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They keep showing you this figure, telling you that Nigerians in the United States send over $20 billion home every year, as though it is simply a story about how well Nigerians are doing in America. But ask yourself why you are constantly shown this figure. Americans are not constantly being shown how much Americans living abroad send back to the United States. Nigerians are shown how much Nigerians abroad remit home because the number helps create a particular image that, Nigerians who leave are succeeding, making money and living better, so you should also take your talent and labour over there. What they rarely advertise is the other side of the equation. How much do Nigerians spend on visas and immigration processes every year? How much do Nigerians contribute to the American economy through their labour, taxes, businesses, consumption and professional skills? How much human capital leaves Nigeria every year? How much productive capacity is Nigeria losing? They show you the money coming back while rarely showing you the value and talent going out. That is the part people need to understand. You are being encouraged to look at migration from the perspective of what you can personally gain, while ignoring what happens to the nation when large numbers of its most educated, skilled and productive people are separated from the process of nation building. This advertisement is simply telling you to bring your talent here. Bring your labour here. Build our industries. Work in our hospitals. Fill our universities. Work in our technology sector. Pay taxes into our economy. Then send some money back home so everyone can celebrate the remittances. That is how brain drain can be presented as a success story. The question Nigerians should be asking is not only, “How much money are Nigerians abroad sending home?” Also ask, how much talent, labour, capital and productive capacity are we sending out every year, and who is benefiting from it? I know some of you will say, “But the nation does not value their talent, so they had to leave.” I hear you. But if the best of us keep leaving, eventually we won’t have a country anymore. The countries many of us want to run to did not become what they are because everyone who faced difficult conditions abandoned them. People fought, organised, sacrificed and built the countries they have today. We can do the same for ours. We can fight for a Nigeria that values its talent. Leaving may improve your individual circumstances, and I understand why people do it. But we should also be honest about the collective cost when an entire generation of skilled, educated and productive Nigerians is encouraged to take its talent elsewhere.

Instablog9ja @instablog9ja

2 days ago

Nigerians in US remit over $20bn annually to Nigeria — U.S Consul General

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gst has been reporting on how Nigerian-made Fanta was rejected in the UK as 'unfit for human consumption,' yet this is the same Fanta Nigerians still drink today. We will not stop.

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5 days ago

A can of Fanta sold in London contains 63 calories. In India, the same drink contains three times as much sugar. It also has artificial dye — requiring prominent health warnings in Europe — but in India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the

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Hello God by Dolly Parton 🥹💔

Like you @Ilegvm this is the first movie I saw with dolly. Later I saw her in Rhinestone with Sylvester Stallone. I thought she was an actress at first because I didn't know her music. I had no idea until one day my eyes were opened. She was an absolute legend. She appealed to everyone and always will. I love watching people's reactions when they hear her for the first time.

💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm

4 days ago

This was one of the first movies I watched with Dolly in it (even though it was several years after it came out😉) Dolly was a once in a lifetime talent, trailblazer and pure light. RIP Dolly ♥️🦋

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I know exactly what I'm doing. How Dolly Parton shut down the noise and owned her narrative in 1977.

After 4 years, I’ve moved back from the UK to India and started a new job in Bangalore. Wouldn’t say it was 100% the happiest decision I’ve ever made. But it felt like the right one for my nervous system. A few things I’ve been thinking about since making the move 👇

Men don’t want inexperienced women. They want women fewer men have had. The one who did it 1,000 times with one man beats the one who did it twice with two - every time. It’s never been about the sex. It’s about access. Which past can you actually live with? 📹 : darwynnmcpherson C & Q ✍️🏾 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒖𝒔 - 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒖𝒔. 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚.

A soldier survives Iraq, only to be k!lled by his own military hospital. After surviving combat, Private Canfield dies from from a botched routine procedure. Now watch Alan shore shred opposing counsel and expose a brutal reality.

Pro tip: If it has a central bank conjuring money/credit from nothing, it’s doomed to become the exact same horrible system just with a different name… same outcome EVERY SINGLE TIME

Robert California must have done something really bad

Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London. It is excellent. They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.

She has a banger on her hands 🤯🔥

The voice in your head

Irresponsible dont plan their money, they plan with your money. You are their plan 😂 Apostle Emmanuel Iren

I’m realizing God isn’t just pruning sin from my life. He’s pruning the things I rely on instead of Him …my own strength, control, plans I’ve been holding onto too tightly & my incessant need for certainty. He’s making it clear dependence on Him is where true strength begins.

Being in your 40s is wild. One friend is a grandma, one has a newborn, one is celebrating 20 years married, and another is dating a 25-year-old. Half of us look 28, the other half pulled a muscle sleeping. 😂 No timeline, just vibes. 😭

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph

2 months ago

Hit me with the harshest reality truth.

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A kid’s tantrum is often the proof you just set a real boundary. Dr. Becky Kennedy is clear on this. When you hold a true limit for the first time, the reaction is almost always the same: big feelings. Parents usually read that explosion as failure. It is frequently the opposite. The tantrum means the boundary landed. You did the hard part. Once you see the upset as confirmation instead of catastrophe, you stop scrambling to undo it. You can validate the feeling and still keep the line. “I know you want more TV. It’s still not happening.” The parents who last are the ones who stop treating every meltdown as a referendum on their worth.