months: Yorubas should get this right, I am not fighting with u.
However, i will not be intimidated from claiming my right, in-view that my continued Nigeria status, was by force.
We had already left and abandonded Lagos in the 1960s. It was starvation by Awolowo and War by Gowon that drag us back into this dead marriage.
We are still willing to leave Nigeria today.
With that said, I maintain that Yoruba language should only be compulsory in School for Yoruba children, just like Islam is compulsory for only muslims.
And you get this straight"ISLAM IS A RELIGION,WHILE YORUBA IS A LANGUAGE"
months: DONT GET IT TWISTED, U CANNOT BE FIGHTING AND KILLING PEOPLE FOR WANTING THERE OWN COUNTRY AND BE CONVERTING THE COLLECTIVE WEALTH OF ALL NIGERIA TO YORUBA ONLY.
THAT IS TANTAMOUNT TO DECLARING A STATE WITHIN A STATE.
IF U PEOPLE ARE AFTER ODUDUWA, THEN COME OUT AND DENOUNCE NIGERIA.
THAT WAY, WE CAN PULL OUT OUR PEOPLE AND INVESTMENT IN A TIMELY MANNER.
Here,you're practically begging for our aid in your agitation for Biafra...oya deny
months: [s]This APC are a bunch of very backward people, no wonder Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are seriously determined to break the country.
Wat should we expect next, HausaFulani make islam compulsory for everybody residing in the Abuja, the Political capital of Nigeria?
Y is the black man so backward?[/s]
Islam is a religion,Yoruba is not...I've lived in Enugu state,Abuja,Kano and now I'm in Port Harcout,In your "righteous" igboland...All,I repeat it again that "ALL SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS TEACH IGBO",In Abuja,my school was taught Hausa Language and in Yorubaland they teach Yoruba,so...please tell me why again you are masturbating over Yoruba matter again??
Later,you'll say they are preventing you from actualizing Biafra
Blue3k: You should also consider carving a niche for yourself with YouTube videos. You're articles can easily be scripted and turned into 5-15 minute video depending on the amount of parts in articles. We don't get much context relating to Africa. Here are few examples on YouTube channels I recently got into.
dainformant: Cross River State Governor, Senator Ben Ayade at the weekend sent a high-powered delegation to Danare 2 in a bid to de-escalate tension between the community and some neighbouring communities in the Republic of Cameroon. This followed reports of renewed hostilities between the community in Nokia Local Government of the state and their neighbours in Cameroon.
A few days ago, some Cameroonian gandarme from Bodam community encroached into Nigeria's territory through Danare to cause havoc on the people over a land dispute. Two persons were reported dead while six others are said to be in critical condition with bullet injuries.
The delegation which was led by the State Security Adviser, Mr Jude Ngaji and the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa met with the leaders of the community, including youth leaders.
Speaking at the meeting with the community leaders, Ngaji assured the people that the governor will seek the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari on the matter as it involves a foreign country.
While urging them to keep the peace and not react to the provocation of the Cameroonians, he said to governor will be swift in finding solutions to their problems.
He disclosed that the statement government will soon bring infrastructural development to the area so as to give them a sense of belonging.
He disclosed that the state police command has deployed its men to the community to ensure peace, adding, "As police, we have deployed our men to bring peace."
NIGERIAN CAMEROON CHAD FRANCE CHINA To illustrate this “possible” war scenario, I will use the present proven capabilities of the belligerents.
Year 2020
The Boko Haram conflict ended two years ago with a victory for Nigeria but at great cost. Oil prices are on the rice and once again Nigeria’s economy is flourishingwith an average GDP growth rate of %4.
Wary of potential French subversive and exploitative machinations in the region after ten years of war, Nigeria decides its time to kick the French out of its sphere of influence. Nigeria hopes to accomplish this by bridging the gap between Anglophone and Francophone countries of the region and thus link together West Africa (Benin,Niger and others) wiith Central Africa (Chad,Cameroon and others).
The goal is to institutionally bring together the Anglophone and Francophone countries of West Africa into an integrational format focused on economic cooperation and regional security. The French controlled CFA is the official currency of over half of ECOWAS members, not to mention the colonial taxes it shamelessly imposes on Francophone countries. It will be illusory to expect France to cede its hegemonic neo-imperial influence over the enslaved Francophone.
There is no denying the inevitable. The economic and political future of ECOWAS will essentially come down to a battle between Nigeria and France in getting the member States to either accept being economically and culturally dependent on France? Or for the Paris controlled economies to ditch the neo-imperialist French economic model and bravely join the genuinely independent ECOWAS.
Nigeria is plainly in no position to compete with France on an economic and military level, so Nigeria turns to its other ally China to help with building Nigeria to the point where it can confidently press forward with the monumental task of kicking the French out of its sphere of influence.
China however prefer to enter into strategic partnership with Nigeria economically and have no desire to get involved militarily, getting mired Into a proxy fight with the West is not China’s ultimate goal. China burst into the economic scene by commiting a staggering $80 billion to develop and modernize Nigeria’s oik and gas infrastructure.
FRANCE TAKES NOTICE.
The announcement of an $80 billion investment package for Nigeria by China spooked the French. As Nigeria’s economic clout and strategic partnership with the world’s richest country grows, it was just a matter of time before the desperate poor and dependent Francophone countries are enticed into an economic partnership and integration with a Nigerian led ECOWAS, effectively putting an end to French influence in the region.
France will not relinquish its hegemony without a fight.
British Intelligence uncovered a covert mission by France to disrupt ECOWAS and instigate war. Which is not a surprise given that France has been trying to sabotage Nigeria for half a century. GCHQ (British Intelligence HQ) provided the top secrete memo to Nigeria’s Intelligence services.
The memo was titled “Justification for French Military Intervention in West Africa”
which pretty much explains itself.
The plan entails staging fake attacks on French citizens that would then be used as a pretext for carry out selected attacks n Nigerian targets.
The plan entailed blowing up an empty French patrol vessel at the Cameroonian harbour, and conduct fake funerals for French sailors. One of the crazy plan involves blowing up a small civilian plane. An aircraft would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to Cameroon.
At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The document goes on to explain how the plane would issue a distress call, explaining that it was under attack by the Nigerian Air force. The aircraft would then be blown up by remote control in the middle of its distress radio transmission.
We’ve seen this played out before. It took Nigeria a decade with 30,000 civilian casualties to sun due and crush Boko Haram. If France wants to play cowboy again, Nigeria is not interested in playing Red Indian.
Nigeria attacks Chad with three amoured divisions.
Hostilities begin with Nigeria launching a preemptive strike on Chadian airfields and strategic targets by the Nigerian Army 3rd Armoured Division.
The 3rd Armoured Division is responsible for the security areas bordering Chad. The division is headquatered in Jos and is made up of the 21 Armoured Brigade Maiduguri, 24 Armoured Brigade Yola and 33 Artilllery Brigades.
The 23 Armoured Brigades is made up of 231 and 232 Tank Battalions.
The Artilllery Brigade is made up of the 331 and 332 Field Artillery Regiments.
In totality the fire power the Nigerian Army 3rd amoured brings to bear on the Chadians are :
36 T-72 Main Battle Tanks. 15 T-55 MBT 50 Vickers MBT 100 Field Artillery Guns A mixture of 200 Infantry Fighting Vehicles and Amoured Personnel Carriers 15,000 troops. 20 APR-40/ RM-70 Multiple Launch Rocket System 10 ZSU-23-4 Self Propelled AA Gun 5 Roland Short Range Surface to Air Missile System. Nigeria’s operational goal is to destroy the airfields in N’djamena and hopefukky capture the airport in a quick surprise attack. Securing the airport, destroying the Chadian military aircrafts on the ground and making the runway inoperable for as long as possible.
Despite its oil wealth, Nigeria has failed to build up its air force substantially. That not withstanding for air support the Air Force deploys :
One ATR-42 Maritime patrol plane. 10 Mi-24/35 helicopter gunships 10 light attack Alpha Jets. 8 F-7N high speed interceptor. 3 CH-3 Rainbow Attack Drone. The Alpha Jets are armed with the Beluga cluster munitions.
Also the Nigerian military takes total control of NASDRA’s 5 low orbital sattelites for photo Reconnaisance. These satelites gives the Nigerian Army secure encrypted communications and will also provide imagery directly to mobile ground stations in Abuja with the attacking tank columns.
The element of surprise is lost ! Sattelite Imagery show Cameroonian troops and ground vehicles moving to reinforce Njamena. Nigeria’s military high command are not worried. Numerically they are far too inferior to pose any serious challenge. The secrete deployment of troops to reinforce Chadian defensive positions could only mean one thing ; The French know an attack is imminent and Nigeria is under no illusion of France staying out of the conflict.
It’s too late now to de-escalate. Wasting time only gives the enemy ample time to prepare. The order is given : ATTACK.
FRANCE decides to unilaterally enter the conflict on the side of Chad. France is a thousand miles away and theres little in place for French military infrastructure in Chad large enough to deter Nigeria’s invasion force. France orders the military to assist the Chadian army to halt or slow down the Nigerian advance until it could mobilise a large enough force to crush the Nigerian Army and kick it out of Chad,
Forty eight hours later the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaullle is spotted by leaving port via sattelite imagery. This is the one weapon that sends shivers down the spine of Nigeria’s military commanders.
France is the only nation besides the United States that has a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The 45 thousand ton Charles de Gaulle has a complement of 40 Dassaukt Rafale and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft.
It’s also carries the deadly Aster missiles. Embedded in the carrier are 2000 French elite French Foreign Region. With a top speed of 40 knots, the Charles de Gaulle will reach the West African coast in roughly one week.
The Stealth Corvette’s NNS Unity and the Hamilton Class Frigates NNS Okpana and NNS Thunder assigned to the Eastern Naval Command position themselves off the coast of Gambia and Cameroon. Lacking in long range anti ship missile, 6 RM-70 MLRS are deployed onboard the warships with a further 30 BM-21 GRAD dotting coastal land bases.
For extended detection range the Frigates will rely on airborne aircraft equipped with long radars and drones for target detection and if need be guide interceptor aircrafts or artillery strikes. OCTOBER 15 2020
At 21:00 hours, massed artillery units hurl trainloads of high explosive artilllery shells and 122 mm rockets in a sustained massed volley. The psychological effect of hundreds of very loud screaming artillery shells landing in a sustained volley that seemed to go on forever sent panic stricken Chadian troops running in all direction. Those who survived the bombardment wee peppered with multiple shrapnel wounds.
The artillery bombardment overwelmed air defense batteries that dotted the military base. Expecting an air attack they had hoped to lure the Nigerian Air Force into attacking by parking the entitety of their attack planes outside their hangers, out in the open. They knew the capabilitie of the Nigerian Air Force strike fleet and hoped to obliterate the NAF at a stroke with their SAMS and troops wielding MANPADS on rooftops.
Obviously the Nigerian army did not read the script. Surface to Air missiles proved useless against artillery shells and rockets. Six MiG-29’s, four SU-25 Frogfoot and a handful of helicopters packed outside the ramp were destroyed.
Nigerian Navy ships lack anti-ship missiles and will be sitting ducks for French submarines or warships if it tries to engage the French Navy on the high seas. Nigeria deploys its fleet of CH-3 Rainbow drones, loitering overhead searching for the French ships. It spotted two French Frigates off the coast of Gabon.
SSBN: “Don’t go. I swore I would never go back there,” came the voice of my friend Jay Smith on a trans-Atlantic Skype call. “I’ve been in over sixty countries. I’ve been all over Africa. I lived there, and I’ve never felt unsafe the way I did in that country. There is something especially terrifying about that place.”
“Good to know,” I replied. “Alan said that he goes there all the time. He said he even takes his children.”
Alan was a British politician who had recently attended one of my lectures in London. To hear him tell it, Nigeria was like Club Med.
“Alan?” Jay was incredulous. “Did Alan also tell you that when he goes he’s traveling with the British government and is accompanied by heavily armed guards? You? You’re going to have an entirely different experience.”
This was my introduction to Nigeria. Jay’s opinion was not acquired from Trip Advisor. He had been there more than once. During a 2008 visit, he spent nine hours hiding in the wheel well of a car while a mob went up and down a blocked highway looking for Westerners to victimize. Nigeria was, in his view, unique to the African experience. It wasn’t that terrible things didn’t happen in other countries; it was the sheer magnitude of them in Nigeria. Even other Africans are afraid of Nigeria and its well-earned terrifying reputation.
I had been invited there by my friend, Jwan Zhumbes, the Anglican bishop of Bukuru. Jwan and I had done our doctoral work together. He had asked me some years ago to come and teach the members of the diocese on issues of faith and culture. Jwan is shepherd to a diocese that has been attacked by the Boko Haram and another Islamic group, the Fulani Herdsmen Militia. He was, in my estimation, a great man doing a great work.
Now, months later, the mission was complete and it was time for me to leave the country. My time in Nigeria had been one of great blessing. The experience defies a simple description or even a simple narrative. These are Christians whose churches, homes, families and friends have been bombed, burned, and persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. Indeed, just last month, 20 Christians were slaughtered by the Fulani only a short drive from where I was staying. This is not uncommon. And yet, optimism prevails with them where self-pity and a spirit of defeat might rule a lesser people.
Packing-up for the journey ahead, I noticed Jwan at my door. He looked upset.
“What is wrong?” I asked.
“It took the housekeeper a long time to answer the door,” he began. “For a moment, I feared something had happened to my friend during the night.”
“I’m fine,” I reassured him. “I slept well.”
Jwan, ever pastoral, inspected the mosquito bite on my upper arm. “It does not look good. You are taking your malaria medication?”
“Yes.”
This interaction is a neat summary of the dangers of Nigeria—they come from both man and nature. To quote one Nigerian writer, “Unfortunately, much like traveling on our roads, life and living in Nigeria is becoming alarmingly cheap, brutal and unpredictable.”
And, oh, the roads. Jwan and his driver, Moses, were here to take me back to the airport. The journey from Abuja to Jos had been harrowing. Now it was time to do it again, but in reverse. A long, perilous drive, it is not for the faint of heart. Going to Nigeria? Gird your loins.
Moses, our driver for this real-life version of “The Fast and Furious,” is a sturdy, quiet fellow in his mid-twenties. Being a bit prone to car sickness on these brutal Nigerian roads, I had opted to drive or sit in the front passenger seat during much of my visit. But when we were about an hour out of Jos and at the front end of this long, lonely highway, Jwan ordered Moses to pull over.
“We must now move you to the backseat,” he explained to me. “We know not what evil lurks for you in the bush.”
This sentence, spoken as it was in Jwan’s James Earl Jones-like baritone and in an older, more sonorous British English that is extinct in all but former British colonies, had an ominous quality to it. I moved to the back where the windows were tinted. Jwan reclined my seat slightly to conceal me further. He then gave Moses a uniform like that of a traffic cop and told him to put it on.
“He will look official,” Jwan explained. “The checkpoint guards are less likely to give us trouble.”
Sketchy people are not unique to Nigeria. But Nigeria’s sketchy types tend to be heavily armed, and that makes things a bit dicey. Moses, who clearly liked wearing the uniform, pulled the Toyota Sequoia back onto the highway and took aim at the far horizon. The engine roared as he pushed the RPMs into the gauge’s red limits just as the driver had done when we traveled this road a week before. I have never seen a vehicle endure such punishment, and I have punished a lot of vehicles. It wasn’t merely that we were going fast, it was the duration of it, the pounding of the road, the constant hard braking and re-acceleration. Five and a half hours is a long time to push a vehicle, any vehicle, so hard. I feared the engine might blow or …
“What happens if we blow-out a tire?” I asked, already knowing the grim answer.
Jwan’s reply was typical of the man’s penchant for the eloquent understatement: “It would be a very bad day for us all.”
What Nigeria’s Christians accept as normal is, for the typical Westerner—or even the typical African—extraordinary. Some accept it because they don’t know anything different. Others accept it because they have no choice. Intelligent Travel, an independent group providing risk assessment to travelers, rates Nigeria a 97 percent travel risk. Meanwhile, life expectancy in Nigeria is a mere 53 years. Regardless, God’s grace was evident in how these good people managed it. They didn’t worry about those things they could not control. They simply did the best they could and left the rest to God’s sovereign mercy.
Moses, whose named seemed perfectly suited to his task on this day, led us on at high speed through the African desert.
“Get me to the Promised Land, Moses,” I joked. The young man smiled and, having connected his smartphone to the car stereo, he started his playlist that began with something unexpected.
“You like Rascal Flatts, Moses?” I asked. He grinned and nodded enthusiastically in the rearview mirror. I just shook my head, wondering if Rascal had ever imagined a scenario like this when he—or whoever—wrote this piece of music. I cannot now recall the song, but it surely must have been “Bless the Broken Road.”
“Now that you have been with us, my friend,” Jwan began, “how does the reality of our country compare to your expectations?”
“A South African friend of mine had told me that Nigerians were a huge people,” I said. “He has never been to Nigeria, but he told me that Nigerians were like the actor Michael Clarke Duncan, the big guy in “The Green Mile.” Huge. So, I had expected to feel like a grasshopper in their sight.”
At this, Jwan and Moses roared in delight.
“Instead you discovered that it is you who are of the tribe of Anak!” Jwan joked, completing my biblical reference. “We are more like Asians in size. You saw how you were bigger than almost everyone you met in this country! But that myth is part of the reputation of Nigeria in Africa. Nigeria and Nigerians are feared. Even by other Africans. Nigeria is like a scarecrow—you only need see it from afar to be afraid.”
That, I knew, was true. Later, without exception, when other Africans learned that I had been in Nigeria, they practically shivered. “Other Africans don’t go to Nigeria,” one man told me. The reasons, I heard, ranged from drug trafficking to witchcraft, but violence was the most common theme.
That said, Nigerian Christians are remarkable. Tough, charismatic, and possessed of an irrepressible joy, no one could ever conquer a people of such spirit. Not the Boko Haram, not the Fulani Herdsmen, not a corrupt government, and not the liberal policies that the West has tried to force upon them. The unrelenting pressure of violence, corruption, and pestilence have combined to produce a pearl of a people.
But the West has failed them. Abandoned them, really. Deep into the country, away from the operations of oil companies with their heavy security and guarded compounds, Westerners are almost non-existent.
Even so, the anti-Western narrative of colonialism was not reflected among the Nigerians I met. Quite the opposite. I don’t mean to suggest here that Nigerians think British colonialism was all peaches and cream. But these are a sophisticated, educated people who recognize that the British, particularly the Anglican Church, brought many good things to Nigeria—education, hospitals, infrastructure, and, most importantly, Jesus.
Speaking at a conference in London some years ago, Peter Akinola, the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Nigeria, boldly chastised the West:
“You came to my country and told us there is only one God through whom we could be saved, Jesus Christ, and we believed you, and followed Him. You told us there is only one true book to know him, the Bible, and we believed you, and read it. Now you tell us Allah of Islam is also god, and that we can use the Qur’an to learn about God. You invited the Muslims here as guests, and they have now become your hosts. So now I come to your country to remind you of what you have forgotten.”
Wow. A friend of mine who was present at this occasion said it was one of the most powerful talks he has ever heard. You see, to Nigerian Christians, there are two manifestations of the West:
The good one that brings freedom, education, health care, and the eternal hope of Jesus Christ; and the bad one that uses every coercive power it possesses to bully the Third World into implementing permissive policies on abortion and homosexuality. Regarding the first, they want to know where that West went. Why did the Western church start something and not finish it? Regarding the second, to say that they deeply resent it is a gross understatement.
Prior to President Obama’s 2015 visit to Kenya, his administration attempted, unsuccessfully, to force that country (and other African countries) to change their laws on homosexuality. Many Africans deemed this both arrogant and unwanted, which, of course, it was. For them, this is America at its worst. More than once I was asked if American churches were all gay.
“What’s wrong with the American church?” One man asked me. “On television, we see so many people in church”—they all get TBN and DayStar on satellite—“but then we read they are all liberal [his word], approving of gay marriage. Don’t they believe in the Bible anymore?”
Watching CNN International and BBC as their news sources, it is no wonder that they think this. But they have a point. Western churches, Western Christians, have gone soft. This is because they have confused Christ’s command to love others with being likable, as if that were an attribute of God. (It isn’t.) As such, they endeavor to be, above all else, inoffensive and polite. This doctrinal malpractice has given us a generation of men who are what C.S. Lewis called “men without chests.”
And yet, in spite of ourselves, these Nigerians were a people who felt an affection for America. Jwan’s brother-in-law, a minister of agriculture, said: “Not only do we think that America should be first, we think America should lead the world.”
Given the narrative we hear in the United States, chiefly, that America is bad for the world and is hated by it, that statement surprised me. San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich recently made headlines when he said that “America is an embarrassment to the world.”
That may be, but not for the reason Popovich might suppose. America’s current identity crisis is one that makes people like those that I met in Nigeria (and elsewhere in the Third World) nervous. If America isn’t leading the world, the alternatives look grim. Who now? Russia? China? They hope not.
“What is wrong with America?” is a frequent refrain.
To Popovich’s point, I was embarrassed to have to answer such questions, but for precisely the opposite reason than he meant. Most embarrassing of all was having to answer questions about the West’s position on Islam.
“Why do they think Islam is a religion of peace?” another man asked me. “These people have been killing us for decades and your media just ignores it. Now they are killing you and still your President Obama called it a peaceful religion. We see Western leaders saying that over and over again. Why?”
I could do little more than shrug and hold my palms up in resignation, because the question is all too valid. It isn’t bad enough that these people should be murdered by Muslim militants, but their suffering is compounded by the West’s willful blindness to a religion that bears a striking resemblance to a war strategy.
Yes, I was embarrassed by these manifestations of bad America. That I have written and spoken so forcefully about Islam is an encouragement to these persecuted Christians. Watching a clip from my debate on Al-Jazeera with atheist Daniel Dennett and Muslim cleric Zaid Shakir, Nigerian clergy practically cheered. You’d never get that reaction in the West, and that’s because Westerners prefer the false narrative that comforts them to the truth which frightens them.
Approaching a military checkpoint, Moses slowed the Toyota. The guard, spotting the uniform Moses was now wearing, saluted and waved us on. Moses, loving every second of the respect the uniform garnered for him, smiled to the point of laughter.
“Moses,” I warned, “you’ve got to act like you get saluted every day. To them, this must appear old hat for you. If you look like you’re enjoying it too much, they might get suspicious.”
He tried to suppress his smile, but it was no use. Much to my amusement, the salute thrilled him. Punching the accelerator, we were once again blazing a dusty path across the African plain.
The World Health Organization considers Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world to travel by road and, brother, I can tell you they are right. Each year, there are roughly 615 fatalities in Nigeria for every 100,000 vehicles. Compare that astonishing figure to the United States: 12. That’s before you factor in terrorism and the constant threat of roadside ambushes. Nigeria is leading the world in all the wrong categories.
A few hours later, we reached the international airport in Abuja. I thanked Moses for his driving and I thanked God for Toyota. My heavens, did that Sequoia take a beating, and so did I. My multitude of formerly broken bones ached from the journey.
Jwan walked with me into the terminal until airport security permitted him to go no farther. We embraced as friends and brothers in Christ. Watching him leave, I again thought of what a great man he is and the task before him.
Turning to making my way to the Lufthansa check-in counter, I realized that Phil Collins’s “Take Me Home” was playing over airport speakers. Fitting. I took one more fleeting glimpse at the figure of Nigeria’s great Christian bishop in the distance.
Minutes later, I was through passport control and in line to board the plane. I approached the woman checking tickets and passports.
“Your ticket, please.”
I handed it over. Raising her eyebrows, she said, “Double-o-seven?” She then examined me dramatically from head to toe and added flatly, “Yes, I think so.”
Having no idea what she was talking about, I looked at my ticket for clues:
“Seat Assignment: 007.”
I gave a wan smile and joined the enthusiastic rush that always possesses passengers boarding a plane. Elsewhere, such enthusiasm baffles me, but here it made sense. Since the Nigerian crisis began, not even Lufthansa remained in the country a moment longer than was necessary. The planes land, unload their passengers, refuel, reload, and leave in just over an hour with the same crew.
Seated next to a Nigerian woman from Lagos who now lives in Atlanta, she asked me where I had been.
“Jos.”
“In the north?” she exclaimed. “Did you drive that road?!”
“Yes.”
“From Abuja to Jos and back again?”
“Yes.”
“You had armed escorts, I suppose.”
“No.”
She looked at me wide-eyed over her reading glasses. “No? I would never do it! Lagos is, hmm, okay, but the north? Even I, a Nigerian, would never go there! What company lets you do that? I’ve not heard of it being done!”
“It was for ministry.”
“Ah!” she said with a knowing look. “Then the Lord was your protection!”
After a momentary pause, she added: “Still, I would never do it.”
Her delivery, perfectly timed, and with just the right intonation, was classic. I laughed out loud.
Soon thereafter I received a text from Jwan:
“You are an awesome and a wonderfully daring figure, my friend. You have proved to me that you are a beloved brother and a friend indeed…. May the Lord be with you. Anticipating the news of your safe arrival.”
As the plane lifted-off, I thought about my courageous Nigerian friends and the extraordinary work God is doing through them and all that we, in the West, could learn from them. With a full heart, I reclined my seat and minutes later I was sleeping more deeply than I had in a very long time.
EternalTruths: That is why I said, the government is filled with idiots & thieves who fail to realize the relationship between gifted people developing a model and industrialists mass producing them.
uckennety: Get back bakassi!1st then we can start talking!!
Nigeria is not united to start with 1st!any country that invade Nigeria now!especially from the southern part! After making deals with locals will surely win
Nigeria is simply a geo-political territory not a group of people
You might see online and physical brawls,tribalism and lots of other forms of hatred among Nigerians,but the truth will still remain the truth:"NIGERIA'S STRENGHT IS IN ITS DIVERSITY"... Nothing will come between its unity...dont be suprised that in war,the BH,FULANI MILITIAS,IPOB TERRORISTS AND ND MILITANTS will join forces with the military to protect the country...i love this country!!!
You don't need to set up a weapons & machinery factory to develop a model.
Citizens will be challenged to develop a model and people like Innoson, Dangote etc will be given the model to mass produce it.
SSBN CSTR1000 and Baralatie, this is the pathway to catch up with the West.
I think Dangote 'may' decide to finance it,i don't totally know but I am 90% percent sure that he won't take up production of those weapons...he tends to avoid those kind of deals unlike Innoson
You don't need to set IP a weapons & machinery factory to develop a model.
Citizens will be challenged to develop a model and people like Innoson, Dangote etc will be given the model to mass produce it.
Most are there,with model drones and jeeps,aircrafts and they are always carried by news headlines buy we always forget the most important question...
This is equal to the proverbial "who will bell the cat"it was a brilliant idea until the time was near to decide who to bell it. Despite being carried on Social media,media powerhouses and outlets,blogs and papers,the gorvenment has failed to take notice of those individuals....why,where,when and how are the questions we should ask ourselves... "How do we bring these set of talented individuals to gorvernment notice"
tsdarkside: motivate??..how long you wan motivate them??..till you land in your grave??...i think separation is the best way.....
i hate talking to people over and over again and they still dont get it...we are all toghether,why dont we all become gays,lesbians and such...
the western nations will not like you when you dont accept this absurdities.....we must separate...each go their own way....
In event of a snake bite,you try to treat the arm first before you think of cutting it off...we can't motivate them individually,but if we could gain the support of those heavyweights I mentioned before...there's a 70% chance(I love those odds)
tsdarkside: alot...but you can start small...everything starts small.....innoson started small too....and now they are responsible for the brakes of the alpha jets...
That's where Nigeria needs to invest the $600million...with that amount and reverse engineering,we'ed have the capability to produce about 4 alpha jets.
EternalTruths: Stop looking East but start developing yours by challenging your citizens and corporate organizations to use their personal money to develop advance military technology with the promise that you will reward them with millions & billions.
I thought of this then I decided to ask this question...
"Does anybody know how much it takes to start a weapons & machinery factory"??
tsdarkside: russia is just playing the game of interests...they are under siege too...you cant blame them too much...
and they risk too that the nigerians will betray them in the future...nigerians love for america is insane...although the americans never cared about them...
but the russians sold us some attack helicopters....
the day we nigerians start showing heavy disdain for america,then the russians will start selling us much more...if we start thinking like north korea then the russians would be even dashing us weapons for free....
point and case:
Algeria,Uganda dont like america...
God bless you for that @bolded...Ive always wondered why that was so...despite seeing the public humiliation Obama put us through...Even the South Americans detect them because of their born to rule mentality. The day our people stop seeking their approval for anything will mark a new chapter in our country's progress.
ocelot2006: Probably because the contract was inflated for kickback purposes. Someone needs to buy are new house at Maitama and take care of his mistresses.
We no call name oo
But that article got me pissed off...i was forced to check that of the Navy and I was impressed...that of the Army,and I understood why we were the best in Africa
tsdarkside: exactly....we must brake the ties to western nations by force...see what happened to ghadaffi when he started thinking on his own...
we may even have to go to war against them to prove that we are free people...
but how many african nations will agree to that...??..
they already shitt their panties when they hear only the word white...
thats why i say nigeria must separate from africans...or else we will continue to be trapped...
Not seperate,why not try another word like motivate...some are cowardly because they don't have the name,resources,political clout and military to develop rapidly...maybe we should stop using our country standards to measure others,we might have a shot at it. If the South Africans,Kenyans,Egyptains(maybe),Ghanians and Nigerians have this your vision not to be limited(I dislike the breakup part tho...I'm an unapologetic African man...you can call it pride )you'll see how the other smaller nations will rally to out side because "United we stand,divided we fall"(still waiting for my Biafra brothers to understand that...)And we're 1000%percent sure that we'll win and Africa will no longer be a third world continent but a nation yo reckon with. (Jhus my opinion...im always open to debates and ideas)
SSBN: Alpha jet is is trainer aircraft. It will not survive a triple A environment. Sending young pilots to their early grave for what?
After reading this article...i was forced yo birn the "midnight data" on Wikipedia. I saw a lot of 4th and5th gen aircrafts Nigeria could purchase from China for about $35million per unit(PS,they range from,bombers,reconnaissance,stealth operations.e.t.c....i.e.multirole jets)and it got me thinking that why doesn't the FG want to purchase these jets(mostly built in 2000-2005) than waste $600million on junk from the same junk??
Politics › Re: It Is Unconstitutional To Force Yoruba Language On Non Yorubas. by kozmicity: 4:21pm On Oct 21, 2017
