What a Jet can do in Nigeria...

1Billion naira will liberate about 100,000 Youths from joblessness, another one billion will establish factories and industries that will employ about 5000 Youths. Another 1billion will buy a portion of PHCN but our Leaders are flying 4.5billion bombardier Challenger 604 and 605. Where are we going?

 

Warren Buffet is not flying Any jet. Bill Gates drives a normal Car. Richard Branson øwns the largest number of aircraft, yet flies the commercial line. Ingrad Kamprad OF IKEA drives Volvo 2003 model. These are Billionaires in dollars, yet they live normally. 

Nigerians, think twice. Where is our moral value?

 

NIGERIA @ 52 - NATIONAL FOUNDATION and ELEVATION

Dear President Goodluck Jonathan. Vice President Nnamadi Sambo. Senate President David Mark. House of Representative Speaker Tambuwal. Chief Judge of the Federation Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar. The SSG Anyim Pi

us Anyim. The President, CAN/PFN-Pastor Ayo Orisejafor. The Leaders, Nigerian Islamic Community and Organizations
Members of the Civil Society Organisations. Members of the Media/Press. Fellow Great Nigerians. Happy 52nd Independence day…
NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE BROADCAST…
NATIONAL FOUNDATION and ELEVATION
I remember when I left secondary school in the late 80s and I couldn’t proceed to higher institution of learning immediately just because I didn’t pass all my papers, I was advised to work at an industry called Polamp Nigeria Limited somewhere in Ekiti State, Ikole Ekiti to be précised. I worked there as a factory worker and we were producing bulbs that were even exported then but suddenly after few years, the company closed down. I didn’t understand the reason behind the closure then until I finished my higher education and started understanding some abnormalities in our country like corruption, power failure and other factors. But one of my role models then who was a manager in the same company made me to realize that the primary problem with Polamp then was the organizational structural foundation of the company and so when the storm came, it couldn’t withstand it but to pack up. Hence, I ruminated over our great country, Nigeria at 52 and I write this letter to my other 169million Nigerians home and in diaspora.
NIGERIA - "If the foundation be destroyed or faulty, what can the righteous do",
If we will move forward at all, President Jonathan and co must deal with the structure of Nigeria now! 98 years of existence as a country and 52 years after colonial independence. We pray this foundation doesn't sink suddenly. Amen. Remember, when a foundation of a building is bad, the only two options available is either to collapse the building and start to build afresh or you continue to patch the building until one day the foundation will sink the building.
There are many questions we need to ask ourselves if we actually want to secure the future of our beloved country, Nigeria, we must learn from history because a people without history has no future. Don’t forget MARRIAGE is not by FORCE but by CHOICE.
The British colonial masters did three major experiments which I call JUMBLED NATION, which means confused or tangled democracy. The first one was when they joined 15 subnational soviets countries together and formed USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) in 1922 after the RUSSIAN revolution of 1917.
In the late 1980s the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev sought reforms in the Union, introducing the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation and democratize the government. However, this led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements. By 1991, the country was in turmoil as the Baltic republics began to secede. A referendum resulted in the vast majority of participating citizens voting in favour of preserving the Union as a renewed federation. In August 1991, a coup d’etat by hardliners against Gorbachev and aimed at preserving the country, instead led to its collapse. On 25 December 1991, the USSR was dissolved into 15 post-soviet states. The Russian Federation, successor of the Russian SFSR, assumed the Soviet Union's rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality. Today all had gone in piece.
The second experiment was that of Northern and Southern Sudan. Also Sudan was a collection of small, independent kingdoms and principalities from the beginning of the Christian era until 1820-21, when Egypt conquered and unified the northern portion of the country. However, neither the Egyptian nor the Mahdist state (1883-1898) had any effective control of the southern region outside of a few garrisons. Southern Sudan remained an area of fragmented tribes, subject to frequent attacks by slave raiders. In February 1953, the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination. The transitional period toward independence began with the inauguration of the first parliament in 1954. With the consent of the British and Egyptian Governments, Sudan achieved independence on January 1, 1956, under a provisional constitution.
The new constitution was silent on two crucial issues for southern leaders - the secular or Islamic character of the state and its federal or unitary structure. However, the Arab-led Khartoum government reneged on promises to southerners to create a federal system, which led to a mutiny by southern army officers that launched 17 years of civil war (1955-72).
Since its independence in 1956, the history of Sudan has been plagued by internal conflict, viz. the First Sudanese Civil War (1955-1972), the Second War (1983-2005), culminating in the secession of South Sudan in 2011, and the War in Darfur (2003-2010).
Because of continuing political and military struggles, Sudan was seized in a bloodless coup d’état by colonel Omar al-Bashir in 1989, who thereafter proclaimed himself President of Sudan. The civil war ended with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement which granted autonomy to what was then the southern region of the country. Following a referendum held in January 2011, South Sudan seceded on 9 July 2011 with the consent of Sudan. Now the next nation experimented by the British Lords is Nigeria and my question is, are we going to allow their mathematical permutation and combination destroy our future?
I am not campaigning for divorce between the two nations because I so much love this nation to the point that we cannot allow foolishness, mediocrity, deception as a shadow of wisdom.
We need answer to the question; are we married together or we married ourselves in 1914 by the selfish British Colonial masters who pretended to give us independence but still holding the rope tied to our waist to themselves especially economically. Who named our country NIGERIA? A husband, wife or concubine? What is the purpose for the name?
MARRIAGE is to be ENJOYED and not to be ENDURED. Are we enjoying the amalgamation that took place some 98years ago or we are just patching our faces.
* At 52, were former colonial states like Singapore and India still groping in the dark?
*If Rome was not built in a day, did it take 52 years? *Is it worth celebrating the independence and why?
*Nigeria at 52, our beloved Dr Adegbite (79) of Nigeria Islamic Community died just yesterday because of the state of our health sector and Canadian Embassy refused him visa 2 months ago to travel for treatment. After 98 years of marriage and 52 years of independence, our children are still desperate to travel abroad not minding to go through the Sahara desert just to escape the hardship in the land while Our Leaders are busy stealing the public funds, sending their children abroad to school but leaving the poor behind to have their education inside dilapidated buildings around the nation. Have you seen Obama’s children coming to school in Nigeria? When did you ever hear that the Prime Minister of Britain is on medical admission in LUTH?
Malaysia came to pick palm kernel seed from Nigeria in 1979 and by 1999 (20years later) Malaysia became the largest producer of palm oil globally. We just honoured one of our youths with National Honour who is the best car designer in the world but we can’t produce a bicycle. Our own Ibo son is the second in command in power generating plant in Germany but yet darkness is our partner even during the day. Our land is blessed with Oil and co but we have to beg before we fuel our cars. We are among the top five nations that produce cassava but we are importing starch. WHY?
Has our inheritance not turned to strangers and our houses to aliens (Some foreigners)? Are we not orphans and fatherless, and our mothers widows in our own land? (Think about Shell and other oil companies in Niger Delta) Have we not drunk our water for money and our wood being sold back to us with times five of the original price?
Now, servants are ruled (imposed) over us, we are buying food with the stress of our lives. Our skins are black like oven because of the terrible famine. Our women are ravished, rubbished, garnished with rape and vanished in beauty.(by some foreigners) There is no more honour to righteous elders and youths but to the manipulating ones. The joy of our heart is ceased and our dance is turned to mourning. Our Parents are no longer interested in MORAL VALUES but MONEY VALUES, to the point that parents are now dashing their daughters away to 419ers, ritualists, yahoo-yahoo men, visionless politicians and so on. Our leadership platform has society has become a den of armed robbers and empty headed vessels. God of heaven give us RIGHT LEADERS not just GOOD LEADERS.
SOLUTION…DIRECTION: It has been said times without number that a man without DIRECTION is a man without DESTINATION. At this critical point of decision of our beloved country, after a long period of research. I realized that this present government inherited 90% of our problems and for this government to leave a meaningful, positive legacy and posterity, behind for generation-next, President GoodLuck Jonathan and his cabinet including the House of Representative members and Senators are advised to call for immediate NATIONAL CONFERENCE (Citizens Dialogue) to actually sit down and review our Nation and fashion out our own CONSTITUTION. Any machine without the manufacturers’ manual of operation will soon pack up. You can’t use the manual of a Honda Motorcycle to operate a Toyota car, it will underperform. We can’t continue to run our national machine with an alien manual, what we will get at the end of the day is colossal failure. It is clear that an UNIDENTIFYIED FLYING OBJECTS can only operate successfully in BERMUDA TRIANGLE and no Aero Contractors carrier or British Airways carrier can go to Bermuda Triangle, the end will be disastrous. So at this point, I will like to say that PLACES don’t make PEOPLE but it is PEOPLE that make PLACES, therefore let us come together as a people from different tribes but with one voice and sit together to map out the way forward for our Nation especially for the unborn generations.
In conclusion I quote from the Holy Bible, Isaiah 1:18-20 which says: COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER; THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW; THOUGH THEY BE LIKE CRIMSON, THEY SHALL BE AS WOOL. IF YE BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YE SHALL EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND: BUT IF YE REFUSE AND REBEL, YE SHALL BE DEVOURED WITH THE SWORD: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN IT.
Great Nigerians, before the different problems happening in our nation will disintegrate and scatter us, I wish to state strongly as a citizen of this country, Nigeria and a National Reformer that we gather together and talk like brothers and sisters. Let us check and fix our FOUNDATION so that we can have a SWEATLESS ELEVATION
God has blessed Nigeria already. May Nigerians realise this and walk with this reality. Amen
GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. AMEN
gbengademujimi (Pastor Gee) KingsHill School of Discovery. National Reformation Centre 07039714664. cia2001ng@yahoo.com

YOUTH STAKEHOLDERS FORUM

James Asu attended the YOUTH STAKEHOLDERS' FORUM today which was organized by AGDC in partnership with the LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT. In attendant was his excellency, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, Mrs Ibukun Awosika (Chairman, AGDC), Dr Yew

ande Adesina(Special Adviser to Governor on health) and several youths in Lagos @ Event Centre in billingsway in Oregun, Ikeja which was filled to capacity.
Part of the speech delivered by his excellency, Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was extracted below:

"We need people to work. It is only through competition that you can make growth and become productive. No successful nation prosper through hand-out but hard-work. We didn't grow up like this, we competed. sustainability requires we built model that we can hand-over. The revolution we need is not street revolution but the revolution of the mind. Education is the first step to building up your mind. Our better days really lies ahead of us. Be self driven rather than been driven. If you're not competing there won't be luck. Compete fairly and honestly because they have values. Let's ask ourselves, Are we in the worst place? No! We can be the new frontier without being in the front, if we choose to be behind. The Nigeria and Ghana empires is about to rise, you have a part to play. Business models have changed. e.g Event managers replacing the traditional way of organizing parties on the streets. Adversity is the strongest asset of great achievers. All of you can become models for the next generations if you stop feeling sorry for yourselves and start doing something productive for yourselves."

10 LIVING TESTIMONIES WHY BUHARI IS THE MOST QUALIFIED LEADER FOR NOW

But within the limits of human weaknesses let's look at ten reasons while he still stands tall among other contestants for the no1 position in the land:
1.Professionalism
:The wife did not rule by proxy;in fact there was no Oga Madam Syndrome.I am sure many of us do not know the name of the wife till today.

2.Security : He was able to tame the Chadian Incursi
on of Hissen Habre and quell the fire of Maitatsne crisis of Maiduguri in 82 while serving as GOC 82ND Mechanised Div Kaduna.

3Preparation :.He was prepared for power and office and not an unwilling or opportunistic leader.

4.ECONOMY: He opted for counter trade and had a valid forex management policy using counter trade to reduce pressure on the Naira within Dec 83 to Aug 85;It will be interesting to remember that as at 27th August,1985 when IBB took over,exchange rate was =N=1.11 TO 1USD.

5.Foreign Policy : He knew that Nigeria is a regional power and without military prowess there can be no significant political prowess.Most security problems in Nigeria today could be traced to our confusing foreign policy direction.

6.Corruption ; He has the moral courage and political good will to sanitise the body polity (and this is one of the major reason while he may not be able to rule Nigeria,because the system is a corrupt system).

7.IDEOLOGY : He remains one of the last group of African leaders that are trained in the colonial era with a clear vision of what Africa should be;Buhari is a welfarist-pan Africanist ,who like late Captain Thomas Sankara believed firmly in the restoration of African dignity and dominion.

8.SECULARISM : He was able to clamp down on traditionalists and monarchs in his first time and he is a modernist who has what it takes to position us among the best in the world.

9.CHARACTER : He is one of the few leaders in the country who still have integrity;he may need to improve on personal communication but he always meant well.

10.MANAGEMENT AND PRUDENCE :Buhari is a leader and a manager,who has what it takes to catapult Nigeria from the valley to the mountain top.

CONCLUSION :WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND;BUHARI IS LIKE GENERAL DE GAULLE OF FRANCE; PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHHILL OF UK,A TRANS GENERATIONAL LEADER;HE LED 27 YEARS AGO;MOST YOUTHS OF TODAY,CLOSE TO 40% OF NIGERIAN POPULATION WERE NOT EVEN ALIVE WHILE HE RULED IN HIS FIRST TIME;

NATIONS THAT MISSED THEIR CRISIS LEADERS ALWAYS HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER GENERATION;WE WASTED A LEADER LIKE BUHARI 27 YEARS AGO;WE ARE LUCKY THAT WE STILL HAVE HIM NOW;IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER 27YEARS OR ANOTHER GENERATION TO GET A LEADER IN HIS MOLD.THIS IS THE WAY LATE CHIEF AWOLOWO WAS TREATED BECAUSE OF SENTIMENTS AND EMOTIONS;

THE ONLY ARGUMENT PEOPLE HAVE AGAINST BUHARI IS THAT HE IS A MUSLIM;BUT LET'S ASK THIS QUESTION;WILL BOKO HARAM EMERGE OR BE VIBRANT UNDER BUHARI?NO! WHY AM I SURE?HE WAS ABLE TO QUENCH THE FIRE OF MAITATSINE 30 YEARS AGO!ALSO,MORE CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED UNDER THIS REGIME AND OBJ REGIME THAN OTHER REGIMES LED BY CHRISTIANS;THIS IS BECAUSE CHRISTIANS THAT HAVE RULED NIGERIA ARE MORE OF APOLOGISTS&PACIFISTS(IRONSI,GOWON,OBJ AND GEJ) .

FINALLY;NIGERIA IS A NATION WHERE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT PREPARED TO RULE ALWAYS RULE;WE WILL ALSO TELL OUR CHILDREN ABOUT OUR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN INSTALLING UNWILLING PRESIDENTS OVER THE MOST POPULOUS BLACK NATION ON EARTH;THEREBY DRAWING THE DESTINY OF THE BLACK MAN BACKWARD! LONG LIVE NIGERIANS!

NIGERIA: A NATION RULED BY ROGUES/419

"President Jonathan's Economic Advisers Owing Nigeria N1.3 Trillion; CBN Bars Banks From Doing Business With 419 Deadbeat Companies And Individuals."

An explosive Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) circular published today by a local Nigerian newspaper lists some of President Goodluck Jonathan's economic advisers among the country’s worst deadbeat debtors

.

Some of the worst offenders are household names: Mr. Femi Otedola, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, Sir Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, Prof. Bart Nnaji, Mrs Elizabeth Ebi and Dr. Wale Babalakin.

And businesses too: Zenon, Arik, MRS, Aero Contractors, Capital Oil and Gas, to list just five.

But now local banks are barred from extending even one more kobo of credit to them until they clear all debts.

The big debtors are also among the nation’s richest companies and individuals, and their extensive uncollateralized loans from Nigerian banks to the tune of billions of dollars led to the collapse of the banking sector.

Several of the debtors were also involved in the petroleum subsidy scam that bled the Nigerian economy of some $6.5 billion.

Instead of prosecuting the predatory lenders and borrowers the Jonathan government pushed the problem aside by setting up a bogus body known as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to absorb the debts and enable the debtor roam free and engage in more economic crimes.

They apparently roamed far and wide, all 113 companies and 419 directors/shareholders. 419 is the actual number given by the CBN.

The document circular obtained by Thisday, dated last Monday, September 17, showed that the disdain by these rich individuals and companies for their debts has grown so much that the CBN decided to bar banks in the country from extending further credit to them.

“It has become necessary to stop debtors who failed to repay their loans to banks and had these loans subsequently transferred to AMCON, from further enjoying credit facilities from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) until they fully repay agreed outstandings to AMCON,” said the circular, which was signed by CBN’s Director of Banking Supervision, Mrs. A. O. Martins.

According to ThisDay:

• The circular, which was accompanied by a detailed list of the blacklisted debtors, showed that worst hit by the directive are Zenon Petroleum, owned by Otedola, which was indebted to banks to the tune of N192.4 billion; MRS Holdings Limited, which belongs to Dantata – N119.98 billion; Seawolf Limited – N98.32 billion; Arik Air Limited, belonging to Arumemi-Ikhide – N85.481 billion; NITEL Plc/M-Tel – N71.547 billion; and Capital Oil and Gas Limited, which belongs to Ifeanyi Ubah – N48.014 billion.

• Others include Falcon Securities, whose Managing Director, Mr. Peter Ololo, was arraigned alongside several bank executives in 2009 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – N162.9 billion; Rockson Engineering Limited, owned by Arumemi-Ikhide – N60.475 billion; BGL Securities – N6.44 billion; Rahamaniyya Oil & Gas Limited – N46.38 billion; Bi-Courtney Limited – N20.214 billion; and Geometrics Engineering, owned by Nnaji – N19.76 billion.

• The restriction also applies to: Aero Contractors Company, owned by the family of Olorogun Michael Ibru - N32.579 billion; Tinapa Business Resort – N18.509 billion; Nestoil Limited, belonging to oil and gas entrepreneur, Ernest Azudialu – N13.506 billion; Dorman Long Engineering – N9.667 billion; Ascott Offshore Nig. Ltd, belonging to former banker, Henry Imasekha and the Berkley Group – N64.728 billion; Gitto Constuzioni – N11.838 billion; and Dansa Foods – N14.880 billion, whose directors, Sani and Abdul Dangote, are the brothers of business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

Furthermore, the banks have also been directed not to grant further credit to two States: Cross River and Zamfara, because of the failure of the Tinapa Business Resort and the Zamfara Accountant General to pay back loans collected.

The Central Bank warned that any bank that flouts the guidelines would be made to make an immediate provision of 100 per cent of total principal and interest outstanding in the account of the customer and related parties, in addition to whatever regulatory penalties the CBN may decide to impose, ...This Day Newspaper

WORTHY OF CELEBRATION

Yesterday President Goodluck Jonathan rewarded Super Falconet and Paralympics as follows: Golden Medalist - N5million; Silver Medalist - N3million; Bronze Medalist - N2million; Coaches - N2.2million; Falconet - N1million and Team Mates N.5million each. This is worthy of celebration. Had we as a nation priotized celebration of notable acts and outstanding achievers, our search for good leadership and patriotic citizenship would have been much easier and our country a much better place. This will not only reawaken the consciousness of patriotism but will rekindle hope that Nigeria is on the path to greatness. I salute all those who put their best effort for the service of nationhood. Be on the watch as we unveils other outstanding youth achievers to commemorate Nigerian 52nd Independence Anniversary. Dont just go away

NIGERIA: A BLFSSED LAND BUT FILLED WITH POOR/CURSED PEOPLE

R*E*V*E*A*L*E*D
Nigerians Bought 123 Private Jets This Year..Peter Obi
**Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy
**owners of private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors.
**Bishop David Oyedepo, is known

to have the most number of private jets in the country.

Upwards of 123 private jets have been acquired this year alone by some rich Nigerians even as the vast majority of Nigerians wallow in poverty as the economy goes from bad to worse.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State made this shocking disclosure yesterday in his goodwill message during the opening ceremony of the Second Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) holding in Umuahia, Abia State capital, South East Nigeria.

Giving indices of corruption in Nigeria, Obi lamented that this is happening in a country where many go to bed hungry. The governor declared that those who bought the private jets owe the public an explanation as to the source of their wealth.

This year alone, 123 private jets have been registered in this country. Who own them? These are people who are receiving (oil) subsidy. It is time to stop them, Obi said.

News Express reports that Nigerians who own private jets include politicians, businessmen and pastors. Bishop David Oyedepo, Founding Bishop of Living Faith Church International a.k.a Winners Chapel, is known to have the most number of private jets in the country. His fourth private jet, a Gulfstream V, is worth $30m and he has announced plans to buy a bigger one. Governor Obi in his speech also revealed that Nigerians seeking medical attention in foreign lands and those sponsoring their wards abroad for schooling spend about $10 billion doing so in a year.

Remedy to this needless capital flight, he noted, lies in fixing and handing over schools and hospitals in the country to the missions with adequate support from governments at all levels.

His words: We have schools in this country but nearly $6 billion is paid for education outside this country every year. Who are those paying it?

In this country, we pay over $4 billion for hospitals in India every year. Who are those paying it. We can fix our hospitals, let's put in money. Government cannot manage schools, government cannot manage hospitals. The ones we go to in India are not managed by government. Therefore, let's give it those who can manage it and support them. The missions can manage schools, they can manage hospitals.

The schools abroad that we take our children to are managed by missionaries; the hospitals we go abroad are managed by missionaries. Let the missionaries here manage our own so that if they fail, we hold them responsible. That is what we should all work for.

Obi explained that domestic debts portends ill for the country. What I want Nigerians to do is to resist the level of domestic debts that is being accumulated in this country by local, state and the federal governments,†he said, adding:

Domestic debt is very dangerous because it is Nigeria, your pensions, your future that we are burning out. The consequence is that In future, if they (the governments borrowing the money) can't redeem it, they devalue the currency and the naira will worth nothing. Let us know who is borrowing this money and what is it being borrowed for.

We borrow money in this country for consumption and not for productivity and who are those consuming, the same people who you must today hold responsible.

Citing the Middle East corruption and bad governance antidote, Obi said “People are blockading streets in the Middle East, let’s start doing it here. If anybody is not doing well, let's block his house.

The four-day conference, holding at the Bishop Nwedo Episcopal Centre, Mater Dei Cathedral, Umuahia, is being attended by Bishops from the 52 Ecclesiastical Provinces in Nigeria, government functionaries and the laity.

*Photo shows Bishop David Oyedepo, who owns the most number of private jets, relaxing inside one of them.