₦airaland Forum

thegoodjoehunt:
It is so sad seeing people defend NOI and her cohorts in anyway. Behind all her Voodoo economics is a scam. Now we should prepare for NNPC to stop remitting money. I laugh in Efik. We should prepare for increased Tariff. Start saving money meant for states. What is happening to the Subsidy money? Really it is getting worse in Naija. GOD HELP US.

The average nigerian is totally clueless abt the oBjectives of the world bank and its plans for nigeria,this woman is bringing mass poverty and death to nigerians but many r too dumb to see or understand it, the aim of these western financial organisations is to reduce the vvast majority of the population to near starvation level and tHey r using structural adjstmnt policies to do so. Just as ibb was their stooge in 1985 noi is their stooge now,very soon she will announce a massive increase in electricity tarriffs, after tht she will probably increase petrol prices again,all of these decisions hve already been agreed on in washngtn and londn. The reality is tht nigeria was nevr an independent state it remains the property of the british empire, we hve cowards,collaborators and traitors as leaders, they knw tht the imf and the world bank r jointly destroying the std of living of 99% of the populatn bt they wld rathr focus on stealing frm their own pple-

Hmm so world bank stooge noi beleives its now the state governors tht r mikking nigeria dry and not her along with her and the rest of the notoriously corrupt fgn? Its a good job she is dealing wth dumb nigerians who hve no understanding of world politics 0and economics. Noi is simply preparing nigerians for another round of imf/world bank recommended austerity measures but this time she needs to findsomeone to blame for this tough decision and so she puts the blame on the0 state govs.why all of asudden has she realised tht nigeria needs to save? Last time I checkd her and her fellow criminals in govt were spending money like there was no tmrw. I also find it interestng hw she keeps focusinh on the sov wealth fund , most nigerians hve no clue wht the money in this fund is used for bt its actually used to prop up the ailing economies of the western countries -this is wht noi is indirectly talkng abt she wants to circumvent the constitution by diverting monies meant for state govts into the coffers of the fgn and the swf , wht happens to the monies in the swf ?
It is diverted into the coffers of western banks like goldman sachs who supposedly reinvest it on the stock xchange -hang on didn't goldman sachs steal ovr one billion dollars frm libyas sov wealtjh fund and wen the libyan govt tried to recoup the money found themselves confrnted by a nato sponsored attack ?

Coups in africa tend to succeed wen tjhey r backd by the west as they fund them this one is no xception. A coup will not succeed in nigeria bc0s jonathan is awestern puppt and the west will do evrythg possble to protect him , so no chance of a coup succeeding in nigeria

even if this is the case - has this growth impacted the lives of ordinary nigerians?

the govt has not solved some of the most pressing problems like - unemployment, poverty, poor housing, no security terrible roads etc so of what use is this economnic growth when it has no effect on the living standards of its citizens?

igbo2011: If you don't obey then you end up overthrown like Gbagbo or Buhari. Or killed like Sankara, Lumumba, Murtala, and Gaddaffi. Worst case scenario you are like Libya where you get bombed and have rebels funded to cause problems. This is called a proxy war. You can also end up like Iraw and have a fulll blown war and have your family members get Abu Dhabied.

Pick your poison.

Africans need to unite as one so we can defend ourselves.

Thank u bro . In addition 65 % of the foreign reserves of all franco fone countries is held by the french treasury and the reinvest this money and use it to develop france while the francofone countries are not allowed access to their own foreign reserves! The francofone cntries must make do wth an allowance gvn to them by france each financial year and if its not enough they have to borrow their own money frm france with interest attached!france=racist poisonous demons, read up on how they destroyed haiti by forcing the first black republic to pay france compensation for freeing themselves frm slavery!

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Nigeria: Fertile Ground for Balkanization
By Nile Bowie


While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].


The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.


The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.


While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21].


Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.


A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].


Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].


While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.


The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].


In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.
[b]Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Nigeria: Fertile Ground for Balkanization
By Nile Bowie



While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].


The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.


The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.


While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21].


Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.


A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].


Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].


While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.


The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].


In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.
[/b]Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Nigeria: Fertile Ground for Balkanization
By Nile Bowie



While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].


The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.


The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.


While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21].


Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.


A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].


Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].


While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.


The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].


In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.


http://nilebowie..co.uk/2012/04/nigeria-fertile-ground-for.html

Cheikh your analysis of the british educational system is spot on many negroes like sefago are so mesmerised by the names oxford and cambridge tht they hve nevr for once stopped to research the historic backgrd of these institutions for eg why were they establshd how r they funded who funds them. Britain operates one of the most racist and elitist educational systems in the world places liike oxford and cambridge r set up to perpetuate the rabid class system in this country, do u thk its a coincidence tht all the top govt jobs are occupied by oxbridge alumni ? Oxford is a finishing schl for the british elite a few rich foreigners r allowed in frm time to time but they tend to go back to their country's of origin to wrk for daddy.

Therefore uve got to laugh at the likes of sefago who actuaally think those places were set up for the benefit of people who look like him. Many of the professors at these so called elite institutions believe tht0 africns r members of an inferior race why then wld u want to be taught by pple with such beliefs how wld u view ur race after 4 years of this kind of abuse? This is why the
majority of africns who graduate frm these kind of colleges are virtually useless to their own race. Okonjo iweala is a prime example. Africns r only useful to europeans wen they r being used to destroy their own pple as in the case of oknjo iweala or where they are being used as cheap labour many dumb negroes still hvnt understood this basic fact.

shymmex: Your IP address has been blocked. You can use anonymous IP, or login from a different IP.

igbo2011: Seun miight have blocked yoiur ip as shymmex said. Ask him to unblock. Also try going on a different iip address. Maybe your friend or family member computer and see if it works there. Maybe even try to make. A new account to see if that works.

Thanx guys how do u email seun direct to get him to unblock?
All I have access to r these nl email addresses that nevr respond to ur queries

[quote author=Bandit C.]While most of the things you have listed above are unsubstantiated and unverifiable, i do not need you to take credits for things you have no idea how they came about.

Tell me the contributions of black south africans to the present state of south africa other than mugging and robbing people, xenophobia, killing yourselves and consuming all sorts of unspeakable drugs out there. It's like african americans taking credit for white peoples' immense contribution to the growth and advancement of the US while they are stuck in the ghettoes slinging dope and abusing the social security system.

The reason why i call you people a giant joke is because, your opening statement in that post was meant to deride Nigerians on how poor their education is while you couldn't even put together a coherent statement yourself.

Go to any south african blog and you would be assaulted with primary grade grammar, english mixed with zulu or just plain old bad english and spelling and you still have the gut to call out Nigerians.

You guys are pathetic.[/quote]For someone who claims to be knwldgble your understanding of w ld history is appalling ,I cnt believe tht u cld actually say without irony tht afrcn americns made no cntribtn to the wealth of america wht do u thk the slave trade was abt and again u display ur terrible ignrnce wen talkng abt south afrcns -who do u0 thk was wrkg in those gold mines ? Professor did u also knw that undr apartheid blacks were bannd frm going beyond primary educatn undr the bantu educatn act -educated illiterate!

Obi1kenobi u r totally on point. I am a nigerian but see absolutely nthg abt nigeria tht shld justify our arrogance -we were defeated by british colonialsts and we r are still under western domination, we are mentally enslavd to europeans and spk their languages and practice their religions, evrythg we do is dictated to us by britain and the us, we r therefore still slaves. If u r talking abt people who havve a right to be arrogant its the japanese who used western acquired education and tecnlgy to rival the west to the extent tht they almost ovrturnd european hegemony. They say ignrnce is bliss the majorty of nigerians are terribly ignrnt with zero knwldge of how the world wrks, wen ur swimmng in a sea of ignrnce its easy to bleive ur top dog

igbo2011: @Shymemex and @cap28
Hotep my fellow Pan African brothers. I se you guys know your history. Frantz Fanon, Diop, Ivan Sertima, Drusilla Houston, JA Rogers, Basil Davidson, Martin Bernal, all Africans need to read their books to rid ourselves from the inferioirty complex that the race has. We must also control the TV and not let any negative images of blacks onTV. We must also control the image of God and not let a white jesus in any church around Africa. We must ban the white image of Jesus and change it to a black Jesus or we should rid the religion in total and go back to spirituality (withou the ritual stuff).

The physical slavery is over now it is the mental slavery. Most of the black race is enslaved in the mind. We goto Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford and we can't even solve Africa's problems. It doesn't matter what we do in America or Europe, as long as Africa is he way it is then it is still bad. We need to WAKE UP!!! We need to rpresent Africa well. Buy Nigerian products clothes and when we are abroad weneed to be proud of where we came from. I started this site for a reason. www.nigerianedp.com so more people can use their money to build Nigeria. Like us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nigerian-Economic-Development-Plan/278164788911610

Ngozi Okonjo is a harvard educated but that means NOTHING unless she builds Nigeria. Her style of economics fits the world Bank and serves the west NOT Africa. THe harvards and Cambridges serve European style and teach about EUROPE!! Read the book miseducation of a negro by Carter G WOodson it is a MASTER PIECE. Negros are miseducated worldwide not just America.

@Shymmex I know many people put you down for trying to be proud of where you are but you should still keep trying to convince Africans to unite. We need to before it is too late and we are exterminated. THis century is te most important in our history. THe EUropeans may exterminate us when they need to rebuild their ciites after LA, CIcago, NY Londn and Paris get nuked by RUssi or China. Beijing and Shanghai can get nuked as well and the Chinese might come for our land. Look what they did to TIbet, they can do it to us as well. We need to WAKE UP! in the next 15 years or it will be our end.

@Cap28 You know alot about international politics, you neeed to tell more people not just on the internet. It is very important that people have nowledge of what is going on it Africa. Man people think that Obama is good for Africa even though he supports a puppet Joseph Kabila, he destroyed Libya and he helped to oust Gbagbo and put a pupet called Outtara Africas think because he is African then he is with them.

This was posted on a facebook page that I like: When Kofi Anan became the UN sec Gen,Africa was full of hope.When El baradie heads the IAEA,Africa was full of hope.When Obama won Africa was full of Hope.A Gambian to head the ICC,Afica started Hoping.When Okonjo became the world Bank MD,Africa hoped nd hoped.The new hope is the hope thet when she becomes the world Bank President Africa will be hopefull.My humble advice to all Africans is to end illusive dreams and take a cue from India,China,Brazil,Singapore,Malaysia,South Korea by only hoping on themselves and work hard to develop their countries..Africans must stop hope in western pupet!! drove out the west in Africa then start using your brain to develop yourself is not too late now #wake up Africa.

We must WAKE UP!!!

As usual u r on point bro I've been typing frm my fone as I cnt log on frm my pc since this new format was introduced thts why my posts r short and disjointed each time I try to log on I get this mssge saying 411 do u knw hw I cn resolve this bro?

shymmex: If you check my post - you would know I don't like anything about the woman - even to her looks and demeanour. She's an economic hit woman, and she's there to mortgage the future of Nigerians away to the West.

Thank u my brother but cn u see why a eurocentric education does more harm than good to africans. Instead of this traitor to use her education to elevate her people she uses it to perpetrate genocidal economic policies designed to impoverish her fellow nigerians and because the average nigerian is in total awe of harvard university she can do no wrong in their eyes, but did u knw tht harvard university is linked to the blood diamond industry in sierra leone? One of harvard universties biggest endowment donors is an israeli billionaire by the name of maurice tempelsman who is linked to the war tht happened in sierra leone and the ongoing one in drc

shymmex: I feel your pains, brother - and I understand where you're coming. But change the mentality of Africans is an uphill task and it can't be achieved in this life time. Dwelling on it will just make you frustrated, and depressed - because the people you're trying to help don't care about what you're saying. They have been indoctrinated from primary school through the books - to the type of religion they practice, and every thing they watch on TV. Black people are raised to feel inferior and most are comfortable with it.

Brother, you just need to focus on yourself and your family - and raise your kids the right way. These people will NEVER listen to you - they will call you all kinds of names and make your life miserable. I have learned to keep my consciousness to myself - and make sure I raise my kids the right way.

The irony of the whole thing is that most of these folks live in America, and they all enjoy what Afrocentric African Americans fought for with their lives, blood, sweat and tears. Life is a chess game, brother - just play the game as well.

You are very right but guess what? we are the ones being played because the entire system of white global domination has been set up to guarantee our failure as a people.our children and grandchildren are going to inherit an even harder life than ours if this sysyem is allowed to continue

What r ur thoughts on the economic subjugation of nigeria under the direction of harvard trained ecnomist okonjo iweala?

shymmex: Cheik Anta Diop, is arguably the greatest African that walked this planet. Steve Bantu Biko is a close second.

Carry on, brother.... Most won't understand your point of view - it takes African consciousness to understand where you're coming from.

"What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce at the output end of the process real Black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society." - Steve Biko

"Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their operation - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group in order to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude." - Steve Biko

"One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his or her ancestors and use that knowledge to master, understand and become able to create institutions that allow him or her to live in harmony with the rest of nature and the universe."
Professor James Small


I'm from the same background as you, but I just had to tone it down because everyone thought I was crazy. Africans are not ready for the truth - it's better you accept people for who they're and what their level of consciousness is. I've learned to just accept people for who they're, and speak the 'language' everyone understands - while still maintaining my level of black consciousness.

But isn't it sad bro that at this late stage africans still haven't woken up to the reality that. Are living under a global system of white european domination ?. . How come it has still not occurred to them that as long as this system remains in place we africans will remain mentally and economically enslaved within this system
Have u heard of a british man by the name of cecil rhodes? He once stated that his objective was to clonise the entire african continent frm cairo to cape town . This man was held in such highregard by his people that an african couuntry -rhodesia [zimbabwe] was named aftr him oxfor university also awawards scholarships frm a special fund named aftr him -but this man was the architect of the clonisation of the africn continent. Do u see the kind of icons that colleges like oxford univbersituy hold in high regard?

Oxford and cambridge were founded and funded by members of the british ruling class for the sole purpose of educating sons and daughtrs of british aristocrats. Many of these founders were slave owners and beleived that africans were sub human many english people still harbour the same beleifs the few blacks who attend these colleges know that they do not fit in and feel completely out of place. Why does the african continue to seek acceptance frm people who continue to look down on him?

This is why no one respects us

PhysicsQED: Cap28

What sort of education would you design to liberate Nigerians (or if you want to be more general, Africans) from mental laziness, spinelessness and inferiority complexes?

What would that involve specifically? And how would you implement it so as to complement modern 21st century education and career paths?

A tthorough grounding in african history and I don't mean african history taught from a eurocentric perspective. I would also insist on international politics and economics taught at 0secondry schl level I wld also want to see compulsory para military training introduced

Implementation wld simply be a matter of putting together a comitted grp of dedicated educationalist with a similar vision and giving them responsibility of totally overhauling the current educational system which is currently being used to keep million s of nigerians in a position ignorance and subservience

All secondary schooin addition all nigerian sech schl Students will be expecyted to have read and fully understood the works of. All the great radical writers such as marcus garvey franz fanon walter rodey cheik anta diop and many others

shymmex: I always enjoy reading your comments.

I think it's high time we started putting some of these qualifications to good use in Nigeria. I'm tired of semi-illiterates leading us. A country of able-bodied men and women - being lead by cripples.

Thanx bro the problem we hve in nigeria is not just the fact tht we hve a grp of neo clonial agents running the country bt also the fact tht nigeria is filled with spineless ignramuses who actually think tht they have acheived something monumental simply becos they have acquired the whitemans education an education designed to convince u of ur inferiority to all other races of men - I can't help but laugh wen I see the likes of sefago and other brainwashed negroes falling ovr themselves to tell u abt the educatio that has kept them paralysed while the whiteman continues to loot and destroy their own continent these negroes dnt understand just how much the white man holds them in contempt

SEFAGO: More like you argument and statements are neither here or there. Most nigerians who go abroad do so for their survival not to serve as a sort of instrument for change. They are not obliged to come back and change the country. Whether they are slaves of thew hite man or not is another matter. Human beings have being migrating for years to seek better economic opportunities even the people you are so obssessed with- white people. they do not do so for some altruistic reason- if they did they might as well have been more productive starting an NGO in Nigeria as opposed to doing that.

Hmm and here I was thinking that education was meant to be used as a tool for devt - evry progreesive grp of people tht I knw hve used education for the development of their people as a collective grp all the european scintists, phlosphrs, teachers professors hve used their knowledge for the benefit of their collective race but in ur own case u r content to brag abt how u have acquired a eurocentric education which has been designed to keep u in a position of inferiority for the rest of ur life

SEFAGO: More like you argument and statements are neither here or there. Most nigerians who go abroad do so for their survival not to serve as a sort of instrument for change. They are not obliged to come back and change the country. Whether they are slaves of thew hite man or not is another matter. Human beings have being migrating for years to seek better economic opportunities even the people you are so obssessed with- white people. they do not do so for some altruistic reason- if they did they might as well have been more productive starting an NGO in Nigeria as opposed to doing that.

Hmm and here I was thinking that education was meant to be used as a tool for devt - evry progreesive grp of people tht I knw hve used education for the development of their people as a collective grp all the european scintists, phlosphrs, teachers professors hve used their knowledge for the benefit of their collective race but in ur own case u r content to brag abt how u have acquired a eurocentric education which has been designed to keep u in a position of inferiority for the rest of ur life

SEFAGO: Where do u live again? Oh the UK my bad. Do as I say not as I do.

Be quiet wher I liv is neither here nor there - at least I am wide awake and aware of what is really going on unlike delusional fools like u who actually think the white man sees u as his equal - let me tell something with or without the oxbridge deggree u r still the whitemans bitch why can't u use ur degree to stop the ongoing reclonisation of ur continent no ur forte is to brag abt worthless pieces of paper

This type of topic is typical of the kind of pathetic self congratulatory behaviour that delusional nigerians love wastingg their time on. The real question to ask is why is it that these so called educated nigerians can not use this education to take back control of their country from their white slave masters. Why is the average nigerian content to remain an inferior to a white man? Eveen with the so called education u have no control over ur own economic destiny as the whiteman stii calls the shots in every aspect of your life , so what good has ur eurocentric education done u when u still have to go cap in hand to whitey to beg for a job? I think nigerians are totally shameless to actuaally brag abt taking affirmative actio slots meant for black americans shame on any nigerian who can't fight for justice in their own country but wants to reap the benefits of the civil rights movement which many black americans fought and died for

Nigeria can get better but only if all nigerians from all walks of life unite against our common enemy the western nations and their errand boys aka the nigerian elite. Any attempt to try and move nigeria forward without removing these two huge obstacles will end in failure. The igbos tried it durring the civil war and sustained 3 million casualties this is why the only way to defeat this menace is for all nigerians to unite across tribe and religion

im having problems logging on to NL from my pc - the following message keeps coming up: 411 - can someone resolve this for me.

thanks

thoth: I want to ask a very simple question. Are we Africans really stupid or do we actually enjoy and take pride in our sufferings ?

i think both apply thoth, the majority of africans are not clued up about how the world works and then you have others who think its a noble thing to wallow in poverty and suffering.

afroblue - interesting article but the writer should be aware of the fact that western nations use violence to impose debt on weaker nations when coercion and threats don't work . its not simply a case of living within your means after all libya owed no debt to any western bank but look at what happened to it wasnt it invaded and destroyed by NATO and now its borrowing like crazy from western banks in order to rebuild all the infrastructure that was damaged by NATO bombs.

igbo2011 how are you bro? ive been having problems logging on to NL from my computer at home thats why i've not responded to your email - how are you doing? hope well.