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Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 1:04pm On Dec 24, 2020
bro4u:

You think insulting people will get them to buy your idea or even patronize you as a travel guide/agency? Think again.

I'm not here to convince anyone of anything. If you're going to listen to an ignorant and stupid lowlife scumbag who attacked me for no reason whatsoever, go right ahead.

Jamaica does not need ignorant twerps on Nairaland to promote her nation to Nigerian tourists. Those planes to Jamaica will be filled with or without your 'Nairaland consent', so get off your blasted high horse based on nothing.

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Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 12:54pm On Dec 24, 2020
OreMI22:


Guilty conscience is worrying you. I don't doubt that Jamaica and Haiti have beautiful beaches. You compared Jamaican city to Dubai and I decided to take a look at how Jamaican cities look. So stop acting like I picked pictures out of the moon. Google is your friend. So, do your search of Jamaican towns and cities and see if i changed anything below. While you are at it, also do another search for UAE towns and cities. Then come back and ask me why a called you a deceitful serpent that you truly are. You are the type that wants the picture of Abuja Hilton hotel to represent Nigeria, while the overwhelming majority of images on Nigeria will be based on the reality of Nigerians which isn't Abuja Hilton hotel.

By the way, nobody said Africa should not be connected to the Caribbean. I just expressed my well-informed opinion that a huge majority of Air Peace passengers on any international route will be NIGERIANS! At least in the next 5 - 10 years or so. As it builds an international reputation for punctuality, safety etc to attract foreign clientele like the Ethiopian airline did in the last 10 years. Therefore, it should target routes and countries that Nigerians visit a lot. Not creating new routes for the declining number of Nigerians who can afford vacations abroad. An average Boeing 777 seats between 400 - 500 passengers. Where will these people come from to fly daily or 3Xtimes weekly to Jamaica? In any case, those wealthy Nigerians will not just be too few to sustain a 3 days/week flight between Lagos and Jamaica on a B777. The so-called rich Nigerians will quickly fly British Airways or Lufthansa to Jamaica via London or Frankfurt. So what's the point of making an entire plan hoping on "wealthy Nigerians"??

Arik used to fly London and New York routes. It succeeded but overbooking of flights and poor management & poor customer services helped to deny them of Nigerian passengers who reverted to European airlines. The same fate happened to Air Jamaica as its poor management caused them to lose all their American and European passengers. The Europeans or Americans themselves are highly unlikely to fly on Air Peace even when its fares are cheaper. It takes a while to build a great reputation on international flights. But, i'm sure Air Peace will get there with their determination not to repeat the mistakes and cutting of corners in aircraft maintenance that ruined earlier Nigerian airlines.

Listen up, you lousy little wretch, I haven't the slightest fcking clue what your problem is with anything I posted. It is none of your godamn business where Air Peace decides to fly. They owe you no explanation.

Scouring the web to find negative images of Jamaica just to prove you're a slave to Arabs is deplorable and sickening. I don't need online pics. I have toured Jamaica, and Montego Bay is far more beautiful, cleaner, and developed than Calabar. It is not even close. In Jamaica there is nothing like open gutter. Or sand on the streets. Dubai has more skyscrapers. But life is not about skyscrapers. You will learn that when you finally afford to visit Jamaica and the Caribbean.

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Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 12:43pm On Dec 24, 2020
bro4u:

Nigeria get tourists? Abegii

What do you call the thousands of Nigerians who travel overseas on holiday every month, including to Dubai, UK, Paris, NY etc?

You think every Nigerian is struggling to survive like you?

This forum is really getting so annoying. Filled with ignorant, stupid and dumb people.

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Celebrities / Re: Teebillz Pays A Surprise Visit To Tiwa Savage And Their Son Jam Jam In Dubai by rosskiti: 12:33pm On Dec 24, 2020
KingsleyBuubba:
Can't they get back together cos of the Child? Black people sef!

What an idiotic, self hating, and racist comment.

In your sick, dumb head, white people don't...... In short, I'm done. No need arguing with Stupid.
Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 2:49am On Dec 24, 2020
Jamaica - A Land of Beautiful Resorts





Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 2:34am On Dec 24, 2020
eagleu:


Sure, I am a very proud Igbo man, any day, anytime

Unlike me who's open about my bias, you start off trying to convince people that you are an unbiased history scholar.

Honesty would be when you tell them your bias; tell them that you are a supporter of APC, islamic crusading- jihadist, working full time to make Buhari's plan of dipping his koran into the Atlantic ocean a reality, and by force too.

Tell them who you are before discussing any more of your slanted history topics.

Why are you accusing me of being all that?

Based on what?
Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 2:19am On Dec 24, 2020
OreMI22:


Deceitful serpent. I knew a tribal bigot like you would quickly jump into this thread to sell deceit and lies.

Tell me if its Kingston or Montego Bay that has the types of malls, facilities that are in Dubai or Abu Dhabi? Calabar is bigger, more populated and more beautiful than Montego Bay. Kingston cannot even compare with Port harcourt. Yet, you stay here and compare Montego Bay with Dubai? Jamaica is better than Dubai. Silly Deceitful serpent!

Where and how did ''tribe'' come into this?

Who mentioned ''tribe'' here?

Why are you pained by this development?

Is Air Peace your airline?

Is it not a private airline?

Can you people see when I say that this forum is infested with anti-African and anti-black elements who do not wish us to connect with each other?

Why are you so angry that Nigeria is developing direct flight links to our African cousins in the Caribbean?

Why are you posting negative images about Jamaica?

What have they done to you?

Did you not find positive images about Jamaica to post?

Are there any regions on earth without negative images to post?

Who sent you here to do this to Africans and black people?

Why are you so angry that Nigerians could be travelling to Jamaica instead of Dubai?

Why are you hyping up Abu Dhabi, and saying we should travel there and not to Jamaica?

Who sent you here to sow division and hatred among Africans and blacks, you agent of western imperialism?

Whoever sent you, tell them to go and eat faeces.

We will connect with our brethren, here in Nigeria and across the world, and you can never stop it in a billion years.

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Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 2:03am On Dec 24, 2020
OreMI22:
Abeg,

Where will they get 400 passengers to fill that Boeing 777 airplane on Nigeria - Jamaica route? Except this is just testing out the airplane, it makes absolutely no sense to fly into a tiny airport in the Caribbean. They could very well fly into Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti and ask Haitians to buy a ticket to Lagos Nigeria. SMH!


Air Peace should know that it is NIGERIANS not Europeans or Americans that will support them. Americans and Europeans already have favorite options and even if they fly African airlines, it would initially be Ethiopian, Kenyan, South African or Egypt airlines. So Air Peace or any Nigerian airlines that wants to succeed must target flying to countries where there are HUGE Nigerian diaspora or Countries where Nigerian traders frequently visit. Starting with flying to Jamiaca, Dominican Republic and other banana Republics and waiting on citizens of those countries to board flights to Nigeria is equivalent to flying to the moon to pick up aliens wanting to travel to earth. There are NONE!


What a load of ignorance.

This is primarily targeted at Nigerian tourists who normally visit the UK, Dubai, France etc etc.

Jamaica is not a ''banana republic''. It is a very stable democracy with modern tourist facilities, and is a middle income economy.

It is also a gateway to other Caribbean locations like Trinidad, St Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, and other places where Nigerian tourists will have massive fun.

If Jamaica promotes its country effectively in Nigeria, MANY Nigerians will travel there on holidays instead of Dubai etc..

In any case, this was a business decision made by Air Peace, a privately-owned Nigerian airline, after the necessary market research and studies were conducted, so I've no idea why YOU have a problem with it.

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Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 1:57am On Dec 24, 2020
eagleu:


The fallacy and bogus nature of your argument is that Britain all of a sudden has no input in Nigeria's affair, because some prominent Britons have criticized your darling president Buhari.
You know it's false, but truth means nothing to you and BMC once Buhari is favored.

The sad ugly truth of British involvement in Nigeria, mostly favorable to Fulanis can't be disputed, and all of a sudden, you want to preach to us about Britain?

Go teach your fake history lesson to people who can't read and write.

Again, you've made it doubly clear that you don't care about Nigeria. All you care about is your ethnic bigotry and hatred for Hausa Fulanis and Buhari. That's really pathetic. This thread is for people who think on a higher level.
Travel / Re: AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 1:47am On Dec 24, 2020
I have been to Jamaica on several occasions.

Jamaica is a very very lovely and enjoyable place, believe me.

I guarantee you that once Nigerians discover what Jamaica has to offer in terms of beautiful resorts, beaches and general facilities and environment/atmosphere, you will all stop going to Dubai.

I GUARANTEE IT.

Yaaahh Man!!!!.
grin grin

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Travel / AT LAST - Nigeria First African Nation To Fly Direct To Jamaica, With Air Peace by rosskiti: 1:39am On Dec 24, 2020
NIGERIA ARRIVES JAMAICA




Jamaica is being hailed as “the next big thing” for Nigerian tourists by that country’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Geoffrey Onyeama, following the arrival of the first non-stop flight from Nigeria to Jamaica, which touched down at the Sangster International Airport last night (December 21).

“We really expect to see it (tourism) take off in a big way,” said Minister Onyeama, who was among some 140 passengers on the inaugural flight, which landed just after 10:00 p.m. and was welcomed with two jet streams creating a water arc, as the vessel cruised towards the terminal building.

The Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister said in that region of the world there was familiarity with Brazil, which has a large Nigerian population, but “we believe that Jamaica is the next big thing for us as far as tourism is concerned.”

Noting that “Nigerians are big travellers,” he said “we’re huge in tourism and travel.” Minister Onyeama said: “We just feel this is a gold mine, a gem waiting to be discovered by the majority of Nigerians and I think once Nigerians discover this you will see us in droves.” Among the passengers were travellers from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. Another direct flight is expected in two months.

While unavoidably absent, Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett lauded the historic arrival of the flight. In stressing the flight’s significance, he said: “Historical and cultural ties between Nigeria and Jamaica date back to the days of slavery and many Jamaicans today have their ancestral roots in that African country.” He added that “we have been working together to bring this to fruition for some time and I am pleased that we have opened yet another gateway, which provides scope for the added growth of our tourism sector and the forging of greater bonds between both countries.”

There was a strong representation of Jamaican government officials on hand to welcome Minister Onyeama and the other Nigerian visitors. Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague also saw it as an historic occasion. “For Jamaica to welcome Air Piece charter with a Minister and over 130 Nigerians is historic in so many ways.” He opined that “every single Jamaican is feeling good tonight that we have welcomed our first direct flight from Nigeria. It is going to be the start of many good things.”

Beautiful Jamaica




Minister Montaque noted the collaboration of his ministry with the ministries of Tourism, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Airports Authority and Jamaica’s High Commissioner in Lagos, His Excellency Esmond Reid, in making it happen.

The welcome party also included Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith; Executive Director of Jamaica Vacations, Mrs. Joy Roberts; Regional Director of Tourism, Mrs. Odette Dyer and Chief Executive Officer of MBJ Airports Ltd., Mr. Shane Munroe.

https://www.eturbonews.com/2216675/jamaica-next-big-thing-for-nigerian-tourists/
Foreign Affairs / Re: Which African Countries Can't Nigeria Stand In War? by rosskiti: 12:43am On Dec 24, 2020
Efewestern:


Stop throwing words chief, you made a post, people must counter your claims, no one is a demon here, we all want the best for our country.

Now back to topic, Nigeria flies pretty old Jets, majority were produced in the 1960-1970's

That is a LIE. As shown by the link below.

''The Nigerian Air Force manages a relatively impressive collection of modern aircraft - mainly of Western origination.''
https://www.militaryfactory.com/modern-airpower/aircraft-nigerian-air-force.asp


our neighbors has modern toys, what's stopping us from upgrading? Do you think your 1970's jet will pose a threat to any African nation?

Who are those neighbours with 'modern toys'?

The Chad you people are hyping here operates WWII era aircraft, NOT Nigeria:

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/by-country.asp?Nation=Chad

So who are those neighbours? Ghana, as far as I know, doesn't even have any fighter jets at all, not even from WW1.

Is it Togo? Or Sierra Leone? Liberia? Ivory Coast? Gambia? Senegal? Who?

These countries don't even have an airforce 1/4 as powerful as the Nigerian airforce, and yet you are here making out that Nigeria is this weak, vulnerable nation that will fall before their assaults.

Making out that the other African nations all have modern fighter jets built in 2020!

Even the South African Airforce is filled with aircraft built in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

https://www.militaryfactory.com/modern-airpower/aircraft-south-african-air-force.asp

Deluded people talking rubbish.

Here is a list of MODERN AIRFORCES OF THE WORLD.

Only 5 African countries made that list - Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, and Kenya.

No Chad, No Cameroun, No Morocco, No Libya, No Tunisia, No Ghana, and all these countries you DONKEYS are here saying will thrash Nigeria in air combat.

https://www.militaryfactory.com/modern-airpower/index.asp
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 12:18am On Dec 24, 2020
eagleu:


Do us a favor, and shut you know what.
When struggling history teachers suddenly find a job in a corrupt Buhari administration, the result becomes clear.

The history of British involvement is legendary, much more so, because of biased "educated" class like you. When raise alarm now?

Where were you when they imposed Buhari on us?

What is this one talking about?

Where were YOU when they ''imposed Buhari on us?''

Where were YOU when they imposed Jonathan on us?

Where are YOU now that they provide safe harbour to Jonathan's corrupt officials like Diezani?

Your problem is mere ethnic animosity, not the yearning for Nigerian success. That is why you fail to realise that BOTH Jonathan and Buhari and the others that came before them are ultimately puppets of the west, who work to western-generated scripts.

But will your ethnic hatred for your fellow African allow you to see the reality, and recognise who your real enemy is?
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 11:48pm On Dec 23, 2020
This narrative shift is likely a response to the staggeringly high levels of corruption and criminality by Western and other non-African firms. In a high-profile example, the oil-services company Halliburton was convicted by a Nigerian court for corruption carried out while none other than former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney was at the helm.[7] In a report on “cross-border corruption in Africa” between 1995 and 2014, virtually all cases (99.5 percent) involved non-African firms.[8]

The economic and historical weight of the “weak institutional mechanisms” – from privatization and the disinvestment of state power — is extraordinarily high. For one, budget cuts undermine the ability of states to collect taxes and enforce compliance. As the Tax Justice Network-Africa writes:

[T]he Kenyan Revenue Authority (KRA), employs approximately 3,000 tax and customs officers, to serve a population of 32 million. Meanwhile Nigeria, with its 5,000 tax officials, cannot engage in a meaningful tax dialogue with its 140 million citizens. The Netherlands, as an example of an [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development] OECD country, employs 30,000 tax and customs officials for a population of 10 million. … This extraordinary lack of personnel is a product of decades of failed tax policy in Africa, where the role of tax administrations was squeezed as part of austerity programs prescribed by the international finance institutions including the [International Monetary Fund].[9]

Khadija Sharife’s investigative reporting describes the range of tactics built into extraction contracts as incentives to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), from tax dodges to “trade mispricing,” that is, the manipulation of prices to avoid payment of taxes. In Africa’s largest copper producer, Zambia, “[the] copper industry is largely privatized, previously hosting one of the world’s lowest royalty rates (0.6 per cent) with a corporate tax rate of ‘effectively zero’ according to the World Bank…. Despite Zambia since increasing copper royalty rates to 3 per cent, after missing out on the five-year commodity boom, Zambian [former] president Rupiah Banda has ruled out windfall taxes and generally opposed measures designed to prevent mispricing and other forms of revenue leakages.”[10]

In 2012 Charles Abugre writes in Pambazuka News that approximately 65-70 percent of the upwards of one trillion dollars that have exited the continent in illicit capital flows are due to trade mispricing and other “commercial activities.”[11] The Tax Justice Network-Africa has also noted that structural adjustment-dictated changes to African tax codes have facilitated corporate accumulation, eased tax rates for the export of primary commodities and set favorable tax rates for African elites.[12] As a result, the average tax revenues in African states, at approximately 15 percent of GDP, are significantly lower than in the world’s wealthiest nations (OECD; average 35 percent) and the European Union in particular (39 percent of GDP).[13]

Some multinationals adopt “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) measures enabling them to secure what Padraig Carmody has called a “social license to operate”: a minimum level of consensus to pursue the extraction of profits.[14] “Today most western institutions are preaching the values of good governance and democracy,” the Financial Times describes. “Turning a blind eye to corruption and the abuse of political power is a recipe for political instability.”[15] Yet despite such “best practices,” corporations routinely ignore any obligations, often without repercussions.

The distortions and hypocrisy of Western leaders is stunning with regards to the issue of “corruption.” As Sharife and her co-authors describe in Tax Us If You Can:

Business concerns tend to dominate thinking about corruption. For example, Transparency international’s Corruption Perceptions index (CPI) draws heavily on opinion within the international business community, who first raised the alarm about the perils of corruption. While the CPI provides an invaluable ranking for investors trying to assess country risk, it is of little use to the citizens of oil-rich states such as Chad, Equatorial Guinea or Angola, to know their country ranks low.[16]

Meanwhile, as Tom Burgis’ account of Africa’s “looting machine” shows, “blue-chip multinationals” such as KBR, Shell and Willbros are blatantly corrupt, for example, attempting to leverage the Nigerian oil industry through multimillion dollar bribes.[17]

“Good governance” regulations are notoriously weak in their enforcement capabilities, and may in fact smooth over any reputational problems for multinational corporations. For example, in 2008, the Ugandan government approved the National Oil and Gas Policy outlining objectives on environmental regulation and investment of revenue derived from extraction. Yet as Jason Hickel points out in 2011 in Foreign Policy in Focus,

the National Oil and Gas Policy is dangerously vague and absolutely toothless. The framework does not bear the authority of law, and includes no mechanisms that would make its proposed regulations mandatory. Even if the framework’s proposals were to end up as actual legislation, it includes nothing that oil companies would not ordinarily promote in their attempts to erect a façade of legitimacy and burnish the image of an industry beleaguered by PR nightmares. In fact, the framework pays far more attention to creating a favorable investment climate for foreign companies than it does to ensuring the welfare of Ugandans…[18]

African neoliberal leaders have also embraced this emphasis. The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD’s) – the African Union’s “development” arm – focuses on “governance” for the implementation of “NEPAD priorities,” to include, among other practices, “handling of misuse of resources” and for “public officials to commit themselves to codes of conduct that negates corruption.”[19] Ironically, some studies have found an inverse relationship between governance measures and FDI.[20] Others have pointed out that there is no consistent relationship between such measures and actual growth. Yet the notion of “African corruption” persists despite the reality of widespread and established practices of illicit activity in the West, and, crucially, the contribution and culpability of Western corporations and governments to ‘African’ corruption. Understanding this reality begins the process of challenging the “corruption” narrative… and its hypocrisy.

Lee Wengraf writes on Africa for the International Socialist Review, Counterpunch, Pambazuka News and AllAfrica.com. Her new book Extracting Profit: Neoliberalism, Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa was published by Haymarket later in 2017
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 11:47pm On Dec 23, 2020
The West and the Narrative of ‘African corruption’

Writer and activist Lee Wengraf exposes some of the myths about corruption in Africa. The notion of “African corruption” persists despite the reality of widespread and established practices of illicit activity in the West, and, crucially, the contribution and culpability of Western corporations and governments to ‘African’ corruption.

By Lee Wengraf

“The corruption and cronyism and tribalism that sometimes confront young nations — that’s recent history.” – U.S. President Barack Obama, address in Kenya, 2015

On February 13, newly-elected U.S. President Donald Trump signed a legislative order repealing a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that required disclosure of any funds received from foreign governments for deals in the extractive sector. Widely condemned as undermining transparency and anti-corruption efforts, Trump’s move facilitates corporate accumulation in oil, gas and mining; as the Economist notes, “[t]he major beneficiaries of the rollback” are oil majors like Exxon and Mobil. At the same time, however, the Dodd-Frank disclosure rules assume “African corruption” is the source of the problem, a phenomenon, as Obama implies peculiar to these “young nations.”

The U.S. and other Western countries readily condemn the supposed “lack of transparency” of African regimes. In reality, multinational corporations operating in Africa benefit from the weak regulatory infrastructure inherited from colonialism and reinforced by neoliberalism alike. Corruption on the part of local elites rationalizes international policies and regulations imposed on African states but camouflage ongoing exploitation and the legacy of those weak states.

“African corruption” rooted in siphoned oil wealth, for instance, has generated incessant handwringing by Western public officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Human Rights Watch, for example, launched a campaign in 2011 demanding the Angolan government provide an explanation for $32 billion suspected “missing” from the state oil company, Sonangol. Certainly Angolan government spending priorities have been dismal: its 2013 budget allocated 1.4 times more to defense than to health and schools combined. And undoubtedly African rulers and officials in oil-rich countries have accumulated vast amounts of wealth.

Yet the emphasis of international campaigns on “African corruption” and “transparency” initiatives have distorted possibilities for social change for ordinary Africans. Development economist Paul Collier, for example, offers a host of organizational and policy “solutions” such as reforming the tax system and building institutional capacity to manage the process.[1] However, the narrow focus of such policy approaches paper over the impact of historical forces such as the ability of African states to build that “capacity” and how that past has produced the conditions of “corruption.”

Inherited laws and policies have facilitated the theft of tax revenues and outward capital flows, illicit and otherwise. Grieve Chelwa of Africa Is a Country, for example, describes, “Malawi has a 60-year old Colonial-era Tax Treaty with the U.K. that makes it easy for U.K. companies to limit their tax obligations in Malawi. The treaty was ‘negotiated’ in 1955 when Malawi was not even Malawi yet. Malawi (or Nyasaland, as it was known then) was represented in the negotiations, not by a Malawian, but by Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, a U.K. appointed Governor of Nyasaland.”[2] Other historical examples include the longstanding case of U.S. oil companies in Nigeria whose “anti-tax campaign contributed to the regional and ethnic tensions that led to the outbreak of [civil] war.”[3] And African states – with legacy of colonial-era development patterns – tend to have weak infrastructure to enforce compliance.

Nicholas Shaxson argues that the year 1996 marked a “turning point” inside the World Bank, when its president, James Wolfensohn, put the issue of corruption on the “development agenda.”[4] Major organizations such as Global Witness established a transparency framework with early reports on human rights and blood diamonds, as well as the oil industry, and in 2002, they joined with George Soros to launch Publish What You Pay, a program to introduce legislation in Western nations compelling oil companies to disclose payments to host governments.

More recently, official circles have offered a broader understanding of “corruption” and its roots. A U.N. report from 2016 on governance and corruption in Africa argues, “Accounting for the external and transnational dimension of corruption in Africa facilitates strategic decision-making that is holistic and helps to tackle the problem of corruption at its root. Foreign multinational corporations often capitalize on weak institutional mechanisms in order to bribe State officials and gain unwarranted advantage to pay little or no taxes, exploit unfair sharing of rents, and to secure political privileges in State policies.”[5] They continue, “anti-corruption projects and initiatives all focus on cleaning up corruption in the public sector, which is often regarded as incompetent, inefficient and corrupt, while the private sector is portrayed as efficient, reliable and less corrupt. This view has been influenced by neo-liberal economic perspectives, which argue that the private sector is the main engine of economic growth and perceive Governments as being obtrusive.”[6]

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Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 11:36pm On Dec 23, 2020
^^^
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Blue3k, You are not a Nigerian.

I have proven that.

You are a criminal foreign impostor and a liar who is here to defend western interests.

I've nothing further to say to you.

Get lost and STAY lost, you FOREIGNER.
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 11:09pm On Dec 23, 2020
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WHERE ARE AFRICA'S BILLIONS?

By Transparency international

This report makes it very clear that corruption is an INTERNATIONAL RACKET, and that only by addressing both LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL operators of this racket can Africa rid itself of corruption.

In other words, focusing SOLELY on local operators will change NOTHING.

https://www.transparency.org/en/news/where-are-africas-billions#
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 10:49pm On Dec 23, 2020
orisa37:
Looted for 106 years.

Thanks for the correction.
Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 9:26pm On Dec 23, 2020
spy24:


Continue to live in the past

Every single person and nation have every right to criticize Nigeria

Their duplicity is not ''the past''.

The trillions of dollars sitting in UK banks looted from Nigeria and Africa are not ''the past''.

The money is still there and has not disappeared.

Until you pussycat Africans, very expert at attacking each other's ethnicities at the slightest suspicion of misdeeds, but strangely turn silent pussycats whenever there is evidence of the ''white man's'' involvement, understand that ALL RACES ARE EQUAL, and that it is your RIGHT and DUTY to demand LOUDLY that they return your stolen wealth, and quit interfering in your internal affairs, politics, and economics, AND STOP THEIR BANKS ACCEPTING AND HARBOURING STOLEN AFRICAN WEALTH, you will continue being ensnared in what has always been an INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE racket of African subjugation.

The west always send their houseboys like ''blue3k'' and ''Ruud vanisteroy'' to you, and their job is to bamboozle you into thinking that the problem of Nigeria is really just down to what the local leaders do, which is a HUMUNGOUS LIE.

The looting of Nigerian wealth is an INTERNATIONAL RACKET, and has ALWAYS been an INTERNATIONAL RACKET.

By focusing SOLELY on the local players, you will NEVER end corruption and capital flight.

Just like the drug problem in the US.

What you people do is equivalent to the US fighting its drug problem by harassing the local street dealers of the drugs while ignoring their foreign connections.

The US DOES NOT DO THAT. To fight their drug war, they target the local drug runners, but their MAIN FOCUS is on the CRIME LORDS in Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, etc, who finance the trade, produced the drugs, train the couriers, and provide banking support for the syndicate operations.

(Do you guys know that whenever a person is elected to high office in Nigeria, representatives of western banks travel down here to teach them how to siphon money? You didn't know that, did you?)

The US send in special forces to take out the drug lords, they fight for their extraditiion to the US to face trial, they pressurise the govts of those countries to investigate and apprehend them etc etc.

THAT IS HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO HALT THEIR OPERATIONS.

They don't say ''oh... don't blame foreigners for our drug problem... let's just face the people here alone who are causing the problem''.

AFRICANS, WAKE UP AND STOP BEING SCARED AND DUMB.

You have been condemning your leaders on Nairaland and elsewhere for decades.

Has it ended corruption?

NOPE.

Has it ended capital flight?

NOPE.

But if you develop the balls to storm the streets, in Nigeria, Africa, and the west, in protest against WESTERN BANKS storing your stolen money in London, Switzerland, and Paris, and DEMAND they return the wealth, and STOP receiving and harbouring stolen wealth from Africa, you will make a GREAT DENT on corruption. You will start to see results. GUARANTEED.

In the meantime, continue in your grand foolishness of not wanting to 'blame the white man' for your problems, while your wealth disappears before your eyes.

Ridiculous people.

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Politics / Re: American & European Will Relocated Back To Africa by rosskiti: 9:15pm On Dec 23, 2020
oladeebo:
...who told you am not been to school?

Oh dear....forget it.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Will Trump Be America's LAST President? by rosskiti: 9:12pm On Dec 23, 2020
obonujoker:


He just said the right thing... America is not Babylon oga.... Please read Revelations 19... To understand, how everything will go before the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ.

1. Destruction of Babylon(Antichrist System)

2. Rapture of the Church and second coming of Christ (Same event)

3. Destruction of the Antichrist and his followers (those that collected his mark and worshipped the devil)

4. Millennial reign begins.


None of what you listed indicates the US is not Babylon the Great.

I suggest you face reality, and hold off on that visa application, instead of living in denial.

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Politics / Re: Britain Has No Right To Criticise The Nigeria She LOOTED For 70 Years by rosskiti: 12:15pm On Dec 23, 2020
Blue3k:


The mumu too stupid for his own good. It's like the mumu doesn't know already cooperates in returning stolen money. Who else but the worthless leaders run to store it there. Again the white man is so good stealing they just have to wait for their lap dogs in Nigeria to bring the cash. There's no need for troops when you can get worthless leaders to sell your nation out.

You're back!

Mr 'Mumu'. Foreign impostor and SATAN pretending to be a Nigerian?

Worthless Animal.

Face your own country and leave Nigeria alone, you CROOKED IMPOSTOR and DECEIVER.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Joe Biden Receives His FIrst Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine On Live Television by rosskiti: 8:10am On Dec 23, 2020
King2019:

It is surprising you call it a scamdemic

Millions have this virus thousands have died nairalanders have told us their experiences even in foreign countries

Dude, hospitals across the world are diagnosing people with other diseases and illnesses as ''covid 19'' victims.

There are NUMEROUS stories about people who've died of cancer or heart problems, and their death certificates are registered as 'covid 19' death, just to shoot up the numbers.

Stop watching mainstream media news. Do your research on Google. There is MASSSIVE DECEIT going on a global scale.

Doctors are being PAID THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in the US to diagnose patients as ''covid 19'. Same as the UK, Germany, etc.

Scientists who dispute the govt narrative of a ''pandemic'' or the safety of the 'vaccines' are being shut down and banned by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc, including Oxford and Harvard trained doctors and scientists.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Joe Biden Receives His FIrst Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine On Live Television by rosskiti: 8:04am On Dec 23, 2020
ProtectMyMoney:


Why are our Hospitals and isolation centers factually empty of Covid 19 patients despite the mass congregation of Endsars protesters nationwide, and the mass congregation of Palliatives collectors nationwide?

Government cannot be reacting to every newspaper article without facts.



Because Covid19 is a SCAMDEMIC..
Foreign Affairs / Re: Joe Biden Receives His FIrst Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine On Live Television by rosskiti: 8:00am On Dec 23, 2020
sammysmiles:
Asin ehnnnn..... Jxt like when Obama went to Michigan and pretended to be drinking their water in a glass cup...... Companies that have never produced any vaccine before,,, jxt came out immediately Biden was declared a projected winner and said we now have a vaccine..... That vaccine he received on Live TV might be a camouflage...

You can bet your last dollar that that thing they injected into Biden was not the same thing they are injecting into the population.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Joe Biden Receives His FIrst Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine On Live Television by rosskiti: 7:54am On Dec 23, 2020
SmartPolician:


I am not sure I understand the controversy behind Bill Gates and coronavirus vaccine, but you guys should know that Mr. Gates is by far the highest individual financier of the United Nations through its sister agencies.

In other words, that man has used his hard-earned money to fight malaria and other killer diseases in the world than what 20 African countries have collectively contributed to the organization.

Just before you criticize him, you should always keep that in mind.

To the news now, the Stage-3 clinical trial results of these vaccines show that they are not 100% effective. However, any vaccine that is over 90% effective is good to go!

Only God knows what would have become of our world if serious countries like the United States never existed. God bless those peeps!

What a load of imbecilic TRASH.

The United States has genocided more people than any nation in history, and invaded 97% of the world's countries. destroying and looting their resources to enrich itself.

Most countries on earth today are poor PRECISELY because of the actions of the United States, be it through their dominance of the IMF, World Bank, UN, WHO and other rigged agencies, and their sabotaging of world governments to create stooge regimes.

Bill Gates is a Eugenist who has said he wants to reduce the world population, and is a powerful backer of these untested, hastily rushed out ''vaccines'' which have DNA-altering chemicals in them, which could possibly cause mass sterilisation of the human race, or worse.

Most sinisterly of all, the vaccine manufacturers have obtained legal indemnity against damages to humans caused by their ''very safe'' vaccines, leading anyone with a working brain (not dumb sheep like you) to question WHY they have done so if their ''vaccine'' is truly safe.

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Politics / Re: American & European Will Relocated Back To Africa by rosskiti: 7:36am On Dec 23, 2020
oladeebo:
Very soon the American and European will relocated to Africa soil.
oladeebo

Instead of dreaming about your beloved slavemasters 'relocateding' to Africa, why not go to school and brush up yourself so you can 'located' to their land, and be able to 'did' something useful over there?

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