Well the day has come at last! 50 years as a piece of land striving to become a nation.
50 years of tribalism, sectionalism, corruption and foolishness.
In our short history, we have produced on Nobel Laureate and one international terrorist. Blessings have been mixed.

Let us spend time here to talk about a way forward. Should we remain one, or should we split? How do we industrialise?

If we decide to remain one, what should be the political structure of the country? How do we establish, fairness and equity for all individuals and ethnic groups. How do we entrench autonomy for our various regions and sections? How do we determine what our new regions and sections should be?

There are a lot of questions to ponder as we cross the 50 year mark, so let the debate begin.

I think it is worth it.
yea things aren't perfect but the only other option we have is the Noah's Ark approach which is to start over from scratch and how is that even possible? we may end up repeating the same mess on an even grander scale.
yea it's a colonial legacy but so is the language we're typing in and probably the clothes you're wearing. let's encourage what we have. Nigeria should definitely remain one piece.

Happy Independence Day to you.

Not feeling it lol

There's no worst way to reach 50 than the kidnapping sword of Damocles hanging over our head. 15 innocent children are still missing. Their parents are helpless.

A responsible and responsive government would have cancelled the Eagle's square jamboree. But then it is not their children.

Please pray for the safety of these children and that God should touch the heart of the oga kidnappers.

"suffering and smiling" 50 years of uselessness, 50years of fraud, 50years of armed robbery, 50years of useless leaders, 50years of useless citizen's always blaming the leaders after they get caught either frauding,stealing,kidnapping and all nonsense activity. is nigeria the worst country in the world, no but when we fraud people we blame politicians. am sorry poster but there is nothing to celebrate or be proud of it would have been better if england had held naija for a longer time, by now we would have been on sa level

well for those who say the celebration is worth it, i say kudos but we mustn't forget the challenges ahead. its only a mad man who keeps dancing when his father's house is on fire.

What are we celebrating - Kidnapping, corruption, Militancy, poverty, bad governance, nose-diving educational, and health sector, poverty-for-all by 2020, religious riots, etc.?

What are even Celebrating, Kidnapping, Bad Roads, Bad Electricity, Bad Rulers, Bad Politicians In Bad Government, Our President should just go to one corner of Aso Rock and Start Crying For Naija,  We don't worth The Celebration, dis guy is giving us by Renewing The #50 note,  Well, am proud to come from NIGERIA, Dagrin, Nigeria, Ojojumo len jiriya, No be so?
PRAY FOR NIGERIA! PRAY FOR NIGERIA!! PRAY FOR NIGERIA!!! Not Celebrating NIGERIA,

12large1:

am sorry poster but there is nothing to celebrate or be proud of it would have been better if england had held naija for a longer time, by now we would have been on sa level

SA had horrible apartheid for a long time due to longer colonization. do you think the blacks there are happy that they were colonized for a longer time? Be careful what you wish for.

newgroom:

There's no worst way to reach 50 than the kidnapping sword of Damocles hanging over our head. 15 innocent children are still missing. Their parents are helpless.

A responsible and responsive government would have cancelled the Eagle's square jamboree. But then it is not their children. Please pray for the safety of these children and that God should touch the heart of the oga kidnappers.

I believe in the soundness of your point, but i dont share any passion with calling off the jamboree at the eagle's square. it would have a negative political implication albeit it would spread a new thought of Nigeria to the comity of nations, as a citizen-well fare-caring nation.
We pray that God touches the heart of the kidnappers.
Happy Independence to Nigeria. It is time for reflections and assessment of progress reviews. Which way forward?

In this celebration of golden jubilee, there is need for sober reflections from all our leaders, from councillors to the president. I pray our leader have the conscience to turn a new leaf and IF THEY WONT STOP OPPRESSING THE MASSES, MAY THEIR WAYS BECOME SLIPPERY AND DESTRUCTION COME UPON THEM SPEEDILY
Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Now that we are 50, WHICH WAY NIGERIA?

oyinda.:

I think it is worth it.
yea things aren't perfect but the only other option we have is the Noah's Ark approach which is to start over from scratch and how is that even possible? we may end up repeating the same mess on an even grander scale.
yea it's a colonial legacy but so is the language we're typing in and probably the clothes you're wearing. let's encourage what we have. Nigeria should definitely remain one piece.

Happy Independence Day to you.

Thanks and Happy Independence Day to you too.

I am certainly not thankful for the fact that I converse in English or wear foreign clothes, because there isn't much benefit to those things.

My fear is that after 50 years, we are still yet to have the basic things that make a nation. It seems we've just been wandering in circles for half a century. In our 50th year, the biggest political issue is neither ideology no manifesto, no! It is zoning.
After 50 years, we still suffer epileptic power supply, with our output per person standing at 43 times less than the Global standard. Zimbabwe, on the other hand, which is the object of many a Nigerians scorn, produces a full 6 times what the average Nigerian gets.

I believe that we must sit down in a National Conference to fashion out a framework for the Nigerian contraption to succeed and begin firing on all cylinders. We need a framework that will spell out the responsibilities of the Nigerian state to citizen and region and in the reverse, the responsibilities of citizen and region to the Nigerian state. Right now, every definition of the word, “Nigerian” is muddled and that reflects in the chaotic nature of our land. It is not possible for the citizen to be patriotic, when a person does not know their duties toward the country and how the country reciprocates.

We need to sit and chart a watertight way forward, especially now we have clocked 50.

Nigeria happy independence.

Nigerians lets become independent.

agabaI23:

Nigeria happy independence.

Nigerians lets become independent.

this is the key word.
the guy who said he wishes england were still our colonial ruler. we sort of are still under a rule. just that we have more rulers (china, US etc)and the whole system is no longer overt.

Yes of course we are 50. I came across the story on the ups and downs of the past and present leaders and their administration at www.broadcast.mixxt.us .

For us all we pray for God's divine intervention but first we all (both the leaders and the being led) have to observe what the people of Neniveh did in the bible 'Repent'. God bless all people of goodwill.

[size=13pt]happy 50th [/size]

INDEPENDENCE = FREEDOM
KIDNAPPED, SHACKLED = CAPTIVITY
CAPTIVITY is the opposite of[b] INDEPENDENCE[/b]

Now how Independent can we get? Me I no fit shout, sometimes a simple formula says all there is to say.
Where is the Independence in a nation shackled by its very own, enslaved by itself. Excuse me somebody!

Counting down to the inevitable due to take place in the year 2012

Goodbye Nigeria, my beloved Country, you will be greatly missed

Could not have wished to come from anywhere else

Happy independence 9ja, the next 50years will be full of positive example for other nations to copy, because we are going places begining from now.

Celebrating Nigeria would be a moot point.

At least the British are not in control. I find solace in that.

Not much to celebrate, just that the Almighty has kept us from doing serious damage to ourselves.
It's a boulevard of broken dreams we are celebrating. Life is far more nasty, short, and brutish than it was 50 years ago. We should be in sackcloth and ashes.

Those celebrating Naija independence are mostly those that are just using it as an excuse to PARTY! Even if that cost 500m naira (right senators)

http://www.davidoyedepoministries.org/DOMI_BLUE/live-media-center/

live independence service

lets continue praying and hoping,

For the sake of Prayers that get answered by God almighty and for the sake of positivity and the power of faith. May God bless our country Nigeria sha. Even though right now I am not feeling Nigeria at all. Wetin!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 9JA BUT NOT WORTH CELEBRATING.(4rm my own point of view)

Nigeria is 50, weep and wail for disunity and hate. Nigeria is 50, weep and wail coz there's nothin to celebrate. Nigeria is 50 raise your plates all the almajiris in Kano state. Nigeria is 50 and till date our light dey flunctuate. Nigeria is 50 and yet 15 pupils in Abia state do nt know their fate & una say make we celebrate??

Nigeria is 50, weep and wail for disunity and hate. Nigeria is 50, weep and wail coz there's nothin to celebrate. Nigeria is 50 raise your plates all the almajiris in Kano state. Nigeria is 50 and till date our light dey flunctuate. Nigeria is 50 and yet 15 pupils in Abia state do nt know their fate & una say make we celebrate??

when do you Nigerians stop hating even on your own Country

In the words of Basketmouth Uncensored 2009

"Nigerians, Oh Boy we love to hate O"

zapaa:

when do you Nigerians stop hating even on your own Country

In the words of Basketmouth Uncensored 2009

"Nigerians, Oh Boy we love to hate O"

Despair and hate are totally different things. What is expressed by most here is despair and it is right to be in despair about Nigeria, because it is only after we acknowledge the wrong that we can begin building the right.

Nigeria at 50: a nation given birth to by Britain. My heart goes with tears as i ponder _ if Nigeria has gone this far with her foolishness; oh! -i wonder where we would have been with our soundness. If i am to rejoice, i would sing praises to God for not allowing natural disasters like earthquake, tsunami, famine (though there's hunger in the land), name them, to visit Nigeria. We've wasted hopes, resources, and other bounties in 50years. To drive home a point _ what primary root have we descended since independence? Oh! What a failure. Everyday, our repast is subjected to tears. Tears emanating from kidnapping, assasination, boko haram, corruption, alienation, abuse of rights, etc. As it is, i pray God to lead us out of stagnation. I use this medium to say may the souls of Gani Fawehinmi, Dele Giwa, and others that meant well for Nigeria rest in peace.

This should be a funeral mourning the loss of 50 wasted years we'll never get back. By celebrating, we r setting the wrong precedent for the next 50