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Nigeria 🇳🇬 Independence Day Definitions from Oxford Languages ·
If yes explain if no explain
free from outside control; not subject to another's authority.
Are we free?

28/09/2024

Has anything changed ?

THIS PRESENT DARKNESS.
Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant.

It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.

1. In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatest defect of the Native Court system.” He complained that not only did judges take bribes, people used their connections to enrich themselves and avoid punishment for their crimes. He also wrote that in the north, a new Emir always removed all the people appointed by the previous Emir and replaced them with his own people. He wrote all these as a complaint against the Indirect Rule system favoured by the British.

2. In 1922, the Colonial Secretary in London, one Winston Churchill, wrote to Nigeria’s Governor General at the time, Sir Hugh Clifford, asking him to ban certain types of letters called ‘Charlatanic correspondences’. This was because J.K Macgregor who was Principal of Hope Waddell Training Institute in Calabar for 36 years, had discovered hundreds of letters written and received by his students ordering all sorts of books, charms and even potions from England, America and India in particular. Most of the charms were nonsense and the students were invariably asked to send more money if they wanted more powerful ones. A total of 2,855 such letters were intercepted by the Posts & Telegraph Department between 1935 and 1938.

3. In 1939, a Nigerian businessman based in Ghana named Prince Eikeneh, wrote to the colonial government in Nigeria complaining about the number of Nigerian girls who were coming to Ghana to work as s*x workers. He said the girls were usually taken there by a Warri-based Madam named ‘Alice’ who told the girls they were going to learn a trade or get married. He concluded that the trade was very well-organised and profitable for the ring leaders.

4. In 1950, Abubakar Tafewa Balewa said ‘the twin curses of bribery and corruption pervade every rank and department of government’. At that time, the word ‘awoof’ was already being used to describe how civil servants used their positions to enrich themselves. In 1952, an anti-corruption campaigner named Eyo A. Akak from Etinan in today's Akwa Ibom state complained that Nigerians were abandoning farming for trade due to materialism and consumerism. He said that every ex-serviceman now wanted to own a Raleigh bicycle before going back to his village while every civil servant wanted to own a car. He even blamed women (partly) for this because all of them only wanted to marry rich men.

5. In 1959, there were 60,000 school graduates in the Western Region. By the following year, the number had increased to 200,000. However, this led to a now familiar problem. By 1963, primary education was turning out 180,000 graduates a year but only 80,000 of them could find jobs, according to the Regional Minister of Finance. The same minister also said he was ‘looking for a method to crackdown on school principals who were collecting money from students for a variety of services’.

6. In 1968, a Polish-British sociologist named Stanislav Andreski coined the term ‘kleptocracy’ to describe the system of government he found in Nigeria. He said ‘Nigeria is the most perfect example of kleptocracy since power itself rests on the ability to bribe’.

7. In 1975, a report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the shortage of petroleum products found that a lot of the petrol being imported into Nigeria (due to the inability of the Port-Harcourt refinery to meet local demand) was being smuggled to Chad and Niger Republic. As soon as NNPC was formed, people swarmed around it and all sorts of people got crude oil lifting contracts. The US Embassy in Paris reported in 1973 that a random American walked into the Embassy and showed them a contract he had to lift 2 million tons of Nigerian crude oil. He told the Embassy that ‘a great deal of under the table payments were taking place in Nigeria to obtain crude oil’.

8. Around 1979, a British bank, Johnson Matthey collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria to export huge amounts of forex from Nigeria on behalf of politicians like Alhaji Umaru Dikko in contravention of foreign exchange controls. The bank later collapsed due to unsecured loans to Nigeria and had to be bailed out by the Bank of England with £100m in 1984 – the first time the Bank of England had ever rescued a private bank in British history. It also led to the passing of the Insolvency Act by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1986. One of the directors of the bank, Vasant Advani, ran to Nigeria in 1986 but returned to the UK in 2008 for treatment when he was diagnosed with cancer. In 2011, at the age of 67, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for the fraud that brought down that bank. No official on the Nigerian side, to the best of my knowledge, was ever convicted.

What do these stories tell us? Is Nigeria hopeless or cursed? Can things ever change? Have we always been this way or is it a recent thing?

The answer is what you say it is.

19/09/2024

Always remember Tenacity is a key to success in life.people fail due to their negative reaction to unpleasant situations or circumstan

19/09/2024

Your business did not succeed those not make you a failure, statistics says that only 1 of every 10 new businesses succeed;never give up.

12/09/2024

Income does not determine wealth;knowledge does, minimise expenses save,invest ,don’t keep liabilities,keep assets.

10/09/2024

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09/09/2024

Money won’t make you rich ! Identity who you are , your talent,gift dedicate your time to converted it to product & exchange for money.

04/09/2024

What do you do with your time?there are so many distractions,Show the product of each day Knowledge will enrich you,but only action will turn it to riches! Work and pray.

03/09/2024

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03/09/2024

What do you do with your time ?Use your time in adding value to yourself, others,and accomplishing things you cherish most.use your time well.

02/09/2024

Time is life,how do you spend your time ?are you wasting time?You can not say how you spend a day,Spending time?exchange life for money service,or converting time, produce a product.

01/09/2024

In this new month, I challenge you with this question,
What do you do with your time?were does your free time go?what do you do with your time when you are unemployed?.Comment

31/08/2024

In spite of all you are going through You can climb to the pinnacle of success , with hard work,good example is Nigeria business woman ,on face as Lizzyanjorin her story is inspiring.

31/08/2024

Hard work is the wealth of a poor man.It is this wealth of hard work that converts everything else into cash ¤cy,but Today many ppl old & young love to beg/ steal,manipulate than work.

30/08/2024

Hard work make you enjoy the law of sowing and reaping, there is no alternative to hard work,not paying of tithe, offering or fasting,don’t be deceived. You are blessed.

30/08/2024

Church matter!.
Self examination, leave your comment.

What is the difference between the
godly and the ungodly

To my fellow religious people which one are you , and our pastors ,I just want to create awareness because from the look of things we have missed it.Do not come for me .Iam not touching your anointed!.

The godly adores the Creator above all else. The ungodly worships the creature more than the Creator. The godly uses God's name with profoundest reverence, and departs from iniquity. The ungodly profanes God's name with impudence, and adds iniquity to sin. God loves you, and he knows you by your name he is not a wicked God you are blessed and highly appreciated.

17/05/2024

The Lord is our shepherd, we shall not wants, because the earth and fullness is the Lord , you will get that help Today , you are heal , physical, spiritual and mental. The Lord will see you through all challenges! Claim all His promises

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APC presidential primary Wailing season 1:... ●"Buhari and his cabal will frustrate Tinubu"... ●"Tinubu's political career is finished".... ●"It is over for Tinubu"... ●"They brought Adamu to help the candidate of the cabal win"... ●"Tinubu is going to SDP"... ●"Northern governors will frustrate and betray Tinubu"... ●"Buhari will strike a day to the convention"... ●"Tinubu is just fooling himself, Buhari has already anointed someone".... ●"The northerners are just fooling Tinubu" Convention came and Tinubu won in a landslide victory with over 1000 votes difference 😂😂😂 General election time, wailing season 2... ●●"Atiku will sweep the north,Obi will sweep the south".... ●●"Nobody in his right sense will ever vote for Tinubu".... ●●"You think northerners are fools? They'll vote for their own brother"... ●"Even Lagos Tinubu won't win".... ●"Northern governors will betray Tinubu in the general election and help Atiku"... !●●"villa cabal are secretly working for Atiku".... ●●"Abdullahi Adamu will betray Tinubu".... ●●"Tinubu can never win North".... ●●"Shettima is the real presidential candidate"...."Tinubu will die before election".... ●●"Write this down, Tinubu can never win"😁😁😁 After general election and Tinubu wins Wailing season 3... ●●●."Buhari can never hand over to Tinubu you'll see,the election will be cancelled".... ●●●"Write this down, Atiku will win at the supreme court, except it is not the north".... ●●●"the northern cabal will use the supreme Court to remove Tinubu" And after Tinubu wins at the supreme court Wailing season 4.... ●●●●"Let everybody go their separate ways".... ●●●●"Biafra or death" Same script, same actors...same movie everytime Ikechukwu Uche

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© Second Niger Bridge Funding: This bridge was proposed by President Shehu Shagari from Sokoto. Shagari approved the design of the project but was ousted from power by Gen Buhari. Then, in 1987, IBB also approved an improved design. Fast forward: 2: Obasanjo, PDP flagged off the project in Asaba but could not execute it. My man, Yar Adua, PDP now approved that the Project should be executed under a Public Private Partnership. Recall ObJ, PDP had approved N58.6bn when Atiku was VP. 3: Yar Adua, PDP approved that 60% should come from the contractor : GITTO GROUP (you know what happened to GITTO, make we leave that story) : 20% from FG not Yar Adua and 10% from Anambra and Delta states. Unfortunately, Yar Adua passed on, and the project was SUSPENDED. 4: Then Goodluck Jonathan, a Son of the soil, South South, PDP approved in August 2012 via Federal Executive Council a sum of N325m for the new design of the bridge. Don’t forget, Shagari, IBB, OBJ had approved & money paid for this design. 5: GITTO could not execute the project. So, PPP died. Julius Berger was brought in to replace GITTO. So, President Buhari, APC decided to establish a Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund that all Govs approved during National Economic Council to fund. 6: the Govs agreed that a sum of $650m should be transferred from Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas dividend account at CBN as initial seed to fund projects critical to nation development as we can not rely on budgetary allocation. 7: The project was awarded to Julius Berger for a sum of N206bn by NSIA via Federal Ministry of Works&Housing and approved by FG. Again, PPP did not work and died. Then, our man from the North West, Gen Abacha ‘s loot came in to fund the project too. 8: North West played a significant role to complete the second Niger Bridge located in South East. The project was reviewed in three phases . The first phase was N206bn; Second phase: N88.09bn; Third phase: N112.09bn. Combined cost is N406.2bn.