by LUKE ZUNGA
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – DONALD Trump rebuked Nigeria as a “disgraced country”. Disgraced means showing dishonour, lack of integrity, ignoble and shameful or put it simply, a failure.
Donald Trump ordered preparations for possible “fast” military action if the country fails to crack down on the killing of “thousands of Christians”.
Is Bola Ahmed Tinubu heading a disgraced nation? The response from Nigeria was off topic.
“We welcome US assistance as long as it recognises our territorial integrity,” Daniel Bwala, an adviser to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, said, as he played down the warning.
Nigeria is an African country of 36 states, with a federal government based in Abuja. The rich history of Nigeria suggests that Bantu people started at IFE by the Obatala dynasties.
The Oduduwa Yoruba Kingdom of Ile Ife, which started around 500 BC was a prosperous kingdom from 1100 ADE to 1500 ADE, through trade with other West African nations.
The Federal Republic of Nigeria boasts the biggest population in Africa of 237 million in 2025. Over 180 million are in urban centres, with Lagos at 15,388,000, followed by Kano at 4,910,000 and Ibadan at 3,649,000.
The capital Abuja comes fourth with 2,690,000.
Many Africans know that Nigeria is chaotic. The chaos on the population is a result of a failed economy, poor and unimaginative planning, with opening poverty, unemployment and general decay.
Nigeria has no religious intolerance per se, but violence coming out of despair, remote governance, survival-of-the-fittest environment. Successive governments have failed to deal with the insurgents in the North.
The Nigerian economy has failed to sprout. As the most populous nation it should have led Africa, but she cannot.
For ages Nigeria has been acting like a ghost.
There is nothing good about it. This is the same as Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa.
We have put up a website, www.organizecapitals.com to try to urge Nigeria and other nations to move out of its dead-end politics.
We put the advisory on Nigeria on a website so that Nigerian citizens can see for themselves the potential they have, which is frustrated by the country’s technocrats.
How else can we tell Nigeria to wake up? Nigerians do not look at this website either, preferring to continue with their disaster.
Look at what China is doing. Nigeria can do the same.
The problem in Nigeria is that the politicians are caught up in what they don’t understand. On taking power, they employ economists, accountants and other professionals (technocrats) to run the economy.
These technocrats fail the economies of their countries. People blame the politicians because indeed it is politicians’ duty to make sure the economy works.
The technocrats advise the Presidents that the country must attract foreign investors, because the people (who fought for freedom) have no capital and have no skills.
The Presidents agree with this sloppy advisory despite clear indications that foreign investors don’t come. The country goes down step by step, year by year as budgets are cut, funds looted and corruption sets in due to limited opportunities. Conflict starts and spreads into the fabric of society
The currency of a country is the acid test of the economy. The Nigerian currency, the Naira, has been depreciating. In 2023 the value of the Naira was around N450 to the US$1.
In 2025 the Naira had depreciated to N1600 to the US$1. A currency is supported by production in the country. A depreciating currency simply means the economy is not producing enough or is stagnant and per capita production is lowering, with poverty deepening.
The economy cannot grow when the technocrats or bureaucrats insist that individuals must start factories from their pockets. The technocrats will not recommend anything for capital to bridge capital inadequacy, among the citizens.
There is no money to finance to start factories. It is taboo to start. People try but in disorganized fashion. Technocrats watch and do nothing.
No wonder Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang, no education! Why is it not possible to organize capital to start factories, to release the energy of the nation?
Who said a country cannot finance citizens to start and deal with the management of the risks, rather than just, No. Who benefits if citizens do not enter the industrial space?
– CAJ News