AntiChristian: Hope it wasn't involved in Trans-atlantic slave trade? People should know their history!
The Anglican church has a complex history with the slave trade, including direct involvement through investments and plantations like Codrington College in Barbados, and ideological support for slavery. It also had members who opposed it and worked towards abolition. In recent years, the Church of England has apologized for its historical links and has pledged significant funding to address the legacy of slavery through investments and research. Goodlady
Have the Nigerian Chiefs and Jihadists who benefited from selling slaves apologised for Slavery, or are they still enslaving Nigerians?
LordBiden: Where are those crypto mumus that like to scream buy the dip in events like these.
Buy the dip! Buy the dip! till you finally get drown in the dip.
Nigerians are the dummest investors ever. I said last year that crypto is a fraud and a scam. Crypto has a lot of liabilities, such as power, data centre and government regulation.
TUANKU: She should ask them if they received contributions from gullible citizens to build the Qatar national library. The national library started by OBJ which is located in Central business district - Abuja was already 60% completed so i wonder which library this shady individual intends to build.
National libraries are critical national assets used for holding the national archive.
KennethOkonkwo: There is a difference,your knowledge of basic SSCE economics is just poor.
There is a difference between MICROECONOMICS and MACROECONOMICS
All macroeconomics indices have been excellently improving...and at the microeconomics level,food prices are actually crashing,politics apart,but we haven't gotten there yet.The government need to do more
The government needs to reduce its costs. Reduce government corruption , reduce security probklem and improve food production
“I would like to see a better look at fiscal expenditure. We’re still spending too much money on government — on the cost of governance, too many political appointees, too many officers,” Sanusi said.
“If we do not improve the quality of spending and put a rein on expenditure, we’re going to continue borrowing.”
He warned that Nigeria could fall back into a debt trap if it failed to manage its post-subsidy savings prudently.
“After saving money from these expensive subsidies, after building up the government balance sheet, you go and spend it, and then you have to borrow again,” he cautioned.
“So we still have some steps to go on the fiscal side, but the first thing was to fix revenue, and I think with the tax reforms and what you’ve seen so far, the fiscal side is on its way.
I recall that at the start of my engineering career, I took a low-paying engineering job that paid little but provided me with a wide range of engineering experience. My next engineering job moved me into a consulting position.
From Refinery Engineer to Sugar Engineer, what a drop off.
Dpsychologist: Let’s be brutally honest — Black Tax is slavery dressed up as culture.
For those unfamiliar, Black Tax is the cultural expectation that once you start earning, your salary belongs not just to you, but to your parents, siblings, cousins — sometimes even uncles and aunties. Sounds noble, right? But here’s the hard truth:
Many people in their 20s and 30s especially firstborns are stuck living like they’re still broke, not because they don’t earn, but because their family’s demands never end. Everywhere in Africa, once you start earning, you’re automatically turned into the family’s ATM especially when not born with a silver spoon . It doesn’t matter if you’re just starting out, if your salary is small, or if you’re struggling yourself — the moment you collect that paycheck, you owe everybody.
They call it “responsibility.” But let’s tell the truth:
It’s financial exploitation.
It’s entitlement disguised as love.
It’s one of the biggest reasons young Africans will NEVER break generational poverty.
The Trap
A graduate earns ₦70k.
₦20k to mum.
₦15k to dad.
₦10k to sibling.
Another cousin calls for school fees.
Uncle calls for “urgent 5k.”
At the end of the month, guess what’s left? Zero. No savings. No investment. No future. Just endless poverty cycle.
And when you dare say “No,” you’re suddenly the wicked, ungrateful child.
The Irony
Here’s the painful part:
The same parents who drained their kids often never saved or invested when they were young. They now dump the responsibility of their own financial failure on their children.
Instead of empowering the next generation, they enslave them with guilt.
And let’s be real — how many families use this money wisely? At times, it goes into wasteful spending while the “breadwinner” suffers in silence.
The Hard Truth Nobody Wants to Hear
If African youth keep paying endless Black Tax, nobody will ever be rich. One person cannot save a whole clan. Period.
👉 A child’s duty is not to fund laziness, poor planning, or entitlement. 👉 If you destroy your own financial future to please family, you will just create another generation of broke people.
The Conversation We Need
Should young Africans build themselves first before carrying family on their back?
Is saying “NO” selfish, or the only way to break free?
At what point does “support” turn into slavery?
Until we face the truth, Black Tax will keep Africa chained to poverty.
What’s your take? Are we ready to break this culture, or are we too afraid of being called “selfish”?
Thanks for sharing this post. In the UK, Africans are one of the few ethnic groups that start their career with no inheritance and are burdened with multiple liabilities beyond their capacity.
realoscar84: The same concern bigger clubs have about his attitude that stopped them from going all the way to sign him. Everyone on that pitch is doing his job. He should realize that and stop getting unnecessary aggressive at the opponent. This has nothing to do with being aggressive in his playing style.
Exactly, Victor's poor personnel behaviour is the reason why clubs that are changing erratically and unprofessionally avoid him at all costs. We witness his attack against Finidi George and now this.
SmartPolician: The only day Peter Obi will become irrelevant is that day Nigerians unanimously admit that we don't deserve a good leader.
Until that that day comes, anything anyone says online is his or her personal opinion. Peter Obi doesn't need to pay or mobilze people to vote for him because a good product sells itself.
Peter Obi is not a good leader. The man is a hustler who has made an irrelevant Tinubu a relevant figure.
It is "Nigerian workers are VERY poorly skilled, VERY lazy and VERY untrustworthy".
Thr unfortunate part is that it is often the very few hardworking and very skilled ones that will take offence at that statement. Then, they will reply you to defend everybody and you making the statement gets stuck.
When an individual lacks the skills to be confident in their work, they tend to be corrupt and incompetent.
TheBizGenius: Which is why Tinubu is trying his best to revamp the technical colleges and offer massive incentives to anyone willing to learn.
No, and I repeat, No big company will come to set up in Nigeria without a large pool of very skilled technicians domiciled in the country. It just won't happen. They will just lose money big time.
All of us go learn management stuff in the university but that's all relatively useless in a factory setting on a consistent level because of operational systems and automation.
Revamping the technical college is the responsibility of the State and local Government.
Nigerian politicians are often criticised for being incapable of governing a complex country like Nigeria, for a reason. These politician are only interested in the politics of business.
kenex4ever: how many of you Indians there are expatriates Is it not Ayokis that he employs 90% of the time.
Even the expatriate Indians that he employs didn't go to university but just technical schools and you come here n be forming expatriates.
The best engineers are not necessarily university graduates, but rather apprentices and technical school graduates. India has a manufacturing output of $490 billion; Nigeria is not in the top 50 in that list.
Nigeria doesn't have a working Pharmaceutical API, Steel Plant or Aluminium Smelter. The ineffective Nigerian unions have been collecting full salaries from the non-operational NNPC Refineries and Ajaokuta Steel plant, which they are known to have sabotaged.
I'm not a fan of Indians in the UK and the USA, but Nigerian workers are incompetent and lazy, just like the government.
yinkeys: Dangote got money from Nigeria to build that refinery or not ? Junior or mid level staffs should’ve taken the money Move on with your life ASAP It’s senior staffs I pity Dangote will employ more Indians as usual
It is cheaper to pay Nigerians, but Nigerian workers are poorly skilled, lazy and untrustworthy.
slivertongue: If true they should take the pay and move forward but that won't stop Nigerians from standing up when needed
The Nigerian unions have destroyed the relevance of Nigerian workers. They are now seen as saboteurs and a threat to a business. It is well known that the majority oil thief at NNPC pipelines and depots were done by NNPC workers
Dangote refinery insisted that it was a lesser burden than allowing potentially untrustworthy workers into the facility.
madridguy: The governors who cannot pay minimum wage will pay state police? Our governors are not ready to use their security vote for anything security of their states.
Nigeria is a federal republic, which means that state governors may have state police, and local governments must have local police forces. if the state governor abuses the police, then maybe we shouldn't have states in the first place.
I am tired of minority ethnic groups holding back the country
funshint: Nigeria cannot utilize it's gas resources to provide stable electricity and gas self-sufficiency for her people but can readily spend billions just to siphon it to Europe. Nigerian leaders are unbelievable!
The project is dead on arrival.
The Moroccan government are the one pushing the project to replace gas from Algeria and transform Morocco into an African energy hub for Europe.
Shikini: These are the kinds of reforms Nigeria needs
But the thief in Abuja prefers to increase fuel price, increase taxes etc and call them reforms .
Removing the useless fuel subsidies is a economic reform that should have been implemented in 2012. Expanding the tax base is a reform. Nigerians often seem to want to drift through life, doing nothing and producing nothing.
A businessman, Dangote, builds a refinery, yet useless Nigerians want to destroy it.
If Nigerians were given the chance, they would still be selling slaves until the British stopped it.
oga028315: So are you saying that after over 50 years of the damage you claim the Igbos did through Ironsi, you people who have ruled since then could not fix the error or even make the country the country of your dreams without the Igbos in power?
Nigeria was not set up to fix problems. Nigeria is a group of nations that are force to live with eachother
oga028315: Of course it will be pointless to you since it doesn't push the false narrative of claiming that Igbos were the ones who started dividing Nigeria into states...
They claim Aguyi Ironsi was the one who brought in unitary government for Igbos to dominate other tribes and that is the cause of all the problems of Nigeria till date, but...
You ask the same people who killed Aguyi Ironsi and took over power just about 8 months into his reign why they have been unable to correct the mistake they claimed Aguyi made after over 50 years of only them in power without the Igbos then you begin to hear explanations without logic and common sense.
I mean let's look at it in simple terms, you claimed someone took over control of a vehicle illegally and caused damage to the vehicle, you killed him and then took over, after over 50 years you did not fix the damage but further spoilt it by creating more damage but still want to blame the first person for all your failures after 50 years of handling the vehicle and calling yourself a saint while tagging the first handler that you killed a bad person.
Does it sound normal at all?
It sounds normal to me. Ironsi was the head of state of a suspicious and fractured country that had just witnessed a bloody coup led by Igbo officers. Ironsi proceeded to implement a decree that restricted Nigeria's press freedom and the infamous Decree No. 34", which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary.
Throughout Nigeria's period of self-rule, the North has consistently employed Northern political terms in its political movement. Northern Nigeria had always been suspicious of southern Nigerians. When given a chance by the useless Igbo military elite, they took complete control of the country, creating states that empowered the North. At the same time, return to regions when they can create multiple Northern states.
Igbo people need to learn that politics is a game of interest.
Aguiyi-Ironsi inherited a Nigeria that was deeply fractured by its ethnic and religious cleavages. None of the high-profile victims of the 1966 coup was of Igbo extraction.
Aguiyi Ironsi, who was the most senior officer alive as at the morning of 15 January 1966. after managing to survive the coup by outwitting the coup plotters, he proceeded to rally some troops loyal to him and was able to crush the coup.
The perception of many, including the Northern and Western soldiers that no high-profile politician of Igbo extraction was killed, added to the emergence of yet another Igbo General as the leader of the Military Government of Nigeria, led people of the northern part the country to believe that it had been an Igbo conspiracy.
Though Aguiyi-Ironsi tried to dispel that notion by courting the aggrieved ethnic groups through political appointments and patronage, his failure to punish the coup plotters and the promulgation of the now-infamous "Decree No. 34", which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one, crystallized the conspiracy theory.
Aguiyi-Ironsi in the early 1950s During his short regime (194 days in office), Aguiyi-Ironsi promulgated a raft of decrees.
Among them were the Constitution Suspension and Amendment Decree No.1, which suspended most articles of the Constitution though it left intact those sections that dealt with fundamental human rights, freedom of expression and conscience.
The Circulation of Newspaper Decree No.2 removed the restrictions on press freedom that had been put in place by the preceding civilian administration.[22]
According to Ndayo Uko, the decree was to serve "as a kind gesture to the press" to safeguard himself when he went on later to promulgate the Defamatory and Offensive Decree No.44 of 1966, which made it an "offense to display or pass on pictorial representation, sing songs, or play instruments the words of which are likely to provoke any section of the country"
Nigerians are funny. See them all over the comment section shouting, 'Africa this, Africa that?' while clearly seeing that one of the most advanced countries in the world, the Netherlands, is also a party to that.
Well, whether you like it or not, America, the country of our Lord Jesus Christ, will remain the greatest country in the world for centuries to come.
They are not dumping the refugees in the Netherlands?
Princedapace: No, we have resources. Tax is used heavily in countries without natural resources. Lol! When u are blessed with lots of natural resources, u lower tax for ur people and buisness to strive. The problem here is looting! Politicians loot. Nigerians are already paying tax, a lot already. The policians only need to work for 4 years and get taken care of for life by Nigerians wealth. Cut that down and block looting properly and fix ur electoral system and watch Nigeria grow. U cant be taxing 25 percent of income in a poor country while u have not fixed anything. That is crazy! Politicians earn so well, waste constituency projects, waste contract fund, loot and buy properties in London, Dubai, and u are here talking about taxing Nigerians more. Oga, are u normal?
Any country depending on Natural resources will end up like Botswana and DR Congo when the resources lose their market value. Nigeria must focus on improving its manufacturing output
ogascomax: If you have worked in Dangote refinery you won't say all these. Those who have worked there won't support you in whatever way. Union can be a bad thing but unionism is also good to checkmate some things. It has both positive and negative effects. Dangote is taken advantage of Nigerian workers there and he is undermining them. We need strong unions in private sectors. Look at how Asians enslave Nigerians in many part of the country, people working under bad conditions with poor salary. If we have strong union some of those things won't happen. you see people being hired and fired without salary these are some of the wicked things you see in the private sector.
Nigerians enslaved themselves; no one forced them to work for Asians.
Zionmdde: He doesn't have the right to hire and fire at will. That mentality is why foreigners are treating us the way they are right in our own country
Employment is a contract between 2 Persons, once that contract is signed, you cannot terminate it carelessly as you wish
Employment contract is between the business and employee , if your service is not good enough then you will be sacked
slivertongue: Both should settle their matter for the benefit of the country
If Dangote settles with PENGASSAN, the Dangote refinery will end up like NNPC PH refinery. The Nigerian unions are the reason why nothing works in Nigeria.
Zionmdde: Small education for you Union is strictly there to protect the interest of its members so you can't just wake up tomorrow and sack them for nothing without realizing that you are putting them and all their dependents into hardship
What is happening with all these Lebanese and Chinese companies is pure slavery and that's dangote's model. Unionism is one of the major pillars of the UN ILO
You guys can keep supporting injustice, it will reach everybody
You said Union is strictly there to protect the interests of its members!
If the interest of its members means that they should keep Nigeria in poverty.
Nigerian unions and workers are often perceived as corrupt, incompetent, and not serving the national interest. The Nigerian unionised workers are antiquated and backwards, and refuse to be involved.
Nigerian unions are keen to keep unproductive refineries and steel plants (Ajaokuta) in government hands, with the knowledge that they keep their jobs and remain relevant at the expense of the entire country. PH, Warri and Kaduna have not refined a drop of oil in 25 years, yet the Union wants to keep these relics.
Nigerian unions have stalled the sale of the state-owned NNPC refineries for decades through industrial actions, legal challenges, and public opposition. Their resistance is based on concerns over job security, transparency, national economic interests, and fear of exploitation by private operators.
Key union strategies and demands The two main unions representing oil and gas workers, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), have used these tactics to block privatization efforts:
[quote][ FG blames NLC for blocking sale of refineries to Dangote in 2007
Reports currently circulating indicate that Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE, Lagos has allegedly sacked all its local staff following a wave of unionization, with over 90% of the workforce said to have joined PENGASSAN (Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria).
This development has sparked widespread reactions, as many fear the move could trigger industrial unrest and escalate labor tensions within the company and across the oil and gas sector.
Dangote Sacks ‘All’ Nigerian Employees For Joining PENGASSAN
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Is it not Ayokis that he employs 90% of the time.