When a celebrity calls Nigeria a shithole, he or she is indirectly calling you all pieces of shit. Nigeria is a geographical space. There is no Nigeria without the people. A derogatory term used by the sick Trump has become your favorite .
Separate the country from the government
Why are Nigerians profiled abroad? It is the perception about about country = people. Why do you complain when you are treated like a piece of shit at international airports? You already labelled yourself as a piece of shit from a shithole.
The government workers and the politicians you hate, which makes you call you country funny names are given first class treatment abroad, but you carry the stigma.
Not all Indians like Modi but they cannot stain their flag or call their country derogatory names.
Ugandans, Cameroonians, Togolese, Pakistanis, South Africans, all developing nations have their share of problems but you won't see them adopt a derogatory term used by a racist and a narcissistic US president.
Separate the govt from the country, Nigeria is the people..
The government is formed by the people from the people for the people.
Nigerians stigmatise the country more than anybody else. If you call Nigeria a shithole, you are indirectly calling me a piece of shit in front of the world and that's absolute stigmatisation.
No more words on this issue. If you fail to understand me, goodluck to you.
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When people buy tables at your shows for N10m and you give them groundnuts, puff puff, chivita and Andre brut laced with dry jokes. Do they ask you how much the entire Eko Hotel is worth? This is a private investment by the banker's committee.
This project has been on for years, as a member of the creative industry, you should have taken extra steps to learn more.
The National theatre has a 5,000 capacity main hall, 2 capacity cinema halls, Banquet halls 8 - language translation media system, sitting on a 23,000 sqm.
700 seats cinema halls. I am sure you will be the first person to run there to screen your movies. The banker's committee will build - movie, music, fashion and IT parks on the vast land around the theatre.
Must we be cynical at all times?
People have migrated as refugees from war zones in Africa - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Somalia, Uganda, Congo, CAR etc. Driven out of their country by hunger, death, war not for economic reasons but the fear that they may not survive the next day or their limbs could be cut off..
They abuse regimes, abuse politicians but you won't hear them curse their country. Despite being refugees, if you abuse their country you may be in for a shocker.
Somalis abroad will beat you up if ridicule their country. My uber driver in Paris was an Algerian..
He left Algeria after some terrorist attacks in 2013, during our trip, he tried to convince me to visit Algeria and some North African countries. Nigeria is not evil, Nigerians are the problem. The politicians, civil servants, law enforcement agents and private citizens.
Every time I engage vendors, I try to have a chat with them. A guy came to fumigate my house last week, he charged me 30k for the service. During our discussion I asked him how many homes he fumigates weekly, he said some saturdays 5 and in a month 10 - 20.
I was able to establish that his monthly revenue would be between 300k - 500k.
He doesn't keep any income statement / Profit and Loss account.
He spends money on chemicals and transportation but he doesn't have an idea of the % or total expense.
His business is not registered, no business name.
I transferred money into his personal account which means he doesn't have a company bank account.
He doesn't pay TAX on the income he makes monthly so he belongs to the group of those outside the tax net.
In the early 80s Nigeria was home to Africa’s largest textile industry with over 180 textile mills in operation which employed no fewer than 450,000 people, representing close to 25 per cent of the workforce in the manufacturing sector.
Katsina is the home of cotton in Nigeria..
At a point Nigeria supplied more than 40% of the cotton requirements in West Africa. Cotton and Sorghum are major produce in Katsina. All were abandoned for oil and quick "wealth" from the Delta. Katsina has produced
Vice President - Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
President - Umaru Yaradua
President - Muhammadu Buhari ( twice )
Police Inspetor General - Ibrahim Coomasie
Police Inspector General - Mohammed Dikko Yusufu
DG DSS - Lawal Musa Daura
Magaji Mohammed - Minister for internal affairs
Chief Justice of the Supreme court - Mohammed Bello
"Accountability"
lf you be beer guy, you will know how important accountability is when it's time to count the bottles. You go dey monitor barman and the table. You go see 3 bottles on the table, 2 for floor and 6 for bill..😃😃
You go dey here who drink harp? Who drink Star..
Who order ponmo, who order asun? Na one asun I chop..That time everybody go quiet. Accountability 😀😀 men go finally settle, resume next day at the table.
How many service chiefs will you change? The war is in its 10th year. It consumed a southern president and 2 sets of service chiefs, it's about to consume a Northern president with maybe 2 sets of service chiefs. When will you focus on the fundamental issues?
Munguno the NSA is from Borno
Buratai is from Borno
We have converted the military to policemen. They fight gun battles with Boko Haram, defend potential targets and institutions. Now they have to guard farms, markets and other soft targets.
Where is the police? Borno is 72,000sqkm almost the size of the south west with 5m people spread over villages, farms and forests. No police structure, no intelligence gathering, no infrastructure. The army had to construct roads in some places.
Why can't we have state police?