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Oct 2, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Very easy to give speeches and orisirisi big talk about Africa being "open for business," but to move from one ECOWAS state to another and open a simple bank account costs $500 for a residence and work permit, $180 for a health assessment and $120 for a "non citizen ID card."
That's N377,000 just to move to an ECOWAS state. Meanwhile to get a GoFreelance visa in Dubai is N750,000.

If I can afford to waste $800 on mediocre West African value, why can't I instead spend $1,600 on the far superior Dubai offering?

And this is how to lose talent 101.
Instead of building your value proposition as a West African state around proximity to your neighbours and ease of access to services that aid business, you instead try to rip off travelers who then promptly go off to somewhere offering more value.

And you are left with nothing.
Same shit in Kenya. You want me to pay $750 annually for the privilege of living in freaking Nairobi. If I can afford to do that plus the extortionate airfare to NBO, then why not Dubai instead? Or at least South Africa?

You see how you lose money and talent because of GREED?
There are MILLIONS of us who make at least $1,000 a month on this continent and an do so remotely. All it takes is for ONE country to have the imagination and the bravery to remove all these barriers and welcome relatively well paid talent. That country would BOOM.

But nooooo
Continue putting up your stupid little protectionist barriers while talking that Pan African shite you've been talking since 1955 and paying lip service to AfCFTA.

By the time you eventually figure it out, I hope it's not too late.

Dumbass continent!

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From today's subpoenaed documents.

Here's what a 1979 @ChicagoState degree certificate looked like:
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To the unclean, nothing can be clean, hence why you would say something so unbelievably stupid.

I should show you my classmates? I'll do you one better than that. I'll show you both my classmates AND my schoolmates.

You can see @azadvertised, Liz Idoko-Okogun and @NaetoC, yes?



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You can see @adedoyinjai? That's another classmate.

I have nothing to show for myself except tweets? Well here are some things I've been achieving in life since I was 12 years old in 2003.

Unlike you criminals, I have nothing to conceal or hide from.


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The fact that you personally accomplished nothing with your life except "tweets" is entirely your individual problem. We can't all be failures like you.


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I landed in Zimbabwe earlier today, and I have been detained at Harare Airport inside a smelly locked room for nearly 7 hours.

They said that despite using the travel document of a country with a visa-free relationship, my nationality is still Nigerian, and thus, I need a visa.

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I was processed for removal from their country and locked in a tiny room, but I have heard nothing from anyone for several hours.

Alongside a lady from Uganda (also a visa-free country), I have been locked in a room with no windows or toilet, plus a bottle of pee on the floor.

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No one appears to be in charge of anything, and even though my return flight to Addis has been rescheduled for tonight, I am still locked in this room, and I risk missing my flight.

They appear to have forgotten that they have people in detention here. Image
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Pardon me as an outsider saying this, but I'm saying it as a friend.

If there is one crippling weakness in what is generally an economically and culturally progressive culture, it is its total aversion to investment in things that do not create a direct financial return.
Things like media and public relations, arts & culture, lobby groups and think tanks, academic endowments and so on.

You cannot invest N1 in these things and directly trace how they return N5 to you. However they DO have substantial returns - just not direct or clearly visible.
Have you ever wondered how the UK government always seems to be aligned politically with the northern establishment? Yes there is historical context, Harold Wilson, bla bla bla but what else is the reason?

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Last night, I saw a video by @Fosudo that expanded my mind and made me understand why the political situation of southwestern Nigeria is where it's at.

It was a Mr Beast-style transformation of a family's home in Mushin which looked like this.


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The glow-up consisted of painting and redecorating the apartment, installing new appliances including a fridge, AC, TV, sound system, washing machine and generator, putting in a new toilet with a functioning water closet system, and installing a tap in the backyard.


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Now don't get me wrong, this was great for a family in a gritty, working class district in Lagos.

But listen to what he said. And think about the implication of his belief that these - basic middle class comforts - are things from the realms of a "Commissioner" or "Minister."
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