It is quite unfortunate when we identify Nigeria, once known as the Giant of Africa, where everything used to work, turned into a country you have to give bribe to get contracts from the public, or get their children to pass exam, or seek admission; collect a lot of money and do sub-standard road jobs that maim and kill people, A country where preference is giving to smuggle goods that can be produced locally; refuse to follow the queues at service centers; take bank loans and refuse to pay back; go to work late and close early, yet take full payment by the end of the month.

Citizens evade taxes and sit to complain; aid politicians to rig elections because of greed; marginalize each other based on religion and ethnicity. Ironically conceal crime because it favors some public actors; vandalize public facilities regardless; frustrate good policy because it does not favor some interest groups; kill each other for selfish reasons.

Amazingly the so privileged elite Nigerians outside the country only abuse and insult others, without making some meaningful contributions to how the country can be better off, resolving into their respective ethnic groups, leaving their own sins to be told by others while on the discussion forum.

Where do we start from as we ushered in a new year, 2013?

Ironically, as Nigeria is becoming everything less, is the country actually drifting towards becoming hopeless?

An average Nigerian loves luxury like any other human beings as whenever they have the opportunity they will shop till they drop. Not just shopping but shop for the best. Hence, the foreign goods keep on finding their ways to the country including USED items, including overused foreign white human beings. Nigeria will be the first to use any newly manufactured products in the market.

As the world is becoming smaller, the latest of the wireless phone, finds its market in Nigeria, arriving with fireless cooking, keyless cars, fatless food with most of Nigerian female legs looking like that of the chicken legs, talking about sleeveless dresses under the pretence of the Tropical weather. A country where most Nigerian Youth are jobless and the leaders continue to be brazenly acquiring stupendous wealth.

Unfortunately, relationships are becoming meaningless and friendless, with some serious attitude being care less; wives are fearless. Education is valueless, where a college graduate, with PhD, would apply to be a Truck driver for Dangote companies with limited opportunities. Children are mannerless, and everything in the country is becoming LESS.

However, an average Nigerian is still struggling and refusing to be HOPELESS, as God is ENDLESS, in God we trust as an average American would say.

As everything is becoming LESS, some Nigerian leaders are turning the country into a hopeless country because Nigerian leaders are becoming barefaced by second. The unity of the country is being derailed with most of them focussing on acquiring private jets. They are racing for the 2015 elections while they refused to assist the government in power to successfully fight Boko Haram and the Kidnappers! Until we mend our ways, good governance will remain a mirage to Nigerians.

It is only in Nigeria where a Senator collects salaries and wages more than the President of the United States of America. It is a country where terrorists, militants, ritualists, kidnappers, pastors, imams, are in concert to be multi-billionaires, courtesy of the Federal Government. It is only in Nigeria where a Cabal is more powerful than the government of a country; a place where the masses kill themselves over idiocy, religion, ethnicity, and ignorance, while politicians laugh at them and keep on looting the public treasury. It is only in Nigeria where the Nigerian Judiciary, acquit a corrupt public official of a 172-count charge. It is only in Nigeria where those 'suffering and smiling' still allow sheep (masses) to be led by donkeys (politicians). It is only in Nigeria where Fresh Air is the hope of over 150 million people. It is amazing!! Truly, only in Nigeria!

Take a look at the recycling of Nigeria leaders, preventing fresh ideals, and younger Nigerians from making contributions to their motherland. In 1979, Bamanga Tukur was the Governor of the defunct Gongola State (now Adamawa & Taraba) and 33 years after, he is the Chairman of the Nigerian ruling Party, the PDP. Dr. Bello Halliru was commissioner in the Old Sokoto State (now Sokoto, Kebbi & Zamfara) and 33 years after he was made a Minister of Defence. Major General David Mark (rtd) was the military Governor of Niger State in 1984 and 28 years after he is the Senate President. Gov. Murtala Nyako was the Governor of Niger State in 1976 and 36 years after he is still the Governor of Adamawa State. Ogbonnaya Onu was Governor of Abia State in 1992 and 20 years after he is still the National Chairman of ANPP. Gov. David Jonah Jang was the Governor of Benue State in 1985 and 27 years after he is still the Governor of Plateau State; and Martins Elechi the Ebonyi State Governor is over 80 years old! Only in Nigeria is this possible.

Teachers, Pastors, Imams, normally refer to our children as the leaders of tomorrow, Babangida was the Nigeria President for about eight years, Buhari, Atiku, are still interested in being President. Atiku is still sniffing around what will be cooking in 2015. Our teachers, preachers, either lied to us about being the future leaders of tomorrow. Alternatively, Tomorrow is yet to come. If tomorrow, comes............What next Nigeria? Where is the Nigeria future with the recycling of the politicians once public officials?


The Sad Effect Of Corruption In Nigeria: Secondary school children in an open place as exam hall because there is no light in their class room

When Nigerians loot, they keep it in Switzerland; when sick, they go to Germany; Israel, Saudi, or India. When investing, they go to America. When buying mansions, they visit London. When shopping, they go to Dubai. When on holidays, they go to the Bahamas. When educating their children, they select Europe. When to pray, they go to Saudi Arabia, Vatican City or Jerusalem. However, when they die, they all want to be buried in Nigeria. Is Nigeria only good for the dead bodies?

Who would liberate the country from the world murky labels, despite the 0.01% of its population, being responsible for the 80% of the international Nigeria reputation damages?

FBI has named Nigeria as the 3rd country responsible for the overall fraud count on the Internet today (2012) of the entire population as murders of their opponents; and corrupt. One of the problems facing Nigeria today was due to the failure of institutions and systems.

A man that cannot cry, and cannot laugh, will find it difficult to find empathy. Patriotism does not drive on empty, caring nation do something to show that care not empty exhortation. A friend once reminded me that "Patriotism does not drive on emptiness, caring nation do something to show they care, not an empty exhortation." Nigerians never know what is right, until they are personally hit by a tragedy that hit their fellow Nigerians, and they remain indifferent.

The 5th position of Nigeria Police within the UN peace keeping forces, with its 20 peacekeeping missions since 1960, among the 130 UN police, is a good mark for Nigeria, but does not tally with its local reputation. All we know them for is notorious, in unresolved murders, political killings, and criminal tendencies.

Amazingly, the head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Ellen Margrethe Loj, recently commended Nigeria's peacekeepers for being

"well equipped to provide creative and home-grown expert solution to complex global challenges." She went on "Nigerians always come to peacekeeping operations with knowledge, skills and experience laced with insights and depth as rich and diverse as their country, … you have carried out many complex tasks, including anticrime patrols, cordon and search, stop and search, rescue operations, crowd control, riot dispersal operations and escort duties. Through your many accomplishments, you have made the UN proud."
Nigerians are seriously concerned about the insecurity level in the country that has deteriorated beyond the critical level. Desperate times require desperate measures. Therefore, this is the time for citizens to declare a state of emergency on both leaders and the country.

Bomb Blasts, Political Assassinations, Kidnappings and Armed Robberies, Religious Crises, Corruption; Government and Security Failures: Citizen and group led Sovereign National Conference: Unemployable Nigerian Graduates, all to the credits of Nigerian leaders. There has been some unpleasant revelation about the unemployable of most Nigerian Graduates in the country that has pride itself as the most educated country in Africa, if not in the world.

Unavailability of publications or materials for educating Nigerian students because of fake lecturers, fake PhDs. In the face of survival and the continuous strikes, fake Universities that want to educate Nigerians that are on the quest to acquire the classroom education; Poor curricular, Lacking modern teaching methods, More of cultism in the schools, More Adewoles in the Education sector where you can obtain your certifies at the corridor of your home in the face of survival or using the brain on negative lines.

How does the Country avert the unemployment in the country?

Construction industry employs very high level of professionals, plumbers, electricians, surveyors, utility managers, architects, engineers among others. Artisans such as Barbering and cosmetology, everyone wants to look good except men are focussing more on baldness hiding away their irregular hair grow, grey hair; while women are still on the move as to present themselves as queens, goddesses of God extraction. Some States embark on massive road construction, housing projects, airport construction. Nigeria is blessed with arable lands that young graduates could work on. Possibly mechanized farming goes into dairy products, animal husbandry, poultry, and fishery among others.

In the midst of Poverty, Insecurity, Infrastructure, NIGERIA stands at the 10th most failed states in Africa and the 14th in the world. Definitely, something is fundamentally wrong with Nigeria, not with Jonathan. That obviously needs to be collectively fixed.

Explosively an Assistant Inspector General of Police, Tambari Yabo Muhammad, disclosed in August 2012 that the position of the Nigerian Constitution on criminal justice has led to recycling of criminals in the country. Suspected criminals regrouped after being let off the hook through prerogative of mercy or amnesty.

Sadly, the World Bank, on a study conducted in 26 states in Nigeria, disclosed that about 80 per cent of businesses in Nigeria paid bribes to government officials in 2011 to stay in business. According to the report only 20 per cent of micro-enterprise firms said they to have had foreknowledge of the amount of money required to 'get things done', a situation that means the informal payments are sudden and unplanned for. These informal payments or gifts, the report said represented approximately 1.2 per cent of annual sales for all micro-enterprises. It added, too, that micro-enterprises dealing in government contracts were expected to pay approximately 4.3 per cent of the value of contracts that they were hoping to secure.

Manufactured goods attracted larger bribes of 6.7 per cent than those for small services that got 3.9 per cent. However, firms in the formal sector obviously spent more on corruption, as 47 per cent of formal firms claimed that informal gifts or payments were commonplace in comparison to 33 per cent for micro-enterprises. Also, the report stated that micro-enterprises have a greater mistrust of institutions than formal firms; that 63 per cent of formal sector firms and 72 per cent of micro-enterprises reported that the application of laws was not consistent and predictable; and that 41 per cent of formal firms and 20 per cent of micro-enterprises reported that they had advance knowledge of informal payments or gifts.

Could it be that the demons that were not yet cast out could have been working on the religious groups in the country with the reports of Pastors caught in armed robbery and other social ills, while competing for private jets?

In the words of Alexander the Great, after conquering the known world to him then, on his return home with his health failing him, he had three wishes: His Physicians alone should carry his coffin; the path leading to his graveyard be strewed with gold, silver, and precious stones which he had collected in his treasury; and this hands be kept dangling out of his coffin.

At this, Alexander took a deep breath and said: "I would like the world to know of the three lessons I have learnt. I want my physicians to carry my coffin because people should realize that no doctor can really cure any body. They are powerless and cannot save a person from the clutches of death." Nigerian heartless leaders should be aware. If they refuse to change the country positively, the storm of change will convert them to the direction they don't want.

In the words of Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, January 15, 1966

"...Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the Men in high and low places that seek Bribes and demand 10 percent, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIP's at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds."

Can you spot the difference between Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan and, & UK Prime Minister, David Cameron and wife!

Nigerian Leaders should not turn Nigeria into a HOPELESS Country.

Bomb Blasts, Political Assassinations, Kidnappings and Armed Robberies, Religious Crises, Corruption; Government and Security Failures: Citizen and group led Sovereign National Conference: Unemployable Nigerian Graduates, all to the credits of Nigerian leaders. There has been some unpleasant revelation about the unemployable of most Nigerian Graduates in the country that has pride itself as the most educated country in Africa, if not in the world.

Nigerian heartless leaders should be aware. If they refuse to change the country positively, the storm of change will convert them to the direction they don't want.

In the words of Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, January 15, 1966

"...Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the Men in high and low places that seek Bribes and demand 10 percent, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or VIP's at least, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles, those that have corrupted our society and put the Nigerian political calendar back by their words and deeds."

Can you spot the difference between Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan and, & UK Prime Minister, David Cameron and wife!