"THE 6 KEY QUESTIONS THAT CHINUA ACHEBE'S LAST BOOK RAISED ON THE BIAFRAN WAR IN NIGERIA"

The biggest threat in the Chinua Achebe's newest book on the Biafran war to the so called Nigeria's questionable unity today in 2012 is the fact that Chinua Achebe asked the boldest and the toughest questions about this Biafra war at the international level, such as:(i) Was the Biafran war not an act of genocide against the Igbos from all ramifications? (ii) Were Yakubu Gowon and Obafemi Awolowo 

not guilty of genocide against the Igbos in the ways and in the manners that they used to prosecute this brutal war through the use of economic blockage and food starvation that led to the physical deaths of about 2-3 million of those defenseless Igbos children, women and the non-combatant men? 

(iii) Has Nigeria as a nation ever truly learned any vital lessons from this brutal past? (iv) Are the present events in Nigeria today not very similar to those events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war? (v) Why is the Biafran war and its most important lessons kept away from the public or from the young Nigerians today and they are never taught in any of our public educational systems? (vi) Why did all the successive governments in Nigeria have all attempted to date to suppress the whole truth or the important information about this terrible war?

"CHINUA ACHEBE'S NEWEST BOOK ON THE BIAFRAN WAR IN NIGERIA IS CREDIBLE"

This book is a direct product of over 40 years of detailed and deep academic research that was never driven primarily for financial gains, cheap national and international recognitions or for literary awards. I consider this book after my personal perusal of it and in my own personal judgement to be one of the Bibles on the Ni

gerian state and her deep crises in the colonial and post-colonial dispensations that linger till today.

Chinua Achebe will never personally risked his own international reputation and global recognition as an icon of human literature that spans over half of a century by intentionally documenting a fabricated historical account of the history of the Nigerian state and leaving behind a shady legacy of his colorful, controversial and eventful life or times. Chinua Achebe in 2012 remained without any doubt as one of the few Nigerians in powerful and influential positions that have refused to be corrupted by the Nigerian state with her juicy political appointments, national awards, inflated contract allocations and official bribery

‎"ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY IN AMERICA PUT THE SUBJECT OF GUN CONTROL BACK ON THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE"

How many American citizens or her residents will have to die prematurely again before the Washington politicians will work together and across those party ideological lines in order to put an effective national law in place that will finally control, regulate and monitor gun ownership requirements in America?

There are estimated 300 million different types of guns in the hands of Americans in a country with 315 million living souls. It is easier today in 2012 in America to buy any gun, including those assault rifles or machine guns for private use than to buy a prescription drug to treat a common cold from a pharmacy. More than 10,000 preventable deaths occur every year in America from the violent use of these privately owned guns.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) continues to stand against any proposed regulations to control gun ownership in America including those assault rifles by putting their corporate profits above the sanctity of human precious life that has no duplicate or replacement when taken unexpectedly in the hands of these chronic murderers.

The only realistic method that is firstly and humanly practicable, and secondly will reduce the number of these preventable deaths in the hands of these killers is to have in place an effective gun control law that is coupled with those tough requirements for gun ownership in United States.

"MY PERSONAL PESPECTIVES OF THE CHINUA ACHEBE'S NEWEST BOOK ON THE BIAFRAN WAR IN NIGERIA"

 Chinua Achebe's newest book that is titled "THERE WAS A COUNTRY:A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BIAFRA" has truly divided Nigerians and the national public opinions about this war. Biafran war was the worst chapter in the entire history of Nigeria to date. Every effort has been made by every successive government in Nigeria to date including the military government that prosecuted the Biafran war to sweep the whole truth about this war under the carpet of history forever or to also rewrite the true account of this war to suit their own tribal or regional goals and the myopic national objectives of the Nigerian leaders that are neither patriotic or nationalistic in the name of one Nigeria and national unity. 

Achebe's book on the Biafran war is a personal legacy and a first class account from one of the major actors on the Biafra's side of this war. The book asked the most important questions about this war that were never asked at the national and international levels before except the phrase "No Victor and No Vanguished". This book also serves as a national warning to the Nigerian nation in 2012 that has never learned any vital lesson to date from her brutal and past history. Nigeria today faces the likely possibility of this destructive event been repeated again in our lifetime in a nation that is passing through the same similar events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war and in a nation where the true wound of this war has not truly healed in all honesty and reality.

WHO IS CHINUA ACHEBE OF NIGERIA?

Professor Chinua Achebe stands out clearly amongst his contemporaries and equals in Nigeria in particular as well as in the entire continent of Africa and all over the literary world in general. This erudite emeritus professor of the African literature, an internationally acclaimed author and essayist, a controversial political- historian and a great writer of human and African events is one of the few highly placed Nigerians that I personally hold in the highest esteem today. Chinua Achebe has refused to sell his precious birthright like the way the biblical Esau did just for the hunger sake for one single meal of bread and lentil stew to his brother Jacob forever.

Chinua Achebe has refused for many decades to compromise his personal principles and his strong commitment to the truth about Nigerian nation that is in deep crises today for those enticing and the highly juicy political appointments, inflated government contracts and patronage, the Ghana-must-go bags or the so called Nigeria's national honors that are normally given to Nigerian traitors instead of the true Nigerian patriots and nationalists on two different occasions and under two different administrations as an academician, a researcher and a political commentator.

Chinua Achebe's place in the Nigeria's annals of history is already determined, known, secured, settled and written in pure gold forever and for the present generations of all Nigerians that are living today and for the future generations of Nigerians that are yet unborn to tap into for the much needed and for the missing inspirations that are not seen in the current leadership in Nigeria in 2012, but can be found from the life and the times of this great mind of African literature.

"IT IS FINISHED:THE OFFICIAL END OF THE OLD COVENANT ERA"

• "IT IS FINISHED":Those were the last words of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. What is the spiritual significance of this statement from the mouth of Jesus Christ in all ramifications and realties? In Koine Greek, the original language of the New Testament Scriptures and one of the languages that Jesus Christ spoke on earth," it is finished" is the the word "tetelestai" which means "an end, a completion, a conclusion, to complete, to accomplish, to fulfill or to finish a given task."
  
  The major events took place between the time that Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross and his resurrection from the dead on the third day did not happen before in the entire human history from the time of Adam in the Garden of Eden to the last words of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. The moments that Jesus Christ spoke these last words, the following events followed. The veil of the temple was torn into two parts from its top to the bottom, the earth shook and the rocks were split, tombs of the dead were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised from death, after His resurrection they entered Jerusalem and appeared to many.
  
  In the classical Greek times, the word "tetelestai" depicted a turning point in the human existence when one period of the human history ended and another new period of human history began. This is a turning point in the entire history of mankind, at that moment the Old Testament Scriptures came to an end - fulfilled, finished and closed - and the New Testament Scriptures began. The Cross was “the Greatest Divide” in the entire human history to date.
  
  When Jesus cried out, “It is finished!” He was shouting that the Old Covenant or Testament had ended and the New Covenant or Testament had begun. All the Old Testament prophecies about Jesus’ earthly ministry were all completely and totally fulfilled to their last letters. The Justice of God and its requirements had all been fully met and satisfied by the Lamb of God that was slain for the sin of mankind . Jesus' mission to save humanity from eternal damnation was accomplished and completed at Calvary.
  
  When Jesus cried, “It is finished,” .The sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood of the Old Testament Covenant or the entire Mosaic law  were permanently ended or they all came to their final halt or the end because of the perfect sacrifice on the cross that saves mankind. Jesus offered His own blood for the full payment of our sinful debt, we are forgiven and totally debt-free. “PAID IN FULL” has been stamped on our past sinful record because Jesus paid the price for our redemption with His own blood. He is now our everlasting High Priest of the New Testament.
  
  
  RELATED BIBLE SCRIPTURES
  "But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises" - Hebrews 8:6.
  
  "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost" - John 19:30.
  
  "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" - Ephesians 2:8-9.
  

  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
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"NIGERIA IS AT THE CROSSROADS OF HER LIFE AS A NATION IN 2012"

Nigeria at the moment can only be saved from her ongoing and impending self-destruction that is inevitable if this nation through her present leaders will refuse to hold the most needed Sovereign National Conference of all the interest groups, ethnic nationalities and religious faiths in Nigeria with the primary purpose of deciding the best way forward for all the 160 million Nigerians at home and in diaspora.

Nigeria in 2012 under the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck is facing too many major crises in different dimensions that will eventually lead this country into a failed state, civil/religious wars or disintegration in our lifetime if those important national issues are left unaddressed now by own today's leaders, or they can continue to lie and pretend to the whole world that those issues are not there or they are not important in 2012 or they can be swept under the carpet for now and Nigeria as a nation can continue as business as usual on the same current path of self-destruction.

The following important national issues must be addressed now in a Sovereign National Conference of all ethnic nationalities and religion groups in order to save this nation from her own self-made and impending self-destruction. They are the following national matters:(i) The present national culture of unabated official corruption from 1960 to date that resulted in the stealing of over $400 billion from our nation's coffers without any serious investigations or prosecutions of those corrupt officials to date by all our successive governments.

(ii) The continuous massive mismanagement of our state resources by our leaders, government officials and policy markers without anything on the ground to show for it. (iii) The total dependent on the oil as our main source of revenue for Nigeria. This oil was projected by many oil experts in the oil industry that it will finished in 2036 without any attempts from our government to diversify our national economy. 

(iv) The rise of massive poverty, unemployment, increase in the petroleum products and food prices in Nigeria leaving tens of millions of Nigerians in untold daily sufferings. (v) The world's highest form of wealth gap, income inequality and poverty wages that are practiced in Nigeria today as a standard official policy of our government leaders and officials who are milking this nation dry in the name of democracy and public service.

(vi) The rise in the numbers of the various militants ethnic groups in Nigeria today who are armed to the teeth and are now openly demanding for their own self-determination, self-autonomy, resource control, rotational presidency, state police, confederacy and possibility of secession such as the O'dua Group, Afenifere, New NADECO, Ohaneze, Ijaw groups, MEND, Egbesu Boys, MOSOP and MOSSOB.


(vii) The sudden rise of the highly feared and the deadly militant Islamic group known as Boko Haram that wants to Islamize Nigeria through the Sharia Laws with their campaigns of terror and bombings. (viii) The continuous religion riots, the killings of Christians from Southern Nigerian in the Northern Nigeria's cities and towns unabated since the 1960s by radical Islamic groups in the Northern Nigeria and at the moment by the Boko Haram, and coupled with the pockets of ethnic cleansing and sectarian violents around this nation for many decades now.

(ix) Our present outdated, old, collapsing and inadequate national infrastructures, electricity supply, social services, health care systems and the 20th century educational systems that can no longer meet the needs of tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians. The failure of our government to protect the life and properties of Nigerians from armed robbers, kidnapping for ransoms, arsonists, vandals, political assassinations and ritual killings.

(x) The growing and the uncontrollable national population explosion in Nigeria that is projected by demographers to double by 2040 and this would make Nigeria at that time to be the 4th most populous nation in the whole world without any national plan in the making or on the ground by our present government to address this impending national calamity of the nearest future from happening to Nigeria.

In my final conclusion, any Nigerian in the leadership or not at the moment and also in his or her right state of mind who thinks that a Sovereign National Conference is not needed now in Nigeria without any delay and that these 10 important issues that I listed above should not be addressed and resolved amicably must be living in a fool's paradise in 2012.