#FREETRADELIES: "In Korea in The Economic Growth Years of the '70s, Spending foreign exchange on anything not essential 4Industrial development was prohibited or strongly discouraged through import bans, high tariffs & excise taxes (which were called luxury consumption taxes)...
2. ‘Luxury’ items included even relatively simple things, like small cars, whisky or cookies. I remember the minor national euphoria when a consignment of Danish cookies was imported under special government permission in the late 1970s, for the same reason, foreign travel was
3. banned unless you had explicit govt
permission to do business or study abroad.
As a result, despite having quite a few relatives living in the US, I had never been outside Korea until I travelled to Cambridge at the age of 23 to start as a graduate student there in 1986."
4. Professor Hajoon Chang in The Book" Bad Samaritan"
It Will Part of Late Professor Moses E. U. Tedheke Library Collections. The Author Was Among His Favorite!
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#OCCUPYFARMS: Don't Be Deceived Nigerians, No President Has Been As Honest With You as @MBuhari When it Comes to What Agriculture Can Do and The Effort Needed to Make Agriculture Work for Nigeria.
With 84million Arable Hectares of Farmland and a Population Topping 200million,
2. There is No Sector Capable of Sustainable Economic Growth Outside Farming and Agribusiness. We Have The Ability to Mop up 25million Jobs Even Though Low Paying Within 5years, We Have The Capacity of Becoming independent When it Comes to Food Production in a Decade and That
3. Will Reduce the Demand 4D USD By Over 30%.
We Can Basically Connect Rural Nigeria to Local Markets With Roads and Power, We Can Stop The Nonsense Foreign Dependency Habits & Consume Made in Nigeria and This Will Be For the Good of All not Some Nigerians but All Nigerians.
#NIGERIAFIRST: 90% of Nigerians Don't Eat USD Related Food. From Local Rice to Yam, From Maize to Soyabeans, From Cassava to Plantain, From Vegetables to Fruits, From Cow to Poultry, The Average Nigerian Does not Need The USD to Eat Food. Why Do We Need $10billion Yearly to Feed
2. The Habits of 10% of Nigerians Who Will Most Likely Abuses This Country After Helping Them Massage Their Egos & Insane Vanity?
From Aba to All Major Markets in Nigeria, From Wuse Market to Several Streets All over the Major Cities Across Nigeria Are Shoemakers Making Lovely
3. Shoes, Tailors Designing Wonderful Dresses and Sustaining Nigeria Informally. Why Should Nigeria Keep Feeding The Insane Need for Foreign Designers Fashion With over $1billion Annually and They Will Turn Around and Echo Donald Trump Shithole Country to Our Faces?
#MUMUPLC: This is The Generation of #DMelaye, Who Can't Produce Vaccine But Will Advice Nigerians 2Avoid #COVID19 Vaccinations. Imagine Comparing COVID To HIV, Diabetes, Cancer etc. Abeg How Can Anyone in 2020 Not See The Difference Between Those Sickness Dino Mentioned & Covid?
2. The Same Generation That Will Criticise GMOs But Will Offer Colour Seedlings as Research & Call Them Hybrid Seeds, Selling Them 2Farmers, Who Will Plant Those Seeds, Lose Money & When We Complains, We are Told We are Not Praying Enough & Should Hope on a Miracle Working God
3. That Can Do all Things. The Same Generation That Will Criticise Govt For Attempting to Be Involved in RUGA Via The NLTP, But Will Criticise Govt 4Not Helping The Cassava Farmers in the South Because Cassava Farmers are Farmers but The Fulani Man With Cows is Not a Farmer.
THE LIES OF FREE TRADE & Why Nigeria Must Keep Protecting Her Own at Whatever Cost Particularly in Agriculture.
In His Book Kicking Away The Ladder by Prof Hajoon Chang, He Noted That the developed countries did not get where they are now through the policies and the institutions
2. that they recommend to developing countries today. Most of them actively used 'bad' trade and industrial policies, such as infant industry protection and export subsidies - practices that these days are frowned upon, if not actively banned, by the WTO. Until they were quite
3. developed (that is, until the late nineteenth to early
The nineteenth-century German economist Friedrich List (1789-1846) in one of His summary of the British road to industrial success worth quoting at length Said: “Having attained to a certain grade of development by means
#NIGERIAFIRST: Africa Was Ravaged and Looted Physically, What Must Be Noted is The Looting of The African Mind. When Rene Descartes Said "Corgito Ergo Sum, I Think Therefore I am" He Spoke to What Drives Real Development... Thinking. When Africans and Nigerians Are Fixated on
2. Destructive Religiosity, Petty Bigoted Ethnocentrism, Tribalism & Parochial Sentimentality, How Can We Think?
Late Professor Moses E. U. Tedheke Believed Africa Must Never Ignore Our Own Underdevelopmental Problematics. We Must Never Simplify The Audaciously Demonic Attempt
3. by The West 2Sell Africa as Poor While Looting Africa Ravagingly With The Help of Internal Sabotuers. 2D West Who Hate This Continent, Africa Does Not Matter, 2This Generation & We His Children, Africa is Everything. That is the Mindset we Must Build for Africa and Nigeria
#NIGERIAFIRST: Professor Moses E. U. Tedheke in His Later Years Took Particular Interest in Chiekh Anta Diop. This His Popular Quote “European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance” Was one of His Finest.
2. How Can Africans Be Waohed With the Spoken English, How Can Nigerians Relegate Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba For The English man's English and Not Even Our Own Pidgin?
TANKO JUBRIL, The Local Head of Nigeria Farmers Group & Cooperative Society Does not Speak English, but Can Repair
3. and Upgrade Tractors. He is able to Manage 300 People Without The Command of English, in The Words of 'Mwalimu' My Father, Tanko is Literate and The Elites Who Ridicule Him are Educated in Stupidity and Lost in the Insanity of Miseducation.