Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP FOR TELLINGNIGERIANS (AFRICANS) THE TRUTH
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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI
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But if Buhari insists all diaspora returns home he will be called a fascist because some will say they are not ready to go.
As I understand there is a diaspora village in Nigeria now. How is that helping matters?
At least you cant accuse President Obasanjo of not heeding the advice of his friends. He took FKK home with him. See how the latter has given a good account of himself before EFCC.
The other day I was viewing Gates ( not the academic) at the wedding of Aliko Dangote's "baby" in Lagos. The Vice President was in attendance. How much did the FG go the extra mileage to convince him to establish a permanent industrial foot hold in
Nigeria even if only in a partnership with his host?)
Finally as Buhari himself recently admitted how soon will there be a radical improvement in the security situation to make the dreams if all come true?
OAA
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From: Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com>
Date: 06/02/2020 09:12 (GMT+00:00)
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP FOR TELLINGNIGERIANS (AFRICANS) THE TRUTH
This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (Contributing to the discussion on : Gambia, the Foundation of Dictatorship, Tuesday, 28 January 2019, Professor Toyin Falola partly
wrote, "To add to the urgency of the situation, we all watch as the White House devastates Nigeria, insulting us, abusing us. NO COLLECTIVE RESPONSE. Trump has threatened to reduce the number of Nigerians who visit the US. NO COLLECTIVE RESPONSE."
In his post on this forum, Friday 31 January 2019, titled : Travel Ban and A Sad Day, Professor Falola partly wrote, "To those in the Diaspora, it shows their powerlessness, how the exaggeration of what they do comes into clear focus. …//… All
the numbers in the big cities cannot influence policy, how no one is afraid of the PhDs that they parade and the long CVs they build. WE CANNOT EVEN COMPLAIN. WE CANNOT EVEN MOBILIZE PROTESTS." We, self-economic-exiled and intellectual emigrant
Nigerians who deceitfully called ourselves Nigerians in Diaspora have been nailed to the history pillar of shamelessness. May God bless President Donald Trump for spanking Nigerian intellectuals with all the books they have authored and asking them
to go and fix Nigeria with their big education in a country blessed with abundant natural resources instead of migrating to parasite on the USA's economy. Stay in your country, don't come to the US because we don't need you, as President Trump told Nigerians
(Africans) is not an insult or an abuse. It is a fact that Nigeria needs all her intellectual and physical workers at home to fix economic and industrial problems of the country. Love him or hate him, Donald Trump will always slap one with the truth instead
of kissing one with lie.
The New York Times of Saturday, 23 December 2017, reported that President Donald Trump at a meeting of his administration's immigration policy in June 2017, said specifically that Nigerians
dwell in huts which they would not want to return to whenever they visit USA. Nigerians, especially those in the US, did not react to President Trump's reported statement, and silence, they say, implies consent. In 2018, President Trump branded Africa as containing
shit-hole countries and neither African governments nor hoards of African intellectuals at home and abroad objected to the description. With his challenging statements President Donald Trump got Nigerian intellectual peacocks plumage to fold down. Not done
in 2019, President Donald Trump twitted in response to four American women of African descendants and members of the US democratic party who criticized his policy thus, "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places
from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help, you can't leave fast enough." One of the women came to the US as a child with her refugee parents from Somalia, while the rest three were African America.
Donald Trump's own grandparents were immigrants from Germany and Scotland. His first wife was an immigrant from Czech Republic while his current third wife migrated from Slovenia. Both European women became US citizens after marrying Donald Trump and they
are now more Americans than the Black Americans whose ancestors had been in the US since 16 centuries. This reminds one of the speech delivered by Malcolm X to his fellow Black Americans at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, on 3 April 1964, titled : THE
BALLOT OR THE BULLET. A part of the speech reads, "I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, and I don't even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there'd be no problem. Those Hunkies that just got off the boat, they're already
Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American.
And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet. …//… Being here in America doesn't make you an American.
Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation, you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution, you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C.,
right now. They don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American (p.25-26, Malcom X Speaks)." Donald Trump can tell American Blacks to go back to Africa because of the black colour of their skin but African Americans cannot
tell him and his family to go back to their ancestral homes in Europe because of their pale skin colour. The USA belongs to the pale-skinned people of Europe.
During the Democrats presidential primary election campaign in 2008, Hillary Clinton cautioned members not to nominate an unelectable person as a Presidential candidate with tacit reference
to Barrack Obama because he was a mixture of a Blackman and a White-woman (so-called biracial in the US), implying that Obama was not a pure American. Although Obama eventually won the nomination and the Presidency, his power was bracketed by white Americans
that have always been bracketing the lives of the Black Americans. Look at the case of the Harvard Professor, Henry Louis Gates, who returned to his house in Cambridge in 2009 after a trip. He had a problem with the lock to his front door and tried to force
it opened. Some passer-bys who saw him thought he was a burglar and called the Police. When the police led by a Whiteman, Michael Crowley, arrived they were not in doubt that the house belonged to the Blackman, Professor Henry Louis Gates. However, the white
corps arrested professor Henry Louis Gates and charged him to court for disorderly conduct for attempting to force himself into his home. President Obama publicly upbraided the Cambridge police for acting stupidly in arresting someone in his house in that
manner. White Americans were enraged against Obama and denounced him for attacking police officer and when the heat was getting too much, Obama retreated. Therefore, he invited the police officer, Michael Crowley and professor Henry Louis Gates to the White
House for beer!! During Obama's presidency, #BlackLivesMatter became a popular protest hashtag as many Black Americans were being intentionally killed daily by the police. Statistically, 13% of the US population are Blacks, but they constitute 49% of murder
victims in the country and 41% of the prison population in the US are Blacks. Although slavery was abolished after the civil war, the 13th amendment exempted prisoners from not being used as slaves. Therefore, American Blacks are always targeted for imprisonment
through which the privatised American prison establishments can hire them out as slave labourers to private companies. Yet, on 18 June 2009, the US Senate formerly passed an apology resolution acknowledging the "Fundamental Injustice, Cruelty, Brutality, and
Inhumanity of Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws" which Black Americans had been made to suffer.
The failure of Nigerians, as observed by Professor Toyin Falola, to respond, complain and protest collectively to the White House devastation of Nigeria, abusing and insulting Nigerians,
emanated from the failure of Nigerian immigrants to the USA to understand that the colour of the skin of Black Americans which they share with Nigerians (African) is responsible for their being oppressed. In fact, Nigerians (indeed Black Africans) in the US
used to think of American Blacks as being lazy and not ambitious to progress in life. In the 1930s when the USA decided to become imperialistic, it allowed some Africans, mostly Nigerians and Ghanaians, to come to the USA to study in order to use them against
the European colonialists in Africa. At the same time American Blacks were not only deprived of educational opportunities in the US but were segregated and prevented from owning properties because of the colour of their skin which they shared with the Nigerian
(African) students of the 1930s in the USA. In 1963, when schools in Africa were flooded with the US White Peace Corps teachers, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, was bent on stopping Black American students from entering the State's University, despite
the Supreme Court's verdict justifying their rights to study there. On 17 July 1964, Malcolm X, attended the OAU meeting in Cairo and excerpts from his address to the heads of 34 member states in attendance will help to illuminate African colour identity with
the US Blacks and shared political and economic fates. He said, "Your Excellencies:
The Organization of Afro-American Unity has sent me to attend this historic African summit conference as an observer to represent the interests of 22 million African-Americans
whose*human rights* are being violated daily by the racism of American imperialists. …//… Since the 22 million of us were originally Africans, who are now in America not by choice but only by a
cruel accident in history, we strongly believe that African problems are our problems and our problems are African problems. …//… We, in America, are your long-lost brothers and sisters, …. We were taken forcibly in chains from this mother continent
and have now spent over 300 years in America, *suffering the most inhuman forms of physical and psychological tortures imaginable.* During the past ten years the entire world has witnessed our
men, women and children being attacked and bitten by vicious police dogs, brutally beaten by police clubs and washed down the sewers by high-pressure water hoses that would rip the clothes from our bodies and the flesh from our limbs. And all of these
inhuman atrocities have been inflicted upon us by the American governmental authorities, the police themselves, *for no reason other than we (African American) seek the recognition and respect granted other human beings in America.* …//… We have lived for
over 300 years in that American den of racist wolves in constant fear of losing life and limb. *RECENTLY, THREE STUDENTS FROM KENYA WERE MISTAKEN FOR AMERICAN NEGROES AND WERE BRUTALLY BEATEN BY NEW YORK POLICE. SHORTLY AFTER THAT, TWO DIPLOMATS FROM UGANDA
WERE ALSO BEATEN BY THE NEW YORK POLICE, WHO MISTOOK THEM FOR AMERICAN NEGROES. If Africans are brutally beaten while only visiting in America, imagine the physical and psychological suffering received by your brothers and sisters who have lived there for
over 300 years. No matter how much independence Africans get here on the mother continent, unless
YOU WEAR YOUR NATIONAL DRESS AT ALL TIMES, WHEN YOU VISIT AMERICA, YOU MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE OF US AND SUFFER THE SAME PSYCHOLOGICAL HUMILIATION AND PHYSICAL MUTILATION THAT IS EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE IN OUR LIVES. Your problems will never be fully solved
until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected.
You will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings (p. 72-77, Malcolm X Speaks)." As long as American Blacks are still taxed because of the colour of their skin which they share
with us as African descendants, no self-respecting Nigerian (African) should consider it honourable to make a home in USA. Thus, President Donald Trump, is not abusing and insulting Nigerians by asking us to stay in Nigeria and fix it because that is what
we should do to earn the respect of the world.
As a military head of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo befriended the President of United States then, Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), and the Black US Ambassador to the United Nations then,
Andrew Young (1977-1979). When Olusegun Obasanjo became civilian President of Nigeria in 1999, he approached his old friends, Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young to help him convince American industrialists to help him develop Nigeria economically and industrially.
Carter and Young advised Obasanjo to attract the large group of educated Nigerians of various professions in the US, back to Nigeria to invest their knowledge in developing Nigeria with the abundant natural resources available in the country. They contended
that Nigeria had the two greatest capital, intellectual manpower and raw materials. Following their advice, on Saturday, 9 September 2000, at Atlanta, Georgia, USA, President Olusegun Obasanjo, inaugurated
the Nigerian In Diaspora Organisation (NIDO). The organisation was envisioned to harness the tremendous skill, exposure, expertise and knowledgebase of Nigerians resident outside Nigeria with a view to using this as a resource base to promote socio-economic
and infra-structural development back in Nigeria. NIDO was to provide a unique platform for intellectuals, technocrats, policy-makers, workers and all Nigerians in Diaspora to present proposals for development to governments at all levels. NIDO, Obasanjo said
is a recognised platform for Nigerians in Diaspora to contribute to Macro-Economic Policy Development as well as Infrastructural Development Projects all over Nigeria. By year 2001, NIDO Europe was inaugurated in London. Very soon, twenty years after its first
inauguration NIDO is still a vision. Instead of wailing over US visa ban on Nigerians, the Nigerian government should ask all its nationals abroad to return home to share the burden of working together and sharing the joy of benefit of labour in developing
Nigeria. While engaged in this developmental labour, our borders should be closed so that nobody should come to us and we should not go to anybody's country. What we cannot produce, we shall not consume. If our country is dirty, let us all clean it together.
If there is dignity in being a cleaner abroad, it must be more dignifying to clean our country and moreover, our efforts will be appreciated us.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49831755
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Julius Eto
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I am no longer bothered about white racism. Once black African nations become truly independent economically with the ability to do whatever whites (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc) can do (go to the moon, manufacture their own cars, trains, aircraft etc), racism will ebb, and even end, because it is an economic (substructural) factor projected to the socio-cultural (superstructural) sphere as racism.
Caucasian supremacists/racists respect those who can attain scientific-technological and other feats like whites. Do Europeans openly practise racism against Chinese, Japanese, Singaporeans? NO, because these Asian giants have acquitted themselves scientifically/technologically.
For me, for now, if you call me a monkey or an ape because of my colour, i call you a dog or pig because of your own colour.
Caucasian supremacists/racists respect those who can attain scientific-technological and other feats like whites. Do Europeans openly practise racism against Chinese, Japanese, Singaporeans? NO, because these Asian giants have acquitted themselves scientifically/technologically.
For me, for now, if you call me a monkey or an ape because of my colour, i call you a dog or pig because of your own colour.
But if Buhari insists all diaspora returns home he will be called a fascist because some will say they are not ready to go.
As I understand there is a diaspora village in Nigeria now. How is that helping matters?
At least you cant accuse President Obasanjo of not heeding the advice of his friends. He took FKK home with him. See how the latter has given a good account of himself before EFCC.
The other day I was viewing Gates ( not the academic) at the wedding of Aliko Dangote's "baby" in Lagos. The Vice President was in attendance. How much did the FG go the extra mileage to convince him to establish a permanent industrial foot hold in Nigeria even if only in a partnership with his host?)
Finally as Buhari himself recently admitted how soon will there be a radical improvement in the security situation to make the dreams if all come true?
OAA
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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From: Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com>
Date: 06/02/2020 09:12 (GMT+00:00)
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP FOR TELLINGNIGERIANS (AFRICANS) THE TRUTH
Contributing to the discussion on : Gambia, the Foundation of Dictatorship, Tuesday, 28 January 2019, Professor Toyin Falola partly wrote, "To add to the urgency of the situation, we all watch as the White House devastates Nigeria, insulting us, abusing us. NO COLLECTIVE RESPONSE. Trump has threatened to reduce the number of Nigerians who visit the US. NO COLLECTIVE RESPONSE." In his post on this forum, Friday 31 January 2019, titled : Travel Ban and A Sad Day, Professor Falola partly wrote, "To those in the Diaspora, it shows their powerlessness, how the exaggeration of what they do comes into clear focus. …//… All the numbers in the big cities cannot influence policy, how no one is afraid of the PhDs that they parade and the long CVs they build. WE CANNOT EVEN COMPLAIN. WE CANNOT EVEN MOBILIZE PROTESTS." We, self-economic-exiled and intellectual emigrant Nigerians who deceitfully called ourselves Nigerians in Diaspora have been nailed to the history pillar of shamelessness. May God bless President Donald Trump for spanking Nigerian intellectuals with all the books they have authored and asking them to go and fix Nigeria with their big education in a country blessed with abundant natural resources instead of migrating to parasite on the USA's economy. Stay in your country, don't come to the US because we don't need you, as President Trump told Nigerians (Africans) is not an insult or an abuse. It is a fact that Nigeria needs all her intellectual and physical workers at home to fix economic and industrial problems of the country. Love him or hate him, Donald Trump will always slap one with the truth instead of kissing one with lie.
The New York Times of Saturday, 23 December 2017, reported that President Donald Trump at a meeting of his administration's immigration policy in June 2017, said specifically that Nigerians dwell in huts which they would not want to return to whenever they visit USA. Nigerians, especially those in the US, did not react to President Trump's reported statement, and silence, they say, implies consent. In 2018, President Trump branded Africa as containing shit-hole countries and neither African governments nor hoards of African intellectuals at home and abroad objected to the description. With his challenging statements President Donald Trump got Nigerian intellectual peacocks plumage to fold down. Not done in 2019, President Donald Trump twitted in response to four American women of African descendants and members of the US democratic party who criticized his policy thus, "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help, you can't leave fast enough." One of the women came to the US as a child with her refugee parents from Somalia, while the rest three were African America. Donald Trump's own grandparents were immigrants from Germany and Scotland. His first wife was an immigrant from Czech Republic while his current third wife migrated from Slovenia. Both European women became US citizens after marrying Donald Trump and they are now more Americans than the Black Americans whose ancestors had been in the US since 16 centuries. This reminds one of the speech delivered by Malcolm X to his fellow Black Americans at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, on 3 April 1964, titled : THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET. A part of the speech reads, "I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican, and I don't even consider myself an American. If you and I were Americans, there'd be no problem. Those Hunkies that just got off the boat, they're already Americans; Polacks are already Americans; the Italian refugees are already Americans. Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American.And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet. …//… Being here in America doesn't make you an American.Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation, you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution, you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D.C., right now. They don't have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American (p.25-26, Malcom X Speaks)." Donald Trump can tell American Blacks to go back to Africa because of the black colour of their skin but African Americans cannot tell him and his family to go back to their ancestral homes in Europe because of their pale skin colour. The USA belongs to the pale-skinned people of Europe.
During the Democrats presidential primary election campaign in 2008, Hillary Clinton cautioned members not to nominate an unelectable person as a Presidential candidate with tacit reference to Barrack Obama because he was a mixture of a Blackman and a White-woman (so-called biracial in the US), implying that Obama was not a pure American. Although Obama eventually won the nomination and the Presidency, his power was bracketed by white Americans that have always been bracketing the lives of the Black Americans. Look at the case of the Harvard Professor, Henry Louis Gates, who returned to his house in Cambridge in 2009 after a trip. He had a problem with the lock to his front door and tried to force it opened. Some passer-bys who saw him thought he was a burglar and called the Police. When the police led by a Whiteman, Michael Crowley, arrived they were not in doubt that the house belonged to the Blackman, Professor Henry Louis Gates. However, the white corps arrested professor Henry Louis Gates and charged him to court for disorderly conduct for attempting to force himself into his home. President Obama publicly upbraided the Cambridge police for acting stupidly in arresting someone in his house in that manner. White Americans were enraged against Obama and denounced him for attacking police officer and when the heat was getting too much, Obama retreated. Therefore, he invited the police officer, Michael Crowley and professor Henry Louis Gates to the White House for beer!! During Obama's presidency, #BlackLivesMatter became a popular protest hashtag as many Black Americans were being intentionally killed daily by the police. Statistically, 13% of the US population are Blacks, but they constitute 49% of murder victims in the country and 41% of the prison population in the US are Blacks. Although slavery was abolished after the civil war, the 13th amendment exempted prisoners from not being used as slaves. Therefore, American Blacks are always targeted for imprisonment through which the privatised American prison establishments can hire them out as slave labourers to private companies. Yet, on 18 June 2009, the US Senate formerly passed an apology resolution acknowledging the "Fundamental Injustice, Cruelty, Brutality, and Inhumanity of Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws" which Black Americans had been made to suffer.
The failure of Nigerians, as observed by Professor Toyin Falola, to respond, complain and protest collectively to the White House devastation of Nigeria, abusing and insulting Nigerians, emanated from the failure of Nigerian immigrants to the USA to understand that the colour of the skin of Black Americans which they share with Nigerians (African) is responsible for their being oppressed. In fact, Nigerians (indeed Black Africans) in the US used to think of American Blacks as being lazy and not ambitious to progress in life. In the 1930s when the USA decided to become imperialistic, it allowed some Africans, mostly Nigerians and Ghanaians, to come to the USA to study in order to use them against the European colonialists in Africa. At the same time American Blacks were not only deprived of educational opportunities in the US but were segregated and prevented from owning properties because of the colour of their skin which they shared with the Nigerian (African) students of the 1930s in the USA. In 1963, when schools in Africa were flooded with the US White Peace Corps teachers, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, was bent on stopping Black American students from entering the State's University, despite the Supreme Court's verdict justifying their rights to study there. On 17 July 1964, Malcolm X, attended the OAU meeting in Cairo and excerpts from his address to the heads of 34 member states in attendance will help to illuminate African colour identity with the US Blacks and shared political and economic fates. He said, "Your Excellencies:
The Organization of Afro-American Unity has sent me to attend this historic African summit conference as an observer to represent the interests of 22 million African-Americans whose*human rights* are being violated daily by the racism of American imperialists. …//… Since the 22 million of us were originally Africans, who are now in America not by choice but only by acruel accident in history, we strongly believe that African problems are our problems and our problems are African problems. …//… We, in America, are your long-lost brothers and sisters, …. We were taken forcibly in chains from this mother continent and have now spent over 300 years in America, *suffering the most inhuman forms of physical and psychological tortures imaginable.* During the past ten years the entire world has witnessed ourmen, women and children being attacked and bitten by vicious police dogs, brutally beaten by police clubs and washed down the sewers by high-pressure water hoses that would rip the clothes from our bodies and the flesh from our limbs. And all of these inhuman atrocities have been inflicted upon us by the American governmental authorities, the police themselves, *for no reason other than we (African American) seek the recognition and respect granted other human beings in America.* …//… We have lived for over 300 years in that American den of racist wolves in constant fear of losing life and limb. *RECENTLY, THREE STUDENTS FROM KENYA WERE MISTAKEN FOR AMERICAN NEGROES AND WERE BRUTALLY BEATEN BY NEW YORK POLICE. SHORTLY AFTER THAT, TWO DIPLOMATS FROM UGANDA WERE ALSO BEATEN BY THE NEW YORK POLICE, WHO MISTOOK THEM FOR AMERICAN NEGROES. If Africans are brutally beaten while only visiting in America, imagine the physical and psychological suffering received by your brothers and sisters who have lived there for over 300 years. No matter how much independence Africans get here on the mother continent, unlessYOU WEAR YOUR NATIONAL DRESS AT ALL TIMES, WHEN YOU VISIT AMERICA, YOU MAY BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE OF US AND SUFFER THE SAME PSYCHOLOGICAL HUMILIATION AND PHYSICAL MUTILATION THAT IS EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE IN OUR LIVES. Your problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected.You will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings (p. 72-77, Malcolm X Speaks)." As long as American Blacks are still taxed because of the colour of their skin which they share with us as African descendants, no self-respecting Nigerian (African) should consider it honourable to make a home in USA. Thus, President Donald Trump, is not abusing and insulting Nigerians by asking us to stay in Nigeria and fix it because that is what we should do to earn the respect of the world.
As a military head of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo befriended the President of United States then, Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), and the Black US Ambassador to the United Nations then, Andrew Young (1977-1979). When Olusegun Obasanjo became civilian President of Nigeria in 1999, he approached his old friends, Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young to help him convince American industrialists to help him develop Nigeria economically and industrially. Carter and Young advised Obasanjo to attract the large group of educated Nigerians of various professions in the US, back to Nigeria to invest their knowledge in developing Nigeria with the abundant natural resources available in the country. They contended that Nigeria had the two greatest capital, intellectual manpower and raw materials. Following their advice, on Saturday, 9 September 2000, at Atlanta, Georgia, USA, President Olusegun Obasanjo, inauguratedthe Nigerian In Diaspora Organisation (NIDO). The organisation was envisioned to harness the tremendous skill, exposure, expertise and knowledgebase of Nigerians resident outside Nigeria with a view to using this as a resource base to promote socio-economic and infra-structural development back in Nigeria. NIDO was to provide a unique platform for intellectuals, technocrats, policy-makers, workers and all Nigerians in Diaspora to present proposals for development to governments at all levels. NIDO, Obasanjo said is a recognised platform for Nigerians in Diaspora to contribute to Macro-Economic Policy Development as well as Infrastructural Development Projects all over Nigeria. By year 2001, NIDO Europe was inaugurated in London. Very soon, twenty years after its first inauguration NIDO is still a vision. Instead of wailing over US visa ban on Nigerians, the Nigerian government should ask all its nationals abroad to return home to share the burden of working together and sharing the joy of benefit of labour in developing Nigeria. While engaged in this developmental labour, our borders should be closed so that nobody should come to us and we should not go to anybody's country. What we cannot produce, we shall not consume. If our country is dirty, let us all clean it together. If there is dignity in being a cleaner abroad, it must be more dignifying to clean our country and moreover, our efforts will be appreciated us.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49831755
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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Beautiful but slanted piece from Kadiri.
What is the commitment of Nigeria's politicians to development?
Has Buhari finished empowering the terrorist Fulani militia and terrorist Fulani herdsmen movement he runs with Miyetti Allah?
Will the legislators, governors and other politicians stop collecting obscene salaries?
Asking any Nigerian to stay in naija or to return to naija in the name of development has to be put in context.
Is the general drive of the country towards development?
Anyway, the Jews were dispersed from Palestine after the Roman conquest centuries ago. They suffered terrible horrors over the centuries in Europe, culminating in the Holocaust.
In the midst of those prosecutions, they made some of the greatest contributions to human development, of which Karl Marx and Albert Einstein are exemplary.
Did the Pilgrim Fathers not flee to what is now the US in order to enjoy religious freedom, becoming the foundations of elite US WASP culture?
Did Irish people not flee famine in Ireland to emigrate to the US?
Did Jews not flee Hitler's Germany to move to the US?
Did the US not resettle German scientists in the US after the 2nd WW to help with the US space program?
Why were all these people not urged to return to their countries and fix them instead of settling in the US?
The US is built on the idea of people seeking a better life.
Trump has no business being US President. He represents the low end of US culture, a backlash agst the rise of Black people as demonstrated by Obama's achievement.
Is the reaction he represents not doomed to ultimately fail?
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Good observation Vincent. Huge populations have moved out of many countries yet those sending countries prospered and continue to prosper. Added to your list of countries below are the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese cum Taiwanese, and Indians. Their leaders did not, and still do not, place the development of their countries on the return of their diaspora populations. I think it is an insult to the brains and brawn at home when it is implied that they are incapable of achieving development because their kit and kin overseas are better than they are and so should return to make things right. Far from the truth. Julius Eto is right. Respect for diaspora Africans in general and Nigeria in particular will occur when leaders on the continent take development seriously and achieve practical positive changes worthy of making history in the human condition. In fact Malcolm X's statement cited by Kadiri can be transposed to read, Blacks in America will never be fully respected and recognized unless those in their homeland of origin are fully recognized and respected. That has always been my own thinking. Respect comes with development. Development means that you will not be perceived by the global community as a beggar or a never do well. Externalizing Nigeria's development inertia, as in the case of invoking the diaspora, is an incorrect diagnosis of the problem.
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Salimonu Kadiri
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The core issue raised by Professor Toyin Falola was the devastation of Nigeria by the White House culminating
in insults and abuse of Nigerians. Professor Falola branded Trump regime's travel ban on Nigerians, announced on 31 January 2019, as a sad day and regretted lack of collective response, complaints or protests from Nigerians. Since collective response to a
collective attack on a group requires a collective identity and solidarity, I find it very absurd that Nigerians (indeed Africans) should migrate to the US because of the persecution of African Americans based on the colour of their skin which they inherited
from us, their African ancestors. Without doubt, African (Nigerian) immigrants in the US shall always suffer the same fate as African Americans do daily as narrated by Malcolm X. But collective response by us, Africans, to a collective attack on us as a group
is something unusual. Winthrop D. Jordan inform readers in his book titled White Over Black that slave traders in Africa handled Negroes the same way men in England handled beasts, herding, examining and buying. It was not strange that the Negroes were likened
to beasts because there was in Africa a beast which was likened to men. Negroes homeland, Africa was the habitat of chimpanzees which in appearance most resemble man. Englishmen who were not acquainted with tailless apes that walked about like men speculated
that Negroes were beasts of the same kind as chimpanzees. Englishmen soon noticed a difference between chimpanzees and Negroes which was that an attack on any chimpanzee witnessed by other chimpanzees always lead to collective defence against the attacker.
Negroes, that is to say Africans, do not possess that sense of group solidarity and collective defence. When the USA and Western Europe collectively imposed economic sanctions on Mugabi's Zimbabwe for enforcing the Lancashire's agreement on which Britain reneged,
did OAU (AU) respond collectively against the attackers of Zimbabwe?
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju referred to the prosperity of the Germans, Irish and the Jews immigrants in the US and on that premise he extrapolated
the same to cover Nigerian (African) immigrants in the US. In support of Mr. Adepoju's claim, Mr. Chikwendu Ukaegbu averred,
"Huge populations have moved out of many countries, yet those sending countries prospered and continue to prosper." He substantiated his averment with the emigrated Japanese, Koreans, Chinese-plus-Taiwanese and Indians. What he seemed to have
forgotten was that the Germans, the Irish, and the Jews were not captured and sold to serve as slaves in the USA. They were free immigrants in the US like other Caucasians. The Asians too were never at anytime in history
captured and sold to slavery in the US as was the case with Africans. As for the holocaust, West Germany paid Israel 3.45 billion deutsche marks, or over $7 billion as reparations between 1953 and 1963. In the case of holocaust caused by slave trade on Africans
and perpetrated by Western Europe, France passed a law in 2001 recognising the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. Six years later, in 2007, the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, publicly apologised for the roles played by Britain
in the slavery holocaust. Not until 18 June 2009, did the US Senate pass a formal apology resolution acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow Laws. US and Western Europe, the beneficiaries of slave
trade and colonialism could have laundered their image and reputation with transfer of technology for industrial development of Africa instead, as it were, of plundering the continent of its mineral and natural resources.
Chielozona Eze asserted,
"What makes educated diaspora Nigerians appear to be more educated and obviously more productive than their peers in Nigeria is the infrastructure in the West. No Nigerian in America has to think of having a steady power or water supply. No Nigerian academic
in America ever has to think of spending three hours on the road making a journey he could have made in thirty minutes, because of terrible roads. ….. " Mr. Eze wrote as if to say availability of infrastructure in the West (USA) is a product of magic
and not as a result of planning and execution by their educated personnel in economics, science and technology. In a lecture delivered by the then Spokesman of the Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, Edwin Ike Madunagu, at the Trenchard Hall of the University
of Ibadan, on 25 September 1975, titled, THE TASK BEFORE THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, he shed light on the aim and worth of acquisition of university education in Nigeria. Excerpt from his lecture is as follows
: The truth is that the University of Ibadan, like any other institution of higher learning built by the former European colonialists, was essentially designed to create an elitist class of Black Europeans, nurtured in Euro-American values and therefore
becoming a ready ally in the full-scale plunder of their (country's natural resources) fellow brothers and sisters. …, not even the attainment of Paper Independence has changed the ideological character of most of our University products. Rather we have
a stratum of caricatures who are neither white nor black and who are not part of the solution to our problem, and therefore must be part of the problem itself. What are the hopes and aspiration of an average Nigerian University student today? If he
is a man, he wants to get his degree, which he correctly refers to as a *meal-ticket*. With his *meal-ticket*, he hopes to secure a white-collar job, a car, a flat and women. If the student is a woman, she hopes that with this *meal-ticket* she can secure
her admission to the closed circle of men that matter while at the same time being guaranteed her economic survival and independence in case of crisis. …..//…. For when we look upon University education solely as a means of obtaining a *meal-ticket*, we have
been reduced to lower animals. The politics of production - the only thing that separates us from animals - is given less thought, while the monetary entitlement of a University graduate is given prominence (p. 5-6, THE PEOPLE'S CAUSE : A Journal
of Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, No. 3; November 1975). Educated diaspora Nigerians are like mechanical toys in their countries of abode. They are winded daily to perform a pre-programmed functions within the system created by indigenous brains
of the country in which they reside. When such a diaspora Nigerian returns to Nigeria, he/she will be like an expert in car driving in a country that does not produce cars. I implore Mr. Eze to take a look at all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
in Nigeria, he will discover that they are manned by Nigerians of various academic qualifications depicting them as experts to produce goods and services their offices are created and designed for. But why are they unproductive?
You mentioned lack of steady power in Nigeria but you avoided to tell who are responsible for it. At independence in 1960, we had the coal-powered
electricity generation called Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) to which Abubakar's government added hydro-electric power generation through the establishment of the Niger Dam Authority (NDA). On 24 November 1974,
ECN and NDA were merged together under a new name, National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). NEPA which was to generate and distribute electric power to urban and rural areas in Nigeria was manned by Nigerians with sophisticated academic degrees in electric
power generation and distribution from all over the world. Nigerian officials manning NEPA were over-remunerated if the national GDP and general purchasing power in the country were to be considered. Yet, NEPA produced more darkness than light and the public
in Nigeria translated the acronym, NEPA, to Never Expect Power Always. When Obasanjo became President in 1999, 19 out of 79 generating units in the country were working which resulted in epileptic power generation of 2,000 megawatts instead of the installed
capacity of 6,000 megawatts. Why 60 generation units were not working was not explained by the overeducated, highly rated and overpaid Nigerian academic managers of NEPA. Obasanjo Power Reform Act 2005, came into effect on July 1, 2005 and NEPA was replaced
with Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). Six semi-independent power generation companies were licenced to generate and sell power to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) at bulk unit cost. The six generating companies were : Kainji/Jebba Hydro Power
Business Unit, Shiroro Hydro Business Unit, Egbin Electric Power Business Unit, Delta Power Business Unit, Afam Electric Power Business Unit and Sapele Electric Power Business Unit. Five new power plant stations located at Papalanto, Ogun State; Omotosho,
Ondo State; Ugheli, Delta State; Geregu, Kogi State; and Alaoji, Abia State; were built at a total cost of $10 billion with the aim of generating and distributing 10,000 megawatts of electricity in Nigeria by December 2007. When Obasanjo left office in May
2007, the darkness generated by professors and doctors of electrical engineering employed at the PHCN had become so unbearable to Nigerians that they interpreted the acronym, PHCN, to mean, Problem Has Changed Name. Thereafter, it was the turn of Yar'Adua
and Goodluck Jonathan to battle darkness in which PHCN had enveloped Nigeria. Not many countries in the world were privileged to have a professor as Minister of power as in Nigeria between 2007 and 2015. But by 2014, the darkness generating and distributing
professor and Minister of power could only preside over the privatisation of PHCN. Thereby, 20 generating companies (GENCO) and 11 distributing companies (DISCO) were created to take over from PHCN. Since then, Nigerian owners of GENCO and DISCO have been
demonstrating their technical potencies in generating and distributing darkness to Nigerians. Consequently, Nigeria is the world highest importer of household generators and ironically, those who mismanage Nigeria's power sector have become generator tycoons
and millionaires as generator importers. http://saharareporters.com/2019/11/20/nigerian-senators-oppose-generator-import-ban
Not every Nigerian should be an electrical engineer before Nigeria can get adequate power supply. As it is in other countries, the government has employed and remunerated Nigerians who claimed qualifications in power generation and distribution, but have failed to demonstrate their knowledge for Nigerians to see. As it is in the power sector so it is in every MDA in Nigeria. Nigeria is endowed with abundant rainforest, savannah grassland, rivers for irrigation for agriculture all the year round, fertile soil, verse mineral resources (solid and liquid) and a climate devoid of major natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons or cyclones. Educationally, Nigeria has one of the highest man-power index in the world which makes it impossible not to tramp on the toes of PhD holders or professors if one enters any Ministry, Department and Agencies in Nigeria. With what we have, Nigeria should be paradise on earth. Nevertheless, Nigeria's public officials, elected or selected, appointed or employed, have all succeeded in transforming the Nigerian State into carrion and turning one of the richest diverse geographies on earth into the most embarrassing atrophy. For that President Donald Trump is justified to ridicule and humiliate us. Thus our collective protests and complaints, which Professor Toyin Falola seemed to agitate for, should be directed at the Nigerian intellectual public officers for their negative performances in office.
Not every Nigerian should be an electrical engineer before Nigeria can get adequate power supply. As it is in other countries, the government has employed and remunerated Nigerians who claimed qualifications in power generation and distribution, but have failed to demonstrate their knowledge for Nigerians to see. As it is in the power sector so it is in every MDA in Nigeria. Nigeria is endowed with abundant rainforest, savannah grassland, rivers for irrigation for agriculture all the year round, fertile soil, verse mineral resources (solid and liquid) and a climate devoid of major natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons or cyclones. Educationally, Nigeria has one of the highest man-power index in the world which makes it impossible not to tramp on the toes of PhD holders or professors if one enters any Ministry, Department and Agencies in Nigeria. With what we have, Nigeria should be paradise on earth. Nevertheless, Nigeria's public officials, elected or selected, appointed or employed, have all succeeded in transforming the Nigerian State into carrion and turning one of the richest diverse geographies on earth into the most embarrassing atrophy. For that President Donald Trump is justified to ridicule and humiliate us. Thus our collective protests and complaints, which Professor Toyin Falola seemed to agitate for, should be directed at the Nigerian intellectual public officers for their negative performances in office.
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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI
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Akíìkà! This is deep.
My own response to the situation of power supply as a key national industry is similar to police service: an emergency legislation redesigning the conditions of service of personnel. ALL middle and upper level conditions of service should immediately
be changed to renewable contracts every two years.
There is no reason why a company or service on which government has expended billions of dollars of tax payers money should still retain its key staff for producing darkness instead of light. Why should anyone be retained (and even promoted) for not doing
the job they were hired to do?
I know Nigerians in their penchant would soon introduce extraneous issues, crying and begging how the families of affected staff would be made destitute if relieved of their duties. Such sentiments are not critical enough to visualise how many lives have
been thrown on the scrap heap because their establishment folded up due to inadequate power supply and hence should be ignored.
Any employee of any power generation and supply scheme in the public sector should be placed on performance related pay contract by emergency legislation and any private sector company should also be put on two year renewable contracts which should be
terminated on review if goals are not met. A strong on the spot monitoring team should be established. Any mismanagement and diverted funds should be referred to the EFCC upon termination of contract.
Nigerians should be able to see the drastic change in the new dispensation within the first two years of the second term of this government.
OAA
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This message is eligible for Automatic Cleanup! (The core issue raised by Professor Toyin Falola was the devastation of Nigeria by the White House culminating
in insults and abuse of Nigerians. Professor Falola branded Trump regime's travel ban on Nigerians, announced on 31 January 2019, as a sad day and regretted lack of collective response, complaints or protests from Nigerians. Since collective response to a
collective attack on a group requires a collective identity and solidarity, I find it very absurd that Nigerians (indeed Africans) should migrate to the US because of the persecution of African Americans based on the colour of their skin which they inherited
from us, their African ancestors. Without doubt, African (Nigerian) immigrants in the US shall always suffer the same fate as African Americans do daily as narrated by Malcolm X. But collective response by us, Africans, to a collective attack on us as a group
is something unusual. Winthrop D. Jordan inform readers in his book titled White Over Black that slave traders in Africa handled Negroes the same way men in England handled beasts, herding, examining and buying. It was not strange that the Negroes were likened
to beasts because there was in Africa a beast which was likened to men. Negroes homeland, Africa was the habitat of chimpanzees which in appearance most resemble man. Englishmen who were not acquainted with tailless apes that walked about like men speculated
that Negroes were beasts of the same kind as chimpanzees. Englishmen soon noticed a difference between chimpanzees and Negroes which was that an attack on any chimpanzee witnessed by other chimpanzees always lead to collective defence against the attacker.
Negroes, that is to say Africans, do not possess that sense of group solidarity and collective defence. When the USA and Western Europe collectively imposed economic sanctions on Mugabi's Zimbabwe for enforcing the Lancashire's agreement on which Britain reneged,
did OAU (AU) respond collectively against the attackers of Zimbabwe?
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju referred to the prosperity of the Germans, Irish and the Jews immigrants in the US and on that premise he extrapolated
the same to cover Nigerian (African) immigrants in the US. In support of Mr. Adepoju's claim, Mr. Chikwendu Ukaegbu averred,
"Huge populations have moved out of many countries, yet those sending countries prospered and continue to prosper." He substantiated his averment with the emigrated Japanese, Koreans, Chinese-plus-Taiwanese and Indians. What he seemed to have
forgotten was that the Germans, the Irish, and the Jews were not captured and sold to serve as slaves in the USA. They were free immigrants in the US like other Caucasians. The Asians too were never at anytime in history
captured and sold to slavery in the US as was the case with Africans. As for the holocaust, West Germany paid Israel 3.45 billion deutsche marks, or over $7 billion as reparations between 1953 and 1963. In the case of holocaust caused by slave trade on Africans
and perpetrated by Western Europe, France passed a law in 2001 recognising the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. Six years later, in 2007, the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, publicly apologised for the roles played by Britain
in the slavery holocaust. Not until 18 June 2009, did the US Senate pass a formal apology resolution acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow Laws. US and Western Europe, the beneficiaries of slave
trade and colonialism could have laundered their image and reputation with transfer of technology for industrial development of Africa instead, as it were, of plundering the continent of its mineral and natural resources.
Chielozona Eze asserted,
"What makes educated diaspora Nigerians appear to be more educated and obviously more productive than their peers in Nigeria is the infrastructure in the West. No Nigerian in America has to think of having a steady power or water supply. No Nigerian academic
in America ever has to think of spending three hours on the road making a journey he could have made in thirty minutes, because of terrible roads. ….. " Mr. Eze wrote as if to say availability of infrastructure in the West (USA) is a product of magic
and not as a result of planning and execution by their educated personnel in economics, science and technology. In a lecture delivered by the then Spokesman of the Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, Edwin Ike Madunagu, at the Trenchard Hall of the University
of Ibadan, on 25 September 1975, titled, THE TASK BEFORE THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, he shed light on the aim and worth of acquisition of university education in Nigeria. Excerpt from his lecture is as follows
: The truth is that the University of Ibadan, like any other institution of higher learning built by the former European colonialists, was essentially designed to create an elitist class of Black Europeans, nurtured in Euro-American values and therefore
becoming a ready ally in the full-scale plunder of their (country's natural resources) fellow brothers and sisters. …, not even the attainment of Paper Independence has changed the ideological character of most of our University products. Rather we have
a stratum of caricatures who are neither white nor black and who are not part of the solution to our problem, and therefore must be part of the problem itself. What are the hopes and aspiration of an average Nigerian University student today? If he
is a man, he wants to get his degree, which he correctly refers to as a *meal-ticket*. With his *meal-ticket*, he hopes to secure a white-collar job, a car, a flat and women. If the student is a woman, she hopes that with this *meal-ticket* she can secure
her admission to the closed circle of men that matter while at the same time being guaranteed her economic survival and independence in case of crisis. …..//…. For when we look upon University education solely as a means of obtaining a *meal-ticket*, we have
been reduced to lower animals. The politics of production - the only thing that separates us from animals - is given less thought, while the monetary entitlement of a University graduate is given prominence (p. 5-6, THE PEOPLE'S CAUSE : A Journal
of Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, No. 3; November 1975). Educated diaspora Nigerians are like mechanical toys in their countries of abode. They are winded daily to perform a pre-programmed functions within the system created by indigenous brains
of the country in which they reside. When such a diaspora Nigerian returns to Nigeria, he/she will be like an expert in car driving in a country that does not produce cars. I implore Mr. Eze to take a look at all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
in Nigeria, he will discover that they are manned by Nigerians of various academic qualifications depicting them as experts to produce goods and services their offices are created and designed for. But why are they unproductive?
You mentioned lack of steady power in Nigeria but you avoided to tell who are responsible for it. At independence in 1960, we had the coal-powered
electricity generation called Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) to which Abubakar's government added hydro-electric power generation through the establishment of the Niger Dam Authority (NDA). On 24 November 1974,
ECN and NDA were merged together under a new name, National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). NEPA which was to generate and distribute electric power to urban and rural areas in Nigeria was manned by Nigerians with sophisticated academic degrees in electric
power generation and distribution from all over the world. Nigerian officials manning NEPA were over-remunerated if the national GDP and general purchasing power in the country were to be considered. Yet, NEPA produced more darkness than light and the public
in Nigeria translated the acronym, NEPA, to Never Expect Power Always. When Obasanjo became President in 1999, 19 out of 79 generating units in the country were working which resulted in epileptic power generation of 2,000 megawatts instead of the installed
capacity of 6,000 megawatts. Why 60 generation units were not working was not explained by the overeducated, highly rated and overpaid Nigerian academic managers of NEPA. Obasanjo Power Reform Act 2005, came into effect on July 1, 2005 and NEPA was replaced
with Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). Six semi-independent power generation companies were licenced to generate and sell power to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) at bulk unit cost. The six generating companies were : Kainji/Jebba Hydro Power
Business Unit, Shiroro Hydro Business Unit, Egbin Electric Power Business Unit, Delta Power Business Unit, Afam Electric Power Business Unit and Sapele Electric Power Business Unit. Five new power plant stations located at Papalanto, Ogun State; Omotosho,
Ondo State; Ugheli, Delta State; Geregu, Kogi State; and Alaoji, Abia State; were built at a total cost of $10 billion with the aim of generating and distributing 10,000 megawatts of electricity in Nigeria by December 2007. When Obasanjo left office in May
2007, the darkness generated by professors and doctors of electrical engineering employed at the PHCN had become so unbearable to Nigerians that they interpreted the acronym, PHCN, to mean, Problem Has Changed Name. Thereafter, it was the turn of Yar'Adua
and Goodluck Jonathan to battle darkness in which PHCN had enveloped Nigeria. Not many countries in the world were privileged to have a professor as Minister of power as in Nigeria between 2007 and 2015. But by 2014, the darkness generating and distributing
professor and Minister of power could only preside over the privatisation of PHCN. Thereby, 20 generating companies (GENCO) and 11 distributing companies (DISCO) were created to take over from PHCN. Since then, Nigerian owners of GENCO and DISCO have been
demonstrating their technical potencies in generating and distributing darkness to Nigerians. Consequently, Nigeria is the world highest importer of household generators and ironically, those who mismanage Nigeria's power sector have become generator tycoons
and millionaires as generator importers. http://saharareporters.com/2019/11/20/nigerian-senators-oppose-generator-import-ban
Not every Nigerian should be an electrical engineer before Nigeria can get adequate power supply. As it is in other countries, the government has employed and remunerated Nigerians who claimed qualifications in power generation and distribution, but have failed to demonstrate their knowledge for Nigerians to see. As it is in the power sector so it is in every MDA in Nigeria. Nigeria is endowed with abundant rainforest, savannah grassland, rivers for irrigation for agriculture all the year round, fertile soil, verse mineral resources (solid and liquid) and a climate devoid of major natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons or cyclones. Educationally, Nigeria has one of the highest man-power index in the world which makes it impossible not to tramp on the toes of PhD holders or professors if one enters any Ministry, Department and Agencies in Nigeria. With what we have, Nigeria should be paradise on earth. Nevertheless, Nigeria's public officials, elected or selected, appointed or employed, have all succeeded in transforming the Nigerian State into carrion and turning one of the richest diverse geographies on earth into the most embarrassing atrophy. For that President Donald Trump is justified to ridicule and humiliate us. Thus our collective protests and complaints, which Professor Toyin Falola seemed to agitate for, should be directed at the Nigerian intellectual public officers for their negative performances in office.
Not every Nigerian should be an electrical engineer before Nigeria can get adequate power supply. As it is in other countries, the government has employed and remunerated Nigerians who claimed qualifications in power generation and distribution, but have failed to demonstrate their knowledge for Nigerians to see. As it is in the power sector so it is in every MDA in Nigeria. Nigeria is endowed with abundant rainforest, savannah grassland, rivers for irrigation for agriculture all the year round, fertile soil, verse mineral resources (solid and liquid) and a climate devoid of major natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons or cyclones. Educationally, Nigeria has one of the highest man-power index in the world which makes it impossible not to tramp on the toes of PhD holders or professors if one enters any Ministry, Department and Agencies in Nigeria. With what we have, Nigeria should be paradise on earth. Nevertheless, Nigeria's public officials, elected or selected, appointed or employed, have all succeeded in transforming the Nigerian State into carrion and turning one of the richest diverse geographies on earth into the most embarrassing atrophy. For that President Donald Trump is justified to ridicule and humiliate us. Thus our collective protests and complaints, which Professor Toyin Falola seemed to agitate for, should be directed at the Nigerian intellectual public officers for their negative performances in office.
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how do we find out why nigeria has not been able to develop adequate power supply?
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