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madamgrace:
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Sometimes it surprises me the way some of us reason. The Writer of the above piece inclusive.

First he pretended not to hear Atiku told the Northern brothers not to vote anyone from both the East and West as president. You call that Nationalism or Unification?

By the way for your information, unification begins with fairness, justice and equity, and above all competence and character. Going to the church as a Christian is not dividing Nigerians rather what people have said is what is dividing Nigerians.

Even most of us here are all culprits of the act of division by what we may have said or the way put our write ups.

The Writer and its preferred candidate is in the same shoe by his line of thought.

When the Western World need a leader, they choose the best among them no matter the age or tribe. Just the best and nothing more. No corruption or criminal baggage - just pure, clean, educated, civil and sound.

When it's time for Nigeria to choose their leader, same people supports and funds the worst among us; they use their media and our own media to make such bad choice popular - all targeted to keep Nigeria on a rocking chair, busy going nowhere. Nigeria has to be humble and a dependent member of the loyal stooges of countries - so, they need no good leader.

Locally, we wilfully make victims of ourselves by voting for Money personified, and later go back to Church to disturb God to get us a leader, - a leader that we willingly failed to produce by ourselves. We concentrate on tribe, ethnicity, partisanship, religion and instant monetary benefits while good leadership keeps eluding us.

Most of this current British PM's mates in Nigerian politics are hardly allowed to come close to power. We, the Youths are only reduced to jostling to be media Aids to the old de facto politicians, insulting their political enemies on social media on their behalf to collect peanuts. Our beautiful and energetic women reduced to glory singers group.

Those that have sane society did not pray for it, they worked for it. We keep asking God for good leaders in our prayers, when it is time to vote, we choose the bad ones with sugar cane in their hands. After election, the sugar disappears and the cane appears to flog everyone mercilessly.

We can't keep pretending that all is well while falling deep into the well. Dollar to Naira is trying to hit the sky already, that is why you no longer afford things you used to afford before. Trust that the market will embarrass that money you have in your hand. That's where we've kept ourselves. I blame no one, except us. Not God, not Satan is responsible for our suffering; we are.

I pray we all find solace in a good leader come 2023 as suffering and poverty knows no ethnicity, political party, religion or tribe.

HON. SOLOMON CHIMEZIE AMAEZECHI.
(Orutere Onyeukwu, Orutere Onyenta)

British government > the PM

Yes, we pray for a better Nigeria for all Nigerians.

We Say No! No!
To the Northern and Southern Clerics who are part of the rigging gang for the corrupt politicians. You have succeeded with all the lies you have told us and we sheepishly voted for your corrupt candidates over the years. You have started again; be it tribal or religious we will not listen to you any longer. We now know better. We are looking only for people with competence, integrity, good character, and corruption-free spirit.
We will vote to SAVE NIGERIA.

We Say No! No!
To the Northern and Southern Clerics who are part of the rigging gang for the corrupt politicians. You have succeeded with all the lies you have told us and we sheepishly voted for your corrupt candidates over the years. You have started again; be it tribal or religious we will not listen to you any longer. We now know better. We are looking only for people with competence, integrity, good character, and corruption-free spirit.
We will vote to SAVE NIGERIA.

My bro, it is unfortunate it happened to you. But never lose faith because you are still a young man.

The good thing is that you have discovered your problems that resulted from being over pampered. Also, you have the courage to share it here. It means you are a courageous person.

Never think you are useless, it is a voice from the pit of hell. Never insult your parents for their actions on your upbringing. Remember, you are not the only one in such a situation.

Rather, look at your parents with a sympathetic eyes for their lack of adequate knowledge on parenting, and forgive them. Yes, your maturity starts from this point.

Unlearn unhealthy habits. Pick healthy ones in replacement. Talk to your self positively on a mirror morning and evening for a week or more. Pray God to help you out. Because you have a lot to offer humanity. Trust me, the future is bright for you.

Read self development books, engage in outdoors exercises with others or register with club or gym. Browse list of profitability businesses ( both online and offline) and see which one suit you.

We need you here, my brother.

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We condemn in strongest terms, the attack on Kuje Prison, & the attack on our Dear President Buhari’s convoy by the Boko Haram and bandits and want to assure Mr President that we defenceless Nigerians will leave no stone unturned in bringing the perpetrators of these heinous crimes to book.
The Presidency is enjoined to go about their normal businesses as normalcy has been restored to the affected areas.
Further more, The Chief of Army Staff, The Inspector General of Police and other security agencies should volunteer useful information to the defenceless Nigerians that can lead to immediate arrest of the criminals.

We urge the president and his aides to go about their normal businesses and continue to be law abiding. We advice them not to take laws into their hands.

We're on top of the situation and will do everything possible to protect them with every available thing at our disposal as the well trained defenceless Nigerians are well equipped with kitchen knives, cutlasses, catapults and even razorblades to defeat the AK47 and machine guns of the criminals.
The defenceless Nigerians want to warn Mr President, his aides, the legislators and the armed forces not to take laws into their hands as their safety is guaranteed by the combined forces of hungry and frustrated unpaid pensioners, jobless youths, ASUU, ASUP and other workers with both battalions of parents and students strike force with a detachment of very active Yahoo boys fully mobilized to protect the government, Mr President, Ministers, Senators, and other high ranking members of the armed forces.
Thank you.
Signed
*Defenceless Hungry Nigerians*

Truly, it is well expressed by the above Writer instead of telling a bittered Nigerian not to support his/her choice of Presidential candidate, you are better off scaling your space to suit you. Thanks Abimbola for that piece.


GOOD QUALITY IS EXPENSIVE NOT CHEAP

Indeed quality and good products are expensive to have. It follows in human and character grading.

What makes a product qualitative and seemly good is the discipline employed in its formation to meet the highest standard in the market at any point in time. So it follows with human characterisation and leadership.

In Nigerian political landscape today among the few with the highest quality of leadership that is characterised by discipline are Prof. Yemi Osibanjo and Mr. Peter Obi.

No wonder senator Abubakar Girei, APC Convention Managment Committee described Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as the real winner of the APC Presidential primary because he didn't go the cheap path of vote buying and still recorded a good number of votes.

Mr. Peter Obi has shown discipline, a rare trait in handling public funds unlike most politicians today in Nigeria.

Why are these two men expensive to afford as President?

Truly it will cost those who have considered themselves godfathers and kingmakers too much if any of these men becomes the president of Nigeria.

Are you surprised? Yes, they will cease having uncontrolled access to our commonwealth, and that means they have to work to earn. It will cut down their huge appetite on luxurious goods at the expense of the nation. They may be made to account for their stewardship to the country. It is indeed expensive for the so called ruling class to afford any of the above mentioned men as president.

But to the ordinary Nigerians, it is very cheap to have either of the two men as president of Nigeria. Such presidency will focus on ordinary Nigerians in their programs and plans. Nigerians will be better off. Schools will not be shut. Hospitals will work. Amenities will be assured. Living will become easier for ordinary Nigerians as the commonwealth will be utilized for all.

The so called ruling class would not want to see the majority of Nigerians live a happier and easier lives. They prefer using a cheaper path to impose a cheap choice as a president on the country.

What are their cheaper paths? humans have natural tendencies like greed, emotion attached to his/her origin, religious inclination etc.

Any successful man/woman must have freed himself/herself from allowing these natural tendencies to becloud his/her power of reasoning.

These tendencies are what the so called godfathers, kingmakers or the ruling class have been using to hold us bounded to their whims and caprices over the years. This is why you hear about tribe, religion and vote buying which are all used to massage these our natural tendencies to make us to do what they want.

After the elections, we wouldn't see them or hear them again talk about religion, tribe, and they wouldn't come to give you money again until the next election. It is cheaper path for them but for the ordinary Nigerians, it is an expensive path to follow.

If I have taken money from a politician to vote for him; have all my relations, family and friends also given theirs? If no, the money I collected will it be able to solve my problems, that of my relations and solve the problems of my friends? If no, will the politician continue to give me the money every week, month or year? If still no, then it is very expensive for us to do what they want us to do for them to win.

God has given us brains and consciences to use, and to help ourselves by doing and choosing the best for our country in our decisions.

The Ordinary President, Ahmed Isah of Brekete Family once asked his audience. If comes a situation you want to enter a car to travel, and someone comes to you and ask you your tribe because there are three drivers going to your destination: the first is an Hausa man, the second is Yoruba man and the third is an Igbo man. But he also tell you the best driver among the three divers. The question is would you still want to enter with the driver from your tribe if he is not the best driver? If no, it is worthy to note that elections and who becomes the president of Nigeria is much more a serious decision to make. So, choose the right candidate without any consideration of religion or tribe.

Looking at our presidential hopefuls. Who among them has the best of character to lead and salvage our country. Without good character leadership becomes faulty. And we have been seeing this over the years. If need be, it is time to go against what our pastors or imams may tell us as regards who to vote. Insist on voting the best candidate. Voting someone we can trust with our funds and lives for the next 4 years. Someone who has the capacity like a good driver to drive the economy of our country for our common good.

Michael C. Odor

The co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Yesufu has warned that there are plans to set up the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

The rights activist stated this in a post on her Twitter account.

She further stated that some people are planning the same thugs that were used to attack #EndSars protesters.

According to Yesufu, the people who would destroy towns would be given t-shirts with Obi’s picture, while they claim they are his supporters.

Yesufu added that the plan is to turn people against him ahead of the 2023 presidential election.

She added that the same tactics was employed to destroy the agenda of #EndSars which attracted youths across the country.

Yesufu wrote, “What he doesn’t get is that he is being set up! They will carry the same thugs they used to attack #EndSars protesters and destroy towns give them T-shirts with his picture and say they are his supporters.

“They will then be turning people against him. They did that with #EndSars.”

Obi is hoping to defeat the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu in 2023.


https://www./2022/07/04/2023-peter-obi-is-being-set-up-aisha-yesufu/

Indeed quality and good products are expensive to have. It follows in human and character grading.

What makes a product qualitative and seemly good is the discipline employed in its formation to meet the highest standard in the market at any point in time. So it follows with human characterisation and leadership.

In Nigerian political landscape today among the few with the highest quality of leadership that is characterised by discipline are Prof. Yemi Osibanjo and Mr. Peter Obi.

No wonder senator Abubakar Girei, APC Convention Managment Committee described Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as the real winner of the APC Presidential primary because he didn't go the cheap path of vote buying and still recorded a good number of votes.

Mr. Peter Obi has shown discipline, a rare trait in handling public funds unlike most politicians today in Nigeria.

Why are these two men expensive to afford as President?

Truly it will cost those who have considered themselves godfathers and kingmakers too much if any of these men becomes the president of Nigeria.

Are you surprised? Yes, they will cease having uncontrolled access to our commonwealth, and that means they have to work to earn. It will cut down their huge appetite on luxurious goods at the expense of the nation. They may be made to account for their stewardship to the country. It is indeed expensive for the so called ruling class to afford any of the above mentioned men as president.

But to the ordinary Nigerians, it is very cheap to have either of the two men as president of Nigeria. Such presidency will focus on ordinary Nigerians in their programs and plans. Nigerians will be better off. Schools will not be shut. Hospitals will work. Amenities will be assured. Living will become easier for ordinary Nigerians as the commonwealth will be utilized for all.

The so called ruling class would not want to see the majority of Nigerians live a happier and easier lives. They prefer using a cheaper path to impose a cheap choice as a president on the country.

What are their cheaper paths? humans have natural tendencies like greed, emotion attached to his/her origin, religious inclination etc.

Any successful man/woman must have freed himself/herself from allowing these natural tendencies to becloud his/her power of reasoning.

These tendencies are what the so called godfathers, kingmakers or the ruling class have been using to hold us bounded to their whims and caprices over the years. This is why you hear about tribe, religion and vote buying which are all used to massage these our natural tendencies to make us to do what they want.

After the elections, we wouldn't see them or hear them again talk about religion, tribe, and they wouldn't come to give you money again until the next election. It is cheaper path for them but for the ordinary Nigerians, it is an expensive path to follow.

If I have taken money from a politician to vote for him; have all my relations, family and friends also given theirs? If no, the money I collected will it be able to solve my problems, that of my relations and solve the problems of my friends? If no, will the politician continue to give me the money every week, month or year? If still no, then it is very expensive for us to do what they want us to do for them to win.

God has given us brains and consciences to use, and to help ourselves by doing and choosing the best for our country in our decisions.

The Ordinary President, Ahmed Isah of Brekete Family once asked his audience. If comes a situation you want to enter a car to travel, and someone comes to you and ask you your tribe because there are three drivers going to your destination: the first is an Hausa man, the second is Yoruba man and the third is an Igbo man. But he also tell you the best driver among the three divers. The question is would you still want to enter with the driver from your tribe if he is not the best driver? If no, it is worthy to note that elections and who becomes the president of Nigeria is much more a serious decision to make. So, choose the right candidate without any consideration of religion or tribe.

Looking at our presidential hopefuls. Who among them has the best of character to lead and salvage our country. Without good character leadership becomes faulty. And we have been seeing this over the years. If need be, it is time to go against what our pastors or imams may tell us as regards who to vote. Insist on voting the best candidate. Voting someone we can trust with our funds and lives for the next 4 years. Someone who has the capacity like a good driver to drive the economy of our country for our common good.

Michael C. Odor

Indeed quality and good products are expensive to have. It follows in human and character grading.

What makes a product qualitative and seemly good is the discipline employed in its formation to meet the highest standard in the market at any point in time. So it follows with human characterisation and leadership.

In Nigerian political landscape today among the few with the highest quality of leadership that is characterised by discipline are Prof. Yemi Osibanjo and Mr. Peter Obi.

No wonder senator Abubakar Girei, APC Convention Managment Committee described Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as the real winner of the APC Presidential primary because he didn't go the cheap path of vote buying and still recorded a good number of votes.

Mr. Peter Obi has shown discipline, a rare trait in handling public funds unlike most politicians today in Nigeria.

Why are these two men expensive to afford as President?

Truly it will cost those who have considered themselves godfathers and kingmakers too much if any of these men becomes the president of Nigeria.

Are you surprised? Yes, they will cease having uncontrolled access to our commonwealth, and that means they have to work to earn. It will cut down their huge appetite on luxurious goods at the expense of the nation. They may be made to account for their stewardship to the country. It is indeed expensive for the so called ruling class to afford any of the above mentioned men as president.

But to the ordinary Nigerians, it is very cheap to have either of the two men as president of Nigeria. Such presidency will focus on ordinary Nigerians in their programs and plans. Nigerians will be better off. Schools will not be shut. Hospitals will work. Amenities will be assured. Living will become easier for ordinary Nigerians as the commonwealth will be utilized for all.

The so called ruling class would not want to see the majority of Nigerians live a happier and easier lives. They prefer using a cheaper path to impose a cheap choice as a president on the country.

What are their cheaper paths? humans have natural tendencies like greed, emotion attached to his/her origin, religious inclination etc.

Any successful man/woman must have freed himself/herself from allowing these natural tendencies to becloud his/her power of reasoning.

These tendencies are what the so called godfathers, kingmakers or the ruling class have been using to hold us bounded to their whims and caprices over the years. This is why you hear about tribe, religion and vote buying which are all used to massage these our natural tendencies to make us to do what they want.

After the elections, we wouldn't see them or hear them again talk about religion, tribe, and they wouldn't come to give you money again until the next election. It is cheaper path for them but for the ordinary Nigerians, it is an expensive path to follow.

If I have taken money from a politician to vote for him; have all my relations, family and friends also given theirs? If no, the money I collected will it be able to solve my problems, that of my relations and solve the problems of my friends? If no, will the politician continue to give me the money every week, month or year? If still no, then it is very expensive for us to do what they want us to do for them to win.

God has given us brains and consciences to use, and to help ourselves by doing and choosing the best for our country in our decisions.

The Ordinary President, Ahmed Isah of Brekete Family once asked his audience. If comes a situation you want to enter a car to travel, and someone comes to you and ask you your tribe because there are three drivers going to your destination: the first is an Hausa man, the second is Yoruba man and the third is an Igbo man. But he also tell you the best driver among the three divers. The question is would you still want to enter with the driver from your tribe if he is not the best driver? If no, it is worthy to note that elections and who becomes the president of Nigeria is much more a serious decision to make. So, choose the right candidate without any consideration of religion or tribe.

Looking at our presidential hopefuls. Who among them has the best of character to lead and salvage our country. Without good character leadership becomes faulty. And we have been seeing this over the years. If need be, it is time to go against what our pastors or imams may tell us as regards who to vote. Insist on voting the best candidate. Voting someone we can trust with our funds and lives for the next 4 years. Someone who has the capacity like a good driver to drive the economy of our country for our common good.

Michael C. Odor

Choices in 2023 elections be based in the light of what Thomas Sankara said:

"We must choose either Champagne for a few or Safe Drinking Water for all"

May the Lord help us to free ourselves from primordial sentiments and selfish choices for the one who will serve sincerely.

Mods pls

truthislight:
Na waoh !

Well, it shall be well.

"to your tent o Israel". Lol.

We and our world need FORGIVENESS to heal. You may wish to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jddmtr_PX1U

We and our world need FORGIVENESS to heal. You may wish to check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jddmtr_PX1U

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfqbn5dSGFNq0N1v-98nNmA[/url]

Let's not raise dust here unnecessarily, Osibanjo as a person is a good candidate as well as some other candidates in the race. So if some of his church members choose to go berserk in their support or advocacy for his candidature that should not diminish him as a person or his candidature for any reason.

Have you forgotten all manners of berserk support Buhari candidacy attracted in 2015 in the north? The candidate in question may not have control over the speeches and actions of their overexcited supporters but we have to learn how to judge people based on the content of their characters not on religion, tribe or color.

There is no need for this apprehensiveness about RCCG position.

May God see Nigerians through as we commit ourselves to register and vote in the upcoming elections.

Fuckyoumod:
Mumu survey!

Look I will take Osibanjo and his misguided miscreants serious the day they give me a clear outline of Osibanjo's achievements after 8 years of being V.P.

8 years of security votes.
8 years of coordinating our economy.

Until then, all of them, both the survey, the voters, the jobless organizers of this mumu survey and the illiterates supporting Osibanjo with no single achievement to cite are all mumu people.

I just want to know what PYO has achieved for Nigerians in 8 years.

Maybe it is this white package and brown envelop inside the package that he achieved.
Mumu illetrates!

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Dear, you may need to know that Vice Presidents hardly achieve anything in the Nigerian context because the constitution has fashioned it so. They only depend on their Principal's delegated responsibility to prove their worth. And I think Osibanjo going by the records never disappointed Nigerians. Mind you, even delegated responsibilities sometimes may have limits you will not cross and areas you may not touch. Hope, you now understand.

He is young, endowed with entrepreneurial skills. The Founder Solomon's Ideas Housing and Multipurpose Cooperative Society. He also has a group of schools in His name.

He has granted several scholarships to the Imo State students before trying to pay more attention to his locality Mbaitoli LGA. Hence, he reached out to every 12 wards in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo state recently and granted 66 scholarships for the best students that applied for the scholarship last time it was conducted.

He is Hon. Solomon Chimezie Amaezechi from Ofekata, Orodo in Mbaitoli LGA. This young man has equally solely organized empowerment training for Mbaitoli Women that ran for several weeks.


He is not resting in attracting development to his LGA, Mbaitoli as he went further to sponsor the Mbaitoli Women to form Mbaitoli Women Development Initiative (MWDI) through which he has linked them to a women group in United State for possible training and empowerment programs.

He is the kind of leader the people are looking out for, one who understands what true leadership means. He is truly leading quietly without any noise to complement what the state government is doing.

I am elated that another round of scholarships is about to be launched as scholarship forms are been circulated and made available in all the 12 wards in Mbaitoli LGA. Let's encourage our young ones to take advantage of it and study well to get prepared for the marathon scholarship examinations.

More blessings and wisdom to the man that is cooking these goodies for our development.

Michael C. Odor

Coordinator

Imo State Youth Movement For Good Governance (IMSYMOGG)

It is unfortunate that Nigerians have elected unqualified persons to sensitive positions without having a good knowledge of who they really are.
The Nigerian youths are tired of politicians who may be popular on the political scene for a long time working only to clinch the seat of power without being well known by the Nigerian citizens.

Such popularity did not translate beyond politics; and as such is not a good basis to judge the suitability of their personalities to determine if they have the right qualities needed for the sensitive positions they are seeking to occupy.

The youths now consider it a serious step for every contestant to publish their full profile at least six (6) months to the election to enable Nigerians to know them and to decide who is best for the country.

From Federal to the States; we, the Imo State Youths Movement for Good Governance (IMSYMOGG) have noticed that the lack of information on the contestants has kept the states and Nigeria in the dungeon. Having the full profile of each contestant for both presidential and gubernatorial seats will enable the citizens to make an informed decision and help to promote the system in getting the right candidates voted into power.

For example, the 2021 Anambra Gubernatorial election is a good case where all the major candidates have their full profile displayed early enough before the election which allowed citizens to check up the information on each candidate before they made their choice.
This is one of the reasons Nigerians have been electing unqualified and unserious persons to sensitive positions of Governance; only serious in their quest to capture power without knowing how to apply it for the development of the nation and its citizens afterward. They enjoy hiding under the façade of their political popularity without letting Nigerians know who they truly are and our press is complicit in this deception.

The politicians (contestants) and the Press owe the country the duty to put up all the information as regards each contestant to enable Nigerians to make an informed decision during electioneering.
Nigerians need to know the work history of each candidate, their families, their academic qualifications, specializations/profession, their crime records if any (both criminal and civil), their social activities, positions held in the past, their achievements, their hobbies, their past sensitive speech or quotes, their beliefs, their past political associations, their manifestoes et cetera.

We, the Nigerian youths encourage the contestants to be honorable in their quest to win elections and desist from enticing the youths to do their unholy biddings. Rather, they should be supportive to the youths in their quest to eke out a living for themselves and their families.
We call on Nigerian Youths to know that we owe the country the duty to save it by availing ourselves for political positions and ensuring that the will of the citizens prevail in our polling units. We should also hold politicians accountable after elections to demand that they deliver on their electoral manifestoes.

Odor Michael C.
Coordinator
Imo State Youth Movement for Good Governance
(IMSYMOGG)
imsymogg@gmail.com

You may not have given adequate thought to citizenship in the Nigerian context. Let's x-ray who a citizen should be and whether Nigeria as a country has produced any. A citizen is a person who, by place of birth, nationality of one or both parents, or naturalization is granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation or political community (definition from https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/citizen) .

Citizenship from the foregoing is built only on full rights. That is to say, you are only a citizen when you have enjoyed or have access to the full rights ascribed to citizens in the constitution of the country.

List of Fundamental Human Rights:
The fundamental human rights contained in the constitution of Nigeria are the Right to Life, the Right to Dignity of Human Person, the Right to Personal Liberty, the Right to Fair Hearing, the Right to Private and Family Life, the Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion, the Right to Freedom of Expression and the Press, the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association, the Right to Freedom of Movement, the Right to Freedom from Discrimination and then, the Right to Acquire and Own Immovable Property anywhere in Nigeria.

These rights should never be violated by any person, including law enforcement agencies or agents in any part of Nigeria. Consequently, where there is a violation or even a mere attempted violation of a fundamental human right, the victim and any other person on behalf of the victim, can seek justice against the violator. Where there is a violation of any fundamental human rights or a threat to such rights, the court to approach is a State High Court or the Federal High Court. It is easy and fast to get a judgment in such cases because they are urgently treated. Just engage the services of a good lawyer.

So, can anyone say with all sincerity he/she is a bonafide citizen of Nigeria that has enjoyed these rights? If No, then the country has not produced citizens that should grow to patriots.

My question is;

1) why not just enjoy your life even if it means doing bad things to enjoy life?
If you can't enjoy life, why not kill yourself and rest to avoid the sufferings?

2) Even if there is life after death, what if there is no suffering cos God may decide to give everyone peace after death.

3) Those that didn't hear anything about God, what is their fate?

4) which of the scriptures is to be trusted?

The answers to the above questions are in gaining more knowledge about the Scriptures. And obviously is what you are seeking here but unfortunately, this platform may not be the best place for the right knowledge you seek.

Don't forsake the gathering of brethren, Seek your answers there.

But most importantly, read your Scriptures daily and
meditatively while asking the Holy Spirit for direction within one week you will have your answers with conviction.

Trust me, many here may misled you, and Spiritual matters are not academics, reality or logic. May the Lord lead you in His truth bro

Nigeria is a poor country because our acclaimed leaders past and present are poor in their thinking and actions.

This song cum payer by Sonny Okuson (of blessed memory) for Nigeria is insightful, educating, and prophetic. Unfortunately is not heeded to by subsequent Nigerian leaders.

https://youtu.be/IGdV4FCyxDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdV4FCyxDk

WHICH WAY NIGERIA?
It was announced by a few concerned Nigerians to the previous and present government "that going by the rate of unemployment in the country, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder". But the message was ignored.
Now, we are faced with an explosive situation. Which way Nigeria?

Go for Radiography it is not flooded like Pharmacy and opportunities are there for them. For instance, if there be an invitation for jobs for medical graduates of all medical lines. Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists will definitely apply in their large number but Radiographer will be in the least of those applications.

I hope you make the best choice.

It is unfortunate that institutions that are meant to protect, correct and secure persons are not living up to its mandate. Surely, It is good to be free and independent of any other person or institution but God.

OUR MISPLACED PRIORITY OUR LEADERSHIP PROBLEM.

It is funny and inarticulate decision to have stopped WAEC examination that has a little above 1 million candidates nationwide to be spread in various centres and that can integrate social distancing effectively
while Nigeria is still going on with Edo and Ondo Governorship elections with over 2 million voters concentrated only in two states.

TRUMPET OF COVID 19

It is to our good to see Covid 19 as a trumpet sounded to get us ready in this end time. God in his mercy has warned us in this trumpet- like manner of the danger of living a life without Him. A life that is saying there is no God. Though, we may belong to the majority that acknowledged there is God but our lives show otherwise. We all now depend on logic, what we can see, on the arms of flesh, on men, etc to function as human beings.

The Trumpet of Corona Virus has sent multitude into their houses, it has cut the quest for both the lust of the flesh and of the eyes. It has disciplined us and our ears are now more active to hear the latest news.

Do you know what ? It is pointing us to the real news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to embrace God's Love made available to everyone on this earth; for Christians, Muslims, Hinduists, Buddhists, Traditional worshippers, Atheists and all the races. The news is telling us not to look at denominations, tribe, language, nations etc that divide us but we should look always on Jesus Christ Our Saviour who unites us in Himself. The news says repent and follow Christ, love your neighbours. It says serve God by serving others. It says don't fear those who can kill the flesh only but fear Him who can kill the flesh and destroy the soul in Hell. It says feed your Spirit with the reading of the Scripture more than the way you feed your flesh so as to be alive in the spirit. It says pray without season and only put your trust in God.

May God open our ears to hear this Trumpet Call and His Good News Amen

YAHOO OF GOVERNANCE

It is instructive to note that Yahoo men (few politicians) in government brought about the Yahoo boys in the streets. How do I mean? You may ask.
You should know that everything about Yahooism (if there is any word like that) is hinged on deception. Deception is the action word in Yahoo practice.

The few Yahoo men in administrations past and present, and in all political parties have successfully yahooed the unsuspecting Nigeria citizens on several fronts like roads, security, welfare, electricity, pipe borne water et cetera.

Most of them are failures in their businesses only managing to keep it smoldering as a façade, covering their incompetence in management and leadership. They are the most irritating beggars. They can do anything to secure the people’s votes. Some unfortunately claimed they borrowed money to sponsor their campaigns so as to bring sanity to the system and provide good governance. And if by chance any of such wins, he/she will still leave the doors of joining the political race expensive to obviously ward off sincere citizens from coming close to spoil their deceptive business. These yahoo men do not understand what it means to be a leader; most of them are myopic in their thinking. They do not understand economic indices. The refuse to come to terms with the essence of government. Their knowledge of International relations and politics is unfortunate. They do close to nothing to ensure their citizens are respected internationally in all spheres. For example, the non-inclusion of Nigeria in the most accepted international payment systems. Perhaps they do not see the opportunities there that have kept millions of youths legitimately employed world over. They see themselves as lords while in office and so refuse to be accountable to the people. They are best described as rulers not leaders, for leaders are accountable to the people and ensure their welfare and security. But these folks appropriate all manner of luxury for themselves and their families in the name of lucre of office.

On the seat of power they turn themselves to leeches sapping every available resource and is made worse by their uncouth sentiments; they derail the state further by appointing mediocrities over champions because like begets like. They are always in haste to tell Nigerians they are the best administration ever, well, it is one of the symptoms of yahoo men in government. Their blindness or emptiness is exposed by their refusal to interact on any issues raised but would rather attack the purveyors/critics of the government.

To x-ray their wrong mentality and actions over the years, reflect on this questions. Why is it that any of such character that tested power will be stupendous rich all of a sudden? Do not rack your brain for an answer yet. Why is it more expensive to construct a kilometer of road in Nigeria than the best of standards elsewhere? Even with the amount spent, 2-3 years the same road would be in a sorry-state.
Nigeria government has spent more money in electricity than most African States that are enjoying more stable electricity while ours is in comatose. Yahoo men!

Water projects have received allocations over the years across the country to ensure water for all but where are the pipe borne waters? Can you see them around? Ask Yahoo men.

Are we to talk about the huge security votes and why are the ranks and files of our security architecture not motivated. One can go on and on to name their deception. Perhaps we need to look into our involvements in NEPAD, MDGs, SDGs et cetera and check our levels of commitments and achievements in these goals.

These folks will be ready to sponsor bills and enact laws as quickly as possible that will punish every off-shoot of corruption like kidnapping, cyber-crime, baby-factory, oil-bunkering, illegal mining, unpatriotic/divisive comments et cetera but will never enact a death penalty sentence on corruption the mother of all crimes. They are insensitive of the fact that even if you surround people with more than necessary number of security personnel without providing them with legitimate sources of livelihood they will definitely have to survive either ways.

The insecurity, near total absence of welfare for Nigerians, lack of quality infrastructure and its maintenance is because the yahoo men, the leeches have always being in power with their accomplices: some civil servants, the termites on the corridor of administration had eaten up the resources meant for the welfare of Nigerians, security, quality construction and maintenance of infrastructure.

These Yahoo men that pose as politicians have unfortunately succeeded in teaching our unemployed youths this deception (yahooism), who for want of space in our clime have chosen to ply their acquired skills aside the shores of our supposedly holy land (yes, for we are among the most religious countries). What a hypocritical clime.

To understand how poor these Yahoo men are in the mind. They allotted/allowed to themselves bogus monetary entitlements/allowances/leisure that a hard working Nigerian serving his/her country will not get in 35 years before retirement. They are also swift in approving their benefits after their administration has ended while they dillydally on the meager benefits of those who have served the country for 35 solid years. No country makes progress with this kind of injustice. The worse is that this kind of injustice discourages hard work and honesty among the youths, the sincere Civil Servants and the selfless politicians.

Who will bell the cat? The truth be told, we the Nigerian citizens are the ones to checkmate these Yahoo men and jail them. If we only pray and do nothing, they may still maintain their activities on the political stage. We need to act and resolve to force them to perform or be kicked out. Courage, justice, hard work, sacrifice, honesty, intellectual power, meritocracy, debates, patriotism, nationalism, selflessness and discipline are things we need to look up to in candidates and in our political discourse. While religion, tribe, indiscipline, parochial interest, mediocrity, self, nepotism, cowardice are things to look down on in candidates and in our political discourse.

In electing public officers, Nigerians should always lookout for those who have succeeded in their personal endeavors in life. Persons who are open minded. Persons who have transverse the country and have friends across Nigeria. Perhaps, those who have lived or have businesses aside their region of origin. Who have respect for other people’s opinion and can tolerate criticism.
So, how do you spot these Yahoo men when they are angling to take over power? They will refuse/avoid to attend political debates and cook up all manner of flimsy excuses because they have nothing to offer. Secondly, in order to win votes they will curry sentiments based on tribe and religion because they themselves are myopic. Thirdly, they are desperate, willing to buy votes and employ touts/militias to snatch ballot boxes and cause confusion. Their campaigns are mere jamborees.

Nigerians, we do not need violence to force these Yahoo men out of the stage or make them accountable to us as electorates. We simply need to resolve and sacrifice the day of election to ensure we cast our votes and encourage our friends and neighbors to do the same. The sacrifice is needed because it is the day we hire new hands based on merit to decide our future, or re-elect performing candidates or retire under-performing ones.

It is worth to note that ballot box stuffing and election rigging occur mainly in areas majority of voters decide not to turn out and cast their votes. This is a noble duty and an obligation we owe to ourselves. When a good candidate is elected irrespective of tribe and religion we will all reap the benefits. And the good thing is he/she will be accountable to us knowing that we are the bosses that hired him. But if we do not come out to vote, they will stuff the ballots boxes and rig elections to make up the votes we refuse to cast. Obviously this nefarious act will cost them money and when they are declared winners; they will never be accountable to us and will rather be the boss over us. This is the irony of democracy in Nigeria.

Those in other countries that enjoy democratic dividends did not come from the moon. They paid the prize and stood up against those who wanted to derail their system at a point in time to ensure the system work for them and their children. This is one of the viable ways to bring sanity to the system.

You may be liable for the rigging, hunger, deaths, insecurity, unemployment, deplorable roads, poverty et cetera seen in our land if you decide not to cast your votes. If we are going to be judged by God, it will be based on our choices and decisions. So, our decision not to vote in elections may speak against us. Let us resolve to be part of the movement for massive turnout of voters in election days. Thanks for your time.

I rest my fingers.

Odor Michael
Nigeria Youth Movement for Good Governance
michaelpowa@yahoo.com

Nigeria will not survive the 2019 presidential election
ON APRIL 16, 20199:01 AMIN FEMI ARIBISALA, NEWS, TRENDING135 COMMENTS

By Femi Aribisala

What we witnessed in the recently concluded election was the death knell of democracy in Nigeria.



For those of us who had hoped against hope, the 2019 presidential election has proved to be the last straw. We are now convinced that Nigeria is a hopeless case. This country is not just a major disappointment; it is decidedly firmly on the trajectory of a future break up.


European Union election observers going through the list of voters during the re-run of Governorship and State House of Assembly Elections in Jos on Saturday NAN
Today, the silence in the Nigerian political space is deafening. Just look back to 2015 and before, when there was vibrant debate about almost everything under the sun. But now it is “siddon look.” We just had an election that was no election and more like selection. It was even more a mini civil-war, characterized by killings, voter-suppression and intimidation, ballot-snatching and falsification of results.

There was even a case where the electoral umpire claimed he was made to declare a false result at gunpoint. But in spite of the bogus outcome of the elections, nobody is fighting anymore. Nobody is burning tyres today or demonstrating in the streets. Instead, people are watching and waiting to see what will happen. Surely, this cannot be the end of the matter.

Phyrric victory

The so-called victors are jubilant, reading the eerie silence as mission accomplished. However, the omen is bleak and dire. It is always better when people express their feelings freely. That way, you know exactly where they stand. But when everything is bottled up as it is now, then you know we are in for trouble. Sooner, rather than later, the dam will burst.



There is definitely a cold war currently going on in Nigeria today, and it is a lull before the storm.

Only those who have been bought, or political sycophants looking for scraps of the stolen pie, are talking. They are giving back-slaps and high-fives to the phyrric victors. Meanwhile, wisdom and reason have concluded that Nigeria is a lost cause. No point waiting for another farce in 2023. Now is the time for all good people to leave the country; either physically or psychologically.

It is now clear that those who believe they have a future have no part in this failed and discredited state called Nigeria. To your tents, O Israel!

Those who make peaceful change impossible, make forcible change inevitable. But that is not to suggest military intervention is the answer. We have already done that and got the t-shirt. All the military did, in all their years in power, was to drag Nigeria through the mud. There is no point putting any hope in them again, after all, it is the same military men who hijacked the democratic system simply by taking off their uniforms and putting on agbadas.

Things fall apart

Seeing the template established in this fraudulent 2019 election, the inevitable conclusion, at least to me, is that this Nigeria cannot survive. The message of the 2019 election is that Nigeria is doomed to disintegration. Things have fallen apart and the center cannot hold.

The message is that the powers-that-be are determined that we must be satisfied willy-nilly with incompetence. They say we must put up with economic failure. They insist our new status as the poverty capital of the world is to be commended. They tell us returning Nigeria to major debt status is next-level achievement. They tell us to celebrate abject failure as glorious success.

If you were to believe the lie, our leaders have resuscitated the naira. They have nullified power blackouts. They have removed the petroleum subsidy. They have reduced the pump price of petrol. They have created millions and millions of new jobs. Our hospitals are no longer consulting clinics. Life and property is now secure in Nigeria. Our agricultural sector has been suitably revamped.

Our leaders have achieved self-sufficiency in food production in Nigeria. They have killed corruption in the land. They have rebuilt our roads and bridges. They have defeated Boko Haram and rescued the Chibok girls. They have restored the reputation of Nigeria in the comity of nations. As a result of these glorious achievements, the current government not only won re-election, it did so with a resoundingly bigger majority than before.

Dashed hopes

All this makes 2019 a major watershed in Nigerian political history. For some reason, hopes were rekindled during the campaigns; only to be dashed ruthlessly. The times are so bad, our situation so worrisome, that many presidential hopefuls came out of the woodwork. It was time to rescue Nigeria. It was time to change the dismal trajectory of the nation’s history.





Surely, even the blind can see that we cannot go on like this. Surely, these crop of current Nigerian leadership will be thrown out by a despondent electorate. It was time for a new page; a new departure. What we needed was our very own Mercutio proclaiming a plague on both the houses of our delinquent political establishment of the APC and the PDP.

So out came a new panoply of ambitious political mavericks, talking up public policy, debating the issues, offering new ideas for the renewal of the national mandate. Among these were Kingsley Moghalu, Oby Ezekwesili, Tope Fasua, Fela Durotoye and Omoyele Sowore. I shared their delusion in thinking the Nigerian political system was amenable change. I believed with them that we are all fed up with the status quo.

So they formed new parties, toured the country, pumped flesh, marshalled new agendas; only to meet their Waterloo at the discredited polls. They obtained, or were awarded, an insignificant fraction of the millions of fabricated votes. So completely were they crushed that there is even talk now of making it difficult, if not impossible, for other parties to contest in future elections apart from the tweedledee and tweedledum of the APC and the PDP.

Failed Nigeria

The message of our Caesars in Abuja is without ambiguity: there is no room for change in the politics of Nigeria. Under no legal circumstances will those who have ceased power by deception and subterfuge willingly relinquish it for the sake of some nebulous construct called democracy. To hell with power to the people, they insist in one accord. Power belongs to the professional politicians in Nigeria, and forever so shall it be.

The Nigerian electorate itself is no better inclined. God says in the scriptures about the Israel of old: “The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so.” (Jeremiah 5:31).

The 2019 elections show that a substantial number of Nigerians, especially in the North, are convinced this failed country called Nigeria is the best that Nigeria can be. Indeed, if the verdict of the doctored polls were to be believed, then most Nigerians are very much in love with this malignant Nigeria.

They love a Nigeria that is poverty-stricken, where our leaders are thieves, armed-robbers and pen-robbers, where beggars and vagabonds roam the streets, where the illiterate and the uneducated are the champions of public policy, where human life is worthless and people are massacred in numbers every day. Nigerians, according to INEC, adore a Nigeria where truth has fallen in the streets and justice is an orphan.

Death-knell of democracy

Never again. If there is anything to be learnt from the experience of the failed new idealists who ran for president in mushrooming parties this time around and lost their shirts; it is that Nigerian politics is a complete waste of time. The electorate has apparently never believed in the polls. They know their votes will not count. They know the only time politicians have any regard for them is during election campaigns.

So, if they can get a small bag of rice or garri from the charlatans running for office, or maybe even just 1,000 naira for their thumbprint, that will do just fine. If you can give them even more so they can attack polling booths in opposition strongholds and make away with the ballot boxes, they are ready. If you can give them lunch so they can incite a riot so an election being lost is declared inconclusive, they will do it. Thereby, the victor becomes the vanquished.

As a result, we will not see the idealism of 2019 come 2023, should this misnomer we call Nigeria still exist by then. The newcomers are once bitten, twice shy. Even now, by the time we came to the gubernatorial elections, after the farce of the presidential, Nigerians had lost all interest in democracy. Most people did not even bother to come out to vote again.

Of course, this did not prevent states like Kaduna from recording more fabricated votes in the gubernatorial election than even Kano did fictitiously in the presidential. In short, what we witnessed in the recently concluded election was the death knell of democracy in Nigeria.

So what is the answer?

Goodbye Nigeria

More and more people are going to vote with their feet. The industrious and the enterprising are going to seek greener pastures elsewhere, having concluded Nigeria is a lost cause. They will go to Canada, to Australia, to those countries where merit is rewarded and excellence is the watchword. The smart ones who stay behind will start insisting on the dismemberment of this bogus contraption called Nigeria.

What the 2019 election tells me, in no uncertain terms, is that the future of Nigeria lies in the breakup of Nigeria. It is not what I want. It is not what I desire. But it is there in the cards.

I have written severally that Nigeria should remain united. I said again and again that Nigeria cannot do without the Igbo. I have shouted in the wilderness that Nigeria cannot do without the North. But I have now reached the conclusion that, under the present circumstances, the breakup of Nigeria is inevitable. It is just a matter of time.

This is not a prediction: it is a warning. It is a call to arms. It comes from the realization that the Nigerian political system has now been programmed so that every election will now be decided by those whose votes can be bought with 30 pieces of silver.

The system has been rigged so that every election in Nigeria will now be determined by those who have filled the voting register with underage voters. So doing, your chances of being elected to high office are excellent if you are incompetent, a crook, or a thief to boot. Otherwise, you don’t stand a chance.

I congratulate all those who won infamous victories in the just concluded elections. But “send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”