Millions and millions of people from all the walks of life and all over the world who are novices to the field of science hold many different misconceptions about the true nature of science. Below are some of the most important misconceptions that are known and promoted today about science and how the scientific knowledge or the scientific evidence is collected in nature:
(i) Millions of people all over the world believe that science or the scientific knowledge is absolute in nature.
(ii) Many believe that science is all about experiments, data collection and treatment.
(iii) Many people believe that science has all the answers to everything in nature and science is always right or 100% accurate and exact.
(iv) Many people believe that scientific laws and scientific theories are both identical or the same and they are also both absolute or unchangeable.
(v) Many people believe that science is totally objective and never bias or subjective in nature.
(vi) Many people believe that there is only one universal scientific method in the world for doing science.
(vii) Many people believe that the cultures, national politics and social issues of today do not influence the direction of science in the world.
(viii) Many people believe that all scientific findings become public records.
Is science objective, bias or subjective in nature? Are all scientific findings made public by become public records? Scientific research in any society or nation is primarily driven by the prevailing political, economic, social and cultural forces of the day in that nation. Scientific findings that have national or international security implications are sealed forever from the public eye as classified records.
I will now address these misconceptions above one by one:
(i) Scientific knowledge is never absolute in nature, but tentative and evidence-based. What we know in science today that we call scientific knowledge is based on the scientific evidence that is currently or presently available today also. New scientific evidence will lead to a new scientific knowledge. The world of science is full of these examples.
(ii) Science is not all about experiments. Astronomy and quantum physics are branches of science that do not require any experimentations to obtain the relevant scientific evidence that may lead to the new scientific knowledge. The direct observations that are made from the astronomical tools on the ground and in the space are used to generate astronomical knowledge. Mathematical models using the high-level mathematics produced the field of quantum physics.
(iii) Science does not have all the needed answers to everything in nature. Science does not know everything in life.
(iv) Scientific laws and scientific theories are not the same. Both are the two different and distinct types of scientific knowledge that are both equally needed to understand our natural world better. Scientific laws predict what will happen in nature and scientific theory explains why it happens in nature. Scientific laws are also mathematical in nature and scientific theories are self-descriptive or self-explanatory in nature. Laws explains our natural world and theory describes our natural world. Laws and theories are both not absolute. Laws and theories can change if a new scientific knowledge is obtained. Laws will stay as laws and theories will stay as theories. Laws do not become theories and theories do not become laws.
(v) There is no one universally accepted scientific method in the world of science. Scientists approach science in many different ways and never in one uniform universal way.
(vi) Science is never objective, it is subjective and bias in nature. Scientists choose what interest them personally to study in nature or what the government or the funding agencies will finance. The political system in the society dictates the direction of science because they control the needed funding that allows science to be done or made possible. No funding for science implies that there will be no science to be done.
(vii) All scientific findings that have very serious national, international, political, economic and social implications or consequences in life are sealed from the members of the public by the governments of the nations of the world where those findings are or were found.
Monday, January 7, 2013
WAS AMERICAN NATION FOUNDED ON THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY?
The religious rights, a major voting and pressure group in the Republican Party of America have attempted by all means and at all cost for many decades to rewrite the history of the United States for their own political gains or interests by publicly, loudly and openly promoting a false and a distorted account of the history of how America evolved into a nation of immigrants in 1776. These religious rights claimed that America is a Christian nation or a nation that was founded on the biblical principles.
An objective perusal of the three most important legal documents that established America as a sovereign or independent nation from Britain shows that these claims from the religious rights are totally false, inaccurate in outlook and a very distorted historical account of the American nation. The three most important documents upon which America was founded are the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. These legal documents do not show any close resemblance to the Torah (Old Testament Bible) that was given by God to Moses at mount Sinal for the nation of Israel or to the New Testament Bible including the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, this nation which remains the most prosperous nation in the entire 6,000 years of the documented human history was primarily founded on the principle of human freedom or liberty by the two distinct groups of people:(i) The politically and the religiously oppressed and persecuted peoples of Europe who escaped from their oppressors in Europe and from the other places in the world to America, in order to enjoy this available human freedom or liberty in the new American nation. (ii) The peoples from all over the world who were looking for new political freedom and economic opportunities in the new land called America.
An objective perusal of the three most important legal documents that established America as a sovereign or independent nation from Britain shows that these claims from the religious rights are totally false, inaccurate in outlook and a very distorted historical account of the American nation. The three most important documents upon which America was founded are the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. These legal documents do not show any close resemblance to the Torah (Old Testament Bible) that was given by God to Moses at mount Sinal for the nation of Israel or to the New Testament Bible including the words and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, this nation which remains the most prosperous nation in the entire 6,000 years of the documented human history was primarily founded on the principle of human freedom or liberty by the two distinct groups of people:(i) The politically and the religiously oppressed and persecuted peoples of Europe who escaped from their oppressors in Europe and from the other places in the world to America, in order to enjoy this available human freedom or liberty in the new American nation. (ii) The peoples from all over the world who were looking for new political freedom and economic opportunities in the new land called America.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
"THE THREE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IN HIS FIRST TERM"
No living or dead American Presidents since the formation of the American nation in 1776 ever did everything rightly, correctly and perfectly in the White House. Some of their mistakes caused some of the past American Presidents the opportunity to be reelected for their second terms, some of them were impeached for their mistakes and some of them had to suddenly resigned from the office because of their mistakes. Below are three of the most important mistakes made by this young President in the White House in the first two years of his first term in office between 2009 to 2011.
(i) President Barack Obama inherited the worst economic crisis that was created by the former President George Bush Jr since the Great Depression years of the 1930s. President Barack Obama focused his economic bailout programs and stimulus on the Wall Street (corporate America, banks and automobile industries) who were primarily responsible for the economic collapse of the entire American capitalist system in 2008 with their unregulated business practices and greed. President Barack Obama then neglected the Main Street (the millions of the unemployed Americans and the home owners that were facing foreclosures and were more affected by this economic collapse that the Wall Street). The Wall Street came out stronger from this economic recession after this bail out and the Main Street is still suffering to date with 7.8% unemployment rate and millions of homeowners are still facing foreclosures on their homes.
(ii) His election in 2008 was a national referendum of the entire GOP machine. Americans wanted another direction and vision for this nation by electing Barack Obama, the man with the new hope for this nation in 2008. American voters demonstrated this by giving the Democrats the White House and the majority of the both houses of the United States Congress at the same time. President Barack Obama messed up this great opportunity to move this great country and in a new direction. President Barack Obama decided to play the politics of compromise and bipartisan which the America voters rejected by trying to bring the GOP (his political foes who wanted him to fail in office from day one) on board by all means and at all cost.
(iii) President Barack Obama did not use the Democratic controlled US Congress to his own full advantage in the first two years in the White House by passing most of his planned landmark bills and policies that he promised this nation during his presidential campaigns, such as, tax code reforms, immigration reforms, job bills and social security reforms. Then in 2010, a wave of political revolution led by the Tea Party, religious rights and the Birther movement swept the midterm elections in 2010 in favor of the GOP. The newly elected Tea Party elements of the House then turned themselves into the biggest oppositions and obstructionists ever known in the US Congress in the last few centuries with only one main political goal in their minds "Let us (GOP) make Barack Obama a one-term president".
President Barack Hussein Obama made history again in November of 2012 to be reelected back to the White House in the midst of the worst economic recession in America in decades in and in the midst of the worst political opposition from the House Republicans against his presidency in our lifetime. This GOP House opposition will continue into Obama's second and the last term in the White House except there is a political shift in favor of the Democrats in the midterm elections of 2014. For now, the political gridlocks in Washington will remain the order of the day and the major features of the Obama's second term in the White House.
(i) President Barack Obama inherited the worst economic crisis that was created by the former President George Bush Jr since the Great Depression years of the 1930s. President Barack Obama focused his economic bailout programs and stimulus on the Wall Street (corporate America, banks and automobile industries) who were primarily responsible for the economic collapse of the entire American capitalist system in 2008 with their unregulated business practices and greed. President Barack Obama then neglected the Main Street (the millions of the unemployed Americans and the home owners that were facing foreclosures and were more affected by this economic collapse that the Wall Street). The Wall Street came out stronger from this economic recession after this bail out and the Main Street is still suffering to date with 7.8% unemployment rate and millions of homeowners are still facing foreclosures on their homes.
(ii) His election in 2008 was a national referendum of the entire GOP machine. Americans wanted another direction and vision for this nation by electing Barack Obama, the man with the new hope for this nation in 2008. American voters demonstrated this by giving the Democrats the White House and the majority of the both houses of the United States Congress at the same time. President Barack Obama messed up this great opportunity to move this great country and in a new direction. President Barack Obama decided to play the politics of compromise and bipartisan which the America voters rejected by trying to bring the GOP (his political foes who wanted him to fail in office from day one) on board by all means and at all cost.
(iii) President Barack Obama did not use the Democratic controlled US Congress to his own full advantage in the first two years in the White House by passing most of his planned landmark bills and policies that he promised this nation during his presidential campaigns, such as, tax code reforms, immigration reforms, job bills and social security reforms. Then in 2010, a wave of political revolution led by the Tea Party, religious rights and the Birther movement swept the midterm elections in 2010 in favor of the GOP. The newly elected Tea Party elements of the House then turned themselves into the biggest oppositions and obstructionists ever known in the US Congress in the last few centuries with only one main political goal in their minds "Let us (GOP) make Barack Obama a one-term president".
President Barack Hussein Obama made history again in November of 2012 to be reelected back to the White House in the midst of the worst economic recession in America in decades in and in the midst of the worst political opposition from the House Republicans against his presidency in our lifetime. This GOP House opposition will continue into Obama's second and the last term in the White House except there is a political shift in favor of the Democrats in the midterm elections of 2014. For now, the political gridlocks in Washington will remain the order of the day and the major features of the Obama's second term in the White House.
IS CHINA A MAJOR COMPETITOR OR A REAL THREAT TO THE AMERICA'S FUTURE?
America as a sovereign nation is only 236 years old and she has about 4.2% of the global population in 2013, but there is no single human nation today that has ever succeeded in creating one-tenth of the present day America's wealth, science, technology, arts, music and media. America as a nation in the world has practically succeeded in creating the largest middle class population ever known to mankind in the last 6,000 years of the recorded human history. America remains the only superpower nation today with a $16 trillion economy, her official currency, the dollar is the most used and the most acceptable international reserve currency today in the world and she also continues to be the principal cradle of democracy, religious freedom and human rights to the entire global community.
America also has diplomatic missions in almost every corner of the earth and several foreign military bases abroad. The United States also finances 25% of the funds that are needed to run the yearly global activities of the United Nations and she is also the largest donor of foreign aid to the needy nations of the world. America is also the most diverse nation in the world with her citizens and residents representing all the world's major races, nations, cultures, religions and languages. The entire 21st century global economy is tied directly to the America's giant economy. The United States has also given the automobile, aviation and the internet technologies to the entire mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries that have changed our whole world for better.
America in this 21st century is facing a very stiff competition from the rising nation of China with the largest human population that is four times more than the entire population of the United States. The Republic of China today has the world's second largest and the fastest growing economy in the world. China is now a major player in the global trade and a leading manufacturing nation, the largest exporter, the second largest importer and a nuclear state that has the second largest defense budget after the United States. All these indicators point China clearly as a future potential superpower nation that will compete with the United States for global economy, military power and global domination or leadership in the nearest future.
The People's Republic of China has now truly come out of age in this 21st century human universe after her national economic reforms and the national birth control law enacted in 1978 to now become a nation that the whole world will be watching out for because of her rapid growth in all areas of human endeavors today.
America also has diplomatic missions in almost every corner of the earth and several foreign military bases abroad. The United States also finances 25% of the funds that are needed to run the yearly global activities of the United Nations and she is also the largest donor of foreign aid to the needy nations of the world. America is also the most diverse nation in the world with her citizens and residents representing all the world's major races, nations, cultures, religions and languages. The entire 21st century global economy is tied directly to the America's giant economy. The United States has also given the automobile, aviation and the internet technologies to the entire mankind in the 20th and 21st centuries that have changed our whole world for better.
America in this 21st century is facing a very stiff competition from the rising nation of China with the largest human population that is four times more than the entire population of the United States. The Republic of China today has the world's second largest and the fastest growing economy in the world. China is now a major player in the global trade and a leading manufacturing nation, the largest exporter, the second largest importer and a nuclear state that has the second largest defense budget after the United States. All these indicators point China clearly as a future potential superpower nation that will compete with the United States for global economy, military power and global domination or leadership in the nearest future.
The People's Republic of China has now truly come out of age in this 21st century human universe after her national economic reforms and the national birth control law enacted in 1978 to now become a nation that the whole world will be watching out for because of her rapid growth in all areas of human endeavors today.
"NIGERIA IS LONG OVERDUE FOR A NATIONAL BIRTH CONTROL LAW"
A rapidly and uncontrollable population growth in any country of the world today can either contribute to that nation's national economic strength and development or it can be an easy tool for a self-destructive national crises for that nation. Every new born child that comes into this human universe would need daily food intake, clothing, housing, education, transportation, health care, parental guidance, love and attention in order to survive and grow into an adult. Every adult member of the society or a nation will need the following things, such as, food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care, employment or job, personal savings and a decent retirement to also survive as an adult and then becomes a productive member of that nation until death occurs.
Nigeria's population stands at about 167 million citizens and residents in 2013. This population is growing very rapidly and at an alarming rate of 3.2% annually or about 5.2 million new Nigerian babies are born every year. If this population is not checked or controlled, demographers predicted that Nigeria's population will hit 400 million persons by 2040 and making Nigeria to be the third most populous nation in the world. The national population patterns in Nigeria show that majority of Nigerians are youths or young people. Today in Nigeria, the average life expectancy is about 46 years, the birth rate of this nation is higher than its death rate, infant mortality rate is also high and the rural to urban migration is growing and making the major cities of Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and others to be crowded with young Nigerians from all walks of life who are looking for a way out of life or a way to survive.
The biggest concerns or the problems that are associated with the rapidly growing Nigeria's population are the facts that, jobs, housing, education, health care, national infrastructure, social services and national security are not also growing rapidly or side by side with this uncontrollable population growth in Nigeria today. The other developing countries of Asia and South America have already addressed their rapidly growing populations by enacting the national birth control laws in their own countries decades ago to control and to mange their own populations. China as a nation stands out as a country that saw the national threats and implications that her rapidly growing population posed on her national development in the 1970s. In 1978, China enacted a national law that was known at that time as the "One Couple, One Child Law" to control her population growth. This law was a successful story in China today that is now the world's second biggest and the fastest growing economy. China recently abolished her national birth control law because her national economy needs more population to keep it afloat and globally competitive.
The United Nations few years ago issued a stern warning to the nations of the sub-saharan Africa including Nigeria to do something immediately about their uncontrollable national population growths that make that part of the world to be experiencing the fastest population growths in the entire human universe today. If the Nigerian government refuses to enact a national birth control law because of national politics, religious and cultural beliefs that will allow her to control her population growth effectively in this decade, then Nigeria as a country may become the biggest footprint of the urban and rural poverty in this 21st century human world and this huge population will become self-destructive to themselves in particular and to the whole nation in general.
Nigeria's population stands at about 167 million citizens and residents in 2013. This population is growing very rapidly and at an alarming rate of 3.2% annually or about 5.2 million new Nigerian babies are born every year. If this population is not checked or controlled, demographers predicted that Nigeria's population will hit 400 million persons by 2040 and making Nigeria to be the third most populous nation in the world. The national population patterns in Nigeria show that majority of Nigerians are youths or young people. Today in Nigeria, the average life expectancy is about 46 years, the birth rate of this nation is higher than its death rate, infant mortality rate is also high and the rural to urban migration is growing and making the major cities of Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and others to be crowded with young Nigerians from all walks of life who are looking for a way out of life or a way to survive.
The biggest concerns or the problems that are associated with the rapidly growing Nigeria's population are the facts that, jobs, housing, education, health care, national infrastructure, social services and national security are not also growing rapidly or side by side with this uncontrollable population growth in Nigeria today. The other developing countries of Asia and South America have already addressed their rapidly growing populations by enacting the national birth control laws in their own countries decades ago to control and to mange their own populations. China as a nation stands out as a country that saw the national threats and implications that her rapidly growing population posed on her national development in the 1970s. In 1978, China enacted a national law that was known at that time as the "One Couple, One Child Law" to control her population growth. This law was a successful story in China today that is now the world's second biggest and the fastest growing economy. China recently abolished her national birth control law because her national economy needs more population to keep it afloat and globally competitive.
The United Nations few years ago issued a stern warning to the nations of the sub-saharan Africa including Nigeria to do something immediately about their uncontrollable national population growths that make that part of the world to be experiencing the fastest population growths in the entire human universe today. If the Nigerian government refuses to enact a national birth control law because of national politics, religious and cultural beliefs that will allow her to control her population growth effectively in this decade, then Nigeria as a country may become the biggest footprint of the urban and rural poverty in this 21st century human world and this huge population will become self-destructive to themselves in particular and to the whole nation in general.
"THE THREE MAIN REASONS WHY INEQUALITIES EXIST IN THE HUMAN RACE"
Physical death is the only inevitable human event that brings equalizer in all reality to the entire human family at the end of the journey of life. Death is no respecter of persons, races, nationalities, languages, socioeconomic status and age groups. The rich and the poor all die alike. The powerful and the most insignificant in life die alike. The most educated and the illiterates all die alike. The old and the young all die alike. The physically healthy and the sick in their bodies all die alike.
Death is the one and the only uniform element in the human world that puts every member of the human race on the same level of equality and uniformity once it happens. Death is the biggest price that all the living human beings must pay one day in the future. Death makes all of us equal at the end of the journey of life. We die alike, and then we all return back to the same dust of the Earth in the same manner. We brought nothing into this world at the time of our physical birth and we are also going to leave this world at the time of our physical death with nothing to take away.
Below are the three primary reasons why inequalities of all types exist and will continue to exist in this life within the membership of the human family:
(i) Inequality exists at the time of our physical birth into this human universe. Some babies are born with the silver spoons in their mouths, while the others babies are born into chronic poverty. Some babies are born in the true land of economic opportunities, while the others babies are born in a failing nation that is saddled with massive economic failure.
(ii) This inequality in life that started at the time of one's physical birth continues to widen as a result of the various personal choices and decisions that all the members of the human race make in this life with their freewill. Some personal choices and decisions we make in this life will automatically open many doors of blessings, doors of promotion and many great opportunities for us in this life. Other decisions and choices we make in this life as an individual will lead us to many failures, setbacks and series of stagnations in this life.
(iii) The grace of God and the workings of his power and mercy promote some members of the human race above all the satanic, human and natural expectations, barriers, obstacles and limitations of this life. Other people are also promoted or lifted up in this life through the powers of the global human systems of racism, nationalism, tribalism, nepotism, religious identities, sexual favors, clique memberships, ethnic lineages, occult memberships, professional association memberships, political cabals and secret societies.
Death is the one and the only uniform element in the human world that puts every member of the human race on the same level of equality and uniformity once it happens. Death is the biggest price that all the living human beings must pay one day in the future. Death makes all of us equal at the end of the journey of life. We die alike, and then we all return back to the same dust of the Earth in the same manner. We brought nothing into this world at the time of our physical birth and we are also going to leave this world at the time of our physical death with nothing to take away.
Below are the three primary reasons why inequalities of all types exist and will continue to exist in this life within the membership of the human family:
(i) Inequality exists at the time of our physical birth into this human universe. Some babies are born with the silver spoons in their mouths, while the others babies are born into chronic poverty. Some babies are born in the true land of economic opportunities, while the others babies are born in a failing nation that is saddled with massive economic failure.
(ii) This inequality in life that started at the time of one's physical birth continues to widen as a result of the various personal choices and decisions that all the members of the human race make in this life with their freewill. Some personal choices and decisions we make in this life will automatically open many doors of blessings, doors of promotion and many great opportunities for us in this life. Other decisions and choices we make in this life as an individual will lead us to many failures, setbacks and series of stagnations in this life.
(iii) The grace of God and the workings of his power and mercy promote some members of the human race above all the satanic, human and natural expectations, barriers, obstacles and limitations of this life. Other people are also promoted or lifted up in this life through the powers of the global human systems of racism, nationalism, tribalism, nepotism, religious identities, sexual favors, clique memberships, ethnic lineages, occult memberships, professional association memberships, political cabals and secret societies.
IS THE OIL WEALTH IN NIGERIA TRULY A NATIONAL BLESSING OR A NATIONAL CURSE?
Nigeria is the world's sixth largest oil producer and exporter today in the world. Nigeria is synonymous with oil and oil wealth all over the world and Nigeria is also a major player in the powerful global oil cartel that is known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Any disruptions in the oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria today will affect the entire global stock markets, the value of the American dollar, the international price of a barrel of oil in the international oil markets and the economies of the nations that depend directly on the Nigeria's oil. Nigeria produces about 2.5 million barrels of oil out of the global daily oil production of about 88 million barrels a day. Nigeria's oil is also of a higher grade because of its less sulphur content and the today's most powerful nations and economies in the world, such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy and China are all highly interested in the Nigeria's oil and their own billions of American dollar worth of investments in the Nigeria's oil fields.
This oil has also put Nigeria on the international map for the worst environmental neglect and the massive degradation of the communities where this oil is found and drilled. The oil in Nigeria has also produced militants who are fighting for more political autonomy and resource control for the communities of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria coupled with the ongoing hostage taking of the international and local oil workers for ransoms. This oil in Nigeria is also projected by the global oil experts that it will dry out completely around 2040 at the current yearly production of about 1 billion barrels of oil by Nigeria. The Nigeria's oil reserves is estimated to be about 38 billion barrels of oil left untapped at the moment.
According to the reliable estimates from the World Bank and from the other western financial institutions today, Nigeria has made close to $700 billion from her oil sales alone as her state revenues since this oil was found in the commercial quantity in the 1960s. These international financial bodies also reported that between $300 to $400 billion from this oil revenue had been stolen or siphoned away by the past and the current Nigeria's leaders and their highly corrupt top government officials into their own private foreign bank accounts in the western world, the Middle East and the Caribbean. After almost 50 years of this continuous oil production and oil exportation in Nigeria, it is so sad today to note that there is nothing physically present or tangible on the ground today in Nigeria to show for this enormous oil revenue that had come for the last 50 years into the coffers of the Nigeria's successive governments.
Today in 2013, Nigeria can be described simply as a failing nation in all ramifications. The poverty rate has increased from below 20% when this oil was first discovered to over 80% today in the midst of this enormous oil wealth. The unemployment rate in Nigeria is now about 23%. Millions of Nigeria's workers in both the private and the public sectors of the economy are still earning poverty wages. The nation's infrastructures are so old, inadequate and over stressed. Nigeria's national health care system is still at the Stone Age level today in 2013. Our nation's educational structure is still at a century away and behind the rest of the world. The nation's social services in 2013 cannot meet the growing needs of the Nigeria's citizens and they are nothing to write home about today. The nation's population is left uncontrolled and it is projected to hit 400 million persons in 2050 at the current annual growth rate of about 3.2%. The value of the Nigeria's national currency the Naira is depreciating yearly, rapidly growing inflation controls the national economy and the standards of living of the ordinary Nigerians are falling yearly. Terrorism and genocide by Boko Haram, insecurity of life and properties, lawlessness, brutalities, religious uprisings, kidnappings for ransoms, hostage takings, public lynchings of petty thieves, political murders, sectarian killings, armed robberies and arsons are the order of the day in Nigeria today in the ocean of this enormous oil wealth in 2013.
This oil has also put Nigeria on the international map for the worst environmental neglect and the massive degradation of the communities where this oil is found and drilled. The oil in Nigeria has also produced militants who are fighting for more political autonomy and resource control for the communities of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria coupled with the ongoing hostage taking of the international and local oil workers for ransoms. This oil in Nigeria is also projected by the global oil experts that it will dry out completely around 2040 at the current yearly production of about 1 billion barrels of oil by Nigeria. The Nigeria's oil reserves is estimated to be about 38 billion barrels of oil left untapped at the moment.
According to the reliable estimates from the World Bank and from the other western financial institutions today, Nigeria has made close to $700 billion from her oil sales alone as her state revenues since this oil was found in the commercial quantity in the 1960s. These international financial bodies also reported that between $300 to $400 billion from this oil revenue had been stolen or siphoned away by the past and the current Nigeria's leaders and their highly corrupt top government officials into their own private foreign bank accounts in the western world, the Middle East and the Caribbean. After almost 50 years of this continuous oil production and oil exportation in Nigeria, it is so sad today to note that there is nothing physically present or tangible on the ground today in Nigeria to show for this enormous oil revenue that had come for the last 50 years into the coffers of the Nigeria's successive governments.
Today in 2013, Nigeria can be described simply as a failing nation in all ramifications. The poverty rate has increased from below 20% when this oil was first discovered to over 80% today in the midst of this enormous oil wealth. The unemployment rate in Nigeria is now about 23%. Millions of Nigeria's workers in both the private and the public sectors of the economy are still earning poverty wages. The nation's infrastructures are so old, inadequate and over stressed. Nigeria's national health care system is still at the Stone Age level today in 2013. Our nation's educational structure is still at a century away and behind the rest of the world. The nation's social services in 2013 cannot meet the growing needs of the Nigeria's citizens and they are nothing to write home about today. The nation's population is left uncontrolled and it is projected to hit 400 million persons in 2050 at the current annual growth rate of about 3.2%. The value of the Nigeria's national currency the Naira is depreciating yearly, rapidly growing inflation controls the national economy and the standards of living of the ordinary Nigerians are falling yearly. Terrorism and genocide by Boko Haram, insecurity of life and properties, lawlessness, brutalities, religious uprisings, kidnappings for ransoms, hostage takings, public lynchings of petty thieves, political murders, sectarian killings, armed robberies and arsons are the order of the day in Nigeria today in the ocean of this enormous oil wealth in 2013.
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