Yesterday after a long time on the internet, I became depressed and I sorted to know the cause of my depression.
After a long while of soul searching I was able to trace it to the fact that I have sent a lot of time on NL
Afterwards I kept asking myself, why will NL as a site make me depressed? Is it that i spend a lot of time on NL, or is it the annoying treads and topic, or is it really NL as a site or is it the situation in the country? After a very long time of asking myself all these question, finally I was able to trace it to the fact that NL is splitting us and it is making be what I wish not to be.
I have come to notice that most time when topics that are trivial and are meant to discussed constructively to enable us as youths of today and leaders of tomorrow be able to find solution to our problems, instead the first thing you find is that somebody from where he is, because he has access to internet just come to derail the trend by directing it with tribal/religious statements and sentiments
This is a message for all of us including myself, because I found out that ever since I started commenting on NL trends have sort of becoming a bigot even when I know some of the things being talked about (ethnic, religion, sex etc) at times may be true, but because of my bigotry and which i have become due to NL, I refuse to accept the truth (this message is for everybody because am sure it applies to every one of us on NL)
WE all secretly love our nation and want it to remain one but most time instead of us discussing issues in a constructive manner, what you get is tribal & bigotry statements which then leads to we bashing each other. is this how we are going to build our nation? if our leaders are doing the wrong things , are we to follow their footsteps, if the Egyptians and Tunisian where tribalist would they have be able to topple there bad leaders? When our leaders sit on the round table to share the national cake they don’t remember you and I voted for them, they unite in squandering our wealth, they are united thief.
We all know unite we stand, but separated we fall, so why should we now be bashing each other when we know it will most likely work against us?
The most annoying thing is the fact that we have the same enemy but we have failed to confront it or rather been blinded by our bigotry which have splited us and has made us incapable of fighting our enemies (Government, corruption, tribalism, nepotism, penchant hatred for other religion and ethnic groups that are not similar or related to ours). This is very sad and uncalled for.
Please to all NLers, I’m appealing to you to let us all stop every form of bigotry & tribalism rather we should criticise constructively and also learn to accept criticism.
Am very sure we all love Nigeria even though some pretend that Nigeria should split but the fact is we all know but refuse to admit that we all need each other and without unity we can’t grow, not to even talk of fighting our common enemy.
People clamouring for separating do so because of the injustice, and as youths of today that don’t have anything to do with the war and mistakes of our pass and present leaders, should we still stay and still look at them do more wrong and we for their wrong , when we have the power to stop them now?
Please let us give peace a chance, it is not my wish that Nigeria split, because I have finds from every tribe in Nigeria, I can’t afford to lost them, if Nigeria split where will be the place of Nollywood, where will be the big brother that other African countries look up to, other African countries hate and love Nigeria but if we split, will you and I still get that love and respect as we use to when we are Nigerians? What will happen to our football? What will happen to our satellites?  what will happen to our bid for UN security council, won’t our African rivals laugh at us (e.g. SA because it will make them an absolute power in the African continent before maybe in 15 to 20yrs after split am sure one or two of regions in the splited Nigeria will grow up to be a power).what will happen to our influence in ECOWAS and other African regions?
I think we should concentrate on things that unite us rather than our differences
It is true that we might be rivals one the internet and in the real world it is not like that but I can tell you since I can on NL I have unconsciously became a bigot which is as a result of the way we react to issues and topics on NL

macjive01,
Torch1 ,
Beaf
Sun of god
jason123
alj_harem
Rhino.5dm
Akanbi_edu
PointB
Areosapien
desola
blacksta
manny4life
9ja voice
VoodooDoll
asorocker
Johndoe100, etc

We don’t have to make every topic a ground for tribal war, we can always ignore some unnecessary comments.
We say silence is the best answer for a fool and I think silence can be a very powerful tool to stop all the forms of tribal bashing. Just ignore any unnecessary comment because the more to reply them the more you create more grounds for other comments
I know we all love ourselves and we want this nation to be great, but that can only be achieved by constructively proffering solutions to our common problems.

This message is for we the youths because it is you and i that will champions Nigeria’s future and not our old, tribalist, sentimental, evil, selfish, corrupt, power drunk past leaders. By these I mean our entire past leader, before and after independence. They are the reason why Nigeria is the way it is today because they did not make the right decisions in the past that would have affected you and I positively today.
I wish everybody well, love you all, we are all Nigerians but please let us all drop our bigotry statements, cyber hatred, cyber war, cyber rivalry, cyber bashing and hope for a better place.

The mention of names and repetition of igbo's ascension to power

I know we all love ourselves and we want this nation to be great, but that can only be achieved by constructively proffering solutions to our common problems.
And as for 2015, am not saying these not because am Igbo but for the fact that I am a Nigerian that believes the right thing should be done.

And as for 2015, am not saying these not because am Igbo but for the fact that I am a Nigerian that believes the right thing should be done.
By the end of 2015 all region must have represented Nigeria at the presidency except the igbo which is a major ethnic group , it will be right and just to allow a Nigerian president of an igbo extraction to lead Nigeria if the igbos are Nigerians and also if we want a one Nigeria.
Denying the igbo the ticket will amount to telling them they are not Nigerians but foreigners (Biafrans)
IMO the igbos of today should not be again be made to pay for the mistakes of the past generation
This message is for we the youths because it is you and i that will champions Nigeria’s future and not our old, tribalist, sentimental, evil, selfish, corrupt, power drunk past leaders. By these I mean our entire past leader, before and after independence. They are the reason why Nigeria is the way it is today because they did not make the right decisions in the past that would have affected you and I positively today.

Ileke-IdI:

Zoning died with 2011.

We all agreed on that.

2015 is any man's game. Mehn I can't wait

Yeske!:

@OP, i am Igbo too but you ruined this beautiful write-up with the Igbo presidency stuff. I would vote  ANY NIGERIAN as long as i know he can deliever.
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manchy7531:

I know we all love ourselves and we want this nation to be great, but that can only be achieved by constructively proffering solutions to our common problems.
And as for 2015, am not saying these not because am Igbo but for the fact that I am a Nigerian that believes the right thing should be done.
By the end of 2015 all region must have represented Nigeria at the presidency except the igbo which is a major ethnic group , it will be right and just to allow a Nigerian president of an igbo extraction to lead Nigeria if the igbos are Nigerians and also if we want a one Nigeria.
Denying the igbo the ticket will amount to telling them they are not Nigerians but foreigners (Biafrans)
IMO the igbos of today should not be again be made to pay for the mistakes of the past generation

How do you know we all love ourselves? From all indication, you are first an igbo man before a Nigerian? You started well but ended horribly. . .if you believe in unity, love as you claim why will it bother you who becomes president in 2015 or did you you start the thread deliberately to seek attention and later derailed it to an igbo 2015 campaign

manchy7531:


If you read through, my repetition of igbo's ascension to power as you have put it is not because of me being igbo,i feel it is right for the sake of unity sense of belonging.

if i where to be of another tribe, i will do the same.like i did for Jonathan even though i suspected he was not a good Nigerian presidential material.

i voted for him to give him and his people that sense of belonging.

We are the youths of today and the leaders of the future, i believe it is high time we stopped following the footsteps of our past leader.

they played politics of greed, marginalization, injustice, corruption, inequality, nepotism.All these must stop.we clamor for SNC.That can start on NL cos NL is a good avenue to dialogue rather than promote hatred for each other.

We the youths must be progressive and not destructive in out thought and approach to issues.OUR LEADERS DID IT WRONG,IT'S OURS TO GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME

I LOVE NIGERIA

michelin89:

A lot of people are here to play and while away a time and don't give a damn about being constructive or sounding smart.

Theirs is to press the key board and relief themselves of all the stress of the day.

Did I say a lot of people? They are actually the majority. They are really frustrated in their miserable lives hence the need to pounce on anybody that sounds sane or happy.

Don't stress yourself over the comments of people you don't know and you may never get to know. They are faceless elements behind the screen using the net as their psychotherapy.

Chill!