Artist: 2FACE IDIBIA


Album: FOR INSTANCE (2006)

[Whistling]

Eh!, Chineke me!,  Ew!

Ala Oyi e!,  Ala Oyi e!
Ala Oyi e!,  Ala Oyi e!

For instance
Say na me be one wey dey give chance
Say na me be one wey dey make plans
For all man to benefit
Abi to make we disagree
Abi na to create chance
But now am not of importance
Cos now I am looking from a distance
That's why you give them the chance
To turns us , to turns to victim of circumstance
Them just dey ignore our existence
Them just dey use excuse buy chance
Like them no know say we dey
Them dey use us dey play
, 
When we stand for resistance
All in the act of exploitance
Abi we just be living in a trance
Ayi oh! my God!
Ala Oyi e!

This thing that am feeling
Is a feeling of love
And you know say is so, Ala Oyi e!
This thing no go go
Then u know I go slow,  Ala Oyi e!
This thing is affecting your thing
And is killing your soul,  Ala Oyi e!
See this type of thing we we dey feel
They make me dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!
Even if I want to dey cheat
I go still dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!
Stand look around you
I bet you go dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!.
Ala Oyi e! for the thing wey u see wey make you Ala Oyi e!

For instance
Say na me be Baale of Nigerians
Say na me be one wey dey make plan
Say I go create a scenery where better go plenty
Make we dey give chance
Instead to dey pack the money go France
To make suffer to full in abundance
To make me run run away
To a place where ebi say
I go feel like Europeans
Where them go respect my skills for instance
Where them no go dey play pranks
Ontop people wey work the way
Wey give them the key
To chop substance
As them know say we be freelance
Their looting no dey give us assurance
Repentance no dey their plane
E dey create annoyance for my heart
So Ala Oyi e!

This thing that am feeling
Is a feeling of love
And you know say is so, Ala Oyi e!
This thing no go go
Then u know I go slow,  Ala Oyi e!
This thing is affecting your thing
And is killing your soul,  Ala Oyi e!
See this type of thing we we dey feel
They make me dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!
Even if I want to dey cheat
I go still dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!
Stand look around you
I bet you go dey want to dey,  Ala Oyi e!.
Ala Oyi e! for the thing wey u see wey make you Ala Oyi e!

Make we dey give chance,  Ala Oyi e!
Instead to dey pack the money go France,  Ala Oyi e!
To make suffer to full in abundance,  Ala Oyi e!
Ala Oyi e!,  Ala Oyi e!,  Ala Oyi e!

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so painfull.i wonder how this country will look like if all these continue happening

Which ISP is best in Nigeria? for me i think it is MWEB NIGERIA, ?

ECONOMY: DISTORTED REFORMS
BY
ANENE     C.    OZOAGU
NGWO – ENUGU
Before the Nigerian civil war, Nigeria’s economy was quite open to the world capital market. At that time, there was considerable in-flow of foreign capital into the Nigerian economy. Britain, our former colonial master, which introduced welfarism and state-ownership of companies after the World War II had heavy investments in all parts of Nigeria. Their shops and other fields of endeavour were operating in the major cities in Nigeria. The French, Germans, Italians, Norwegians and others were investing in all fields they considered profitable in Nigeria. Though, at that time, Nigerians were not sufficiently educated to learn what was happening to the economy. Economic activities were partially guided by bureaucrats and the ministries. Corruption was rarely heard of and when heard of was regarded and treated as serious crime. There was no stagnation in the economy whatsoever as currently being witnessed.
But after the civil war in the early 1970s, the few elites, who were educated in the Keynesian school of macroeconomics, took over government and came out with the Nigerian government policy of taking over from those foreigners the running of all economic activities – i.e. Nationilisation. This the government then called ‘indigenization policy’. Regardless of the fact that this policy was carried out after the war, when one ethnic group had not the resources to fully participate, it went ahead. Shortly after that, in 1978, the government equally took over all lands in Nigeria and vested them in the hands of (military) governors. Attempt made by the 1979 Constitution Drafting Committee headed by late Chief Rotimi Williams to delete the land use Decree from the 1979 Constitution were rebuffed by the military that, against the wishes of Nigerians, included it in the 1979 constitution. This unfortunate decree is still in the 1999 constitution and was not included in the 2006 Ibrahim Mantu’s proposed amendment to the Nigerian 1999 constitution.
With the introduction of these two decrees, things were no more same in Nigeria. What followed was that government concentrated on import-substituted strategy with heavy partial investment in infrastructure. A focus on labor-intensive production backed by protective tariff and tax incentives followed. At a time, price control was introduced, and the bloated public sector, which followed, boosted deficit spending. With other actions taken by government between 1970 and now what followed today are hyperinflation, corruption, inequality, lack of agrarian reforms, arbitrary government power and above all failure to embrace science and technology.
Other evils accompanying these government measures till date, regardless of the on going economic reforms of the government included, but are not limited to, severe environmental problems, high infant mortality rate, pensioners go for months without receiving their pensions, workers even longer without receiving their wages. Physical security for the average citizen are gone hence the numerous murders in every part of the country, and above all, well-armed criminals are more than a match for a demoralized and under paid police force.
Above all, to keep the knowledge of all these evils away from Nigerians, government since 1985 ensured that the Nigerian press became highly censored. While the Nigerian journalists were today waiting for the National Assembly to pass the freedom of information bill, the government was equally busy making sure that the prices of newspapers continue their circulation to only the well to do thereby worsening unemployment and hoarding of information. This singular government action led to the closure of some vocal newspapers and as publishers and editors became unknowingly unwanted friends of politicians, political parties and confidants of the government at the expense of the freedom of information being sought.
The introduction of state-ownership of companies in the 1970s led to the political closure of the mining and exportation of zinc, lead and salt from Abakaliki, Tin from Jos and coal from Enugu by Nigerians and others. These were the industries that for the most part made up the strategic sectors on which the nation’s economy was then built. Railways were equally for political reasons neglected. Nigerian Airways – the elephant that then flied – were ill maintained for the interest of the bureaucrats. Post and Telegraphs were taken away from the Ministry of Communication and named Nigerian Telecommunication and Nigerian Postal Services.
As all these were happening, petroleum was fast taking over and Nigeria, which never knew what to do with the oil money, contemplated lending money to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Other utilities were fast crumbling and the country was fast decaying. All these were happening until 1985.
By 1986, the country that contemplated lending money to the IMF went back, cap in hand, begging the IMF for a bail out fund. The IMF came with the bail out money with severe conditionalities attached. The country took both the money and the conditionalities and used them to dribble herself into confusion.
In 1999, the “saviour” arrived and by 2003 the real Economic Reform started. For several times subsidies in oil was removed and the regulator was appointed by the government. The regulator not only fixed but drove up prices of petroleum products. According to Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, in their book “The Commanding Heights, “the regulatory branch of government was inherently flawed, and all too often, it was “private interest” not the public interest, that determined outcomes”. That is where Nigerians are with the Petroleum Product Regulatory Agency.
Now prices for our petroleum products have been fixed but the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have neither been restructured nor privatized, loss making activities and basis of profitability has been established.
The Nigerian Telecommunication (NITEL) has been restructured to a 10000-man workforce. Global System of Mobile Communication (G.S.M.) has been introduced and the company has been privatized. But decisions on the company as of now respond to political pressures and politicians and bureaucrats are finding it difficult not to intervene in the affairs of the privatized (NITEL).
Railways are already in shambles and the government rather than outright privatization will construct a Standard Gauge Railway from only Lagos to Kano, maybe after that, it will be privatized.
Coal Corporation had all its surviving staff paid off and no knowledge of when it will be privatized.
Tin, Zinc, Lead and Salt prior to indigenization policy were among the strategic sectors on which the nation’s economy was built, but today no mention of them is made anywhere.
Nigerian Airways has been restructured and privatized but political and bureaucratic interventions have delayed Virgin Nigeria from flying. Instead of privatizing the airports, some of them are today being refurbished with modern equipment by government that sold out the airways.
The few industries aforementioned are just to show how confusing the economic reforms and the reformers have become. No single company has been completely reformed and the few that seemed so reformed like NITEL and Airways are being distributed by bureaucratic and political interventions. They refused to modernize the financial sector so that state-owned companies turn to the capital market for funds. Yergin and Stanislaw said that the retreat of government from the commanding heights is a grassroots issue, because, it will force local communities to change long held beliefs that government must control services if they were to work. But not in Nigeria.
The 1991 edition of World Bank annual World Development report in attacking government intervention in a nation’s economy advised, “instead of intervening, government should pursue ‘market friendly’ policies – policies that encourage the private sector. By interference, the bulk of past policies had been “market unfriendly”. Nigeria’s present economic reforms are aimed at encouraging the private sector. But both bureaucratic and political interventions in the policies of the economic reforms have made difficult the break up of state-owned companies like Power Holding Companies of Nigeria (PHCN) former NEPA.
Nigeria, in embarking on the present Economic Reforms, was trying to follow Mrs. Margaret Thatcher’s economic reforms in Britain in 1980s. Mrs. Thatcher, in breaking up the state-owned electric power monopoly, had 12 regional distribution companies, three generating companies and one open-access grid Company. But Nigerians were simply told that PHCN has been broken up into distributing and generating companies. Since a country as small as Britain could have as many as 12 distributing and 3 generating companies, what prevents Nigeria, a country double in population and size of Britain not having up to 30 distributing and many more generating companies? The answer is no other than the bureaucrats and politicians. They would not let go the company already in their grip. They would not like PHCN, NITEL and Airways to introduce the exclusion of ministerial meddling, the promotion of efficiency and the ending of government subsidies. In fact Nigerian bureaucrats and politicians are inflexible in the face of change, and that is why the economic reforms are confusedly rolling on. The bureaucrats and politicians have rather invited “experts” from Indonesia to come to take over the running of the electric power company. Indonesia, with a 203 million people spread over 17 thousand Islands is faced with major question of regional development, high level corruption and its political system is a target of international human right activists. This is the country our bureaucrats and politicians have gone to look for experts to take over our PHCN instead of throwing the company out for open bidding to enable experts from other countries including Nigerians to take part in while the government retains the Golden share in the exercise.
Today, the fear is widespread that the next government would mess up the economic reform programmes of this administration. That is nonsense because the government can stop the programme derailment with only one weapon – and that weapon is speed, i.e. rapid reform of every part of the economy. This could be achieved within months by among other methods
a) Government to forget politics and who will succeed her in 2007 and concentrate in the reforms.
b) Rapid price liberalization, i.e., freeing prices from controls and/or opening up the economy. When prices are freed, huge distortion that were doing serious harm to the economy would be reduced and
c) Liberalize foreign trade
If these three actions were taken today, it would be clear that the country’s central     
economic trouble was political control and that the cure was to take economic activities out of the hands of bureaucrats and ministries. This would reduce corruption by decreasing the necessity to ask the bureaucrats and ministries for permission to do things and will lead to a commitment to mass privatization. But at the present rate of reforms, which started seven years ago, by the next fifty years, Nigeria will still be privatizing, the bureaucrats would still be in control and both the economy and the people would be stagnating.
Another element that would facilitate the reform was for the government to enable the people to participate in the reform. This can be done by enabling the public to have access to fund with which to buy shares. Sufficient public access to fund is a ticket to a free economy. Right now, the bureaucrats are obstructing access to the funds already released by government to enable the public participate. Nigerians have access to it only if one is close to any of the bureaucrats or their agents. Besides, the banks through which this fund could reach the public are not helping matters.
In fact, bureaucratic and political interventions have greatly disturbed the reforms and the inflow of foreign investments into the Nigerian economy

KWEEEEEEEEEZOOOOOOONUUUUUUUU, Ka Chineke gozie unu,

hi uju

well,its boreing here,imagine local esut is collecting 5000 naira for just post ume form, i wonder

nfor about unn screening exams visit http://www.unn-edu.net/unnscreening2006.pdf.
PEACE