md4real:

this piece is from a friend's note on facebook.


[b]As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………  

I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.

So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.

I produce rice, but don’t eat it. I have millions of cows but no milk.

I am 50, please celebrate me.





I drive the best cars in the world but have no roads,

so I crush my best brains in the caverns,

craters and crevasses they crash into daily.

I am in unending mourning,

please celebrate me.





My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof.

I take lectures through windows and live with 15 others in one room.

All my professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas.

I am a university graduate, but I am illiterate. I want a future,

please celebrate me.





Preventable diseases send me to hospitals without doctors, medicines or power.

All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also.

I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world;

and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless,

please celebrate me.





For democracy’s sake I stood all day on Election Day.

But before I could ink my thumb, results had been broadcast.

When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets.

My leaders are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors.

I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy.

I have no verve, no vote, no voice,

please celebrate me.





My youth have no past, present nor future.

So my sons in the North have become street urchins;

and his brothers in the South have become kidnappers.

My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the Mediterranean.

My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt;

while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam .

I am grief-stricken,

please celebrate me.





Pen-wielding bandits have raided everything in my vaults.

They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes

They have looted the future of generations unborn;

and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes,

but their brothers die of starvation. I want a kit of kindness,

please celebrate me.





I can produce anything, but import everything.

So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa;

my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland;

my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy;

my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia*** my biscuit is made in Indonesia;

my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France.

My taste is far-flung and foreign,

please celebrate me.

*** To think that Malaysia came to NIFOR in Edo State in the 70's to acquire the Palm Oil Technology

My land is dead because all the trees have been cut down;

flooding kills thousands yearly because the drainages are clogged;

my fishes are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers;

my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done.

My very existence is uncertain and I am in the deepest depths of despondence,

please celebrate me.





I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.

So I spend billions of dollars to import fake leather.

I have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel,

so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country,

but send troops to keep peace in another man’s land.

I have hundreds of dams, but no water.

So I drink ‘pure’ water that roils my innards.

I need a vision,

please celebrate me.





I have a million candidates craving to enter universities,

but my dungeons can only accommodate a tenth.

I have no power, but choose to flare gas,

so my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of unclothed flares.

I am shrouded by darkness,

please celebrate me.





For my golden jubilee,

I shall spend 16 billion naira to bash around the bonfires of the banal.

So what if the majority gaze at my possessed, frenzied dance;

drenched in silent tears, as probity is enslaved in democracy’s empty cellars?

I am profligacy personified,

please celebrate me.





Why can I not simply reflect and ponder?

Does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?

Does my location limit the lengths my liberty?

Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul

Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?

And is failure worth celebrating?

I AM NIGERIAN, PLEASE CELEBRATE ME[/b]

Dear, do we need any more celebration than this?
kudos @md4real

emmydee:

me too. I just found myself in this country.
God must have special interest in this country for Him to have placed me here.

Congrats Naija @50!

@emmydee, you are not alone.
This country is truely God's own to have souls like ours.
What we need do is to show case the special talent God has reasons for dropping us in this f**king land

ogogo24:

God almighty I beg 4 your protection over me and my family. I think I need a transfer out of this goddam city.

YOU ARE PROTECTED.

fellas, that driver, deserve to be given a hero's hand shake.

oludashmi:

Alright, take care but that is a bad habit, try read everything readable, it is good for the mind.

And what has become of that city?
Lack of development and all.
Imagine a city yiu go to bed as early as 8pm, that is if you survive the day.
A city you live in perpetual fear.
Boy, there is no nightmare like Enyimba city.

What an achievement?

Can you please do same in this country of ours?

I wouldn't blame you if you don't, what with the spate of kidnapping especially in the eastern states where you come from.

Thump up for you my dear.

Ranoscky:

Even when i'm so fukkin tired of readin, and i come across names like, Gbawe, Orangeman etc (and some that i'v forgotten), It's a must that i will read their post b'cos, seein their names only, puts smiles on my face, not to talk of readin their post.

Orangeman, interestin contribution!

There aint nothing more to say boy.

Theblessed:

[size=18pt]And I ask again, what if they were having sex and the guy or the lady are on 'Pills' and doing it every day even the night before the wedding?  Magic, eh? What would the Pastor say or do then I want an answer!

Our God is a fair and just God - how come women are condemned for not being virgins on their wedding night and men who deflowered them and commit the same sin, skate free? I want to know how this is fair and just with the church? Is that how God meant it? No, he is a FAIR AND JUST GOD, period!

Therefore, I suggest the church should go and review their doctrines in the light of the realities of modern time. That's my take![/size]

Boy, that is a one million dollar question that these so called men of God should answer.
These are same men that rush their daughter to clinics for abortion when they discover they are pregnant, yet they come to stop legitimately married couple.

Once the Traditional rite has been completed, no power on earth should put asunder.

I give kudos to the church that agreed to wed these couple.

If you look deeply, it might be the Catholic church.
This is the only organization I know do not encourage abortion.

EFFRAKATA:

David Mark's statement is simply a Survival strategy.
He would have said same if, IBB were in a better position!
Ko blame ye sha.
Jelously guide your position with everything you can!
After all Its only in Nigeria where u see members of a plitical party without a clear-cut idealogy.
Is either they are in PDP 2day, 2morrow ANPP and so on.
God bless Nigeria!

@EFFRAKATA, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
POLITICS IN NIGERIA IS A DO OR DIE AFFAIR.

HOW ABOUT A HONORABLE MEMBER IN THE CROSS RIVER STATE OF ASSEMBLY WHO HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THIS NEW DEMOCRATIC ERA. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT HE WAS SO ARROGANT AS TO TELL THE ELECTORATE THAT HE WILL ONLY VACATE THE SEAT WHEN HIS SON IS DUE TO TAKE OVER FROM HIM?

SEEING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED HIM ARE NO LONGER IMPRESSED WITH HIM, HE DECIDED TO RUN FOR SENATE.
NOW TELL ME, WHAT DO YOU SAY OF SUCH MAN?

@UD4U, YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT GOOD LUCK BEING THE ONLY CREDIBLE CANDIDATEFOR NOW. I WAS HOPING NIGERIANS WILL NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE GREATEST EVIL GENUISE, YOU KNOW WHO I AM REFERRING TO?[color=#006600][/color]

David Mark, why would you not support him? Is there any man that would want to throw away food set on his table?
My brother I will do same in your place. Thank God you did not decide to run as well.

DONT BLAME YOU JARE

zebra543:

^^ it is, but people will still remember who is getting married. i will be proud to have gawjus gals at my wedding! So they all get hooked up and i have more weddings to attend!