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TimeManager:
Nigeria, good people, great nation.


-Kiss the truth!

Yea, but why northerners no dey enter this kind list

Just thinking , if these people had been in this country would they have been allowed to go this far?

You no go see aboki names for this kan things... But they are one in terrorism 🤣🤣🤣

No wonder they don't want Nigeria to break 💔

Congratulations to all the four.

Maybe one day Americans will recognise in retrospect the achievements of President Tinubu when he lived in US.

Yorubanization by America. Here in upper iweka road, we no go gree.

Very true.

Proud of the ever consistent achievers, the great Omoluabis there, and also very proud of Eno Obong, Ijeoma and Butali. Forza Nigeria!

TimeManager:
Nigeria, good people, great nation.


-Kiss the truth!

Make dem check their certificates o, because some tribes in Nigeria are now known for certificate forgery!

Leave your doors unlocked for a week or borrow a Nigerian money to taste the Nigerian goodness.

TimeManager:
Nigeria, good people, great nation.


-Kiss the truth!

TimeManager:
Nigeria, good people, great nation.

-Kiss the truth!

The truth of developing other countries while ours remains a basket case of deprived basic services and utilities?

Is that not how Lagosians and Yorubas generally taunt Igbo people for claiming to be the developers of the state

anonimi:
David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.

The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.

He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world

Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.

Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.

With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.

When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.

The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.

Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest
I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.

Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.

Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?

Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?

That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’

Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.

Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!

This is not about being a Killjoy
Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.

His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.

Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.

Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.

Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?

The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.

While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.

For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

Congratulations to the recipients and Nigerians in general,more of these good news in 2025 in Jesus mighty name.

Omoawoke:
Congratulations to our brothers and sisters making us proud



Hahahaha

Yoruba people no dey do this kind thing before ooo , 🤣

Na ipob people provoke us reach this level…

It’s going to be a long season for them

You don't get it he was being sarcastic 🤣🤣.

EmperorCaesar:


OP, thanks for the bolded sections of your article. It made the whole task easier for us all. We could see at a glance, what could have taken us 50mins of thorough search.


Congrats to them and they should keep the flag flying.


To the most important part of the message, lets discuss the ethnic origin of the aforementioned individuals on that list.

There seem to be recurrent names of people from a particular region, Why would half of the entire list be concentrated in just one region of the country?

How biased can Biden be? Whats with the Yorubanization of even a random list of excellent Nigerians that was collated 10000 miles away from the country?

Baba werey 😝😝😂😂😂😂

Put these names on the ballot papers in an election, Nigerians will not vote for them, they prefer certificate forgers and criminally minded ones.

We go show okoro pepper until they understand the basics of mutual respect

Omoawoke:
Congratulations to our brothers and sisters making us proud



Hahahaha

Yoruba people no dey do this kind thing before ooo , 🤣

Na ipob people provoke us reach this level…

It’s going to be a long season for them

TimeManager:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/tinubu-congratulates-nigerian-engineers-scientists-on-making-bidens-honours-list/amp/

Most annoying thing is that you will never find a northerner on such list and they want to be ruling the country, how can Nigeria ever allow dullards in power

anonimi:
The truth of developing other countries while ours remains a basket case of deprived basic services and utilities?

Is that not how Lagosians and Yorubas generally taunt Igbo people for claiming to be the developers of the state

Tell me how Igbos are actually the developers of Lagos State! Moreover the people listed about are not claiming to have developed the US.
Igbos are the ones that started claiming that they developed Lagos and anywhere they go! So they deserve the taunting they are getting.

EyeCumInPeace:
Thank God one Northerner dey the list. No be only Boko Haram and Banditry dem sabi.

Who is the northerner?

Flexyup:
Yea, but why northerners no dey enter this kind list

Northerners hardly travel out reason you don't see their name often.

Na Yorubas for Nigeria travel pass and them read book pass other tribes

lamentor78:
Most annoying thing is that you will never find a northerner on such list and they want to be ruling the country, how can Nigeria ever allow dullards in power

Please educate me this name Azeez Butali is from where?

EmperorCaesar:


OP, thanks for the bolded sections of your article. It made the whole task easier for us all. We could see at a glance, what could have taken us 50mins of thorough search.


Congrats to them and they should keep the flag flying.


To the most important part of the message, lets discuss the ethnic origin of the aforementioned individuals on that list.

There seem to be recurrent names of people from a particular region, Why would half of the entire list be concentrated in just one region of the country?

How biased can Biden be? Whats with the Yorubanization of even a random list of excellent Nigerians that was collated 10000 miles away from the country?

why is your name not on the list?

or are you not yoruba?

thesicilian:
Those that have no tangible achievements of their own, not even in kindergarten, are here fighting over the tribes of the award recipients.

It is not a crime to celebrate people.Achievement is most important when you can recognize the person as your own....

Perhaps , you a sadist. ...

ehikwe22:
Who is the northerner?

The reason you don't see there name on the list has nothing to do with intelligence or being brilliant, people from the North don't travel they believe in Nigeria than any other tribe.

Thunderfayamods:
Please educate me this name Azeez Butali is from where?

Butali is Lagos-born and a graduate of UNILAG. His name sounds northern so should be ethnically from one of the sub-groups in the core north or middle-belt.

Shikena:
We go show okoro pepper until they understand the basics of mutual respect

No hiding place for person whey think say na them sabi yab pass..

EmperorCaesar:


OP, thanks for the bolded sections of your article. It made the whole task easier for us all. We could see at a glance, what could have taken us 50mins of thorough search.


Congrats to them and they should keep the flag flying.


To the most important part of the message, lets discuss the ethnic origin of the aforementioned individuals on that list.

There seem to be recurrent names of people from a particular region, Why would half of the entire list be concentrated in just one region of the country?

How biased can Biden be? Whats with the Yorubanization of even a random list of excellent Nigerians that was collated 10000 miles away from the country?

Don't try to justify the "Yorubanization" policy (favouritism/nepotism) in appointments back home with a society that rewards merit irrespective of the circumstances of one's birth.



Nigeria can do better!



Minorities in Nigeria are worse off as far as appointments are concerned and are often times overlooked as inconsequential no matter the efforts they put in in their chosen carriers.



The "WAZOBIA" slogan is a testament of how the minorities are oppressed and suppressed.



The Igbos are kicking against the system because the Hausa/Fulani and the Yorubas have teamed up to shortchange them in the scheme of things.



If they (the Igbos) are "carried along", they would become mute.



Who dey cry dey see o!






@hotseat

Low IQ rats invades the thread



Surprised?

If this country were to give honours, majority would have been riffraff , thugs and criminals.

It is well.