Yeah "there is nothing special about Nigeria."
Which is why they are building the largest American consulate in the world in Lagos. Just for the shits and gigs.
The only thing worse than you people's heartbreaking ignorance is the disgusting confidence you express it with.
One chess board delivered to the US Ambassador to Nigeria. Amb Richard M. Mills, who graciously welcomed us into his home in Abuja.
Grateful for the warm hospitality and meaningful conversation.
I don't have any problem with anybody, but I just want to mention that this thing where Africans meet U.S. diplomats in their embassy and come out talking about how they had "meaningful conversations" - I think you people don't realise that every single American you met inside that embassy is a trained CIA operative? From the Second Secretary to the Cultural Attache to the Ambassador - they're all CIA.
It's their JOB to engage you in warm conversation so that you feel important and your mouth will start to run like a tap, which is what they're after - intelligence gathering. Not like I have anything against Tunde Onakoya, but I've seen several variants of this statement from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and it always amuses me.
That conversation you people had with the oyibo diplomat was not "meaningful" kan kan, and they're not your friend - you're being cultivated! These "meaningful conversations" are just them putting water and fertiliser on your head, until you eventually sprout into yet another African extension of U.S. foreign policy. But you people always think you are special 😭
Na wa for obibini o. After 500 years manchi never still wise.
The best thing is to not speak at all unless absolutely necessary. Which is why the oyibos you see at those events stand around awkwardly holding their drinks and saying nothing. It's not because they're introverts - they're all furiously calculating how much they can say without giving away information unnecessarily.
The few who talk very freely are consummate liars, and chances are everything coming out of their mouths is shit they made up on the spot. That's a counterintelligence skill they are taught at the CIA - the ability to lie and make up stuff at near-superhuman speed.
Don't bother trying to beat them at their game because you can't. Go there, smile, sip your drink quietly, take your pictures and go home. Everybody there is a shark.
@JohnKelly6465@sowore You get it now.
We're all playing inside a constructed reality that one slightly overweight white guy built for us. And we have no idea.
lol Nigerians think "intelligence gathering" means "Tell me where your president sleeps every night and get me the schematics and access codes to Aso Villa so I can infiltrate and bug the FEC meeting using insectoid drones."
Meanwhile what intelligence gathering ACTUALLY looks like is:
"Let's eat suya by the pool at the U.S. Consul-General's residence in Ikoyi and gist about the current state of Nigeria. I will listen attentively as you provide me with seemingly minute and unimportant details like how the new passport issuance system is fast, or how police threatened to shoot your cousin last week, or which politician you think has the solutions to Nigeria's problems.
"Over the course of this month, I will have similar conversations with 300 other Nigerians drawn from every stratum of Nigerian society, and at the end of the month, one of the Cultural Attaches at the embassy will compile all this primary data and use it to build a country status report that will be submitted to the State Department in DC via diplomatic cable.
"These country status reports provide my boss in DC with more insight into and visibility over what exactly is happening on the ground in Nigeria than even the Nigerian government and its intelligence apparatus does. This way, my employer is always ahead of the curve and knows how to position itself or use its influence to shift things in a particular direction in Nigeria.
"For example, if a political outsider who represents a threat to my interests in Nigeria starts becoming politically relevant and popular, long before he gets to the ballot box I have already primed my networks in DC to investigate him and find information intended to damage his campaign, such as offshore accounts etc. Then my media assets in DC, New York and London can publish "Pandora Papers" to tarnish his brand in 2021, a whole year before he even officially declares for the presidency."
That's what "intelligence gathering" generally means in the real world, abobi. There's even a term for this specific scenario I've described: HUMINT (Human Intelligence). But of course you've never come across any of this (freely available information) because you dey fear paragraph and knowledge is for nerds. Being dumb and uninformed is cool. You people are living in a world you don't even understand.
That's why you keep losing.
This is a video of EFCC breaking into this ladies apartment, see the way they manhandled and dragged her out of the room, but they can't do the same to the politicians that are caught red handed stealing and looting our common wealth.
Is this lady a fraudster? Is she a "Yahoo Girl"? Did she KiII anybody?
Like I said, the alleged "Yahoo Boy" that shot an EFCC personnel might be defending himself from these rogue animals that keeps breaking into people's house in the dead of the night.
U can't justify the way they rained slaps on this lady. No decorum, no self control and work ethics, just moving mad and running wild like raging starved Pitbulls.