“How are you doing?”
“I’m good”
“I’m now satisfied past any iota of doubt that this your Republican pal known as Donald Trump has one thing improper with him.”
“There’s nothing improper with him. Watch out what you say, in any other case, we are going to ban you from ever coming into america from era to era, and even your kids who’re residing in america will likely be deported or despatched to Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, for all times.
Please attempt to respect constituted authority. If you point out the title Trump, please achieve this with respect and reverence. He’s essentially the most highly effective man on this planet immediately, and you’ll see he’s not joking about it.”
“What’s your individual on this matter? I’m making an attempt to have a good dialog, you’re saying we are going to, we are going to. Are you now a member of Trump’s cupboard?
Are you an American? You Nigerians are sick. That is how some members of Company Nigeria organized occasions in 2008 to help Obama. Within the final election, a few of you began rooting for Trump even while you all knew you had no vote within the election.
When he gained, one fellow in Northern Nigeria organized a victory rally. Too many Nigerians are loopy about American politics however they’re so terribly illiterate about politics in their very own nation. A lot of you celebrated when Trump gained, now the identical Trump is deporting your individual individuals.”
“I don’t care about Nigerian leaders. They solely consider themselves. President Trump is considering the American individuals.
He desires to make the American individuals nice by placing American pursuits first. Which African chief thinks about us the individuals? For me, it’s a matter of precept. Any chief who says his individuals’s curiosity is his major goal, I’ll reward him. African leaders should be taught from the instance of Trump. Study to consider your individuals.”
“So, how does that precept justify Trump making enemies over the weekend with America’s main buying and selling companions? Yearly, Mexico, Canada and China account for over $1.6 trillion of commerce with the US and greater than 40% of imports into the US. Canada provides 61% of American crude oil.
And now Trump says he’s imposing a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico and an extra 10% on items from China. That’s an open declaration of a worldwide commerce struggle that won’t assist anyone”
“So? Trump made a marketing campaign promise about immigration and the importation of medicine into america. He’s maintaining his election promise. He’s forcing the world together with the European Union to renegotiate with America. That is his second coming. He has a greater understanding than he had in his first time period. He’s standing up for the American individuals.”
“He’s reversing every part that America stood for earlier than his second coming. American exceptionalism shouldn’t imply American isolationism nor ought to it translate into expansionism which has by no means been a pillar of the American international coverage course of.”.
“Principle. Textbook evaluation. We’re speaking politics, you’re parroting some lifeless authors.”
“However I like the best way different international locations are standing as much as him. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico will retaliate with tariff and non-tariff measures and that America is responsible of slander by making an attempt to hyperlink Mexico with legal organizations. She thinks the choice on the desk needs to be dialogue not tariff. Now see how instantly Trump has paused the tariffs on Mexico. President Sheinbaum is aware of precisely the way to cope with a bully.”
“Which Mexican President? Who’s Sheinbaum in comparison with Trump? When Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia began protesting that Colombians shouldn’t be handled like criminals, or shipped again to Colombia in a navy plane, didn’t the identical Petro ultimately eat his phrases? America is speaking, you’re speaking.”
“Each nation has a sovereign proper and I count on each chief to face up like President Sheinbaum and refuse to be bullied by Donald Trump. Canada for instance was additionally swift and decisive in retaliating.
The identical day Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded with a declaration of advert valorem tariffs of $155 billion on US items, $30 billion to take impact on Tuesday and one other $125 billion in 21 days. It’s known as tit for tat, reciprocity.
No one has a monopoly on insanity in worldwide relations. Even the EU has threatened that if Trump tries something humorous, they too will combat again. China has filed a swimsuit with the World Commerce Group to complain about America’s wrongful apply.”
“Na immediately? China can go to the WTO. The EU can hem and haw. A Daniel has come to judgment in america. Earlier than Trump, each knee shall bow. Are you not conscious that he has even threatened that anyone that confronts the US will solely have the tariffs expanded or elevated in scope?”
“Are you additionally not conscious that the purpose has been made that there aren’t any winners in a commerce struggle? Trump can enhance tariffs which might be a destabilizing second for world commerce from Canada to Asia and Africa, however it is going to additionally have an effect on the markets in America, drive up inflation and trigger an earthquake in America’s relations with the world. The individuals in Canada could undergo, however Individuals will undergo as effectively.”
“You might be quoting Trudeau. What does he know? When he leaves workplace, he would additionally in all probability find yourself as an immigrant within the US”
“That’s an unfair factor to say”
“Trump is utilizing energy. He’s forcing the world to barter with him and the US.”
“He’s a bull in a China store.”
“Okay, go and problem him”
“President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has challenged him over his assertion about land coverage in his nation. I like Ramaphosa. He’s additionally standing up for his nation because you say you want a President who stands up for his individuals.”
“Ramaphosa. Let me see. South African President? Towards Trump? It’s even unhealthy sufficient that South Africa is a member of BRICS. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Has anybody instructed President Ramaphosa what Professor Bola Akinyemi, Nigeria’s former Overseas Affairs Minister and Chairman of Nigeria’s Institute of Worldwide Affairs (NIIA) stated about how it may be dangerous to impress or confront Trump?
President Ramaphosa ought to tread fastidiously. Trump has threatened to name off all future funding to South Africa if the nation continues to grab white individuals’s land with out compensation”
“African international locations don’t want assist. What we want is a partnership. Vice President Kashim Shettima of Nigeria stated that a lot in January on the World {Economic} Discussion board (WEF) in Davos. Moreover, Professor Akinyemi was advising President Tinubu of Nigeria, not President Ramaphosa of South Africa.”
“What’s the distinction? Do you suppose Trump cares whether or not you’re from South Africa or Nigeria? However I do know President Tinubu. He wouldn’t behave like these different Presidents.
He won’t confront Donald Trump. And if America stops assist to Africa and different elements of the world, or refuses to fund Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS programme, is it our cash? It’s the American taxpayer’s cash. No one can inform America the way to spend its cash.”
“America has a accountability to guard the world.”
“America has a accountability to guard America and its residents. How is that so troublesome for anybody to know? “
“I don’t just like the Republicans.”
“You don’t have to love them. Individuals voted for Trump overwhelmingly. It was a landslide victory in November 2024.”
“We’d see. We’d see the place Trump leads the remainder of the world. By the best way, did you watch the 67th Grammys Awards?”
“I did. I did. I’m excited by the truth that our personal Tems, Temilade Openiyi, gained her second Grammy within the Greatest African Music Efficiency class, the primary Nigerian to win two Grammy awards. Historical past made. I used to be rooting for Yemi Alade however when Tems gained, I used to be blissful for her and her Mum.
A candy reward for exhausting work and dedication. It was even her Mum’s birthday the next day and she or he deservedly devoted the award to her and her staff. Parenting issues. Prepare your little one so she will be able to make you proud.”
“That’s actually one thing. Her market worth goes to shoot up. With a Grammy Award, she is made, with two, she is up there. In complete, she has had eight nominations on the Grammy Awards in her profession. She doesn’t want anyone’s validation. So blessed. So younger.”
“All the opposite Nigerians who made it to the nomination are winners too. Asake, Wizkid, Davido, Burna Boy, Lojay, Yemi Alade, simply actually blissful for all of them. Wizkid and Bloody Civilian are additionally contributors to the Greatest Reggae Album: Wizkid with One Love, Bloody Civilian with Pure Mystic. Good. These are nice ambassadors.”
“I liked Tems’ acceptance speech. However I believe it was an enormous oversight on that stage to not have talked about Seyi Shodimu and Shaffy Bello, who initially sang the successful music Love Me Jeje, Love Me Tender, 28 years in the past in 1997. Music for Future Generations now remixed by Tems and became Grammy Gold.”
“Hmm. You might be proper. Love me Jeje, Love me Tender. Who would ever have thought that that music would make it to Grammy glory? However the larger query is: does anyone nonetheless make music for future generations anymore? Most of what you hear on the market, regardless of the business success and worldwide consideration, as of late, is simply artificial music, a whole lot of sound and little or no sense.”
“I gained’t be so dismissive. I believe the youthful era is doing very well. Each era finds and defines its personal path. Public style in artwork as in every part adjustments, new patterns evolve and humanity adapts. There’s additionally the aspect of luck.
Stardom falls upon those who the weather smile upon. There’s additionally a thriller in every part. I’m simply blissful for the younger woman. For the primary time, I noticed her standing straight, not bending to the facet like a Tower of Pisa. In order that her waist can stand erect?”
“Cease. She continues to be a baby. Act your age. Deal with her expertise. Not her waist.”
“I appreciated her gown.”
“The designer did an excellent job. However did you see different Grammy Pink Carpet seems? What’s Jaden and Willow Smith carrying? And was Kanye West Ye’s accomplice Bianca Censori, bare or in a washing swimsuit or a gown.? I believe there should be a gown code for these awards. I help Trump however I don’t help indecency, nudity, or stupidity on the purple carpet.”
“That Censori was virtually bare. She ought to have been censored and requested to depart the occasion. And have a look at Julia Fox and that see-through no matter that she was carrying. Censori even wore one thing extra scandalous to the after-party.”
“It’s the finish of occasions. It’s the worst of occasions.”
“I hope the day won’t ever come when a Nigerian woman, any of our daughters will gown like that and flaunt it in public.”
“I believe you don’t know what’s going on. You might be old-fashioned. The reality is that a lot of our personal women gown worse than that. There’s a booming, profitable, flourishing market within the sale of flesh. They naked all of it. They taunt males as of late and it isn’t essentially due to poverty as chances are you’ll suppose.
Most of those women that you just see have turned their our bodies into pure theatre. If , . It’s a part of the code within the leisure world. They stretch the creativeness”
“I don’t need to know. I consider very strongly that society will need to have an ethical core. It is likely one of the the explanation why I’ve a gentle spot for Trump. I don’t consider on this new age of amorality.”
“These are Individuals although. It in all probability means nothing to them.”
“I like different points of the occasion although. Beyonce gained her thirty fifth Grammy, Greatest Nation Album and the Album of the Yr, and she or he was on stage with Taylor Swift. Actually memorable. Kendrick Lamar gained 5 awards.
Wow! President Jimmy Carter, 5 weeks after his loss of life obtained a posthumous honour for his audiobook. Cynthia Erivo carried out Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon in a tribute to the late Quincy Jones, and the truth that the occasion was held in Los Angeles, towards the background of the current wildfires and the person versus nature devastation in Southern California. Man’s capability to defy hazard and despair is superior.”
“Please, let’s go away America alone for a second. There’s going to be bother in Paradise on Tuesday, February 4, when the Nigeria Labour Congress and its associates troop out to protest the proposed 50% hike in telecommunications tariffs.”
“You imply extra bother in Hell as a result of I don’t know what Paradise you’re speaking about. It can’t be worse than this. We pay a lot for petrol and diesel, we at the moment are being instructed that we’re going to pay 50% extra to make telephone calls and ship messages or use knowledge and that this may enhance steadily, and I hear some persons are saying the electrical energy tariff will quickly enhance by 65% to replicate the associated fee. Hell can’t be worse than this.”
“NLC goes to combat for us. Organized Labour should combat for us.”
“I don’t know which Labour you’re speaking about. Some NLC associates have already stated that they won’t be a part of any protest.”
“The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS). Are these ones a part of NLC? These are college students doing aluta. What do they know? I’m speaking about organized labour, you’re referring to singers and placard carriers.”
“Scholar unionism has a distinguished historical past. It’s simply the best way issues are as of late. There’s additionally one other group known as the Non-public Telecommunications and Communications Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria (PTECSSAN). They’ve additionally rejected the protest.”
“What do you count on these ones to say? To protest towards the identical corporations the place they work and eat? What is going to shock you is that even NLC leaders will meet with authorities officers and earlier than it, you’ll hear that after due consultations, the strike has been known as off to offer room for additional negotiations. That’s how we are going to find yourself paying the tariffs.”
“And is that how they intend to deliver down inflation from 35% to fifteen%?”
“I don’t know. Perhaps they count on us to regulate the best way we make telephone calls, significantly Yoruba individuals. You individuals can greet in extra. As a substitute of claiming whats up and making your level, you’ll greet for 5 minutes. A few of you even prostrate whereas making a telephone name. That angle has to cease for purely {economic} causes.”
“It’s tradition”
“High quality. Wait and see. Your pocket will quickly outline your tradition.”


