*I THINK EVERY NIGERIAN THAT LOVES NIGERIA OUGHT TO READ THIS WITH PATIENCE.*

Author: *Anonymous*

The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria.

The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).

When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, language, etc.

Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology.

Today, 80.5% of Indians are Hindus; 13.4% Muslims; 2.3% Christians; 1.9% Sikhs; 0.8% Buddhists, etc.

Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.”

It is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but rejected the British technology.

The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North.

Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria.

Today, the North
has only Sharia Courts but no Customary Courts.

So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern
World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.

Long after the British and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up religious branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries.

Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites.

In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria.

If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75% Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its country by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam.

In the East we have IPOB wrecking havoc.

While in the South - South region, Mend, Avengers and so on destroying the Heart of our Nations Economy.

We are indeed a very religious people.

Meanwhile, while we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, shopping malls, hospitality, etc.

Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples.

It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother, sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path.

We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport
money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever.

But if it does not change hands, nothing gets done.

And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.”

Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.

One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the
morals in our society.

But it is not so.

The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become.

Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs.

Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.

We import the petroleum that we have in abundance, rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance, and even toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort.

Yet we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets.

It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive is it!

Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot cars as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado, without any iota of shame, in a country
where about 70 per cent live below poverty.

Private jets have become as common as cars.

A nation that imports toothpicks and pins, flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education
and its sick people are running to India for treatment.

India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans
travelling to the country for medical treatment.

India has joined the nuclear powers. India has launched a successful mission to the moon.

Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.

I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.

Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166 million, while India has a population of about a billion.

Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups; India has more than 2000 ethnic groups.

Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions – Christianity and Islam; but India has many.

Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 56 years of independence; India has 65 years, while apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.

I am a Muslim, and nothing can change me from practicing Islam.

But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” is still a saying that is germane to our current situation.

We need more godliness than religion; more work and less hope; and more action and less words.

Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now.

We as a people must positively change our attitude towards our Dear country now. #copied

Op that your 'So Long a Letter'.

But to tell the truth India was amalgamated just as Nigeria. It has to shed some parts of it to ensure compatibility of the parts and that is why today, it has grown and developed at least to an extent.

So long as Nigeria remains in this forced marriage, where everyone is suspicious of his neighbour, development is elusive.

It is an African Problem We are naturally stupid

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Chai! Shit dey catch me o... Just passin>>>>>>

Everything stinks in Nigeria. We haven't had good Leaders, those who really understand the meaning of Unity, one Nigeria and the Practice of their Principles. Gowon, OBJ and IBB just scratched the surface. OBJ scratched deeper by establishing ICPC and EFCC but didn't provide rules to make them disciplined and respected through out the Federation. Religion is largely a private affairs and should be used only as consulting platform to move the country forward. Corruption, Greed ignorance and Selfishness are the roots of our problems. Find Solutions to these,
and there will be no more tribalism, ethnicism, religious indifference and intolerance. All Federal and State Universities established during GEJ Era must be allowed to stay and function properly on a civilized basis and not by Bokoharam style. U.S. develops on their English foundation and graduated successfully into the Presidential System. NIGERIA can and should do better than the U.S. if we cut off our greed, Corruption and Selfishness. The Bible you quoted from Chronicle has improved to John 16:24 since we know CHRIST. And so it should be for Nigeria if Nigerians know The Law and The Lord.

EyeHateGod:
It is an African Problem We are naturally stupid

My dear. I agree with you oo. Something has to be wrong with Africa oo.

I did a Thesis on Philosophy of Race. I stumbled on an Article "The Table of Nations". After reading through it, i felt like crying.

The theory sefmented the entire human race into three, drawing a table according to the Sons of Noah who survived the flood, and putting the nations under it.

The Shemites being the first son, are the Jews and Arabs and those in their environs they gave the world the three foremost religions, but were not able to take it across the world.

The Hamites, are Africans. The black races. These are the most gifted in terms of natural and even human resourses. All of the world's INVENTIONS BEGAN WITH THEM (and he ran down all the inventions and periods in history to proof he knew what he was saying) .

They gave the world Science and Techonology, but couldnt harness and develope it to what it is today (He was cursed by his father). No matter how blessed, he can't rise above the curse.


The Japhites are the Caucasians. They have only the MIND. Nothing else. Intellect. They think, reason, philosophies, and recreates what others have worked on before.

They have never discovered or invented anything new on their own, they only take from what 'especially the Hamites' have discovered and worked on it, Improved on it, embelish it and preaent it in a flaboyant way thereby taking creadit.

Without the Japhites, the three Religions will be locked up in the Middle East.

Without them, Science and Technology will be locked in the minds of the Hamites. They have the ideas, but can't thrive on their own, but when remove from the Hamitic environment and placed in a Japhite environment, a Hamite thrive far better than the Japhite.

So also with the Semite, while in their enviroment, all they talk about is their religions, but when placed in the Japhite environment, they out smart the Japhites.

Well. We may dimiss this man's theory as Conspiratory, but i see alot of sesne in it.

Besides, he is Caucasian, yet wasn't biased to keep the world's inventions to the supposed Japhites which happens to be his race.

So, my submissio is this; I see a hand behind the scene working to bring to pass what has been prophsied. I think Ham's curse is still working agaiant his descendants.

That is why i pity atheists who fight God.

orunto27:
Everything stinks in Nigeria. We haven't had good Leaders, those who really understand the meaning of Unity, one Nigeria and the Practice of their Principles. Gowon, OBJ and IBB just scratched the surface. OBJ scratched deeper by establishing ICPC and EFCC but didn't provide rules to make them disciplined and respected through out the Federation. Religion is largely a private affairs and should be used only as consulting platform to move the country forward. Corruption, Greed ignorance and Selfishness are the roots of our problems. Find Solutions to these,
and there will be no more tribalism, ethnicism, religious indifference and intolerance. All Federal and State Universities established during GEJ Era must be allowed to stay and function properly on a civilized basis and not by Bokoharam style. U.S. develops on their English foundation and graduated successfully into the Presidential System. NIGERIA can and should do better than the U.S. if we cut off our greed, Corruption and Selfishness. The Bible you quoted from Chronicle has improved to John 16:24 since we know CHRIST. And so it should be for Nigeria if Nigerians know The Law and The Lord.

All you have said sums up to "Checks and balances".

Everything seems to fail because theres no platdorm for accountablility by everone.
Defaulters account for their misdemeanors, no secrete cows. without this, we are just blowing steam.

Anas09:

My dear. I agree with you oo. Something has to be wrong with Africa oo.

I did a Thesis on Philosophy of Race. I stumbled on an Article "The Table of Nations". After reading through it, i felt like crying.

The theory sefmented the entire human race into three, drawing a table according to the Sons of Noah who survived the flood, and putting the nations under it.

The Shemites being the first son, are the Jews and Arabs and those in their environs they gave the world the three foremost religions, but were not able to take it across the world.

The Hamites, are Africans. The black races. These are the most gifted in terms of natural and even human resourses. All of the world's INVENTIONS BEGAN WITH THEM (and he ran down all the inventions and periods in history to proof he knew what he was saying) .

They gave the world Science and Techonology, but couldnt harness and develope it to what it is today (He was cursed by his father). No matter how blessed, he can't rise above the curse.


The Japhites are the Caucasians. They have only the MIND. Nothing else. Intellect. They think, reason, philosophies, and recreates what others have worked on before.

They have never discovered or invented anything new on their own, they only take from what 'especially the Hamites' have discovered and worked on it, Improved on it, embelish it and preaent it in a flaboyant way thereby taking creadit.

Without the Japhites, the three Religions will be locked up in the Middle East.

Without them, Science and Technology will be locked in the minds of the Hamites. They have the ideas, but can't thrive on their own, but when remove from the Hamitic environment and placed in a Japhite environment, a Hamite thrive far better than the Japhite.

So also with the Semite, while in their enviroment, all they talk about is their religions, but when placed in the Japhite environment, they out smart the Japhites.

Well. We may dimiss this man's theory as Conspiratory, but i see alot of sesne in it.

Besides, he is Caucasian, yet wasn't biased to keep the world's inventions to the supposed Japhites which happens to be his race.

So, my submissio is this; I see a hand behind the scene working to bring to pass what has been prophsied. I think Ham's curse is still working agaiant his descendants.

That is why i pity atheists who fight God.

Where do we start from?

hopefulLandlord:
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space booker

orunto27:
Everything stinks in Nigeria. We haven't had good Leaders, those who really understand the meaning of Unity, one Nigeria and the Practice of their Principles. Gowon, OBJ and IBB just scratched the surface. OBJ scratched deeper by establishing ICPC and EFCC but didn't provide rules to make them disciplined and respected through out the Federation. Religion is largely a private affairs and should be used only as consulting platform to move the country forward. Corruption, Greed ignorance and Selfishness are the roots of our problems. Find Solutions to these,
and there will be no more tribalism, ethnicism, religious indifference and intolerance. All Federal and State Universities established during GEJ Era must be allowed to stay and function properly on a civilized basis and not by Bokoharam style. U.S. develops on their English foundation and graduated successfully into the Presidential System. NIGERIA can and should do better than the U.S. if we cut off our greed, Corruption and Selfishness. The Bible you quoted from Chronicle has improved to John 16:24 since we know CHRIST. And so it should be for Nigeria if Nigerians know The Law and The Lord.

What's the way forward, I'm tired of blaming the leaders

Anas09:


That is why i pity atheists who fight God.

This Anas babe u funny die!

Years upon years we voted in New leaders, In few years we'll have another election and you'll see youths who are ready to die for this politicians all in the name of token or stupid appointments, surely you won't even see their wards in front line, they'll either be overseas or under-roof watching films while some people waste away their precious lifes. Does this means we are the cause of our ordeals?

EyeHateGod:

This Anas babe u funny die!

I wont be funny for long. Trust me on this.

gaffig:
Where do we start from?

Me sef tire.

Clearly, this article is not directed to discuss any religion, and it's not expected to breed any hatred. Way forward!!
Abeg person wey Sabi mods, invoke them make e reach front page

Clearly, this article is not directed to discuss any religion , and it's not expected to breed any hatred. Way forward!!
Abeg person wey Sabi mods, invoke them make e reach front page.