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For the umpteenth time, the latest in a steady line of Nigerian government officials and elite, this time President Bola Tinubu, made an appeal to Diaspora Nigerians to consider returning to Nigeria to contribute their proverbial quota to the development of the country. This was when Tinubu recently addressed Nigerians in New York during the yearly United Nations General Assembly meetings.

Later, one of the Nigerian news reports (the September 21st online edition of Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper) of Tinubu’s meeting with Diaspora Nigerians in the US cheekily spun the encounter like this: “…President Tinubu has called on Nigerians abroad to shift their mindset towards success and consider returning to Nigeria to settle down”! Never mind that many of the Diaspora Nigerians Tinubu addressed directly during the meeting in New York and those he reached through media reports of that meeting are very successful professionals / individuals in the United States who have made meaningful impacts across all strata of life and endeavours in the self-proclaimed “God’s Own Country” and are firmly established in same (forget about “settling down”).

At this point, let’s cut through the bulls**t, shall we? I am a Diaspora Nigerian who has spent many years in the foreign country in which I reside in the West---and which remains a favorite destination for Nigerians with “Japa” on their minds. Thank God that against all odds, I have done well for myself since I got to the country, professionally and financially. I am also a very frequent traveler to Nigeria and meet up with old acquaintances and colleagues quite often when I am there.

I can tell you, my dear fellow Diaspora Nigerians, that the Tinubus of this world and other Nigerian politicians and elites who bellow for Diasporans to return home to contribute their hackneyed “quota” to the country’s development are actually deceiving you. Sadly, Tinubu is one of the chief culprits regarding this elaborate deception---and not just serves as Nigeria’s Commander-in-Chief. Again, Diasporans, please don’t be deceived by the very insincere and constant bellowings of Nigerian elites that they want you to come back; if indeed they do, most of them seek Diasporans of a certain persuasion and preference, a point that will be highlighted later on in this piece.

At this point, fellow Diaspora Nigerians, let’s reveal a truth many of you will find quite surprising, if not shocking: most of those Nigerian government and private sector elite shouting their best in the public arena for you to return to Nigeria (many of these may even be friends and work colleagues you had before you travelled out of the country) have become the most arrogant pieces of s**t you will ever meet or encounter (yes, in a country that can hardly generate 24-hour electricity for its citizens or refine petroleum products it has in abundance, among other “achievements” the so-called elite there believe they should be “arrogant” about). Like it or not, these arrogant-over-nothing characters actually view you, the Diaspora Nigerian, as the failure. That is especially so if you worked in Nigeria with them many years ago, left for a foreign country then returned to contribute your “quota” to Nigeria’s development that the shameless hypocrites keep bellowing over and over. These arrogant-for-nothing types will view you as a failure who needs their “rehabilitation” (gasp!)---even if you belong to one of the professions people believe are highly-remunerated in Western or other countries Nigerians are known to flock to when they “Japa”.

Worse still, these cartoonishly-arrogant characters you will return to meet in Nigeria---many of whom shouted in the public square for you to come back and “contribute your quota” prior to that time---will now do everything in their power (particularly the “financial power” afforded by their looting of Nigerians’ common patrimony, especially the politicians and other public office holders among them) to reinforce their message to you that you are the “failure” who has come to them (the rich, “successful” stay-backs who never had to leave Nigeria to make their mostly ill-gotten fortunes) to be “rehabilitated”! They will continuously flaunt their mansions, late-model cars, choice plots of lands, etc., at you, most of which are proceeds of monumental acts of public and private corruption that have contributed to leaving most Nigerians destitute and their country virtually unliveable, decades after the country attained political independence.

Always watch out for this attitude, even if some of those “successful” home-based Nigerians you will approach for one thing or the other after your return make an effort to hide the same attitude from you. Most won’t, though, for with you, the “abroad-returnee”, they almost always feel the need to assuage an ever-present inferiority complex on their part (despite all their “riches”!), along with what must be a gnawing realization within them that most of the wealth they flaunt to you is ill-gotten and has contributed to Nigeria’s perennial status as a “developing”---even under-developed---country that cannot provide 24-hour electricity supply to its citizens and residents, close to 63 years after the country attained “independence”, among other major failings.

The arrogant-for-nothing Nigerian elite that perennially pretend they really want to see you, the Diasporan, return to Nigeria actually view your coming back as a threat to their “interests”, and / or their chance to oppress and “rehabilitate” the “beggar”---you---who made the monumental mistake (in their perverted minds) of not staying back in Nigeria to participate in politics or enter choice areas of public or private service, then outrightly steal or “misallocate” government and private sector resources or aid and abet those activities in such support roles as Special Assistants, Special Advisers, Media Advisers, editors, etc., both in the private and public sectors.

What is particularly nauseating is that these “successful” idiots that populate the ranks of Nigeria’s elite never appear to see the link between the “success” of their personal circumstances they continuously seek to project (largely funded or secured by mind-boggling acts of corruption, both in the private and public sectors, especially the latter) and the continued deterioration of the quality of life in Nigeria throughout the years they have racked up their “successes”.

Another bitter truth Diaspora Nigerians will have to confront if they actually decide to take the plunge and return to Nigeria to contribute their “quota” is that many of those in Nigeria urging you to return actually resent the fact---and most likely hate you because of that---you have been able to live in and function in a society that is far from perfect but which allows you to live life as it should be lived. It’s not even the 24-hour public electricity and water supply, among other markers of how life is supposed to be lived in the 21st Century; they actually really resent the fact you did not need to carve out a successful existence by largely indulging in activities that stain your conscience, character and legacy---which cannot be said for many of the characters hypocritically and facetiously urging you to return and contribute your “quota” to what constitutes their warped vision of “developing” Nigeria.

Such shameless and hypocritical characters (which is the majority of Nigerian elites and politicians, by the way) flaunt those “riches” to you, the “beggar” Diasporan, and their “fellow Nigerians” they have trampled underfoot beyond all redemption, without even considering the clear fact that their ill-gotten riches are inexorably linked to the fact that no local government administration in Nigeria can boast all the roads in its jurisdiction are tarred (in fact, most of them are usually untarred, while the most breath-taking mansions that can be found anywhere in the world dot those non-existent roads, monuments to the corruption that holds Nigeria, its leaders and populace in an eternal vice-grip).

There’s more, dear Diaspora Nigerians: the sly and shameless Nigerian leaders and elite urging you to come back and develop Nigeria actually also think you are a thief who cannot wait to join their looting spree in Nigeria. That will explain the haughtiness and arrogance you will first notice on their part when you give them an indication that you are ready to heed their (very insincere) call to return and develop Nigeria. Related to this is the problem or issue of the larger public’s perception; put simply, and starkly, the prevailing perception of the leaders / leadership in Nigeria and even the rest of the citizenry is that the country is so messed up that even if you land from the coziest part of heaven (forget America, Europe, etc.) to join any level of government in the country, you are regarded by most of those on the outside looking in as a person who came to steal from the public exchequer, like those you are joining. Such a level of distrust for official spaces in the country is hardly surprising: a shameless serving Minister, in a previous but dissimilar iteration of his present position, once boasted about the number of houses he owns or has corruptly acquired in the United States, not about the efforts he has taken to enable lower-class Nigerians own homes in their own country.

On his apart (in fairness to him, before he became President), I know Diaspora Nigerians who made strident efforts and expended resources to bring themselves to Bola Tinubu’s direct attention as persons interested in joining the “return to contribute your quota” train but were snubbed or otherwise frustrated in this endeavour, either by Tinubu or his close aides, often in very inexplicable ways.

This brings me, my dear fellow Diaspora Nigerians, to yet another rot one believes has eaten deep into the ranks of Nigeria’s elite and leadership at all levels, both public and private. It is a deeply-personal issue / conduct but which a past government in Nigeria wisely decided was serious enough to be nipped in the bud by passing a law which imposed a prison sentence of 14 years for those who engage in the conduct. Without exactly mentioning the “H word”, dear Diaspora Nigerian (and assuming you are not already an aficionado of said conduct yourself!), be very wary of those who now populate all cadres of Nigeria’s leadership and elite class (both public and private) and who make giving them favours regarding the “H conduct” an unspoken prerequisite of their lifting a finger to assist you in contributing that fabled “quota” to Nigeria’s development. So, if your quest is to serve in government and you are not willing to play that particular ball (pun intended), forget it. Hopefully you would not have disposed off your property and other assets in the foreign land you chose to settle in years ago and placed all your “eggs” in that particular come-back-and-contribute-your-quota “basket”. It will be a real basketcase!

In view of the above, my candid advice to Diaspora-Nigerians who catch the “return home and contribute your quota” bug spread by the likes of Tinubu is as follows: always know the character and preferences (in ALL ways) of those who are encouraging you to “come back home”. Don’t automatically trust anyone because they were your friends, colleagues, etc. when you lived and worked in Nigeria many years ago before you travelled away from her shores. If you have been promised a position, whether in the government or private sector, make sure it is not a banana peel disguised as a favour, by those who secretly see you as someone who needs “rehabilitation” or a supposed “failure”, instead of an-already distinguished person invited to contribute his or her “quota” … (you know the rest of that drivel).

Also, if you do decide to return without any invitation to do so (i.e. to establish your own business in Nigeria), make sure you leave one and a half legs planted firmly in the foreign country where you now live or are about to leave, even as you make your way to Nigeria or are already there. If you are a professional in that foreign land, make sure your sources of income (i.e. law firm, medical practice, etc.) are not wound down before you make your way to Nigeria to “contribute” that “quota” among the hordes of your “fellow Nigerians” who secretly view you as a “failure” and, in most cases, wish you same in your new enterprise among them---even if your efforts in the country of your birth has resulted or will soon result in employment for scores or hundreds of the same “fellow Nigerians” that now wish you evil and failure, even in your own fatherland / motherland.

It's sad but still the truth---the seemingly “patriotic” bellowings of the likes of Tinubu and his ilk notwithstanding.

--- Badatope is a public affairs anal-yst.

What a writeup


I disagree with this firmly though

" view your coming back as a threat "

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Lazy citizens, lazy journalists. Always weeks, months, years behind issues of concern. Never able to guide, direct, order government along the right paths. They wait till the horses have bolted then begin a vain pursuit from pillar to post.

The horse of inflation has long bolted the moment deregulation was announced with lazy people looking for palliatives instead of demanding for immediate and emergency anti-inflationary measures by government like their counterparts in other climes.

Unfortunately the ship of economic stability has long sailed, hit the iceberg and sunk. It is too late to fight inflation. The cancer is stage 4 now and affected the entire economy.

The malaise which stated with just gasoline, just gasoline and the dollar market unification has spread since May to hit cement this week ( a basic and essential commodity of industrialization) with obvious consequences of a slow down in the construction sector and more job losses.

The very sector (together with agriculture and mining the bricks and mortar, brown collar sectors) government needed to create jobs en-masse and the third leg of any economic stability.

There was once upon a time when discussions were a viable option with the largest industrial and commercial operators to delay price rises pending when government arrives with its vision and mission to address the various factors creating a cost of production crises but to our knowledge nothing was done. It just sat back doing nothing while the cancer metastasized.

Instead of Oga to be meeting with them on a weekly basis to synergise government policy, synergise industrial production and assure the Nigerian people of whatever support they can provide, he is busy abroad..... while inflation rages on here.

WHAT IS THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACTIVELY DOING RIGHT NOW TO FIGHT INFLATION.
This is the basic question everyone should be concerned about.

You spoke well Elder, however does this government or the previous one agree that there's an economic turmoil? I can bet Buhari's left eye on it that even he and Tinubu do not believe we have an urgent economic situation that needs urgent attention. So, back to your question about what the government is doing about the inflation. Now the response is thus, does the government believe theres skyrocketting infaltion because if theres no firm understanding of the realities on ground, how can firm resolve be applied in finding solutions to the problems at hand ?


Its simple. We do not have leaders who have their heads on their bodies.

This soup matter go pain Atiku pass even the election loss.

. Wike never ever ever invite Atiku come him house talk less of to drink wine or enter him kitchen. This one go pain Atiku pass, no be even the loss of the election.


E go touch Atiku for belle

AtIKuKates, you will not taste this Wike's soup alongside Atiku. You wont

Long before now na only Edo people dey fit interpet Edo matter. Over to una Edo pipu, na wetin una want ?

Possible.

Jinx

You again babe. I no go fit offend you o

1stGenAmerican:
You’re correct, Sir. Wagner and Islamic extremist groups are already deploying throughout West Africa, especially the countries with recent coups. Sooner or later; Wagner and the Islamic extremism groups will be trying to cross into Nigeria and unless Nigeria wants the problem, they need to chop off the head.
Just to tell you guys that aren’t brainwashed by Russia how crazy some of these Africans are—
Putin has been in power (this term) for 11 years and even though the propagandists deny it, many Russians are displeased with Putin. In Russia, if one word is heard about overthrowing Putin, someone is going to get killed or go to jail because Putin is a dictator that tries to rule with absolute power—he’s also a White man who doesn’t want any parts of his country destroyed, he wants to maintain order and remain the only leader. Putin wants to maintain order in his own country with no infighting between Russians while he encourages vulnerable Africans to do the opposite. Putin and his paid propagandists encourage Africans to group and overthrow their governments, shooting, burning, and destroying their countries in the process. Putin knows that military rule doesn’t work and destroys a struggling country even further but he knows that African people will follow his wishes without thinking about why they should do something in their countries that he doesn’t allow in his.
He promised grain and some Africans are too excited to realize that Putin is the reason for the grain shortage—-he promised it but it still hasn’t landed. He is promising to throw grain to Africans like feed to chickens and he is probably laughing at their leaders’ excitement.
The way Africans are on world news flying Russian flags and chanting their love for Russia is embarrassing—it’s something not even Russians or white Russian supporters in the west aren’t shown doing.
Now, after Africans have professed their love for Putin and the coups, he is publicly saying that he won’t be recognizing the military rule and wants the democratically elected president back in office. Do these guys feel like fools yet?

Babe

Wow

ariesbull:
and Moh'Bad was an Igbo youth that was killed right ?


Keep hating no go hustle

Whatever. I'm comfortable.

ariesbull:
what is the buffoonery that he stated the obvious ....

So why the anger bro ...take it easy ! Unless Nigeria starts appreciating the Igbo ..trust me this country will go no where

Deal with this bro

This mentality is why many igbo youths have been killed over the past nine years. Figen them false assurance of invicibility.

Contain yourself. The igbos are never more intelligent, hard working or industrous.


A creative human being is a creative human being. Plus, there are numerous Nigerians across all ethnic nationalities in various ooaces of authority across the world. Get rid of your disillusionment of self importance


You're not all that

accordadoga30:
That's true.

We blame Buhari, blame Johnathan, blame Tibubu but we as the followers are more wicked than these people.

Imagine a lawyer who is a caretaker increased my cousin's house rent (selfcon) from 500k-800k (60% increment) in Abuja which is against the law and now telling my cousin to negotiate which is their latest pattern/trick now.

These caretakers and agents are the ones polluting the minds of landlords.

This same caretaker of the house my cousin stays lives in a free house owned by his uncle. He doesn't pay house rent but yet instigating the landlords to increase other people's rents.


We are all wicked in this country. Every opportunity na how to exploit people.

Say fuel price has increased from 10 naira to 12 naira, drivers go don increase transport fare by two

I rented a three bed room alone in the compound in Abuka last year for just 1.2 total package. Tell your brother to leave and find another apartment. House full Abuja

OdogwuAnambra:
Igbos dey try for international space, almost every global agency there are Igbo there, they thrive where Merit is the order of the day. Chikwe Ihekweazu is an Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization (WHO), leading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Prior to this, Dr Ihekweazu was the first Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and led the agency between July 2016 and October 2021.

Stop all this buffonery abeg. Try not to pass on this habit to your nect generation. It sucks

Chelsea is gone as a club.

To get out of the pit, the American owner needs to go back to Abramovich to beg him and get his blessings. Then, appoint a coach that knows the philosophy and can tranform the lads to lion, Jose Mourinho after which, to appoint an asisstant for him that's rugged, John Terry. Rehire Mike emenalo or finds a good sporting director woth an eye for talents.

Then hire very hungry and angry strikers like Victor Boniface and angry midfielders in the mould of Michael Essien


Chelsea is deep in the pit

Any diasporan rhat comes to join us should make sure they have atleast 500Mil first. If not they will regret it. Il

I hope they're reading this and telling their friends.

The country is almost in tatters unless one has an abundance of money to cushion the effects of the kata kata everywhere.


A word is enough for the wise !



I read the entire narrative above and ive notived a perception i want to counter. There's a relentless effort by some dodgy individuals to make diasporans and we here not to migboe or get involved by reinstating a false narrative. They will envy you amd see you as competition bla bla bla. For goodness sakes all diasporans and us here used to be school buddles, childhood buddies, church buddies. We have a bond that Is almist like family.


Its saddening to always see people churn out the narrative, the ones who didnt go will envy you, hate you, see you as competition so as to drive a wedge. For goodness sakes, lets stop this maddness na

Tinubu never worked a single day of his life. Same as his predecessor. What else should be expected of such kinds ? APC is simply a poverty manufacturing machine



What a time to be alive! When the Universe fights you, do not fight back, you can not win! Especially when the Universe picks a destiny child like HE Peter Obi, and his buddy HE Atiku Abubakar!
Nigerians will remember HE Atiku for two things:
1. He courageously fought 3rd Agenda to a stand still, even though he has a lot to loose.
2. Through his bankrolling of a legal tussle, a fraudulent and grossly corrupt Asiwaju was unmasked, disgraced and removed from power!

Here's what we now know.
* Operation cold stone is hanging on Asiwaju head. Put in place by America CiA.
* Asiwaju used forged papers to cover his real identities.
* Asiwaju forfeited large sums of money, making a person of interest (a Narco offender) to Justice Department.
* Asiwaju real name is not BOLA AHMED TINUBU, the real name is a fellow who has been jailed twice in the US, straight from my busddy who works at States Department.
* The international community is well aware of this criminal, that is why they give him cold shoulder.
* Asiwaju attempted to destroy Biden govt by making it look like POTUS supports him. A hot sushi for Republicans. David Axelrod actually collected huge sums of money to get a meeting with Biden on the sidelines of UNGA. Biden & his kitchen cabinet were not in support of this fellow. Poor Asiwaju.....all his moves are well known to the Republicans. Its the republican hand that makes it possible for the FBI to start releasing his doc by Oct, 2023.
* Because of Asiwaju, David Axelrod has been banned from White House.
* Every one who has connections with Asiwaju in the US are removing their hands, especially CSU.
* This week, Honorable Judge Nancy would rule..... even a baby can guess what the ruling would be grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
* Let be hold on to the icing on the cake: Someone was jailed twice in the US for fraud (bank fraud) and later rebranded into Bola A Tinubu grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin No be talk, but some documents viewed from FBI archives!