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investnow2013:
Anambra-State is also rich in culture!. Marriage celemony in Adazi-Nnukwu, Anaocha lga.

what about the Ojiakos in Adazi Nnukwu.

etebefia:
[b]It surprises me the number of northerners that normally come out during election to lead this country, a country made up of intellectuals and men of vision
Why would a northerner come out to rule Nigeria if i may ask? What is leadership all about? What can the northerners bring to the table?
I have seen decades after decades in this country and i have also seen that most of the bad eggs in Nigeria are from the northern part, and i have equally seen that the best brains in Nigeria are from the southern part, so i ask can the blind lead those who can see?
Internationally i have heard few northerner that have made this country proud but there are countless southerners that have achieved excellence in different sectors; innovation, management, science, arts, entertainment, literature, sports etc. even locally how many multinational companies in Nigeria can confidently leave the management of their organization in the hand of a northern when there are smarter and creative southerners that bring exceptional management skills, so they can’t lead multinational how can we leave a whole country in their hands, where we normally see the northern in management capacity in this country is in Government organizations where they use federal character to occupy such positions thereby promoting mediocrity; just imagine national television authority (NTA) that has been mostly led by northerners, we can all see how NTA looks like 13th century TV station, no creativity, no innovation. In education the northern part of Nigeria is given a much lower cut off mark compared to the their southern counterpart how then can someone who is given 15 as cut off mark come out to lead someone with 120 cut off mark? Are we moving forward or backward? Today we all know the economic situation Nigeria is going through because of the fallen oil price, who then do we need? We need someone that can develop other sectors of the economy aside oil; this is where the northern do not fall in they so much rely on government at the federal level to provide everything, nobody want to do anything government will give you this, give you that provide everything for you, NO we don't need this mentality again in this country again, if other parts of the country have the same number of civil servants as in northern Nigeria, our economy would have long crippled. Most countries of the world are trying so hard to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, having a northerner to lead us will only widen this gap because there is a typical mentality the northerners have that “there Must be Alhaji and there Must be Almajiri) so you see few individuals who are extremely rich while majority are every poor. Northerner are mostly sectionalist and not nationalist: look at Nigeria today it looks like positions are shared evenly but let a northerner enter tomorrow 70% of the position will go to north, most projects will go to the north, government institutions will be moved to northern Nigeria, they will even spend Nigeria money on sudan, chad, niger than spend in southern Nigeria, that is why when you go to all the sabon garis in northern Nigeria, there are no developments there because they feel that gabon garis are occupied be strangers even though it’s their state.
Northerners still have a long way to go, before coming out at the national level.
- Etebefia [/b]

NICE write up, but you need to have your target audience in mind. ......Yorubas and their Apc goons.

fyneguy:
Well, GEJ should just go. No more, no less!

"because he's the one setting the global oil prices".

jumu:
70% of nigeria love apc

Why are yorubas incapable of reasoning & logic. If 70% of nigerians love apc, which means by logic 70% Nigerians are in support of born to rule mentality embed in the hausa/fulani sychic. 70% Nigerians love the culture of impunity which has it's root in the born to rule mentality. 70% Nigerians are boko haram sympathizers, 70% Nigerians love the idea that a sick Nation "is non negotiable", 70% Nigerians love almagiris culture of backwardness, see western education as evil, Fulani herdsmen killing and burning towns, and the lists goes on endlessly. I will ask again; Nigeria as structured today for the past 50yrs or so, has it aided in yoruba advancement or backwardness??......

jumu:
they dont apreciate there land all igbos are osu

The land belong to them too, just that they were carved out from Igbo land after the civil war in other to minimize Igbo territories

arowolobioyinbo:
Prof Tam David West wrote:

Religion is a personal thing and every man has the right to choose his own, or practice it the way he likes. Most of the sycophants that use religion to defame the character of Buari are not even practicing their acclaimed self righteousness. Many of them are occultists. They kill and conduct daily human sacrifices to remain in power. Buhari is a man of integrity and I respect him a lot. But because majority of those who have looted this country to poverty are afraid to end up in jail or loose their ill gottenwealth, they chose to fabricate lies against Buhari. They hire hungry and morally corrupted scholars to do the dirty jobs on their behalf. It is quite unfortunate that Nigerians buy all the lies they trade through the media. This is the only country where people prefer to believe in a 'hear say' than make a research.

Only a minute population of Nigerians are willing to investigate an allegation before they draw conclusions. Nigerians have resolved to be praise singers to corrupt leaders. We have failed to ask for accountability. Our conscience has been beclouded with religious and ethnic
sentiments. Our sense of judgement and reason have been blinded by poverty. We chose to mortgage our tomorrow and the future of our children for the rice and a few Nairanotes they share during elections. All we believe is the roads, the bridges, the railways, the electricity they build only on televisions. I always ask my self these questions:

1. Where are the roads?

✏The Abuja - Lokoja road was awarded by Obasanjo's administration. He spent 8 years in the office. Then Yaradua and Goodluck spent another 4 years. Now if Goodluck is
elected, he will be spending another 8 years. This will amount to 20 years and 180 km road is yet to be completed.
✏Enugu - Onitsha road was also awarded by the Obasanjo administration and till date, a journey that is supposed to take 45 minutes can take you 8 hours if it rains.
✏Enugu- PH road is on the same series.
✏What about Uyo - Calabar route? Just to mention a few.

2. Where is the power? They sold all the NEPA to their friends. We pay for the light that was not supplied.

3. Our education and health system go bad everyday. Lecturers and Health workers spent more time at home than in the schools and hospitals as a result of incessant strikes.

4. The government failed to provide us with security. People are being killed everyday and yet government comes out to tell us they are in control.

5. Why are we pretending that all is well? It is only in Nigeria where monies develop wings and fly. $20 billion oil money disappeared and they said it was $10 billion. Forensic investigators were hired and that was the end of the story. N20 billion pension fund stolen and nothing came out of it. $9.3 million seized in South Africa and government claimed it was meant for ammunition purchase. The immigration scandal has also been swept under the carpet because the senate could not proceed with their investigation.

The man behind the contract is sitting among the high seats in the senate. Innocent people were defrauded and they at the same time lost their lives yet, we have atransparent governance.

6. Why are we praising government as if they are doing whatever with their personal money. How many people in their various communities have they provided scholarship withtheir personal money before they got elected? The reason they got elected is to manage our resources and not to loot us dry.

Why are we praising government as if they are doing whatever with their personal money. How many people in their various communities hav
their personal money before they got elected? The reason they got elected is to manage our resources and not to loot us dry.

One thing I know is that we will not have any meaningful development except if we make a change.

Organic change, not "election time political change" is what Nigeria and Nigerians need in this extreme critical period for the country. Born to rule mentality which bread s culture of impunity, Fulani herdsmen killing and burning towns, corruption seen as part of offensive against the infedels (as the infedels themselves joined in mix )

barcanista:
We need a change in government. Our Fiscal Policy has been counter-productive due to high rate of corruption plus high cost of running government. Nigerians save your future, kickout the incumbent with your votes..plssssss

No, you need a complete political restructuring of the country, if we are going to survive as possible. Let me educate you a little bit. The convergence of of manners of forces against have just entered a level two phase. ...........Nigeria is doomed.

chrisbaba1:
Why did they need lagos to invest?
How come all their viable investments are in another mans land while the home langushes un comparison?

Igbos are very good at praising their business accumen but its mere smokes, the real business men don't need to talk, they simply prove it by leading the noise makers.
I respect Igbos as a people but the arrogance is usually laughable.

My friend, this is a common sense strategy. To structure migration to lagos or kano advantages, all you need to do, simply pull in resources to say lagos or kano and develop the infrastructures of those places and marginalize the area that are densely populated and subsequently the population from the marginalized zones will start troopiny to a more infrastructured built up places. Infrastructure provisions are extremely capital intensive, and when you throw in a unitary over centralized government who are hell bent on under development of some region against others, you end up creating a mega city whose natives will see as threats any capital intensive projects (sea ports, international airports, industries etc.), to other regions or zones. These are what Igbos are battling in this country.

T8ksy:
Trust me, he does!!! And so does majority of these deluded folks.

Trust me, they are not delusional, you see majority of igbos and a handful of yoruba elites and leadership + hausa/fulani leaders understand properly. When you digging through the layers of understanding behind the slogan "Nigeria unity is non negotiable" coming mostly from hausa/fulani and yoruba leadership, that's when you probably will start to understand. Bro there reasons beyond your understanding, while yorubas hausa/fulani want igbos as desperatly as igbos reject them (pls not oil or economic of scale)

T8ksy:
You know the bolded above, as a FACT? Keep deluding yourselves.

For real though bro T8ksy, from all indices of development, has Nigerian in the last 50yrs or so, as is constitute today aided the yorubas in development or in backwardness?...

Korrection:
i hate your comments as a nigerian but loves it because you are just on a truth an frantic part...war isnt nice so spoken by my mother....i think im with you in this

No body will believe me if I say this. .. Onitsha and Aba changed Lagos to its mega city status. I did not say kano, kaduna, benin or port Harcourt but Onitsha and Aba. History has a way of revealing the truth and this truth will be reveal in our life time. From mid seventies (abt 20yrs of age), I took to the hubby of counting how many luxurious buses I passed on my way fort and back to lagos and onitsha (aba included ). My counting then gave me a little over 150 going and coming back. Now let's throw in other factors. The war ended in 1970 followed by absolute neglect and marginalization of the whole of S.E region no road or any infrastructure of any kind. Places like lagos , kano, kaduna, etc were being developed with oil boom money flow. Onitsha and Aba only resorted to what they know best... trading. As these desperate army of traders throng in out of Lagos little did they know that they are about to create history (the making of mega city lagos). The structural adjustment program of mid 1980s imposed by imf and world Bank, recaliberated the strategy of these army of traders. Any body who knew Onitsha main market in 1980s will tell you , the market lost up to half of her population to lagos. Remember, most of those 3 story buildings in Onitsha were built when those traders were still troopiny in and out of Lagos. As they settle down in lagos, lagos resl estate gather speed and Onitsha started to slow. Onitsha and Aba sowed the seed for lagos present momentum which is now attracting investment and investor from all over the world. I rest my cade.

omenka:
Can we all see the depth of division and religious cynicism Jonathan has entrenched in this country??

Jonathan has caused such huge trauma to the
Nigerian psyche its gonna take eons to heal!!
These were things that pre-date this
administration but were totally inconsequential
in the scheme of things. In all honesty, I NEVER NOTICED these Arabic inscriptions on the notes until people started talking about them. The gist took its root from Jonathanians' unfounded allegation of a sinister plot to "islamise" the country, a rhetoric aimed at mopping up support from Christian voters and increase their scepticism towards any non-christian contender for president.

We've had leaders of both faiths before
Jonathan, NO ONE ever talked about things like
these, now, they've become the only things
talked about simply because we landed
ourselves a president too naiive to understand
that politics and religion are two volatile
elements that shouldn't be mixed!!

Jonathan came in and has done every single
thing infuse into every Nigerian the
consciousness of the difference between a
Northerner and a Southerner, a Christian
and a Muslim, an Igbo man and a Hausa or
Yoruba man!!

He has NEVER DONE ANYTHING
to make Nigerians see the ties that bind them!!

This is Jonathan's LEGACY!!

Woe unto anyone who supports the continuation of such glaring disaster!!

My friend, your thinking and logic are completely warped. If this is truly the star of David as being alleged, then, it is a very welcoming development. It means that we've entered a new phase of balancing and equalizing. I will suggest he encourage the Nigerian Christians to introduce cannon laws in all Christian state so as to balance and equalize sharia laws. He can also take Nigeria into any affiliate of global Jewish or Christian organizations. # of muslin head of State, presidents and the total duration of their stay should be balance out with Christians also. # of oil wells, fedral scholarships. The lists goes on and on. Their must be a new Nigeria or nothing. To be honest, I don't like like his style of leadership but I will vote for him because he symbolizes equity and fairness, and more also the destruction of born to rule mentality embed in the sychic of housa/fulani which expresses it self in the culture of impunity. Bro, if this balancing and equalizing stop, be less assured their will be no end to fulani herdsmen killing and burning towns or boko haram etc...

focus7:
You are making a mistake, many of us who wants Jonathan out are christians. Taking it from the religion angle that u are coming from, I will say we wants Jonathan out because he has betrayed christianity, he has failed to represent what christianity stand for which is integrity and justice. It is a shame to call Jonathan a christian because he has represented more evil than should be expected, it seems as though Jonathan now attends tutorial for evil practices.

Majority of Christians want Jonathan out in order to vote in ......emmm... Buhari, boko haram isis. ..... this logic doesn't add up to meoo.

newsprocom:
(Excerpt of BMB's speech)

In the next few months, we shall have the opportunity to reset the course of our future as a nation. This opportunity goes beyond voting and being voted for, it is an opportunity that redefines our coexistence as a united nation, it is a moment that determines whether our kids would live in peace or war, our youths in gainful jobs or idleness or our families in wealth or poverty. It is a season that pitches impunity against accountability, leadership against rulership and the masses against their neo-colonial masters. I am of the opinion that despite the challenges we have faced as a nation over the cause of the past few years, we have recorded some gains but the challenge I have is that the problems have by far outweighed the gains to a point of oblivion. The next rational question to ask would be if the gains are so important such that it would be preferred above the challenges and thus the challenges be tolerated; the answer is ‘NO’. We do not want to live in a nation where government officials carryout their activities with impunity, where corruption thrives like flowers that blossom in the morning and where the security forces are used as a weapon of perpetual subjugation against the people they ought to protect. No citizen wants to live in a nation where ‘politricks’ is the name of the game, where the unqualified are exalted and where the rich lord over the poor. No citizen of any nation wants to be led by a caucus who believe that the wealth of the nation will someway somehow trickle down once the wealthy become wealthier. No citizen wants to be in a nation where hardwork is defined to be from top to bottom rather than from bottom up. So far, the leadership of our nation refuse to believe that if every citizen plays his own part and is given a fair share, the nation would be better for it. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has let the nation down and has introduced a new kind of politics that have never been seen in the history of our nation. Under his leadership, we now have new concepts like ‘stomach infrastructure’, his party (the PDP) have institutionalized the concept of “zoning” and has cemented our differences in the consciousness of every Nigerian, the nation is in so much bad debt with no cogent plan, the power sector is worse, education is a fiasco and we live in fear and insecurity, the international credibility of our nation has dropped to a point where we have become a laughing stock, scandals upon scandals, unguarded speeches upon unguarded speeches, everywhere you look is TAN and indeed our future has been tanned, our prospect is lot darker. Nigeria has been stripped naked in public and our glory has departed. Now is the time to put an end to our sufferings and walk into our salvation, now is the time to rewrite the history of our nation, we have a choice to make either to continue to walk in the path of destruction or the path of salvation. This opportunity comes just once in a season or maybe once in a lifetime, the choice we make in the next election would be the difference between a prosperous nation rising up again and a once prosperous nation going further down. There is hope for Nigeria and this hope is in our hands. For every problem, there is a solution and for every deadline there could always be a lifeline. In this election, the lifeline that would rescue Nigeria from this path of destruction was made mention in the words of a great woman of substance that gave so much to our nation, Mrs. Dora Akunyili of blessed memory. In a private conversation in London, she was asked how Nigeria could be changed, she said and I quote “its true Nigeria needs change and there’s no one in the country that can fight corruption except one man, and that is General Muhammadu Buhari, he is the only one. I am Igbo and Jona has failed, maybe we should atleast give the man (Buhari) a chance.”

One personal truth is that I see no profit in misleading people. As a political observer, I have witnessed both camps and I can say boldly that General Buhari is a man of integrity, discipline and truth. He is a man that has a genuine heart for the country such that I feel that nobody loves the nation more than this man. General Buhari is certainly not perfect but he has been tested and tried, he has no scandal against him and he is principled and strong-willed. General Buhari may be everything but one thing he is not is a ‘thief’. With him as President, I am not saying he is a magician and we won’t have challenges but unlike now, our gains would certainly outweigh our problems and atleast we would have a leader that can work to sort them out.

Nigeria under General Buhari would:

- Chase the corrupt out of the country automatically.

- He would expose the rot of the nation.

- Provide opportunity for youths to be more resourceful.

- Education would be free and of good quality because he would reform the entire sector.

- Nigeria would become food sufficient because that has always been a primary goal of his leadership.

- Health care would be top quality because he does not believe in foreign medical check-ups.

- Nigeria would regain her place of dignity internationally because Buhari is a highly respected leader home and abroad. For instance, during Obama’s inauguration, only him and late Nelson Mandela were personally invited from Africa.

- He would resuscitate the old and defunct national industries like Nigeria Airways and NITEL because they were the fulcrum of the economy when he last led the country and he understands the importance of having them functioning and the losses if we don’t.

- He would invest in youth development because he did it as PTDF Chairman. (He also refused to collect any salary for his efforts).

- Under him, Nigeria’s reserve would sky-rocket and he would do so much with a slim budget, he saved a lot as PTDF Chairman and did so much with the funds.

- Nigeria’s infrastructure would develop rapidly, little do people know that most of the inter-state highways we still enjoy today were built by Buhari.

- Nigeria would be a more beautiful and neat nation. Little do people know that national environmental sanitation that many states still observe till today was Buhari’s idea.

- Today, you find cars going one-way, people peeing on the express, a fight causing go-slow and people scrambling to enter the bus. Never will such happen under Buhari because he kicks against indiscipline. As Head of State, he launched the popular WAI (War Against Indiscipline).

- Buhari is tough enough to face Shekau to his face. Boko Haram would be a thing of the past, he would chase them forest to forest, door to door, street to street. He did it against Matasani and he knows how to do it again against Boko Haram.

- He would manage our resources better and he would pay off our debts because he believes that a nation in debt is a nation being colonised.

Today, we have a raped Nigeria and the choice is before us to restore her dignity, let us put our political, cultural and religious differences aside and let us together rewrite the story of our nation in this election. Let us refuse to be dribbled by the maradona of propaganda being used by the PDP and the Jonathanians to de-rep and defame the person of Muhammadu Buhari. If he truly is a religious bigot, he wouldn’t have chosen a Pastor (the person of Tunde Bakare, a man of equal integrity) to run with him in the last election even when forces tried to impose Okonjo-Iweala on him, he stood his ground. If that’s what he is, why didn’t we have religious clashes during his time as Head of State? If he sponsors Boko Haram, why did he fight Matasani? I asked myself, where did he get the money from? A person that could not even afford a Presidential nomination form to sponsor himself how much more Boko Haram.

Dear Nigerians, the truth is we have been fooled all the while, let us not buy into the foolery again. I encourage everyone to come out and vote, under the sun or in the rain, we must be there to protect the future of our kids, the votes must not be rigged this time, let everyone remain at the booth till all the votes are counted and recorded. This one day sacrifice is maybe all we have to do to secure the future of our only nation, the only place we can call ‘home’ where we placed our first footprint as a baby. This little sacrifice may be the end of a dying Nigeria. I present to you a Buhari you do not know, the choice is ours for the 4th time and this may be our last and final time to crown a great leader of a generation.

Thank you, God bless you and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

- BMB

My friend, the root of Nigeria problems is the born to rule mentality embed in the sychic of housa/fulani. It breeds culture of impunity, Fulani herdsmen killing and burning towns and villages boko haram, religious extremism that leads to resentment from other groups which will express it self in 2015 presidential election.....Jonathan is weak for sure, but where is the alternative.

centje:
I love this!! But it shouldn't be secret as such rather away from politics, unnecessary noise and media show.

It should not just be secret but esoteric, underground and covert. Ozo titled men with minimum of PhD in different disciplines (mostly scientific) should be initiated into this "society". We have these caliber of men in millions

OreMI22:
A war is necessary to address the born to rule mentality of the north.It's either Nigeria is a fair country or it should break up.
In 1995, Abacha wanted a system of power rotation among the 6 regions, but the north said NO!

Now they are threatening war if they don't get power. So be it.

That's absolutely right. If you don't address the born to rule mentality, you can never address "fulani herdsmen killing and burning", nor can you address extreme corruption from hausa/fulani who take this corruption as offensive war against Nigerian infidels. ...........Nigeria is doomed.

kel4soft: Who told you Igbos don't know the conference is a charade. Just that the current Igbo political office holders don't want to offend their oga at the top. Here in Port Harcourt, most Igbos I speak to are very different from with the way they see politics compare with their NL counterparts.

They understand fully. Stratagies change along the way.

Adadio: I was full of admiration when I visited the home of a retired Nigerian Army General from Abia,and saw first hand the microcosm
of Nigeria on display.The mother of the General hailed from Katsina,the wife partly Yoruba and partly Ijaw.I was amazed
at the harmony in inter personal relationships amongst the inlaws and relations in the large family tree of diverse ethnic groups.
Why can't this harmony be displayed nation wide.A friend of mine emphasized that the NYSC is a better initiative that can better
foster national unity.Why can't we integrate better to form a seamless union?Has the black pigment got something to do with it?
Can we share our experiences or views on this please.

It can never work with the way Nigeria was crafted socially, politically, economically, religiously{one sided}and etc----. My sister Nigeria is so mysterious and dark that you can't even imagine----- We may be heading into biological, cultural annihilation of some groups.

ilugunboy: A whole lot of sentimental crap high on verbose ....

How do you figure?.

Nigeria is doomed.