William Bangura:
Great Britain a superpower in its own right
sought the help of the USA during its war to repossess
the Falkland Islands in the 1980s.
The USA's war on terrorism under three Presidents would have gone no where
without international help.
Even with all their economic and military might France, Germany, Great Britain
and other more advanced countries are not immune to terrorist attacks.
The above are not meant as excuses for Nigeria's failure to utilize its human and natural resources
to develop her peoples since our independence in 1960, but rather to put things in perspective
for myopic Africans like yourself who despite not wishing Nigeria well
continue to proclaim themselves as Pan Africanists.
Nigeria will rise one day soon!
Bye,
Ola
Great brita
Great Britain a superpower in its own right
sought the help of the USA during its war to repossess
the Falkland Islands in the 1980s.
The USA's war on terrorism under three Presidents would have gone no where
without international help.
Even with all their economic and military might France, Germany, Great Britain
and other more advanced countries are not immune to terrorist attacks.
The above are not meant as excuses for Nigeria's failure to utilize its human and natural resources
to develop her peoples since our independence in 1960, but rather to put things in perspective
for myopic Africans like yourself who despite not wishing Nigeria well
continue to proclaim themselves as Pan Africanists.
Nigeria will rise one day soon!
Bye,
Ola
Great brita
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William Bangura:
I do not blame you for this gratuitous diatribe against our Nigeria. The Yoruba say that when the rain falls, both pigeons and chickens are forced to huddle together. There is this other (probably more apt) Yoruba idiom of smaller reverses taking advantage of a person when felled (socially? medically? economically?) by giant ones....but let us skip that.
And there you have it.
Bolaji Aluko
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, william bangura <william.bangura17@gmail.com> wrote:
--Being a Pan Africanist I empathize with the families whose daughters have been kidnapped by the Boko Haram whose actions are dastardly and should be condemned by all.Though most Nigerians love to portray their country as the African "super-power" because of her population and natural resources, it is a failed state which can neither provide security for her citizens nor afford them vertical economic advancement.After achieving independence in 1960 Nigeria became a republic in 1963. It is inexcusable thatwith her petro-dollars she cannot institute intelligence and security forces to safeguard her citizens and her borders.There have been aspersions thrown in this forum at the colonialists and imperialists for the problems of the continent, but yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan of the Federal Republic of Nigeriawas on his hands and knees crawling to the British and the Americans to liberate those poor girls who did not demand to be born or reside in a feckless and corrupt country.William Bangura
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