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It's so stupid that they are burning shops that sell cold drinks.The people leeching them are the swiss mining companies, the companies incorporated in London that owns 85% of their land.The companies hat dominate their financial sector. Some of us Africans never see the big picture.The Igbo or Yoruba guy that came to hustle by selling used cars is not the one taking your wealth.

logon599:
Italy- racism capital of the free world.
More and more black players will be racially abused in Cagliari cos the inactions of the Italian FA over time simply sends them a message that their actions are welcome and even encouraged. I just pity the black players there.

I thought Spain & Japan owns the award. Germany can also be a close third.

I use to have a cash at hand mentality. While I agree that too much debt is bad for an individual and that the financial companies in the western world are almost operating at usury level now and very greedy at the same time how do you expect a drop-out bus driver to buy a house, a family car, pay for car insurance with cash at hand. Its through credit.
In the western world, the jobs that are frowned upon in Africa like a bus driver can guarantee a mortgage and the bus driver can even own a house and a family car through credit.
Credit is nothing but borrowing from your expected future earnings. The buy with cash at hand mentality doesn't mean anything. In fact credit drives growth. The reason why we don't have as much infrastructural development in Africa is that FDI credit is not coming our way.

A large nation cannot move to middle income or high income status without credit to coming from consumer spending.

Hypothetical Question:
If you have £100,000 at hand and you can invest it and net a 10% yield yearly or rather buy a house and pay 2% interest on the loan. Do you buy with the "cash" or invest your money and pay the credit interest from your investment income and be left with 8%.

He has over spent his heyday money from man city and arsenal and now looking for retirement money.��

helinues:
Anything loan is not good for someone's health.

People will take a loan for business with 15% interest rate.. Meanwhile, the expectations profits from the business is not up to 15%.

If Majority of the acclaimed Nigeria Billionaires paid all their debts with AMCON and banks, most will dropped to millionaire categories

Simply, they are fake billionaires

Nigerian bank loans are not very favourable.
In the UK, you can get 0% interest loans for specific purchases and 0% credit card during 24 months promotional period. After 24 months you can even transfer the balance to another 0% card. Our Nigerians financial institutions need to be reinvigorated to make credit available and affordable for people.

netpro:
Nonsense. Hope the Organizers also take full responsibility for any loss of lives and destruction of properties.

Or they just roll the dice on Anarchy, absorb themselves through this statement, unleash mayhem and see much damage can occur?

Any muumu that loses his life over this ill-conceived rampage will have him or herself to blame.

A word is enough for the wise.

That's the problem, nobody wan die lool.On the flipside, when I look all through history to study countries that transitioned from an authoritarian rule, corrupt democracy, tyranny, feudalism etc. There were loss of lifvws because the monied elite won't give up their connections, privilege, shady deals, nepotism for nothing.

mvem:
gun deaths also is an everyday occurence in the US...States like Chicago alone has approximately a gun related death everyday

Chicago is a city. You mean Illinois?

mrMeen:
May God console the family of the victims.

terrible news everywhere.

It is time for the US to really modify it's gun laws, because as it is every psychopath depressed and mentally insane individual can get his hands on the latest guns and the results are what we see here.

Wonder what will prompt a person to just wake up one day and decide to just spray bullets on live human beings.

What about depressed, drunk and dangerous drivers causing thousands of accident that results in fatalities everywhere. Should they modify car laws?

People needs to be fixed rather than objects.

LadySarah:
His grammar sad,the situation sadder and the 20k forcefully taken by the police saddest.
Can Nigeria change?

Forget about his grammar bro.
English no be hin 1st language.

Bethel80:
President Muhammadu Buhari warmly congratulates Mr Boris Johnson as new British Prime Minister, while felicitating with Mrs Theresa May for providing visionary leadership for the country.

In a goodwill message, the President said, “In Nigeria, we respect the choice of British people and we are ready to work with the new Prime Minister to improve our close relations.

“Britain has been one of Nigeria’s most reliable allies, especially in supporting the efforts of this administration to improve security and stamp out corruption and graft.

“As Mr Johnson steps into Mrs May’s shoes, we look forward to continuation of the good relationships that bind us together for many years.’’

President Buhari adds that, “we value this relationship so deeply that, regardless of who is in charge, this relationship should survive the political changes in the UK.’’

The President praised the British democratic model, describing it as one of the most successful systems in the world, which has survived time.

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
July 24, 2019

http://www.bellsnews.com/politics/president-buhari-congratulates-new-uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson/

To the symbiotic relationship that has metamorphosed from colonialism into Neocolonialism.

Buckubuck:
Nationalism and populism is taking centre stage in the West gradually. This goes to show that the average human is very jealous of his identity and does everything he can to protect it. The progressive leaning ideas of LGBT rights, immigration and the acceptance of Islamic fundamentalism as a form of religious freedom has pushed most people to be skeptical about them.

Absolutely!

Afd (populist party) of Germany has about 95 seats in German parliament.

Hungary has a populist & far right President and 145 of 199 legislators from Fidesz populust/Nationalist party.

Poland has 235 of 450 far right Law & Justice party.

Italy, Germany, Switzerland all have large representation from far-right conservative parties in power.

I use wrist watch as a dressing accessory.

Less is more ok and sleeping in $1000 a night Monaco suite.OK

Iyalaya, last last she no go marry him. Loool

Deal with this ASAP. I had an ongoing sexual relationship with our housemaid from at least age 7. Especially when my parents were not at hme and having my bath. She was probably in her late-teens(18 yrs)then. It's now that I think of it, I'm like what the hell was that. I sit next to her far away from my parents and we touch each other. These kinds of stuff happened to many boys in homes with housegirls or even from teachers. I don't think my parents knew till today at least they never discussed it with me or maybe they found out and dealt with the help.

AllenSpencer:
Can we also call the government of the USA and Mexico irresponsible too?

Crime knows no bounds. Its a challenge being face by every government all over the world.

USA don't have a normadic pseudo militia across the whole nation killing people sporadically.

oz4real83:
The first and fastest road to having a functioning automobile industry is to have a functioning and efficient steel industry. Without this,we will keep on assembling car parts from other countries.

In fact, let me adds that a nation without a steel manufacturing industry can never fully industrialize.
Steel of most type, form and shape should be able to have a lead time of maximum 2 weeks.

The issue is when Pan Africanist Black Americans come to Africa for tracing their lineage/culture/knowing their ancestral origin, they get disappointed how the blacks in Africa don't care about Pan Africanism and the suffering their ancestors went through.

An example is a young Michelle Obama on her trip to Kenya in the early 90s who famously told Obama that, I can't wait to go back home (America) because everything was exciting at first but over time, the harsh reality of Africa is different from the plight of the American blacks.

The term strong black woman is an American cliche.
It's strong woman in Africa as we are not a multiracial society.We are all black

Jaqenhghar:
No dey decieve yourself. Its just recently he learnt english sef. All he spoke was Greek. Dey there. He identifies as Greek and is as Nigerian as Olives. Make una no go create una own heroes

Thank you O.Nigeria can claim.Talent dey na another country develop for you.Nigerians will come and be claiming

Nbote:
Na wa ooo... I don't care what anyone says or thinks, we are inferior to d whites... D only time we even learn to do d right thing is afta learning d white man's ways and d only time we actually become innovative and develop our talents is afta going to d white man's country.. We neva fit do road for ground na On top water we wan do? We here in Africa escort d West come dis life

I am surprised that you didn't know that Oyinbo copy oyinbo too.Railway technology was taken from UK to Germany. US could not launch their rockets into space until German engineers were given green card after WW2. The hallmark of racism is the separation by black and white. A white English man will never think he is the same as a Russian man.Yet we think they are the same. All through human history, technology, culture, religion have always been taken from one place to the another. It's not that the people who took it were inferior. It's just the way the world works. The only reason why we dont do anything in Africa is because of high level corruption and incompetent people in high offices not becasue we are innately inferior.If we are, then no Nigerian should be doing any great thing anywhere in the world.

There's nothing like a mutual respect friendship where there's no bulshitting but honesty and integrity. From distance, I always perceive that kind of relationship between these two.

Darivie04:
Doing speedy calculations does not make you a mathematician or math genius.

It does, especially when you consider the resources available to him and the circumstance of the time.We talking early 18th century here.

The public needs to be protected by putting heras fencing along the edge of the excavation. Children or even adults can easily fall from the edge.
With a 25tonne excavator, there should definitely be a barrier separating pedestrians from the machinery.

Don't allow anyhring that you think is of value to you make you look down on anybody.
People do this unconsciously. The whole evil of racism and jim crow and ethnic cleansing of other race to people being prideful is basically putting oneself above others.

jchioma:
These are the real AGIP of Nigeria. They are always present in any government. When H.E. Atiku becomes president, they will still be there.

Yes now, business interest supersedes partisan politics anyday.

TMemos:
See what Nairaland is rushing to the front page

In less than 30mins useless gossips make the front page but useful economic and political suggestions which will benefit all Nigerians are left to rot away in the different sections.

To be honest that's how it is in any country. Popular news are the sensational stuffs while political news are left to those who are truly interested, and those ones will go and search for it.

Some millions of dollars have been spent on a big lobbying firm with deep connection in Washington. US government made a ban decision days ago.
Google announced they've stopped technology exchange with Huawei yesterday and boom, today a 90 days extension.

McSpeedy04:
Let's ask ourselves why is it that Nigerians thrive more when they're outside Nigeria.

Because every county has smart people but their stars don't shine when there is no enabling platform.

As soon as they go to an enabling environment their stars start shining.

I know her, She was telling me of her aspiration to run for Clr 4 years ago. Lovely woman with a passion to serve.

How ironic is it that people like this will not even come near the throne of governance in their home country.

1 week executive course by a money making elitist institution that has no real and practical case study that is specific to a poor African country.

Harvard dey make your money dey go, nothing do you.

martineverest:
china is already a world power ...but their level of innovation,research and development is very poor compared to western countries.

America and UK are leading in next technologies( AI,quantum computing,machine learning,AR etc),china is left behind

Not any more bro, 4 of the top ten tech companies in the world are Chinese.

China now has more AI research the the US. HUAWEI is now the second most popular mobile phone.China 2025 has an economic vision to lead in AI,robotics,high tech medicine by 2025. These guys have frigates that are more advanced than the US navy. The whole "their technology is subpar stories is old news".Trump is trying to stop them but I think it's too late.

matify83:
This is wizardry in daylight.

The transformation of this once famine stricken country 2 decades back into a major super power is worth under studying .

Kudos!!

I feel you and China industrialization is so amusing but the two decades is over exaggeration.Two decades ago was 1999, they were already building ridiculous dams, bridges and large factories by Then. The Chinese people starved around mid 1950s to 1960s when Mao Zedong introduced some strange policies.