That why we members of the Egbe Omo odududwa are putting together a petition. So far we posted online today and we have recieve over 1000 email today alone.

see a copy and make your voice be heard. it goes to the senate of nigeria ,


Sign this Petition with your name by sending your email to Nigeriamail@hotmail.com

Petition to the national assembly to create new 7 state and creation of a Western Niger Province.

We the undersigned ask member of the national assembly to create new 7 state created from Western Niger Area of Nigeria and also create a Western Niger Province. In case this wish is not granted, we hereby wish the national assembly to hand over our area and land to the Republic of Benin.

The 7 new states are
1. Coastal from Delta state
2. Benin State from Edo state
3. Oyan state from Kwara state
4. Akure state from Ondo state
5. Ijebu state from Ogun state
6. Ibadan state from Osun and Oyo state
7. Oke Ogun from Oyo state


While the new Western Niger province would consist of the present west kogi state, Kwara, Ondo, ekiti, oyo, lagos ,ogun, osun, Edo and delta state.

And with a total number of 16 states including the new states, they are Ekiti, osun, lagos, oyo, ibadan , oke ogun, ondo, akure,kwara , oyan, kogi, edo, benin, delta, coastal and ogun state.

We want our capital to be located in a new undeveloped site which would be change by our people within the first 6 month. And to have a temporary capital in Ile Ife.

We want total control of our province.
Western Niger Province shall have autonomous status.
The following of Delta, Edo, Benin and coastal state shall have the right to leave the province based on seccession criteral providered below.
Western Niger Province had its own separate Constitution, in addition to the Federal Government Constitution.
Western Niger Province had its own separate Coat of Arms and Motto, from the Federal State or Government.
The Provincial Governments had Residual Power, i.e., where any matter was not allocated to the Provinces or the Federal Government, it automatically became a matter for Provincial jurisdiction.
The power and right of a Western Niger Province to raise funds by way of tax on persons, matters, services and materials within its territory.
The Province Government would be empowered to make grants to the federal Government of 40% collected from mineral including oil.
The exclusive right to the control of the police force.
The exclusive right to the control over all taxes.
The exclusive right to the ownership of airport and seaport.
The exclusive right to the control of education.
The exclusive right to the control of all form of health care issue.
The exclusive right to the control of the railway, air services, telecommunication, telegraphs, electricity and local mining in its territory.
The exclusive right to the ownership and control of resources, both natural and created within its territory. And remitting of 40% to the federal goverment.
The right to customs duties on goods destined for its territory and excise duties on goods manufactured in its territory.
There shall be a Central Agency for all Provinces which will be responsible for the federal matters and other matters delegated to it by a Province.
The composition and responsibility of the Central Agency shall be defined by the Order-in-Council establishing the constitutional arrangement. The Agency shall be a non-political body.
All revenue shall be levied and collected by the Provincial Government including customs revenue at the port of discharge by the Central Agency and paid to its treasury. The administration of the Customs shall be so organised as to assure that goods consigned to the Province are separately cleared and charged to duty.
The Western Niger Province shall have a separate Public Service!
Western Niger Province shall have the right to conduct its own census.
The Western Niger Province shall have a senate, with three representative from each state. And have the highest level in a tie issue.
The new Western Niger Province governement shall composed of the Controller Governor of Western Niger Province, each state governors and provincial commissioners( members of the provincial house of assembly) .
Provincial house of assembly shall consist of member representing each state.
The Provincial Houses shall consist of 301 members based on population of each state and shall be reviewed every 10 years.
local government shall now to be called county.
Each County shall have a Mayor.
Western Niger Province shall have a vice president for the federation.
The election of the Controller Governor shall be based on the political party with the highest number of delegate to the provincial house of assembly. And shall first be elected to the provincial house of assembly from his/her county.
The Controller Governor shall appoint a Deputy Controller Governor.
The Provincial Houses shall consist of 301 members based on population.
The Provincial Houses are competent to legislate for their own Provinces. They shall consider bills affecting their Provinces, and make recommendations and pass resolutions for their own Provinces.
There shall be three form of government in the Western Niger Province Provincial, state and county.
Each state shall be ruled by a governors.
The Provincial Houses shall draw a map of each state and county with the recommendation of the Provincial Conference as the working documents.
The following of Delta, Edo, Benin and coastal state shall have the right to leave the province by 2/3 majority vote of citizen of the state and simple majority of the Provincial house of assembly or 2/3 majority of the total Provincial house of assembly from the 4 states stated in a congress.
The position Attorney-General, accountant general and auditor General of province shall be elected.
The Provincial Houses election shall be direct secret voting.
The Provincial Houses shall retain both Executive , residual and overall powers, but since the Central Legislature and Executive will themselves be made up of representatives of the Provinceal Legislatures and since the policy of greater Provinceal autonomy is so widely accepted, we do not fear that there will be any desire at the Centre unnecessarily to interfere with purely Provinceal legislation or administration".
It is important to observe once more that anything outside these two lists was exclusively a matter for Provincial jurisdiction. Other features indicative of the autonomous status of the Provinces included:
Western Niger Province has the right for a separate Provincial Judiciaries.
The Provincial Houses has the power of the Provinces to establish, not only High Courts, but also Provincial Courts of Appeal.
The Province has their own separate electoral commissions for state, county, house of representative, state of house assembly elections. However, the Chairman of the Provicial Electoral Commission shall be appointed by the Provicial assembly from a selection of 5 names.
The Provicial Revenue Allocation system to state shall be strictly based on derivation including taxes and all form of revenue.
The Province shall have complete legislative and executive autonomy with respect to all matters except the following: police, external affairs, customs, militia and West African research institutions.
The Province house shall have The right to all mines and minerals . This right include been the owner of all minerals attaching to the land in the province and 200 nautical miles off its coastal waters. Western Niger Province have the right to leave the federation. The right would be accentuated by the provision in our laws laying down that entire property in and control of all minerals and mineral oils in, under or upon any lands in Provinces and of all rivers, streams and water-courses throughout Nigeria, was and should be vested in the Provincial house.
The Province house shall hold the right, among other things, to legislate on mines and minerals, including oilfields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas as provided in the Constitution. The Constitution of the province, for example, provides for a fair distribution of revenue obtained from mining royalties and rents between the states in so far as such revenue is in respect of minerals obtained from inland.

. All of the excise duty from beer , tobacco should be similarly distributed to Provinces in proportion to consumption. Half the net proceeds of export duties should go to the Province of the export origin
The tax on personal income shall be collected by the Province in which the tax payers resided. The whole of the proceeds from the mining royalties should go to the Province from which the mineral was extracted.
The Province should receive the various fees for licences relating to Province subjects as well as Provinciall court fees and fines. And all of the net proceeds of import duties including tobacco and petrol should be shared out among the states Governments .
The province Government shall be empowered to make grants licences to banks, telecommunication, education institution and others.
The Provincial Legislatures respectively should be competent to create new posts, the abolition of vacant posts and the alteration of the salaries, allowances or conditions service, but it must not affect officers already on the service.
The Control Governor and the Governors of the Province and states were in-charge of recruitment and promotion of civil servants and had the power to appoint members of the Public Service Commission.
The Control Governor and Governors had the power to appoint Judges. The Province Supreme Court had the power to hear appeals from Provincial High Courts, appeals for the Province Supreme Court .

When i say that nigerians are monkeys, some people will start crying.
Power problem can be solved in 2yrs max.
Privatize the damn thing. FG has no business in retail power/engergy.
Let individual states source private investors to generate and distribute power for them.
It doesn't have to be sudden.
Isolate lagos from the Nation grid and there will be reprieve for other states due to the huge industrial demand in lagos.
There should be at least 8 power generating companies/retail distributors for lagos alone. Wipe out NEPA.
Obviously a lot of companies like Mikano and John Holt would not like the idea of stable power in Nigeria because that means they will "CLOSE" down.
Yes Nigeria is the biggest market for generators. I bet these companies have lobbyists in the fg/senate who ensure that NEPA remains a govt deal.

A-town:

When i say that nigerians are monkeys, some people will start crying.
Power problem can be solved in 2yrs max.
Privatize the damn thing. FG has no business in retail power/engergy.
Let individual states source private investors to generate and distribute power for them.
It doesn't have to be sudden.
Isolate lagos from the Nation grid and there will be reprieve for other states due to the huge industrial demand in lagos.
There should be at least 8 power generating companies/retail distributors for lagos alone. Wipe out NEPA.
Obviously a lot of companies like Mikano and John Holt would not like the idea of stable power in Nigeria because that means they will "CLOSE" down.
Yes Nigeria is the biggest market for generators. I bet these companies have lobbyists in the fg/senate who ensure that NEPA remains a govt deal.

You have said it all, they should privatise the useless NEPA, how can FG thinks they can supply power to the whole Nigeria if not because of corruption. If it can work in other countries I wonder why it can't work in Nigeria (well nothing works in Nigeria anyway)

@nigeria
are u serious or is it a joke. cos i believe it is high time for we yorubas to stand up for oursleves.
we are the same, brothers and sisters and it would be terrible if we cant act as one.
thank you.
please let me know if it true. i want to be a part of the movement

Dear ALL,

There are many ways to clean a house: with a bad cleaner, so-so cleaner, good cleaner or with an army of cleaners.
I mean , there are many ways to kill a rat.

There shall exist always a regulator and administration body for power distribution in Nigeria.
those duties have to be with the state, or to an agency appointed by the government of Nigeria.
Distribution itself can be privatized, alongside with electrical power production.
Now for all of this, Nigeria needs a plan, a big plan.
Who is going to plan it all, regulations, electrical production, distribution networks, and planning to put it under tendering and construction? And who is going to calculate the amount that a so-so minimal national infrastructure is going to cost for Nigeria?
You need to call somebody which is able to do it on a national level and throughout several continents.
You have the Portuguese and Brazilians, they are the ones which know exactly what are resources, engineering and planning and are able to act on a large national scale.
Forget the French, the Americans, the Turks, the Lebanese, the Russians and Chinese and start to work with people that understand Africa, long before big predator nations have taken over Africa and launched and established dangerous business connections that result in nothing else than soap business bubbles.
Nigeria needs a President that should present a macro-economic agenda for the country, and associate with countries that have the proven performance to do exactly that.
In the end, if there is no planning for the implementation of repetitive macro technologies for the cheap production of electrical power, there is the danger of nobody being able to sell electricity to end users, because maybe they dont have the money to pay for it, and investments will be at risk.
Good planning is critical, and Nigerians dont know to do it. Period.
It is a fact.
After the planning, comes the national grid structure, a map of intentions, then comes macro designs, drafts for regulations of production and distribution, then drafts for investments at state level, then budgeting for distribution, then drafts for tenders TO CALL for private power production schemes, then , then, AND to make sure that all states are treated equally. BUT IN THE end Nigeria is not such a big country, call the Portuguese, and in 5 years you have the problem resolved. 5 years!!!!

Malaysia also had many blackouts in the eighties and nineties, because of poor infrastructure, and poor planning.
Nigeria is a complete disaster, compared even to Mozambique, in terms of production and power distribution.

Nigeria has a long long way to go.
But it can be done. Nigerians have to wake up and select good PARTNERS.

It took Korea after the second world war, just some years to stand up again in the international market. It was a complete destroyed nation. Samsung alone which didnt exist in the seventies, today with a workforce of 200,000 worldwide has a sales turnover of, 2xx billion euros, How much is Nigeria GNP?

Regards
Rautamies