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Dr Aloy Chife Profile picture
@ChifeDr
Aug 17, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Mexico/US Brazil lead the world in credit card fraud. Nigeria leads in Internet scam. Australians and drug trafficking? Google. The crime gene is a human gene! Madoff was not a Nigerian.

The difference is control of the narrative. A massive failure by successive 🇳🇬 govts 1/1
“In the 2016 study, Mexico has the highest rate of credit card fraud at 51%, followed by the United States at 46%, and Brazil at 46%”
“the country with the highest rate of identity theft, that is the USA, has more than 70% of identity theft cases in the world. Other countries affected by this crime after the USA are the United Kingdom with 8% cases, Canada with 4% cases and Australia with 2% cases.”
Here’s a list of countries with the highest number of Internet scammers
google.com/amp/s/www.wond…
“Number of drug trafficking related crimes recorded by police in that country per 100,000 (An indicator of drug trafficking)”
nationmaster.com/country-info/s…
The narrative that associates Nigerians with crime is a false narrative. Some commit crime, yes but compared to the rest of the world? Not even a blip.

The problem is that some idiotic govt officials have helped advance this narrative by using it to promote their bigoted agenda

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Jun 2
Dear young married men,
Amplifying Joe’s, and the quiet part, romance in marriage is unceasing; the pursuit unrelenting.

Your OG’s madam asked him a few day’s ago why he was brushing his hair before bed (there’s not much to brush tbh) and he said he wanted to be interesting
1)
Your marriage dies when the passion dies. Be intentional. Perhaps you’re asking, “why cant she, you know, just do it?” Like Nike? Well, they’re made different and feelings are involved (and oh boy are there feeeelings!! Your OG doesn’t know why either, don’t embarrass him 😆)
2)
Oh yes, it happens, even to Lesbians (they call it the “lesbian death bed.”)

Check Engine.
Is it physical? Point is there must be Chemistry before Biology. Is your relationship built on love and affection or did you marry her because her daddy can settle the bills?
3/
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Jan 3
“If we get into a controversy we shall light a fire, which no one can foretell how it will become extinguished
I would advise therefore that no notice be taken of these articles and the attack will soon be forgotten”
-Banker Jacob Schiff to a group of Jewish leaders, June 1920
1)
(in response to a wave of anti-Semitism promoted by Henry Ford).

Schiff was wrong. Hitler happened. 6m Jews died.
—
NdiIgbo,
We must take swift action to stem Nigeria’s rising Igbophobia and protect ourselves

WARNING: Igbophobia is bound to rise as economic conditions worsen
2)
It is time to align our global resources to protect ourselves. And we must take action in a way that makes the price to pay very steep for individual actors.

Only a tree will remain stationary knowing it’s going to be cut down.
3)
Read 5 tweets
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Dec 14, 2023
Success and Privilege: A Gentleman’s Guide
(From mortgage payers to haute bourgeois owners of the means of production)

1/ Live.
Life is too short

Take care of your business
a) Pay all bills promptly
b) Fair wages for workers
c) Best schools for the kids
d) Plenty of ice for her
2/ First Rule: Clean
Keep it scrubbed and clean.
This is speaking of personal hygiene- hair must be trimmed neatly at all times- even those in the nether region.
Bidet.
Regular mani/Pedi.
If the face hair gets too gray, color it, if you chose to do so. No shame in that game.
3/ Sartorial elegance
Bespoke Clothing (mostly).
English or Italian tailoring. Fitted.
Tapered leg.
No Gucci pls. It’s tacky. Gauche. Must remain the exclusive preserve of rappers and those who wear gold teeth. Hoodlum chic whose tastes sling to horologe of the huge kind.
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Aug 4, 2023
The business model:
“Government as a giant breast”

Sit in government your whole life and steal money. Fund a lavish lifestyle.

Spare us the highfalutin claptrap about making a difference. You’re lazy, and not terribly competent or hardworking else you’d not be there. Hush!
1)
You’re in govt because it’s a good gig and it’s easy. We all know you’re not the sharpest pencil in the pack and can’t cut it elsewhere and Nigeria’s ‘anyhowness’ culture and politics seems a perfect place to pitch your tent and have someone else pick up your expense tab.
2)
You’re not in government because you have a burning desire to serve, you know, the public good, change, yadi yadi yada.

You're in government because you have a lust for power - to Lord it over the blissfully ignorant Nigerian masses; the herd with their Bibles and Korans.
3)
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Jun 27, 2023
African leaders talked a good game in Paris last week.

At home they run systems rife with corruption and economies that abound with structural rigidities.

To create prosperity and improve lives we must earn our way in the world - increased productivity, trade and investment
1)
If truth be told, Africa is not open for business.

On the whole, doing business here is still a very frustrating experience.
A hostile tax environment, kiss-the-ring regulatory agencies, poor public infrastructure, etc all make the conduct of business a nightmare.
2)
It cannot be gainsaid that a conducive environment is needed to usher in prosperity. And it’s a matter of great regret that very few African states are striving to create this presently.

We need to change this narrative before the rhetoric of our leaders can become meaningful
3)
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Apr 20, 2023
“Nigeria doesn’t like my kind.”
(And I’m ok with that).

Two weeks ago I spoke to one of Nigeria’s most formidable intellectuals and foremost activists. As they beheld it, having attained a certain age, they’ll now like to retire and live out the rest of their lives in peace
1/
We’re constantly abused here for our contrarian albeit reasoned disposition regarding the misgovernance of Nigeria.
And yet for me and “my kind”, Nigeria offers NOTHING but a drain on our resources and intellect.
2/
There are very few of “my kind“ left with any interest whatsoever in Nigeria.
And no nation can do without “my kind”- its intellectuals, investors, entrepreneurs, to wit, the people who create your world
3/
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