"THE INEVITABILITY OF A SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN NIGERIA"

The formation of Nigerian nation in 1914 by the British colonial government lacked the most important political element in any true or genuine nation building. This missing element is known politically as the national referendum, national constitutional conference or sovereign national conference. All the ethnic and the religious groups that formed this new nation that was named as Nigeria despite the fact that they were politically, historically, economically, religiously and socially autonomous and independent for centuries from one another were never allowed by the British colonial authority to have any political inputs and to decide their agreed upon new terms of engagements in the new Nigerian political project that started almost 100 years ago. 

The defect in the political structure under which Nigeria was founded in 1914 by the British colonial masters has been the main culprit that has troubled Nigeria since its inception to date. This missing political element that is the foundation for any meaningful nation building must be revisited again and peacefully in this 21st century human universe by the 160 million Nigerians that represent all the  ethnic nationalities and the many religious groups that make up Nigeria today, if this nation that is known as Nigeria in 2013 would ever have any meaningful future in our lifetime. 

This political conference is inevitable in the nearest future in Nigeria based on the present realities and the state of things on the ground in Nigeria today. Nigeria continues to show more and more signs as well as the main symptoms of a failing state year in and year out. If following events that are listed below in this write-up are left unabated in Nigeria, but are allowed to continue to magnify and to enlarge unchecked, then they will surely lead Nigeria to a total failure or a final collapse of that nation.

The following are the events that will force the hands of Nigerians to hold this inevitable national sovereign conference in Nigeria:(i) Declining oil reserves coupled with the uncontrollable population explosion. (ii) Unabated rise in poverty amongst ordinary Nigerians. Poverty rate has increased from 20% in the 1980s to over 80% today. (iii) The massive official culture of corruption that is coupled with huge mismanagement of the Nigeria's resources by her leaders in which these resources do not benefit the ordinary Nigerians. (iv) The rising unemployment rate amongst our youths that is now at 23% without any hope for a better future. 

(v) The national infrastructures, social services, educational systems and the health care facilities that are now inadequate, over stressed, outdated and collapsing. (vi) The inability of the federal government of Nigeria to guarantee the safety of life and the properties of all Nigerian citizens or  residents as well as the many unsolvable cases of political killings, kidnappings for ransons, hostage takings, ritual killings, paid or hired killings, public lynchings of petty thieves and armed robberies that the Nigeria's security apparatus cannot addressed or solved. 

(vii) The continuous terrorism and the genocidal actions of the Boko Haram in the Northern Nigeria against the Northern Nigerian Christian minority groups as well as the regular sectarian violences (ethnic lynchings) amongst the different ethnic nationalities in Northern Nigeria. (viii) The militant groups that are fighting for the autonomy and for the resource control in the Niger-Delta region. (ix) The various ethnic political pressure groups, such as the Odu'a group, The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and many other tribal groups that are all fighting for their own self autonomous or determination on behalf of their various ethnic nationalities. 

These things that I listed above that are now happening in Nigeria today have forced many other nations in the past to hold a forced sovereign national conference to resolve their internal crises. These conferences at the end of the day either succeeded in addressing those crises via the new constitutions or the new political terms of engagements for better nations or they led those nations to their final break ups into many smaller nations. Nigeria as a nation today and with her current deep domestic crises cannot defile these historical trends in her nearest future in my own personal judgement. As Nigeria continues to face this bleak and unpredictable future, time alone will surely tell her future.  

"THE QUESTIONABLE NIGERIAN CITIZENSHIP FROM 1914 TO DATE"

Nigeria's citizenship has never been given or accorded its true worth and real value in all reality in the 99th year of the existence of the Nigerian nation, either as a British colony from 1914 to 1960 and later as a sovereign or an independent state from 1960 to date. The Nigerian citizenship was never officially recognized at the amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern protectorates together in 1914 to become one single political entity or union that was named as Nigeria by the then British colonial authority led by Governor General Lord Lugard.

The union of all the ethnic nationalities, the many religious faiths and the diverse cultural groups in the amalgamation of 1914 was built on the colonial political ideology or policies of divide and rule. This political agenda of the British Empire directly encouraged and actively promoted ethnic loyalty, regional identity, religious affiliation and cultural zealousness above the true spirit of patriotism and nationalism from the new Nigerians toward their new colonial nation that was created by Britain in 1914. The British refused from the onset to give this new colony a single and a uniform national constitution as the supreme law of that new colony. The two former protectorates of the North and the South respectively were made to be political autonomous and had two different constitutions that ran side by side in one colony. As time went by, the British went further and divided colonial Nigeria into more politically autonomous regions of the North, West and East. The politics in the colonial Nigeria and the entire economy were regionalized and were built around ethnicity and regional lines. These political and economic precedences continued into October 1, 1960 when Nigeria officially became an independent nation from the British rule that lasted for 46 years.

The leadership that fought for the Nigerian independence from the British built their politics and political parties along their different ethnic, religious, cultural and regional divisions. Nigeria became an independent nation on October 1, 1960, but was already heavily divided and polarized along regional and religious loyalties or identities. Nigerian leadership in the last 52 years of Nigerian independence have also refused to address the issues of regional and religious divisions that have underrated the true worthy of the Nigerian citizenship despite all the different constitution conferences held to date and the various constitutions that Nigeria as a nation has used from1960 to 2013. 

The post independent Nigerian leaders and governments have all directly continued to expand and to promote the worthless Nigerian citizenship through their adopted national policies of the Federal Character and the Quota System that are used to date to primarily govern how Nigeria is administered or run for the last 52 years at the federal level of government. The Nigeria’s federal civil service and all the federal political appointments from 1960 to date were all based on ethnicities, religious identities, regionalism or geopolitical zones which have all continued to put ethnicity, religious and regional identities of Nigerians above their Nigerian citizenship.

Most of the Nigerians that are either dead or alive in the last 52 years who climbed the ladder to the top of their careers at the federal level (federal civil service and federal political appointments) did it primarily on the backs of their own ethnic nationalities, religious identities and regionalism and never through their track records, academic achievements, high degrees of professionalism and merit .The national pride in the Nigerian citizenship from all Nigerians from all walks of life will never see the light of the day in our lifetime in this 21^st human universe until the game of merit or meritocracy and equal treatment of all Nigerians become the adopted national order of the day for doing business in Nigeria at all levels.

"SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS THE MOST REALISTIC POLITICAL ANSWER FOR NIGERIA"

THE SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS THE MOST REALISTIC APPROACH AND THE MOST REASONABLE ANSWER TO THE NIGERIA'S HUGE CRISES  AS A FAILING STATE AT 52:The formation of Nigerian nation in 1914 lacked the most important political input that is known as the "national referendum" from all the ethnic and religious groups on their terms of engagements in that Nigerian union or project. This faulty political structure under which Nigeria was founded in1914 by the British colonial masters must be revisited again in this 21st century by the 160 million Nigerians that represent the 450 ethnic nationalities and the many religious groups that make up Nigeria today, if this nation that is known as Nigeria in 2012 would ever have a meaningful future in our lifetime. 

No ethnically, culturally, historically, socially and religiously diverse nation under the sun works effectively and then becomes great in all reality in the entire human universe without having a very sound constitutional framework upon which that nation is built and run. Many Nigerians in their own myopic thinking believe that Nigeria is a sacred, a holy and a divine creation of God that can never fail as a nation no matter what we face, and she will always defile every important phase and historical precedence of the human history that many other similar nations that have failed, collapsed, disintegrated and vanished from the surface of the earth in the last 6,000 years of recorded human history passed through.

"PRIVATE JET OWNERSHIP IN THE MIDST OF ABJECT POVERTY IN NIGERIA"

The two Wright brothers in Dayton, Ohio in the United States of America who gave the human race the airplane or the aircraft technology that changed the entire world of air transportation forever will be having mad fun in their graves today if they learn about how the Nigerian questionable government cronies or contractors (businessmen) and their heavily corrupt public elected officials are so crazy today with the new socioeconomic status of private jet ownership in Nigeria today when over 80% of the Nigeria's citizens live daily in abject poverty of $1 to $2 a day living budget. The national unemployment rate is over 47%, millions earn poverty wages, the hospitals are all at the stone age level, our roads are one of the world's death traps in the world today and the national infrastructures are old, over stressed and inadequate. The government cannot provide constant electricity, regular social services, national security and the 21st century international education for her citizens.

The top 1% of the richest Americans or those 425,000 individuals or families can comfortably own their own private jets if they want today, but 99% of them still fly the commercial airlines around the world. The tens of thousands of the CEOs of the major American companies can use their companies' funds to buy their own private jets, but majority of them still fly in commercial airlines for their business transactions around the globe. All the 50 state governors in America can buy their own private jets, but they fly public airlines with ordinary Americans on their state functions.

At every minute, over 4,500 planes are in the air space of the United States 24/7 with thousands of airports and airfields that are all fully modernized and functioning properly unlike the deplorable states of all the Nigeria's airports today. The United States has the largest private jet ownership in the world today, 40% of the world's billionaires according to Forbes magazine as well as the largest GDP of over $16 trillion economy. This is followed by China in the second place with a GDP of $7.3 trillion and Nigeria with a questionable "developing nation status" or the "giant of Africa status" is in the third place in the world for private jet ownership with a GDP of $235 billion or 1.25% of the entire America's GDP, but has half of the America's human population. Is this what true national development is in Nigeria today in 2012 in all truth, honesty and reality? Only time will surely tell.

NIGERIA'S ROADS TODAY ARE SIMPLY THE DEATH TRAPS

"NIGERIA'S ROADS ARE ONE OF THE WORST IN THE WORLD IN 2012. Nigeria has the second highest road accidents and fatalities among the 193 countries of the world today based on the available road accident data in the entire human universe in 2012. Nigeria records about 162 preventable or unnecessary deaths for every 100,000 Nigerian citizens that are alive today or 1 million deaths per year according to Onyebuchi Chukwu, the current Health Minister of Nigeria.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the official agency of the Nigerian government that is mandated for making Nigeria's roads safe for motorists and other users, minimizing road accidents, educating motorists and members of the public reported on its website that:(i) Road crashes kill more Nigerians yearly than the HIV/AIDS that affect about 4 million Nigerians today. (ii) Deaths and physical injuries occur daily on Nigeria's roads. (iii) Every Nigerian has someone that they know or related to who has been killed or injured in a crash. (iv) Road accidents can be minimized, reduced and prevented.

Nigeria has made between $600 to $700 billion as her state revenues from her oil sales since the late 1960s without investing any substantial part of this oil income into the development and the modernizing the Nigeria's national road networks. The significant portion of this oil wealth has been stolen and siphoned by the past and present Nigeria's leaders to their own foreign bank accounts in the western nations, the Middle East and the Carribbeans or had been mismanaged or misused.

Nigeria's roads are plagued today with thousands of road accidents that lead to the enormous loss of human life and properties every year as well as putting more stress on our already inadequate and outdated health care systems. Most of the roads in Nigeria do not have the standard road mappings, speed limits, traffic signs and street lights. Most of the automobiles on the Nigeria's roads are not road worthy and most of the drivers that drive have either no valid driving licenses or very dangerous driving habits.

More road accidents, deaths and physical injuries will continue to be the order of the day in Nigeria for a long time as long as our roads are not modernized to the international standards by our corrupt leaders and officials. These trends will continue as long as there are no proper legal standards that all automobiles must meet before they can ply our roads and lastly until our drivers are well trained to improve their driving habits with highly regulated requirements for obtaining driving licenses to drive.

"NIGERIA'S LEADERS HIDE THEIR DIRTY DEEDS UNDER QUESTIONABLE IMMUNITY"

The 160 million Nigerian citizens and residents that live in Nigeria today are all directly under the authority or the control of the two major types of leaderships that exist in that country. The first authority is the secular or governmental and the second type of authority is from the  religious leaders of the religions that most Nigerians belong to and practice as a tradition or a way of life.

The various actions and the decisions of these two different types of leaderships affect almost every area of the life of a typical or an ordinary Nigerian today. Tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerian citizens are suffering today primarily because of the official culture of corruption, the huge mismanagement of the Nigeria's state resources,  the reign of lawlessness as well as the rule of brutalities that the successive and the current Nigeria's leaders have adopted since 1960 to date as their own standard ways they govern or run Nigeria.

In the world of religions, these men of God that are also known as pastors, bishops, presidents or the general overseers of the various Church denominations have put their followers or disciples under permanent bondage to religious bigotry, fanatism, intolerance and bigotry. The words and the directives of these Church leaders weigh more to their followers than the teachings of the Bible or the words of Jesus Christ. In the religion of Islam, their Imans or the Koranic teachers control the entire life of their followers with their own religious orders or fatwas which are final and supreme in the life of a typical Muslim.

A true or a good leadership over fellow human beings whether in the secular or in the religious worlds call for public accountability, transparency, honesty, sincerity, truthfulness and service delivery from these leaders to their followers. But in Nigeria, this is not the standard norm or practice because the leadership of these two different worlds are lords to themselves and they are never answerable nor accountable to their followers.

In order to prevent any accountability, public scrutiny, opposition, rebellion and public outcry from taking place, these leaders have hidden their dirty and questionable deeds under the cover of immunity. The secular leaders have the constitutional immunity that protects them from any prosecution for any atrocities they commit or committed in the government. The Church leaders use the 1 Chronicles 16:22 which reads "Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm" wrongly as their own biblical or spiritual immunity from prosecutions. The Koranic teachers and Imans also hide themselves from any prosecutions through a similar path and pattern in the Koran.

"BOKO HARAM WAS NOT BORN BY POLITICAL ACCIDENT OR OVERNIGHT IN NIGERIA"

THE ORIGIN OF TODAY'S RELIGION VIOLENCE AND RIOTS IN THE NORTHERN NIGERIA:Nigerians can easily forget their own history. Without the past, there will be no now or tomorrow in all reality. Knowledge in the human universe is always advancing with time. Boko Haram was not born suddenly, accidentally or overnight in the Northern Nigeria. Boko Haram is a direct product of the many successive religious riots and violences in the Northern Nigeria since the early 1980s. The only new thing today about the whole operations of the Boko Haram is its political ambition, sophistication and modernisation. Today, Boko Haram uses international terrorist networks, IEDs, grenades, heavy weaponry, propaganda machinery, social networking sites and the local and international media to function in line with the information technology age of our 21st century human universe.

Religious bigotry, fanatism, ignorance and intolerance have polarized and divided this nation especially in the Northern Nigeria from 1980 to date along religious lines. It all started in Kano city in 1980 under the administration of the then Alhaji Shehu Shagari who was our president at that time and the late Abubakar Rimi who was the Kano State governor in the same period. In December 1980, a radical Islamic preacher by the name of Mohammed Marwa Maitatsine led riots in Kano. He was killed by the federal security forces, but his followers were never fully arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of our laws. These surviving remnants later started many uprisings in the other northern cities of Nigeria throughout the 1980s, 1990s and into the new millenium.

On the record today, tens of thousands of innocent and ordinary Nigerians from both sides of the nation's two biggest religions (Christianity and Islam) have been murdered and billions of Naira worth of properties burned down without any serious official persecutions of these murderers, religious bigots, criminals and arsonists by the successive Nigerian governments of Ibrahim Babangida, Sanni Abacha, Shonekan, Abubakar Abdulsalam, Obasanjo, Yar'Adua and currently Jonathan Goodluck for the last 30 years to date.

Can Nigeria survive as a nation of hero worshippers of religious leaders, religious fanatism and bigotry? Time marches forward in Nigeria despite all these odds in that diverse nation of ethnic nationalities and religion bigotry, ignorance or fanatism. Time, posterity and the accounts of history will surely tell us one day in the nearest future what the various outcomes will be.

"THE TWO GREATEST FORCES THAT WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA"

Nigeria faces a very bleak future without her oil revenue that comes in on the daily basis into the federal government coffers. About 90% of the Nigeria's foreign exchange earning is from this oil. The nation's entire financial life, security and her whole future are all solidly and primarily built on oil since the 1960s when oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria in the Niger Delta region. 

For the last 45 years, Nigeria has made more than $600 billion from the oil sales only as revenue. More than $300-$400 billion of this oil revenue are/were reported to have been siphoned overseas by the past and the present Nigeria's leaders and her top government officials. Today in 2013 in Nigeria, there is nothing physically present on the ground in Nigeria to truly justify these enormous oil wealth and revenue in all reality, truth and honesty.

Today, about 80% of all Nigerians are living in abject poverty and surviving on $1-$2 a day living budget or expenses. The unemployment rate has reached over 23% amongst the youths and leaving behind millions of young college-educated Nigerians without any possibility or hope for any future employment opportunities or any hope for a better future.

Furthermore, tens of millions of ordinary Nigerian workers in both the private and the government sectors of the Nigeria's workforce earn poverty wages that will never allow these workers to practically meet all their basic human needs in this life. Nigeria's present national infrastructures, education systems, health care facilities and her social services are all very old, over stressed, outdated, inadequate and collapsing.

The national population of Nigeria stands at around 160 million citizens and residents in 2012. This rapid population growth is expected to hit about 400 million persons by the year 2050 when the global oil experts expected the Nigeria's present oil reserves that currently stand at 38 billion barrels to be completely depleted at the current rate of exploration that stands at 2.5 million barrels of oil a day or 1 billion barrels of oil a year.

The oil in Nigeria today has never benefited the ordinary Nigerians, but only the nation's top elites (serving and retired military generals, serving and retired security chiefs, politicians, public elected officials, their families and cronies, as well as the retired and the serving top government officials). This Nigeria's oil revenue for decades was both stolen or mismanaged by the successive and present leaders. 

In conclusion:Can Nigeria survive her future without this oil revenue that comes in on daily basis and in the midst of her current uncontrollable population growth and explosion? Time is fast running out against Nigerian nation that has refused through her corrupt and mediocre leadership for the last 50 years to manage properly and to invest this oil wealth wisely for the betterment of all Nigerians and for the future of the Nigerians yet unborn. Are Nigeria's present leaders aware of these two unavoidable major events of the future as they are presently very busy stealing or mismanaging the leftovers from the oil revenue? Once beaten, twice shy. Time will surely tell.

"OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY IS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL CHANGE AGENT IN AMERICA TODAY"

THE PRESDENCY OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL REALITY IN AMERICA TODAY. The historical presidency of Barack Hussein Obama has changed the presidential politics in America forever with the use of the internet technology, small donors and grass root campaign mobilization to raise money, register new and young voters for election as well as mobilizing them to the polls on the election day to vote. President Barack Obama won states like Virginia in 2008 and won it again in 2012. Virginia last voted for democrat presidential candidate in 1967. He won also in Ohio in 2008 and 2012. The state of Ohio last voted for a democrat presidential candidate in 1976. President Barack Obama also won in all the states that he won in 2008 except a slight lost for him in North Carolina. President Obama has made   states that were traditionally safe for the GOP into competitive presidential battleground states.

The GOP has finally moved fully in 2012 to the extreme right of the political divide and the GOP of today remains totally at the mercy, domination and control of the radical ideologues of the Tea Party, the religious rights groups and the birther movement. If these political trends continue unabated into the next decade, then the GOP will diminish rapidly from her present political status as a second major national political party in America into a regional party, a southern party and a white-only party that will not be able to win the White House again or the US Congress in our lifetime.

Every month in America, 60,000 new Latino-Americans turn into the voting age of 18. About 3-4 million new Latino voters will be registered to vote now in America in every presidential election circle henceforth. The three southern states of Texas, Georgia and Arizona that are the traditional GOP states for decades are rapidly changing with the Latino-Americans population growths in those states. This is one of the main political reasons why the GOP may become a regional, white-only and a southern party beginning from the next presidential election of 2016 if this party does not accomodate the America's minorities into its folds, but continues to be dominated, controlled and directed presently by the Tea Party radical elements, religious rights groups, the birther movement plus their anti-diversity policies or ideologies that are all politically outdated today in this 21st century America.

DO AMERICANS AND GOP LEARN ANY LESSONS FROM OBAMA'S REELECTION?

DO AMERICANS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEARN ANY LESSON FROM THE REELECTION OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR ANOTHER TERM TO THE WHITE HOUSE? The presidential  election results of 2012 showed that the Republican Party of America or the GOP is moving gradually toward a regional, a southern and most likely a white-only party. The GOP did not win any significant votes from the American minority voting blocs (African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Asian-Americans, single white women that are less than 30 years of age and the young men and women between the ages of 19-30 years). 

With this political development, the GOP may never win the White House again in our lifetime if the party continues on their current retrogressive political path and the highly divisive political ideologies that are not nationally popular in America of today and mostly likely in the future America. The current electoral data from the 2012 presidential demographics in America showed clearly that no political party can win the White House again with the white-only votes easily. Furthermore, no political party can win the White House again without winning the substantial and significant votes of the Latino-Americans, young Americans, young single women and African-Americans. The rapidly growing Latino-American population in the states of Texas, Georgia and Arizona may likely turn those states in the 2016 or 2020 presidential elections from the traditional red states for the GOP into the battle ground states.

The 21st century American politics is now bigger for the first time in our lifetime more than the political vision of our forefathers over 200 years ago. The politics of race and religious bigotry are no longer the true political answers to political victory in American again. You cannot also lie or deceive American voters and manipulate your way to power easily without openness, truthfulness, honesty and integrity. The politics of money-power, negative television and radio adverts failed to win the votes of most Americans for the GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney last November. Finally, the American 2012 presidential demographics and the electoral map both reflected the rapidly changing voting patterns that reflect the 21st century American nation that is now more diverse and no longer monolithic in nature.

HOW DID PROSPERITY GOSPEL ENTER INTO AFRICA?

Christianity was first and foremost introduced to Africans by the European Missionary Churches in the 18th century during the European colonization of the African peoples. The European type of Christianity that was introduced to Africans lacked all the elements of today's prosperity gospel or the gospel of wealth and health that originated from the Bible belt region of the United States and then spread across America before it was exported to nations of the world including the African continent. 

In the 1950s and 1960s shortly after many African nations got their independence from their European colonial powers. The American prosperity teachers immediately flooded these new nations of Africa with this new form of Christianity that promises every Christian wealth and sound health if they give their tithes and offerings to their pastors or to their Churches.

These American money teachers came to the new nations of Africa and organized crusades and seminars where they introduced African Churches and their leaders to this new form of Christianity that is known as the "Prosperity Gospel" or the "Word of Faith". They also flooded Africa with their books, magazines, pamphlets and radio programs that promoted this prosperity gospel message.

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that g...ives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself . But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out . And having food and raiment let us be therewith content . But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after , they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows - 2 Timothy 6:5-10.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).

HOW DID THE SO CALLED PROSPERITY GOSPEL ENTER INTO NIGERIA?

Prosperity gospel entered into Nigeria through the two main channels. Firstly, from the several visiting American prosperity gospel teachers and through their books, magazines, tapes, and pamphlets. Secondly, the Late Nigerian Arch-Bishop Benson Idahosa of the Church of God Mission Incorporated in Benin City of Nigeria was primarily responsible for the spreading of this prosperity gospel through his own armies of young recruits, his country wide open-air crusades and his first ever television program in Nigeria.

In 1971, Benson Idahosa attended the prosperity gospel based Bible school by the name of Christ for the Nations Institute at Dallas in Texas (United States). Upon his return to Nigeria in the early 1970s, Idahosa established the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), the first Christian TV ministry and recruited an army of young followers (Ayo Oritsejafor, David Oyedepo, Felix Omobude, Fred Addo and Chris Oyakhilome, Mike Okonkwo, Chris Okotie, George Adeboye and many others) to spread this strange and unbiblical doctrine about Christianity, Christian faith and the Christian way of living all over Nigeria.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) also became the key breeding ground that helped to accelerate the spread of this strange doctrine about Christianity that is based primarily on money, greed, lust, deception and materialism all over Nigeria to date. This gospel targets the poor, the weak, the ignorant, the gullible, the vulnerable, the desperate, the hopeless, the helpless and the most materially and financially needy members of the Nigerian society as well as the rich and the powerful.

This prosperity gospel has produced two very different, distinct and mixed results in Nigeria since its introduction in the 1980s to the Nigerian Christian community. (i) The primary beneficiaries from this greed gospel are the prosperity teachers and preachers who are now super-rich in terms of money and materialism. (ii) The tens of millions of their followers, disciples and givers who are living today in abject or chronic poverty and lacking all the most basic necessities of life in our 21st century human universe despite all their tithes, offerings and donations to these preachers.

THE RELEVANT BIBLE VERSES THAT DO NOT SUPPORT THE SO CALLED PROSPERITY GOSPEL

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that g...ives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself . But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out . And having food and raiment let us be therewith content . But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after , they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows - 2 Timothy 6:5-10.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).

"THE BIBLICAL MEANING OF THE CONCEPT:THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD"

WHAT IS THE LITERARY MEANING OF THE BIBLICAL CONCEPT THAT IS KNOWN TO MANY TODAY AS THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD IN ALL REALITY? This is one of the divine attributes of God, the creator of the entire universe. OMNI is from the Greek word, which means “everything”, “comprehensive”, “simultaneous” and "infinitely". Science is the word that comes from the Latin word "scientia" which means "knowledge". Omniscience literally means "all knowledge". it implies that no knowledge is left behind, missing, hidden, not known, unknown, inadequate or partially known from God.

THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD means that God knows everything totally, completely, fully, not partially and then at the same time without studying anything in order to know everything. Omniscience is the God's divine capacity to know everything infinitely, in all the entire creation or the whole universe from the eternity past into the eternity future at the same time without studying them in order to know them fully. God is the epitome of all knowledge.

There is nothing happens in the entire universe past, present or future, visible or invisible, physical or spiritual, real or imaginary, minute or huge, microscopic or macroscopic that takes God by surprise. He knows the outcomes, the full details and the origins of all things physical and spiritual, visible and invisible, real and imaginary, including the deepest thought, thinking, plans or the hidden secrets of the human's heart.

All humans are completely limited in their own knowledge, they know partially, not fully, they study to know. Humans can only focus on a very tiny branch of the vast knowledge at a time, human knowledge is acquired gradually over a time period spent on studying or observing. Human knowledge comes through the five human senses and natural observations. Humans will never know everything, their capacity to know is too limited.

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain - Psalm 139:2-6.
Who has understood the mind of the LORD,
or instructed him as his counselor? 
Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, 
and who taught him the right way? 
Who was it that taught him knowledge
or showed him the path of understanding? - Isaiah 40:13-14.

"THE FOUR MAJOR REASONS WHY MANY NIGERIANS ARE EXTREMELY POOR TODAY"

Poverty is primarily man-made in nature, historically and in all ramifications just like slavery. About 80% of Nigerians are extremely poor in 2012 and they survive on $1 to $2 a day living budget. The following reasons are directly and primarily responsible for this mass poverty in Nigeria today in 2013.

(i) The Nigerian national currency (the Naira) was officially devalued in 1986 and this currency devaluation immediately resulted in the massive reduction in the purchasing power of the tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerians in an import-dependent and a 100% consuming economy. This currency devaluation resulted also in the skyrocketing inflation of all the imported goods as well as important general services in Nigeria

(ii) The monthly wages that are paid by the private and the public sectors to the Nigerian workers have remained stagnant for decades despite the yearly rise in the prices of all goods and services. Nigerian workers are paid the typical poverty wages ($112 a month as the minimum wage) instead of the true and the realistic living wages that can make them to live above the national poverty line. These poverty wages in all reality will never allow those millions of the poorly paid Nigerian workers to be able to meet their basic human needs in this life, such as good housing, nutritional meals, decent clothes, transportation, health care, savings and decent retirement in the future.

(iii) Nigeria's past and present leaders continue unabated to loot the treasury and to mismanage our enormous oil revenues for decades without developing the country and diversifying her economy for the much needed economic opportunities for the poor and needy Nigerians. (v) The good paying jobs in Nigeria that can easily lift up millions of these unemployed Nigerian college educated professionals are so few today and they are also limited to the oil/gas, IT, banking, consultancy and telecommunication sectors. There are no economic, financial and educational opportunities for millions of Nigerian youths today for them to be able to secure a better financial future for tomorrow.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED AND DO MY PROPHETS NO HARM?

WHAT IS THE TRUE BIBLICAL MEANING OF THIS SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS "TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED AND DO MY PROPHETS NO HARM" IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE? Many Church leaders today (General Overseers, Presidents, Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Founders, Pastors, Deacons, Elders, Deaconesses, Apostles, Evangelists, Daddies and Mummies in the Lord, Prophets and Teachers) use this scriptural verse above wrongly, selfishly, deceptively and primarily to protect themselves from any harsh criticism, rebellion, rejection or opposition from their gullible, ignorant and vulnerable followers.

They use this scripture to put their followers in perpetual religious and financial bondage and in the so called the fear of God or the God's terrible anger of destruction if ever they dare rise up against their leadership or challenge any of their actions or decisions.

They also use this scripture as a protective gear that allows them to continue to teach their unbiblical doctrine, financial deception and exploitation of their followers and to continue to enjoy their greed and selfish lifestyles of flamboyancy unchallenged by their followers and givers.

This scripture was given by God in the Old Testament era specifically for the nation of Israel under the Old Covenant or under the the direct rule of God upon his chosen nation that is known theologically as "theocracy". Under the Old Testament Covenant, God anointed only three sets of persons. These individuals were set apart (sanctification) for the divine use of God on behalf of the entire nation of Israel.

The three anointed vessels of God in the Old Covenant were the priests, kings and prophets. This dispensation was the era of various kings, high priests, priests, major prophets and minor prophets. These kings, priests and prophets were the divine intermediaries between God of Israel and the people of Israel. The God of Israel spoke through these divine vessels directly to Israel. Israel's only avenue or access to God in the Old Testament was through these priests, kings and prophets.

Any rebellion or rejections against these priests, prophets and kings were grave acts of rebellion against God directly and against his perfect will or plan for Israel. These acts of rebellion were immediately met with God's burning anger, punishments, destructions and deaths against those rebels. The Old Testament is full of cases of deaths, destructions and divine punishments for all acts of rebellion against these prophets, priests and kings in Israel under the Old Covenant age.

In this New Testament Covenant or the Church Age. All believers in the person and in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary mountains are now all anointed by the Holy Spirit of God as kings and priests unto God forever. These are no longer priests, kings and prophets specially set apart like in the Old Testament era. 

Every believer can now approach God directly through Jesus Christ the Lord. The throne of grace and mercy or the holy of holies is now accessible to all believers through simple child-like faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. That scripture has no place nor relevance again in this Church Age. It has fulfilled its primary purpose for Israel and in Israel under the Old Covenant era and and it is now completely absolute, irrelevant or outdated in this New Testament era or the Church Age.

 "Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm" - 1 Chronicles 16:22.

"NIGERIAN NATION IS A TYPICAL AND A UNIQUE CASE STUDY FOR HUMANITY IN 2012"

There are two practicable ways for most Nigerians today in Nigeria to easily or quickly enrich themselves financially and materially without working for a monthly pay check or running a business outfit for profit making. (i) The first avenue for making a lot of money illegally in Nigeria today is through politics, political patronage, holding public elected positions or political appointments. These avenues allow these rogues politicians, political appointees and public elected officials to have unresisted, unregulated and unlimited access to the public money that comes directly from our nation's enormous oil wealth and revenues.

(ii) The second easy access to the dirty money or the questionable wealth and riches is through the instrument of religion. Many pastors/bishops of these Churches intentionally manipulate the biblical truths of the Bible for their own financial gains by collecting the tithes and the offerings of their gullible, vulnerable and ignorant followers for their own primary and personal benefits or uses. These pastors/bishops then give back false hope and unrealistic promises of financial wealth and good health in return for all these givings. The Imans and the koranic teachers do the same thing too in the name of Allah or the religion of Islam to exploit their dedicated disciples of their money. These religious exploitations also go on unabated with the traditional healers and Babalawos who also exploit their own followers too in the same similar manner like the way the mainstream big religions do on a larger scale.

HOW DID THOSE NIGERIA'S BILLIONAIRES ON FORBES MAGAZINE MAKE THEIR MONEY?

Forbes magazine few weeks ago listed 11 Nigerians to be amongst the 40 richest Africans in 2012 in a nation where 80% of Nigerian citizens or about 120 million ordinary Nigerians are living in abject or chronic poverty of $1-$2 a day living budget. The biggest question that is left unanswered by all these Nigerians who are celebrating this good news today as a national pride is this:how did those Nigerian's billionaires listed by Forbes magazine make their money or become wealthy?

A detailed perusal of the Forbes' list revealed the following things about those Nigerians who are amongst the richest Africans today and made the list on this global magazine. (i) All these richest Nigerians are business men and women or government contractors, retired top military officers and former top civil servants or former political office holders.

(ii) These individuals made their wealth from the following sources in Nigeria (shady oil block allocations given to these individuals through favoritism, highly inflated importation of petroleum products to Nigeria, highly inflated government contracts that were never fully executed and the monopoly of the importation licenses that are needed for the importation of the basic goods and services that all Nigerians need to survive .

(iii) None of these wealthy individuals built their own wealth from the scratch without heavily and corruptly patronizing every government of the day in power in Nigeria. (iv) None of these wealthy individuals built their wealth with the same spirit of entrepreneurship that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey and many others all over the human universe used to build their own wealth and fame.

IS THERE ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TODAY THAT IS TRULY A CHRISTIAN NATION?

IS THERE ANY COUNTRY UNDER THE SUN IN THE ENTIRE HUMAN UNIVERSE IN 2012 THAT IS TRULY A CHRISTIAN NATION? This theological belief is totally false, historical incorrect and completely unbiblical in nature and origin. Christianity or the Christian faith is a private and a personal decision of an individual that decides to put his or her faith in the person and the finished work of Jesus Christ for the primary purpose of enjoying the eternal salvation or the everlasting life for his or her soul. Jesus Christ according to the New Testament Bible died for humanity, human race or mankind and never for political nations or sovereign countries.

Eternal salvation or everlasting life was designed by God for man and not for nations or countries. Individuals are the ones who are saved through their faith in Jesus Christ and never the nations or countries. The presence of Christians as the majority group in terms of population in any nation does not make that nation a Christain nation. Nations are purely historical creations of men in all ages and in all generations. Nations come and go, but Jesus Christ remains the same yesterday, today and forever. There is no nation founded in the last 2000 years of human history to date that has a national constitution that is partially or completely based on the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ or on the Pauline doctrine or on the Epistles of the New Testament Bible.

IS CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND ZIONISM ALL THE SAME RELIGIOUS FAITH OR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?

IS CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND ZIONISM ALL THE SAME RELIGIOUS FAITH? The answer to the above named question is an extremely big "NO". Theologically and historically they are not the same. They are all like the three parallel lines placed side by side to each other that will never meet at any point.
(i) "JUDAISM" is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people. The origin of Judaism is in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament Bible) and Judaism historically and theologically has explored the later texts such as the Talmud. The religion of Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God developed with the children of Israel. According to Rabbinic Judaism, God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses the lawgiver on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah (divine revelations of God to humans)
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(ii) "CHRISTIANITY" is based on the "person and the finished work (death, burial, resurrection, ascension and glorification) of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary". The faith that is expressed by any individual in the person and in the finished work of Jesus Christ makes that individual a Christian according to the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ and from the teachings of the New Testament Scriptures that was written original in the Koine Greek language.

(iii) "ZIONISM" is a "Jewish political movement that was established for the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland". Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state and address all threats to its continued existence and security to date. 

Reference:www.wikipedia.com/

"HOW TO CURB THE DEADLY GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA"

Gun ownership in America is based on the legal provisions of the 2nd Amendment of the United States constitution. As of today, it is estimated that there are about 300 million guns in the hands of Americans which is about 50% of all the guns in the whole world. Every day about 20-30 Americans die from gun shots and every year about 10,000 unnecessary and preventable deaths occur as a result of gun violence in America. This nation is heavily divided when it comes to the issues of gun ownership and gun control. The National Rifle Association (NRA) champions the rights of all Americans based on the 2nd Amendment to own all types of guns that include the assault rifles, machine guns and automatic rifles for shooting range practices, seasonal hunting and self defense. The opposition groups want a regulated and a control gun ownership law in America as well as a ban on all types of assault rifles, machine guns and automatic rifles.

To successfully curb these rampant gun violences in America in 2012, this nation will need a national law that will regulate and control gun ownership. This law must make provisions for the following 3 things if this national problem will be addressed once and for all:

(i) A NATIONAL GUN BUY BACK PROGRAM : The United States government must be ready to buy back at least 200 million guns that are presently in the hands of American citizens through a national monetary inducement program. Every gun owner will be paid $500 for every gun that they decided to turn to the government under this national program. This program will generate about $100 billion that can help the struggling and the slowly recovering America's national economy. These gun owners will have about $100 billion in their hands that they can spend to boost the United States national economy.

(ii) A NATIONAL BAN ON ALL ASSAULT RIFLES, MACHINE GUNS AND AUTOMATIC RIFLES: These categories of guns are not needed for the three traditional reasons for owing a gun in America, namely, for shooting range practices, hunting and self defense. Most of the reported mass killings or shootings in the United States in the last 10 years occurred through the use of these powerful guns that have the ability to shoot around 100 rounds of ammunitions continuously before they are reloaded again for more shootings.

(iii) A NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND MENTAL EVALUATION PROGRAM UNDER THE OBAMACARE : The national statistics in America indicated that most of the mass shooters suffer from untreated or undiagnosed mental illness that primarily motivated those brutal mass killings of the innocent and defenseless Americans. The provisions of the Obamacare should be expanded by the act of the US Congress to cover the treatment of all Americans that are suffering from mental sicknesses and for the yearly evaluation of the mental and psychological states of all current gun owners and all new gun permit applicants.

WAS JESUS CHRIST TRULY WEALTHY AS CLAIMED TODAY BY THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL?

Was Jesus Christ financially and materially wealthy in his earthly ministry about 2,000 years ago as it is boldly and falsely claimed or promoted today by the preachers of the so called prosperity gospel all over the world? What is the biblical truth about Jesus' wealth? Was Jesus Christ rich by the conventional standards that were used in Palestine 2,000 years ago to judge the wealth of the wealthy individuals in that society? Did Jesus Christ own those material things that were publicly and privately associated with the wealthy 2,000 years ago in Palestine? Why did Jesus Christ borrow many things from the other people in his earthly ministry that the rich people of his days will never have borrowed because they would be able to afford them or they would had had them already? Why was Jesus Christ buried in another man's tomb if he was truly wealthy?

Why did the New Testament Bible never referred to Jesus Christ once as a wealthy preacher or a super-rich teacher. But the same New Testament Scriptures called some of the people that were associated with Jesus Christ on earth or came to him privately as wealthy secret disciple or a wealthy young ruler respectively? Why did Jesus Christ make a statement that no wealthy man would ever make:(foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of Man has no place to lay his head)?

If Jesus Christ was truly wealthy as it is falsely claimed by many today, then Jesus Christ would have left behind a lot of money and material things for his own family and his 12 Apostles to inherit on earth. Did Jesus Christ own businesses and other money making means of production like (farms, plantations, servants, cattle ranches, horse ranches, etc) that could have made him wealthy like the rich people of his days in Palestine? Why did Jesus Christ pay the minimum required taxes that were normally paid by the ordinary Roman citizens to the Roman government if he was truly wealthy or rich? Why did Jesus Christ do a miracle to get his own tax money by commanding one of his disciples to go fishing and to catch the first fish and then open the mouth of that fish caught in order to get the required tax money for himself and that disciple?

"And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head" - Luke 9:58.

ARE THE PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA MEETING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF ALL NIGERIANS?

A university education in Nigeria in this 21st century human universe should serve as one of the strongest and the most effective weapons against poverty and ignorance. A good education should naturally opens the doors to many life's opportunities for the educated persons. The last 10 years in Nigeria can be called the age or the era of mass explosion or the rapid growth in the numbers of private university ownership. The owners of these privately owned universities are either religious organizations, such as the big Churches and Mosques, or the wealthy Nigerians. These universities were set up with the primary purpose of supporting the efforts of the federal and the state governments in Nigeria in providing university education for Nigerians and for the expansion of the university education opportunities to the millions of ordinary Nigerian youths. 

How readily or easily affordable and accessible are these private university education to the millions of Nigeria's high school graduates that need them for a better future? The average tuition rates for these universities run from about $3,000 to $4,000 a year (450,000 Naira to 600,000 annually) in a country that has 80% of her citizens live on chronic poverty of about $1 to $2 a day and with millions of Nigeria's workers earning poverty wages ($112 a month minimum wage) as well as a nation with youth unemployment rate of over 47%. 

Who is real fooling who in Nigeria today with these privately owned universities? Are these private universities truly meeting the needs of the millions of the ordinary Nigerian high school graduates who need the university education for a better and a brighter future but cannot afford one? Where are the available scholarships, financial aids, low interest loans, student work programs, tuition waiver programs and grants from these universities for these poor Nigerian students who are academically qualified and want university education but they cannot afford them? Time will surely tell.

"THE FOUR BIGGEST HUMAN EVENTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA AND THE WORLD FOREVER"

THESE FOUR BIGGEST HUMAN EVENTS IN THE LAST 50 YEARS THAT HAVE CHANGED THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOREVER:(i) The signing of the Civil Rights Bill into law in 1965 by the late President Lyndon Johnson which officially established the legal doctrine of equality of all human races in the United States constitution and in the entire American society for the first time since this nation was founded in 1776. This bill also fulfilled the requirements of the opening sentences of the American Declaration of Independence in all reality that says that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" - American Declaration of Independence.  

(ii) The rapidly changing presidential demographics in America since the 1980s. Today, over 34% of all Americans are now foreign-born United States citizens in 2012. The sudden rise in the population of the Hispanic-Americans that makes them to be the largest minority group in this nation today and also one of the major voting blocs will always determine who occupies the White House in America for a long time to come. The rapidly growing Hispanic-American population in America is posed to turn the traditional presidential red states of Texas, Georgia and Arizona into the presidential battle ground states by 2016 or beyond. 

(iii) The historical presidency of Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 as the first black man to break the color barrier and to rule the world's richest nation and the only superpower country in this 21st century human universe. Obama's presidency also inherited the worst national economy in America in the last 70 years and he made history again by winning a reelection in the midst of the slowly recovering national economy. The Obamacare which is now the official law of health care in America is also historic in nature by giving all Americans universal health care as a right for the first time in the history of this nation.

(iv) The invention of the internet technology, its various important uses especially in the worlds of E-Commerce, E-Learning and social networkings (Facebook, blogs, twitter, Youtube and My Space) have affected everything that we do daily in the American society and in the entire human universe forever by linking nations, businesses and people together in a split of a second.

IS ENGLISH THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES?

This is a very divisive and a controversial issue in America today. America as a country practices constitutional democracy that is based on the popular representation in the three tiers or branches of the United States government. The constitution of America is the supreme law of this nation and it governs the legal rights of the all American citizens and residents as well as the legal power, authority and the legal limitations of the American government. The entire constitution of America does not specify any official language anywhere nor does it imposed any language including English to be the official lingua franca for this nation or her citizens and residents.

The American Standard English remains the most popular and the majority language that most Americans speak, read, write and can understand. English is the language of prosperity and public opinion in America. English is the official language of academic instruction in all American schools and colleges. English remains the most popular and the majority language for business, commerce, sport, entertainment, politics, employment, workplaces and in most news media. Today in America, the English language is facing a serious competition from the Spanish language. The Spanish language is now the fastest growing language in America today because of the rapidly and the fastest growing Latino population.

Demographers and linguists have projected that by the year 2050, the population of the minority Americans will overtake the Caucasian population for the first time since the great union was founded about 236 years ago. This future development that is inevitable may eventually compelled the future Americans to become bi-lingua by learning the Spanish language alongside with English language. In the future in America, workplaces, schools, colleges, businesses, news media and entertainment world may also required a proficiency in Spanish language for all their students and employees. For now only time can surely tell.

"NIGERIA THRIVES ON DEBTS IN THE MIDST OF HUGE OIL REVENUES"

"NIGERIA IS THRIVING TODAY ON UNMANAGEABLE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DEBTS IN THE MIDST OF HER HUGE OIL REVENUES":An online news media out of Nigeria reported that Nigeria’s current total external debt stood at $6.2billion as of September 30, 2012 while her domestic debt profile was $38.37 billion. In one year of the administration of President Jonathan Goodluck, Nigeria’s debt profile has risen by $6.25 billion.

The news media reported also that the statistics from the Debt Management Office showed that the country’s debt profile under the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck in one year in office rose from $36.45 billion in March 2011 to $44.28 billion as of March 2012. The National Assembly, last week in Abuja approved another $7.3 billion borrowing plan for the federal and state governments respectively. The Federal Government also budgeted about 3.5 billion for the debt servicing. The debt to GDP ratio for Nigeria is about 20 per cent at the moment according to the news report.

What is the government of Nigeria doing with the daily revenues that come daily from the 2.5 million barrels of crude oil that they sell? What is the government doing with our other numerous sources of internal revenues that come from domestic taxes? What are the visible national developments on the ground in Nigeria today in 2012 to justify these huge domestic and foreign debt profiles?

Have these debts already reduced our huge unemployment rate that is over 50% at the moment? Have these debts already modernized our nation's health care facilities and current stone age educational systems? Have these debts already improved our outdated and over-crowded national infrastructures and social services? Have these debts already reduced the current poverty rate in Nigeria that is now over 80% and our state of insecurity? Do these leaders care at all about the future impacts of these debts on the nation and the Nigerians yet unborn? Only time will surely tell.

"NIGERIA WAS NOT A DIVINE CREATION OF GOD, BUT A BRITISH MADE POLITICAL EXPERIMENT"

Many Nigerians in their political ignorance, myopic thinking and religious insanity believe that the formation of the Nigerian nation in 1914 through the amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern protectorates together to become a British colony by Britain without holding a national referendum for all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the religious groups in that new colony was God's supernatural creation. 

Many Nigerians in their shallow minds also believe that Nigeria can never fail as a nation nor can she ever break-up or even disintegrate into smaller pieces of nations in the future, no matter the type of the external or the internal crises that we face today as a country because we have survived major internal crises and turbulent moments in our history as a nation including the brutal Biafran war that claimed millions of Nigerians mainly the Igbos and almost tore us apart as a country.

Nigeria as a nation in my own judgement cannot continue to defile the credible accounts and the natural trends of the recorded human history. Historically speaking, many bigger nations have emerged in the past from the political unions of many smaller nations, and side by side also, many other bigger nations in the past have also broken-up into small nations due to their enormous internal and external crises that they faced and were unable to resolve them peaceful or overcame them amicably. 

The newest African nation of South Sudan is a recent and also a very relevant political example of this type of human possibility in Nigeria today. The whole human race went into shocked in 1990 when one of the two super-power nations that was known at that time as the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) suddenly collapsed like a pack of playing cards and broke up overnight into 15 smaller countries. 

If those internal crises that are going on at the moment in Nigeria that started since 1914 to the present day are left unaddressed, they could point us to the same similar fate that had befallen other nations in the past, such as the nations of the former Sudan and India respectively that were all direct products of the same British colonization. These two former British colonies went through many different and many similar internal and external crises like Nigeria that were never solved amicably and those huge problems led to their final disintegrations into the smaller monolithic nations of the present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh from India. The two nations of Sudan and South Sudan also came out of the former Sudan respectively.