Nigeria--Defying Expectations (Washington DC Notes) : PRINCE CHARLES DICKSON

"There's corruption everywhere, 'cept in DC, it is professional". Anonymous

We are driving to Virginia, and my friend, whom I 'll just call Karim tells me this story--"I love Nigeria, I remember when I was a kid in Nigeria, my father and I were traveling to Ibadan from Lagos" he said. 

"We hit this guy in an accident, and the crowd pulls on us, its getting rowdy. And then the police comes, my father comes down, ...gives the man some notes...the whole report changes, infact he tells the people that they are lucky, and we were nice people because it was the man who actually hit us (our car)..., I 'll never understand how a man on foot hit a mobile car".

Minister Ngozi Iweala And The Turtle:PRINCE CHARLES DICKSON

The greatest lesson in life is to know that sometimes even fools are right—Winston Churchill

Early this year, I was with Ngozi Iweala and she spoke glowing on Nigeria's economy, gdp and all those terms. I nodded and smiled.  I recalled our meeting pre-debt relief era and all her talk then...it wasn't so much of a changed woman.

Only a week ago she was again at it with Labaran Maku, the chief talkative as umpire at the ministerial briefing, more and more figures and data of progress, international validation and all that ratings from fitch.

Northern Nigeria And Her Mythical Realities:

When a people have suffered for too long, they will drink fairytales on fairylands with insatiable gullibility." (Hamilton Ayuk) 

My admonition this week dwells with a section of Nigerian--the North and it is a do-no-favors essay, call it the truth, or falsehood, call it nonsense, be bitter or be complimentary about it, I really do not care--or better still I care enough to tell us the way I see it.

MEDIOCRITY WITHOUT BORDERS.

Femke Becomes Funke: Celebrating Mediocrity In Nigeria By Femke van Zeijl

Posted: March 21, 2013 - 06:02

Femke Van Zeijl

By Femke Van Zeijl

I used to think corruption was Nigeria’s biggest problem, but I’m starting to doubt that. Every time I probe into one of the many issues this country is encountering, at the core I find the same phenomenon: the widespread celebration of mediocrity. Unrebuked underachievement seems to be the rule in all facets of society. A governor building a single road during his entire tenure is revered like the next Messiah; an averagely talented author who writes a colourless book gets sponsored to represent Nigerian literature overseas; and a young woman with no secretarial skills to speak of gets promoted to the oga’s office faster than any of her properly trained colleagues.

Don't Change This Nigeria By Prince Charles Dickson

“I am not upset, I am not upset!” Yet a grown man swears angrily six times because of last night's pounded yam.

Cassandra in Greek legend, I  recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it. So the pain that we know our problems but seem condemned to an existence of being incapable of solving them seems our curse as well.

A SINGLE VICTORY... Oge Anyaji

A SINGLE VICTORY

A lot of people have different opinions and reactions to the emergence of the Super Eagles of Nigeria as the winner of the coveted Nations Cup. For some, pitching the Super Eagles against its counterpart from Burkina Faso was an indisputable walk-over for the Eagles who didn’t even need to make an appearance. To some other who belonged to the school of thought that the Burkina Faso side was a very amateurish team compared to their experienced counterpart who boasts of an affluent show of internationally based and famous players, this notwithstanding, anything can happen in a football match.

BEWARE OF THANKS GIVING EXPERTS.

THE PROVERBIAL THANKSGIVING… a case of dog for goat

A friend jokingly dropped this proverb, “when a dog refuses to bark, the owner will mistake it for a goat and take it for thanksgiving”.

Believe me, this is the case of my beloved country Nigeria. A country filled with people who have refused to bark, not to mention bite. 

A country with proven cases of naivety, gullible, easy to deceive, emotional and very very sensitive, especially when touched in the right places; religion, ethnicity, politics and the ‘cake formula’.

What Exactly Is The Problem With Nigeria? We... Let's Work At Solving It

Ronald Reagan once said "Government is like a baby, an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other end". And I add a big head that thinks it knows it all and then treat us all like the anus that brings nothing but...forgetting that a closed anus is recipe for disaster.


Photocracy--It is a style of government in which people who should be leading and governing are engaged in all manner of phototricks, some say 'photo-shoped', like Tinubu in that democratic convention in United States, Suntai and we know the rest, Chime too and some three wise men.

POLITICIANS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE THE CHAIN IS BROKEN

I do not know much about dog breeding, but this is what I observed. When a puppy is brought home it is either chained or latched, amidst whining and protest, the milk or food is provided, with a little stroking of ear and neck. The puppy begins to be weary of whining and protest until its protest becomes so weak to be called an unnoticed sigh. The dog then resigns to fate and accepts its new reality with all that comes with it. By now a name has been given and a specific space carved out for its existence. Still being fed of a particular food and occasionally fondly stroke to the ear or neck, the chain is removed or un-caged but by now the half grown puppy has forgotten its history through this formative process. A new identity and limitation is now in progress, the dog has been domesticated and customized to a personal item. This is the story of Nigeria and Nigerians. As the international community tries to domesticate us Nigerians through the gruesome coups and civil war, purchased the Nigerian spirit and our politicians perfected their arts by customizing us to meet their appetite through systematic mediocrity. Hence, Nigerians were reduced to a country with the highest wishes for greatness and a flamboyant list of excuses for each of our many failures. Like the dog we have been given a new reality of distrust, religious intolerance, corruption, fear, anger, actionlessness and ethnic suspicion, with their professional tokenism and years of enthroning mediocrity, we have so accepted this customized reality that we now share it from ‘face book’ to ‘mind book’. So much that we excuse every of our short coming, with the philosophy of ‘at least’; “at least, Jang built Garda biu bridge”; “at least Jonathan passed the budget on time”, “at leasting everything that should not have been”. The very few who are courting us, outside the borders of our dear country, courts us for all the best things they can get from us; U.S.A, China, Germany ...name them. But the difference between man and beast is the ability to recreate our reality. This is why every Nigerian should seek a personal deliverance, a self motivated rescue mission to rise above this ‘domestication’ and ‘customization’. We must as painful as it may seem step above the boundaries drawn by these dream-robbers, and attain our dreams and aspirations. In fact, it is time to redefine the rules, for we have been hunted for a very long time. It is time that the hunted becomes the hunter. It is our own time to domesticate the beast in our public officers, to dog-cage them and demand absolute loyalty from them. This will not make sense to you if your thoughts are in chain, this may not make sense to you if you’ve lost the will to reach out and touch the sky, and this really will not make sense to you if you’ve decided to fail your future. This will only make sense to you if you have the common sense to realize that we are too blessed to be like this. Victor Prince Dickson Jos,2013.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster......The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."- Milan Kundera

VOICE FOR PEACE - Prince Charles Dickson.[El-spice T.V}

VOICE FOR PEACE - Prince Charles Dickson.[El-spice T.V}

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TIPS FOR REAL NIGERIANS.

Only real Nigerians;

1) Check the expiry date of gala after eating it.
2) Go to church with extension and BB charger
(charging in his presence).
3) update on BBM "about 2 cross", get hit by a car
and still update "dying tinz"
4) Say an opening prayer @ a nite club
5)Go to an eatery and buy bottled water just to watch a soccer match.
6) Go to a shoprite, buy a bottle of coke and spend 30min. Snapping with champagne bottles.
7) Wear sun shades @ nite.
8) Dress in complete rainbow colours like its rag day and call it colour blocking.
9) Count money after withdrawing from an ATM (we trust no one, not even machines).
10) Wear head warmers @ 45 degrees
celsius.
11) Call a fat Hausa man "Alhaji" and a Thin one "Aboki".
12) Travel to China for 2days and com back with a British accent.
Are U a real Nigerian???
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prince charles dickson
yours in high regards

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