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Isaddabai:
How fa guys av u gone? Me too wan join ooo

To join:
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And register on the website too: www.naijagraduates.com


Thanks,

@ OP, it's a shame that you were expecting the association to fail, pessimists like you is the reason there are no new victories to be won. Well, the association is not about Ehix neither is it about the national executives who have given their all for the movement even at the point of death, but for the hapless youths and over 40million unemployed and under employed Nigerian graduates.

The national executives have spent and been spent for the association. They have achieved a lot without collecting a kobo from any political, religious or traditional ruler as the case may be. Even during the last election when the pressure was much they refuse to compromise. Some of us were unconstitutionally questioned by the SSS, harassed, thrailed and our phone numbers monitored. At various town hall meetings with both the APC and PDP, our demand was very simple and plain: "An enabling environment for young aspiring entrepreneurs to thrive and creation of jobs, jobs and more jobs".

The association shall no longer be called NAUG but ANGAU(Association Of Nigerian Graduate Against Unemployment).
The association has since inaugurated state chapters in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo etc. We planned inaugurating Edo, Delta, Anambra, Abuja and Kogi state chapters this year but limited funds have made it very difficult for us.

To get regular update on the activities of ANGAU,
Follow us on facebook: facebook.com/naugnigeria
Twitter: @naijagraduates
Website: www.naijagraduates.com
Call: 07030717445, 08083536004, 08063141854


ANGAU: Together We Shall Win Through Absolute Victory!

........And they've started killing themselves.
PDP sha

Click on the link (source) to get the full list now. Most Nigerian universities can not even compete with other African universities, not to talk of the World. It's a shame!

Top 50 Universities in Africa

Pursuing a higher education is relevant but much more important is the source and quality of the information you receive which shapes your knowledge (all things being equal which is never so anyway). The world university rankings rate most of the major higher institutions across the globe. African Universities just like every other thing that can be ranked are highly subject to change, a few of the African universities have proven to be better than others in the same continent. Below is the list of top fifty universities in Africa. Please Use the “Up Next” button below to navigate to see more schools

50.  South Valley University – Egypt

International students Tuition Fee:  1,000-2,500 US$ (750-1,800 Euro). Local Students Tuition Fee: 0-1,000 US$ (0-750 Euro)



South Valley University better known as SVU is one of the best schools of higher education in Egypt and provides teaching and research facilities


49.  Université Mohammed V – Souissi – Morroco

International students Tuition:  0-1,000 US$ (0-750 Euro). Local Students: 0-1,000 US$ (0-750 Euro)



Mohammed V University at Souissi is a non-profit Moroccan public institution of higher education and scientific research.

It was founded in December 21, 1957 by King Mohammed V after independence. From Inception, it has provided and continues to provide training of high level executive and administrative teaching to the country. The university was split into two independent universities in 1992.

Source: http://answersafrica.com/top-50-universities-in-africa-latest-rankings.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

At least now we are beginning to see the kinda advise Buhari will be getting

Serves him right

Pregnancy before proposal is wrong. It's UnAfrican and not biblical

@whykaycares

HAPLESS YOUTHS; PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THEIR PRODIGAL LIFESTYLES

By Olagunju Olayinka Isaac




One rankling reality of the Nigerian public life is its obtuse permissiveness to impunity in the lifestyles of elected and appointed officials, While government crows harshly about the parlous economy on a regular basis, our officials live like oil sheikhs off the fat of the land. It is a befuddling and pointed paradox.



Rumors has it that Nigeria has the highest number of delegates to the just concluded UN summit in Newyork with over 600 hangars on. Only recently, the media was awash with the report that Nigeria has the highest number of private jet users in the whole of Africa. We also read that the EFCC received a petition from a non governmental organisation; "The Crusaders For Good Governance" alleging that a serving minister had, in the last two years spent over two (2) billion naira on private jets, with which the minister attends private and official assignment



According to the petition endorsed by the NGO, the private jets is allegedly being maintained at a private hangar in Lagos at the cost of $500,000 per month while each trip abroad costs $300,000. The petition also indicated that the minister had always spurned the presidential jets even when those were available. Even the matter of the presidential fleet is itself a major sub head in the prodigality in public expenditure, as there are as many as ten(10) aircrafts in it, a superfluous figure by any stretch of the imagination if juxtaposed with the strength of the country's economy. All this is happening in a country where youth unemployment has reached an unprecedented 73 percent.



Like Late Prof Chinua Achebe said: "The problem with Nigeria is Leadership". Everything rises and falls on Leadership. Rather than be circumspect and unobtrusive, many elected and appointed public officials have consistently assaulted the sensibilities of the Nigerian public with their ostentatious consumption pattern which suggests impunity at its basest and crudest form.



In saner climes, the growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership but the reverse is the case in Nigeria. Apart from seeking medical reprieve for their simplest afflictions abroad, there have been the fairly regular weddings of their children in foreign countries to which a retinue of guests are usually invited. In a country where graduates at age 35 can not even dream of wedding due to Un/under employment. Our elected and appointed public officials are in a deadly competition to outdo one another in their acquisitions in foreign lands. No sooner were they appointed or elected into public office than known and established paupers began to actualise feats that could only have existed in their widest imaginations prior to their election or appointment.



A serving governor was reported to have conducted an expensive and glamorous wedding for his son in the USA recently. His state however has many citizens majority of them graduates who are scavenging drifters whose lot can be improved if the priorities are set right. Government: local, state and federal attitude's to the youths speaks eloquently of wrong priorities and judgment.



Community, traditional and religious leaders are not any better. Their overriding focus is to feed their ever increasing greed. As long as they continue to get crumbs of breads, they will stop at nothing to demonstrate their support of this value that remains a mirage. What a country! Why do we keep eating our young?



There can only be little doubt that these are the unavoidable fallouts of the deeply entrenched paradigm of corruption that has consumed the value base of the society comprehensively. Since questions are rarely ever asked and voters(mostly youths) are also perpetually hungry for the proverbial crumbs of bread, our leaders are not only sure that their deeds will not be asked of them, they are also confident that they will not only retain their position but ascend on the ladder as long as they feed the hungry monster of poverty that has attacked the horde of hapless youths.



Little wonder then the country has been confronted with crumbling infrastructure and debilitating institutional failure. It is even surprising that the country's establishment expects striking workers unions(lecturers) to understand its regular plea of being cash-strapped whenever it cannot meet their legitimate demands. It is also equally surprising that the much touted foreign investment is expected against such a background of condemnable profligacy. If the country's economy is truly in a parlous state, its public officials' lifestyle must reflect this sincerely and public expenditure must be tailored towards the rule of necessity.



A country that has no plans whatsoever for the empowerment and development of her young is already doomed. Never in the history of the country have graduates experienced a period of aloofness, of deintoxification from government as presently witnessed. As Nigeria celebrates 53 years of Independence. Government priority should be how to get the best out of graduates. For it is an insidious and corrosive threat to do nothing.



In todays Nigeria; Graduates are idling and less productive, the efforts of those that are entrepreneurs are been frustrated, our leaders can not be bothered; "They don't give a damn", while Nigeria is the big loser. Nigeria is in dire need of leaders who will work for the benefits of others and not for personal gains; Leaders who continue to search for the best answers, not the familiar ones; Leaders who follow a moral compass that points in the right direction regardless of the trends.



The priority of government at all level must be how to get Nigerian youths working. Youths being the engine of the economy must be given an easy platform for standard performance and productivity. Since everybody cannot be an entrepreneur and skill acquisition is not for everyone; Job creation becomes a necessity.



Government must start talking job creation now. Jobs! Jobs!! Jobs!!! and more jobs.


Happy Independence day

Source: /p3Cxdt-2gN

divinelove: d name makes it dead on arrival, consider name change immediately. sounds lik handicapped ppl

We are only using NAUG for now cos we started off with that name.

It's ANGAU not NAUG

Association of Nigerian Graduates Against Unemployment- ANGAU


Thanks

clubone05: Im really sad that your parents sent any of u that endorse this rubbish to school.

After I graduated I started my own business with just 70k..and before I got a solid job I was making 100% profit monthly. ..

I regret leaving it now...cus my home boi I left it to makes 400k plus monthly now. And my home gal thats into sewing just opened a showroom on opebi....


If u have money to buy a bb ...u can start ur biz...na time e go chop..but u'll get bigger. ..


Nothing is as sweet as being called MD CEO.

Everyone cannot be called MD/CEO

One thing I knw for sure is that: 'Nigerian youths are not lazy.'
Everybody can not be an entrepreneur, skill acquisition also isn't for everybody. Government must start talking about Job creation. Jobs! Jobs!! Jobs and more Jobs.

Entrepreneurs are made given an enabling environment. We want an enabling environment

Together We can!

blink182: You shouldn't be afraid to say it as it is, 5 years is too far. It is already happening. The magas are already paying.

While a set of Nigerian youths scattered all over Nigeria are forming www.kobomart.com-Nigeria's first true online mega mart, another set are gladly becoming magas to the smart bunch.

I hope this Ehis is not a bini boy because eye go turn all of una and I'm not talking out of prejudice. I'm a deltan living in the nearest town to benin city, it also happens to be the city where I did my NYSC service. Be very weary.

In the end I hope I am wrong, jobs are created out of thin air for association members, legislation is passed for all graduates to be employed by force...hahahaha...and I have to eat my words. I pray the day comes.

For you suckers out there, in Nigeria we live in today it is easier to give a troublesome exco and his trustees sweet scenting PR aka bribe than create jobs for a country with over 40% unemployment rate meanwhile the universities, colleges, polythecnics, monotechnics and every other sort of higher institutions are churning out graduates like no man's business.

I WISH YOU LUCK!!!

Thanks for wishing us luck.
We promise not to disappoint you. Again, we say THANK YOU

Front page things please

Yusphull: My special appreciation goes to the trio of Ehix, Yinka and Damsel for there relentless effort in the cause of humanity and in making this country a better place to live in, may God almighty attend to everything that concerns you guys.

Let me also use this medium to thank all the people that presented themself that day in making history and ensuring the meeting took place as scheduled coz without you guys all our efforts would have been futile and to those of us that wish to come but couldn't make it due to an unforeseen circumstances may almighty Allah bless us and crown our effort with good success..

The BBM group is still functioning, the FB is having more popularity and our Twitter Handle too is gaining more followers by days, so for the people that neither possesses a BB nor a twitter account we now deem it fit to create another group on Whatsapp so that we can get much people involve and carry all of us along without leaving anybody out.

So if you wanna join the group add me Yusuff (08064677418)....

#peace

Thanks @Yusphull.

Fellow graduates against unemployment in Nigeria, the 'minute' of yesterday's meeting is already on our facebook page and twitter handle. Pls, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter.


Our facebook page is:www.facebook.com/naugnigeria

Website: www.naijagraduates.com

The official twitter handle for this association is: @naijagraduates

All unemployed graduate that is/are willing to identify with us should pls follow @naijagraduates on twitter, mention and get a follow back. Like our page on facebook and also register on the website.



Yinka,
(National Mobilisation Coordinator).
08083536004.

Thanks!

Fellow graduate in the struggle against unemployment in Nigeria, We thank God for making today's meeting a success. A very big THANK YOU to the correspondents that worked tirelessly for the success of today's meeting, to every one that traveled from far and near to rewrite the scripts of tomorrow today, as pioneer members of this great association, we say thank you. History will never forget you.
We appreciate every member that wish to be present at today's meeting but couldn't make it due to reasons beyond their control. Thanks for all the numerous ideas(online and offline) on the way forward.

.... And the journey starts now.


The acting secretary(Dammy) will update the house and post the minutes of the meeting in house as soon as its ready...

In Ehix's voice I say "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate for the stormy present and future. As our circumstances are new, we must think anew and act anew”

Thanks!

Yinka for Ehix
(National Co-ordinator)

Nice review. No wonder Wole Soyinka said Achebe shouldn't have written the book.
The book is too one sided, flawed with propaganda and hate. Its such a shame.
Like someone said on this thread " No matter how highly rated you are, the moment you start spreading poisonous lies and deceit, you lose your respect. It's sad, but that's where Achebe has put himself. He will be remembered for his bitterness, deceit
and bigotry"..

DANBABA; THE MOVIE

By Olagunju Isaac



Another Nigerian 'power tussle' Drama: DANBABA starring Hauwa Suntai Danbaba and Garba Umar was premiered last week.


DANBABA is an adaptation of Late President; Umar Musa Yardua's best selling novel-'BABA GO SLOW' which won many numerous awards for its absurdity, reality and shame.


Set in northern Nigeria state of Taraba, the film features an offshoot of the Muslim - Christian rivalry that dominates the socio-political dramas of the present day Taraba State.


The movie is of greed, selfishness and wickedness. The very first scene introduces us to the actor-Gov Suntai Danbaba. A man very much loved by the people of his state, he was flown out of the country for urgent medical treatment following injuries sustained in a plane crash. While he was away. His deputy Alhaji Garba Umar acted as Governor of the state.


Suntai, will later return to Jalingo(capital of Taraba state) after 10months of operation overseas. He wrote to the House of Assembly informing the lawmakers of his return and readiness to resume office. The assembly, however, asked Suntai to appear before it to enable it to decide on his request.


Instead of accepting the invitation, Suntai dissolved the state executive council, and appointed a new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and new Chief of Staff, Government House.


With the Taraba State House of Assembly solidly behind Him; The Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar then called for calm following the purported dissolution of the State Executive Council by the Gov. Danbaba Suntai.


He told Taraba state people that He and other major political stakeholders were working to resolve the impasse. He said that the state executive council was worried that some individuals were bent on fomenting trouble in the state, and urged the people to continue with their normal activities. He promised to address the people on the situation after the council meeting, and gave assurance that the issues at stake were being sorted out.


What is thrilling about the movie is its suspense; every minute is worth savoring, we just can't predict what will happen next. The movie also featured the PDP Annual convention with Governor Suntai Danbaba absent. The acting Governor and his loyalists represented the state. The highlight of the movie was when President Goodluck Jonathan swaged to K.C's Limpopo beats before giving his epic speech. GEJ's message was clear- Nigerians are 'Maga's', will remain maga's and they'll continue to Limpopo us till God knows when.


The film's supporting cast include
Danbaba Suntai (Governor), Hajia Hauwa Danbaba Suntai(Governor's wife), Alhaji Garba Umar(Acting Governor), Kefas Sule(Press Secretary), Silvanus Giwa(SSA to Governor on Media and Publicity).


Directed by a group of CABAL and Hajia Hauwa Danbaba. DANBABA is a product of "NollyPollyWood," Nigeria’s booming political film industry", which produces more insane movie than anyother country and has become the most invaluable movie industry in the world.


The movie however reveals that our constitution is a just collation of rhetoric on the shelves of lawyers.


If there's one thing I understood from the movie. It is that- Suntai Danbaba is permitted by law to remain in office. There's no reason for anyone to suppose that someone who can recognize alphabets and read a written text in a state-wide broadcast is at the same time unable to recognize the people around him. That hardly makes sense.


What makes sense is that Governor Suntai is yet to fully recover from his injuries and he exhibits a certain degree of speech difficulty. That is the fair assessment of him as far as one can see.


Since the Nigerian Constitution allows a cripple to continue in office as Governor, and permits a blind, deaf or dumb person to remain in public office, not much can be made of Governor Suntai's convalescing condition as a bar to his continuing in office.




DANBABA: THE MOVIE. GRAB YOUR COPY NOW!

Yinka, Southwest(Lagos) 08083536004. yhincasaac@yahoo.com
Am a Builder.

By Bayo Oluwasanmi
Despite its very evident prosperity, many people in
Nigeria are in excruciating pain. That distress is most
visible to the poor majority while the ruling elites do not
see it or pretend not to see it.
The broken covenant – the social contract – between the
government and the governed illuminates the ineptitude
and callousness of those elected by the people to fight on
their behalf.
Romantic yearning for Utopia and revolt against a polluted
society are the two poles which provide the tension of all
militant uprising or civil agitation.
We see things differently. While the psychiatrist sees the
craving for Utopia and rebellion against the status quo as
symptoms of social maladjustment, the social reformer
sees both as symptoms of a healthy rational attitude.
Max was right when he said that a moribund society
creates its own morbid gravediggers. Revolt against
injustice is not only honorable but it is imperative.
Since independence, Nigeria has been blessed with
nonentities as leaders. Leaders who perceive no need-spots
for specific problems. Leaders who possess no gift and no
competence to address the needs of the people.
Leaders who cannot persuade people. Leaders who are not
able to attract others to join a cause. Leaders who pursue
no purpose and employ no measures to accomplish the
desired goals.
We lack a strong leader who could cast a national vision.
In these days, there is no one in charge in Nigeria:
everyone and everything seem to thrive in chaos.
The federal economic and finance minister/coordinator,
manipulators, and other self-styled economic gurus,
continue to deceive Nigerians with voodoo economic
analyses that things are not as bad as they seem. But
behind closed doors, they sing different tunes.
One thing however they cannot refute is the reality of the
perpetual chasm separating the poor and the ruling class.
The ruling class inflamed the anger and the pain of the
working class by refusing to talk about it and being
disinclined to listen.
The impoverishment of our people keeps me awake at
night. I hear them in the darkness around me. It is the
cries of these countless victims which rouse me in the long
watches of the night.
It is the willing silence and sheepish submission to
subjugation, poverty, and oppression that infuriate me to
write today and always. It is thinking of the martyrs who
fought and died for the starved and strapped Nigerians that
egg me on.
The members of the ruling class have destroyed the vision
of the future. They have turned their backs on the future
and embraced the past. The addiction of these vultures to
corruption and wickedness frankly and nakedly set them
against all human values and democratic norms.
The slightest opposition and the merest criticism expose
the few Nigerians who dare the authorities to the severest
penalties. People in our reform social ladder are instantly
suppressed and those who stand out independently are
mown down.
Nigeria is in a mess. Able-bodied Nigerians turned
beggars wandered through the streets. Petty street hawkers
of underwear, socks, rubber heels, corsets, silverware, and
other ancient objects appeared like a rash over the face of
Nigeria towns and cities.
Graduates at all levels across disciplines drive danfos,
molues, and bolekajas for a niggardly amount. Others
settle for the “Area Boys” specialties and dark alley
businesses of assorted brands.
Our unemployed youths in the millions have become a
wild and homeless lot, socially disinherited, candidates for
Aro, morgues, prisons, and the electric chair.
Our elderly are hungry. They depend on public charity and
their Good Samaritan neighbors for food and for a place to
sleep.
Days of somber discouragement follow our pensioners.
Some died in penury, of hunger and disease. The rest of
them live a vagabond, lonely, and perilous lives. Their
depression soon reached that extreme stage when the will
is paralyzed and physical resistance suddenly gives way.
Like inflated currency, Nigerian workers have lost the real
meaning of living. They look like a huddle of stragglers
from a beaten army. Irony and shame kept intruding in
their chosen vocations and careers. Their former passion
for dignity of labor has turned into perversion.
The once virile and vibrant Nigerian Labor Congress
(NLC) of Michael Imodu and Wahab Goodluck has
become a castrated giant whose brag and bluster only
served to cover its lost virility.
Oil – our commonwealth – has been cut into cubes and
blocks shared among the military hyenas and civilian
vultures.
Nigerian governments – federal, state, and local – always
stand for swindling, intrigue, and privilege. They could
not stand for anything else. Neither law nor force can
change it. If retribution occasionally catches up with them,
this can only be by the dispensation of God.
The hopelessness of Nigerians’ limited lives – lives
truncated and impoverished by the oppressors – keeps the
rest of us wondering what next?
Majority of Nigerians live on less than $2 a day. And it is
their starvation wages which permit the swollen pay
packets of the ruling class and other privileged economic
saboteurs.
Once Nigerians started on the slippery slope, nothing
could hold them back. At every turn, they are forced to
advance, sliding further into the abyss of shame.
Each federal legislator takes home N29 million every
month. The governors, state legislators, and local
government chairmen and council members receive
criminally huge compensations. The same governors said
they couldn’t afford the minimum wage of N18, 000.
The ruling native tyrants have seized as it were, all
available prime land and jerked up prices everywhere in
the country. Few days ago, I read that a plot of land in
Banana Republic in Ikoyi sells for N1 billion while the
landless poor have nowhere to lay their heads.
Also last week, I read that a village head in Akwa Ibom
State had begun a three-month hunger strike in protest of a
dilapidated high school building erected 31 years ago. He
said the governor had repeatedly ignored his pleas to visit
the school. Here is a story on Governor Godswill
Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State reported by SaharaReporters
June, 30:
“Three stewards working in the Akwa Ibom state
governor's lodge in Asokoro, Abuja was on Friday
summarily dismissed by the governor, Godswill Akpabio,
over missing bundles of mint fresh dollars valued at over
$250,000 (N40 million) kept in the governor's bedroom.
The governor who reportedly issued the instruction to
dispense with the services of the political appointees
personally found out on Wednesday during his visit to
Abuja that four bundles of the foreign currency he left in
his bedroom had been stolen while he was gone to a
dinner with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock
Villa.
Saharareporters gathered that the bundles of dollars kept in
the drawers in the governor's bedroom were leftovers from
stacks of hard currency stashed away in a private security
safe.”
Instead of building new roads, the rulers have resorted into
buying jets with stolen money from our treasury. As at the
time of writing, 400 privately owned jets were reportedly
parked at hangar of Abuja International Airport.
The death trap roads are now exclusively reserved for the
poor. Meanwhile, Nigerians are dying in abnormal
numbers every day on these roads.
Our local schools, colleges, and universities are but
wastelands of academic refuse. The institutions have been
abandoned long ago by the children of legislators and
other robber barons. Our hospitals have become death
houses for the poor – the only patients that still patronize
such institutions.
As humiliated and downtrodden people, Nigerians endure
the worst abuses without complaint. One would have
expected Nigerians to develop a strong hatred and dislike
of the obviously rich- the thieves, crooks, scammers,
embezzlers, looters, and leeches - of the economy, not
because they could afford to buy things at any price, but
because they were able to do so without a guilty
conscience.
Few among the suffering Nigerians deny their anger even
as they show it. A large number has been beaten into
almost numb submission into accepting poverty as an act
of God and that they’ll never reach the goals they once
thought possible.
But the few, very few, refused to accept being treated as
lesser human beings and they respond to the insult with
furious indignation by brief sporadic, uncoordinated,
protests and resistance.
For a moment or so, the cultural atmosphere would be
saturated with experimental resistance, protests, and
movements. With the exception of one cleric who always
pitches his tent with the poor masses, the rest of legion of
jet pastors would admonish the poor to embark on
marathon night vigils and fast for their deliverance from
the oppressors.
For once – Occupy Nigeria – looked indeed as if Nigeria
convulsed after the subsidy removal, underpinned by
scourged inflation, depression, unemployment, and the
absence of a faith to live for.
Composed mainly of handful of Nigerians, Occupy
Nigeria attests to the all time truth that at all times and in
all creeds only a minority has been capable of courting
trouble and committing emotional hara-kiri on behalf of
the proletariat.
The bedroom confidence of the protesters soon evaporates
like a puddle under a scotching desert sun. The protest
was high jacked by lukewarm labor leader corrupters.
The uncompromising fire of radical, and purist zealotry lit
by the organizers was instantly put out by the union bosses
who clung to the empty shell of greed driven by polluted
civilization.
After Occupy Nigeria protest (and like many previous
protests) had been effectively neutralized and vanished
like a tantalizing mirage, social life went back to normal.
Nobody asked: Why can’t the oppressed prolonged and
sustained the protest longer? Why can it not become a
permanent basis for the reorganization of our public life?
It is not a false interpretation to conclude that the major
obstacle to Nigeria’s version of Arab Spring is fear.
Nigerians are cowards, spineless, and weak.
Have you ever tried to hammer a nail with your shoes? Or
tighten a screw with a fingernail file? Or shield yourself
from a rainstorm with just a newspaper? When do you
need a hammer or screw driver or umbrella?
The ruling class has provided the ingredients necessary for
their successful overthrow. So far, Nigerians are
substituting lethal weapons generously supplied by their
oppressors with shoes as hammers, fingernail files to
tighten screws, and newspapers as umbrellas for
rainstorms.
The rigor of the economic clime, the poverty colony, and
the harsh living conditions should have made Nigerians
one of the toughest, hardest, and enduring protesters and
resisters in the world.
The cautious, calculating, submissive, nervous time-server
Nigerians watched their steps, looked over their shoulders,
loudly professed loyalty, and monotonously repeated the
official propaganda in exchange for crumbs from the
master’s table.
Everything about Nigeria is different. Everything is in the
reverse. Things that worked in other countries won’t work
in Nigeria. Which is why the country is not moving
forward and it would take eternity for it to advance with
the rest of the developed world.
Nigerians are afraid of police arrest, police clubbing,
police shooting, afraid to be handcuffed afraid to endure
the sun or the rain for a little longer than necessary, and
afraid to confront their oppressors.
They are easily cowered and easily bought. They forget
that freedom is not free. And that the only language that
oppressors understand is force or fire.
A poor, powerless Black woman by the name Rosa Parks
ignited the American Civil Rights movement. She risked
her life when she dared the white oppressors by refusing
to give up her seat for a white passenger. Men, women,
and children were killed, maimed, beaten, and jailed in
the fight for racial equality.
Steve Biko and other countless patriots sacrificed their
lives to end Apartheid. Of course our legendary President
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for the cause of
freedom.
Not long ago, a young unemployed Tunisian graduate
preferred to be immolated than surrender to the oppressive
Tunisian regime. His personal sacrifice gave birth to the
Tunisian Revolution.
Egyptians have taken to the streets again calling for the
ouster of their newly elected President Muhammed Morsi.
Brazilians came out in thousands to protest against
increased fare in public transportation. President Dilma
Rousseff had since bowed to the people’s will.
Remember President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines
whose wife owned 2,000 pair of shoes? Well, the dictator
was brought to his knees by the People Power Revolution
in 1986 comprised over two million Filipino civilians as
well as several political, military, and including religious
groups led by Cardinal Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of
Manila.
Lech Walesa the unemployed Polish electrician organized
the illegal 1970 strikes at Gdansk Shipyard in protest of
government’s decree raising food prices. Because of his
singular act of bravery, the Solidarity Trade Union grew
into a 10 million-member movement. The government was
forced to accede to the workers’ demands.
The list goes on and on, and on.
The world watched with disdain and mockery at the
stupidity of oppressed Nigerians:
If these native oppressors are worst than colonial masters,
why didn’t they rebel?
How could small band of thieves in government enslave
so many people and exert complete control over the rest
99.9 per cent of the 160 million people?
How could they have successfully immobilized and
sterilized so many Nigerians mentally, spiritually, and
physically?
How could they have successfully perpetuated a blend of
covert and overt tyranny, public policy, and secret
alliances with the very oppressed?
Why didn’t the tyranny, humiliation, and primitive
stagnation of life of the poor caused by these vultures in
government provoke a rebellion on the part of the
oppressed?
The answer to these and other nagging questions could be
summed up in one sentence: 160 million dumb Nigerians!

Source: mobile.saharareporters.com/article/160-million-dumb-nigerians-bayo-oluwasanmi

payless: There is still no proof the okadas came from Lagos. Having a Lagos Tag doesn't mean the okadas actually came from Lagos.

Ok

Click on the webiste and u'll see for yourself the picture of the Okada's in d truck.

A truck (registration number – XR 874 LSD) loaded with
seized motorcycles popularly called ‘okada’ from Lagos was
sighted on Sunday as it headed to Abeokuta, Ogun state, and
the okadas were believed to have been put up for sale.
Report say that another truck initially loaded the motorcycles
but broke down on the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway,
prompting the drivers to fetched another to convey the
motorcycles to destination.
Further investigation by our source who pleaded anonymity
revealed that the okadas were believed to be those seized from
erring commercial drivers in Lagos after the use of
motorcycles for commercial purposes in most part of the
metropolis was banned by the Governor Raji Fashola
administration.
Our source escaped being attacked when he tried to take
pictures of the motorcycles as they displayed to be disposed of
around Aro-Itaosin axis of the Ogun state capital.
It is unclear who the agents or the buyers are while raising
further questions than answers.


Source: newsbytesnow.com/2013/05/28/flash-photos-truckload-of-okadas-seized-in-lagos-put-up-for-sale-in-abeokuta-eyewitness/

Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group Alhaji
Aliko Dangote yesterday promised to end fuel importation in
Nigeria in four years when his proposed refinery comes on
stream.

Work would commence later in the year on the proposed
400,000 barrels per day refinery which is expected to cost
$4.25 billion, to be located in Ondo State, Dangote said in an interview after the Annual General Meeting of Dangote Cement in Abuja.

Dangote group would provide half of the money while the rest would be sourced from two foreign banks and Nigerian banks. “We hope to start something by end of the year. We have put down 50 percent of the money. We have secured $4.25 billion from two foreign banks and the rest from local banks,” Dangote said.

Dangote is worth over $16 billion in net assets, according to
Forbes Magazine, making him the richest on the continent.
He said while his investing in Nigeria is an ongoing business, he hopes to top it to over $20 billion in the next three years. His investment outside Nigeria is in excess of $5 billion.

Speaking on security threat to businesses, Dangote said his
business was not significantly affected.
He said while the government is doing a lot in terms of
tackling the security situation, people should support the
government to make sure “they do what is right instead of
confusing them and making noise all over the place.”
“In the north east and also parts of north west, we would be
creating about 120,000 jobs, which has never happened in the history of Nigeria. This is what we intend to do in sugar alone. We thank government for bringing up this new sugar policy,” he said.

Courtesy Daily Trust
newsbytesnow.com/2013/05/25/flash-i-will-end-fuel-imports-in-4-years-dangote/

Interesting! This is yet another proof that there's still no hope for the average voter in this country. Alas, Hope died in 1993.
If an election involving 35 men only, is said not to be free and fair and surrounded by this much controversy why then should 160million Nigerians expect a free and fair election.

Anyways, can someone please post Governor Jonah Jang's Victory Speech too or is he yet to make his? Smh!
Rubbish

eagle,eye:
Okay, if he witnesses the killings of his brothers, did he also witness the massacre of those women, children and tenegers you mentioned earlier that were killed because a Biafran Army officer got angry and went on a killing spree?

Yes he did