Buhari borrowed $1 billion loan to fund the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.
That loan was backed by a pledge of 67,000 barrels of crude oil per day & repayment started in 2024, with maturity in June 2029.
What this means is that we are using crude oil to repay loan for a non-functional refinery till 2029.
- Where’s Buhari today?
- Where’s Port Harcourt refinery?
In 1960, Ghanaians gathered at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, firing old muskets, beating drums, and raising banners to celebrate Ghana’s boycott of South African goods — a bold protest against apartheid and racial discrimination in South Africa, in solidarity with Black South Africans.
White South Africans speak about the Zimbabweans’ situation.
Xenophobic attackers are chasing out more people into the streets, even the ones who are legitimate homeowners.
The situation is even worse than✍️ projected!
Slavery is such an interesting subject especially when you zoom out of the US (and their very specific way of speaking about slavery).
Very few nations of the world have acknowledged and engage with their history of slavery the way the US has.
In places like Nigeria with a more recent history of slavery, no one even acknowledges that slavery had or has any effect on the history, culture and relationships between cultures and people. In Sokoto Caliphate for example, although the British outlawed slavery around 1901, full abolition in the region wasn't completed until the 1930s. Paul Lovejoy even records slave brokers — who had themselves formerly been concubines — procuring young girls for the purpose of sale into slavery, with slave concubinage still being a functioning institution in northern Nigeria as late as 1988!
For the roughly 30 emirates that make up the Sokoto Caliphate, there is not a single emir who is not a direct descendant of slave holders. Yet Nigeria, especially northern Nigeria treats slavery like just another forgettable historical fact.
(And oh, I am not one of those who thinks "racialised chattel slavery" was worse than other types of slavery. I think the creation of hierarchy when it comes to slavery is silly and quite frankly disrespectful to others who are dealing with their own history of slavery. In Sokoto for example, while the legal framework was different from American racial chattel slavery, slaves had no legal standing to bring complaints against their masters, abuse could occur with little consequence, manumission was uncommon, and most slaves remained enslaved for life. All slavery involves the fundamental denial of human freedom and dignity. In fact Sokoto practiced things not as commonly seen in the US system, like forced castration.)
The most important thing this boy said in this video was:
“Make them bring am, make we kill am for here now now now”
I don’t even care that the police didn’t arrest the criminal.
This is that thing I was saying about how poor Nigerians are really dangerous.
Their children are killers and have seen so much killing and murder and participated so much, they’re very casual about murdering people and openly planning to murder people.
It’s ironic this boy is rightfully reporting a wrongdoing of the police but you’re in just as much danger around this child or a group of children like him as you are around the criminal he’s complaining about.
And this is a national tragedy.
This is a child who has been completely failed by the adults around him.
Asking Africans to support a Country that wreaks violence on its African Brothers against a North American Country that welcomes the same Africans is diabolical.