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iwaeda:
America is one man army. Trump and Elon Musk will cause another major catastrophe

They will be consumed by this. Is Musk not crying already? Very soon, Americans will join the cry

The best response is that of the colombian President, others are whining.

cococandy:
I guess everyone else is wrong. He’s the only person that knows what is right. Ode

The worst aspect is that he doesnt even understand how tariffs work. A person who came to office pledging to fight inflation is flinging tariffs around when clearly that will lead to a spike in prices and the impact will fall on American consumers.

Trump self everyone go collect 😂😂😂

I don't expect anybody to be fighting Trump with the way they talk down on America, so all of them are heavily depended on the U.S. Everybody will work this time, not busy taking money and be fighting unnecessary war.

saintokwuluora:
Trump has buckled everybody up

Righteousness2:
President Trump the great Nationalist is not joking at all at all!

One Undisputable fact about Trump is that He Loves His Nation and is not afraid to take bold courageous decisions to put his Nation First before Forming helper of the world while your people are in tears.

STFU you eddddiot..... He terrified Israel 25%

At least now we know we have a world leader.


You don't think a world leader will align the whole world eventually under it?

All of you thinking China this China that. Watch as China falls in line. Everyone will fall in line.

princepee:
what Trump is doing might hurt American so bad.
No Man is an island.
A tree can never make a forest.
America needs order countries too

USA don't understand what is about to befall them. Notable scientists and researchers in the US are mostly Europeans. EU has the human capability to built a dominant states. As I see it, if Trump continues with this reckless behaviour he might give China the edge they have been dieing for for years.

princepee:
what Trump is doing might hurt American so bad.
No Man is an island.
A tree can never make a forest.
America needs order countries too

But u have been a lake that is becoming to stink as a country

:-Xy

Righteousness2:
President Trump the great Nationalist is not joking at all at all!

One Undisputable fact about Trump is that He Loves His Nation and is not afraid to take bold courageous decisions to put his Nation First before Forming helper of the world while your people are in tears.

Americans will suffer more. It's America against the world and you are praising him? I've always known you to be very dumb, I not not surprised that you are praising him. Na Americans go hear am. Try borrow sense small bros

LordBiden:
Instead of him focusing on how to ease cost of living in the USA by enacting policies that will bring down prices of goods,, he is busy fighting nonsensical trade war.

He should brace up for retaliations from eu countries and china since he wants to be stupid.

American farmers will pay for this.

You don't think if he get his way and everyone pay tax to the u.s of some sought thir economy will sky rocket ab

Make una de play. Local collect tax, state collect, federal collect, globe go still collect. America is sitting on everything. You owe them. Consider them your new ceaser. You know what bible said about them. Give to them what belongs to them.

dettolgel:
USA don't understand what is about to befall them. Notable scientists and researchers in the US are mostly Europeans. EU has the human capability to built a dominant states. As I see it, if Trump continues with this reckless behaviour he might give China the edge they have been dieing for for years.

China has already gotten the edge.

It's too late already.

DeepSight:
The worst aspect is that he doesnt even understand how tariffs work. A person who came to office pledging to fight inflation is flinging tariffs around when clearly that will lead to a spike in prices and the impact will fall on American consumers.

Him and his followers are daft

cococandy:
I guess everyone else is wrong. He’s the only person that knows what is right. Ode

Don't you think that the zero reaction from Tinubu or any African leader makes us blacks the real odes in this matter?

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.

Hmm! only one county coughed, other countries of the world are screaming.
Which other country in the world can have this kind of effect?
If this is not greatness, then tell me what is it?

Righteousness2:
President Trump the great Nationalist is not joking at all at all!

One Undisputable fact about Trump is that He Loves His Nation and is not afraid to take bold courageous decisions to put his Nation First before Forming helper of the world while your people are in tears.

The man has just wrecked the economy and you're praising his buffoonery?

Strong leadership won't make 1 + 1= 3.

A bad policy is a bad policy and it's worse when it's in the hand a strongheaded leader. Nigerians went through the grinder for 8 years under Buhari.

Trump is far worse!

fergie001:
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They exposed their economy to US and now regretting it. Iran, China and Russia will be mocking them now. They just got slammed with coded US economic sanctions!

Nigeria trade with US had been declining over the years and that's what helped us. We had shifted over to EU, India and China. President Buhari should actually be praised for this wise strategy.

That’s actually the problem. They are all targeting American farmers while Trump is asking “ what happened to American manufacturing”?

Until they are willing to talk about American workers who av lost their job to China especially, this will continue for another 4 years .

Go Trump.

cococandy:
Him and his followers are daft

Do you suppose that they are more OR less daft than we who are primitive tribesmen on the African continent, that can't fix our countries after over six decades of independence?
How did we compare with Asian countries in 1960

anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

hypocrisy

Ernchibyke:
Pls I need clarification
How can a country that slams upto a 50% tariff on US imported goods be crying fowl that the US retaliated by imposing half(25%) of what those countries slammed on them.

Pls economist help

Every government worldwide is caring for her peoples. Nigeria should do same. Nigeria politician and civil servants should stop stealing the nigeria dollars to the white man country. Na your own be your own. Even the white men dem get colour! Love your own , build your own!

unclejb2:
Trump is prepared to fight the whole world to protect his country

you are very correct, our leaders are doing the opposite

DeepSight:
The worst aspect is that he doesnt even understand how tariffs work. A person who came to office pledging to fight inflation is flinging tariffs around when clearly that will lead to a spike in prices and the impact will fall on American consumers.

his problem is he has lived a life without consequences for cheating people

as a real estate guy he regularly stiffed and cheated contractors.

the contractors were much smaller than him, and did not have the resources for a sustained fight in the courts

trump is taking that attitude, a win lose attitude to the world stage - forgetting that the us is not the only game in town

iwaeda:
America is one man army. Trump and Elon Musk will cause another major catastrophe

Am still looking for Nigeria comment

RichBoy247:
Take your drugs. Can one country go to trade war with all the countries of the world and win? Use your senses once in a while

you get mind to reply the greatest illiterate on naira land and a fake pastor

Ernchibyke:
Pls I need clarification
How can a country that slams upto a 50% tariff on US imported goods be crying fowl that the US retaliated by imposing half(25%) of what those countries slammed on them.

Pls economist help

Trump generated his figures randomly. No country has tarriffs up to 50%. He even placed tarriffs on an island that is inhabited by no human being only sea gulls. In another case, he tarriffed the island of Diego Garcia. That island only contains a military base shared both by the US and Britain. It makes no sense!

GloriousGbola:
his problem is he has lived a life without consequences for cheating people

as a real estate guy he regularly stiffed and cheated contractors.

the contractors were much smaller than him, and did not have the resources for a sustained fight in the courts

trump is taking that attitude, a win lose attitude to the world stage - forgetting that the us is not the only game in town

Its just terrible. What sickens me most is watching people swoon and masturbate over him as though he is the best thing since sliced bread. It annoys me more when black people do this, because they of all people should be sensitive to his racism. It annoys me most when Nigerians do this, because they of all people should have a clue that he will regard them as sub human.

When the only sub human person in the room is the perverse con artist himself.

Righteousness2:
President Trump the great Nationalist is not joking at all at all!

One Undisputable fact about Trump is that He Loves His Nation and is not afraid to take bold courageous decisions to put his Nation First before Forming helper of the world while your people are in tears.

Robbish
Why not also include what Israel said on the tariffs?
The useless Zionist freeloading nation, always looking for FOC awuf on everything from America

LordBiden:
Instead of him focusing on how to ease cost of living in the USA by enacting policies that will bring down prices of goods,, he is busy fighting nonsensical trade war.

He should brace up for retaliations from eu countries and china since he wants to be stupid.

American farmers will pay for this.

. can't countries sell there goods without tariffs?