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Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Rantingpiglets: 7:21pm On May 03, 2024
It's your LAGOS -IBADAN media that killed TINAPA.

You opened Lagos FTZ and it's a shambolic disaster ..

Jealous and envious people .. angry


ElSudani:
The money he wasted on Tinapa if spent on Agriculture would have moved Nigeria forward a tiny bit.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Blizzy9ja: 7:21pm On May 03, 2024
Obviously...

Let watch the devilish children of corn defend rubbish
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Rantingpiglets: 7:21pm On May 03, 2024
Confirmed shithole. grin


100millionGoal:
He wasn't the president of Nigeria

Hausa and Yoruba destroyed this country.

Nigeria is literally a SHITHOLE
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Volksfuhrer(m):
Duke! We are tired of the public rants and platitudes: “We have to manage what we have; we have to be productive…” bla bla bla. Tell us what you think is the better way forward?
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by LordIsaac(m): 7:26pm On May 03, 2024
God bless Donald Duke…God bless Jagaban…God bless Nigeria!
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Teejaney88(m): 7:28pm On May 03, 2024
Donald Duke my man...
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by ElSudani: 8:08pm On May 03, 2024
Rantingpiglets:
It's your LAGOS -IBADAN media that killed TINAPA.

You opened Lagos FTZ and it's a shambolic disaster ..

Jealous and envious people .. angry
You probably don't know many companies are currently operating at Lekki Free Trade Zone.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Rantingpiglets: 8:13pm On May 03, 2024
I dare you to list them..

So that you will be exposed totally as a certified fraudulent liar and worthless Propagandists..

You think we dey inside bush abi? Like your colleagues in Oshogbo or IBADAN?


ElSudani:
You probably don't know many companies are currently operating at Lekki Free Trade Zone.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by BeardedMeat(m): 8:34pm On May 03, 2024
raumdeuter:
What date exactly did it become a failed state
The day you stole his picture and made it Thinubus childhood pictures.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by ElSudani: 8:41pm On May 03, 2024
Rantingpiglets:
I dare you to list them..

So that you will be exposed totally as a certified fraudulent liar and worthless Propagandists..

You think we dey inside bush abi? Like your colleagues in Oshogbo or IBADAN?
A simple Google search will cure your ignorance. I wonder what you guys do with your phones despite having so much information at your fingertips. Stop wasting your data on porn.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5SweFfxRM?feature=shared

Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by onumadu: 8:49pm On May 03, 2024
Just watch as corn-fed attack dogs descend on him for speaking the truth.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Rantingpiglets: 8:54pm On May 03, 2024
Name the companies..

The Propaganda is worthless... Name the companies.

It's not by outdated sources and Propaganda videos

What are the companies and their operations .

Propagandist and failures..


ElSudani:
A simple Google search will cure your ignorance. I wonder what you guys do with your phones despite having so much information at your fingertips. Stop wasting your data on porn.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G5SweFfxRM?feature=shared
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Emmabyte: 8:55pm On May 03, 2024
What MNK saw and said many years ago that is what this one is seeing now . God please make I see my own national cake collect before the official breakup of the most useless country
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by ElSudani: 8:57pm On May 03, 2024
Rantingpiglets:
Name the companies..

The Propaganda is worthless... Name the companies.

It's not by outdated sources and Propaganda videos

What are the companies and their operations .

Propagandist and failures..
I should name the companies because you are blind and you can't possibly see the video I posted?
You are free to enjoy your delusions. LFT is quietly growing to become one of the largest industrial zones in the whole of Africa.
Stay there and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

https://lfzdc.org/enterprise-in-the-zone/
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by ALLNIGERIANSMAD(m): 9:01pm On May 03, 2024
Prince2324:
Southwest will not like this
who told you, this is reality steering at us in the face
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Ensa777(f): 9:44pm On May 03, 2024
heklcoon:
Who remember how APC stole this Donald Duke's picture and used it as Tinubu's childhood picture and even went further to make a whole documentary with the picture on TVC. cheesy

Till date not a single apology from president and his people grin banana republik ooo
Imagine ugly Tinubu using Donald Duke pic who won most handsome gov alongside OUK then grin.
Nawaooo
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Splashme: 10:27pm On May 03, 2024
Let it go on record that these two ancient men destroyed Nigeria

Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by idahme(m): 10:30pm On May 03, 2024
DeLaRue:
What did he do as Governor to make Nigeria produce more.

It's easy to make speeches.

His white elephant Tinapa project proves that he wasn't any better.

10 years later, the finances of Cross River state has not recovered from his mismanagement.
Una no dey Eva learn, if you know what comprehension is and how it is applied you won't be type this. Start reading to understand rather than reading to respond, if you choose the later comprehension will be difficult for you.

Millions of people like you is the reason Nigeria won't progress because instead of taking the merits of a constructive criticism you will run to defend your failure with another failure grin. Failure indeed loves company grin, makenuna get sense small na na beg I dey beg una.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Reflect7: 10:38pm On May 03, 2024
MAYBE THEY'VE REFUSED HIM CONTRACT.

YOU WILL ALWAYS SEE HIM IN ABUJA HOTELS CARRYING BRIEFCASE AROUND.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Etnot(m): 10:45pm On May 03, 2024
Jobless man, when buhari dey destroy the country were him been dey
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by CrossRhodes: 10:45pm On May 03, 2024
Masterstroke4:
Nigeria In Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke.

Mr. Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River State, has noted that Nigeria is technically a failed state, as it cannot meet the basic expectations of its citizens, which according to him, is the hallmark of a failed nation.

Mr. Duke said this while delivering his opening remarks as chairman of the occasion during the Prince Emeka Obasi Inaugural Memorial Lecture held on Thursday at the Muson Centre Onikan Lagos, with the theme, ‘If This Giant Must Walk; Manifesto for a New Nigeria.’

He noted that Nigeria has been moving backwards since the 1970s, while remarking that the question is not whether the country will walk, but whether it’s walking backwards of forward.

“Between 1979 and 1983 when Shehu Shagari was president, Nigeria’s annual budget hovered around $25bn. Our population was about 80 million to 90 million at the time. That was over 40 years ago. Today, our population as they say is over 200 million, but our annual budget is $19bn,” he said.

“I said this to bring into context where we are as a people. It’s not not for Nigeria to walk, it’s how are you walking? Are you moonwalking or are you walking forward? Moonwalking is what we’ve been doing for the last 40 years. We’ve been moving backwards. So, you can now put into context the pressure if the annual budget of our nation is $19bn 40 years after it was $25bn and the population has more than doubled. Then you can understand the challenges we’re facing, whether it’s banditry, or farmers herders clashes and everything in-between. The fact is that there are more people sharing smaller resources. We have not grown.”

Mr. Duke argued that growth is not about adding zeros to the currency, and presenting budgets that run into trillions, which he said is mere deception. According to him, the country is simply living a lie.

“You can put all the zeros behind the currency, but we’re deceiving ourselves because we’re living a lie. Recently, treasury bills were sold at about 22 percent in dollars. Where in the world will you get 22 percent under 12 months? So, they now turned around to say it was oversubscribed by 245 percent. Of course, It would be oversubscribed, but at the end of the day, can you pay back? What are you doing with the money that will generate 22 percent to enable you pay back in 12 months? He wondered.

“So, you could see a nation that is walking itself into a trap with eyes wild open. What are the policies that would generate growth? You are fighting inflation, it’s good to fight inflation, but which is more important? Inflation or growth? You can’t get a loan from the bank for less than 35 percent. That’s enemical to growth to start with. Then, you are micromanaging the exchange rate, yet you are not producing. If you are going to import everything as we do, and there are those very sexy economists that would say, let’s have marked forces. For you to have marked forces, there must be some equity.

“You can’t have an open, competitive system with countries whose economies are much stronger than yours. It doesn’t work that way. In life, water finds its level. We have to manage what we have; we have to be productive. In the 70s and early 80s, we had some level of competition. We had industries that were trying to thrive, but today we are importing toothpick. So, it’s an economy that’s not productive, yet it wants to reign in on its foreign exchange. We’re still living as if everything is okay. We’re are sending our children at the age of nine to school abroad, then you go to London for medical check when your eye is hurting. It’s a tough one.”

The former governor noted that contrary to the popular belief, Nigeria has one of the smallest economies in Africa despite being the most populous on the continent.

“We turn around and say we’re the largest economy in Africa. That’s a lie. If you are 200 million people, and you are producing almost nothing, you can be big in absolute terms, but if you take it per capita, you are one of the least economies in Africa, and that’s the truth. So, we have to be real. We have the potential to be one of the greatest nations on earth, but it remains a potential if you don’t take it to actuality,” he said.

“We have to recaliberate our thinking. We can’t go on this way. We’re are a failed state, that’s the truth. Failed state doesn’t mean that you can’t exist any longer. Somalia is still existing, but when you fail to provide the basic expectations of your people, you are technically a failed state. Which sector have we not failed in? Is it education? Is it healthcare?
Is it infrastructure ?”
The unfortunate zombies are coming to call him IPOB and hater of nigeria
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by ebufa: 10:47pm On May 03, 2024
Prince2324:
Southwest will not like this
I wonder what the agbado exponents will do, when the bottom finally falls of the Lugard contraption of strange bedfellows..You despise a particular people yet you are very very unwilling to allow them go and be on their own! In fact you are willing to fight for them to remain in your warm and odoriferous embrace! make it make meaning pleaasee!!
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Xiaohei(m): 2:33am On May 04, 2024
thesicilian:
Just like the Tinapa Resort he built for over half a billion dollars
I’d be nice for you to read up on Tinapa and why it failed.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Xiaohei(m): 2:42am On May 04, 2024
Reflect7:
MAYBE THEY'VE REFUSED HIM CONTRACT.

YOU WILL ALWAYS SEE HIM IN ABUJA HOTELS CARRYING BRIEFCASE AROUND.
Una mumu no go ever end for this country. Truly Nigeria may never rise with people like you. Does Donald look like a poor man to you? Nawa ooo!
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Ilekokonit: 3:31am On May 04, 2024
Cindypresh:
Well, he didn't lie

Nigerians have never had it this bad...this tinubu seems to be a plague
Talking of Tinubu, Is it possible for a corrupt evil man to become good huh??
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Dedeity: 3:31am On May 04, 2024
ElSudani:
The money he wasted on Tinapa if spent on Agriculture would have moved Nigeria forward a tiny bit.
Shut up mumu man. Duke was the best governor between 1999 to 2007
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Ilekokonit: 3:40am On May 04, 2024
baliyubla:
Watch how those who stole Dukes pics to pass off as their coke lord come for him
Bola Tinubu's only certificate is that he is a certified criminal to the core. Even the Aroloya primary school he claimed to have attended does not exist.

This is what we get when 95% of Nigerians worship money. Now the s.hit has hit the fan and we are all watching helplessly as the drug lord steals Nigeria blind by the second and sells Nigeria to himself through bogus contracts to cronies including his super corrupt Lebanese business associate Gilbert Chagoury who helped Abacha Loot billions of dollars.
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Splashme: 6:39am On May 04, 2024
When a thief is your president ...
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Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Splashme: 6:57am On May 04, 2024
thesicilian:
Just like the Tinapa Resort he built for over half a billion dollars
Donald Duke was the best governor of his time
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Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Splashme: 10:15am On May 04, 2024
Ilekokonit:
Talking of Tinubu, Is it possible for a corrupt evil man to become good huh??
Never
Re: Nigeria Is Now Effectively A Failed State – Donald Duke. by Ttipsy(f): 10:35am On May 04, 2024
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