Sladem05:

You’re salty at this point as I’ve proven that Africa is nowhere Latin America in terms of development. If a country like Mexico on its own is around 2/3rd’s of the GDP of the entire African continent. You realise as to how crazy and embarrassing that is for the African side?
You debunked nothing 😂😂!

1. Africa is more violent than Latin America and it’s not even close. African crime is more likely to underreported as African countries have worse freedom of press and are more corrupt compared to the ones in Latin America. They also do drugs in Africa. Africa has a higher criminality index
https://ocindex.net/rankings?f=rankings&view=List&group=Continent

Africa and The Middle East are found to be the most active warzones on the planet

“Africa comes second in the number of armed conflicts per region with more than 35 non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) taking place in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Several armed groups – fighting against government forces and/or against each other’s – are involved in these conflicts”

https://geneva-academy.ch/galleries/today-s-armed-conflicts

On top of the fact that Latin America is far more stable which is essential for development. Africa won’t be able to emulate the Asian tigers because there is far too much corruption and instability in the continent.

2. Latin America has Africa beat on every socio-economic indices.

‘Sub-Saharan Africa is, by nearly every measure, behind Latin America in regard to socio-economic development. It is much poorer; by most measures, Latin America's combined GDP is between two and three times greater than that of sub-Saharan Africa, and it's as much as seven times per capita’

https://www.isi-consultants.com/insights/doing-business-in-latin-america-vs-africa-how-do-they-compare#:~:text=Sub%2DSaharan%20Africa%20is%2C%20by,as%20seven%20times%20per%20capita.

3. Latin America’s Economy is not like Africa that is based entirely on the extraction and sale of raw materials. Latino countries are more self sufficient as they are far more industrious. The value of Mexican exports ALONE is almost 2 times as high as the entire African continent. Mexican Exports in 2022 were $574.1 billion compared to Africa of $378 billion.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/africas-exports-1995-2020/


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Mexico

Latinos are also far more productive and harder working. You Afrocentrists and Pan Africanists live in a fantasy land. Africa’s future is not bright

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_productivity

They are the laziest countries on earth.

4. Nothing you’ve suggested reveals that Africa has a meaningful future. You cannot build an economy where the masses lack the basic amenities like common electricity, adequate roads and so on. You’ve no evidence that Africa can industrialise.

5. Why on earth are you bringing the US Into this? You just don’t want to admit that Latin America is far more prosperous. Geopolitically, the US and other Western powers are waning in global influence. There is a new world order forming that’s no longer going to be US-led. That’s what the formation of BRICS is hinting at. But that power won’t shift won’t be to Africa. It will be to Latin America and Asia. Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico are definitely going to be world powers. They arguably already are.

So please accept it, Africa is finished. It is a lost cause. Don’t make me embarrass you anymore online.

FreeStuffsNG:
Germany: Four Nigerian siblings deported despite being integrated into society

Published on : 2023/07/26

By Benjamin Bathke

After close to a decade of living in Germany, four siblings aged between 11 and 17 were deported to their home country Nigeria in May. Their return forms part of a trend of more and more minors being deported from Germany in recent months.

A tennis racquet, a pair of soccer cleats, a bible, a pencil case -- personal items like these are all that's left of the Ovbiagele family's life in Germany.

Before their belongings were placed into a storage unit in May, police forcibly entered the apartment of Godsand, Victor, Miracolo, Victoria and their mother Bose in southern Germany on the evening of May 15.

"The police officers came into my room at night and woke me up," 11-year-old Godsand is quoted as saying in a recent article published in German news magazine Spiegel.

"I was shaking. They said: 'You will be deported. Pack your things, but only what you can manage.' We weren't allowed to talk to mommy. We were afraid. I heard Victoria cry in her room."

The next morning, the family of five found itself on a chartered flight which took them back to Nigeria from Frankfurt airport. There were 35 other deportees on board, who had been living in Austria, Luxembourg, Sweden and Germany.

Also among the passengers in the coordinated group deportation flight were a number of alleged criminals, who were seen to be chained on their hands and feet.

Reluctant new beginnings in Nigeria

Different people have tried to provide support to the Ovbiagele family since their sudden deportation; one of them is Rex Osa, a native of Nigeria who has been living in Germany for 18 years.

The refugee aid worker was waiting for the four siblings and their mother in Lagos when their plane touched down there, who described their situation as "catastrophic."

The family have since moved into a small room in Benin City, Bose Ovbiagele's hometown, with the help of Osa. However, this is only a temporary solution.

According to the Spiegel, the city of 1.5 million people is notorious for being a center of human trafficking and forced prostitution and is considered to be one of the most dangerous places in Nigeria.

The children's mother agrees with that assessment: she says she had left for Europe seeing no future for her children in Nigeria. She has been raising them on her own since her first husband died and since she separated from the second one.

Despite these many challenges in life, the siblings are now trying to start again in an unfamiliar place 4,600 kilometers away.

"I don't know if I can find friends here," 14-year-old Miracolo explains. "I don't feel safe here. There are people stealing and kidnapping people; they have guns, too."

Uncertainty for the future
For almost nine years, the family called Kempten their home -- a city located in the southern state of Bavaria, about 100 kilometers away from Munich.

The siblings attended elementary school and middle school in the town of 70,000 people, they completed internships, attended church, played in the local soccer club, and learned how to ride a bike.

"Before Germany, I cannot remember anything. We were still young. I don't know any other country," 17-year-old Victor told the Spiegel.

"I was about to get my diploma," Victor's twin sister Victoria said. "I was already in tenth grade and had completed my oral examinations. I lived in Germany for almost nine years. Was this all in vain?"

The family is still trying to fight for their return with help of Osa and a lawyer, but a final decision could take months. Until then, they have to live in fear of facing assaults, contagious diseases and, above all, uncertainty.

Little hope for a reversal of fortunes
Back in Kempten, the siblings' friends are also fighting for their return. In June, some 60 people protested in the city on their behalf with banners, saying 'Bring the Ovbiagele family back!'

However, the overall protection rate for Nigerians in Germany is low: the Ovbiagele's asylum applications were rejected all the way back in 2016 already.

As a result, for years, the family-of-five were among the around 300,000 people in Germany whose status is referred to as 'ausreisepflichtig' -- or legally obliged to leave the country.

"Receiving negative letters from the authorities breaks down your psyche," Victoria told the Spiegel.

"Deportation was always a threat we fought over a lot. It was too much for my mother."

Deportations on the rise

According to the Spiegel, the Bavarian Refugee Council had criticized the state's increasingly volatile deportation policy back in February already, highlighting that forced returns from Bavaria now appear to target families with children.

"The Interior Ministry and the foreigners' offices have become unscrupulous. The cases, in which families are getting deported into hopeless situations, are on the rise," the council stated at the time.

Almost 13,000 people were deported from Germany last year, according to Spiegel. Among them were 2,196 minors, including fully integrated school children, many of whom have little or no connection to their parents' home countries.

In many instances, their language skills in German are superior to their abilities to speak their parents' mother tongues.

Germany's need for immigration vs. reality
Germany's present deportation policy, however, is in stark contrast to the fact that the country needs immigrants rather urgently: At the end of June, the EU member state passed its new skilled labor migration law to fill the gap of an estimated 400,000 skilled workers.

Economists say, however, that even this target falls short, claiming that Germany needs a net influx of nearly 1.5 million people -- per year.

But not everyone in Germany is in favor of welcoming more foreigners: A survey from May found that one in two Germans are scared of more refugees coming to Germany. Regardless, the government has pledged to invest more into attracting workers from abroad.

This new policy, however, is of little use to the Ovbiagele family; after living in the country for a total of for nine years, Germany eventually threw them out -- shortly before they would finally become ready and able to start giving back.

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50642/germany-four-nigerian-siblings-deported-despite-being-integrated-into-society

fergie001:


Brila FM

Chelsea forward Nicolas Jackson has issued a strong response to criticism from former Blues midfielder, Mikel Obi, telling the ex-blues player to “shut his mouth.”

Mikel had criticized Jackson following the Senegalese’s underwhelming performance against Manchester City last Sunday, claiming that Jackson missed too many chances, and suggesting that Chelsea should consider signing Victor Osimhen as an alternative.

Jackson answered his critics on the pitch by scoring Chelsea’s opening goal in their 6-2 victory over Wolves, marking the club’s fastest Premier League goal since 2017.

The Senegalese celebrated after scoring during the Premier League match between Wolves and Chelsea FC at Molineux.

Following the match, He took to social media to address Mikel’s comments directly.

“Mikel Obi, shut your mouth, don’t talk sh*t, we are killing ourselves for Africa,” Jackson wrote in a post on Instagram, making his feelings about the criticism clear.

The forward headed in at the back post inside the opening two minutes for Chelsea’s first goal.

TemplarLandry:
True talk from Oshoko.

I dedicate "Cry No More" by Headie One feat. Stormzy & Tay Keith to all almajeris up North.

Great jam!

Babasessy:

The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

                   http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

ApcBacteriafonj:
Protest: Let My Father Rule For 3 Years Before You Complain, Tinubu’s Daughter Warns Market Women

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of President Bola Tinubu, has told market women in Dosumu Market, Lagos, to warn their children not to join the August 1 protest against economic hardship under his father’s watch.

“Say no to protest,” Mrs Tinubu-Ojo, the Iyaloja General of Lagos, declared, posting a video in which she spoke with market women, urging them to warn their children not to join the August 1 protests.

In the video, Mrs Tinubu-Ojo said, “Let’s talk to our children. There is nothing like protest in Lagos. Lagos government is doing us well.

“The government at the centre (led by her father Mr Tinubu) just assumed office. Before you say a government is not doing well, let it last three years at least.”

Mrs Tinubu-Ojo lamented how EndSARS, a historic protest led by youth against years of extrajudicial killings and extortion by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police Force, turned violent, destroying properties when thugs attacked protesters and Nigerian soldiers opened fire on the demonstrators.

“Prevention is better than treatment. We will not suffer loss of lives. Let everyone warn her children,” Mrs Tinubu-Ojo warned.

The president’s daughter’s warning comes as another pro-Tinubu government pushback as citizens mobilise for nationwide demonstrations due to economic hardship worsened by soaring food prices.

Since the protest was announced, Mr Tinubu has met with leaders of religious groups, traditional rulers, governors, and security agencies.

After meeting with Mr Tinubu, religious leaders and monarchs joined in opposing the protests, while security agencies continued to arrest citizens supporting or organising such activities.

https://www.akelicious.net/2024/07/28/protest-let-my-father-rule-for-3-years-before-you-complain-tinubus-daughter-warns-market-women/

ApcBacteriafonj:
Protest: Let My Father Rule For 3 Years Before You Complain, Tinubu’s Daughter Warns Market Women

Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of President Bola Tinubu, has told market women in Dosumu Market, Lagos, to warn their children not to join the August 1 protest against economic hardship under his father’s watch.

“Say no to protest,” Mrs Tinubu-Ojo, the Iyaloja General of Lagos, declared, posting a video in which she spoke with market women, urging them to warn their children not to join the August 1 protests.

In the video, Mrs Tinubu-Ojo said, “Let’s talk to our children. There is nothing like protest in Lagos. Lagos government is doing us well.

“The government at the centre (led by her father Mr Tinubu) just assumed office. Before you say a government is not doing well, let it last three years at least.”

Mrs Tinubu-Ojo lamented how EndSARS, a historic protest led by youth against years of extrajudicial killings and extortion by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police Force, turned violent, destroying properties when thugs attacked protesters and Nigerian soldiers opened fire on the demonstrators.

“Prevention is better than treatment. We will not suffer loss of lives. Let everyone warn her children,” Mrs Tinubu-Ojo warned.

The president’s daughter’s warning comes as another pro-Tinubu government pushback as citizens mobilise for nationwide demonstrations due to economic hardship worsened by soaring food prices.

Since the protest was announced, Mr Tinubu has met with leaders of religious groups, traditional rulers, governors, and security agencies.

After meeting with Mr Tinubu, religious leaders and monarchs joined in opposing the protests, while security agencies continued to arrest citizens supporting or organising such activities.

https://www.akelicious.net/2024/07/28/protest-let-my-father-rule-for-3-years-before-you-complain-tinubus-daughter-warns-market-women/

IfnobeGod20:

All this high energy you're exerting doesn't move me an inch because when I see hailer of politician, I know him.
But I will refresh your brain and I charge you to counter my claims but be ready to provide verifiable facts and not the kind you just reeled out with no link attached.

As soon as Wike became governor his first point of call was to borrow 20b naira.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-assembly-gives-wike-approval-to-borrow-another-n20bn/&ved=2ahUKEwjS-ceCnJWHAxX9aUEAHZWODSwQFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0OBKKdPhVJDWkzCqqWzDLD


In 2016 just less than a year he borrowed #20b aside other loans he borrowed in banks, he went borrowing #200b, that's times ten of what he borrowed a year before.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://punchng.com/apc-pdp-bicker-wikes-alleged-n200bn-loan/&ved=2ahUKEwjS-ceCnJWHAxX9aUEAHZWODSwQFnoECCgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1IUXgnsxrBH1Zye9-4D7Qx
This loan always cause quarrel between APC and PDP in Rivers state.

These are other loans your lord and saviour borrowed in a year
11 June, 2015 – Wike borrowed ₦10 billion (approximately US$50,276,600) to

30 June 2015, – he borrowed ₦20 billion (approximately US$100,553,200)

In 2020, he borrowed 18b from access bank.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=100063985847590&story_fbid=2717351788367032


In 2021, Wike still went borrow 25b from Zenith bank
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/09/27/wike-borrows-n25bn-from-zenith-bank/&ved=2ahUKEwjS-ceCnJWHAxX9aUEAHZWODSwQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw18Db65St2OpX_vHbf8Mwlv

With all the borrowings and your counter claims to my comment, the man on the saddle of government says, Wike left a debt of 200b for him that he has to pay contractors.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.channelstv.com/2024/05/30/i-inherited-%25E2%2582%25A6200bn-debt-on-uncompleted-projects-fubara/&ved=2ahUKEwibupL-oZWHAxVmU0EAHRQCDZc4HhAWegQIDhAB&usg=AOvVaw0zPzNvNxNT-e3XUXW8s0vP



Read what the Nation Newspaper wrote about your man, as they called him Wike the Borrower. That was as far back as 2016.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://thenationonlineng.net/wike-the-borrower/&ved=2ahUKEwiSk9z0oZWHAxUFUkEAHZNKAKk4FBAWegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw3TdbQzP7zYPLveZLqLN4dg

Meanwhile, you're the one refuting Fubara, I have not seen anywhere where Wike countered Fubara's allegation on him. Please if you have avail us here.

He has started the same in FCT, borrowing like tomorrow no dey.

vanitybutiwanti:
Which debt? You're believing fubaras propaganda? Read up on what retention fees means, that's how you guys go about talking about things you know nothing about without doing your due diligence, a project cost 7b, wike paid 6.9b and withheld the 100m for retention, is that debt? He left debt yet Fubara is doing a cumulative 425b capital project amidst other projects in just one year, The ring Road costing 195b of which 150b has been paid by fubara, Transkalabari Road worth 225b of which 66b has been paid and other numerous projects, next time shut the fhuck up and don't talk about things you know nothing about, all these strangers dabbling into Rivers affairs and talking about things they don't know

NaijaVietnamese:

God have mercy, make una Dey lie with fear of God abeg! Which country in this world would you see average employee doctors earning $50,000 per month!!! Are those two Nigerians specialist brain or heart surgeons!!!!

That’s a lie from the pit of hell.

erico2k2:

U know those people we just start nah so dem dey talk.everybody ignorant nah them sabi pass.

Memphis's inequality closely tracks with race, with Black people carrying a much higher risk of poverty.

Methodist University Hospital's management — including CEO Dr. Michael Ugwueke, who was paid $1.6 million in total compensation last year and former CEO Gary Shorb, who draws $1.2m/year to serve as Ugwueke's advisor — are apparently pursuing this agenda on their own. One former long-serving board member, Beverly Robertson (2003-12) says she had no idea that the hospital had pursued its patients so aggressively.

chieveboy:


That's the science na. God is actually the electricity, atom, protons and whatnots after you scratch the surface.

The advanced scientists I know (I mean really advanced ones) are turning to mystics in broad day light.

See the works of these two for starters:

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ARBORDON

Davidsereda.net.

In your head, you seem to be playing it the obsolete science way, the "science is a anti-God format.

The issue is you're lagging behind with obsolete information on the real stuff. We have machines that amplifies intentions (mental intentions).

That's a prayer answering machine!!! We play with machines that links you to other realms... Check out the second link above....you're just behind on these stuff.

The machines are to do what Eckists call "spiritual exercises ". An example isan using machine to travel when he can port the whole thing to his destination via thought...

My claim was clear: Science is catching up with what Eckankar had been practicing for eons: "Soft" or Spiritual Technology"!!!
I said instead of praying, Eckists use frequencies instead, which Tesla a highly advanced and non-corporated scientist had long revealed is the main thing!!!

What's left is for you to conjure up resources from online propaganda search results to tell us. we (Eckists), Tesla, Royal Rife, David Sereda (davidsereda.net) and lot more scientists that it's "pseudoscience"..

Notice how we never heard from you on the evidences I gave earlier of the incarceration and the true story behind the propaganda you feed on?

You on the other hand fail to grasp the point based on your prejudice.

Business Standard || IN Business

BeeBeeOoh:
Says we have no choice, nobody will help us

Declares Wike genuinely serving Nigerians

https://leadership.ng/we-must-build-a-nigeria-for-generations-unborn-tinubu/

Babasessy:

The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

An ex-speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Francis Okiye, has rejoined the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while declaring that in a democracy, votes matter.

Okiye rejoined APC on Sunday, May 19, at a massive rally in Edo Central Senatorial District, with thousands of his teeming supporters also moving to APC in Esan West, Esan Central, Esan Northeast, Esan Southeast and Igueben Local Government Areas in Esanland.

The former speaker resigned his membership of the PDP on May 10, 2024, while assuring that he would announce his next political move in the coming days.

He said: “Many politicians from PDP and Labour Party (LP) joined the APC on Sunday in Esanland. Prior to today (yesterday), we met, discussed and asked Governor Godwin Obaseki-led PDP government in Edo State to address the issues of alienation, disillusionment, high-handedness and despotic tendencies.

“Nothing was done about our requests. So, we the ‘aborigines’ in PDP decided to give Obaseki-led PDP a red card.

“My movement to APC will help the party. In a democracy, votes matter. So, my exit from PDP is a minus to the party, whether anybody likes to interpret it otherwise or not. If they are democrats, they will know that at least they have lost my vote, not to talk of many others that moved with me to APC.

“We will begin the house-to-house campaign soon, and let people know why they must leave PDP and join the APC. They must vote APC’s governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, that is humane, and not business people who are in the state to make profit.”

Okiye also declared that Edo PDP’s standard bearer, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, was no match for Okpebholo, a grassroots popitician, whom he said would emerge victorious on September 21, and succeed Obaseki on November 12 this year.

iLegendd:
There is a site I like checking out coins. I decided to sort the coins there by their duration because I want to mess with 90% of coins listed this year and some last year because they're yet to see a good ATH.

Using this site, https://www.livecoinwatch.com/ I was able to sort them out easily. If your coin is not on this list below, it means it's not listed in at least 6 good exchanges yet or I unknowingly missed it when compiling the list. A second site is: https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/

From the image below, the number after the name of the coin is the current price when I compiled the list yesterday.

It's good to know how old your coin is, if it's listed on at least 6 exchanges, if it has good liquidity, and if the tokenomics is worth it. That first site above helps with this. The second site helps with sorting which coin to buy based on how much it has come down in price.

Endeavor to go through the list. No too dey rush life abeg. Na so Tinubu rush go talk say fuel subsidy is gone and till this day, Nigerians are suffering it, yet the subsidy is secretly being paid.

ivandragon:


What is disappointing is your inability to understand simple economics and facts.

Even you have admitted that as at March 2024, the so called band A users were not getting value for money. Now the band has been increased by 300%. How won't that lead to an increase in prices of goods & services?

You claim that power supply has improved. A very myopic view because you think the world starts & ends in Ikeja. Yet there are numerous complains even from the same Ikeja area.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/ikeja-electric-apologises-for-failing-to-meet-20-hour-electricity-supply/

https://businessday.ng/news/article/electricity-consumers-trapped-in-discos-net-as-complaints-pile/?amp

Would the astronomical increase lead to a fall in prices of goods & services? You are saying yes. That's fine, let's see how it goes. It's been over a month since the increase, have prices dropped?

Again, I don't know what your headache is. Enjoy your increase, let those who have issues with it talk.

You can enlighten whom you want. Create a thread and enlighten whomever suits your fancy, you guys did worse for the last 8 years supporting dumb and ill-thought out policies, so nothing new.

lionshare:


Unlike you that deflects from questions, I’ll answer your questions all over again. Just maybe this time you’ll understand.

1. Band-A is not new; I’ve admitted that already. FYI, it was called bilateral service agreement, but the service was terrible and barely up 12 hours as of March 2024. However, following the Band-A pricing, a lot more areas have been added. For example, Ikeja Electric increased from 45 feeders to 104 feeders, with significant improvement in supply, often exceeding the 20-hour target.

2. Even if you consider the increment astronomical, it’s still less than the cost of running diesel or petrol, which means net savings for all users.

3. I support anything that brings sustainable progress for Nigerians. Anyone who thinks a stable power supply at the Band-A rates will increase their production cost has no business with grid power. There are cheaper alternatives, but it’s all a function of scale.

I’m more than disappointed in the quality of your discourse as it posits no logic, facts, or rigor. My response is solely to enlighten other well-meaning citizens.