speech but instead
towed the same line most Africa leaders have dare to utter over the years .
It now evidently clear that Tinubu is a place holder for the neon colonial masters namely US ,UK and France

The old saying you can't teach an old dog a new trick
The new Africa is too fast for oldies like Tinubu.

I just said the undiluted thruth,the speech is terribly empty

This was the same statement they used when buhari was president. How far have we gone?

BabaRamota1980:
Please, I am begging Nigerians, give this man an honest backing and clean support so that it can be better for all.

President Tinubu has plans to move Nigeria forward. We should lend hands and hearts to his administration so Nigeria can achieve and make us all proud.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria

The Tinubu who formed a political alliance that took Nigeria to become the official poverty capital of the world, and one of the most terrorised countries on earth, talking to the United Nations.
He did not know that his audience knew it all.

The speech is so sweet I bet the west would be moved by it

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w13unWqdvc?si=MhjxIG55iLt1B-0C



https://www.channelstv.com/2023/09/20/full-text-president-tinubus-first-address-at-un-general-assembly/

I am once more proud to be a Nigerian under President Tinubu more than I was under President Jonathan 💪💪💪🙏🙏

Kukutente23:

It's not the point
How's the efcc now? The same people it was created to haunt are how hounding it.
But that's not my main point
The main point is that Tinubu's speech is not a new trick. It's a old as Africa itself.
The West and rest already have the antidote
Stop blaming us for your woes
You're as complicit if not more

I understand your point - still I am pointing out that after the blame game, there is a result. In our case, the birth of the EFCC as you said. So now as you've said on the other thread, they've come to say we lack the framework - that then puts the onus on them to state what requirements they need and on us to furnish them. The end result is progress which is much better than doing nothing at all.

Alternatively, what would you suggest?

[quote author=limeta post=125901447]Nigeria Africa do not need weak ass licker as leader right now
Tinubu did not raise dust with this speech but instead
towed the same line most Africa leaders have dare to utter over the years .
It now evidently clear that Tinubu is a place holder for the neon colonial masters namely US ,UK and France

The old saying you can't teach an old dog a new trick
The new Africa is too fast for oldies like Tinubu. [quote]


I tottaly disagree with your assertion and conclusion and note that I don't belongs to his camp nor even give him my vote but truth must be told.

I have followed up with all his policy and speeches with open minded despite been an obedient fellow and I must tell you that the man as a good agenda for Nigerians and Africans at large.

Read through the speech again and you will understand better the indirect question and jabs he throw to the foreign nation.

On insecurities he said his people has been asking if it's deliberate or design base on the fact that the most terrorise areas has a lot of mineral resources which are being exploited out and he now ask them to show their commitment and partnership in cunning the menace if truly they have no hand in it.

Do you also read the lines where he talk about the lethal weapon movement been used by the terrorist which inflow is from the foreign countries and how he indirectly throw the jabs that they should help in containing such situation if truly they love Africa.


See let's be open minded when reading the government speeches it's when you are open minded that you will able to pick some point to learn or to even criticise constructively and not all this tantrum that is supposed to be dead since the end if the electioneering days.

We all need to put our hands on the table and support the government likewise criticizing them constructively when the need arises.

Remember that the country does not belong to Tinubu and his allies but it belongs to you and I and our positive contribution matters in reshaping the country to what we dream oooo

There needs be a serious look into the Oil sector in Nigeria. What is happening there is quite alarming.. how can a cruide oil producing nation like Nigeria find itself selling PMS at almost $1 per litre baffles me.

Extremely unhappy with these recent developments.

BabaRamota1980:
Please, I am begging Nigerians, give this man an honest backing and clean support so that it can be better for all.

President Tinubu has plans to move Nigeria forward. We should lend hands and hearts to his administration so Nigeria can achieve and make us all proud.

If he need Nigerians backing, he should have won legitimately

BabaRamota1980:
Please, I am begging Nigerians, give this man an honest backing and clean support so that it can be better for all.

President Tinubu has plans to move Nigeria forward. We should lend hands and hearts to his administration so Nigeria can achieve and make us all proud.

Babami ... he doesn't need igbos supporting Obi who couldn't make Anambra better than Lagos ... Nigeria will be fine ...

SmartyPants:


I understand your point - still I am pointing out that after the blame game, there is a result. In our case, the birth of the EFCC as you said. So now as you've said on the other thread, they've come to say we lack the framework - that then puts the onus on them to state what requirements they need and on us to furnish them. The end result is progress which is much better than doing nothing at all.

Alternatively, what would you suggest?

Result? EFCC? I don't know how EFCC was a result. We had ICPC already and the West said it's not enough, we need to open another office. In truth, we got debt relief in exchange then. So I'll agree with you that the back and forth yielded something.
But my point is if it is really sustainable to have kowtowing to the demands of the west to get "investments" as a development policy. I've not seen any country that has been built to a strong, virile economy based on that arrangement.
We're not developing our local economy is what I'm saying. We need to start developing our local economy on our own terms is what I'm saying.

Kukutente23:

Result? EFCC? I don't know how EFCC was a result. We had ICPC already and the West said it's not enough, we need to open another office. In truth, we got debt relief in exchange then. So I'll agree with you that the back and forth yielded something.
But my point is if it is really sustainable to have kowtowing to the demands of the west to get "investments" as a development policy. I've not seen any country that has been built to a strong, virile economy based on that arrangement.
We're not developing our local economy is what I'm saying. We need to start developing our local economy on our own terms is what I'm saying.

But on the whole, you are saying what Tinubu said: development on our own terms. So really, what else do you expect that he would have said at the UN General Assembly?

limeta:
Nigeria Africa do not need weak ass licker as leader right now
Tinubu did not raise dust with this speech but instead
towed the same line most Africa leaders have dare to utter over the years .
It now evidently clear that Tinubu is a place holder for the neon colonial masters namely US ,UK and France

The old saying you can't teach an old dog a new trick
The new Africa is too fast for oldies like Tinubu.

You forget Tinubu has an FBI dossier. They can expose him any time they wish. They got him by the balls so he better thread carefully!

pharmagba:
Succintly, Brilliantly and eloquently delivered.
Thank you Mr President.
I'm proud to be a Nigerian.

Nigeria shall be great again

Nigeria can never be great unless we divide this country (SW/SS) republic then the if una like make una kill una self that no concern us

SmartyPants:


But on the whole, you are saying what Tinubu said: development on our own terms. So really, what else do you expect that he would have said at the UN General Assembly?

That's not what he said. What he said is development based on support from the West because they are the cause of our troubles. For every trouble he highlighted, he also highlighted foreign complicity.
That's what I'm pointing out is simply a waste of time. The West have all the dossier. They know who is who. So such guilt-tripping hardly works with them as the example of EFCC I pointed out shows.

Kukutente23:

That's not what he said. What he said is development based on support from the West because they are the cause of our troubles. For every trouble he highlighted, he also highlighted foreign complicity.
That's what I'm pointing out is simply a waste of time. The West have all the dossier. They know who is who. So such guilt-tripping hardly works with them as the example of EFCC I pointed out shows.

Where is this right to development based on responsibility for our troubles mentioned in the speech? You are implying that he is asking for handouts as usual but that is not evidenced by anything I have seen in the speech.

Instead, it is clearly based on the approach of we are open to business but on our own terms, implying that existing exploitation should stop and incoming investment should be non-exploitative.

There was no demand for development as compensation for damage done. But if I've missed it, please highlight it.

SmartyPants:


Where is this right to development based on responsibility for our troubles mentioned in the speech? You are implying that he is asking for handouts as usual but that is not evidenced by anything I have seen in the speech.

Instead, it is clearly based on the approach of we are open to business but on our own terms, implying that existing exploitation should stop and incoming investment should be non-exploitative.

There was no demand for development as compensation for damage done. But if I've missed it, please highlight it.

But you read the speech na. I don't want to reproduce everything but each paragraph had an accusation for the West in it. Let me indulge so it won't be like I don't know what I'm saying.

This is my first address before the General Assembly. Permit me to say a few words on behalf of Nigeria, on behalf of Africa, regarding this year’s theme.

Many proclamations have been made, yet our troubles remain close at hand. Failures in good governance have hindered Africa. But broken promises, unfair treatment and outright exploitation from abroad have also exacted a heavy toll on our ability to progress.

Given this long history, if this year’s theme is to mean anything at all, it must mean something special and particular to Africa.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, nations gathered in an attempt to rebuild their war- torn societies. A new global system was born and this great body, the United Nations, was established as a symbol and protector of the aspirations and finest ideals of humankind.

Nations saw that it was in their own interests to help others exit the rubble and wasteland of war. Reliable and significant assistance allowed countries emaciated by war to grow into strong and productive societies.

The period was a highwater mark for trust in global institutions and the belief that humanity had learned the necessary lessons to move forward in global solidarity and harmony.

Today and for several decades, Africa has been asking for the same level of political commitment and devotion of resource that described the Marshall Plan.

We realize that underlying conditions and causes of the economic challenges facing today’s Africa are significantly different from those of post war Europe.

We are not asking for identical programs and actions. What we seek is an equally firm commitment to partnership. We seek enhanced international cooperation with African nations to achieve the 2030 agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.

There are five important points I want to highlight.

First, if this year’s theme is to have any impact at all, global institutions, other nations and their private sector actors must see African development as a priority, not just for Africa but in their interests as well.

Due to both longstanding internal and external factors, Nigeria’s and Africa’s economic structures have been skewed to impede development, industrial expansion, job creation, and the equitable distribution of wealth.

If Nigeria is to fulfil its duty to its people and the rest of Africa, we must create jobs and the belief in a better future for our people.

We must also lead by example.

To foster economic growth and investor confidence in Nigeria, I removed the costly and corrupt fuel subsidy while also discarding a noxious exchange rate system in my first days in office. Other growth and job oriented reforms are in the wings.

I am mindful of the transient hardship that reform can cause. However, it is necessary to go through this phase in order to establish a foundation for durable growth and investment to build the economy our people deserve.

We welcome partnerships with those who do not mind seeing Nigeria and Africa assume larger roles in the global community.

The question is not whether Nigeria is open for business. The question is how much of the world is truly open to doing business with Nigeria and Africa in an equal, mutually beneficial manner.

Direct investment in critical industries, opening their ports to a wider range and larger quantity of African exports and meaningful debt relief are important aspects of the cooperation we seek.

Second, we must affirm democratic governance as the best guarantor of the sovereign will and well-being of the people. Military coups are wrong, as is any tilted civilian political arrangement that perpetuates injustice.

The wave crossing parts of Africa does not demonstrate favour towards coups. It is a demand for solutions to perennial problems.

Regarding Niger, we are negotiating with the military leaders. As Chairman of ECOWAS, I seek to help re-establish democratic governance in a manner that addresses the political and economic challenges confronting that nation, including the violent extremists who seek to foment instability in our region. I extend a hand of friendship to all who genuinely support this mission.

This brings me to my third crucial point. Our entire region is locked in protracted battle against violent extremists. In the turmoil, a dark channel of inhumane commerce has formed. Along the route, everything is for sale. Men, women and children are seen as chattel.

Yet, thousands risk the Sahara’s hot sand and the Mediterranean’s cold depths in search of a better life. At the same time, mercenaries and extremists with their lethal weapons and vile ideologies invade our region from the north.

This harmful traffic undermines the peace and stability of an entire region. African nations will improve our economies so that our people do not risk their lives to sweep the floors and streets of other nations. We also shall devote ourselves to disbanding extremist groups on our turf.

Yet, to fully corral this threat, the international community must strengthen its commitment to arrest the flow of arms and violent people into West Africa.

The fourth important aspect of global trust and solidarity is to secure the continent’s mineral rich areas from pilfering and conflict. Many such areas have become catacombs of misery and exploitation. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered this for decades, despite the strong UN presence there. The world economy owes the DRC much but gives her very little.

The mayhem visited on resource rich areas does not respect national boundaries. Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, CAR, the list grows.

The problems also knocks Nigeria’s door.

Foreign entities abetted by local criminals who aspire to be petty warlords have drafted thousands of people into servitude to illegally mine gold and other resources. Billions of dollars meant to improve the nation now fuel violent enterprises. If left unchecked, they will threaten peace and place national security at grave risk.

Given the extent of this injustice and the high stakes involved, many Africans are asking whether this phenomenon is by accident or by design.

Member nations must reply by working with us to deter their firms and nationals from this 21st century pillage of the continent’s riches.

Fifth, climate change severely impacts Nigeria and Africa. Northern Nigeria is hounded by desert encroachment on once arable land. Our south is pounded by the rising tide of coastal flooding and erosion. In the middle, the rainy season brings floods that kill and displace multitudes.

As I lament deaths at home, I also lament the grave loss of life in Morocco and Libya. The Nigerian people are with you.

African nations will fight climate change but must do so on our own terms. To achieve the needed popular consensus, this campaign must accord with overall economic efforts.

In Nigeria, we shall build political consensus by highlighting remedial actions which also promote economic good. Projects such as a Green Wall to stop desert encroachment, halting the destruction of our forests by mass production and distribution of gas burning stoves, and providing employment in local water management and irrigation projects are examples of efforts that equally advance both economic and climate change objectives.

Continental efforts regarding climate change will register important victories if established economies were more forthcoming with public and private sector investment for Africa’s preferred initiatives.

Again, this would go far in demonstrating that global solidarity is real and working.

As I close, let me emphasize that Nigeria’s objectives accord with the guiding principles of this world body: peace, security, human rights and development.

In fundamental ways, nature has been kind to Africa, giving abundant land, resources and creative and industrious people. Yet, man has too often been unkind to his fellow man and this sad tendency has brought sustained hardship to Africa’s doorstep.

To keep faith with the tenets of this world body and the theme of this year’s Assembly, the poverty of nations must end. The pillage of one nation’s resources by the overreach of firms and people of stronger nations must end. The will of the people must be respected. This beauty, generous and forgiving planet must be protected.

As for Africa, we seek to be neither appendage nor patron. We do not wish to replace old shackles with new ones.

Instead, we hope to walk the rich African soil and live under the magnificent African sky free of the wrongs of the past and clear of their associated encumbrances. We desire a prosperous, vibrant democratic living space for our people.

To the rest of the world, I say walk with us as true friends and partners. Africa is not a problem to be avoided nor is it to be pitied. Africa is nothing less than the key to the world’s future.

E too long, I will read later

limeta:
Nigeria Africa do not need weak ass licker as leader right now
Tinubu did not raise dust with this speech but instead
towed the same line most Africa leaders have dare to utter over the years .
It now evidently clear that Tinubu is a place holder for the neon colonial masters namely US ,UK and France

The old saying you can't teach an old dog a new trick
The new Africa is too fast for oldies like Tinubu.

Can you read at all or comprehension is the problem?

BabaRamota1980:
Please, I am begging Nigerians, give this man an honest backing and clean support so that it can be better for all.

President Tinubu has plans to move Nigeria forward. We should lend hands and hearts to his administration so Nigeria can achieve and make us all proud.

Start with a street-to-street campaign, tell hungry Nigerians to support Tinubu when Tinubu's government does not add any value to people's lives, street boyz will kill you

pharmagba:
Succintly, Brilliantly and eloquently delivered.
Thank you Mr President.
I'm proud to be a Nigerian.

Nigeria shall be great again

AMEN, Nigeria shall be great again!