I got this article on my WhatsApp and decided to share it here. It reinforced my belief that the problem of Nigeria is not necessarily government, political system or finance, it's Nigerians themselves. The average Nigerian is corrupt, embraces and celebrates corruption and looks for loopholes to cheat the system, be it in government officials, workers in private companies or even business men. Until we change and restructure our minds, we will continue to go down the abyss.
Read the article and ponder on it.
I run a manufacturing business and a trading business. The biggest challenge in my manufacturing business is not power, or infrastructure, the biggest challenge is getting honest staff. Everyone we hire is appears to be on a mission to steal as much as possible. Inflated invoices, recording less than the actual number of units produced. The worst part of it all is that all the fraud we've uncovered is not done by a single person, it's usually many staff who collude with each other, from production, to sales, to finance, even top management. There was a year I overhauled management 3 times in a year. But I've found a solution sha, I now use Indian management. So competent, so honest and so straightforward. I thought they were expensive at first with all the visa fees, accommodation, house staff, but now that losses due to staff theft have been reduced to a minimum, and efficiency increased, the Indian management has turned out to be cheaper than the previous Nigerian management. Now, all sensitive positions involving money go to Indians. Nigerians are only allowed in non-sensitive positions. I used to criticize companies like Dangote Group that hire so many Indians when there are many unemployed Nigerians, but now, I understand their decision.
My biggest challenge in the trading business is the same, getting honest staff. The form of trading occurs in the open market, and involves staff having access to huge sums of money running into a few millions. I know how much I pay to security companies to provide escorts for the staff, not to prevent robbery, but to ensure that the staff go straight to the bank to deposit the money after the day's sales and not disappear with my money. This money spent on security companies is even enough to be declared as profit. We have to spend on CCTV, biometric scanners and other things that wouldn't not be needed if staff weren't looking for the slightest opportunity to steal.
It got so bad at a point that my main criteria for employing staff was no longer conpaetency but honesty. At least, competency and skills can be learnt, but once you're dishonest, you're dishonest.
We always complain of the economy and how they are no jobs. I know people abroad who would have loved to set up job creating businesses in Nigeria but they can't because they can't get any trustworthy person to run it.
I know people in Nigeria with so much money, they want to start factories and other job-creating businesses but they can't because they are occupied elsewhere and can't get any trustworthy person to run the business. So instead of investing in the real sector and creating jobs, they'll just buy treasury bills, while the thieves are shouting no jobs.
Many big businesses would have been born in Nigeria if we could engage in partnerships, but we cant because you can't trust anyone. This is one advantage the Indians and Lebanese have over us in Nigeria. They can pull resources together and do mega-business, unlike Nigerians that because only one person must do everything since we can't partner, end up with small, tiny businesses.
Start a poultry and they will be stealing your eggs. Some will even go ahead to be killing the chickens so that they'll be allowed to take them home.
Start an entertainment/viewing/game center and they'll be pocketing your money. On the days you're around at the business, the money realized will be x10 of the money realized when you're not around. Because they're eating your money.
Lease out a vehicle to a driver to use and watch as he'll finish you.
Start a restaurant, the same thing will happen. More than half of the total food ingredients will end up in their personal kitchens.
Even ordinary provisions shop, they will find a way to steal.
You'll see them with that their evil, wicked saying "na where person dey work, na there e dey chop, na e make dem dey callam workchop/workshop"...... Just imagine, justifying theft at work.
And you'll see these people point their crooked fingers at politicians when they're not any different. I usually say the reason most Nigerians haven't stolen billions of government money, is simply lack of opportunity.
shadeyinka: Your conscience know the truth which you term as emotional blackmail.
My conscience knows that it is against natural justice to bring an unwanted child into this cruel world. My conscience knows that a woman should not be punished for "sexual immorality" by forcing her to birth a baby she doesn't want, while the man goes scot free commiting the same sexual immorality as he likes.
Is a BABY, TODDLER or CHILD a legal person?
Yes. A Baby Toddler and child has legal rights.
Check the definition of legal person and then show why it is legal to murder a baby, toller or child because they are not yet legal entities.
You can murder a baby, toller or child, but you cannot murder an embryo, a Zygote or fetus. You abort the process of birthing the baby. When you abort a process, that means you did not complete or possess the thing. You can't have an app on your phone if your abort it during installation.
Abortion Is Not Murder
Even if we granted the most generous possible terms to the anti-abortion camp, even if we pretended the fetus was fully rational and contemplating Shakespeare in the womb, abortion would still not be murder.
There are a great many facts that conservatives feel comfortable ignoring when it comes to the abortion debate. They can pretend fetuses are indistinguishable from babies, despite the fact that medical evidence tells us fetuses cannot live unsupported, even with a respirator before 21 weeks. They can pretend they feel pain, even though scientific consensus tells us that until at least 24 weeks, a fetus cannot feel anything like pain because they do not yet have the brain connections to do so. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a19748134/what-is-abortion/
Common sense didn't tell you that a fully formed man/woman becomes so only after puberty. Every other phase of human existence is still in their process of morphosis towards adulthood.
Once again we are not discussing about reaching adulthood, we are talking about a woman carrying a pregnancy to term.
You want to kill a foetus because it cannot talk, because it doesn't have teeth, because it is still tethered to his mother through the umbilical cord?
Yes, the mother does not want to be tethered to the baby. If the baby is capable of surviving on its own or can choose to be tethered to another woman, the mother would gladly let it go.
Then, why not kill toddlers for not being able to speak English. Why not kill toddlers because they don't have breasts? Why don't you legally kill children because they are yet to have teeth?
Don't kill your conscience!
You are still just going on senseless emotional rants. What's concerns English, breasts and teeth with abortion?
As a side information. A friend came to my office about 3 hours ago, crying that his wife is in critical condition in the hospital. She attempted suicide by drinking sniper two days back because they had been married for over ten years, and had remain childlessness. She always miscarries whenever she became pregnant. And after the last miscarriage last week, she decided to commit suicide. He needed N180,000 for an operation and he had only raised N120,000. I could only raised N28,000 at the instance.
What I am trying to tell you that a woman that wants a baby would be ready to sacrifice her life for the baby, but one that does not would do anything to get rid of the baby. It's immoral to force a woman to have a baby she doesn't want.
Poloyanabo2: I always tell people that trump supporters the LGBT but they argue, it was this same post last year that made me unfollow his page temporarily last year... but at least he's more moral than Biden that supports Abortion. Trump is a lesser evil, he's not a saint.
You must be smoking hashish instead of igbo. How many wives did Biden marry? How many prostitutes had accused Biden of sleeping with them - raw. How many prostitutes had Biden paid off? Has Biden ever boasted that he "grabs them by the pussy" Which church does Trump attend and who is his pastor? When was the last time Trump attended church service? Has Biden ever defrauded people using fake charity organisation?
Everything about evangelical Christians boils down to sex. They are so obsessed with sex that all that matters is to them is LGBT, abortion, fornication, albeit hypocritically.
tommyakynz0802: Well It doesnt stop me from giving my opinion here. It is insane for you to prefer someone of the same sex just like it is insane to do other morally wrong things. So that's my opinion
And how is that your own problem? You cannot force your own morals on others. It might be immoral for you to drunk kainkain, it might be a religious obligation for me. It might be immoral for you to have same sex relationship, it might not be for me. It's a free world, and trying to restrict other people's freedom has been the cause of most of the world's problems.
Malawian: This Biden thing is really scratching my balls. I learnt Biden is may be a Catholic like me, what i can't understand is how he supports the very things Catholics are sternly against .. e.g Abrotion, Homosexuality to mention but just two.
Catholics are against child abuse also and not just homosexuals, but that doesn't stop reverend fathers from sexually abusing small boys.
You talk like a high school student who just leant biology for the first time.
shadeyinka: A 13 year old is NOT a man/woman yet: is it?
Whos talking about a man/woman. Besides, the definition of a man/woman (which I presume you mean an adult) varies according to time, culture and society. There are still some societies that considers puberty as the age of man/woman
There are five stages of development into a man or woman 1. Foetus 2. Baby 3. Toddler 4. Preadolescent 5. Man/Woman A sperm has 23 chromosomes, it isn't a human being. An Ovum has 23 chromosomes, it isn't a human being. But a foetus has 46 chromosomes, has the DNA of his parent just like any adult.
Absolute gibberish. The subject matter is not man or woman, but a legal person. A foetus becomes a legal person the minute it is capable of independent existence.
So you mean that if I mix sperms and eggs in a test tube, they all instantly become men/women? So many men and women were killed to give president Trump the fetal cells used for his treatment?
What Crime has the foetus committed? Is it because it can't talk, so you marginalise it? Does a foetus have a heart that pumps blood? Does a foetus have a nervous system? What is a foetus crime?
ethicallyright: Many Nigerian men who complain about Biden have funded the abortion of their girlfriends or one night stand partners who got pregnant. Legal abortion means that people get to take care of children they are ready for and get rid of those they do not want before they are even born as humans. If the raped girl in Edo made it out alive and she got pregnant for one of the rapists, would you rather she kept the child and be damned by emotions forever while the child's father is not certain but one of three people who gang raped her currently serving life sentences?
Legalizing abortion means protecting the academic career of young female students who were lost in love and risk losing a year at home to nurse babies while the boys who put them in the family way get higher and higher.
Legalizing abortion means that the lives of our females are not ended by quacks who charge expensive rates to help them abort their foetus behind closed doors. We have young girls with blocked fallopian tubes because what could have been a simple process was undertaken by a quack in the dark.
It means that a pregnant woman can walk out of her abusive relationship and end the pain she may carry for 9 months and subsequently forever without being blackmailed for it.
Legalizing abortion makes it clear to the whole world that men only donate their white liquid for fertilization while a woman labours with a protruding stomach for almost 300 days. When a woman can walk into a clinic to buy a card and terminate a pregnancy she is not comfortable with, many men will lose their bargaining and suppression chip.
Serial divorcing of women, overt abuse of members of the press, winning elections on Twitter and uncouth speeches are some of the similarities 45 and FFK share. Any man who has no respect for women would always be against anything that tries to make them free. Even women we are fighting for are too blind to understand.
A million likes for you. I don't see the difference between fundamentalist Christians and Boko Haram or ISIS. Oh there is a main difference, Boko Haram are not hypocrites. Most militant Christians that want to burn down abortion clinics have been involved with abortion one way or the other. Is it not ironic that most of the militant Christians against abortion are men, who just can't accept the idea of women controlling their bodies, deciding on who to sleep with or whether to have your baby. Why should a woman be forced to have your baby if you don't treat her right or offer her and her baby protection, stability and happiness?
Do you know what kids that is unwanted and unloved by both parents have to go through? I know many examples of children born by teenage ladies and at the end the children are in limbo because neither parents wants them. The two parents move on and leave the poor child to fend for themselves.
Other times, a teenage pregnancy completely destroyed the careers of the ladies and they have to drop out of school or work to raise a baby, while the men responsible are not affected in anyway and move on with their lives.
shadeyinka: You're saying that a woman has right over her body but a foetus doesn't. A foetus is a Man or Woman in his/her earliest stage of development. The final stage of development of the foetus takes place 13-16 years later when it reaches puberty
Which rights does a foetus have? Maybe the same rights as the millions if sperms you waste while wanking off. You are just conflating issues to appeal to emotions - emotional blackmail. A foetus is a foetus and not a man or a woman. It becomes a person the moment it leaves the womb of the mother. A 13 year old can never be referred to as a foetus by any logic.
You heard only rumours (probably from IPOB) and not facts. Here are facts from wike himself;
The governor said in the wake of the Oyigbo crisis, people peddled the rumour that he is chasing Igbos out of Rivers State which is not true because the state has an enduring relationship with the Igbos.
Tell your people, Rivers people will continue to live together with Igbos. Don’t allow your sons to tell you lies. Igbos are innovative and hardworking. There can’t be Nigeria without Igbos. Nobody should take them for granted. But that doesn’t mean you must allow criminals to spoil your name.
“If I hate Igbos, I won’t appoint your son into my state cabinet two times. But you have to obey rules. Don’t allow criminals to dictate to you”.
All the redded quotes shows wike referring to igbos in third person, ie them, you, they.
This is what was written about the author of the article.
Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America . Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
Bluebyrd: Biden at second debate: "There’s no prospect that there’s going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year."
Sleepy Joe always on the "we can't achieve it" team.
The key phrase here is majority of American people.
If a vaccine is available today, it will take at least 6 months before it can be made available for majority of American people.
SenecaTheYonger: You should watch the video, these are things you don't know. Besides, the presenter is a democrat. It's not by gra-gra lol
I know Van Jones very well. He is a contributor on CNN.
Wow. I got some education watching it and I think that's the playbook Trump is following. First discredit the elections, then litigate everything, refuse to concede. These are the steps already taken. Next would be challenge the elections at the supreme court. If that fails, force or intimidate states from sending delegates to the electoral college, or sending wrong delegates (delegates from the losing party in the states).
If everything fails, order militias supporing him to instigate violence and thus to a civil war.
Trump is going to try everything to hang unto power.
Much like Jigsaw didn't actually kill his victims, Trump doesn't actually have to step down until he decides to. It has always been an honor based system, so the losing candidate usually concedes willingly. However, it's not a legal requirement to do so. It's going to be interesting to see how this goes but chances are that Trump may end up staying as President for an undetermined amount of time longer than expected.
This is actually scary lol. Never knew how fragile US constitution is
I have never read a more insane crap in my life. Trump can't stay in the Whitehouse beyond January 20th 2021. Trump's tenure will expire exactly 11:59 EST on January 20. It cannot be extended 1 second more.
pryme: You are celebrating when Biden has not been declared winner? Oops sorry I asked.
Not only me celebrating, Benjamin Nathenyahu, Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Muhammadu Buhari, Michael Martin, Scott Morrison, Moon Jae-in and so many world leaders are celebrating with us.
My guy enjoy your Rose, let these dreamers keep dreaming of a victory that can never be. LMAO!
God bless you my brother. Wish we nairaland Biden supporters can come together for a drink. We would even invite Trump supporters. Politics should not cause us to hate each other.
pryme: And the acceptance speech by Joe Biden? Is that also "Projecting"?
You guys have played your card, it's time for Trump to play his. If he looses in court he will quietly leave the WH, so you have nothing to fear.
After Trump was projected to be the winner of the 2016 elections, didn't Clinton immediately concede and Trump gave an acceptance speech? Is that not how elections had been conducted in the US from time immemorial? Why should this one be different?
Almost all other elections - Senate and house, had had losing candidates concede and winning candidates give acceptance speeches.
If by some miracle the results are overturned, it doesn't stop the new winner from being sworn into office.
The main koko is the swearing in. No one becomes president until the official results are released, the delegates vote in the electoral college and the president is sworn in.
Here is Senator Joe Biden in 1986 criticising the way the Reagan administration was patronising the white South African government. He was passionately in support of black South Africans and against apartheid. He was responsible for the sanctions the US congress imposed on the apartheid regime in South Africa, which contributed to the end of white minority rule in South Africa.
And some uncle toms will come online and accuse President elect Joe Biden of being racist, and Trump who had never supported any black cause of doing more for blacks than Jesus.
pryme: In 2016 only 8% of the black community voted for Trump, in 2020 over 20% of the black community voted for Trump.
I called this sometime back, this election is heading to this courts.
E surprised me too. I thoughts Trump would not get up to 10% of black votes.
The courts have never overturned an election as far as I can remember. Correct me if I am wrong.
To make matters worse, the elections was not even close. How many states do the courts want to overturn their elections. Remember many of the elections in the swing states were conducted by Republicans.
pryme: Can you show me where in the constitution that says the MSM is the one that has the power to declare who won the Presidential election?
These are the kind of slow people I have to deal with here.
The MSM did not declare who won the presidential election. What the media did was to project the winner based on the official results already counted and released. They did not manufacture the results themselves. This was how the US elections had been protected for all elections - presidential, governorship, Senate, house, etc. They had never been wrong as far as I can remember. That was how Trump was projected to have won the 2016 elections just 2 days after the elections before the counting was finished.
Shebi all of una talk say Biden no fit gather crowd like Trump as he did during his superspreader campaigns. I am talking about Trump's cult members. Tomorrow una go see crowd not only in US cities but in cities around the world. The difference will be that the crowds will not be called by Trump apologies Joe Biden but happen spontaneously.
Calling out around the world Are you ready for a brand new beat? Summer's here and the time is right For dancing in the street They're dancing in Chicago (dancing in the street) Down in New Orleans (dancing in the street) In New York City (dancing in the street) All we need is music, sweet music There'll be music everywhere There'll be swinging, swaying, and records playing Dancing in the street Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear Just as long as you are there So come on, every guy, grab a girl Everywhere around the world
MaziShalaye: This election is a sham and we umudike Republicans just can't except the orchestrated democrat mail in ballot corruption. In my mind Biden did not "win" this election! Supreme Court we are coming!!!!
I counted votes in Michigan. There’s no way to commit fraud. I spent Election Day in a high school cafeteria, helping to count absentee ballots in Ann Arbor, Mich. I started at 7 a.m. and didn’t leave or have contact with the outside world until my shift ended 13 hours later. All of us either left our phones in our vehicles or checked the devices in at the door. Especially during an election this stressful, it was a relief to feel busy and useful and disconnected from the news — rather than anxious and paralyzed, endlessly scrolling for an update.
Those claims are totally detached from reality — from the painstaking, tedious process of accounting for and tabulating every ballot. The count involves so many steps, so many layers of double-checking and supervision, that it would be virtually impossible to fake even a single ballot. It’s dangerous to suggest that anyone could fake enough ballots to change the result. From my experience, it’s also totally absurd. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/05/vote-count-michigan-no-fraud/?utm_source=reddit.com
sexylassie2: People are celebrating over a sham and rigged election that will be contested in court.
Election took almost a week to call results.
The riggers were busy manupulating results from thin air.
As for black people, it is pity, no pure black person can ever win the presidency or vice presidency. They always bring in the mixed race ones to rule
What does Obama and Kamala has in common. Mixed race.
You guys can continue celebrating a sham election, lets see how biden will rule America.
Killjoy. But you can never kill our joy. More celebration to come. From the plains of the prairies, to the mountains of Colarado, to the snowy cities of New York, there shall be shouts of joys. Racism, bigotry, hatred, sexism and bitterness has been defeated. America can once again rise and take its rightful place as the leader of the free world, a land of opportunities, where anyone can live the American dream.
Congratulations to the people of the United States of America.
Plead: [color=BLUE]It seems like you have comprehension issues, brother. My main post was meant for Nigerians residing in Nigeria that are being restless over US elections not ]lAmericans. With a comprehension ability this shallow, I don't think you possess the basic cognitive requirements to participate in this debate. My elementary employment of satire should fall within the purview of your intellectual circumference.[/color]
You point is still very mute. US elections and politics affect most southern Nigerians residing in Nigeria, either directly or indirectly. Have you seen or heard anyone who does not have a family member or close friend residing in the US? Apart from that, many Nigerians want to go to study, do business or holiday in the US. Trump has already stated that he doesn't want Nigerians and black Africans in the US. He is making it impossible to even go to study in the US. He is even prepared to deport Nigerians holding green cards or legal residency. And you are asking why Nigerians are so concerned with US elections. Maybe you have no family member or friends that had ever travelled to the US.
basilico: Saddam Hussein never held an election in which he got all of 23,277 ballots cast. Yet here we are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America ... and Joe Biden gets 23,277 votes out of 23,277 ballots cast?"
PrideofLincoln1: You are right but America will be whole again and the process starts on Jan 20. Just glad the worst President in American History and truly one of God's worst creatures on Earth is going away.
The problem will not go away after Jan 20. Trump is only a tool for deep seated but hidden problems within the US.