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A popular comedian in Nigeria once told a joke of his encounter with robbers while on commercial transport. An hour earlier, he had approached a female passenger, on same bus, trying to convince her he is interesting. She used the snub button. After driving for an hour, they were cornered by gun wielding thieves who took all they had. For extra entertainment, the female passenger was forced to strip which she did after some threats and stubbornness. He was also forced to strip and he did. Her backside reasonably raised, the command came: Enter!

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cris83:
My guy how far? Its been a while!! Still here perusing the various jobs myself. Thanks for the recruitment information of some firms you posted to me. I have sent a cv to them. Hopefully something good comes for me. I hope you are good yourself...

Yeah. I'm good. You know when a jobless man says he is good. I compiled another list. A broader one. Very long. It touched almost every part of Lagos.

Rossikki:
Those ''lofty'' thoughts are already happening before our eyes, with or without 'mental foundation'. You're just too consumed by negativity to see it. One example. Are you aware of the number of car manufacturers that have set up/or are setting up factories in Nigeria right now as we speak? Honda, Kia, General Motors, Toyota. Plus some new indigenous manufacturers a la Innoson. Read this:


''The Nigerian Government through the National Automotive Design and Development Council has awarded licences for the establishment of 12 new vehicle assembly plants in the country.

This is contained in a document made available by the spokesman of NADDC, Bello Rasheed, in Abuja on Monday.
The document stated that the benefitting companies are automobile manufacturing giants such as Toyota, Honda, General Appliances West Africa, Perfection Motors Company, and Richbon Nigeria.

The others are R.T. Briscoe Nigeria, Nigeria-China Manufacturing Company, Nigeria Sino Trucks, Coacharis Motors, DAG Motorcycle Industry Nigeria, Globe Motors Nigeria, Century Auto-Assembly Nigeria, and Concept Auto Centre.

The plants are expected to produce a wide range of automobile products such as sport utility vehicles, passenger cars, pickup vans, buses, tricycles and motorcycles, among others.

The document also indicates that the companies, with their corporate offices in Enugu and Lagos, have started making arrangements to begin operations.''


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/187744-nigeria-grants-12-new-auto-assembly-plant-licences.html

Essentially, Nigeria is well on the way to challenging South Africa as the major car manufacturer in Africa, producing in due course millions of vehicles per year, for the local and international market. That is industrialisation right there. Thousands of jobs in high end end manufacturing. Many ancillary industries will be established to serve those manufacturing plants, with components, equipment, services etc... No need for any philosophical or ethical revolution in the country. It's happening now, live. They are building those car plants now, across Nigeria. It's not a ''dream''. It is happening now. These are the sort of things that a group like PriceWaterHouse Coopers looks at, and are able to project where Nigeria will be in 20, 30 years time, based on what is happening today. It's not dreaming. It's based on reality backed by billions of dollars in contracts that have been, and are being signed, as we speak.

Another example. The national railway network. I've seen the masterplan. It's a wonderful, ambitious project, costing over $25 billion. It's a network that will connect all nooks and crannies of this country, by high speed rail. They've started the projects. It is Public/Private Partnership arrangements, meaning it WILL get done, and it WILL come with adequate maintenance, staffing and upgrades locked into the contracts. We've seen it happening LIVE.

The Abuja-Kaduna rail network is a world class development. it is only a small part in the overall masterplan. But we can see it is working well, and is a great concept whose replication around the country will transform the nation. By the year 2050, the entire national rail system would be on line....an ultra-modern high speed rail system befitting the Giant of Africa. You will be able to travel from anywhere to anywhere in Nigeria on high speed rail.

So it's happening before our eyes. Did Boko Haram stop them from building the Abuja-Kaduna high speed rail network? Did corruption make them embezzle everything and ditch the project? No? So it can be done, and it is being done.

You don't seem to want to get it. You are not looking at it from a rational or logical position. You'd pick few information about a certain development and create mansions from them. You are also guilty of the same problems our leaders are guilty of. I want you to reply these next post logically and rationally.

No one can conquer you until they've savaged your mind. No physical pain can defeat you until you've been destroyed mentally. This is Psychology 101. In same vein, nobody can be saved until their minds are salvaged. No physical project can uplift unless it uplifts the mind.

Nigerians are behind mental bars. They are behind mental asylums and irrespective of what you do, if the goal is not about removing those bars you are wasting your time. You can't make a broken people great. You also can't build a country on lies. You can build rail ways and other modern systems but Phaoroanic Mindset must be taught.

You think countries like UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait will be termed great because of their fine structures? You think wrong. As long as they kelp depending on Westerners to develop structures like the Burj Khalifa, going abroad for studies, worshipping western sports and news, unlike China, they'd never be great countries but fine countries.

Respond to this logically.

I don't know how I keep unfollowing this thread.

Mujtahida:
What can wash away our sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make us whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Ohhh precious is they flow That makes us white as snow No other fount we know Nothing but the blood of Jesus

Okay. I'm done.

Mujtahida:
Am I? Are those the worst sins you can think about?
Are you washed in the blood In the soul cleansing blood of the lamb Are your garments white Are they spotless as snow Are you washed in the blood of the lamb.

Are you a murderer or a thief?

Mujtahida:
Who knows? Preach on, preacher man.
Holy Mary pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

For all have sinned including Sapiosexuality and fallen short of the glory of Nigeria.

Let him who is without sin cast the first righteous stone against corruption.

Does that mean you are a thieve and murderer?

Mujtahida:
Nigerian wey I know! Preach, preacher man

Are you a thief and a murderer?

Mujtahida:
You know na!

I don't know. If you are a corrupt Nigerian, I am not.

Mujtahida:
All Nigerians including you are corrupt but some are more corrupt than others.

No be me talk am ooo. Na George Orwell in Animal farm (page 55)

All Nigerians including me? How? What did I do?

Rossikki:
What is not possible, the GDP projections of $7.3 trillion, or the population, or what? I never said every Nigerian will live in a palace in 2050. Why should it take "centuries" in our case? The GDP projections for 2050 by PwC, are based on current economic growth rates. So it makes no sense arguing that they are wrong.

Greatness in that sense of the Ancient Egypt which you set out to capture will not be possible in 2050. The highest GDP doesn't mean a highest Per Capita GDP. The people will still be lacking with increasing population. Russia has also shown us that GDP is not the prerequisite for greatness.

Rossikki:
The number One "western influence" is saying "No...it can't be done". It was the white man who implanted such feelings of inadequacy in you, which you are here propagating. Get rid of that particular bit of western influence, and the others will similarly disappear.

I didn't say 'No, it can't be done' but that must wake up mentally before it can be done. I'm only telling you the efficacy of such mental asylum. It's simple psychology. Motivational speeches don't work here.

You don't make ridges without putting in seeds and expect a fruit to grow. You don't drop rice on a dry land and expect to export rice. You don't build a house without a foundation. That's simple reality. We must build the mental foundation of Nigerians first before we begin to afford such lofty thoughts.

Rossikki:
Problems are not solved overnight. Look, in the UK, in the days of Charles Dickens, ie the Victorian era, about a century ago, people slept 10 to a room in London, Manchester, Liverpool etc. Disease was rife, child labour the norm. Poverty was widespread, as the aristocracy lived large in huge palaces. But, over a 100 year period, political agitation in the British Parliament led to societal changes, introduction of welfare benefits, and other policies aimed at alleviating the suffering of the poor and elderly... it took DECADES and DECADES of activism by various interest groups to get those laws passed, to what they have today. So development is not about saying, "look, we have problems. Therefore we can never succeed." That is the wrong way to approach the issue. If you have an agenda, your job is to PUSH that agenda politically.

Yeah but it seems you already solved this problem before you wrote the op. Development is about saying 'Yes, we have problems and we are going to solve it'. Have we even, in unison, agree we have problems?

Your Charles Dickens analogy captures our point. It will takes decades and in our case Centuries but we cannot pretend that in 2050 we'd be the world power. While we engage in Activism, the most important thing is for the system to build the minds of her people.

My position is not that we can't achieve it but that the interval of your op is not realistic. It's not possible.

What's the matter?

Rossikki:
No societies are perfect. Europe fought two "world" wars in the last century, that killed 100 million plus people. That's like 50 Biafra wars, in terms of casualties. If they could recover from that, then why should Fulani herders or arguments about restructuring stop Nigeria? They can't.

That's the point. As long these issues have not been tackled or even considered to be worthy of attention, your dream of a Pharaonic Egypt is just what it is–a dream.

Rossikki:
China didn't go through any great intellectual awakening between 1970 and 2017. In the 1970s, China was just your typical developing country. Most people rode around in bicycles. They just enacted some protectionist economic policies, clamped down on corruption, and focused on manufacturing. Result? The China we see today. You people overthink this development thing. It's really not that complicated.

That was because their cultures, their traditions and their ethics were not eroded by any western influence. What was needed in their case was simply mobilization. They held tightly to these values in the face of new western threats. Their medicine, their religion, their food, etc, was not shaken.

In Nigeria, the reverse is the case. Our cultures, traditions and ethics were touched by western influences. I know how many times I've argued with folks around that intelligence has nothing to do with skin colour. We must first emancipate our people from mental slavery before we can entertain such dreams.

vantage001:
It is not even possible.
Unless Nigeria want to annex the whole of west africa to create enough geographical assets to command and wield that kind of influence.

That's even going too far. Let's achieve ordinary constant Power Supply before we begin to delude ourselves.

EvilUnityBeggars:
He thinks greatness is by population

India has more population than Germany but Germany is greater than her in all ramifications

Exactly. Nigeria still has a lot of stages to pass before she'd be close to such dream he's describing. Is it our religious weaknesses? Our Tribal differences? Our educational and intellectual deficiency?

Rossikki:
Strictly your opinion. You also have this naive view that current superpowers will ALWAYS be there to impose their will and curtail emerging nations. There 's na guarantee the US for instance, will even exist in the year 2050, given their reckless adventurism.

Dude, let's be realistic. His argument is not a matter of opinion but existential realities. We have to achieve greatness in our people before we overcome the world. In what way are Nigerians developed intellectually?

By greatness here I mean an awakening of the mind. You'd be lying to yourself if you say we've achieved that or have any tool in place to.

When you have a country where history is not taught and children are taught that Mungo Park discovered River Niger. When the very examples of independent mindset as exemplified in the life of King Jaja of Opobo, King Kosoko of Lagos and Oba Ovowerenye of Benin are not used in grooming young minds.

Youdondeymad:
Naaaa!not you,the people I'm referring to know themselves.The tribal war on this forum is pathetic and disgusting.





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Yes. I don't think you can do much to change that. There's nothing wrong with Tribalism after all. The problem is hatred.

DanseMacabre:
Very poignant. Anyway, have you looked at it from the universal concept of a 'necessary' or 'lesser' evil?

I only looked at it with the very tools Soyinka used to crucify Dino–corruption.

Youdondeymad:
I like your monicker,we have some things in common(I guess).








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Lol. Thanks. I'm not going mad though.

Youdondeymad:
The nature of man.





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Yeah. Contradicting.

This is what I don't understand. Dino is corrupt. Tinubu is corrupt. But Soyinka mingles with Tinubu and loathes dino. Man can be many things.

dharniehl:
I am a french graduate, anyone in need of a part - time french teacher should please contact me on 08162003034 or 07013608565, thanks...

Put that as your signature and rebuke the spamming spirit building in you.

Appraizzal:
It seems aggressive marketing is now synonymous to having a flair for trekking under the sun and in the rain... God that changed the story of Jabez, have mercy on us the Nigerian youths

Lololol. Amen.

I can't even read short hands again. I make it known to you once I'm chatting with you. I honestly can't read those things again. If you continue I just shift.

tugrow:
What we are doing here is just an illustration

Nnamdi is the person you are buying from, it can be in Nigeria, China, USA, even in Akwa Ibom state

Lol. Okay.

aumeehn:
guy dont buy any ebook. Drop shipping is a very simple business. Just have an account on 1688.com tabao alibaba and the rest hustle and get a Chinese friend or agent to help you buy and ship to your customer shikena. Simple as abc. Just make your own research nobody is going to come here and give you a step by step tutorial on how to make money. Ebook buying era has since elapsed use Google and your brain you are good to go

Thank you. Tugrow is helping us already.

talkportal:
Warm Regards,
Please who also received this invitation? how can i get to the address from Iyana Ipajai?
And have anyone attended this organization's interview before and can share some information about this org; nature of the interview, remuneration and all ?

From Iyana Ipaja take a bus going to Oshodi. Stop at the last bus stop. Cross to the other side. Look for a bus going to Obalende Lagos Island. Stop at the last bus stop too. Trek down, that is, using the direction of the mainland as North, go eastwards.. Or ask questions. After trekking for about five minutes or less you'd see some Keke riders lined up for V.I. You can tell them the street you are going to. If there's a better and faster route you can use it.

I get it. But must Nnamdi(the dropshipper) operate from outside Nigeria?

tugrow:
The thread has been open
Follow this link
https://www.nairaland.com/3823711/free-info-all-need-know

Thanks bro.