₦airaland Forum

You cannot shave a man's head in his absence
In Nigeria's case, their head has been shaved in their presence without a say in how it is shaved.

How else do you explain a change of the national anthem in 24 hrs?
Even the military under Obasanjo was more democratic about it by calling for national competition in the newspapers.

How on earth does a government full of old people that I would not like to call old fools wake up and decide to change the anthem of 200 million plus people?

The contempt for docile Nigerians has reached an all-time high.

How do you pick an anthem created by a white colonial master's wife more than half a century ago of which our old cargo dim and inferior-minded legislators have fond memory off? No pride or brain whatsoever.

Imagine some government officials just waking up to change The Star-Spangled Banner anthem in just 24 hrs to an anthem written by an African woman some 70 years ago.

A country named by a white woman with the derogatory term Nigga Area like a dog is named now reverts to an anthem by another colonial master's lady of the other room.

This must have been a double-dare by the puppet master to see how docile and stupid Nigerians are.

It is now time for the young minds not infected by this inferiority complex to take over.

It is time to disband Nigeria as it is and let every region be by itself the way it should be.

It is time to erase artificial lines dividing blood brothers and families across Africa with artificially imposed lines and allow free movement.

The Europeans would have killed all of themselves if they had this kind of union where the French, the Italians, the Spanish, The Germans, and the English were all merged into one country by some outsiders and forced to fight in a game of the throne.

Instead of focusing on agriculture on our fertile lands across Africa, every head of tribe is stupidly waiting for their turn to taste the sugary poisonous national cake while their family is begging for food that can easily be grown on the most fertile land in the world God has gifted us.
You throw a seed on the floor and it will grow. Instead of harnessing this gift, Africans are busy cutting down trees and clearing bushes to build foreign religious worship centers and praying and begging for food.

It is time to wise up

The young uninfected minds should take over from the brainwashed heads.

Soro soke gidi gan... Speak up very loud young Africans.

Unpatriotic people can't change their country,the average young Nigeriàñ is highly unpatriotic, u can't transform a society or a project you don't love with passion.

Nigerians get what they deserve

Don't mind those confused people. They just woke up and decided that, in spite of all Nigeria's numerous problems, our perfect anthem was their priority and changed it on a whim. Replacing what was written by Nigerians with that of a foreigner. It is a crying shame.

Was it not a competition on 1959 that lead to the old anthem that has now been returned?

Who did the Military consult to decide to change the anthem, when a democratic Nigeria adopted the previous anthem on 1st October 1960?

Is it not a democratic government with a National Assembly bill that has now signed into law the return of the same democratic national anthem that the military replaced with autocratic power?

So why are you trying to spin your own ignorance into a misinformation for public consumption?

Shame on your misunderstanding of whose action is actually democratic or dictatorial.

StOla:
Was it not a competition on 1959 that lead to the old anthem that has now been returned?

Who did the Military consult to decide to change the anthem, when a democratic Nigeria adopted the previous anthem on 1st October 1960?

Is it not a democratic government with a National Assembly bill that has now signed into law the return of the same democratic national anthem that the military replaced with autocratic power?

So why are you trying to spin your own ignorance into a misinformation for public consumption?

Shame on your misunderstanding of whose action is actually democratic or dictatorial.

Which one is more representative

1.
‘Arise, O Compatriots’ National Anthem written by a collective of young Nigerians, including John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B. A. Ogunnaike, Sota Omoigui and P. O. Aderibigbe in 1978

2.
Nigeria, We Hail Thee’, written by an English woman, Lillian Jean Williams.

Imagine someone from Abeokuta being the Author of God Save the King or the American national anthem.

This is technically not a change but reverting back to the old anthem.

Remember that Obj military govt was an illegitimate govt

akingangan:
You cannot shave a man's head in his absence
In Nigeria's case, their head has been shaved in their presence without a say in how it is shaved.

How else do you explain a change of the national anthem in 24 hrs?
Even the military under Obasanjo was more democratic about it by calling for national competition in the newspapers.

How on earth does a government full of old people that I would not like to call old fools wake up and decide to change the anthem of 200 million plus people?

The contempt for docile Nigerians has reached an all-time high.

How do you pick an anthem created by a white colonial master's wife more than half a century ago of which our old cargo dim and inferior-minded legislators have fond memory off? No pride or brain whatsoever.

Imagine some government officials just waking up to change The Star-Spangled Banner anthem in just 24 hrs to an anthem written by an African woman some 70 years ago.

A country named by a white woman with the derogatory term Nigga Area like a dog is named now reverts to an anthem by another colonial master's lady of the other room.

This must have been a double-dare by the puppet master to see how docile and stupid Nigerians are.

It is now time for the young minds not infected by this inferiority complex to take over.

It is time to disband Nigeria as it is and let every region be by itself the way it should be.

It is time to erase artificial lines dividing blood brothers and families across Africa with artificially imposed lines and allow free movement.

The Europeans would have killed all of themselves if they had this kind of union where the French, the Italians, the Spanish, The Germans, and the English were all merged into one country by some outsiders and forced to fight in a game of the throne.

Instead of focusing on agriculture on our fertile lands across Africa, every head of tribe is stupidly waiting for their turn to taste the sugary poisonous national cake while their family is begging for food that can easily be grown on the most fertile land in the world God has gifted us.
You throw a seed on the floor and it will grow. Instead of harnessing this gift, Africans are busy cutting down trees and clearing bushes to build foreign religious worship centers and praying and begging for food.

It is time to wise up

The young uninfected minds should take over from the brainwashed heads.

Soro soke gidi gan... Speak up very loud young Africans.

akingangan:
Which one is more representative

1.
‘Arise, O Compatriots’ National Anthem written by a collective of young Nigerians, including John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B. A. Ogunnaike, Sota Omoigui and P. O. Aderibigbe in 1978

2.
Nigeria, We Hail Thee’, written by an English woman, Lillian Jean Williams.

Imagine someone from Abeokuta being the Author of God Save the King or the American national anthem.

Dude, you made a claim about democratic action of the military.

How does a military government decide to remove an anthem that a democratic Nigeria adopted upon independence in 1960, yet you say the military's action is democratic?

Then a democratic government decide to undo the autocratic action of the military government, via National Assembly Bill that is signed into law by the PRESIDENT, yet you want to cast aspersions on the democratic process while exalting the autocratic action of the military as a form of democracy because it allowed for a competition?

Did the older anthem not come about by way of a competition also and selected by a committee of eminent Nigerians?

That you in your unrehabilitated military psyche, prefer the military style of patriotism evident in the military's anthem, does not mean you should confuse the public about what was democratic and what was autocratic.

DMerciful:
This is technically not a change but reverting back to the old anthem.

Remember that Obj military govt was an illegitimate govt

Exactly!

It is a return to what the military unilaterally decided to change.

And the return passed through the democratic process.

You can decide to prefer one anthem over the other, but do not try to tell us bullshit about how the unilateral decision of an illegitimate military government to change the national anthem was more democratic because it subsequently allowed a competition to arrive at the choice, as if the previous one did not come about by a competition also.

A draft bill proposing regional government in Nigeria is expected before October 1, 2024.

Are you in support or not?

Nzogbu2012:
A draft bill proposing regional government in Nigeria is expected before October 1, 2024.

Are you in support or not?

Absolutely in support

And each region should have their own anthem written by an indegine and not Yoruba western region having an anthem written by an Igbo man from the east or Nothern Hausa man.

In this things we have to use our brains.