The next time the government builds a naval base in Kano or a transport university in Daura, we should be quiet.
Because the reasoning is the exact same as that of siting a $450m "trade and tourism park" near a city whose airport uses a govt subsidy to remain operational.
Cavalier disrespect for data and a belief in steel and concrete - not people - as the basic engine of growth and industry.
That's why a city of 21 million people has no metro rail whatsoever, but has built several artificial islands off its coast where land is sold in USD.
An entire civilisation of people who believe that steel and concrete is a seed that you plant in the middle of the bush and harvest economic growth out of thin air.
Like Ajaokuta, like Tinapa, like Abakaliki airport, like Kano-Maradi railway, abbl.
Slow thinkers.
I'm literally writing a book about this thing, and the main challenge is how to go through several case studies without simply repeating the previous chapter. Because it's literally identical. The same story, with no variation.
So boring!
Even more infuriating is how they invoke the "example" of Dubai, which to me is like wearing an "I am an idiot" sign around your neck.
As if Dubai's strategy didn't fail catastrophically in 2007 and it didn't get a $20bn bailout from Abu Dhabi.
Do you have an Abu Dhabi?
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Side note on the "xyz has tourism potential" myth:
Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt.
The reason you're probably hearing this for the first time or you're more interested in seeing Egypt's pyramids, has nothing to do with having pyramids alone. corinthia.com/khartoum/disco…
The fact that you have historic or pretty stuff to look at does not mean that you have a comparative advantage in tourism. It just means you have historic or pretty stuff to look at.
Tourism is an industry, not a feeling. There is no sentiment here.
You don't go and spend $450 million on a "tourist resort" in Cross River state because "Cross River state has beautiful landscape and nice weather."
That's a stupid decision to make, based on feelings, sentiment and zero data. We can see the result.
I'm on a Cameroonian TV panel right now and this caller from Yaounde is saying that police brutality happens in Nigeria because "Nigeria's population is too much" and "citizens are trying to overpower the police."
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Can see why one man has ruled them since football players used to wear triangular pant...awon werey
In August, I picked up an unlikely viewing habit - BBNaija. I had an old university mate on the show, so maybe that was what got me interested. I wanted Cross to win is my excuse, and I’m sticking to it...
Anyway as I watched the show and got into it, I realised that it wasn’t actually entertainment - it was a giant marketing machine, and the housemates were the fuel. The Abeg app hit 500,000 downloads pretty much off BBN adverts alone.
I wanted to write something about it so I made some calls to a few former colleagues in the IMC space. I wanted to know what numbers the show did in terms of revenue. They wouldn’t tell me, but I was instead told what the show *spent.* Official figures:
As you people have lost the intellectual argument completely and have gone full ad hominem, and you've gone to tweet screenshots of this tweet (as if I'll ever delete it), let me even help you quote it here.
If you like develop toothache, problem ti e ni yen.
Arewa culture is objectively one of the worst on the entire planet. There are real metrics that can be used to measure this including HDI indices, poverty rate, maternal/childhood mortality, paedophilia (child marriage), terrorism and genocide.
It even still has POLIO.
So if I describe it as an abhorrent culture that needs to be replaced by something fit for humans, I am once again speaking factually.
If you don't like the facts as usual, the problem is 100% your own. I'm not here to make you like me. It adds nothing to me.
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).
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.