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With the emerging trend of young Nigerian youths who are supposed to be educated enough to know how to resolve the Nigerian conundrum getting more confused than the present bunch that constitutes the political class,it is safe and sound to submit that we still have many years to endure the present inanities and mediocre leadership that suffuse the political landscape. Brimming with so much energy and 'intellect',one would have expected(especially those of us w ho don't know much) that this set of people should be able to articulate concrete steps on how to move the country forward. They rail and rant. They condemn the status quo using high-sounding rhetoric and some fashion-beaten political grammars,yet they cannot pinpoint a formidable alternative to the present political configuration. Does that solve the problem? Never.That will never be. I am told there is an ocean of distinction between being an ideologue and being a realist..The former live an...

That is how you will maintain your lane jejely and they will make you begin to yarn opata about God and prayer. There is no way to talk about what they are doing, how they are underdeveloping their country, without appearing to sub God and shade prayer. Even if what you are saying is not directly aimed at God, the mud spatter could be flung in his direction. You are a gainfully employed civil servant. Brilliant young man, leading a normal Nigerian life of oscillation between half salary and no salary. Yesterday, you told me you were off to an all night vigil with some of your colleagues. I asked about work the following day. You said you'd head out to work from the vigil. I told you that your vigil on a Thursday night - a week day - means you will rob Nigeria of Friday - a half day as it is already. I told you that you'd not be mentally alert and in a shape to work properly the following day after a religious all nighter - with all the screaming and shouting....

President Macron of France says Africa has civilization problems. It is like an armed robber blaming his victim for remaining poor. I would have directed him to the Berlin conference of 1885 where his ancestors sat at a table and used pencil and ruler to draw boundaries without any thought for the peculiarities of the inhabitants. But I am not one who lives in the past. I would have directed him to the brutal colonial legacies of France, which though no less evil than the British and Belgian counterparts, was much more barbaric if we considered the great Algerian question in the 60s. Again, that is in the past. However, under Macron TODAY. France still meddles in the domestic affairs of Franco-phone countries in a way (including projecting millitary might) the other former colonialist nations would not even dare. Compelling ALL francophone African nations to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves in the French Central Bank is a form of slavery that is certain to ...