How you help yourself to "let go" of this "freedom" illusion that has been successfully sold to you by Hollywood and US-funded media and civil society is to ask yourself a few important questions:
What exactly is "freedom"? Is "freedom" the ability to thumbprint on a ballot paper that will be tippexed at the collation centre with your vote given to APC regardless of who you voted for?
Is "freedom" the ability to make social media skits insulting your president that was imposed on you by a foreign power even though nobody voted for him?
Is "freedom" the ability to rant endlessly on Twitter about your "bad leaders", knowing fully well that you are just wasting English and kilobytes to no end whatsoever?
Joseph Stalin once said “It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”
I think that's a much more constructive way of viewing "freedom." Poor, deprived, uneducated people are not, and can never be "free" in any meaningful sense. What use are my "constitutional freedoms" if my stomach is empty? If my stomach and my brain are empty, I am automatically a slave to whoever can put bread in my belly and information in my head - and that person automatically has the power to turn me into a weapon fashioned against myself and those around me. In that situation, which describes most of modern Africa, can you describe me as "free"?
"Democracy" and "freedom" are some of oyibo's most dangerous linguistic weapons when used in the context of people living on a per capita income of less than $3,000/year. Where are you likelier to live a full, happy life - Nigeria or China? Nigeria supposedly has the "democracy" that China doesn't - why are Nigerians leaving that "freedom" and migrating to China for a better life, instead of the other way around? Why do North Koreans have a life expectancy that is over 20 years longer than Nigerians? Why do the Vietnamese have much better lives than most Nigerians who have ever existed?
All of the years you have spent thumbprinting ballot papers for candidates that the US embassy will never allow to win, China has been doing 5-year plans and becoming the world's greatest country.
The Biggest Source of Insecurity in Nigeria is the Illegitimacy of Electoral Mandates - Odinkalu
When people discover that their votes don’t count and judges have been bought, they resort to violence.
Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, Former Chairman, Nigerian Human Rights Commission
Obi is sacrificing his comfort, business and his life to save Nigeria…when he could’ve simply joined Otedola and the likes of Adenuga in supporting BAT—in exchange for personal favors.
Peter Obi is the most selfless Nigerian right now.
First Lady, Pastor Mrs OluRemi Tinubu is yet to congratulate the Diamonds that made our country Nigeria proud in Rome & in Ivory Coast.
As the mother of the nation, the optics are bad!
Education should be the centerpiece of the Renewed Hope Agenda. Her media aides dropped the ball. They should get ahead of the curve. Education must be her jewel in the crown
This is time for the First Lady to shine effortlessly. Seeing the children's storybooks on her desk, I expected her to take the initiative; unless those are decorative.
You should leave nothing to chance. This is the perfect opportunity for her office to seize the moment. Without expecting Nigerian children to sing “na our mama be this!” for the camera.
The three wise men sponsored by Alex Onyia won 4 Gold at the STEM Olympiad in Rome.
The children of Ambassador’s college Ota alone, won 33 medals & received 1 honorary mention. The breakdown shows that Ota schoolchildren won 15 Gold (7 Global Best). They won 9 Silver & 9 Bronzes as well.
Graceland International School, Port Harcourt. received 4 Gold, 7 Silver, & 7 Bronze medals.
The children of Gonzaga Jesuit college Okija, Anambra state, won 8 Gold & 3 Silver as well.
In Rome, Gold na water. Nigerian children were fully represented at the STEM Olympiad in Italy.
THAT’S NOT ALL. Nigerian children won 3 Silver & 1 Bronze at the Pan African Maths Olympiad (PAMO) in Ivory Coast. A testament that School no be scam. Education no be scam.
Do all you must to send your children to school.
If you must borrow, please borrow! Give your child the head start they need. Early childhood education (ECE) is a right not a privilege.
Our children need supervision during their formative years. Help your children equally. Constant supervision is critical. Education is an investment. I promise you won’t regret it.
Also, those who can adopt children to train at school, should please do so. God in His infinite wisdom will reward your efforts when you give.
Henceforth, my job is to search for talents, & give them massive shout outs. The world must celebrate you. We must relegate Olodo Uprising & the attendant: rice, bread, akara, agbado, & kulikuli. It is time for Education to take over!
As the mother of the nation, education is right up your alley. The scintillating performance of the children ties into NELFUND as well.
At a time when schoolchildren from Orire in Oyo State & children from Borno State are in captivity, Nigerians could use some positive news for a change. The Office of the Firsr Lady is better positioned to deliver such news.
“Those benefiting from the current confusion and mortgaging your future with debts maturing in 2048 and 2050 are the same people trying to convince you that your vote will not count. If your vote truly didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be desperate to buy it.”
— Peter Obi
The Clamour for State Policing is Not About Law Enforcement; It is About Deploying Policing Power for Political Purposes - Odinkalu
The police, as an institution, are primarily about law enforcement, but in all of these discussions, no one is talking about law enforcement or justice.
Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, Former Chairman, Nigerian Human Rights Commission
At the STEM Olympiad in Rome.
The name Alex Onyia and our young champions 🏆 🥇 🏅.
Is a turn off for Abike Dabiri.
If it was Adelabu or Babatunde, she would have posted it 7 times since the victory.
Bigotry is a plague honestly.
Ondo APC Government Prevents Auditors from Accessing and Verifying High-Value Government House Projects Funded with Public Money https://t.co/XHjqvZtcnp
The systemic intention is to impoverish the people, once you understand this foundational principle, everything will begin to make sense, in spite of the manifest insanity of it all..
LAWLESS AND SATANIC EXTORTION..PONZY GAMERS
ONYINYE SATAN ...GIFT WITH RIGHT HAND AND STEAL MORE WITH LEFT HAND
They announced reduction of duties on Tokunbo Vehicles to 5% ..and many clapped for them
Oya, see below the breakdown of other hidden levies, taxes and charges they never removed ...Ndi ori ...ndi aka na akpa
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New import regulations for used vehicles in Nigeria:
1. Import duty: 5%
2. National Automotive Council levy: 15%
3. Value-added tax (VAT): 7.5%
4. Port surcharge: 7%
5. FOB valuation charge: 4%
6. ETL tax: 1%
7. CISS fee: 1%
8. 2% green tax applicable to vehicles with engines under 1.5T displacement
9.Other payable costs include customs value assessment adjustment, destination port handling fees of USD 15 per cubic meter, customs clearance agency fees, document fees and various miscellaneous charges.
LET ME ADD UP THIS FEES AND SUMMARISE IT UP PRACTICALLY FOR YOU WITH AN EXAMPLE
For a refigerated truck valued CIF at $40,880.00/N57,518,160.00, below is what these hoodlums will extort from us;
40,880 USD/ × 42.5% + 15 USD per CBM × 68 CBM + 400 USD, plus a 2,000 USD gratuity for the customs clearance agent.
The total estimated expense is roughly 20,794 USD, exclusive of all document fees and other miscellaneous charges.
In short, the port and clearance costs will be no less than over USD21, 000 .00/N29,547,000.00 with paperwork fees charged separately.
HOW CAN ONE BE EXTORTED N29.5MILLION FOR BRINGING IN URGENT AND NEEDED PRODUCTION AIDING MACHINERY PURCHASED AND SHIPPED INTO NIGERIA AT A CIF COST OF N57.5MILLION.
THE UGLY IMPLICATIONS....
In a country, where transport and freight cost is 3 times higher than the African average...
In a country that require average demand of 700,000 Vehicles annually, and with total domestic supply [ PRODUCTION CAPACITY OF ALL VEHICLE ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN NIGERIA] at 14,000 vehicles [ 2%] , its madness to keep extorting from the people with this high levies ...
NIGERIA TODAY NEEDS 25,000 REFIGERATED TRUCKS TO MOVE F0OD COMMODITIES ACROSS THE LAND AND TO HELP US REDUCE SOME OF THE POST HARVEST LOSSES [ CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT N3.2TRILLION ANNUALLY] , BY FOOD PRODUCERS ....
THIS APC GOVERNMENT IS Deliberately acting like PLAGUES...REAL CANKERWORMS ... ONYINYE MAMIWATER... HOW ON EARTH WILL YOU PLACE HUGE TERRIFS, TAXES AND AL MANNER OF LEVIES ON A KEY FACTOR OF PRODUCTION/ MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND MOVEMENT , THAT YOU CANNOT PRODUCE DOMESTICALLY?
LET THE DATA BOYS COME AND DEFEND AND SPIN THIS ONE ...I AM WAITING
The Nigerian Senate rejected a motion for an independent investigation into the federal government's involvement in the N1.3 billion PFIPC budget allocation
A lot of Muslims have been killed because of Boko haram. Bandits are doing damage in Kastina and the question is Peter Obi responsible? Why are you allowing yourself to be gullible?
Those who are mortgaging your future, issuing bonds with 2048, 2050 maturity dates that they will not be alive to fulfill are ones selling the illusion that your votes will not count.
- Peter Obi