Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans
Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders.
They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports.
So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.
There are some very powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes on this legal issue over airtime lending in Nigeria, trying to stick their straw into a market worth an estimated N400b annually. These people are close to the president, and are wielding tremendous power and distorting the entire economy in ways that would have embarrassed a post-Soviet Russian oligarch in 1994.
I’ve been actively aware of this matter for over two years now and the time may have come to tell the full story of how Idris Saliu Alubankudi, and his brother Shamsudeen Saliu 'Shamz' Alubankudi - both very close to Bola Tinubu and his family - have built one of the biggest and most powerful state corruption enterprises
in the entire history of Nigeria.
These men are attempting to capture the systemically important foundations of the entire Nigerian economy - specifically telecoms and ICT - and turn their 3 year-old corruption enterprise into a sort of Nigerian chaebol. You have never seen anything like it before.
You will be hearing the names 'Idris' and 'Shamz' a lot in the coming few days. Also don’t forget their family name 'Saliu Alubankudi.' It's an important part of the story.
Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
@RomanFigureIII@PoojaMedia Life taker…. Did you give any life that you want to take?
Firstly I hate men that go after married women but if your wife does not want to sleep with another man then no other man will sleep with her. So it’s entirely dependent on your wife. Know this and know peace.
"If you are intentional about keeping your hands and/or conscience clean, you have to make peace with the fact that there is a level of wealth you will NEVER attain."
Omo, if your parent build only a room and parlour, I understand.
Me wey my papa build Mansion, I no dey commot till I marry. In fact, my girlfriend is staying with me at my parents’ house as we speak. No pressure me 🫵🏼
These Kids don’t even believe an orange seed can grow in them when they swallow it, anymore. This one just told me “the stomach has no soil and sunlight”. What happened to the culture?😭🤦🏽♀️
Lmao, 9 million United States Dollars just for them to lie to us that the United States of America Air Force, the most lethal Air Force in the world, conducted airstrikes based on information gathered from an Onitsha main market trader who sells screwdrivers.
Wow! Just WOW! This is what Nigerian taxpayers' money is being used for, dogwhistling a whole Nigerian tribe and attempting to spark a repeat genocide attempt, all while asking Nigerians to pay even more taxes to be used for crap like this!
1. Leave your girlfriend and become single.
Relationship is not why you're broke. If you have a good partner, keep your relationship. Many of you date nonsense, that is your real problem.
2. No football, sleep 5hrs max daily.
Football is nobody's problem. What exactly should they be doing while starving themselves of sleep? Better sleep.
3. Grind for 1 year with no distractions.
What is grind? Tell them exactly what they should do and how they should do it. See mouth like grind. You think they don't know they need to make money?
4. When you’re back, the football and younger girls will be there.
When you're back from where? Did you give them direction?
Y’all remember this gist??
Turns out the lady broke up with him because her japa plans clicked and his didn’t and she wasn’t ready to wait.
P.s He funded the whole thing o.
He went to Abuja to beg her she no gree. She sends “hi” from Canada tho.