5 Quick Suggestions for Nigerian Relation with the International Community -

Our President has travelled a lot to parley the international community. No doubt his integrity has earned him and the country greet respect from various “world leaders”. We wish him well and do not intend to join the debate as to if he should travel less or travel more. Rather, we want to offer some little points with regards to how to earn respect from the International community. Enjoy.                                                                                                                                  

President Muhammadu Buhari In Chin

1. Promote your Culture and Values

A large hunk of the greatness of the Western world is promotion of its culture. America owes more thanks to Michael Jackson, James Bond, 2Pac, and Hollywood than it owes its graduate in terms of the world view of America as a super power. Unfortunately these are the people who taught the world to dress, talk, think, and act like Americans. This is why it was more fanciful in Africa to use American products and operate American system of Government, both of which puts you under the country in terms of economy and leadership respectively.

Intelligent Stealing

I have been wondering about Intelligence. Even though I disagree with the concept of "Intelligences", The Nigerian situation gives me the parameters to believe there must be another intelligence behind unhindered stealing from the public till. I will like to call it the intelligence of stealing. Yes, Intelligent stealing as perfected by Nigerian leaders lends itself to serious investigation and study by psychologists and evolutionary biologists.

George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker in “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum - There’s no accounting for tastes.” argued that economics should not be concerned with explaining preferences and values, but instead with how constraints affect choice. Money is fungible but what influences its accumulation? The models by these nobel price winners in economics explains how constraints affect choices but what are the factors influencing that choice? What influences what people want? Does values and upbringing play a role? What life preferences must be present to induce intelligent stealing? Is intelligent stealing infectious? What are the environmental factors involved in intelligent stealing and why the prevalence in Nigeria? The answer goes beyond corruption because the trait tend to lie dormant in its carriers in foreign environments. What thoughts have you had lately about Nigeria's "peculiar mess"?