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Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Muslim identity and thought in Nigeria derive from the Sufi brotherhoods of Qadiriyya and Tijaniyya, primarily as a result of the historical role of the Kanem-Borno and Sokoto caliphates in the spread of Islam. The Sufi orders and the Izalatul Bidi’a wa Ikhamatis Sunnah (People Committed to the Removal of Innovations in Islam; hereafter Izala) are the two dominant contemporary Muslim foci of identity. The disdain towards and fear of boko (Western education) arose from its historically close association with the colonial state and Christian missionaries. This also suited colonial educational policy well, as the British had no intention of widespread education anyway. The aim of colonial education, particularly in northern Nigeria, was to maintain the existing status quo by “imparting some literacy to the aristocratic class, to the exclusion of the commoner classes” (Tukur 1979: 866). By the 1930s, colonial education had produced a limited cadre of Western-educated elite, who were conscious of their education and were yearning to play a role in society. Mainly children of the aristocratic class, the type of education they received was “different from the traditional education in their various societies, and this by itself was enough to mark them out as a group” (Kwanashie 2002: 50). This new education enabled them to climb the social and economic ladder over and above their peers who had a different kind of education, Quranic education. This was the origin of the animosity and distrust between the traditionally educated and Western-educated elite in northern Nigeria. Though subordinate to the Europeans, these educated elite were perceived as collaborators by their Arabic-educated fellows. Thus the antagonism towards Western education continues in many northern Nigerian communities, which have defied government campaigns for school enrollment to this day.

Nigeria runs a condom democracy, which prevents the disease of military rule but fails to provide the pleasure of civilian rule. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.

None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.

No matter what vision you have in Nigeria. The first thing that must be done is to destroy Terrorist.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.

Only desperate and corrupt politicians can use rigging, thuggery, vote buying, violence, trouble, assault, propaganda and lies to win an election and take over power by force.

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Our nation Nigeria CAN & MUST become a great place to live, otherwise we will have to answer to more than just the next generation

Since the old anthem, "Nigeria We Hail Thee" was abandoned, there's been little or nothing to hail Nigeria for. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Since Nigeria has refused to fully embrace the present reality as it is, that is; the importance of science and technology, the redundancy of religion, the need for pragmatic international relations, economic reforms, support of entrepreneurship spirit, etc., but rather, has continued to accept the world the way it has choose to see it, that is; the supremacy of supernatural belief over human intelligence, the sacredness of tribalism, the abuse of democratic tenets, inability to appreciate scientific truth, its desire to be lifelong importer of finished products, etc., all of which have become our reality, then one would imagine how soon we can attain self-reliance.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity.

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They say he is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his own spirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.

The INEC postponement is an obnoxious odoriferous political crinkum-crankum aimed at exposing Nigerians to emotional hullabaloo.

The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.

Prayers don't build good infrastructures. They don't develop countries. They don't improve the poor healthcare system or the education system. God has placed man in charge of ALL.

The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to the absence of this light.

There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!

There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live

The rejection of Western democracy derives from the same rejection of secularism but was further sharpened by the Saudi Arabian establishment’s aversion to democracy’s subversive streak and the threat it posed to the Saudi monarchy if unleashed. Saudi scholars such as Sheikh Bakr Ibn Abu Zaid consistently attacked democracy and the freedoms it flaunted as anti-Islamic. Mohammed Yusuf was heavily influenced by the writings of Saudi-based scholars such as Bakr Ibn Abu Zaid, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Abd-Allah Ibn Baaz (1910-99), and Sheikh Muhammad al-Amin ash Shanqiti (1907-73). As mentioned before, all of Yusuf’s opponents side-stepped the issue of democracy being un-Islamic, thereby making the issue appear incontestable or settled.

The sun rose this morning failing to dissipate the haze barely hanging above the palm fronds. A windy morning, and that inner feeling of something different about to start. A sub-Saharan harmattan; a blow of kiss with a tender chill. A chill not suited for a fireplace, but soothed by a soft sweater draped across my aging shoulders. When I close my eyes, I felt what I assumed to be teardrops on my feet. The manifestation of my ambivalence about the many years of my sojourn in foreign lands. I escaped from a state of despair as the harmattan wind blows, whistling and whispering my name across pine trees. I am home in Africa

The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

There's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Nigeria.

The vast majority of arrests carried out by the military appear to be entirely arbitrary, often based solely on the dubious word of a paid informant. Military sources repeatedly told Amnesty International that the informants are unreliable and often provide false information in order to get paid. One officer said: "The military uses civilian informants to get information and arrest suspects. Most of these informants are liars. They give false information to the soldiers who are desperate to simply shoot and kill. Many of the soldiers don't know about investigations. The soldiers take these rash actions mainly out of frustration, especially after seeing their colleagues killed.

To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen

To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.

To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.

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We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it

We must stop calling corruption a “Nigerian factor”.

We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

You and I must work together to develop Nigeria to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve all the basic essentials.

You can't put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

The Nigerian economy needs the world, and the world needs the Nigerian economy.

This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8

Whenever the grass looks greener on the other side. Stop staring, stop comparing, stop complaining and start watering the grass you are standing on to grow the Naira.

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

Without doubt, our inability to design and implement a sustainable economic framework has resulted to our present ranking on the globalization index; a precious market to the productive countries.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation.

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.

Change Won’t Happen Immediately, as Nigeria’s Problems Didn’t Start Overnight

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.