Gents,
I think the simplest way to achieve this change is by doing the much we can in our own various little ways.

Let the change start from you and me ,in our homes ,offices ,market places ,churches ,car garages ,on the roads ,schools ,villages
etc.

If individually we show examples of good values and always do things right ,it wont take us time to get to the promised land.
Its all about sacrifices ,we might not live to see the gains but surely our children and future generations will.

Rise up nigerian youths ,the change is in our hands now ,Yes WE CAN.

citizenY:

@mike oscar
Now Please if there is anybody out there who understansds our culture and the mentality of our government and can advise on a strategy/strategies then let's hear them and we can start building up, prayerfully, Tactically, Wisely(we need to engage key stakeholders who can galvanise the populace based on a common platform), we can use the local and international media, the NGOs, Activist etc but it's got to be pretty well organised, articulated and well orchestrated. oh  and non -violent too. Now, I believe there even better ideas on this forum that what I have suggested but we can get opinions together as  A TEAM  agree on the best way to present our case.
I believe there are lot's of people on ground who are also fed-up with the way our succesive regimes have run our country.


This is the way foward. In the same vein, I want to add that a lot of guys need to be weaned from their mindset( arrogance, ignorance and prejudice). The y know themselves , so there is no need
mentioning names. If you just go through this thread and you see the guys deliberately shifting this thread to prejudiced zones, you will know them. Go through their threads and you will be
amazed that they want to talk of Nigeria's problems. solving a problem begins with understanding the mindset. If you begin a contribution by seeing a contributor as inconsequential, you are sowing the seeds of  disagreement. Honestly, any person that has separatist inclinations is not part of this cavalry to reclaim Nigeria and the is not , definitely , the esteemed Achebe's worldview.

In this content, the Aloy-Emeka's of eastern Nigeria  have a condescending view of northern youths who , I can assure you stand ready ,willing and able to defend their rights and contribute, as always to the Nigerian project. When prejudiced minds begin to think that they are not competent to take their own decisions, i begin to wonder whether the rabid and pathological  prejudice \mr \emeka has for northerners  is predicated on certain experiences/ events  which he  may no necessarily  have been a player /beneficiary or whatever but only got to know by rote, meaning that it was repeatedly knocked into his brain until it became a phobia. I do not know which book or school or university  these Emeka's  have gone to that northerners have not gone to, with the exception of you know where-- I cannot
recall if the shortlived Biafra had any ideological school or if the affair had an ideology, for that matter.

Mr. Aloys contributions portray a little knowledge of northern society or at best putrid mischief and any attempt at solving our problems must start from a mutually accepted platform. On this premise, we have a problem of failed leadership. One way or the other, leadership is not conducted in a vacuum.We are all occupying this political space in which milieu, social and economic activities  are conducted to the mutual benefit of all. Granted the president is from the north but the ruling party has its tentacles all over the country and the big god fathers are from where? These mandarins are in a mad rush to grab and their greed knows not tribe/tongue/region. Some tussles turn into fratricide- Anambra? , Ekiti>, Oyo? Bauchi? all over . We all have representatives in the assemblies and they do not come from the north only. So what is the  big deal, your own rep is in Abuja and has failed to defend your interest  or succumbed to lucre!!!!! In summary, we are the architects of our misfortune and we turn round to blame others.

It is therefore not right to polarise the interests of the poor and needy into any mindset or religion. You are poor, period. When you assume the knpw all stride and tell us you know us more that we know ourselves, you have crossed the bar. Why did you not make yourself president and then excise Biafra and go away?

Let us listen to reasonable people like Dr. Achebe who have seen it all and let us  begin the process of reclaiming Nigeria. Let people do shariah as they deem fit. If yor miindset is honed towards making money or worldly wealth  at all costs, be assured that the law is waiting if you are in default. This is because the first step toward reclaiming this country is to make sure the law works and you will be the best guinea pig - the revolution will consume its child.

Finally, I reject , and vehemently too, any attempt whatsover to subject any Nigerian to  contempt because of his religion or region. We or our forebears created this problems, our compatriots are compounding themm and it is our manifest destiny to find solutions if not today , tomorrow and leave the rest for our children, I refuse to disrespect any Nigerian because every person has his good side
and I will need him one way or the other to move on. You are first of all a human being before anything else.

N.I.Gboi:

keep me wondering "who on planet earth is he?" Seems to me he is one of those folks who are benefiting from the disorder in Nigeria.

POSAKOSA1:

Nigeria is a complex country. Only until someone understands the extent and enormorsity of this complexity can they properly profer a solution. I wouldnt' even mind donating to such cause. BUT most people here are just whining.


where are you?how do you suggest we get to 'understand the extent and enormorsity of this comlexity'? give us some ideas and stop making noise. u cant just understand something by seating and looking at it. you've got to act. everybody who is a Nigerian (even a kid) knows that Nigeria is complex.

Rosabelle:



Corporations here or there. Stakeholders here or there. IF . . . .and I say IF in capital letters. IF nigerians decide today that our government work for us and no longer for Americans, it will happen.
Maybe not overnight. ANd maybe not to 90%. But a good 50% will do.
Its OUR country and OUR government.
And we have it in our hands and with our mouths to make that change.
I de go!

Kobojunkie:

@Rosabelle, you actually believe your government works for America?? Roflmao!!!!
The joke of the century!!!!

Rosabelle:

Who owns Chevron??
Not only do they work for the Americans. They also work for the french and the dutch . . . who owns Mobil??or Shell Petroleum
You laugh?
Have you been to Warri? Are you aware that and good 98% of Nigerias revenue is from the Delta??
You laugh?
Are you aware the bridges in Lagos and the city of Abuja (to name a few) were built from the money made by the Americans and dutch?
You laugh?  ? ? ? ? ?

Mr Posakosa spoke of the shareholders who wont allow a change in a developing nation like ours and thats what I was answering to. The corporate organisations who'd want the nation to stay in its present state for their own schemes.
Thats what Im refering to. So dont laugh until youve been to Ijaw and Itsekiri land. Dont laugh if you dont know.
And YES. The big American corporations  have a great stake in making sure A LOT of developing nations like ours dont move forward!
Its not a laughing matter.

Kobojunkie:

The way you conspiracy theorists draw your conclusions never seizes to amaze me. Did you also research what portions of the mentioned companies your own government controls? That loans were obtained to build brigdes from particular countries who were at least willing to give the loans means your country WORKS for those countries? That, according to you, 98% of the revenue generated in Nigeria is from the delta is reason why Nigeria works for America So when the deal to sell these companies to the chinese works out, then you will change your tune to "NIGERIA IS WORKING FOR CHINA"? *** SHUDDERS****
and ***SHUDDERS *** AGAIN.

You really are a joker and this is definitely the joke of the century!!! Roflmao!!!

Rosabelle:

Ou forefathers sold our right to our oil and our land to the white man ages ago for mirrors and powder and fine wrappers. Today, people cannot fish in their waters or plant crops in their backyards liek they used to. Or plant herbs that heal their ailments.
Their land is GONE. Sold to white men, whom our government has refused to call to book.
So WHO tell me, Mr Kobojunkie is our government working for? WHO?
Its our country and an interested government would have long since revoked those rights of land, or demanded a clear-up of the spillage going on.
Dont laugh.
I know what Im talking about and Ive see people suffer in a country full of wealth!

Rosabelle:

And I shudder at you cos you contradict yourself.
Answer me please. WHO IS THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT WORKING FOR?

Since I said they work for the french and the americans and the dutch and you laughed. Who then are they workign for?

Kobojunkie:

It does not take an slowpoke to figure out by now that the government is currently NOT WORKING but pushing the enrich the pockets of the many individuals in government. How many millionaires have been made in the last decade in that country? thousands. How many billionaires? We have quite some and the number if growing right there in Nigeria. To see that you have a corrupt system that continues to allow LOOTERS( as in thieves who steal money over and over) and then ask who the government is WORKING FOR makes me wonder if you have an inkling of what the problem Achebe is speaking of here really is. Do you even know what the problem is with our system at all??

Coming up with disconnected logic such as the one you have posted there only tells me you have little grasp on reality of the situation down in Nigeria, let alone the world around you. How can you keep blaming the man who comes to buy fish( he does not even live there with you) for the stench that continues to consume your house, and surroundings? How can you blame him for the fact that you choose to paint your wall with faeces, and complain all day of how it stinks? How can you continue to blame your neighbour for your choice to live in filth day and night??

***Shudders*** in disgust!

fekwenugo2:

Nobody seems 2 be offering a solution.Am nt ready 2 head 2 d street.Who do i confront? To reclaim kini?

9ja4eva:

Rosabelle (f) Re: Achebe To Nigerian Youths: Rise And Reclaim Your Country
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The solution for Nigeria is for the churches to be taxed. Every garrage is now a church where people are being promised miracles from God. Its is all a lie. It is the biggest deception and greatest scam in Nigeria. The church!
Tax these churches and you'l see how they'l reduce.

People are being decieved into thinking they can pray and nigeria will be better. It is a lie.
The less churches we have and the less religious we are, the clearer people will think. If you reduce the churches, people will start to ask questions from their government and not from God. They will go to their local government charimans house to ask why they dont have NEPA instead of going to 5pm mass and 7pm prayer meeting. (You can pray in your house with your family you know).
They will stop praying that a messiah be sent down to erradicate corruption. The corruption they themselves are only too happy to encourage.

Prayer without action is nothing.

A good 75% of those churches are visited by the people in power and the pastors dont make the leaders responsible for their actions. And this only happens because everyone has been bribed into silence.
I am a great believer. I am a christian. But the churches in Nigeria are too many. Too many.

If the church joined in in the education of the masses, if the church encouraged the people to go out to the streets and talk until they are heard, if the churches would encourage its members to create a revolution of dialogue in their various fields of work, Nigeria will be better.
But with the way the church of today abuses its hold on the people by making them believe the more they put down for offering and the more they come to church, the more they shall be blessed . . . . . well then, Nigeria is in for it.



TRUE TALK.

Nigeria go ever move forward so?Instead of the youths on this board to take Achebe's message as a call to action dem dey blame Ribadu here n dere

2011 we all have to vote for a credible leader and protect our votes.We should start the campaign of " SAY NO TO PDP.
If we all come together to do the right thing we will positively push PDP out of power.Lets GET TO WORK.

Aloy~Emeka:

What will taxing the church do for Nigeria?

Aloy~Emeka:

What will taxing the church do for Nigeria?

asunaobi:

If I have my way I will go far beyond taxing the churches. I will hand over churches to states and stop individuals or companies from owning churches. My reason being, so that when people like Aloy-Emeka go and pay their 10% tithe to God, the money will go to that state and will be used indirectly to build central sewage system, refuse recycling plant, construct and maintain roads, maintain security, train local manpower for on going maintenance of state projects etc. And my brother Aloy can then kneel down and pray to God and say! THANK YOU GOD FOR ANSWERING ALL MY PRAYERS, MY 10% TITHE IS REALLY WORKING.

Kobojunkie:

IN RESPONSE . . . . .
IN RESPONSE . . . .
IN RESPONSE . . .
@Rosabelle, after reading all that, are you sure you did not in anyway play the usual BLAME THE WEST CARD at all today?

asunaobi:

If I have my way I will go far beyond taxing the churches. I will hand over churches to states and stop individuals or companies from owning churches. My reason being, so that when people like Aloy-Emeka go and pay their 10% tithe to God, the money will go to that state and will be used indirectly to build central sewage system, refuse recycling plant, construct and maintain roads, maintain security, train local manpower for on going maintenance of state projects etc. And my brother Aloy can then kneel down and pray to God and say! THANK YOU GOD FOR ANSWERING ALL MY PRAYERS, MY 10% TITHE IS REALLY WORKING.