someone made a tweet about one sided ill-treatment and bigotry towards Northerners by Southerners last week.
this quoted tweet was made by a presumably intelligent Northern businessman.
jsyk, every ethnicity in +234 equally has bigots.
We shouldn't be mean to people who aren't academically smart but we absolutely have a right + responsibility to shame the intellectually incurious. The world is literally on fire because of anti-intellectualism
When Julius Caesar was 25, he was kidnapped by pirates. He acted like they worked for him. They demanded a ransom of 20 talents. Caesar laughed at them for not knowing who they had captured, and told them to ask for 50. He spent 38 days as their prisoner. When he wanted to sleep, he ordered them to stop talking. He wrote poems and speeches and read them out loud. When the pirates didn’t admire them, he called them illiterate barbarians. He often told them, laughing, that he would come back and execute them all. They thought he was joking. As soon as the ransom was paid, he raised a fleet, hunted them down and had every one of them crucified, exactly as he had promised.
one thing about this is that you can't even argue that we've not created enough human capital to sustain it,
rangers 9 npfl titles, chasing 10, enyimba 9, heartland fc 5, no region in the country has more.
but guess what, you are not attracting sporting investments, because
Osman Eltayeb (Born 1919 - 29 September 2011)
He migrated to Nigeria in 1939 with his uncle Bashir Elrayah who was posted there by the Sudanese Judiciary.
He later abandoned his studies to pursue a trading career, and as of the 1950s, Osman Eltayeb was a well established figure in the Nigerian markets- Controlling a large share of the cotton and textile markets.
He founded the group Osman Eltayeb and Sons and later diversified into Skin and Hides becoming one of the leading exporters in Africa and also setting up Wheat Mills, Nicco Sweets (With brother Ibrahim), Rivera Biscuits and a Cattle bone-crushing company.
The group also has large real estate investments in the United Kingdom.
An arm of the group also has investments in the Sudanese Gum arabic and Hibiscus markets. Sheikh Bashir Elrayah School was founded in 1996 as a non-profit and high standard of education school by Osman as a way of giving back to the community. The school now has over 2000 students enrolled and is among the best in Northern Nigeria.
Osman Eltayeb is a leading figure in Sudanese and Nigerian politics.
He was a very close personal friend of Sudan's late President Ja'far Numeiri. He is a close ally of President Omar al-Bashir.
He played a prominent role in getting the North and South of Sudan to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) 2005, in the Nigerian capital Abuja. This in turn led to the end of the 21 year old Civil War in Sudan.
For his many contributions to the Sudanese and Nigerian communities, Osman Eltayeb received the Nilein Award (Highest degree) from Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) award from Nigeria's President Obasanjo.
He became one of the leading philanthropists in both Nigeria and Sudan. Being from a very religious Islamic background, he built and aided in the building of Mosques and Islamic Centers. He also built the Osman Eltayeb Community Hospital in Rufaa, North Sudan.
"Osman Eltayeb is a Loyal Friend, Osman is a Generous man, Osman is a Gentleman. Osman loves Nigeria just as he loves his own country Sudan. Indeed we know he has been a friend of most of our leaders, Traditional and political. Among them the Emirs (Past and Present) of Kano. " Maitama Sule Former Nigerian Ambassador to the UN.
Two separate TV documentaries were filmed and aired about the lifetime achievements of Alhaji Osman Eltayeb, By Sudan TV and Shirouq TV in 2007 and 2010 respectively.
this is what lack of infrastructure robs you,
if you like keep making excuses, practical example of your best talents being moved away from your region because of lack of infra.
I am really wondering why its fashionable to discredit and invalidate the agitation and aspirations of the people of defunct Mid-Western Region.
Why we believe people like Chief Dennis Osadebay, Chief Anthony Enahoro and Chief Humphrey Omo-Osagie lacked agency.
It must be Ziks interference for it to fit a particular narrative.
When in actuality, it was Sir. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who played the crucial federal legislative role when in March 22 1962, he moved the motion in the Federal House of Rep for the constitutional alteration required to establish a fourth region.
why have we regressed into trying to enforce gender roles all over again. we are meant to be equals. “the role was assigned to them and they hate it” yes? just like women’s gender roles were assigned to us and we hate it too. wtf is everyone on!
The 'longer throat' husband that went to work to provide?
Again, many of you are just crazy. Foolish dolt wants to make money with twitter engagement. Dolt
There might be no greater sign that humans are naturally monogamous or life long pair bonders than how badly men AND women are distressed (often destoyed) by breakups/divorces