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so all these trouble makers on NL are married men? chai

Busybody2:
https://www.nairaland.com/2102375/what-does-dream-mean

sister, please forget this person, since he feels too big to post his dream here.... it's as if you're begging to help him

@ ebankole>>> ignore this please..

Vibesking:
Backwardness? How is that so when God told me in Psalm71:12 that He would increase my greatness?

why is boko haram killing and causing destruction when God said in Isaiah 60:18 "that Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders...." why so much attack on churches?

if you don't drop that your I too know mentality and do the needful you'll live to regret it. even when you're directed to where this minus dream can be interpreted you still insist it should be done here.

Nasamy:
pls. Leave your email address behind and we willl get back to you or you send us a mail. Thanks

john.wellington.noun@gmail.com

ORAFA:
If CNN tells you anything just call any soldier you know to confirm it. Their stories are more of blackmail than truth. Not to say all are lies.

CNN are right, am from a military family.

MyInfoo:
Watching on CNN now when 2 soldiers were interviewed one said they buy their uniform, Boko Haram equipment are more sophisticated than theirs while the other says they pay their medical bill themselves when hurt.

This is the highest level of corruption and no human feeling on the part of the present government we have in Nigeria.

a cousin of mine serving in Lagos was posted to the north to fight boko, he said they were told that they're going for a training, until when they arrived there the story change.

he said only 90 bullets was allocated to each of them, while boko carry their bullets and weapons in trucks. he said some officers have to injure themselves and seek medical attention so that they can escape the warfront. he said so many terrible things but I thank God he came back alive.

Our soldiers are been killed in dozens weekly by boko

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2004 Montero

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2004 RX-330
2002 RX-300,
2006 Mazda CX-7
2006 Mazda CX-7
2004 Montero

please can I have the cost of the above SUV's? I'll call you later.

2004 RX-330
2002 RX-300,
2006 Mazda CX-7
2006 Mazda CX-7
2004 Montero

please can I have the cost of the above SUV's? I'll call you later.

colegold100:
Hello peps.I am new mazda family member.I just got mazda cx 9 2008 tokunbo... (130,000km) I have read all the post and I seem scared to have bought a mazda product with problem faced by on mazda cars. Thinking may be I should sell d Suv.
Secondly, I need contacts of good mechanics.
Thirdly, which engine oil, engine coolant, and power steering fluid are to be used on the car.
I will appreciate any other advise.
Thanks

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likewise me, I was planning to get a cx-9 next week but am scared

beneezy:
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I tried purchasing it but this is what I saw:
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Sorry, this item cannot be shipped to Nigeria.
The seller has specified that this item cannot be shipped to addresses in Nigeria
You can contact the seller for more information, or find similar items offered by other sellers.

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KidProgrammer:
bro,please i dreamt that i am eating in the dream,what does it mean?

What did you eat?

Good evening house.

please I want to go into toilet tissue production but I need ideas and contributions.

thanks

LillyAnne:


This is an insult to tokunbo car engine users

chei, I don die, iya-mmi, nsuto nkpo?

Nigeria's worst enemy

If you have too much time at your hands and needs to waste it engage a lawyer. They are the greatest time wasters in the world. The aggrieved 22 aspirants instituted a case against Udom Emmanuel for which an Abuja High Court granted interim injunction restraining PDP from sending the name of Mr. Udom Emmanuel as the candidate of the party to (INEC). It doesn’t need a lawyer to know that the case was treated in Timipre Sylva versus PDP.

Even the judge knew. He would come back and declare that he has no jurisdiction as if he just found out.

I don’t know why they chose to waste their time in court. They have already made their case – a case which they would have taken to the right court. They made their case when they claimed that Gov Akpabio paid each delegate N1million ($6,250) to vote Udom Emmanuel. This is not a case for High or Magistrate Court, not even Supreme Court. This is a case for the People’s Court. Court of equity and good conscience.

You and I know Udom’s profile – he is qualified to be governor. He was a reputable banker with excellent professional career. He has spent about a year and half as SSG which further brushed him up. He has carried out one of the most expensive and aggressive campaigns in AKS history using the full paraphernalia of the state machinery. His billboards and other campaign materials dot the state. He has a formidable campaign committee ACA – well funded with exceptional reach. With the exit of UOU it was supposed to be a smooth sail for Udom.

With all these at his disposal why would it be necessary for the state to be deprived of over 1.5billion ($9,375,000) to buy votes for such a “good candidate” for party nomination? Not to talk of the amount spent on TV coverage for the “Election Show” and perhaps other agencies for a candidate acclaimed to be the best.

It is no news that Gov Akpabio has put his full weight behind Udom. He has introduced him to both the president and the party. He has done all the underground work. Why would Akpabio after doing so much work to sell Udom still feel so unsure as to pay that amount per delegate. Why was it necessary given UDOM’S acclaimed pedigree? A man whose best selling point is supposed to be financial prudence and honesty and integrity and everything good. Why? Why?

Which father would be prepared to spend the entire family fortune to pay a man to marry his beautiful, young and well educated daughter except there is something about the girl which he hadn’t disclosed? Or something about the family or the marriage.

Is there anything Gov Akpabio knows which he hasn’t disclosed? What does he want? What are his fears? Can we help?

I expect Mr. Udom Emmanuel to come out and refute that claim of N1m bribe to each delegate. It is important that he say something about it. He should tell us it is not true. It shouldn’t be true. If it is true then there is something wrong somewhere and the good people of Akwa Ibom must watch out.

By James Abang

http://www.thekillerpunch.com/akwa-ibom-state-22-aggrieved-aspirants-fresh-injunction-peoples-court/

Good Evening...
How much is 2006 Mitsubishi Montero (limited Edition)

najoke:
First Niger-delta president -----yet no new refinery has been built

What an Irony

It's a TRAGEDY

holatin:
what can I say

say what you can!!

By Ibanga Isine

Swimming is one of the healthiest sports that anybody can do. But definitely; not in open ocean. It is better to find a swimming pool or stay close to coast when one wants to swim.
The former Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, might know how to swim but he is currently swimming in very dangerous waters.

I haven’t met him but I learnt he is from Onna Local Government Area. Although he is said to have grown up in the village, I bet he might not have learnt how to swim while growing up in Awa Iman, a village located a few kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean.

With a father who was a teacher, I don’t think he was allowed the luxury of going close to any body of water that is bigger than an average stream. Teachers, in those days, were respected and equally feared within and outside the family circles because of their healthy knack for discipline, hard work and integrity. So even when he had his primary education in the village, his parents could not have allowed him socialise well enough to join the village kids to a swimming contest in the ocean where there are hundreds of deadly creatures, including fire coral, lionfish, sea snakes, stingrays, tiger sharks, great white sharks, stonefish, blue-ringed octopus, crocodiles and jellyfish. That was one of the sins of his father, “Teacher” Gabriel Emmanuel Nkenang. And the sins of parents can only be visited on their children even to the fourth generation.

Since his father would not have him join the village goons to learn petty thievery and maybe, pick-pocketing when he was a young boy, Udom joined the Sunday school class and was said to have become a Sunday school teacher in the local Quo Iboe Church.
He might have been flogged many times for not keeping strict family codes and made to work the farms so he could imbibe the high worth of dignity of labour. These inflexible experiences later became assets as he traversed the country and foreign lands in search of knowledge and a career path.

After a fruitful pursuit of knowledge and a promising career in Zenith Bank, one of the top-notch financial institutions in the continent, the Awa Iman man became “mad”.

Before you crucify me for saying Udom Emmanuel is” mad”, please look at his career path. Here is a Chartered Accountant, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management, a former Audit Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a pioneer Manager of Diamond Bank Plc, Lagos Central branch, a former Chief Financial Officer with Zenith Bank Plc, former Group Head, Income Optimisation, Financial Control & Strategic Planning Department at Zenith Bank Plc, former Head, Telecommunications Sector, Income Optimisation and Financial & Strategic Planning Group of Zenith Bank Plc, and former Executive Director, Member of Executive Committee and Member of Board, Risk Management Committee of Zenith Bank Plc. Here is a man with the potential to become the Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank Plc.

Udom left a very rewarding and enviable banking career just before his colleague, and former CEO of Zenith Bank Plc, Godwin Emefiele, left the bank too. While Udom headed back to Uyo to become the Secretary to the State Government in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Emefiele left to become the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Maybe, Udom could have stepped into Mr. Emefiele’s office at Zenith Bank when the Delta State-born banker was appointed CBN governor. Who knows?

While Emefiele is now sitting atop the nation’s apex bank, my brother, like a man summoned by ancestral spirits to report for sacrifice at the village shrine, was already slapping inside the murky political waters in the state of “Uncommon Transformation.” Many Nigerians including yours sincerely; consider his relocation to Uyo as a corporeal sin.

Perhaps, he could have been forgiven if he had restricted himself to serving as SSG under Governor Godswill Akpabio, who has been tipped as the most powerful governor in Nigeria. (Please don’t say I told you). For those who don’t know, I have felt the power of Mr. Akpabio in a lot of ways, but this is not the time to tell the story of how the immense power of the LION of Akwa Ibom State has affected my life in more than tangential ways.

In an impudent plot by Mr. Akpabio to produce a successor, a feat which is “uncommon” in Akwa Ibom political narrative, Udom again went berserk. He offered his head as a willing item for the sacrifice.
Ordinarily, no Akwa Ibom politician has anything personal against the astute banker who they initially thought had come to serve “simply” as SSG, after Mr. Akpabio unceremoniously “dispatched” his friend and ally, Umana Okon Umana from the same office.
Mr. Umana was one of those who stood resolutely by Mr. Akpabio during his downtime. And that was when the former Governor and boss, Victor Attah, would not have Mr. Akpabio to succeed him. The battle for Mr. Akpabio’s governorship ambition was hard and dry. A lot of people made huge sacrifices because they didn’t want Mr. Attah to install his son in-law as the next governor of the state.
At the end of the long drawn battle, Mr. Akpabio became the governor and the rest is known to everybody. Till date, nobody has been able to tell Akwa Ibom people what really went wrong between the governor and his former confidant, Umana Okon Umana and so when rumour started flying that Udom was tipped to replace Mr. Akpabio, diehard politicians in the state went swearing at the site of their broken pit toilets, that it was impossible.
Besides coming from the loins of a LION, who had devoured so many big and small animals in the political jungle, Mr. Udom’s other sin is that he is never a politician.

In local politics, it is a serious offence for somebody who has not cut his teeth in politics to want to become anything serious politically. I remember my two good friends Nsikak Ukim and Uko Efi who went to contest for the chairmanship and vice chairmanship, respectively, of my local government. The duo are good natured guys who believe in progressive ideals and craved for grassroots governance where human capacity development and transparent leadership are core.
They went consulting and in the process “lobbied” political leaders and stalwarts across the two clans that make up my local government area with cash and so many goats and alcoholic beverages. They campaigned hard and spent all the resources they had and even borrowed. After many days of campaigns, goat slaughtering, alcohol donation and late night meetings, the D-Day came. My buddies got a laughable number of votes for all their pains. They failed to secure the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ticket.
My friends did not fail the primary because they were not qualified to hold the office for which they sought to occupy. They lost because the political “leaders” and “stalwarts” who decide who becomes anything did not trust them. They were not trusted because they were not considered to be politicians who could do the biddings of party elders and leaders.

In one of their campaigns, a young man stood up to challenge them. “Kusem iko mbakara ke anwa politics. Tang iko ukang nyin mbak mkpong mma di council ndiyem okuk, uduben iko mbakara umbianga mien,” the young man said, meaning, “Don’t speak English Language in a political meeting so that tomorrow when I come to the local government council to ask for money, you will not use the same language to deceive me.” That conversation aptly shows the level to which politics has degenerated to in Nigeria. My friends, just like Udom Emmanuel are professionals and they speak a lot of English which is a taboo of sorts with politicians, especially the local ones. And that is why many a politician from the state would not give the banker-turned politician the benefit of the doubt.
The Akpabio’s connection with Mr. Udom’s sudden incursion into politics has rather exacerbated his travails. The first family has been accused of sticking to a zoning formula to favour the former SSG on the one hand while destroying the zoning arrangement in his senatorial district. Mr. Akpabio has obtained the ticket to run for the Senate against the zoning formula that dictates the ticket goes to another part of his senatorial district, another sin counted against Mr. Udom Emmanuel.

But apart from these inherited sins, Mr. Emmanuel has committed no grievous personal sin to bar him from the “communion service”. Even political leaders who disagree with Governor Akpabio for pushing him down their throats, admire Mr. Emmanuel’s courage and intimidating credentials. They believe he could be a good leader if he is not tied to the apron strings of his principal. They know he has a name and a career to protect and may not do some of the things diehard politicians are wont to do. And that again is a sin in politics.
Mr. Emmanuel must, therefore, approach the campaign for the governorship of Akwa Ibom State with tact and wisdom and should not allow the “sins” of his “father” to be visited on him and his generation. He should avoid dancing to the drumbeat of war and the skewed political mantra that has destroyed the rhythm of unity and brotherliness in the state.

He should tolerate dissent voices and with all the apparatus of state that would be thrust on his trail, allow other candidates to breathe and also go about the state seeking votes from the electorate. Mr. Emmanuel cannot afford to become your usual politician.

http://www.thekillerpunch.com/sins-udom-emmanuel-former-akwa-ibom-ssg/

After what happened at Akwa Ibom International Stadium Complex on Monday December 8, 2014, where aspirations of 22 governorship aspirants were hijacked for one man, the entire state has been thrown into mourning and gnashing of teeth. The cause of this mass lamentation is that our franchise has been robbed using the very mandate we gave to a certain individual, who now uses state might to muscle every other person to silence.

Yes, Akwa Ibom is under the throes of oppression worse than during the dreaded military junta, yet in this fallen state the people are reminded of their leader and prophet, Obong Victor Attah, who showed the way forward far back, in his speech during the grand reception organized for him at Asan Ibibio. If only the people will take these words to heart and work with it they will take back their freedom.

Part of Attah’s speech was:

“But who are the Ibibios. If you are expecting to hear me say that the Ibibios are a great people who have registered a number of firsts; who have achieved this; who have accomplished that and accomplished the other; much as all that may be true, I am afraid that on this occasion, I will disappoint you.

I want instead to remind you that, in spite of our numbers, we have in the past been described as an ineffectual majority. We have also been described as an atomistic society perpetually at war with itself. Even more insultingly we have been compared with the tiny leaves of an African Oil Bean tree, numerous enough to fill the basket but totally useless when it comes to wrapping even the tiniest parcel. We have shown righteous indignation at these insults but, undeniably, there is need for an examination of conscience perchance we had provided the reason for the abuses”.

He also, admonished that: “If we do not want to continue to remain where we are and continue to have these insults and abuses hurled at us, we must learn to accept that, in a dark room, my candle does not burn brighter simply by my putting out the other person’s candle. On the contrary, the more candles we can light, the greater will be the brightness in that room. And in that situation, even the obscure one among us may become visible and recognized.

“Today, our resolve must be that collectively we shall make a succession plan. Collectively we shall choose a successor to implement our succession plan. The collective will of all of us, and only our collective will, shall prevail”.
“This is particularly true at this time when there is such a crying need to give hope back to our people; to restore their confidence in their government and to rebuild the state. Zoning will certainly be a major consideration but at a time like this, certain other compelling determinants cannot be sacrificed on the altar of zoning alone”.
What then is there to add other than to rally our support for one man that represents the will of the people, Umana Okon Umana.

http://www.thekillerpunch.com/akwa-ibom-guber-primaries-victor-attah-speaks/#.VIzTeEJ3eNY.twitter

Obipat:
I love donjazzy for that statement. Me I regret voting for him

Here is it sir,

temitemi1:
He's now the president of this great country till 2019. GEJ till 2019!!!

Goodbye to Goodluck – President Jonathan Loses in Public Opinion Poll

Cardinal Okojie: You will become President but will not be the one ruling

OBJ: He performed below expectations, his government is evil.

Prof Tam David West: Jonathan is too inexperienced to be president

Chief Bisi Akande: Jonathan’s is a Kindergarten Presidency

Prof. Oyebode of Unilag: He is an embarrassment to PhD holders.

Chief Christopher Kolade: He is a Kano dancer. He is not a good leader.

Prof. Wole Soyinka: He is King Nebuchadnezzar (destroyer of Jerusalem).

Pastor Tunde Bakare: Nebuchadnezzar is too mild. He is King Jeroboam.

Gov. Obiano: His tenure is bad. He is not the right person for this country.

Don Jazzy: I Regret Campaigning and Voting for Goodluck Jonathan

Lagbaja: For Electing Jonathan Nigeria is a Country of 100 Million Mumus

Your Opinion:........................>>>

If anybody Thinks All These People are Wrong that person Need a mental overhaul. You can’t continue to do one thing same way and expect a different result.

Let’s support change by voting out the corrupt regime .

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=199672

President Goodluck Jonathan should walk with his head low. It is unfortunate that he has betrayed millions of poor and average Nigerians who voted en mass to make him president. We all believed him when he begged for our votes by promising to change the plight of the poor having had a dose of extreme poverty. What has the one once without shoes done to better the lives of the poor after we put him in a place with uncountable shoes.

President Goodluck Jonathan should walk with his head low. It is unfortunate that he has betrayed millions of poor and average Nigerians who voted en mass to make him president. We all believed him when he begged for our votes by promising to change the plight of the poor having had a dose of extreme poverty. What has the one once without shoes done to better the lives of the poor after we put him in a place where he now enjoys an uncountable number of shoes?

The gap increases every day. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The systemic marginalization of the poor and less privileged is frustrating and has reached maximum crescendo. Our resources are being shared by the few in power while average Nigerians await the crumbs. From the Federal Government to State Governments and all over our government and non-governmental institutions, there is ignorance and frightening nonchalance to tackling the matter.

The government claims to know the danger of unemployment plaguing our country and understand the need for Job creation, yet role out programs that won’t make a difference. Successive governments keep making the same mistakes of their predecessors. The government will rather empower a Dangote with N50 billion than empower 5,000 people with N10 million each.

Considering the huge amount of money that has been tagged Intervention Funds voted for SME’s in recent years, I suppose the landscape of Nigeria should be dotted with industries. I cannot be proved wrong. I say it boldly that such funds are shared by people in power. Amongst all programs for youth empowerment, I see the Youwin program as the only sensible way to create employment and having had encounters with various institutions, I will share my findings.

The Bank of Industry: the bank of Industry was established by the Federal Government to promote the industrial sector in Nigeria. Perhaps they have done well in turning corrupt millionaire politicians into billionaires; they have neglected the average Nigerian and created bottlenecks to ensure that only the rich get richer. To reach such conclusion, I examined their loan packages and the conditional ties. In simple terms, anyone who wants N10 million to start a business must have collaterals worth N30 million. To get that, you must deposit 10% of desired amount (N1 million) to the bank. You have to wait for over 8 months to get approved for a loan. These are just a few out of many bottlenecks.

How on earth will a fresh unemployed graduate meet such conditions unlike the politicians that have our treasury at arm’s length? How would a man without shoes get N1 million to deposit and own a N30 million collateral to secure N10 million loan? The government is reluctant to provide us with capital; where else do we get it. Our oil and our natural resources are the government properties and all proceeds go to the Federal Government wallet. Yet the government won’t help us with Capital to start businesses.

If the reports were true, how on earth did Jimoh Ibrahim rout $200 million BOI loan into his privately owned company? Can someone please do the math in Naira? The government only pump money into BOI to feed corrupt politicians and not to empower the youths. N220 Billion was recently released as Intervention Fund and we suspect that it will find its way into private accounts owned by corrupt politicians. The Bank of Industry already has billions in its coffers that the officials of the Ministry of Finance put into fix deposits and shares the profits. We need to ask why the Rice Intervention Fund like many other funds lies fallow in the bank without being disbursed. The reason is not farfetched. It is a deliberate frustration of applicants by way of stringent conditional ties to ensure that the money remains in the bank coffers to feed their greed.

The Okonjo Iweala Youwin initiative is brilliant. If the Ministry of finance can adopt the Youwin approach in BOI, unemployment will be drastically reduced in no time. The system adopted in Youwin can be improved upon to ensure no one defaults, the government doesn’t have to worry about people defaulting and there won’t be need for inconvenient conditional ties aimed at discouraging people from obtaining loans. In fact, we should talk more of grants in our present predicament. We have reached a stage where the government must look beyond profits and assist the masses.

If our President was once without shoes, he would understand the sufferings of the masses. Whoever, occupies the seat of power come 2015 must assemble a team from the field and deliver Nigeria from the jaws of unemployment.

We have had enough of our resources enriching the pockets of a few. We have had our fill of preventable hardships. We have had enough of corrupt officials standing in the way of potential business owners. This systemic rot must end with the present tenure. We desire a change before the poor and hungry have the rich for food.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/02/where-goodluck-jonathan-without-shoes-ken-oloye

Fifty two years after what is largely described as our flag independence, Nigeria lies wrecked and hobbled. A country that breathed much hope and inspiration fifty two years ago is today a sad and regrettable instance of what a nation should not be. Nigeria is today a land of endless tears and misery where life operates at the level of the Hobbessian leviathan. It is a country that best typifies human failure. It is a country that best captures the failure of humanity and its case is worsened by the loss of hope that things may ever get better again. It is so bad that majority of Nigerians don’t even know when their independence day comes. At most, the only thing that reminds them of independence is the public holidays and the boring and uninspiring speeches from their leaders, which is a rehash of past promises of a never-dawning Eldorado. The gaiety is gone together with the excitement and fun. There are no parades by school children and the armed forces. All those have become relics of a forgotten past Nigerians can only relieve in melancholic reflections. At best, most Nigerians rue our independence given the way and manner we had mismanaged our freedom.

Fifty two years after what is largely described as our flag independence, Nigeria lies wrecked and hobbled. A country that breathed much hope and inspiration fifty two years ago is today a sad and regrettable instance of what a nation should not be. Nigeria is today a land of endless tears and misery where life operates at the level of the Hobbessian leviathan. It is a country that best typifies human failure. It is a country that best captures the failure of humanity and its case is worsened by the loss of hope that things may ever get better again. It is so bad that majority of Nigerians don’t even know when their independence day comes. At most, the only thing that reminds them of independence is the public holidays and the boring and uninspiring speeches from their leaders, which is a rehash of past promises of a never-dawning Eldorado. The gaiety is gone together with the excitement and fun. There are no parades by school children and the armed forces. All those have become relics of a forgotten past Nigerians can only relieve in melancholic reflections. At best, most Nigerians rue our independence given the way and manner we had mismanaged our freedom.

At independence fifty two years ago, Nigeria held the hope of the black renaissance and held forth the candle of reinvention for the entire black race. With a citizenry fired by the zeal to leave an indelible imprimatur in the world space, Nigeria looked forward to the borderless prospects the country promised as the British Union Jack was lowered and the green-white-green ensemble of our independent status was unfurled in its stead. The lofty dream of a rising giant that would stamp its feet in the comity of nations in record time was writ large as Nigerians, with unmatched enthusiasm sang the words of the new national anthem and Nigerians pledged to build a nation, where everybody stands in brotherhood even with the differing tongues and tribes, a nation where no man is oppressed. The zeal with which the early nationalists fought the departing colonialists to surrender the seal of freedom served to rev the hope of limitless opportunities that abound in an independent Nigeria. Rich in natural resources and with the incipience of human resources potentials that promised to be a force in the world, there was no reason to see Nigeria in the storm tossed state it is today. Sadly, fifty two years after, Nigeria cuts a sorry image of a caricature of a nation as unbridled corruption and graft continue to freely ravage the country and her citizens.

Fifty two years after, all the high hopes, the lofty dreams and aspirations that heralded independence have all percolated, leaving a fractured, insecure and predatory nation where life is brutish, short and nasty. Fifty two years after independence, Nigeria is a sprawling land of tears where insecurity, poverty, disease and untamed want have combined to make mincemeat of a hopeless and hapless citizenry. Nigeria has transmogrified into a nation; loathed and despised in the comity of nations, avoided and quarantined in the theaters of civilization and held in high contempt by the citizens of a free world. Nigeria has been so debased and stripped of worth that it holds nothing but provocation, shame and odium for its citizens who forage every available space for opportunities to leave its shores. Nigeria has become a mere geographical expression as the centrifugal and centripetal forces that melded to form that artificial entity sue for divorce. No bond of unity, no creed, no philosophy and no ethos hold the disparate tendencies that were bonded to form the country in 1914 together and the fussing that brought Nigeria into being has developed un-mendable cracks and fissures that widen by the day. Patriotism is gone among bewildered Nigerians, leaving it in the forte where Samuel Johnson located it in April 1775, as the last refuge of the scoundrel. In Nigeria, patriotism is today domesticated in the scoundrels that eat away the life of the nation for to them, patriotism comes in handy in furthering their ruinous enterprise.

For nearly all of its independent history, Nigeria seems to be cursed with horrible leadership whose trajectory worsens by the day. The leadership deficit that assails Nigeria is so legendary that the country, from all indications and purposes, appears leaderless in an emerging world order that emphasizes clear headed and competent leadership. With the possible exception of one or two leaders, Nigeria has been struck by a string of amoral, incompetent and ethically wrecked leadership, which had succeeded in running the country into a deep gorge where it rots away as humanity makes giant developmental leaps. With each day, Nigeria’s leadership woes worsen as our so called leaders remain impervious to change and rather deepen the morass they have burdened on a well endowed country for fifty two awful years. Life continues to worsen as all economic indices veer towards regression, even with increased oil revenue.

On the country’s fifty second birthday, life looks so dreary and gloomy for Nigerians as over eighty per cent of them live in abject poverty. With a leadership that fires the ambers of corruption, official graft and public stealing, Nigeria holds no credible hope of revival from the atrophy that shackles it at present. The state of infrastructural decay is complimented by the penchant to see state resources as free meal for those that adopt guile and sly means to access political positions. Unemployment has reached a bestial height as industrial mortality and investment flight riddle the economic space. Nepotism and pandering to the gods of tribe and tongue have so debased a weak and ineffectual federal structure that it is a case of everyone to his tent. The educational and health sectors experience unceasing rot while the vicious circle of poverty makes its unimpeded rounds across the length and breadth of the country. Sectarian and ethnic mistrust have combined to worsen a security crisis that sows dread and fright through the lengths and corners of the country. Life has become so cheapened that death lurks in every nook and cranny of the government while the government looks on in pitiable helplessness. So helpless that the government, which should effuse hope in the face of this state of dread has been chased to the dark crevices by the forces of Hades. What better way to demonstrate this that our independent celebration, which should be with fanfare and élan has been reduced to a bedroom affair? In the confines of the presidential bedroom, expensive wines would be popped, orgies would be mounted and deep holes would be punched into our national treasury; all in queer celebration of the debasement of a nation through bad leadership.

At fifty two years, Nigeria cannot guarantee a fairly stable electricity supply to the extent that what Nigerians get for the massive resources that have been stolen through the power sector is failed promises and darker space. The height of the jarring paradox that Nigeria has become at independence is that at the eve of its fifty second independence anniversary, the country is locked down by a fuel scarcity where petrol sells as high as N200 a liter in some parts of the sixth largest producer of oil in the world. It is so bad that the petroleum sector has become a scammer’s haven where record breaking acts of corruption and financial recklessness are perpetrated within the petroleum sector, which has become the hearth that fuels the massive corruption complex that is at the root of the Nigerian crisis. Fifty two years after independence, no credible electoral system exists to lead the leadership selection process. At best, what exists is a choreographed sham system that is pre-manipulated to turn out and perpetrate the worst in the system as leaders. A hugely corrupt judicial system holds no hope for judicial redemption and the legislature suffers the same rotten complex that has buried our collective hopes for survival in the face of encircling doom.

At fifty two, Nigeria continues to wobble and stumble into irrelevance and meaninglessness. Nigeria continues to feed the ravenous tongs of the consuming fire of underdevelopment and backwardness. At fifty two, Nigeria’s hope for redemption has waned, dealt a bad blow by its array of bad leaders who continues ti wax increasingly intransigent by the day. With its leaders growing insensitive to the pitched cry of pains from the millions of trapped citizens, there is every possible indication that Nigeria’s soul is lost and what exists is an empty shell inhabited by trapped citizens who want out of so dysfunctional a nation. At fifty two, Nigeria has irrevocably broken down as it holds no hope for its teeming citizenry. It is a story in debauchery and prodigality. It is a story in wasted opportunities and it is a depiction of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

In the book description of Karl Maier’s award winning book, This House Has Fallen, Amazon posted thus;

“This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a nation into which billions of dollars of oil money flow, its per capita income has fallen dramatically in the past two decades. Military coup follows military coup. A bellwether for Africa, it is a country of rising ethnic tensions and falling standards of living, very possibly on the verge of utter collapse — a collapse that could dramatically overshadow even the massacres in Rwanda .A brilliant piece of reportage and travel writing, This House Has Fallen looks into the Nigerian abyss and comes away with insight, profound conclusions, and even some hope”.

This could suffice as an epitaph for Nigeria, a land that held so much promise at birth but which, at fifty two years, has become hell writ large on earth; a dark spot for humanity and a reproach to her citizens; no thanks to its slothful leaders.


Peter Claver Oparah.

Ikeja, Lagos.

E-mail: peterclaver2000@yahoo.com

http://saharareporters.com/2012/10/01/nigeria-52-indeed-house-has-fallen-peter-claver-oparah

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