SECTION 7

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT & JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

1. The judge with the longest length of service or as selected among his peers within the Municipality shall become the Chief Judge
2. The tenure of Judges must be 5 years
3. The Criminal Judicial Administration shall be according to the Trial by Jury model (at the
Municipal Courts)
4. The Municipal Judiciary must have a minimum of 5 judges based on the number of districts and the judicial needs of the locality
5. The judges must be elected by direct suffrage subject to clearance by the Regional Judicial Council
6. The Judges and courts get funded directly from the Municipal Accounts
7. The Municipality must pay 5% of all funding into the Judicial Funds
8. The Judicial Funds shall be administered by the elected Judiciary, and a report submitted
monthly to the Municipal Parliament
9. The Judicial Funds must be used to build Courts, administer courts and pay the emoluments
of the Judges and court clerks in conformance with the national guidelines
10. The Judges shall be responsible to only the People and involved in the daily administration of
the Municipality
11. The Mayor, or Parliament, have power on the Judges in any way whatsoever
12. The administration, engagement and discipline of Judges must be by the independent
National Judicial Council
13. The Municipal Government must maintain the office of the District Attorney
14. The District Attorney must be directly elected
15. The District Attorney must maintain Assistant DAs in the Municipality
16. The office of the DA, and emoluments, are directly from the Municipality
17. The District Attorney shall be responsible for the prosecution of all crimes within the
Municipality
18. The Municipality shall have an elected Chief of Police
19. The Chief of Police must maintain the Municipal Police and keep the Law & Order
20. 20% of Municipal Funds shall be directly paid into the police funds
21. Police equipment, emoluments, building and all funding shall come from the Police Funds
22. A monthly report on the administration of the Police Funds must be submitted to the Mayor
who presents it to the Municipal Assembly of Deputies
23. The Municipal Government shall be solely responsible for the design, construction, funding,
maintenance and operation of roads within its locality
24. The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the construction of stadia and other
public buildings in conformance with the national guidelines
25. The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the design, construction, administration, and funding of residential buildings, city development, beautification and administration
26. The municipal government shall maintain a database of all residents of the municipality
27. The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the provision of public power, water and
other utilities
28. The Municipal Government shall be responsible for the administration of public health
facilities and administration in conformance with the national guidelines
29. The Municipal Government shall be responsible for lives and security in the Municipality
30.The Municipal Government shall have an inter-municipal relationship within the
Province/Prefecture
31. The Municipal Government shall be solely responsible for Town Planning and the citing of
industries, airports, and other facilities
32. The Municipal Government shall be directly in charge of 5% Sales Tax (of all transactions),
5% Residence Tax (5% of PAYE), annual Property Tax graduated between 50,000 per
annum to 200,000 per annum (in conformance with the national guidelines)
33. 1% apiece of Education & Security Taxes
34. The Municipal Government must render a monthly income/expenditure to the Assemblies of
Deputies
35. 25% of all Municipal Income must be paid to the Regional Government (according to the national guidelines)

SECTION 6

THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT & JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

1. The Regional Government must have a Regional Constitution which is accepted by plebiscite or signatures of two hundred and ten people (at 10 people per federal constituency of 21 per region) uniformly distributed over the region
2. The Head of the Regional Government must be the Premier
3. Every Regional Government must have Prefectures/Provinces along ethnic nationality lines,
religious lines of sociocultural lines
4. Every province/prefecture shall elect five (5) Regional Parliamentarians to the Regional Parliament
5. The party with the highest number of regional parliamentarians shall form the government (in conformance with Section 3 & 4 of Chapter 1)
6. The form of government shall be in conformance with the Chapter 1, Sections 3, 4 & 5 unless otherwise agreed
7. Each Regional Government shall be self-financing and shall be responsible for the development, welfare and protection of the citizens within its boundaries
8. Each Regional Government shall maintain a Regional Judiciary in conformance with the National Guidelines
9. Each Regional Government shall maintain a Regional Prison System in conformance with the National Constitution
10. The Regional Government must consist of 20% Traditional Council
11. The Regional Government must be parliamentary in conformance with the Sections 3 & 4
12. The Premier is elected by the party with the highest number of Deputies and the Traditional
Council
13. The Regional Government; shall be responsible for planning infrastructural Development &
Strategy for the Region
14. The Regional Government could auction licenses to companies for the sole purpose of fast
tracking their development (in conformity with national guidelines)
15. The regional government, in conjunction with the Provincial & Municipal Governments,
must seek every way to aid development and solely responsible for the welfare of the people
16. The Regional Government shall maintain an active police system in conformance with the
National Guidelines for police formations
17. The Regional Government shall maintain a Judicial System of Independent Circuit& Appeal
Courts in conformance with the National Guidelines
18.The Regional Government shall maintain a Regional Prisons Systems for Criminal
Corrections
19. The Department of Corrections shall be responsible for the administration of the prisons in
conformance with the national guidelines
20. There must be a regional judicial council with the powers to appoint judges to the regional high courts
21. The regional judicial council shall be in charge of justice administration
22. The Regional Judicial Council must get its funding directly from the Regional Budget
23. The accounts of the Regional Judicial council is subject to annual and periodic audit
24. The Regional Judicial Council must elect the Chief Justice of the Region from among
themselves
25.The Regional Judges shall NOT be under the administration of the Premier nor the
parliament
26. The Highest Court per Region shall be the Regional Appeal Court
27. All disputed cases from the Municipal Courts shall be adjudicated by the Regional Appeal
Courts
28. All cases disputed at the Regional Appeal Courts shall be adjudicated by the Supreme Court
29. The Supreme Court shall be administered by the National Judicial Council
30. The National Judicial Council shall be responsible for the appointment of the Chief Justice of
the Federation
31. The National Judicial Council shall source its funding directly from the Budget of the
Federation
32. The National Judicial Council shall be independent
33. The Chief Justice of the Federation shall be answerable to the National Judicial Council only
34. The Regional Judicial Council must maintain a membership list that shall be the input for the
National Judicial Council.

SECTION 5

THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION

1. The national constitution must be adopted based on regional plebiscite
2. The plebiscite shall be conducted in conformance with the electoral guidelines
3. An acceptance of the National Constitution by at least six (6) federating regions shall make it
a law
4. Any region disputing the constitution, must present the aspects of the constitution for further
negotiations within 30 ordinary working days
5. On negotiating and amendment by a simple national parliamentary majority, the aspects shall
be sent to the region and a plebiscite carried out. If a YES return, then the Constitution becomes a Law
6. Constitutional amendment shall be on a yearly basis
7. If a NO return, the Federating Region must carry out a plebiscite to become a Confederating
Member of the Federation, using only the name, currency and leverage of the Federation of Nigeria, but not eligible for the formation of government at the Central Level for a period of five (5) years
8. If within five (5) years, the constitution is acceptable, a plebiscite shall be carried out to accept the constitution and reabsorbed into the Federation of Nigeria with full benefits and instantaneous integration and total rights
9. If after five (5) years of not accepting the constitution, and being a confederate member of the Federation, a plebiscite must be carried out for full sovereignty and the submitted to the Federation of Nigeria through Parliament
10. A YES vote for sovereignty after five (5) years shall confer full sovereignty on the region, and the Government of the Federation must recognize them, and commence the process of sharing assets and liabilities immediately
11. A NO vote for sovereignty shall ensure that the Region goes through the process of voting on the constitution again until such a time that it would accept it (on negotiations) or go through the 5-year confederal system once more
12. All aspects of the national constitution shall be obeyed by all
13. Elected officials that breach the national constitution must be immediately impeached
14. A criminal breach shall have a Grand Jury set at the behest of the Attorney General
15. If the Grand Jury finds he/she culpable, criminal proceedings shall be immediately initiated.

SECTION 4

ELECTORAL SYSTEM

1. The regions and the Government of the Federation shall agree on the Electoral Guidelines
2. The Government of the Federation shall maintain an Electoral Guideline Office and
formulate a set of Laws concurrent with the agreed guidelines
3. The Electoral Guidelines must be passed by Parliament, and agreed to by at least six (6)
Federating Regions
4. The Government of the Federation shall NOT conduct any elections at any level
5. The job of the Government of the Federation shall be limited to the Formulation of Electoral
Guidelines, the extant laws and the adherence to those laws
6. Each Regional Government shall maintain an Electoral Office
7. The Regional Electoral Office shall be made up two representatives each, elected by each
province/prefecture in a region, and a representative each of the political parties
8. The electoral representatives shall meet at least 4 times per year with a sitting allowance for
each meeting not exceeding 5 times the national minimum wage
9. No other wages and allowances or benefits in terms of accommodation, feeding, chauffeuring
or any other shall apply during these quarterly meetings as enshrined in the national
guidelines
10. The Regional Electoral Office shall liaise with the Municipal Councils to conduct elections
11. The Electoral Commissioners for each province shall be the Elected Representatives of the Provinces/Prefectures, the representatives of the political parties, and the Traditional Council
12. Each Municipality shall conduct elections as it deems fit while strictly adhering to the National Guidelines
13.Political Parties, Traditional Council, Municipal Government and the Electoral Commissioners shall be directly responsible for the conduct of elections within a municipality
14. The Election Results shall be announced on the very spot and an electronic display is filled in the presence of all and sent to the regional Electoral Office for collation
15. Each Region electronically fills a form and collates at the National Electoral Office for announcement
16. All elections shall be local and results immediately announced
17. It shall be a criminal act, punishable by Life Imprisonment for any Military or any section of
the Security outfit to be used in any election
18. A military or any of the armed services may visit a polling station for the sole purpose of
voting alone, and must be unarmed
19. All Federal, Regional or Municipal Elections shall be carried out as shown above.

debaj10:
who drafted it?

how comprehensive is it?

how do u/we/they replace d current one?

The answers are on the first post, open the link.

SECTION 3

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION

1. The Prime Minister shall be the Head of the Government of the Federation
2. A Prime Minister is elected among his parliamentary peers for a period of 4 years
3. A Prime Minister or his/her government may be removed from office by passing a vote of no
confidence
4. A vote of no confidence must be passed by a simple majority in parliament
5. A quorum must always be formed not less than two-thirds of the parliament for the decision
to be legal & binding
6. Matters to be debated upon must be gazetted and circulated at least five (5) working days
before the debate is called up
7. All debated issues must be circulated and the agreement of at least six (6) of ten (10) regions must be obtained even without contravening the provision of other aspects of the constitution
8. In the absence of the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister shall by a simple act of the parliament, immediately be made Prime Minister for three (3) months within which elections must be held for all Federal Parliamentarians for a new government to be formed
9. The general elections shall be carried out on a day agreed by all regions, and the government of the federation
10. The Government of the Federation shall not set up any business organization in any form, in any way, for any reason
11. The Government of the Federation shall be restricted to perform only regulatory roles to oversee the economy
12. The Government of the Federation shall set up regulatory organizations and shall not be a direct participant in any business concern whatsoever
13. The Government of the Federation shall carry out projects within the constitutionally assigned roles alone
14. Such projects by the Government of the Federation shall be carried out on contractual basis or by direct labor
15. All projects and contractual terms shall be subject to the approval of parliament prior to award and execution
16. The Government of the Federation shall carry out 5-year Plans that shall be the basis of Capital Budgeting on a yearly basis
17. The 5-Year Development Plan shall be approved by parliament prior to the preparation and submission of the Annual Budget
18. The Government of the Federation shall have an Annual Work Program which shall be a breakdown of the 5-Year Development Plan
19. The Annual Work Program shall be the basis of Capital Budgeting and shall be approved by parliament
20. No item outside the Work Program shall be included in any section or aspect of the annual budget
21. The Work Program of any particular year must be fully executed before appropriating for the subsequent year
22. Work Program & Budget Execution shall be certified by the Auditor General to be legally deemed as completed
23. The Government of the Federation is at liberty to fund programs within the purview of the Regional Government with the legal consent of the Regional Government
24. Any funding by the Government of the Federation, of program or programs of the Regional Government, shall give the Federal Government oversight of such programs
25. Regional Programs funded by the Government of the Federation, shall effectively be guided by the Laws of the Government of the Federation
26. The Parliament shall approve the funding of Regional Programs if so desired, with the legal consent of the Regional Government.

SECTION 2

THE PARLIAMENTARY FEDERATION

1. Each Federating Region shall elect 21 members to the Parliament
2. Each elected Parliamentarian shall be a member of a party or an affiliate of one
3. The party with the largest number of parliamentarians, shall be invited to form the
government of the federation
4. The leader of the party with the largest number of parliamentarians shall be the Prime
Minister, or as agreed by a coalition
5. The Prime Minister shall choose the Federal Ministers from among the Parliamentarians
6. The Parliamentary decisions shall be on a simple majority
7. The Prime Minister would have as much powers as the Parliament directs
8. All decisions executed by the Prime Minister and/or other ministers, must be thoroughly
argued in Parliament and agreed.

SECTION 1
THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

1. The country shall be officially known as the Federation of Nigeria
2. The political capital of the Federation shall be situated within the Abuja City Area of definite
boundaries
3. The Federation of Nigeria shall be a secular country where there is no recognition of any
religion in any form whatsoever
4. Religion shall be personal and no form, government, agencies, or any official entity of the
Federation, shall demand the religious leaning of any individual nor is the individual at
liberty to tell
5. Under the sun and the skies, on earth and in any part of the universe, all citizens of the
Federation of Nigeria equal in all ramifications regardless of tongue, creed or adherence, and
all men shall be so treated under the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria
6. The Federation of Nigeria shall be made up of 10 regions along ethnic nationality lines
and/or along sociocultural affiliations
regions shall be as follows:
7. The regions shall be as follows:

i. Oodua Region (for all Yoruba speaking People)
ii. Bendel Region (for the Benin Kingdom, Urhobo Kingdom, Esan Kingdom, Isoko Kingdom, Itsekiri Kingdom) and their affiliates
iii. Ala-Igbo Region (for all Igbo-speaking people)
iv. Atlantic Coast Region (for the Izon Kingdom, Kalabari Kingdom, Ogoni Kingdom &
Bonny Kingdom)
v. Calabar Region (comprising of Anang, Efik, Ibibio, Ogoja, Ugep and their affiliates)
vi. Benue Valley Region (Idoma, Tiv, Junkun and all areas from the Benue Valley along the Eastern shore of the River Niger to the Yola
vii. Kainji Region comprising of the Nupe, Ebira, Igala, Gbagi, and all areas from Minna to Kotangora and to Lokoja)
viii. Plateau Region (from the Eastern Plateau to Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa and their affiliates)
ix. Arewa Region comprising of the original Hausa Bokwoi states from Katsina to Kano, Zaria, Sokoto to Yaure)
x. The Kanem Region (comprising of the old Kanem-Bornu Empire from Maiduguri to Hadejia, Gombe & Bauchi)

PREAMBLE DECLARATION

CHAPTER ONE

We, the People hereby agree to establish the Federation of Nigeria as a country of ten federating regions, whereby the regions are equal in all ramifications, are autonomous, and are self- sustaining. We the People, through the ten Federating Regions, have resolved to establish a Central Government, which shall be established as an agency of the regions, for the sole purpose of harmonizing the policies of the regions, and managing a national system, on behalf of the federating regions.
That the Federation of Nigeria, shall guarantee the Right to Life, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness as paramount Laws, that cannot be breached by the Federating Regions, the Government of the Federation or the agencies. The Fundamental Human Rights of all citizens cannot be breached.

AIM OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATION

The aim of the government of the Federation of Nigeria, shall be the Welfare of the People. The Government of the Federation of Nigeria shall be at the pleasure of the Citizens, for the Welfare of the Citizens, and for the Security of the Citizens.

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

Nigeria, we hail thee
Our dear Fatherland
Though tribe and tongue may differ In brotherhood we stand
Nigerians all, are proud to serve Our sovereign Fatherland
Our flag shall be a symbol
That Truth and Justice reign In peace or battle honoured And this we count as gain
To hand to our children
A banner without stain
O God of creation
Grant this our one request Help us build a country Where no man is oppressed And so with peace and plenty Nigeria may be blessed.

THE NATIONAL PLEDGE

I pledge to Nigeria, my country
To be faithful, loyal and honest
To serve Nigeria with all my strength To protect her unity
And defend her honor and glory
So help me God.

NIGERIA IN X-RAY

Almost every Nigerian at home and abroad and every other person who happened to resides within Nigeria geographical space knows that the country is in a deep mess. Those who are concerned are now worried because there is air of uncertainty about everything and in anything in Nigeria. Life has become a thing of chance that those who survive to the next day are considered to have being favored by fate. The good souls who wish to put things right are littered in many quarters, scouting, brain-storming, consulting, thinking and dissecting any available information that could help to salvage this apparently wrecked nation. The academics tendered their researches to point the way forward, but the ignorant crooks in power trash the papers without opening a page. On television, sessions are held by different stakeholders who tabled out their opinions on how to move the nation forward. In social media the frustrated hoi polloi berate the leaders and held them responsible for their misery and utter hopelessness that has become the order of the day. These continued and weeks run into months and months into years, with only signs that bad situations are getting increasingly and unimaginably worse.

With all these happening, one is bound to wonder a lot and many questions would naturally boggle one’s mind. How could a nation so blessed become a perfect image of a people under a curse? How could a nation with millions of Ph. D degrees and world renowned technocrats be governed by a man without a high school diploma? How could the South with all the erudition and exposure be dominated and subjugated by the barely literate North, who are contributing nothing in the union and yet, carting away the lion shares of the national wealth for more than 50 years as a right? How could a nation with crude oil deposits and numerous solid mineral that generate billions and yet, most of the citizens retire every night hungry and scared? Why did the government refuse to fix the refineries for more than 30 years now but rather preferred to be shipping out to other countries that they pay to do the job?
If this is not a curse, what is it?

How could a nation that hopes to survive tomorrow set the young ones on smooth paths to failure? The educational sector that should receive the best attention by any serious government is not even in the list of first top twenty priorities to Nigeria government? This is why government schools across the nation are an eyesore, dilapidated building, leaking roofs, empty classrooms with no desk and barely literate teachers marketing ignorance generously to the bemused, supposed students. I once cried my heart out when I saw on a social media primary three kids who sat on asphalted floor, in a classroom, without book, pen or any writing material. This is a state that takes home billions of naira every month in allocation. What can be so evil than to neglect the little ones, destroy a generation, and for what?

Every government agency today is a caricature. There is no standard for anything, and the senators, ministers and house members who ought to serve as oversight don’t care. This is the reason this culture of mediocrity pervade everywhere, leaving its trails of numerous preventable deaths across the nation. If it is not a collapsed building today, it will be ghastly auto mishap or petroleum tanker unloading on broad day light that set the people ablaze. Now it is Nigerians, the herdsmen slaughtering Nigerians on daily basis. At each of this occasion many lives are lost, and we move on without any measure to ensure any of such never happens. Those whose duty it is to fix things are busy fixing their pockets and securing their intestines. And someone is hopeful that things will be better tomorrow?

Philosophical inquiry informs one to see the future through the present moment. It is what is at hand will determine the nature of what is yet to come. As it is today, anyone who doesn’t thinks that Nigeria is dead is delusional. Such a person doesn’t want to admit the obvious that Nigeria is just a name, a nomenclature that means nothing to majority of Nigerians today. He simply wishes to cling to that tiny thread of hope that is drawn to its elastic limit of detachment. And soon he will only have the rope in his hand and not the hope!
Here is my prognosis that will make any thinking Nigeria to start looking for a solution for alternative home and not to waste any energy and time in trying to resurrect the dead: Nigeria.

The problem of Nigeria is not because of her multi-ethnic composition, or lack of cultural homogeneity. United States is of this kind. It is not because oil is in one part of the country and barren lands overwhelmed the other. United Arab Emirate is of this kind. It is not because the Igbos are progressive and radically enterprising or the Yorubas have taken to academics. Rwanda with such tribal exceptionalism rose from the ashes of their false selves to a leading African nation in development today. It is not basically the leadership who failed in their duty as Achebe of blessed memory opined. The leaders come from amongst the people and are the perfect sample of the collective spiritual state.

The leaders couldn’t have been the problem if they shared the dark tendencies of the rest of the people. No wonder whoever that gets into power immediately blends in to the culture of selfishness and looting. There is a disease that seemed congenital to every Nigerian, and a prospective leader is already infected with it. This explains why it seemed practically impossible for the leaders to live up to their calling. It is not even the follower-ship in exclusion of the leaders. It is none of these as many pundits are trying to sell to the public. The best way to put this is to say that the source of the stream is contaminated that it gushed out fetid water which had affected everything it touched. As it is today, there is nothing in Nigeria which is not affected by this poisonous, squalid water. It is very clear from the look of things that colossal damage had been done to this source of stream that no human being or a Nigerian is capable of fixing it. Invariably, no one can resurrect the dead!

The problem of Nigeria is you, a Nigerian and who is going through this article. You can deny this fact but you can’t be exonerated from culpability when Nigeria collapses and which will happen very soon. Wherever you are when Nigeria is no more, you will always remember that you are part of that denizen of shame and dishonor whose enormous contributions brought down a nation. It doesn’t matter if you are then in Biafra, Oduduwa or Arewa republic; you destroyed a nation and will do the same if you carry over your attitude to your seeming utopian republic.

How?

What you must not forget is the saying: “The wisdom of God rules the world!” It is from this wisdom that manifests in the inflexible laws that govern all things. It is this laws that ensure people of a homogenous kind congregate at a place for their development. Prior to our birth, these laws ensure that all of us incarnate in a region that is to become a Nigeria. Our ancestors who were here before us attracted their kind through procreations and such attractions continued to this time; and till you and me. We are not Nigerians by accident or by compulsion; we are Nigeria by choice expressed in our spiritual density and other homogenous characteristics. There is no place of error in the divine laws that govern creation. All of us Nigerians share peculiar characteristics and what one can liken to DNA. It is these characteristics which were not checked that had become our bane, ruin, destruction and death.

Have you not asked yourself why you can’t name at least three Nigerians, living or deceased you will proudly call heroes? How about two Nigerians or, okay, a Nigeria who is a hero? What about patriot? I mean a Nigerian, one who has showed extraordinary and remarkable commitment to a Nigeria state; her growth and continuity devoid of hidden tribal or personal gains. I don’t mean tribal leaders like Awolowo, Tafawa Belewa or Azikiwe whose political ambition brought about the deception of “One Nigeria” prior to the civil war? Or Ojukwu and Gowon whose names can’t be omitted when deaths of millions of people are remembered in Biafra war? Who is still remaining, Obasanjo, Buhari, Jonathan or Ben Murray Bruce who didn’t see anything wrong with the outrageous Senator’s salaries and allowances in the midst of grinding poverty of the masses? Does it mean there is no hero or a patriot in Nigeria?

Is it now clear we are a people whose primary goal is our individual selves. We don’t care about others despite all pretenses and noise any of us in a privilege position mouth in regard to thinking about the common good of Nigeria. We simply don’t care. If we care one person could have shown heroism or patriotism since the coming into existence of this godforsaken country. The men who enrolled in Nigeria military went in due to scorching heats of poverty and frustrations of joblessness. The military commanders know nothing but graft and self enrichment, and these nuisances would be considered patriots? There is no patriot because none of us believed in Nigeria. Nobody can willingly give his life for Nigeria.

Our Lord Jesus Christ enjoined on us as it is recorded in Matt, 10:39: “whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” As Nigerians we are all guilty of this. That congenital spiritual disease that expresses its symptoms in self-preservation, selfishness, greed, and theft has left us in a tattered, bad shape. When this is applied to Nigeria: we all want to take from Nigeria, to amass at every opportunity for ourselves and family. No one thinks of Nigeria’s health or engages in actions that promotes the health of this nation. We pretend that we care, but soon the wind will blow and the rump of a foul will be exposed. These attitudes had created the dark thought forms that surrounded the entire country ethereally which had now destroyed the health of the nation. This is the reason I said Nigeria is dead!
What should we do now?

To be continued…

The problem of Nigeria is not because of her multi-ethnic composition, or lack of cultural homogeneity. United States is of this kind. It is not because oil is in one part of the country and barren lands overwhelmed the other. United Arab Emirate is of this kind. It is not because the Igbos are progressive and radically enterprising or the Yorubas have taken to academics. Rwanda with such tribal exceptionalism rose from the ashes of their false selves to a leading African nation in development today. It is not basically the leadership who failed in their duty as Achebe of blessed memory opined. The leaders come from amongst the people and are the perfect sample of the collective spiritual state.

The leaders couldn’t have been the problem if they shared the dark tendencies of the rest of the people. No wonder whoever that gets into power immediately blends in to the culture of selfishness and looting. There is a disease that seemed congenital to every Nigerian, and a prospective leader is already infected with it. This explains why it seemed practically impossible for the leaders to live up to their calling. It is not even the follower-ship in exclusion of the leaders. It is none of these as many pundits are trying to sell to the public. The best way to put this is to say that the source of the stream is contaminated that it gushed out fetid water which had affected everything it touched. As it is today, there is nothing in Nigeria which is not affected by this poisonous, squalid water. It is very clear from the look of things that colossal damage had been done to this source of stream that no human being or a Nigerian is capable of fixing it. Invariably, no one can resurrect the dead!

The problem of Nigeria is you, a Nigerian and who is going through this article. You can deny this fact but you can’t be exonerated from culpability when Nigeria collapses and which will happen very soon. Wherever you are when Nigeria is no more, you will always remember that you are part of that denizen of shame and dishonor whose enormous contributions brought down a nation. It doesn’t matter if you are then in Biafra, Oduduwa or Arewa republic; you destroyed a nation and will do the same if you carry over your attitude to your seeming utopian republic.

To be continued...

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Every government agency today is a caricature. There is no standard for anything, and the senators, ministers and house members who ought to serve as oversight don’t care. This is the reason this culture of mediocrity pervade everywhere, leaving its trails of numerous preventable deaths across the nation. If it is not a collapsed building today, it will be ghastly auto mishap or petroleum tanker unloading on broad day light that set the people ablaze. Now it is Nigerians, the herdsmen slaughtering Nigerians on daily basis. At each of this occasion many lives are lost, and we move on without any measure to ensure any of such never happens. Those whose duty it is to fix things are busy fixing their pockets and securing their intestines. And someone is hopeful that things will be better tomorrow?

Philosophical inquiry informs one to see the future through the present moment. It is what is at hand will determine the nature of what is yet to come. As it is today, anyone who doesn’t thinks that Nigeria is dead is delusional. Such a person doesn’t want to admit the obvious that Nigeria is just a name, a nomenclature that means nothing to majority of Nigerians today. He simply wishes to cling to that tiny thread of hope that is drawn to its elastic limit of detachment. And soon he will only have the rope in his hand and not the hope!
Here is my prognosis that will make any thinking Nigeria to start looking for a solution for alternative home and not to waste any energy and time in trying to resurrect the dead: Nigeria.

To be continued

NIGERIA IN X-RAY: Nigeria is dead!

Almost every Nigerian at home and abroad and every other person who happened to resides within Nigeria geographical space knows that the country is in a deep mess. Those who are concerned are now worried because there is air of uncertainty about everything and in anything in Nigeria. Life has become a thing of chance that those who survive to the next day are considered to have being favored by fate. The good souls who wish to put things right are littered in many quarters, scouting, brain-storming, consulting, thinking and dissecting any available information that could help to salvage this apparently wrecked nation.

The academics tendered their researches to point the way forward, but the ignorant crooks in power trash the papers without opening a page. On television, sessions are held by different stakeholders who tabled out their opinions on how to move the nation forward. In social media the frustrated hoi polloi berate the leaders and held them responsible for their misery and utter hopelessness that has become the order of the day. These continued and weeks run into months and months into years, with only signs that bad situations are getting increasingly and unimaginably worse.

With all these happening, one is bound to wonder a lot and many questions would naturally boggle one’s mind. How could a nation so blessed become a perfect image of a people under a curse? How could a nation with millions of Ph. D degrees and world renowned technocrats be governed by a man without a high school diploma? How could the South with all the erudition and exposure be dominated and subjugated by the barely literate North, who are contributing nothing in the union and yet, carting away the lion shares of the national wealth for more than 50 years as a right? How could a nation with crude oil deposits and numerous solid mineral that generate billions and yet, most of the citizens retire every night hungry and scared? Why did the government refuse to fix the refineries for more than 30 years now but rather preferred to be shipping out to other countries that they pay to do the job?
If this is not a curse, what is it?

How could a nation that hopes to survive tomorrow set the young ones on smooth paths to failure? The educational sector that should receive the best attention by any serious government is not even in the list of first top twenty priorities to Nigeria government? This is why government schools across the nation are an eyesore, dilapidated building, leaking roofs, empty classrooms with no desk and barely literate teachers marketing ignorance generously to the bemused, supposed students. I once cried my heart out when I saw on a social media primary three kids who sat on asphalted floor, in a classroom, without book, pen or any writing material. This is a state that takes home billions of naira every month in allocation. What can be so evil than to neglect the little ones, destroy a generation, and for what?

To be continued.....

The People's Constitution

If and whenever we are called upon to present an alternative Constitution so as to stave off a meltdown of the Nigerian State, here is the link. It's a million times better than the current abomination:

We believe this is the way to go...otherwise...I fear to say...
#thinkAgain

Please, take time to study it, yes, black people are capable of rendering optimal and world moving solutions, my people. It's time to challenge energitically our destinies and determine and form the future for ours and the next generartions.

https://theportcitynews.com/downloads/Draft-constitution-of-the-federation-of-nigeria.pdf?fbclid=IwAR06ON8g1xA8RH7oop6ggrbzJz2as2MWLc95oltHj48mcfYW5djGEygadUU

Be your own Hero

The country is not working
We mostly agree it's the structure
And the structure is due to the Constitution
For the country to work
We must restructure it totally
But the APC/Caliphate have refused to restructure
Nor has the PDP has made a policy to restructure
Yet, we all realise thus
That the country is disintegrating before our very eyes
Due to our refusal to restructure.
The politicians are determined to enjoy the loot called Nigeria
Until the country is totally destroyed and no more
Certainly, those that rule here actually ruin it
For they're crazy yet masquerade as normal
Only crazy people enjoy the misery of others.
APC, PDP and the Caliphate benefit from the widespread misery
Yet you support them and claim not to be crazy
How could you support insanity and deny being insane?
In truth, one couldn't be normal either
If those they call heroes are obviously crazy!
It's either #restructureOrConfederate
Or we shall #dissolveOrBurst spectacularly
Do well to reject those crazy heroes today
And emancipate thyself from mental slavery.

#thinkAgain, my people
As it is possible, of course
To be our own heroes.

technuel:

If you have been in Abuja and have gotten close to this politicians you will understand that they don't hate themselves, they wine and club together then later stage one drama to deceive the gullible masses and distract them from their looting spree.

methinks, Rossikk is somehow relatively involved in the looting, every indication points to his direction.

Rossikk:


Which of the Asian nations are you referring to? You illiterates just open your mouth and talk garbage with zero research.

Name me ONE Asian nation that was looted and disrupted to the extent that any African nation was. JUST ONE. Let me school in you in your idiocy.

great one, lets start with india. go on and school us, mallam.

asokoromadam:
Very useless people .I am so glad i am no where near the country
Some useless people still voted for Buhari. .

You are all indeed useless and stupid.
No jobs.no light .no securiry and yet you are still voting for a failure?

Idiots

asokoromadam:
Useless People

author=SoNature post=78160801]Accepted!

Nigerians are so dumb...but they think they are wise.

It's heartbreaking that some little ones in my compound usually shout UP NEPA.

It just tells me that their minds have been conditioned to understand that 24-hour power supply remains a mirage.

i love these posts...indeed. you've my likes.

It is official, Nigeria has failed! By David Shuaibu

*In a bizarre fashion, the Federal Government has thrown a huge carrot at the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, by offering it N100 billion over two years to stop kidnapping in the country.*
The Federal Government delegation was led by the Minister of Interior, Abdul-Rahman Dambazau, and met with MACBAN leaders on Friday.
It was a closed door meeting which lasted for over five hours as monetary negotiations according to a source dragged on until N100 billion was accepted.

MACBAN had said it would take nothing less than N160 billion. But briefing news men after the meeting the exhausted Minister said, the “gathering is part of steps we have taken to tackle insecurity and clashes between herdsmen and farmers.”
“You should not forget the fact that we have extended the meeting as a regional one when the Economic Community of West African Countries hosted a conference on this.

“These issues were discussed, and part of the dialogue was to provide a national action plan on security challenges and solutions by all members of the ECOWAS commission, and to present it to the commission for consideration.

“That is the main reason we have come to Kebbi State, to dialogue with leaders of herdsmen as part of the process,’’ Danbazzau said.
Herdsmen have been on rampage since 2015 at the ascension of Mr Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s President pillaging, sacking, rapping and kidnapping for ransom which always lead to deaths.

The orgy of kidnapping has made major national roads especially in the North West impassable. The Abuja/Kaduna road is one major road that has been affected.

Daily Mail reports that the herdsmen also attacked and killed many people in villages and farms in Benue, Zamfara, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Enugu, Imo, Cross River, Edo, Delta, Abia, Kwara, Taraba, Osun, Ondo, Sokoto and others.
The killings associated with the fulani herdsmen led to the group designation as the fourth most dangerous and deadly terrorist group in the world by the World Terrorist Index.

Also at the meeting was the Acting Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Muhammad Adamu, who few days ago gave a grim picture of the havoc being wrecked on Nigerins by the herdsmen.

While noting that over one thousand people had been killed and a lot more kidnapped in Kaduna, he noted in Bernin Kebbi that, “The criminals have infiltrated the crisis, and we should cooperate and deal decisively with the culprits, hence we called for this interaction.
“Those criminals that are beyond redemption, will be dealt with and brought to book,” Adamu said.
On his position, the State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, said hosting the meeting in his state “shows the seriousness of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in tackling the security challenges in the country.”

*Responding, the President of MACBAN, Alhaji Muhammad Kiruwa, said, “This is the first of its kind in the history of this country, for the president to direct his security aides to interact with an aggrieved party to air its views.*

“This meeting will serve as a foundation for peace between the Fulani herdsmen and farmers; and among the Fulanis themselves,” Kiruwa said.
News Agency of Nigeria noted that other members of the Federal Government delegation at the meeting include: Alh. Yusuf Bichi, Director-General (D-G) Department of State Security Services, Alh Ahmed Rufa’I, D-G, National Intelligence Agency; among others.

The corruption in Nigeria during the PDP days had a federal character. Everybody was happy.
Under APC, corruption is strictly a Northern Affair!
100 billion Naira cool cash to Northern Terrorists while OPC, IPOB, MEND and others get pythons and crocodiles? It's a tragedy!!!
#thinkAgain

A place saturated with culture of incompetence, endemic corruption, dignified ineptitude, and, chief among all, destructive selfishness and greed, how'll progressive developmental tendencies be expected in imminent future time?

Who amongst thee has an answer....?

Nigeria also called British Zoo is irredeemable. We must destroy Nigeria before Nigeria steals finish our Humanity.

"The Federation of Nigeria collapsed in 1966. The Fulani caliphate seized it’s carcass after killing 3.5 million easterners between 1967-1970 and imposed the 1979 unitary constitution which it revived in 1999. Seizing power in 2015 the Caliphate is now on a CONQUEST mission to wipe out the indigenous peoples so as to own Nigeria 100%". -Nnadi

Do Not Revolt for Ignorant People: educate them.

When the Bolivian military managed to find Che Guevara with the information of a shepherd, they asked the shepherd: "Why denouncing a man who sacrificed himself for your freedom and well-being?"
The shepherd said: "I denounced him because the crackling of arms scares my animals in pasture"

When Mohamed Karim, in this case the Egyptian who undertook to resist the assault of Alexandria launched by Napoleon, was arrested by the army and sentenced to death, Napoleon appealed to him and said: "I feel troubled to kill a man who has valiantly defended his country, I will not wish history to retain from me the image of a person who stifles the impetus of the patriots to defend the integrity of their homeland, thus, I promise you freedom if you pay ten thousand gold coins as financial compensation to my soldiers that the resistance killed ", smiling, Mohamed Karim replied:" I do not have the full amount requested on me, but I am indebted more than 100 thousand pieces of gold to the merchants of Alexandria, they will pay for sure, so that I have life saved! "

Chained, he was driven to the Alexandria market in search of the money on which his freedom will depend. But, to his great surprise, no merchant was on his fate, worse, the natives accused him of troublemaker, destroyer of property, and damage to the economic vitality of the port city of Alexandria! "

Napoleon, seeing the resignation of his family towards him, declared: "I will concede that the sentence of capital punishment is executed not because you killed my soldiers, but for having fought for cowardly people, who count more about their business than about their integrity! "

Mohamed Rachid Rida, Syrian Arab said: "To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is to self-immolation by fire to light the way to a blind man!"

- (The Free Minded).

Summary of reports of the atrocities visited on our people, Ndiigbo

“All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don’t see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder”, (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian Minister of Finance, July 28, 1969)

“Until now efforts to relieve the Biafran people have been thwarted by the desire of the central government to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholsesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now- and starvation is the grim reaper. This is not the time to stand on ceremony, or go through channels or to observe diplomatic niceties. The destruction of an entire people is immoral objective, even in the most moral of wars. It can never be condoned”, (Richard Nixon, during the presidential campaign, September 9, 1968)

“Federal troops killed, or stood while mobs killed, more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor” (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).
“Its (mass starvation) is a legitimate aspect of war (Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian Commissioner for Information at a press conference in New York, July 1968)

“Starvation is a weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it against the rebels” (Mr Alison Ayida, Head of Nigerian delegation, Niamey Peace talks, July 1968.)

“The Igbos must be considerably reduced in number”, Lagos Policeman quoted in New York Review 21 December, 1967)
“One word now describes the policy of the Nigerian military government towards secessionist Biafra: genocide. It is ugly and extreme but it is the only word which fits Nigeria’s decision to stop international Red Cross and other relief agencies from flying food to Biafra ( Washington Post editorial, July 2, 1969).

“In some areas in the East, Igbos were killed by local people with at least the acquiescence of the Federal forces, 1000 Igbo civilians perished in Benin in this way” (Max Edward- Reporter, reporter on the ground-New York Review, 21 December 1967).
“After federal forces take over Benin, troops killed about 500 Igbo civilians after a house to house search with the aid of willing locals” (Washington Morning Post, 27 september, 1967)

“The greatest single massacre occurred in the Igbo town of Asaba where 700 Igbo male were lined up and shot as terrified women/children were forced to watch” (London Observer, 21 January,1968)

“Federal troops killed or stood by while mobs killed more than 5000 Ibos in Warri, Sapele, Agbor (New York Times, 10th January, 1968).
“There has been genocide on the occasion of the 1966 massacres, the region between the towns of Benin and Asaba where only widows and orphans remain, federal troops having, for unknown reasons, massacred all the men” (Paris Le Monde, 5th April, 1968)

“In Calabar, federal forces shot at least 1000 and perhaps 2000 Igbos, most of them civilians” (New York Times, 18th January,1968)
“Bestialities and indignities of all kinds were visited on the Biafrans in 1966. In Ikeja Barracks (Western Nigeria) Biafrans were forcibly fed on a mixture of human urine and faeces. In Northern Nigeria numerous housewives and nursing mothers were violated before their husbands and children. Young girls were abducted from their homes, walking places and schools and forced into intercourse with sick, demented and leprous men” (Mr Eric Spiff, German War Correspondent, Eye-Witness, 1967)

“650 refugee camps, contained about 700,000 haggard bundles of human flotsam waiting hopelessly for a meal, outside the camps, was the reminder of an estimated four and half to five million displaced Kwashiokor scourge, a million and half children, suffer(ed) from it during January; that put the forecast death toll at another 300,000 children. More than the pogroms of 1966, more than the war casualties, than the terror bombings, it was the experience of watching helplessly their children waste away and die that gave birth to, a deep and unrelenting loathing. It is a feeling that will one day reap bitter harvest unless” (Fredrick Forsyth, British Writer, January 21st 1969)
“The Nazis had resurrected just here as Nigerian forces” (Washington Post, editorial, July 2, 1969).

“The loss of life from starvation continues at more than 10,000 persons per day- over 1,000,000 lives in recent months. Without emergency measures now, the number will climb to 25,000 per day, within a month and 2,000,000 deaths by the end of the year. The new year will only bring greater disaster to people caught in the passion of fratricidal war, we cant allow this to continue or those responsible to go free” (Senator Kennedy appeals to Americans- Sunday November 17, 1968)

“I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary, no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot at everything, even things that do not move” (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3rd Marine Commander Division, Nigerian Army to French Radio Reporter)

“Myself and the same UNICEF representatives went on to convey something of what lay behind this intransigence: Among the large majority hailing from that tribe who are the most vocal in inciting the complete extermination of the Igbos. I often heard remarks that all Nigeria’s ills will be cured once the Igbos have been exterminated from the human map.” (Dr Conor Cruise O’Bien, 21 December, 1967, New York Review).
Compiled by Charles A.

Let us be serious.......

12 states of the North adopted a state religion in the early 2000s (starting with Zamfara state) in brazen contravention of the Constitution that clearly provides that Nigeria is a secular state. Amongst other acts done to implement Sharia, the states went ahead to create a religious police that are unconstitutionally empowered to enforce religious laws and trample on the fundamental rights of citizens. By so doing they created two parallel legal systems: the Nigerian legal system created by the Constitution and the Shari'a legal system of Islam. What else is islamisation?

Currently, the north is not bound by the Constitution. Let's say they are only bound to the extent that it doesn't conflict with Islam. The Constitution preaches a separation of 'Church' and state but the north is operating a legal system that fuses both. This is because Islam is a religion as well as a political order with a very elaborate legal system that governs all aspects of human conduct. Therefore, for a person to be a Muslim properly so called, his first allegiance must be to Islamic precepts which are believed to be inspired by God and by that very fact, elevated above every man-made laws. This creates a situation whereby the Constitution is being cherry-picked; the parts that align with Islam are observed and the parts that conflict with it are being severed and rendered inapplicable to Muslims. This is also why some Bills are rejected in the National Assembly once they conflict with any part of Shari'a.

Ordinarily, I should have no problem with how a people seek to be governed and what legal system they put in place to achieve that end. However, if we all agree that Nigeria should be one 'indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state' governed by one constitution then we should not pay lip service to the said Constitution. We should not uphold the Constitution when it suits us, just like we would uphold the assignment of the ownership of the oil in Niger Delta to the FG to fund the operations of both northern and southern states in line with section 44(3) of the Constitution; support the crushing of Biafra rebellion pursuant to Section 2(1); then in a sudden twist we jettison the clear provisions of section 10 (secular status of Nigeria) and Section 1(1) (Supremacy of the Constitution) and tag them inapplicable for conflicting with Islam. Are some regions more bound to the Constitution than others?

A constitution of a country is called the grundnorm because it embodies the basic principles and ideals on which a country is built and governed. It is not only a highly important document but it commands sacrosanctity. The constitution of a state is inviolable and obedience to it is non-negotiable. Whenever the Constitution can be breached and trounced at will, then it becomes a joke that is not worthy of its name. The Nigerian Constitution is a joke unworthy of its name. It is not even autochthonous in the first place. Perhaps its problem stems from this very fact but then the south complies with it despite its imperfections why not the north?

If this is not a confederal system, why should the north be allowed to adopt a legal system that subverts our federalism and brazingly undermines the corporate existence of Nigeria? Is it not hightime we had a sincere discussion on the fundamentals guiding this union so that we will stop living this lie?

Which way British Zoo/Nigeria?

PFRB:
OP very soon you will get hundreds of attacks

Let dem come, am here to be entertained by dark neanderthals.

luvmijeje:


[s]So this method that's best for Igbos is not applied in the land controlled by people who spoke your language, came out of your village and elected by your people but you have the audacity to make that request in a land controlled by people who don't speak your language, didn't come out of villages or are elected by you.

Can you see how entitled you are? [/s]

Anakogheri....wich kind allah created dis type of people. di isi oji. Dark Devils.

wowcatty:
If you hadn’t bathe with what you were asked to drink, you would have known that all I’ve consistently said is Yoruba nation, unlike you confused souls who move wherever the wind blows. Until you find a position and stand there, you are just a talking head.

I can't take it any more, this's completely nonsense, my dear.