Nigerians hate facts, they allow emotions to top logical reasoning. This is the reason why politicians and religious leaders prey on numerous gullible minds. A pastor was said to have healed a man who couldn't walk, the man started doing "leg work" dance on stage.
Zanku, pocodance and Legwork require intense practice even for those with complete limbs. Did the Holy spirit teach him the legwork immediately after the miracle? The Zanku and legwork manual was downloaded alongside the miraculous healing of his limbs..
Abacha died and without an autopsy report to confirm the cause of death, people started spreading rumors about two Indian prostitutes who fed him apples. MKO drank tea as well. Up till today, we don't know the circumstances surrounding their death.
Minds have been programmed to swallow garbage. Any attempt to stand on the side of logical reasoning is resisted by the mob.
The biggest attribute of the human mind is Inquisitiveness, you have to think at all times and ignorance is fast becoming a choice.
Lower animals are also inquisitive, I placed poisoned crayfish in my compound for some rats 🐀 I saw on my fence, none of them ate it. They must have thought
1. Food looks strange 2. It's rare to encounter food in my compound 3. Why did he decide to feed us?
They ignored it
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Cote d'Ivoire is not a small West African country, this is the attitude we have towards Franco-phone neighbours that makes them hate Nigeria and Nigerians. Cote d' Ivoire became a republic before Nigeria. Diplomatic engagement is not determined by size...
It's is hinged on mutual benefit and bi-lateral relationship. It is easier for Nigeria to engage China, UK, India and the EU than for us to engage Burundi. Nigeria has repatriation and prisoner swap agreements with several countries outside West Africa and Africa.
The most difficult countries to engage are those who don't care about you. We keep looking at these African countries as if we are a giant that we can bully and that's why they act difficult always. What can you do to Cote d'ivoire? Which bilateral relationship exists between us?
Full respect to Obasanjo for his contributions to Nigeria but there are some fundamental / structural issues that he failed to address.
1. Police structure - Fate presented us with an opportunity to scrap the centralised system in 1999. The rise of OPC, Bakassi, Egbesu
And other militia groups, made local and community policing so necessary. We bungled it completely.
2 . National Identity card / Census - without a proper identity management system and accurate data on population, we were heading no where. We bungled the process. ID card scam..
3. Derivation principle - It was time for us to address the injustice with derivation and revenue and take it back to 50% host community and 50% tax to the FG. Host communities are still suffering till date. Go to the SS, go to Obajana, go to Ayetoto is Ondo state...
He simply opened the borders post Abacha and allowed European countries dump 1988 Opel Vectra cars and "no testing" electronical appliances. Sold FG assets, devalued the Naira from N22 to N105 to a $1, increased fuel price from N20 - N75, increased minimum wage from N3000 - N7500
Gave out import waivers, generators " I better pass my neighbours", okirika clothes, pencils, biros, biscuits, food. Nigeria became a dumping ground. Inflation jumped to 18% and came down to single digits before the end of his tenure.
It was a period that Nigeria needed to forge ahead on industrialisation, power generation, revamp of security architecture, road construction, rail system, a proper electoral process, LG autonomy, oil refining capacity, University education, tertiary healthcare etc.
A friend was discussing the huge number out of school children in Nigeria today, so I asked him how many of those kids are from his state, he didn't know. I asked him to name the commissioner for Education is in his state - no response.
I asked him if he knows the amount that was budgeted for Education in his state, no response. I asked him if he is aware that primary education is under the purview of his LG and there are local Govrnment Education Authorities in each LG, no response.
The LGEAs are meant to drive primary education in Nigeria but this has been taken over by SUBEB in most states because the LGs are in a sorry state.
Every parent and every child is from a LG, if the LG is alive to its responsibilities, every child will be in school.
One day I was travelling from Ondo to Ilorin, I drove through Ado Ekiti, then the expressway outwards Ado was under construction, a stone hit my radiator and it started leaking. I didn't know until I got to a village between Ekiti and Ilorin. A proper village with mud houses
Sheep and goats etc. Car temperature was on red. I started looking for glue and bags or "pure water" to top up. In this village I saw a small shop, it was owned by an Igbo guy. In my mind, I was like, how on earth will an Igbo guy, not yoruba not Ekiti choose to stay here..
The guy had been living there for years. He moved from Ado to start his business in the village. A village with no light, water or any form of recreation. I got the shocker of my life when I went to my own village and realised that the popular chemist was owned by an Igbo guy.
You have constantly voted for PDP, the party that was in power for 16 years. Who treated you badly, PDP? GEJ? Have you scrutinised your governors as well? When did the bad treatment start? Why didn't you call for a referendum during GEJ or when Igbo men led the senate and HOR?
Has Nigeria denied any state in the south East state and LG allocation? The Igbos have be Vice president, senate president, Speaker of HOR, COAS, Minister of power, minister of health, Minister of Labour, Minister of finance, Minister of Transportation.
The Igbos have held top positions in Nigeria and when an Igbo man contested for vice president and president, twice you didn't vote for them. You embarrassed them in their polling units by voting for someone else. Who is treating you unfairly? Has Nigeria denied you any right?