₦airaland Forum

@TayoD

We sure need to question and find out why a person reacts the way they do.  I have no doubt that one of the main reasons why there are suicide bombers today is because of the perception of injustice that they feel.  However, why are they choosing to go violent instead of advocating a peaceful form of resistance which is usually more effective in solving and overcoming injustice.

In the first place injustice is violent and not peaceful, bloody, confrotational and a call for war.

@ Afam,

I will like to discuss an important development with you but not on this thread.

Issues only for mature and logical minds.

Pls how can this be possible.

Infrastructural Development should never be an indices to access how well a President or Governor has done in a country.

FOOD, CLOTHING and SHELTER are essentials. As long as the majority of Nigerians are still hungry, clothless and homeless, no President or Governor past and present have done anything different that deserves commendation but condemnation.

We should be careful of the languages that we use.

Every word in English, french, Arabic and as the case may be are developed by the original owners of this languages. They know the real meaning of this words more than any one else and can decide to use it anyhow it suits them.

I do not know if our ancestors have words like terrorist and other words used to describe terrorism, we should not bother ourself to define what we are not part of.

Since we Africans are not part of this languages, let the owners of this words deal with it accordingly.

@ Brown-Eyes,

You have made a very important observation by not looking only at the surface.

The people of Africa are running away from there land of abundance to go to a land not richly blessed by nature in search of "better life" and those who are remaining dies from hunger, disease and other death designed policies of the "world".

Then, there begins a grandscale invasion of unimaginable limits of the "world" into the continent to disposess the people of Africa the richest in natural resources which is the land.

He who controls the land controls the richest.

And the most painful aspect of it is that they use African presidents - well i call them morons and criminals to achieve their devilish plots.

The more "investments" flows to the continent, the more the people loose their land and hence their natural resources - the more the people become foodless, clothless, and homeless.

It is as a result of how these criminal slowpoke presidents go against the interests of their own people that the "world" says that the black man´s IQ is very low, and hence that the black man is an inferior being.

@Abike2k6                   

"Controversial as this may sound, Africa could possibly benefit from having a neutral outsider put it in order".

In a war of survival of the fittest, no one is neutral.
Actions and reactions are based upon short or long term interests or benefits.

African interests has been neglected always because we assume that the so called "neutral outsider" has no interest.

Like i have always said, two interests can never be acheived especially in a war of survival.

Knowlegde of our black history which predates history itself - will go a long way to provide solutions to Africa´s long standing problems.
We do not need an outsider to be of help for thesame problem they created and are still creating in the whole continent of Africa.

There is still an unforseen war of inferior - superior, servant - master relationship between Africa and the rest of the "world".

A snake will always give birth to  a snake.

Believers have started again to assume that the solution to Nigeria´s problem is based on track record or whatever name it may be called.

The problem of Nigeria is not who occupies the seat of power - no matter what track record he or she may possess but has always been with the masses.

We easily forget that within and around the seat and corridors of power there is a virus which immediately roars its ugly head to corrupt the so called, experience, young, intelligent, upright and tested contenstants when they eventually take the mantle of leadership.

As long as we the masses continue to fold our hands, complain, complain and complain and do not fight this virus not by prayers and fasting or through elections, then we should forget about a better live for us and our children born and unborn.

According to Fela, may his soul rest in peace "we no wan die, i get big house, i no get house, i get one child , i no get child" and so on. If we continue to live with this mentality, what we desire will never come to pass.

The masses in the developed world today are living better today because they confronted and fought the virus.

This virus is the system, the usual system of not listening to the voices and desires of the people and in the absence of confrontation, it becomes a code of conduct for the ruling government.

That is the reason OBJ could raise fuel prices as he deems fit because he knows very very well that the masses will only complain with the intial "gra gra" and after a day or two, we will return to the normal status quo of "suffering and smiling".

For example, we all know what happened in France some couple of months ago when the government introduced a law “First Job Contract”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/fran-m29.shtml

Millions of students and workers demonstrated against it till the end until the French government had no other option but to return to the status quo.

This is just one example and there are many more of how the masses must remain dogged and rugged to fight the system no matter the victimization and oppression employed by the government.

2007, is around the corner - it does not matter anymore who will occupy the
seat. What matters is for the masses to know that they are masters and the occupier is the servant. The masses will take control of power come 2007 because the virus is also dogged but not rugged.

Since we have an idea of how the "world" sees us which to me is extremely irrelevant, do we have an idea of how we see ourselves?

This is the question like someone already raised in this thread.
Majority of Africans prefers to be called English, French and other European names. I ask how many Europeans bears African names ?

When we assume to speak languages developed by the original users of this languages and often knowingly or unknowingly pretend to know this languages more than the original owners of this languages not to mention among African countries that speak similar foreign languages, what should we expect from the "world" on how they see us.

When in our schools we teach our children foreign histories and other cultures without knowing what our history is.

We wait for investment from the "world" to come and tell us what to do and how to improve our lives, what should we expect from thesame "world" that copied, stole and destroyed our heritage and used it  for their own benefits and advancement.

Our presidents, well i call them criminals, fathers, mothers have been blind for a long time now but we the present generation must find a way to change things now.

Brothers and sisters our generation yet unborn will never forgive us if we continue to live in this false premise of existence.

Our forefathers were living in abundance in their land of origin before the "world" came to them. I know that it is only those who are searching for better life and civilization that will travel thousands of miles across the sea.
The "world" found it because our forefathers received the "world", which turned out to be their greatest undoing, copied, stole and destroyed the foundation of what they are having today.

We should expect all kinds of negativities from the "world" but we must know who we are in order to change things.
I advice every African any where they may be to read "THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION" by Chancellor Williams because the "world" can not  tell us who we are as regards our black history.

@ Coolmanlg, @ Afam
I like to read your posts. You reason.
There are two sides of a coin. You know or you don´t know . To believe does not tell if you know or you don´t know. A believer will remain blind and will never understand real actions of men.
Some people have eyes but they are as blind as a bat. Some have brains but they will never understand, simply because they are believers.
I am impressed to know that you are not believers but that you know.
Kudos.

Modified.

The issue of which past or present criminal presidents of Nigeria and Africa in general has achieved what and what is not a subject to be debated upon. I consider this issue of discussion or argument as senseless, hopeless and a sign of shallow reasoning.

As long as the majority of the Nigerian masses still find it difficult to  afford food on their tables (many people still perish because of hunger in Nigeria).
Men, women, boys, girls and children find it extremely difficult to cloth themselves, or move about in tattered threads knowing fully well that after walking the streets of Nigeria still have a big problem to comprehend about where to lay their heads.

FOOD, CLOTHING and SHELTER are basic and fundamental neccessities that every Nigerian must be entitled to or have access to at any given period of time, anywhere. And the satisfaction of this fundamentals should never be a commendation to anyone. It is a right.

Since this primary needs which ensures the healthy, peaceful survival, development and existence of every human being living are still a mirage to the teeming masses of Nigeria, to give credits or accord any form of respect or value to any past or present criminal presidents is foolhardy and a slap on the faces of millions of Nigerians in a country that have abundance human and natural resources coupled with a fertile land to support every agricultural products.

Anyone that can defend an explanation why there are milions of foodless, clotheless and homeless Nigerians in the mist of abundant mineral resources is a real enemy and part of the system that have been denying majority of the masses the right of access to the basic and fundamental means of existence.
Such a person must be hanged immediately without remorse.

All this senseless and vague concepts of privatization, commercialization, liberalization, in broader term investment, must be condemned as from today.This are meaningless, conduit pipes, ploy and instruments of manipulation for corruption and embezzlement which will never put food, cloth and give home to the countless millions but further deny and impoverish them from their basic needs of existence.

It is not possible for someone to run away from his shadow. A president that is not aware - or he is aware -  of the priorities of needs of his fellow country men and women and fails to satisfy first this basic needs (because for example you cannot make clothes from cotton when you are hungry and it is never possible for humans to think about having a house when they are hungry and clotheless) in all abundance with the resources at the country´s disposal is a criminal or a slowpoke or a tool of manipulation in the hands of the imperalist Nations.

Such a presidents must never be accorded any form of respect or recognition (except by his fellow cronies who jointly connive to deny the masses their rights),
but must be called a criminal and a big one at that!

In my own knowledge, i do not know how investment and other concepts associated with it , will make a president understand that he has to go into massive agricultural programmes without waiting for any form of investment to use the fertile land that nature has blessed the country with. From this agricultural products comes cotton also to be used for clothing. The land is there to be used.

There is no material product that have been transformed into a finished product that does not come from beneath the earth (food, clothing and shelter are basic essentials that must be guaranteed to all citizens first by any government) .

Any other form of production that are secondary are not basics but material distraction that complement the primary needs. The satisfaction of the primary needs opens the door for the satisfaction of the secondary. The primary needs can do without the secondary needs but the secondary needs can never do without the primary needs.

The criminal presidents go about chasing shadows in the satisfaction  of the secondary needs criminally deceiving the masses that investment will satisfy their basics.

Investment should be in brains and not structures or the establishment of big companies foolishly believing and deceiving that this will create jobs for the masses.
A country like Nigeria and Africa in general must invest in brains. The resources are there. Nature given, God given. The question is what and how can we use this resources.

Like i`ve said, every resources used in the manufacture of a given product comes from beneath the earth.For example -  the materials used in the production of a car comes from beneath the earth.
The machinery used in the production or assembly of a car also comes from beneath the earth. Nothing falls from the sky. Only the air we breathe.

And if nature has bestowed all this resources in all of the land of Nigeria and Africa in general, it becomes very catastrophic and funny to wait for investment from outside to come and tell the criminal presidents what to do with the resources - of which -  the land from which the investor is coming from does not possess the variety of nature given resources that our country Nigeria possess.

How possible is it that a person or foreign investor that comes from a land that does not possess for example natural resources in steel or aluminium come to tell me or advice me on what to do with those resources.

If that is the case - that means - I have no brains or I have a brain but I refuse to think with my brains. No human has a monopoly of intelligence.

Ok -  let us assume that the investor has the brain to transform this natural given resources which his country does not even possess, then the question is how was it possible for an investor to know how to use this resources?

Then - what about us that our country possess this resources? Will we have to continue to wait on foreign direct investment all the time?

This is the reason why the continent of Africa is suffering in total hopelessness today because we fail to realize that we have to think on our own because we have dummies and puppets who have been so brain-washed to be useful only as tools of manipulation in order to satisy other country´s interest and continue to go against the interest of his own people.

Brains are never for oppression but to think and find the way out on how we are going to use our natural given resources to our benefits.

Foreign investment also has its own benefits to satisfy which for a long time has been its only means of survival -  and for how long will our slowpoke criminal presidents continue to think that his country´s interest will be satisfied when the foreign investment also has his own interest?

Whose interest will then be served? It is absolute and practically impossible for two interest to be satisfied for the benefit of all.
The interest of Nigerians is the provisions of the basic necessities of life. There will always be contradictions and more often than not it is always at the expense of the host countries.

Since past and present criminal Presidents do not care because they have been conniving with this investors to oppress and steal the natural resources of the  the masses , Nigeria and Africa will never satisfy their basic neccessities of life.

Life will continue to be difficult for the masses till eternity. It becomes very imperative that the masses should declare every past and present Presidents criminals  wanted and please, stop this ridiculous argument of which criminal president have acheived what and what,

I repeat FOOD, CLOTHING and SHELTER are basics and should never be compared with any form of achievements.

Until this is satisfied in abundance , a reasonable and responsible leader will never stop to think about something different.

A government that fails to satisy this basic needs of the whole people not only to a group of individual or groups of individual in years past and present especially in the face of abundance human and natural resources must be declared a CRIMINAL AND WANTED. TIME FOR EXCUSES ARE OVER. THE MASSES MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES AND THAT OF THEIR CHILDREN INTO THEIR OWN HANDS NOW IN THE LAND OF THEIR ANCESTORS.

Mr Revolution, i am sorry to say that you have eyes but you cannot see.

ARE THEY TRULY AFRICANS OR THEY WEAR AFRICAN MASKS TO COVER THEIR REAL IDENTITY ?

First and foremost, i call on all the scientist in all our Tertiary institution to come together to carry out a detailed investigation of the DNA of all our past and present (especially the DNA of OBJ) ´´President Masters´´in order for the teeming masses to know the true and real origin of this criminals.
But what a shame. No Institution or Laboratory in the whole of Nigeria that is capable of determining a DNA a sample.

No logical mind can fathom why this criminal Presidents past and present can go against the will and interest of their own people (including his own interest knowingly or unknowingly) whom they claim to represent by denying them the essentials of a descent living in a land of abundance.

I know that every past and present President in Nigeria and Africa in general with the exception of one or two President (this exception is not applicable to Nigeria) have always and will continue to go against the cries and yearnings of the masses as long as we the masses do not find out where their loyalty lies.

By employing the dictates or programmes of IMF, World Bank and other multinational conglomerates into the day to day administration of African countries, Presidents like OBJ and his counterparts in other African countries are only tools of manipulation in the hands of imperialistic Nations to satisfy their own interest. I repeat, only their own interest.
It is impossible to satisfy two interest. Either one is satisfied and the other is left to suffer or no interest is satisfied. The interest of Nigeria should be to provide food, shelter, clothing, jobs and other services that will complement the basic needs of the people of Nigeria.

And as long as a great country like Nigeria with the capacity and capability to be a self sufficient country have presidents like OBJ who are morons and tools of manipulation remain in power or have access to power, then Nigerians should forget about meeting their basic needs till eternity.

All the candidates listed here who have made known their intention or yet to  make known their intention to run for the presidential election are all criminals.
If Nigeria had an intergrit system of governance, all of this so called seekers or yet to be known seekers would be serving life sentences either for aiding and abetting or for being in charge of aiding and abetting corruption, mismanagement, lies, embezzlement and total disregard of the cries, voices and yearnings of the masses, turning Nigeria from a land of abundance to a land of gross hopelessness .

Since their is no structure of Checks and Balances strongly embedded in our constitution or even where it is embedded, i strongly reject every one of them to be president of that great country because they are all obstacles to the efficient execution of the constitution to provide the system of Checks and balances needed for the greater benefits of the whole masses.

We the masses must take control of our lives into our hands by arresting this criminals and making sure that they all pay for the pains of our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children and also remind them that this country is ours and far more greater than any one person or group of persons.
We need a socialist Nigeria now. The masses must take control of their land now.

NIGERIA; NAIJA UNA STILL DEY SLEEP?
WE DON SLEEP TOO MUCH O
HOW LONG ;  HOW LONG ; SUFFERING AND SMILING

I am impressed by the near to objective write up of chxta´s but not convinced by the intentions of Israel and the United States. I am also not satisfied by the comments of some of my fellow brothers and sisters as regards their views or opinions, but anyway it is their own personal view and i know that it is based on their own kknowledge of the whole issues that are iinvolved.

The conflict between Lebanon or should i say hezbollah on one and Israel on the other hand is not a conflict of today but a conflict that always have been in the whole of the middle east region.
As much as i do not support terrorist activities, so also i do not support the painful issue of occupation, oppression and domination.
The whole of the middle east is in crises today because the intentions of the so called super powers are criminal,unjust and imperialistic adopting the tactics of spreading democracy and human rigths to conver their real aims and objectives and by so doing denying the people of the middle east the freedom to make the desired changes by their own selves.
Democracy must come from within and not from the outside.No matter bad a government is, and no matter how hopeless the people are on whom this government assumes to be leading, the change must come from within the people themselves. Anything short of this, always creates a danger of imposing the whims and caprices of outsiders to the daily lives of men and women living in a sovereignland. And sooner or later, the after effects is far more devastating than the outcome that would have been experienced in the case of a bad government.

Let us don´t forget the issue of Palestine and Israel, the senseless killing and shedding of blood between those countries all bores down to the broader issue of occupation and domination.The land from the Gaza strip to the west Bank, at least to me belongs to the Palestine people, and until every inch of land taken from the Palestine territory are returned to them ,there will never be peace. Peace will be a mirage in this region until the right thing is done.

Today, at least to the undiscerning mind, the United States and other imperialistic powers are seen as promoters of peace in the whole world affair. But to the discerning and logical minds, they are nothing near to that but promoters of conflict and confusion in the world for the benefit of their own selfish interests.

I will continue with my opinion about the conflicts in the middle east next time due to time constraint.
So until then, i wish that my fellow brothers and sisters should look beyond the ordinary circumstances to understand what is happening not only to the middle east but our world in general.
Greetings and remain focused.