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kushe:
i love the controversy generated by this thread and FYI dumb ,childish postulators believe the US will come to nigeria,on top wetin[2 million barrels per day].do you know one oil well in california produces 220 million barrels a year and still has 3.5 billion in reserves.now there are other oil fields in california talkless of texas,the coast off new orleans,alaska etc.naija oil is good but insignificant when angola and ghana are rapidly moving up the charts to dilute our power.very soon togo and cotonu will discover oil and naija people go dey go do omo odo for togo as we havent enough sense to manage our resources. but the us aint coming no where  near here.why didn't they  rescue liberia their former colony during their civil war and besides naija is too far without a us base around here!

I see where you're coming from. But like the other arguments, its a dead end. How long will it take an aircraft carrier to sale from the gulf?

We need to manage ourselves better to avoid problems.

There are a few US military bases in Africa and the US is allowed use of national facilities in others (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases).

@Agathamari
If your definition of hating is saying that a foreigner has no values, then it is wrong. A value system is a cultural thing and culture is relative, therefore, anyone saying the US does not have values is only expressing a difference in culture (albeit, rudely). The "haters" you are describing will be the first to rush to the US to have their kids, all for the green book. Abeg, leave dat side jare!

As for "sodom and gamorah" and such other stuff, religion will never qualify as politics in the modern World. It will always be a tool but never serve as a definition.

edoyad:
^ Most Nigerians hate the US ?

Don't mind that comment jare! As if anybody has held a poll.
Why should any reasonable person hate the US, are they our enemies or have they done us bad?

[size=14pt]Request for the Creation of an Urhobo State[/size]
Presented to the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution
Port-Harcourt, Tuesday, 15th December, 2009

By Olorogun Senator Felix O. Ibru
President-General, Urhobo Progress Union (UPU)

Protocol

Permit me to begin my contribution with an expression of support and solidarity with other ethnic nationalities, civil society organisations and human right groups in the Niger Delta for their commitment and sacrifice in the pursuit of political and socio-economic justice in the region.

The Urhobo people view the Niger Delta Crises from two broad angles:  political and socio/economic.  The political aspect is commonly referred to as “constitutional crises” or the “crises of federalism”.  The socio/economic aspect of the Niger Delta crisis is associated with pervasive poverty, loss of means of livelihood and lack of basic infrastructure required for meaningful development in the region.  It is interesting that the current determination to “bring development” to the Niger Delta coincides with national agitation for a constitution review.  I wish to present the Urhobo position as follows:

REPEAL OF ALL OBNOXIOUS LAWS

We call for the repeal of all obnoxious laws which have contributed to the subjugation and exploitation of the Urhobo people and Niger Deltans.  Among these are:

1. The Petroleum Decree of 1969, which dispossessed the Niger Deltans of their God-given resources.
2. The Territorial Waters Acts, Cap.428, (Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990) which seized water resources of the Niger Delta.
3. The Exclusive Economic Zone Act, Cap 116 (LFN, 1990)
4. The Land Use Act Cap. 220 (LFN, 1990)
5. The Revenue Allocation Act Cap. 16.
6. The Oil Navigable Act Cap. 337.
7. The Oil Terminal Dues Act Cap. 339.
8. Petroleum Production and Distribution Anti-Sabotage Act. Cap. 3354 Oil Pipeline Act Cap. 338.
9. Associated Gas Re-Injection Act Cap. 26.
10. National Inland Waterways Authority Act.
11. Petroleum Profit Tax Act Cap. 354.
12. Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act Cap. 392.
13. Minerals and Mining Act No. 34, 1999.
14. Lands (Title Vesting, etc) Act

FISCAL FEDERALISM:

We advocate a return to the Fiscal Federalism Principle (ownership and control of resources by states), which was the Revenue Allocation Principle in the 1960-63 Nigeria constitution.  Under that constitution, each region retained 50% of revenue generated from the region.

The restoration of fiscal federalism must include the repeal of section 44 (3) of the 1999 Constitution which provides that: “Notwithstanding the foregoing provision of this section, the entire property in and control of all minerals, mineral oils and natural gas in, under or upon any land in Nigeria or in, under or upon the territorial waters and the Exclusive Economic Zone of Nigeria shall vest in the Government of the Federation and shall be managed in such manner as may be prescribed by the National Assembly.”

CREATION OF AN URHOBO STATE:

We call for the creation of more states in Nigeria, especially where such an exercise will promote the growth and development of the nation. Such states should definitely include an URHOBO STATE.  The proposed Urhobo State would more populous than several existing states in Nigeria.  An Urhobo state will also be demographically bigger than 74 countries in the United Nations’ list of countries by population. Examples of such sovereign states are Gabon, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Luxembourg, Qatar, Sao-Tome and Principe, Iceland, Comoros, Seychelles, Caribbean countries (except Cuba and Jamaica), East Timor, Swaziland, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Brunei and Belize. 

An Urhobo State will be economically viable because of its resource potentials and contiguous territory which traverses land and coastal areas. Urhobo land has 15 Oil and Gas fields with over 400 oil wells.  The Utorogu Gas Plant in Out-Jeremi is the largest Gas Plant in Africa South of the Sahara. The proposed state has two gas-fired electricity plants at Ughelli and Sapele.  Apart from oil and gas, the proposed Urhobo state is endowed with other mineral resources such as Sand, Silica, Kaolin, Clay, Byrite and forest resources such as Timber, Oil palm, Raffia Palm and Rubber.

The Proposed Urhobo state has 8 rivers with access to the Atlantic Ocean at least one seaport and several jetties. There is an airport at Osubi and 30 sites for river ports.

The proposed Urhobo state has a Petroleum refinery and Petro-chemical plant, one steel plant, one Salt Refining Plant and various industrial clusters.  It has about 15 urban centres, 60 bank branches, 3 universities, 3 Polytechnics and 2 Colleges of Education. It also has over 1000 Government Primary and Secondary Schools and well over 2000 Churches, Mosques and Temples.

Urhobo Natural Resources as Bases for Industrial Development

Crude Oil:
Urhobo territory hosts numerous oil wells in 15 oil fields. Thirteen (13) of the fields are operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), while Pan Ocean Oil Corporation and Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) operate one field each.  The fields are: Ughelli North L.G.A. (Afiesere fields, Eriemu, Evwreni, UQCC), Ughelli South L.G.A. (Utorogu Fields, Osioka, Ughelli East and Ughelli West, Urhoka in Oviri-Olomu), Ethiope West L.G.A. (Ovadje in Oghara, Oben in Sapele), Ethiope East L.G.A. (Erhobaro – Orogun, Erhoike-Kokori), Udu L.G.A. (Abura Field 1 and 2) and Okpe L.G.A. (Akpobome Field). The oil produced in the proposed Urhobo state is sulphur-free (sweet crude oil). It is a premium crude oil recognized as the best crude oil in the international oil market.

Natural Gas:
Urhoboland is one of the leading producers of Natural Gas in the Western Niger Delta.  The establishment of major gas-based industries in Urhoboland attests to the abundance of natural gas reserves in the area. The gas-based facilities include the following:

A.    Otorogu Gas Plant, Otu-Jeremi

As stated earlier, this is the largest gas-processing plant in Sub-Saharan Africa.  It processes Natural Gas for the Utorogu-Escavos-Lagos gas pipeline, the Egbin Thermal Station in Ikorodu, the Shagamu Cement Factory, Industrial Estates in Ikeja, Ogba and Ilupeju in Lagos and Agbara in Ogun State. The gas also feeds the West African Gas Project that takes Nigerian Gas to Benin Republic, Togo and Ghana.  It is proposed that the gas pipeline will be extended to Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  Under the NATIONAL GAS MASTER PLAN, the pipeline network to deliver gas to all major cities and industrial zones in the Federation will be fed to a large extent by natural gas from Urhobo land.

B.  Delta Power Station (I – IV) Ughelli

This is the first gas-fired thermal electricity station in South-Western Nigeria.  Commissioned in 1966, the station supplies electricity to Benin, Lagos and other parts of the country via the National grid.

C.   Ogorode Power Station, Sapele

The Ogorode Power Station which was commissioned in 1978 feeds major Nigerian cities and large scale electricity consumers via the National grid.  Electricity supply from the station was stepped down for consumers in Sapele and environs only in 2007.

Rivers And Waterways:
Urhobo territory is home to rivers and streams which have endured from primeval times.  The rivers are Ethiope River, Jamieson River, Ologbo/Osiomo River, Warri River, Forcados River, Okpare Creek, Edor/Obanegbe Creek, Esaba Creek, Oleri Creek, Eghwu/Oguname Creek, Olota Creek, Arhavwarien Creek, Okumesi Creek, Ogunu-Ekpan Creek, Elume Creek, Hole in the Wall Creek.

The rivers are a treasure-trove of fishes, shrimps, prawns, periwinkles etc, which can sustain a booming fish industry.  Apart from being a means of transportation, the rivers and waterways are also a source of water supply. Their aquatic splendour constitutes potential landmarks for tourism.

Alluvial Deposits:
Urhoboland is endowed with large deposits of clay, sharp sand, silica and drilling mud which can be found in Otor-Edo, Ughevwughe, Esaba-Otutuama, Iwhreogun, and most areas of Ughelli South.  These deposits are raw materials for Wall Tiles, Roof Tiles, Floor Tiles, Ceramics, Pottery and Road Construction.

Agriculture:
Urhobo is endowed with a vast arable land of about 4000 sq km.  This land is suitable for the cultivation of Cassava, Oil Palm, Raffia Palm, Rice, Plantain, Banana, Yam, Sweet Potato, Beans, Groundnuts, Coconut, Coco-yam, Pepper, Melon, Mango, Orange, Paw-paw, Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Alligator Pepper, Spices, Bamboo, Timber, Rubber, etc.  The Urhobo environment has also been most conducive for Poultry, Piggery, Grass-cutter rearing, Rabbitery, Snailery and other forms of animal husbandry.  Fish farming is also a viable agricultural enterprise thriving in Urhoboland.

Oil Palm:
The Oil Palm industry in the proposed Urhobo State has potentials for dozens of agro-industrial products and the employment of thousands of people.  The Oil Palm industry was the bedrock of Urhobo economy for over 150 years before the advent of petroleum.

Rubber:
Rubber thrives in the proposed Urhobo state.  There are numerous rubber plantations owned by private individuals in most communities and a large rubber plantation owned by PAMOL (a division of UAC) at Oghara.  The proposed Urhobo State hosts a significant proportion of rubber processing factories in Nigeria.

Timber:
The proposed Urhobo state is situated in the tropical rain forest. There is an abundance of trees for lumber and wood based industries.  The African Timber and Plywood (AT&P) factory located in Sapele in Urhoboland was the largest hardwood factory in the world.

Rafia Palm:
Raphia hookeri and vinifera thrive very well in Urhobo area.  The industrial products from raffia palm include Gin, Beverages, Yeast, Paper, Brushes, Bags, Sieves, Medicinal Oils and Balms.  The raffia palm is also used for Ethanol and Bio-fuel production.

Cassava:
Cassava is cultivated all over the proposed Urhobo State.  Cassava-based Industry encompasses the following:  Garri Grains, Edible Starch, Industrial Starch for the manufacture of car Batteries, Textiles, Coating for Drugs and Pharmaceutical Products, Plaster of Paris, Paper, Cassava Chips/Pellets, Animal Feeds, Bread and Biscuits, Cassava leaves for export, etc.

Fisheries:
With the extensive Waterways and Wetlands, Urhoboland is a natural habitat of fishes.  Studies have identified over 100 species of fishes in this part of the Niger Delta.  There are great potentials for a fishing industry including aquaculture that will create jobs and wealth for thousands of people in the proposed state.

Transport Infrastructure:
Urhobo is the epicenter of the road transportation network in the Western Niger Delta.  The Federal Inter-State road network comprising four major Federal Highways converges at Effurun.  They are the Benin-Warri Highway, Effurun-Ughelli-Patani-Port Harcourt East-West Highway, Effurun-Eku-Agbor-Ubiaja-Auchi Highway and the Warri Port – Delta Steel Company Highway.


CONCLUSION:
The proposed Urhobo State will consist of contiguous Urhobo kingdoms which comprise homogeneous communities with common cultural and traditional values.

The proposed Urhobo State is very viable because it is well endowed with Oil and Gas, other Mineral Resources and it is propitious for agriculture and aquaculture.  The economic and social sectors, including educational and health care delivery, can sustain the proposed Urhobo State.

Over the years, the Urhobo people have contributed significantly to the progress of the country in terms of personnel resources, business, industry, politics, education etc. The Urhobo people strongly desire a state of their own in order to harness and utilize their collective energies and resources to the benefit of the Nation.  The creation of an Urhobo State will enhance the growth and development of Nigeria.


PRAYER:
The Urhobo people request that an Urhobo State be created out of the present Delta State of NIGERIA.


Olorogun Senator Felix O. Ibru
President-General
Urhobo Progress Union (UPU)

Olorogun Lucky Oghene-Omoru J.P.
Secretary
UPU Committee on State Creation

http://waado.org/Organizations/UPU/president_general/urhobo_state/request_submission.htm

The reasons why we are going to be most affected is because developing countries are clustered around the equator, which means they will heat up. Developed countries tend to be in the Northern hemisphere, which will cool down instead (from the slowing or cessation of the gulf stream).

Also, developing countries do not have the emergency services or money to cope with disasters.

. . .Very soon some right wing, extremist Christians will come in and destroy this thread.

Just as I predicted, Hilary Clinton has indeed joined the 3 ex ambassadors and launched a warning against Nigeria, putting us on the same footing to the US as Cuba (thats pretty serious).

The United States has said that it will vigorously put pressure on the Federal Government to make changes that will be beneficial to Nigerians. . .
Nigeria and Cuba were listed by Clinton as those in the first category, while young democracies in Africa came under the second. . .

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200912173551228

The thing that pains me, is that instead of us thinking about ways out, a lot of folk have jumped in here to exchange words. Why can't Nigerians think? There was a thread on critical thinking, why can't we employ proper analytical methods?
I weep for Nigeria, because of the damage we have inflicted on our collective psyche and intellect. We need new and radical thinking to save us, our democracy and our nation.

yemmight:
Why do they take the case to Asaba?

It doesn't matter where the court is. The really critical thing is that it is a Federal Government Court.
We have seen the shame of FG action, the lengths they have gone to protect this man (including flying to London); next thing, the same people will tell us to hold our leaders responsible for any local problems. Joke.

@netotse
Chai! You are a typical naija!

@puskin
I'm not up to anything, honest .

@ndu_chucks
We can't rely on oyibo people to eradicate mosquito's in our own backyard na. The solution lies in govt commitment and the way we view indegenious solutions such as http://desertification./2008/06/25/nigeria-opuntia-sap-to-eradicate-mosquitoes-google-allafrica-daily-trust/
Outside natural solutions like the above, best way to eradicate mosquitos lie in biotechnology or genetics (make them infertile or remove the ability to carry plasmodium or re-engineer the plasmodium parasite).

. . .And if "all na because of northerners", I go carry one gas flare and some crude oil drinking mosquito's come drop for ya side.

@topic
This is no trick thread, lets lighten up, the holidays are here.

^
Its no trick question.
Something like "malaria is no big deal" or a much longer essay will do.

Our thoughts are moulded by our experiences. . .

What do you think about malaria? I confess to have been beaten by an aspect of this simple question. Will you get it 100%?

This is not a trick question, but the interpretation of the answers you give might shock you.
How much of our thought processes are free? How many are auto-suggested? How many are due to prejudice?

[size=14pt]Hint: your perception of politics will bear similar colours to your thoughts on malaria.[/size]

Please answer honestly [/b]and [b]completely, you might get to know the real you and be better for it.

kushe:
i posted a public apology to beaf but it disappeared.if you are so convinced [/b]about your theories @beaf,tan, ,sodconfirm ,call for a brainstorming session and turn your ideas into a screenplay.I will personally take it to my 3 jewish friends that own DREAMWORKS [spielberg,katzenberg and geffen]since they deal more with dreamlike stuff like america invading nigeria and hopefully we can turn it into a movie in honour of you guys.

Not surprising, several posts have disappeared from this thread, so no problems.

You will find that, rather than being "convinced" about any "theories", we are having a discussion about [b]likely possibilities. To the best of my knowledge, nobody here works for the US secret services, so how can we be "convinced" without all the facts on the ground? We are only concerned about our country, Nigeria. Nobody here is Barack Obama. Has anybody said something like, "the US will definitely do this or US will definitely do that"?

Stop taking yourself so seriously; perhaps taking your own irrational methods of reaching conclusions to your 3 Jewish friends at Dreamworks might just be the right thing for you. It will make a good comedy.

kushe:
dont start a thread to publicly display great ignorance.i understand you watch NNC and the CBB but since only a few of you are privy to analysis from the rare , pls keep it that way .not every nairalander is so naive aand oblivious of the workings of the international league of nations but men i hav read retarded views and it gives me goose pimples how silly some folk are.US invade who??how now?? let'sot even start cos @ beaf i will so take you out on this one.pls you need to apologize to some of us for the pain you have put our eyes through reading these lame views that a gazillion crotches cannot keep up.

Learn to be civil.

If you had any arguments after your verbal explosion, I'm quite sure you would have made them. But you haven't?

These folk have been successfully refining crude from oil spills and sundry sources, whereas the govt refineries don't work and even when they work, na only oyibo people dem dey ask. Shame.

Talent for rapid development is being wasted in that country by officials who only know the colour of money. Those refineries should have been regulated not destroyed, it doesn't make sense. . . Makes you wonder where we are going.

Musiwa, why are you campaigning on NL, instead of joining or forming a flesh and blood party in 9ja? Or are you expecting that we will vote by satellite?

^
Thanks for the advice, its taken.

^
I am at home, fool.

^
They will not be solving the Niger Delta crisis, it will be US interests first and all the best if the side effect is an African success story.
Any US base in the ND will oversee the ND, Bakassi, Gabon and Sao Tome, all very rich oil fields producing the Worlds highest quality crude.

I am hoping that we have the sense to sort our issue's, but that possibilty looks bleak especially in the current times.

Political clowning, but with INEC all is possible.

SEFAGO:
^What an interesting conclusion- the US spending millions of tax-payer dollars on an African situation- the republicans would literally have obama for breakfast.

"African situation" or oil money and the most strategic location for a military base in Africa?

What do you think will be the opinions of Harlibuton, Chevron and Exxon Mobile would be? The Republicans you mentioned, would be in a mad scramble for a piece of the of what will be very high return business.
We better get our act right, because people want the very things we are throwing away. We might be in far more dangerous times than we think.

In the coming weeks, lets watch for any new investigations or pressure on the human rights situation in the Niger Delta and the US position. Those were unprecedented words, especially as they came from ex diplomats (who are never far from the security services).

The things most of us aren't grappling with are twofold;

[list]
[li]The US military is an integral part of the Worlds most assured and aggressive foreign policy machine, geared toward security and money making[/li]
[li]The US needs a strategic base in West Africa for Africom[/li]
[/list]

According to him, Nigeria stood the risk of becoming a security concern to the US[b] in a way that may not be in the interest of the country[/b], listing the Niger Delta as a possible terrain for such a development.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=131209&ptitle=Nigeria

That in my opinion is a clear threat that the possibility exists to excise the Niger Delta from the rest of the country by United States military might.

edoyad:
Dude, you make me laugh . Do you think the rest of the developed world is like Nigeria where you access to statistics and data is a myth ? (nigeria probably has no mechanism for gathering such data in the first place. Ask the govt how many jobs were gained or lost in Ngr this year and lets hear ?)

Word.
I can assure you, we don't even know if we are in recession or not. We don't even know where our president is or who is calling the shots (if anyone is) in Abuja.
. . .Talkless of gathering data.

^
Where's the rest of your family; your aunty, paroh frey, your uncle, walakoloboa and your patriach, tosh acer?
Why do politicians unfailingly employ wasted thugs and the dregs of society?

illusion2:
It may be the ubiquitous SPAMBOT  . . .duh !  

Yes, it is, I really think there should be some effort to code it better and give us some hints as to which word combinations (characters etc) it hates.

Depilot:
@Beaf: Have you called home yet to check? Just curious, please let me know

I am at home and my family is safe from the death threats you have been making. Loser.

snowdrops:
@ poster

a good number of your posts are far from innocent.
you are quite a controversial figure; too sensitive; and when challenged you resort to insults.
this is a call for you to embrace normality.

You don't even know what I posted, but like God, you can make judgements on behalf of the spam bot? Na wa for some people sha.
This is too funny , the spam bot is a piece of code, its not even a human moderator.

[quote author=Iyke-D link=topic=365671.msg5119285#msg5119285 date=1260895948]Please put down the drugs so you can make sense . . .

Nothing lasts forever. No empire last forever, however, you can rest assure that the US will continue to dominate the world in virtually all aspect of world affairs in the next few decades - militarily, economically, culturally, technologically, etc.  Simply put, no other single country have some many things put together like the US.

China is an economic power house, but certainly still no where close to the  US.  The US is emerging from an economic storm now, the other big question is when will the bubble bust in China, its' economy can't continue to grow forever year in year out?

The US is indebted to China, but that also means they can wipe out China's savings overnight if they chose to by devaluing the dollar since it makes up the bulk of  the Chinese foreign reserves. It is a catch-22 situation. China is being used to rebound the US economy and as things improve in the US, watch out for them to begin to re-assess the economic relationship between the two countries.

Unlike Nigeria, US have policy makers who are aware of this growing economic threat and working to re-calibrate it. When we are now substituting prayers for sound policies, its a downward spiral.  Nigeria's president is on medical leave in another country. Her daughter is also in another country trying to have a baby, what do these events tells the world about Nigeria and its loss of any importance it once had?[/quote]Sorry dude, but China has much more economic clout than the US. I don't understand what you mean by American economic dominance, all countries now look toward China for economic leadership, even the last vestige of US economic hegemony, the dollar, is under increasing and sustained pressure http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/6263992/Dollars-demise-plotted-by-oil-producers-China-and-France-report-says.html

The US is miles ahead of China in military might, a gap that will take a decade or more to bridge, but technologically, China is much closer to the US than you think.
China is currently 3rd in the number of annual patents filed, behind only the US and Japan; but with their number of granted applications is rising at a much faster rate than either the US or Japan.

I have made a couple of posts to this page https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-365671.96.html, only for them to be deleted and the thread temporarily locked.

What is going on? There is nothing odd about the posts. Its a bit strange not knowing what to post when efforts are arbitrarily deleted or hidden, threads temporarily locked etc.

It is necessary that we should be given a set of guidelines of the sort of thing the spambot dislikes.

headtoucha:
If i have my way,i will sell Nigeria and run with the money.Afterall nobody send,so why should i?

Oya, go ask Turai for the independence documents wen queen give Tafawa Balewa. Yeye boy!

CyberG:
Look, you are missing the point: It is not me being "happy" at his misfortune. . .but what happened to "telling the truth"? This douchebag was "trigger and bomb happy" when he swooped on the ND and bombed them to pieces! Have you suffered amnesia that you think everyone is like you? Now he is doing everything to stay alive. . .after telling so much lies since his campaign days! How many Nigerians have died because of his inaction since he assumed the "presidency"? I don't blame you for you have never experienced what it means for a society/country to run and be functional! If the roads that passes in front of your house (perhaps not even a "high brow" area) is better than the roads between Lagos-Ibadan, Ore-Benin, etc, wouldn't you be angry and mad about whoever is not doing his job? If you had more than enough "health care" that you are unable to use/find use for all of it, all for less than $75 a month, yet Nigerians cannot get any reasonable health care for small to life threatening sicknesses, wouldn't you be angry? Meanwhile, one person carries million of dollars of dollars to spend lying down on a sick bed. . .and you clap for him? If a so-called "foreign" country invests so much in you in a few years than your country invested in you since you were born. . .yet the resources are there, what would you do?

That one event (bolded), made me reconsider my Nigerianess and almost rip up the green booklet. People were shot in their homes in Warri township, while helicopter gunships straffed citizens in merriment, attending a festival. Bombs from aircfraft and shelling from the sea finished what the helicopters started. . .

Burn a candle for the innocent women, babies and the aged that were cut down by our very own "defense" forces.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=365416.msg5111081#msg5111081 date=1260809264]Beaf, this is for your  information:

Last night in Abuja, money and batons and teargas turned a routine NANS election of national officers at the Women Center into a warzone.

One of the presidential candidates, a young student from UNIBEN called Jude, was either shot or stabbed(depending on which eyewitness account you decide to believe).

Those are your leaders of tommorrow ko?[/quote]Yes, I saw that on the Nigerian Village Square. It is a real pity, it agrees very much with what 9jaganja has said above "We youths have lost our voice to materialism. Chasing unrealistic and selfish dreams has took our voices away. Many youths that are oppressed by the elitist society in Nigeria are cheering the same societal illness that has taken their voices away. Our dreams has now become so selfish that if things ever gets better, it'll be in a evil capitalist way by which a sense of community will be gone. We will become I and us will become me.

I've heard many youths in PH/Lag talk about getting into politics just because they heard about how much the politicians spend and get. I seriously weep for my generation ooo.".
I can only add this comment one iamgod made at Nigerian Village Square;

“The most immediate source of the disconnect between Nigeria’s wealth and its poverty is a failure of governance at (all) levels….Lack of transparency and accountability has eroded the legitimacy of the government and contributed to the rise of groups that embrace violence and reject the authority of the state” – Mrs. Hilary Clinton

http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/39396-nans-how-future-died.html