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gidgiddy:
Restructuring isnt a bad idea but it is impossible. In other to restructure Nigeria, you must change the constitution. To change the constitution you will need at least 67% or two third majority vote at the national assembly. The core North dont want Nigeria restructured and they control 40% of the national assembly. There absolutely no chance of getting the vote required for restructuring

In Nigeria do votes count? Or is it rigging that counts!

SURVIVAL is what is at hand. In other countries even in Africa like Sudan people use protests to bring in democracy. Nigerians too have to do same. Otherwise the future will be worse than the present and past.

So you are correct that votes will not do it. So we use a different method/methods.

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PORT HARCOURT TO MAIDUGURI RAIL IS TOO RISKY

Port Harcourt to Maiduguri rail line also called Eastern rail line will connect Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta to Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno, near the border with Chad.

It will go through several states including Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Benue, Nasarawa, Rivers, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Maiduguri in Borno

The last 4 States where the rail passes of Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Borno are in NE, Arewa area. Not only are they Sharia states, but these are the Boko Haram and ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) areas.

Our SURVIVAL is our priority.

It is TOO RISKY to allow trains from terrorist lands to come through Middle Belt and South. Fulani have made it clear severally that conquest of Nigeria up to the sea is their hope, plan and agenda. Plus they say we are their forever slaves.

Nigerians, we cannot allow this unsafe plan to happen. SEPARATION from Arewa is our own agenda for South and MB. We owe it to our children not to leave them what will one day destroy them. This government that rigged itself in and with the sham and shameful INEC post-election tribunal cannot be trusted.

The rail networks we want and can be safe with are those that are circulating within South and Middle Belt.

Shine our eyes and reject the path of this proposed Port Harcourt – Maiduguri rail line.

Amaechi who is canvassing it is not known for protecting SS and is just a southern useful idiot for Fulanization.

Here is link to information about this railway line:
https://constructionreviewonline.com/2019/11/negotiations-for-port-harcourt-maiduguri-rail-project-in-nigeria-begins/

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linx123:
Nigeria’s national security adviser, Babagana Monguno, has accused President Mohammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, of undue and dangerous interference on matters bordering on national security...../

PLEASE my brethren from SE, SW, SS and MB - This is all acting a play and huge pretense.

They are trying to throw sand into our eyes.

The Agenda is SEPARATION from Arewa through Restructuring so Arewa can no longer hold the indigenous people of Nigeria down!

After all, how is all this their in-house play fighting making Nigeria better?

This is just a HOAX!

Nonsense!

My Igbo brethren,

Confusion and disunity is not strength at this time, or at any time.

Please be advised that survival of SE and SS (plus of course of Oduduwa and Middle Belt) is what we are about. SURVIVAL.

So please let us remember and keep to the agenda.

The united agenda is RESTRUCTURING.

Enemies of progress for indigenous peoples of Nigeria will keep on trying to bring in confusion and division.

So please ooo, keep your eyes on the ball.

It is RESTRUCTURING not Igbo president that is needed.

Why should Igbo want to be president of this One Nigeria failed through non-Igbo presidents? Why put your hands on shit?

RESTRUCTURING is the agenda and solution.

RESTRUCTURING so all South and MB SEPARATE by any means necessary from Arewa.

Restructuring into Confederation of 4 regions of Oduduwa, Middle Nelt, Lower Niger (SE & SS together), and Arewa. Or Split into 4 countries with same arrangement.

Please Ndi Igbo, you are known for being clever and this agenda to seek RESTRUCTURING is not hard to keep to.

Dereformer:
South West remains the weakest link in the south/middle belt chain.
My advice is that SE,SS and MB should be weary of any union with the SW.

The reason is simple. The blood thirty vampires from Futa jalon have already infiltrated and subdued them with Islamic religion

We are a new generation now. Before we indigenous people did not understand it was about RESOURCE CONTROL, ie control of resources of indigenous people of Nigeria. Now we fully do. Now it is time for UNITY between ALL OF SOUTH AND MB. Of course there will be traitors, among ALL of us not just SW. But we cannot fail this time as we will be properly prepared. Our children's future depends on us. How can we fail them and still want to be loved as Papa?

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MIDDLE BELT AND SOUTH – FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION

As Femi Fani-Kayode said in his open letter to Buhari of 16th February 2020 Link here:
https://saharareporters.com/2020/02/16/open-letter-president-muhammadu-buhari-femi-fani-kayode


“The new generation of southern and Middle Belt leaders must NOT fail because this is the final lap. For our generation failure is NOT an option…”. (FFK)

In that same Open Letter, FFK quoted that “Worse still, according to UNICEF, if Nigeria were to ever break up the core north would be the poorest spot on planet Earth”.

We are all of us from South and MB learning that it has always been about RESOURCE CONTROL. Whether it be the foreigners Frederick Lugard and the British, or the foreigners from Futa Jalon called Fulani.

My brethren of South and MB, failure is just not an option. SEPARATION FROM AREWA is the only and best and longstanding solution. Since the British era, our Resources have been stolen from us. How long can this robbery go on? Or is it we are truly the slaves of Fulani (God forbid it!)

SEPARATION FROM AREWA is the right thing to do. We cannot continue to be the suffering victims of Fulani.

For you who think you will be safe by running away abroad what if you are wrong? Oyeebo countries are kicking against too many of us being there and are likely to send many back to Africa in time. Every time at their football matches Oyeebo do racist chanting against the Black players and this is a sign of things to come. Even rich Black football players are not wanted there, talk less of ordinary African in Oyeebo country where we also hear some Oyeebo patients rejecting treatment from Black doctors. SO NIGERIA IS ALL WE HAVE! So we must not lose our ancestral God-given lands.
SEPARATION FROM AREWA with South and MB in tight alliance to free ourselves from the robbers stealing our natural resources.

SEPARATION FROM AREWA is the South and MB agenda. Make it known widely. Broadcast it everywhere. One day for the thief, but now day for the owner. We are the indigenous people of Nigeria so we are the true owners of this territory. It is therefore SEPARATION FROM AREWA!

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI BY FEMI FANI-KAYODE
Sahara Reporters, February 16th, 2020


Mr. President, many believe that you cannot read and those that believe that you can claim that you cannot go beyond three lines. They say outside of that you can only comprehend cartoons.

I do not share either view. I know you well enough to concede that when you consider a literary submission of sufficient importance you have the prescence of mind, discipline, health, intelligence and ability to read through it very slowly and very carefully weighing up every word. And that is precisely as it should be.

The first open letter that I wrote to you was in December 2015 and the following serves as the second.

You will forgive me because this is a long letter and I am fully aware that your attention span or ability to retain too much information in one fell swoop may not be as good as it used to be.

Nevertheless I urge you to do your best to muster the courage, energy and intellectual stamina to stay the course and to find the time out of your busy schedule to read it from beginning to end.

I have written it because our nation is entering into dangerous and precarious waters and I sense that something will give very soon. I am therefore constrained to use this medium to bring my observations to your attention.

Be rest assured that I speak out of nothing but love and concern for the welfare of the Nigerian people and it is not my intention to insult you or undermine and disrespect your office but rather to shine the light of truth on all your activities with a view to assisting and encouraging you to change your ways.

You will agree with me that, no matter how bitter it may be, that truth must be told. This is a sacred obligation on our part as leaders and a matter of duty and honor.

I owe you, the Nigerian people and posterity that much and I have little doubt that no matter how badly you may feel after reading it, history will vindicate me and prove me right and one day you will acknowledge and recognise the profundity, wisdom and foresight in my constant and consistent criticisms, admonitions and counsel.

Outside of that it is my earnest prayer that the God of Heaven, whose I am and whom I serve, will judge between you and I.

Your Excellency, kindly note and consider the following.

You released hundreds of Boko Haram fighters from prison claiming that they are reformed and a few days later 30 of your citizens are blown up by the same Boko Haram in Borno state.

Worse still on that same day 16 members of the same family and four others were herded into a room and burnt alive by Fulani militants in Kaduna state.

After these terrible events instead of rushing back home to stand with your people, you stayed in Addis Ababa, lamenting and crying about the security situation in Libya and you sent your Vice to a funeral in Nairobi. Such insensitivity, even by your own standards, is rarely seen.

It took you three long days to finally see fit to leave your foreign friends, leave Addis Ababa and fly directly to Maiduguri to express your condolences to the Governor and people of Borno.

Even then you could not muster the courage to go to the town of Auno where the bombing took place but only to Maiduguri, the capital of the state.

Understandably you were received with boos, jeers and shouts of "ba ma so" (meaning "we dont want" by the crowds that lined the streets and this was an eloquent testimony to the fact that the entire nation, including the north that you claim to represent and be a champion of, is fed up with you and can no longer bear your incompetence and inability to run the affairs of our nation.

Worst still hours after your condolence visit Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri itself hitting one of its suburbs called Jidari Polo.

Their leader, a cowardly creature that can best be described as a psychopathic, delusional, sociopathic, mentally-deranged, murderous, bloodthirsty, bloodlusting and unconciable monster by the name of Sheik Abubakar Shekau, even had the nerve to send you a public warning in a recorded message that was released to the public after you left in which he arrogantly and boastfully declared that you must never come back to Borno again or you would be attacked and that you "should fear and serve God and not cows". He added the following,

"Buhari thinks he is a general but God says he is nothing. He hasn't achieved anything in the sight of God. Buhari is deceiving the people and playing to the gallery".

Mr. President he has sent his message to you and to Nigeria and we have heard him loud and clear.

Yet most disturbing was not his sheer effontry but the fact that the only thing that you had to offer the leaders and people of Borno state when you got there was a lame and self-debasing question which was "I wonder how Boko Haram still survives?"

You went further by blaming them for "not taking care of local security" forgetting that that is meant to be your job and not theirs.

In your so-called condolence visit you refused to take responsibility for your own inaction and failure and instead you sought to pass the buck to the very victims of terror that you claim to have come to mourn!

You refused to inspire and encourage them and instead you accused them of, at best, rresponsible behaviour and, at worst, collusion with the enemy.

This is not just a case of rubbing salt in their wounds but it is more like blowing them up and killing them all over again. Worse still as you spoke your Minister of Defence, who sat just a few feet away from you, fell fast asleep!

Mr. President I really do wonder whether you have any feeling or any compassion at all? Has the milk of human kindness stopped flowing through your veins?

Do you know that young students, women, infants and babies were amongst those that were blown up in the Auno atrocity?

Yes you issued a statement immediately but you didn't show up till three days later and your Vice, who was in the country the day it happened, never showed up at all and instead jetted out to President Arap Moi's burial in Nairobi!

Kindly tell me what the Nigerian people have done to deserve this level of contempt? Or is there more to it than meets the eye?

Forgive me Mr. President but I am constrained to ask, why do you love terrorism, bloodshed and violence so much? Why do you find it so easy to forgive terrorists that are slaughtering your own people? Are you feeding your spiritual foundation and getting your power from the spilling of innocent blood?

Meanwhile your own Chief of Army Staff has told us today that, ""we have defeated insurgency but we are facing the challenge of terrorism. There is no-where you will not find Boko Haram, even in Lagos here, there are Boko Haram. In Kaduna there are Boko Haram. There are more across the North East. Many have been arrested here in Lagos. We have been tracking them. We arrest them and take them into custody".

I commend the Chief of Army Staff for his admission of failure but what he didn't add was that after taking them "into custody" you ordered him to release them and even draft some of them into the Nigerian Army on the spurious grounds that they have repented and that they have been reformed.

Again the truth is that neither you or him ever "defeated insugency" or anything else. Instead you encouraged and supported it! Both of you have failed the Nigerian people just as I predicted that you would and if you had any decency or honor you would BOTH resign.

Aside that it takes a very mean, callous, wicked and cruel President and Commander-in-Chief to release 1,400 terrorists who have murdered, butchered, slaughtered, tortured and maimed his soldiers and terrorised his people over the last 5 years.

Mr. President I am constrained to tell you that some believe that you are a sadist! They believe that your heart is as hard as stone and your soul is as black as night.

Relevant and instructive are the words of Mr. Charles Ogbu, a brilliant writer and essayist who has consistently proved that he is not only insightful but also deeply profound. Three days after the Auno bombing he wrote the following:

"Those who are asking for the sack of the Service Chiefs as a solution to the upsurge in Boko Haram terrorism are missing the point.

Nigeria is not currently being overrun by terrorists because we have a set of incompetent service Chiefs or soldiers who cannot fight the terrorists. Not at all.

The only reason the Boko Haram terrorists are having a field day is because we have a President and a Commander in Chief who shares the same ideology as the terrorists and as a result prefers pandering to them as opposed to fighting them".

He went further by writing,

"In fact a betting man would bet that the only difference between the Boko Haram terrorists killing, maiming and beheading Nigerians in the Northeast and our President and Commander-In-Chief is in their name and location. One is named "Boko Haram" and operates from the bush while the other one is named "Muhammadu Buhari" and operates from Aso Rock. If we were to remove the cloak of fear of detention by state oppressive forces, we would all admit they are both pursuing the same goal and doing a very good job of it. You that is reading this, you know this is exactly what is happening even if you may not want to publicly say it for whatever reason".

He concluded by asking,

"Who 'rehabilitates' and releases captured terrorists back into the wild at a time the terrorists are still visiting death and destruction on his country? Even America with her sophisticated military doesn't release arrested terrorists in the heat of the war because the chances of these terrorists going back into the wild to continue killing are very high".

Mr. President, forgive me for saying so but the verdict is out and Mr. Ogbu has made a valid point. This calls for much soul-searching on your part.

I urge you to bear in mind that trading in the blood of your own people and indulging in all manner of barbarity, suppression of dissent, persecution of your perceived enemies and evil comes with a heavy price.

Every Pharaoh, Sennacherub, Herod, Jezebel and Nebuchadnezzar has a bad end.

Every tyrant, no matter how powerful and highly-placed, will eventually account to God and the people for his brutality and wickedness. Yours will be no different.

Anyone that doubts that should consider the plight of the Sudan's former President, General Al Bashir. As the great black American Nation of Islam leader and one of my favourite heroes, Malcom X, once said "the chickens have finally come home to roost". This has always been the case and it will always be the case. It is only a matter of time.

Over the last 5 years hundreds of thousands have died under your watch and virtually all have been killed by those from your core northern region. You turned a blind eye to it and even encouraged it.

Today belongs to you but let me assure you that tomorrow belongs to those of us that you have killed, persecuted, oppressed and treated with disdain and contempt.

On the 11th of February, at the burial ceremony of the 18 year old Christian martyr Nnandi Michael (the Seminarean that was abducted and later murdered by Fulani herdsmen) the respected Catholic cleric Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, a man of immense moral authority and intellectual vigour, courageously admonished you before the entire world, spoke the bitter truth and reflected the thoughts of millions from all over the country. Amongst many other things he said the following:

"This President has displayed the greatest degree of insensitivity in managing our country’s rich diversity.

He has subordinated the larger interests of the country to the hegemonic interests of his co-religionists and clansmen and women. The impression created now is that, to hold a key and strategic position in Nigeria today, it is more important to be a northern Muslim than a Nigerian.”

He did not stop there but went on to say,

"We are being told that this situation has nothing to do with Religion. Really? It is what happens when politicians use religion to extend the frontiers of their ambition and power. Are we to believe that simply because Boko Haram kills Muslims too, they wear no religious garb? Are we to deny the evidence before us, of kidnappers separating Muslims from infidels or compelling Christians to convert or die? If your son steals from me, do you solve the problem by saying he also steals from you?"

He then said,

"The Fulani, his (President Muhammadu Buhari) innocent kinsmen, have become the subject of opprobrium, ridicule, defamation, calumny and obloquy. His north has become one large grave yard, a valley of dry bones, the nastiest and the most brutish part of our dear country".

He added,

"Today, our years of hypocrisy, duplicity, fabricated integrity, false piety, empty morality, fraud and Pharisaism have caught up with us. Nigeria is on the crossroads and its future hangs precariously in a balance. This is a wakeup call for us. As St. Paul reminds us; The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast away the works of darkness and put on the armour of light. It is time to confront and dispel the clouds of evil that hover over us."

He concludes by saying,

"On our part, I believe that this is a defining moment for Christians and Christianity in Nigeria. We Christians must be honest enough to accept that we have taken so much for granted and made so much sacrifice in the name of nation building. We accepted President Buhari when he came with General Idiagbon, two Muslims and two northerners. We accepted Abiola and Kingibe, thinking that we had crossed the path of religion, but we were grossly mistaken. When Jonathan became President, and Senator David Mark remained Senate President while Patricia Ette was chosen by the South West became a Speaker. The Muslim members revolted and forced her resignation with lies and forgery. The same House would shamelessly say that they had no records of her indictment. Today, we are living with a Senate whose entire leadership is in the hands of Muslims. Christians have continued to support them. For how long shall we continue on this road with different ambitions? Christians must rise up and defend their faith with all the moral weapons they have".

I assure you that these were not the words of Bishop Kukah alone but rather the Holy Spirit speaking through him. He spoke the mind and the oracles of the Living God and you would do well to humble yourself, take heed and appreciate the Lord's admonition and counsel.

Let us hope that you disregard the advice of the hardliners around you, learn from these words and change your dastardly ways though I doubt that you will.

Whatever the case and whatever you choose to do or not to do, know this: the die is cast, Caesar has crossed the Rubicorn, the horse has bolted from the stable, the cat is out of the bag, our eyes have been opened, we have lost all sense of fear and Nigeria can NEVER be the same again.

Mr. President, here ends my counsel to you but permit me to conclude this contribution with a closer look at the north that you love so much and that you seek to empower and enthrone forever.

According to the World Bank "87% of poor people in Nigeria are in the North".

One wonders what 58 years of northern oppression, tyranny, aggression, manipulation and hegemony over Nigeria has actually done for the northern masses.

Since indendence mass poverty, terrorism, religious bigotry, ethnic hegemony, Islamic fundamentalism, arrogance, born to rule syndrome, the worship of cows, ignorance, disease, hate, racism, feudalism, pedophilia, child marriage, VVF, gender inequality, male chauvinism, the persecution of Christians, the suppression of women, corruption, deceit, greed, ingratitude, a sense of entitlement, tyranny, insensitivity, bloodshed, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and gratuitous violence have all been deeply embedded in and associated with the core north.

Worse still, according to UNICEF, if Nigeria were to ever break up the core north would be the poorest spot on planet Earth.

I guess this is why northerners keep screaming "one Nigeria" and threatening the lives and liberty of those that do not share their view. Without Nigeria they would be groping in the dark, wobbling on their feet and literally starve to death.

All this yet they insist that they were "born to rule" and that southerners and Middle Belters were "born to serve" them and be their slaves!

Professor Yusuf Dankofa of the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University who happens to be a northerner himself put it in very clear terms and spoke the bitter truth when he wrote the following:

"I think the north is only interested in power and nothing more.The sweetness of power and the allure it brings is what appeals to them and not work. If not, how can a region be so decimated by its own internal contradictions and trudge on as if the region is not regressing. In the face of calamity, what you see is eerie silence, since power is with their elites who are thoroughly dependent on public treasury to survive.The poor too draws happiness from the fact that power is in the hands of their elites even if they will die of poverty and insurgency. We are happy that power is with us even though we don't know what to do with it.This mindset will definitely lead others to seek to move out of the union. You can't slow down your own progress and those of others and expect them to clap for you".

Dankofa is absolutely right! What a people! What a country!

Yet I do not blame the core northeners: I blame southern and Middle Belt politicians and leaders who have refused to unite and who have failed to resist them and stand up to them over the last 58 years.

The history of our nation records that there were a few great men of remarkable courage, extraordinary fortitude and immense valour that not only did their best but were also gallant, fearless, selfless and outstanding in their quest to deliver our people.

Some of them were martyred and others were jailed whilst all suffered an unprecedented and unbearable level of humiliation and persecution. Yet despite it all they continued the struggle.

They identified and understood the problem and fought hard in their respective ways to fix it and deliver our people from northern hegemony, domination and bondage but sadly they all failed.

The new generation of southern and Middle Belt leaders must NOT fail because this is the final lap. For our generation failure is NOT an option....

[I had to cut it short as Nairaland said post was too long. For all of it, go to the link][b][/b]


SOURCE:
https://saharareporters.com/2020/02/16/open-letter-president-muhammadu-buhari-femi-fani-kayode

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is sounding the alarm that Europe is being invaded by foreigners and this is bad for Europe.

In Nigeria, especially Middle Belt and South, we too are being invaded by foreigners with this government that has opened the borders for Fulani to pour in, and that is releasing captured terrorists saying they are "repentant" and "rehabilitated". If Europe that has technology is alarmed, what of we backwards MB and South?

RESTRUCTURING NOW! is our saviour otherwise it will be too late. Restructure Nigeria into Confederation of 4 regions: Oduduwa, Middle Belt, Lower Niger (SE & SS together) then Arewa. Or Split up into these 4 as countries.

Here is angry Europe talking (from WhatsApp post):
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ORBÁN: “IT’S FORBIDDEN TO SAY SO IN EUROPE, BUT MIGRATION IS AN ORGANIZED INVASION”
By ARTHUR LYONS 15 February 2020
Voice of Europe News

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán – the only head of state in Europe who’s been willing to take any real action to stop the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe – on Thursday spoke of the mounting migratory pressure on Hungary’s southern border.

Following a routine inspection of Hungary’s border fence with his Slovak counterpart, Peter Pellegrini, Orbán said that Hungarian authorities have started to prepare for an expected increase in the number of organized migrant caravans attempting to enter the country illegally as the weather improves, Remix News reports.

During an impromptu press conference, Prime Minister Orbán took the opportunity to express his gratitude for Slovakia’s support, saying: “This is hard work which we would have a hard time doing without help and our allies.

Orbán also took the opportunity to slam the lying, international press for broadcasting a grossly distorted image of the ongoing migration crisis which simply does not correspond to objective reality, arguing that 95 percent of newly arrived migrants are military-aged men.

“It’s forbidden to say so in Europe, but this is an organized invasion,” Orbán said.

So far this year, more than 5,000 migrants have attempted to enter Hungary illegally, with many of them showing up in large organized caravans.

The Hungarian Prime Minister has argued that the migrants are being supported by organizations that claim to be ‘humanitarian’ NGOs but which operate like people smuggling groups. These organizations have substantial financial resources and noteworthy logistical capabilities, Orbán added.

Orbán also mentioned that the Hungarian secret service was closely monitoring the situation, and from the intel that they’ve acquired it’s clear that the illegal migration is being assisted by “half-human trafficking organizations calling themselves NGOs”.

Earlier in the month, Hungarian border police managed to push back a group of 71 migrant invaders who stormed a vulnerable section of border fencing along Hungarian-Serbian.

📹 In case you missed it: Here’s the VIDEO of the violent mob storming the Hungarian border crossing yesterday morning. BLOG: https://t.co/Ns370Bv5z0 pic.twitter.com/LcMUQPXQwE

— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) January 29, 2020

Last week, Voice of Europe reported that Serbian police bused 500 to 700 illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East back to [b]asylum centers [/b]in Serbia after they had amassed at the Hungarian border.



SOURCE:
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/orban-its-forbidden-to-say-so-in-europe-but-migration-is-an-organized-invasion/

aremuforlife:
But Christians and Muslims has extremist, what do you want to talk about Christian hating other Christians domination just because they have different doctrine.
If peradventure Nigeria is divided into groups, Christian Nigeria and Muslim Nigeria, it's just a matter of time before separating Pentecostals from orthodox.
The ideology is not Muslim or Christian but the extremist among us and that is what we need to work on and it cause more hatred than love.

I am talking about KILLING those who will not join your own religion.

only Islam does that.

Why is it that century after century Black people attract badness upon ourselves?

We are enslaved, colonised, then have the most poor and wretched lives of all people?

We hate our fellow Black. And our leaders hate their own Black people?


ANSWER:

Because Blacks call down the devil upon ourselves through our ritual killings, eating human body parts as medicine (cannibalism), witchcraft, presence of shrines everywhere, consulting witch doctor, preferring to lie and cheat to get whatever we want eg money from others, travel to Oyeebo country, marrying, etc. Then we keep our badness alive and teach our children same through the Nigerian and African films which get us to focus on diabolical lifestyles and consciousness. So we Blacks have put a curse upon ourselves and our children, and their children.

As Dr Umar Johnson says in the video when asked, he answered that there is NOWHERE on earth where Blacks are not hated. We can carry on shouting RACISM everywhere we go. Or we can stop doing those things that we do to curse ourselves and our children.

Here is Dr Umar Johnson telling us the truth about us Black people.

How we are hated everywhere (Dr Umar Johnson talks of visit to China here).

How Jamaican and African leaders so hate their people that they accept money as bribes so they and their family will not face the consequences of their corruption against their own people such as taking loans that they know they themselves will not suffer to repay, plus have taken a bribe too to make sure their future will be rich.

Rather than focus on China hating Blacks, what of the hate our own Black leaders have for us? So they refuse to do the right things to make Africa better, but seek trouble and hardship for us?


https://todaynewsafrica.com/this-video-will-break-you-racism-against-blacks-in-china-is-shocking-open-official-even-as-africa-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-china/

(If the video doesn't show then Google words like "Umar Johnson visit to China"

EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS FREE TO BELIEVE IN WHATEVER RELIGION THEY WANT: Judaism or Islam or Bhuddism or Hinduism or Christianity or Atheism.

What people don't like about Islam is that EXTREMISM of using killing to spread that religion. It is the ONLY religion that does so. Others try to convert people to their own religion but not by force and killing them if they reject it.
This is why China and India plus other countries do not want Islam in them. They want peace. Not some who will use murder to scare people into whatever it is they themselves decide to follow.

SESS people, we have chosen CHRISTIANITY for our various people. Because of that, we know we will be the target of Islamization just as the post says. History and current world events show it. Look at Boko Haram! Look at Fulani herdsmen! Look at Al Shabab in Somalia and Kenya! Look at ISIS! Look at Ansaru ul deen! ALL want everybody to bow to their own religion. (Nah wah ooo)


So SESS people, let us reject all that evil tribalism among us. We are HOMOGENEOUS in our common religion of Christianity. That is a true fact. Unity between Christians of all tribes and nations is what we see in the Book of Revelation that describes those present in Heaven because although many nations, are ONE homogeneous people.

This is from a WhatsApp post.

Please do copy and forward to your own networks if you are SESS (SE and SS together), plus if you are from another area but have family or friends from SESS. Thx.

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ISLAMIZATION OF SE AND SS

SE and SS are the Christian area of Nigeria. So those who want sharia everywhere will have their eyes on conquering these Christian 'infidel" zones!

India allows any other religions to become citizens but has refused citizenship to illegal migrants who are Moslems.

China cracks down on it's Moslems (Uighur and Kazakh), because of the security risk that they are. Nearly half a million Moslem children have been separated from their families, aiming to instill loyalty to China in them.

Europe especially e.g. Hungary, but all Europe doesn't want Moslems among them. Same for USA.

Ethiopia that has been Christian for centuries is facing Islamization. So is Kenya. In fact all Africa.

So SE and SS, we have been warned. For strength and effectiveness it is best for us we are one unit to fight off every Islamization agenda. Because it will come. Tribalistic hate is anti-Christ so if we allow those among us to use tribal hate to separate Christians we should NOT expect God's help to resist Islamization.

SE and SS being one unit can have the tribes forming their own provinces. So there is Biafra province, Ijaw Province, Itsekiri province, Kalabar province, etc. Each province with its resources control, self- determination and borders control. This arrangement will bring the freedom all the tribes of SE and SS seek. The name of a united SE and SS is not important, it is our FREEDOM that is important, and we shall have it even united together.

Our common problem and danger is ISLAMIZATION! Not ourselves. Despite being many tribes, Christianity binds us as one. So we are strongest to resist Islamization when we do it together.

Please share with every SE and SS in your network.

MelloJelly:
I agree a presidential parliamentry is the best way

Yes. Parliamentary system is what we had agreed upon at Independence. It is what worked.

SON CERTIFIES INNOSON VEHICLES, ISSUES MANCAP CERTIFICATE
Vanguard Newspaper, February 13, 2020

The Standard Organization of Nigeria today, Wednesday, February 12th 2020, presented the Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) certification to Nigeria first indigenous vehicle manufacturing company, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing. The MANCAP certificate was presented to the Chairman/CEO of Innoson Vehicles, Chief Dr. Innocent Chukwuma OFR by the Director General of Standard Organization of Nigeria, SON, Osita Aboloma Esq.

Delivering his Keynote Address, Osita Aboloma said that the award certificate to Innoson Vehicles shows that the company went through rigorous process of inspections and quality assurance in the last five years or even more and also demonstrated compliance to the relevant product standards and is providing products that meet consumer expectations and offer value for money among other benefits.

Stating further, he said “with the award of MANCAP’s certificate to Innoson brand of vehicles, we are demonstrating how standardization and conformance to standard offer strategic opportunities for increased efficiency, set bench marks and help promote Made-In-Nigeria products to the international market, as this award will boost Innoson’s brand across borders. We are in effect saying that Innoson brand is fit to be used in Nigeria and beyond. In his Goodwill message, the National President of Nigerian Association of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Hajiya Saratu Iya Aliyu and who was represented its National Vice President, Mr Humphrey Ngonadi noted that for Innoson Vehicles to receive the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) means that it met the relevant Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) and it is a “confirmation of the capacity of our industry”. The NACCIMA President assured Innoson Vehicles of the continuous support of NACCIMA to his company.


Giving his remarks, the Innoson Vehicle Boss, Chief Chukwuma gave the assurance that Innoson Vehicles will continue to employ international best practices in the production of its vehicles so that they can compare favorably in terms of durability, fuel economy and safety. He stated further that the company is now producing affordable cars that an average Nigerian worker can purchase easily.


The SON’s mission is to promote consumer confidence and global competitiveness of Made-in-Nigeria products and services through Standardization and Quality Assurance. SON established the Mandatory product certification scheme (MANCAP) to ensure that locally manufactured products provide the required degree of satisfaction to consumers through compliance with applicable standards and government policies on standardization and conformity assessment. A major attendant benefit of the SON certification to Innoson Vehicles is hitch free exportations to other countries and mostly the African Countries.

SOURCE:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/son-certifies-innoson-vehicles-issues-mancap-certificate/

NIGERIA NEEDS A COLLEGIAL PRIME MINISTER, NOT A BUCCANEERING PRESIDENT
By Olu Fasan
Vanguard Newspaper, February 13th, 2020

Nigeria: WHY do most countries have prime ministers and not executive presidents? Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, only about 46 have a presidential system, where full executive powers are vested in one person.

Out of the 50 sovereign states in Europe, 34 are parliamentarian; so are nearly 40 of the 54 member states of the Commonwealth, including the most successful ones, such as Canada, Australia, India and Singapore. So, which one is better for Nigeria: executive president or prime minister?

Of course, at independence in 1960, Nigeria practised the parliamentary system until the military terminated it after a coup d’état in 1966. About thirteen years later, when General Olusegun Obasanjo decided to return Nigeria to civil rule, he set up a constitutional drafting committee to fashion a new Constitution for the country. But he so loathed the oppositional politics associated with the parliamentary system that he effectively instructed the “49 Wise Men” tasked with drafting the 1979 Constitution to shun the system.

In truth, the committee itself was minded to adopt the presidential system. One of its key reasons was that Nigeria needed a strong and powerful president to bring the country together and act as the symbol of national unity. But that was utterly naïve. You can’t govern a multi-ethnic country with a strongman mentality by vesting excessive powers in one person. That’s why most ethnically-divided countries favour the parliamentary system, which is representative, consultative and collegial.

Let’s face it, which president has united this country or really been the symbol of national unity? Instead of authoritarian utopia, where strong leaders bring people happily together, what we’ve had is totalitarian dystopia, where supposedly unifying leaders use excessive military force to suppress ethnic agitations, as with the Odi massacre under President Obasanjo and “Operation python dance” under President Buhari.

But that’s what happens where there is a mismatch of power and identity. Where excessive powers are vested in one person at the centre, while identities reside at the sub-national levels, you are bound to have such tensions. Which is why, the parliamentary system, based on its collegiality and distribution of power, is the commonest form of government in multi-ethnic states.

In The Republic, Socrates proposed that in the ideal city-state, executive power should rest solely in the hands of a philosopher-ruler. But there are two things to note about Socrates’ proposal. The first is that his ideal city-state was a self-contained and ethnically monochrome society, not a heterogenous multi-ethnic state. The second is that the philosopher-ruler must have a specialised form of knowledge (gnosis); in other words, a captain with adequate knowledge of navigation to steer the ship of state!

So, at the risk of belabouring the point, an all-powerful executive president, that sees himself as the embodiment of the national interest, is not suitable for ethnically-polarised nations like Nigeria. Secondly, even if Nigeria were to have a strong executive president, this country has never produced, and is incapable of producing, visionary and competent leaders.

Tell me, which Nigerian president can be described as a captain with adequate knowledge to steer this country’s ship-of-state? Why would you vest so much executive power in someone who can’t govern the country well, but is likely to abuse the power?

Yet, that’s how the Nigerian Constitution, by implication, prescribes that this country should be governed. Section 5(5) gives that president “executive powers”, which he can exercise either “directly or through the vice president and ministers”. Section 148 reiterates that the President “may, in his discretion”, assign any state responsibility to the vice president or any minister. So, even though under section 148 (2), the president is obliged to form a cabinet, he may, if he wishes, not allow any minister or even the vice president to exercise any executive power. Indeed, last year, President Buhari stripped Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of virtually all the key responsibilities he had during their first term. So, despite his relative youth, intellect and energy, Osinbajo functions almost entirely at the behest of the president and the cabal around him.

The ideal constitutional arrangement is for President Buhari to be the ceremonial head of state, which suits his well, while Osinbajo is the prime minister and head of government. With that arrangement, Buhari can make the overseas trips, which he seems to enjoy, and be as laid-back as he wants, while Osinbajo, as prime minister, gets on with running the government, as he did effectively on the two occasions President Buhari was on long medical vacations. At the moment, even though the president is at home, no one seems to be running the country. The situation in Nigeria is adrift, confused, chaotic. A mess! So, let’s face it, an executive presidency is not good for this country. Academics talk about the “perils of presidentialism” in terms of political gridlock due to competing claims for legitimacy by the president and the legislature.

That’s true. But the biggest problems are the tendency towards authoritarianism and the lack of accountability or effective checks and balances. I mean, who can really hold President Buhari to account? A few years ago, even a minister refused to appear before a committee of the National Assembly, saying that she was only answerable to the president! That’s unthinkable in a parliamentary system. In their empirical study, based on data from 119 countries across the period 1950 to 2015, economists Gulcin Ozkan and Richard McManns found that parliamentary systems’ consistency feature higher scores of democracy, more extensive media freedoms, a stronger rule of law and better economic performance. What’s more, according to the IMF, parliamentarism is less prone to corruption and, of course, less expensive than presidentialism!

The parliamentary system is a better route to political stability, government effectiveness and economic progress for this country than the current flawed system. Which is why part of restructuring Nigeria must include returning it to the parliamentary system.


SOURCE:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/02/nigeria-needs-a-collegial-prime-minister-not-a-buccaneering-president/

In May 2000 The Economist had a magazine issue called "THe Hopeless Continent". Of course we Black people called it racist because we don't like the truth about us.

20 years later and the bad things in the articles apply very much still to Nigeria. This tells us that if we don't rearrange Nigeria, Restructure it, we will have another 20 wasted years.

Two of the articles in that issue relate truly to Africa. I will post them separately. You can get them with subscription from The Economist. They are:
* Hopeless Africa
* The Heart Of The Matter

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THE HOPELESS CONTINENT
May 11th 2000
The Economist
The Heart Of The Matter


Africa’s biggest problems stem from its present leaders. But they were created by African society and history.

FLOODS in Mozambique; threats of famine in Ethiopia (again); mass murder in Uganda; the implosion of Sierra Leone; and a string of wars across the continent. The new millennium has brought more disaster than hope to Africa. Worse, the few candles of hope are flickering weakly.

For a brief moment in the mid-1990s, there were signs of improvement. World Bank figures showed a clutch of African countries achieving economic growth rates of more than 6%, enough to lift most of their people out of poverty in years rather than, as more usually predicted, in decades.
At the same time, multi-party democracy spread across the continent. A new crop of leaders emerged: Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia. This “new breed” wanted to make life better for all their people by providing basic health care and education. They seemed to understand that peace and good government were essential. Though most of them had been socialists, they embraced the free market. Democracy and liberalisation seemed to flourish. There was talk of an “African renaissance”.

It was an illusion. The new leaders became embroiled in wars, some with each other, and the cheerful statistics were the result of good rains and bad accounting. Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole had a growth rate of less than 3% in that period, which just about kept step with the rate of population increase. So no one was getting richer.

The figures—not to mention the recent crop of disasters and wars—now suggest that Africa is losing the battle. All the bottom places in the world league tables are filled by African countries, and the gap between them and the rest of the world is widening. According to Paul Collier of the World Bank, only 15% of Africans today live in “an environment considered minimally adequate for sustainable growth and development.” At least 45% of Africans live in poverty, and African countries need growth rates of 7% or more to cut that figure in half in 15 years.

Only three countries in sub-Saharan Africa—Congo-Brazzaville, Angola and Rwanda—are growing that fast. The first two are oil producers, and oil is notorious for destroying other economic life forms in Africa. Rwanda's growth is aid-driven. Last year, sub-Saharan Africa as a whole grew by only 2.5%. Most of these countries cannot do better, says the Economic Commission for Africa, because, apart from South Africa, Botswana and Mauritius, they lack the basic structures needed to develop. AIDS deaths are rising, especially among the young urban middle class who could bring about Africa's political and economic revival. The next generation will be more numerous, poorer, less educated and more desperate.

Does Africa have some inherent character flaw that keeps it backward and incapable of development? Some think so. They believe Africa's wars, corruption and tribalism are “just the way Africa is”, and that African societies are unable to sustain viable states. In the past, outsiders would have described Africa's failure in racial terms. Some still do. They are wrong, but social and cultural factors cannot be discounted.

Others blame the way the rest of the world has treated Africa, citing exploitation going back to the slave trade and European colonial rule. They blame cold-war rivalry for propping up greedy dictators in the first 30 years of African independence, and now they trace the continent's failures to debt, exploitative trading relations and too-strict demands for economic reform from the IMF and the World Bank.

Neither theory, by itself, can explain why Africa is the way it is. Those who see the continent as the victim of external forces must accept that parts of Asia, too, were subject to rapacious colonialists and have, within a generation after independence, established viable states and successful economies. Even where they fail, Asian countries do not blame their past imperial masters. Those, on the other hand, who think Africa is self-destructing must accept that its failings are not unique. There is tribalism in Bosnia and Ireland, dictatorship in North Korea, corruption almost everywhere. In short, Africa's troubles are not exclusive to Africa. But their combination is.

Nature's bad hand
Africa was weak before the Europeans touched its coasts. Nature is not kind to it. This may be the birthplace of mankind, but it is hardly surprising that humans sought other continents to live in. The soils are often poor and thin, lasting only a few planting seasons. The sun burns and the rain either does not come at all (Ethiopia) or comes in floods that wash everything away (Mozambique). The beasts and bugs are big, and they bite. Diseases fatal to man—and to his crops and animals—thrive.

The few humans who survived in Africa lived in small, hardy, Iron-Age communities in a huge variety of social organisations speaking thousands of languages. Most were small kingdoms, deeply conservative; they were geared to survival in Africa's fickle climate, not to development. When nature allowed, they tended to celebrate rather than plan for a tomorrow that might never happen. Today, still, Africans' strongest qualities are fortitude to the point of fatalism, close family and communal ties, tolerance and an ability to enjoy life. But their societies are also distrustful and bad at organisation. Most African businesses are one-man-bands that rarely survive the death of their founder.

By the mid-19th century, when Europeans began to penetrate the interior, Africa was reeling from upheavals, caused mostly by the demand for slaves. In the east, Arab slaving gangs cut deep into central Africa. In the west, slaving kingdoms and roaming warlords seized millions of men and women for sale in other parts of Africa and the Americas. In the south, the Mfecane, a massive movement of fleeing and marauding peoples, wiped out hundreds of other small communities and produced the Zulu empire. No wonder the Europeans, using mostly African troops, found it so easy to take over Africa. The continent was already exhausted by predatory bands and wars.

The most damaging impact of imperial rule on Africa was neither economic nor even political. It was psychological. In most places, effective European rule lasted a couple of generations or less: just long enough to undermine African societies, institutions and values, but not long enough to replace them with new ways of life or establish new systems of government. Colonialism, in short, undermined Africa's self-confidence. A full 40 years after independence, it still looks to Europe and America for aid, goods, services and guidance. One example: the East African reported recently that a white foreigner had been appointed to head the Kenya Commercial Bank, since “it became clear that the appointment of an indigenous Kenyan might lead to a run on the bank.”

African states were not forged by ethnicity, nationalism and war. They were simply bequeathed by departing imperial powers who left highly centralised, authoritarian states to a tiny group of western-educated Africans who rushed in and took over. Some of those states, such as Congo, were established by Europeans as businesses to be milked for profit. Their successors simply continued the practice. Africa has an abundance of valuable minerals and some good land, attracting outsiders to extract the raw materials and ignore the rest. Independence often meant little more than a change in the colour of the faces of the oppressors.

Tribalism at the top
The new rulers made few changes on the surface, except to tweak constitutions to favour those in power. The African state, as invented by Europeans, has been neither deconstructed nor reconstituted. In some places, however—as in Somalia—it has been destroyed. The new elite proclaimed national unity and denounced tribalism; but they soon found, like the imperial powers before them, that manipulating tribal affiliation was essential to preserving power.

It is not just unlucky coincidence that Africa has had such a poor crop of leaders. Leaders emerge from a society, and they remain a part of it. The proof of this can be seen every day in the waiting rooms of Africa's presidential palaces. Slumped on the sofas will be diplomats waiting for an audience, foreign businessmen—often dodgy ones—looking for a contract, and members of the president's family or clan in search of money for school fees or a funeral. Whatever the diary says, most presidents try to satisfy the family first. The demands of Africa are more powerful than those of the outside world.

In most countries, a man standing for office tries to demonstrate that he shares the concerns of the common man. In Africa, a politician has to show that he has escaped from ordinary life: that he is a “Big Man”, powerful and rich, a benefactor far above the people whose support he seeks. Many African leaders grew up in dire poverty, and like to demonstrate their change of circumstances through conspicuous displays of western wealth. Few African palaces have anything in them made in Africa.

By personalising power, African leaders have undermined rather than boosted national institutions. The recent apparent spread of democracy in the continent is often a sham. Traditionally, African societies, with a few exceptions such as those of the Somalis or the Ibos in Nigeria, were not very democratic, though many had checks on the powers of the ruler. Today, only a few countries have a middle class, a body of professionals and businessmen with an allegiance to a national entity, laws and institutions which they regard as greater than the ruler or his party. Zimbabwe, which should have such a middle class, has shown in recent weeks that, apart from a few brave judges, officials consider their allegiance is owed to the president, not to the state.

Not only officials think this way. So do most Africans who live, as many do, at subsistence level in the countryside. Their loyalties are regional or tribal, and they support the president because he is the big chief. “I will vote for you when you are president,” challengers are sometimes told.
The state and the president are often viewed as the same thing. Most African presidents make no distinction between their party and the government, using the panoply of state institutions in their election campaigns. They do not find it hard to win. Abdou Diouf of Senegal, who accepted defeat in an election in March, was only the third African president to do so since independence four decades ago.

So there are elections in Africa, but little democracy. Some rulers, like Uganda's Mr Museveni, argue that party elections are actually bad for Africa, because parties divide people along ethnic lines. Aid donors have finally rejected Mr Museveni's no-party democracy, and are sceptical of Ethiopia's opposite experiment with parties based on ethnicity. Nor have other African countries taken up these ideas. The aid donors, whose support is essential for African rulers, demand multi-party democracy on a western model. But they have applied it inconsistently. Cynics call it donor democracy—just enough fair voting and respect for human rights to satisfy the aid donors. Certainly, there would be few elections in Africa were it not for outside pressure.

Yet democracy does not have much to offer Africa. Democracies there are no more stable than dictatorships, and civil wars are just as common. In the economic sphere, autocracies may find it easier than democracies to keep to IMF and World Bank conditions such as tight money supply, low inflation and fewer civil servants. Sudan, an international pariah with no democracy and no international assistance, is doing as well as anyone these days, with a current growth rate of more than 7%. Much of Africa is ruled more by rainfall than politics.

Shell states
The African ruler finds himself trapped. He wants power and control; but the outside world makes demands about democracy, human rights and good governance, which weaken his position and could cost him his job. If he cannot use the treasury as his private bank account and the police as his private army, he tries to create alternative sources of wealth and power. This is why more and more African rulers are turning their countries into shell states.

On the outside, these have all the trappings of a modern state: borders, flags, ministers, civil services, courts. Inside, they have been hollowed out. The supreme master of the shell state was Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, which was renamed Congo when he was thrown out in 1997. During Mobutu's 35-year rule, Zaire had ministers and a cabinet, ministries and governors, officials and diplomats. These appeared to make up the structure of a government. In fact, they were Mobutu's personal networks, through which he stole the wealth of Congo.

In the early 1990s, the Ministry of Mines in the capital, Kinshasa, was empty except for one floor. Its officials used their positions for the perks: an office with a telephone, perhaps a car. During office hours, however, they engaged in other business. On the top floor, the minister presided, protected by a couple of soldiers (“A little sweet for us, please,” they would ask each visitor), and a secretary. The waiting room was packed with Zaireans coming to beg favours, many of them relatives, and half-a-dozen Europeans clutching bulging briefcases. They were there to bribe the minister for mining permits. He could keep the money for himself, unless Mobutu called him to ask for cash; in which case, he would have to disgorge some of his takings.

If Mobutu thought someone was becoming too powerful, he would sack him or even jail him. Once back in favour, however, he might be posted to another lucrative feeding ground. The state treasury probably never saw a cent; the people were robbed, often directly and brutally, by junior officials, soldiers and policemen in the street. When Mobutu was under pressure to democratise in the early 1990s, he urged his unpaid army to go and loot. They did, destroying what was left of the country's commerce and creating chaos—which Mobutu promptly used as an excuse to postpone elections and make his rule indispensable.

Many people blame corruption for Africa's ills. But that suggests rottenness in a clean system. In parts of Africa, corruption, like an advanced form of cancer, has taken over the whole body. Liberia, originally founded by freed American slaves and provided with a constitution modelled on America's, is a case in point.

There are parts of Liberia that appear to be normal functioning institutions of a conventional state. Some ministers are not corrupt, and Mr Taylor himself can talk to visitors well enough about his worthy aims for the country. The visitors are often impressed. But are they right to be? What is happening on the surface may be no clue to the way the country is run behind the scenes. Mr Taylor recently passed a law that gives him the right to dispose of all “strategic commodities”. These are defined as all mineral resources, all natural forest products, all art, artefacts and handicrafts, all agricultural and fishery products and anything else the president chooses to call “strategic”. Liberia is, in fact, Charles Taylor Inc.

In Kenya and Zambia, powerful politicians, not necessarily the presidents, use their political positions to amass fortunes which they then use for political ends. They work through hidden networks, with their placemen in key positions in important ministries. Kenya still has the remains of a credible civil service, which, though corrupt, still handles the country's official paperwork. At the same time, a hidden network intervenes and blocks whatever is inconvenient for the men who are really in charge. Zambia has such a network too, more powerful than the state.

Outsiders, particularly the aid donors, have great difficulty dealing with such states. Officially, World Bank and IMF officials judge all countries on their stated policies and plans. They deal with the appropriate ministers and officials. In countries such as Kenya and Zambia, however, that reassuring surface betrays little about the way the country is run. Presidents Daniel arap Moi and Frederick Chiluba are both adept at saying what the aid donors want to hear and, to an extent, delivering what the donors want to see. But time and again, as soon as the donors' attention has moved on, a different agenda comes into play.

Donors hope that, in the long run, law and good practice will drive out corruption. But this seems unlikely as long as Africa is getting poorer. Prices for most of Africa's commodities have fallen unsteadily but continually since the 1960s, and sub-Saharan Africa is still mainly a primary producer. For the moment, industrialisation has passed most of the continent by. Besides, the money accumulated by the politicians and crooks in Africa is rarely reinvested there. Most of it, like Mobutu's loot, is either spent on conspicuous consumption or invested in Europe and America.
So how should the world deal with Africa? Aid is ambiguous in its effects. When disaster strikes, it is hard to refuse to help. But aid also increases dependency and can deflect recipient governments from the urgency of the task. In the Horn of Africa, for example, the aid that helps famine victims also frees money for Eritrea and Ethiopia to spend on fighting each other. Abolishing debt would help to create a fresh balance- sheet, but for many countries debt-relief would only benefit Ukrainian arms-dealers.

Can Africa change? Yes, it can. There are instances from all over the continent that, in the right circumstances, Africans can greatly improve their lives. Until the floods in March, Mozambique had been growing at 5% a year since its civil war ended, culminating in nearly 12% growth in 1997-98. Uganda too had growth rates of 7% in the 1990s. But real change needs something deeper than quick spurts of growth.
More than anything, Africa's people need to regain their self-confidence. Only then can Africa engage as an equal with the rest of the world, devising its own economic programmes and development policies. Its people also need the confidence to trust each other. Only then can they make deals to end wars and build political institutions: institutions that they actually believe in.

In May 2000 The Economist had a magazine issue called "THe Hopeless Continent". Of course we Black people called it racist because we don't like the truth about us.

20 years later and the bad things in the articles apply very much still to Nigeria. This tells us that if we don't rearrange Nigeria, Restructure it, we will have another 20 wasted years.

Two of the articles in that issue relate truly to Africa. I will post them separately. You can get them with subscription from The Economist. They are:
* Hopeless Africa
* The Heart Of The Matter

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The HOPELESS CONTINENT
The Economist, May 13th 2000
Hopeless Africa

AT THE start of the 19th century, Freetown was remote and malarial, but also a place of hope. This settlement for destitute Africans from England and former slaves from the Americas had become the main base in west Africa for enforcing the British act that abolished the slave trade. At the start of the 21st century, Freetown symbolises failure and despair. The capital of Sierra Leone may be less brutalised than some other parts of the country, but its people are nonetheless physically and psychologically scarred by years of warfare, and this week they had to watch as foreign aid workers were pulled out. The United Nations' peacekeeping mission had degenerated into a shambles, calling into question the outside world's readiness to help end the fighting not just in Sierra Leone but in any of Africa's many dreadful wars. Indeed, since the difficulties of helping Sierra Leone seemed so intractable, and since Sierra Leone seemed to epitomise so much of the rest of Africa, it began to look as though the world might just give up on the entire continent.

It was in response to accusations of indifference towards Africa that the UN Security Council, at America's behest, started this year with a “month of Africa”. It went well. AIDS, refugees and wars were all on the agenda, and there were signs that the new concern was not just a 31-day wonder. The Clinton administration, for instance, has since pressed ahead with plans to combat AIDS, doubling its budgetary requests to Congress. Congress, for its part, is backing a bill that will ease or abolish trade restrictions for 48 African countries. The World Bank and other donors showed last month that they were ready to intensify the fight against malaria, a disease that causes misery in Africa. And the UN has gone ahead with its peacekeeping plans, sending 8,000 troops to Sierra Leone and pledging another 5,500, all being well, for Congo.

All, however, is not well. Since January, Mozambique and Madagascar have been deluged by floods, famine has started to reappear in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe has succumbed to government-sponsored thuggery, and poverty and pestilence continue unabated. Most seriously, wars still rage from north to south and east to west. No one can blame Africans for the weather, but most of the continent's shortcomings owe less to acts of God than to acts of man. These acts are not exclusively African—brutality, despotism and corruption exist everywhere—but African societies, for reasons buried in their cultures, seem especially susceptible to them (see article).

Sierra Leone manifests all the continent's worst characteristics. It is an extreme, but not untypical, example of a state with all the epiphenomena and none of the institutions of government. It has poverty and disease in abundance, and riches too: its diamonds sustain the rebels who terrorise the place. It is unusual only in its brutality: rape, cannibalism and amputation have been common, with children often among the victims. For this it can thank, above all, Foday Sankoh, the rebel leader brought into government in an ill-advised “peace” deal last July.

In itself, Sierra Leone is of no great importance. If it makes any demands on the world's attention, beyond the simple one of sympathy for its people, it is as a symbol for Africa. Yet the UN has sent troops to Sierra Leone. Mr Sankoh wants them out, so that he can plunder and torture at will. He has therefore done his best to terrify them, and their political masters, by capturing several hundred. The Security Council, meaning the great powers who can render it useful or supine, is torn by all the usual arguments. It agonises that it cannot stand idly by, as it did in Rwanda in 1994. Moreover, it cannot, after all its fine words in January, turn its back on Africa. But neither can it keep a peace that does not exist, nor intervene in every war in every corner of the globe. It must beware of mission creep, and fight only where it can win. African wars are, above all, matters for fellow Africans.

Caution versus credibility
There is merit in each of these propositions, though some of them are contradictory. Fortunately, not all. The proper course for the Security Council now is to authorise troops to snatch Mr Sankoh and put him on trial, for recent crimes if not for the ones committed before he was given an amnesty. The UN must be given enough troops, with enough equipment, training and sophisticated leadership, to quell the rebels. Realistically, that means that some of them must be first-world soldiers, drawn at least initially from the British force already there, with a mandate to fight. And once any fighting is finished, the UN must stay on in Sierra Leone, as it is staying on in the Balkans, to wage peace. In short, it must win.

It must do so, first, for the people of Sierra Leone; second, for the people of Africa; and, third, for the people of any country similarly threatened in the future, which is another way of saying for its own credibility. A Somali warlord, Muhammad Aideed, sent the Americans scuttling from Africa in 1993. If another thug can with impunity see off the entire UN, the organisation may as well go out of business. That does not mean that it should also send troops to Congo: the situation there is far more complex, and even more dangerous. But if the UN, whose recent history is littered with meaningless vows of protection in “safe” areas, is forced by the parsimony or fears of its first-world members to cut and run in Sierra Leone, warlords everywhere will take it as a licence to act at will. In Africa especially, nothing would do more to justify despair.

This is "African Time" lateness. Here those who see themselves as the big oga keep others waiting. Oyeebo who are civilized do not do such to their people. But only Africans! Behaving like savages!

Nothing is working for Nigerians because of this stupidity of African Time.
Time to say NO! To African Time keepers

Nigerian Timekeepers
https://web.facebook.com/NigerianTimekeepers/

Nigerian peepu, we are finished in this country if we don't protest the state of the failed nation, and either Restructure or Divide this One Naija of a disaster.

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IF NIGERIANS KNEW THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY THEY WOULD NOT ACCEPT ELECTRICITY FAILURE
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today, February 12th, 2020


The simplest definitions for TECHNOLOGY on the internet are “Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes” and also “Technology is applying scientific knowledge to find answers and fix problems. It is the usage of science and scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Technology includes methods, systems, and devices”.

Some bright minds have classified human technological development into four, ie The Four Ages Of Technology:
• The Pre-mechanical Age: 3000 B.C.- 1450 A.D.
• The Mechanical Age: 1450 - 1840
• The Electromechanical Age: 1840 - 1940
• The Electronic Age: 1940 - Present

Black Africa is currently the world’s least in terms of technological development. We had started off well in the ancient millennia B.C. with Kemet (Ancient Egypt), Nubia, and Ethiopia, but since about 600 A.D. or thereabouts our technological advance began to slow down.

Several reasons have been put forward for Sub-Saharan Africa’s current relative technological backwardness. Some blame the climate. Others blame slavery and colonization. However for Nigeria, corruption by those in power, ie civil servants and politicians has been the chief reason since Independence in 1960 for the failure to leapfrog into the future.

The assumption circulating around is that Nigeria being rich in natural resources is therefore a rich country. So Nigerians generally seem to think that ultimately things will go well in the end because the country is “blessed” with an abundance of natural resources. This supposition is misleading because it is not natural resources that make rich. It is TECHNOLOGY that gives the ability to create wealth and that makes an individual, and a nation rich.

Technology is required to firstly identify that a natural resource whether plant, animal or mineral is of value. Technology is then needed to mine, harvest, purify and refine that valuable natural resource. Furthermore, continuous technology is needed to keep on finding ways of transforming that natural resource so that it can become useful and valuable components.

Without technology we would not know that the crystals in rocks scattered all over our land are diamonds! Without technology we would not be able to harvest those diamonds. Without technology we would not be able to put those diamonds to use, for our benefit and that of the world. Without technology we would remain poor and ignorant, not knowing that we are actually surrounded by potential riches.

Take Japan for instance. It is a land not gifted with much natural resources. Yet, Japan is a rich country and the people live full lives. Why? Because they value technology and make technology the basis of their economy and lifestyle.

Another example would be a farmer who has a bountiful mango orchard. However, without the technology to preserve the fruit in some way, then the technology to transport his goods to market, his produce will rot, and he will be under-earning. It is because of not developing relevant technology that most of Africa’s farmers remain SUBSISTENCE farmers. While their counterparts in the West, many with much less land at their disposal, are called HOMESTEADERS able to make a good living and enjoy the fruits of their labour, because they create and use technology!

In advanced countries technology has pride of place. Emphasis is given to the STEM Subjects which are Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Students at universities and those who go on to train to teach these subjects tend to qualify for bursaries, while those who study other subjects do not have these special funds made available to them. This is to encourage STEM among teenagers and young people, plus to impress on their societies the importance of technology in their economies plus in their high standard of living.

Sustaining modern technology is electricity. Electricity is therefore the game changer – without it, Nigerians are completely kept out of the game of technology. Many people, particularly in rural areas, do not even have access to electricity at all. But throughout the country there is no regular grid supply of electricity anywhere. When the electricity goes off, many people stop doing what they were doing, business stops, learning stops, and Nigeria regresses.

Given that Nigeria’s leaders (civil servants and politicians) constantly travel to Western countries for one reason or another, for medical tourism, plus significantly, ensure that their children study there, they know the importance of technology in bettering the economy and lives of citizens. Plus they know the role that electricity plays from what they see and enjoy in the West. Yet, all pleas by citizens and civil society to get the electrification of Nigeria done have gone unheeded.

Time is quickly passing and without electricity Nigeria remains stuck in the Mechanical Age. The future will be bleak for our children and grandchildren should Nigeria not join the technology revolution. The world will certainly not wait for Nigeria! Because of lack of electricity the door to being part of modernity is closing fast, and if nothing is done to electrify the country, it will be firmly shut. Then Nigerian youths and children will be in outer technology darkness. Excluded from economic well-being and from experiencing the excitement of living in a world of innovations, intelligence and progress. It is already happening, but Nigeria will also become increasingly inconsequential and irrelevant in global decision-making and thus in international affairs.

The last word to those if any, who still hold the opinion that being rich in natural resources means being rich. Consider this: For decades now Africa’s natural resources have been scooped out, pumped out, and exported. So as foreign countries are amassing them, we are depleting our own store. Who knows but one day we will find our natural resources are now stockpiled abroad and we will have to buy them from those we once sold them to!

The 21st century is a TECHNOCENTRIC one and winners are not those who have natural resources– they can always be imported, but are those with the best technology. Recent history and Nigeria’s current poverty-ridden state show that having natural resources is pointless if we do not develop the technology to make them benefit us. It is technology that makes rich, not natural resources. We need a different orientation that acknowledges the importance and power of science, innovation and technology. The new normal for Nigeria should be that TECHNOLOGY is the most precious thing in the world – not natural resources!



SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/business/if-nigerians-knew-the-power-of-technology-they-would-not-accept-electricity-failure/

SE and SS (SESS), we are the complete Christian territory of this Naija so Islamisation is staring at our people with particular hate. So I keep on telling us to UNITE OOO so we can as brothers in Christ resist this jihad.
Is that not what Christ would command is do? Think on it! Then let's go for it!

(And we SESS make alliances with Oduduwa and MB to fight off this jihad because their Islam is very different and not troublesome at all. They too want progress with peace)


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NIGERIA MILITANTS BURN TO DEATH MOTORISTS AS THEY SLEEP IN THEIR CARS
By CGTN Africa (China TV news) 11 February 2020


Suspected militant Islamists killed at least 30 people and abducted women and children in a raid in north-eastern Nigeria, BBC reported.

According to the BBC report, the attack took place in Auno town on a major highway in Borno State as travellers who were sleeping in their vehicles during an overnight stop were burnt to death.

AFP quoted state government spokesman Ahmad Abdurrahman Bundi who said that the militants came in trucks mounted with heavy weapons, before killing, burning, and looting.

The assailants “killed not less than 30 people who are mostly motorists and destroyed 18 vehicles,” the governor’s office said in a statement.

It also confirmed the abduction of women and children, but did not give a number.

Militant Islamist group Boko Haram and its offshoots have waged a brutal insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.


SOURCE:
https://africa.cgtn.com/2020/02/11/nigeria-militants-burn-to-death-motorists-as-they-sleep-in-their-cars/

Ogonimilitant:
Do You see how stupid these people are. When we say that the government of APC of Fulanis are behind this terrorist? They think we are hateful.

I do not pity the North at all. Go and find out this, you can never go to any cell in Nigeria and see a Fulani man their even if he commits murder.

These people will use their hands and destroy the North and Nigeria. The lord is fighting the battle for us but people don't see it that way.

By the time this people are done with the north, we will realize that God has used the Bokoharam to fight our war for us.

Do you see how the Arabs destroyed their cities, during the Arab spring? Almost all the Arab countries we're killing themselves from Egypt to Syria, Yemen Tunisia and many more of them destroyed their Cities and killed the own people while Israel was peace in their country. that was God fighting their battle

Do not cry for the North. The North is gone. The caliphate of Boko haram will overrun them soon.

Why the south will eventually emerge as a new nation without a war. Do not be afraid. Most of their politicians don't step into their villages until drill election year.

They cannot visit their people. The north is gone!

This is why SS and SE - the only completely Christian region of Nigeria should unite to fight off this jihad, because their murdering eyes must be set on us total "infidels".

Plus this is why Oduduwa and Middle Belt should form alliances with us SESS (SE & SS together) because the Yoruba and MB brand of Islam is quite peace-loving and marries into other religions so Fulani jihadists will kill them too.

For more on the ideology and reasons that it's best that SE and SS are one unit see Orient Harmony Facebook site at:
Orient Harmony
https://web.facebook.com/Orient-Harmony-490676718354748/

TAKE CARE MY BRODA!

This is great knowledge for all the people of SESS (SE & SS together)

Those of SW and MB who know and appreciate that alliances between ALL South and MB is a good and necessary thing will also appreciate this brotherly information and pass it on to their SESS spouses and friends.

Please let's consider copying it and broadcasting it via our WhatsApp etc.

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SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH-SOUTH ARE HOMOGENEOUS PEOPLES
By Orient Harmony 11 February 2020

Reality has several levels.
For instance it is true that a number of different indigenous ethnic nations make up the SE and SS (SESS). In one of our earlier posts we counted 66 main ethnic nations. (Easily remembered as this is also the number of Books that make up the Bible). Even though we are 66 ethnic nations in SESS, we are nevertheless a HOMOGENEOUS unit! This is a reality, not fiction. SESS people are a homogeneous group because we have ONE religious belief, that is, Christianity. Our common religion gives us homogeneity.

Some of us may be confused because we have been taught for so long by our communities about differences, and how to distrust ourselves with tribalism. But religion is actually a stronger bond than ethnicity. That is why the tribes of Europe are able to be one unit under their common Christian religion and prosper together.
We already mentioned the Bible and that is an excellent example of the reality that 66 different Books written by many people through even many centuries still forms ONE complete and homogeneous Bible because one common thread passes through them. It is in that same way that the same reality that the SESS people are homogeneous applies.

For yes, we are 66 ethnic nations. That is one reality. But we SESS people are also homogeneous through our common thread of Christianity. This also applies in Heaven. The Book of Revelation mentions that people from every nation and tribe will be there. Yet, they are one people, ie are homogeneous, because all are united as children of God.

Unfortunately not every SESS person will want us to see ourselves as one. Some people find their strength and their reason for being in hate and tribalism. So if we cannot convince them, we leave them to their hate. God will judge between us who is correct and who is obeying His commands.
Some SESS people may be fearful of trusting other ethnic SESS people because of what happened during the war. War is a terrible thing, especially civil war. We urge such SESS people to allow their inner healing to begin. By focusing on those things that unite SESS people (rather than the few differences), focusing on the benefits and strength that unity brings, and to remember that the civil war is over, new generations are here now, and we face different challenges now.

So SESS people we are a homogeneous unit. That is a reality! Let’s be happy in this knowledge!

Valentine’s Day is here soon. This is our Valentine’s message to all SESS people everywhere in the world: spread the love – we SESS are a homogeneous unit!


SOURCE:
Orient Harmony
https://web.facebook.com/Orient-Harmony-490676718354748/

obowo69:
Let the minorities fight for their future simple.

Igbo blood cannot be used to fight for what will benefit others while they sit on the sidelines and insult you.

Let everyone fight for their own destiny.

When SE is ALONE and LANDLOCKED, not having united with your SS BROTHERS ask yourself how you will transport your goods! Because if selfish and not united with SS brothers, we will make you pay HEAVY taxes to bring in your goods, or take them out. Whether by land, rail, water or sea. Do the research to find that landlocked countries pay 50% or more transport costs. Why tie up both your legs to run!
Think LONG TERM not just NOW! Plus think of BENEFITS not tribalism. Even if there's Onitsha port, the mouth of the river is still in SS and so SS can block the river mouth so Onitsha port becomes useless. Plus, paying taxes as SE would be a different country. Why lose out? As I said BOTH SE and SS BENEFIT MUCH TOGETHER. Think on it my SE brother. I want both of us to survive and thrive. The Islamisation threat is worldwide! That's why India is banning Moslems. That's why China controls them. Do read European websites to see how Europeans do not want Moslems. So we too of BOTH SE and SS will be harassed by Islam. So let's be together my brother to fight any thing that wants to make us bow to them. Division of brothers is WEAKNESS, not strength. Read any history. SE and SS are HOMOGENOUS because we have same one religion of Christianity. Ututu oma! [I used a translation website for my Igbo greetings ]

obowo69:
I will rather us all stay and perish together in fake one Nigeria than to form a country with Minority groups who are very quick to accuse you of marginalization, domination and land grabbing.

Do not underestimate the Igbophobia in our own backyard.


I reject Nnamdi Kanu's IPOB biafra.

Say yes to Igboland republic.

Everybody should fight for their destiny. That way no one will be accused or ganged up against.

Rise up and Fight for Igbo interest ONLY!!.

You didn't read the post, Biafra still is there as a PROVINCE. I am not talking of SELF but of CHRISTIAN UNITY. Those Blacks who can't unite under their common faith are eternally doomed.
Moreover, Islamisation is ongoing worldwide. Read sites where Europeans are complaining about too much Islam in their land. Since SE & SS have common religion we are stronger together to resist any Islamisation than divided. Stop thinking only of NOW but of future hazards for our children so we can leave them the best things. Don't take it from me only, read what the Bible says about unity being strong:
"Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken".
Ecclesiastes 4:12

Skyfornia:
Biafra first!

You didn't read what I posted. Biafra as a Province will be there and prosper.

Plus, stop thinking only of SELF. Think CHRISTIAN UNITY AND STRENGTH.

Ututu oma! Ndewo! Nnọọ! Ana m ekele gị

My Igbo brethren, I greet you warmly.

You are not like the other tribalistic tribes. Wherever you go and make your money, you spend it there to have comfortable living and in so doing, you spread the money you make among the locals who you live with. Not like some cattle rearing tribes who make money everywhere they go too but refuse to allow the local people to benefit and rather have dirty gutter style living in tent-like ugliness.

My Igbo brethren, I greet you warmly.

I ask you not to forget your SS brethren. Not just Ikwerre and Anioma, but we of SS are CHRISTIANS and so BROTHERS IN CHRIST so the strongest bond ever, for eternity.

Ndi-Igbo, we know you want Biafra, SS too want our freedom. Freedom from Arewa.

Ndi-Igbo you can still have your Biafra when SE and SS escape TOGETHER. Please listen carefully and run with this vision.
SE and SS unite to form a country called eg Lower Niger Nation (or whatever else, name is not important, FREEDOM is). Inside this new nation we have: Biafra Province, Ijaw Province, Itsekiri Province, Anioma Province, Ogoja Province, Urhobo Province, Ikwerre Province etc! Visualize it!

Each Province has RESOURCE CONTROL, has SELF-DETERMINATION, has BORDERS CONTROL. So nobody can dominate another, or steal from another. Our culture, values, aspiration are ONE, under Christ. SE and SS together (SESS people) will form a formidable thing. The weaknesses of one, will be complemented by the strengths of another.

Look how God Himself planned it that in the entire territory of Nigeria SE and SS are homogenous in that we are virtually ALL Christians! We can rededicate ourselves to Christ. We can deal with the bad eggs, the traitors and the corrupt among us and create a beautiful and prosperous thing that will make Africa and the world wonder.

We as SESS will have good and mutually benefiting alliances with Oduduwa and Middle Belt Nation and work as Africans to make Africa a good place. Please consider this and spread this great idea for SESS, with PROVINCES for each one.

"At first, people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done, and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago".
----Frances Hodgson Burnett

For more truths and information on how SE and SS are best together, and should see themselves as one unit do go to Orient Harmony facebook site link here:
Orient Harmony (A unifying ideology for SESS (SE & SS) people
https://web.facebook.com/Orient-Harmony-490676718354748/

WE OF SE AND SS HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE OUR DESTINY GREAT!

allthingsgood:
Tomorrow these fools will come and tell ipob are peaceful protesters. The only thing nnamdi kanu is good at is issuing threats and beating their fellow ipobists when they are caught abroad

Sharrap! We all know IPOB have been well provoked, and are unarmed. No IPOB has ever trespassed on any farms and slaughtered farmers. So sharap!
Eye for eye. Tooth for tooth.
IPOB clearly said IF one of them is killed, they will also kill one.

IPOB are NOT the only ones who want separation from Arewa/Nigeria.

Middle Belt wants it. Niger Delta wants it. Oduduwa wants it.

Just sharrap if all you have is tribalistic nonsense hate. Igbo have NEVER harmed Naija. Never!

Hope Uzodinma was rigged in to bring in RUGA.

There is no way Ihedioha the real governor of Imo State would consider helping Buhari's Fulanization agenda.

Simplyleo:
One of the best govs in the SS

Has he gotten Ibori and Uduaghan to return the money they stole from Delta people?

Plus if you Google it, Okowa too loots.