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tried”. So why can you not give the same respect to our<br />
first lady, a woman who was born and bred in Nigeria?<br />
She made a few simple mistakes in a language that is not<br />
her native tongue, and her own fellow Nigerians decided<br />
to use it as a weapon against her.<br />
Have you never heard Chinese Politicians attempting<br />
the English language? You can’t even understand 99% of<br />
what they’re saying and yet you will never see Chinese<br />
people insulting their leaders over their command of the<br />
English language. It is only amongst Nigerians that you<br />
find people taking the proverbial “medicine for another<br />
person’s sickness”.<br />
We have become the self appointed international<br />
watch dog for all things relating to the English language.<br />
For all the English that Nigerians are speaking I can’t see<br />
what they’re doing with it. Whilst they’re in their houses<br />
speaking good “English” the Lebanese and the Chinese<br />
are here speaking good “economics” and are taking over<br />
the country. Foreigners have taken over corporate Nigeria,<br />
and yet all that doesn’t seem to bother us, all we are<br />
concerned about is whether our leaders can speak English<br />
better than Queen Elizabeth. When you make it a<br />
point of duty to constantly pick out peoples weaknesses<br />
and shortcomings, they will become so discouraged to<br />
the point of inactivity. They will simply shut down and<br />
won’t bother to make a difference.<br />
I once heard a story about a Woman who was constantly<br />
abusing her husband and repeatedly used adjectives<br />
such as “useless” and “stupid” whilst addressing<br />
him. She kept describing him as someone who is<br />
constantly making wrong decisions. One day she came<br />
home and saw her husband looking through their wedding<br />
album, she looked at him and asked “what are you<br />
doing”? He said “oh, I am just looking at our wedding<br />
pictures and asking myself why I made such a stupid<br />
decision such as marrying you”.<br />
Perhaps she thought that by insulting her husband it<br />
would cause him to change for the better, but the opposite<br />
effect was the outcome. Words are powerful and<br />
if we concentrate on peoples strengths and praise and<br />
encourage them instead of picking out their weaknesses<br />
and amplifying those, we will get the very best out of<br />
them.<br />
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