Nigeria sells raw cocoa at $8,000 a tonne. Processed into butter it earns $48,000. Made into chocolate it earns $240,000. 30 times the money, yet Nigeria is still choosing $8,000.
Whenever I see people complain about the atrocities happening in Nigeria, I honestly feel more pity for them.
Not because the complaints are invalid, but because I’ve longed realized we’ve been trapped in this cycle for generations.
Our parents complained about these same problems. Now it’s our turn, tomorrow our children will inherit the same complaints, nothing will change just faces.
Many people still believe that one good president or one miracle government will somehow save Nigeria. I don’t, a government may throw around free cash, launch empowerment programs,create jobs but it cannot save a nation when the foundation itself is broken.
The truth is the system is functioning exactly as it was designed to function.
Those who have walked the corridors of power understand this better than anyone. What many Nigerians call incompetence is often intentional. Believing well travelled men like Tinubu, Akpabio or Wike lack the mental fortitude to propel this nation forward will be sheer ignorance on my part, the failed policies, weak institutions, endless promises and disappointments are not accidents, they're features of a system built to serve interests that have very little to do with building a prosperous Nigeria.
The problem is foundational.
If we are serious about fixing Nigeria, the first place to start is education.
Not building more schools, but completely restructuring our educational system and curriculum.
Nigerian schools for eternity have been teaching children how to memorize, obey, compete for grades, and chase certificates. School children learn more about the ideas and systems of their oppressors than about building solutions for their own communities and we all went through same curriculum.
School should produce builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and problem solvers, not job seekers.
Instead, we create generations whose biggest dream is to become a corporate butterfly, work for a multinational company, and spend their lives helping someone else build wealth.
From childhood, our dreams are stereotyped into a tiny box, and success is defined by standards we did not create. Wealth is measured by metrics designed by our colonizers, We are taught how to participate in systems not how to own them.
Meanwhile Nigeria and Africa sits on enormous deposits of oil, gold, copper, zinc, titanium, and countless other resources. We export raw wealth, watch it get refined elsewhere, and then buy it back at a premium in different forms. The value then fades eventually and we remain dependent scrumbling for a newer version. It might interest you to know that the internal electronic functionality of the iPhone is made up of minerals imported from Africa, and countries that fall under this category are targeted and made hubs for rebel groups funded by these multinational corporations, crises and disunity becomes the order of the day for business to thrive, Nigeria, Congo and Rwanda are big breasted fat cows in this context.
Our leaders get enough room to loot, foreign interests get access to resources, everyone wins except the average Nigerian.
And then there is the constitution, a document that in its current form, often feels less like a shield against corruption and more like a framework that protects it.
My summary emphasizes on the fact that the problem is not one president, voting out Mr. A will not solve it neither will voting in Mr. B do.
The problem is foundational.
Until we rebuild the way we educate, think, create, produce, and govern, we will continue handing the same problems from one generation to the next like an inheritance nobody asked for.
And Nigeria is a sovereign nation, this cry for help will not produce any foreign helpers of any kind, Russia government practically kills citizens that speaks against it but atleast makes better policies.
A baby step in the corridors of power will change your perspective about governance, it's all business !
Whenever I see people complain about the atrocities happening in Nigeria, I honestly feel more pity for them.
Not because the complaints are invalid, but because I’ve longed realized we’ve been trapped in this cycle for generations.
Our parents complained about these same problems. Now it’s our turn, tomorrow our children will inherit the same complaints, nothing will change just faces.
Many people still believe that one good president or one miracle government will somehow save Nigeria. I don’t, a government may throw around free cash, launch empowerment programs,create jobs but it cannot save a nation when the foundation itself is broken.
The truth is the system is functioning exactly as it was designed to function.
Those who have walked the corridors of power understand this better than anyone. What many Nigerians call incompetence is often intentional. Believing well travelled men like Tinubu, Akpabio or Wike lack the mental fortitude to propel this nation forward will be sheer ignorance on my part, the failed policies, weak institutions, endless promises and disappointments are not accidents, they're features of a system built to serve interests that have very little to do with building a prosperous Nigeria.
The problem is foundational.
If we are serious about fixing Nigeria, the first place to start is education.
Not building more schools, but completely restructuring our educational system and curriculum.
Nigerian schools for eternity have been teaching children how to memorize, obey, compete for grades, and chase certificates. School children learn more about the ideas and systems of their oppressors than about building solutions for their own communities and we all went through same curriculum.
School should produce builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and problem solvers, not job seekers.
Instead, we create generations whose biggest dream is to become a corporate butterfly, work for a multinational company, and spend their lives helping someone else build wealth.
From childhood, our dreams are stereotyped into a tiny box, and success is defined by standards we did not create. Wealth is measured by metrics designed by our colonizers, We are taught how to participate in systems not how to own them.
Meanwhile Nigeria and Africa sits on enormous deposits of oil, gold, copper, zinc, titanium, and countless other resources. We export raw wealth, watch it get refined elsewhere, and then buy it back at a premium in different forms. The value then fades eventually and we remain dependent scrumbling for a newer version. It might interest you to know that the internal electronic functionality of the iPhone is made up of minerals imported from Africa, and countries that fall under this category are targeted and made hubs for rebel groups funded by these multinational corporations, crises and disunity becomes the order of the day for business to thrive, Nigeria, Congo and Rwanda are big breasted fat cows in this context.
Our leaders get enough room to loot, foreign interests get access to resources, everyone wins except the average Nigerian.
And then there is the constitution, a document that in its current form, often feels less like a shield against corruption and more like a framework that protects it.
My summary emphasizes on the fact that the problem is not one president, voting out Mr. A will not solve it neither will voting in Mr. B do.
The problem is foundational.
Until we rebuild the way we educate, think, create, produce, and govern, we will continue handing the same problems from one generation to the next like an inheritance nobody asked for.
And Nigeria is a sovereign nation, this cry for help will not produce any foreign helpers of any kind, Russia government practically kills citizens that speaks against it but atleast makes better policies.
A baby step in the corridors of power will change your perspective about governance, it's all business !
If you want to live a life that's aligned with who you genuinely are, stop "performing". Don't laugh at their stupid jokes. Don't respond just because they want you to. Don't lower your standards to fit in. Don't sacrifice your taste just because they don't have any. Don't do anything, anything... that makes you shrink yourself. That makes you dilute the very essence of who you already are. Let them do the work. Let them rise to your standards. Why not? They're not special. You are. You know who you are. It's your reality. Your life. Don't bend.
Opening Twitter immediately after waking up to check the state of the world is basically our generation’s version of our grandfathers reading the newspaper every morning.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are and the price of that privilege is that the body stops co-operating with anything that is not who you truly are
The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to succeed. Travel more. Talk to people.
@Ozedikus Lots of other religion out there, fact that people do everything to diminish “that one” alone while holding others sacred tells you all you need to know
I think you don’t rate other religious practices & belief enough to question it. On Christianity? You just need more clarity
Lots of other religion out there, fact that people do everything to diminish “that one” alone while holding others sacred tells you all you need to know
I think you don’t rate other religious practices & belief enough to question it. On Christianity? You just need more clarity
If a company told you to work exclusively for them and promised you $10 billion and 10 mansions, but you’ll only receive them after you die, you’d call it a scam. So why do you believe that other one?