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Imagine if the guy added your name as #5 on the list hehehe..now that would be a bad one

The united states has enough oil to meet its demand for more than 150 years, but there is a reason why they are not drilling most of it, and kept some as reserved and even kept most off the records, That is a part of Long Span strategic Planning that we Africans are not used to, there are a few things i will like you to keep in mind before i provide you with the information.
1: Every economy is dependent on Energy and as of now Oil is the only reliable source of energy.
2; Oil is traded in dollars and that is almost the only thing that is keeping the dollar afloat.
3: The dollar is just ordinary paper, it is not backed by anything, not even cement talk less of gold, so as much as it is acceptable they USA will continue to print it and use it to create a massive wealth build up, think of it this way, i print some papers in my backyard and then come to your shop and buy the yams you worked so hard to plant and harvest.

4; Think of the Scenario where only a few countries produces oil, as Nigerians oil will be gone in less than a decade and others have been oil producing nations have been predicted to dry up in less than 25 years , USA of all people will never want to be starved, its whole Superpower-ism depends on energy.

5; Think of the power that will be at your disposal if you are among the few nations that holds the worlds energy lifeline.

as you contemplate on these four point i would like to you to read these articles below


U.S. Has 60+ Times the Oil Reserves Claimed by Obama - See more at:
http://www.masterresource.org/2012/03/60-times-us-oil-reserves-obama/

The US Is Sitting On A 200-Year Supply Of Oil

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-200-year-supply-oil-2012-3#ixzz2YE8BrmeO

U.S. Contains Enough Oil and Gas Reserves to Fuel Country for Decades, Petroleum Institute Says - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-contains-enough-oil-and-gas-reserves-fuel-country-decades-petroleum-institute-says#sthash.NIctB4J9.dpuf



To make something more clear to you, More that 75% of the oil that is imported in the united states is also exported as refined materials such as diesel,petrol and grease. and Nigeria is a huge importer of US refined energy, The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) even gave a higher estimate than the one i provided above.http://www.eia.gov

All the plastics, fertilizers, petroleum jelly, chemicals and etc relies on that mechanism of importing those oil and exporting it back to the same third world countries from which it was imported from , that is why nations like Nigeria would never have a comprehensive energy policy. it provides jobs,materials and leverage for the USA.

jp philips: why dont you tell us what we dont know already. can you tell us the US oil production capacity 5yrs ago? also enlighten us how you came to the conclusion that the US has enough for its people before now?

I have always tried to explain to many Igbos whom i believe were enlightened that they are blessed to be part of Nigeria if only they can get organized, igbos are in every part of Nigeria, they own properties all over Nigeria, they dominate the small industries as well as the trading lines(goods distribution means), their resources pulled together would annihilate any opposition, they can displace or prop-up whomever they like, but i have always found out that it never makes sense to most people.

Truth be told if half the Igbo population thinks like me we would own Nigeria, we would not only own Nigeria and everything in it; we will own Africa, Nigerians military and resources would be there to further our goals. The problem is that igbos lack organizational skills and even when you try to organize them they would prefer some form of King image whom squanders and shows off to a real strategic commission that really addresses their interests. They can't even maintain a board. Outside Nigeria they form organizations but the organizations does nothing but impose levies and steal and do parties. The most they can do is to assist in sending the remains of an igboman home to be buried. They can never emulate the Jews, Lebanese(whom has taken over Nigeria), Japanese and Americans.

Africans will be quick to learn some silly behavior from other nations but will never learn the progressive ones. When i was in university an associate professor once said that Africans are not capable of strategic thinking and planning, at that period in France late 80's the black consciousness was alive so we made sure he was severely punished, looking back now at the reasons he gave i am afraid there are some truths to it.

Onlytruth: All I can do is laugh. I have always told Ndigbo to be ready to fight for their property wherever they may be in Nigeria. The OP is right only to the extent that Ndigbo would "pack their loads on their heads again and head East". I'm not so sure about that especially if Nigeria stays one. Now, a divided Nigeria is another matter.

In any case I've come to be a one Nigerianist to the core. I really think that Nigeria is tailor-made for Ndigbo by God himself.
All we need to do is cage Islamic extremism, or restructure the regions for greater autonomy. Methinks that even the North would realise that extreme Islam is not in its interest, and would eventually opt for Turkey styled Islam rather than Afghani styled one.

Whatever the case may be, Nigeria's destiny as the de facto leader of Africa and the black nations of the earth should be bolstered by smart folks.

Haiti “Pain Rush”: The Myth of White Superiority, Poverty Pimping NGOs and US Humanitarian Occupation
By Ezili Dantò


A disenfranchised Haiti means opportunity for the imperialist and their Left-talking right wing vultures.

Bourgeoisie Freedom or democracy is, for instance, the dissonance beating at you when Clorox Hunger, emaciated Black babies, live in the same space that $9 billion in humanitarian aid are supposed to have been poured. It’s the confusion one feels when one juxtaposes the deep, Clorox-burning hunger ravaging the population with how the United Kingdom had just opened up a new embassy in Haiti to boost UK companies “trading” in earthquake-hit Haiti.

The burning hunger, lack of relief and exploitation of the poor is easily explained by the indigenous Haitians who never saw any part of the $9 billion in his rural town. But the power of the poverty pimping NGOs, the US humanitarian occupation of Haiti is so vast, so multi-layered and interconnected with the myth of white superiority and its media forces that the rural Haiti voice is drowned-out completely. For the “schooled” stakeholders involved, both in Haiti and abroad, are mostly so vested in US imperialism, US foreign policy and white supremacy they must continue to define and defend their presence in Haiti as “development work.”

The renown Black psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon, once wrote:

[size=14pt]“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” –Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks[/size]

Starvation is everywhere in Haiti not just in rural Haiti, evidencing the deadly and unconscionable consequences of the current US-led world pain rush in Haiti.

There are too many “schooled” Haitians either indifferent to or plain collaborating with empire abroad and in Haiti Jesus-ly suffering the racist capitalistic brutality of Papa Clinton, Paul Farmer-led NGOs, the UN and that overseer Barack Obama killing civilized, dignified co-existence in Haiti.

The children are dying, Haiti is dying. Dying from the hidden US occupation behind UN mercenary guns, dying from cholera, dying from Clorox hunger, drought, hurricanes, earthquake evictions, dying in hopelessness and despair, while in Petionville the cultural genocide has been worse than when that butcher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, violated Haiti – a man who was, ironically, so loved in America for his so-called New Deal egalitarian ideals “to make a country in which no one is left out.”

But in Haiti, Franklin D. Roosevelt was known only for his almost Rochambeau-like butchery of egalitarian ideals, his butchery of the unarmed peasants, repression of Haiti indigenous religion, rewriting Haiti’s Constitution in 1915 as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, giving a Clintonesque-Democrat face to stealing Haiti lands for the corporatocracy his ilk represented that was clear-cutting centuries-old Haiti trees for the Euro-tribes world war machine, instituting force labor chain gangs, dropping bombs on peasant farmers objecting to the US Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934.

Not since then, has Haiti seen so many whites on the ground. Not since then have there been so much disease, desperation, death and hunger for the Black majority mixed in with four star hotels, token poverty programs and tourist attractions. That’s what the white tribes and repugnant Black collaborators, their imperial war machines, false benevolence, endless death, dependency, dictatorships and cold wars, bring to indigenous populations world over. Death, starvation, despair, genocide – no raising of the indigenous population’s standard of living.

It’s in the face on these starving Haiti children – who cannot eat from our grandparent’s fruit trees now polluted by Monsanto, USAID nitrate/fertilizers and the UN cholera feces. Not to mention the destruction of Haiti poultry, rice, and all local industry from the ravages of the rabid elites privatization schemes, dumping Arkansas and Miami products that destroy local Haiti food production.

Never mind that Donna Karen sells Haiti crafts at Saks or to Hollywood, Sean Penn sponsors a Haiti marathon, Paul Farmer built a new hospital from quake remains, the Clintons built new sweatshops, all so that the tourists may be steered toward lying edifices masking Western imperialism, patriarchy, domination, blatant NGO racism and capitalism. For, it’s the norm for US bourgeois democracy to tout “no one is left out.”

It’s as real today under Barack Obama as it was under the murderous FDR regime in Haiti back in 1915. Their new deals mostly leave out the Black majority populations in their sight. Indeed, bourgeois democracy’s debilitating dissonance is refined by the Obama face to imperialism.

Under this more deadly bourgeois democracy, Haiti self-determination and cultural genocide are not only acceptable collateral damages but invisible injuries.

[size=16pt]Our pains are turned back upon us, used to enrich NGOs, mining companies, the beltway bandits and most Western adventurers. It’s not a gold rush in Haiti that’s profitable to the Euro ruling tribes, but the rush to inflict more pain and collect, collect, collect it against the myth of white superiority, white universal love for all humankind using the structures that carry this myth forth since World War II: the UN Security Council system, the NGO system, the foreign aid system, the International Monetary Fund/World Bank/World Trade Organization system. They’re all about inflicting pain on the poor and Black then capitalizing on Black pain. (See “The Evolution of Disaster Capitalism with Ezili Dantò.”) The ensuing social chaos is then capitalized upon to set up puppet neoDuvalierist US governments in Haiti, for the World Bank to draft Haiti mining laws, and for the uninterrupted Euro-US pillage and plunder of Haiti Riches – over $20 billion in gold reserves, its iridium, silver, copper, coal and the Haiti oil cache that some geologists say is a “pool to Venezuela’s cup of water.”[/size] (See Video report on Haiti Riches, Zili Dlo solar project and the works of Ezili Dantò/HLLN.)

Under the US occupation, it’s a “pain rush” in Haiti. Newspapers, foundations, “humanitarians,” think tanks write about it, elevate it, cash in on it, and keep it going, won’t tell you, ala Jared Diamond, that the Haiti struggle is cleared of cognitive dissonance only when you factor in structuralized white supremacist hatred – its genocidal germs, guns and steel. Oh, no, that’s downplayed.

Today’s mainstream media reports that chronic hunger in Haiti is rising mostly because of geography – the weather!

According to the Associated Press, much of the hunger crisis “stems from too little rain, and then too much,” corrupt Haiti politicians and because half of Haiti’s food is imported.

Although the article notes that:

“In 1997 some 1.2 million Haitians didn’t have enough food to eat. A decade later the number had more than doubled. Today, that figure is 6.7 million, or a staggering 67 percent of the population that goes without food some days…” (See “2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount,” AP, June 10, 2013)

It doesn’t contextualize it with US incessant destabilization, its sweatshop development and failed 40-year export led economy initiatives. But in any case, generally when a glimpse of the devastating depravity of the US occupation sneaks through the mainstream colonial narrative, it is quickly “democratized” by locating one Establishment “expert” to say that “there’s sufficient proof that at least some of the aid is reaching the population.” This journalistic trick then fully gains root to lift up (destructive) foreign aid as the only reason why the poor in Haiti are still alive. You’ll not read the truth, which is that the over $2 billion yearly in Haiti Diaspora remittances is the ONLY real direct aid to Haiti that actually reaches the population and keeps the poor alive.

Such colonial news on Haiti, will mostly remain silent about the centuries upon centuries and current US racist destabilization of Haiti while pimping out photos of our starving Black babies to sell newspapers, re-validate white supremacy, fuel humanitarian imperialism’s raison d’etre, give the NGOs a document to go raise more funds for their coffers.

The Euro colonial deforestation and their centuries of environmental harm or current open pit mining initiatives in Haiti are mostly non-existent in these colonial narratives on Haiti. For, only the peasants’ wood cutting for charcoal is highlighted. Nothing is noted about the current 10-year US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns – the totality of its devastating destructions in Haiti and failures. Nor the US support for the Duvalier dictatorships for 30 years from 1957 to 1986, the two US-sponsored coups in 1991 and then 2004 to reinstate Duvalierism over a democratically elected Haiti government, followed by the current US occupation behind UN guns. After all, the white savior industrial complex is as economically and socially benign today as it was during the Western tribes’ chattel enslavement of Ayiti, no?

“The US public won’t be taught about the nearly 10-year old US occupation of Haiti by the media. But in fact today, the US is Haiti’s mother country. And all around us the “colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Ezili Dantò is an award winning playwright, a performance poet, author and human rights attorney. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in the USA. She holds a BA from Boston College, a JD from the University of Connecticut School of law. She is a human rights lawyer, cultural and political activist and the founder and president of the Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN). She runs the Haitian Perspectives on-line journal and the Ezili Dantò Newsletter.

She can be contacted at http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili/contact-us/.

I sincerely believe it is not too late to make plans, indeed the violence will increase soon, the whole ingredients needed for a breakup are coming together.
Large number of unemployed, frustrated youths,
Irreparable economy.
Extremist violence which heightens the masses awareness of their tribal affiliations and decreases their loyalty to the national entity.
Mass inflow of arms and weaponry into the civilian mix.
Extremely low quality in education which aims to create individuals that lacks the proper perspective,easily to be deceived, has no confidence in their capabilities therefore forming a large pool of puppet leaders to chose from.

when the few remaining parts adds up to it, the keg will explode, it always does, and we are all sure it will not fail this time.

I have been waiting for this for a long time...i think the time is near.

bilms: Gen Buhari, what is this copy paste about?

It is about the thief Obasanjo, the man who destroyed the hope and light of west Africa, the ,man who gave back Liberia to the Imperialist after Abacha has taken it back and ready to set it on its course to freedom which made Victor Malu lash out against him, he is the mastermind of AFRICOM in africa, the man who destroyed the hope of Nigerians with democracy, he is the Trojan horse that brought in the Multinational Vampires to feed on the Nigerians he has killed, he is the devil of all devils, that is what the copy and past is about. the man whom destroyed all the hard work that Abacha risked his life to build for Nigerians, the man who killed Nigerian airways and allowed his foreign friends to shaft Nigerians whenever they take a flight to anywhere. the man who closed down the likes of OKADA because they won't compromise to the conditions set by his foreign friends.
The only man whom in the history of democracy in africa has set soldiers to wipe out entire villages, the likes of Odi and Zaki biam and Baga.
That is what the paste is about, do you need more to go with that ?

I will never use a Nigerian passport for anything. my junior brother got his Pan-African craziness cured when the he almost missed his flight in MMA, they just kept harassing him, and asking him his hotel booking in France, how much he was traveling with, blah blah blah, when he told them he was actually born and raised in France and owned a house in france, that opened a new can of worms, the drug guys,immigration guys,police and many more jobless wicked souls that parade the airport pounced on him. when i went to see what it was they even said he was from Nigel and was claiming Nigerian, even though that the poor boy was speaking fluent Igbo. i just left him there and boarded the plane.

@GenBuhari

please keep it coming, sometimes i don't know if these guys have something stuffed in their eyes and ears or they are just part of the same self destructive system. since their press and media will not show the truth ;let the truth be shown by any means possible.

It remains true that no man of conscience with the peoples wish at heart can ever gain power in a legal way,
It remains true that no man that wishes to carry out the wishes of the people can do so without bringing down the system which hampers it.
It remains true that no man can bring down such a system without extra judicial killings or mass executions of those men whom gains from our inadequacies and has sworn to sustain it.
It remains true that our people can never progress in such political system which was imposed on them, not because of its perfections or advantages but because the Imperialist knew quite well that it is too flawed to be anything useful.

It remains true that we are far from being liberated and if you ask me...there is little hope of being liberated.

omenka: "Our desire is to seek reversal of policies that
dehumanise Nigerians and those things that take
dignity away from the people. But we cannot change policy without securing power. Aside from that, I wonder why people make mountain out of mole hills. But I know it’s because of limited knowledge. A man like late Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory fought gallantly against every military and civilian government in this country. He used the law as instrument of his struggle. He later formed a party, the National Conscience Party (NCP), and contested on the platform of that political party. Does that take away his credibility? Likewise, Femi Falana, SAN whom we recently nicknamed a veteran of many progressive battles also ended up being the chairman of NCP. Does that remove his credibility. Wole Soyinka whose presence at the SNG rally added value to the protest in Abuja formed a political party and registered it. Does that take away his credibility? We must make up our minds as people in this country on what exactly we want."


For any man with an iota of intelligence, these lines should realy hit home!!

May God increse your wisdom sir.

donroxy: Let me start with Sharia simply cuz there was already rebuttal for ur other points above !!!


U see, GenBuhari, in the spirit of Federalism, Sharia System of Government is not a failure on the part of Obj as states could make Laws via there State Assembly as they deemed fit in relation to the custom and norms of their people as far as such law is not conflicting with the law guiding the Federation in which the later (federal law) would prevailed !!!

So Blame the state elders who adopted Sharia Law but were not able to manage extremist and NOT OBJ !!!


No administration has ever been devoted and conquered Corruption as Obasanjo/Ribadu's tenure NOT even the Illegitimate Rtd Gen. Buhari's regime!!!

A goverment which is not evil would have done its analysis and see the resulting effect of such policies, i do believe OBJ did his analysis and the consquensces were presented to him, but his western puppet masters adviced him to push on with sharia knowing fully well that it would create the avenue to balkanize the nation, my composition Syria has more Muslims than Nigeria, so is turkey and many other nations which have a higher percentage of muslims to other religions...Are they running on sharia law ? even a part of it ? don't make excuses for what is plain ineptitude and savage disinterest in what is best for the people, that man OBJ only cares about his pocket, his cronies who aids him in his looting and his perverted pleasure he gains from seeing people suffer.

All i listed above has not be countered elsewhere and no reasonable explanation has ever been given to make any of those actions plausible.

donroxy: Thoth,U have to be explicit here,Under OBJ Civilian regime,Elrufai was the Chairman of BPE , an agency responsible for selling/privatising/transfering of Federal Government assets :::::::::: tell us who,who and whom among ''OBJ's imperialist friends'' that Federal Govt asset were sold to ?

what happened to the Nigerian steel industry under Obasanjo ?
What happened to the $16 billion Obasanjo allocated for power during his regime ?
Can you justify the imperialistic,exploitative and destructive rights that were signed off to multinationals like MTN under Obasanjo ?
Why has the Niger Delta still agitating if not for obasanjo's policies in collaboration with the foreign oil companies which continues to suck away the wealth of the nation ?

As for ur point Number 2 unto DEVALUATION, I think u re referring to IBB's Regime(Buhari's Husband)!!!


3. Corruption has never been defeated in Nigeria prior to and After Obasanjo's regime . Obasanjo was the only democratic president in the history of Federal Republic of Nigeria that defeated corruption ; Favouritism ; Nepotism ; Neo-colonialism through this very Hardworking and Illustrious citizen of Nigeria Nuhu Ribadu, the fear of Nuhu Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom for all corrupt citizen , hmmm what is EFCC today under Waziri and Lamorde !!!


Infact,Most Obasanjo's friends went to Jail,Senators were handcuffed,a whole IG of Police was Jailed,Minister died in Jail, Only Obj's admin achieved this feat against people that pampered criminals in the name of Pardon !!!


4. Baba was the man that ultimately revitalised Nigeria of today,His legacy,projects and programmes are all difficult to be trashed and dumped,all what subsequent administration did was to modified Baba's programmes and Re-launch it simply cuz, Baba brought in technocrats.



Obasanjo is never gonna be our best but He tried his best and He is not without flaws as I also believed He could do better,they could all do better !!!


Really, If subsequent administration moved @ the pace of Obj,Nigeria woulda surpassed this level by great magnitutude !!!


But here we are ; [b]Yar'adua was deemed slow and sick while Jonathan is deemed too Gentle,indecision and utmostly,being pushed by his clansman say na dem turn to chop clean mouth !!!!


May God Bless Nigeria !!!

maybe i will just list it as it is and you choose which ones suits you best.

What is Obasanjo's crime against Nigeria

Massacre of Tiv civilians in Zaki Biam Benue State

Impoverishment of the Nigerian Masses by 500% devaluation of Naira.

Mismanagement and closure of our National Airline Nigeria Airways

Massacre of thousands of villagers in Odi, Bayelsa State in Niger Delta

Taking IMF loans and implementing damaging economic policies

Increasing fuel prices by 500%

Deceiving Nigeria by claiming fuel was subsidised

As military ruler, using the funds /land for "Operation Feed Nation" to acquire his Ota farm

Covertly sponsoring the coup in which Muritala Mohammad was assassinated, and executing dozens of people to cover up

Closing Petroleum Trust Fund and allowing Infrastructural decay

Presiding during collapse of electrical power supply in entire eastern region

Inviting US military into Nigeria and exposing national security secrets

Making himself minister of Petroleum and failing to have his management of oil revenue audited till this very day

Embezzling and estimated $120bn or approx N20 trillion

Sold off all of Nigeria's assets including Oil Blocks , Refineries, Electricity Authority, National, Telecommunications and historical buildings etc.

Buying up the national assets he privatised at a price that is a tiny fraction of its true value

Giving away Bakassi peninsula without a national referendum or conference

Mismanaging our national pension fund and presiding whilst $15bn went missing and denying pensioners their pensions

Deceiving Nigerians that Abacha' government was a bad, to justify undoing most of Abacha's good work

Presiding over the worst period of political assassinations in Nigeria's history
approx 20 assassinations including Bola Ige

scipher: I still won't vote that guy... I'd rather fashola

Because ??

Buhari is tested and his credentials are all verifiable, his actions as a leader leaves no doubt what sort of person he is. Fashola on the other has shown his hand as a state governor. can you compare both men's integrity, vision and ability to make policies to affects the majority of the masses in a positive way ? if you can we would love to hear that.

I found out that none of these Kleptomaniac politicians has ever tried to compare their achievements with that of Buhari, sine they know quite well that Buhari in all his endeavors has been consistently clean and progressive . so therefore they all resorted to Character assassination, manufacturing lies with the unpatriotic media to tarnish his image, misrepresenting his quotes, using all sorts of false links to associate him with terrorism. It is really appalling how they could invest so much energy in all that without doing the only thing that is required which is a Realistic comparison of his achievement and theirs whilst in office

You know Nigerians are gullible, very ignorant. There is a game that is being played on them, the nation will borrow billions from IMF/World Bank with sets of destructive policies while at the same time they will leave out a national reserve to fool the people. when you tell a Nigerian that their country owes so much he will point at the national reserve as a proof that the nation's economy is buoyant enough, when you ask him the connection between the two his will repeat NTA wish-wash for you..."can't you see the size of our national reserve ?"

One of the reason people like Buhari is not given time of the day is that that sort of person might enlighten the people from his actions, being somebody that knows well what he is doing people might learn how stuffs really works from him and that would be game over for the thieves. I have gone through pages and pages of his interviews and he is one of the few people that explains stuffs in a way that makes sense that even the common man on the street can understand, our people instead like to listen to the thieves that bamboozle them with big words and deceptive charts.

donroxy: Obasanjo no doubt is without flaws BUT He has set good precedence for the democracy of this country which subsequent administration could not even totally eradicated but adopt many of his Programs and Ideology (Not totally objective though) !!!



Nigeria woulda been more greater and better if subsequent administration could continue at Obasanjo's Pace !!!


MY OPINION !!!

How would Nigeria be greater with a man that sold piece by piece every asset Nigeria has to his imperialist friends ?
A man that colluded with IMF/World Bank to devalue the Nigerian currency leaving the masses with useless papers and devaluing the hard work of the people .
A man that instituted corruption in Nigeria and turned it to norms, he hijacked the only institution(EFCC) to fight corruption and further destroyed it together with the zeal the people embraced democracy with.

He is the man that ultimately killed Nigeria because he had the opportunity to realize a true democratic nation but instead he made the people wishing for the days of Buhari and Abacha.

bilms: Critics describe your prediction against Obasanjo in 1999 as a false prophecy coming from a man of God. What is your reaction?
I can remember verbatim what I said on March 7, 1999 when I was preaching a message titled: No More Wars. And then the prophecy came that “Rejoice not yet, O land, for your joy will be temporary. I’m bringing your leaders to my pressing floor, and after I destroy them, I will return to you a permanent joy." That was it. [size=16pt]The second stage was that if by any means Obasanjo became the President, three things will happen. Firstly, there will be the revival of the Occults, Secondly; family life will disintegrate in Nigeria; Thirdly, corruption will get to its peak.[/size] I gave those tapes to Obasanjo’s first wife when she came here to plead with me.

Now i don't know about this man, but believe his predictions is exactly what happened .

ossagy: 1k per nyu. E no dey cost for oweri. Am from Edo but when I got to oweri I see say prostitution pass prostitution. I didnt stay for the job I came for I had to run out the forsaken town.

I have to think really hard understand what this guy meant by per NYU...really funny.

Seriously what is all this Igbo versus Igbo confrontations all about ?

[size=20pt]Even if he said all they claimed....Was he telling the truth or not ? that is the only answer we want to hear.

God please give Nigeria a Rawlings to save us!![/size]

Now those habits are what would be hard to cure, my friend once asked me, why do Africans believe that any leader must live extravagantly and squander wealth ...well i don't know.

You were right about using the situation as a pretense to crush the revolution but there is a kind of violence i mean, i mean the guerrilla type,we have no need to assert our selves internationally, that is not our cause, internal assertion is what i meant,there is no white man holding us down, it is the black man that is holding the black man down, By Guerrilla type of violence i mean whereby a widespread enlightenment programs are going parallel with selective assassinations of the reactionaries. An enlightenment program where truth is told as it is irrespective of the perverted political correctness(whatever it means) the people becomes informed of their history in all its gruesomeness, informed of their present condition with all its dark realities bared out for them, informed of the duality of their future as it depends on their present action. As people gets more enlightened, as rallies goes on, peaceful demonstrations at the cities.....assassinations goes with it too, you can never arrest the whole nation, when nobody in the street has a gun you can never have NATO, when the president's bodyguard himself shoots the president and flees and the people protect him and praise him the institution collapse on its own.

Although as you correctly emphasized all will be in vain if we do not change out attitudes first in the majority of the masses; but i guess that is what the enlightenment programs were all about.

birdman: Very thoughtful post. However, I think violence is not what is needed. In fact, violence would help the stronger nation, because they can use it as an excuse to wipe you out for good. Witness China, which didnt assert itself physically until it knew it was ready. Or Brazil, that used a slow grassroots movement to build true independence.

The truth is that even if a violent conflict ended in Africa's favor, it still wouldn't help us. Lets be honest - most of our tears are crocodile tears. I cant tell you how many times I've seen Africans bemoan their lowly status, but then you watch their habits and you realize they really dont want change. Or even freedom. They just want comfort.

Any victory we win by violence will be quickly lost by our habits. There is no other option than the slow but steady grassroots learning, making the truth available to people, and letting that seed grow with time. When truth aligns our habits, change is inevitable.

Have anyone ever tried thinking how this generation of blacks can be converted back to Africanism(afrian philosophial beliefs,religion,culture,outlook and development) ?

I had spent many years thinking through this with friends whom share same concerns.

The policies and norms of the international laws makes it impossible to do so, even it makes it compulsory that those cultures which we cherish must be destroyed and replaced with alien ones. With that the true Africanist is already an outcast by definition, a miscreant by disposition and an entity not worthy of companionship.

In this new norm which is increasingly gaining foothold in Africans new generation the most insidious tool with which it destroys all opposition is INDIVIDUALISM, many would neglect this by-product of unencumbered capitalism and some would even praise it. however i will like to ask most of you how many times you have came across this response while trying to talk sense to some people. "it is his life, you have no business in it" mostly in matters which affects us all as a society.

well without going too deep into the whole i will share my conclusion with you..Africanism can only be achieved through extreme violence, no other way, Yes yes i know it sounds barbaric and politically incorrect as some may choose to say. but no society has ever witnessed an overhaul to its basic tenets without violence and by that i mean extreme violence.
think of how it came and you will see how to make it go. china was able to infuse and maintain its unique culture, atheism and strong nationalism with it, Russia had it,USA,Britain,France and the whole of the middle east.

Now how many of us are not repulsed by the very thought of violence and the absence of freedom(or introduction of a new form of freedom) which will come after it ?

[size=18pt]The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation[/size]

Britain has never faced up to the dark side of its imperial history


Richard Drayton
The Guardian, Saturday 20 August 2005 01.31 BST

Britain was the principal slaving nation of the modern world. In The Empire Pays Back, a documentary broadcast by Channel 4 on Monday, Robert Beckford called on the British to take stock of this past. Why, he asked, had Britain made no apology for African slavery, as it had done for the Irish potato famine? Why was there no substantial public monument of national contrition equivalent to Berlin's Holocaust Museum? Why, most crucially, was there no recognition of how wealth extracted from Africa and Africans made possible the vigour and prosperity of modern Britain? Was there not a case for Britain to pay reparations to the descendants of African slaves?

These are timely questions in a summer in which Blair and Bush, their hands still wet with Iraqi blood, sought to rebrand themselves as the saviours of Africa. The G8's debt-forgiveness initiative was spun successfully as an act of western altruism. The generous Massas never bothered to explain that, in order to benefit, governments must agree to "conditions", which included allowing profit-making companies to take over public services. This was no gift; it was what the merchant bankers would call a "debt-for-equity swap", the equity here being national sovereignty. The sweetest bit of the deal was that the money owed, already more than repaid in interest, had mostly gone to buy industrial imports from the west and Japan, and oil from nations who bank their profits in London and New York. Only in a bookkeeping sense had it ever left the rich world. No one considered that Africa's debt was trivial compared to what the west really owes Africa.

Beckford's experts estimated Britain's debt to Africans in the continent and diaspora to be in the trillions of pounds. While this was a useful benchmark, its basis was mistaken. Not because it was excessive, but because the real debt is incalculable. For without Africa and its Caribbean plantation extensions, the modern world as we know it would not exist.

Profits from slave trading and from sugar, coffee, cotton and tobacco are only a small part of the story. What mattered was how the pull and push from these industries transformed western Europe's economies. English banking, insurance, shipbuilding, wool and cotton manufacture, copper and iron smelting, and the cities of Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow, multiplied in response to the direct and indirect stimulus of the slave plantations.

Joseph Inikori's masterful book, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England, shows how African consumers, free and enslaved, nurtured Britain's infant manufacturing industry. As Malachy Postlethwayt, the political economist, candidly put it in 1745: "British trade is a magnificent superstructure of American commerce and naval power on an African foundation."

In The Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz asked why Europe, rather than China, made the breakthrough first into a modern industrial economy. To his two answers - abundant coal and New World colonies - he should have added access to west Africa. For the colonial Americas were more Africa's creation than Europe's: before 1800, far more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic. New World slaves were vital too, strangely enough, for European trade in the east. For merchants needed precious metals to buy Asian luxuries, returning home with profits in the form of textiles; only through exchanging these cloths in Africa for slaves to be sold in the New World could Europe obtain new gold and silver to keep the system moving. East Indian companies led ultimately to Europe's domination of Asia and its 19th-century humiliation of China.

Africa not only underpinned Europe's earlier development. Its palm oil, petroleum, copper, chromium, platinum and in particular gold were and are crucial to the later world economy. Only South America, at the zenith of its silver mines, outranks Africa's contribution to the growth of the global bullion supply.

The guinea coin paid homage in its name to the west African origins of one flood of gold. By this standard, the British pound since 1880 should have been rechristened the rand, for Britain's prosperity and its currency stability depended on South Africa's mines. I would wager that a large share of that gold in the IMF's vaults which was supposed to pay for Africa's debt relief had originally been stolen from that continent.

There are many who like to blame Africa's weak governments and economies, famines and disease on its post-1960 leadership. But the fragility of contemporary Africa is a direct consequence of two centuries of slaving, followed by another of colonial despotism. Nor was "decolonisation" all it seemed: both Britain and France attempted to corrupt the whole project of political sovereignty.

[size=16pt]It is remarkable that none of those in Britain who talk about African dictatorship and kleptocracy seem aware that Idi Amin came to power in Uganda through British covert action, and that Nigeria's generals were supported and manipulated from 1960 onwards in support of Britain's oil interests.[/size] It is amusing, too, to find the Telegraph and the Daily Mail - which just a generation ago supported Ian Smith's Rhodesia and South African apartheid - now so concerned about human rights in Zimbabwe. The tragedy of Mugabe and others is that they learned too well from the British how to govern without real popular consent, and how to make the law serve ruthless private interest. The real appetite of the west for democracy in Africa is less than it seems. We talk about the Congo tragedy without mentioning that it was a British statesman, Alec Douglas-Home, who agreed with the US president in 1960 that Patrice Lumumba, its elected leader, needed to "fall into a river of crocodiles".

African slavery and colonialism are not ancient or foreign history; the world they made is around us in Britain. It is not merely in economic terms that Africa underpins a modern experience of (white) British privilege. Had Africa's signature not been visible on the body of the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, would he have been gunned down on a tube at Stockwell? The slight kink of the hair, his pale beige skin, broadcast something misread by police as foreign danger. In that sense, his shooting was the twin of the axe murder of Anthony Walker in Liverpool, and of the more than 100 deaths of black people in mysterious circumstances while in police, prison or hospital custody since 1969.

This universe of risk, part of the black experience, is the afterlife of slavery. The reverse of the medal is what WEB DuBois called the "wage of whiteness", the world of safety, trustworthiness, welcome that those with pale skins take for granted. The psychology of racism operates even among those who believe in human equality, shaping unequal outcomes in education, employment, criminal justice. By its light, such all-white clubs as the G8 continue to meet in comfort.

Early this year, Gordon Brown told journalists in Mozambique that Britain should stop apologising for colonialism. The truth is, though, that Britain has never even faced up to the dark side of its imperial history, let alone begun to apologise.

Dr Richard Drayton is a senior lecturer in imperial and extra-European history since 1500 at Cambridge University. His book The Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World will be published in 2006.

RHDrayton@yahoo.co.uk

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We Nigerians really need a Rawlings in our life, even if its a year of The Rawlings Medicine, we would forever thank the Great Almighty god..i mean forever.

I will never like this man for once, if this foolish man had acted as he should during the pogroms of 1966 there would never had been a civil war, there would never been a reason/excuse for biafra, there would have never been this strong ethnic oriented politics, Nigeria would have never been hijacked by the neo-colonialist since we knew the war was what opened the door for them.
As if his dilly dallying with the Brits has not destroyed us so far, i also read from wikileaks how he undermined the efforts of well meaning Nigerians in the Pfizer polio scandal that took the lives of Nigerian children. it was documented how the Brits used him before and during the civil war, how he was used even after the civil war, now the Americans torpedoed him again against Nigerians, i think he is just a reactionary scum like Obasanjo, a resident spy/puppet, an unrepentant reactionary and a dirty bastard above all.

jp philips: sorry to inform you that as we speak, US is producing 6mbbls of shale oil daily and has since cut down its 15% dependence on Nigeria's oil, the Obama administration is making huge investments to increase its shale oil production to 15mbbls by 2017.
the cost of war with Nigeria will be better utilized to develop their oil production capacity.
if not for India who took up that Slot, your president would have graduated from cassava bread to cassava beer.
if that plan pulls through, Nigeria will only have quality to brag about.

If you know anything about Strategic Planning and International Diplomacy you would have known that production of oil is not what matters or what these nation are aiming for, THE CONTROL OF OIL IS WHAT MATTERS, that is what they all want. the more leverage you have on who gets what and who buys what the more power and advantage you had. US for a long time has enough oil for its people. I always see people talking about oil production and i feel i have to leave them alone with their idea. do your research .

Mr knowitall.:
interesting...but you gotta understand that the U.S, UK, France Etc... have absolutely zero interest in Syria..because Syria does not provide them oil...its almost a waste of money......this is the thing you gotta understand....if the Nigerian government suddenly gets bold and decides to stop selling oil to the west...this is what will happen...they will label Nigeria a terrorist nation....the U.S marines will land in Nigeria capture GEJ and hang him...and continue pumping precious crude oil...and Russia will do nothing about it.... for some reason you have so much faith in Russia and i dont know why...

You are the only guy here that knows how it works, i sincerely believe with the incursion of china into Nigeria and the emergence of Boko haram the plan is already in motion.

solomon111: Vested interests are most of the time on Natural resources,so it's not a new thing.
Btw,Nigeria is a very strategic american ally in africa atleast in the war against terrorism in africa.
And no,america,UK, france cannot just enter and take whatever they want,if not they would have entered syria a long time ago.
That's why we need to remain friends with russia.

you really don't know what you are talking about.

mu2sa2: These Russians imported arms to Nigeria but will go scot-free. Meanwhile the Iranian who's arms were on transit to Gambia, legitimately imported by Gambian govt, is languishing in jail. Hail Nigeria judiciary/ FG!

Nigeria is a Puppet State, if the USA orders them to seize the cargo they will without thinking twice, if Nigerians ever demonstrate against any US overtures you will see how quickly your president will order the soldiers to shoot at sight.

GenBuhari: We need to wake fast tackle corruption.My advice to GEJ is that he should start by cutting maximum salary of all politicians (including allowances) to $10,000 and reducing number of paid politicians by in NASS, State and local govt by 67%.
Ensure free and fair elections to replace the current bunch of politicians who would probably resign en-mass becuse of wage cut.

Immediately start arresting , prosecuting and jailing looterskeeping them in jail unless proven innocent.

Do you think that it is in the Jonathan interest to do that ? will his imperialist masters allow him to do that ? as you know there is only one problem with Nigeria and that is the only weakness that gives room to neo colonialism, that problem is Corruption.

sweetcheecks: You can come here to ganna for support I know you will get it becouse like you people refuse to face the truth and its always easy to blame others.

1. When in reality even the first bout of xenophobic attacks really start with you lot(Somalis)in Cape Town after you shot a child who stole a sweet in your shop. In South Africa you do not just shoot a child/person who steals in a shop. You hold them and call the police to arrest them or get their parents to pay the sweet. You do not do that in any country even the Nigerians who are helping you insult SA if you were to shoot people at will they would do the same.

2. It amazes me how you people have been insulting Blacks which includes Nigerians in this forum and calling them names now you come back seeking their sympathy and still find it correct to insult the same people you are try to het sympathy from. Is the normal? Calling same black people "filthy niggers". That right there is your attitude.

3. If in your country women are not allowed to drive it does not mean you should come to SA and try to drive women off the road. They are aloowed to drive your sick religion is not applicable.

4. SA unlike Nigerians will not allow you to come to our backyard and still make disgusting remarks about our way of life, religion and call us infidels even South African Moslems never calls us such rubbish.

4. We have laws around ownership of guns and having a machine guns in the middle of a community means you are ready for war and war will then come to you. You leaving Mogadishu and not being able to work out your issues with your own people for over 60years just shows how bad your attitude will extend to others who as per your confessions you call " filthy niggers".

5. The latest row was also coused by the Somalians who shot and killed to Zimbabweans saying they were making noise disturbing their peace. This is not Mogadishu you do not shoot at people at random and that community did well to teach you a lesson. That although we may be called xenophobic and thought shooting innocent Zimbabweans will not be retaliated you were mistaken. you cannot shoot at will, that will not be allowed.

6. People are really not aware of your war ravaged minds and attitude. The whole world watched as your brothers carring machine guns screaming " allah akbur" as if you were in your war zone. Wrong turn, SA will not allow a jihad.

7. You are the most accepted people among the people you call "filthy niggers". Most of your so called " own businesses/shops" are ran from the homes of those" filthy niggers" and in the core of their communities, supported soley by the your so called " filthy Niggers". If those " filthy Niggers" would boycott your shops your businesses would die.

8. I understand you have never known RESPECT ( Not biting the hand that feeds you) & how to live among people, as you could not even live among your own people for 60 years fighting your own " somalis" ( non-blacks) shows a loose screw in your heads.

9. There Egyptians and others also operating in the township doing and owning the same businesses you do, unlike you and your evil attitudes they do not get caught into the cross fire. You must ask yourself why?

10. Lastly, if you do not like it just "Voetsek" and for your
claimed help given to SA we will never know will we? Help from Somali? Lol! you have been fighting for
almost a century the help I know off has been the other way around, that is have been going your way.

LASTLY? free advice you will not bring your jihad into our shores. Learn to respect others and if you continue to call SA blacks weak they too will continue to show you that they are not weak.

And white South Africans are just that South Africans you on other hand you are not. Careful how you deal with people in their own playground it might just save a lot of lives and the need to just to run around screaming XENOPHOBIA.

very enlightening, it is always good to hear from both sides. You were right about how easily they shoot people and how the waste human lives. I don't know that they do such outside their country as well. I was contracted to teach them how to use some equipments about two years ago and i can confirm how babaric they are unto each other. There is a tribe we call Fulani in Nigeria and i really have strong belief that the Fulanis came from there; not only because of the physical resemblance but also of the senseless ,animalistic brutality they unleash on each other. You will instruct them on how to do things and they will yet do it their own wrong way and when you try to tell them that they lost lives and opportunities because they did it their own way they will quickly go tiger on you. Extremely unreasonable people in my own opinion.

birdman: We may have physical independence, but we have never lost the mental chains. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the black man, except the fact that we are literally out of our minds. This is why we keep perpetuating self-defeating habits. Look up Amos Wilson sometime when you get to chance. He has a few youtube videos that explain this in psychological detail. I might put one of the more relevant ones up on a thread when I get the chance.

I am in china at the moment and youtube blocked. I tried proxy sites but it seems they are blocked as soon as you type in Youtube. Maybe later.

This should be at the Front Page with all due respect.

Nigerians and most Africans were lied to about Gaddafi and i was heart broken when Jonathan made proclamations against the man. All it would have taken is for the president of Nigeria to send a cable to the US embassy and the No Fly Zone would never had held, instead he did as his imperialist puppet masters wanted which is the reason the south africans hated him.
Nigeria will never be like Libya in the next 30 years, Nigerians would never enjoy the great life that Libyans enjoyed under Gaddafi in the next 30 years . UNLESS they all stand for the same principles that Gaddafi stood for OR the Good Lord Sends us a Gaddafi to rescue us.