I have decided to create this as a new topic, I realise some people have hijacked the earlier post aimed at generating awareness of the upcoming SNG rally in Abuja. However, we will not be detered by spineless, lily livered folks who only have the capacity to talk yet cannot show their face and stand up to be counted when the time comes for sincere actions to be taken.
Pls lets all come together and save this nation from the impending disaster, so that your children and children's children will have a place to call home!, GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

(ON)GOING CONCERNS: Young people power by Tolu Ogunlesi

Where two or three young people are gathered, there is bound to be incurable enthusiasm, or frustration, if those young people happen to be Nigerian. How much worse can it get, with a President who has celebrated 100 days out of office while still in office; state governors who strut the land as co-presidents, drunk on a power no one has entrusted to them; local government chairmen who are delighted to bleed the land dry while lurking in the shadows of bigger politicians; and young people for whom searching for a job is a fulltime job; for whom a Masters is no longer an avenue for deeper knowledge but an opportunity to buy another year or two from the paralysing frustrations of joblessness.

We watch, helpless, as masses of youngsters - who should be holed up in the laboratories and research institutes, creating the wonder drugs and environment-friendly cars of tomorrow - now see a future only in the seven-and-half minutes of fame that a reality TV show will bring. If you ever thought the Bible owned the copyright to the Book of Lamentations, then you haven’t seen the one being written by young Nigerians.

This sorry state of our country has left an interesting side effect. It has turned us all into comedians, people for whom no lemon is too unripe to be turned into lemonade, for whom absurdity is an instant ‘open-sesame’ for verbal ingenuity. We have made jokes about everything; composed ballads for President Yardie, turned “Turai” and “Mutallab” into verbs; and wondered why, after having a president who suffered kidney failure, we now have an acting president afflicted by “liver failure.”

Increasingly, however, we are realising that it is time to move on, to go beyond Concern, and Comedy, and make our way into the uncharted territories of Commitment. It is dawning on us that it is not enough to be Angry Young Men and Women, trapped in the online factories of Twitter and Facebook assembling jokes and status updates from our ever-increasing frustrations.

This realisation is what thus explains the emergence of movements like LIGHTUPNIGERIA, WHEREISYARADUA, and the latest, ENOUGHISENOUGH.

LIGHTUPNIGERIA was founded in 2009 as a mass movement of young Nigerians tired of living like cavemen in the 21st century, forced to organise their most important activities around the natural cycle of day and night, because of a near-total collapse of electricity infrastructure. The movement has organised town hall meetings, and created tremendous awareness and following on Facebook, Twitter and in real life.

WHEREISYARADUA is an online platform created to keep the noise level high regarding the troubling search for the most high-profile missing person in the history of this country.

And then ENOUGHISENOUGH, a coalition of individuals, organisations, and collectives, intended to be the most ambitious of youth initiatives aiming to effect peaceful transformation in Nigeria. ENOUGHISENOUGH is a double-edged sword; it is a message both to us (that it is time to leave the comfort of our computer and mobile phone keyboards, and seek to exert authority in the real world) and to the powers-that-be (that enough is enough of taking Nigeria and Nigerians for granted).

Over the weekend I was at a gathering of two dozen young Nigerians, cutting across ethnic and religious lines - and I daresay, premiership club preference. We were meeting to fine-tune strategies for the first ENOUGHISENOUGH project: a march of young Nigerians to the premises of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday the 16th of March 2010. The march is intended as a symbolic kick-off to a series of bold initiatives to seize the destiny of Nigeria from the hands of elected and selected saboteurs in high places.

As we debated and raised our voices, I couldn’t help thinking that many of the most significant players in Nigeria’s history were no older than us when they decided to intervene in the affairs of the country (think Nzeogwu, think Gowon). The difference was that they were all clad in military uniforms, and they spoke only one language: the one that issues from the ‘mouth’ of a gun.

We are different. Most of us have only ever seen guns in the hands of armed robbers and armed policemen. Our weapon is anger, enlivened by a sense of history, and of destiny, and tempered by reason. And, very importantly, we are determined not to make the mistakes that those who went before us made, revolutionaries who ended up creating systems in dire need of revolution.

We need all the support we can get. So, if you are young, or young at heart, and think it is time to say ENOUGHISENOUGH, to electoral malpractice, to power failure, to fuel scarcity, to the cabals in high places, and to whatever else you may think of, let’s start in Abuja on Tuesday March 16, 2010. Aluta continua, Victoria ascerta, “Enougha Enougha”!

i am with you brother, if all of can rise up once and say enough is enough am sure this people will think twice, it is because we re not saying anything that is why they are doing all the thing they are doing