Facebook CEO Deny Being Against Donald Trump

I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him.

Every day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas.

Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like.

The facts suggest the greatest role Facebook played in the 2016 election was different from what most are saying:

- More people had a voice in this election than ever before. There were billions of interactions discussing the issues that may have never happened offline. Every topic was discussed, not just what the media covered.

- This was the first US election where the internet was a primary way candidates communicated. Every candidate had a Facebook page to communicate directly with tens of millions of followers every day.

- Campaigns spent hundreds of millions advertising online to get their messages out even further. That's 1000x more than any problematic ads we've found.

- We ran "get out the vote" efforts that helped as many as 2 million people register to vote. To put that in perspective, that's bigger than the get out the vote efforts of the Trump and Clinton campaigns put together. That's a big deal.

After the election, I made a comment that I thought the idea misinformation on Facebook changed the outcome of the election was a crazy idea. Calling that crazy was dismissive and I regret it. This is too important an issue to be dismissive. But the data we have has always shown that our broader impact -- from giving people a voice to enabling candidates to communicate directly to helping millions of people vote -- played a far bigger role in this election.

We will continue to work to build a community for all people. We will do our part to defend against nation states attempting to spread misinformation and subvert elections. We'll keep working to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and to ensure our community is a platform for all ideas and force for good in democracy.

We Need One Another, Not More Money.

*In 1923, nine of the wealthiest people in the world met at Chicago's Edge Water Beach Hotel*.

*Their combined wealth, it is estimated, exceeded the wealth of the Government of the United States at that time*. These men certainly knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth. *Attending the meeting were the following men*:

1. The president of the *largest steel company,*

2. The president of the *largest utility company,*

3. The president of the *largest gas company,*

4. The president of the *New York Stock Exchange,*

5. The president of the *Bank of International Settlements,*

6. The *greatest wheat speculator*,

7. The greatest *bear on Wall Street,*

8. The head of the *World's greatest Economy*
&

9. A member of *President Harding's cabinet*.

*That's a pretty impressive line-up of people by anyone's yardstick.*

Yet, 25 years later, where were those nine industrial giants?

*Let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later*.
1. The President of the then largest steel company (Bethlehem Steel Corp), *Charles M Schwab, lived on borrowed capital for five years before he died bankrupt.*

2. The President of the then largest gas company, *Howard Hubson, went insane*.

3. One of the greatest commodity traders (Wheat Speculator), *Arthur Cutten, died insolvent.*

4. The then President of the New York Stock Exchange, *Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.*

5. The member of the US President’s Cabinet (the member of President Harding's cabinet), *Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail just to be able to go home and die in peace.*

6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, *Jesse Livermore committed suicide*.

7. The President of the then world’s greatest monopoly, *Ivar Krueger, committed suicide*.

8. The President of the Bank of International Settlement, *Leon Fraser, committed Suicide.*

9. The president of the largest utility company, *Samuel Insull, died penniless.*

*What they forgot was how to "make" life while they got busy making money!*

*Money in itself is not evil;* it provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, clothes for the needy. *Money is only a medium of exchange.*

*We need two kinds of education*:

a) One that teaches us *how to make a living,*

and

b) One that teaches us *how to live*.

*There are many of us who are so engrossed in our professional life that we neglect our family, health and social responsibilities.*

If asked why we do this, we would reply that *"We are doing it for our family"*.

Yet, *our kids are sleeping when we leave home*. They are sleeping *when we come back home*!! *Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and they’ll all be gone, to pursue their own dreams and their own lives*.

*Without water, a ship cannot move*. *The ship needs water, but if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face existential problems*. What was once a means of living for the ship will now become a means of destruction.

Similarly we live in a time where earning is a necessity but *let not the earning enter our hearts, for what was once a means of living will surely become a means of destruction for us as well.*

*So take a moment and ask yourself, "Has the water entered my ship?"*
I hope not!

Hope the above story will drive all of us in a better direction in life.

''Alone I can 'Say' *but*
together we can 'talk'.

'Alone I can 'Enjoy' *but*
together we can
'Celebrate'.

'Alone I can 'Smile' *but*
together we can 'Laugh'.

That's the BEAUTY of
Human Relations.

We are nothing *without*
each other

50 lessons from An 80 years Old (use your brain pls.)

Advice from an 80 year old man...

1. Have a firm handshake.
2. Look people in the eye.
3. Sing in the shower.
4. Own a great stereo system.
5. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
6. Don't expect life to be fair.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
8. Always accept an outstretched hand.
9. Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
10. Whistle.
11. Avoid sarcastic remarks.
12. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 per cent of all your happiness or misery.
13. Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.
14. Lend only those books you never care to see again.
15. Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.
16. When playing games with children, let them win.
17. Give people a second chance, but not a third.
18. Be romantic.
19. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
20. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
21. Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for our convenience, not the caller's.
22. Be a good loser.
23. Be a good winner.
24. Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
25. When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
26. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
27. Keep it simple.
28. Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
29. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
30. Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets
31. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
32. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
33. Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
34. Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
35. Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.
36. Begin each day with some of your favourite music.
37. Once in a while, take the scenic route.
38. Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, 'Someone who thinks you're terrific.'
39. Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.
40. Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.
41. Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
42. Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.
43. Make someone's day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.
44. Become someone's hero.
45. Marry only for love.
46. Count your blessings.
47. Compliment the meal when you're a guest in someone's home.
48. Wave at the children on a school bus.
49. Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your ability to deal with people.
50. Share this to help your friends.

Ohaneze President Makes His Case At Chatham House

RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA: DECENTRALISATION FOR NATIONAL COHESION



Protocols.

Let me begin by extending my deep sense of gratitude to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, for inviting me to participate in this current series of discussions on, Next Generation Nigeria: Accountability and National Cohesion. The involvement of this reputable British Institute in discussing and proffering suggestions for extant Nigeria’s problems is not only commendable, but I believe most relieving for the British establishment, who must understandably feel a deep sense of vicarious responsibility for putting together a country confronted with such grim future.

Nigeria became a united British colony by the amalgamation of its Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914. In 1960 it attained independence, fashioned a federal Constitution which had three and subsequently four regions as its federating units. The pre-1960 and the 1963 constitutions of Nigeria were fashioned by the people of Nigeria as represented by the leaders of their ethnic nationalities. The coup of January 1966 and the counter-coup of the same year occasioned by ethnic tensions and disagreements within the military-led our country to disastrous consequences.

Our first Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Tafawa Balewa and the then premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, as well as the then Minister for Finance Festus Okotie-Eboh,  were murdered. A massive pogrom was unleashed on South Eastern Nigerians living in the Northern Nigeria. A sitting Head of State from the South East, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi and a governor from the South West Col. Adekunle Fajuyi were murdered. The military suspended our 1963 constitution and adopted a unitary system of government to fit their command and control structures. Opposition to this move by Southern Nigeria led to constitutional talks in Aburi, Ghana. The agreements reached Aburi were jettisoned. War broke out and claimed more than three and a half million lives mostly from the South East. After the war, the military-authored two more constitutions, one in 1979 and another in 1998/99. The two military constitutions were finally approved by the Supreme Military Council.

Under military rule, this organ was the highest legislative organ for the country. It was made up of senior military officers, a majority of whom were from Northern Nigeria. The last constitution of 1998/99 which the military approved was the legal instrument that governed Nigeria’s transition to democracy. It is still in use in Nigeria today. It was not subjected to a national referendum. It created 19 states out of the old Northern Region, 6 states out of the Western Region, 2 states out of the old Midwestern Region and 9 states out of the old Eastern Region.

An agreement by a constitutional conference convened by General Abacha divided the country into six geopolitical zones. This agreement was never incorporated into a legislation even though it continues to be adopted for administrative purposes by Government and the political parties. The creation of states and local governments in these six geographical areas did not respect any equitable parameter.

Our present constitution is not autochthonous. It was not written by the people of Nigeria. It was not approved in a National referendum. In jurisprudence, its effectiveness will score a very low grade on account of its unacceptability. Regrettably, it continues to hold sway and begins with a false proclamation, "We the People of Nigeria…."

Our present constitution was written at a time of unprecedented increase in National revenue following the massive discovery of oil in Nigeria and its global reliance as a source of fuel for mechanical machines. It had as its centrepiece, the distribution of national revenue and national offices using states and local governments as units for division. It constructed a federation in name but a unitary government in practice following the pattern enunciated in 1966 from the inception of military administration in Nigeria.

Competition and drive for production by the federating units was destroyed. Each state and local government waited every month for proceeds from oil generated revenue to be divided out to them.

The Federal Government became enormously powerful taking over mining rights, construction of interstate highways, major educational establishments, rail and water transportation, power and several infrastructural responsibilities previously undertaken by the regions.  Competition for control of the Federal Government became intense and corrupted our electoral system. Corruption became perverse as the Federal Government became too big to be effectively policed by auditing and administrative regulations.

As I speak to you today, Nigeria has a grim economic outlook. Nigeria’s external debt has grown from $10.3 billion in 2015 to $15 billion in 2017. Her domestic debt has also grown from 8.8 trillion Naira in 2015, to 14 trillion Naira in 2017. Domestic debt component for the 36 states rose from 1.69 trillion Naira in 2015 to 2.9 trillion Naira in June 2017.

The Federal government has on two occasions released bailout funds to enable states to meet their recurrent expenditure requirements. Only about eight states in Nigeria namely Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Abia, Rivers, and Kwara have their internally generated revenue sufficient enough to cover their interest repayments on their debts without depending on allocations from Federally collected revenue.

For the Federal Government close to 40% of its annual revenue was spent on servicing of interest repayments on debts and according to International Monetary Fund (IMF), this percentage is expected to increase further. According to Fitch ratings, Nigeria’s Government gross debts is 320% of its annual revenue!! – one of the highest in the world.

In the face of this economic reality, the Population Reference Bureau predicts that Nigeria will in 2050 become the world’s fourth-largest population with a population of 397 million coming after China, India and the United States of America. This is only 33 years away.

In 2011, five Colonels in the United States Centre for Strategy and Technology, Air War College did a case study on Nigeria and the global consequences of its implosion and came out with a conclusion that, “despite its best efforts, Nigeria has a long-term struggle ahead to remain a viable state, much less a top-20 economy”.

Faced with this grim economic outlook and a structure inimical to growth what is, therefore, our way forward? Our growth model has to change for us to survive as a country.

A model based on sharing of Government revenue must give way to a new structure that will challenge and drive productivity in different regions across the country. This new model must take into account that the factors driving productivity in today’s world are no longer driven by fossil oil but rather the proliferation of a knowledge-based economy. The restructuring of Nigeria into smaller and independent federations limits and the devolution of powers to these federating units to control exclusively their human capital development, mineral resources, agriculture, and power (albeit with an obligation to contribute to the federal government) is the only way to salvage our fledging economy. Restructuring will devote attention to the new wealth areas, promote competition and productivity as the new federating units struggle to survive. It will drastically reduce corruption as the large federal parastatals which gulp Government revenue for little or no impact dissolve and give way to small and viable organs in the new federating units.

Those campaigning against restructuring in Nigeria have painted an unfortunate and untrue picture that those of us in support of restructuring are doing so in order to deny the Northern States who have not yet any proven oil reserves of the ability to survive. This is unfortunate. The new model we propose for Nigeria recognizes that revenue in the world today is promoted by two main sources namely, human capital development leveraging on technology to drive the critical sectors of the economy and agriculture. Ten years ago the top ten companies in the world were the likes of Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Total. Today the top eight companies in the world are represented by technology related companies. They include Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

The example of Netherlands in Agriculture is also relevant here. The Netherlands is the 18th largest economy in the world. It has a land area of about 33.9,000 square kilometres. Niger State, one of Nigeria’s 37 administrative units has about 74,000 square kilometres. Netherlands has over $100 billion from agricultural exports annually, contributed mainly by vegetables and dairy. Nigeria’s oil revenue has never in any one year reached $100 billion. Northern Nigeria is the most endowed agriculturally in Nigeria. Its tomatoes, carrots, cabbages, cucumbers, tubers, grains, livestock and dairy feed the majority of Nigerians in spite of its huge reserve of unexploited export potentials. In a restructured Nigeria, Northern Nigeria with the right agricultural policies will be the richest part of Nigeria.

Our analysis here must be viewed from the background that datelines have been fixed by OECD countries and China for the cessation of production of automobiles and machines dependent on fossil oil. This development and the new technology for production of shale oil in the United States has made world dependence on Nigeria’s crude oil a rapidly declining phenomenon.

This brings me to the question of what form Nigeria will assume under a restructured arrangement and how this restructuring can be brought about. Two basic models have been canvassed for restructuring in Nigeria. A conservative model aimed at maintaining the status quo has been proposed to mean simply a shedding of some of the exclusive powers of the federal government like issuing of mining licences, permission for constructing of federal roads and shedding of regulatory powers over investments in critical sectors of the economy like power. This model merely scratches the surface of the problem. It avoids fundamental devolution of powers.

The second model calls for a fundamental devolution of powers to the States as federating units and a lean Federal Government with exclusive powers for external defence, customs, immigration, foreign relations and a Federal legislature and judiciary to make and interpret laws in these exclusive areas.

This second model proposes states at the federating units with two different approaches. The first approach simply wants the states as the federating units and a federal government with limited powers. It wants the states to control a percentage of revenue accruing from their areas and contribute an agreed percentage of such revenue to the federal government.

The second approach proposes the states as the federating units with a region at each of the six geopolitical units whose constitution will be agreed to and adopted by the states in the geopolitical region. The regions will have the powers to merge existing states or create new ones. There will be regional and state legislatures and judiciary dealing with making and interpreting laws made in the respective political entities. This approach proposes a revenue sharing formulae of 15% to the Federal Government, 35% to the State Government and 50% to the State Governments.

To achieve a national consensus on this subject requires a national discussion. Regrettably, the ruling party, APC which promised restructuring in its manifesto after two years and four months in office is still appointing a committee to define what sort of restructuring it wants for Nigeria. To make matters worse, none of the other political parties have come up with any clear-cut route for achieving a consensus on this matter.

The National Assembly itself is a reflection of the deep ethnic divisions in the country and the Northern majority conferred on it by the military makes it highly unacceptable to Southern Nigeria. Recent resolutions made by it on devolution of powers have not helped the situation. Happily, the Senate President has promised a revisit of the subject matter.

In the recent past, self-determination groups have sprung up in Nigeria. The self-determination groups include IPOB, MASSOB, YELICOM, Arewa Youths, Niger Delta Republic and Republic of the Middle Belt.

Of all these groups IPOB and Boko Haram have been designated as terrorist organisations by the federal government. This development in relation to IPOB is unfortunate. Boko Haram is an armed organisation which has attacked and occupied Nigerian territory hoisted its flag and appointed local authority governments.

It has abducted and abused Nigerian w - -omen, kidnapped and imprisoned many and killed over two hundred thousand people. It is still involved in guerrilla warfare against Nigeria yet the Federal government is negotiating with them. No member of Boko Haram captured by the military is under trial. Members of this Federal government are on record for condemning the previous government for brutal murder of Boko Haram members and condemning the retired Chief of Army Staff for zealous prosecution of the anti-terror campaign. Members of the sect who confess to a change of mind have been received along with their abducted female partners in the Presidency and rehabilitated.

The declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organisation is in my view hurried, unfair, and not in conformity with the intendment of the law. Whereas I am not completely in agreement with some of the methods of IPOB like its inappropriate and divisive broadcast, the uncontested evidence given by the Attorney General of the Federation in an interlocutory action claiming that IPOB attempted and/or actually snatched guns from law enforcement agents are, if proven, merely criminal offences. They do not constitute enough evidence to meet international law definitions of a terrorist organisation. Happily, the United States Embassy in Nigeria only three days ago shared this conclusion and asserted that the United States Government does not recognise IPOB as a terrorist organisation. This same unarmed IPOB that is being stigmatised by the Nigerian government had its members murdered in Asaba, Nkpor, Aba and Port Harcourt simply for having public demonstrations without the federal government ordering a judicial inquiry. Instead, after I called for one and Amnesty International provided evidence that 150 of them were killed, the Chief of Army Staff set up an inquiry composed of serving and retired army officers thus abandoning the rules of natural justice which prescribes that you cannot be a judge in your own court.

 The Igbos in Nigeria feel the treatment of IPOB as unfair, discriminatory and overhanded. They see the move as an attempt to encourage a profiling of Igbos in the international security arena.

We know of other self-determination groups in Nigeria that are armed and have destroyed government and private sector installations and wells that government prefers to negotiate with rather than label them as terrorist organisations.

Fulani Herdsmen otherwise called the Fulani militants have ravaged farms in Middlebelt, South West, and South Eastern Nigeria killing several farmers in the process. In January 2016 they killed 500 farmers and their families in Agatu in Benue state. In Enugu state, they murdered more than 100 farmers in Ukpabi Nimbo in April 2016. Photographs depicting them with automatic rifles trend in the entire world media, yet not one of them is facing criminal charges, nor is Operation Python Dance being conducted in the areas where they ravage and kill and the Federal government describes them as criminals and not a terrorist organisation notwithstanding their classification by the Global Terrorist Index as the fourth deadliest terrorist group in the world (see British Independent Newspaper, 18th November 2015). The London Guardian Newspaper of 12th July 2016 indicated that Fulani herdsmen killed one thousand people in 2014.

Let me seize this opportunity to once more thank the Royal Institute of International Affairs for inviting me as President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo to speak here today. In Nigeria, Ndigbo whose social cultured organisation I lead are, notwithstanding their historical experiences in Nigeria, the most loyal ethnic group to the concept of one Nigeria. We are the largest ethnic group other than the indigenous group in any part of Nigeria. We invest and contribute to the economic and social life of the committees wherever we live. We are proudly Christians but very accommodating of our brothers of other religious persuasions. We are grossly marginalised and still treated by the Federal government as second-class citizens. No Igboman, for instance, heads any security arm of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Our area is the most heavily policed as if there was a deliberate policy to intimidate us and hold us down.

Our endurance has been stretched beyond Hooke’s gauge for elastic limit. The deployment of the Nigerian Army under the guise of Operation Python dance to the South East was unconstitutional under S. 271 of the 1999 Constitution.

Deployment of the army is only allowed in circumstances of insurrection, terrorism and external aggression not in killing of priests, or fighting kidnapping. And in those circumstances where they can be deployed, leave of the Senate must be sought. This brazen impunity in dealing with matters which concern the South East is provocative.

The Arewa Youths Council by issuing a quit notice for Igbos to leave Northern Nigeria and declaring a Federal Republic of Nigeria without Igboland had committed serious infractions of the law. First by declaring a new Republic of Nigeria which excises the South East unilaterally, they were committing treason. By issuing a proclamation for Nigerians to leave any part of Nigeria forcibly they were infringing the fundamental rights of innocent Nigerians, as guaranteed by the Constitution to live and do business anywhere. By commencing an inventory of Igbo property in Nigeria for seizure by October 1st, 2017, they were attempting conversion. By proclaiming a mop-up action of those who did not comply with their order by October 1st, they were, without doubt, inciting genocide. Yet in spite of all these orders to arrest them by the Kaduna State Government and the Inspector General of Police were not enforced nor were they prevented from holding court with Governors and leading elders from the North.

The only hope for change in Nigeria today is the rising call for restructuring pioneered by the Southern leadership forum, supported lately by ex Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, former President Ibrahim Babangida and leaders of the Middle belt including Dan Suleiman and Prof. Jerry Gana.

Our expectation is that now that our President is fully recovered and back to work, he will address the situation by constituting a nationwide conversation of all ethnic nationalities to look into the 2014 National Conference report and the trending views on this subject matter so as to come up with a consensus proposal that the national and state assemblies will be persuaded to adopt.

To continue to neglect a resolution of this impasse will spell doom for our dear country.

Our argument is further reinforced by a two-year extensive study by the UNDP titled, JOURNEY TO EXTREMISM released in September 2017 which indicated that exposure to state abuse and marginalisation not religious ideology are better predictors of radicalisation.

It also indicates that those living on the periphery of their country with less access to education and health services are more vulnerable to be recruited into violent extremist groups. In Nigeria, millions of unemployed graduates from universities waiting for up to 10 years without gainful employment are restive, agitated and veritable cannon fodders for escalating restiveness.

In conclusion, I hope that the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the British Government and British interests associated with Nigeria will continue to offer useful advice to our polity that will lead to an early resolution of our situation.

I thank you for your kind attention



John Nnia Nwodo

Chatham House, London

Wednesday 27th September 2017

You Maybe A Witch Unto Yourself

"You're your own witch" Says the priest to the young girl.

It was a quiet evening when a young girl approached a Catholic priest and said to him, after greetings: "please Father, I need deliverance and prayers. It seams I'm bewitched. I'll work from one month to another but I've not been able to make some savings, and I can't see myself doing anything tangible with my salaries. I've gone for deliverance in so many places and many men of God have actually prayed for me, but I still experience the same thing after all. So I need you to pray for me so that I'll be freed from the hands of the witches."

After she had finished her complaints and requests, the priest called her to a corner, sat down with her and pleaded she answer the questions he was to ask her, sincerely.  Pastorally, the priest asked her: "what kind of work do you do?" "Salesgirl," she answered. The priest then asked: "how much are you paid as a salesgirl?" "#25, 000," she answered. "How much do you spend on transportation fare to work everyday?" the priest asked. "#200 daily," the girl replied (#200x26=#5, 200; the priest noted). "How do you feed?" the priest further enquired. "I eat twice in the office and then cook in the night," she explained. The priest then asked further: "how much do you spend on the twice daily feedings?" "#200 morning and #200 afternoon, which equals to #400 daily," she replied (#400x26=#10, 400; the priest noted). "How do you say you  feed at night? Do you live with parents or friends," he enquired. In a low tone, the young lady answered: "i live alone and I cook for myself," she replied. "I cook twice a week, and I spend almost #1,000 on a pot," she continued. "It means you spend almost #2, 000 on cooking for yourself on weekly bases, which is equal to #8, 000/month," the priest observed (#2, 000x4= #8, 000). Finally, the priest asked her: "how do you recharge your phone within the month, and how do you take care of your monthly visitors and other toiletries? How do you pay your rent too?" Consequently, the girl could not answer anymore, and the priest said to her: "can't you see you need no deliverance because 'you're your own switch?"'

It was then that the young girl saw how she spent more than her monthly salary within the month and expected to make savings but could not thereby blaming witches.

The above therefore, defines the saying that "you cannot eat your egg and have it."

Why won't you be poor? You have one Source of income and multiple Sources of expenditure, and you're still complaining that you're poor. How much do you earn in a month, and how much do you spend in a day?

You have a job with which u earn $1000 dollars per month, but before the end of the month you've spent over 90% of the the money earned, on different things, both valuable and valueless things, excluding house rent.

What makes an ocean is a constant inflow from different sources with a minimal outflow from the some point. If the outflow of an ocean becomes greater than the inflow, it soon turns into a stream and not an ocean.

Therefore, create more sources of inflow than your channels of outflow if you really want to be richer. The poor man is not just the man without money, but the man without vision and mission; the man whose sources of expenditure overwhelm his source(s) of income, he is the poor man. So, learn your lesson and work hard for your future.

Peace be with you!

Umahi Promise Watered Down Amnesty For IPOB

Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, said on Tuesday that the state government would rehabilitate members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who are from the state.

Umahi, stated this during the second edition of Ebonyi Peace Summit held at Ezilo, headquarters of Ishielu local government area of the state.

He said many IPOB members were brainwashed and deceived into joining the group because they were jobless and idle.

He said governors in the South East are concerned about their (IPOB members) welfare and decided to empower them so that they can become useful to themselves and the society.

He, however, added that the empowerment would be given to those who are ready to denounce the activities of the group and become law abiding citizens.

“Therefore, I hereby directed the Commissioner for Economic Empowerment and Job Creation to immediately open a register for them to enable us plan on how to empower them to become gainfully employed,” the governor said.

Umahi also said governors in the region have no regret proscribing the group.

He argued that the group’s activities had endangered the lives of over 12 million Igbos leaving in the north and other parts of the country.

“Their activities were also threatening the lives of people from other parts of the country leaving in the South East. So we had to take the action we took and we have no regret about it.

Credit ...premium times

How Corrupt Exchange Rate Is Killing Nigerian Businesses

You may have heard how some business men from a certain block walk into CBN and come out with dollar at subsidized rate. They are importers like you. You share the same market with them.

Now let us look at how this corrupt exchange rate regime affects your business.

You want to import cement and sourced your dollar at black-market. You bought dollar at N367/$. Another cement importer with favor from the government walked into CBN and got dollar handed down to him at subsidized rate of N204/$.

Both of you set out to bring in 1 million bags of cement each. By the time the goods arrived the country, when your landing cost is N2,158.82 per bag, his own landing cost will be N1,200 per bag. And that is assuming he did not get an import waiver from the government too. Otherwise, his landing cost would be much lower.

So if he decides to supply his cement at your own landing cost, he would have made N95 million profit, while you have zero profit.

But you cannot supply at your landing cost else you go out of business. You need profit. First, to be able to pay bank interest rate on the loan you collected. You have other bills to settle – warehouse rent, staff salaries, operational cost, maintenance cost …

Then if this government-favored importer considers you a threat and decides to manage you, he can easily bring your business down by flooding the market with cement price lower than your landing cost. At that point you are extinguished. You can’t sell. Or you are forced to sell at his price. Either way, you lose your money and sink into debt. Business ends!

Illustration above is one out a thousand and one ways a ruling government can frustrate you out of business.

Corruption in exchange rate, rife in this government, can stifle life out of your business.

So this is a reason why you MUST actively participate in electoral process. You are involved. You have a stake.

Now go get a voter’s card and be part of the next election. Not doing so, you risk another bad market.

If any hostile regime wants you out of import business, believe me, no one can help you. Only God can.

Nigerian House Of Reps. Defends NGO Bill

House clears the air on NGO regulation Bill

...Some NGOs collected funds for North East IDPs and disappeared 

...Churches, Mosques, Esusu, Market Women  Associations not affected.

1. Religious bodies and organizations are NOT NGOs

2. Our quasi financial institutions at local levels are NOT NGOs! These organizations have existed for centuries to serve businesses and commerce of our market women and traders.

Now NGOs(Non-Governmental Organizations) and CSOs(Civil Society Organizations) are voluntary organizations that are registered to partner Government at all levels to fill gaps wherever they exist. They are supposed to be partners in progress with the Government; therefore the need for a commission to serve this purpose arises

Secondly and naturally for them to carry out their activities, the NGOs and CSOs solicit for funds from all over the World and collect billions of naira on behalf of Nigerians!

Thirdly they recruit expatriates to help them run their activities in the country with lots of abuses .
Etc etc

However, recent developments have shown that;
--- Some people registered NGOs,solicited for funds and disappeared. That happened recently in the North East.
--- Some NGOs are used to fund the activities of terrorist and insurgents!
Etc etc

The NGOs bill therefore is primarily to set up a commission to regulate their activities and provide a platform for robust relationships between them and the government for the interests of Nigerians.

In addition it is to ensure TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY in the ways and manners the NGOs collect moneys and use them for Nigerians.

The NGOs bill is not new or peculiar to Nigeria. It exists in many countries particularly in the ECOWAS sub- region and all over Africa and other continents. In Europe, Israel passed theirs last year! Kenya has a similar law since 1990!
Nigeria is and should not be a banana republic where anything goes.

Finally, the way the NGOs are reacting to this wonderful and well packaged bill particularly SERAP is not only shameful but condemnable.
The Nigerian parliament is an institution governed by rules and traditions. When a bill is for public hearing you go there and present your views like other interested Nigerians and invited cooperate bodies and government agencies for the standing committee to do justice to the bill. Period!

Going on cheap propaganda and blackmail and even calling on World bodies including the United Nation to help you withdraw a bill from our National Assembly will not help you!

Signed

Hon. Umar Buba Jibril
Deputy Majority Leader
House of Representatives

ABCD Of Marriage From A Father To A Son

WORDS FROM A FATHER TO A SON ABOUT MARRIAGE

1. My son, if you keep spending on a woman and she never asked you if you’re saving or investing, and she keeps enjoying the attention, don’t marry her.
2. My son, a woman could be a good wife to you, some could be a good mother to your children but if you’ve found a woman like a mother to you, your children and your family, please don’t let her go.
3. My son, don’t confine the position of your wife to the kitchen, where did you get that from? Even in our days, we had farm-lands where they worked every morning . . . that was our office.
4. My son, if I tell you that you’re the head of the house, don’t look at your pocket; look if you will see a smile on your wife’s face.
5. My son, if you want to have a long life, let your wife be in-charge of your salary, it will be difficult for her to spend it when she’s aware of the home needs and bills to pay but if it’s in your care, she will keep you asking even when all has been spent.
6. My son, don’t ever beat your woman, the pain in her body is nothing to be compared to the wound on her heart and that means you may be in trouble living with a wounded woman.
7. My son, now that you’re married, if you live a bachelor kind of life with your wife, you will soon be single again.
8. My son, in our days, we had many wives and many children because of our large farm-lands and many harvests, there are hardly any land for farming anymore, so embrace your woman closely.
9. My son, under the cocoa tree that I did meet your mother could be your eateries and restaurants of nowadays, but remember, the closet thing we did there was to embrace each other.
10. My son, don’t be carried away when you start making more money, instead of spending on those tiny legs that never knew how hard you worked to get it, spend it on that woman that stood by you all along.
11. My son, when I threw little stones or whistled at the window of your mother father’s house, to call her out, it was not for sex, it was because I missed her so much.
12. My son, remember, when you say your wife has changed, there could be something you’ve stopped doing too.
13. My son, your mother, Asake rode the bicycle with me before I bought that tortoise car outside there, any woman that won’t endure with you in your little beginning should not enjoy your riches.
14. My son, don’t compare your wife to any woman, there are ways she’s enduring you too and has she ever compared you to any man?
15. My son, there is this thing you people call feminism, well, if a woman claim to have equal right with you in the house, divide all the bills into two equal parts, take one part and ask her to start paying the other part.
16. My son, I met your mother a virgin and I took more yams to her father, if you don’t meet your wife a virgin, don’t blame her, what I didn’t tell you is that our women had prestige.
17. My son, I didn’t send your sisters to school because I was foolish like many to think a female child won’t extend my family name, please don’t make that mistake, the kind of female achievers I see nowadays has made the male-gender an ordinary tag.
18. My son, your mother have once locked up the cloth I was wearing and almost tore it because she was angry, I did not raise my hand to beat her because of a day like this, so that I can be proud to tell you that I never for once beat your mother.
19. My son, in our days, our women had more of natural beauty, though I wouldn’t lie to you, some had minor painting of their appellation mostly on their arms, the ones you people now call tattoo, but don’t forget that they didn’t expose any part of their body like your women of nowadays.
20. My son, your mother and I are not interested in what happens in your marriage, try to handle issues without always coming to us.
21. My son, remember I bought your mother’s first sewing machine for her, help your wife achieve her dreams just as you’re pursuing yours.
22. My son, don’t stop taking care of me and your mother, it’s a secret of growing old and having children to take care of you too.
23. My son, pray with your family, there is a tomorrow you don’t know, talk to God that knows everything, everyday.
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When Northern Nigeria Demanded Independence..

NNAMDI AZIKIWE'S SPEECH ON THE THREAT BY THE NORTH TO SECEDE IN 1953.

In 1953 when Northern Nigerians were beginning to
consider secession from the Nigerian colony that would
soon be a nation, Nnamdi Azikiwe gave a speech before the
caucus of his political party, the National Council of Nigeria
and the Cameroons (NCNC) in Yaba, Nigeria on May 12,
1953. That speech, while not disallowing secession,
suggested that there would be grave consequences if the
Northern region became an independent nation.

I have invited you to attend this caucus because I would like
you to make clear our stand on the issue of secession. As a
party, we would have preferred Nigeria to remain intact, but
lest there be doubt as to our willingness to concede to any
shade of political opinion the right to determine its policy, I
am obliged to issue a solemn warning to those who are
goading the North towards secession. If you agree with my
views, then I hope that in course of our deliberations
tonight, you will endorse them, to enable me to publicize
them in the Press.

In my opinion, the Northerners are perfectly entitled to
consider whether or not they should secede from the
indissoluble union which nature has formed between it and
the South, but it would be calamitous to the corporate
existence of the North should the clamour for secession
prevail. I, therefore, counsel Northern leaders to weigh the
advantages and disadvantages of secession before
embarking upon this dangerous course.

As one who was born in the North, I have a deep spiritual
attachment to that part of the country, but it would be a
capital political blunder if the North should break away from
the South. The latter is in a better position to make rapid
constitutional advance, so that if the North should become
truncated from the South, it would benefit both Southerners
and Northerners who are domiciled in the South more than
their kith and kin who are domiciled in the North.

There are seven reasons for my holding to this view.

Secession by the North may lead to internal political
convulsion there when it is realized that militant nationalists
and their organizations, like the NLPU, the Askianist
Movement, and the Middle Zone League, have aspirations
for self-government in 1956 identical with those of their
Southern compatriots. It may lead to justifiable demands for
the right of self-determination by non-Muslims, who form
the majority of the population in the so-called ‘Pagan’
provinces, like Benue, Ilorin, Kabba, Niger and Plateau, not
to mention the claims of non-Muslims who are domiciled in
Adamawa and Bauchi Provinces.

It may lead to economic nationalism in the Eastern Region,
which can pursue a policy of blockade of the North, by
refusing it access to the sea, over and under the River Niger,
except upon payment of tolls. It may lead to economic
warfare between the North on the one hand, and the
Eastern or Western regions on the other, should they decide
to fix protective tariffs which will make the use of the ports
of the Last and West uneconomic for the North.

The North may be rich in mineral resources and certain cash
crops, but that is no guarantee that it would be capable of
growing sufficient food crops to enable it to feed its teeming
millions, unlike the East and the West. Secession may create
hardship for Easterners and Westerners who are domiciled
in the North, since the price of food crops to be imported
into the North from the South is bound to be very high and
to cause an increase in the cost of living. Lastly, it will
endanger the relations with their neighbours of millions of
Northerners who are domiciled in the East and West and
Easterners and Westerners who reside in the North.

You may ask me whether there would be a prospect of civil
war, if the North decided to secede? My answer would be
that it is a hypothetical question which only time can
answer. In any case, the plausible cause of a civil war might
be a dispute as to the right of passage on the River Niger, or
the right of flight over the territory of the Eastern or Western
Region; but such disputes can be settled diplomatically,
instead of by force.

Nevertheless, if civil war should become inevitable at this
stage of our progress as a nation, then security
considerations must be borne in mind by those who are
charged with the responsibility of government of the North
and the South. Military forces and installations are fairly
distributed in all the three regions; if that is not the case, any
of the regions can obtain military aid from certain interested
Powers. It means that we cannot preclude the possibility of
alliance with certain countries.

You may ask me to agree that if the British left Nigeria to its
fate, the Northerners would continue their uninterrupted
march to the sea, as was prophesied six years ago? My reply
is that such an empty threat is devoid of historical substance
and that so far as I know, the Eastern Region has never been
subjugated by any indigenous African invader. At the price
of being accused of overconfidence, I will risk a prophecy
and say that, other things being equal, the Easterners will
defend themselves gallantly, if and when they are invaded.
Let me take this opportunity to warn those who are making
a mountain out of the molehill of the constitutional crisis to
be more restrained and constructive. The dissemination of
lies abroad; the publishing of flamboyant headlines about
secessionist plans, and the goading of empty-headed
careerists with gaseous ideas about their own importance in
tile scheme of things in the North is being overdone in
certain quarters. I feel that these quarters must be held
responsible for any breach between the North and South,
which nature had indissolubly united in a political, social
and economic marriage of convenience. In my personal
opinion, there is no sense in the North breaking away or the
East or the West breaking away; it would be better if all the
regions would address themselves to the task of crystallizing
common nationality, irrespective of the extraneous
influences at work. What history has joined together let no
man put asunder. But history is a strange mistress which can
cause strange things to happen!

Sources:
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Zik: A Selection from the Speeches of
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Governor-General of the Federation of
Nigeria formerly President of the Nigerian Senate formerly   by
Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria

EU Caution Nigerian Military; IPOB Is Legal

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

EU Condemn And Caution Nigerian Military, Rejects The Declaration of IPOB As A Terrorist Organization

Following the brutal and inhuman video of the Nigerian army against the invasion, terrorism, and killings of IPOB members,  which has been going viral over the internet. The president of the EU commission Mr Jean-Claude Junker has openly made a serious touching statement as well as warning the Nigerian security personnel against their ill hearted and unprofessionalism in handling democratic issues and the rights of the people… Junker directed a serious caution towards the Nigerian Military chiefs stating that they must employ every democratic tenet in handling issues that concerns disgruntle and agitations.

“It is the people’s right to agitate and make a request from their government, self-determination is a right enshrined in the United Nation Charta. The people of BIAFRA have every right to request for a referendum, they have been in this struggle for a while now they have never killed or shot a bullet instead they are the victims of attacks and murder. The entire EU hereby condemn the brutal attack on IPOB members and leadership under the pretentious disguise of a military exercise (Operation Python Dance) Nigerian military is warned to adopt democratic tenets in handling citizens. The EU will not sit and watch things go undemocratic in the largest economy of the West African region.

Furthermore, Mr Junker has promised to raise the issues concerning the people’s request for a REFERENDUM among the caucus of the EU. He further stated that the Biafra request for A referendum is no different from that of the Catalonians and the Britain. Nigeria government must rise above insubordination and handle issues with every tenet of maturity and democracy.

By    Ogbonna Kingsley'

The History Lesson Nigeria Hides From..... By Nneka Aroh

THE PERFECT TEACHER.

I have often regretted not studying History in school. History is a perfect teacher if you'd pay attention. Because we disregard History, we keep running around in circles.

Izaac Adaka Boro and others of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force had their 12 days. They declared the Niger Delta Republic. They wanted to control their resources. The Federal claws under Aguiyi Ironsi seized them and sentenced them to death. But Aguiyi was to go before them and Gowon was to set them free.  A few years later,  the chapter is re-opened.  Resource control remains the topic. You are faced with a more radical and violent Okah/ Tompolo/Asari Dokubo. These ones don't do round table talks. They act. They force your hands to release Amnesty. It is a terrible precedence.

Nigeria battled the Maitatsine extremists in the 1980s. Thousands died. But government did nothing about the root causes of the disturbances. They did nothing to check radical Islamic clerics, did nothing to curb illiteracy and the attendant poverty, did nothing to compel people to take care of the children they breed. Today we have a monstrous breed of terrorists. They have a ready supply of foot soldiers from our stock of uneducated, unattended  and misguided children

Ojukwu presented you a choice, a good one...the Aburi Accord. You think it makes sense. Soon after, you change your mind,  tear up the papers, dare him to kick. He kicks, you descend on him. With your federal might and the backing of the British, you quash him and his Biafra. A few decades later you are confronted with Nnamdi Kanu. This one knows not decorum. He spits fire. He brews and serves his stuff like the finest tea. So many people can't stand his tea. But he finds those who have nothing else to drink. They gulp it down like cold water on a hot afternoon. They look forward to it like I would look forward to a bottle of sweaty coke. You take it off their menu and they kick. You are baffled. Are they really kicking? Really?

The examples abound.

I am one of those who do not enjoy Nnamdi Kalu's tea. But that is only because I do not enjoy the way he brews it. I have never listened to Radio Biafra.  I do not even know the frequency. I once read something Nnamdi wrote during the last National Conference. He threatened to kill all the delegates from the South East. He called them traitors and all. I decided then that I do not like his tea. I have a delicate taste bud. Vile language and contemptuous rudeness do not appeal to me. I think that his style is too crude and could whittle down the essence and esteem of Biafra.

But someone could come tomorrow with a better brew. It may be free of the acrid taste in Nnamdi's and could appeal to many more people. Rebellion in the face of injustice is a universal trait.  You cannot quell it for long. Mandela had it. Martin Luther King Jnr had it.

The time to act decisively is now. If we continue running this Federation the way we are doing, it will only be a matter of time before we see another set of MEND, another set of OPC, another set of Biafra agitators and indeed another breed of BH. Nigeria could be a great country if we do the right thing.

Let all the States control their resources and make a contribution to the centre. Let every region or State decide if they want to grow crops or build bombs. Let them decide if they want Western Education or Arabic Education. Let them decide if 2 marks in entrance exams would secure admission into secondary school or not.

The Niger Delta has fed Nigeria long enough. The mammary glands are drying up. The nipples are bleeding from too much suckling. Let them rest. The rest of us Nigerians can come and do a little 'omugo'. If we can't bring milk, we can bring water, agidi, amala, tuwo shinkafi, anything. There is no State/ Region that cannot survive. We are just too lazy to try. We are better off together with our rich diversity. But we must be allowed to move at our individual paces.

God bless Nigeria.

Why Some People Supported Adolf Hitler

WHO SUPPORTED HITLER?
by Robert Wilde

"Adolf Hitler not only had enough support amongst the German people to take power and hold it for twelve years while effecting massive change in all levels of society, but he retained this support for several years during a war which began to go very wrong. The Germans fought until even Hitler had conceded the end and killed himself, whereas just a generation earlier they had expelled their Kaiser and changed their government without any enemy troops on German soil.

So who supported Hitler, and why?

THE FUHRER MYTH: A LOVE FOR HITLER
The key reason to support Hitler and the Nazi regime was Hitler himself. Aided greatly by propaganda genius Goebbels, Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god-like figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them.  Instead, he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of people – although a set of minorities soon found that Hitler, beyond not caring about their support, wanted to persecute, even exterminate them instead – and by changing his message to suit different audiences, but stressing himself as the leader at the top, he began to bind the support of disparate groups together, building enough to rule, modify, and then doom Germany. Hitler wasn’t seen as a socialist, a monarchist, a democrat, like many rivals. Instead, he was portrayed and accepted as being Germany itself, the one man who’d cut across the many sources of anger and discontent in Germany and cure them all.

He wasn’t widely seen as a power-hungry racist, but someone putting Germany and ‘Germans’ first. Indeed, Hitler managed to look like someone who would unite Germany rather than push it to extremes: he was praised for stopping a left-wing revolution by crushing the socialists and communists (first in street fights and elections, then by putting them in camps), and praised again after the Night of the Long Knives for stopping his own right (and still some left) wingers from starting their own revolution.

Hitler was the unifier, the one who halted chaos and brought everyone together.

It has been argued that at a crucial point in the Nazi regime the propaganda stopped making the Fuhrer myth successful, and Hitler’s image started making the propaganda work: people believed the war could be won, and believed Goebbels carefully crafted work, because Hitler was in charge. He was aided here by a piece of luck and some perfect opportunism. Hitler had taken power in 1933 on a wave of discontent caused by the depression, and luckily for him, the global economy began to improve in the 1930s without Hitler having to do anything except claim the credit, which was freely given to him. Hitler had to do more with foreign policy, and as a great many people in Germany wanted the Treaty of Versailles negated Hitler’s early manipulation of European politics to reoccupy German land, unite with Austria, then take Czechoslovakia, and still further the swift and victories wars against Poland and France, won him many admirers. Few things boost a leader’s support than winning a war, and it gave Hitler plenty of capital to spend when the Russian war went wrong.

EARLY GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS
During the years of elections, Nazi support was far greater in the rural north and east, which was heavily protestant, than in the south and west (which was mainly Catholic voters of the Centre Party), and in large cities full of urban workers.

THE CLASSES
Support for Hitler has long been identified among the upper classes, and this is largely believed to be correct. Certainly, large non-Jewish businesses initially supported Hitler to counter their fear of communism, and Hitler received support from wealthy industrialists and large companies: when Germany rearmed and went to war, key sectors of the economy found renewed sales and gave greater support. Nazis like Goering were able to use their backgrounds to please the aristocratic elements in Germany, especially when Hitler’s answer to cramped land use was expansion in the east, and not re-settling workers on Junker lands, as Hitler’s predecessors had suggested. Young male aristocrats flooded to the SS and Himmler’s desire for an elitist medieval system and his faith in the old families.

The middle classes are more complicated, although they have been closely identified with supporting Hitler by earlier historians who saw a Mittelstandspartei, a lower middle class of craftspeople and small shop owners drawn to the Nazis to fill a gap in politics, as well as the central middle class. The Nazis let some smaller businesses fail under Social Darwinism, while those who proved efficient did well, dividing support. Nazi government used the old German bureaucracy and appealed to white collar workers across German society, and while they seemed less keen on Hitler’s pseudo-medieval call for Blood and Soil, they benefitted from the improving economy which enhanced their lifestyles, and bought into the image of a moderate, unifying leader bringing Germany together, ending the years of violent division. The middle class was, proportionally speaking, over-represented in early Nazi support, and the parties which usually received middle-class support collapsed as their voters left for the Nazis.

The working and peasant classes also had mixed views on Hitler. The latter gained little from Hitler’s luck with the economy, often found Nazi state handling of rural matters annoying and were only partially open to Blood and Soil mythology, but as a whole, there was little opposition from rural workers and farming did become more secure overall. The urban working class was once seen as a contrast, as a bastion of anti-Nazi resistance, but this doesn’t appear to be true. It now seems that Hitler was able to appeal to the workers through their improving economic situation, through new Nazi labor organisations, and through removing the language of class warfare and replacing it with bonds of shared racial society which crossed classes, and although the working class voted in smaller percentages, they made up the bulk of Nazi support. This isn’t to say working class support was passionate, but that Hitler convinced a lot of workers that, despite the loss of Weimar rights, they were benefitting and should support him.

As the socialists and communists were crushed, and as their opposition was removed, workers turned to Hitler.

THE YOUNG AND FIRST TIME VOTERS
Studies of the electoral results of the 1930s have revealed the Nazis gaining noticeable support from people who hadn’t voted in elections before, and also among young people eligible to vote for the first time. As the Nazi regime developed more young people were exposed to Nazi propaganda and taken into Nazi Youth organisations. It’s open to debate exactly how successfully the Nazis indoctrinated Germany’s young, but they drew important support from many.

THE CHURCHES
Over the course of the 1920s and early 30s the Catholic Church had been turning towards European fascism, scared of the communists and, in Germany, wanting a way back from the liberal Weimar culture. Nonetheless, during the collapse of Weimar, Catholics voted for the Nazis in far lower numbers than Protestants, who were much more likely to do so. Catholic Cologne and Dusseldorf had some of the lowest Nazi voting percentages, and the Catholic church structure provided a different leadership figure and a different ideology.

However, Hitler was able to negotiate with the churches and came to an agreement in which Hitler guaranteed Catholic worship and no new kulturkampf in return for support and an end to their role in politics. It was a lie, of course, but it worked, and Hitler gained vital support at a vital time from Catholics, and the possible opposition of the Centre Party vanished as it closed. Protestants were no less keen to support Hitler being no fans of Weimar, Versailles, or Jews. However, many Christians remained skeptical or opposed, and as Hitler continued down his path some did speak out, to mixed effect: Christians were able to temporarily halt the euthanasia program executing the mentally ill and disabled by voicing opposition, but the racist Nuremberg Laws were welcomed in some quarters.

THE MILITARY
Military support was key, as in 1933-4 the army could have removed Hitler. However once the SA was tamed in the Night of the Long Knives - and SA leaders who wanted to combine themselves with the military had gone - Hitler had major military support because he rearmed them, expanded them, gave them the chance to fight and early victories. Indeed, the army had supplied the SS with key resources to allow for the Night to happen. Leading elements in the military who opposed Hitler were removed in 1938 in an engineered plot, and Hitler’s control expanded. However, key elements in the army remained concerned at the idea of a huge war and kept plotting to remove Hitler, but the latter kept winning and defusing their conspiracies. When the war began to collapse with defeats in Russia the army had become so Nazified that most remained loyal. In the July Plot of 1944, a group of officers did act and try to assassinate Hitler, but then largely because they were losing the war. Many new young soldiers had been Nazis before they joined.

WOMEN
It might seem odd that a regime which forced women out of many jobs and increased the emphasis on breeding and raising children to intense levels would have been supported by many women, but there is a part of the historiography which recognizes how the many Nazi organisations aimed at women —with women running them—offered opportunities which they took. Consequently, while there was a strong set of complaints from women who wished to return to sectors they’d been expelled from (such as women doctors), there were millions of women, many without the education to pursue the roles now shut off from them, who supported the Nazi regime and actively worked in the areas they were allowed to, rather than forming a mass block of opposition.

SUPPORT THROUGH COERCION AND TERROR
So far this article has looked at people who supported Hitler in the popular meaning, that they actually liked him or wanted to push forward his interests. But there was a mass of the German population who supported Hitler because they did not have, or believe they had, any other choice. Hitler had enough support to get into power, and while there he destroyed all political or physical opposition, such as the SDP, and then instituted a new police regime with a state secret police called the Gestapo that had large camps to house limitless numbers of dissidents. Himmler ran it. People who wanted to speak out about Hitler now found themselves at risk of losing their lives. Terror helped boost Nazi support by providing no other option. Plenty of Germans reported on neighbors, or other people they knew, because being an opponent of Hitler became treason against the German State.

CONCLUSION
The Nazi Party was not a small group of people who took over a country and ran it into destruction against the wishes of the populace. From the early thirties, the Nazi Party could count on a large range of support, from across the social and political divide, and it could do it because of clever presentation of ideas, the legend of their leader, and then naked threats. Groups who might have been expected to react like Christians and women were, at first, fooled and gave their support. Of course, there was opposition, but the work of historians like Goldhagen has firmly broadened our understanding of the base of support Hitler was operating from, and the deep the pool of complicity among the German people. Hitler did not win a majority to be voted into power, but he polled the second greatest result in Weimar history (after the SDP in 1919) and went on to build Nazi Germany on mass support. By 1939 Germany wasn’t full of passionate Nazis, it was mostly of people who welcomed the stability of government, the jobs, and a society which was in marked contrast to that under Weimar, all of which people believed they’d found under the Nazis. Most people had issues with the government, as ever, but were happy to overlook them and support Hitler, partly out of fear and repression, but partly because they thought their lives were okay. But by ’39 the excitement of ‘33 had gone.

Why They Changed Nigeria National Anthem

ANARCHY AND DOOM??!
My father worked with the French in Dumez construction company, Onitsha, before I was born. He found favour with them, probably because he understood their bad English.
When they noticed my mom was pregnant with a second child (not me yet), they got disappointed in my dad, and they asked him why he wanted to have two children given the state of the government at the time. In reply he made it clear to them that he wasn't stopping at "two" (the rest of us were going to show)
He made it clear to them that his family was not being fed by the government, but by his own sweat (and he did sweat it out for all of us).

That was the mentality of the Igbo man...
Never depend on any government, or anybody for that matter. Work. Study. Move. Show yourself approved. Most importantly, take care of your family. Let your wife shine brighter than yourself. Never let your children know how hard you work to make things easy for them (till they come of age).

The Nigeria National Anthem was changed because the words were not kept. The last stanza of the old anthem says: "...To hand over to our children our banner without stain." they know that I would have asked questions, so they changed it. The banner was stained due to youthful exuberance of very young men at the top, and when things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.

So Nigeria has been in a state of entropy; that's why things are so scattered.
That's why so much money was spent on the steel company in Ajaokuta. That's why our electric power always breaks my heart. That's why our refineries don't work.
That's why we loot ourselves. "Foundation once destroyed..."

So I have been studying, working, praying to the Almighty, to be able to take care of my family, and to leave my footprints on the sands of time.
Same goes for so many honest Nigerians.

Those who are experts in animals, for example know how to tame the aggressive ones. It comes from studying.
Education should help one to understand the times. To know how to secede if you want to, and how to go about it. Educated leaders know that they are like parents in homes - you don't see your children as enemies and go killing them.
In saner climes, child services will take ur children from you if you don't know how to care for them; what it means here is that a leader should step aside if he/she cannot handle the excesses of the led (especially when they're unarmed and harmless).

Innocent Chukwuma took time to build himself, now even the government buys from him.
Donald Trump had no political packaging (if you like) but he took years to build himself; so when he demanded for their votes, the American people didn't see why they should vote him, but at the same time they didn't see why-not.

Let's stop the chaos. The Anarchy. We have the industry to lead our people to an enviable state. We will take over because of what we know. Not for hate, but for love. And we'll bring as many to the love of the most high.

My father has seven children,  perfectly brought up... don't mind those french men

Failed Money Transfer By A Former Nigerian President

Last Wisdom Nuggets From Famous Steve Jobs

On the sick bed

Steve Jobs’ Last Words -

I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world.
In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success.

However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.

At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.

In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer…

Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth…
Should be something that is more important:

Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days ...
Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me.
What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love.
That’s the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.

Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach. It is all in your heart and in your hands.
What is the most expensive bed in the world? - "Sick bed" …

You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.
Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – "Life".

When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading – "Book of Healthy Life".

Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down.

Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends...

Treat yourself well. Cherish others.

As we grow older, and hence wiser, we slowly realize that wearing a $300. or $30.00 watch - - -  - - - - they both tell the same time...
Whether we carry a $300 or $30.00 wallet/handbag - - - - - - - the amount of money inside is the same;

Whether we drink a bottle of $300 or $10 wine - - - - - - - - - - - -  the hangover is the same;

Whether the house we live in is 300 or 3000 sq. ft. - - - - - - - -  loneliness is the same.

You will realize, your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.

Whether you fly first or economy class, if the plane goes down - - - - - - --you go down with it...
Therefore..I hope you realize, when you have mates, buddies and old friends, brothers and sisters, who you chat with, laugh with, talk with, have sing songs with, talk about north-south-east-west or heaven &
earth, .... That is true happiness!!

Five Undeniable Facts of Life :
1. Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be Happy. So when they grow u//p they will know the value of things not the price.

2. Best awarded words in London ... "Eat your food as your medicines. Otherwise you have to eat medicines as your food."

3. The One who loves you will never leave you for another because even if there are 100 reasons to give up he or she will find one reason to hold on.

4. There is a big difference between a human being and being human.
Only a few really understand it.

5. You are loved when you are born. You will be loved when you die.  In between, You have to manage!

NOTE: If you just want to Walk Fast, Walk Alone! But if you want to Walk Far, Walk Together!

Six Best Doctors in the World

1. Sunlight
2. Rest
3. Exercise
4. Diet
5. Self Confidence and
6. Friends

Maintain them in all stages of Life and enjoy healthy life.

Sent with Smiles, Affection and Love!!!

#copied

Surviving Present Military Seige On South East Nigeria............forward the message

Guide on how to stay safe in the Entire South East during the Military exercise named Egwu Eke II (Python Dance II) from September 15, 2017 to October 14, 2017. Your life is in your hand.
1. Always carry your ID card with you, so that you can always identify yourself whenever called upon to do so.
2. Never stay out late for whatever reason.
3. If you must drive, make sure your driver’s license and all your car particulars are complete and valid.
4. If possible do not use car with tinted glass even if you have permit.
5. If you are stopped at the check point, answer only the questions that you are asked. Do not volunteer any information nor ask questions.
6. Do not for any reason argue with any military personnel, they are all battle ready.
7. Stay indoors as much as possible, go out if it is absolutely necessary.
8. Do not play ball on the street.
9. Do not jog on the street.
10. Do not for any reason carry Biafran flag with you.
11. Do not play loud music in your car.
12. Do not undertake any interstate journey, unless it is absolutely necessary. You must target to arrive your destination before it gets dark.
13. Avoid fixing weddings, burials or any form of function that will require the gathering of many people.
14. Females should as much as possible move around in pairs.
15. Be warned, this is like war situation.

How To Know If Your Mother Is A Nigerian

``HOW TO KNOW IF YOUR MOTHER IS A NIGERIAN;
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1) When you say, "Mummy, I'm Sorry!" And she
replies, "Sorry
for yourself!"
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2) When you ask her where you should drop
something and she
says, ?Drop it on my head."
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3) When she brings food
wrapped in a nylon bag from a party.
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4) When you say, ''Mummy, I have fever.? And
she replies
you, ?Why won't you have fever when you press
phone every night?
.
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5) When you say, ?Mummy I took 2nd in my
class.? and she replies, ?So the person that took
first has two heads abi??
.
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6) When she takes the DSTV remote to work, just
to punish you.
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7) When you are watching television with her and
then she sleeps off and still doesn?t
want you to change the
channel.
.
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8) When you tell her you are going to a friend's
place to play and she asks, ''When last did that
friend
come here to play with you?
.
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9) When she asks you if the food she served you
is enough, and
you reply no, and she says, come and eat my own
with yours.
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10) When she tells you, if I hear Peem, you will
hear Ween.
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11) When she touches hot pot comfortably
without a cloth or
paper.
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12) When she tells you, ''I didn't kill my mother,
so you will not kill
me''.
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13) When she calls you from your room upstairs
and then sends you back upstairs to bring her
purse.
.
14) When you ask her to refund the money she
borrowed u and
she tells you, "All the food you have been eating
in the house
nko? Which money did you think was used in
buying them?''
Our Mothers are wonderful.

Kenya ICT Minister Vs. Nigeria ICT Minister

ONE OF THE REASONS THINGS ARE NOT WORKING IN NIGERIA

KENYA
Joseph Mucheru MBS is the current Kenyan Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications. He is a former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in the Google Nairobi office. He was Google's first Sub-Saharan employee and was key to setting up of Googles presence in Africa from 2007.

Before joining Google he worked at Wananchi Online, a company he co-founded in 1999, in various roles at the company including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer.

He attended the Business Executive Programme from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2008. He holds a (B Sc. (Hons)) in Economics & Computer Science from City University London.

NIGERIA
Honorable Adebayo Shittu, he gained admission into University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun south west, Nigeria in the year 1974. At the end of 1978, he had obtained his first degree in Law from the same university. He ventured into politics at the age of 26yrs. In 1979,he became member of old Oyo House of Assembly.

In 1983, Barrister Shittu was elected as a member of Oyo state, House Assembly in the second republic. In 1983, the military government took over from the civilian government and he retired into legal practice and writing profession. He became a member of National Political conference in 2005.

In 2011, He withdrew his gubernatorial ambition for the incumbent(2016) governor of Oyo State, senator Ajimobi Abiola. Presently(2016),the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as the substantive minister of communication in Nigeria.

And if you mention that the chairman of NCC is a trained lawyer in his 80s.

In this information age, if you're Mark Zuckerberg, who would you do business with?

The Lucrative Marriage Profile Of Oni's Divorced Wife

The Marriage Profile of Ex - Olori Wuraola

Olori Wuraola is above 30 Years of age. She is a big girl ( I believe you understand the word big girl) who doesn't settle for less.
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According to her story, She was married to Former Governor of Jigawa State Saminu Turaki some years ago and the marriage reportedly crashed.
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Later, she got married to former deputy Senate majority leader Abdul Ningi  and the love affair allegedly crashed
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Again, she proceeded and got married to a Dubai Billionaire named  Eli  Khoury. She changed her name to Sonia and as at year 2015, Sonai still flaunted Eli Khoury on her social media media accounts.
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Lastly on March 12 2016, she got married to Ooni of Ife one of the most influential King in Yoruba land after the Palace source informed the public that She was picked by Ifa.
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Her marriage with Ooni of Ife crashed officially in the month of August year 2017.
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Who is her next target???

Buhari's Love For Soviet Style Government Exposee By Reno Omokri

What Muhammadu Buhari Told Aisha Alhassan About His Fears of Glásnost and Perestróĭka

By Reno Omokri

It is no longer news that President Muhammadu Buhari's minister for women affairs, Aisha Alhassan has publicly ditched him and hitched unto the advocate of restructuring, Atiku Abubakar.

As she paid Sallah homage to him during the eid-el-Kabir holidays, she greeted the Waziri Adamawa as follows:

"Your excellency, our father and our president by the grace of God, come 2019"

And if anybody thought that Aisha was going to dial back on her comments, having been outed by a video released online, they were dead wrong!

Instead of dialing back, she doubled down on her stance and told the BBC Hausa on Wednesday August 6, 2017 that:

"Let me tell you today that if Baba said he is going to contest in 2019, I swear to Allah, I will go before him and kneel and tell him that ‘Baba I am grateful for the opportunity you gave me to serve your government as a minister but Baba, just like you know, I will support only Atiku because he is my godfather. If Atiku said he is going to contest.”

First of all, let me say bravo to Aisha Alhassan for having the courage to say that the emperor is naked!

Truly, Nigerians should not see Aisha as a traitor. Ever since the lion indicated that he was afraid of rats, it was only a matter of time for the lionesses to abandon him and find a real lion!

And Atiku Abubakar is definitely a real lion. The type of lion that can lead the pride, and not a king of the jungle that prefers being far away from the real jungle in preference for a concrete one in London.

Aisha Alhassan, is my new favorite person! She is the Dora Akunyili of 2017 who has the balls (forgive my poetic liberties) to tell an inept President the bitter truth.

By openly telling President Muhammadu Buhari on BBC Hausa "I will support only Atiku Abubakar", she is actually telling him 'Go. You have done enough damage!'

And it is wrong to see Aisha's actions as a betrayal. If there is any betrayal, it is from President Buhari, not Aisha.

In an interview with Reuters, she revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari's recent posturing for a second term in office notwithstanding, the President had actually promised the inner caucus of his party before he was elected in 2015 that he would not seek a second term and it was on that basis that many of them supported him.

Her exact words were:

"In 2014/2015 he said he was going to run for only one time to clean up the mess that the (previous) PDP government did in Nigeria. And I took him for his word that he is not contesting in 2019"

Buhari's own wife publicly rejected him for 2019 on the same BBC, now her namesake (you now know what name to give your daughter if you want her to be a strong woman) publicly rejects her husband. Buhari's greatest sycophant, Nasir El-Rufai, publicly rejected him in a memo telling him he has failed, yet the President continues to wallow in his failure with his latest misadventure of cancelling the most recent Executive Council of the Federation meeting as if it is an ordinary appointment!

But should we be surprised? The ‪same way his closest aides rejected him in 1985 is same way his closest confidants are rejecting him in 2017. His wife, Minister and his sycophant!‬

Personally, I believe the last straw for Aisha Alhassan was his canceling of  FEC in the midst of unprecedented national calamities and challenges because of an 'extended holiday'.

100,000 homes flooded in Benue. North Korea threatens 'impudent' people of Nigerian. ASUU/Doctor strike and you cancel FEC meeting for extended Sallah? Yet you say you returned from London to 'reposition Nigeria and make life better'?

Is it by canceling the most important meeting in Nigeria where government meets to decide the progress of Nigeria that you do that?

‪If Nigerians want an 'extended' holiday, we have Wakanow website for that. We elected Buhari to cancel hunger in Nigeria, not to cancel FEC due to 'extended' holidays!‬

It seems President Buhari does not yet know the type of humongous challenges we are about to face because of our failure to plan which is in itself a plan for failure. And it is not just President Buhari. Collectively, Nigeria as a nation appears to be blind sighted to the coming perils in the horizon.

We continue with the wasteful pattern of state sponsorship for pilgrimages and give pilgrims concessionary dollar exchange rates as if a nation becomes great solely by prayer. We must end concessionary dollar exchange rates for pilgrims. If we should have special dollar rates it should be for manufacturers and the real sector.

President Muhammadu Buhari keeps resisting the idea of restructuring and since the idea is one whose time has come, restructuring is already happening without his input. Atiku sees it. Buhari does not, hence the pendulum of power is shifting from the latter to the former.

For instance, regionalism is already back in Nigeria. A state like Anambra is not waiting for oil money to be shared to it from a rent collecting federal government in Abuja..Anambra has no time for that!

By virtue of trading, manufacturing and of late a strong agricultural resurgence, Anambra is the richest state in Nigeria in terms of per capital per individual and Nnewi has more billionaires per square mile than ANYWHERE ELSE in Africa!

You cannot be a millionaire and claim to be a big boy in Nnewi. Mba!

Yet Anambra has no oil and Nnewi is no Port Harcourt!

Many Nigerians may not know why President Muhammadu Buhari is against restructuring and wants to draw a red line against 'hate speech'. The thing is that he alone gets to decide what constitutes hate speech just as his Chief of Staff Supreme Military Council, the late Major General (rtd) Tunde Idiagbon, got to be the only one to decide if a truthful comment was a crime under their infamous Decree Number 2 (the military version of his civilian 'red line').

But the reason why Buhari is against restructuring and free speech is because he is a self confessed admirer of the old Soviet Union.

On May 10, 2015, President Buhari received a delegation from Taraba state, led, coincidentally, by Aisha Alhassan, and he explained his admiration of the Soviet Union thus;

"In 1991, after coming out of detention, I was sitting at home and the Soviet Union collapsed. They were the world power fighting the western world. In technology, they were the first to go to space and they had intercontinental war heads than NATO. They had more sophisticated weapons."

President Buhari was disappointed that a  nation he loved so much had folded up.

Now do not forget that President Buhari is first and foremost a military man who has fought wars and planned and participated in military coup d'états. He thinks strategically.

Now, ask yourself this question: Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

Most scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union to the reforms initiated by its last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev which are briefly summarized in two doctrines that he initiated in the 80s, namely, Glasnost and Perestroika.

What are Glasnost and Perestroika?

Glasnost means as a noun means:

"a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information:" initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

As a verb it means:

'the Russian word glásnost' literally taken to mean openness'.

Then there is perestroika.

Perestroika means as a noun means:

'The program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.

Perestroika means as a verb means:

'Russian word perestróĭka literally meaning rebuilding, reorganization'.

These definitions are from the Merriam-Webster dictionary and dictionary dot com and from their meaning we see that glásnost means openness and freedom of speech while perestróĭka means restructuring.

Now you can enter the mindset of President Muhammadu Buhari and understand why he is against restructuring and free speech.

Connect the dots people, connect the dots!

While in reality, the Soviet Union was a dystopia, President Buhari remembers it as a utopia.

To him, nirvana is the defunct Soviet Union and that nation of his dreams, the USSR, was, at least in his mind, brought down by glásnost and perestróĭka otherwise known as free speech and restructuring.

Now that he finally has the opportunity to turn Nigeria into the nation of his dreams, the clamor for restructuring and openness has reached fever pitch and to him, it is like déjà vu.

President Muhammadu Buhari believes that if he allows glásnost and perestróĭka in Nigeria, he will suffer the fate of Mikhail Gorbachev and Nigeria will go the way of the Soviet Union, dismembered into multiple smaller nations.

But the President forgets a number of things.

You see, without glásnost and perestróĭka, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was headed for a very nasty implosion.

The then US President, Ronald Reagan, in pursuit of his policy of 'peace through strength', had lured the USSR into running an arms race that it could not afford and which America could. As a result of the arms race, Gorbachev was unable to turn the energies of the Soviet Union to pressing domestic problems.

There was a proxy war in Afghanistan, a country they invaded in December 1979 and occupied for a decade at a human cost of 15,000 Soviet casualties and 2 million Afghan civilian casualties and a financial cost of the entire budget of Nigeria for the last 40 years!

Worse still was the fact that the growth of the Soviet economy was not keeping pace with her population growth (remind you of anybody?).

So it was not as if Gorbachev was being generous by introducing glásnost and perestróĭka. He literally had no choice. His country was collapsing under him and that is the same thing that is happening to Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari.

President Buhari must not allow his phobia for glásnost and perestróĭka, stemming from his fascination with the defunct USSR blind him to a fundamental truth-there must either be a new Nigeria or there may soon be no Nigeria!

His resistance to free speech and his new policy of drawing a red line against hate speech will not hold ground in a nation with 100 million Internet ready mobile lines! And nothing undermines a leader's capacity to govern than when the leader makes unenforceable laws or threats that he cannot back up.

In the same vein, to resist restructuring is to fight against an idea whose time has come!

It is very clear that President Buhari's fixation with the Soviet Union has kept him in an 80s time capsule. That is why he still refers to the unified nation of Germany as West Germany and that is why he still thinks that hate speech is any speech that is in opposition to government policy.

Somebody must tell the President that the reason dinosaurs became extinct is because they refused to adapt to the changes in their environment!

Like Gorbachev's 1980's USSR, Nigeria's population is growing far faster than her economy. Our population grew at 2.6% last quarter while the economy grew at 0.55%. Only a Buhari administration will be shameless enough to celebrate such an abysmal record!

And also, like the USSR of the 80's, Nigeria is caught in an intractable war with Islamic extremists.

You may say to me that the Russian invasion of Afghanistan is different in nature from the war against Boko Haram and my response to you is that you ought to study Nigeria's contemporary history deeply. History does not repeat itself, men repeat history!

Boko Haram was not initially a violent sect. It was not until the Nigerian Government extra judicially killed its leaders, most notably Mohammed Yusuf, that the group became radicalized and linked up with global terror groups.

And today, just like with the USSR in Afghanistan, we are spending billions that we do not have fighting a war that is so difficult to win because the enemy relies on guerrilla warfare tactics. Boko Haram are like the mujahideen that fought the Russians to a standstill in Afghanistan.

Russia's Afghanistan campaign was what led to the rise of Osama Bin Laden and our killing of the pious Mohammed Yusuf was what led to the rise of the radical Abubakar Shekau.

We cannot pay civil servants, we are taking loans from capitalists, socialists and communists left right and center. Essentially, Nigeria will take loans from any nation or institution willing to lend her money, yet we just spent $593 million purchasing 12 A-29 Super Tucano military jets and other weapons from America because we must fight Boko Haram.

But what does Boko Haram really want?

Is it just to fight, kill and to destroy? No. They want an Islamic Caliphate essentially in the Kanuri dominated Yobe and Borno state and since Nigeria killed their leaders who were advocating for that idea peacefully, they have decided that they must advance their cause by force of arms.

But what if they are genuinely invited to restructure Nigeria. If the certain states want to live under strict Sharia law why can't they if they will not impose it on others?

After all President Buhari himself once declared in 2001 that (and I quote):

"I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria”

I assure President Buhari that restructuring will take care of that desire that he has burning 'inside me'!

Can we not see that everyone, including Boko Haram (secretly) IPOB, OPC and Arewa Youth Forum rejoices when Nigeria scores against another nation in a game of football.

That alone should tell a reasonable man that their problem is not Nigeria per se, but the fact that Nigeria is not also scoring in the areas of equal Opportunity for everyone, in the economy and in government.

Once we make the necessary structural changes to our polity and start to score in these areas, EVERY separatist agenda will end!

And that is the only way that President Muhammadu Buhari can prevent the fate of the defunct USSR from befalling Nigeria.

Reno Nuggets

It is extreme wickedness to start a family before starting a job or a business. Children should be your blessing, not your burden on others. You relations are not evil because they refuse to take your burdens upon their shoulders. So you can keep going to your church to pray 'die by fire' prayers on them. But guess what? The problem with praying for your 'enemy' to die is that if God answers such silly prayers, you will also die from your enemies prayer #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans. He is the author of the worldwide amazon #1 bestseller (Conspiracy Theory) Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies and three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom.