SalamRushdie:


Anytime attempt to eulogize Buhari's speech at UNGA is nothing but an insincerely clad sycophancy at its prime .That speech was hypocritical, shallow ,staggery and very uninspiring to even be ever revisited ..It was a very bland speech the inspired nothing , a waste of the UNs podium time

Your Opinion friend! but his Advocacy for World peace cannot be faulted! Thanks for reading and commenting SalamRushdie.

SalamRushdie:
Another insincere sycophant

please read before commenting, SalamRushdie!

LUGBE:
Eye service

Have you read the article LUGBE? Please read before commenting, that's how to learn!

The United Nations International Day for World Peace which was observed globally on Thursday 21st September, 2017, was marred by conflicting standpoints on war resolution strategies as opined by TWO outstanding world figures: DONALD TRUMP of America and MUHAMMADU BUHARI of Nigeria on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which took place in New York between 12th-25th September, 2017!

President Donald Trump believes that the roadmap to universal peace was for the United States to "totally destroy North Korea and its rocket man leader if threatened", while President Muhammadu Buhari, proffered a "jaw-jaw" approach which would involve a UN Delegation comprising of all regional bodies to engage the defiant Far East country sandwiched between China and Russia, for a peaceful resolution to the World Disarmament Nuclear Programme!

President Buhari was no doubt the HERO OF AFRICA at the gathering because his forthright and endearing message of peace attracted all sane minds who queued after his thought-provoking submissions and concurred in like manner in their presentations, one after the other!
But in his usual obsessive patriotic zeal Donald Trump began his speech with the controversial "AMERICA FIRST" foreign policy which had placed him at daggers-drawn with the opposition Democrats because he decided to forget that America is a conglomeration of immigrants from almost all foreign countries of the universe!
He blamed all World leaders except himself for the seeming failure, in a concerted manner, to combat the global menace of insurgency, crimes, criminality and terrorism in the same manner at his debut attendance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), new Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on 25th May, 2017, where he accused other members for insufficient and inconsistent funding of the international body!

The PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE in France had its share of condemnation of the world's number one President, who reneged on the earlier pledge by his predecessor, President Barak Obama, to contribute to a fund to be set aside for combating environmental pollution/degradation mostly in very poor nations of the world!
President Donald Trump should not be the controversial "politician" that he chose to be, considering his colossal image as the Commander- in- Chief of the "most powerful" immigrants nation in the world! He tweets daily unabatedly on diverse local and international issues, he jibes at anyone especially those DEMOCRATS who taunt him regularly because they hold the view that he is a political novice!

During the fierce presidential campaigns of 2016, his opponents traced his antecedent to some Pakistani immigrant family which settled in America in the 19th Century and even published a look-alike picture of a "7-year-old Pakistani Trump" on the internet!
With his latest outburst, Mr. Trump, now 71, has proved that he is truly a "dark horse", in American politics because, though in his speech, he traced the advent of the World Body at the end of the TWO UNFORTUNATE WORLD WARS, as the panacea for world peace, he still contradicted himself by bragging that his country world destroy another sovereign nation!
Since his assumption of office as the 145th President of the United States of America, the tough-talking septuagenarian, in his dual personality as a wealthy businessman and politician, has left no one in doubt that the United States would POLICE the world and "flog into submission" any defaulting nation and possibly colonize them since America cannot boast of any former colony anywhere in the world! But the worst part of Mr. Trump's headache has just begun!
IRAN has also defied US threat through the launch of a banned nuclear missile on Saturday 23rd, September, 2017, at an unknown and undetected location! How many countries would Mr. Trump destroy and still remain in relevant as a world power? Will China, Russia, France, Germany, Britain and others support such an unrealistic American dream? IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS ONLY ONE OPTION AND THAT IS, TO DIALOGUE WITH ALL DISSENTING VOICES IN ORDER TO FIND A COMMON GROUND FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE!


PRESIDENT BUHARI'S VICTORIOUS SPEECH AT UNGA!

At the end of his outstanding speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, 19th September, 2017, President Buhari as the EIGHT Speaker, got a universal ovation from his fellow delegates and millions of viewers of UNGA'S New York proceedings across the globe for his outstanding submission that dialogue, instead of war should be the best option/approach to an everlasting peace in order to avoid a holocaust in the event of a nuclear war being threatened by both America and North Korea and reminded both nations of the grave consequences of nuclear warfare just like the universal disasters caused by the Atomic Bombs released by America on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, towards the close of World War II!

Having established Nigeria's role in ensuring peace in the ECOWAS nations of the Gambia and Cote D'Ivoire, President Buhari requested , "The UN to continue to take primary leadership position in the maintenance of international peace and security by providing adequate funding and other enablers to regional initiatives and peace-keeping operations authorized by the Security Council;" and also canvassed for, " strong UN co-operation with regional organisations such as the African Union, in conflict prevention and management"

He also said that all necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept peaceful resolution of the crisis in order to avoid the catastrophic, devastating and environmental degradation that could be the fall-out of nuclear confrontations between it and the US and proposed a strong UN delegation to be led by the Security Council and all regional members to urgently engage the North Korean leader, in order to nip an impending international disaster in the bud! In addition, President Buhari made the following submissions all bordering on world peace: "New conflicts should not make us lose focus on ongoing unresolved old conflicts.
For example, several UN Security Council Resolutions from 1967 on the Middle East crisis remain unimplemented. Meanwhile, the suffering of the Palestinian people and the blockade of Gaza continue including the suffering population of Yemen and Myanmar"

The President did not lose sight of his primary assignment to purge Nigeria of the evil stigma of institutional corruption which he strongly believed could be promoted through assets recovery, accountability and international community cooperation and the provision of critical assistance and material support, including the nation's effort in curbing the growing transnational crimes such as forced labour, modern day slavery, human trafficking and cybercrime!
The Champion of the Nigerian TALAKAWAS did not also forget about the widening inequalities within societies and the gap between the rich and the poor nations which were the underlining root causes of competition for resources, frustration and anger leading to spiralling instability!


IS IT TRUE THAT THE PERENIAL UNIVERSAL EARTHQUAKES, TREMORS, HURRICANES, STORMS, FLOODINGS, have been traced to constant testing of nuclear arsenals by North Korea and by extension, Iran?
Nuclear warheads are composed of dangerous, climate unfriendly, poisonous material and metallic elements which when encased and detonated electronically into the atmosphere, land or sea, would naturally release damaging and devastating effects on human, animals and vegetation life; the spiral effects are usually, plagues, communicable diseases, pestilences, famine, drought, pollution of sea and underground waters etc!

MUST THE WORLD POPULATION CONTINUE IN A LIFE OF UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE OF OVER BLOATED EGO OF SOME FEW TO DESTROY OTHER HUMANS WITH SUCH DANGEROUS NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN ORDER TO PROVE MILITARY MIGHT?

‘’I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.’’ (Ecc 9:11 KJV).
THIRD WORLD WAR IS NOT A DIVINE PROGRAMME! ‘’Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid’’. (John 14:27)


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA'S CONTENTIOUS LAND USE ACT (1978) MUST BE MASSES - ORIENTED TO FAVOUR AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION!

The Federal Government's drive to ensure food security in Nigeria is yielding positive and accelerated results through the strategic financial policy of the Central Bank's Anchors Borrowers Programme (ABP), which has offered greater financial incentive to farmers for all-year-round agricultural farm projects!
As at the last quarter of the year 2016, Nigeria expended a whooping N1.0 trillion in foreign exchange on importation of food items including rice and wheat which fuelled domestic inflation, depleted foreign reserves, displaced local production and created massive unemployment, but the story has now changed according to CBN Governor who noted that import dependency especially on commodities of comparative advantage was neither acceptable nor sustainable.

Presently, RICE has been excluded from forex eligibility list, and replaced with the establishment of the ABP Initiative with huge investments in 40 integrated rice mills but not without challenges, of which the "NON-UTILILIZATION OF AVAILABLE CULTIVABLE LANDS", is the most prevalent! However, millions of Nigerian farmers are currently enrolled in ABP.
It is no longer news that the Military Government of Nigeria in a very suspicious 1978 Palace "coup de tat," grabbed all lands in the country through a very controversial Land Use Decree which suppressed any traditional claims by other citizens but gave the soldiers and subsequent governments absolute authority as the new LANDLORDS!
That controversial land policy - which is now almost 40 years in existence - has now become an albatross to the green revolutionary agrarian drive of diversification from the crude oil mono product foreign exchange earner, to the better option of massive agricultural produce that would ensure food security and influx of the hard currencies through regular exportation and an increase in the Small and Medium Scale Industries participation.
Is it not a disservice to the evolving economy that interested entrepreneurs are now being hampered by the stringent, arduous and very costly processes of acquiring lands in their own country because those who should amend the necessary offending clauses which are detrimental to the Change Agenda mantra, are the very interested parties who are feeding fat through the unfavourable and masses unfriendly policy?

Chapter 202 of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 1990, the Land Use Act is stipulated as: "An Act to vest al. land compromised in the territory of each State (except land vested in the Federal Government or its agencies), solely in the Governor of the State, who would hold such Land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to individuals resident in the State and to organisations for residential, agriculture, commercial and other purposes while similar powers will with respect to non-urban areas are conferred on Local Governments (27th March, 1978), Commencement".
It on record that this obnoxious decree was promulgated during the tenure of General Olusegun Obasanjo, who was Military Head of State between1976-1979, before he handed over to the democratic government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, but was it a patriotic policy intended to ease the housing challenges of the Nigerian masses or a further opportunity to boost the ELITES EGO through acquisition of landed properties above their legitimate portions!
NO! We do not believe so for the following logical and credible reasons:
(1) General Obasanjo retired from the Nigeria Army in 1979 and wasted no time to acquire by proxy, massive land areas for pastoral farming, in Otta Ogun State, from the indigenous owners who knew nothing about Land Use Decree, 1978 - the brain-child of the retired General.
(2) With his highly exalted position, he was issued the Certificate of Occupancy, rolled earth-moving equipments into the grabbed land to possess it by force with the succinct support of armed military personnel who flooded the area in a show of power which was stiffly resisted by the RIGHTFUL OWNERS!
(3) After a prolonged "battle", which stalled every move by his agents to cultivate the land, the retired General had to pay some monetary compensation (fall below the worth of the property), which was reluctantly collected following intense arbitration by the Royal King, traditional chiefs and elders of the Otta town.
(4) We do not totally condemn the Land Use Act because there are a lot of advantages to be enjoyed by the masses if it is transparently and faithfully executed. For instance, any Nigerian citizen can possess landed property anywhere in the country and dwell in safety as if he/she were an indigene thereby promoting unity in diversity!

In view of the flaws noticed in the controversial Land Use Decree, late President Umaru Yar 'Adua and ex- President Ebele Jonathan, tinkered with the idea of removing the Act from the Constitution and operating it as an independent Act of Parliament for regular amendments from time to time without success, but it is very certain that the time is now ripe for the APC ruling government to re- visit the CONTROVERSY once and for all, for the benefit of all Nigerians -especially FARMERS whom the Anchors Borrowers Programme, is set to support with huge finances.

The stringent processes of Land acquisition must be relaxed; land fees for both commercial and residential purposes must be considerably reduced for the working class and LAND should be considered as a fundamental right for all bona fide citizens while the National Housing Scheme for low income workers which is in deficit of about 170 million units recorded since 2013, should be resuscitated without further delay to alleviate the sufferings of the people in that area of the very basic necessity of SHELTER and eliminate the humongous institutional corruption that have infested the sector for decades! The Military claimed their unilateral action was prompted by patriotic ZEAL, to protect the land from land grabbers/speculators but have, ( inadvertently ?), escalated conflicts to murderous dimensions since the promulgation of that unpopular/masses unfriendly decree!
Presently, land disputes have degenerated into frightening human fatalities of national dimensions unlike in the past when communities mostly settled such challenges through mutual dialogue and agreements in village and town hall meetings.

BEFORE THE LAND USE DECREE OF 29th March, 1978 - People, families and communities possessed the LAND through the traditional ownership of ancestral inheritance and had freedom to sell to both public and private enterprises at will in areas of historical domicility.
THE CASE IS DIFFERENT NOW - No individual can claim rightful ownership of any land anywhere in Nigeria without govt authorization. A prospector now has to purchase any portion of land from government whom the decree describes as the LANDLORD collect a receipt, survey the land, before collecting the legal document describe as the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O)!

The Land Use Act as it is now described has its root firmly entrenched in the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 Constitution - A LEGAL STATUS THAT HAS METAMORPHOSED INTO AND ALBATROSS, because it has become strenuous to AMEND ( because of vested interest of both govt and "INDEGENOUS OWNERS",AND EXCEPT IT IS EXPUNGED TO STAND ALONE LIKE OTHER ACTS OF PARLIAMENT FOR REGULAR AMENDMENTS, THE ACT (as presently crafted), WOULD CONTINUE TO CREATE A CLOG IN THE WHEEL OF THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION OF THE APC GOVT.!

WE RECOMMEND AN EXECUTIVE BILL BE FOWARDED TO PARLIAMENT AS THE LAND USE ACT NOW POSES OBSTACLES TO BOTH REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY AND DIVERSIFICATION TO AGRICULTURE!

SECURITY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS: Legal /registered and proper land documentations like Certificate of Occupancy (C of O), must be issued and obtained to qualify the land as good collateral document to secure loans from any private or financial institution. CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY GOES FOR AS MUCH AS N500.000, IN SOME STATES OF NIGERIA AND IT MUST CARRY THE BONA FIDE SIGNATURE OF GOVERNORS OR LOCAL GOVT CHAIRMEN OF RESPECTIVE RURAL AREAS - WHICH CUMBERSOME PROCESSES GENERATE HIGH-LEVEL CORRUPTION AMONG GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL AT ALL LEVELS!
LAND IS AN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY WHICH APPRECIATES MORE WHEN CONVERTED TO REAL ESTATE, INDUSTRIAL OR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. INDEGENOUS LAND TRUSTEES AND GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE A MIDDLE GROUND!

Nigerians need unfettered farming lands to the economy on track" For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? " Mark 8:36 (KJV)

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NNAMDI KANU IS DISILLUSIONED AND HAS GONE OVERBOARD, HE NEEDS OUR PRAYERS!

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In spite of the precarious legal tussle ahead of him and the stringent conditions attached to his bail bond which would soon elapse, Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial for conspiracy, treasonable felony, publication of defamatory matter and importation of goods contrary to the Customs and Excise Management Act, has brazenly dared the security operatives to re-arrest him by deliberately flouting all of his bail conditions through provocative and seditious utterances against the Nigerian people and government!

The self-proclaimed "leader" of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before 14th October, 2015, when he was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria, by State Security Service (SSS), Operatives, was a broadcaster of the anti-Nigeria pirate radio station christened, "Radio Biafra" and operated within the precincts of the London Metropolis, where he enjoyed dual citizenship status of British-Nigerian nationality. In count three of the sustained charges, the Federal Government alleged that Kanu had in a broadcast, he made in London on 28th April, 2015, through Radio Biafra, disparaged President Muhammadu Buhari whom he referred to as a Paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil! Kanu's obsessive ideology was to gain political relevance and attract global recognition through agitation for the resurrection of the defunct State of Biafra which resulted in a civil war between,1967and 1970, destroyed over TWO MILLION innocent lives - which included women, children and properties/critical infrastructures running into billions of naira! For him to embark on a fresh insurrection against his fatherland, it is very certain that Kanu has no qualms for the sanctity of human lives, in spite of the fact that history is replete with the painful truth of the 30-month-old civil war!

When Nnamdi Kanu realised that all of his campaign of calumny, yielded no positive results and did not attract serious attention and publicity in London, he deliberately travelled to Nigeria to seek relevance and publicity. In tandem with his hidden agenda, he was glad to be arrested and became an instant celebrity, detained and arraigned in court before his release under very stringent bail conditions on 28th April, 2017, which, in the event of contravention, would attract immediate cancellation and re-arrest! Shortly before he was released from prison custody, Kanu announced that he had opted for the Jewish religion of JUDAISM which allows for children to disobey the Biblical Fifth Commandment and as soon as he was released, it was an abusive, uncouth unruly and recalcitrant young man who walked out of Kuje Prisons!

About that same period, it was widely reported that the Igbo race had "traced" their ancestral lineage to the nation of Israel - a claim which Jewish historians, anthropologists, scientists etc, have debunked as mere imagination, wishful-thinking and fantasies that have no correlation in Jewish history! Does the doctrine of Judaism include treasonable felony?

Kanu has deliberately contravened all of his bail conditions in order to provoke the Federal government to re-arrest him with an intention of starting an uproar, public confusion and violent protests among the uneducated and misguided Igbo Youths, whose life he has surreptitiously planned should be wasted over a senseless cause just as the late retired Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu of the Nigerian Army did through declaration of a failed Biafra State, some fifty years ago! Having sent over one million of Igbo able-bodied men - mostly youths to early graves, Ojukwu abandoned the sinking ship of rebellion, absconded to a foreign land where he sought for asylum, dwelt for several years, was later granted amnesty by the Federal Government to fulfil the end of war declaration of, "NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED, returned to Nigeria as a "HERO", restored to his Nigerian Army rank of Colonel with all full benefits and collected all salaries, emoluments and full gratuity and pensions from 1966 to his demise on 26th November 2011!

What sensible reasons can Nnamdi Kanu adduce as his intention for agitating that Nigeria should be dissected for his Biafra ideology other than an historical fallacy that a "Biafran Empire had existed before the advent of the British Colonial masters", who according to him had no right to annex the empire to Nigeria in 1914!
Is he aware that he has no “locus standi” to force his unpatriotic and very selfish ideology under the guise of fundamental rights of freedom of expression and association on other Nigerians who also have equal rights under the Nigerian Constitution?
Is Kanu’s "Biafra Security Services" (BSS), a constitutionally registered and legal outfit? How does he intend to fan the embers of insurrection against the rest of the good people of Nigeria through false indoctrination and expect to get away with such terrorist act?
THE BIBLICAL FIFTH COMMANDMENT, should be very instructive to Nnamdi Kanu: " Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth." (Exodus.20:12; Ephesians.6:1-3; compare, Matthew.15: 3-9) and PROPHET MOSES said: Honour thy father and thy mother; and Whoso curseth father or mother, let him thy the death! (Mark.7:10).

Though most Igbo elders, including the Five South East Governors, (except Kanu's father, His Highness Eze Israel Kanu, including all members of his family), have spoken out in total condemnation of the unprovoked and misguided agitation by Kanu, how come he still speaks without honour to 170 million Nigerians, beginning with the HOARY HEAD, President Buhari, whom, he had abused at random, the Yorubas whom he called FOOLS, among several verbal vituperations of an uncouth mind and a froward heart?

In one of his several interviews with a foreign press, Kanu said that he was not fairly treated during his detention, " because in Nigeria, ( which he described as ZOO), people behave like animals; they are not disciplined enough; they are not mentally developed enough to run a transparent civil society."
Nnamdi Kanu also alleged on Sunday 3rd September, 2017, that, " a Muhammadu Buhari look alike, a Sudanese man named Jubril who had gone through an extensive plastic surgery, is currently parading himself as the President and that IPOB members should burn Nigeria to the ground if he (Kanu), is re-arrested by the Nigerian Government."

He said he had ordered for arms from the United States of America for self defence and protection of his group from any external aggression!
Kanu who is to appear in an Abuja court on 17th October, 2017, to resume his trial has also boasted that he would invade the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with TWO MILLION IPOB members whom he has "commanded" to burn down Nigeria to the ground because they are under his oath!

ODUMEGWU OJUKWU AND THE DEAD BIAFRA SHOULD REST IN PEACE!
It was not a coincidence that Nnamdi Kanu was born in September 1967, few months into the Biafra Civil War which broke out through a declaration of secession of Eastern Nigeria, by late Nigerian Army Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who, following the defeat of his army, late 1969, abandoned his officers and men to surrender to the Federal Troops while he fled to Cote d' Voire (former Ivory Coast), where he sought asylum and left his kith and kin to lick their wounds!

But before he died, Emeka Ojukwu regretted ever leading the war of secession against his country and counselled against a second attempt at any Biafran secession by any section of the Igbo community!
Though, Kanu was a mere three-year-old toddler when the war which spared him and his family ended in January 1970, definitely his adolescent impression was so poisoned by peer groups to have left him so devastated to the point where he had to disagree with Ojukwu who cautioned against any second secession attempt by Nigerian Igbos!

"For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die. But commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." (Romans.5:7-8; compare verses 9-11).

Kanu once declared in one of his numerous press interviews that only death would stop him from agitating for another "State of Biafra"!
IF NNAMDI KANU IS ON A SUICIDAL MISSION, MUST HE BRAINWASH INNOCENT IGBO TRADERS AND THE ENTIRE BUSINESS IGBO COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NIGERIA TO DIE WITH HIM? OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE PERISHED DURING OJUKWU'S ATTEMPT,THERE MUST NOT BE A REPEAT PERFORMANCE!
Although Nnamdi Kanu is not a good role model to Igbo Youths and by extension to all Nigerian Youths he needs the prayers of all patriotic and well-meaning people, both in Nigeria and the Diaspora in order to change his inordinate obsession for secession and for him to abandon the uncharitable, ungodly and evil fantasies of a disillusioned and confused ideologist!
HE AND HIS FAMILY HAVE NO OTHER NATION THAN NIGERIA!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

JAMB'S UTME 120 CUT-OFF MARK SMACKS OF BOKO HARAM'S ILLITERACY IDEALOGY!

One of the major demands by the Boko Haram Islamic Fundamentalists/Terrorists at the initial stage of their insurgency in Nigeria, was a total clampdown on the teaching of Western Education subjects in educational institutions to the entire population of the Northern States because of the "negative influences" they impacted on the religious traditions and cultures of the indigenous people!

But in spite of their brazen falsehood, concerted efforts by some concerned citizens (who were neither deceived nor blindfolded by the deceit), gave impetus to most parents, including those whose children/wards were restricted to the Internally Displaced People's (IDP's), camps who constructed make-shift classrooms and engaged teachers who taught Western education to their children, both at primary and secondary school levels! While the war lasted, destruction of lives and properties, kidnappings and killing of Boys Secondary School Children, the abduction of about 276 Chibok Secondary School Girls on April 14, 2014; took frightening dimension and causality figures rose to over 1million - of both military and civilians most especially with the hit-and-run tactics of suicide bombings!


The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Agency responsible for the conduct of examinations for entry into all Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education since its inception on 13th February, 1978, had religiously stuck to providing qualitative education through adherence to competiveness amongst all students irrespective of their geographic antecedent and had kept the compulsory CUT OFF MARKS between 180 - 200 out of 400, in all examinations; until some "Northern educators identified some educationally disadvantaged states" and requested that score marks be reduced to between 80 to 100, depending on classification!
Unfortunately now, we have a BLANKET COVER that will destroy COMPETIVENESS that should enhance Human Capital For National Development!

Over 1.6 million candidates annually applied for degree courses; while National Diploma records more than 17.000 and with the new policy in place, Polytechnics and Colleges candidates needed only 100 marks for admission while other institutions of higher learning should score 110, which is an average of 25% - although individual institutions could raise the BAR as they wished!
Should Nigeria's educational system be handled with such impropriety by those who should know better?


EDUCATED POLICY SOMERSAULT!

Did the policy architects forget that lowering of the figures would create false sense of SECURITY for lazy candidates, since 100 out of 400 marks is just a "piece of cake"? Was it an irony of fate that when the Ministry decided to lower educational standards, one 19-year-old Southern candidate scored 337 while another from Adamawa scored 308 - out of 400, in the just concluded 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)!

What informed the sudden change in official policy in the Change Administration which has identified that poverty and illiteracy were the twin evil disadvantages responsible for Boko Haram terrorism and also the prevalent ALMAJIRI SCORGE of about 20million children of school age who are still roaming the streets, nooks and crannies of the vast nation of Nigeria - the figures are highest in KANO and KADUNA presently!


Who advised the new Minister of Education to decree a new and strange policy of 120 cut off mark across board in a 21st Century world which boasts of high grade advanced technology where students acquire first degree at 12 and P hd. at 18?
Was the Presidency privy to this new position which is being resisted by all right-thinking educationists and patriotic Nigerians at large?
Would the lowering of the cut-off mark from 180 to an absurd and very ridiculous figure of 100 - 120 provide the necessary impetus for the reasoning faculty and intellectual capacity required for the rigours of assimilation, studies, lectures and researches throughout the academic sessions when such students would sit in the same classrooms with their peers who scored over 300 cut off marks?

What we have witnessed in recent months were discordant tunes and cacophony of voices which have become very prevalent among Nigeria's education policy makers!
Across the board rooms of the Federal Ministry of Education and one of its Agencies, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), contradictions in respect of this very serious national issue of tertiary education have been the order of the day!


In June 2016, the Federal Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, who oversights JAMB, directed that Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), conducted by tertiary institutions should be scrapped possibly for the following public complaints:

(1) Exorbitant fee charges,
(2) Unprofessional and defective invigilation,
(3) Manipulation of results,
(4) Bribing of officials to get admissions, and
(5) There was no basis for such DUPLICATION in the first instance since candidates qualified to write the UTME, and Five WAEC O Level Credits, inclusive of Mathematics and English!

But before the regimental fiat which had neither legal nor documentary backing/evidence, could take effect, Alhaji Adamu turned around to rescind his earlier order BUT this time, with humility and apology, that the cancellation was a mistake. In August 2017, at the Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria, he said, “the ban imposed on the test caused irregularities by candidates and some institutions." He however warned that the fee for the post-UTME examination should not exceed TWO THOUSAND NAIRA before releasing another bombshell of new cut off marks!
Before now, there was the furore over the alleged removal of Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK), from the Basic Education Curriculum and had become a theme in the Civic Education, while Islamic Arabic Studies/French had been introduced in the new curriculum. It was also alleged that pupils/students would be mandated to compulsorily study either Islamic Arabic Studies or French and that Christian students would have no option than the Islamic Arabic Studies, BUT the Minister denied all allegations! He said that the National Council on Education had accepted his proposal that CRK should be made compulsory for teaching and learning by Christian students while Islamic Arabic Studies should also be made compulsory for Muslim students.

According to the Minister, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), has called for A MINISTERIAL RETREAT ON ROADMAP FOR EDUCATION in order to have a holistic view on the FALLING STANDARD OF EDUCATION AND THE SOLUTIONS TO RESTORE ITS LOST GLORY!
We quote the Minister: "Initially, we had prepared a blueprint but FEC felt the issues are beyond that because there are crises in all the areas of education, in out-of-school children, in technical education and training, in ICT, in all the areas you can think of.
Ministers are going to start talking (within the next two weeks), to themselves and come out with solutions." This statement was made on 22nd June, 2017!

Could the controversial and contradictory lowering of cut off marks to 120 be one of the outcome of the MINISTERS RETREAT or that this quarrelsome policy was SMUGGLED out of the Minister's BLUEPRINT?
WE VEHEMENTLY CONDEMN THE OBNOXIOUS JAMB UTME CUT OFF MARK OF 120 AND REQUEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL INTERVENTION FOR A REVERSAL TO STATUS QUO ANTE AND A DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR IN ORDER TO REPLACE THE CURRENT ACADEMIC DECADENCE WITH DELIBERATE REVOLUTION FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND STARK ILLITERACY WITH AN EDUCATED GENERATION OF INGENIOUS YOUTHS, MODERN SCIENTISTS AND WIZKIDS!

Further lowering of educational standards by the Federal Ministry of Education is a dis-service to the masses - especially the YOUTHS - who are divinely designated to become future leaders; and in a concerted voice, We declare this obnoxious policy null and void and of no effect!

"Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding." (Proverbs.4:7).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

GRADUATE PRESIDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSISTENT ASUU STRIKES!

There was a time in the history of the nation of Nigeria when the fame of two distinguished UNIVERSITY GRADUATES hit the headlines as they became instant celebrities because they won the presidential election. The team of the late Umaru Yar' Ardua (M Sc.), and Ebele Jonathan (P hd.), were the first set of Nigerian graduates to rule Nigeria since the departure of the Colonial masters in 1960.
The late Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, though a graduate scholar, singularly held a ceremonial presidential position in the First Parliamentary Democracy and that was why expectations were so high from among the population who hailed, trusted and believed that the new rulers would bring to the table new ideas that would proffer brilliant, solutions to the myriad of political, economic, and social challenges (especially, QUALITY EDUCATION), that had plagued the nation for so long, like no other!
The eight years before 2007, when the new democratic experiment was put in place, a former military Head of State in the person of Chief Aremu Obasanjo vetoed the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO), recommendation that 26.5% of annual national budgets of each country be appropriated to the Education Sector, by allotting a paltry 03%/06% instead!
Though not a university graduate, but enjoys the privilege of a honorary doctorate degree holder, he once confessed in one of his comedy, "NA DASH THEM DASH ME!"
Unfortunately, the celebrated DUO of Umaru/Jonathan failed to meet the yearnings of patriotic citizens who adduced so much confidence to them! They neither improved, by correcting the failures/anomalies of Obasanjo, nor introduced innovations into the Education Sector by conforming with UNESCO'S recommendation 26.5% appropriation!
Even when Jonathan became President following his demise on 5th May, 2010 and picked another graduate, Architect Nnamadi Sambo, they further pushed education into the remotest corner of the PDP Manifesto and promoted illiteracy at the tertiary level while the intelligentsia categorized Nigerian Universities as, "GLORIFIED SECONDARY SCHOOLS!"

If ex-President Jonathan, who obtained his PhD in Zoology could equivocally and publicly declare that, "STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION", what better intellectual capacity should one expect from graduates from ILL-FUNDED AND ILL-EQUIPPED Nigerian tertiary institutions? By that deliberate negative attitude towards National Education, those leaders had inadvertently laid a BED OF THORNS AND THISTLES, which they have sadly discovered was most uncomfortable for successive governments to LIE OR SLEEP ON, in view of the violent attitudinal and unethical reactions of over 30% illiterate Nigerian Youths against government policies - whether popular or unpopular!

Persistent agitations by both universities lecturers and students for better learning, teaching/research environment and facilities, had been the order of the day even within the ranks of educators and the elites who believe that QUALITATIVE EDUCATION WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN THE BED-ROCK AND ASSET OF EVERY NATION'S HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT!

ASUU'S STRIKES ARE LEGITIMATE!
ASUU's organized strikes which had negatively affected and disrupted academic curriculums in tertiary institutions since the year 2001 were prompted through protests against decadence, lack of basic infrastructures which were itemized as modern classrooms and libraries with internet facilities, hostel accommodations, hi-tech laboratories, inadequate remunerations and emoluments that have subsequently led to staff depletion, lower academic impartation/impactation and the SYSTEMIC DECAY of the educational system on the nation!

As a result most Nigerian graduates were rejected from the labour market because they were academically unsound and could not meet international standards!
The latest strike action draws its antecedence from the unfulfilled/unimplemented official promises of 2001, between ASUU, Federal and State Governments, in the following areas:
(1) FUNDING;
(2) UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY;
(3) ACADEMIC FREEDOM;
(4) EARNED ACADEMIC ALLOWANCES; AND,
(5) REGISTRATION OF UNIVERSITIES PENSION MANAGEMENT COMPANY;
until 14th August, 2006, ( five years after the initial negotiations), during which proposals for re-negotiation of the 2001 Agreements which was muted by the Federal Government produced a 51-page long new agreement, signed by both parties in October, 2009 - WHICH WAS ALSO NOT HONOURED!
However, in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed 24th January, 2012 with ASUU, the Federal Government (FG), agreed to INJECT, N1.3Trillion, into Federal Universities over a period of THREE YEARS as follows:
(a) N100 billion in 2012;
(b) N400 billion in 2013;
(c) N400 billion in 2014; and
(d) N400 in 2015.
As usual the FG reneged on the MoU but when ASUU, embarked on a nation-wide strike from February to June 2013, it now offered instead, N300 billion for Enhanced Academic Allowances and N200 billion, to BREACH, Noticeable Infrastructural Gap in Federal Universities!
Available information reveals that only N200 billion was released to the body in 2013, and since then there had been no further appropriation! ALL OF THE ABOVE DECEITS WHICH THEY SUPERVICED, PROVE THAT THOSE GRADUATES PRESIDENTS PLACED NO SERIOUS PREMIUM ON EDUCATION!

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE!
ASUU's nation-wide strike which began on 13th August, 2017, has birthed two weeks of pain, anguish, disgust, mistrust and faithlessness among the teeming Nigerian students and youths who are the VICTIMS of FG's absolute insincerity, gross violation and dereliction of Constitutional Provisions in respect of Education as stipulated in Chapter II, Section 18 (1) (2) and (3 a-d), of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of 1999.

The APC Change Mantra Government, which inherited all of the above unreliable and unrealistic agreements has offered to pay N23 billion (Academic Earned Allowance), and N1.5 billion monthly, to ASUU pending the outcome of the forensic audit being carried out by the Federal Ministry of Finance to ascertain the entire transactions since 2001. Government also agreed to other demands by ASUU Leadership team comprising the President, Professor 'Biodun Ogunyemi, and his Vice, Emmanuel Osodeke, including a former President, Dr. Dipo Fashina.
Professor Ogunyemi has said that the national struggle to revitalise the Nigerian university system was comprehensive and total and that the strike would be called off when FG fulfilled its side of the bargains between 2001-2012, adding that the outstanding deficit was about N825 billion!
In Ghana, government appropriates 30% of its annual Budget to Education at all levels and affluent Nigerians send their children and wards to Ghana to acquire pre-nursery to university education in a country where everything works!

HOW WOULD PEACE ENDURE IN A NATION DOMINATED BY JOBLESS/ HALF-BAKED YOUTHS WHO FORM THE LARGER POPULATION? BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS; AREWA CONSULTATIVE YOUTHS FORUM; O'ODUA PEOPLES CONGRESS (OPC), AND THE SOUTH-SOUTH PIPELINE VANDALS AND OTHER MILITANTS, ALL OF WHICH ARE YOUTH-BASED ARE VICIOUS AND CRIMINAL GROUPS WHO HAVE BEEN TROUBLING NIGERIA SINCE 1999!

APC Change Administration should not foot-drag on this very serious issue on which THE SOUL OF NIGERIA RESTS! All of ASUU's requests have legal foundations and backings and should be honoured without further delay! Nigerians are tired of CIRCUS CIRCLES! A nation without education will remain a JUNGLE SOCIETY! According to ASUU, appropriations of 6 &7% had been released in the last two years of the new administration.
"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO; AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE NOT DEPART FROM IT. (PROVERBS 22:6).

I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

BUHARI’S ANTAGONISTS HAVE FAILED AGAIN; HE’S ALIVE TO PURGE NIGERIA OF CORRUPTION!

After One Hundred and Four Days of spiritual battle in the Spirit World, the divinely-anointed President Muhammadu Buhari, victoriously triumphed over all Forces of Darkness and returned ALIVE to his beloved Country, Nigeria, at noon on Saturday, 19th August, 2017, to the tumultuous welcome of patriotic citizens but to the shame and bewilderment of his political arch-enemies and detractors!

Hate speech terrorist wished him dead, but the reverse was the case because the warfare in question was fought on Buhari's behalf by the LORD OF HOSTS who assigned him to be President over Nigeria! "The Earth is the LORD'S and the fullness thereof, the world and the people that dwell therein."(Psalm. 24:1).
No one contends with the Almighty GOD and lives to tell the story! It is a fact that Buhari's political enemies employed diabolical incantations, enchantments, sorceries divinations, curses, the moment he had the health challenge, but the effectual and fervent prayers of the ever patriotic downtrodden TALAKAWAS and several genuine Servants of God, prevailed over the evil plans of the ungodly politicians! . "And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."(Luke 3:9)
He did not arrive at night in order to debunk further vicious speculations about the state of his health and even drove in a presidential motorcade through the streets of the Federal Capital City of Abuja and into the State House, Aso Rock Villa, at about 5.40 pm!

The successful treatment of President Buhari's health issues at a London Hospital during his medical vacation will remain a mystery to ordinary and simple minds. Though it was initially resisted by Principalities and Powers of this World/Spiritual Wickedness in High Places, who forcibly and viciously fought to posses his SOUL, they failed because the Angel Gabriel was divinely dispatched to rescue the LORD'S VESSEL who has been specially assigned to purge this nation of all forms of institutional corruption laced with brazen impunity; that would have completely destroyed Nigeria's economy!


MUHAMMADU BUHARI IS INDESTRUCTIBLE AND UNSTOPABLE!

Pre and post independent Nigerian politics and elections always took violent dimensions of "do-or-die" power struggles among the gladiators who trampled over the fundamental rights of unfortunate and innocent electorate to achieve their inordinate ambition at all cost! But Buhari's characteristics signify faithfulness, honesty, righteousness, fairness, equity, probity and justice, which virtues are so distasteful to MERCENERY politicians!

The elections that gave him victory in 2015, was not an exception because the incumbent Peoples Democratic Party consecutive administrations from 1999-2015, had no wish to accept defeat from the onset as all the power-mongers swore on their parents graves that the Change Agenda President, would never win the presidential election - because he failed in the last three previous attempts. They therefore employed unethical and unorthodox method of mudslinging, brickbats, character defamation/assassination, hate speeches detrimental publications on electronic/print media, social media platforms and the Internet, against him as the All Progressives Congress (APC), democratic candidate, without any form of check or restraint!

But who would have thought that in that election which gave him landslide victory over Ebele Jonathan, the failed Party which performed woefully in SIXTEEN YEARS of consecutive administration, would still refuse to sheath its vile sword - especially when the winner held his peace without pursuing legal actions against them!

No Nigerian can doubt the magnificent prowess, capacity, mental and physical strength of President Buhari - a retired General and Nigeria's former Military Head of State, who, in spite of the rigours of the 2014/2015 political campaigns, embarked on overseas diplomatic tours to all major economic and military blocs to gain massive support needed to crush the insurgency within his first year in office in spite of being a SEPTUGENARIAN!
He did not leave out Nigeria's neighbouring States of Chad, Niger, Benin, Cameroon etc, and formed the Multi National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), with them in order to facilitate a quick return to peaceful economic life in the West African sub- Region!

He succeeded to regain and re-capture all of the FOURTEEN CALIPHATES which Boko Haram terrorists carved out from some Local Government Areas of Bornu State and also to turn the economy around and block all official financial wastages through the option of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), system of financial accountability and probity. He did not waste time to introduce, one after the other; the welfarist programmes for the education sector, financial support to market women, upgrading of the Primary Health Care Centres, the controversial School Feeding Programme, the Graduate Empowerment Scheme, etc.
President Buhari travelled to London for the first medical check up, on 19th Jan 2017 - but convinced that he still needed more medical attention, he proceeded to take care of his health on 7th May, 2017, without breaking any extant law and without creating a gap in administration by handing over the reins of power to his Vice, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, (SAN)!


CONSPIRACY OF THE THREE MUSKETEERS AGAINST BUHARI!

While recuperating in London and meditating over how to faithfully accomplish his Party's manifesto on return to Nigeria, THREE former military generals and Heads of State, in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdusalam Abubakar, conspired to shop for a candidate who would replace President Buhari in 2019, because they believed that he would no longer have the capacity to run for a second term.
"Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the LORD commandeth it not?" (Lamentations.3:37-39)
During their tenures in government, the following cases bordering on institutional corruption and extra-judicial killings are still pending:
(1). Criminal destruction and extra-judicial killings of 19 innocent soldiers and several civilians at ODI TOWN - Balyesa State; (
2). House of Representatives probe on the looting of of $16 billion on Electricity generation;
(3). Controversial Oil Licence for one of the lucrative oil fields in Nigeria to a preferred firm in the South;
(4). Two of the musketeers are rated first and second of the TEN richest politicians in Nigeria, (2017), net worth, $ 5 billion and $ 1.6 billion US Dollars respectively; probably as salaries accrued from the Nigerian Army!
Between the THREE, and the late Sani Abacha it was power- sharing plus all the illegal pecks of office. It was widely publicised that former General Obasanjo, had only N20.000 naira in his bank account when he was released from Abacha's detention in 1998!

These Musketeers who are arrogating divine roles to themselves will soon have to appear before the Throne of Judgement; says the LORD." God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God." (Psa 62:11)

The following are President Buhari's COVENANT with Nigerians as recorded on 22nd March, 2016: "I am a Nigerian and Nigeria is my country. I have no place on Earth to call home except Nigeria. If Nigeria fails, I fail. If Nigeria succeeds, I will be exalted amongst nations. Therefore, I must do whatever it takes, beyond the limits of my natural abilities to ensure everyone else around must do theirs.
" I will not be an agent of division or subversion, because in doing so, I hurt not others, but myself. I will support my government to enable them have the courage to always do what is right and where I feel they are failing.
"I will make my voice heard not to ridicule or abuse, but to proffer better alternatives.
“I believe that the labours of our heroes past shall never be in vain and I also believe that the pains I feel today are sacrifices being made for Nigeria to rise again because only God anoints leaders and Nigeria is a blessed country.....this is my stand, and may God give me the courage to always stand for what is right at all times. Amen.- Muhammadu Buhari."

For the information of all doubting Thomases: " The divine mandate of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is God's special Ambassador to Nigeria, will terminate on 29th May, 2023, and not before then; so we advise the earthly kingmakers and other COVETOUS politicians eyeing the number one position to begin to purge themselves of all iniquities because THE RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT ALREADY ESTABLISHED THROUGH BUHARI WILL CONTINUE AFTER 2023 AND REMAIN FOREVER! AMEN.


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

ashjay001:
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I guess you are not used to reading friend; why don't you just skim through.

HUMAN ECLIPSE, UNLIKE SOLAR/LUNAR, IS VERY DISASTROUS!


Solar and Lunar Eclipses had been common phenomenon in the firmament from time immemorial! Since global acknowledgement of SCIENCE in the 16th Century, eclipses have remained under strict observation in succeeding generations, but no form of collision or disaster among ecclesiastical bodies has ever been recorded!
The Sun, Moon, Earth, Stars and other planetary objects have rotated along their divinely pre-determined orbits in a systemic order from the FOURTH DAY of creation. (Genesiss1:14-19).

An eclipse occurs naturally in the firmament when a planetry object as the Moon, comes between the Sun and another planetary object (the Earth), with the resultant effect of a shadow being cast by the Moon on the Earth! This firmament wonder usually occurred in the course of their solo orbiting which at some appointed times put them in STRAIGHT ALIGNMENT!
Between 9.22 pm 7th August and 2.20 am 8th August, 2017, a penumbral (peripheral), eclipse occurred in the Far East and was visible in City of Mumbai, India and the adjoining terrestrial settlements as the MOON eclipsed the SUN in a partial lunar eclipse another display of the Divine Wonder in the sky when the Moon was sandwiched between the Sun and the Earth! Eclipses occurred without any form of adverse effect on human, animal or vegetation creation because like the RAINBOW, they are designed to register the Covenant and the Awesome personality of the sovereign God to His Creation without casting mythological nor religious influences on the human minds as some tend to believe!

But doomsayers around the world are predicting total solar eclipse in 14 States in US later this month of August, 2017, which could cause a mysterious planet called NIBIRU to CRASH into the Earth as soon as the SUN was completely (though temporarily), blotted out of existence. They have also juxtaposed this prophesy - which has neither biblical nor scientific support with North Korea's threat to attack the US Base of GUAM by mid-August and have envisaged that the outraging reaction of President Donald Trump would precipitate not only the THIRD WORLD WAR, but the END OF THE WORLD AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED!

North Korea says it would launch FOUR Hwasong- 12 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles which would hit Guam in 14 minutes, in response to the "fire and fury" warning of President Trump!
It is evident that the US and its allies (South Korea, Japan, France, Britain, etc,), having introduced the doctrine of Human Eclipse of Obscurity against North Korea, should also expect the backlash of the doctrine of DETERRENT in return from the latter which regards US warning as unwarranted aggression of a BULLY!

The United States has never denied North Korea's accusations in respect of its massive production, acquisition and pillage of NUCLEAR WAR HEADS, contrary to its propaganda of global ban of nuclear weapons of mass destruction! North Korea claims that its pillage of nuclear arsenals was to protect its territories and citizens from US aggression! IS THE US ALSO PILLING UP NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM NORTH KOREA'S AGGRESSION?

The adage has not changed - WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER - but the danger of this cliché is that what is good for both "BIRDS", in the prevailing scenario, would spell DISASTER to the entire universe if not quickly nipped in the bud! Guam is a strategic and very important air and naval base for the US Military and is over 3.000 kilometres south east of North Korea. Guam also has missile-defence launchers on the island!

"North Korea's Kim Jog-un Should Be Handled With Care To Avoid World War III!," we counselled the US and its allies to tred softly and apply utmost diplomacy in dealing with President Kim Jog-un who is filled with youthful exuberance and could PRESS A VERY DANGEROUS NUCLEAR BUTTON that would re-write world history negatively!
THE ATOMIC BOMBS DETONATED ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BY THE UNITED STATES IN AUGUST, TOWARDS THE END OF WORLD WAR II IN 1945, AND THE PAINFUL LOSS OF OVER 129,000 THOUSAND INNOCENT LIVES CANNOT BE EASILY FORGOTTEN BY JAPAN AND ALL PEACE-LOVING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD!


THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN ECLIPSES!

Human Eclipses are not limited to the preceding exposition but are viciously exhibited in everyday life:
PEER GROUPS eclipse one another in the Civil Service to curry favour from higher authorities and gain relevance; they also operate on social platforms; especially in Arts, Entertainment, Films and Tourism industries to achieve dubious fame and out-do the other;
BUSINESS ENTREPRENUERS/MOGULS eclipse themselves in the struggle for juicy government contracts in the commercial race of survival of the fittest;
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS gang up to eclipse one another in CULT activities; in order to exact undeserved favours by force, from both fellow students and lecturers;
POLITICIANS always eclipsed the masses through acquisition of illicit wealth with brazen impunity while in government; etc.!

Human government was purposely approved by GOD (Genesis.8:15-11:32; spanning a period of 427 years, from the Flood to the call of Abram:
(1) To promote moral and civil government for the highest good of all among themselves (Romans.13:1- 7);
(2) Preserve human societies on Earth through well-articulated programmes on socio-economic welfare;
(3) Enforce law and order and punishments for offenders in other to maintain discipline;
(4) Establish, maintain and support government to preserve the society; etc,

but, was that plan of GOD during the Old Testament Bible period respected by Man? Is it even recognised now in the 21st Century Universe? NO, because in spite of the divine goodwill, the Earthlings have refused to shed the leopard skins inherited from the Adamic Dynasty (the first sinners), who disobeyed God's Command (Genesis.2:16-17; compare, 3:1-25), and lost their first estate!
Human Eclipse unlike those of the astronomical objects, always produced negative results in view of the fact that some species are out to predate others in a vicious circle of global Rat Race as being witnessed between the US and North Korea.

First among their weapons of Human Eclipse is OBSCURITY, which is the most lethal arsenal which would cast SHADOWS OF INCREDIBILITY, INCONSEQUENTIALITY AND IRRELEVANCE in the form of a permanent eclipse of REPROACH and everlasting shame upon their targets! Others include the orchestration and precipitation of the DECLINE AND DOWNFALL of targeted victims as being witnessed across the world today.


ETHNIC ECLIPSES VERSUS NATIONAL GOALS IN NIGERIA!

In NIGERIA some misguided renegades who claimed to speak for indigenes of the 18 Northern States (comprising of at least 80 ethnic tribes), declared an ultimatum that all IGBOS of the South East Geo-Political extraction MUST quit the Northern States by 1st October, 2017 and return to their native land for persistently demanding that an Independent State of Biafra should be carved out of the Nigerian Federation! Can any person or group of persons speak on behalf of the NORTH or NIGERIANS without a PLEBISCITE even if they originated from the Hausa/Fulani stock - which constitute about 29% of the entire population of Nigeria?
Was such an unholy attitude not deliberately predicated to place the IGBOS in permanent OBSCURITY in a constitutional democracy which can take care of all challenging national issues?
Have this bunch of semi-illiterates studied the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to ascertain their limitations under Chapter IV, Section 43, Fundamental Rights, in which it is clearly stated that every Nigeria has the right to dwell and possess landed properties anywhere in the country? Did those Youths think of the several fall-outs of their QUIT THREATS like inter-tribal marriages, strategic economic affiliations in commerce, trade/businesses, transportation, immovable properties, education etc.?
Although the Igbo Youths did not help matters through their reciprocal blanket demand that all Nigerians of Northern extraction domicile in the South East, should also quit their homeland by 1st October, 2017; because they have both portrayed Nigeria to the World as a nation without direction when the focus of the APC Change Government is on how to improve the lot of the downtrodden who - through no fault of theirs - now shamefully dwell as REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!

How many of the over TWO MILLION IDPs in Nigeria are these LOUD MOUTHS catering and succouring to return to normal livelihood since they are bent on increasing the figure through their senseless demands? Are these unpatriotic persons aware that though Nigeria is an independent nation, INTERNATIONAL DONOR AGENCIES HAVE NEVER STOPPED TO PROVIDE FOR MOST OF OUR ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INADEQUACIES THROUGH MISGOVERNANCE, MISMANAGEMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION IN ALL GOVERNMENTS FROM 1960-2015, BECAUSE OF THEIR LOVE FOR HUMANITY?

SHAME on the so-called Arewa and Igbo Youths (the doomsayers), for their disrespect for constitutitionally-constituted authorities of the Nigerian Federation and to all Nigerians by extension whose psyche and sensibilities have been hurt, insulted and terribly damaged by these MISCREANTS who have no sense of direction and neither ambition nor hope for a better life for their own generation! It is time for them to APOLOGIZE TO REPENT AND RETRACT their heinous threats in other to be spared from the impending DIVINE PUNISHMENT; because on SUNDAY 1st October, 2017, Nigerians WILL celebrate the 57th Year of Independence from the Colonial Task Masters and also felicitate in victory over the forces of destabilisation as constituted by the so-called Youths who have donned the garbs of Neo-Colonialists and also the unmasked ENEMIES OF THE NIGERIAN STATE!

No human being is created by GOD TO OBSCURE another through carnal eclipse. We should always be our BROTHERS KEEPERS and dwell in peace according to His divine purposive WILL. AMEN!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

HUMAN ECLIPSE, UNLIKE SOLAR/LUNAR, IS VERY DISASTROUS!


Solar and Lunar Eclipses had been common phenomenon in the firmament from time immemorial! Since global acknowledgement of SCIENCE in the 16th Century, eclipses have remained under strict observation in succeeding generations, but no form of collision or disaster among ecclesiastical bodies has ever been recorded!
The Sun, Moon, Earth, Stars and other planetary objects have rotated along their divinely pre-determined orbits in a systemic order from the FOURTH DAY of creation. (Genesiss1:14-19).

An eclipse occurs naturally in the firmament when a planetry object as the Moon, comes between the Sun and another planetary object (the Earth), with the resultant effect of a shadow being cast by the Moon on the Earth! This firmament wonder usually occurred in the course of their solo orbiting which at some appointed times put them in STRAIGHT ALIGNMENT!
Between 9.22 pm 7th August and 2.20 am 8th August, 2017, a penumbral (peripheral), eclipse occurred in the Far East and was visible in City of Mumbai, India and the adjoining terrestrial settlements as the MOON eclipsed the SUN in a partial lunar eclipse another display of the Divine Wonder in the sky when the Moon was sandwiched between the Sun and the Earth! Eclipses occurred without any form of adverse effect on human, animal or vegetation creation because like the RAINBOW, they are designed to register the Covenant and the Awesome personality of the sovereign God to His Creation without casting mythological nor religious influences on the human minds as some tend to believe!

But doomsayers around the world are predicting total solar eclipse in 14 States in US later this month of August, 2017, which could cause a mysterious planet called NIBIRU to CRASH into the Earth as soon as the SUN was completely (though temporarily), blotted out of existence. They have also juxtaposed this prophesy - which has neither biblical nor scientific support with North Korea's threat to attack the US Base of GUAM by mid-August and have envisaged that the outraging reaction of President Donald Trump would precipitate not only the THIRD WORLD WAR, but the END OF THE WORLD AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED!

North Korea says it would launch FOUR Hwasong- 12 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles which would hit Guam in 14 minutes, in response to the "fire and fury" warning of President Trump!
It is evident that the US and its allies (South Korea, Japan, France, Britain, etc,), having introduced the doctrine of Human Eclipse of Obscurity against North Korea, should also expect the backlash of the doctrine of DETERRENT in return from the latter which regards US warning as unwarranted aggression of a BULLY!

The United States has never denied North Korea's accusations in respect of its massive production, acquisition and pillage of NUCLEAR WAR HEADS, contrary to its propaganda of global ban of nuclear weapons of mass destruction! North Korea claims that its pillage of nuclear arsenals was to protect its territories and citizens from US aggression! IS THE US ALSO PILLING UP NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM NORTH KOREA'S AGGRESSION?

The adage has not changed - WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER - but the danger of this cliché is that what is good for both "BIRDS", in the prevailing scenario, would spell DISASTER to the entire universe if not quickly nipped in the bud! Guam is a strategic and very important air and naval base for the US Military and is over 3.000 kilometres south east of North Korea. Guam also has missile-defence launchers on the island!

"North Korea's Kim Jog-un Should Be Handled With Care To Avoid World War III!," we counselled the US and its allies to tred softly and apply utmost diplomacy in dealing with President Kim Jog-un who is filled with youthful exuberance and could PRESS A VERY DANGEROUS NUCLEAR BUTTON that would re-write world history negatively!
THE ATOMIC BOMBS DETONATED ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI BY THE UNITED STATES IN AUGUST, TOWARDS THE END OF WORLD WAR II IN 1945, AND THE PAINFUL LOSS OF OVER 129,000 THOUSAND INNOCENT LIVES CANNOT BE EASILY FORGOTTEN BY JAPAN AND ALL PEACE-LOVING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD!


THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN ECLIPSES!

Human Eclipses are not limited to the preceding exposition but are viciously exhibited in everyday life:
PEER GROUPS eclipse one another in the Civil Service to curry favour from higher authorities and gain relevance; they also operate on social platforms; especially in Arts, Entertainment, Films and Tourism industries to achieve dubious fame and out-do the other;
BUSINESS ENTREPRENUERS/MOGULS eclipse themselves in the struggle for juicy government contracts in the commercial race of survival of the fittest;
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS gang up to eclipse one another in CULT activities; in order to exact undeserved favours by force, from both fellow students and lecturers;
POLITICIANS always eclipsed the masses through acquisition of illicit wealth with brazen impunity while in government; etc.!

Human government was purposely approved by GOD (Genesis.8:15-11:32; spanning a period of 427 years, from the Flood to the call of Abram:
(1) To promote moral and civil government for the highest good of all among themselves (Romans.13:1- 7);
(2) Preserve human societies on Earth through well-articulated programmes on socio-economic welfare;
(3) Enforce law and order and punishments for offenders in other to maintain discipline;
(4) Establish, maintain and support government to preserve the society; etc,

but, was that plan of GOD during the Old Testament Bible period respected by Man? Is it even recognised now in the 21st Century Universe? NO, because in spite of the divine goodwill, the Earthlings have refused to shed the leopard skins inherited from the Adamic Dynasty (the first sinners), who disobeyed God's Command (Genesis.2:16-17; compare, 3:1-25), and lost their first estate!
Human Eclipse unlike those of the astronomical objects, always produced negative results in view of the fact that some species are out to predate others in a vicious circle of global Rat Race as being witnessed between the US and North Korea.

First among their weapons of Human Eclipse is OBSCURITY, which is the most lethal arsenal which would cast SHADOWS OF INCREDIBILITY, INCONSEQUENTIALITY AND IRRELEVANCE in the form of a permanent eclipse of REPROACH and everlasting shame upon their targets! Others include the orchestration and precipitation of the DECLINE AND DOWNFALL of targeted victims as being witnessed across the world today.


ETHNIC ECLIPSES VERSUS NATIONAL GOALS IN NIGERIA!

In NIGERIA some misguided renegades who claimed to speak for indigenes of the 18 Northern States (comprising of at least 80 ethnic tribes), declared an ultimatum that all IGBOS of the South East Geo-Political extraction MUST quit the Northern States by 1st October, 2017 and return to their native land for persistently demanding that an Independent State of Biafra should be carved out of the Nigerian Federation! Can any person or group of persons speak on behalf of the NORTH or NIGERIANS without a PLEBISCITE even if they originated from the Hausa/Fulani stock - which constitute about 29% of the entire population of Nigeria?
Was such an unholy attitude not deliberately predicated to place the IGBOS in permanent OBSCURITY in a constitutional democracy which can take care of all challenging national issues?
Have this bunch of semi-illiterates studied the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to ascertain their limitations under Chapter IV, Section 43, Fundamental Rights, in which it is clearly stated that every Nigeria has the right to dwell and possess landed properties anywhere in the country? Did those Youths think of the several fall-outs of their QUIT THREATS like inter-tribal marriages, strategic economic affiliations in commerce, trade/businesses, transportation, immovable properties, education etc.?
Although the Igbo Youths did not help matters through their reciprocal blanket demand that all Nigerians of Northern extraction domicile in the South East, should also quit their homeland by 1st October, 2017; because they have both portrayed Nigeria to the World as a nation without direction when the focus of the APC Change Government is on how to improve the lot of the downtrodden who - through no fault of theirs - now shamefully dwell as REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY!

How many of the over TWO MILLION IDPs in Nigeria are these LOUD MOUTHS catering and succouring to return to normal livelihood since they are bent on increasing the figure through their senseless demands? Are these unpatriotic persons aware that though Nigeria is an independent nation, INTERNATIONAL DONOR AGENCIES HAVE NEVER STOPPED TO PROVIDE FOR MOST OF OUR ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INADEQUACIES THROUGH MISGOVERNANCE, MISMANAGEMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION IN ALL GOVERNMENTS FROM 1960-2015, BECAUSE OF THEIR LOVE FOR HUMANITY?

SHAME on the so-called Arewa and Igbo Youths (the doomsayers), for their disrespect for constitutitionally-constituted authorities of the Nigerian Federation and to all Nigerians by extension whose psyche and sensibilities have been hurt, insulted and terribly damaged by these MISCREANTS who have no sense of direction and neither ambition nor hope for a better life for their own generation! It is time for them to APOLOGIZE TO REPENT AND RETRACT their heinous threats in other to be spared from the impending DIVINE PUNISHMENT; because on SUNDAY 1st October, 2017, Nigerians WILL celebrate the 57th Year of Independence from the Colonial Task Masters and also felicitate in victory over the forces of destabilisation as constituted by the so-called Youths who have donned the garbs of Neo-Colonialists and also the unmasked ENEMIES OF THE NIGERIAN STATE!

No human being is created by GOD TO OBSCURE another through carnal eclipse. We should always be our BROTHERS KEEPERS and dwell in peace according to His divine purposive WILL. AMEN!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED THESE SET OF GREEDY AND POWER-INTOXICATED LEGISLATORS ANY MORE!

Constitutional amendment is not an innovation in Nigeria! The 1979 Military Republican Post Independence Constitution of the Murtala-Obasanjo Regime, was promulgated into a DECREE with effect from 1st October, 1979, following FINAL AMENDMENTS carried out by the Supreme Military Council and with the subsequent coups of 1983, (Buhari); and 1985, (Babangida); another Military Republican Constitution of 1989 was decreed into law by Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), following some amendments!

The Abacha/Abdusalami Transitional Military Regimes (1993- 1999), subsequently produced the 1999 Post Independence Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution now under the doctoring of the National Assembly (NASS), for SELFISH, AMBITIOUS AND VERY GREEDY REASONS!
Both Chambers on 26th and 27th July, 2017, respectively VOTED ON 33 MAJOR BILLS TO AMEND THE SAID CONSTITUTION; but we were surprised about the following mix bag of results from the two Chambers:
(1). The Legislators, voted against DEVOLUTION OF POWER from Federal to federating States
(2). Sought for IMMUNITY for legislative rascality’s through "spoken words" in the Chambers and Committees Sittings
(3). Requested that ex-Senate Presidents and ex-House of Representatives be absorbed as MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE - in order to have EQUAL ranking with Presidents/Governors, (serving and retired), who form bulk of membership of the Council.
(4). Voted to override Presidential veto in Constitutional Alteration
(5). Removal of LAW-MAKING POWER from the EXECUTIVE ARM, (National Security Agencies Act; National Complaints Commission, Land Use Act and National Youth Service Corps
(6). Voted against the 35 per cent Affirmative Inclusion of Women as Ministers
(7). Approval for 35 years as minimum age for qualification as presidential candidates; and
(. Approval for INDEPENDENT candidacy at all ELECTIONS, during the lopsided exercise!

Public reactions across political, economic, religious, ethnic/tribal divide over the amendments have deepened the belief of the citizens that the legislators major incursion into Nigerian politics was purely for ILLICIT FINANCIAL GAINS and are therefore CLAMOURING that the 1999 Constitution be scrapped and a new Constituent Assembly commissioned to draft a brand new document that would cater for all fundamental needs of the masses.

THE 469 LEGISLATORS, MOST OF WHO SMUGGLED THEMSELVES INTO THE GREEN AND RED CHAMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, WIELD SO MUCH POWER UNDER THEIR OWN VERSION OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, that they do not only make/amend laws, carry out OVERSIGHT functions on all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), that are under the supervision of the EXECUTIVE, they also claim to have the authority to CREATE THE LEGISLATIVE VERSION OF ANY BUDGET THROUGH FRESH INSERTIONS FOR THEIR OWN SPECIAL NEEDS!
For instance, the 2017 Budget which was reluctantly signed into law by the Acting President, Professor 'Yemi Osinbajo, on 12th June 2017, was fraught with controversies in respect of all manners of FRESH INSERTIONS that did not emanate from the EXECUTIVE who is constitutionally empowered to prepare ANNUAL BUDGETS for smooth execution of all imperative projects - Capital/Concurrent - for the welfare of the citizens!

DIVIDENDS FROM MILITARY REGIMES.
Although military administrations which were autocratic, considered aberration to democracy and could not be exonerated from corruption, abuse of public office, embezzlement, mismanagement, etc; were and still unacceptable globally to both developed and developing economies, because of reckless abuse and violation of fundamental human rights, the Nigerian experience of almost 30 years of military governments, (compared to the SIXTEEN inglorious years of Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP), of orchestrated supervision of massive institutional corruption at all levels from Aso Rock to all the Local Government Wards in the Federation), had proved to be far better in the deliverance of socio-economic and infrastructural dividends for the good of the masses who were always at the receiving end of the POWER STRUGGLE!

President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's Military Ruler (31st December, 1983 - 27th August 1985), on assumption of office was determined to recover all embezzled government funds which had contributed to both domestic/foreign national debts but his good intentions were cut short within 20 months of ascension of office before he could achieve meaningful results.
The Nigerian Military struck, FIVE years into democracy and in the ensuing years of the several CHANGE OF GUARDS, we can equivocally say that all military regimes ventured to outdo one another before being overthrown!

For instance, the mission of Change Agenda embarked upon by the APC ruling government was the brain-child of President Muhammadu Buhari, who as military ruler between, 31st December, 1983 - 27th August, 1985, moved against the corrupt citizens in the polity to recover embezzled government funds which was responsible for the huge domestic and foreign debts incurred during the tenure of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, his civilian predecessor who ruled between October 1979 and 31st December, 1983!
Buhari as the military Head of State, within that short period also took urgent steps to restore discipline among the civil service and by extension to the populace through a programme tagged "War Against Indiscipline" which engendered patriotic tendencies of faithful and righteous service delivery, probity, honesty and equity in public and private businesses. Though, he was cut short from actualizing that DREAM, today, GOD has given him another opportunity to complete the divinely-ordained assignment which he began in 1983!

INFRASTRUCTURAL/INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES OF THE MILITARY!
Nigerians have experienced SIX successful and THREE failed military coups without civil constitutions and legislators but through martial laws/decrees, yet the greatest dividends of productive governance to the masses, were recorded during those administrations! Emphasis was placed on masses-oriented policies which rejected the UNITARY system and introduced Social Infrastructures through the creation of 36 STATES; creation of a new Federal Capital Territory in Abuja, introduction of the Local Government Reforms and regular employment opportunities for all categories of youths and employable able-bodied adults. Other achievements included, discouragement of Wastages in Governance through low profile lifestyles of Officers and men of the Armed Forces and the Civil Service; dependence on crude oil was de-emphasised by government through the introduction of an agrarian policy which encouraged AGRICULTURE at all levels of government and among family units in such programmes tagged, "Operation Feed The Nation"; "Green Revolution"; etc; construction of Hydro-Electric/Thermal Stations for Water Dams in arid and semi-arid lands of the nation, where rainfall is low, for electric power generation, water- irrigation for farming and water supply - mostly in Northern Nigeria, (Jebba, Kainji, (NigerState); Bakolori, (Sokoto); Dadin Kowa, (Gombe); Jibiya (Katsina); Tiga, (Kano); Shiroro Dams (Niger); and began Egbin Power Station! Onne Fetilizer Plant in Rivers State, NAFDAC, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ajaokuta Steel Industry, etc.); eradication of corruption in the Public Service through probes into their earnings, properties and bank accounts were some other achievements.

The military administration also constructed national edifices like Stadia in all former national and some regional capitals, - National Stadium, Lagos; Kaduna Stadium, Kaduna; and also in various state capitals by Military Governors; the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, Tinubu Water Fountain Square, Lagos; National Theatre for Arts and Culture, Iganmu, Lagos; Third Mainland Bridge, Eko Bridge, Festac Town, all in Lagos; Lagos-Ibadan/Benin Express Road; new State Airports; construction of the Presidential Lodge (State House), Abuja ; and construction of the Warri, Kaduna, and Port-Harcourt Refineries.
We challenge the 8th NASS Legislators to SHOWCASE their achievements outside of INSTITUTIONAL LOOTING OF THE TREASURY according to Abdulmumin Jibril!

THE NEED FOR PERIODIC CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS!
In credible global democracies, periodic constitutional amendments serve to deepen good governance and strengthen bilateral relationship between leaders and the led, but in Nigeria, ambitious legislators have turned the exercise into an avenue for acquiring more political powers outside of the sacred document!
All constitutions are fallible, having been crafted by human minds/brains and as such could be fraught with obsolete ideas as the years of nations progress, hence the intermittent revisions of the numerous sections to meet international best practice of evolving civilisations and technologies. Legislators of the 8th Assembly on the 26th and 27th July, 2017, agreed to forward 24 bills after all harmonisations, but through inordinate ambitions, have infuriated the sensibilities of the masses/electorate, who have rejected their selfish voting’s as enumerated in earlier paragraphs, before they could be forwarded to the Legislative Assemblies of the 36 States for TWO-THIRD majority ratification!

It is crystal clear that the legislators are on a suicidal bid to COVET Executive functions in spite of very distinctive functions and privileges of the TWO ARMS, which are unambiguous as stipulated and enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but have forgotten that the Sovereignty to make FINAL DECISIONS belong to the entire 170 million PEOPLE OF NIGERIA whose psyche and sensibilities cannot continue to be manipulated by these UNGRATEFUL SERVANTS who dwell in comfort and opulence at the expense of our brethren in the IDPs Camps and those who sleep under the bridges and in market stalls in all weather conditions!

NIGERIA NEEDS A BRAND NEW CONSTITUTION WHICH WILL EMPHASIZE DEVOLUTION OF POWER TO FEDERATING UNITS, ENSHRINE RESOURCE CONTROL THROUGH DERIVATIVE FORMULA, PLACE LEGISLATION AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IN THE HANDS OF 74 PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS WHO WOULD CONSTITUTE ONLY ONE CHAMBER AS OBTAINS IN STATE ASSEMBLIES, WORK ON PART-TIME BASIS AND COLLECT CIVIL SERVICE REMUNERATION FORMAT, IN ORDER TO DISCOURAGE MONETARY ATTRACTIONS WHICH HAD BEEN A BANE TO NIGERIAN POLITICS SINCE 1999!

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to all people." (Proverbs.14:34).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

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WILD-WILD, WEST DESCENDANTS ARE NIGERIA'S HATE SPEECH TERRORISTS!

The ugly developments of unwholesome and nauseating hate speeches in respect of the temporary health challenge of President Muhammadu Buhari by some members of the opposition PDP, from the SOUTH WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE has brought to the fore, that the failed Party is bent on truncating the 18 years of uninterrupted democracy through a repeat performance of the sad events of the unpatriotic actors who perpetrated the "WILD-WILD WEST" EVIL REGIME BETWEEN 1962 AND 1965! Why would any sane mind wish for a repeat performance of a vicious power tussle that ushered in the very first military coup and which truncated democracy of the First Republic now that the Nigerian nation is being transformed from the global reproach of being the MOST CORRUPT, TO BECOMING AN EXALTED RIGHTEOUS NATION UNDER THE MANAGEMENT TEAM OF THE DIVINELY ANOINTED PRESIDENT BUHARI?
WESTERN REGION, during the period in question witnessed unprecedented wicked display of massive destruction of lives and properties through unrestrained thuggery backed by the very custodians of political powers who should have guaranteed law and order and the protection of the citizens from all forms of aggression!
THE ENTIRE UGLY EPISODE WHICH BEGAN IN 1962 WITH GRASSROOT PERSONALITY CLASHES, HATE SPEECHES, CHARACTER ASSASINATION/ETHNIC CHAUVINISM, WHICH EVENTUALLY CULMINATED IN A TRIBAL WAR, HAS PORTAYED SHIMEI'S HATRED FOR KING DAVID (2 SAMUEL. 16: 5-14), AS CHILD'S PLAY, IN COMPARISON TO THE VENOM OF THESE GENERATION OF VIPERS! (MATTHEW.3:7-10), WHO HAVE SO MALIGNED, REPROACHED AND CONSISTENTLY DISGRACED PRESIDENT BUHARI, SINCE HIS ASSUMPTION OF OFFICE ON 29TH MAY, 2015!

THE HATCHET JOB OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC!
Historical records show that the pre- independence 1959 Parliamentary Elections in which the Northern People’s Congress (NPC), led by Sir Ahmadu Bello, had the highest seats of 148 out of 312, but could not form a Federal Government except through an alliance with another Party, precipitated the genesis of the inordinate ambition among the founding fathers who eventually played into the hands of the Military and opportuned the soldiers to reap where they did not sow for almost 30 years of self-imposed and forceful yoke under the neo-colonial Nigerian Army taskmasters!

The National Council of Nigeria and Cameroons (NCNC), of Eastern Nigeria led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe which came second with 89 seats, wasted no time to align with NPC to form the very first Federal Government to the consternation of the Western-based Action Group (AG), under the leadership of Chiefs Obafemi Awolowo and his deputy, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, which came third with 75 seats! In view of that development, Chief Awolowo, became leader of Opposition in the Federal Parliament while his deputy Chief Akintola who took over as Premier generated a crisis which erupted in Western Nigeria as he hatched his own ambition to run the Party through an alliance with Sirs Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa, the first Prime Minister in a new Party which was christened, Nigerian National Alliance (NNA)!

In May 1962, the Action Group broke into two factions in the Federal Parliament and also in the Western House of Assembly where NCNC had, majority members as a result of the squabble between Chiefs Awolowo and Akintola. The rancour ignited high levels of violence, resulting in the burning down of political opponents and their properties indiscriminately in support of the two gladiators with PETROL, in a vicious criminality code-named, "Operation Wetie", (meaning, wet with petrol and burn); which earned Western Region the appellation of "WILD-WILD WEST"!

The Federal Government of the First Republic did not help matters because, instead of calling for fresh elections for the Western Electorate to choose their preferred leader, a Sole Administrator was imposed in December of 1962; while in 1963, Chief Awolowo, who still nursed the ambition of becoming Prime Minister, in subsequent elections was arrested with some accomplices for coup plotting and treason, tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in 1970 by General Yakubu Gowon, and appointed as the Federal Minister of Finance. During his tenure as Premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Awolowo pursued an ideology of DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, a policy which encouraged the State's participation in business enterprises; while his deputy, preferred CONSERVATIVE CAPITALISM!
Chief Awolowo made several unsuccessful attempts to become President of Nigeria and in a eulogy at his demise on 9th May, 1987; he was described as the PRESIDENT NIGERIA NEVER HAD!

PDP REPRESENTS THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ALLIANCE (NNA), OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC!
The embroiled Peoples Democratic Party, of Nigeria's EIGHT REPUBLIC, has at least THREE splinter groups that are desperately scouting for fresh political relevance through confederate parties who would support them to “REGAIN POWER AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL", (just as in the First Republic), by hook or crook at the 2019 General Elections in spite of the fact that they are yet to repair the horrible damages done to Nigeria's economy during their FOUR consecutive tenures (16 years), of massive institutional CORRUPTION, AND BARE-FACED ROBBERY OF THE NATION'S COFFERS! IS THIS NOT AN IRONY OF LIFE?

BUHARI WAS DIVINELY CHOSEN TO RULE NIGERIA NOW!
From the day the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, (GCFR) expressed his FOURTH intention to contest for the number one position on the platform of the mega APC Change Party in 2014, hell was let loose among the 16-year-old PDP looting team that was about to be shown the door! They threw caution and decorum overboard, unleashed a barrage of abuses, insults, curses, hate speeches and all manner of tantrums, that were not even restricted to verbal utterances but extended to the print and electronic media through paid advertorials by hired mercenary journalists!
But in spite of all the barrages of vendetta, BUHARI WAS VITORIOUS AT THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL POLLS WITH A LANDSLIDE MARGIN! Not satisfied with their unholy outbursts, these notorious descendants of the Wild-Wild West terrorists, took advantage of the indisposition of President Buhari following an unexpected health challenge to begin fresh attacks on his personality, private life/previous marriage, without caution or respect for his age and office as the Executive President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! One of them, a mercenary politician and ex-minister announced the DEMISE of the President and claimed that the over 180 million Nigerian citizens were being governed by a DEAD MAN!
ANOTHER HATE TERRORIST, A SOUTH WEST PDP RENEGADE GOVERNOR, also declared that the President was on a LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT in a London Hospital and that he had ELEVEN photographs to back his claim; but recent developments in respect of government delegation visits, which included SOME PDP GOVERNORS, to President Buhari which have proved beyond all reasonable doubts that PRESIDENT BUHARI IS ALIVE, HAIL AND HEARTY, have turned the tables against these ENEMIES OF THE NIGERIAN STATE AND GOD!
The antecedent of the hate terrorists, who are DESTINED TO PERISH SUDDENLY, has been traced to the Wild-Wild West leading politicians of 1962-1965!

ARE THESE SPOILERS UNTOUCHABLE?
In keeping with his electoral promise, President Buhari has displayed great maturity and statesmanship in the handling of issues concerning his vicious political opponents who have brazenly challenged his authority as the Executive President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by allowing the LAW to take its rightful course without interference, let or hindrance - a display of good character combined with diplomacy, which had always afforded him the necessary edge for good governance. THE ATMOSPHERE OF UNHINDERED AND UNCHECKED BRAZENESS IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BY THE LEGISLATORS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS OF FRESH DEMOCRACY IS A GLARING EXAMPLE OF PRESIDENTIAL/EXECUTIVE DIPLOMACY AND NOT WEAKNESS AS SOME MAY THINK WHILE THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT FOR THE UNGODLY RESTS WITH THE LORD GOD OF CREATION!

In this physical universe, there are TWO CATEGORIES of people - the GOOD and the BAD! The good people are the law-abiding citizens who fear GOD and dwell peacefully with others within the confines of the rule of law as enshrined in the constitutions of their various countries, without infringing on the fundamental rights of their neighbours. On the other side, are the bad ones - sadists and psychopaths - who take delight in intimidating, hurting, harassing and persecuting peaceful citizens/perceived enemies for inexplicable reasons!

There is also a corresponding divine creation known as THE SPIRIT WORLD - AN INVISIBLE REALM WHERE GOOD AND BAD ANGELS hold sway to influence all events on the EARTH, positively or negatively. (Hebrews.1:14; compare Ephesians. 6:12). Most Nigerian politicians in positions of authority fall into the second category of bad, unrepentant and un-remorseful citizens who relish in all forms of crimes and criminalities which were usually packaged and veiled with institutional impunity - all in the name POLITIKING which is the PORTAL through which the evil machinations of all economic saboteurs, are "GOOGLED" to the detriment of the helpless downtrodden!
In Nigeria, politicking is synonymous with INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION THROUGH PARTY PATRONAGE, BUDGET PADDING, PHANTOM LEGISLATIVE CONSTITUENCIES PROJECTS/DUBIOUS GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, TREASURY LOOTING, BRAZEN ACQUISITION OF ILLICIT WEALTH THROUGH CRUDE OIL BUNKERING, MONEY LAUNDERING, HATE SPEECHES, DISRESPECT FOR ELDERS, SUPPORT FOR POLITICAL BRIGANDAGE; ETC. During Nigeria's several political crisis which dominated events of the 1960's and eventually culminated in the "Majors Military Coup of 15th January, 1966", grievous, inciting /swelling words, hate speeches and deep-rooted animosity, characterized the gladiators "modus operandi" which led to wanton destruction of lives and properties in the then Western Region of Nigeria and by extension the entire nation in the form of the THREE-YEAR-OLD BIAFRA CIVIL WAR - 1967-1970!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! LET US ALL REJECT A REPEAT of such unpalatable and barbaric experience - not again, not ever! We should trust in the divine healing of our beloved and amiable President Muhammadu Buhari and expect him back in Nigeria soonest. Amen.



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08098194390. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

The colonial amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria was effected in 1914, with good intentions, for the diverse tribes, tongues, castes, traditions and cultures to fuse, blend and harness their great agricultural/natural potentials to build a united Black African nation of great economic advantage that would attract foreign entrepreneurs to explore/exploit opportunities of investment and industrialization of the large market space! That purpose was achieved because the period between 1914-1960, turned out to be 46 years of tremendous economic activities of exports, imports and massive industrialization of Nigeria from South to North and East to West; - construction of motorable roads and railways for transportation of goods and services from the hinterland to sea ports along the coastal regions in the South. Transportation was also introduced when the first airport was constructed in a Royal Air Force Station, Makia, Kano, long before Independence in 1936, and later in other regional capitals.
In all those years, NIGERIANS had everything in common! Economic and unrestricted commercial/trade zones between the three regions of North, East and West, inter marriages, cultural and traditional exchanges of dress codes, encouragement of the study of the three major languages of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba from the primary education level, and legalization of COMMON OWNERSHIP of proceeds from commercialization of mineral resources in any part of the federation! The Minerals and Mining Act of 1947 which was enacted by the British colonial masters and which eventually found its legislation in our traditional consecutive Federal Constitutions, readily comes to mind. Under the SECOND SCHEDULE, LEGISLATIVE POWERS, Part I, Executive Legislative List, No. 39, "Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas", operations shall be the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government. Also under Chapter II, Fundamental Objectives And Directive Principles Of State Policy, Section 16, (2),(a),(b),(c), in summary legislated for a PLANNED AND BALANCED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, under the ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES OF GOVERNMENT; i.e. that the material resources of the nation are HARNESSED AND DISTRIBUTED, as best as possible to serve the common good; and that the economic system is not operated IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO PERMIT THE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH OR THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE IN THE HANDS OF FEW INDIVIDUALS OR OF A GROUP!

When the above analysis is juxtaposed with the current agitations for RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA for diverse reasons and intentions by the unpatriotic and the charlatan, it becomes crystal clear that the good intentions of the colonial masters for Nigeria to utilize her unique diversity advantageously for collective strength and be united as one indivisible people, has been truncated because it did not take long after INDEPENDENCE before that dream fell like a pack of cards through a bloody military coup and since 15th January, 1966, all things had fallen apart and the centre could no longer hold, according to renown late author and writer, CHINUA ACHEBE!

BEAUTY OF UNITY AMONG BRETHREN.
In the Word of God, a song of degrees of David states as follows: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aar'on's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Her'mon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion, For there the LORD commanded the blessing , even life for evermore." (Psalm. 133).This Godly exhortation according to the International Bible Commentary titled, “ALL IN ONE GOD", states as follows: "The opening verse is a wisdom saying which originally discouraged brothers from setting up separate households and so dividing the family estate (cf. Dt. 25: 5). Here it is put into an eider use, as v. 3b and the religious nature of the comparisons in vv. 2-3a reveal. From all over the country pilgrims would converge on Jerusalem to celebrate the festival in worship. The crowded Keswick-like scene was a fine representation of the unity of the covenant community, bound by a common faith. "The gathering in Zion is no mere nationalistic demonstration but the seeking of God's appointed means of grace for the renewal of life in its fullness. FOR (v.3b), justifies the pictures: the PRIESTLY OIL stands for BLESSING and the DEW for LIFE in store for God's family." Except for animals and inorganic elements, all human beings - even idol worshippers - have consciousness of the existence of the LIVING GOD OF HEAVEN who has sovereignty over all of His creation on Earth and who alone must be revered, worshiped and obeyed in all matters of life's situations/circumstances and whose divine Will must always have priority in all matters. (Psalm. 24). God teaches unity of purpose in all endeavours of life as it was in Creation when the TRINITY united to create Man in His image and likeness! (Genesis. 1: 26-28).

RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA AS DEMANDED BY CHARLATANS!

1. BIAFRA SECESSION: Col. Odumegu Ojukwu’s act of secession of the Eastern Region (christened "Biafra", from Nigeria which led to a 30-month-old Nigerian Civil War (16th July, 1967-12th January, 1970). The senseless war claimed an estimated 2 million lives - including many Biafran women and children and cost over $840 million US dollars to prosecute, according to the Federal Military Government! "OJUKWU AND BIAFRA REPUBLIC FAILED"!

2. MOVEMENT FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NIGER DELTA! (MEND): Towards the dying days of military administration in the 90s, a group of restive youths of the Niger Delta extraction took up arms to agitate for EMANCIPATION of the region by violence through destruction of critical crude oil exploration infrastructures as they demanded for higher revenue percentage according to the principles of derivation, until the late President Umaru Ya'Ardua presented the "Olive Branch" through mouth-watering pipelines protection contracts to the warring vandals before peace was temporarily restored! "THE SELFISH AGITATION FOR EMANCIPATION FAILED BUT NIGERIA MATCHES ON IN VICTORY"!

3. BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY: In 2009, a remnant of an Islamic fundamentalist called MAITATSINE which group was suppressed during the 80s and 90s, also resurfaced under a new leader called MOHAMMED YUSUF, with new Islamic ideologies completely opposed to the Muslim norms and practice in Nigeria and also to Western Education as entrenched in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The small group eventually metamorphosed into armed insurgents the moment their leader was extra-judicially killed and for over SEVEN years, the nation had grappled with massive slaughtering of innocent Nigerians of about one million of civilians and soldiers while the terrorists overran 14 Local Government Areas in the North East which they claimed as their CALIPHATE! Today, the story is different because BOKO HARAM has been defeated by the superior power of God's Army, which led the Federal troops to recapture the 14 LGA’s and to destroy all their hide outs in SAMBISA FOREST! "THE TERRORISTS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT NIGERIA CANNOT BE BROKEN BECAUSE IT IS ESTABLISHED BY THE ALMIGHTY GOD WHO IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS AND WHOSE AUTHORITY CAN NEVER BE CHALLENGED!"

4. EX-PRESIDENT EBELE JONATHAN'S 2014 NATIONAL CONFERENCE: That Conference was "cleverly" put together by the ex-President to perpetrate himself in office and elongate the era of corruption with impunity by thieving politicians and greedy government officials, many of who have embezzled so much from the consecutive crooked system and were unmistakably richer than most State Governments! All selected 492 delegates, conference officials and staff CONSUMED AND GULP a sum of about N20 billion naira of the tax-payers monies to cater for accommodation allowances, hotel bills and feeding! They spent about FOUR MONTHS without any new recommendations different from previous similar conferences and even shamelessly referred the controversial/contentious issues of RESOURCE CONTROL AND PRINCIPLES OF DERIVATION FORMULA TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL COMMITEE WHICH SHOULD BE SET UP TO DETERMINE THE KNOTTY MATTER! That Government squandered all available collective wealth and bequeathed a virtually EMPTY TREASURY for the in-coming administration to contend with! "THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND JONATHAN WERE DISGRACED AT THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS THAT THEY WERE UNABLE TO HAND OVER UNTIL FEW DAYS TO THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT BUHARI!

5. THE CONFEDERATION OF NIGER DELTA CRUDE OIL PIPELINE VANDALS: Pipeline vandals/terrorists began a violent crusade of secession from the rest of Nigeria since the advent of the Change Administration of President Buhari because, according to them, over 80% of the Federal Government's annual revenue was derived from their region while they had nothing in form of social development or infrastructures to show for the oil rich geo-political zone! From 2015 to December 2016, the vandals practically sabotaged Nigeria's economy and forced THREE CONSECUTIVE RECESSIONS on the citizens who had to endure very high inflation on goods and services due to the inordinate ambition of "fellow citizens"! "IT HAS DAWNED ON THE VARIOUS VANDALS THAT THEY AND THEIR ELDERS WERE COMPETING WITH ONE ANOTHER FOR SELFISH REASONS, AND THAT IS, WHO GETS THE HIGHER BARGAIN FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN TERMS OF PIPE LINE PROTECTION CONTRACTS!

6. INDEGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB), AND MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BIAFRA (MASSOB): These are a confused and disoriented group of youths who either ignorant of historical facts or are deliberately being mischievous or misguided to continue to waste their precious lives like heathens! They need to be reminded that late Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, the "Biafra Republic" arrow head, was defeated, escaped to Ivory Coast, where he lived on exile until he was granted amnesty - having repented and renounced secession - and eventually returned to Nigeria to collect all of his entitlements in the Nigerian, NOT BIAFRAN ARMY! "IT IS BETTER THEY BACKED OFF AND PITCH THEIR TENT WITH THE WINNING TEAM OF PEACE-LOVING AND LAW ABIDING NIGERIANS WHO BELIEVE IN THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD OVER THE NATION"!

CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENT FOR FISCAL FEDERALISM COULD BE THE SOLUTION!
Patriotic Nigerians and economists have at different forums canvassed for fiscal federalism in which federating States which are economically viable in mineral resources and mining should be at liberty to keep larger percentage of proceeds from internally generated revenue and to remit an agreeable portion to the Federal Government for its overall commitments/services to the federation in respect of defence, currency, immigration, customs, internal security etc. But to achieve this noble suggestion, both the Executive and the Legislature have to agree to reach a consensus to amend the Constitution for legal effect. But until then, SECESSION AGITATORS should realize that NIGERIA'S UNITY IS NON- NEGOTIABLE! NAKED WE CAME INTO THE WORLD, NAKED WE SHALL RETURN!
The lyrics of a Unity Song by Hezekiah Walker is very appropriate to close this treatise: "I need you, you need me, we’re all a part of God's Body; Stand with me, agree with me, it's His will that every need be supplied, you are important to me, I need you to survive. I pray for you, you pray for me, I love you, I won't harm you with the words from my mouth, I love you, I need you to survive." "THY KINGDOM COME; THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. AMEN. (Matthew. 6:10).



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. (g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.)

Since the advent of the new Change Administration,
there had been an orchestrated gang-up of vicious
criticisms by some unpatriotic Nigerians against every
move made by the President and his economic team to
sanitize the polity of the stench and rot of endemic
institutional corruption bequeathed by past military and
civilian governments in 54 years of the post -
independent nation! No one was put in doubt, right from the campaign period of the 2015 General Elections, in what direction the All Progressives Congress [APC], was headed:

(1) Total war against and elimination of
corruption;
(2) Resuscitation of the fledging and ailing
economy; and
(3) The re-engineering, overhaul and re-organisation of all security agencies for the enabling strategies to contain, defeat and totally eliminate the
national insecurity created through six, very bloody
years (2009-2015), of Boko Haram insurgency which
almost destroyed the very foundation of democratic
governance of Nigeria!

And, of course, the massive support and unprecedented turn out for the APC, on all
election days, (in spite of rigging gimmicks, delaying
tactics and money-induced voting pattern, employed by
the then ruling People’s Democratic Party [PDP] ), were very clear indications of where the pendulum swung and favoured the populist Party into a landslide, convincing and undisputable victory, which prompted Dr. Ebele Jonathan to congratulate his opponent before the official announcement of final results by Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC]!

Those who swore by the "graves of their ancestors",
that President Muhammadu Buhari, would never win the election, were all infuriated with former President
Jonathan, faulted and scolded him for not refusing the
authentic results; and have in the last 25 months,
become "thorn in the flesh" of the new administration in
the area of persistent baseless and unwarranted
criticisms of every move of government!

They have criticized, him for embarking on several unnecessary international journeys, not rescuing the over 218 Chibok Secondary School Girls, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists, since 14th April, 2014, even when 82 more of them were rescued recently; for failing to revive the economy which snow-dived due to international crude oil glut and price somersault from $100 - 48 USD, in 2014; for being a religious bigot who planned to Islamize Nigeria; for loop-sided Federal appointments which favoured the Northerners; for employing security agents to harass only Southern politicians; for "unleashing" the EFCC, DSS and POLICE against PDP Opposition members;
for employing "incompetent" ministers who have no
solutions for the current economic recession; for not
inviting former economists who served under former
Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan, who piloted the
economic ship of the nation and ran it aground; for the
failures in the power, roads, housing and health sectors;
for not listening to the advice of distinguished, revered
and eminent Nigerians at home and the Diaspora on
matters relating to economic competence; for not
respecting the constitutional laws of separation of
powers between the Executive, Legislators and the
Judiciary; etc.

Though, these contracted critics had refused to see anything good in the APC Government, they were unable to stop the successes that have been
recorded so far in respect of the steady and tacit defeat
of terrorism by Boko Haram, the quick diversification
from oil to agricultural income within the short period,
and all welfare programmes specifically geared towards the alleviation of mass poverty, amongst women, children and the elderly, in spite of the lean purse of government at inception. Presently, more money was being pumped into the economy to support the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMSEs), which are the backbone and foundation to economic buoyancy of any serious administration which is poised to fulfil its social contract obligations to the citizenry. Apart from the monies looted by Nigerians and deposited in foreign banks, which are being recovered, the World Bank is prepared to support the APC Government with some favourable loan to overcome the travail of the transient economic recession. Enough of these criticisms against Buhari

By Dr Olufon (dvdolufon@gmail.com).

wtfcoded:
I'm tired of reading

Oh sorry to hear that: it's an interesting piece though!

LOVEGINO:
Abeg, sumbori shud xplain to me in jst 1 sentence.

How can you understand a topic such as this in one sentence? Even if you can't read the article line by line, you can at least skim through!

The orchestrated controversies over National Restructuring of Project Nigeria has been narrowed down by debaters, analysts, commentators and critics to mean: one or all of the following: True or Fiscal Federalism, Devolution Of Power From Federal To Federating States, Resource Control, Principles of Derivation, State Police, Rotational Presidency etc.: BUT EVERYONE REJECTED SECESSION, BREAK-UP OR DISMEMBERMENT OF THE NATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ALL THE SUGGESTIONS!

Prominent among all the debaters were the RECYCLED POLITICIANS who have acquired immense wealth through tribalism/nepotism in the award of contracts and lopsided employment opportunities which always favoured some geographical areas of the country above others since independence. BUT HAS ANYONE EVER THOUGHT THAT THE DOCTRINE OF NATIONAL RESTRUCTURING (POLITICALLY OR ECONOMICALLY), SHOULD ISSUE FROM INDIVIDUAL MINDS THROUGH ORIENTATION AND RE-ORIENTATION ABOUT CITIZENSHIP, NATIONAL VALUES, CIVIC DUTIES ETC?
What happened to the RESTRUCTURING of past administrations from Amalgamation to Parliamentary, Regional, Military, and States creation from 12, to 19, 27 and 36, in 157 years of Nigeria as a nation? What was the gain of the common man in all of these past? Did restructuring put food on his table? Where are his ancestors who toiled for Nigeria? Did they not all die in penury and poverty? Where the employment opportunities were for employable and able-bodied citizens in all of the window-dressing antics called restructuring? The unemployment ratio in Nigeria is almost 65% in spite of the efforts of the present Change Administration!

In the beginning, GOD created Man as a TRIPARTITE personality i.e. Body, Soul and Spirit, capable of reasoning constructively, highly sensible to make independent decisions without coercion, pressure, intimidation or harassment by anyone other than his God-endowed Conscience! . NOW IS THE TIME TO ALLOW THE COMMON MAN TO DECIDE HIS OWN DESTINY WITHOUT FURTHER MANIPULATION BY THE UNFAITHFUL POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE - ESPECIALLY, THE LEGISLATURE WHICH MUST BE COLLAPSED INTO ONE CHAMBER OF TWO LEGISLATORS FROM EACH OF THE 36 STATES AND WHO WOULD SERVE ON PART-TIME APPOINTMENTS ON BASIC CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES/ALOWANCES TO BLOCK GOVERNMENT WASTAGES!


The Godly common man is fully aware that the Earth and all its Fullness belong to GOD and that, naked he came to the world and naked would he return to GOD to give account of his stewardship at the end of his sojourn on planet Earth since it is appointed for Man to DIE ONLY ONCE, and thereafter to be JUDGED! MOST OF THE CONFUSIONISTS AND AGITATORS FOR RESTRUCTURING AND SECESSION FROM NIGERIA ARE CLOSER TO THEIR GRAVES WHERE ALL AGITATIONS CEASE, THAN THEY COULD EVER IMAGINE!

What dividends of democracy can the EXPIRED, CORRUPTED, DISILUSSIONED AND UNREPENTANT politicians bring to the table for the INDEPENDENT MIND OF THE COMMON MAN, who is actually the GOOSE THAT HAD ALWAYS LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS SINCE AMALGAMATION IN 1914?
We believe that there is nothing wrong with Nigeria's present STRUCTURE of 36 States - what is wrong is maladministration by politicians who have FAILED for the umpteenth time to HARNESS the God-given natural resources within their reach to generate massive INTERNAL REVENUES to make the States sustainable economically because of their SELFISH AGENDA TO SIPHON SUCH WEALTH FOR PERSONAL AGGRANDIZEMENT!
We had severally advocated that GOVERNORS of the 36 States should be forced to give account of the Federal Government's BAIL OUT FUNDS LENT TO THEM FOR THE PAYMENT OF BACK-LOG OF WORKERS SALARIES IN 2015&2016, AND ALSO THOSE OF 35 STATES FOR TWO TRANCHES OF PARIS CLUB REFUND OF SEVERAL BILLIONS OF NAIRA OVER-DEDUCTED THROUGH LOAN SERVICING and it is gratifying to learn that SERAP, - a Nigerian anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has secured a COURT ORDER which must now force the States helmsmen to give account of disbursement of the said strategic funds to SERAP and by extension for public knowledge, since mismanagement of the funds was rumoured in the social media!

On 29th June, 2017, a Lagos Federal High Court, granted leave which now permits Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), to seek and order of mandamus (an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the official to properly fulfil his official duties or correct an abuse of discretion ), directing the government to publish details of his spending of the N388.304 billion London Paris Club Loan refunds allegedly diverted and mismanaged by 35 States of the Nigerian Federation. In a very brief ruling, the Judge permitted SERAP to proceed with the legal challenge to unravel how those States spent the loan refund. Justice Muslim Hassan, stressed that it was pertinent for the authorities "to come and tell us how they spent our money." The Governors had claimed that they spent the refunds on strategic social projects! WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WITH INDEPENDENT MINDS WHO WILL TRULY REPRESENT THE DOWNTRODDEN WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE; AND IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT THE ONGOING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS), 1999 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT JOINT COMMITTEE WOULD ENSURE THE PASSAGE OF THIS ADVOCACY!

The THREE-PRONGED THRUST of the Change Administration's effort to revamp the bastardized economy on assumption of governance in 2015, was,
(1) To erase and obliterate CORRUPTION completely
(2) To destroy all manner of insurgency and annihilate the Boko Haram terrorism
(3) Create an enabling and conducing atmosphere and opportunities through massive diversification to Agriculture/Solid Mineral natural resources from the mono-crude oil product, in order to cater for the total welfare package of the TALAKAWAS!

We were therefore not surprised that the arrowheads of the The 2014 National Conference solely organised by ex President Ebele Jonathan, to boost his electoral chances for his THIRD TERM in office have championed the advocacy that the CONTROVERSIAL REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE which was nothing short of a monumental fraud against the electorate and the generality of citizens of Nigeria, should be ADOPTED as panacea for RESTRUCTURING! What an effrontery?

Have the VIPERS not exposed their penchant for greed and avarice once again in order to remain "relevant" from one administration to another? But patriotic Nigerians have not forgotten that the President who rejoiced while Nigeria was devastated by a terrible inferno in the disastrous theatre of BOKO HARAM WAR, only succeeded to BRIBE 492 GOVERNMENT-SELECTED DELEGATES, Conference Officials and Staff with a whooping sum of about N20 billion naira of tax payers money to cater for accommodation allowances, hotel bills, feeding and transportation for the FOUR MONTHS JAMBOREE, AND NOT THE DOWNTRODDEN CITIZENS who make up the 180 million population! Late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Ebele Jonathan, assumed office on 29th May, 2007, and under their watch, the NUCLEUS of the BOKO HARAM CELL, birthed in Maiduguri, capital city of Bornu State, in 2009! Ex-President Yar'Adua passed on in the year 2010, leaving his Vice to carry on the job of the AMNESTY PROGRAMME for Niger Delta Militants and also the COUNTER-INSURGENCY operations against the Boko Haram Religious Sect in the North Eastern State; but sadly enough, Ebele Jonathan cared less in respect of the insurgency!


On 14th April, 2014, there was a twin-bomb attack by Boko Harram terrorists on the Federal Capital Territory's (FCT), populous suburb of Nyanyan, Bus Terminal, in which not less 79 unfortunate citizens suddenly lost their lives and on the same fateful day, about 275 students of the Chibok Girls Secondary School, in Borno State, were kidnapped by the same group which PASSIONATELY HATES WESTERN EDUCATION!
At one stage, during the castigation of his government's failure and ineptitude in recovering the captives within a reasonable period, the ex-President said publicly that the reported case of kidnapping was a HOAX AND CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL AGAINST HIS ADMINISTRATION!
After Jonathan's exit, the Change All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration which was determined to win the war against the terrorists, discovered that the sum of $2.1 billion US dollars, which was appropriated to purchase ARMS and AMMUNITION to prosecute the war against insurgency was allegedly diverted by retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser (NSO), (presently on trial), for the presidential ambition of his boss, Ebele Jonathan in 2015!

Before Jonathan's providential opportunity in governance, BAYELSA, his State of origin was one of the smallest in land mass and population, which complained bitterly of MARGINALIZATION AND AGITATED FOR RESTRUCTURING. God gave Jonathan a miraculous opportunity to rule Nigeria but he turned out to be unfit for the enormous assignment which has now been given to a more dignified team who are ready to do the will of God for the majority poor masses! In spite of Jonathan's failure, Bayelsa is also agitating for restructuring - but which type would they vote for this time around?

WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NO PEOPLE, RACE, COLOUR OR CREED POSSESSES ANY LAND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! FROM BABEL WE ALL MIGRATED ON A MISSION OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT TO CO-HABITATE, INTER-MARRY, WORK TOGETHER AND UNITE ECONOMICAL FOR OUR COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL! NO ONE CAN BE AN ISLAND TO HIMSELF! THAT IS HOW GOD PLANNED IT.

ALLOW THE COMMOM MAN ENJOY ALL OF HIS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS, ALL DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY, IN THE FORM OF GOOD EMPLOYMENT WITH LIVING WAGES TO CATER FOR HIS FAMILY, MORTGAGED ACCOMODATION PLAN, HEALTH FACILITIES AND PORTABLE WATER, GOOD TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, ADEQUATE SECURITY, ETC; AND HE IS DONE WITH THE RESTRUCTURING! AND AT THE PERIOD OF ELECTIONS, HE WOULD VOTE WISELY AND CONCIENCIOUSLY FOR CONCIENCIOUS CANDIDATES! A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08058436756 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

Nigerians and their reading culture, You read only the topic without reading the Article itself, and yet you say "trash" and "bullshiet"

NOLLYWOOD FILMS ARE POLLUTING SOCIETAL VALUES! THEY SHOULD BE CENSORED!

In 2014, Nigeria was credited for being the country with the largest re-based Gross Domestic Product (GDP), index for the year 2013 on the African continent, and the 26th globally. Nollywood, as an arm of the entertainment and music industry with the mobile telephone market, were credited for contributing 12% (per cent), or N853.9 billion naira of foreign exchange earnings to the nation's economy through film productions, music and telephone communications which should have been meticulously and thoroughly censored and monitored to meet international best practice for both local and export consumption, before sales distribution and shipment! Nigeria’s celebrated GDP estimates for the year 2013 was put at $ 510 billion US dollars or N80.3 trillion taking into account the massive contribution to national economy by these SERVICE-ORIENTED SECTOR, a revelation that the level of economic activity at that period, was much higher than in the 24 years before 2013. The economic landscape was majorly boosted by this Sector which offered a significant opportunity for growth and wealth creation; BUT AT WHAT COST?

The uninformed or uneducated citizens kept wondering why the nation's economy had not had positive impact on their lifestyles with all past administrations, military or democracy without getting reasonable answers for their dilemma because the players in the economy before 29th, May, 2015, cornered all the dividends for themselves and abandoned the poor masses to their uncertain fate and it did not take long before economic RECESSION began to take its toll on the nation! But thank God for the BUHARI/OSINBAJO APC'S CHANGE ADMINISTRATION which has now restored hope of economic survival in the lives over 100.000.000, million Nigerian "hewers of the wood and drawers of the water!’’

Nollywood which is an acronym, sobriquet or colloquial term for the Nigerian Film Industry, dates back to early 2000s, when Nigerian films began to evolve and to attract international attention as Nigeria's version of America's Hollywood or India's Bollywood major film entertainment industries as they were released in some of the nation's major languages, notable cultures/ traditions with which Nigeria is richly blessed! Outside of contributing naira, kobo and foreign currencies to the coffers of the nation Nollywood had bequeathed the "GREEK GIFT" of PLAGUES, PESTILLENCES, DISASTERS, CALAMITIES ETC, upon the land of Nigeria through 100% emphasis on IDOLATORY - SORCERY, ENCHANTMENTS, DIVINATIONS , SYNCRETISM, ETC, which has further compounded the almost miserable and meaningless lives of the downtrodden who believed in most of Nollywood MISLEADING THEMES AND STORY LINES which unfortunately had not been adequately controverted by the regulatory, supervising and censorship authorities saddled with this very SENSITIVE, SPIRITUAL AND VERY DELICATE ISSUE OF GODLESS FAITH!

Although the pre and post independent Nigeria witnessed celluloid films broadcast of outstanding artistes from the geographical regions, nothing could be compared to the technology of HOME VIDEO FILM DISCS PRODUCTION which debuted from late 20th Century, which overwhelmed, drowned and almost brought to extinction the clamour for CINEMA CENTRES across the nation! In a more civilized Nigeria of this new century, hardly would one find any household without a TELEVISION SET, SMART OR ANDROID PHONES through which they could watch Nollywood films which became so popular among the populace and globally.

There was no doubt that it was a good development for both the film industry and the Nigerian economy because of the nation's attainment as Africa's busiest economic destination, BUT WHY WOULD NOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS DESTROY THOSE GAINS THROUGH ENCOURAGEMENT OF IDOL WORSHIP WHICH HAS DRIVEN MANY INTO ILLICIT ACQUISITION OF WEALTH THROUGH MURDER AND HUMAN BLOOD SHEDDING?
Because this "modern" film industry had been busy dishing out globally, through UNHOLY Visual Cassette Discs (VCD's), about Nigeria to other nations in the name of propagating CULTURE, TRADITION, RELIGION AND GOOD MORALS? Though most of the films are produced in Nigeria's lingua franca which is the English Language, film makers always ensured that translations of others done along ethnic, tribal or regional formats were done through sub-titles for wider reach. The Hausa- language cinema, informally known as "KANNYWOOD" (a sub-industry of Nollywood -based in Kano), Yoruba, Ibo, Itsekiri, Edo, Urhobo, etc, Film Productions fall into this category.

However it is very disheartening that ALL OF THE NOLLYWOOD FILMS EXIBIT WITH RELISH, THE FOLLOWING HUMAN NEGATIVE AND UNGODLY TRAITS IN THE FORM OF:
Violence;
Gangsterism;
Robbery;
Cultism;
Immorality;
Paganism;
Idolatry;
Heathenism, (enchantment, socerery, divination, witchcraft, wizardry, worship of water and marine spirits/powers;
Confrontation against lawful authorities, (militancy/insurgency);
Corruption of societal and national values through emphasis on the power and love of money/money-making rituals with HUMAN BLOOD, instead of the love of God who gives power to make wealth;
Exhibition of inferiority complex in fashion and lifestyle; ( love for false BRAZILIAN wigs, foreign dress style instead of made in Nigeria fabrics and total BLEECHING of the skin by both male and female artistes), and
MORAL DECADENCE, through which the national campaign against sexual immorality became a NULITY and the nation has recorded at least 20 million Nigerians who are HIV/AIDS POSITIVE! Of all of the above VICES, immoralities in the forms of illicit sexual activities, fornication, adultery, disobedience to parents/lawful authorities, reveling/celebration and emphasis on the love of money, and ABNORMAL SKIN BLEECHING, stand out conspicuously!

They celebrate Witches/Wizards/Witch Doctor/Ancestral gods, whom they regard as more powerful than God- worshipping/ God-fearing citizens whom they portray as mere mortals in order to instill fear into them for their illicit monetary gains. Film producers story themes always vindicated WITCH DOCTORS, while those who consulted their SHRINES were left to face the consequences of their idolatry acts!

They promoted invisible occult powers that struck people dead in their sleep and which also make criminals to disappear from scenes of crime and escape arrests! Other promotions include groups of young witches who "possess" evil powers which they unleashed on perceived enemies or rival fraternities in form of deaths or incurable infirmities while "gods of the land - iron gods; thunder, lightining , rain, crops/fertility gods , etc, were worshiped with the zeal of national pride though Nigeria is constitutionally SECULAR!

DID YOU KNOW THAT MOST YOUTHS AND MARRIED COUPLES FACED WITH CHALLENGES OF FINANCES, CHILD BEARING, JOBLESSNESS, PROMOTIONS, VENGEANCE; ETC, ARE DESPERATELY SEEKING DIABOLICAL POWERS TO OVERCOME THESE CHALLENGES THROUGH THOSE WITCH DOCTORS AND HERBALIST REGULARLY PROMOTED IN NOLLYWOOD FILMS?
Nollywood film makers are misleading the Nigerian youths who copycat all make-beliefs in the films they watched on regular basis and always experimented on the immorality of real sexual acts of fornication and even gang rapes of unfortunate girls or women! Married couples relish in adultery while the rituals of money-making with human parts/blood have become an all-comers affair while religious activities are deliberately relegated to the background! Although, PARENTAL GUIDANCE (PG), AND AGE LIMIT WARNINGS were usually displayed before every film episodes, they have turned out to be mere dress rehearsals because there was no way the advices could be enforced except the FILM CENSORS BOARD pronounces total ban of the negative and unethical film broadcasts by Nollywood to the Nigerian populace!

WHERE IS THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL FILMS AND VIDEO CENSORS BOARD IN ALL OF THESE?
The National Film Video Censors Board (NFVCB), is the regulatory body set up by Act No. 85 of 1993 to regulate films and videos industry in Nigeria. NFVCB Board is empowered by law to classify all films and videos whether imported or produced locally. It is also the duty of the Board to register all films and video outlets across the country and to keep a register of such registered outlets among other functions in order to ensure national values. They are also to censor motion picture film, home movies and video productions; but have they been very diligent to function in their official duties in view of the massive infiltration of film and movie productions with false religious doctrines/bigotry, idolatry, violence etc as enumerated earlier. The current situation in the film industry is very frightening.

It is an all-comers affair of "damaging and destructive gabages in the form of entertainment", which has swept both religious and faith morals into the dust bins and incinerators and we believe that the right time to arrest this unhealthy development by the Ministries of Information and Culture at the Federal and State levels is NOW! Nigeria should not degenerate into an abyss of idolatry and GODLESSNESS IN THE NAME OF ENTERTAINMENT AND FOREIGN EARNINGS!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NIGERIA, AND NOT BIAFRA WAS THE COUNTRY BIRTHED AT INDEPENDENCE IN 1960!.

The Truth and Nothing But the Truth About 30-Month Biafra Secession of 1967-1970 As meticulously and diligently Documented; To Dissuade Young Igbos from Precipitating Further Bloodshed of Innocent Nigerians! (Ezekiel. 33: 1- 33).

THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR:
(1). The Biafran Sesession War waged against Nigeria from 16th July, 1967 to 12th January, 1970, by a section of the Nigerian Army and citizens of the then Eastern Region, under the leadership of Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, was a compounded treasonable felony, in view of the fact that Nigeria was under the martial law through an initial coup de tat against the entire nation, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu on 15th January, 1966!

(2) In the early hours of 15 January, 1966, several eminent Nigerian politicians, including, the Prime Minister and Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions were murdered in cold blood when soldiers of the Nigerian Army revolted in Kaduna, Lagos Ibadan and Enugu in a pre-meditated and well-planned coup!

(3) Here are some excerpts of coup leader, Major Nzeogwu in a broadcast on the 16th January, 1966: "We seized power to stamp out tribalism, nepotism and regionalism.... There were five us in the inner circle and we planned the details. On Saturday morning the officers and men thought they were going out only on a night exercise. It was not until they were out in the bush they were told the full details of the plan.....It was a truly Nigerian gathering and only in the army do you get true Nigerianism.... They did it for the good of their country.... We all started out in the same spirit but......."

(4) It was a bloody coup which took the lives of Northern and Western leaders but which spared those of the Eastern Region, including the first President, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe!

(5) According to the Republican Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chapter I, General Provisions, Part I (2), "The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any person or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution," but Major Nzeogwu and his coupists seized power with impunity!

(6) Elder Statesmen, Enerst Ikoli, and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, of blessed memory would be fondly remembered for the dignified and noble roles they played alongside their fellow nationalists in the persons of late Herbert Macaulay, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Anthony Enahoro, who negotiated Nigeria's Independent status with the British Colonial Masters without shedding ONE DROP OF HUMAN BLOOD!

NIGERIAN NATION:
(7). Nigeria was birthed on the concept and principles of unity of people of diverse tongues, tribes, cultures/castes, who were determined to dwell together and harness their diversity into democratic prosperity/dividends and not on a myopic or narrow-minded philosophy of unitary governance of a selfish few, over the majority mass of other vulnerable citizens.

( Nigeria at Independence turned out to be the confederate of very peaceful people comprising of at least 250 tribes and over 500 languages who co-existed in love, happiness, mutual trust and understanding which progressed into inter-tribal marriages and pro-creation of inter-regional/inter-communal offspring’s as nucleus of the Nigerian dream of the founding fathers until 15th January, 1966, when Nigerian Army Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu and his fellow coupist destroyed and shattered the erstwhile fabric of peace, tranquillity serenity, stability and conviviality among the good people of this great and promising nation, through a bloody coup - this FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN NATION!

KADUNA NZEOGU:
(9) The late Major Nzeogu's parents begat him in Kaduna where they migrated and prospered as traders. He grew up in Kaduna and due to his great affinity with Northern colleagues at school and later in the army, they named him after "Kaduna" his birth place, (though an Igbo by tribe), the then capital city of the Northern Region of Nigeria but unknown to them, he would someday rebel against his Fatherland by killing those he professed to love dearly!

(10) In recent contemporary global history, foreign immigrants by birth in some European countries had turned out to be traitors to their hosts! Both France and Germany, in 2016, and London and Manchester in 2017, have suffered terrorist attacks which claimed scores of innocent lives through the hands of ungrateful immigrant settlers/citizens who bit the fingers that fed them!

(11) That coup de tat by Kaduna Nzeogwu and other officers, mostly of the Eastern extraction was the SEED PLOT of animosity which had turned the North against the South - especially, South East, till date because fatalities of the TREASON, were Northern and Western Region indigenes - while political leaders of the Eastern Nigeria who were spared has its consequences and ripple effects in a counter coup by army officers of the Northern extraction in July 1966

THESE TRUTHFUL DOCUMENTATION IS PUBLISHED FOR THE PRESENT CROP OF A NEW BIAFRA SECESSION AGITATORS AND POSTERITY TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST!

(12) Why Would The Igbos Reject The Truth? Can They Re-write The Nigerian History? Inordinate ambition led the Igbos to shed innocent blood six months into Nigeria's independence and also to embark on a suicidal mission of secession in 1967, when their overall plan fell like a pack of cards!

(13) General Aguiyi Ironsi , Military Head of State introduced the hard line vertical style of UNITARY command system of government instead of devolving some measure of power to his Regional Governors whom he treated as mere puppets who must receive autocratic orders from him as the feudal lord alone. After his demise in the Second coup, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Governor of the Eastern State, pursued an Igbo agenda of secession instead of employing RESTITUTION TACTICS and Over TWO MILLION Nigerians died in the 30-month-old BIAFRA WAR!

(14) YOUNG IGBOS ARE STILL AGITATING FOR SECESSION INSTEAD OF A POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING THAT WOULD FAVOUR THEM THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NEW STATE FOR SOUTH EAST GEO- POLITICAL ZONE! WHY WOULD ANY SANE PERSON WISH TO RESURRECT AN INORDINATE CAUSE THAT DESTROYED OVER TWO MILLION LIVES - 50 YEARS AFTER?

(15) To majority of patriotic Nigerians, a political re-structuring of financially stronger federating States in the form of devolution of power, for them to contribute to the centre and reverse the present trend of revenue sharing formula; and to others, the country should re-adopt the regional system of government as now expressed in the SIX Geo- Political zones through the scrapping of the 36 State Structure! WON'T MAJOR NZEOGWU STIR IN HIS GRAVE OVER A REVERSAL TO REGIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?
HOW MANY IGBOS SUPPORT SECESSION APART FROM NNAMDI KANU AND RALPH NWAZURIKE?

(16) Ninety-nine point nine per cent of Igbos have denounced secession because it is not good for BUSINESS! All the billions of naira in their bank accounts were garnered from doing business with 170 million Nigerians! WHAT WOULD BE THE POPULATION OF A NEW BIAFRA? ONE THOUSAND OR ONE MILLION? Would the Igbos carve out Biafra From Nigeria or Sahara Desert as the ISIS did in Libya/Syrian Deserts?

EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU:
(17) A prominent Igbo, business entrepreneur and politician, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has been speaking from both sides of the mouth: in one breath, he says, the Igbos had invested so much in Nigeria and would therefore oppose secession of any group of people - whether they be Arewa or Oduduwa; and in another breath, he says, he was proud to be a Biafran, which claimed an ordinary identification!

(18) We disagree with that postulation! Biafra is synonymous with SECESSION from the nation of Nigeria between 1967-1970 in which over TWO MILLION innocent human beings - including vulnerable women and children died untimely; it is also synonymous to the introduction of CANIBALISM into that part of the nation when elders who survived had to feed on the flesh of their CHILDREN, like in Biblical Israel during a terrible period of FAMINE! (2 Kings. 6:24-29).

BIAFRA IS ANATHEMA!
(19) Biafra rings out a sound of discord, it is an ARCHAIC DOCTRINE that should be abandoned in the archives! Protagonists of a Biafra nation are the naive and disillusioned Igbo youths who did not experience the agonizing pain of war and who need a new orientation that Nigeria would remain ONE INDIVISIBLE NATION FOREVER AND EVER ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSIVE WILL OF GOD.

(20) The following were the last comments of Chief Iwuanyanwu at a recent National Unity Summit, organised by Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria in partnership with Youth Assembly of Nigeria: "Biafra is not about secession. It is a name of a particular people in Nigeria from the South East. Therefore, it is not an offence to say that I am a Biafran. There was no victor, no vanquished after the civil war. I am impressed with Yakubu Gowon because he IMPLEMENTED ALL THE AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. IGBO WERE NOT DEPRIVED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR." WHAT ABOUT THE NIGERIAN MASSES!

(21) In all of these arguments - for and against - none of the agitators ever bothered to consider the ripple effects that such acrimonious war would add to the plight of the common Nigerians who would suffer the consequences of another civil war in the country while they are yet to recover from the hurts and scars of the dying economic recession! EVERYONE IS MARGINALIZED!

(22) A second republic law maker and elder statesman, Dr Junaid Mohammed, recently accused President Buhari of marginalizing the North in favour of the South West in areas of Key appointments and development projects like roads without constructing one single toad in the North and without meeting the aspirations and basic needs of northerners!

(23) Recommendations of the 2014 National Conference in respect of the South East Geo-Political Zone which states among other things that an additional state should be created for the South East to be at par with others with SIX States should be revisited without delay!

CIVIL DISTURBANCE AGAIN?
(24) Must IPOB/MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), disrupt social/commercial activities of other Nigerians and national security on 30th MAY 2017? A timely warning against any form of planned protests in some States of the Federation by pro-Biafra organisations was issued on Friday, 26th May, 2017 by the Nigeria Police, who promised to deal decisively with defaulters who might breach security and undermine law and order.

(25) Misguided Igbo youths should be reminded that just as they could claim the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association under the Constitution, so could other millions of Nigerians whom they planned to deprive of their constitutional rights of free movements and access to public/private facilities on the day in question!
NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED DIVERSIONARY BLOODSHED WHILE GRAPLING WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NORTH KOREA'S KIM JOG-UN SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE TO AVOID WORLD WAR III !

THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Chairman of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK), who assumed office, 13th April, 2012, is in the "eye of the storm" for flexing nuclear muscles against the United States and other nations, including South Korea, which dared to cast aspersion on his country's super power capabilities in the area of modern technological nuclear weaponry.
The young leader had boasted of his country's dexterity in the invention and manufacture of highly sophisticated nuclear war heads, atomic/hydrogen bombs, which can destroy any nation, but had consistently claimed that his NUCLEAR PROGRAMME was specifically designed against US aggression!

Since assumption of office, Kim Jong-un had tested a number of provocative Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (IBMs), that have prompted international condemnation, though he accused the US of using the North Korea's nuclear programme as an excuse to mask its own opposition to banning nuclear weapons. He has also claimed through his envoy at the United Nation's (UN), mission, that, the US drove his country to make and possess nuclear weapons to defend itself against any American aggression. He said that the US was the first country to use nuclear weapons against Japan, during World War II and had continued to use them, "to threaten and blackmail other countries" including North Korea which supports the global effort to eliminate nuclear weapons " until the denuclearisation of the world is implemented."

The US had said that it would not participate in the UN talks aimed at banning nuclear weapons because "bad actors" wouldn't sign or comply with a potential treaty since "North Korea would be the one cheering and the people we represent would be the one at risk." Although there is a global move to totally ban nuclear weapons, the five nuclear powers, -US, Russia, China, Britain and France, have refused to attend the meeting, saying a ban won't work but opted for "a more (unexplained), gradual approach."
DPRK's envoy to the UN has disclosed that his country would not also take part in the talks because of joint military exercises by US and South Korea using Special Forces and "all kinds of nuclear strategic assets", AIMED AT SECRETLY INVADING NORTH KOREA TO ELIMINATE ITS LEADERSHIP!

AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE'S ASSASINATION CAUSED WORLD WAR 1: At the beginning of the 20th Century, precisely between 1914 and1918, the global conflict fought by most countries of the world and tagged, WORLD WAR 1, was so intense in fierceness, destruction of human lives, properties, and critical infrastructures of enormous dimension that it seemed the world would come to an end!

Historical records state that the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, on 28th June 1914, in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, part of former Yugoslavia, was the root cause of the war! The assassin shot Ferdinand as an act of protest against the AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF SERBIAN-SPEAKING BOSNIA and an expression of the pan-Slavic movement then popular among many in Eastern Europe. Austria-Hungary was a multinational state, (with a dozen official languages), most of the South-Central and Eastern Europe, with half of its population composed of SLAVS, who had nationalist ambitions! Though, fanatical nationalism could always cause rift, dissension, insurgency etc, it would seem ludicrous that such obsession would ever generate A WORLD WAR, BUT IT DID!

The conflict of interests between Russia and Germany in Austria which could have resolved the unfortunate development resulted in an unsuccessful and tortuous diplomacy since the Nazis preferred that Austria should punish Serbia for the assassination crime but Russia was opposed to the idea, and eventually when Austria declared war on Serbia, Germany belatedly tried to prevent the war from escalating but to no avail! And having taken side, Germany had no other choice than to declare war on Russia and later on France on 3rd August, 1914, and also invaded Luxembourg and Belgium, hoping to win a swift victory in the West and so be able to turn its attention on the more powerful Russian foe but failed in its calculation because Britain entered the war in support of France and Belgium since Germany was a potential economic and naval threat to her far-flung empire abroad.
Thus the stage was set for World War 1 which witnessed the introduction of new weapons - such as the submarine, the airplane and the tank - mobilized the entire manpower/economic resources of all combatant nations, devoured an estimated 10 million military men and an equal number of civilian causalities, cost more than $337 billion US dollars to execute in FOUR YEARS (1914-1918)!
Reasons for the aggressive nature of World War 1 could be traced to the previous French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in early 19th Century, which took Europe by surprise. When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he led an army of some 600.000 men! Napoleon1, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), was a military genius, brilliant organiser and deft administrator who dominated Europe for nearly 20 years, was one of the greatest conquerors in world history. With the exception of BRITAIN, his empire covered most of Western and Central Europe and extended from North Sea to Sicily and all neighbouring states were either under his control or in alliance with France.

World War II was even more disastrous: some 17million soldiers and 43 million civilians were killed at an estimated cost of $ 1.348 billion US dollars to execute sequel to the technological development of weaponry and the strategy of mass bombing of civilian populations which created destruction on an unprecedented scale! DRESDEN, HAMBURG, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI and many other cities were utterly destroyed! The introduction of NUCLEAR WEAPONS in World War II had thus signified a global threat of world-wide destruction!

NUCLEAR WEAPONS! The research for nuclear energy which relates to weapons or the use of weapons; which use the power produced when the nucleus of an atom is divided or joined to another nucleus has further spurred the unending confrontations between the Western and Eastern blocs since the end of World War II into greater stockpiling of destructive weapons of modern warfare of nuclear arsenal. The so-called super powers, which is headed by the United States, and Russia (head of former Soviet Union), are leading in the nuclear industry. Others members of the nuclear team, Britain, France, China and North Korea and are also capable of waging nuclear wars but would be checkmated through the concept of deterrence!

CONCEPT OF DETERRENCE - is an agreement which would disabuse the mind of any powerful nation from nuclear attack against another due to the advantage of hindsight that, such nation had equal or even more devastating capacity of nuclear weapons to strike back!
At the end of World War 1, the LEAGUE OF NATIONS which was instituted to broker peace among warring countries turned out to be weak and ineffective though it made an attempt to reach agreement on arms disarmament between 1921 and 1934, because it was neither supported by US nor Germany and while the delay lingered, World War II broke out in 1939 and ushered in the NUCLEAR AGE!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western Bloc's defence organization against any threat from the Eastern Bloc/German aggression in Europe or the North Atlantic area, debuted in the late 1940s, following the end of World War II and has functioned effectively to date with a modern headquarters recently commissioned in Brussels, Belgium, and with President Donald Trump who complained of NATO'S huge financial burden incurred by the US and admonished other members to pay up their dues.

NO MORE ASSASINATIONS PLEASE!
NORTH KOREA'S SUPREME LEADER MUST NOT BE ASSASINATED UNDER ANY GUISE BY THE US OR SOUTH KOREA AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO AVOID WORLD WAR III! THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD POWERS MUST put their Trust (faith and believe), and take refuge in the Lord and His Anointed, instead of NUCLEAR ARSENAL which is capable of destroying a World which they did not create!
There was a First World War and a Second World War, that were fought by men to confirm the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ that before His Second Advent to JUDGE THE WORLD: " And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew. 24:6-.

THE IMAGINED TIME BOMB IN NIGERIA!
Fanatical nationalism and Religious fanaticism are common place in Nigeria, going by the number of regular agitations and organised street protests, but it should not be allowed to degenerate into WARS AND CONFLICTS which could destroy the UNITY OF A DIVERSE NATION which had been nurtured for over a century and " bring the world to an end?"
WORLD WITHOUT END! Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. (Ephesians. 3: 21).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

NORTH KOREA'S KIM JOG-UN SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH CARE TO AVOID WORLD WAR III !

THIRTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Chairman of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK), who assumed office, 13th April, 2012, is in the "eye of the storm" for flexing nuclear muscles against the United States and other nations, including South Korea, which dared to cast aspersion on his country's super power capabilities in the area of modern technological nuclear weaponry.
The young leader had boasted of his country's dexterity in the invention and manufacture of highly sophisticated nuclear war heads, atomic/hydrogen bombs, which can destroy any nation, but had consistently claimed that his NUCLEAR PROGRAMME was specifically designed against US aggression!

Since assumption of office, Kim Jong-un had tested a number of provocative Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (IBMs), that have prompted international condemnation, though he accused the US of using the North Korea's nuclear programme as an excuse to mask its own opposition to banning nuclear weapons. He has also claimed through his envoy at the United Nation's (UN), mission, that, the US drove his country to make and possess nuclear weapons to defend itself against any American aggression. He said that the US was the first country to use nuclear weapons against Japan, during World War II and had continued to use them, "to threaten and blackmail other countries" including North Korea which supports the global effort to eliminate nuclear weapons " until the denuclearisation of the world is implemented."

The US had said that it would not participate in the UN talks aimed at banning nuclear weapons because "bad actors" wouldn't sign or comply with a potential treaty since "North Korea would be the one cheering and the people we represent would be the one at risk." Although there is a global move to totally ban nuclear weapons, the five nuclear powers, -US, Russia, China, Britain and France, have refused to attend the meeting, saying a ban won't work but opted for "a more (unexplained), gradual approach."
DPRK's envoy to the UN has disclosed that his country would not also take part in the talks because of joint military exercises by US and South Korea using Special Forces and "all kinds of nuclear strategic assets", AIMED AT SECRETLY INVADING NORTH KOREA TO ELIMINATE ITS LEADERSHIP!

AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE'S ASSASINATION CAUSED WORLD WAR 1: At the beginning of the 20th Century, precisely between 1914 and1918, the global conflict fought by most countries of the world and tagged, WORLD WAR 1, was so intense in fierceness, destruction of human lives, properties, and critical infrastructures of enormous dimension that it seemed the world would come to an end!

Historical records state that the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, on 28th June 1914, in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, part of former Yugoslavia, was the root cause of the war! The assassin shot Ferdinand as an act of protest against the AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF SERBIAN-SPEAKING BOSNIA and an expression of the pan-Slavic movement then popular among many in Eastern Europe. Austria-Hungary was a multinational state, (with a dozen official languages), most of the South-Central and Eastern Europe, with half of its population composed of SLAVS, who had nationalist ambitions! Though, fanatical nationalism could always cause rift, dissension, insurgency etc, it would seem ludicrous that such obsession would ever generate A WORLD WAR, BUT IT DID!

The conflict of interests between Russia and Germany in Austria which could have resolved the unfortunate development resulted in an unsuccessful and tortuous diplomacy since the Nazis preferred that Austria should punish Serbia for the assassination crime but Russia was opposed to the idea, and eventually when Austria declared war on Serbia, Germany belatedly tried to prevent the war from escalating but to no avail! And having taken side, Germany had no other choice than to declare war on Russia and later on France on 3rd August, 1914, and also invaded Luxembourg and Belgium, hoping to win a swift victory in the West and so be able to turn its attention on the more powerful Russian foe but failed in its calculation because Britain entered the war in support of France and Belgium since Germany was a potential economic and naval threat to her far-flung empire abroad.
Thus the stage was set for World War 1 which witnessed the introduction of new weapons - such as the submarine, the airplane and the tank - mobilized the entire manpower/economic resources of all combatant nations, devoured an estimated 10 million military men and an equal number of civilian causalities, cost more than $337 billion US dollars to execute in FOUR YEARS (1914-1918)!
Reasons for the aggressive nature of World War 1 could be traced to the previous French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in early 19th Century, which took Europe by surprise. When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he led an army of some 600.000 men! Napoleon1, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), was a military genius, brilliant organiser and deft administrator who dominated Europe for nearly 20 years, was one of the greatest conquerors in world history. With the exception of BRITAIN, his empire covered most of Western and Central Europe and extended from North Sea to Sicily and all neighbouring states were either under his control or in alliance with France.

World War II was even more disastrous: some 17million soldiers and 43 million civilians were killed at an estimated cost of $ 1.348 billion US dollars to execute sequel to the technological development of weaponry and the strategy of mass bombing of civilian populations which created destruction on an unprecedented scale! DRESDEN, HAMBURG, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI and many other cities were utterly destroyed! The introduction of NUCLEAR WEAPONS in World War II had thus signified a global threat of world-wide destruction!

NUCLEAR WEAPONS! The research for nuclear energy which relates to weapons or the use of weapons; which use the power produced when the nucleus of an atom is divided or joined to another nucleus has further spurred the unending confrontations between the Western and Eastern blocs since the end of World War II into greater stockpiling of destructive weapons of modern warfare of nuclear arsenal. The so-called super powers, which is headed by the United States, and Russia (head of former Soviet Union), are leading in the nuclear industry. Others members of the nuclear team, Britain, France, China and North Korea and are also capable of waging nuclear wars but would be checkmated through the concept of deterrence!

CONCEPT OF DETERRENCE - is an agreement which would disabuse the mind of any powerful nation from nuclear attack against another due to the advantage of hindsight that, such nation had equal or even more devastating capacity of nuclear weapons to strike back!
At the end of World War 1, the LEAGUE OF NATIONS which was instituted to broker peace among warring countries turned out to be weak and ineffective though it made an attempt to reach agreement on arms disarmament between 1921 and 1934, because it was neither supported by US nor Germany and while the delay lingered, World War II broke out in 1939 and ushered in the NUCLEAR AGE!

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western Bloc's defence organization against any threat from the Eastern Bloc/German aggression in Europe or the North Atlantic area, debuted in the late 1940s, following the end of World War II and has functioned effectively to date with a modern headquarters recently commissioned in Brussels, Belgium, and with President Donald Trump who complained of NATO'S huge financial burden incurred by the US and admonished other members to pay up their dues.

NO MORE ASSASINATIONS PLEASE!
NORTH KOREA'S SUPREME LEADER MUST NOT BE ASSASINATED UNDER ANY GUISE BY THE US OR SOUTH KOREA AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO AVOID WORLD WAR III! THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD POWERS MUST put their Trust (faith and believe), and take refuge in the Lord and His Anointed, instead of NUCLEAR ARSENAL which is capable of destroying a World which they did not create!
There was a First World War and a Second World War, that were fought by men to confirm the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ that before His Second Advent to JUDGE THE WORLD: " And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew. 24:6-.

THE IMAGINED TIME BOMB IN NIGERIA!
Fanatical nationalism and Religious fanaticism are common place in Nigeria, going by the number of regular agitations and organised street protests, but it should not be allowed to degenerate into WARS AND CONFLICTS which could destroy the UNITY OF A DIVERSE NATION which had been nurtured for over a century and " bring the world to an end?"
WORLD WITHOUT END! Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. (Ephesians. 3: 21).


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA IS THE COMMON MAN'S INALIENABLE RIGHT!

The orchestrated controversies over National Restructuring of Project Nigeria has been narrowed down by debaters, analysts, commentators and critics to mean: one or all of the following: True or Fiscal Federalism, Devolution Of Power From Federal To Federating States, Resource Control, Principles of Derivation, State Police, Rotational Presidency etc.: BUT EVERYONE REJECTED SECESSION, BREAK-UP OR DISMEMBERMENT OF THE NATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ALL THE SUGGESTIONS!

Prominent among all the debaters were the RECYCLED POLITICIANS who have acquired immense wealth through tribalism/nepotism in the award of contracts and lopsided employment opportunities which always favoured some geographical areas of the country above others since independence. BUT HAS ANYONE EVER THOUGHT THAT THE DOCTRINE OF NATIONAL RESTRUCTURING (POLITICALLY OR ECONOMICALLY), SHOULD ISSUE FROM INDIVIDUAL MINDS THROUGH ORIENTATION AND RE-ORIENTATION ABOUT CITIZENSHIP, NATIONAL VALUES, CIVIC DUTIES ETC?
What happened to the RESTRUCTURING of past administrations from Amalgamation to Parliamentary, Regional, Military, and States creation from 12, to 19, 27 and 36, in 157 years of Nigeria as a nation? What was the gain of the common man in all of these past? Did restructuring put food on his table? Where are his ancestors who toiled for Nigeria? Did they not all die in penury and poverty? Where the employment opportunities were for employable and able-bodied citizens in all of the window-dressing antics called restructuring? The unemployment ratio in Nigeria is almost 65% in spite of the efforts of the present Change Administration!

In the beginning, GOD created Man as a TRIPARTITE personality i.e. Body, Soul and Spirit, capable of reasoning constructively, highly sensible to make independent decisions without coercion, pressure, intimidation or harassment by anyone other than his God-endowed Conscience! . NOW IS THE TIME TO ALLOW THE COMMON MAN TO DECIDE HIS OWN DESTINY WITHOUT FURTHER MANIPULATION BY THE UNFAITHFUL POLITICAL REPRESENTATIVES AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE - ESPECIALLY, THE LEGISLATURE WHICH MUST BE COLLAPSED INTO ONE CHAMBER OF TWO LEGISLATORS FROM EACH OF THE 36 STATES AND WHO WOULD SERVE ON PART-TIME APPOINTMENTS ON BASIC CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES/ALOWANCES TO BLOCK GOVERNMENT WASTAGES!


The Godly common man is fully aware that the Earth and all its Fullness belong to GOD and that, naked he came to the world and naked would he return to GOD to give account of his stewardship at the end of his sojourn on planet Earth since it is appointed for Man to DIE ONLY ONCE, and thereafter to be JUDGED! MOST OF THE CONFUSIONISTS AND AGITATORS FOR RESTRUCTURING AND SECESSION FROM NIGERIA ARE CLOSER TO THEIR GRAVES WHERE ALL AGITATIONS CEASE, THAN THEY COULD EVER IMAGINE!

What dividends of democracy can the EXPIRED, CORRUPTED, DISILUSSIONED AND UNREPENTANT politicians bring to the table for the INDEPENDENT MIND OF THE COMMON MAN, who is actually the GOOSE THAT HAD ALWAYS LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS SINCE AMALGAMATION IN 1914?
We believe that there is nothing wrong with Nigeria's present STRUCTURE of 36 States - what is wrong is maladministration by politicians who have FAILED for the umpteenth time to HARNESS the God-given natural resources within their reach to generate massive INTERNAL REVENUES to make the States sustainable economically because of their SELFISH AGENDA TO SIPHON SUCH WEALTH FOR PERSONAL AGGRANDIZEMENT!
We had severally advocated that GOVERNORS of the 36 States should be forced to give account of the Federal Government's BAIL OUT FUNDS LENT TO THEM FOR THE PAYMENT OF BACK-LOG OF WORKERS SALARIES IN 2015&2016, AND ALSO THOSE OF 35 STATES FOR TWO TRANCHES OF PARIS CLUB REFUND OF SEVERAL BILLIONS OF NAIRA OVER-DEDUCTED THROUGH LOAN SERVICING and it is gratifying to learn that SERAP, - a Nigerian anti-corruption Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has secured a COURT ORDER which must now force the States helmsmen to give account of disbursement of the said strategic funds to SERAP and by extension for public knowledge, since mismanagement of the funds was rumoured in the social media!

On 29th June, 2017, a Lagos Federal High Court, granted leave which now permits Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), to seek and order of mandamus (an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the official to properly fulfil his official duties or correct an abuse of discretion ), directing the government to publish details of his spending of the N388.304 billion London Paris Club Loan refunds allegedly diverted and mismanaged by 35 States of the Nigerian Federation. In a very brief ruling, the Judge permitted SERAP to proceed with the legal challenge to unravel how those States spent the loan refund. Justice Muslim Hassan, stressed that it was pertinent for the authorities "to come and tell us how they spent our money." The Governors had claimed that they spent the refunds on strategic social projects! WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WITH INDEPENDENT MINDS WHO WILL TRULY REPRESENT THE DOWNTRODDEN WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE; AND IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT THE ONGOING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NASS), 1999 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT JOINT COMMITTEE WOULD ENSURE THE PASSAGE OF THIS ADVOCACY!

The THREE-PRONGED THRUST of the Change Administration's effort to revamp the bastardized economy on assumption of governance in 2015, was,
(1) To erase and obliterate CORRUPTION completely
(2) To destroy all manner of insurgency and annihilate the Boko Haram terrorism
(3) Create an enabling and conducing atmosphere and opportunities through massive diversification to Agriculture/Solid Mineral natural resources from the mono-crude oil product, in order to cater for the total welfare package of the TALAKAWAS!

We were therefore not surprised that the arrowheads of the The 2014 National Conference solely organised by ex President Ebele Jonathan, to boost his electoral chances for his THIRD TERM in office have championed the advocacy that the CONTROVERSIAL REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE which was nothing short of a monumental fraud against the electorate and the generality of citizens of Nigeria, should be ADOPTED as panacea for RESTRUCTURING! What an effrontery?

Have the VIPERS not exposed their penchant for greed and avarice once again in order to remain "relevant" from one administration to another? But patriotic Nigerians have not forgotten that the President who rejoiced while Nigeria was devastated by a terrible inferno in the disastrous theatre of BOKO HARAM WAR, only succeeded to BRIBE 492 GOVERNMENT-SELECTED DELEGATES, Conference Officials and Staff with a whooping sum of about N20 billion naira of tax payers money to cater for accommodation allowances, hotel bills, feeding and transportation for the FOUR MONTHS JAMBOREE, AND NOT THE DOWNTRODDEN CITIZENS who make up the 180 million population! Late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Ebele Jonathan, assumed office on 29th May, 2007, and under their watch, the NUCLEUS of the BOKO HARAM CELL, birthed in Maiduguri, capital city of Bornu State, in 2009! Ex-President Yar'Adua passed on in the year 2010, leaving his Vice to carry on the job of the AMNESTY PROGRAMME for Niger Delta Militants and also the COUNTER-INSURGENCY operations against the Boko Haram Religious Sect in the North Eastern State; but sadly enough, Ebele Jonathan cared less in respect of the insurgency!


On 14th April, 2014, there was a twin-bomb attack by Boko Harram terrorists on the Federal Capital Territory's (FCT), populous suburb of Nyanyan, Bus Terminal, in which not less 79 unfortunate citizens suddenly lost their lives and on the same fateful day, about 275 students of the Chibok Girls Secondary School, in Borno State, were kidnapped by the same group which PASSIONATELY HATES WESTERN EDUCATION!
At one stage, during the castigation of his government's failure and ineptitude in recovering the captives within a reasonable period, the ex-President said publicly that the reported case of kidnapping was a HOAX AND CHEAP POLITICAL BLACKMAIL AGAINST HIS ADMINISTRATION!
After Jonathan's exit, the Change All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration which was determined to win the war against the terrorists, discovered that the sum of $2.1 billion US dollars, which was appropriated to purchase ARMS and AMMUNITION to prosecute the war against insurgency was allegedly diverted by retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser (NSO), (presently on trial), for the presidential ambition of his boss, Ebele Jonathan in 2015!

Before Jonathan's providential opportunity in governance, BAYELSA, his State of origin was one of the smallest in land mass and population, which complained bitterly of MARGINALIZATION AND AGITATED FOR RESTRUCTURING. God gave Jonathan a miraculous opportunity to rule Nigeria but he turned out to be unfit for the enormous assignment which has now been given to a more dignified team who are ready to do the will of God for the majority poor masses! In spite of Jonathan's failure, Bayelsa is also agitating for restructuring - but which type would they vote for this time around?

WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT NO PEOPLE, RACE, COLOUR OR CREED POSSESSES ANY LAND ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! FROM BABEL WE ALL MIGRATED ON A MISSION OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT TO CO-HABITATE, INTER-MARRY, WORK TOGETHER AND UNITE ECONOMICAL FOR OUR COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL! NO ONE CAN BE AN ISLAND TO HIMSELF! THAT IS HOW GOD PLANNED IT.

ALLOW THE COMMOM MAN ENJOY ALL OF HIS FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS, ALL DIVIDENDS OF DEMOCRACY, IN THE FORM OF GOOD EMPLOYMENT WITH LIVING WAGES TO CATER FOR HIS FAMILY, MORTGAGED ACCOMODATION PLAN, HEALTH FACILITIES AND PORTABLE WATER, GOOD TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, ADEQUATE SECURITY, ETC; AND HE IS DONE WITH THE RESTRUCTURING! AND AT THE PERIOD OF ELECTIONS, HE WOULD VOTE WISELY AND CONCIENCIOUSLY FOR CONCIENCIOUS CANDIDATES! A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

OBAMA'S LEGACIES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE CANNOT BE RUBBISHED BY DONALD TRUMP!

The 45th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump is fast becoming the most controversial politician on planet earth through his compulsive, unguarded and undiplomatic policy utterances and decisions which tend to border on divisive tendencies and racism! One of the most grievous in his long list of controversies within SIX MONTHS in the White House, was America's pull out from the PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT ((Accord de Paris), signed by about 200 countries with most Presidents/Heads of State and Governments in attendance on 13th December, 2015, including his predecessor BARAK OBAMA - the first Black American President!
Donald Trump could not hide his disdain for all the laudable achievements of former President Obama, during the latter's EIGHT YEARS tenure, just as America's WHITE KLU KLUX KLAN FRATERNITY hates the BLACKS with vicious passion! He pledged to repeal and replace OBAMACARE - his predecessor's attempt to extend HEALTHCARE to the estimated 15% of the population who were not covered and he seems to be succeeding with the tacit support of his Republican Party members in the House of Representatives, who believed that the law imposed too many costs and an unwarranted intrusion into the affairs of private businesses and individuals. However this move is still in abeyance, since it is yet to pass through the SENATE, which has promised to re-write he whole bill because of strong opposition by doctors, medical industry and Democrats! He also threatened to reverse the deal that Obama struck with CUBA to re-establish diplomatic and trade relation after about 46 years (1961-2015) of strained relations, but later back-pedalled.

AMERICA'S RENOWN AS A WORLD POWER never diminished during Obama's tenure but was highly boosted with the capture and execution of al Queda's Commander, Bin Laden, whose terrorists crashed through the nation's very tight land and air security/defence network with FOUR high jacked commercial airliners and carried out co-ordinated suicide attacks against targets in which 2,977 people were killed in the US on September 11, 2001! The United States during Obama's Admistration also supported several African States including Nigeria, in their war against insurrection, insurgency and terrorism for them to maintain their territorial integrity and actualize economic potentials for their downtrodden masses.

SOME OTHER CONTROVERSIAL POLICY DECISIONS OF TRUMP IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS!

1. Trump promised to build a Border Wall between America and Mexico which he decreed that the latter should bank roll at a cost of $21.5billion US dollars or £17.2billion pounds sterling and following Mexico’s refusal, he then said, the US would have to pay up front and then seek re-imbursement some way.
2. Immigration Executive Order that have challenged throughout the country and travel ban targeting refugees and travellers from seven majority-muslims countries MINUS Saudi Arabia, the country home of Bin Laden! Donald Trump was named in 42 federal law suits within his 11 days as Commander-in-Chief and faced massive protests nation-wide. Trump believed that "undocumented immigrants" totalling about 11. 5 million had to go. After the elections, he reduced the figure to a out two to three million of people who have criminal records, gang members or drug dealers. Officially about 890.000 illegal immigrants including people charged with crossing the border illegally had criminal records.
3. Trump queried the continued existence of NATO which he described as OBSOLETE and wondered whether members still paid their dues, but later said that the threat of terrorism had underlined the alliance importance and commented that the body was no longer obsolete during the visit of NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg to the White House!
4. Donald Trump promised to prosecute Democratic rival, Mrs Hilary Clinton, over the use of her private email server while she was Secretary of State under OBAMA Administration, but later described her after the elections as someone the country owed a "debt of gratitude"
5. Trump's support for "ONE CHINA" policy that sees Taiwan as part of China having earlier condemned the country as "CURRENCY MANIPULATOR" was hinged on allegation that Trump's business conglomerate has 77 registered trademarks in China and 49 waiting for approval. As a sitting President, he should not be accepting the registration of those valuable property rights from China says a former Obama administration lawyer Norman Eisen.

Having pulled out of the Paris Accord, European leaders and other nations now look forward to CHINA to take up America's role although it was reported that the most senior official, at the US Embassy in Beijing, David Rank, resigned as a protest against Trump's decision!
It is said that many senior aides of President Trump were unable to predict his views about any issue and were so uncertain on how to work successfully with him if they would not support or implement his policies!

THE PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE ACCORD OF 2015!
Climate as an integral part of CREATION, is a common phenomenon across the world and can be human-friendly, provided meticulous care is taken to prevent ENVIRONMENTAL POLUTION through incessant CARBON EMISSION into the ATMOSPHERE.
In 2015, world leaders from nearly 200 countries gathered in the French Capital of Paris to agree on positive measures to improve CLIMATIC CONDITIONS around the world. Barak Obama represented the US and Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria.
Only TWO countries failed to sign the international agreement which TERMS include the following:
(1). To reduce the amount of harmful greenhouse gas produced and increase renewable types of energy like wind, solar and wave power;
(2) To keep global temperature increase "well below" 2C (3.6 F) and to try to limit it to 1.5C;
(3) To review progress every FIVE YEARS; and
(4). To spend $100 billion dollars a year in Climate financing for poorer countries by 2020 with a commitment to further finance in the future. THE ATTEMPT WAS TO LIMIT THE TEMPERATURE ON THE EARTH FROM RISING TOO QUICKLY AND TOO HIGH.

WHY DID DONALD TRUMP PULL OUT OF THE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT?
His major reason was to SPITE HIS BLACK PREDECESSOR IN OFFICE by reversing all plausible and very successful policies which had improved America's domestic and international profile in the past EIGHT YEARS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION! The Word of God says: "BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS, AND WALKETH IN DARKNESS, AND KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH, BECAUSE THAT DARKNESS HATH BLINDED HIS EYES! (I John.2:11).

We strongly believe that Donald Trump has no business in American Politics. While talking tough during his electioneering campaign stunts, Donald Trump claimed that America became a WEAK NATION, during OBAMA'S TENURE and boasted that he would restore America's lost glory of FIRE POWER on assumption of office! But to date he is unable, (1) To defend the world from NORTH KOREA which had defied all INTERNATIONAL ANTI-NUCLEAR AGREEMENTS through defiant and unabated launching of INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTICS MISSILES and (2) He could not dislodge the ISLAMIC STATE (IS) Terrorists operating in Syria/Iraq, nor flush them out as he boasted he would on assumption of office!
HIS OFFICIAL REASON FOR PULLING OUT OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT was based on his concept of "AMERICA FIRST" and so, he dismissed the Accord as a HOAX CONCOCTED BY CHINA AND THE REGULATIONS OF PARIS, WHICH WERE STIFLING TO AMERICAN GROWTH; contrary to the opinion of his predecessor who signed it!
Out of all the divine gifts at creation to humanity, the ATMOSPHERIC AIR is the most MYSTERIOUS, INEXPLICABLE, very INTRIGUING and definitely INDISPENSIBLE unseen TERRESTIAL ELEMENT which gives life to Man, (the pride of creation), animals, fishes, birds trees and vegetations! The atmospheric Air must not be polluted in any form because, THERE IS NO LIVING THING THAT CAN THRIVE WITHOUT AIR!
In Genesis. 2: 7, it is written that the LORD God formed Man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul! By refusing to contribute God's "resources" in America' s CUSTODY, to the common pool and for the common good, especially, the poorer nations from deadly CABON MONOXIDE POLLUTED AIR, Donald Trump has committed the SIN AGAINST A COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT in Acts of the Apostles. 4: 31-37 and its dire consequences in, Acts of the Apostles. 5:1-12!
THE PRAYER WALL OF JERUSALEM! Did Donald Trump have to prove his CHRISTIAN CONVICTIONS AND VIRTUES BY DONNING A RABBI'S CAP while he laid his right hand on the Jerusalem Prayer Wall in SILENT PRAYER, during his official visit to ISRAEL, having REFUSED TO CONTRIBUTE God's Recourses in his custody to actualize A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT OF THE BREATH OF LIFE FOR POORER NATIONS ; - AN ACTION WHICH WAS NOTHING SHORT OF A HOAX?

Glory be to GOD that CHINA'S PRESIDENT XI JINPING will now champion the NEED FOR A CLIMATE-FRIENDLY UNIVERSE TO DWELL IN! The Lord Jesus Christ says, " The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it commeth and whither it goeth, so is everyone that is born of the Spirit." (John. 3:. President should subject himself to the authority of the HOLY SPIRIT and rescind his ungodly decision! CLIMATE CHANGE IS NO RESPECTER OF ANY NATION OR RACE!


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com

NIGERIA, AND NOT BIAFRA WAS THE COUNTRY BIRTHED AT INDEPENDENCE IN 1960!

The Truth and Nothing But the Truth About 30-Month Biafra Secession of 1967-1970 As meticulously and diligently Documented By the WATCHMAN (Zion B-B C Newsletter, Nigeria), To Dissuade Young Igbos from Precipitating Further Bloodshed of Innocent Nigerians! (Ezekiel. 33: 1- 33).

THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR:
(1). The Biafran Sesession War waged against Nigeria from 16th July, 1967 to 12th January, 1970, by a section of the Nigerian Army and citizens of the then Eastern Region, under the leadership of Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, was a compounded treasonable felony, in view of the fact that Nigeria was under the martial law through an initial coup de tat against the entire nation, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu on 15th January, 1966!

(2) In the early hours of 15 January, 1966, several eminent Nigerian politicians, including, the Prime Minister and Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions were murdered in cold blood when soldiers of the Nigerian Army revolted in Kaduna, Lagos Ibadan and Enugu in a pre-meditated and well-planned coup!

(3) Here are some excerpts of coup leader, Major Nzeogwu in a broadcast on the 16th January, 1966: "We seized power to stamp out tribalism, nepotism and regionalism.... There were five us in the inner circle and we planned the details. On Saturday morning the officers and men thought they were going out only on a night exercise. It was not until they were out in the bush they were told the full details of the plan.....It was a truly Nigerian gathering and only in the army do you get true Nigerianism.... They did it for the good of their country.... We all started out in the same spirit but......."

(4) It was a bloody coup which took the lives of Northern and Western leaders but which spared those of the Eastern Region, including the first President, Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe!

(5) According to the Republican Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chapter I, General Provisions, Part I (2), "The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any person or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution," but Major Nzeogwu and his coupists seized power with impunity!

(6) Elder Statesmen, Enerst Ikoli, and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, of blessed memory would be fondly remembered for the dignified and noble roles they played alongside their fellow nationalists in the persons of late Herbert Macaulay, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Anthony Enahoro, who negotiated Nigeria's Independent status with the British Colonial Masters without shedding ONE DROP OF HUMAN BLOOD!

NIGERIAN NATION:
(7). Nigeria was birthed on the concept and principles of unity of people of diverse tongues, tribes, cultures/castes, who were determined to dwell together and harness their diversity into democratic prosperity/dividends and not on a myopic or narrow-minded philosophy of unitary governance of a selfish few, over the majority mass of other vulnerable citizens.

( Nigeria at Independence turned out to be the confederate of very peaceful people comprising of at least 250 tribes and over 500 languages who co-existed in love, happiness, mutual trust and understanding which progressed into inter-tribal marriages and pro-creation of inter-regional/inter-communal offspring’s as nucleus of the Nigerian dream of the founding fathers until 15th January, 1966, when Nigerian Army Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu and his fellow coupist destroyed and shattered the erstwhile fabric of peace, tranquillity serenity, stability and conviviality among the good people of this great and promising nation, through a bloody coup - this FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THIS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN NATION!

KADUNA NZEOGU:
(9) The late Major Nzeogu's parents begat him in Kaduna where they migrated and prospered as traders. He grew up in Kaduna and due to his great affinity with Northern colleagues at school and later in the army, they named him after "Kaduna" his birth place, (though an Igbo by tribe), the then capital city of the Northern Region of Nigeria but unknown to them, he would someday rebel against his Fatherland by killing those he professed to love dearly!

(10) In recent contemporary global history, foreign immigrants by birth in some European countries had turned out to be traitors to their hosts! Both France and Germany, in 2016, and London and Manchester in 2017, have suffered terrorist attacks which claimed scores of innocent lives through the hands of ungrateful immigrant settlers/citizens who bit the fingers that fed them!

(11) That coup de tat by Kaduna Nzeogwu and other officers, mostly of the Eastern extraction was the SEED PLOT of animosity which had turned the North against the South - especially, South East, till date because fatalities of the TREASON, were Northern and Western Region indigenes - while political leaders of the Eastern Nigeria who were spared has its consequences and ripple effects in a counter coup by army officers of the Northern extraction in July 1966

THESE TRUTHFUL DOCUMENTATION IS PUBLISHED FOR THE PRESENT CROP OF A NEW BIAFRA SECESSION AGITATORS AND POSTERITY TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST!

(12) Why Would The Igbos Reject The Truth? Can They Re-write The Nigerian History? Inordinate ambition led the Igbos to shed innocent blood six months into Nigeria's independence and also to embark on a suicidal mission of secession in 1967, when their overall plan fell like a pack of cards!

(13) General Aguiyi Ironsi , Military Head of State introduced the hard line vertical style of UNITARY command system of government instead of devolving some measure of power to his Regional Governors whom he treated as mere puppets who must receive autocratic orders from him as the feudal lord alone. After his demise in the Second coup, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Governor of the Eastern State, pursued an Igbo agenda of secession instead of employing RESTITUTION TACTICS and Over TWO MILLION Nigerians died in the 30-month-old BIAFRA WAR!

(14) YOUNG IGBOS ARE STILL AGITATING FOR SECESSION INSTEAD OF A POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING THAT WOULD FAVOUR THEM THROUGH THE CREATION OF A NEW STATE FOR SOUTH EAST GEO- POLITICAL ZONE! WHY WOULD ANY SANE PERSON WISH TO RESURRECT AN INORDINATE CAUSE THAT DESTROYED OVER TWO MILLION LIVES - 50 YEARS AFTER?

(15) To majority of patriotic Nigerians, a political re-structuring of financially stronger federating States in the form of devolution of power, for them to contribute to the centre and reverse the present trend of revenue sharing formula; and to others, the country should re-adopt the regional system of government as now expressed in the SIX Geo- Political zones through the scrapping of the 36 State Structure! WON'T MAJOR NZEOGWU STIR IN HIS GRAVE OVER A REVERSAL TO REGIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?
HOW MANY IGBOS SUPPORT SECESSION APART FROM NNAMDI KANU AND RALPH NWAZURIKE?

(16) Ninety-nine point nine per cent of Igbos have denounced secession because it is not good for BUSINESS! All the billions of naira in their bank accounts were garnered from doing business with 170 million Nigerians! WHAT WOULD BE THE POPULATION OF A NEW BIAFRA? ONE THOUSAND OR ONE MILLION? Would the Igbos carve out Biafra From Nigeria or Sahara Desert as the ISIS did in Libya/Syrian Deserts?

EMMANUEL IWUANYANWU:
(17) A prominent Igbo, business entrepreneur and politician, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has been speaking from both sides of the mouth: in one breath, he says, the Igbos had invested so much in Nigeria and would therefore oppose secession of any group of people - whether they be Arewa or Oduduwa; and in another breath, he says, he was proud to be a Biafran, which claimed an ordinary identification!

(18) We disagree with that postulation! Biafra is synonymous with SECESSION from the nation of Nigeria between 1967-1970 in which over TWO MILLION innocent human beings - including vulnerable women and children died untimely; it is also synonymous to the introduction of CANIBALISM into that part of the nation when elders who survived had to feed on the flesh of their CHILDREN, like in Biblical Israel during a terrible period of FAMINE! (2 Kings. 6:24-29).

BIAFRA IS ANATHEMA!
(19) Biafra rings out a sound of discord, it is an ARCHAIC DOCTRINE that should be abandoned in the archives! Protagonists of a Biafra nation are the naive and disillusioned Igbo youths who did not experience the agonizing pain of war and who need a new orientation that Nigeria would remain ONE INDIVISIBLE NATION FOREVER AND EVER ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSIVE WILL OF GOD.

(20) The following were the last comments of Chief Iwuanyanwu at a recent National Unity Summit, organised by Arewa Ambassadors Congress of Nigeria in partnership with Youth Assembly of Nigeria: "Biafra is not about secession. It is a name of a particular people in Nigeria from the South East. Therefore, it is not an offence to say that I am a Biafran. There was no victor, no vanquished after the civil war. I am impressed with Yakubu Gowon because he IMPLEMENTED ALL THE AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. IGBO WERE NOT DEPRIVED AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR." WHAT ABOUT THE NIGERIAN MASSES!

(21) In all of these arguments - for and against - none of the agitators ever bothered to consider the ripple effects that such acrimonious war would add to the plight of the common Nigerians who would suffer the consequences of another civil war in the country while they are yet to recover from the hurts and scars of the dying economic recession! EVERYONE IS MARGINALIZED!

(22) A second republic law maker and elder statesman, Dr Junaid Mohammed, recently accused President Buhari of marginalizing the North in favour of the South West in areas of Key appointments and development projects like roads without constructing one single toad in the North and without meeting the aspirations and basic needs of northerners!

(23) Recommendations of the 2014 National Conference in respect of the South East Geo-Political Zone which states among other things that an additional state should be created for the South East to be at par with others with SIX States should be revisited without delay!

CIVIL DISTURBANCE AGAIN?
(24) Must IPOB/MASSOB and Biafra Independence Movement (BIM), disrupt social/commercial activities of other Nigerians and national security on 30th MAY 2017? A timely warning against any form of planned protests in some States of the Federation by pro-Biafra organisations was issued on Friday, 26th May, 2017 by the Nigeria Police, who promised to deal decisively with defaulters who might breach security and undermine law and order.

(25) Misguided Igbo youths should be reminded that just as they could claim the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association under the Constitution, so could other millions of Nigerians whom they planned to deprive of their constitutional rights of free movements and access to public/private facilities on the day in question!
NIGERIA DOES NOT NEED DIVERSIONARY BLOODSHED WHILE GRAPLING WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

MUST NIGERIA PREDATE AND FEAST ON ITS VULNERABLE INFANTS!

INFANTS have become the endangered species in eight years of a mindless and vindictive war waged against Nigeria by the Islamic terrorists group called Boko Haram, which through destruction of lives and properties, vented their hatred for WESTERN EDUCATION, which they described as a MISNOMER! They have deprived these infants - especially the babies - of adequate parental care, food with nutritional values, medicines to boost their immunity and fragile frames as they forcibly kept their mothers in captivity for years on end! During the fiercest periods of theatre of war, they were unable to receive FIVE major vaccinations for the prevention of all manner of childhood diseases before the age of FIVE and thousands of them died in the THREE affected North Eastern States of Bornu, Yobe and Adamawa between 2009-2015!

With the change of guards on 29th May, 2015, a determined President Muhammadu Buhari, faithfully increased the tempo of counter-insurgency war and in less than 12 calendar months, defeated the Boko Haram splinter groups and majority of those in captivity gained their freedom, especially the vulnerable women, babies, infants and children! And in the last 14 months, (March 2016 - May 2017), over 30.000 abducted Women and Children from Boko Haram camps were released by the dedicated Federal Troops of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, according to the outgoing Acting GOC, Brigadier Victor Ezugwu, in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, 17th May, 2017. In July, 2016, UNICEF, drew attention of the Federal Government to the unfolding health hazard among children in North Eastern Nigeria and revealed the fact that an estimated 244.000 faced severe malnutrition and that about 49.000 - one in five - would die if they did not receive urgent treatment and medical attention! Food insecurity had been a major challenge in the North Eastern Nigeria States since the unfortunate war of attrition because farmers were sacked from their farms, while all petty traders/food vendors in the far-flung villages of the local government areas, fled to big cities for refuge for fear of attacks by the insurgents who operated from their village precincts! In these present times, some improvements have been noticed in food supplies in the war-affected areas by DONOR AGENCIES, due to prevalent peace through continuous mop-up operations of the insurgents following their total annihilation from the SAMBISA FOREST by the combined efforts of Federal Troops, and the Civilian JTF.

However, UNICEF states that 4.4 million people in three North Eastern States were at a "crisis" or worse level of food insecurity, which is usually measured on a 1-5 scale of severity!
But more attention needs to be focussed on the health conditions of the most vulnerable - the babies and infants who cannot fend for themselves in respect of the basic necessities of life without parental assistance, right from their dates of birth, because they are in greater danger of extinction if the Federal and the affected State Governments did not priotized their needs and declare an EMERGENCY in the health sector immediately! According to official figures released in July 2016, by the Federal Ministry of Health, 2.300 children below the age of FIVE, died annually in Nigeria, due to MALNUTRITION! It was also disclosed that 37% of Nigerian children were malnourished; 29%, Underweight; 18%, Wasting; while only 17%, enjoyed exclusive breast feeding! That is not all!
Did you know that the National Nutrition Survey of 2005, (12 years ago), showed that 54% of children in the North West had stunted growth, followed by the North East with 42%; while Kebbi had the highest malnutrition rate of 61% of malnourished children, long before the Boko Haram insurgency!

The situation has further degenerated - especially in the IDPs Camps of Bornu and Zamfara States, where gory pictures of severely malnourished babies and infants, on the verge of death were highlighted in a television documentary to draw attention of both the Federal and State Governments to the urgent need to diversify large FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO SAVE THESE ENDANGERED VULNERALBLE SPECIES WHO MUST BE SAVED AND NURTURED TO BECOME THE FUTURE LEADERS OF THIS GREAT NATION OF NIGERIA!

Exclusive babies breast feeding method was introduced to Nigeria by medical doctors over 20 years ago, but no emphasis was laid on how mothers would be empowered outside of stipends from most jobless husbands in order to be well-fed to produce the natural milk for their offspring! MOST OF THE WOMEN IN THAT DOCUMENTARY WERE EQUALLY MALNOURISHED AND HAD FLABBY AND ALMOST DRIED-UP BREASTS,WHICH HARDLY PRODUCED ANY MILK BECAUSE OF THE DEVASTATION OF THE EIGHT-YEAR-LONG WAR OF BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS!

WHILE BUHARI WAS DEDICATED TO SAVING THE FUTURE LEADERS THROUGH PINE, CHECK OUT WHAT OTHERS WERE DOING!
The Legislators: (1) They eventually passed the 2017 Budget which was laid before the National Assembly (NASS), since 14th December, 2016, by President Buhari, on 11th May, 2017, but not without PADDING THE FIGURES FROM - N7.28 trillion to N7.44 trillion - an added N16 Billion Naira, to increase their own appropriation!
(2) An Anti- CORRUPTION BOOK, "written" by Senator Dino Melaye, was launched on18th May, 2017, fellow legislators and sold for N50.000 per hard copy. Senator Saraki and Speaker Dogara bought 469 copies for all legislators at the cost of N23.450.000!
(3). FORBES MAGAZINE SPOTLIGHTS FIVE NIGERIAN BILLIONAIRES WHO CAN END POVERTY IN NIGERIA!

Major factors responsible for the malnutrition scourge in Nigeria include but not limited to the following: Increased Poverty Level, Unemployment of Able-Bodied and Employable Youths, Gender Inequality, Population Explosion, Failure of Adequate Health Infrastructures by Government, and Inadequate Child and Maternal Health Care but OXFAM International says there are FIVE very outstanding and globally-recognised billionaires in Nigeria in the persons of: (1) Aliko Dangote, $·12.5 billion; (2) Mike Adenuga, $10.5; (3) 'Femi Otedola, $2.3; (4) Lady 'Folorunso Alakija, $2.1; and (5) Theophilus Danjuma, $1.7, who can collectively eradicate POVERTY from Nigeria!
Anambra State also boasts of at least THREE THOUSAND LOCAL BILLIONAIRES, according to an indigene journalist who claimed that all of them were interested in the gubernatorial elections slated for 18th November, 2017, either to covet the position, sponsor someone else or debar others from attaining the post at all cost with their surplus and abundant wealth!
According to Oxfam, there is a large and grown gap between the rich and the poor in Nigeria. The combined wealth ($29.9 billion), of those FIVE, according to the report could end EXTREME POVERTY, because the benefits of the nation's economic growth had been captured by a FEW WEALTHY ELITE, at the expense of the ordinary Nigerian and the economic inequality had been the key factor in the conflict in North Eastern Nigeria! And according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), about 112 million Nigerians, (representing 67.1%) of the country's total population of 167million, live below poverty level .
Oxfam report also says that public office holders stole an estimated $20 trillion from the TREASURY between 1960-2005, while multinational companies received tax incentives estimated at $2.9 billion a year, proving that Nigeria's myriad of economic debauchery had been endemic from the date the neo- colonialists took over reign of government in1960!

IMPERATIVE MEASURES TO RESCUE THE DYING INFANTS!
Government urgently needs to upgrade the activities of the Presidential Initiative for North East (PINE), which had been in place since 2015 to cater for the welfare of IDP's in the North East to focus more on the necessary care and attention of these unfortunate infants by appropriating a SPECIAL FUND to cater for their health needs, just as the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme, is being given special priority. According to the Presidency, "as at 16th May, 2017 - 1.051.619, PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS were fed across SEVEN States!

We need to remind both Federal and the THREE North Eastern States that about 50.000 of those infants could die before the end of 2017, if GREATER attention was not devoted to destroy the scourge of MALNUTRITION ravaging the region, therefore the following palliatives MUST be urgently put in place:
(1) More funds must be injected to purchase nutritional food to eradicate the prevalent acute malnutrition while urgent deworming must be enforced;
(2) Complimentary and therapeutic feeding is very imperative now and should be urgently introduced to stop and terminate the scourge;
(3)Special feeding of richly nutritional food should be provided for the mothers in order for them to provide exclusive breastfeeding urgently needed by the babies;
(4) Micro-nutrient foods should be provided for those infants who were able to ingest them;
(5) Health Care Centres must be established within the vicinities of IDP's Camps where the scourge were most prevalent to dispense necessary drugs and enforce hygiene and sanitation among the mothers, babies and infants;
(6) It is also very important that special foods well fortified with Vitamin A & Iron, should always be supplied to the mothers and their children;

HOWEVER, we are aware that governments alone cannot be saddled with the huge financial figures involved, but that NGO's, philanthropists, the FIVE Nigerian billionaires, the 3.000 Ananmbra billionaires, All Proceeds from Senator Dino Melaye's "Antidotes For? (To) Corruption", and Some Percentage of All Recovered Monies, should be donated to PINE for the quick intervention that the very pressing matter should be resolved once and for all! :
‘Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. (Psa 127:3-5).



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

THE YOUNGEST FRENCH PRESIDENT HAS BLAIZED THE TRAIL! WHAT ARE THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS WAITING FOR?

When the political exploits of youthful Emmanuel Jean Frederic Macron from Picardy town France, hit global social media in 2016, there was an upset in the French bureaucratic calculations about who would succeed 63-year-old Fracois Hollande whose tenure was marred by "immigrant terrorism", foisted on the nation through diplomatic bunglings!
Macron a new comer into French politics had no affiliation to any known political party, had no leftist nor rightist agenda and was not infatuated towards godfatherism, but his centrist exposition which engulfed France like a wild and an uncontrollable inferno, took all political pundits by surprise as he became an instant enigma! Emmanuel who was a former civil servant and investment banker, masters holder in philosophy, served the French government as Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs, but never held any elected office!
At 39 years, the new French President had quite an interesting antecedent and resume of a tertiary education which built in him an ideological world view of an adventurous extrovert. In his adolescent/adult emancipation, he fell in love and later married his drama teacher, Brigitte - now 64 years, who had in no small measure impacted revolutionary ideas into the young mind which was eventually driven into the presidential seat of power, by storm! Can one argue further, that behind every successful man, there is a loving, very influential and powerful WOMAN?

Historical record has it that it was a teacher/student relationship that brought Brigitte and Emmanuel together when at 15, the young lad fell in love with his teacher and got married to the divorcee, 13 years later in 2007. In spite of global criticisms in respect of the 25-year age difference, the couple have had TEN years of very successful marriage! Macron employed his ambitious political plan through an Independent Party which knocked down the pillars of other conservative political parties including his opponents National Front/Hollande's Socialist Party/The Republicans/La France insoumise/Debout la Rance/Resistons etc, and got a landslide victory of 66.1% of votes against his closest rival, lady- Marine Lee Pen who scored 33.9% by popular votes at the conclusion of a run-off on 7th May,2017 as no candidate won a majority in the first round held on 23rd April, 2017!
This young man has made history just like many of his peer groups who made it to the number one position in their various countries like America's John Kennedy, Britain's David Cameron, Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon, to mention a few, but still has one more river to cross on 11 th and 18th June, 2017, when the legislative elections would hold to determine his capacity in the French Parliament because he has neither a strong nor an established political structure, as it were! However the determined young man's Party has unveiled candidates for the elections of which 50 female aspirants in solidarity with their male counterparts are ready to slug it out and win laurels for the winning team!

CAN NIGERIAN YOUTHS TAKE OVER THE PRESIDENCY LIKE EMMANUEL MACRON?
Since Macron's emergence as the youngest French President in recent times - before him were General De Gaulle, Nicholas Sarkozy, Fracois Hollande, etc., political commentators, including those of Nigeria have clamoured that it was time Nigerian Youths took over the arena and gun for the number one position! According to the Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution, 1999, the enshrined age for aspiration to the position of president is 40 years; for the National Assembly/Governorship, 35; and for the State Assemblies/Local Governments, 30! Are the legislators ready to amend the Constitution to create a slot for the Nigerian youth in the presidency?

On the flip side of this political landmark is the victory of Elder Donald Trump victory at the 2016 polls! The 70-year-old American President would not have made history, had he not ventured into the political turf in spite of the challenge posed by several Republican youths who contested the primaries with him! Trump was never a political title holder at any level of government - neither a Congressman, Senator nor a State Governor, but he ventured with sheer guts and won the elections to the dismay of the WORLD! This senile President also ventured to marry a younger wife - now fifty years old - but no one seems to raise an eye brow!

NOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAINED!
In 57 years of political independence, Nigeria, is not bereft of its own MACRONS, but of the MINDSET to cut off from the umbilical cords of the selfish and greedy senile leaders who have sat over their political ambitions, dampened their aspirations through Feudal/Oligarchic tendencies and have perpetually subjected them to abject poverty, penury and squalor in order to kill whatever remained of their enthusiasm in life! OVER 30 MILLION NIGERIAN YOUTHS - MOSTLTY OF NORTHERN EXTRACTION - ARE OUT OF SCHOOL - ROAMING THE STREETS!

Many Nigeria youths are the POLITICAL THUGS instead of ASPIRANTS; they are the CONTRACTED PROTESTERS instead of members of the esteemed POLITICAL CLASS, they are the Boko Haram terrorists, the Niger Delta Vandals, the nation-wide KIDNAPPERS, the CATTLE RUSTLERS, the ARMED ROBBERS, illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and prostitutes in foreign countries, who are deported from Italy, Britain, Libya etc, on weekly basis and have always brought immense shame upon Nigeria! Over 62 tertiary institutions in Nigeria churn out thousands of graduates annually who prefer the unavailable "white-collar" jobs and without self effort to maximize the acquired education towards positive accomplishment for themselves and the larger society, they complain of MARGINALIZATION!

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS AN EPITOME OF SINCERE LEADERSHIP!
Nigerian youths should follow the Change Pattern of the 74-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari, and his team in order to succeed since revolutionary ideologies are not the prerogative of the youths alone. In under TWO YEARS, the economic and political gains of the ruling All People's Congress, (APC), Government in the areas of counter terrorism which resulted in remarkable military gains against BOKO HARAM terrorists whose ranks have been terribly decimated with the overrun of SAMBISA FOREST; the full-throttled war against INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION of over 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), misgovernance - 1999-2015 - and the turn around of the ECONOMY which was already on the verge of recession, even as at the 29th May, 2015, when President Buhari took over the reigns of political power!
GOD CREATED A FULL-FLEDGED MAN INTO THE WORLD BEFORE MAN PRO-CREATED CHILDREN! ( Compare Genesis: 2:7; with 4: 1-26) The African adage says: "What an elderly person sees while sitting on a bench, the youth cannot see if he climbed the highest tree!" The success and progress of every society depends of the blend of the capacities of both the old, young, aged or youth who are inseparable! There is definitely no community or country in the world which population is wholly composed of mainly senile or totally youth settlers.
The culture, tradition, commerce and trade accomplishments of ILE-IFE, the cradle and origin of the Yoruba race world-wide, is credited to the union and marriage of the Godly endowments of wisdom, knowledge and understanding of both the youths and elders of the land!

FRENCH DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC SITUATION BEFORE THE ADVENT OF MACRON!
Must France open its gates to all manner of immigrant asylum seekers - all in the name of faithful allegiance to the European Union (EU)? It has been established that all terrorists’ attacks - twice in Paris and one in Nice - which took the lives over about 200 innocent persons was caused through UNDIPLOMATIC DIPLOMACY by the out-going Francois Hollande and he dared not seek re-election!
From the administration of ex-President Nickolas Sarkozy, French economy had been on the slide and when Francois Hollande moved in in 2012, he was optimistic that he could effect a turn around, but he failed and became the most unpopular president in recent French history as he departed the ELYSEE PALACE on Sunday 14th May 2017! He also failed because of his inability to revive the economy, curb unemployment and administrative wastages! Since the financial crisis of the year 2008, the French economy grew slowly but now need a more dynamic drive which we believe could be released by the young, ebullient and determined in-coming Macron. France has the world's seventh largest economy according to nominal figures by International Monetary Fund (IMF), estimates for the year 2017. We wish young Emmanuel Macron, who was inaugurated on Sunday 14th May, 2017, a revolutionary and very successful first 5-year tenure which should revamp French wobbling economy, create employment opportunities for the youths, tighten EU immigration policies that gave room for terrorist’s attacks in France!

NIGERIAN POLITICAL LEADERS SHOULD NOT BE BURIED ALIVE!
We vehemently disagree with the vituperations of a street teenage Nigerian whose recent statement, "that all Nigerian Leaders should be buried alive in mass graves because they were the root cause of mass illiteracy, unemployment, insecurity and the nation's economic woes! Instead of burying them alive, we suggest that all political and public office holders should be requested to declared their assets to Nigerians for verification and those who cannot give convincing proofs of acquisition of illicit gains should forfeit them to government, be prosecuted and sent to rot in jail in order to serve as deterrent to the larger society! JUNGLE JUSTICE IS FORBIDDEN BY GOD!



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.

MERCENERY LABOUR LEADERS NOW EYE POLITICAL OFFICES! WHAT GREED?

It did not come as a surprise to many Nigerians when some leaders of a faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), during the last MAY DAY celebrations, expressed desire to metamorphose into a political party in view of the fact that since politics was a game of NUMBERS they could harness their numerical strength to advantage in order to CATER MORE for the basic necessities of life for their members as political gurus! Are they really passionate about the NEEDS of the downtrodden and over-used Nigerian workers or deviously planning to cut a niche for themselves in the rosy political landscape and line their pockets with the financial largesse which accompanies Nigeria's lucrative capitalist presidential system of government?

In 1978, there was a merger of four different organizations which founded the NLC as an umbrella body for 42 restructured industrial unions with an initial membership population of 4 million, which has now grown to over 6 million, to "cater for workers specific and general interests in a more organized manner! Before Comrade Wahab Goodluck, who emerged as the first President of that new body, there was the immortalized "LABOUR LEADER NUMBER ONE", PA MICHAEL IMODU, of blessed memory, who championed the cause of Nigerian down-trodden workers without seeking neither paraphernalia of office nor aspired to become a politician which today has become the vogue and vocation among the present crop of labour leaders of the 21 Century! Worthy of note also were Comrades Abdulwahed Ibrahim Omar and Pascal Bafiyau, who followed Pa Imodu's footstep unlike Adams Oshiomole, who later veered into politics and spent 8 years in office as Governor of Edo State (2008-2016)! Nobody was surprised that the ex- governor was rebuffed by workers at the Eagle Square, on May Day, 2017, when he tried to calm a mild protest against Federal Government officials because he already belonged to the ELITES CLUB of capitalist politicians!
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), has consistently advocated that labour agitations for improved workers conditions and enhanced living wages must always be predicated on mutual negotiations instead of confrontations, antagonisms or picketing with employers of labour in order to allow for a conflict resolution of "no victor, no vanquished", because when union leaders accused employers of deliberate exploitation of their workers, the later always accused their employees also of collecting free emoluments in spite regular lackadaisical attitude to work!
Nigerian workers have been maligned, sidelined and exploited by Governors of the various State Governments who owe them salary arrears of between 6 and 15 months up to May Day 2017, like Kogi State, which leads with 15 points on the medal table of unpaid N18.000.00 paltry stipends and even expected MARCH PASTS by the workers on empty stomachs because the Labour negotiators reneged on the bond of COVENANT through delay of serious negotiations with State Governments for their own selfish pecuniary gains! During the disrupted 2017 May Day gathering at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the Federal Government delegation comprising of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senate President, and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives were barred from delivering official addresses including that of the President! Nigerians were also not surprised when in January 2017, some ambitious labour leaders announced the formation of a new Labour Union which emerged after a two-year internal crisis that split the NLC into two opposing factions following a disputed general elections in 2015. Out of the 42 Industrial Unions, of the NLC, no fewer than 25, elected Comrade Joe Ajaero who heads one of the splinter groups as President of the new United Labour Congress (ULC). As expected, the other group of the NLC, headed by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, described the emergence of the new labour party as a setback to the agitation for better conditions of service - especially on the issue of the new minimum wage being negotiated with the Federal Government.

WHICH NLC WOULD ENGAGE GOVERNMENT at the Tripartite Committee and through which medium or channel? The TWO NLCs in question exist on the pages of the newspapers, magazines and the internet and we make bold to say that they do not represent the interest of anybody except themselves; they are diametrically opposed to the Change Administration’s posture of good governance and therefore not the “voice of the oppressed” and must henceforth be rejected by the workers whose interests they no longer represent, with the following strategy: All affiliates which are made up of virtually all formal and informal trade unions, divisions/parastatals of government and the private sectors that are very numerous should engage legal action to suspend the compulsory monthly labour contributions which were normally deducted at source and deprive them the luxury of collecting illegal salaries and allowances for as long as they remained divided because they have completely reneged on their Mission Statement to organize, unionise, and educate all categories of Nigerian workers; defend and advance their political, economic, social and cultural rights; emancipate and unite them and THE PEOPLE from all forms of exploitation and discriminations et ce tera! Factionalized NLC should be told the hard truth; as presently constituted, THEY ARE A LIE, A FRAUD AND A REPROACH TO THE NIGERIA SOCIETY!

The celebration of modern May Day has its antecedent in the organized LABOUR DAY of September 1, in the United States of America from the 1880s when the KNIGHTS OF LABOUR began annual parades through New York City and applied political pressure for its nation-wide recognition as a legal public holiday. In Europe, celebration of Labour Day on MAY 1, could be traced to 1889, when the first congress of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL met in Paris and urged workers to enforce an annual public holiday on first of May. It had since become a global event that has more prominence in the Communist calendar where Moscow semi-militant May Day parades are among the most-publicized and pageant-clustered annual event. It is instructive to juxtapose May Day celebrations with the thoughts of Karl Marx, a socialist cum communist radical ideologist who was passionately and vehemently opposed to CAPITALISM in all its ramifications - theory or practice! This revolutionist opined that though we dwell in a world which is dominated by minority capitalist governments and politicians who exploited the majority workforce, workers should not be classified as PARASITES in the unholy equation of. "master - servant relationship!" Capitalism is an economic, political and social system based on private ownership of property, business and industry, and directed towards making the greatest possible profits for successful organizations and people. A system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners at the EXPENSE OF THE WORKING CLASS! Nigeria runs a capitalist presidential system of government!

Karl also advocated that Labour Unions should always engage capitalist governments as catalysts to bridge the lopsided gap and rectify the anomaly of underpayment through collective bargaining with the capitalist political class and confront the penchant for FREE LABOUR from a labour force that should enjoy the advantage of numerical strength in all negotiations for better conditions of engagement! All global protagonists of equal pay for equal job in social democracies, were opposed to all forms of exploitation through capitalist ideologies of various governments and were never enticed by the ruling class to betray the trust of the workers through bribery with illicit, transient and carnal gains because elected labour officers were TESTED AND TRUSTED! Labour leaders in alliance with the middle social classes had fought for and won the democratic freedoms of the universal franchise, rights of free speech, association, assemblies and equal representation as enshrined in the constitutions of their respective countries and Nigerian labour leaders cannot afford to behave differently!

FAITHFUL LABOUR LEADERS ARE SOCIALIST-ORIENTED NOT CAPITALIST'S!
Because Nigerian labour leaders who now want to take advantage of the numerical strength of workers for political glory are mere HIRELINGS, - Wolves in Sheep's clothing’s, we recommend that workers of the two labour factions should close ranks and form the WORKERS UNION OF NIGERIA (WUN), immediately to represent them during the inauguration of the TRIPARTITE COMMITTEE of (Workers, Government and the Private Sector), to be set up by the Federal Government, for the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage for all workers in the country! We also advise that WUN should negotiate for a minimum wage of at least N 60.000.00 naira and multiple allowances which MUST include but not limited to, TRANSPORT, HOUSING, MEDICAL, ACCIDENT, HARDSHIP etc, because they deserve more compensations after all these years of deprivation of basic necessities of life! IT'S HIGH TIME NIGERIAN WORKERS TOOK THEIR DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS AND SHUT THE DOOR AGAINST PREDATOR LABOUR LEADERS!

All factionalized “officers” must be compelled to resign their posts and refund all salaries and allowances so far collected and hand over to the newly constituted WORKERS UNION OF NIGERIA (WUN) through the intervention of THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND PRODUCTIVITY in other to save Nigeria's WORKFORCE from the neo-colonialists labour leaders and complete the Change Circle of flushing out the SPOILERS! “Heal Nigeria, O LORD and she shall be healed; save her, and she shall be saved; for thou art her praise.” (Jeremiah.17:14).



I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066 g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.