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Foreign Affairs / Let’s Talk About The Real Looting Going On In America - Lauren Martinchek by meavox: 10:09am On Jun 05, 2020
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE REAL LOOTING GOING ON IN AMERICA
Lauren Martinchek
Jun 1 · 2020

There’s a far bigger problem going on than a Target getting robbed.

After the murder of George Floyd at the hand of Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota, protests and uprisings have begun to surface across the nation. As is so often the case when people of color and even white allies are raising their voices and demonstrating against the continued abuse and brutality at the hands of white supremacy and the state, opposition is quick to dismiss their efforts and message by any means necessary. Not for the first time opponents to the demonstrations have chastised the activists, arguing that the looting and rioting destroys their credibility and achieves nothing.

Since I have already addressed the opposition to the rioting, lets talk about the real looting taking place here in the United States.
On April 15, 2020, The Guardian published a piece entitled: Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus.
Amanda Holpuch writes:

“Millionaires and billionaires are set to reap more than 80% of the benefits from a change to the tax law Republicans put in the coronavirus economic relief package, according to a non-partisan congressional committee.

The change — which alters what certain business owners are allowed to deduct from their taxes — will allow some of the nation’s wealthiest to avoid nearly $82bn of tax liability in 2020. Nearly 82% of the benefits from the tax law change will go to people making $1m or more annually in 2020, according to an analysis by the joint committee on taxation (JCT). Overall, 95% of individuals who benefit from the change make $200,000 or more.

Taxpayers will lose nearly $90bn from the change, which suspends a restriction introduced in the 2017 tax bill. The change allows owners of businesses known as pass-through entities to lower their taxes by deducting as much as they want against income unrelated to the business…”

At a time when over forty million people are unemployed, losing health insurance not just for themselves but for their families, and many unable to put food on the table let alone pay their rent or mortgage, the wealthiest people on the nation are going to be avoiding $82 billion dollars of tax liability.

That is the real looting, taking place right under our noses. At a moment when so many of us have been brought to our knees financially, the very richest among us are taking advantage of the desperation to once again rob the wealth we have created and give it to themselves. Maybe it’s just me, but I find it fairly difficult to even pretend to care about Arby’s or Auto Zone. When the 400 richest American families own wealth the size of the UK economy, I could not care less about a protestor running out of a Target with an armful of goods.

As Bernie Sanders put it, the real looting has taken place for over forty years.

While Amazon cuts the measly 2 dollars an hour of hazard pay for its workers, their CEO Jeff Bezos is on track to become the worlds first trillionaire. Of course, he isn’t the only one of the nation’s richest to see astronomical increases in their wealth in the midst of this crisis.

Chuck Collins with CNN writes:
“Columbia University researchers project that poverty rates in the United States could soon reach their highest levels in half a century. Yet as my colleagues and I track in a new report for the Institute for Policy Studies, the wealth of America’s billionaires actually increased by nearly 10% over just three weeks as the COVID-19 crisis took hold.”

This doesn’t just apply to our CEOs. Former President Barack Obama is reportedly likely to be the first ex-president to become a billionaire, and that in it of itself, speaks to the very heart of the problem. A problem that — as we’re seeing before our very eyes — is absolutely unsustainable.

We are witnessing a response to decades worth of pain, trauma, and brutality. A response to years of political inaction, and the white moderates Martin Luther King warned of continuing to ignore the plights of the oppressed, telling them to just be quiet and ask nicely. Before we chastise these demonstrators for looting a Target, maybe we should pause and consider the real looting taking place. Instead of smearing these protestors and erasing their message because of the actions of a few, perhaps we should think about how in one of the worst economic crisis’ this country has ever faced in its history, the richest among us are taking our money to make themselves richer.


SOURCE:
https://medium.com/discourse/lets-talk-about-the-real-looting-going-on-in-america-d7f0822bd254
Politics / Any Union For Nigeria Must Be Properly & Legally Done & Ratified By Referendum - by meavox: 7:23pm On Jun 04, 2020
South & Middle Belt there are people and groups working for our liberation. The lease we can do is help ourselves in supporting our own liberation.

Please inform our people about this.

Do consider copying this IMPORTANT message and forwarding it on via WhatsApp and other social media.

PS - Anybody who likes this forged Apartheid 1999 Constitution need not despair! Just bring it for Referendum so the people can vote for/against it.

Black people are humiliated and killed for nothing everywhere because Africa is a sh**hole. So things need to be done PROPERLY and no more imposition by those in power, so our land can develop and we Blacks live respectably and get respect.

Note: This is called: Constitutional Force Majeure to take down the forged Apartheid 1999 Constitution.
The NASS has NOTHING to do with it so please no rubbish comments that lawmakers should do any useless amendments. Even this "lawmaker" thing is illegal because before Independence our fathers agreed on PARLIAMENTARY system. So who decided to impose this Presidential thing? And why did we mumu accept it?

Do Google for more information. Also Google for South Africa that took down Apartheid in similar way.
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THE UNION OF NIGERIA HAS BEEN RENDERED TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND UNTENABLE BY THE TWIN-EVIL OF SHARIA AND FEUDALISM AND FOR THE ENTRAPPED CONSTITUENT COMPONENT BLOCS, THE RESOLUTION OF THE FAILED LUGARDIAN EXPERIMENT OF 1914 CAN ONLY BE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SELF-DETERMINATION REFEREDUMS.
LNC/MNN Joint Secretariat, June 4, 2020.

In response to the torrents of enquiries emanating from misconceptions and hazy understanding of the Impending Constitutional Force Majeure, especially on the Question of what exactly the Main Objectives of LNC and its MNN Alliance Partners are, the Joint Secretariat of the LNC and it’s MNN Alliance Partners authorized the release of the of the following Clarifications:

“For the avoidance of doubt, the quest of the LNC and it’s MNN Alliance Partners is for the Assertion and Exercise of the Inalienable Self-Determination Rights of the Peoples of the Alliance Territory (being the South and Middle Belt Nigeria) and not for any New Constitution of Nigeria or Amendments of the Existing 1999 Constitution since the Constitutional Grievances being expressed by the Various Constituent Components of Nigeria raise Fundamental Questions of SOVEREIGNTY which fall completely outside the Legislative Mandate of the National Assembly of Nigeria.

The Unworkable Unitary Union of Nigeria has now been rendered IMPOSSIBLE and UNTENABLE by the Twin-Evils of SHARIA and FEUDALISM embraced by the Belligerent Caliphate North and which places a Duty of Faith upon the Adherents of Sharia to kill the Infidel (Peoples of the rest of Nigeria) and in which the Imperatives of Feudalist Hegemony compel the truncation Democracy by the Feudal Supremacists.

The Sharia SIMULTANEOUSLY Imposed by 12 CONTIGUOUS States in the Far North of Nigeria since year 2000, is interpreted by the rest of Nigeria (ie South and Middle Belt), as a SECESSION by those 12-States, from the Secular and Democratic Union Nigeria was AGREED to be at Independence.

The rest of Nigeria further Interprets the actions of the 12-State Caliphate as the exercise of their Right to Self-Determimation in repudiation of the Secular, Democratic Union of Nigeria.

Accordingly, the Peoples of the South and Middle Belt of Nigeria, aggregating themselves into a 3-Bloc Alliance (MNN Alliance being the Lower Niger, Oodualand and Middle Belt), have accordingly commenced Irreversible steps to exercise their Own Right To Determination, having Individually Repudiated and Rejected the Caliphate-Imposed 1999 Constitution as the Basis of the Nigerian Union.

Since the adherents of Sharia reject the sanctity of human life which the rest of Nigeria hold sacrosanct and since in the Feudalist World View of the Sharia Caliphate, all men are not born equal (and so they are born to rule all others), whereas the rest of Nigeria believe in the equality of all, it becomes untenable to expect that rest of Nigeria will continue to make themselves available to be slaughtered as Infidels and to be subjugated as Slaves in a Unitary Union that has now been completely hijacked by the Sharia Caliphate (via the Caliphate-Imposed 1999 Constitution), especially as that Sharia Caliphate has also launched a massive Ethnic Cleansing Onslaught against the Indigenous Nationalities of Nigeria, particularly in the South and Middle-Belt.

Sharia and Feudalism are mutually exclusive with Secularism and Democracy, therefore the Union of Nigeria has been rendered totally impossible and untenable by the Sharia Caliphate now masquerading as “the Federal Government of Nigeria” FORCEFULLY Operating an Imposed Unitary Constitution over the Defunct Federation of Nigeria that collapsed since 1966.

There must be an end to Evil and so the Constituent Components of Nigeria, especially in the South and Middle Belt, Trapped in the Failed Toxic Lugardian Experiment of 1914, are now IRREVOCABLY Committed to extricating themselves from the Unitary Union of Death, Attrition and Backwardness, hence the Impending CONSTITUTIONAL FORCE MAJEURE

Issued by the LNC/MNN Joint Secretariat.
June 4, 2020”



SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress/posts/1920646044738214?__tn__=K-R

Politics / Re: Nigerian Leaders Are Derek The Killer by meavox: 6:26pm On Jun 03, 2020
Enoch07:
this man don really suffer.

It's terrible oooo....
Politics / Nigerian Leaders Are Derek The Killer by meavox: 6:23pm On Jun 03, 2020
Message taken from a tweet:

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NIGERIAN LEADERS ARE DEREK THE KILLER


In full view of the world, Nigeria's leaders by their non stop looting of public money have thrown us to the ground, and tied us up in lack and poverty. As we shout, I CAN'T BREATH! They place their knee on our neck and happily watch us die.

Nigerian leaders = Derek the killer!

angry cry

Culture / The Great Black Ego by meavox: 7:49am On Jun 03, 2020
Wonderful! It describes Nigerians so well...

Copied from a WhatsApp post.

Do consider copying it and forwarding it on via your own WhatsApp and other social media.


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THE GREAT BLACK EGO

• I will not join your project as I do not think it puts me at the center of attention.
• I have no skills but I should be the leader.
• I have no skills, I have no scholarship record, I have published nothing but I am more important than you and have all the solutions.
• If you try to use rational arguments I will use vitriol [hostility, insults], I do not care about right and wrong, I care about looking good.
• I can shout the loudest so I should be the leader.
• I need everyone to hear my voice to reinforce my egocentric importance, even if I have nothing to contribute.
• I am not the best person for the job but I should still, at the expense of the project, keep better people marginalized.
• I will accuse those who show me up with vitriol [hostility, insults] and accusations of being agents of the oppressor [or antinubianist (racist)].
• I will find fault, despite having no legacy, with everyone that does the work I am not prepared to do.
• My primary concern is not with tangible solutions but with the applause I get from making impassioned speeches.
• I demand respect without being respectable.
• Do you know how important I am, despite not having any track record?
• More important than an objective, is how important I look in the meeting.


SOURCE:
https://africanholocaust.net/mental-slavery/
Politics / NNPC: Northern Nigeria Petroleum Company By Bayo Oluwasanmi - Sahara Reporters by meavox: 4:53pm On Jun 01, 2020
NORTHERN NIGERIA PETROLEUM COMPANY
Bayo Oluwasanmi
Sahara Reporters, JUN 01, 2020

Nepotism results in bias, unfair treatment, and exclusion of others. Nepotism has been the practice of presidents of Northern extraction. The current President Almajiri has carried nepotism to the level of insanity.

Nigeria is the corruption capital of the world and is making no progress at ending the practice. Corruption is rampant in Nigeria, so is nepotism. Corruption is the abuse of power for personal gain. Nepotism is the abuse of power extended to support a specific group’s interest, usually based on personal greed.

The death of Maikanti Baru, former Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, makes it necessary to review the top 20 positions in the corporation. A review of the top 20 executive positions in the corporation reads like a Northern Nigeria Petroleum Company. The all-Muslim top 20 executives in NNPC makes Nigeria look like an annex of Arab Emirates.

1. Mele Kyari (GMD)

2. Umar Ajiya (Chief Finance Officer/Finance and Accounts)

3. Yusuf Usman (Chief Operating Officer)

4. Farouk Garba Sa’id (Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services)

5. Mustapha Yakubu (Chief Operating Officer, Refining and Petrochemicals)

6. Hadiza Coomassie (Corporate Secretary/Legal Adviser to the Corporation)

7. Omar Ibrahim (Group General Manager, International Energy Relations)

8. Kallamu Abdullahi (GGM Renewable Energy)

9. Ibrahim Birma (GGM Governance Risk and Compliance)

10. Bala Wunti (GGM NAPIMS)

11. Inuwa Waya (MD NNPC Shipping)

12. Musa Lawan (MD Pipelines And Product Marketing)

13. Mansur Sambo (MD Nigeria Petroleum Development Company)

14. Lawal Sade (MD Duke Oil/NNPC Trading Company)

15. Malami Shehu (MD Port Harcourt Refining Company)

16. Muhammed Abah (MD Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company)

17. Abdulkadir Ahmed (MD Nigeria Gas Marketing Company)

18. Salihu Jamari (MD Nigeria Gas and Power Investment Company Limited)

19. Mohammed Zango (MD NNPC Medical Services)

20. Sarki Auwalu (Director, Department of Petroleum Resources)

Only three top positions were allotted to the entire Southern Nigeria. What happened to federal character? What’s the job of the Federal Character Commission? Do we have a National Assembly? What the hell is wrong with the members of National Assembly? Where’s the Senate oversight committee on NNPC? Where are the activists? The North produces nothing and contributes zero revenue to the central purse in Abuja. Yet, the North gulps 99 per cent of the revenue.

Nepotism results in bias, unfair treatment, and exclusion of others. Nepotism has been the practice of presidents of Northern extraction. The current President Almajiri has carried nepotism to the level of insanity. Through leprosy of nepotism, President Almajiri has Fulanised the rank and file of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. All federal establishments such as the military, judiciary, security agencies, immigration, customs, ports authority, railways, prisons, NTA, NAN, aviation, ministries, name it, are bedevilled by nepotism.

Without justice, Nigeria and Nigerians will never know peace, progress, and prosperity. Without justice, forget about one Nigeria. It is the blatant injustices – alienation, exclusion, discrimination, marginalization, suppression, and oppression – that fuel the agitation for Oduduwa Republic and Biafra.

With the Fulani obduracy to cling to power at all cost, with the Fulani almajiri philosophy that is opposed to revolution, reformation, or modernity, the break-up of Nigeria is imminent and unstoppable!

SOURCE:
http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/01/northern-nigeria-petroleum-company-bayo-oluwasanmi

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Crime / Re: Re: Killing Of George Floyd - Raise The Degree by meavox: 9:37am On Jun 01, 2020
kabillionaire:


we're talking about blacks not just Americans, you might find yourself in a country that's racially inclined one day.

I too wanted to answer the selfish idiot. But remembered that God Himself deals well with such, and their souls never prosper (unless they repent and change their hell-obtained orientation)
Politics / Re: How To Take Down The Apartheid 1999 Constitution Of Nigeria by meavox: 10:51am On May 31, 2020
fulanimafia:
You can only amend the constitution with a 2/3 majority vote in the National Assembly. To do that, you have to convince your representatives to move a motion in that regard, and then lobby for the required support for the amendment.

This is why the biafra referendum remains an audio pipe dream because instead of trying to legally amend the constitution to allow a referendum, the secessionists tread the path of blackmail and bridge burning instead of building to get the required votes to allow amendment and the referendum they dearly seek.

A Force Majeure is simply a rebellious attempt to subvert the democratic process of constitutional amendment as stated above, and often comes with avoidable unwelcome violent consequences. A force Majeure is literally defined as irresistible compulsion or superior strength (e.g what Ojukwu thought he had until he realized otherwise & fled to Ivory Coast in women's clothes) or an "act of God".

Don't be deceived and do the right thing.

Bleep OFF!

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Crime / Re: Killing Of George Floyd - Raise The Degree by meavox: 10:49am On May 31, 2020
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Please sign the change.org petition because the police killers of our brother George Floyd must go to hell in this life, and the next.


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RE: KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD - RAISE THE DEGREE

Derek M Chauvin is a Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd on Memorial day. May 25, 2020. The chokehold he used isn't even LEGAL in MMA, because it can kill someone in MINUTES. He has done this so many times against Latinos, Native Americans, and Black people. In 2008 he shot an unarmed Black man, he was one of the officers that helped MURDER Wayne Reyes, a Latino man, with SIXTEEN bullets. He is guilty. What he did was premeditated/planned because it’s well known that the chokehold is deadly. Raise the degree. This is first degree murder. People of color will not be silenced by this system any longer.

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The 4 Officers who killed George Floyd must be prosecuted for this flagrant murder of a Black man. ALL 4. There is no excuse whatsoever for Derek Chauvin killing Mr Floyd, and the other 3 Officers watching. All 4 should get a LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT OPTION OF PAROLE and stay there until they die.

USA does NOT belong to White immigrants from Europe as they seem to think. NO immigrant group has any supreme right to the USA whose original owners are the dispossessed Native Americans. Since there is an evident TENDENCY for European Americans to kill African Americans, non-White people should be massively recruited into the USA's Police, to dilute out the White Officers.

The whole world needs to make it clear for even an IDIOT to understand that the USA isn't Europe it’s a land of immigrants so European Americans have no superior right to America.

Find the Change.org petition and sign it NOW!

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd/d?source_location=petition_update

SPREAD THIS POST GLOBALLY. WHITE SUPREMACY IS WHITE MADNESS AND A DIABOLIC KILLER!
Politics / Re: How To Take Down The Apartheid 1999 Constitution Of Nigeria by meavox: 6:17am On May 31, 2020
PricyTech:
I swear the article too long



For mumu Blacks yes..oo. Oyeebo have a true sayimg: "If you want to hide something from a Black man, put it in a book". They know monkeys don't like reading. Eating & dancing is their life.

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Politics / Re: How To Take Down The Apartheid 1999 Constitution Of Nigeria by meavox: 6:14am On May 31, 2020
Zooposki:
Thanks. Really learnt a lot. Can’t the constitution be challenged in a court of law?


I don't know, but whatever idea any of us have, we should research it then post the idea/solution for all of us to know.

My understanding from this post is that South Africa has already taken down their Apartheid constitution through a Force Majeure and it worked. So the post is urging us to speak with one voice (it will be a greater chance of success) and be focused on this thing of using a Constitutional Force Majeure to take down our Apartheid constitution. I think reading up on SA will be useful. That's what I will do today. Take care.

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Politics / How To Take Down The Apartheid 1999 Constitution Of Nigeria by meavox: 7:30pm On May 30, 2020
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HOW TO TAKE DOWN THE APARTHEID 1999 CONSTITUTION OF NIGERIA[/b][b]

Nigerians everywhere now know that the 1999 Constitution was not only imposed upon the people illegally, but it also creates an Apartheid system, plus is anti-development. Some information:

1. The people must be involved in making any Constitution that they are to live by. That starts with the ethnic nationalities AGREEING to live in a Union. This never happened with the 1999 Constitution.

2. The 1999 Constitution claims that, “We, the people… Do hereby make, enact and give to ourselves the following Constitution”. This never happened with the 1999 Constitution – it is therefore FORGERY.

3. In every country, a Constitution is given LEGITIMACY only after a Referendum by the citizens. This never happened with the 1999 Constitution.

4. Citizens were never consulted, and did not agree to the number of States and LGAs. The arrangement of Nigeria has become one where there are more States and LGAs in one part of the country, unfairly (and illegally) benefiting the Northern part of the country ie Arewa (Sharia area).

5. At Independence ethnic nationality’s resource control was one of the key agreements in order to take part in a Union called “Nigeria”. However, in the 1999 Constitution monies from a State are placed into a Federation Account. This money is then distributed, not according to where the funds came from, but according to size of State, number of LGAs, and population of the State. NOTE: Although a population census is normal in honest, democratic countries, nobody knows Nigeria’s true population.

6. At the pre-Independence Lancaster House Conferences (1957-58) agreement was reached that Nigeria having several religious beliefs, any Union would have to be in a SECULAR country. Yet now 12 Northern States have imposed Sharia (for 3 of them, in those areas with Moslem majority). Also, against the pre-Independence agreement to be in a SECULAR Union, Nigeria has become a ranking member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (formerly Conference).

7. In the 1999 Constitution the people’s sovereignty and autonomy have been hijacked, so the people’s independence to operate their own infrastructure has been taken away. This is done through the Exclusive List. The Exclusive List is assigned to the Federal government; the Concurrent List is assigned to both Federal and State governments; and the Residual List is assigned to the states. The Exclusive List has 68 items, while the Concurrent List has 12.
The former Regions can no longer own, regulate, and distribute electricity for themselves. Registration of an ordinary business which was in the hands of the Regions is now a Federal government affair. Oil and gas, railways, telecoms, and many more are all now under Federal control, and the bad outcome is an underdeveloped Nigeria.

8. There were certain terms and agreements that our pre-Independence forebears insisted on if there was to be any Union of ethnic nationalities in “Nigeria”. However, the 1999 Constitution imposed on Nigerians without their consent has not complied with them and this forged Constitution has entrapped the indigenous ethnic nations against their will with these words: “Nigeria…. as one INDIVISIBLE and INDISSOLUBLE sovereign nation under God”. With this, the imposed 1999 Constitution seeks to bind up ethnic nationalities to a Union never agreed upon by making it unlawful to want self-determination which we had at Independence.

The 1999 Constitution is available in book form and on the internet, so Nigerians can acquaint themselves with this document and see for themselves that it is a FORGERY, and nothing like the Constitution “we the people” had agreed to, as a basis for any Union between us at Independence.

Given this: that the 1999 Constitution was irregularly IMPOSED upon the indigenous ethnic nationalities, Nigerians are to collectively seek a CONSTITUTIONAL FORCE MAJEURE to take down the Apartheid and anti-development forged 1999 Constitution.

Fortunately, we have the example of South Africa which was also under an Apartheid system. As adults, we are to do our own research on what South Africans did and tell our children, plus those under our care/authority.

How do we take down this 1999 Constitution? By DECLARATIONS, DIALOGUE and NEGOTIATIONS leading to agreements and new social contracts, ie Constitution(s) that will be legitimized by Referendum. In the case of South Africa, increasing local and international pressure on the government, as well as the realisation that Apartheid could neither be maintained by force forever nor overthrown by the opposition without considerable suffering ie war, eventually led both sides to the negotiating table. It was a process that for example included the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith that, "the situation of South Africa in the world scene as well as internal community relations requires, in our view, an acceptance of certain fundamental concepts for the economic, social and constitutional development of our country". It called for negotiations involving all ethnic peoples, in order to draw up constitutional proposals stressing opportunity for all with a Bill of Rights to safeguard these rights. It also affirmed that political change must take place through non-violent means.

We are therefore to raise the national consciousness and awareness of our Constitutional Force Majeure to take down the 1999 Constitution by discussions in our families and in every gathering we go to. Plus media (TV, radio, newspapers) and social media. Importantly, also in our village, community and town hall meetings, with traditional rulers and chiefs, etc. Those in the diaspora are to do the same and also help with getting international recognition. We are to use every means possible to alert the international community that peaceful change is preferable to violent change.

This is not a job for one man, but is a job YOU must do too and not shrug off, leaving it to others, while you sit back. For your children’s sake YOU must get involved. We just cannot give our children an imposed Apartheid forged 1999 Constitution to inherit.

YOU must get involved in your own rescue. Please share widely. Then ACT!

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Politics / Re: 1999 Constitution Is Apartheid System, Yoruba Are Used As Example-take It Down by meavox: 5:13pm On May 29, 2020
yanabasee1:
I am beginning to believe a friend who said that the colonial leaders received bribes from the fulanis to amalgamate this country to be able to have control over what they do not have.....

I got the story like this.

The British came to rob Nigeria and started from the South. Somewhere in the Middle Belt they came across the Fulani, who like the British were foreign robbers. There two gangs of robbers recognised themselves for what they are: 2 gangs who wanted to steal Nigeria's riches. So they made a pact. The pact continued even after Indepence. Such that Fulani would loot Nigeria but give part of it to the British. Who in return would use their powers to keep Fulani in power.

It is all coming apart now.

Just as South Africa got rid of an Apartheid system, so shall the owners of Nigeria - the people of South and MB.

Freedom is at hand!

grin
Politics / Re: 1999 Constitution Is Apartheid System, Yoruba Are Used As Example-take It Down by meavox: 6:47am On May 29, 2020
IceLip:
hmm

I actually received a WhatsApp post last year where the 1999 Constitution was called an Apartheid one and it explained this well citing items on FGN exclusive list, number of states and LGAs etc. If I can find it with digging I will post it here. But I likely have deleted it.

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Politics / 1999 Constitution Is Apartheid System, Yoruba Are Used As Example-take It Down by meavox: 6:41am On May 29, 2020
Copied from a WhatsApp post.

But you can see it originally was from a Facebook post (of Hussein Maitaya).

South & MB our task is clear: To take down this TOXIC & APARTHEID 1999 CONSTITUTION and not hand it down to our children. We know if we do they will not enjoy life in Nigeria and will seek to flee abroad where they will face increasing racism. The long lasting and best solution is to Take Down this Constitution which is a diabolical entrapment imposed upon us.

Please copy and spread widely if you can.

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Politics / The Failed State Called Nigeria – Our Stand Movement For New Nigeria (mnn) by meavox: 8:02pm On May 28, 2020
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THE FAILED STATE CALLED NIGERIA – OUR STAND
Movement For New Nigeria (MNN)

[A 2011 document that is still very relevant, especially in these days of Arewa siege and terrorism. This is very much abridged. See link below for full document]

MNN = Lower Niger Congress, Federation of Oodua People, and The Middle-Belt Congress]

Being text of a Joint Declaration by the Lower Niger Congress, the Federation of Oodua People and the Middle Belt Congress at a World Press Conference held on June 30th 2011 at Lagos, Nigeria

We, the undersigned Representatives of:

1. The LOWER NIGER CONGRESS, made up of indigenes of the Lower Niger, (the Homeland of the ethnic nationalities of the former Eastern and Mid-western Regions of Nigeria), involved in the mission of evolving a LOWER NIGER FEDERATION,

2. The FEDERATION OF OODUA PEOPLES, made up of indigenes of Oodua Land (the Homeland of the Yoruba ethnic nationality of the former Western Region of Nigeria,) involved in the mission of evolving an OODUA PEOPLES FEDERATION,

3. The MIDDLE BELT CONGRESS, made up of indigenes of the Middle Belt (the Homeland of the ethnic nationalities of the former Northern Region of Nigeria, excluding the Sharia territories) involved in the mission of evolving a MIDDLE-BELT FEDERATION;

now collaborating under the aegis of MOVEMENT FOR NEW NIGERIA (MNN) in its quest to facilitate the reconstruction of the Nigerian Federation, have chosen this time to address the burning issues of the tottering Nigerian union.

The aforementioned territories, all being parts of the Nigerian project, having over many years variously expressed our dissatisfaction with the project and having called upon the Nigerian authorities, who have each time turned deaf ears, to provide an opportunity for dialogue between all the entrapped ethnic nationalities participating in the project, albeit, under various forms of force, in view of the total collapse of the project, are constrained to state as follows:
WHEREAS

“Our forebears were not Nigerians; they were ethnic peoples, who inhabited their own homelands with well-defined territories, waterways and resources of their own; with their customs, traditions and governments, before the amalgamation in 1914 that absorbed them into an artificial state known as Nigeria. Prior to the advent of British colonisation, they occupied and exercised unfettered and inalienable sovereignties over their respective homelands. It is the inalienable occupational rights of our forebears over their homelands that subsequently gave us the citizenship of Nigeria under the Independence Federal Constitution. Our consent ceding some of our sovereignties to a Federal Union, was first truncated then subsequently carried forward, time and time again, by force, culminating in the forceful imposition of the fraudulent 1999 Constitution.

Colonisation, which truncated our inherited sovereignties, resulted in the abrogation of the control over our lands and waterways which we inherited from our forebears and in the carting away of our resources. In 1960, the British relinquished our usurped sovereignties and returned our lands, waterways and resources and we agreed to continue with the British Nigerian project only as federating units, parts and members of a Federal Union, each with its own constitution. In 1966, the military intervened in governance, sacking the said voluntarily worked out and agreed constitutions and, once more, truncated our sovereignties, confiscated our lands, waterways and resources and forcefully re-introduced surveillance over them.

At the seeming exit of the military in 1999, instead of returning our sovereignties, lands, waterways and resources, like the British did, some predators, in the name of the same military, by subterfuge, continued in the usurpation of all our sovereignties, lands, waterways and resources, pursuant to a single, again imposed, 1999 Constitution, which they nevertheless fraudulently proclaimed was made by “We the people….” and given to ourselves; secondly, proclaimed “Federal”, notwithstanding the absence of federating units and their individual constitutions and thirdly, proclaimed that we had all joined in the creation of a centre to which we had ceded all our sovereign rights, pursuant to which 68 items were placed on the Federal Exclusive Legislative List with a further 30-item Concurrent List of the so-called 1999 Constitution, in which the central government enjoys overriding powers, thus subjecting us to internal colonisation by reserving the right to provide or not provide electricity, railways, security, highways and access to ports, etc., by taking control of our natural resources, including oil and gas, on the false claim that we had ceded all our natural resources to the centre.

Further intent upon deceit, the so-called Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy in Chapter II of the 1999 Constitution, political and economic objectives, proclaimed, among other things that: “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government, through this Constitution, derives all its powers and authority”; “that the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government”; “that the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice”; “that the participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of this constitution”; “that there shall not be a predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in government or in any of its agencies” and “that the affairs of government or its agencies shall be conducted so as to recognise the diversity of peoples.”

Successive governments have breached each and every one of the foregoing provisions towards the peoples of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land and the Middle Belt, with impunity. We assert that the 1999 Constitution was imposed in breach of our sovereignties; that the country is organised on the basis of a master-servant relationship in which merit is thrown to the dogs and that there is a palpable class structure importing first-class citizenship for some and behind whom the peoples of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land and the Middle Belt must queue to find relevance.

…We have known no other fate in the Nigerian Project other than the brazen denial of access to any meaningful participation in the affairs of Nigeria.
This has manifested in a variety of ways:

1. The refusal by those who have usurped our rights which Independence retrieved from the British, particularly the right to participate in constitution-making to determine the acceptable minimum standards of political, social and economic engagement and to allow us participate in shaping our own destinies;

2. the confiscation and exposure of our resources to a sharing formula that compromise our sovereignties and ownership;

3. the refusal by our unknown “conquerers” to allow us participate in choosing the type of government, Presidential or Parliamentary, acceptable to us in our relationship with our “fellow countrymen”;

4. the determination of our fate from far away places by people we really do not know and with whom we share nothing at all in common other than an inglorious colonial past and an inscrutable and fabricated 1999 Constitution”.

As we lamented our plight through the foregoing indignities, we wondered how we came by such a dilemma in a relationship supposedly amongst equals, only recently to stumble upon the reason for our fate:

On the 13th of November, 2002, the Tribune Newspaper had cause to recall Sir Ahmadu Bello”s admonition in October 1960, to the descendants of Uthman Dan Fodio, reported in the Parrot Newspaper of 12th October, 1960:

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future”….
Not knowing that our fate was the direct implementation of a Battle Order, we, in our ignorance, kept insisting upon restructuring. On hind-sight, the… 1999 Constitution that is a ploy by which erstwhile fellow victims of colonialism turned predators, planned to exercise perpetual control over our lands, rivers, resources, our lives and the lives of our generations yet unborn.

We have now come to the realisation that we have stood and folded our arms for too long as if we are in captivity, whilst
i. our resources are plundered, hacked and carted away to far away places for the betterment of other people and to our detriment;
ii. our environment is despoiled while we are being reduced to a state of political extinction, in spite of our huge contributions to the Nigerian economy.
iii. on the whole, nothing works under the 1999 Constitution, resulting in failed everything: education, health care, electric power, roads, food security, personal security and job security; all of which breed unemployed and restive youths….

At this juncture, we, the peoples of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land and the Middle Belt, HEREBY DECLARE that we have reached the end of our endurance in this matter and assert that the present state of affairs is totally intolerable and unacceptable to us.

In view of the foregoing, We, the peoples of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land and the Middle Belt, Declare as follows that:

1. We acknowledge the inalienable right of the inheritors not to want to have anything to do with Democracy whilst asserting our own inalienable right to continue our belief in and desire for Democracy in our own homelands, both in exercise of our mutual Rights as the Indigenous Peoples of our respective homelands, in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), 2007, particularly Articles 3, 4 and 5 thereof, applicable in Nigeria.

2. Provided the peoples of Southern Kaduna and similar borderline communities, who are not of their own stock and who do not subscribe to Sharia Law are excluded, we acknowledge the inalienable right of the inheritors that Sharia Law should be applicable in their homelands, whilst also asserting our own inalienable right not to have Sharia Law apply to our own homelands…

3. We accept the Declaration inherent in the actions of the inheritors that, except for being co-victims of an inglorious colonial past which brought us together in the first place and equally co-victims of an imposed 1999 Constitution, we, the peoples of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land and the Middle Belt, have nothing in common with the inheritors and are also convinced that the Nigerian union remains “the mistake of 1914.” ….

7. By virtue of Declaration 5 herein, we, the owners of the homelands of the Lower Niger, Oodua Land, and the Middle Belt are HEREBY RESOLVED to henceforth pursue the ratification of our various Draft Constitutions, which may be the basis of a future union to be still known as Nigeria or by whatever other name we choose….


http://www.lnc-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MNN-Lagos-Declaration-of-June-30-2011.pdf
Politics / Constitutional Force Majeure – To Take Down The Nigeria Constitution by meavox: 6:33pm On May 28, 2020
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CONSTITUTIONAL FORCE MAJEURE – TO TAKE DOWN THE NIGERIA CONSTITUTION

Fellow Nigerians,

Especially the Alliance Territory ie Oduduwa, Middle Belt and Lower Niger (SE & SS), the 1999 Constitution which neither we nor our forefathers agreed to, has disabled our people and our territories because it is anti-development. We have been slaves of this Constitution for far too long, and now, for the sake of our children, who will inherit from us whatever we hand down, we CANNOT leave them what will harm them.

As parents we have RESPONSIBILITIES under God to do good to and for our children, all the days of our life. This 1999 Constitution harms our children so we CANNOT impose it on them.

History shows that people perish for lack of knowledge. Therefore, it is our PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and our DUTY to learn about the Constitution under which we live. We are ADULTS and must therefore act like adults, not babies (they are spoon fed). So we must read for ourselves. Our children’s future depends on the knowledge we use on them. The 1999 Constitution is on the internet, plus is available in book form.

Several posts will be going out, and we (you and I) are to bring in a Constitutional Force Majeure – to take down the 1999 Constitution and bring about a fair, just, and pro-development Constitution that benefits all parts of this territory.

A Constitution is a Social Contract between a group of ethnic nationalities who first of all agree to form a Union, and be part of one country. The Constitution sets out the direction that the country is to take.

A “Force majeure” is a legal term, and is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees the parties involved from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, epidemic or an event described by the legal term act of God, prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract.

We are adults now, so we should research things we do not fully understand and ask lawyers, rather than be unconcerned about things that badly affect our children’s current and future state.

Through this Force Majeure a people’s Constitution will arise, that will be the foundation of a new Nigeria. We need a new Constitution. And most especially, our children need it. We particularly of Oduduwa, Middle Belt and Lower Niger have been suffering endless lack of development and progress, and the reason is this 1999 Constitution, which must go!

So ponder this, and let its meaning fill your soul:
“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

Please explain this message to your children, your house help, your staff, and everybody you know that has no access to a smart phone. Broadcast it widely.
Politics / Re: Nigeria No Longer Exist In Our Minds....lost Faith In Nigeria -akwa Ibom Elders by meavox: 7:28pm On May 27, 2020
Flyingngel:
meavox post:




Only when there is separation from Arewa and we have 4 federations: each ethnic nationality with !) Resource control, 2) Borders control, 3) Self-determination.

- Arewa Federation
- MB Federation
- Oduduwa Federation
- Lower Niger Federation (SE & SS)




Why middle belt and Oduduwa come stand alone and you carry South - South marry with Southeast?
So South south no fit stand alone? Or we no sabi body?
Comot South south from there a beg.
We are not conquered territory. As una dey find seperation so are we.

Why not!

They are each stronger together.

Historically allies even before Oyeebo got here.

Plus best of all, HOMOGENEOUS because have one common religion together.

There's Orient Harmony ideology that unifies SE & SS .

REMEMBER! Each ethnic nationality has RESOURCE CONTROL etc so no issue of domination.

Here is the link to Orient Harmony Facebook site. Take your time. They have several GOOD GOOD posts that inform on how SESS are best together:

Orient Harmony
https://web.facebook.com/OrientHarmonySESS/

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Politics / Re: Nigeria No Longer Exist In Our Minds....lost Faith In Nigeria -akwa Ibom Elders by meavox: 6:50pm On May 27, 2020
agwom:
Make una no loose hope, naija go beta one day.

Only when there is separation from Arewa and we have 4 federations: each ethnic nationality with !) Resource control, 2) Borders control, 3) Self-determination.

- Arewa Federation
- MB Federation
- Oduduwa Federation
- Lower Niger Federation (SE & SS)

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Politics / Re: President Buhari: Avert This Imminent Disaster - By Promise Adiele, Dailysun by meavox: 6:42pm On May 27, 2020
SEPARATION FROM AREWA IS THE ONLY SOLUTION NOW.

GETTING RID OF TOXIC 1999 CONSTITUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION NOW.

ALLIANCE BETWEEN MB, ODUDUWA & LOWER NIGER (SE & SS) IS THE ONLY SOLUTION NOW.

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Politics / President Buhari: Avert This Imminent Disaster - By Promise Adiele, Dailysun by meavox: 6:39pm On May 27, 2020
PRESIDENT BUHARI: AVERT THIS IMMINENT DISASTER
By Promise Adiele
DailySun, May 27, 2020

WHEN terror, which leads to carnage and the debasement of the populace, is unleashed on any part of your country, you are afflicted with a feeling of humiliation with impulsive immediacy. At such times, you began to question the continuous claim to humanity by those who perpetrate these savageries or are in a position to stop them.

When you encounter such events on the pages of literature, the distant feeling of remoteness, that assurance of fictional creativity – after all it didn’t happen – preserves your sensibilities from prolonged exasperation. Even so, there are times when, although you are aware that the story is pure fiction, you agonize over instances of injustice and cases of human degradation. Today, I am faced with reality, not fiction. I am completely violated by accounts of what is going on in the South-East and South-South parts of Nigeria. These narratives injure the crevices of my heart.

The accounts were all over the news, especially the promiscuous social media. First, I dismissed them as mere hysteria, exaggerated stories to hit up the polity. They reported how thousands of Northern youths were transported to the South-East and South-South parts of the country. It was also reported that some of these youths already settled in these places and were unleashing mayhem on their hosts. Well, when these tales became persistent, I decided to speak with some relatives in the South-East and South-South to get a clearer picture of events. After speaking with four different relatives in Onitsha, Owerri, and Port Harcourt, their eye witness accounts confirmed my fears, authenticating many of the news flying around. The tension in the land is palpable. Uncertainties hover around the country like a thick cloud. No one knows what is coming, no one knows what to expect. The unpronounced but obvious reality is – every man for himself, God for us all. Indeed, the security situation in our country is grave and requires urgent, determined approaches.

While I was trying to figure out the rationale behind the mass movement of these people to the South-East and South-South parts of the country, I got a call from a friend who lectures in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, he is Hausa/Fulani from Katsina State. At the time of making the call, he was in Enugu visiting another colleague, an Igbo man, who lectures at the University of Nigeria Nsukka.

They are currently working on a United Nations research programme on Female Genital Mutilation and the Rights of the Girl Child in Africa. When his voice came through, the urgency betrayed apprehension, dismay, and anger. He told me how his ethnic compatriots were unleashing violence on their hosts. He narrated how he practically intervened in his friend’s compound when a group of Northern youths invaded the premises, armed with cudgels, beat up the occupants and stole valuables. He condemned the activities of these scoundrels and used the opportunity once again to reiterate the importance of the Third Force that will change the scenario in Nigeria. He is an arrowhead of the Third Force movement. His intervention stopped the irate youths from LEADING THREE YOUNG GIRLS AWAY BY FORCE [!]. By the time we were through discussing the situation, he was crying and that almost moved me to emotions.

The above account captures the abyss of recklessness and lawlessness into which our country has fallen. I ask, is there no law and consequences in Nigeria anymore? What exactly is the motive behind the mass movement of these people to another region of the country where they brazenly unleash anguish on fellow citizens? There is absolutely nothing wrong for any Nigerian citizen to move from one part of the country to another. Therefore, it won’t be out of place for Northern youths to migrate to other parts of Nigeria. But the mode of their migration raises a big question. While the country was on a total COVID-19 lockdown enforced by heavy military and police presence across the country, these able-bodied [military age] Northern youths were clandestinely moving to the South-East and South-South parts of the country under the cover of the night.

Initially, one thought that these were Almajiris who were mostly harmless kids looking for food and survival. When my friend spoke with me, I reminded him that maybe these were Almajiris. But he quickly dismissed it, reminding me that he knew Almajiris and that the present crop of hoodlums were not Almajiris but adults who acted as if they were on specific instructions.

The truth is that many South-East and South-South parts of Nigeria are under siege. It appears that there is a gradual but calculated mission to plunder the people of that part of our country. The governor of River state, Nyesom Wike, had to turn back a trailer load of these youths. The governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, had to close the Niger Bridge to stop these hoodlums from making further entry into the state. Evil is evil and should be condemned no matter who is perpetrating it. There are many Northerners, who have condemned their people’s commitment to wage unprovoked war on the South-East and South-South parts of the country. Just this evening, I got an email from a Professor at Uthman Dan Fodio University calling my attention to what is going on in the South-East and South-South. In unmistakable terms, he roundly condemned these heinous activities.

Is President Muhammadu Buhari aware of these events? Is the Inspector General of police aware of what is going on in the South-East and South-South parts of Nigeria? Are all the army formations scattered across the country aware of these events?
What exactly is going on in Nigeria? The brave among us, across ethnic divides, are looking at the situation in Nigeria as a bad case which requires a response come 2023. We are working under the umbrella of the Third Force Movement to salvage Nigeria from bigots, illiterates, and such persons who, by a stroke of evil fate, find themselves in the corridors of politics and power.

But it appears that the Third Force movement has its work cut out of for it. This is because there is a presage on the lives and properties of fellow countrymen in some parts of Nigeria which threatens their continued existence until 2023. As a matter of urgency, President Muhammadu Buhari should quickly react to these issues and bring an immediate end to the malady. If he is not able to protect people all over Nigeria, he would have failed in his primary responsibilities and his failure will ultimately necessitate the call for arms bearing by individuals to protect themselves. In the meantime, affected regions should heed the advice by T.Y Danjuma for collective protection. While we wait for the federal government to immediately respond, bearing in mind that violence begets violence, villages and towns should form vigilante groups to protect the lives and properties of their people. We will certainly survive this onslaught but we will not be stupid again in 2023 to advance this culture of feral impunity.

Dr Adiele teaches in the Department
of English Mountain Top University
writes via promee01@yahoo.com


SOURCE:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/president-buhari-avert-this-imminent-disaster/amp/
Politics / Nigeria No Longer Exist In Our Minds....lost Faith In Nigeria -akwa Ibom Elders by meavox: 6:27pm On May 27, 2020
NIGERIA NO LONGER EXIST IN OUR MINDS: WE HAVE LOST FAITH IN NIGERIA — AKWA IBOM ELDERS RISE IN ANGER!
NewsMirror February 28, 2020

Elders in Akwa Ibom State under the aegis of Akwa Ibom Leaders’ Vanguard have expressed their total lack of faith in Nigeria, stressing that such an entity no longer exists.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday at the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Uyo, the leader of the group, Sen Anietie Okon, said in the face of obvious nepotism, corruption, marginalisation and security threat, there was nothing left to be identified with an entity once called Nigeria.
“So, as far as I am concerned, the Nigeria I was born into had ceased to exist. We are now groping around either for a rebirth or the end of whatever is nomenclatured as Nigeria.

“We have observed the fragrant abuses of our commonwealth, dignity and recent threat to the safety of our people and resources.
“This malfeasance has continued unabated and queries our national essence as a people. The depletion of our national reserves has persisted despite the pretentious anti-corruption stance of the Nigerian state,” the group said.

The members called on the National Assembly and other independent bodies to look into the barefaced unbudgeted emergency expenditures that are fasting eating a hole in the economy, stressing that the resources as generated mainly from hydrocarbon deposits in the Niger Delta region, have been dubiously channelled into the wasteful prospecting of oil in the Chad basin and recent day and night construction of petrochemical refinery plant in Daura, Katsina State.

“This nepotistic infrastructure completely negates the oath of allegiance sworn by the president as sudden attractions of institutions including the universities of refineries, etc, find Katsina particularly, Daura an attractive location against the principles national interest above private considerations.
“We decry the misuse of our sons to perpetuate confusion in the Niger Delta Development Commission by way of inefficiency under the tarred disguise of forensic investigations, endless board formulations and ad-hoc recklessness,
“Sadly, our kith refuse to see the withered hand of Esau in this self-styled destruction attempts by the cabal and their willing cronies on the overall non-development or prolonged deprivation of the Niger Delta whilst the North East Development Commission flourishes.”

The Akwa Ibom leaders lamented that while the South slumbers, the NNPC has engaged in the Federal Government “special projects” to the tune of N43 billion from the N16 billion in December, wondering why the Federal Government project was being executed and paid by the NNPC from the revenue it should be remitting to the treasury.

They consequently demanded executive orderliness in the dispense of appointments, investment, infrastructure, promotion of genuine security to the common good of Nigeria, not just for a part of Nigeria in line with the Oath of Allegiance and federal character principles as enshrined in the constitution.

They also asked the NNPC to urgently explain the criteria for location and distribution of the so-called special projects as none is seen in Akwa Ibom.
“One wonders why the state has not been considered fit for the location of any NNPC subsidiaries.” they asked.


SOURCE:
https://newsmirrorng.com/nigeria-no-longer-exist-in-our-minds-we-have-lost-faith-in-nigeria-akwa-ibom-elders-rise-in-anger/

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Politics / Re: [orientation Change!]--nigerian Youth Need An Alternative Culture-ndidi Uwechue by meavox: 6:23am On May 27, 2020
This Formula is interesting: Square root of 1% of a population can do exploits.

We Blacks think it's people with money or you need HUGE numbers to achieve.

But Whites succeed well and created this formula which works because among them just a few people start what becomes a big thing.

But for Blacks it's "God will do it" or money will do it. BIG failure!
Politics / [orientation Change!]--nigerian Youth Need An Alternative Culture-ndidi Uwechue by meavox: 6:16am On May 27, 2020
NIGERIAN YOUTH NEED AN ALTERNATIVE CULTURE[b][/b]
By Ndidi Uwechue
African News Today, 18 May 2020

Starting by stating the obvious: that a good culture creates a good country; and a bad culture creates a bad country. So, by the culture lived out, citizens establish the kind of country they prefer, not only for themselves but also for their children. Before going any further, culture here is the social behaviour and ideas of society, while tradition would be the ancient way of doing things say, dancing, dressing, cooking, music making etc.

Thus, “Nigerian Culture” has created the Nigeria we see. Structurally, it is a culture of INDIVIDUAL-MINDEDNESS which is basically self-preservation and self-profit, plus added to that is a SADISTIC tendency. The cultural focus on self and selfishness hardly any Nigerian or observer of Nigerians would disagree with. However, some may ask: How is Nigerian Culture “sadistic”? My reply is in the overriding attitude of “bring him down” active envy, also known globally as the “crab in a barrel” syndrome. My reply is in the pervasive attitude of parents who suffered as children so feel it is acceptable their children should suffer some hardship or another: I went through it, so why can’t they! My reply is in the inexplicable viciousness of motorists as they drive around the country causing death and injury or destruction and damage, on a daily basis. My reply is in the continued practice of human sacrifice* (ritual killing), with the majority public response being unconcern or denial. My reply is in the heartless treatment of animals, whether domestic or wild and even as pets. My final reply is in what Nigerians themselves say about the decay in the fabric of society: We do know what to do, but don’t do it. This Nigerian Culture which comprises individual-mindedness with a sadistic tendency inevitably generates dishonesty, so therefore corruption. And is Corruption not the crown of Nigerian Culture?

Nigerian youth, both skilled and unskilled are voting with their feet and escaping Nigeria in their droves, heading to where there is a different culture. They are heading most especially to Western countries but some are now also going to the East, and even the Middle East. This migration to escape Nigeria by all means, tells us and the watching world that Nigeria needs a new culture that will be attractive to its young people so that they can stay home and play their part in building a country that is habitable. What I call the ALTERNATIVE CULTURE is the answer. It is one that will satisfy the longings of our youth, and boost their intellectual and emotional energies, gearing them up for the task ahead of leapfrogging their country’s growth and development.

The Alternative Culture is community-focused and has the twin tenets of “doing the right thing” and “doing the right thing, the right way” as its solid foundation. By applying these two tenets to the way they think and to everything they do, Nigerians, especially youth, will create a pleasant country where systems would work as they should, and the much-needed infrastructure be built and properly maintained.

The future belongs to young people and in Africa they are the “77 Percenters” because those aged under 35 years make up 77% of Africa’s population. This group, the 77 Percenters are even now determining the shape Nigeria will take by the culture that they are confirming through their orientation and behaviour. Therefore for Nigeria to be transformed the 77 Percenters will need a new consciousness. It would be really nice if all of them were to embrace the Alternative Culture! However, for enduring positive change only a critical mass of determined and fearless people are needed for kick-off. As a guide, the number of conscious unified people required to bring about change can be calculated through a simple formula, the square root of 1 percent of a population (√ 1% population) which was devised by Dr David Orme-Johnson, then popularised in 1986 by Jack Smith in his article, “The Square Root Of 1% Of The Population Unified In Any Way May Be The Greatest Discovery In The History Of Science”.

This formula (F) can be applied to any population (P) be it a school, university, town, city, zone or country etc.
F = √ (¬1 X P)
100

If applied to Nigeria assuming a population of 200 million, the formula would be (√ of 1 % of 200,000,000) = 1414.21. Therefore from this formula just 1414 Nigerians would be required to start to make a positive change in the country! This seems a particularly low number but would be the minimum required. The effect would be even greater when more Nigerians participate. Plus, the key is that they are to be UNIFIED and DETERMINED.

Culture matters! It dictates the kind of living an individual or a community will have, and the kind of country citizens can enjoy, or suffer. Those who are comfortable with what Nigerian Culture represents, but which the world holds in disdain as is evidenced by Nigeria’s low reputation among the nations, remain free to hold on to it. Fortunately however, the Alternative Culture is here and available for Nigerians too, to choose. It is the space where Nigerians who are determined to “do the right thing” and “do the right thing, the right way” live. These are Nigerians who are community-minded and who appreciate the African notion of Ubuntu, which embodies humanity and concern towards others and care for the community. Alternative Culture, or AC for short, is the cool, intelligent culture needed to blow away the oppressive and destructive heat of Nigerian Culture.

* Reader, if you want more information about the practice of human sacrifice or you want to be involved in raising awareness about it so that it ends, I suggest WAHuSa (World Against Human Sacrifice) an online resource at https://web.facebook.com/WAHuSa/ and Twitter: WAHuSa @WAHuSa1.



SOURCE:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/magazine/nigerian-youth-need-an-alternative-culture/

Politics / Re: Fulani Residents Reject Eviction From Bushes In Delta by meavox: 7:35pm On May 25, 2020
The Gypsies of Futa Jalon say they don't know where to go!

Go to Futa Jalon!

Go to Dubai!

Go to Saudi Arabia!

BUT YOU ARE NOT DELTANS OOO... YOU HAVE NO PORTION WITH CHRISTIAN SS. ALL OF WE OF SS REJECT YOUR FULANIZATION. OUR MARRIAGE IS WITH OUR SE BRETHREN.
Politics / Re: Covid-19: Time To Restructure Is Now — Afenifere, Ohanaeze, Mimiko - Vanguard by meavox: 7:25pm On May 25, 2020
OFFICIAL336:
Yoruba Moslems will not agree

You've started again! Trying to destroy Yoruba unity and Southern plus MB unity.

Even more than 2 years ago Yoruba Moslems separated themselves from Arewa Moslems.

Yoruba Moslems are peace-loving but Arewa Moslems prefer jihad terrorism.

There's clear separation between Yoruba Moslems and Arewa Moslems. No confusion here at all at all.
Politics / Covid-19: Time To Restructure Is Now — Afenifere, Ohanaeze, Mimiko - Vanguard by meavox: 6:31pm On May 25, 2020
COVID-19: TIME TO RESTRUCTURE IS NOW — AFENIFERE, OHANAEZE, MIMIKO [b][/b]
ON MAY 25, 2020
Vanguard news

President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. John Nwodo, elder statesman and Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, have asked the Federal Government to take advantage of coronavirus pandemic to restructure the country, saying Nigeria was currently operating an illegal constitution foisted on the people by the military.

Speaking at the opening session of a video conference organised by Governance Index, tagged, “Coronavirus Pandemic: is it time to reevaluate the political structure of the country,” Nwodo said the constitution was given to Nigerians by the military government, which was not elected by the people.

He added that in 1999, politicians went into the election without knowing the parameters that will guide the democratic process.

According to him, the military wrote the present constitution for the country after abandoning the agreement the nation’s forefathers had with the British before the independence, which was to operate a regional government.

Nwodo said Nigeria’s political parties operate like companies owned by shareholders where there is no freedom to choose the candidates of your choice, stressing that the Nigerian electoral system was the most corrupt and the judiciary the most compromised.

Unacceptable constitution
Noting that Nigerians had no confidence in the electoral process, the Ohanaeze leader said: “We have never made constitution for Nigeria, it was given to us by the Armed Forces Ruling Council of the military government, which was not elected. The composition of its legislative body was not chosen by any parameter known to anyone.


“They wrote the constitution and abandoned the agreement our forefathers had with British when we got independence, for a regional based government in which every region has its security, its own economic development, with each exercising sovereignty over its resources and paid taxes to Federal Government to run common services for the federation, but today it is no longer the case.

“Boko Haram has completely paralysed our military and rendered them incapable of fulfilling their constitutional obligation to defend our sovereignty. There is mutual distrust between the South and North, I mean far North, excluding Middle Belt.

‘’Working through your farms in any part of Southern Nigeria or the Middle Belt has become a very frightening phenomenon. Our children who take up self-determination exercises without carrying arms are called terrorist organisation, but herdsmen who are on rampage, who loot, kill, and rape are treated with kids gloves, while their leaders threaten us in the social media.

“98 per cent of heads of security personnel in the South East are non-indigenes. As a consequence, there is poor security in the region. Some of us that were trained in Europe and America, we know that in global parlance, local policing is the basis for any territory security.

‘’You have to know your territory, you have to speak the language, but if you post people to our area who do not know the terrain of the place, cannot speak the language, the situation is threatening the very fabric of our nation.

‘’That is why I am very happy to be part of Southern and Middle Belt Forum, which is saying we don’t have a very valid constitution in Nigeria. We have got to restructure this federation and return to a constitution that is top notch, a constitution made by the people, validated by a plebiscite, and voted for by the people.”

On his part, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, did not only agree with Nwodo but also stressed that if Nigerians were serious about keeping the country together, it was time to restructure and embrace true federalism.

He said: “The present constitution is an imposed constitution by the Muslim military in the North. Nobody contributed to it. Even General Abdulsalami said he did not know what is in the constitution before he swore in former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

“I will say without any hesitation we are all deceiving ourselves. President Buhari is not interested in keeping this country together, that is why we are having this problem, that is why we are putting square pegs in round holes, and that is why we tell him to keep to the constitution by the appointments he is making, but he said no.

‘’I can only work with people I have confidence in, which is against the federal character principle that the whole country is talking about.

Buhari simply turns deaf ears to the agitation for restructuring that has been on for over five years. “Buhari ignored the recommendations of the 2014 constitutional conference, he ignored the manifesto of his own party, and even ignored the recommendations of his own party, that is why I say we are not practising democracy in this country.


“There is no sincerity on the part of the far North in putting this country together.”

He said there was nothing in Nigeria’s Constitution that created 774 local governments in the country, adding that that was the beginning of the fraud as majority of the local governments were in the North, while the minority were in the South.

He explained that what was in the independent constitution was for each federating unit to be autonomous.

He noted that through the independence constitution, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was able to do a lot for the people in the western region, especially in the areas of free education and free medical services.

Adebanjo rips at Yakasai
Adebanjo accused elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, of hypocrisy for saying proponents of restructuring had not explained to Nigerians what restructuring entailed.

Recall that during last week’s 4th edition of the video conference also organised by Governance Index, Yakasai had said the agitators of restructuring should come up with modalities for their proposal for proper scrutiny.

But Adebanjo said that Yakassai was at the 2014 constitutional conference where the case for restructuring was carefully marshaled out, adding that what they were asking for was a country where everybody there would be equity and justice.

Adebanjo, who noted there could be no peace where there was injustice, said: “Once there is injustice, there can be no peace and when there is no peace, no equity, there will be no development. All the things we are doing now is to play up to an individual.’’

He wondered how the country could be said to be in a democracy when the power ibn power was not democratic, citing the issue of Ondo and Edo governorship elections where the expression of interest form costs as much as N22 million.

Mimiko’s take
In his contribution, former governor of Ondo State, Dr Mimiko, concurred with both Nwodo and Adebanjo, saying if the country must be kept together, there was need to restructure.

“I associate myself with the positions of former speakers, and whether we like it or not in this country, restructuring is an idea whose time has come,’’ he said.


SOURCE:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/covid-19-time-to-restructure-is-now-afenifere-ohanaeze-mimiko/
Politics / Part 2: The Fulani Question - Chief Tola Adeniyi - Video by meavox: 1:01pm On May 24, 2020
Part 2: The Fulani Question - Chief Tola Adeniyi - Video

Great news my brothers of Oduduwa, SESS (SE & SS together) and Middle Belt. WE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.

The freedom in our heart, will become FREEDOM INDEED!

Here's a 23 minute video of a conversation with Chief Tola Adeniyi, former MD of Daily Times and an honest fearless man, a human rights protector.

This is Part 2 of the interview. Dated May 17th 2020. It is the final session.

I smell FREEDOM! Hurrah! Yipee! Hallelujah!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4YgrBVTLY


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Politics / Re: The Fake Article Credited To Goodluck Jonathan On Biafra – Tony Nnadi by meavox: 12:54pm On May 24, 2020
SESS (SE & SS) people together. Let's be vigilant. Traitors within us, plus others jealous of the super success we would be if unified, are doing the best they can to stop us brothers being united under resource control of the nations among us.

Unified, we will have different PROVINCES as:
Ogoja Province
Ijaw Province
Efik Province
Anioma Province
Urhobo Province
Biafra Province
---- etc

Each nation with resource control and self-determination.

Then as one unit we will have borders control. We know which marauders and terrorists we will keep out!

Many Igbos are happy with this because they still have Biafra, but as a Province and remain with their SS brethren! cheesy
Politics / The Fake Article Credited To Goodluck Jonathan On Biafra – Tony Nnadi by meavox: 12:45pm On May 24, 2020
OPINION | ON THE FAKE ARTICLE CREDITED TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ON BIAFRA
By Tony Nnadi
Atlantic Post
May 17, 2020

By a poorly scripted Fake News stunt, a Document outlining the strong objections of the Niger-Delta Nationalities to the rambunctious “Biafra Restoration” gambit of Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB was credited to Nigeria’s Former President Goodluck Jonathan.

President Jonathan has since disowned the Document which is self-evidently, a concoction of the external enemies of the Peoples of the Lower Niger, (ie the Igbo and the rest of the Niger Delta), who are desperately bent on driving the wedge of Division and Suspicion between them. (Here is the link to the disclaimer : https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/jonathan-denies-statement-biafra/ ).

The LNC notes that while the Document is fake, the grave issues raised in the False Document fairly encapsulate germane grounds of very strong objections of the Niger-Delta Nationalities to the Igbocentric “Biafra Restoration” commotion by IPOB and it’s “Supreme Leader” Nnamdi Kanu, MUST be addressed Concretely by anyone who genuinely seeks the Liberation of the Territory from the Choking Bondage of Unitary Nigeria.

This imperative of addressing these well-founded grounds of strong objections were the very reasons the LNC Structured its Self-Determination Campaign Template and Processes in a manner that comprehensively address those grave concerns by holding sacrosanct, the Unabridged and Unfettered Self-Determination Rights of each of the Constituent Ethnic Nationalities of the Lower Niger Territory.

This Lower Niger Paradigm as Proposed by the Lower Niger Congress, was also the reason the Niger-Delta Nationalities wholeheartedly embraced the LNC Template and Roadmap to Liberation from the Caliphate Monster called Nigeria, in sharp contrast to their total rejection of the totally undefined and uncharted “Biafra Restoration” Voyage.

It was in demonstration of that embrace that Niger-Delta Nationalities came out forcefully in happy participation at the SOLEMN ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE LOWER NIGER IN PORT, April 27, 2015 which Adopted the 1885 Ethnolinguistic Map of the Lower Niger Territory as the Geographical Delimitation of the Prospective Lower Niger Federation and which also Mandated the Distillation of the CHARTER OF RELATIONSHIPS that will define the Understandings that will Underpin the Federating Constitution of the Peoples of the Territory in the inevitable Fundamental Reconfiguration of the Defunct of Nigeria.

The Modalities for Distilling that Charter of Relationships and for resolving the Question of the name by which the Territory shall enter its Independence (should the aforementioned Referendums so dictate), are well outlined.


It is noteworthy that the 8-Point Strategy of the LNC Template puts forward a Clear Map of the Territory over which Self -Determination is being Sought and Delineates the Internal Boundaries of the Six Broad Ethnolinguistic Groups that Constitute the Lower Niger (see below the 1885 Ethnolinguistic Map of the Lower Niger).

That Strategy Design which has an Outreach Arm called the MNN Alliance (aggregating the South and Middle-Belt), puts forward a Clear Roadmap for how the Self-Determination Quest of the Peoples of the Territory can be Most Expeditiously and Most Safely attained by Well-Defined Processes that were tailored to culminate in Orderly UN-Backed Referendums and Plebiscites, with a Robust International Outreach that has already established its Credibility in the Policy Beltways of Washington DC and the UN in New York.

This is totally different from the Conflict-Prone “Biafra Restoration” Commotion that re-enacts on a much worse scale, the sad suspicions and difficulties of the 1967 Biafra Venture, and provides the answers to why the LNC completely rejects what has progressively proved to be a Rogue Global “Biafra” Franchise Operated by Cold-Calculating and Clear-Minded Criminal Merchants.

Bottomline is that what the Niger Delta Nationalities are rejecting is the very objectionable method of the Nnamdi Kanu/IPOB “Biafra Restoration” that presents to the Niger-Delta Nationalities, what seems like the clear prospects an Igbo Invasion, led by an Igbo megalomaniac of a “Supreme Leader”, an Igbo Deputy “Supreme Leader” and an all-Igbo Biafra High-Command. The LNC completely agrees with the Objections of the Niger-Delta Nationalities.

On the other hand, from the many years of deep interactions with the Nationalities of the Lower Niger in the Liberation Project, the LNC can also attest with certainty, to the willingness and zeal of the Niger-Delta Nationalities to aggregate and Federate as Equal Partners with the Igbo, post-Nigeria, on clearly defined Terms anchored on the Self-Determination Imperative for each Nationality.

Here are the links to :
(1) The 8-Point Strategy of the LNC Template : https://www.facebook.com/618603708275794/posts/1809727279163425/

(2) The Video Clip from the 2015 Solemn Assembly of the Peoples of the Lower Niger in Port Harcourt :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C5FynbyXrU

Visit: http://www.lowernigercongress.org
Email: info@lowernigercongress.org
Enquiries : +234-810-056-9448
YouTube: Lower Niger Congress
Facebook: Lower Niger Congress.

• Tony Nnadi, the Secretary-General of Lower Niger Congress (LNC),


SOURCE:
https://atlanticpostng.com/opinion-on-the-fake-article-credited-to-president-goodluck-jonathan-on-biafra/?fbclid=IwAR3es1kCgcPpKc72O-Omaeq3ynNCfKZvMzSNXreW1lUdYeqlC7O7g25NHG0

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