₦airaland Forum

To me Bianca is just a gold digger who will surely get burnt.
Ikemba himself is a huge womaniser from all accounts of him.
You guys should read the interview of his wife(the one that stayed with him during the war) and you will see a refined woman.
Credible sources say that Peter Obi has slept with the tart as well.

ndu_chucks: So these siblins, doctors, lawyers, engineers, who are primarily men, are running around fighting a woman about properties and disgracing the Ojukwu family name and ndiigbo, correct? All the family elders had to do was to summon Bianca and all parties involved and quietly resolve the issue. Instead they are all disgracing ndiigbo and you sir, are getting close to joining their gang.

Somebody with the mentality of Bianca does not listen nor have time for any elders, she would prefer instead to pull more people into it,make a scene and go to court for more publicity.

Kobojunkie: The above is the classic lie we like to tell ourselves. Your forefathers had problems in marriage as well. Back then, you know what they did? When they got tired of their wives, they sent these women away to live the rest of their lives in shame and many a times as outcasts. And don't pretend this problem was unheard of. No, it was just as common place as it is today. There were abandoned wives and running away husbands even during the days of your forefathers. They didn't have the secret to a lasting marriage either. In fact, to many of them, their wives were properties/slaves and so had no choice but to do as they desired.

lies ! Lies and more lies ! This does not happen in the olden days, even in the seventies. Unless you are talking about your own father ofcourse. Yes there were problems then, there would always be trials but the difference is how they were handled.
How can a man send his wife away as an outcast ? Do you even know what is an outcast ? Does the woman have no family, no brothers, sisters or uncles ? Do you know what the relatives does to a man who treats his wife badly and remains obstinate about it ? Do you even know about your culture ?
After reading most of your posts i think you are just one s.t.upid feminist pig that is bent on deceiving others. You just sound like my american friends describing african culture from the subversive,colonialist and racist lump they have been fed. The only difference is that i suspect that you knew quite well what you are doing.

it does not directly present them with the opportunity to loot but some may see it that way, sharing the looting will be easier , settling the senators wold not need huge bags of Ghana mus go bag and their loots will be more concealable , think of it 5 bundles of 5,000 naira notes is 2.5 million naira.

But the main purpose of the new notes is to weaken the nation economically,and cause more strife and public discontent, Now many people will think it is not in the best interest of the ruling officials to weaken the economy.

i hope other Somalians don't think like you,these ugly gorilla may decide to leave you to JUST die out.

igbo2011: After a meeting a couple months ago, they all fell sick and died. Is this just a coincidence or a conspiracy theory?

Ghana has been moving away from imperialist domination, the ghananian goverment policies has always centered on the people rather than on the elites and multinationals as is the case with Nigeria, so i am not suprised those guys would die. I just pray their people keeps on track and keep doing great things for their country.

I wish worse for Nigeria, i don't wish all of the above but i wish extreme poverty for 90% of the population.
I wish things would be so hard people would be falling on the streets due to hunger.
I wish the naira devalues to ordinary paper.
I wish the elitist goverment reach a point where peoples properties and daughters would be taken by force and sold to foreigners.
I wish boko haram gets more organized and start bombing nursery and primary schools.
I wish they can lay their hands on biological weapons and unleash it on nigeria.
I wish the oil wells all dry up.
If there is any sort of conceivable ills a society could have i wish it for nigerians as well.
May all good nigerians join hands in this prayer.

redsun: Hey u misguided hunter gatherer! What are u on about? Are ur bows and arrows broken and u cant hunt antelopes anymore?

Yamhead.

that guy is really stupid.

Euroclydon: So what do we do now?

Spread the information, the more enlightened individuals we have the more harder for them to succeed and more likely that the people would rise up against this evil plot. The more diverse the enlightened group is the more likely they would not tag the revolutionaries as terrorist, sececsionist or dissent group. Just keep spreading the message.

Euroclydon: So what do we do now?

Spread the information, the more enlightened individuals we have the more harder for them to succeed. The more diverse the enlightened group is the more likely they would not tag the revolutionaries as terrorist, sececsionist or dissent group. Just keep spreading the message.

Godman_n: Bros, It would have been better if all of us can see the truth and act together like the deprived people that we all are. But as human history has always shown, man was not created to all be very intelligent. Among a group of people, the few that got the truth must find ways to navigate the difficult path of liberating their people. It took only Fidel Castrol with 5 other guys to overthrow American imperialist Agents and establish a new order that saved the fate of their people.

How many Africans will it take to reverse the centuries old looting of the African continent and the destruction of its population? This is a question we must answer; not facing the many that will never understand the truth; the few that prefers the easy path. At the right time, they will join a moving train, but we must find a way to set the train moving for the good of Blackman.

I concur in totality to the destruction of our fatherland by Western Noe-colonial agents. I have stated at Several Forumn that CIA, M16, Mossad know much about Boko Haram. It takes just a knowledge of world political history to arrive at this. Thank God the writer her had time to make a good case in stating an obvious truth.

At last someone talks intelligently.

ayodeji1: What's all these crap?instead of us to face the problem of corruption which is pulling us backward in this country and giving us a bad image in diaspora,we are here talking about the US trying to distabilize us.to me its all bullshit.how are we and our actions creating stability in the first place?u can only distabilize a stable country.let's tackle the issue of corruption which is key,which inturn brings more employment,job opportunities and even the enterpreneurs can do better when the little we have is able to go round.I assure u,when that is sorted out,the journey 2wards fast development begins.then u wouldn't hear stuffs like boko haram,etc.even if there is,it will be far reduced and we as nigerians will be more patriotic in the fight against such to save our dear country.shikennah!

what people like the above poster fail to understand is that corruption can not reach this extent without the support of those nations and imperialist organisations. What happened to those regimes that wanted to tackle corruption ? What happens to those african leaders that wanted an equal distribution of wealth for there people ? When nations like Usa and France fail to eliminate the president with internal resident agents they swoop in with their war machines and change the regime that does not favor them, who put the shah of Iran in power ? Who installed and supported Mubarak for several decades till the people can take no more ?
The point is that any problem should be tackled from the origin and we should remove our pride from it.

Omexonomy: Me think it is time for us to stop blaming others for our problem

No one has blamed anybody for the Nigerian problem in this thread, what was done here so far was creating awareness of an impending threat to our collective interests. Why must the black man always devise a cliche to avoid working on a solution of a real and clear problem. Next another one would ask us to pray .

pDude: Summary of the story= conspiracy theory. That's as much it sums up to be.

Moreover who is the 'our' in ur sentence? I am not bunched with you guys over there in that hellhole country.

Heads or tails, we still win.

After reading your posts i conclude that some people in their own little mind feel that they are better than the rest cus they are not in Africa, they somehow wish they can wake up the next day in the skin of a white man. You know people with this mentality make very good imperialist Puppets and i find them to be more meaner to their brethren than the imperialist themselves.

afam4eva: If the US can help divide this country for the benefit of everyone, then so be it.

the United States would never do something for the benefit of anybody else except the United States, if the USA is to shred this country it would be in a way that the resulting states would be in a condition that will benefit the USA more than it presently does. All national policies follow this rule and there is no Exception.

Do you find it frustrating that the only endorsement nigerians need for Okonjo Iweala was that she held a position in the world bank ?
Is it odd that people never investigated the effect of World Bank policies on other countries and how it operates and yet will use Iweala link to world bank as an argument that her policies must be sound ?
The subsidies goes,the education sector becomes abandoned, the nation starts going broke as they are making more oil money, the naira gets devalued more and more leaving a businessman with a million yesterday with worthless papers today, National facilities being sold off to foreign firms and they are given rights to extort nigerians for inferior or even non-existent services and people still stupidly chant Economic Reforms by Iweala. Nigerians should know by now that Economic destruction and hardship is a NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT PRE-REQUISITE FOR BALKANIZATION. Every student of international Relations and foreign affairs knows this, every student of Social Psychology knows this. Read world History and you will know as well.

Sun of god: It must only be a fool that doesn't realise that 'Okonjo-Iweala' is the IMF's 'Economic Hit-WoMan'

Part of the 'West's' agenda - Even 'GEJ's' rise to President was backed by the 'West' and their vote-counting/rigging machines.

Should have been obvious with the election results that are mathematically and statistically impossible to obtain (95% vote in nearly all Southern states?)

that is not the way the Nigerian man thinks, for the Nigerian as far as BBC and CNN says that Goodluck won he won, as far as USA confirms that their spooky "foreign Observers" declared the election free and fair he won. Whatever maths you do or logic you bring up does not count because as i said before "CNN,BBC and the Americans SAID SO"
In the Nigerian mans mind evil never comes from the white man but evil is EXPECTED from the blackman.

pDude: Story is too damn long.

And BTW, if USA wanted to take over naija, they would already have done that. No biggie.

And also since African leaders have spent the last 5 decades screwing up the continent, I think its high time someone steps in and shows the leaders how a country is to be run and not the god-awful shyt they are practicing as leadership in Africa. And moreover, Nigeria's problem isn't US. It is ur leaders.

Thank God that I am on the righteous side

you think US can just walk in and take over nigeria ? Do you think if that ever happens that they are coming to develop the country and as you said "show us how its done ?
Do you think all those leaders thats has been overthrown or assasincted by the west were murdered for our own good ?
A country as little as Afghanistan cannot be won by the USA after fighting for more than ten years and you think a country of more than 150 million could be attacked by the USA ?
Please never comment if you have no idea of what is being discussed.

aare07: USA don't want rival in any geographical region.
the hottest rival to USA in Middle East is Syria and he is going against them , while Nigeria blessed with Oil is Hot rival to USA.
let wait and see , if Jonathan would sell the soul of Nigeria to USA , in order to gain its political power by 2015.
in Jonathan's scales of Prefernces, 2015 presidential election is No1. by so doing , Former president has caused Political tensions within the country by endorsing LAMIDO AND HIS COUNTER-PART FROM RIVERS STATE. USA will now come to resue Jonathan ,once he is ready to sign a deal with them.
Pray that Nigeria will not Break as predicted by Insolent group of peoples................

Talking about signing a deal he already did, once the former president died he ran to USA to pledge his allegiance and agreed to carry out the bid of western destabilisation forces then the west informed IBB to withdraw his presidential bid in return. Thats is why Nigeria is signing billions of contracts with the west, following all the destructive IMF/World Bank Policies and giving our UN votes to western interests instead of African and Nigerian Interests, thats why nigeria supported the french excursion in Ivory Coast, western Hegemony over Sudan with the atrocities being committed using our own soldiers, western intervention in Libya on which even the South African goverment showed its displeasure with nigeria on how it sold out Africa, infact Jonathan effectively turned Nigeria into a western Puppet Nation. They profiled him and knew he is as ignorant and extremely selfish as they come and they pushed him forward.
They want to break nigeria along sectarian lines(fault lines) if we break in this way none of us would ever progress, we would hate each other and mistrust each other, our insecurity would be used by the west as a leverage against us, and we would never develop. It might even end up in several decades of bloodbath and throughout history no nation in war has ever developed.

[size=18pt]Boko Haram: A CIA Covert Operation; America’s Destabilization Plots Against Nigeria–GreenWhite Coalition

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EXPOSED! AMERICA’S DESTABILIZATION PLOTS AGAINST NIGERIA

NewsRescue[Op-ed] In the aftermath of the unfortunate bombings and sporadic attacks that took place in Damaturu the Yobe State capital and environs on the last Sallah Day, the Embassy of the United States in Nigeria hastily put out a public statement declaring that such like bombings should be expected in three well known hospitality establishments in Abuja the nation’s capital.

To discerning observers not only did that score high marks for bad manners as that was hardly what a nation still grieving and coming to terms with its losses expected from a supposedly friendly nation, but that the US embassy was being economical with information on what it actually knew about the incident, and more significantly, the role the US government itself has been playing in the whole gamut of acts of destabilization against Nigeria.

We have already been regaled with reports provided by the Wikileaks which identified the US embassy in Nigeria as a forward operating base for wide and far reaching acts of subversion against Nigeria which include but not limited to eavesdropping on Nigerian government communication, financial espionage on leading Nigerians, support and funding of subversive groups and insurgents, sponsoring of divisive propaganda among the disparate groups of Nigeria and the use of visa blackmail to induce and coerce high ranking Nigerians into acting in favour of US interests.

But beyond what we know from the Wikileaks report, what many Nigerians do not know is that US embassy’s subversive activities in Nigeria fits into the long term US government’s well camouflaged policy of containment against Nigeria the ultimate goal of which is to eliminate Nigeria as a potential strategic rival to the US in the African continent.

Today as Nigerians are reeling from the negative effects of the insurgency that has befallen our dear country and earnestly seeking answers to what all this portends for the future, the GREENWHITE COALITION a citizen’s watchdog can reveal the true nature of this silent, undeclared war of attrition waged against Nigeria by the Government of United States of America.
BACKGROUND TO US SUBVERSIVE ACTS AGAINST NIGERIA AND TIMELINES

From ACRI to AFRICOM

ACRI stands for Africa Crises Response Initiative and it was set up during the Bush Jnr Administration as a counterweight to the Nigeria led ECOWAS Monitoring Group on the Liberian Civil War or ECOMOG as it is more popularly known.

ACRI came to being from the secret reports and recommendations separately by the Africa-America Institute and the Brookings Institute commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency, the American Government’s Directorate responsible for organizing foreign subversive activities, on the Liberian civil war and the intervention of ECOMOG.

Both reports zeroed in on the pivotal role Nigeria was playing in the ECOMOG initiative and noted pointedly the phenomenal success recorded by ECOMOG in containing the Liberian crisis without any significant role or intervention from any of the major western powers including the United States.

The report concluded that should ECOMOG be allowed to go the whole hog, the major beneficiary will be Nigeria and that might form the basis for a pax Nigeriana in the West African sub-region eclipsing the influence of former colonial powers France and Britain.

The reports also called on the United States Government to note that Liberia being its creation should not be allowed to fall into Nigerian hands with consequences to US strategic interests in the country and the region. Specifically both reports noted that should Nigeria be allowed to have a foothold in Liberia, it will further embolden Nigeria to challenge the US and the West in carving its own sphere of interest at their expense.

In this regard, the report further recalled Nigeria’s role in helping to liberate the southern African countries in the 70’s and 80’s in clear opposition and defiance to the interests of the United States and its western allies which resulted in setback for Western initiatives in Africa at the time.

Both concluded with a recommendation that the US Government in conjunction with its allies should seek to contain the growing influence of Nigeria in the sub-region by forming a parallel organization to ECOMOG. But in order not to unduly alarm and antagonize Nigeria which the report admitted still had considerable influence in the region, the US government was advised to go about this using quiet diplomacy.

During the secret congressional hearing organized to consider the reports by both institutes on Nigeria’s role in the ECOMOG, the interagency team comprising representatives from the CIA, Pentagon and State Department formed to push the case, endorsed the recommendation that Nigeria be kept out of the alternate arrangements on Liberia that was being proposed.

The strategy was to win away some key African countries from participation enthusiastically in the ECOMOG initiative. The sweeteners for this were the promise and delivery of military and humanitarian aid. This was the line the then US Secretary of State Warren Christopher pursued when he visited a number of African countries excluding Nigeria to sell the ACRI idea.

Related: NewsRescue- Nigeria: The Illusion of a North Dominated Rule

Thus ensued, the stalemate in ECOMOG operations with some of the participating countries foot dragging in their commitment to the force and operations. On the diplomatic front, the US along with its allies namely Britain and France using the engineered stalemate as cover, proceeded to sell the idea that the ECOMOG initiative needed to be reviewed and given a new direction.

The US and its allies then argued that the intervention of outside powers such as the US and its western allies was the tonic needed to move the ECOMOG operation forward. But in order to prevent any worldwide backlash against this blatant interference in what should be a regional African initiative, the US and its allies sought to present it under the auspices of the United Nations with a select Asian and Latin American countries participating.

By the time the tallies were counted, the US had achieved the one objective of all the diplomatic and strategic maneuvers; the containment of Nigeria led ECOMOG initiative to resolve the Liberian Crises.

It was on the platform of this surreptitious American intervention in the Liberian crisis that the US Africa Command or AFRICOM was formed.

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Unlike its precursor, the ACRI which sought to disguise US intentions in Africa particularly as it pertains to Nigeria under the cloak of multilateral humanitarian intervention, AFRICOM which came to being on October 1, 2008 is clearly programmed to serve US military-strategic interests especially with regards to the ever expanding global reach and influence of China in direct competition with the United States.

In response to the growing influence of a rapidly expanding industrial China in Africa, the goal of AFRICOM is to seize key strategic areas in Africa and bring them under US control in order to block China’s access to vital energy and mineral resources for its expanding economy. But to effectively carry this out, such African countries of strategic importance must first of all be weakened internally and made to feel so vulnerable that they would have to inevitably seek US protection or intervention. A spur to this interventionist programme provides that any targeted African country that does not see the wisdom or resists the need to seek US “protection” will then have to suffer dismemberment with the pliant area carved out of the supposedly hostile area and given US “protection”.

We have seen this happen in the great lakes area where US Special Forces have been deployed ostensibly to protect the countries there from so-called insurgents who in the first place were sponsored by the same US. In Sudan we have seen how a blanket cover of international humanitarian cries orchestrated by the United States on the so-called Darfur crisis served as a prelude to the dismemberment of Sudan to punish the government of El-Bashir for daring to conclude oil deals with the Chinese to the detriment of American companies.

We have also seen how Libya and Gaddafi was put to the sword for daring to sidetrack American oil interests. {See: NewsRescue-The NATO “liberated” Libya Terror “tidal wave” over North Africa} But the greatest prize for AFRICOM and its goal to plant a PAX AMERICANA in Africa would be when it succeeds in the most strategic African country, NIGERIA. This is where the raging issue of BOKO HARAM and the widely reported prediction by the United States Intelligence Council on the disintegration of Nigeria by 2015 comes into perspective.

Related Resource:

African Crises Response Initiative and the new African Security (Dis)order PDF

Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London – ECOMOG: A model for Africa?

Christopher Tuck- “Every Car Or Moving Object Gone”The ECOMOG Intervention in Liberia; African Studies Quarterly
BOKO HARAM: A CIA COVERT OPERATION

From the 1st October 2010 bombing that rocked Abuja till date Nigeria seems to be locked in a vice like grip of a growing and intractable insurgency manifested in bombings of public places and sporadic attacks on public institutions resulting in the loss of scores of lives and destruction of properties. Predictably there has been a discernible growth in panic and tension in the country and not a few people are beginning to think that perhaps the country seems headed inevitably for a long drawn insurgency leading to a split. With the exception of the 1st October 2010 bombing incident, a shadowy group which goes by the name Boko Haram has laid claim to most of the subsequent bombings that have occurred in the country.

Related: NewsRescue- Religious Violence In Nigeria: Boko Haram As A Tool Of Religious, Political & Foreign Interests

The seemingly intractable nature of the Boko Haram outrage has prompted a lot of questions from Nigerians. What really is this Boko Haram thing and what are their grievances if any? Why have they chosen to remain faceless in spite of the devastating effects of their activities on the psyche of the nation, and entreaties from Nigerian authorities to come forward for negotiations? Why are they able to perpetrate their attacks with relative ease and why has there not been a single clue at the scene of their acts to lead to them?

For sure, Nigerians are not unused to sectarian violence. But the ones we have witnessed in this country have been predictable and the modus and fault lines have been well known to the authorities who have always done well to keep them within tolerable limits.

The Boko Haram of Mohammed Yussuf which predated this new one can be so categorized and was well known through its operations, leadership and locations.

But how did a ragtag collection of largely half literate unsophisticated persons operating mostly on Okada transform literally overnight to being able to design, manufacture and deploy bombs in buildings and in vehicles costing in excess of a million naira and carry out attacks in several locations around the country?

Related: NewsRescue- Boko Haram – More Complicated Than You Think – Richard Dowden {RAS}

How have their reach grown from just a corner of Nigeria to virtually everywhere in the country? For them to be able to mount such a sophisticated operation, they must necessarily have a well structured command and control system which in spite of their best efforts at concealment cannot remain undetected for long. So how have they seemingly defied the best efforts of combined security agencies in the country in detecting and foiling their activities?

The GREENWHITE Coalition can reveal that the current Boko Haram campaign is a covert operation organized by the American Central Intelligence Agency, CIA and coordinated by the American Embassy in Nigeria.

For some time now, the CIA has been running secret training and indoctrination camps along the porous and vulnerable borderlands of Niger, Chad and Cameroon. At these camps youths from poor, deprived and disoriented backgrounds are recruited and trained to serve as insurgents. The agents who supply these youth lure them with the promise of better life and work of Allah and further indoctrinated to believe they are working to install a just Islamic order from the ungodly one that currently holds sway in Nigeria.

The American CIA programme officers of this project prudently remain in the background, living the day to day running of the camps to supervisors of Middle Eastern origin specially recruited for this purpose. After several months of indoctrination and training on weapons handling, survival tactics, surveillance and evasion techniques, the insurgents are now put on stand by for the next phase of the operation.

Related: NewsRescue- Boko Haram linked to Qatar, Western Powers

The next phase of the operations involves the identification and selection of the targets which had already been mapped out by the American Embassy. If buildings are the targets for attack, the weapons and technical equipment to be used are kept in safe houses.

The countdown to the attack involves ferrying of the insurgents and quarantine at safe houses for the H hour. After the attack, in the ensuing panic, the insurgents make their escape into safe houses to dispose the weapons and disappear and dissolve later into the local population. The technical angle of sending out e-mails and messages of responsibility for the attack to the media in the name of Boko Haram is done through secure telecoms equipment by the American programmers of the operation which can hardly be traced.

If the selected target is to be bombed by an IED, the building is cased for days and the devise inserted when security is lax. The devise is then detonated by an in-built timing mechanism or by a hand held detonator some distance away from where the bomb is placed. If on the hand, the attack is to be carried out by a suicide bomber, the person to carry it out would have been severely drugged with CIA manufactured LSD to disorientation. In his state of mind he would have no clue as to what he is programmed to do having been turned into a veritable human robot.
WORKING TO THE 2015 ANSWER-HOW THE US PLANS TO DISMEMBER NIGERIA BY 2015

It is neither a coincidence nor guesswork that the National Intelligence Council of the United States Government estimated that Nigeria will disintegrate by the year 2015. The whole report actually is a coded statement of intentions on how using destabilization plots the US plans to eventually dismember Nigeria.

Related: NewsRescue- Nigeria Targeted For Destruction: Gordon Duff, US

The whole goal of the destabilization campaign is to ensure that Nigeria is weakened internally by intractable crises leading up to 2015 when the next general elections are expected to come up. By that year there will be so much mutual suspicion among Nigerians that the elections itself might not hold or if they did at all will set the stage for a full rapture of the Nigerian state. By its calculation and design, the Nigerian state will be so fractious by then; it will be fully ripe for intervention and break up. It is in actualization of this plan that the US strategic planners on Nigeria have devised a three stage plan of implementation.

Related: NewsRescue- US Army Prepares for Nigeria’s Possible Break-up (2015)

Stage 1: Pakistanizing Nigeria

With the scourge of Boko Haram as an existential reality, in the coming months the spate of bombings and attacks on public buildings are likely to escalate. High value symbolic targets like churches, mosques and large congregations of people of both faiths will be targeted.

There will also be escalation in provocative statements and incitements by groups to violence. For good measure and effect, the bombings and attacks will be staged on days of observance of religious activities.

The goal is to exacerbate tension and mutual suspicion among adherents of the two faiths in Nigeria and leading to sectarian violence.

This pattern of destabilization operation is taken out of the Pakistani manual of destabilization where a sustained spate of CIA sponsored bombings and sectarian violence stretched the ability and resources of the law and order agencies to cope rendering the country weak and vulnerable to foreign intervention.

Stage 2: Internationalizing the Crisis

Having the set the stage for an intractable sectarian violence pitting Christians against Muslims and between the various disparate groups in the country, there will be calls from the United States, European Union and United Nations for a halt to the violence. A plethora of advocacy groups around the world will struggle for the photo opportunity to mouth concerns about the carnage and humanitarian catastrophe. They will try to make a great show of providing humanitarian aid. For effect, there will be carpet bombing coverage by the International media on the Nigerian crisis with so-called experts discussing all the ramifications who will strive to create the impression that only benevolent foreign intervention could resolve the crisis.

There will be a deluge of international conferences at various capitals around the world all ostensibly aimed to save Nigerians from themselves. Meanwhile away from all the public flurry of activities, the US which initiated the crisis in the first place will be secretly drawing up plans to carve out Nigeria for its strategic and economic benefits.

Stage 3: the Great Carve out under UN Mandate

Following worldwide outrage at the scale of carnage resulting from all out war among various sections of Nigeria secretly induced by the United States and its allies, the stage will now shift to the United Nations where debates will take place on how the world body will work to resolve the crisis.

There will be proposals first for an international peace keeping force to intervene and separate the warring groups and or for a UN mandate for various parts of Nigeria to come under mandated occupying powers. Of course behind the scenes the US and its allies would have secretly worked out which areas of Nigeria to occupy guided as it were by naked economic interests.

It is trite really which power or powers eventually occupies Nigeria for whatever reasons. By the time the UN comes to take a decision to hand over Nigeria for occupation under its mandate, no part of Nigeria will emerge or profit truly from the exercise. The rump areas of Nigeria will all come under occupation and puppet governments will then be set up at the behest of the occupying powers. Nigeria’s fall will be like that of humpty-dumpty, into pieces beyond recognition.

The main beneficiary will of course be the United States which started all this in the first place and which will be there to profit at the end. By engineering the break up of Nigeria, the United States would have eliminated a potential continental rival paving the way to the institution of a Pax Americana in Africa and secondly it would have limited its main global strategic rival China from direct access to badly needed energy and other mineral resources on the resource rich African continent.
QUESTIONS WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES AS NIGERIANS

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Against this background Nigerians need to stop and ask critical questions; what real purpose does it serve to deliberately leak a supposedly classified report from a US Intelligence organ normally restricted to only a handful of US policy makers only, to the media and for good measure ensure its wide circulation in the country against whom the action is targeted? Does that not indicate a statement of intent by the country that originated the report to serve as psychological intimidation for the purpose of softening up the targeted country making it ripe for intervention?

In any routine investigation of an act, investigators usually call in the statements of material witnesses before or after the act whether deliberately uttered or inadvertently; does the statement by the United States National Intelligence Council on the break up of Nigeria in 2015 not amount to culpability in this regard especially in view of the escalation in the seemingly intractable acts of subversive violence taking place in Nigeria after that statement was released and also in view of US antecedents in matters such as this around the world?

Why is it that a country which has always been known for its resilience and ability to resolve its problems without outside interference? Is this not indicative of the very Nigerian saying that the witch cried in the night and the child died in the morning?

Why is someone somewhere hell bent on engineering Nigerians to form the unNigerian habit of harbouring and perpetrating desperate, extreme and unforgiving actions against themselves?

Should we all 160million of us stand idly by and allow the United States achieve its selfish and diabolical aim of sowing discord in our country leaving us with widows, orphans and humanitarian problems as it has done in other places? Are we going to allow the labour of our heroes past which bequeathed us a nation second to none and reputed to be the backbone of Africa to die in vain?

From Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan and Latin America, America’s track record around the world has been nothing but ugly. In the words of its own statesmen, America has no permanent friends but permanents interests which translate into a healthy and utter disregard to the sensitivities and interests of other countries. That has pretty much formed the basis of US interaction around the world. The same situation will play itself out if we allow them in to our country.

Nigerians let us stop and think before we allow the big bad wolf in, for we will have nobody but ourselves to blame when our chickens start to get missing.

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/boko-haram-a-cia-covert-operation-americas-destabilization-plots-against-nigeria-greenwhite-coalition/#ixzz24HKMMeKC

[size=16pt]THE "SPECTER" OF AL QAEDA IN AFRICA: A Cover for Western Reconquest of the Continent [/size]
The "Al Qaeda Brand", a Lucrative “Investment”....

by Finian Cunningham

A British foreign policy think tank has this week released a study claiming that the terror group Al Qaeda is regrouping in Africa creating “an arc of instability” from the Western Sahel to the Eastern Horn.

The Royal United Services Institute, based in Whitehall, London, and closely aligned to official British foreign policy, cites “disturbing new trends” across the continent that “Osama bin Laden’s terror network” is seeking influence in Somalia, North Africa and the Western Sahara-Sahel.

“If correct [sic], this assessment would raise the worrying prospect of an arc of regional instability encompassing the whole Sahara-Sahel strip and extending through to East Africa, which the now weakened Al Qaeda-core could well exploit to regroup, reorganise and reinvigorate its terrorist campaign against the West,” the report said.

Meanwhile, in other media reports it is claimed that Al Qaeda elements are joining forces with the Tuareg separatists following a military coup in the West Africa country of Mali. The alleged involvement of Al Qaeda in Mali has been cited by former colonial power France in its pledge to crush the coup.

The purported Al Qaeda link in Mali appears incongruous. The Tuareg rebels – a nomadic group inhabiting northern Mali and Niger – were formerly fighting in Libya in support of the Gaddafi government against Western-backed insurgents. The Western-backed Libyan insurgents are known to have comprised Al Qaeda jihadists. Now it is being claimed by France and media reports that Al Qaeda are in league with their former enemies – the Tuareg – in the secession of the northern Mali territory.
What these various reports suggest is that Al Qaeda is being raised as a “spectre” over Africa to justify increased intervention by Western powers in that continent under the guise of “global security”.

The RUSI, with an old colonialist flourish, says Al Qaeda “appears to be adopting a strategy of ‘going native’, which implies seizing upon and exploiting local grievances with the ultimate aim of securing a stable foothold in volatile countries”.
Significantly, that scary thought allows the RUSI study to conclude: ““The focus of anti-jihadist counter-terrorism is shifting to Africa.”

In other words, the pretext of anti-jihadist counter-terrorism by Western powers is shifting to Africa.

But in point of fact, the Western counter-terrorism pretext is not shifting; it is more accurately being extended to Africa, as NATO is continuing its illegal occupation and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

This represents a strategic expansion of the global war agenda that the Pentagon and its Western allies have been pursuing in the Middle East and Central Asia incorporating a region for hegemonic control stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caspian – a region that compromises at least 60 per cent of the earth’s known oil and gas reserves.

The seven-month aerial bombing campaign of Libya by NATO during 2011 that led to the overthrow of the government in Tripoli can be seen as serving as a beach-head for the US-led powers in North Africa, and for their continued militarization across the East-West continental belt, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Already, the Western powers are engaged in a new scramble for Africa that can be traced back to the setting up of the new US military command of AFRICOM under the George W Bush administration.

Since then, and especially under the Obama administration, there has been a scaling up low-intensity involvement of US, French and British forces in Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and on the east in Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti.

American aerial drones and French naval forces have played a key role in supporting the Kenyan and Ethiopian army campaigns against Al Shabab militants in Somalia since October last year.

Other African countries where the Western powers are believed to be running clandestine Special Forces include Senegal, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Sudan – all of them former British and French colonial possessions. There have also been claims of US staging violence in Nigeria to justify a state crackdown on popular protests against the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Africa’s undeveloped but vast natural resources of oil, metals, other minerals and agricultural potential is a bonanza that the stagnant capitalist powers cannot afford to miss out on, especially given China’s rise as a trading partner with many African states.
The irony is that while Western governments, their think-tanks and mainstream media mouthpieces may talk up “an Al Qaeda arc of instability across Africa”, the real source of instability and militarization from the continent’s West to East is stemming from the neocolonialism of Western powers. To this end, the “spectre” of Al Qaeda is serving as a convenient pretext to justify further imperialist encroachment.

Expect more Western mainstream media reports of mysterious Al Qaeda jihadists destabilizing poor, starving African countries, thus requiring the noble dispatch of NATO forces to “save the Dark Continent”.

Of course, the killer irony is that Al Qaeda is a global terror network created by the CIA, MI6 and Saudi Arabia to do the dirty work of Western powers, as Michel Chossudovsky, Peter Dale Scott and other writers have carefully documented.

The Al Qaeda brand has proven to be a lucrative “investment”.

From 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq to Libya and currently Syria. And, now, the neocolonial reconquest of Africa. That’s what you call “return on money”.

Finian Cunningham is Global Research’s Middle East and East Africa Correspondent

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30151

PhysicsQED: Why does it have to be "covert ops" and "the U.S."?

How about homegrown balkanization of Nigeria?

Most nigerians would believe they know what they are doing, they would tell you the idea to divide nigeria was theirs and no external actor induced them to that, they would give you endless reasons why it is obvious that the nation would be divide , But the real truth is that none of those ideas are theirs and external actors planned and implemented each stage of the agitation, most african people does not understand how covert operations work and the role of intelligence systems in this scenario, there are foreign advisers in each of the regions that cries for division and to those groups they would naively believe that those advisers came to them out of sympathy and that they are looking out for them probably after hearing their long speech about freedom and one deciding his fate and all the carefully masked title that ordinary people fell for. The truth is that all those advisers are one and the same men,working together and driving us all in unison albeit different paths towards the same goal,THEIR GOAL. Ignorance of how the world works,effects of colonization and tribalism has weakened our perceptions to the route we are taken, example i know the british Goverment from its formative years has infiltrated MASSOB and has been relaying information back and forth, cautiously guiding its course, hardwork and patience has afforded them the privilage to embedd their man in the forefront of the organisation and giving him credence and authority through crafted feedback systems and propped events. I know their are several same british and american advisers all over the niger delta charting the course of events, though the nature of the niger deltan are unpredictable they have over time split them into groups to balance the front of events(a balanced front is a situation where a course is maintained by supporting several groups at once in order to keep them all in line, a group that refuses to accept an order can be persuade by making the rival group more stronger or even disinforming the rival group to make an attack on certain weak points knowing what the response of the other group would be and factoring it in to get the desired result) , scalable and adaptive feedback systems has been well installed to relay information for the operations. The problem is that so far the agents are white or represents a foreign organisation those groups would do anything they are told without asking questions.

dasparrow: @Post

I already knew all this and have been trying to tell Nigerians on this forum to open their eyes and stay alert but we have too many USA and western world worshippers on this forum so I gave up. Forumite Cap28 also tried to educate nairalanders too on the dangers of the western governments but many Nigerians on this forum were quick to label him a conspiracy theorist. So, let Nigerians back home learn the hard way when crap hits the fan.


I will be back on this thread to make sure my post did not disappear

The worshipping of white people is real and heartbreaking, i have witnessed some of our elected officials descend into absolute imbecility in the face of a white man, intel has it that Goodluck Jonathan can't compose or argue with a caucasian female, this weakness has been identified and used by various foreign organisations when presenting their agenda to him.
I found out that if a white man wrongs you in Nigeria our own police would be protective of him and physically brutalise and dehumanise you without even asking for your own part of the issue and as i already know in europe is you are wronged by a white dude the police would ignore you and would physically abuse you if you push the case further. I consider this weakness as the residual effect of colonization and the failure of our educational system to address such defect.
Sometimes out of rage you might choose to let them learn the hard way but in the world of today they will never get free once they fall into that trap. It would be bloodbath, insecurity and poverty for decades with no hope of ever being free.

GenBuhari: @toth

It has also been so obvious, how these western countries always pressure for return to democracy when non corrupt governments like Abacha and Buhari was fixing the country and pretending to be concerned about Nigeria's human rights.

However corrupt kleptomaniac governments like BAbangida's, Abdulsalami Abubakar's, OBasanjo's and successive PDP governments, have never been criticised by them in the same way as they criticised our most patriotic govts.

That is one of the reasons why awareness should be created cus Nigerians has been brainwashed so much and repetitiously barged with the Democracy Medicine that they became almost fanatically attached to it like it is the second coming of christ.
Today i was discussing with a few nigerians and i just found out that many of us has not even watched a single Olympics event. One of the guys started lamenting Abacha 's death and proclaimed how he tasked everyone to be their best and after much conversation we found out that unlike the time of Abacha none of us can name 5 players in the current nigerian football team while during the time of Abacha the Amuneke,Amokachi, Okocha, Peter Rufai etc was a household name, Ajunwa was used as a reference to a good runner, Peter Rufai and Okocha for a good goalkeeper and player respectively and compare it to now our children and youths would use Ronaldo and Beckham as reference and nobody even knows or cares about our own guys. They were reflecting on those days as we won medal upon medal and the jubilation and hyper nationalistic air that pervades the nation as we took the African Nations cup or the Hysterical celebration as we watched our own boys take the Gold medals in Atlanta 96, we were the proudest African nation at the time and we became patriotic,nationalistic and progressive without knowing it. Nigerias achievements both within and outside and how Abacha put the interest of the nation first made many African Nations respect and fear the Great Giant and western nations treaded cautiously. The discussion ended as usual with tales of misery and woes and how such feats can not be possible again in Democratic Nigeria.

great1: no surprise

Our leaders are in bed with them on this plan and they have been following the script all along, are nigerians too docile to rise up against this plot ?

GenBuhari: We cannot blame IMF, but our leaders and by implication ourselves.

you are right but we can not always think along such lines considering the situation we found ourselves, i am totally sure that if the people are to vote on those ploys that our so called leaders hatch with the Imperialist that majority would vote against it, but as it happens that those same men we voted into office(or were imposed on us) are now against us we can only blame ourselves for failing to rise against them and using them as an example but on that line the argument falls on the question of how many individuals really understand the source of our problem, how many even understand the role that these organisations play and how the whole elitist and class divide connects and works. That question of Awareness is what i am trying and we should try to eliminate for only by doing that can we achieve true liberation.

[size=16pt]COVERT OPS IN NIGERIA: Fertile Ground for US Sponsored Balkanization[/size]

by Nile Bowie

While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’ declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1], recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement sharia law through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011 [4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire than that experienced during 1967’s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies [5].

The group has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the "ungoverned spaces" of the Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification for the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.

The Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided arms to Nigeria's Boko Haram movement "to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop the advance of a minority of Crusaders" [9]. It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a "real challenge" to the United States [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the US of arming and training Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press statements.

While NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has recently confirmed that the US has trained members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a US State Department listed terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18], armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011 [21].

Nigerian recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22], and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982 Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.

A divided and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and leading US foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr. Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called ‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a medium-sized oil multinational” [25].

Following the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja, [27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010, China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining capacity [28].

While Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While US officials acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition [31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the US Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

The United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the US Africa Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 US troops to battle vying rebel factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].

In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of "protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment." [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as a separate arm of the US destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.

[size=16pt]Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War: The Role of the IMF[/size]

by F. William Engdahl

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war. The recent surprise decision by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to abruptly lift subsidies on imported gasoline and other fuel has a far more sinister background than mere corruption and the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a key role. China appears to be the likely loser along with Nigeria’s population.

The recent strikes protesting the government’s abrupt elimination of gasoline and other fuel subsidies, that brought Nigeria briefly to a standstill, came as a surprise to most in the country. Months earlier President Jonathan had promised the major trade union organizations that he would conduct a gradual four-stage lifting of the subsidy to ease the economic burden. Instead, without warning he announced an immediate full removal of subsidies effective January 1, 2012. It was “shock therapy” to put it mildly.

Nigeria today is one of the world’s most important producers of light, sweet crude oil—the same high quality crude oil that Libya and the British North Sea produce. The country is showing every indication of spiraling downward into deep disorder. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States and twelfth largest oil producer in the world on a par with Kuwait and just behind Venezuela with production exceeding two million barrels a day. 1

The curious timing of IMF subsidy demand

Despite its oil riches, Nigeria remains one of Africa’s poorest countries. The known oilfields are concentrated around the vast Niger Delta roughly between Port Harcourt and extending in the direction of the capital Lagos, with large new finds being developed all along the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria’s oil is exploited and largely exported by the Anglo-American giants—Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco. Italy’s Agip also has a presence and most recently, to no one’s surprise, the Chinese state oil companies began seeking major exploration and oil infrastructure agreements with the Lagos government.

Ironically, despite the fact that Nigeria has abundant oil to earn dollar export revenue to build its domestic infrastructure, government policy has deliberately let its domestic oil refining capacity fall into ruin. The consequence has been that most of the gasoline and other refined petroleum products used to drive transportation and industry, has to be imported, despite the country’s abundant oil. In order to shield the population from the high import costs of gasoline and other refined fuels, the central government has subsidized prices.

Until January 1, 2012, that is. That was the day when, without advance warning President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan announced immediate removal of all fuel subsidies. Prices for gasoline shot up almost threefold in hours from 65 naira (35 cents of a dollar) a liter to 150 naira (93 cents). The impact rippled across the economy to everything including prices of grains and vegetables.2

In justifying the move, Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi insisted that “The monies will be used in provision of social amenities and infrastructural development that will benefit Nigerians more and save the country from economic rift.”3 President Goodluck Jonathan says he is phasing out the subsidy as a part of a move to “clean up the Nigerian government.” If so how he plans to proceed is anything but apparent.

The huge unexpected price hike for domestic fuel triggered nationwide protests that threatened to bring the economy to a halt by mid-January. The president deftly took the wind out of protester sails by announcing a partial rollback in prices, still leaving prices effectively double that of December. The trade union federation immediately called off the protests. Then, revealingly, Goodluck Jonathan’s government ordered the military to take to the streets to “keep order” and de facto prevent new protests. All that took place during one of the bloodiest waves of bombings and murder rampages by the terrorist Boko Haram sect creating a climate of extreme chaos.4

The smoking gun of the IMF

What has been buried from international accounts of the unrest is the explicit role the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF) played in the situation. With suspicious timing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was in Nigeria days before the abrupt subsidy decision of President Jonathan.5 By all accounts, the IMF and the Nigerian government have been careful this time not to be blatant about openly announcing demands to ends subsidies as they were in Tunisia before food protests became the trigger for that country’s Twitter putsch in 2011.

During her visit to Nigeria Lagarde said President Jonathan's 'Transformation Agenda' for deregulation "is an agenda for Nigeria, driven by Nigerians. The IMF is here to support you and be a better partner for you." 6 Few Nigerians were convinced. On December 29 Reuters wrote, "The IMF has urged countries across West and Central Africa to cut fuel subsidies, which they say are not effective in directly aiding the poor, but do promote corruption and smuggling. The past months have seen governments in Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon and Chad moving to cut state subsidies on fuel." 7

Further confirming the role US and IMF pressure on the Nigerian government played, Jeffery Sachs, Special Adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, during a meeting with President Jonathan in Nigeria in early January days after the subsidy decision, Sachs declared Jonathan's decision to withdraw petroleum subsidy “a bold and correct policy.” 8

Sachs, a former Harvard economics professor became notorious during the early 1990’s for prescribing IMF “shock therapy” for Poland, Russia, Ukraine and other former communist states which opened invaluable state assets for de facto plundering by dollar-rich western multinationals. 9

Making the sudden decision to end the domestic fuel subsidy even more suspicious is the manner in which Washington and the IMF are putting pressure on only select countries to end subsidies. Nigeria, whose oil today sells for the equivalent of $1 a liter or roughly $3.78 a US gallon, is far from cheap. Brunei, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia all offer their petrol very cheap to their people. The Saudis sell their oil at 17 cents, Kuwait at 22 cents.10 In the US gasoline averages 89 cents a liter.11

That means the IMF and Washington have forced one of the poorest economies in Africa to impose a huge tax on its citizens on the implausible argument it will help eliminate corruption in the state petroleum sector. The IMF knows well that the elimination of subsidies will do nothing about corruption in high places.

Were the IMF and World Bank genuinely concerned with the health of the domestic Nigerian economy, they would have provided support for rebuilding and expanding a domestic oil refinery industry that has been let to rot so that the country need no longer import refined fuels using precious state budget resources to do so. The easiest way to do that would be to expedite a two-year-old deal between China and the Nigerian government to invest some $28 billion in massive expansion of the oil refinery sector to eliminate need for importing foreign gasoline and other refined products.

Quite the opposite—the criminal cabal inside NNPC and the Government making huge profits on the old subsidy system are suddenly making double and potentially triple more to maintain the old corrupt import system, and, of course, to sabotage Chinese refinery construction that could put an end to their gravy train.

Cutting their nose to spite the face…

Rather than benefit ordinary Nigerians as the IMF proclaims to want, the elimination of the subsidies has further pauperized the 90 per cent living on less than $2 a day, according to Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Nigerian Central Bank governor.12 An estimated 40 million Nigerians are unemployed in the country of 148 million.

Because transport costs are a significant factor in delivery of food to the cities, food price inflation has soared along with costs of public transportation for the majority of poorer Nigerians. According to the Nigerian Leadership Sunday, “prices of commodities which shot up as a fallout of the fuel pump price increase have refused to come down.” Everything from street vegetable sellers to carwashes to roadside photographers are feeling the shock of the rise in fuel prices. Unemployment is rising as small businesses fold. 13

The argument of the IMF and the Jonathan Administration is that by freeing fuel prices, funds would be available to more social services and rebuild Nigeria’s “infrastructure.” Both the IMF and the Government know it would have been far more economically viable to replace the current corrupt system of importing refined gasoline and fuels with investing in rebuilding Nigeria’s domestic refining capacity.

Son Gyoh of the Nigerian Awareness for Development organization stated, “Would it not be more expedient to pressure government to service the refineries to full production capacity given the implications on overhead and competitiveness for local industries?” 14

Gyoh pointed to the source of the problem: “Why have successive governments left the refineries in a state of disrepair while spending huge on subsidy? Is there any chance that the savings from subsidy withdrawal will go directly into rehabilitating the refineries? Does deregulation imply NNPC will no longer operate a monopoly in importation of refined petroleum product or is this lobby a self-serving lifeline to continue its monopoly? ” He concludes, “In any case, there is good reason to doubt subsidy removal will solve the fuel scarcity problem as the cabal will only regroup to change tactics, a fact Nigerians are only too aware of.” 15

After Nigeria partly nationalized its oil sector in the late 1970’s they also took control of Shell Oil’s Port Harcourt I refinery. In 1989 Port Harcourt II refinery was built. Both refineries fell into serious disrepair after 1994 when the Abacha military dictatorship cut the “take” of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) from domestic sale of refined oil products such as gasoline from 84% to 22%. That caused a cash crisis for NNPC and a halt to refinery maintenance. Today only one of four refineries operates at all.16

What developed since was a system of NNPC importing foreign gasoline and other refined products for Nigeria’s domestic needs, naturally at a far more expensive cost. The price subsidies were to relieve that higher import cost, hardly a sensible solution but a very lucrative one for those corrupt elements in the state and private sector making a killing, literally, off the import process.

NNPC criminal enterprise

The IMF is well aware of the real cause of Nigeria’s fuel industry problems. A Nigerian legislative committee examining the sources of the industry’s problems recently released a report documenting that at least $4 billion annually is taken from taxpayers in fuel industry corruption with the state Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) at the center. According to the commission, “every day, fuel importers drop off 59 million liters of fuel. The country consumes 35 million liters daily. That leaves 24 million liters of oil available for smugglers to export, paid for by government fuel subsidies. This costs the Nigerian people roughly $4 billion yearly, according to Reuters.” 17

The Nigerian government has said that the 7.5 billion dollars spent yearly on fuel subsidies could be used to provide desperately needed infrastructure. But they omit any mention of the rampant siphoning off of $4 billion of oil by black market smugglers, reportedly with connivance of high NNPC government officials, to sell to neighboring countries at a hefty profit. The refined imported fuel is reportedly smuggled into neighboring countries like Cameroon, Chad and Niger where petrol prices are far higher, according to Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Deputy Governor of Kano State.18

China as IMF target?

One major geopolitical factor that is generally ignored in recent discussion of Nigerian oil politics is the growing role of China in the country. In May 2010 only days after President Jonathan was sworn in, China signed an impressive $28.5 billion deal with his government to build three new refineries, something that in no way fit into the plans of either the IMF or of Washington or of the Anglo-American oil majors.19

China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited (CSCEC) signed the deal to build three oil refineries with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in the biggest deal China has made with Africa. Shehu Ladan, head of NNPC, said at the signing ceremony that the added refineries would reduce the $10 billion spent annually on imported refined products. As of January 2012 the three Chinese refnery projects were still in the planning stage, reportedly blocked by the powerful vested interests gaining from the existing corrupt import system.20

A report in China Daily last November quoted Nigeria’s Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, the minister of trade and investment that Nigeria was seeking added Chinese investors for its energy, mining and agribusiness industries. Last September on a visit to Beijing, Nigeria central bank governor Lamido Sanusi announced his country planned to invest 5 percent to 10 percent of its foreign exchange reserves in China's currency, the renminbi (RMB) or yuan, noting that he sees the yuan becoming reserve currency. In 2010 China's loans and exports to Nigeria exceeded $7 billion, while Nigeria exported $1 billion of crude oil, Sanusi stated.21

Until now Nigeria has held some 79% of her foreign currency reserves in dollars, the rest in Euro or Sterling, all of which look dicey given their financial and debt problems. The move of a major oil producer away from dollars, added to similar moves recently by India, Japan, Russia, Iran and others, augurs bad news for the continued role of the dollar as dominant world reserve currency. 22 Clearly some in Washington would not be happy with that.

The Chinese are also bidding to get a direct stake in Nigeria’s rich oil reserves, until now an Anglo-American domain. In July 2010, China's CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation) won four prospective oil blocks -two in the Niger Delta and two in the frontier Chad Basin, with plans to become core investor in the Kaduna refinery, and construction of a double track Lagos-Kano railway.23 As well China’s oil company, CNOOC Ltd has a major offshore production area in Nigeria.

The IMF and Washington pressure to lift subsidies on imported fuels is at this point in question as is the future of China in Nigeria’s energy industry. Clear is that lifting subsidies in no way will benefit Nigerians. More alarming in this context is the orchestration of a major new wave of terror killings and bombings by the mysterious and suspiciously well-armed Boko Haram. This we will look at next in the context of Nigeria’s recent transformation into a major narcotics hub.

F. William Engdahl, author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order


Does it mean that the leaders and the people have no mind of their own of that they are just too dumb to ask questions ?
Does it mean we are still influenced by colonialism to believe and execute any verdict by the white man without any thinking on our own part
Does it mean that Nigeria is a client state and our leaders are working against the interest of the masses that elected them for the foreign multinationals and the people can't do anything about it ?

As Nigerians what you think ?

The problem with Africa is that even when the leaders with vision and accountable wants to develop africa the majority of the masses whom are ignorant and greedy is used against their saviours. I really mean Majority when i said that.

Solozzo: If you believe traditions and culture cannot be changed then you must be the biggest fool on earth. Because these traditions were made by men and women like you, and you submit stupidly to them. You have no Christian spirit in you, for Christ challenged the traditional religion of his day with the words the laws of Moses were made for man , not man for the laws.

Another christian fanatic I-D-I-O-T.

africa9: asian is not an ethnicity neither is black.

Why would you choose to continue to display such stupidity ? Are Somalians really cursed ? The people that Oppress your people and my people as well as many other people around the world does not care what race or tribe you call yourself, they just want what belongs to you and they will butcher you if you say no and they have been butchering your people,men,women and children. All you could do is just look for who to blame cus you are too sacred to blame your real enemies or too stupid to even identify them.
Last year when Kenyan troops invaded who did you think fought for you guys ? How many somalians are actually left to fight ? Those black men you condemn saved your asses and gave their lives for your people. I am yet to hear that you have stepped into Somalia for one day and witnessed even an hour of warfare.