Nigeria @ 50: Waking Up The Sleeping Giant

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The people of Aba in Abia State and Nnewi in Anambra State are beginning to live up to their responsibility to shun bad leaders and to disgrace them in public. The treatment meted out to the under-performing Theodore Orji twice in just 3 days portrays clearly how Nigerians in the various states where they reside must treat disgusting leaders and thieves. Instead of rolling out the drums for them to dance for mere pittance, spit on their faces and ignore them like they don't exist.

Somehow, I wish we could go back to those days we read about in our history, when such persons would be stripped naked and made to dance round the community confessing their sins with evidence of their offense tied around their necks and with little children shouting, "Tifi, Tifi Jankoriko, Ole!" right behind them and pelting them with rotten eggs and stones.
Post Merge: March 13, 2012, 01:35:59 PMHow do people develop the courage to wake up every morning or lose sleep scheming overnight how to hurt a fellow human being?

Some may be quick to say it's a function of jealousy. But, I think it's much more than that. I think such people are possessed of some demon.

Why would anyone want to spend valuable time that could have been channeled towards creative and productive ends scheming to destroy others?

It takes a beast to sever the head of his fellow man. Worst part, it has suddenly become an obsession and an occupation for some in the country.

Nigeria is in a state of emergency!

It is only Nigerians who are ready to show courage for what is right and lay down their lives for the greater good that can stop the beasts gobbling our brethren and fellow compatriots voraciously!

Community effort and vigilance can tame the beast! All Nigerians must work towards uncovering the beast and to probe deeply for the sponsors!
Post Merge: March 13, 2012, 01:58:02 PMWhat is the next committee that will be setup? Does anybody know? It is a shame that after more than 2 years, all we are having is just this mess. Yet, some people want to come back in 2015. Mscheeeeeeeeeew!

We will know if Nigerians are truly fools and if they will choose to pander to baseless sentiments rather than the critical issues of know-how, vision and demonstrated capability as well as understanding of the factors at play.

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I am not only angry, I am out to challenge you to reason. In doing so, I might annoy you at some points. I might also make you laugh at some points. Some may even hiss at some points. I don't give a damn. I am a very angry man today.

First, I woke up today to hear that some lunatic had blown himself up killing some innocent Nigerians at a Catholic Church in Rayfiled, Jos today. No one should hold be back o! I dey provoke. Na wich kain nonsense be dat na? Dem send una? How una go dey wake up dey tink of how to dey kill pipul - innocent pipo? God go deal with una o! Walahi! Una don murder una sleep. All of una wey dey kpai innocent pipul for awi kontiri, whether na for politics o or for religion o or for woman or man o or for money and property o, una know go sleep again o! Walahi, Baba God no go let una sleep again o.

In fact, I am too angry. Can you imagine that despite the problems they had caused for this nation in imposing candidates and their zoning mess, these pipul wey dem dey call Psychological Disorder Pandemic, that disease wey don dey rule awi Naija for some years now, dem don start their zoning nonsense again to take cause more gbege and kpai more pipul. We must reject dat nonsense dis time for awi kontiri. Na we go select awi presido dis time. Enough is enough. PDP we no send una. We don see enough pepper. Ba na so! We no want again! Make una waka pass bifor we go charge dey whoz una one by one. Nonsense!

I am still very angry. What is wrong with our girls on Facebook these days? Can you imagine say girl want make you like am, e go stand in front of im mirror take photo of im bum bum come post de tin wey be like satelite dish for internet. Na wich kain nonsense be dat na? How do you think you can attract me with that heavy mass of shit box? Ehn! If I want satelite dish, I go go shop go buy am. I no need your own. In fact, if na satelite dish you wan dey sell, hang am for space. Naija need more communication satelites. Shuo!

I never finish o. See me see turoble. I go buy fruits from the girl wey dey sell for me for one junction. As I dey buy na im my innocent eyes just waka go see wan kain tin. Hunh! Una know wetin I see? Chai! De girl wear wan kain dress like dat wey dem dey call show me wetin you carry for chest. Chineke! Na so my eye go jam some two very black coconuts with scary and outstanding stretch marks. I come vex say I must make dis girl shame today. I know say if I say 'Cover am', she go tink say I like am and she no go get the gravity of her offense. Na im I provoke shout, 'Wetin be dis?' Shame come catch am and she come cover am. Na wetin I been wan achieve be dat. Next time you see all those ones wey no get sense and dem wan dey bare it all even for main road, make you just shout, 'Na wetin be dis?' She go shame cover am. Na their melecine be dat!

I still dey provoke well, well. Dose of una wey dey suffer from waki and die syndrome, na wa for una o. Una need chopmycin to cure una disease wey dey make una wan kpai on top of food. Una tink say una dey enjoy not knowing say una dey kill una sef small, small dey go. Even sef, some go wear tie and beta suit go bukataria go dey chop like animal. De food dey run ne? Una suppose to dey chop am with style so de food go enter una bodi well, well. Instead, una go dey chop like Cookey Monster for Sesame Street. Shuo! Some sef, after una don chop food wey community no fit finish sef, una go still ask for extra plate sef. Ao! Na who take food swear for una like dis? Na one of de problems for Africa be dat. Una no go fit save wen una dey chop food too much even de wan wey una bodi no need as adults. Some go finish one bag of rice every month and one big tin of Milo every 3 days. Na wetin? How you go fit save or invest? You go come dey spend money to cure avoidable sickness. E get some sef wey go dey form for buka with GSM phone wen dem dey chop. If babe enter, dem go put am for ear dey shout 'Hello, Hello!' If you wan chop, chopi and no dey press phone for bukataria. Na bad habit. E get de ones wey no fit handle fork and knife and dem go wan dey form instead make dem wash hand take wack de tin, dem go dey struggle with the food. As dem use de fork, na so de food too go dey run comot. Kai!

De wan wey I wan talk na im dey really make me provoke well, well. Ehn! Can you imagine? Persin go comot for house for morning say im dey go work, na to go tif for office. Dem dey pay am well, well o and no be say im no get money to pay, but im go tif all those kain yeye tins wey go make dem disgrace am for road. How you go go Mallam shop go tif sweet, chewing gum and girls go go dey tif GSM phone put for dat place? Oritse!

If you know say you wan live long, e get de kain tins wey you no suppose put hand at all, at all. Make you no de tif. Make you no take advantage of the poor, orphan and widow. Some of una go deceive dem say una wan gif dem money say make dem come una house come take am. Dat day, una go send madam go market so dat una go get chance do wicked tin. If you wan help persin, help am, no take advantage of dem. God go punish you o! I don tell you na! Make you go beg Baba God if you know say you don do dat kain tin. God no dey tolerate am at all, at all. De same tin, leave anoda man wife and husband alone. I dey talk to una wey una eye no dey comot for anoda man tin. Oju kokoro dey kill o! Even if de woman or de man no get power fight you God go fight you o! Make you no dey find God turoble. Make you go repent!

I don talk my own finish. You kukuma know me bifor say I no send. If you like make you no repent. I don talk finish!

[Davincii]

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Happiness like poverty is a choice you make. You started laying the foundations for them when you became old enough to make decisions about your future.

Every action you took since then, even those ones that seemed mundane, were concrete foundation, pillars and walls, decking and roofing and painting that gave your present edifice its form.

You might need to tear down the foundation and the super-structure you have built and choose to build from the scratch with the right materials of honesty, transparency, hard work, diligence and vision.

What are you waiting for? Get going. Do some soul searching. It's not the devil or witches. You made that choice. You just didn't care then.

Now that all the chips are down, please do care enough to do something about it. Don't stay down, but don't steal either. That is not vision. That is a recipe for even worse failure!
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 02:40:25 PMLaziness is a highly destructive disease. It goes with excuse making as a co-traveler.

What does it take to brush your teeth in the morning and before you go to bed daily? What does it take to have a bath in the morning and before going to bed?

What does it take to boil your water and filter it before drinking? What does it take to pick up a broom to sweep your apartment clean or to clean the drainage?

If you are negligent in these simple things, then you don't need to look too far to see the reasons you have frequent toothaches, Eczema, lice, Typhoid Fever and so on and so forth.

It also explains the reason why your life seems to be at a stand still and why nothing seems to be working right for you.

First, God will not commune with you in filth. He set a high standard for cleanliness in His word. His Holy Spirit loathes filth. No matter how pious you are and how many responsibilities you handle in Church or the Mosque, God won't tolerate your filth. In fact, it is a sure sign you are spiritually filthy and sick to be dirty.

Secondly, all of these are a sign you are negligent in very critical decisions that impact your life and future.

Thirdly, I, for one, cannot entrust sensitive responsibilities to you as your skin and environment tell me volumes about your laziness and negligence in the basic things that give you comfort.
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 03:58:51 PMThe substance of your faith are love and reconciliation with God. If you do not exhibit these in your dealings with your fellow men, then you have no right to go about calling yourself a child of God. He does not know you. If you were His child, you would strive to be like your father.
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 04:50:15 PMI really can't fathom out what people are complaining about Facebook Timelines for. It is actually a very beautiful tool and some sort of organizer for your posts. Recall you used to find it difficult to locate what you posted in the past. Now it's much easier to organize and manage your posts seamlessly.
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 05:17:12 PMThis is the kind of speech I expect from a President:

“We have resources in all parts of the country to sell. All states of the federation have products they can export. The governors should work with private sector operators to produce and sell what they have not only to Nigerians but also for export.

“Nigeria is an agro-based economy even before the civil war and that is why they did not borrow money to prosecute the war. We should be able to revive this process like it happened in those period where oil is not an issue.

“If we create the enabling environment and liase with the private sector, people will not need to steal or go into 419 before they can make it.” - President Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan

But beyond speeches, he is on the driver's seat. He must take the lead by providing well articulated vision and put in place measures to get the lazy louts for governors to key in.
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 05:37:28 PMI am amazed how we often allow illegal and unconstitutional institutions we did not create determine the direction of things in the country. For God's sake, the Governor's Forum is not a constitutional body neither do its actions and statements have the force of law. It is constituted by a group of elected governors, most of whom can hardly show anything tangible they have done in their states and suffer seriously from poverty of ideas, but think they have a right we have not given them to tell us what region should produce the president and who should be president. That is a clear usurpation of the power of the masses and they must be shown who truly calls the shots in the upcoming elections in 2015.

Nigerians, are you ready?
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 08:01:04 PMThere are people who I refer to as Mobile Trash Cans. Yes, I repeat, Mobile Trash Cans!

They go about acquiring all kinds of dirt into their lives.

The worst ones are those who run from pillar to post from one spiritual hose to another and from one native doctor to another, swallowing all kinds of puerile concoctions including the urine of animals like frogs, vultures (Angulu), wall geckos, cockroaches, chameleon and even tadpoles, stinking and polluted river and ocean water, human blood, animal blood, water derived from washing corpses, human parts and so on and so forth, all in the name of acquiring business success without hard work and supposedly to protect themselves from evil ones or to win elections or a contract or even to pass exams and to get husbands and wives. Chineke! What madness! What a dust bin!

All that God has asked for is obedience to His Laws and yet some find that difficult to do but prefer the humiliation of the devil. Mscheeeeeeeeeeeew!
Post Merge: March 10, 2012, 08:17:56 PMAre you a walking Trash Can? Go and repent and obey God. That's all it takes to have a breakthrough that lasts and lasts. Obedience is better than sacrifice!
Post Merge: March 11, 2012, 01:59:10 PMFor those of you who have made killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians your mainstay, watch out, God will kill you if you don't give it up - yes, you and all your sponsors! Nigerians, be ever more vigilant. There is no salvation in the security agents!

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No matter how rich you are, a little sun, a little walk and a little work won't do you any harm. Some build a huge wall around themselves that they have lost touch completely with nature and die suddenly.

If your wealth makes you a prisoner and you are not at peace with nature and with God, then you are most definitely also not at peace with your fellow men.

That is not wealth. That is greed spurred by the grab-it-all madness of the age!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 10:25:07 AMImagine a room full of worms and viruses and bacteria. 'Yucky', you say?

If you must make use of that room, you must sanitize it. However, there are some who would prefer to live in it like that. They have long concluded, "Disease no dey kill African man!' Eeeeeew!

That is a picture of present day Nigeria. We overlooked the activities of worms and viruses and bacteria. One common thing about these organisms is that they are destructive and they leave pains and sorrow and death and so much anguish in their wake.

Another noticeable feature of these organisms is that they reproduce after their kind in very large numbers and very rapidly and so they quickly take up the space, causing the system to collapse.

Why do some still think that Nigeria must not be sanitized? Why do some think that these bacteria, worms and viruses do not need to be wiped off the surface of the earth so the system could be sanitized.

It is time, more than ever, to apply some antibiotics, pesticides and laxatives to clean out the mess stunting the growth of such a great nation.

This is inevitable!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 10:40:06 AMNigeria needs a painful surgical operation and quickly too!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 11:06:42 AMDo you know that for every 10 internet scams, about 8 emanate from Nigeria? Do you know that most credit card information processing organizations in the world do not allow you register to use their platforms if you were a Nigerian?
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 11:08:55 AMRibadu took this malady out. Now it's on the rise a gain exponentially.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 12:46:01 PMI have said this over and over again that in seeking a solution to the national question, we must of necessity restructure meaningfully. However, beyond the issue of restructuring, we must not fail to address a most critical factor as the quality of minds we allow operate the structure.

To my mind, this is the most critical issue more than anything else. I posit that until we are ready to do away with this set of worms who compromise the system, we might as well restructure as a fruitless exercise. I also submit that until we are ready to sanitize the system, even 'heavenly democracy', if there was anything like that, would not work here.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 12:52:54 PMThe truth is that some of those who are clamouring for change are not doing so for good reasons. Some are only looking for smaller spheres where they could exercise much influence and some are looking for a quick exit from trials in the courts of our land for crimes against Nigeria and Nigerians.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 03:28:37 PMCan you imagine for one moment that man could find and control the source of the breath of life and air?

God is so wise and He saw in advance the treacherous nature of mankind that he made it impossible. We would all have had to pay one powerful man or set of people before we could breathe.

We keep fighting over things we never made and that we only just stumbled on in the course of migration.

I hear even that poisonous thing they call Pure Water is now =N=10 per sachet due to the removal of fuel subsidy.

What a world?
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 04:01:07 PMIf Nigerians fail to see that the new card the FG is throwing up about some dialogue with Boko Haram is itself an act of grand subterfuge to provide soft landing for the real criminals at the root of the matter and to turn attention from the need to name the killers, then this would be the most disgraceful generation of Nigerians ever.

Before dialogue, we must know the killers of our brethren. Nigerians deserve to know.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 04:03:44 PMWe must get to the root of the matter and the financiers behind this criminal enterprise in government must be punished!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 05:25:43 PMAre you guys ready for the kpaki Bread devaluation of the quality of life in Nigeria?

By the end of this month, the price of wheat would shoot up by 300% owing to the new FG tariff on wheat imports.

Already, whole wheat bread sells for =N=400.00 per loaf in some parts of Nigeria. The spongy and chaff-full cousin made of kpaki still sells at the former price of whole wheat bread.

For those of you who love poisons from Tantalizers, Mr. Biggs and the rest, get ready to pay more for whole wheat pastries or be prepared to eat flaky and yucky-tasting pies and sausage rolls.

IF people don't buy, I see the unemployment rate increasing as the eateries would down size or cut down on wage bills by halving salaries to cope with prodigious costs of operation including the huge cost of running production lines on diesel-powered generators.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 05:33:53 PMIf the air we breathe were an easily tamable resource and located in any part of this country, we would have had to beg on our knees to have some air. Those who stumbled on that resource by some accident would have threatened to sequester themselves from the rest of us and seek to call the shots and to bully other parts of the nation!

Thank God this is not possible!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 05:55:20 PMStarting from tomorrow, March 7, 2012, I will be focusing on one state out of the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT each day. The highlights would focus on what each governor is doing and what each governor ought to be doing. We shall look at the resources within the reach of the government and how those resources have been tapped and utilized by those governors for the good of the people of the state.

If you are from any of the states in focus, just be sure to come armed with facts instead of baseless arguments in defense of a poorly performing governor. Your added insight will be welcome.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 06:52:31 PMWhen you spend all the time nurturing secret relationships with other people's husbands and wives, what quality time would you have to nurture a proper relationship with the right man or woman?

Start behaving responsibly and stop allowing poverty and the fear of what tomorrow might bring drive you into destroying your future!
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 07:06:16 PMIf he/she finds it difficult to let go of the other lady or guy and that consistently stirs up a storm between the two of you, it is time to let go or cry so much for the rest of your life.

Dem no dey beg to be loved o! Except you wan become prayer warrior and a binder of spirits wey no dey giree go.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 08:11:24 PMA first and most critical test of your ability to love is how well you love yourself. The signs are always too obvious to ignore. A man or woman who has persistent feelings of insecurity and who consistently embraces things that hurt him/her is incapable of loving.

Love must radiate from you in all its ramifications and it is quite infectious. It is not synonymous with baseless arrogance and unfounded pompousness.

One last thing, it is not enough to want love from others. the big question is whether or not you have the capacity and required attitude to nurture and sustain hot, pure and unadulterated love.
Post Merge: March 08, 2012, 08:13:24 PMA man or woman who is incapable of loving but expects love is a toxic waste. Don't touch!

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Chief Odimegwu Emeka Ojukwu did his best, given the prevailing circumstances at the time,  for his people. Gen. Yakubu Gowon also did what he thought was best for his nation. Both of them were right and wrong. Similarly, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did their very best at the time.

What beats my imagination is that this generation chooses to dwell on what they did and did not do right and fail to learn valuable lessons in view of the fact that we have the benefit of such rich history they never had and so much more international exposure than they ever had and we have seen so much more than what they could ever see. Yet, in their time, they delivered the dividends of democracy and independence creditably while this generation could not carry on but instead embrace every measure geared towards destroying their legacies.

Yet, all that we have to offer our nation is destruction, baseless ethnic hatred, continuous theft of resources and gross financial impropriety, poor infrastructure, failed educational system that churns out half-baked graduates in their thousands, irresponsible and incompetent leadership, disgraceful and myopic policies and persistently groping in the dark and unable to handle the fundamentals of nationhood.

What a shame? The certificates we acquire are useless if we are unable to chart a meaningful course for the nation.

What irks one most is the propensity of some to keep quoting copiously from the mistakes of our past leaders without showing capacity to chart a new course for the nation.

The future of this nation is hinged not on what our ancestors did or did not do but on what we - this very present generations of Nigerians - fail or are negligent to do and rightly too.

The real question is not what those who are long dead did or did not do. It is more about how sensible and responsible we are about what we choose to do about it.

Let's move this nation forward and stop beating about the bush!
Post Merge: March 06, 2012, 03:29:42 PMSanusi, in his recent outburst about supposed imbalance in the allocation of resources to states, failed to allow his educated mind reflect on the need for each state to work harder and to introduce sincere measures to curb wastage. It is the same amount of money, if not even less, that Isa Yuguda receives every month from the Federation Account to do absolutely nothing that Ahmed Muazu, his predecessor received to do so much in very little time.

He also did not factor in the impact of greed and selfishness in the use of resources as we are living witnesses that even in Bayelsa that benefits from monthly allocations from the Federation Account for so many years now since its creation, enjoys allocations from NDDC and still benefits from 13% Derivation, has failed to develop from infancy since its creation.
Post Merge: March 06, 2012, 03:50:16 PMI realize that sometimes, the best things come in packages we don't expect. Small in frame, Blessing is such an awesome person. Blessed with rare raw intelligence and fantastic diction, this rare gem is also rare to find these days. I keep wondering if she is a Nigerian. Her level of creativity is surpassing and I really can't believe girls like her still live in Nigeria.

Some that I know would even abandon lucrative skills they possess to wear make-ups and expensive perfumes to court the next available 'mugu' who has more money than commonsense.
Post Merge: March 06, 2012, 04:04:51 PMHave you noticed the long queues to use ATMs lately? Thanks to Mallam Sanusi's recalcitrance. What is worth doing is worth doing well. A situation where people have to queue for long hours under the hot sun to access funds from mostly dysfunctional ATMs with poor network infrastructure is embarrassing.

The other nations whom Sanusi seeks to imitate did these things in orderly fashion, putting in place critical infrastructure first such as steady electricity supply and sturdy network links.

The rush to be the CBN Governor who introduced cashless economy first in Nigeria beclouded his sense of judgement.

Nigeria is clearly not ready for this nonsense!

The other day, I spent 3 hours even in Abuja to access little money.
Post Merge: March 06, 2012, 04:26:19 PMIt is painful when you have to delay a time-bound process because Sanusi thinks we should ape the advanced world so poorly.

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Coming up tomorrow, The Killer Boko Haram - Not AMystery (Part IV)
Post Merge: March 05, 2012, 11:39:37 AM                                 The Killer Boko Haram - Not A Mystery (Part IV)

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                                                 Segun Edward II

This part of the series had been put on hold in view of recent happenings in the country. However, it is pertinent to state that recent events have not in anyway skewed the available evidence of government’s complicity in the whole mess. Rather, what we see amounts to a very poor attempt at diverting attention from the real issues at stake and playing on ethnic sentiments. Even the recent arrests of the two supposed henchmen of the outlaw group, which arrests everyone rightfully thought would have yielded positive results, hailed as a breakthrough by the security agents have turned out to be avenues for spinning nonsensical tales by moonlight of supposed recruitment processes and propaganda about lack of equity and fairness in the distribution of the booties and spoils of organized crime such as bank robberies and car thefts, and all of these after more than 3 weeks of having supposed key players of the group in custody.

We have come a long way in this series and it is critical to do a quick recap of the facts presented in the last three parts and in the process, we will flesh them out and highlight recent happenings also. We present the entire summary as 16 separate bulleted points for clarity. However, you may need to refer to the first three parts for added clarity.

Various intellectuals including Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, presented to the public what I would consider the most ridiculous reasons for the emergence of militancy up North. This present mess has absolutely nothing to do with 13% derivation enjoyed by the oil producing states of Nigeria. That is far from the truth. It even has absolutely nothing to do with the poverty levels in the North. The argument is clearly illogical and clearly symptomatic of the causative factors that gave rise to the second dimension of Boko Haram.

If the issue, like Mallam El-Rufai had posited had to do with crisis of leadership in the North and poor offerings from the democratic experience (though true) by state institutions in the North, then government houses and top government officials would have been blown sky high by suicide bombers.

Let me state that it is in view of his role in lying to Nigerians along with other prominent personalities in this present government about the issues surrounding the poorly thought-out fuel subsidy removal, which role damaged his reputation considerably in the wake of the blood-chilling revelations from the probe of the petroleum sector by the National Assembly also in the wake of the fuel subsidy protest and which lies pitched agents of government against the masses, leading to the death of many innocent Nigerians in Kano (his home town) and elsewhere that Mallam Sanusi has made deft political moves to regain the confidence of his people who were bound to pelt him with stones should he step into Kano. This informed all the nonsensical statements credited to him recently as well as the illegal donations he made through the CBN.

The ransom price christened amnesty the country pays to the Niger-Delta militants is now being capitalized upon by some elements in the North as an avenue to fight for equal treatment for a faceless group in the North.

The real Boko Haram (the first dimension) was founded on the need to preserve the real intrinsic values in Islamic education destroyed by Western Culture steep in moral lasciviousness and recklessness. The original group sought to live a community life founded on social justice, holiness, and where those intrinsic values in Islam could be practiced in the sanest of atmospheres.

Even the argument from the senile agent of tribalism, Adamu Ciroma, is so nonsensical and that man ought to be confined to a dudgeon for providing the alibi for the grand scale persecution of Northerners.

Recall also that the original group did not fight or kill anyone until they were attacked and killed wantonly by security agents even at check points and even when they sought for justice through the courts, they were denied. Then they took up arms against security agents culminating in the extra-judicial murder of their leader by security agents and so many young boys who were unarmed in a brazen display of senselessness, heartlessness and utter wickedness by some security agents working in concert with the Borno State Government at the time. The videos of these dastardly acts went viral online and we all saw what those beasts did to fellow Nigerians who were picked randomly and shot after they had been asked to lie prostrate.

We also established the level of complicity of the security agents and top government officials as far as the Presidency in this whole mess as well as the ubiquitous and unmistakable role of a notorious arms cartel centering around agents of the Presidency who ply their evil trade in Nigeria, including Israelis, militants and top agents of government who provide official cover for these nefarious activities.

For the purpose of clarity, the following is a summary of critical evidences of complicity on the part of government and the security agencies.

1.             October 1, 2010 Bomb Blasts. MEND admitted it was responsible. President Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan stoutly exonerated MEND of involvement, but laid the blame at the doorsteps of his political opponents. Even when MEND who had claimed responsibility implicated top government officials including Mr. Tony Uranta, a Presidential aide, Mr. President chose to turn a deaf ear to the available evidence and instead of prosecuting him, shielded him from prosecution. The magical Call Log that implicated Chief Raymond Dokpesi came in handy. Marilyn Orgah had been highly visible and vociferous in telling the whole world how involved Chief Raymond Dokpesi was in the October 1, 2010 bomb blasts. Then suddenly, all charges against him were dropped as soon as he moved over from the IBB Presidential Campaign Organization to the Jonathan-Sambo Campaign Organization. Why did Mr. President become MEND’s spokesman? Why did he absolve MEND of complicity even when the group admitted they were responsible? Why did Mr. President and the SSS ignore the Tony Uranta lead? Why did the SSS implicate Chief Raymond Dokpesi and drop charges as soon as he became a part of Jonathan’s campaign team? Why would the Jonathan-Sambo Campaign Organization be willing to admit a supposed terrorist into their fold? What interests was the president trying to protect when he made spirited attempts to absolve MEND? Was there some grand script to ensure persecution of our Northern brothers which the October 1, 2010 bomb blasts and the events that ensued expose due to the breaking of ranks and in-fighting among MEND operatives and their presidential sponsors? Were there plans to continue with with the systematic onslaught on the North by this same presidential gang, working with elements from different parts of the country including Christians who played ball as long as the price was right? Who stood to gain from the destruction of infrastructure in the North and from making the North ungovernable? Could the Northerners choose to make the North ungovernable in the name of making Nigeria ungovernable? What happened to the SSS Call Logs that implicated Chief Raymond Dokpesi? Were they not sufficient evidence to arraign and convict him in court? If they weren’t, why were they used to vilify an innocent man? Why would Mr. President and his security team ignore a golden opportunity to stem the ugly tide of wanton killings by ensuring justice was done on the case? Or was the evidence made up just to implicate an innocent man? Could a president who participated and willfully made spirited defense for terrorists of his own volition and knowing fully well he was lying to Nigerians be so innocent in the real sense? There were clearly established motives.

2.             The CP Mohammed Hassan Angle. Early 2010, the erstwhile Commissioner of Police for Borno State, Mohammed Hassan, gleefully announced to the whole world in the full glare of cameras and journalists in a press conference that Abubakar Shakau had been killed when security agents quelled the insurgency by the Boko Haram group. How come the SSS is suddenly thrilling us with poorly written scripts and movies about some ecstatic revelations supposedly derived from their investigative prowess about a man who was supposed to have been dead? Did he resurrect from the dead and come back into the picture? At what point did he resurrect and who were the witnesses of the ground breaking development? Why did the security agents as well as the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Presidency not deem it fit to investigate the circumstances of his death and to bring Mohammed Hassan to book as well as his superiors who authorized the announcement, if indeed he had lied to Nigerians and the whole world the man was dead showing obvious complicity? If he did not lie to the world about the man’s death, why then has the SSS been cooking up puerile and nauseating stories and dishing out stinking dishes to the public? Why are government officials in the know and even the Presidency not taking decisive action against these forces in the security agencies so as to bring them to book speedily, but instead leaves them intact – in essence, leaves the very machinery at the heart of killing Nigerians wantonly intact? Besides, what is the job of the NSA?

3.             The Seeming Invincibility of the Killer Machine.  This has been due largely to official cover at both security levels and as far as the Presidency given to the activities of criminals, murderers and secessionists masquerading as Boko Haram. They have had superior intelligence information from the security agencies and their cohorts in the top security levels and government destabilize and bungle investigations by patriotic security agents who put their lives on the line to make some headway in investigative work and unraveling the supposed mystery. Their efforts were simply sabotaged, leading to an atmosphere of mutual suspicion even in Force Headquarters, Abuja. When the fugitive of the law who had escaped from custody disappeared, we saw reports in the dailies of how security operatives, under the condition of anonymity, told the Press about how their investigative efforts were often bungled by their higher ups, the same mess playing out even in the EFCC today.

4.             Those at the Top Levels and Decision Making Organs of the Security Agencies Further Compromise Investigations. They do not only do so, they also endanger the lives of field security operatives, exposing them to attacks. They are also not equipped with the right tools to tackle the most critical and defining aspect of the attacks: bomb blasts. For example, when what the security field operatives needed badly were drones and other forms of unobtrusive Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for scouting and combing of large areas for insurgents and for monitoring unusual movements and activities, those in the know and who profit from a notorious arms trade decided all we needed were useless cameras in Abuja for which over $420m was unlawfully expended when what was needed badly were bomb detectors and devices to track down insurgents. Even the contracts for the cameras and irrelevant equipment were characterized by monumental dubiety and compromise of the national interest. Why would the decision makers prefer to ignore the facts on the ground and provide irrelevant equipment instead of what the field operatives really need? Were they supposed to be crippled and their efforts sabotaged at all costs? Or were they pawns in some bigger game known to only a few? Why would any top security chief expose his men to danger and death? Did the security chiefs not have knowledge of the right devices to deploy or was it convenient to pretend not to know? Who constitutes the central nervous system and coordinating unit of security efforts? Could it be that the genuine efforts were bungled at that level deliberately by an agent of government who had the trust and ears of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?

5.             Related to the foregoing is the fact that security field operatives who were not in the know, did not even know who they were looking for and so attacked and fought any and everything that appeared belligerent.  I posit that many of our soldiers and policemen and other security agents were sabotaged and deliberately sent to their death by their superiors in the know, who also supplied superior intelligence to the Boko Haram agents. That is why the killer squad seemed invincible for so long.

6.             The inability, or rather deliberate refusal, of the security decision making organs to initiate a probe much earlier into the activities of their operatives is a sure sign there is so much more than meets the eye.

 

7.             The Farcical Case Involving Sen. Ndume.  The ridiculous handling of the  Senator Ndume case by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the SSS shows gross culpability of the operatives of both bodies on orders from above in seeking to implicate anyone who was opposed to government policies. We also saw how this was going to play out in the fuel subsidy protests as government and security agents sought frantically, to isolate labour so as to brand the spontaneous reaction of Nigerians against a wicked government action an insurrection spearheaded by the opposition. But for the intervention of Mr. Kofi Anan, the former UN Secretary-General and other international figures, innocent men would have been charged for terrorist activities and branded Boko Haram sponsors, all for fighting the evil of fuel subsidy removal. Today, we all know the truth.

8.             It is only logical that one of the first things government should have done was to ensure that materials used for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were not easily accessible. But absolutely nothing was done in that regard. Makers, planters and detonators of  IED’s still have unfettered access to Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer, the most critical factor in the making of IED’s of the sort the Boko Haram operatives detonate all over even in the face of evidence farming is the major preoccupation of Northerners. The distribution and use of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer should have been regulated, controlled and monitored closely. Was this critical aspect deliberately overlooked or government just chose to be negligent?

 

 9.             One would naturally have expected that with the arrest, disappearance, and re-arrest of the fugitive Boko Haram Operative and now having had the supposed Abdul Qaqa in custody for more than 3 weeks, the SSS should have been able to tell Nigerians who the sponsors are. Notice the nonsensical presentations of the SSS showing confusion and lack of intelligence. First, they tell us they had arrested the fugitive and that there are clear leads to top politicians. Then again, they tell us they had not commenced investigations and they could not say who or who were involved. Marilyn Orgah was rather evasive and could not be straight forward in answering piercing and appropriate questions posed by journalists, questions that captured all that Nigerians have been asking despite the fact that Mr. President and the SSS had been claiming for nearly two years now since the October 1, 2010 Bomb Blasts that they knew who the killers were. Are they not by these actions and words guilty of perjury and of protecting the interest of murderers at the expense of the common good of citizens of this country? Do Nigerians deserve for their lives to be so messed up this way by those in whom they repose so much trust to protect them?

10.          Enter the notorious arms cartel. This is the very machinery that controls the third dimension of Boko Haram – the killer machine. It’s all about making huge gains from an atmosphere of insecurity and highly profitable arms deals.  There are clear pointers to the deep involvement of persons in government what with the fact that each time alleged weapons were intercepted, the reports were often swept under the carpet, including the large cache of arms intercepted at the nation’s sea  ports as well as those ones intercepted by security agents of neighbouring countries including Ghana recently. Who were the arms meant for? Why has nobody been arrested and tried? If the argument forwarded by security agents as excuse for the shipment of deadly cargoes intercepted by patriotic customs officers was anything to go by, it amounts to an insult on the intelligence of Nigerians. In the other instance when Ghanaian security agents intercepted and seized another cache of weapons bound for Nigeria, the couriers were caught and they had revealed that apart from the intercepted deadly cargo, some consignments had successfully been delivered previously in Nigeria. To who were those consignments delivered? Why have they not reined in the masterminds? Why have the couriers not been tried? Besides, what are those deadly weapons being imported for? Are they meant to kill goats or cows or lions in the wild? Or were they meant to prosecute ethnic genocide of monumental proportions and secessionist agenda under the watch of a government that claims to care? Can you pause for a moment to imagine how connected the operatives of the fourth dimension are to the powers that be?

11.          For a long time, the security agents were unable to trace or track calls and SMS’s from Boko Haram operatives. It is pertinent to note that the same SSS miraculously tracked calls from which a Call Log supposedly implicating Raymond Dokpesi was derived and they did not deem it fit or they suddenly appeared incapacitated to track the calls and SMS’s from Abdul Qaqa and even though a supposed breakthrough was celebrated in the alleged arrest of Abdul Qaqa, it is so clear they do not have the right man. Recently, an Abdul Qaqa has been speaking for the group until this day. Two important reasons inform my position. First,  Abdul Qaqa, the Boko Haram spokesman,  is close to the highest hierarchy of the group and so must of necessity have critical information and links to the sponsors and the inner workings of the organization. After nearly a month in custody, the SSS tells us fairy tales about claims of this Abdul Qaqa while the substance of the matter is left out all the time. They tell us cock and bull stories about how the supposedly dead leader greedily appropriates choice stolen cars to himself and his Kanuri tribesmen and kith and kin and highly ridiculous stories about how some persons are selected to die or blow themselves up against their will much against established facts recently that those behind the explosion of bombs are paid handsomely and they put their houses in order or they ‘settle’ their families, so to speak,  before they embark on the deadly mission. Nigerians do not pay these guys to tell us lies and fairy tales. Nigerians pay them to secure their lives and property and to expose and punish criminals who are turning them into minced meat and in this regard, the SSS and all the security agencies have failed woefully and are instead beating about the bush trying to provide alibis and to do damage control. They have simply become producers of incredible Thrillers and some sort of obnoxious fiction.

12.          Birds of a Feather Flock Together. This is an established fact and many of us take it for granted as it has become a mere cliché, But engendered in those words is an eternal truth. Recall that when the Police Commissioner, Biu, implicated himself in the poorly scripted drama involving  the escape of the fugitive, Kabiru Sokoto, defense for the embattled man came from a rather unusual source: Asari Dokubo. There is a strong connection between what has been happening in the North and criminal consultants to Mr. President.

13.     Fables and Bedtime Stories Have Become The Order of the Day. This holds true for the security agents. As it were, they, like the Presidency, have not stopped singing the title track, ‘We Know The Perpetrators’, in the album titled, ‘Deceit and Shame’ each time Nigerians in their hundreds get murdered – blown sky high. They have refused to tell us who the culprits – the sponsors are until this day.

At one time, a ridiculous and meaningless story was spun about Boko Haram operatives as great marksmen who had former President Olusegun Obasanjo within range. Then, the story dovetailed into equally ludicrous narration about how they supposedly killed Baba Fuggu after his meeting with President Obasanjo and who they had used to execute him as well as some nondescript information about sponsorship. Those were clearly diversionary materials and had no signature of terrorist writings at all. Terrorists won’t tell you who their sponsors are in a letter. They won’t tell you anything about their strategies or  modus operandi, neither would they tell you who they used to execute crimes against the state.

Prior to the re-arrest of Kabiru Sokoto, recall that the Press and some sources online had published stories about how members were recruited and how some were designated in an unfair way to die and also how choice stolen cars were allocated partially to the leadership as well as monies from robbing banks. That again, is a clear signature imprint of the killers. Islamic groups do not rob banks. It is a sure sign this is not an Islamic group killing people but evil men under the control of powerful forces in and out of government who provide them with cover and protection. Nigerians do not deserve to be treated this way and we have yet to be told what we are waiting to hear for more than one year now. Surprisingly, this same story peddled before his re-arrest was what the SSS could throw up rather than tell us who the killers are.

 13.          There are many more leads in the previous parts that point to secessionist agenda and the very masterminds of these killings in the North. These guys recruit unwary young drug addicts and unlettered men who are paid handsomely to blow up fellow Nigerians. It is a highly organized crime syndicate and the field operatives hardly know who they actually work for. Testimonies from various sources including those by Bishop Matthew Kukah point clearly to the fact that the killer operatives are persons not only from the North East and North West as the world was made to believe but they include persons from the East, West and South of this country, who are recruited and trained briskly and paid handsomely to kill and maim fellow Nigerians. This is the case in the recent bombing of Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) Headquarters in Jos, Plateau State. The bombers were actually not well trained to hit the target and it is obvious they were so afraid. They were obviously not professionals and so they got themselves blown up and the third one who did not have the courage tried to run but was caught and killed immediately. I understand the mob were really angry seeing their loved ones blown up, but they lost a golden opportunity to unravel the sponsors themselves before he was killed. I also understand  the mob were worried, and for good reasons too owing to previous experiences, about  handing him over to the security agents as nothing would come out of it all as usual and so they had to administer jungle justice.

Please, note also that prior to the advent of Boko Haram that bombs places, there have been cases of persons who used explosives meant for mining activities to prosecute the  crisis in Jos, Plateau State. In fact, there was a report that some got their hands blown off right in their apartments where they had kept the explosives. Anybody could have capitalized on the existing national malady to settle scores and some Abdul Qaqa would speak from somewhere. This is the price we have had to pay for the wickedness of a few in government and in security circles. As it were, we lost a golden chance to unravel the sponsors and the true motive as I had stated previously.

 14.          The Reign of Bullies, Vagabonds and Dropouts. Many Nigerians from all parts of the country voted for President Goodluck Jonathan as he seemed to represent change and a new generation of leaders. What many failed to acknowledge, sentiments apart, is that he does not possess foresight, the acumen and the willpower to curb the activities of notorious elements that surround him. In fact, at a time, we saw how these social deviants became his fall back option during the fuel subsidy brouhaha. The genuinely hard working and law abiding citizens of Niger-Delta were sidelined while truants and bullies are the advisers, envoys and consultants to Mr. President on national security and even on sensitive issues such as security of our territorial waters. Nobody needs a crystal ball to know what ills for the country that forebodes even against the fact that there is a constitutional institution saddled with that responsibility: The Nigerian Navy. The integration of outlaws who should otherwise face the full weight of the law for dastardly acts and crimes against humanity into the government – persons, most of whom have no educational qualifications, no known means of livelihood other than trouble making and blowing up places, kidnapping for handsome ransoms, killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians including their kith and kin speaks volumes and leaves a sour taste in the mouth. To make matters worse, they have one who has always been sympathetic to their cause since his days in the Army occupying a very sensitive security organ: the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA). Gen. Owoeye Azazi had previously been indicted over scandalous arms deals while he was Chief of Army Staff and Asari Dokubo’s inadvertent expose opened up cans of worms in the cupboards of Chief James Onanefe Ibori, Chief Diprieye Alamiesigha, Dr. Goodluck Ebelemei Jonathan, Dr. Peter Odili and a couple of other persons around government as regards arms deals and how they procured weapons of mass destruction rather than providing hospitals and portable drinking water and schools for the people of the Niger-Delta. Talk about when villains become heroes! Is it, therefore, a thing of surprise that each time container and truck loads of deadly cargoes are intercepted, nothing tangible comes out of the unnecessarily prolonged investigations? And yet, we are supposed to be looking for the killers? These guys have gained mastery of the art of sabotaging our borders for years to bring in illegal weapons, all in the name of prosecuting some legitimate cause couched in excessive criminality such as kidnapping and bank robberies. Take it or leave it, the killers of Nigerians are the very ones in whom we repose so much confidence.

During the fuel subsidy crisis, some secessionist elements, one of whom is clearly a Bayelsa man, tried frantically to persuade Nigerians surreptitiously on group walls and even sent private e-mail messages canvassing for support for secession. Some of them, like the so-called Transformation Watch, spread secessionist propaganda and even went to the extent of producing fake Arewa currency and tagged people on Facebook, attributing it all to a Northern agenda. There were all forms of evil propaganda meant to damage the image of our Northern brothers and sisters and to spur inter-tribal hatred and consequently internecine warfare and genocide.

In trying to achieve a speedy disintegration of Nigeria, they unearthed propaganda and tried to reopen old wounds, pains and sorrows from the Nigerian Civil War and were always quick to point to the bombing of Churches as deliberate targets to kill Igbos even in the face of evidence that many more Nigerians of other tribes have also been blown up. They clinically aim at pitching the arch-rivals in the ill-fated civil war against each other, namely: Hausa-Fulani vs Igbos or North vs South or Christians vs Muslims or any other permutations geared towards destroying our Northern brothers and sisters.

All of these were aimed at minimizing the cost of disintegration of Nigeria to these notorious elements who misrepresent the Niger-Delta while the North and the East would pay the price and hence the East would become weaker competitors in the emergent nations.

Until this day, Asari Dokubo, who is still a leader of MEND has not minced words about this and Mr. President and the security agents have not cared to shut the bully fanning the embers of ethnic crisis up. Could it be the President never heard his statements or did he just choose to ignore clear acts and statements of criminal intimidation of Nigerians by his consultant on criminal acts against Nigeria and Nigerians?

I have also observed the activities of indicted persons from the West of Nigeria who would do anything to scuttle the course of justice and escape from the iron-claws of the law by hobnobbing with these criminals to curry favours and systematically advance secessionist agenda. After all, if there is no more Nigeria, there would be no more cases against them as crimes committed in Nigeria cannot be re-opened in Oduduwa Republic. I will talk extensively about these elements soon, but I am still studying their signatures.

16.     Finally, I would like to suggest to all Nigerians to, as a matter of urgency, demand to know who the killers of heir brothers and sisters are. Mr. President and the security agencies who have always told us they know them should speak up or face the condemnation of God. Nigerians want to know them and deal with them decisively. Point them out to us and provide incontrovertible evidence and see whether Nigerians will not eat them raw on the streets? Then we will show them they are mere flesh and blood and stinking cowards.

Will Mr. President, the NSA and the security agents fulfill this obligation to Nigerians who feed and clothe them? Or are their hands too soiled with the blood of innocent Nigerians that they are lame and weak to do what Nigerians deserve the most?

Once again, I ask President Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan, Gen. Owoeye Azazi, Marilyn Orgah, IG Mohammed Abubakar, Hafiz Ringim, Asari Dokubo and the rest of the evil pack, who are those painting the streets red with the blood of innocent Nigerians? You have all told us several times you know them and that top politicians are involved. We demand to know them and now, not later! It is time to put an end to these disgusting dramas you guys are orchestrating.

Fellow Nigerians, your security is in your hands. I repeat, community effort is the way to go. There is no salvation from the security agencies. Be vigilant! The killers are Nigerians who we trust and revere when they ought to be spat upon and kept in the dudgeon.
Post Merge: March 05, 2012, 11:52:43 AMWho really came to the world wearing shoes?

So, why was it a campaign issue that many fell for?

Not even Bill Gates wore one!

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I listened to Dr. Myles Munroe last night as he taught on the subject of "Leadership" and here are some excerpts put in my own words:

1. True leaders do not seek followers. They attract followers who are moved by their passion and sacrifices for what they believe in.

2. Leadership is not a right. It is a privilege and it is about the people who give the leader the opportunity to serve them and not to rule over them.

3. The greatest failure of third world leaders in government, business and Church is failure of mentoring.

4. Only knowledgeable leaders who do not have inferiority complex can mentor successors as they have nothing to feel threatened about. They are up and doing and are abreast of up-to-date information about their passions.

He further elucidates:

1. The greatest failure of leadership is unsuccessful succession.

2. The greatest weakness of leadership is lack of mentoring.

3. The greatest personal plague of leadership is insecurity. It is a disease needing psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual cure. This same problem is manifest as what I personally call The Old Prophet's Syndrome. Remember the account of a young prophet whom God sent to deliver His judgement to a nation and He was sternly warned not to talk to anyone and this old prophet whose time had passed felt jealous and waylaid him and caused him to derail as a result of which God caused a lion to kill him. If you are an ardent student of the Scriptures, you should know this story. Such syndrome makes the leader want to be all in all and stifles the potentials of his subordinates so as not to be outshone.

4. The greatest failure of leadership is the fear of succession.

5. Bad leaders think of the next position. Great leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King think of the next generation. Hmmm! I no fit sout o!

The sacrifice of the future for personal ambition, a defining characteristic of bad leaders, is Satanic and indescribably unholy.

Oya, make your deductions.

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The Abuja attempt at BRT services is so queer. So much effort is wasted on irrelevancies. Why can't they take a cue from the Lagos State Government? There is so much that goes with vision and careful planning. Before Fashola introduced BRT in Lagos, he had worked out enabling laws, set up LASTMA and did rehabilitation and extension work on roads on critical mapped out routes.

Senator Bala please, humble yourself and learn. There is a lot of gains derivable from networking with peers. You could even have the Lagos guys at your service to do this right. What is going on right now is so laughable.

Firstly, the buses in Lagos have AC's while those in Abuja do not have AC's. They even break down all the time. Secondly, Fashola exploited the gains of Public-Private Partnership with reputable firms like Mutual Assurance. Thirdly,  BRT buses routes are not only marked with yellow paint, there are clearly defined aesthetic bus stops with proper shade for waiting passengers. Fourthly, LASTMA officials are always on hand to enforce rules. Fifthly, Lagos State developed an efficient fleet management system with a route and bus scheduling system such that you do not have to wait for long at the bus stops before a bus arrives. The ticketing system is very efficient.

I believe the service in Abuja can also be as efficient as Lagos State's. It's just that this whole package was not well thought through.

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Phew! So many mails and more are coming in. I have so much time replying. What on earth did I do to deserve so much love and affection from my fellow country men? I am so humbled. I had no idea I had such impact or that anyone was listening. I was just being me, trying hard to appeal to our consciences to rise up to save our country.

I bless God for this day and I asked for a word. For all Nigerians, I wish you the power of God beyond what is normal and direction for your life!

May the shackles of oppression over our land be shattered by the mighty hand of the Master of the Universe and of all things therein!

We cannot afford to let up in our quest to birth the Nigeria of our dreams and to catapult it to great heights. We cannot afford to let up in the quest to bequeath a rock-solid nation founded on the principles righteousness, the fear of God, equity, justice, progress, hard work, dignity of labour, wisdom, clearly defined vision and resourcefulness to future generations.

I had thought to post a sequel on the 'The Killer Boko Haram: Not A Mystery (Part IV)'. That's coming in tomorrow instead.

I heard they struck in Jos at Church of Christ in Nigeria and some more lives were lost and many injured and so many vehicles were destroyed. Hmmm! In reserve my comment until tomorrow's post. My heart goes out to all who were injured and who died! God protects His own. If they lived right and did not play church and catch up with the Holy Spirit, they have a glorious destiny. That is certain. Then only can we say for sure they have gone to rest awaiting a sure resurrection. As for their killers, we know where they are headed. God is ajustice itself and He avenges the righteous.

I also heard we lost a gem, Whitney Houston. What a loss in her prime? What a huge loss? My only hope is that she made it right with her father in Heaven from whom she had strayed. That is God's to decide. No amount of prayers can change what was decided between her and God before she died. There is no repentance in the grave. None of us was privy to what transpired when she died. But God knows. I learned two lessons from the experience. First, you could destroy yourself with your wealth if you did not stay under God's direction and leading. Second, when you die, no amount of encomiums or fantastic prayers at your funeral mass or at wake keeping ceremonies have any significance on your destination. All that matters then is your actions and thoughts while you still breathed. I realize we all have a chance to live right and to decide to please God, the author and finisher of our faith.

In all, God remains God and there is none besides Him! He is Lord in all the universe and we are connected to Him. That's the most important connection you must not let go of. Can you imagine a baby whose umbilical cord is disconnected from it's mother's womb while in the belly? You don't wanna imagine what that means. Yet, that's what we do each time we choose to go our own way and do things like God does not exist.

His love is so great that He is so forgiving and we can always retrace our steps. Would you? Don't wait till you close your eyes in death. You have heard it said so many times to live everyday like it's the very last. Let me add to make a difference everyday and be about the King's business so He could find you faithful and worthy of paradise.

It is well with you all. Remember to think Nigeria!
Post Merge: February 28, 2012, 11:36:15 AMI have been thinking lately that one of the underlying problems of the country has to do with the concept of 'elder-ship'.

Who is an elder?

From the traditional perspective as well as the Christian and Islamic perspectives, the word 'elder' suggests someone who is well respected and has good character and reputation and possesses exceptional wisdom and maturity and one in whom the community reposes so much confidence and whose judgement is trust worthy. Society looks up to elders for direction and for deed that spur greatness and development.

Today, however, the concept has been bastardized and has become synonymous with stolen titles by criminals and scum of the earth who acquire 'thieftaincy' titles and appropriate to themselves the right to speak on behalf of the people by hook and crook and by every known criminal act. They work their way up the ladder through the country's elected leaders and they destroy the legacies of hard work and fear of God and wisdom that generations before us once enjoyed. They buy certificates including doctorate degrees and professional qualifications and become presidents, governors, local government chairpersons, legislators, commissioners, ministers and show evidence of fraudulent living in poor ability to define vision, clarity of purpose and to take the various levels of government in the country out of the woods.

From the look of things, even criminals and those who specialize in killing fellow Nigerians will be listed as honoured recipients of national awards in the next round. Don't be surprised to see their names.

Until we learn to spit on the faces of these disgusting elements, our economy will continue to be mismanaged and the ship of state will continue to experience death throes. Until our girls and boys start to look at these thieving money bags with disdain and refuse to eat of the blood cakes of filthy men, they will continue to be used and abused and their destiny messed up by these idiots.

Who is your elder? A thief? You need to have a rethink. Let's put them where they belong and treat them with ignominy. Who knows, they might repent. If they don't, let us show willingness to put our laws to work and put them behind bars where they truly do belong. These are the problems of Nigeria - a handful of lunatics and not the average Nigerian from the North, East, West and South of this great country.
Post Merge: February 28, 2012, 11:47:42 AMDid I hear the Presidency is making deft moves to ensure that those indicted in the fuel subsidy mess get soft-landing? It had better not be true. What? Were some of those indicted working indirectly and holding some of the monies in trust for the President and the Vice President? Hmmm!

This masquerade has begun to dance naked!
Post Merge: February 28, 2012, 12:02:18 PMWell, entries for the competition closed last Sunday. Funny enough, there were no entries - not even one. I do not know whether the conditions were too tough. But, one thing is certain, ideas are fast becoming scarce in the country.

Many can't really define their dreams clearly and to put figures to them. Hence, when money comes their way, everybody seems to do the same thing all the time and so they fail to break even most times and end up eating up even their capital to survive. Every woman wants to own a boutique and every guy wants to open a barbing salon or a business centre or a cyber cafe. Everyone wants to own an oil tanker and a fuel station. Who's going to develop software to drive e-Governance, industries, spacecrafts, robots and factories? Who's going to research a new product or service that will change the living standards of Nigerians? Who's going to put an electric car to work in Nigeria? Who's going to produce devices to improve the offerings in Nollywood? Or are these things and more impossible for Nigerians to achieve?

The competition was meant to coincide with my birthday. IT remains an annual event. I have decided to replough the money into next year's competition when there will be two winners.

I hope that gives enough time for possible entrants to think their offerings through and thoroughly too.

Stay blessed!
Post Merge: February 28, 2012, 04:18:19 PMWhy are the words 'I love you' so scarce in many marriages this day. If you have not said those words to your spouse in the in the past week or month or days, it is a sign you have begun to take your relationship for granted.

Do you feel like, 'After all, she don born children for me finish. She no fit waka again'? Or do you feel like, "I don't have to say it all the time. He knows already'?

The truth is, if you haven't said those words in a while, it is a sure sign there are problems in your relationship and you are just 'managing' so to speak.

Do you two need a little break from your daily routine to just go away - just the two of you - for a while to rekindle what led you two to tie the nuptial knots?

I sure think you both need a get away. It doesn't have to be a trip to Honolulu. You could try a weekend treat at a resort. But remember more importantly to discuss frankly about your fears and worries and concerns.

Why do I feel like this weekend is going to be full of hot treats for hubbies and and 'wifeys' out there this weekend? Oga, na which day you take madam out last? You dey find turoble o!
Post Merge: February 29, 2012, 10:19:46 AMWhat you are about to read may bring tears to your eyes. It is a true life story from an encounter I had with a very young pretty girl at one of my sites in Nasarawa State. I am posting this to highlight some evils perpetrated in our land in the name of some tradition against little girls and I really do believe we must all rise up to put an end to this mess. I also want to encourage victims to step forward to seek help and not to suffer in silence. You may also have been a victim at one time or the other as a child, I want to let you know that you have a chance to impact generations with your testimony and to save many more little girls including your daughters and nieces and little sisters from this evil scourge. What is this scourge? I am talking about incest, particularly, fathers sleeping with their daughters.

The story.

I had hardly seen her laugh. Each time I went to the supermarket belonging to her father to purchase some groceries, I noticed most times she was lost and aloof. She didn't even notice I was giving her money for the merchandise on two occasions. That made me a lot curious and I was wondering what could be so wrong with a pretty young lass to make her life so boring and weary. I could see through her.

I said to her, "Excuse me. Is all well with you? You seem lost each time I'm here and even though I wouldn't want to pry into your privacy, do you think you would like to share your heart's burdens with someone?"

She stared at me and smiled in a drily as she asked me for my cell phone number. She said to me, 'I am going to give you a call on Saturday, if you don't mind. Then we can talk.' I told her, 'No worries. Call me anytime.'

It was 9 am, Saturday morning and I had been at my client's site. My cell phone rang and it was her - I mean Jessica. I took the call and asked her to meet me at Mr. Biggs. She came pronto and did not keep me waiting. I noticed she was looking very different and much prettier. But there was still that feeling of confusion, emptiness and worthlessness radiating from her eyes.

She took her seat and she ordered what she wanted. I had my usual - a bottle of chilled water.

After getting to meet her, we went down to the main issue. As she talked with tear-blurred eyes, I was lost in her world. I simply put myself in her shoes and I could even see things she did not tell me about her harrowing experience. But, I stared blankly while she talked and listened carefully to every detail, just nodding and making eye contact. At some points, I took her hand in mine across the table and patted it without saying a word just to encourage her to go on.

Born to a man I would only like to refer to as Ichie (that was what he was called at home) who owned chains of supermarkets, she had first been raped by her father when she was barely 8 years old. Her father had traveled with her in advance to the village for the new yam festival while her mother and siblings stayed back in Lafia, to join them later in the village in Anambra State. Every night alone together in the village, her father would forcefully have carnal knowledge of her and at a point she grew up thinking it was normal. When she was 15, she had terminated two pregnancies she had had for her father. The doctor who carried out the procedure those two times was her uncle also and it was a well guarded secret.

After a while, she was sent over to live with her aunt, her father's elder sister and their, her randy old husband made several attempts also to go to bed with her as he had been doing with all the little girls who lived in his expansive house in Ebonyi State. She was not allowed to go to school even though she was the most intelligent of all the children. The father even went out of his way to secure admission into the university for her elder  brothers and sisters who hardly stayed in school but were often found frolicking from one hotel to another across the federation with pot-bellied 'money-miss-road' men and politicians.

In her aunt's house, the most senior apprentice  to the man of the house had promised her money to pay for her WAEC Exams as she was determined provided she slept with him. She had agreed and she got the money. But she failed in the exams.

She eventually made it in a second attempt.

She finally moved places and returned to her father's house in Lafia. She fell in love with a very handsome over-aged animal who claimed he was a lawyer. He didn't have a house of his own but was squatting at his friend's. He had taken advantage of a vulnerable girl who needed genuine love and care. On one occasion, her father opened bank accounts for all his children and deposited =N=500,000 in each child's account including Jessica's. Her boyfriend who was above 40 had often persuaded her to steal costly items from the supermarket and bring to him if she loved him. He even persuaded her to hand over her ATM card and he could go withdraw at will, having promised a 21 year old girl marriage. She would go cook for him and clean the house up.

When she took in for him, he said he was not ready to settle down yet. At 43? She became alarmed as was so scared what her father might do to her. So they settled for an abortion. Her boyfriend arranged with some student doctor doing his Internship at the Specialist Hospital in Lafia to carry out the procedure. On the said day, she was taken to some remote location at the borders of Lafia, right in the bush - an abandoned area and in an abandoned house gone decrepit.

Her boyfriend had taken her cell phone from her and switched it off and drove off leaving her alone with the randy doctor.

The doctor had claimed she was too tight and that she had to be lubricated before he could get rid of the nearly four months old pregnancy. He also had carnal knowledge of her in the the name of lubricating her and then he performed the procedure.

She ended up with severe pains she had to conceal from her parents and even as at the time we were talking, she still had the pains from time to time.

While she sought admission into Nasarawa State University, her elder sister had lured her to sleep with some crazy man who had claimed he was a top official of the university and would facilitate her admission. It turned out to be a hoax after he had had her. He was never a staff of the institution.

On two different occasions, she had taken a long walk to no where in particular, thinking about her life and why God hated her so much and would not come to her rescue. She wanted to die. She actually threw herself before speeding vehicles twice and when she was sure she would be stone dead, she found out each time she was still alive and that somehow, the vehicles missed her inexplicably on both occasions.

That was the period I met her.

I was deeply touched by her story and as she cried profusely. I didn't try to stop her. I offered her my handkerchief. When she was done, I had so many critical questions but I had to ask them with wisdom.

In the end, I encouraged her to tell her mother about her experience after we had prayed. But, I realized she needed much more than prayers. She needed real action and help.

When she told her mother, she slapped her claiming she wanted to destroy her home. Her father capitalized on the mother's stupidity and beat her up mercilessly and threw her out of the house at 1:32 am. She called me up and I had to go fetch her. But, I couldn't afford to allow her stay with me as I lived alone. I called up my client's Secretary who also lived alone and I pleaded with her to accommodate her and I would share the details with her the in the afternoon. I told her she shouldn't worry as I would provide her up keep.

In just a few days of living with my client's Secretary, I was shocked at the transformation in Jessica. She became fairer and much prettier and there was this glow in her eyes I hadn't seen before. She could sleep soundly.

I asked her if she had any relative elsewhere she could live with. She told me about her aunt in Imo State. We called her up and she told her everything. I told her aunt she needed peace of mind and an environment in which she could go to school peacefully. Her aunt had agreed.

To cut a long story short, today, Jessica is a second-year student in one of the nation's Federal universities studying Law.

[Davincii]

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You cannot be a living testimony of God's goodness without passing through the fire. What testimony could there be except through trials and tribulations.

Have you noticed the Scriptures do not say you will not be tried. IT only says God will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear.

Some people go through little trials and they throw in the towel. Do you really want to be a living testimony?

Until everything becomes as dung to you and absolutely nothing stands in the way of your loving God, including money, a gun, bombs, man or woman, clothes, food, sex and so much more, you cannot overcome.

If you live your life like it depends on these things, then you will curse God and die like Job's wife suggested the moment it's not there anymore.

Will you deny God if a gun were pointed at your temple? Would you still proclaim God if a machete was placed on your neck? Would you still love God enough if all the money you had suddenly went into thin air and you are rendered bankrupt overnight?
Post Merge: February 24, 2012, 06:50:19 PMDo you know Tyra Banks, one of the world's most accomplished supermodels, had attended several auditions and cat-walked on so many occasions and yet she was rejected by top modelling agencies?

But she held on tenaciously to her dreams. She had always wanted to make young women feel good about themselves. It was frustrating but she had to hold on and never let go. Even though she had no real endorsement in the United States, in far away France, she was noticed and that was the beginning of her rise to stardom.

Many do not excel because they do not hold on to their dreams and would readily accept anything and even a second choice.

Today, Tyra is household name in the fashion world because she held on to her dreams.

What about you? What did you dream you wanted to be? Is that what you are now? You may need to go back to your first love. That is where your success lies.

[Davincii]

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I dream everyday of my life. The more I dream, the more I see them manifest around me. But, I really can't understand what people talk about when they say they see strange things, people and monsters pursuing them.

When I was a little boy, I always dreamed about my next toy. When I wake up, you had better start thinking of how to buy that toy or I would wear you out with my request. Same thing happens when I dream about putting new products in the market. I hardly like to do what everybody is doing. I would simply be bored - really bored.

I enjoy breaking barriers and opening up new vistas. I enjoy challenges. You could never keep me on a job if I had to do the same thing over and over again. I would simply move on.

I find that when you do dream of creative things, it adds some difference to your personality and you must begin to think and act in consonance with what you dream about. Sometimes, obstacles may stand in your way but you just have to keep at it. That is what vision is all about.

You must be able to recall and relive your dream everyday and every little effort inches you closer and closer to outstanding accomplishments.

Just as I would wear you out with my request as a little boy, I find that I have to maintain a consistent positive attitude to bringing my dreams to fruition and when they have come to pass, I realize more clearly what the Scriptures mean when it says, "Faith without works is dead."

When your actions and vision meet with God's plans for your life, your struggles are over even if you do not go to Church. That again is what the Bible means when it says that "God causes the rain to fall and the sun to shine on the righteous man and the wicked man." There are natural laws of success, namely Faith (dream, vision) and works (right action and consistency).

What are you dreaming about? Are you always thinking you cannot make it? What kind of people do you associate with? To whom do you surrender your will and your entire being? Who speaks into your life? What channel are you tuned to? What movies are you watching?

I seem to see too many opportunities lying fallow and wasting while everyone blames government for even the stupid actions that they carry out. That is not to say government should be run by mad men though. Deposited right inside you are the very ingredients required to succeed.

Something tells me someone out there needs to start digging a little deep and then deeper into himself or herself to unearth the very materials and tools that have long been buried in stupidity, ignorance, jealousy, living another person's dream and slothfulness.

If you still think Nigeria is such a bad place, you have to think again. Could it be that you are also so bad that you allow what's in you to die off as you do not want to work hard? You probably just want to grow pot bellies signing cheques for money that is not yours. Your success or failure does not depend on government. It all depends on you and you alone!
Post Merge: February 23, 2012, 09:49:25 AMJust this morning, I woke quite early and my mind was occupied with thoughts about the indispensable role Science and Technology plays in transforming economies that are anchored on them in unprecedented ways and I actually wondered why government does not see this. I thought our Scientists could go back to the laboratories and libraries for research and development rather than jostle for political posts to wear caftans and coat and tie..

Then, I saw this screaming headline on Daily Sun  moment a go, "UNIJOS makes breakthrough in anti-malaria drug". To tell you I was excited is an understatement. I pored through the material only to find out they only planted herbs. What is all this nonsense all about? You mean you guys took all that research money just to plant herbs?
Post Merge: February 23, 2012, 09:51:35 AMBreakthrough indeed!
Post Merge: February 23, 2012, 06:51:28 PMIt's 11 days gone now today. There are just 3 days left for entries. Do Nigerians really have ideas or do they just complain endlessly about what government did or did not do without a personal vision? Are Nigerians this hopeless that we must all look for jobs when we could think up ideas to spin new businesses that will contribute immensely to economic growth and provide employment for many Nigerians?

Once again, I ask:

Are you a Nigerian and you do have very bright and creative ideas about some business venture you would like to bring to fruition? Well, here' your opportunity.

To participate in this competition, you MUST

1. Be the original owner of some innovation or idea;
2. Be able to present a detailed proposal stating the objectives, a synopsis of your idea, abridged feasibility study but with full details of financials as well as your detailed CV. You must also state clearly your taget market, graduated implementation schedule, business processes as well as the business life cycle and how much your idea is of benefit to society. You may submit your documentation to: eduordo.segun@yahoo.co.uk
3. Please, do not tell LIES about any detail. A team is set to perform due diligence as soon as your entry is in without recourse to you. If you are found to have lied, you are automatically disqualified.
4. You are strongly advised to avoid frivolous costing as it could disqualify you. Verify your cost items and be realistic about your projected revenues for the first year of operations.
5. Sending in e-mails soliciting for favours or assistance automatically disqualifies a contestant.
6. It is assumed you already have sent in membership request for membership to the Facebook Group, The King's Emissaries. That is your only ticket to participate.
7. If you come from a wealthy home, you do not qualify at all.

All members of the group shall comment on your proposals, asking salient questions and cast votes. The entries will then be ranked by the following criteria:

1. Clarity of Expression;
2. Originality of Idea;
3. Demonstration of domain expertise;
4. Number of votes Cast;
5. Target Market; and
6. Evidence of Commitment.

There is only one winner in this maiden competition. We shall increase the number of winners in subsequent competitions. The proud winner would have the cost of implementing the project paid fully in ordered installments according to the implementation schedule.

The competition kicks of and will run for 2 months at the end of which the winner will be announced and the prize money awarded. No more entries will be entertained after 2 weeks. You must also be resident in Nigeria to participate

Be the best you can be. The ball is in your court!
Post Merge: February 23, 2012, 07:15:57 PMShow me a man's values and I will tell you what his next move would be. Show me a man's values and I will tell you his entire life history and the factors that influenced him to this very minute. Show me a man's values and I will tell you what he is capable of doing. Show me a man's values and I can tell you clearly in what direction he is headed. Show me a man's values and I will tell you why he eats the way he does, why he walks the way he does, why he talks the way he does, why he looks the way he does and I can also predict precisely his reaction to certain stimuli. Show me a person's values and I will tell you where he's been and who he's been with and what he believes in. Show me a man's values and I will tell you accurately why he holds a spoon the way he does.

Show me your values and I will tell accurately who you are.

Your values are indelible prints that are unique to you. Each time I meet a new person, what I look out for are his values.

Values don't lie and they can never be hidden no matter how hard one tries to pretend.

[Davincii]

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So, they still have not told us who the sponsors of Boko Haram are. They are still thrilling us with irrelevant details. This SSS Channel is beginning to become boring - very boring indeed!

Well, I reserve my comments until Monday. I had put Part IV of the series, "The Killer Boko Haram - Not A Mystery" on hold so as to capture the recent developments. It appears each time I say something, the security agents and Mr. President are always willing to prove me right in the end.

I remember saying more than a week ago when Qaqa and the fugitive were caught that if they still cannot tell us who the sponsors are, then it is all a hoax. In the end, they are just going to waste our time and we would be back to square one again.

I don't know if I'm the only one feeling this way, but I find this channel so boring, uninteresting and time wasting! Or do we pay these guys to tell us lies and half truths?
Post Merge: February 21, 2012, 07:29:13 PMSome will soon come online to tell me, "Let's give them some more time!" I thought the SSS told us they had leads to some highly placed politicians. Or are they untouchable? Nonsense!
Post Merge: February 21, 2012, 08:09:38 PMThere is still much more than meets the eye. All the intrigues had been centered around the security agents. I remember early last year when I stated that top security agents were involved, some came online to fight dirty. Now I have been proved right, only that they have not come out with the whole truth about the extent of culpability of the security agents. I did say in December last year that these guys will be disgraced and that God would put a spirit of utter confusion in them and strike them with a strange disease. I told you guys to grab some pop corn, a seat and cross your legs while you stay tuned to the channel. Some people are trying to ignore the truth that we all know too well and the evidence is too overwhelming to ignore.
Post Merge: February 21, 2012, 08:14:40 PMBut, the truth is that as we play catch up with the whole mess playing out, many more innocent lives are being snuffed out. If you asked for my candid opinion, I really do think the security agents are only just doing damage control.
Post Merge: February 21, 2012, 08:36:54 PMExperts raise alarm over rising incidence of heart diseases among children - Daily SUN

Stop feeding your children with poisonous offerings Mr. Biggs, Tantalizers, KFC, Southern Fired Chicken, and so on and so forth. Cook right meals for them and let them feed right!

Give them enough space to play at home also.

Una no wan hear abi, modern wives? Na so una mama do una?

You want to make up for long hours of being absentee parents and to shower them with poisonous love offerings from eateries. Una try well, well. Make I see persin wey go try dat nonsense with my pikin!
Post Merge: February 22, 2012, 04:56:14 PMEach time I look into the eyes of some kid out there, I feel they are calling out to God to come rescue their lives from a colony of vicious, ruthless and heartles maggots.

Can you look deeply into the eyes of your kids and young ones around you? Your heart will be smitten by what you see. Apart from the innocence and purity of heart, they have a need to be secure and loved. They don't deserve what the generations of older Nigerians are doing to them and to their future.

Next time you want to help yourself illegally to money from the treasury illegally, think what harm you might be doing to some kid and how your stupid actions that might lead to war will affect the young ones adversely.

God fights for the innocent children. If you do not want a curse on yourself and your own progeny, think of the child each time you choose to act stupid.

Can you see the eyes of many kids looking up to you? What are you going to do to them? Give them a bright future or keep destroying their future?

Think!

[Davincii]

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As a child, I once thought about how I was going to grow up to build my own house, buy my own car, get a good job, start a family, start a business to provide for my family and looking at what hardship people were going through, I wondered how I was going to do it. That was some years ago.

But, I have long discovered that things would fall in place on their own at the right time if I worked hard.

I am just imagining what little boys of this age are thinking about now. What could be running through their minds as they see their fathers lose their jobs all of a sudden and they have to drop out of school to do menial work to earn a living.

But, in whatever, situation you find yourself, you can still carve out a very bright future for yourself without resorting to criminality. Many say their dad or mum did not provide for them hence they dropped out of school.

I remember some piece of information I stumbled on in secondary school. I actually read the biographies of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. I observed that they had to eke out a living through menial jobs as growing boys to finance their education. One of them had resorted to fetching water and firewood for people in the neighborhood to earn some money. They ploughed every kobo into their education and not on frivolities and today they are celebrated heroes. They could have ended as touts and thugs and drug addicts. But, they made a choice to succeed.

You must set right priorities for your life. Many of you who engage in menial work seem to think it is an opportunity to spend on some girl, buy the latest clothes and shoes and some spend all their earnings on just food and meat in "Iya Alamala's Buka".

Even in my school, I recall Abraham. Abraham lost his parents when he was a little boy in secondary school. He was in form 3. His uncles and aunts did not offer any help. Abraham was a very intelligent boy and did not want to drop out of school, neither did he want any of his two little sisters to drop out too. He resorted to block molding after school, the proceeds of which he spent on his education and those of his younger siblings. Today, they are all graduates and Abraham works in a bank. His little sisters are happily married and they are also graduates.

Nothing good comes easy. You have to make a choice to succeed and along with that choice, you must set your priorities right.
Post Merge: February 20, 2012, 02:03:04 PMI know some guys who would have waited to write letters to married women wanting them to be their sugar mummies or who would have made their sisters sell their bodies to get money just because things were tough! It is a question of priorities.

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When I was a little boy, my grandfather was my role model. I wanted very much to be like him. I was his favourite child and even as a little boy, he taught me a lot of things and said so many things to me that I could not really comprehend then, but they took on great meanings in my life as I grew up. In fact, I had a permanent seat on his laps and no one else dared sit there. There would be war.

One day, he said to me, "Segun, there are things in life you need to know. No matter what you go through, keep your dreams alive." Then he told me a short story. There was this young boy who had no father and had lost his mother to the cold hands of death when he was a little child. His mother's relatives had maltreated him and enslaved him. He was treated with disdain and made to serve their own children as a house help. He did this for many years but kept on praying in tears that God would come to his rescue one day.

Some years later, while he was doing some menial chores at home while the dull headed children of his relative were busy playing football and painting ther nails and ordering him about, a strange visitor came over to the house. He had specifically asked to meet the young man. He delivered a letter that changed his life to him. In the letter, his father who everyone had thought was dead was actually alive and had become very rich. When he was about to die, he had sent spies to search for his only son who was his heir and would become the rightful owner of all that he was leaving behind. He got reports of his son's sufferings and was moved greatly to bring his son home immediately. But he thought it better to allow him endure a little more as his sufferings were veritble ingredients needed to prepare him for the journey of life and to develop the right attitude to relationships with people, emphasizing the need to treat people kindly, not to enslave his fellow men and to handle wealth wisely.

Ever since he read the letter, his attitude to his sufferings changed. He endured with a lot of excitement knowing he would soon leave and that they would bow at his feet soon. He served and endured insults and abuses like they didn't matter anymore. He always had a smile on his face that baffled everyone in the home despite all the abuses. Eventually, he inherited his father's wealth having been found worthy.

There are processes in life we must go through and God is not wicked but allows us go through them as they are necessary ingredients to prepare us to fulfill that for which he made us. You cannot make maximum impact if you choose to complain and to miss the lessons. God is such a loving father that He does not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear. Beyond what a letter from an earthly father would do for us, God leaves us with His Word for every situation we find ourselves in. We can always find a WORD in due season for every problem, every sickness, every heartache, every frustrating situation and every trial and tribulation we may go through. In God, we have the surest promises than an earthly father could ever give us. An earthly father may even fail us but God never fails and it is impossible for Him to lie.

The reason many of you despair is that you do not study the WORD and even when you do read up some verses recommemded to you by spiritual magicians, you do so only because you have some problem. For some of you, the scriptures you read are just the Psalms and your Bible is permanently under your pillow as a talisman which you read up only when you have some nightmare.

God's WORD is an open letter from a father who loves us so much and He gave us all that we need to remind us how bad the times would be and how to be victorious even in the worst situations.

His WORD clearly says that it is those who endure to the end that will be saved. Be wise, for the days are truly wicked. Life without the WORD is a ship without a compass. You will simply be tossed about, abused, used and dumped, humiliated and disappointed all the time and everythig will look like a mirage.

How often do you take time out to study this love letter from your father in heaven? I think if we all do study our scriptures and walk by the precepts elucidated in them, Nigeria and the entire world would be  a better place. You cannot have victory without the WORD.
Post Merge: February 18, 2012, 03:44:38 PMThe green and white in the national flag which represent agriculture and peace has suddenly been replaced by brown and red. The green had represented agricultural prowess and abundant natural resources and by extension creativity and industrial prowess. The white represented the now elusive peace. The green has suddenly paled into some odd brown representing criminality and prowess in the business of death. The white, turned red represents a nation bloodied by the wickedness of a few who have turned our land into a theatre of war.

On our coat of arms, the eagle represents vision and foresight. Today, the eagle has fast been replaced by a swine that muddles in dirt and filth blindly and promotes absolute stupidity as a virtue and keeps churning out all kinds of measures, supposed solutions and policies that cripple growth and development

In the arena of Justice, the figurine representing neutrality and impartiality of justice, the blind-folded Lady Justice, the ubiquitous symbol that adorns letterheaded papers of law pracitioners and our court rooms has since been replaced with the figure of an armed bandit with a militant mask.

The Sword of Damocles has since been replaced by guns and bombs.

Oh Nigeria, my Nigeria. Who has done this to you? Why have your children become wayward?


Post Merge: February 18, 2012, 05:26:40 PMI really don't know how it is possible to serve God and yet indulge in fraudulent business. Both do not go together. I made up my mind long ago not to execute government contracts anymore except someone else got it and calls me to execute one, in which case, I have no direct dealings with government agents. The reasons are not far-fetched:

1. Government contracts are dirty and really stink and can stand in between you and heaven. You submit a proposal and someone asks you to go increase the amount by ungodly sums.

2. The paddings to the contract sums are meant to satisfy the greed of public and civil servants including directors, permanent secretaries, commissioners, ministers and chair persons of boards and parastatals. As long as you are ready to play ball, it does not matter whether you were a capentar or an actual ICT practitioner, you would be awarded a contract that requires extra-ordinary expertise. The major snags in this are that: a. Officially, on record, the money was paid to your firm. b. The government officials will not sign any documentation that they got the bulk of the money. c. When the EFCC swoops in on you, you are on your own (OYO).

Until there is absolute transparency in the award of government contracts, I will execute none. For those crooks who think pastoral annointing can blot out their crimes for donating massively to the church, they are on their own o! Pastors and Imams, una do well o!
Post Merge: February 18, 2012, 05:59:49 PMMay the Lord richly bless you! May His spirit shine all around you! May He cover you with His wings! May He cause you to sing! May He guide you! May He love you! May He fill you with His life! May He cause His love to shine down on you! May He speak softly to you! If you will hearken to his voice, He will make the crooked paths straight for you! He will turn the waterless deserts in your life's path into fountains of living water!

Worship His Majesty, the King of kings and Lord of lords!
Post Merge: February 18, 2012, 06:15:30 PMThis drama about the 2012 budget and the issue of subsidy are so ludicrous! What is wrong with this president and his cabinet? This is so disgusting!

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I really don't get it. But, I would like a second opinion on this. Why is it that when you are nice to some lady wihout an ulterior motive, she begins to build castles in the air and has misplaced expectations, assuming you want to date her? When she eventually comes to terms with reality, she hurts so badly.

Similarly also, why is it that most ladies out there seem to believe that it is impossible to have a man who is completely devoted to her? They seem to think that they ought to make do with what's available and be abused and humiliated by some 'king-man' who thinks he is doing them a favour marrying them.

I think we all need to go back to the fundamentals and foundations of our relationships. That is where it all went wrong. Too many build phantom relationships based on utopia and unfounded expectations. If he or she hasn't got it, then don't deal. Marriages are not meant to be built on pity and baseless emotions. If he is not right for you, then he is not right.
Post Merge: February 16, 2012, 12:41:12 PMTalking of mannequins. I really have no idea what is going on, but I passed by the Force Headquarters a little while ago and I saw policemen stationed unprofessionally at the premises. The posturing of some of those guys was so ludicrous and make me laugh so much. Where has commonsense gone to? I should have thought that deploying technology and plain clothes detectives would have delivered better results.

Can the IG please free up those robots to serve in communities needing effective policing?
Post Merge: February 16, 2012, 05:57:25 PMBabies do not fall from the skies. They are deliberately made by reasonable and very unreasonable people. If you do not want a baby, don't make one. Be responsible.

The next time you have to abort that foetus, you are actually killing an innocent soul and no matter what rationale your doctor gives you or you come up with for doing it, you are highly irresponsible and you are blood guilty.

Who knows how many star Presidents and Governors and captains of industry have had their lives snuffed out even before they were born?

Finally, no child is born by mistake. That is the alibi of irresponsible parents and I am sure they sound ridiculous even to themselves.

The difference between babies who make it in life and the ones who never did is that the latter are made by highly irresponsible fools who in the heat of passion lost their senses.
Post Merge: February 16, 2012, 06:00:24 PMFor a growing number of persons, lying has become first nature and they do not even have to put in any effort to tell a lie anymore. It wells up spontaneously in them and they feel not iota of remorse.

The truth about lies though is that they have a way of embarrassing their propagators. Just when that was the last thing you needed, it is blown open and you may need to struggle to tell more lies supposedly as a means of damage control.

Drop the lies and embrace undiluted truth. Lies make a fool of you! Truth preserves you and your progeny will be honoured!