You won’t spend money on jerseys to support local teams filled with raw talent from your own street, but you’ll happily buy original Manchester United and Chelsea kits for cities you’ve never even visited.
Yet you envy stadiums in other countries where locals willingly allocate part of their paychecks to build and support their home teams.
A lot of us Nigerians are abnormally weird like that.
NADECO years: From left: Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Prof. Olikoye Ransome-kuti, Senator Bola Tinubu & Tunde Fagbenle at swimming pool side in the US house of Gen. Alani Akinrinade (circa 1997).
Tunde Fagbenle is one of the 2026 National Awards recipients
@masurge7@Josh196z You have been eating your seeds for the last 60 years with subsidies - where has it gotten us as a nation ?
We are trying something else
We will build and plant first - we ain’t eating our seeds no more
Because we have failed to build a system -
Because we behave too selfishly and do not add value to collective- only individual.
Running away and functioning in the land of people who have build their system does not mean you are smart .
The real test of collective smartness is being able to build a system, from the chaos we’ve made over the last few decades - since inception.
@docneto I’ve always known that, whatever fixes will work for Nigeria - it will get worse before it gets better better.
To hell with quick fixes
The time bread was 20 Naira - did we make progress ? Ditch the emotional blackmail.
@oghezeagu@taadelodun And when government is building roads - Nigerians will say “Na road we go be chop ?”
Infrastructure is the backbone of development