what are you trying to say...

I know the Bible to be very specific, without fear or favour, on issues.

You have just quoted lot of things out of context.... Can you come out clear?
90% of the prophesies that you quoted had been fulfilled about two thousand years ago.

Very Poor...I must say.

It must be given to him that he has allowed the few women (particularly the igbo women) to bring out their best which is what has brought the few areas of success that can be attributed to him.

On 'every' other front he has been a failure.

Good policy...
admit what you can effectively and correctly train.
Quality, in education, is more important than quantity.
If you think otherwise, consider the case of a wrong Engineering, medical or even legal judgement .

having recently gone round 90% of the states and spending more than a fair amount of time in Lagos...
It think that Donald Duke (Cross River) is easily the best Governor while Tinubu (Lagos)/ Igbinedion (Edo)/ Kogi (...don't even know his name) / Orji Kalu (Abia) are about the worst.

facts ...

1. female circumcision, wrong as it is, persists and is still being practiced.
2. it started and is being sustained by some level of superstition and some more.
3. the 'hermaphrodite' stuff is what brought the idea of cutting the the clit. it is still being done because of that fear. Our forbears were not necesarily stupid neither were our women encouraging their oppression by supporting the circumcision thing.
4. at that time, people that had both sexual organs 'developed' were sacrificed to the gods since it was abnormal. The very same reason why the elderly women encouraged it to be cut to 'avoid' its 'development'.
5. the story of early sexual pleasure was and has remained a dummy, aimed at making it look religious.
6. The use of cleanliness as the reason why it should be stopped is lame.... will it be accepted if it is done in the hospital or very clean environment using sterile equipments?....NO
7. The concept of enjoying sex was not an issue when this stuff started neither is it an issue for some... even now.
8. Cutting any part of the body without the person's consent is wrong... however it is done or explained.
9. But why do we pierce our girls' ears (and nose) in the name of putting a ring (earing and nose ring) without their consent? yet we see nothing wrong with it.... it is a permanent 'mark'.... thinking aloud

THINK

Is there really a better conversation enabler...?
A good meal served in a 'wonderful' atmosphere has its own magic.

Typically Nigeria makes , at most, about $80 million per day from crude... at the current market price...

Does this money get to the average Nigerian?... You know better.
In our system, he who pays the piper must not dictate the tune.... he should be killed.

Nigerians, without which there is no country, and from whom the Government derives its, legitimacy, existence and finance have been and are still being used as footmats by its rulers.

We all keep quiet at our own peril.

We produce around 2-2.3 million barrels of oil per day. The price in the media at any time is that for brent crude...for instance... which is a light crude that is easy to refine. Nigeria's Bonny light is almost the same quality with the brent.
This changes for every export cargo (ship) depending on a factor called the API INDEX. So in reality, every exported crude is different form the one before or after.

So, typically Bonny light or Forcados blend etc as the different crude produced in NIgeria are called have different prices of Brent price minus 2 or 3 dollars.

Also, for every barrel, there is a cost pf production and a minimal profit margin for the producing company.

So the mathematics has to be done again as the amount stated 120million is totally untrue and does not reflect realities. It sounds like a figure that the Federal Revenue and Fiscal Mobilisation Agency can spue out.

On the other hand, there is an annual investmest of about 4bn dollars (minimum) annually in the production of the crude.

The Man ISONG!!!

Dr. Clement Nyong Isong was about the first Nigerian to be seconded from a high position in the World bank to help in putting up a sound economic development program from Nigeria.

A seasoned economist, The National Rolling Plan which was the bedrock of Nigeria's investment in infrastructures was one the programmes that he pushed into National consciousness and implementation. Most of Nigeria's current infrastructures are a product of this rolling plans.  Industrial Investments in Basic industry that could form development foundations like the steel rolling mills, paper plants, fertilizer plants, sulphuric acid plants, all the refineries, to mention a few also came out of this rolling plan.  
Indeed, Isong's hand is evident in every Major economic infrastructure... most having been conceived or built in his time.

After the Obasanjo-Shagari handover in 1979. He was handpicked (He was never a politician-- too quiet to be one) to become the Governor of Old Cross Rives State (Current Cross River and Akwa Ibom States). As Governor he continued with the same policies - thus came the biscuit, brewing, rubber processing, steel,  crown cork, large printing presses, asbestos, cement , companies that were built around that state at that time... all within 4 years.

He strongly believed in the provision of basic industries as an indispensable step towards growth.

Certainly, he never realised that tribalism and corruption would be the twin evil that would destroy or taint all of his efforts.

Worthy of note is the fact that by the time he died (not sure of the year... guess about 5 yrs ago)... he had only his family house. By Nigerian Stardards he died a Pauper.... very poor indeed.  

Good deed always outlive loud talk.  Like other great men (Justice Udo Udoma, Prof Eyo Ita etc)in his generation propaganda was never a tool to be used.

Little wonder that men who did nothing except to claim credit for what they did not do and  corner National wealth either thro' outright stealing or during the companies' nationalisation era had national 'honours'  while the folks that worked died unsung.

Little is known about his family... because he bequethed nothing except a good name to them.
He hailed from the current Akwa Ibom State

"...A good name is better than Silver and Gold"

You may wish to do the following:
1. Get to his home and be acquainted with his family.
2. Create a strong relationship with the wife.
3. Then you'll see the reasons why you must implement the tips earlier given to you
4. Go ahead with the process of disentangling yourself from him and being bonded to his family for obvious reasons.

Certainly we are not a nation. Rather, a multinational geo-political entity, an economic slavery camp and a blood sucking, i-don't-care-what-happens-to-you-as-far-as-i-can-exploit-you-to-your-bones sytem.

heart

Do the obvious, quit or mobilize your friends and neighbours for civil disobedience. This is our land Charlatans must be chased out. If Mobutu, Idi-amin and the likes could be chased out. We can and must do same.
The current imposters cannot kill all of us and live alone. who will they rule? As long as you keep quiet and pretend as if it is well, doing nothing, so long will we lament.
Resist your corrupt, wicked or tribalistic brother/sister now and things will change.

Silence is not Golden.... it sustains evil

Action is not lame... it drives you, through your enemies to your promise land.

Nigeria has tried all the tricks and theories in the book (excepting communism). IMF and World bank officials have lived here and fed -fat on our cowardice.
May we not forget so soon the level of 'intelligent' amd highly educated men and women that have been part of the Government over the last twenty years.
The sum of all their ideas, activities, consultancies etc etc is where we are. A DECAYING SOCIETY.

The only thing we have not tried is the solution to our problems and that is at worst, a loose federation where everybody can grow at their own pace. At best a breakup into separate countries or federating units. The reason we have not tried it - fear. The same fear that is keeping our young men and women under the the current oppression

Some may dare say we keep hoping. But hope in what? Why keep painting a building with faulty foundations and a resultant set of cracked walls in the hope that it will one day be able to carry a skyscrapper on it. Is it not foolish?

The young men of will not be given political power, yesterday's young men are todays old men or politicians and today's young men will be tommorows old men. With the aged is wisdom, the holy book says. Even then, whoever thinks that this 'coward' generation will be better than their forbears may need to have a second look. Nigeria's literacy level is about 55% (there is no specific National record). Of the 55%, those that have passed through the university/polytechnic/college of education etc can tell what is involved.

Is it the admission that is based on where you come from and who you know?
My younger brother had 7As in his SSCE and &As in his NECO, scored 255/400 in his JAMB and yet did not have admission because he is from a so called Educationally advantaged state. Yet, people scored 190/400 with much inferior SSCE grade and had admission to do the same course in the same university, because they are educationally disadvantaged.

Is it the bribe-me or lay-with-me-and i-will-give-you-good-grades syndrome that they have pased through which has prepared them for making sacrifices for the 'country'?

Is it the graduates from this few-classrooms, 20-people-to-one-room-hostel, no-certain-academic-calendar-due-to-strikes, no water/light, brain-drained universities that you think will carry the national burden? Is the same set that throng and sometimes sleep at embassy gates that you are conting on?
Time and space would not allow a total elucidation of the system we are in.

The people who are not in Nigeria and are thus not directly pinched by this immoral system can tell us to hope. But I'm sure they would not like to spend their lifetime here.

Yesterday(12/10/05) , the Federal exec. council approved th 2006 budget. The POLICE is taking the largest percentage of the federal budget (NOT EDUCATION, NOR HEALTH). Where lies this hope some espouse?

If there was anything to hope on, that thing is called hopelessness.

Will God help -us? NO, NO, NO. There is no country called Nigeria in any Holy Book. God recognises Peoples and not Political systems.
This is not mere sermonizing but rather it is stating the obvious.

I insist that Nigeria is on its way to a demise... it is not a question of if, but when.

Well said by everybody.

I think differently about Nigeria.
First, it is not a nation... it started out as an oppresive entity, is sustained by oppression and will remain so for as long as you can imagine.

Nations consider human life ( at least of their citizens) as precious. In Nigeria it is the opposite. Corruption, ritualistic killings etc are only but symptoms of the malaise in the soul of Nigeria.
Mediocrity is hallowed and given a pride of place. while rogues are at the helms of affairs.

Unfortunately, as it stands today, the Northerners and Westerners believe that this system will continue since they feed fat on it ... whether knowingly or not.

Today, Federal Government houses, built by money obtained through the merciless killing of Ibos and Niger Deltans are being auctioned to men and women who know nothing about how the money thatbuilt those structures came about. to the buyers, Nigeria is making progress. But the communities that have been ransacked by the military time and time again over the last six years (including last week 2oct 05) know that this fabric called Nigeria iis unwearable.
A trans-sahara highway starting at Lagos is in the making, with money obtained through gross environmental abuses that have made the lives of women, children and men in the Niger delta bitter. Those who use the road may not know and when they see the road.... they prophesy that Nigeria is on the March to 'heaven-on earth'. How wrong they are.
The blood of those who have been killed by the battalions of soldiers currently deployed throughout the Delta will speak soon.
Universities are being built, scholarships are being given, power plants are being built... oh how nice. Yet the beneficiaries do not know that their joy comes from the deprivation of many families whose only source of drinking water has been polluted, sometimes after their daughter has been raped by a certain soldier. To the beneficiaries, things are looking up. But how wrong they are.
National 'honors' are bestowed on murderers while illiterates dance in the sitting room of power. A nation that has existed for 45 years, has 65 universities and has never found it wise to put a proper university(being the highest level of learning) graduate at the helm of its affairs cannot and will not survive.

In ten -fifteen years, we will see the demise of whatever we call Nigeria today. It has no future and never should. Its foundation is wrong, its building materials are at best poor and its roof is leaking. It should and must be pulled down so that a greater nation can come out in its stead. As long as we all continue to whitewash and paint this sepulchre, so long will we keep having false hopes of a great nation.

Little wonder they have ensured that the correct history of real happenings are not taught in schools.