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“Indeed, African leaders and those non-African members of the Bank must resist the clearly patronising effort of the US, which from all intents and purposes, seeks to castrate a successful and performing African institution and leadership. Their goal is to make African States perpetually dependent on western funding, which often comes with strings attached and are used to undermine our collective development effort as a continent.”

On 11 January 1976 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gen Murtala Muhammed of Nigeria, addressed his brother Heads of State at an Extraordinary Summit Meeting of the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU, now African Union-AU). His speech challenged US policy in Africa’s liberation struggle, exemplified by a letter written by President Gerald Ford of the US, opposing the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-MPLA-from assuming leadership of post-colonial Angola after its Portuguese colonists had been militarily defeated by the liberation movements in that country. Specifically, Gen Muhammed submitted in a powerful exhortation that “Africa has come of Age.” That position swayed many African States into abandoning support for the US policy that had blacklisted the MPLA, whom they then gave their backing, gifting Agostinho Neto with the goodwill and diplomatic wherewithal he needed to subsequently become the first President of independent Angola. It was an unprecedented defeat for American foreign policy by the African continent.
On May 11 2020, Gaskiya.net had published an analysis calling on sections of the western media as well as humanitarian and development organisations to stop using Africans as icons of misery and misfortune. This was premised on verifiable and published facts showing that these phenomena are not exclusive to the African continent and therefore causes one to wonder why only Africans are used to depict such.We had argued that some sections of the western media choose “to focus on the negative issues on the African continent, continuously driving and sustaining a narrative of a continent at war with itself and unable to transform its socio-economic and political challenges into positive change and sustainable development.”
What we did not stress in that analysis is the fact that when Africa’s leaders choose to change the situation for good, as Murtala Muhammed did in 1976, their efforts are either derided as lacking substance, or described as failures by the organisations mentioned even where they are succeeding. At its extreme, such icons are physically eliminated. This happened to Patrice Lumumba, Murtala Muhammed and Thomas Sankara. Lumumba was killed on January 17 1961 in Lubumbashi (Belgium formally apologised in 2002 for its role in his extra-judicial killing), Muhammed was assassinated on February 13 1976 in an abortive coup in Lagos, while Sankara was brutally assassinated on October 15 1987 in Ouagadougu, Burkina Faso.
A major development in recent time has been the sterling achievements of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the now subterranean extra-continental efforts to undermine its leadership—a move that now refocuses attention on our analysis cited above. For those not aware, the AfDB is a multilateral development finance institution, founded in 1964 and comprising of three entities: the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund. It is headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and has 81 member-States.
The AfDB has been led by Akinwunmi Adesina since September 1 2015.He has wrought changes that have consistently impacted the African continent positively. He expanded the Bank’s equity to the tune of USD115 billion (from its previous USD 93 billion), launched a USD3 billion social bond in March 2020 to help African countries fight Covid-19 and a USD10 billion crisis-response facility for African nations, to mention just some. Clearly, Akinwunmi Adesina is in some ways, a modern day version of Lumumba, Muhammed and Sankara combined, and clearly falls in the league of those African leaders trying to change the negative narrative on the continent. This is not going down well with some western nations, led by the US, whose Treasury Secretary allegedly condemned the report of the AfDB’s own internal ethics committee headed by Japan, that exonerated its President of allegations of favouritism.
Gaskiya.net argues that this behaviour is consistent with its analysis that suggested a systemic policy by the west, its media and institutions to continually depict Africans as incapable of solving their own problems. Where an African is instigating tremendous change, he or she is undermined and frustrated. The only difference in the Adesina witch-hunt is that Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland are surprisingly joining in this game!

Read the full analysis at www.gaskiya.net

I dont really follow her but I have always wondered why she never got nominated for a Grammy or even winning one.

Or winning a category in the Dove awards.

I know who I am should definitely be a Grammy winning song.

So I maybe wrong maybe she won or got nominated for these awards.

My favourite artistes

1. Early B
2. Nicodemus
3. Tenor Saw
4. Sugar Minott
5. Dennis Emmanuel Brown
6. Burro Bantan
7. Likkle John
8. Bountikilla
9. Busy Signal
10. Romain Virgo
11. Rankin Toyan
12. Ninjaman

Once again the crowd have hijacked the side comments and turned it into the main discussion.
Should Nigerians be celebrating the US refusal to return "Nigerian" money looted from Nigeria?
I do not see people asking for the US government to investigate the financial institutions who received the said money from Abacha and sanction them for handling stolen goods. .
Whether the current government will spend it wisely or not should be left to Nigerians to police. If the US is still dictating how to spend money stolen from Nigeria for which their financial institutions have received accrued interest, then we have not started in this country.

No country will ever develop with the amount of self hatred we have for ourselves. Nether will any outside help view us as serious.

That is why after all these decades our progress has been limited

If anything, we should set up a body now and give conditions of how we want the Federal government to spend the money and how the US should repatriate the money.
We can do it in batches so that we can monitor if the government is keeping to its side of the bargain with regards to the disbursement.
This is the kind of approach I believe we should be adopting and I expect other people to contribute on how the government can be held accountable to the disbursement. But we should not be telling the US to hold on to money that rightfully belongs to Nigerians. Mba

The Other Side of Africa During COVID-19. Made in Nigeria oxygen and ventilators and made in Kenya facemasks

Paradoxically, it is on record that in the same Nigeria, digital mechanical ventilators were being produced (by its Defence Industries Corporation and some of its Polytechnics—something never done before the COVID-19 outbreak), while its Air Force was already producing oxygen in commercial quantity (from its own Liquid Oxygen Plant that makes the product for use by its fighter pilots while on missions) and distributing them to hospitals across the country in the frontline of COVID-19 response. Yet this NMA official failed to use the opportunity he had to tell the world about these laudable efforts. Kenya, another African country, saw great innovation as enterprising young people started mass producing face masks to augment the scarcity being experienced in that country.
These are just two examples of the numerous approaches being taken, either by African Governments, research institutes or even the private sector, to respond to COVID-19 and attempt to limit its impact on Africa. However, if the African elite do not change their mindset of always begging for help or appealing for funds from Western or Asian nations, the average African is going to continue reveling in the belief that he or she is in one of the worst places on earth, a debatable narrative that is nevertheless repeatedly promoted by some global media.
Read the rest of the story at www.gaskiya.net

Pastor Chris voiced an opinion devoid of abuse. All who disagree ( and they sure have the right to) should voice their disagreement without recourse to name calling and outright rudeness.

Abuse does not add merit to our arguments. We need to learn to marshall our arguments without being insulting.

Happy Easter to one and all.

This story is currently being investigated as we do not have any shred of evidence relating to the existence of such videos.

angelEmade:
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majamajic:
I like that lake , pray by the lake side , every sickness will go away from u

Make crocodile chop you abi when you close eye dey pray?

Is this news or an advertorial?
So anything now hits front page. Hmm
Ok O. Somebody go soon launch otapiapia and it will be front page on nairaland.

I watched the Man U game on Cartoon Network

Bus themed restaurants exist around the world.....

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with twelve months

Rastafari Church.

2019 is the year of 12 months

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Read this article The War Against Boko Haram - The Nigerian Air Force as the game changer

​By Gaskiya.net Defence Consultant

Despite what—with the benefit of hindsight—has turned out to be ill-advised attempts by the Boko Haram group to overrun a forward operating base of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) of the Lake Chad countries in Melete, Nigeria, in which some Nigerian officers and troops were killed defending their location, the status quo ante has remained firmly in favour of Nigerian and regional forces. Nigeria has not lost any territory and has continued to dominate both air and land theatres. In a two-part analysis, Gaskiya.net examines the reasons for the success gained to date by Nigeria’s counter-insurgency operations and underscores the critical role the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is playing in the success equation.

The way Nigeria had elected to confront the threat posed by “Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad,” commonly referred to as “Boko Haram” when the insurgency gained ground and notoriety was to deploy conventional methods of warfare against the adversary. As was known by many at the time, Boko Haram was not fighting in a conventional way, but hitting soft targets, abducting young boys, women and young girls and stealing food and livestock. The Nigerian military would later find out that its preferred response was a wrong approach.
The Boko Haram group would itself later change its strategy from a purely asymmetric warfare to fighting conventionally and capturing and holding territory. By that time, Nigerian authorities had revised their strategy, the arrowhead of which was the wholesale deployment of Special Forces. Doing so required increasing not just the number, but the proficiency of these forces. Special recruitment took place, with Nigeria training those enlisted at home, as well as sending some abroad. While Special Forces were being trained in huge numbers, Nigeria also simultaneously began re-fitting its armoured divisions.
The Nigerian Army has one of the most highly mechanised forces in Africa and prior to the Boko Haram insurgency, it had five divisions—the 1st Mechanised Division, 2nd Mechanised Division, 3rd Armoured Division, 82 Composite Division and the 81 Division. All these divisions, under the command of two-star Generals, deliver fighting men and women into battle in armoured infantry fighting vehicles. However, the initial phase of the insurgency (in which Boko Haram basically initiated and sustained asymmetric warfare), made an all-out mechanised assault ineffective.
However, with the change of strategy by the insurgents, when they began capturing and holding territory, the military created two more divisions—the 7th Division headquartered in the north-east, epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency, and the 6th Division, carved out of elements of the existing 82 Composite Division, and located in the oil rich Port Harcourt in the south.
That done, the Army proceeded to acquiring more advanced main battle tanks, particularly the T-72 variety which would turn out to be the queen of battle in the successful recapture of all territories previously captured and held by Boko Haram. The acquisition of heavy armour and several units of self-propelled artillery constituted the backbone of the asymmetric counter-offensives launched across multiple fronts by the newly trained Special Forces. This, while not exactly detailing the entire story relating to the success of her land forces, gives a snapshot of how Nigeria re-invented herself to attain the success she has notched up today.
The success of the Nigerian Army on the ground was not as sweet as the above analysis presented it. In fact, they suffered casualties, lost equipment and were often bogged down in difficult terrain spanning at least 60,000square kilometres. They needed help, which, in accordance with the motto of the Army (which is: Victory is from God Alone) did come from above but through the instrumentality of a sister service—the Nigerian Air Force.

Read the concluding part at http://www.gaskiya.net/

Codedrock:
SOURCE: https://tinamagazine.com/2018/06/most-beautiful-cities-in-africa.html

So where is Kigali?

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
This is the exact reason why we can't move forward as a nation. Our mentality is seriously backwards!

God forbid a Coca-Cola decides to stand a vending machine at bustops like how it's done in civilized societies. I don't wanna imagine what would happen to dem machines at night

Night or even during the day? You think people bent on destroying will wait till night fall? Some dudes are heartless O. Even Apostle Paul of Bible days called them wicked and unreasonable men.

#EbolaScareCancelTheGame

Ask Icheoku

Man like Joe Lickshot...live

kpaofame:
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stewpid girls...

He should arrest them and sue for attempted murder, inflicting bodily harm, violence with intent of manslaughter and collect every bit of rand he spent on their silly ass..

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The guy should sue them for assault and GBH.. Grievous Bodily Harm. This type of nonsense needs to stop. Sue them ASAP. The evidence is there already. Make the job easy for the cops.

naptu2:
That's exactly what was on my mind. I've been trying to remember its name! A Nairalander posted the title of that Nigerian muppet show many years ago, but I can't find the post.

The Puppet Show. I think it was called. Was made by NTA Jos... The name of the band was Top Hitters Band.

The jersey is made of Ankara and Woodin

Aisha Yesufu for President 2019

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Gmarie:
Same here

Happy Birthday in advance guys

#Oct9Rocks

oriflamebaby1:
October 9

Happy Birthday in advance.

From a birthday mate


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