He seem to be filled with wisdom. He shone like a million stars during the last Presidential elections even though i chose a useless party filled with incarnates and the scions of the devil....
He spoke in glowing terms, why even restructuring may not be the solution (im a strong advocate of restructuring btw), the real problems of the contraption called Nigeria. Very insightful perspectives...
I think iv fallen in love with this party. Nigerians/ Southerners should....
He or she may actually be Yoruba but we all already know there are a lot of foolish Yorubas in our midst. Those ones that are cursed with the slave mentality, the Fulani/ gambari ass-loving lickers that still refuse to see the damage the so called northern oligarchs are causing their individual and collective lives by tying down the potentials of a so called nation-state, that we actually need to pray for to be cured of their Stockholm syndrome....
Deedeedee3: Bearing monioluwa does not mean you are Yoruba. If Yoruba decide to leave Nigeria, who and who will fight fo you? Men you are joking
.Thanks for referring to them as politicians and not leaders cos thats d best they can bear. i just admonished those calling them leaders to refrain cos they are no more than scions of Lucifer....simples! And thats d reason they can never have d interest of people cos they came straight from the pits of hades and by his grace thats where they will all end up...
doctokwus: My doubts too on his capacity was raised then. Buhari,despite being president just read about d superficial exploits of Fashola on nhewspapers and decided to heap on him 3 distinct ministries! That appointment "weak me". That remains a serious capacity deficit which pmb has gone on to manifest in many other areas during his presidency.
No be only you. Even the works ministry on its own would've needed like 6 regional ministers on its own with the glaring collapse of our roads all over not to talk of the more deficient power ministry. I knew right from there this govt was not gonna be serious....
trillville: Reports have it that by 2030, many cities will run strictly on electric smart cars. This is just 13 years from now. If Nigerian leaders do nothing from now till then to restructure how our economy works, will you blame the president in 2030 or all the presidents that were aware of the disaster coming, yet did nothing.
Ngozi Iweala started screaming about this shale gas revolution and it's coming impact way back in 2012. What did GEJ do?
GEJ's open support for corruption did serious damage to this economy. I am not saying Buhari's administration is perfect, but they are fighting corruption in a civilized way and we should encourage them.
To be frank, these old men are not educated for the modern world. None of them seem to understand how to run an economy. They focus solely on social issues without realizing that real economic issues as poverty create even more terrible social issues. If the Borno people weren't extremely poor, there would have been no Boko Haram. If there wasn't pervasive poverty in the country, there would have been no call for Biafra.
As youth, we need to support our fellow youths. We need scatter this system and rebuild a new one. Hopefully, this will be achieved through peaceful means.
The two main issues to me why Nigeria is a shit-hole are government's source of income and its distribution of wealth.
No democratic successful country on earth is run on mineral wealth but on taxes. Taxes form a contract between the leadership and the citizens. The leaders use the taxes to provide goods to the benefit of the general public. He who pays the piper dictates the tune. When the people fund their government, they hold it accountable to deliver infrastructure.
In the UK, 90 percent of government spending comes from small and medium scale enterprises. Government has developed infrastructure to enable such enterprises to succeed, yet only about 10 percent of startup companies survive after 3 years.
Here in Nigeria, our leaders Introduce entrepreneurship courses to universities and then tell youths to be employers of labour instead of job seekers. They employ their relatives as government workers and spend 90 percent of government's earnings on paying their relatives, providing no infrastructure to support small scale businesses.
To further make matters worse, government consistently sells treasury bills/bonds to banks at a high interest rates and then uses the funds to pay its relatives rather than build infrastructure. This gives our banks huge profits, so they become uninterested in granting loans to riskier small scale businesses (crowding out effect). Government then hypocritically creates competitions to grant loans to citizens, mostly their relatives, at a slightly better rate.
The second issue is the sharing of government wealth. How can Lagos state with the highest voting totals have only 20 lga's and then Kano state will have 44. This is madness. It would take a serious government one week to correct this injustice.
By simply using past voting records, a local government can simply be defined by a number of people. Using this number, lga's can be regrouped accordingly. States can then be defined by a number of local governments that want to belong together. Once that number is reached. Grant the people their wish, after all this is a government of the people for the people and by the people.
All this nonsense talk of a state being non viable is because our older leaders only think of mineral resources as wealth. Every state can be viable if managed through taxes from people's efforts.
With our oil money, world Bank says over 60 percent of our population live in extreme poverty. We are one of the poorest nations on earth and that is why Boko Haram, Niger delta militancy and IPOB have risen. IPOB has so far taking a non-violence stance. This is highly commendable. While I truly do not want Nigeria to be broken up, I understand that our leaders are absolutely clueless and the only way to remove this crop of leaders may be to break up the country. A divided Nigeria with regions not receiving monthly oil money will force them to rely on taxes. With time bad leaders will be replaced with leaders with vision and our people will improve.
Finally, in the UAE, Dubai has only 4 percent of oil reserves yet it is more developed than Abu Dhabi with 96 percent of oil reserves. The great nations are made by visionary leaders. Our old men are only concerned about maintaining their privileged lifestyles. They think there are smarter than us, more blessed by God than us. Let's bring them hell.
very brilliant piece.....
trillville: Lol, we have to try our best in whatever capacity.
As for your schooling, lets pray oil prices rise in the second half of the year. Goldman Sach's says prices should reach 55 dollars before the end of the year. Let's be hopeful because our leaders have no other plan but oil to get us out of this mess.
.....and pls we should learn to refrain from referring to these scions of Lucifer as leaders. Call them monsters, vampires, idiots, morons or just anything but leaders please. They havnt d littlest craft in leadership....
niceprof: Nnamdi Kanu is a metaphor to every well meaning Igbo man,deep in the heart of the Igbo man are the words that Nnamdi has given a face and a voice.
uchia1982: Well if your doing some work it's laptop. but who can resist iPhone. lol
Thanks for your contribution but in this case, im not using. im thinking of flogging one, so asking to know which is faster sought in the market. Cheers...
Those from outside Igboland that say that they do not want Biafra have missed the point. It is for the people of the east to make that call and to make that decision and not for you.
What you believe is good for the Igbo or what you prefer for them is neither here nor there. Ultimately it is only THEIR choice and THEIR decision, which can only be made and established in a free and fair UN-sponsored and conducted referendum, that matters.
And in that referendum every single Igbo person, whether they be a traditional ruler, a chief, a wealthy business man, a pauper, a prince, a governor, a legislator, an elder-statesman, a student, a trader, a hairdresser, a bus-driver, a houseboy, a lawyer, a dancer, a singer, a landlord, a tenant, a judge, a clerk, a fisherman, a farmer, a taxi-driver, a secretary, a banker, a writer, a mortuary attendant, a love-vendor, a prostitute or a jobless man or woman only has one vote.
It is either “yes” or “no”. No single vote is more important than the other and each vote carries the same weight. The arrogance of those that beat their chests and believe that they know how that vote or referendum will ultimately go is second only to the short-sighted fools in the British media and political class who never believed that the United Kingdom would vote for BREXIT and opt to leave Europe.
It is also similar to the willful blindness and self-inflicted delusions of the Obama and Clinton-controlled liberal-left of American politics who swore and honestly believed that Donald Trump would and could NEVER win the presidential election of 2016. They forgot the “God factor” in all matters touching and concerning the destiny of nations and men and what a shocker they got! Those in igboland that say they are the true leaders of the Igbo and that their people do not want to leave Nigeria and establish their own country may get the biggest surprise of their lives when the time comes. And not one of them can defeat Nnamdi Kanu in a free and fair election ANYWHERE in Igboland today. If they doubt that perhaps they should try putting it to the test. The great black American freedom fighter Malcom X said “the price of freedom is death”. The 3 million Igbos that died in the civil war paid that price.
The hundreds of thousands of Igbos that were slaughtered in pogroms in the north in the mid-60’s, during the civil war, in the ’70’s, in the 80’s, in the ’90’s, in the 2000’s and indeed right up until today paid that price. The thousands of young and courageous IPOB men and women who were massacred by security forces in the streets of the east and in the sanctity of their homes over the last two years have paid that price. The hundreds of Igbos that have been killed by state-protected Fulani militias and herdsmen in their villages and on their farms in the last two years have paid that price.
Then came the threat of genocide and carnage from the Arewa Youth when the Igbo were told that they must leave the north by Oct. 1st 2017 or suffer another whirlwind of slaughter and pogroms. Those that will be killed in the north after that date and once that deadline has expired will also have paid that price.
Given all this I have one question to ask: if the Lord, in His infinite wisdom and mercy, can raise a deliverer like the great Sir William Wallace to liberate Scotland from the English in 1297 why would He NOT raise a Nnamdi Kanu to deliver the Igbo people after they have been subjected to genocide, mass murder, wickedness and injustice at the brutal hands of the Nigerian state for the last 57 years?
If the Lord can raise an Oliver Cromwell to deliver the people of England from the tyranny of the Crown in 1642 why would He not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?
If the Lord can raise a George Washington to fight for American independence from the subjugation of the British Crown in 1775 why would He not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017? If the Lord could raise a Maximillien Robespierre and Marat for the French people against the Bourbon royal family in 1789 and a Vladimer Lenin and Trotsky for the Russian people against the Romanov royal dynasty in 1917 why would he not raise a Nnamdi Kanu for the Igbo in 2017?
If the Lord could raise an Emeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu to deliver the Igbo people from total elimination, annihilation and extermination in 1967 why would he not raise a Nnamdi Kanu to deliver them from tyranny, mass murder and threats of genocide in 2017? And the comparisons with Ojukwu are interesting. Both come from a royal and noble lineage and bloodline. Both went to some of the best schools and universities in the United Kingdom.
Ojukwu was at Oxford whilst Kanu was at the Metropolitan University (after finishing his first degree at Nsuka). Both were well educated and enlightened enough to recognise the chains of tyranny and both had the mettle and the courage to cultivate a firm resolve to stand against it.
One did so in the field of battle when his people were subjected to genocide, denied the right of self-determination and attacked whilst the other did so through aggressive political activism and without firing a shot. Both are endearing, charming, handsome, charismatic, articulate and profound.
Finally, like all human beings, both are fallible and made one or two mistakes and errors in their careers by what they said about others from time to time. This is to be expected because they are both human. Yet it is not what they say about others that matters but what they represent. And what they both represent, which is essentially the protection of the weak from the tyranny and barbarity if the strong, is not only wholesome and righteous but also noble, honorable and worthy of emulation. Few can dispute that the suffering of the Igbo over the last 57 years has been horrendous, disproportionate and barbarous. By any civilised standard it has been totally and completely unacceptable.
Oceans of Igbo blood, including that of infants and babies, have been shed and spilt over those years and that sacred blood not only cries to God in heaven for vengeance but also continues to plague, foul and soil the very foundation of the Nigerian state. . Not only has no remorse or regret been expressed or displayed for shedding that blood but instead those that have continuosly done so for no just cause for the better part of the last fifty seven years have been handsomely rewarded and well-compensated for their great evil and sociopathic disposition instead of being brought to justice.
When we go out of our way as a people to care for the weakest, the most vulnerable, the most villified, the most persecuted and even the most undeserving in our society it says a lot about us. And when we kill them at will and treat them like animals it means that we are no better than ravenous beasts.
The truth is that nothing and no-one can stop Nnamdi Kanu because there is a divine element to his meteoric rise.
God Himself has raised, lifted and anointed him and in doing so He has planted a seed, ignited a fuse and unleashed the spirit of Biafra in the mind, body, spirit and soul of the Igbo nation. Whatever happens to Kanu today that spirit and that movement will not die but rather go from strength to strength.
The man has died in millions of Nigerians that have remained silent when faced with the tyranny and injustice of today’s Nigeria. But not in Nnamdi Kanu. The man has refused to die in him and still lives on. He has refused to bow to tyranny and he has refused to succumb to the blackmail and intimidation of the state. He is the Lion of the east: I stand by him, I love him and I salute his courage. O that we had more of his ilk in our shores. May God defend him and may the Ancient of Days guide and protect Him. (CONCLUDED)
Did i see a certain Ibrahim? It has to be them. Yoruba Muslims are our major problem in the SW. I cant comprehend their insatiable lust for gambaris ass-licking. As for me and my household, i support #restructuring #oduduwa #biafra #NK...
Allow the ostriches punching you to keep doing what they like to do best, staying in perpetual denial like the typical cursed Nigerian politician. People without gumption.
Disgusting fools..... *spits*
Markfemi2: Hey calm down it was written by a Yoruba man and posted by me who is Yoruba
The issue now is what is our stand ? We will be delusional to say the partnership with north is working cause it's not They are caging Yemi from working simple cause he's not a northerner
So what is our stand ? Enough of the diplomacy Let's make a strong statement Also why is tinubu so quiet about everything Why is it only Fayose that's saying what Yorubas don't want to say out? Enough of insults from others on Yoruba
ColonelDrake: God bless you man. I have always maintain that yorubas are not peaceful. we are only trying to act peaceful because we fear fight and are not ready to out put our lives on the line for any Yoruba cause. Hence we hide our cowardice by claiming peaceful.
@topic..Truth hurts. Yoruba is confused at the moment. The yoruba muslims are busy supporting and kicking the assess of the north. They are the docile slaves of the north. And the north depends on them to betray the Yoruba cause to protect their interests. The yoruba Christians and others are just confused, laid back.
Yoruba is least prepared in the case of any emergency.
What a cowardly and laid back tribe
Apt! What amazes me is the attack on IPOB by Yorubas. This in actual fact is a fight Yorubas naturally ought to be in the vanguard of, but no. They wont do and foolishly won't allow those who's got the balls to do same carry on. I am yoruba by the way for anyone thinking ipob...
Paperwhite: Must every proponent of the APP government be always be daft.Go to Niger & Kwara states to know what Christian students are passing as regards this issue.What have sycophants of the catastrophic "Sai Baba" done about the senseless killings of Christians in this evil regime? So his concern is for Christians to study the satanic arabic language.Thunder fire you there.Fool.
...thats a link for those thinking its a fabrication. Same started in Istantinople as a joke....
babyfaceafrica: oga anybody can lie..so leave that one out abeg....if they like they should introduce Hebrew to our syllabus....doesn't change anything.....can't I have the text message or videos and pictures of the students beaten
Hit quote on the messages you need to quote, ( with the quote author=*name you find in the bracket), then copy everything therein and paste in the message you need to quote back. Hope you understand this....
ekensi01: bro tell me how to quote two or more people pls
Sorry i took a while, light/ low battery issues, one of the major reasons why restructuring must come abi how do we explain the wisdom of pooling power generation in one place then wheel out again to different regions?.
That being said, let me hop in from here. In rebuttal to your no1, i can bet you, either region or country, the old renegade and reprobate politicians will smell their butts under a new arrangement, the flawed unworkable deterrent-lacking structure of the present Nigeria makes it tough to deal with these band of cretins. People are wiser now, trust me and there wont be much space for the political murders these guys get away with under a new setting....
oladeebo: Since you have ear of listen you are good and I love you! 1.The politicians that made and ran Nigeria down will still rule the restructured Nigeria! 2.The Elites and politicians had the obligation to accept the nation mandate! 3. Nigeria problems related to the politicians refused to accept the diversity and differences of Nigeria Nation! 4. Is there any developed country that developed with corruption? 5. Why Nigerian politicians refuse to accept capital punishment for looters?
Politics › Re: To Restructure Nigeria Or Conduct Referendum Which Is More Needed?? by blackfase(m): 10:27pm On Jul 14, 2017
