See Why The Naira May Fall To The Dollar At N1000 Per Dollar (Must Read)

It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD.

That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.

There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians.Back then we had a booming economy.

We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students.

We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry.

We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well.

Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.

Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything.

Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play.

Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.

Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc.

We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them. We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.

Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead.

And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.

I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet.

And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo .

Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricula.

Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt.

Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.

Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo.

But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror and take responsibility.

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Muslims Donates Bibles To Churches In Kaduna

A Muslim has surprised people with her super exemplary gesture when she donated several Bibles in the Hausa language to a church.

As the world mark International Interfaith Harmony Week, Muslim women have donated Bibles to Christian clerics in Kaduna, with a view to strengthening religious tolerance and mutual understanding in the state. The women who donated hundreds of Prayer Mats and Plastic kettles to some mosques in Kaduna recently, attended Sunday Church service with Christian fellows at Christ Evengelical Intercessary Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna-South this Sunday. They donated Bibles written in Hausa language to the Church Clerics.

Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, accompanied by other women, said the World Interfaith Harmony was meant to donate important gifts, share love, unity, visit each other at places of worship, encourage togetherness irrespective of faith organization in order to boost mutual understanding and inter-religious dialogue between the followers of the two religions.

“I attended the Church service and give my own donation like every christian just to encourage religious understanding and tolerance between Christians and Moslems for peaceful coexistence in the country and the world at large,” Tijjani said.

Hajiya Ramatu said both religions preach, peace, harmony, forgiveness and tolerance, pointing out that all come from one family of Adam and Eve and the need to understand one another.

Receiving the Bibles, the general overseer of the Church, Pastor Yohanna Buru expressed satisfaction with the donation and appealed to Christians and Moslems to learn how to tolerate, accommodate and live in peace with one another in order to make the country great and peaceful.

An Unknown Agege Bread Seller Walks Into Fame, All Thanks To TY Bello (Photo)

An unknown Agege bread seller accidental fame all thanks to TY Bello, A pretty Agege bread seller walked by the set of TY Bello’s photoshoot and like she said, “Magic happened!” Talk about being at the right place at the right time.

According to the prolific photographer, everyone thought she is a model but that’s not the case. Her appearance on the photo was pure coincidence.

TY Bello is determined to find and help her kick start a modelling career.. She said:“WHO IS SHE. Every one has been asking if this lady is a model .. It was just perfect coincidence … She just happened to be walking by while I photographed . It happened so fast . She definitely SHOULD be a model. ..

I’m happy to help her build a portfolio if she’s interested .She’s so beautiful and photographed so well. I’ll find a way to track her down somehow . You guys can also help”

Saudi Arabia Releases Photo Of Mosque Suicide Bomber…

The perpetrator of the Friday bomb attack on Al Ridha Mosque in Al Ahsa in the Eastern Province has been identified as Abdul Rahman Bin Abdullah Bin Sulaiman Al Tuwaijri, a 22-year-old Saudi national. The interior ministry said on Saturday, January 30, said that the attacker who bombed the mosque in Al Mahasin neighbourhood had been arrested two years ago for taking part in a rally to call for the release of detainees.

A second suicide bomber was arrested during the attack and he is being treated for wounds, the ministry said, adding that details about his identity will be revealed later.

The statement said that four Saudi citizens were killed and 33 were injured in the attack. Three security servicemen were also wounded.

“So far, 19 of the injured citizens have left the hospital following their treatment whereas the other 14 and the three policemen are still being treated,” the ministry said.

The security forces will continue their efforts to identify and track down all those involved in the attack through planning, execution, support and direct or indirect incitement,” the ministry pledged.

During a visit to the injured at the hospital, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz expressed national resolve to address terrorism. “What happened on Friday will only reinforce our determination to root out terrorists,” he said. “They are serving a specific agenda, but thank God, we are reversing their objectives,” Prince Mohammad, also Saudi Arabia’s interior minister, said.

According to a Saudi report, the suicide bomber’s father did not notice any change in his son’s attitudes when they were together on Thursday, hours before the deadly attack widely condemned in Saudi Arabia and well beyond.

“There was nothing peculiar or strange about him, and he was such a devoted and obedient son,” he said, Al Arabiya news site reported. “When we talked on Thursday, there was no indication to what was going to happen on Friday. The other man implicated with him in the attack is close to him and they often did things together,” he said.

The father added that his son worked in a restaurant and attended courses at a community college:

“I am sure my son has been subjected to a magical act. I do not know how they reached him, especially that he rarely left the house and never mingled with suspicious people. He never left Saudi Arabia and he does not even have a passport. I do not know how my son has been charged” he said.

Wayne Rooney Says Blame The Players And Not Van GaaL

TheManchester Unitedstriker feels the Dutch coach has been unfairly criticised, insisting the players have to admit to their share of the responsibility.

Wayne Rooneybelieves the Manchester United players should shoulder the responsibility for the side’s lacklustre campaign instead of Louis van Gaal. Rooney was on target in United’s 3-1 win over Derby County in the FA Cup on Friday as the Red Devils eased to a fourth victory in six games in 2016.

The England star has been a crucial part of that resurgence, scoring six goals in January, but he believes he and his teammates were equally culpable in a disastrous period between November and December, which saw United go winless for eight-straight games in all competitions.

“It’s unfair to say it’s down to the manager,” Rooney said. “We’re on the pitch, so the players have to take a lot of responsibility for performances and results.

“We have to stand up and take criticism when it’s there. We want to win, of course – we always want to win – and we’re trying.

“Even when you’re giving 100 per cent, it doesn’t always come off.” Van Gaal denied that he had explicitly told the players to abandon his playing style after a disappointing 1-0 home defeat to Southampton – in which United managed just one shot on target. Rooney, however, said it was obvious that the players enjoyed their performance on Friday much more than their league encounter.

“The manager gave us a lot of freedom to go and play and I think you can see the difference in the team,” he added. “You can see we were enjoying it, scoring some good goals and thoroughly deserved to win so hopefully we can put in another performance like this against Stoke City on Tuesday.”

When Did You Stop Bed Wetting? – Get In Here & Share Your Own Experience

When did you stop bed wetting? – Please don’t lie. I stopped when I was in secondary school; (JSS), it was very shameful then but now, I just laugh anytime I remember and I do wonder if I can ever punish my kids for that, I don’t think so.

At a Point, my mum will even tell me to Urinate inside Fire used by those who Fry and sell Akara at Night in our Area. In Yoruba, Their belief is that when you do this before you go to bed, you won’t be able to bet wet.

The funny thing about this Bed wetting issue is that, it comes like a Dream, You can just dream that you’re playing Football with your Friend and they you feel like urinating and then you head to the Toilet or Gutter to ease yourself.. While Urinating in your Dream, something will just wake you up and when you’re up, just check the Bed…My brother e don wet 👿

Only those wey piss for bed wella like me go understand this my story. What about you, When did you Stop Bed wetting? + Share the Experience with Us.

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