The number one problem plaguing Nigeria is not corruption or even the absence of regular power. The number one problem militating against the progress of Nigeria is her lack of unity.If we can fix this problem, Nigeria will herself be fixed.

In The Old Testament of The Bible, which Christians accept as the Divine Scripture, God spoke about mankind in Genesis 11:6 thus: “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”

Similarly, The Holy Quran, the Divine Scripture of Muslims also states: “Do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear.” -Quran 8:46.

From the above, it is clear that we can never have a Nigeria that fulfils her full potential when we have a divided Nigeria. Not only will we lose momentum as The Quran shows us, but we will also lose our possibilities as The Bible teaches us.

An objective look at history will show that without exception, all nations or regions that have expelled people from their landmass on the basis of race, religion or political affiliation have been the poorer for it, whether you are talking of the Alhambra Decree which purged Jews from Spain in 1492, or of more recent events like the purge of Asians from Uganda in 1972.

Nigerians may recall the ‘Ghana Must Go’ purge of 1983 which led to the forced departure of over a million Ghanaians from Nigeria. Nigeria lost many skilled workers and small businesses when the Ghanaians left. But they went home and developed their country and today Ghana is the top destination for Nigerians wishing to study abroad.

Because of how these immigrants helped develop and organise their country, there are over a quarter of a million Nigerians in Ghana today, and the Ghanaians have coined the phrase ‘Nigerians Are Coming’ to identify this phenomenon.We must learn from history. We do not have to repeat history. We must learn from the mistakes of other people. As Albert Einstein famously said: the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result.

It would be insane if a nation that once sang the song of ‘Go On With One Nigeria’ should be seen to be singing a new and absurd song of ‘Go On Without Some Nigerians’.
What that would mean is that the sacrifices of the millions of men, women, and children who died in the process of keeping Nigeria one would have been a sacrifice made in vain.

This would negate the lines in our National Anthem which read:

The labour of our heroes past

Shall never be in vain

It will be an even greater shame that if after we are all united to condemn the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, we hypocritically turn around and treat our own kith and kin even worse.We have six geopolitical zones in Nigeria and I was one of those that participated in bringing this about at the 1995 Constitutional Conference. The reasoning behind this is the awareness that none of us is as great as all of us.

Our six zones each have six strengths, but our one Nigeria together has six hundred strengths.If you do not believe me, look at the Nigerian football teams that have won the Olympic Gold Medal, The Africa Cup of Nations, the team that won the maiden edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1985 and the team that qualified for our very first FIFA World Cup in 1994.

It took a combination of Nigerians from all zones to pull these feats. The struggle of Nigeria in 2017 is not a struggle between North and South, rather, it is a struggle between good and evil.It would not be possible for Nigeria to exist as one corporate entity comprising the six geopolitical zones if this were not the plan of God. If this is the plan of The Almighty, and it evidently is, then whose plan would it be to cause division in what God has united?

What did Nabi Isa (Jesus Christ say) say in Matthew 19:6?
“What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Let us think long and deep on this.

A while ago Emanuel Cleaver said there is more power in unity than in division. Some very clever people may have discovered ways in which they can divide Nigeria, but I am convinced that there are intelligent geniuses and patriots amongst our people who can discover ways to unite Nigeria and defeat their evil plans.

One of such people is Immaculata Onuigbo, a young Nigerian from Enugu, who was recruited by the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation at the very young age 10 and given a scholarship which eventually saw her emerge as the best graduating student of the American University of Nigeria, Yola with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average score in the school’s history.

People like Miss Onuigbo, are the future of Nigeria and the world. A product of pan-Nigerian collaboration. Incidentally, she was discovered in Enugu, that great metropolis that in 1956 elected a Northerner, Umaru Altine, as its first elected mayor.

It is our history encapsulated in Umaru Altine and our future in Immaculata Onuigbo that Nigeria needs. What Nigeria does not need is negative voices who are trying to uproot the shade-giving trees that people like Felix Okonkwo and Aminu Kano planted to provide cover for generations yet unborn.

One of the most inspiring stories I have read in recent times are those of Sariki Yaro Danladi, Chairman Northern Traditional Rulers Council South-east and South-south and Ichie Uche Megwalu published in The Nation of last Saturday.

Danladi, who also doubles as leader of the Hausa community in Abia State was born, bred and married in the state while Megwalu, 77-year-old Igbo leader has made Kano home for over 60 years. The stories of both men dot our landscape and bear eloquent testimony of the spirit of the Nigeria that beckons.

As I write this, I am certain that Nigeria will not be overcome by evil people, rather, the good people of Nigeria will overcome evil and Nigeria will be better for it.
http://politicsngr.com/2017/06/20/nigerias-biggest-problem-lack-regular-power-atiku/
cc: lalasticlala, mynd44

In Tu Baba's voice;

[b]Oh ma God, oh oh oh
e be lik say dey 1 tell us wetin we neva hear b4!
2baba dey hiaaa! plus soul e baba dey hia!
zapadapadap dapadap de dapadap
de dapadap de
no be small tin oh [x4]
I say
no be small tin oh [x3] eh

Looking back through all the years
That you and I have spent together
It seems like you’ve been playing me all along
So many times, you asked me to put the whole of my trust in you
So many times, you betrayed and played me for a fool
Why don’t we work together so the future will be brighter
Cos, e be like you and I
We dey need each other all the time
All the time
Another year has come
And now you want my trust once more
Oh no

E be, like say you want me to tell me another story again oh (e be like say)
E be like say you want to act another movie again oh (e be like say)
E be like say you want to code another coding again oh (e be like say)
E be like say you want to dance
Galala na di new dance, again oh
You want to sing another song again (e be like say)
E be like say you want to code
You want to code oh

See, all I want to say is that
They don’t really care about us
Because all they want to do is to get in touch with big bucks
Because they think the money gives them the power
But the power is nothing
If your people cannot get quality education
The power is nothing
If your people keep on dying of disease and starvation
The power is nothing
If your people have no peace (no peace)
The power is nothing
If your people cannot live in unity (eh)
See, why do you keep deceiving the people, my brother, my sister
See, why you make all this people to dey fight one another
Only God can judge you now [x4]
Another year has come
And now you want my vote once more
Oh no

E be, like say they want to tell me another story again oh
(e be like say)
E be like say they want to act another movie again oh (e be like say)
E be like say they want to do another deceiving again oh
E be like say dem want to dance
Galala, na di new dance, again o
They want to sing another song again
They want to sing [x2]
E be like say they want to code
They want to dance

I dedicate this one to all of the shady politicians
Wey go promise and fail and make the people live in harsh conditions
I dedicate this one to all of the shady politicians
Why don’t you change your ways
Change your ways now
Make the people live the way they are supposed to live
E no be small thing o
As you see me so (no be small thing o)
I no send, I no send you oh (no be small thing o)
All of the shady politicians (no be small thing o)
As you see me so (no be small thing o)
I no send, I no send you oh (no be small thing o)
All of the shady politicians (I say no be small thing o)[/b]

Nice intervention by Atiku but truth be told, politicians like him are behind the lack of unity in the country. Atiku contested the 2011 PDP presidential primary against Jonathan as the consensus northern candidate and not Nigerian candidate. Such tribal platform is part of the problem.

When political elites are desperately seeking for political offices, they exploit all available tricks of disunity such as tribalism and religion to get what they want. While those who win will immediately forget the gullible masses that supported them, the losers will keep crying about ethnic and religious marginalisation to get attention. If Nigeria will ever become a united country, the political elites across board will have to take the lead. They are the major problems of the country.

You mean I should be in unity with the barbaric,bigot,intolerant,backward, paedophile,blood-thirsty born-to-rule northern Nigeria? Unity is not by force.Unity in Nigeria is only when the north is in power.Bunch of retards.

Wise words from the wrong person

Nigeria problem is not lack of unity if not dangote will not bank with zenith bank( Igbo man bank)

Yoruba's won't bank with the likes of uba,zenith, fidelity and all other Igbo bank

Igbos won't go near gtb and access bank

But look we all do this without minding who owns what cos they give us the service we want

The major problem with Nigeria is the people not partaking in the government majority don't care ...cos they don't contribute to the government from their pocket

..tax Nigerians and watch them unit and find the credible candidate no matter is tribe or age

Watch them stone politicians that do not perform to expectations based on tax they payed

That's the simple truth

mrvitalis:
Nigeria problem is not lack of unity if not dangote will not bank with zenith bank( Igbo man bank)

Yoruba's won't bank with the likes of uba,zenith, fidelity and all other Igbo bank

Igbos won't go near gtb and access bank

But look we all do this without minding who owns what cos they give us the service we want

The major problem with Nigeria is the people not partaking in the government majority don't care ...cos they don't contribute to the government from their pocket

..tax Nigerians and watch them unit and find the credible candidate no matter is tribe or age

Watch them stone politicians that do not perform to expectations based on tax they payed

That's the simple truth

mrvitalis:
Nigeria problem is not lack of unity if not dangote will not bank with zenith bank( Igbo man bank)

Yoruba's won't bank with the likes of uba,zenith, fidelity and all other Igbo bank

Igbos won't go near gtb and access bank

But look we all do this without minding who owns what cos they give us the service we want

The major problem with Nigeria is the people not partaking in the government majority don't care ...cos they don't contribute to the government from their pocket

..tax Nigerians and watch them unit and find the credible candidate no matter is tribe or age

Watch them stone politicians that do not perform to expectations based on tax they payed

That's the simple truth

So you have sense like this. Wow, I am truly amazed. Please show Sarrki where you bought your sense from. I think it would be a beneficial to him.

On a more serious note you nailed it.

nawtyme:

So you have sense like this. Wow, I am truly amazed. Please show Sarrki where you bought your sense from. I think it would be a beneficial to him.

On a more serious note you nailed it.

Lol ...I love Nigeria ..and I see great potential in her ...but my people fall over peanuts ..dragging tribes and all that

Get Biafra or oduduwa republic or arawa if u don't solve this problem same thing in nigeria will repeat

mrvitalis:


Lol ...I love Nigeria ..and I see great potential in her ...but my people fall over peanuts ..dragging tribes and all that

Get Biafra or oduduwa republic or arawa if u don't solve this problem same thing in nigeria will repeat

No one is asking you not to love Nigeria. What do you stand to gain advantage a Nigerian? For how long are we going to pretend that all is well?
Why will a tribe see themselves as superior to other tribes?
Why don't we allow competition rather than federal character?
No one is willing to do anything serious for Nigeria because Nigeria is not even serious about us. If we divide we will take our destinies in our hands and move at our own pace. Not a situation where you are trying to reason as a civilized man and another person decides to reason like a caveman and he succeeds in the cave reasoning because they have a population that reasons together with them.
You spoke well my brother, but I insist you show Sarrki where he can buy sense too.

nawtyme:

No one is asking you not to love Nigeria. What do you stand to gain advantage a Nigerian? For how long are we going to pretend that all is well?
Why will a tribe see themselves as superior to other tribes?
Why don't we allow competition rather than federal character?
No one is willing to do anything serious for Nigeria because Nigeria is not even serious about us. If we divide we will take our destinies in our hands and move at our own pace. Not a situation where you are trying to reason as a civilized man and another person decides to reason like a caveman and he succeeds in the cave reasoning because they have a population that reasons together with them.
You spoke well my brother, but I insist you show Sarrki where he can buy sense too.

Read my first post again

stephanie11:
The number one problem plaguing Nigeria is not corruption or even the absence of regular power. The number one problem militating against the progress of Nigeria is her lack of unity.If we can fix this problem, Nigeria will herself be fixed.

In The Old Testament of The Bible, which Christians accept as the Divine Scripture, God spoke about mankind in Genesis 11:6 thus: “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”

Similarly, The Holy Quran, the Divine Scripture of Muslims also states: “Do not quarrel among yourselves lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear.” -Quran 8:46.

From the above, it is clear that we can never have a Nigeria that fulfils her full potential when we have a divided Nigeria. Not only will we lose momentum as The Quran shows us, but we will also lose our possibilities as The Bible teaches us.

An objective look at history will show that without exception, all nations or regions that have expelled people from their landmass on the basis of race, religion or political affiliation have been the poorer for it, whether you are talking of the Alhambra Decree which purged Jews from Spain in 1492, or of more recent events like the purge of Asians from Uganda in 1972.

Nigerians may recall the ‘Ghana Must Go’ purge of 1983 which led to the forced departure of over a million Ghanaians from Nigeria. Nigeria lost many skilled workers and small businesses when the Ghanaians left. But they went home and developed their country and today Ghana is the top destination for Nigerians wishing to study abroad.

Because of how these immigrants helped develop and organise their country, there are over a quarter of a million Nigerians in Ghana today, and the Ghanaians have coined the phrase ‘Nigerians Are Coming’ to identify this phenomenon.We must learn from history. We do not have to repeat history. We must learn from the mistakes of other people. As Albert Einstein famously said: the definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result.

It would be insane if a nation that once sang the song of ‘Go On With One Nigeria’ should be seen to be singing a new and absurd song of ‘Go On Without Some Nigerians’.
What that would mean is that the sacrifices of the millions of men, women, and children who died in the process of keeping Nigeria one would have been a sacrifice made in vain.

This would negate the lines in our National Anthem which read:

The labour of our heroes past

Shall never be in vain

It will be an even greater shame that if after we are all united to condemn the xenophobic attacks in South Africa, we hypocritically turn around and treat our own kith and kin even worse.We have six geopolitical zones in Nigeria and I was one of those that participated in bringing this about at the 1995 Constitutional Conference. The reasoning behind this is the awareness that none of us is as great as all of us.

Our six zones each have six strengths, but our one Nigeria together has six hundred strengths.If you do not believe me, look at the Nigerian football teams that have won the Olympic Gold Medal, The Africa Cup of Nations, the team that won the maiden edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1985 and the team that qualified for our very first FIFA World Cup in 1994.

It took a combination of Nigerians from all zones to pull these feats. The struggle of Nigeria in 2017 is not a struggle between North and South, rather, it is a struggle between good and evil.It would not be possible for Nigeria to exist as one corporate entity comprising the six geopolitical zones if this were not the plan of God. If this is the plan of The Almighty, and it evidently is, then whose plan would it be to cause division in what God has united?

What did Nabi Isa (Jesus Christ say) say in Matthew 19:6?
“What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Let us think long and deep on this.

A while ago Emanuel Cleaver said there is more power in unity than in division. Some very clever people may have discovered ways in which they can divide Nigeria, but I am convinced that there are intelligent geniuses and patriots amongst our people who can discover ways to unite Nigeria and defeat their evil plans.

One of such people is Immaculata Onuigbo, a young Nigerian from Enugu, who was recruited by the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation at the very young age 10 and given a scholarship which eventually saw her emerge as the best graduating student of the American University of Nigeria, Yola with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average score in the school’s history.

People like Miss Onuigbo, are the future of Nigeria and the world. A product of pan-Nigerian collaboration. Incidentally, she was discovered in Enugu, that great metropolis that in 1956 elected a Northerner, Umaru Altine, as its first elected mayor.

It is our history encapsulated in Umaru Altine and our future in Immaculata Onuigbo that Nigeria needs. What Nigeria does not need is negative voices who are trying to uproot the shade-giving trees that people like Felix Okonkwo and Aminu Kano planted to provide cover for generations yet unborn.

One of the most inspiring stories I have read in recent times are those of Sariki Yaro Danladi, Chairman Northern Traditional Rulers Council South-east and South-south and Ichie Uche Megwalu published in The Nation of last Saturday.

Danladi, who also doubles as leader of the Hausa community in Abia State was born, bred and married in the state while Megwalu, 77-year-old Igbo leader has made Kano home for over 60 years. The stories of both men dot our landscape and bear eloquent testimony of the spirit of the Nigeria that beckons.

As I write this, I am certain that Nigeria will not be overcome by evil people, rather, the good people of Nigeria will overcome evil and Nigeria will be better for it.
http://politicsngr.com/2017/06/20/nigerias-biggest-problem-lack-regular-power-atiku/
cc: lalasticlala, mynd44

preach that to those animals in your region first.

oh o

Evryone knows lack of unity is the problem..Your northern brothers are responsible for the lack of unity.

Nigeria just tire me.... I will just go back to my village in Owerri

Check my signature please

So u know na em u dey beef obasanjo

Noted.

Please can all this politicians just stop talking and do the needful.

Divide Nigeria already. We've had a good run, we failed in every way imaginable, now it's time for a divorce. Jeez I can see why there's so many unhappy marriage in Niggeria. The level of "its a must we have to be together" is very annoying.