This is just a drop in the proverbial “ocean” of
what is available for public perusal and consumption
on the worldwide web, I only added these few quotes
to this article in order to make a point. Bush, Palin
and Obama are American politicians and English is
their first language, they all attended “supposedly”
prestigious academic institutions and yet they too are
not infallible when it comes to their command of the
English language. So excuse me for being a little upset
at the manner in which our first lady Dame Patience
Jonathan has been treated in this regard.
Nigerians are the ones complaining about her
cize ceaselessly has become the investment destination
of choice for thousands of Lebanese, Chinese, American, British and Indian investors.
As Nigerians are busy looking for visas to flee from
their own country, foreigners are taking over all the
local businesses, and if this trend continues, Nigerians
will find themselves becoming tenants in their own
fatherland.
Even now when you look at the business sector in
Nigeria you can see that very few of the major corporations in the country are
even owned by Nigerians. In the construction
and Engineering sector
Julius Berger has completely dominated it, in
the hospitality sector
the majority of the
hotel chains are foreign
owned, in the telecoms
sector, other than Globacom which is owned
by Mike Adenuga all
the other telecoms
companies are owned
by foreigners. All the
major Oil companies,
insurance companies,
shopping malls, restaurants, private schools
etc are all in foreign hands.
Can Michelle Obama speak
Yoruba or Ibo or Hausa? If
she came to Nigeria, and
managed to speak 2 words in
Igbo while she was here every
Nigerian newspaper would be
applauding her efforts and
shouting that “she tried”.
command of the English language, not the English or the
Americans who are the true
custodians of the language
and therefore should be the
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