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NigeriaIsDoomed:
Giant of Africa
Most populous black nation on earth
Biggest GDP
Richest black country in the world
Most educated black in America and Europe
King of soccer
Most confident Africans



Na all these dey vex these black monkeys?
Just like feigning ignorance of the existence of a supernatural being but deep inside your heart the truth is deafening. Una wehdon o.....

Nowenuse:
I love the bolded part

It's so sad that these concentration camps still exist in Kenya till this day!

jaycent:
Which way na massai blood suckers

uzzolik:
abj

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Kibera dwellers una don run? Someone has volunteered with some pictures of Abuja here, make una come back. No be to revisit the same issue after we don flog una hands down.
Please I want see that una concentration camp and india extention again

uzzolik:
abuja

uzzolik:
abuja

jaycent:
Which way na massai blood suckers

Daejoyoung:
Here is from the Facebook page of Strive Musiyiwa( a Zimbabwean telecom entrepreneur) on Nigeria....


[b]The day I discovered the true wealth of Nigeria

__It's not all about oil!

When I first arrived in Nigeria to set up the country's first GSM mobile network, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), I had to serve as the company's interim CEO for about six months, until we appointed someone substantive. This meant I practically lived in Nigeria for most of that time. It was a remarkable experience, and one which will remain with me all my life. Nigeria is one of the most exciting countries in the world, and could be the next China before the turn of this century.

I just want to share with you one particular incident which led me to that conclusion: As many people know, today Nigeria has over 120m mobile phones users. To imagine that I made the first ever official GSM mobile call in Nigeria on 6th August 2001 seems almost unbelievable...

Our company Econet Wireless Nigeria was in a race with MTN Nigeria, the only other operator at the time, to meet a deadline set by the regulator for 8th of August. We beat the deadline and MTN by two days, and as Interim CEO, I had the privilege to call the regulator to tell him we were "Live"!

What a moment in my life! It's something I'll always cherish. I don't really care whether I own or don't own a mobile operator there today. My success will always be measured in terms of my small contribution in kick starting the largest mobile industry on the African continent, and it is Nigeria.

Several months before the launch deadline, I'd arrived with over 100 engineers and technicians, drawn mostly from Zimbabwe and South Africa. At the time, since Nigeria had been delayed by the military governments from acquiring GSM, it was one of the last markets without this new technology. President Obasanjo, who had just won the election two years earlier, wanted to change that and had issued three licenses, but one had been delayed.

This meant that when we started operations, Nigeria had no homegrown engineers or technicians with experience in GSM mobile technology. (Today it has more than Southern Africa combined!)

So whilst setting up the network to meet the deadline, we used expatriates from other African countries that already had GSM. We also began the process of recruiting Nigerian engineers and technicians who we would retrain for this exciting new industry to take over from the expatriate team, which wanted to do in the shortest time possible.

We had literally thousands of posts to fill.

In one instance, we placed newspaper adverts in all leading newspapers asking for people qualified in electronic engineering, at degree level, and with minimum five years relevant experience. I'll never forget the response. I came into the office to find sacks piled up to the ceiling full of applications!

"I only want to see the applications from people who meet our requirements, and not from chancers who aren't qualified," I complained.

"Sir, these are the ones we have vetted."

"What?! You mean there were more than this?"

"Thousands, sir."

Then I came up with an idea: "Why don't you separate for me, the most qualified academically. Set aside people with MBAs, and even PHDs."

A day later, a sack was delivered to my office. I was staggered!

There were thousands of people with qualifications in just this one discipline with MBAs and PHDs! Many had qualified in the best universities around the world. There were also GSM-qualified Nigerians working internationally, including in America and Europe, wanting to return home!

I was blown away by the qualifications. I thought to myself: "You can start almost any business or industry here. I wish investors would one day discover the wealth of this nation."

Whenever I hear people talk about the wealth of Nigeria in terms of oil, I shake my head to say: "You have no idea what you're talking about!"

The true wealth of Nigeria is its extraordinary human capital, and passion for education. Unleash that and no one can stop them![/b]


Taysermahiri, rvp2018, this is what I'm talking about. The system in Nigeria wasn't working, and the educational sector had nothing to write home about, there was a repressive military Government, but that didn't stop the Nigerians who loved education from going all around the world to get educated, and so when the opportunity came there were thousands of qualified people to take over the telecoms sector, if this wasn't the case maybe foreigners would be the ones dominating those jobs from that time, but there was no chance for that right from the beginning.

mtis:
what I see is a typical naija city full of mosques an churches

obaaderemi:
Nigerians don't blend in and take the back seat like our Kenyan brothers. We stand out!

TayserMahiri:
Lots of bananas waiting for them[/s]

mtis:
Nigeria: Power And Politics Of Hausa-Fulani - EDITORIAL (vanguard Nigeria)

A united Nigeria makes meaning to the Hausa-Fulani only when they are in control of the levers of power, writes Adewale Adeoye.

ANYONE who holds the view that the Hausa-Fulani political leaders are not in control of Nigeria s past, present and if possible, the future may need to re-examine their thinking. I also hold the strong view that the Hausa-Fulani leadership is the best organised and the most tactical of all the ruling power blocs in Nigeria, that is the Yoruba and the Igbo and of course, the minorities put together as a disjointed and never united bloc, always being used as puns in the game.

obaaderemi:
Nigerians don't blend in and take the back seat like our Kenyan brothers. We stand out!

Nowenuse:
And what is the meaning of this? One single Kikuyu family has ruled Kenya for decades.

We saw how Luos were being bullied, harassed and rigged out in this previous Kenyan election and how disastrous it was.

Kikuyus dominate everything in that your little India after the real Indians.

Hausa-fulanis may have a strong political power in Nigeria, but they are below when it comes to the economy. Since the return to democracy in 1999, they ruled only 6 years.
Entertainment/Media, Education, ICT, Manufacturing, Sports, and every other sector is dominated by other ethnic groups.

obaaderemi:
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