"NIGERIA LACKS CREDIBLE POPULATION FIGURES IN 2014"

The true national population figure must never be politicized by any serious minded nation that desires to experience an effective national planning, tangible progress and visible development in the world of today that is primarily data-oriented and data-driven. Nigeria as a developing nation has never successfully conducted any national population census that is 100% credible, genuinely reliable and truly reflected her true population figures to date. This issue of population in Nigeria since her independence from Britain has remained a big national subject of controversies as well as one of the most divisive national matters in Nigeria to date for two main reasons.

The two reasons are the following:(i). A regionally manipulated or fabricated population figure will automatically makes that geopolitical region of Nigeria to be bigger than the other regions. This can also make the majority religious group and the ethnic group in that particular region with the manipulated population to appear bigger than the other religions and their ethnic nationalities when combined together. This artificially inflated population figures will naturally become the primary and the political instrument for the domineering, marginalization, national politics and winning elections by the cheating region against the other regions.

(ii). The more population a region or a state in Nigeria has, the more money that state or region gets on monthly basis from the federal government of Nigeria. The current national revenue allocation formula in Nigeria is based on these questionable and past census figures that reflect the population size of each state or region of Nigeria. I do not care personally if a dog or a cat is nominated to head the National Population Commission (NPC) of Nigeria by President Jonathan Goodluck provided this population agency will truly conduct a very credible national population census for Nigeria for the first since 1914.

"THE TWO TYPES OF CRYING NIGERIANS IN 2014"

The first type of Nigerians are self-interest motivated. They cry foul and then point their accusing fingers at the highly corrupt, inept and mediocre Nigerian public officials because they have been left out from the daily sharing of the Nigeria's national cake and her juicy political offices. Their price-tag is simple, cheap and affordable for the Nigerian public officials to meet and to keep them quiet forever. These Nigerians will easily and completely backdown, change their true colors, break the ranks and chicken out in the face of those lucrative political appointments, the official nomination for the national awards, the allocation of the import duty waivers, import licenses, the oil blocs and the sharing of the Ghana-must-go bags. 
The second type of Nigerians are motivated by their genuine patriotism and true nationalism to see a better Nigerian nation that truly works fairly for all Nigerians in their own lifetime. Their price-tag is beyond what the present and highly corrupt Nigerian public officials can afford to pay for in all reality. The price-tag that will keep these second type of Nigerians quiet forever is a good government that is coupled with accountable leadership.

"THE TWO ISSUES THAT NIGERIAN LEADERS SHOULD HAVE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS OVER"

The first one is the oil. The entire Nigerian national economy and her yearly national budget are both oil-dependent and built solidly on the oil export since the late 1960s to date. The oil experts estimated that the Nigeria's oil reserves of about 1 billion barrels of untapped oil will be fully depleted by 2050 at the present daily rate of about 2.5 million barrels of oil that are tapped and exported. Another important issue with the oil is the fact that the world is now shifting into green technology and renewable energy resources instead of the oil. Nigeria is about to be left behind by the rest of the developed and emerging economies in the world of energy.

The second most important issue in Nigeria today is her rapidly growing population that is unsustainable into the future. The natural resources that are needed to support this huge population are not expanding. The arable land that is needed for food production is fixed and the waters from her rivers, lakes and underground supply are also fixed. Nigeria has one of the highest population growth rate in the world at 2.8% per annum or 5.6 new babies a year. Nigeria also has one of the world's highest fertility rate of 5.5 babies per woman in her lifetime. In conclusion as the population grows, the natural resources that are needed to support this growing population remain the same or depleting rapidly. Is the Aso Rock occupant watching this inevitable events of the future in Nigeria or is he putting the politics and the 2015 president election as his main priorities for now? Time will soon tell.

"NIGERIA IS A CLOWN NATION IN THIS 21ST CENTURY HUMAN UNIVERSE"

Our national priorities in Nigeria as a nation are not relevant for any country that truly plans to become an emerging economy in this 21st century. I say it again, publicly and loudly that Nigeria has no bright future ahead of her in her present status quo and business as usual until the official corruption, resource mismanagement, oil theft, tax evasion, import duty waivers, money laundering and smuggling are publicly stamped out at all levels of the Nigerian government and the culprits that are all involved from individuals to businesses and to corporations are also severely punished with the weight of the law.

No democratic country in the whole world including Nigeria can practically meet the fundamental needs of its own citizens in all ramifications if her elected and appointed public officials go into the public life with the primary purpose of gaming the system to their own advantage through constitutional immunity, huge salaries and wages and personally enriching themselves illegally from the state resources that they were elected or appointed to manage on behalf of all Nigerians in the name of public service, democracy and patriotism.

Nigeria has no future if her best brains and minds in 2014 that are well equipped and prepared with the 21st century knowledge in the many areas of the human endeavors, deep insights and leadership skills and global perspectives of the issues of our day are pushed to the background in the act of the governance of Nigeria and then replaced by quota system, federal character, zoning policy, nonentities, mediocre, crooks, forgers, impersonators, men and women of shady characters and easy virtue.

The Nigerian secular and religious leaders will become more accountable to their own fellow Nigerians when the ordinary Nigerians can sum up the needed courage to begin to ask these leaders those important, necessary and tough questions about their stewardship in power and then demand for openness and public accountability from these leaders.

Nigeria is one of the few countries that I know today in this 21st century human universe where the mere words of their secular and religious leaders are treated as infallible by the ordinary Nigerians. These political leaders see themselves as indispensable and the religious leaders see themselves as gods and the mediators between their fanatical followers and God.

"ARE THE 170 MILLION NIGERIANS TRULY BLIND, STUPID AND DUMB?

 I can declare boldly, loudly and clearly that the majority of the 17,500 public elected and appointed officials who are now in charge of Nigeria in 2014 were once paupers and penniless fellows before they went into the public service of Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that the public office becomes the easiest avenue to accumulate the ill-gotten wealth in the name of democracy, public service and patriotism. These money-hungry public officials of Nigeria that are only 0.001% of the entire population of Nigeria are busy gulping and milking the nation's wealth dry in the name of politics, while 80% of Nigerians are walloping in abject poverty of $1 a day living expenses. Are the 170 million Nigerians truly blind, dumb and stupid for allowing these enormous wealth gap, income inequality and poverty in Nigeria to be the order of the day in all reality?

"THE SECRETS BEHIND THE SUDDEN RISE OF THE SAHARA REPORTERS"

The Nigeria's successive governments since independence from Britain in 1960 have all practiced the tradition of aggressively clamping down or closing down private and independent media houses, arresting and prosecuting investigative journalists, silencing dissenting voices and opposition groups, suppressing any form of press freedom and free speech as well as monopolizing the press. The Sahara Reporters that was started by Omoyele Sowore, a former Nigerian anti-establishment student union leader in his days at the Lagos State University was born to from an ordinary desktop computer in New York city that has the free and the unresisted access to the whole world through the internet technology.

This online news organization has operated autonomously, independently and freely from its onset to date .This internet-based news organization is free from the direct interference of the Nigerian government and her security agencies that hate investigative journalism, free speech and press freedom. This online media is protected by the Amendment One of the United States constitution that supports the freedom of religion, speech, press and peaceful assembly for all Americans. The Sahara Reporters is very unique when it is compared with most of the Nigerian-based media organizations that operate inside and outside Nigeria in its operational styles and journalistic goals. 

The Sahara Reporters rely mainly on the ordinary Nigerians (citizen reporters) for his news collection and not primarily on the professional practicing journalists for the news reporting about the menaces of the official corruption in the Nigerian government, the mismanagement of the Nigerian state resources by her officials, the reign of lawlessness, abuse of power, abuse of human rights and the rule of brutality that are happening in Nigeria of today. The Sahara Reporters has the the official policy of protecting the true identities of its informants from the public. The Sahara Reporters has given the much needed international voice to the ordinary Nigerians, the opposition groups and to the dissecting opinions in and outside Nigeria. 

The Sahara Reporters has also received financial help, free money or grant money from the two highly reputable international non-governmental organizations to date that has allowed it to expand and to modernize its entire operations to the 21st century international standards. The Ford Foundation gave $175,000 to the Sahara Reporters and another $450,000 grant came from The Omidyar Foundation. The Sahara Reporters is recognized today by the major international news media, such as, the CNN, New York Times, Daily Beast, Aljazeera, BBC and many others for its reliability, credibility, fairness, boldness, balanced and objective news coverage and reporting. The Sahara Reporters also has more than 600,000 likes on its official Facebook page.

The Sahara Reporters is known globally for its powerful and dynamic investigative news reporting. The media was the first to reveal the true nature of the illness and the final death of the former Nigerian leader Musa Yar'Adua. The Sahara Reporters was also the first new media to publish the photo of the Nigerian man, Farouk Adulmutallab (the underwear bomber) that attempted to bomb an airline over the United States few years ago. This nedia was also the first to expose the current certificate scandal and the official fraud that surround Stella Oduah, the current Nigerian aviation minister as well as many other high-class cases of massive official corruption against the Nigerian public officials. The Sahara Reporters has provided Nigerians with many of these important information that are normally censored by the government of Nigeria or are kept away from the millions of the ordinary Nigerians by the state.

The Sahara Reporters is now a force to be reckoned with in Nigeria by all ramifications. This media organization is today loved by ordinary Nigerians, known as a threat to the Aso Rock villa and feared by the public officials of the Nigerian government. The birth of the Sahara Reporters is similar to the birth of the NADECO, Radio Kudirat and the many other pro-democracy groups that were all born in the days of the military dictatorship of the late General Sanni Abacha of Nigeria. The future of this media organization in New York city remains very bright for now as long as the reign of bad government continues unabated in Nigeria . A government in Nigeria that is primarily symbolized by the official corruption, scandals, official secrecies, massive resources mismanagement, prevention of the freedom of the information act, lawlessness, injustice, mediocrity, nepotism, tribalism, insecurity, violations of human rights, suppression of press freedom and free speech as well as electoral frauds.  

"THE 3 MAIN REASONS BEHIND THE NEW ANTI-GAY LAW IN NIGERIA"

The supreme law of Nigeria under this ongoing democratic dispensation is the Nigerian 1999 constitution. An objective perusal of this legal document shows clearly that Nigeria is a secular nation with the separation of the governance of the state from all her religions faiths and cultural beliefs. That constitution also guarantees the legal right of all Nigerians to the freedom of choice, speech, association and privacy. Nigeria is not a Christian nation, a Muslim nation or the traditional religious faiths country constitutionally and in all reality.

Why did Nigeria enact this anti-gay law in the first instance? Why did it take President Jonathan Goodluck more than 6 months before he decided to suddenly sign this enacted bill by the Nigerian National Assembly into law in secrecy and without much national publicity or press coverage? What is the law designed to achieve in Nigeria in all reality? Who are the primary beneficiaries from this new anti-gay law of Nigeria in all truth, honesty and reality?

The new anti-gay law in Nigeria serves three primary purposes:Firstly, the anti-gay law is needed by President Jonathan Goodluck for the immediate political recovery as a result of his bad and inept leadership that has heavily marred his government with massive official corruption, mammoth resource mismanagement, oil theft, scandals, unabated Boko Haram terrorism, failed campaign promises and the collapsing PDP's political structure under his watch as well as his unpopular presidency. President Jonathan Goodluck needs this anti-gay law for his own political survival as the 2015 uncertain presidential election draws closer.

Secondly, the anti-gay law in Nigeria directly meets the aspirations and expectations of the Nigerian religious bodies and citizens who hate homosexuals to death on the religious grounds. Lastly, the anti-gay law fulfills the heart desires of the Nigerian cultural zealots, bigots and fanatics who blindly consider homosexuality to be totally non-African in nature or origin, but a western civilization and sexual lifestyles that the west is bent on exporting to Nigeria in particular and Africa in general in the age of globalization, Internet, democracy and in the name of human rights advocacy.