If there were more people who were willing to tell the truth at all cost in 1981, maybe it wouldn't have taken another 20 years for us to have telephones in Nigeria, and another 30 years to have widespread internet access.

Instead of telling the truth, our parents chose to genuflect and hobnob with the MKO Abiolas of this world. We went to school with their children and grandchildren, and when we asked our parents questions, they told us to just mind our business and face our books. They chose to drink the Kool-Aid, or they just didn't want trouble.

As a result of their path of least resistance, Nigeria's digital economy was delayed by about 30 years, and the cost of not wanting that trouble can be measured today in the hundreds of billions of dollars in missing GDP and thousands of formerly middle class Nigerians forced to emigrate to Europe and North America to work at IKEA and DPD.

Those of us who are satisfied to not want trouble like our parents will someday have to answer some very hard questions from our kids when they find out that their Irish, British and Canadian passports don't entitle them to the same treatment as the historical inhabitants of those places.

Don't forget to drink that Kool-Aid very well. Telling and acknowledging the truth is only for mad people like that stupid Hundeyin boy with his big mouth and Kunta Kinte shirt.

https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1810619769378230309?s=19


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbq91aI2SDM?si=Fnb3SQZaI-_52deo

David Hundeyin says what traditional companies in Nigeria are afraid to say

Abiola was a disaster wetin to happen
ITT
International Thief Thief
Thi.efnubu mentor

He is just relying on people's ignorance. These are people who will say corruption is the only problem in Nigeria, but will shout Tinubu is the problem in Nigeria just a month after he came into office. What is the problem then? First of all mobile telephone was quite expensive and was not the norm in the U.S. even up to 1998 what people used were landlines, the cost of the cables and network gear for this line were expensive. The issue was likely cost prohibition for the government. What he could have done was to elaborate the cost of providing telephone services for the nation durign the 1980s then you have to elaborate on the competence of NITEL to handle the network. If that is done you can now discuss what ITT delivered. Because his father said Abiola was corrupt does not provide evidence that it is why our telecommunications development took a while. My guess is the cost and us not being visionary then.

Confusedlady
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Stupid take
Now that there are no constraints and are now free to move at the same pace as the the U.S, what has our Engineers and Scientists done to close the gap??

Failures and losers mindset.

BTW, You guys should stop bringing posts of low IQ individuals on X to Nairaland. Battle it it out with yourselves over there

Na why i dey use VPN to bypass TwitterNG. U will never come across posts on self-development and all, na this rubbish dey always trend there