The Federal Government of Nigeria is empowered by the constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria to control and to collect all the revenues that come from the Nigeria's natural or mineral resources and from all the taxes from incomes, businesses, corporations and excise and importations. This constitution also guides the Federal Government of Nigeria on what to do with these collected revenues.
The primary responsibilities of the Federal Government of Nigeria as it is stated in the constitution is to guarantee the safety of the life and the properties of all her citizens and residents. The second most important responsibility of the Federal Government of Nigeria is to put in place and to enforce the rule of law and order throughout Nigeria as well as the provision of the basic social services and utilities, such as water, electricity, effective policing and trash collection to all her citizens and residents.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has failed today, completely and woefully in all its primary or basic responsibilities to Nigerians as stated in the constitution of Nigeria. The height of this irresponsibility has left all Nigerians without any other options or alternatives, but to step in and then become their own private governments by using their own monies and resources to provide for themselves the much needed security and social services that this Federal Government of Nigeria that is heavily riddled with the massive official corruption and the mismanagement of state funds could not do or provide for Nigerians.
It is only in Nigeria that the Nigerian citizens are forced to provide their own private security (Maigadi) for themselves instead of the inefficient Nigerian Police Force. It is only in Nigeria that the her citizens are forced to provide their own electricity by buying their own electricity generators instead of the failed PHCN that is in charge of power generation in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that the her citizens are forced to provide their own water for themselves by digging boreholes and wells in their homes and business centers instead of the Ministry of Water Resources that is empowered with the responsibility of providing water for all Nigerians.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
"THE 11 MODERN WAYS THAT NIGERIA CAN USE TO DEFEAT THE BOKO HARAM"
Below are the 21st century different methods or the modern ways that the Nigerian Government can use immediately and effectively to defeat the terrorist group that is operating in the Northern Nigeria that is known as Boko Haram. This terrorist group is currently committing massive acts of terrorism and genocides against the Northern Nigerian minority Christian populations and the smaller ethnic groups in that part of Nigeria unabated.
(i) The government of Nigeria should use double secret agents and modern intelligence gathering technologies to penetrate into the ranks and files of this terrorist group and combined these efforts with the effective, reliable and traditional human intelligence gathering methods. (ii) The government of Nigeria should effectively monitor and collect all the data or the information on the movement of people and goods in and out of our heavily porous land borders. (iii) The government of Nigeria should monitor all the activities of Nigerians and Nigerian residents that are travelling from Nigeria to the internationally known terrorist nations or to the nations that are known for giving comfortable place of abode to known terrorist cells, such as, Libya, Algeria, Mali, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
(iv) The government of Nigeria should monitor all the local sales and the importation of the bomb making materials, such as the agricultural fertilizers that are used for the making of the IEDs. (v) The government of Nigeria should immediately equip the bomb detonating and disposal units of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Police, Airforce, FRSC, Customs and Immigration with the modern 21st century technologies and trainings for them to be more effective. All these federal agencies should work together and share vital intelligent information or materials freely. (vi) The federal government of Nigeria should also monitor the activities of the nationals of Cameroon, Chad, Benin and Niger that are in our country illegally or undocumented and if they are considered suspicious, they should be deported immediately. (vii) The government of Nigeria should send a bill on terrorism immediately to the National Assembly to enact tough laws against terrorism, sponsors of terrorism and all acts of terrorisms.
(viii) The Nigerian government should also cooperate and share any vital intelligence and security information with the intelligence organisations of our neighboring countries (Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin). (ix) The government of Nigeria should also monitor the final destinations and the proper documentations of all the records of all the imported materials into the country through the sea, land or air that can be used for making bombs. (x) The government should protect our porous ocean borders with our navy and modern technologies. (xi) The government should established a national data of all the owners of guns in Nigeria, importers of guns and prosecute illegal gun owners and illegal importers of guns into Nigeria.
(i) The government of Nigeria should use double secret agents and modern intelligence gathering technologies to penetrate into the ranks and files of this terrorist group and combined these efforts with the effective, reliable and traditional human intelligence gathering methods. (ii) The government of Nigeria should effectively monitor and collect all the data or the information on the movement of people and goods in and out of our heavily porous land borders. (iii) The government of Nigeria should monitor all the activities of Nigerians and Nigerian residents that are travelling from Nigeria to the internationally known terrorist nations or to the nations that are known for giving comfortable place of abode to known terrorist cells, such as, Libya, Algeria, Mali, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
(iv) The government of Nigeria should monitor all the local sales and the importation of the bomb making materials, such as the agricultural fertilizers that are used for the making of the IEDs. (v) The government of Nigeria should immediately equip the bomb detonating and disposal units of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Police, Airforce, FRSC, Customs and Immigration with the modern 21st century technologies and trainings for them to be more effective. All these federal agencies should work together and share vital intelligent information or materials freely. (vi) The federal government of Nigeria should also monitor the activities of the nationals of Cameroon, Chad, Benin and Niger that are in our country illegally or undocumented and if they are considered suspicious, they should be deported immediately. (vii) The government of Nigeria should send a bill on terrorism immediately to the National Assembly to enact tough laws against terrorism, sponsors of terrorism and all acts of terrorisms.
(viii) The Nigerian government should also cooperate and share any vital intelligence and security information with the intelligence organisations of our neighboring countries (Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Benin). (ix) The government of Nigeria should also monitor the final destinations and the proper documentations of all the records of all the imported materials into the country through the sea, land or air that can be used for making bombs. (x) The government should protect our porous ocean borders with our navy and modern technologies. (xi) The government should established a national data of all the owners of guns in Nigeria, importers of guns and prosecute illegal gun owners and illegal importers of guns into Nigeria.
"THE 14TH YEAR OF DEMOCRACY AND PARTY POLITICS OF PERSONALITIES IN NIGERIA"
Nigeria has experimented the western type of party politics and representatives democracy that are built on electoral frauds, massive official corruption, mismanagement of state funds and human personalities. Politics to an average Nigerian politician, an elected public official or a political appointee is never an avenue for any public service where they can truly or honestly serve Nigerians or their own nation, but an easy avenue that meets their daily means of livelihoods and that allow them to easily loot our treasury with their political, family and business cronies.
The whole democracy and the party politics in Nigeria in the last 14 years of the 4th democratic political experiment lacked political ideologies, sound economic agendas, social programs and the enduring democratic institutions. The ruling party, the PDP was a brain child of the then political group that was known in Nigeria at that time as the G-34 and it is now symbolized, controlled and synonymous by Olusegun Obasanjo, President Jonathan Goodluck and the octogenarian Anenih. The largest opposition party, the ACN is today the private property of Bola Tinubu, the CPC is all about the political ambition of Muhammadu Buhari and the same political patterns are found in all the other smaller political parties.
This political experimentation has never given the 160 million ordinary Nigerians the real political dividends of a true democracy. Over 80% of Nigerians today and under the 14th year of this democratic experimentation are now extremely poor to the point of living on $1 to $2 a day budget. About 30% of the national budget is used as monthly salaries and allowances for the 17,500 public elected officials at all levels and in the federal civil service also. The country today has to continue to borrow high interest loans from the international financial agencies to stay alive.
Nigeria is worse today than in 1999 before the coming of this democratic governance. Poverty continues to growth, unemployment is its record-level high, millions earn poverty wages, the public education has failed many millions already and the health care facilities are not adequate for more millions. Nigeria cannot provide the basic social services for her citizens, we still operate with the outdated national infrastructures plus the lawlessness and the rule of brutalities of the highest levels dominating the land.
Today, under this pseudo-democracy, Nigerians are more divided than in 1999 as reflected in the worst presidential election of 2011. Ethnic identities or loyalties, religious affiliations and geopolitical origins are more pronounced, more celebrated and highly visible amongst Nigerians today than the so called Nigerian national citizenship. Nigeria in 2013 is now showing all the advanced signs and the political symptoms of a failing state in the making. The immediate convening of the much needed and the much avoided National Sovereign Conference of all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the religious groups is the best practical approach and the most realistic political solution or the answer to the Nigeria's huge and highly divisive national crises in 2013.
In conclusion, all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the 2 major religious groups (Christianity and Islam) in Nigeria must all have direct inputs into the best practical way they all want to live together and with each other through a constitutional framework that they were denied in the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern protectorates together to form a new political experiment that was named as Nigeria by the British colonial power that has refused to work.
The whole democracy and the party politics in Nigeria in the last 14 years of the 4th democratic political experiment lacked political ideologies, sound economic agendas, social programs and the enduring democratic institutions. The ruling party, the PDP was a brain child of the then political group that was known in Nigeria at that time as the G-34 and it is now symbolized, controlled and synonymous by Olusegun Obasanjo, President Jonathan Goodluck and the octogenarian Anenih. The largest opposition party, the ACN is today the private property of Bola Tinubu, the CPC is all about the political ambition of Muhammadu Buhari and the same political patterns are found in all the other smaller political parties.
This political experimentation has never given the 160 million ordinary Nigerians the real political dividends of a true democracy. Over 80% of Nigerians today and under the 14th year of this democratic experimentation are now extremely poor to the point of living on $1 to $2 a day budget. About 30% of the national budget is used as monthly salaries and allowances for the 17,500 public elected officials at all levels and in the federal civil service also. The country today has to continue to borrow high interest loans from the international financial agencies to stay alive.
Nigeria is worse today than in 1999 before the coming of this democratic governance. Poverty continues to growth, unemployment is its record-level high, millions earn poverty wages, the public education has failed many millions already and the health care facilities are not adequate for more millions. Nigeria cannot provide the basic social services for her citizens, we still operate with the outdated national infrastructures plus the lawlessness and the rule of brutalities of the highest levels dominating the land.
Today, under this pseudo-democracy, Nigerians are more divided than in 1999 as reflected in the worst presidential election of 2011. Ethnic identities or loyalties, religious affiliations and geopolitical origins are more pronounced, more celebrated and highly visible amongst Nigerians today than the so called Nigerian national citizenship. Nigeria in 2013 is now showing all the advanced signs and the political symptoms of a failing state in the making. The immediate convening of the much needed and the much avoided National Sovereign Conference of all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the religious groups is the best practical approach and the most realistic political solution or the answer to the Nigeria's huge and highly divisive national crises in 2013.
In conclusion, all the 450 ethnic nationalities and the 2 major religious groups (Christianity and Islam) in Nigeria must all have direct inputs into the best practical way they all want to live together and with each other through a constitutional framework that they were denied in the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern protectorates together to form a new political experiment that was named as Nigeria by the British colonial power that has refused to work.
"NIGERIA:14 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY WITHOUT ANYTHING TO SHOW FOR IT"
Nigeria remains the sixth largest oil producer and the most populous black nation in the world today. Nigeria has made about $700 billion from her oil sales alone in the last 40 years to date according to financial records from international financial agencies. Nigeria's annual GDP stands at about $235 billion at the moment and its national economy grows at a rate of 7% per annum.
The western financial institutions also reported that the past and the present Nigerian leaders as well as the top government officials have stolen over $400 billion of that wealth with their cronies to date. Over 80% of Nigerians are now extremely poor and are living on $1 to $2 a day budget. About 30% of the national budget is used as monthly salaries and allowances for the 17,500 public elected officials at all levels and in the federal civil service. The country today has to continue to borrow high interest loans from international financial bodies to stay alive.
The presidential, state and local elections of 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 respectively in Nigeria that ushered in our past and current public elected officials into power since the onset of the 4th democratic political experiment in Nigeria in 1999 have been heavily marred with either electoral frauds or with the highly credible allegations of massive vote riggings.
The Nigerian ruling political party, the PDP has been in power in Nigeria since 1999. The PDP has spent the Nigeria's oil and tax revenues that are in hundreds of billions of the American dollar for the last 13 years on the dirty politics, the rogue politicians and our corrupt public elected officials, instead of spending this money on Nigerians and to develop the Nigerian nation.
The PDP has refused to expand and to modernize our outdated educational systems into the 21st century global standards. The PDP has also refused to use the people's money to develop our inadequate social services and our outdated health care facilities that are not meeting the basic needs of the tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerians today.
After almost 14 years in political power, this nation's collapsing national infrastructures have not received any national upgrades nor any known physical expansions. This democracy has refused to adequately address the high unemployment rate amongst the millions of the young Nigerian college graduates that are presently jobless, unemployed, unemployable, helpless and hopeless.
This country under the rulership of the PDP continues to face national food scarcity and food insecurity, the national electricity crisis stays unaddressed to date, our nation's yearly foreign debt profile is rising, the value of the national currency is falling against other international currencies, the rates of the inflation of goods and services are rampant, the standards of living for most Nigerians are falling yearly, the insecurity of life and properties of Nigerians are the order of the day, the genocidal and the terrorism activities of the Boko Haram against the Northern Nigerian minority Christians go on daily as well as the kidnapping for ransoms, hostage takings, public lynchings of suspected thieves, political motivated killings, sectarian riots, ethnic cleanings, arsons, murders, official corruption and the mismanagement of state resources by our state officials.
Nigerians who will be voting again in 2015 have refused to ask themselves the most important question before they return the same PDP back to power again:Are we better off today 14 years later under the ruling party, the PDP than 1999 before the PDP took over Nigeria?
The western financial institutions also reported that the past and the present Nigerian leaders as well as the top government officials have stolen over $400 billion of that wealth with their cronies to date. Over 80% of Nigerians are now extremely poor and are living on $1 to $2 a day budget. About 30% of the national budget is used as monthly salaries and allowances for the 17,500 public elected officials at all levels and in the federal civil service. The country today has to continue to borrow high interest loans from international financial bodies to stay alive.
The presidential, state and local elections of 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 respectively in Nigeria that ushered in our past and current public elected officials into power since the onset of the 4th democratic political experiment in Nigeria in 1999 have been heavily marred with either electoral frauds or with the highly credible allegations of massive vote riggings.
The Nigerian ruling political party, the PDP has been in power in Nigeria since 1999. The PDP has spent the Nigeria's oil and tax revenues that are in hundreds of billions of the American dollar for the last 13 years on the dirty politics, the rogue politicians and our corrupt public elected officials, instead of spending this money on Nigerians and to develop the Nigerian nation.
The PDP has refused to expand and to modernize our outdated educational systems into the 21st century global standards. The PDP has also refused to use the people's money to develop our inadequate social services and our outdated health care facilities that are not meeting the basic needs of the tens of millions of the ordinary Nigerians today.
After almost 14 years in political power, this nation's collapsing national infrastructures have not received any national upgrades nor any known physical expansions. This democracy has refused to adequately address the high unemployment rate amongst the millions of the young Nigerian college graduates that are presently jobless, unemployed, unemployable, helpless and hopeless.
This country under the rulership of the PDP continues to face national food scarcity and food insecurity, the national electricity crisis stays unaddressed to date, our nation's yearly foreign debt profile is rising, the value of the national currency is falling against other international currencies, the rates of the inflation of goods and services are rampant, the standards of living for most Nigerians are falling yearly, the insecurity of life and properties of Nigerians are the order of the day, the genocidal and the terrorism activities of the Boko Haram against the Northern Nigerian minority Christians go on daily as well as the kidnapping for ransoms, hostage takings, public lynchings of suspected thieves, political motivated killings, sectarian riots, ethnic cleanings, arsons, murders, official corruption and the mismanagement of state resources by our state officials.
Nigerians who will be voting again in 2015 have refused to ask themselves the most important question before they return the same PDP back to power again:Are we better off today 14 years later under the ruling party, the PDP than 1999 before the PDP took over Nigeria?
Friday, January 4, 2013
"GLOBAL TERRORISM:AMERICA'S APPROACH CAN BE A LESSON FOR NIGERIA"
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that killed about 3,000 Americans and other nationals with over $2.2 trillion in the economic damages or losses. The American government under the former President George Bush Jr and the current President Barack Obama have successfully prevented all the planned domestic attacks by Al Queda and its international affiliates inside America for over twelve years now. The United States also succeeded in killing Osama Bin Laden who was the worst's most dangerous terrorist and the other terrorist leaders around the world by destroying their abilities to organise any future terrorist attacks inside America successfully.
Does American government protect the life and the properties of her citizens and residents by asking American Churches and Christians to pray only without any physical actions on the ground from the government security and intelligence agencies? Can our Nigerian leaders learn from these successful stories instead of their present apathy, helplessness state, mediocrity, arrogance and ignorance on how to fight Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria successfully in this 21st century human universe?
Terrorism can never be fought successfully with prayers alone in this 21st century world. The Nigerian government's primary responsibility to all Nigerians is to protect the life and the properties of all the Nigerian citizens and her residents. What is the purpose of having a government in power in Nigeria in the first place that all Nigerians pay their income taxes to that cannot guarantee their security and safety? Why should Nigerians continue to support the government of President Jonathan Goodluck that controls their oil wealth and natural resources but cannot protect them from the terrors and genocides of the Boko Haram in the Northern Nigeria?.
A continuos failure on the part of the government to guarantee the protection of the precious life and the properties of the Nigerian citizens and residents will eventually lead the whole nation to the era of lawlessness and the rule of brutalities that this nation has never seen before or experienced in the past. I hope President Jonathan Goodluck will learn from the American government successful stories on how to effectively fight terrorism or Boko Haram in Nigeria in this 21st century.
Does American government protect the life and the properties of her citizens and residents by asking American Churches and Christians to pray only without any physical actions on the ground from the government security and intelligence agencies? Can our Nigerian leaders learn from these successful stories instead of their present apathy, helplessness state, mediocrity, arrogance and ignorance on how to fight Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria successfully in this 21st century human universe?
Terrorism can never be fought successfully with prayers alone in this 21st century world. The Nigerian government's primary responsibility to all Nigerians is to protect the life and the properties of all the Nigerian citizens and her residents. What is the purpose of having a government in power in Nigeria in the first place that all Nigerians pay their income taxes to that cannot guarantee their security and safety? Why should Nigerians continue to support the government of President Jonathan Goodluck that controls their oil wealth and natural resources but cannot protect them from the terrors and genocides of the Boko Haram in the Northern Nigeria?.
A continuos failure on the part of the government to guarantee the protection of the precious life and the properties of the Nigerian citizens and residents will eventually lead the whole nation to the era of lawlessness and the rule of brutalities that this nation has never seen before or experienced in the past. I hope President Jonathan Goodluck will learn from the American government successful stories on how to effectively fight terrorism or Boko Haram in Nigeria in this 21st century.
"CYBERWARFARE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR INFORMATION AGE"
Cyberwarfare is the non-conventional war that is fought in the high technological realm of our cyberspace in this 21st century information technology age. This technological warfare is more dangerous and more deadly than the present threats of a nuclear warfare or our historical and the traditional conventional wars that our human universe has seen again and again. This Cyberwarfare is also one of the cheapest wars to fight today. This war does not require any boot on the ground or any huge financial investment or any massive movement of troops and their war machines to the war fronts or to the battle grounds, which in most cases will lead to the huge loss of precious human life and treasury. This war is fought from computers to computers in the cyberspace and with the computer hackers serving as the cyber soldiers and using their deadly computer programs as their war tools.
Cyberware is primarily motivated and driven by the forces of the international politics between the major players in the global economy and military dominance. Cyberwarface serves two main purposes, which are to sabotage the computer networks of the enemy by bringing them to a final halt and to obtain the secret and the high classified information through espionage. The online website, the Wikipedia defines espionage as "the act or practice of obtaining secrets (sensitive, proprietary or classified information) from individuals, competitors, rivals, groups, governments and enemies also for military, political, or economic advantage using illegal exploitation methods on internet, networks, software and or computers"
The world's leading internet security company that is known as the McAfee told the world in 2007 that over 100 or more countries are working day and night in an attempt to develop their own cyber warface capabilities that will enable them to be able to target and to shut down the entire social services, economic activities and the government computer systems of an entire nation in the event of a typical or a real cyberwarfare in the world of today. The threat of the cyberwarfare is too real in this 21st century information age and nations that plan to survive any cyberwarface must also plan and develop their own anti-cyberwarfare capabilities that will be able to protect their own entire computer networks when a cyber attack becomes a reality.
Cyberware is primarily motivated and driven by the forces of the international politics between the major players in the global economy and military dominance. Cyberwarface serves two main purposes, which are to sabotage the computer networks of the enemy by bringing them to a final halt and to obtain the secret and the high classified information through espionage. The online website, the Wikipedia defines espionage as "the act or practice of obtaining secrets (sensitive, proprietary or classified information) from individuals, competitors, rivals, groups, governments and enemies also for military, political, or economic advantage using illegal exploitation methods on internet, networks, software and or computers"
The world's leading internet security company that is known as the McAfee told the world in 2007 that over 100 or more countries are working day and night in an attempt to develop their own cyber warface capabilities that will enable them to be able to target and to shut down the entire social services, economic activities and the government computer systems of an entire nation in the event of a typical or a real cyberwarfare in the world of today. The threat of the cyberwarfare is too real in this 21st century information age and nations that plan to survive any cyberwarface must also plan and develop their own anti-cyberwarfare capabilities that will be able to protect their own entire computer networks when a cyber attack becomes a reality.
"THE NINE MAJOR LIFE SKILLS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS IN LIFE TODAY"
Life requires our best inputs if it will ever be meaningful and fulfilling at all in all reality. Success in life does not happen by accident, by luck or overnight in most cases. It requires a number of important skills that must be mastered, understood and applied correctly to the life situations or to the daily challenges of life.
Skills are the abilities that a person who is very diligent in life has acquired over a period of time through trainings, education (formal and informal) and experience. Skills are the principal weapons of success in life as well as problem-solving abilities in life. The absence of life's basic skills in a person's life may be a direct avenue for failure, misery and problems in life.
The nine most important principal life skills that are required and needed by everyone in life who desires primarily to be successful in any type of life ventures under the sun are the following skills: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Problem-Solving Skills, Critical and Creative Thinking Skills, Teamwork and Collaborative Skills, Computer Skills, Listening Skills and Time Management Skills.
Education or schooling is also an avenue for acquiring most of the life's most important skills. Skills are useful in every situation of life. Life challenges vary in their nature and different life skills work uniquely in different life challenges and settings. Skills are needed in life and can be acquired gradually.
Skills are the abilities that a person who is very diligent in life has acquired over a period of time through trainings, education (formal and informal) and experience. Skills are the principal weapons of success in life as well as problem-solving abilities in life. The absence of life's basic skills in a person's life may be a direct avenue for failure, misery and problems in life.
The nine most important principal life skills that are required and needed by everyone in life who desires primarily to be successful in any type of life ventures under the sun are the following skills: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Communication Skills, Problem-Solving Skills, Critical and Creative Thinking Skills, Teamwork and Collaborative Skills, Computer Skills, Listening Skills and Time Management Skills.
Education or schooling is also an avenue for acquiring most of the life's most important skills. Skills are useful in every situation of life. Life challenges vary in their nature and different life skills work uniquely in different life challenges and settings. Skills are needed in life and can be acquired gradually.
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