Being a reactionary is one of the worst fates to befall a human being. Reactionaries are generally unsuccessful and unhappy.
You never take positive initiative to work to a goal, but you always fight against something/someone else. Your life is about reacting.
Very sad.
Progressive people get shit done. They move fast and break stuff. They are overachievers. They change the rules and move humanity forward.
Reactionaries just sit and watch them, waiting for an opportunity to crow and respond. That's all they do.
When my dad retired a full 15 years before retirement age and took a risk by becoming a small scale real estate developer, his reactionary friends in the civil service mocked him and found it funny that Kunle thought he was gonna be a bigshot.
But that risk he took was what catapulted my family from the economic status I met in 1990to what we became. His reactionary buddies stayed in the civil service and watched as Kunle's risk grew into 9, then 10 figures.
I had a better life than any of their kids.
There is no moral of the story.
Who will be successful will be successful. Who will be reactionary will be reactionary.
We can't all be the same. Selah.
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NASCO has responded and I'm rubbing my hands already because I will enjoy taking this apart inside 10 minutes flat!
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The statement quotes the UNSC Resolution SC/9172 dated 15/11/2007, claiming that it "totally exonerates Ahmed Nasreddin and his business of all false allegations."
Please show me where Ahmed Nasreddin is "exonerated" here. This resolution merely confirms that he has been removed from the list because the US has removed him from its list (which is what the article said).
Feeding Nigeria’s Exploding Population - A Fixable Problem
In February 1989, General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration commenced the Export Prohibition Act, 1989. Under the terms of this Act, yam, cassava, rice, maize and beans were forbidden from being exported out of Nigeria.
The government at the time believed that food was expensive because it was being exported by middlemen looking for USD income over naira. Closing the doors to export would supposedly force them to sell to Nigerians, making the commodities more accessible and cheaper.
In hindsight, it achieved nothing and became a nasty legal surprise to future exporters, as former Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbeh found out while trying to launch a yam export initiative in 2016. independent.ng/audu-ogbeh-rot…
In an Uber with a few minutes to kill, so I'll do a thread about Nigerian politics and why "3rd Force" is a chimera.
The APC is 7 years old (formed in 2014) and PDP is 23 years old (formed in 1998), right?
WRONG. They are both approaching 60 years old. Here's how.
The first generation of electoral politics in post-colonial Nigeria was dominated by Tafawa Balewa's Northern People's Congress (NPC), Awolowo's Action Group (AG), M.I. Okpara's United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC).
These were all regional parties whose open and stated mission was to protect the interests of the 3 major ethnotribal political groups in Nigeria - Northern, Southwestern and Southeastern.
As a result, these parties had very strong regional structures and support bases.
This is understandably not the most PC viewpoint, but I think it's important to remember that ordinary Afghans are NOT innocent victims in all this.
The poor Afghans wouldn't stop believing in the Taliban's Robin Hood myth, and the rich ones were only interested in making money.
They've had at least 15 years to build a cohesive post-Taliban society and the poor spent those 15 years fighting internecine clan wars and pining for Sharia law. The rich spent that time fighting for supply contracts and embezzling budgets.
They did this to themselves.
It's important to acknowledge this because one day when the story of Nigeria is being told, people will miss the key context of the northern half of Nigeria being overtly or tacitly in support of violent Islamic Jihad, and the southern half being mercenary, mercantile idiots.
One thing I clearly understand about Twitter is that this place is a permanent and public representative of you. It's not a game.
It is not to be used as a stream-of-consciousness live diary, even though that can be tempting. Twitter can be very dangerous.
Here's how:
We all have incredibly stupid thoughts everyday. That's what makes us human. No matter how smart or respected we are, we all have fractions of us that are complete and utter oloriburukus.
From Kingsley Moghalu to Pamilerin to Elon Musk, all the same. It's human. It's normal.
But here's the thing about Twitter: It encourages us to fart out those unspoken thoughts because the likes, retweets and comments somehow convince us that our throwaway thoughts actually have value. (They don't!)
Sometimes we even keep dumb tweets up because they got engagement.