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TheBizGenius:
Oga, this is what you said, "How about the professors that still cap anyhow, example Soludo".

There are 2 things in that place describing him;
1. Professor.
2. Cap.

You used professor instead of people to lend weight to your allusion that brilliance does not solve the issue of capping. Don't be dodgy or change the premise of your statement.

My apology wasn't to validate your statement.

I apologized to show that I would not have bothered to comment on your comment if I had known your entire narrative was about how he talks or the state of one hospital a governor built. That issue is too miniscule for me to wrap my mind around. Sorry.

Cap in our local speech means "talk".
I used professor because bearing that title, they should know better. But the name mentioned portrayed something different.

In conclusion, go for understanding. It is not by multitude of words.

chipet67:
Cap in our local speech means "talk".
I used professor because bearing that title, they should know better. But the name mentioned portrayed something different.

In conclusion, go for understanding. It is not by multitude of words.

Heheheheheh.

Obviously, you have fallen for the "halo effect".

It's a human psychological bias that makes you assume that someone with proficiency in one field would have competence in a totally unrelated field.

It's how people take matters of marriage or loss in business to their pastors for counseling. Or billionaires talk about societal issues. Or actors talk about politics.

It's a dumb thing to do but we all fall for it. It's understandable. It's human of you and I.

He is a professor of economics. Ces finis. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't expect more from him. Simple.

TheBizGenius:
Heheheheheh.

Obviously, you have fallen for the halo effect.

It's a human psychological bias that makes you assume that someone with proficiency in one field would have competence in a totally unrelated field.

It's how people take matters of marriage or loss in business to their pastors for counseling. Or billionaires talking about societal issues. Or actors talking about politics.

It's a dumb thing to do but we all fall for it. It's understandable. It's human of you and I.

He is a professor of economics. Ces finis. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't expect more from him. Simple.

Guarding your utterances is not a field. It is common sense. Now you have impliedly agreed with me that your client talks anyhow, BECAUSE HE WASN'T TRAINED TO.
No one is trained to have common sense while talking, it is COMMON.

Duplex90:
well peller never scammed his fans disguised as ngo. Its 2yrs already what has happened to all the millions vdm stole

Well peller humiliated a bunch of silly masters degree holders.

As for vdm, I don't know about millions he stole ( not in the public domain), but he has done well in terms of contributing to people's social welfare in the country and beyond.

blowjohn:
Well peller humiliated a bunch of silly masters degree holders.

As for vdm, I don't know about millions he stole ( not in the public domain), but he has done well in terms of contributing to people's social welfare in the country and beyond.

same ngo scam. Rob over 400m use 2m of it to do boreholes for rinsing purpose.

Good only professionals should talk on their field, Nigeria should emulate this, only pharmacist should sell drugs, only lawyers should talk about law etc

chipet67:
Guarding your utterances is not a field. It is common sense. Now you have impliedly agreed with me that your client talks anyhow, BECAUSE HE WASN'T TRAINED TO.
No one is trained to have common sense while talking, it is COMMON.

Heheheheheh.

Unfortunately, what you call common sense can be broken into different courses and mastered appropriately rather than learned by interactions and background and instinctively used as the average African man does.

This is what the law against influencers will do. It will force us as a society to stop relying on assumed knowledge that we call common sense and adopt a more technical approach to learning the rudiments of topical issues which is what we need to move forward as a society.

But I understand you better now.

TheBizGenius:
Heheheheheh.

Unfortunately, what you call common sense can be broken into different courses and mastered appropriately rather than learned by interactions and background and instinctively used as the average African man does.

This is what the law against influencers will do. It will force us as a society to stop relying on assumed knowledge that we call common sense and adopt a more technical approach to learning the rudiments of topical issues which is what we need to move forward as a society.

But I understand you better now.

Make it a course and make Soludo your student then.

[quote author=babyboy4every1 post=137267644][/quote]And you think those people he fought are not linked to the government of today ?


Maybe you’re using the template of a working society to look at Nigeria… in a working society, does the government negotiate with terrorist ?

go and sit down

MICHEALADEX:
Always remember you're not invisible on social media.

That's a candid advice

which project

abc115:
Don't mind Peter Obi and his Obidients movement, they deceive you online but romance the laudable projects of President Bola Tinubu offline

UkoAnnang:


Good one from China

Here illiterates are acclaim influencers

Even known gaay noodle sellers who have their private parts all over the internet

TheBizGenius:
Thanks for your kind words.

Concerning that Lee Kuan Yew's book, i bought it because of Pastor Sam Adeyemi but I never read it.

I thought about the enormity of work needed to execute it and I knew that Nigeria, as a society, wasn't ready for it.

To burden myself with the knowledge of something that deeply true yet not have the power to execute it would have run me mad. Or become a society change crusader anyway.

But your intelligence is something I respect.

I feel nairaland should have a small quarterly segment where like-minds can just meet to chat to share ideas and insights. One never knows what serendipity will bring.

@TheBizGenius

How's it going? Brilliant feedback.

You have to read that book at least once or maybe if you can find a book summary of the book to motivate you to read the full original book. Sam Adeyemi is indeed a good reader. That's one thing I like about him. I'm NOT surprised that folks who are NOT even of his faith have said they enjoy listening to his talks and speeches as he tries to connect events in relation to cause and effects.

Lee Kuan Yew used a lot of the developmental principles used by the iconic Chief J. Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, to develop the Old Western region from the early 1950s leading right up to the establishment by Awolowo of industrial estates in Ikeja, Ilupeju Industrial Estate, Iganmu Industrial Estate, Oluyole Industrial Estate, etc, the FIRST EVER TV station in Nigeria, the Cocoa House highrise building in Ibadan the Western House highrise building on Lagos Island, etc. If the politicians had been allowed by the military coupists to remain in charge and allowed to correct themselves and their mistakes through self-awareness or being voted out of power, Awolowo and members of his Action Group Party would have advanced beyond what they did. Awo was ahead of his time and Singapore was way poorer than the Western region back in the 1960s when they had to break away from their initial union with Malaysia.

I read the over 800-page book (which lies in my home library) twice back in the early 2000s and took down notes as I read it. There's even an entry on what Lee Kuan Yew thinks about Nigeria, her politics and politicians of the 1960s since he was right in Nigeria for the Common Wealth Heads of Government meeting in Lagos, Nigeria when the 1966 coup took place.

The global bestseller book by Lee Kuan Yew is awesome as it shows that with intentionality in a multiethnic country such as Singapore with 80% of the population being of Chinese descent, any country can develop into an advanced country economically and militarily. China, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, the Scandinavian countries, etc, have done it and even Rwanda is getting some things right.

AlphaTaikun:
@TheBizGenius

How's it going? Brilliant feedback.

You have to read that book at least once or maybe if you can find a book summary of the book to motivate you to read the full original book. Sam Adeyemi is indeed a good reader. That's one thing I like about him. I'm NOT surprised that folks who are NOT even of his faith have said they enjoy listening to his talks and speeches as he tries to connect events in relation to cause and effects.

[i]Lee Kuan Yew used a lot of the developmental principles used by the iconic Chief J. Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, to develop the Old Western region from the early 1950s leading right up to the establishment by Awolowo of industrial estates in Ikeja, Ilupeju Industrial Estate, Iganmu Industrial Estate, Oluyole Industrial Estate, etc, the FIRST EVER TV station in Nigeria, the Cocoa House highrise building in Ibadan the Western House highrise building on Lagos Island, etc. If the politicians had been allowed by the military coupists to remain in charge and allowed to correct themselves and their mistakes through self-awareness or being voted out of power, Awolowo and members of his Action Group Party would have advanced beyond what they did. Awo was ahead of his time and Singapore was way poorer than the Western region back in the 1960s when they had to break away from their initial union with Malaysia.

I read the over 800-page book (which lies in my home library) twice back in the early 2000s and took down notes as I read it. There's even an entry on what Lee Kuan Yew thinks about Nigeria, her politics and politicians of the 1960s since he was right in Nigeria for the Common Wealth Heads of Government meeting in Lagos, Nigeria when the 1966 coup took place.

The global bestseller book by Lee Kuan Yew is awesome as it shows that with intentionality in a multiethnic country such as Singapore with 80% of the population being of Chinese descent, any country can develop into an advanced country economically and militarily. China, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, the Scandinavian countries, etc, have done it and even Rwanda is getting some things right.

Hmmmm.

Firstly, thank you for the compliment.

I know I will not read it, not even the summary.

800 pages would be 2 days reading for me but that's on business and management books, but most definitely not societal development books.

I easily get triggered to implement what I learn; it's very difficult for me not to. That's why I have many projects/products I start and run.

But the 3 projects I have started and couldn't sustain have been for the community and I have realized that until you have positional power in Africa, people you have touched revert back to the societal level.

So, maybe because of this conversation I might make the "mistake" of looking for it secretly but I am hoping I won't.

TheBizGenius:
Hmmmm.

Firstly, thank you for the compliment.

I know I will not read it, not even the summary.

800 pages would be 2 days reading for me but that's on business and management books, but most definitely not societal development books.

I easily get triggered to implement what I learn; it's very difficult for me not to. That's why I have many projects/products I start and run.

But the 3 projects I have started and couldn't sustain have been for the community and I have realized that until you have positional power in Africa, people you have touched revert back to the societal level.

So, maybe because of this conversation I might make the "mistake" of looking for it secretly but I am hoping I won't.

Your last paragraph about "making the mistake of looking for it" cracked me up right here.

Whoa! 2 days to read 800 pages. You're a very fast reader. Although it took me 1 weekend to really finish reader that book because I was less busy then on a Saturday and Sunday so I had the full days to read and take some notes notes from the book.


I indeed have a BETTER understanding now of what you meant by NOT wanting to read the book as it would trigger you to start implementing things which you couldn't SUSTAIN for the community (or get finished). For me though, the book gave me deep insights (and the confidence that massive mountains can be moved and unbendable steel can be bent) that development can be achieved in one's personal life FIRST by being brutally HONEST with oneself and this triggers further down into building your personal company into a world-class firm or international business and then the society benefits from your wealthy status through your innovative companies in different fields of endevor such as the Forbes-listed USD billionaires Aliko Dangote, Otunba Mike Adenuga, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates in NY who wrote the book which deals with country cycles "The Changing World Order," Larry Elisson, Bill Gates and Elon Musk,etc, are ALL doing right NOW. The nauseating belief or urban legend of the average person on the street level that Africans CANNOT get out of the developmental rut and underachieving status MOST Africans have found themselves in have been proven WRONG by the Asian Tiger countries and many more.

But I really get what you meant in your post right ABOVE.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

AlphaTaikun:
Your last paragraph about "making the mistake of looking for it" cracked me up right here.

Whoa! 2 days to read 800 pages. You're a very fast reader. Although it took me 1 weekend to really finish reader that book because I was less busy then on a Saturday and Sunday so I had the full days to read and take some notes notes from the book.


I indeed have a BETTER understanding now of what you meant by NOT wanting to read the book as it would trigger you to start implementing things which you couldn't SUSTAIN for the community (or get finished). For me though, the book gave me deep insights (and the confidence that massive mountains can be moved and unbendable steel can be bent) that development can be achieved in one's personal life FIRST by being brutally HONEST with oneself and this triggers further down into building your personal company into a world-class firm or international business and then the society benefits from your wealthy status through your innovative companies in different fields of endevor such as the Forbes-listed USD billionaires Aliko Dangote, Otunba Mike Adenuga, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates in NY who wrote the book which deals with country cycles "The Changing World Order," Larry Elisson, Bill Gates and Elon Musk,etc, are ALL doing right NOW. The nauseating belief or urban legend of the average person on the street level that Africans CANNOT get out of the developmental rut and underachieving status MOST Africans have found themselves in have been proven WRONG by the Asian Tiger countries and many more.

But I really get what you meant in your post right ABOVE.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

And I am also laughing here.

I understand your passion for societal development and I applaud it.

But like I said, that's not for me. Anymore!!!

The more we talk, the more you remind me of who I used to be and who I chose to stop being.

And, again, have a day as brilliant as your mind.

omenka:
So when a "society" (i know you meant government and not society) is able to provide for its people, they have the right to stifle freedom of expression or any other civil liberties for that matter.

I have often said it that those of you around here who pretend to have a passion for democratic norms would make the most repressive and authoritarian supporting group of people. You only say the things you say because your candidate lost the election.

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I've missed you so much
please don't block me again 😭😭😭😭