Exactly.
This is why I hate kidnappers, native doctors and thieves.
They kidnap and steal from their fellow citizens or use Jazz on innocent citizens instead of our politicians.
Na for their fellow citizens body them dy get power.
Very useless lots.
The reason I relate well with people of all classes and financial background is that, I've since understood that money is just a tool. It does not represent or define our humanity. I figured this out as a child. It is not late for you to come to terms.
Everyone has their reason for wanting to be rich. I'm a simple man. I just want to leave a legacy of giving people a better life than the one they had before I met them - with primary focus on education and health care.
If I make the kind of money I'm looking for, I'll add foreign masters to it. Good education is the only way to create a mental shift, give dignity to people, give people options, and a chance to compete for their place in this world. A perfect weapon to build a country
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"FG is doing everything possible to stop me from contesting in the 2027 election, I can tell you for a fact—they won't win."
—Mr. Peter Obi, speaking at Madonna University in Anambra State, hours after the Federal High Court told INEC to de-register NDC
Germany, Netherlands To Return Ghana’s Looted Artefacts
As conversations on reparative justice led by Ghana are taking place at the Next Steps Conference in Accra, Germany and the Netherlands have promised to return 2,000 looted artefacts to Ghana. Denmark has also officially apologised for its role in the slave trade.
is Europe finally accepting its culpability for the horrifying crimes it has committed against the African people for over 400 years, or is this yet another ill-intentioned political maneuver?
Let us know in the comments.
The example of Tanzania's botched colour revolution last year presents an important question to Pam Africanists and anti-imperialists in general: Are you prepared to acknowledge the messy, violent reality of resisting empire, or is the fool's paradise too comfortable?
Some memories are worth spending money on.
Not another weekend in Lagos.
Not another day scrolling your phone.
How about 4 days in Obudu with breathtaking views, adventure, good food, and amazing people?
This trip looks like one of those experiences you’ll remember for years.
@DexTravl
Nigeria, man. There's no escaping the rot, insecurity and dysfunction, no matter how rich you get.
1. Buy an SUV because the roads are bad, and you become a prime target for kidnapping, extortion, and inflated prices
2. Live in an estate for quiet and security but the moment you drive out the gate, you're back in the same poverty, crime, chaos and insecurity everyone else suffers. Your safety exists only within the walls of your expensive prison
3. Spend millions on solar so you don't have to suffer generator noise but your neighbours still use generators. You stop hearing yours, not theirs.
4. Make money and the women will come but the women who come are poor. You work hard to escape poverty, only to give your money to women who are hoping to escape their own poverty by 'working' you
5. Buy Starlink to escape MTN and Airtel, and now the whole compound wants your password.
"But it's unlimited now?"
Decline and you're a bad neighbour
The tragedy of trying to buy your way out systemic dysfunction is that you never truly solve the underlying problem. You just spend money trying to insulate yourself from it, and in that process, create new problems for yourself.
But you interprete it as progress because you no longer have the exact same probems as the next Nigerian.
Because progress here is less about better roads, reliable power and security for all.
Progress here is more about owning an SUV while everyone else dodges potholes in their Camry, having steady power and uninterrupted airconditioning whilst everyone else sweats through the heat, and living behind the 'security' of estate gates while everyone else lives with insecurity.
It is that contrast that gives me fulfilment. It is what makes you stand out, and provides both of us something to brag about. So the benchmark is not whether the system works; It is whether I am better than others in a system that does not work.
And I say "I", because I, also find myself thinking that way sometimes.
I also want to brag about paying 8 million for rent, rather than demand afforable housing for all or protest against the fraud of agents and the greed of landlords.
Afterall, I am also a product of the system.
As a result, most of what I, and by extension, Nigerians broadly speaking, consider progress, is a maladaptation to systemic failure.
It is, to condense it, progress measured against dysfunction, rather than freedom from it.
And 'Maladaptation' because the actions we have adapted to help us cope with the dysfunction, ultimately does more harm than good.
So for example, rather than protest insecurity, bad roads or unreliable power, we maladapt by travelling by air, buying SUVs and installing solar.
We spend money to work around failing institutions while the institutions themselves continue to decay.
But the problem with our "I better pass my neighbour' cope is that it will eventually reach its limit. Because as the rot and decay deepens and spreads, even our workarounds will fail, our estates will no longer keep the criminals and the abokis that surround us out (Abuja residents beware), the kidnappers will come to our doorsteps, like they're doing in Ekpoma, and our roads will get so bad even our four-wheelers will no longer be able to handle them, leading to accidents that will land us in hospitals with no doctors and nurses because our best health workers have japa'd.
Checkmate
Yesterday i had the honour of addressing great, creative and enterpriding young men and women.
These are some excerpts from my speech.
"Let me say this clearly, and I want you to hear me: There is nothing wrong with you. There is everything wrong with the system that was handed to you.
You did not break Nigeria. You inherited a broken Nigeria, And the people who broke it are now blaming you while still holding the hammer in their hands.
EVERY GENERATION HAS A CALLING THAT THEY WILL EITHER BETRAY OR FUFILL,
BUT IT FALLS ON YOU and ALL generations in between , TO SET THIS COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT PATH AGAIN. THIS IS THE STRUGGLE."
"The next republic will not be inherited. It will be built — by hands like yours, by minds like yours, by hearts like yours.
So rise up, Rise up, young Nigerians. Rise up, my brothers and sisters. History is not something that happens to us.
History is something we make.
And the history of the next republic — the real Nigeria, the just Nigeria, the working Nigeria — that history is waiting for your signature."
Equatorial Guinea's Government Shuffle: Beyond Western Media Headline
If you stumbled across recent western media coverage of a cabinet reshuffle in Equatorial Guinea and you did not read past the headline, you would have come away with a completely different impression of what actually happened.
@Big_Mck explores the disingenuous semantic game that was deployed here, and why Africans must as a matter of survival, always treat western media with extreme caution and suspicion.
You saw this story last week and probably never read past the headline. If that was the case, you have been completely misled.
Western media chronically, habitually tells lies part 1,540,958
When you're done sighing, you will also explain why the same US government sent its World Bank chief to hold a meeting with African vice-chancellors telling them to close down African universities and focus on primary education because tertiary education is not for Africans.
Continue sighing very well.
Person that the only thing inside your head is useless, impotent English. You don't understand anything about the world you live in.
You've been hearing about the so-called "Olodo Uprising".
Here's a wider angle on this phenomenon to help you contextualise what you are actually witnessing, why it is happening and who is ultimately behind it (hint: it's not Peller - he's just a symptom!)
You want people to take student loan to go to university then when they graduate, they should start roasting corn by the roadside to sell.
A future of selling roadside corn is what these evil animals in power envisage for people in this country.
Satanic olodo uprising in power.