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Assalamu alaikum,
Problems everywhere and everyday that are threatening the survival of Nigeria: Obasanjo, religious crsises, MOSOB, un-employment, insecurity, hyper-inflation, etc,. etc. the list is long.

Nigerians need to turn to Allah (SWT) with prayers and fastings, etc.

There is a Christian saying and I'm sure there must be the same in Islam
"Prayer alone is not enough without good works."

There are quite a few Dave that essentially say the same thing. A Hausa saying that may or may not  be derived from Islam goes"Allah ya ce tashi in taimake ka" or Allah says get on your feet first and then I'll help you"

If you take into account the amount of prayers being offered by Nigerian moslems daily and the no of churches that followed the new generation revivalism in the christian fold over the last 15 or so years, then there's definitely something wrong with this picture.

We either need to get our act together and start doing something to effect a change in the countrys fortunes to complement the "prayers", or continue praying and telling ourselves it could have been much worse if we hadnt been praying blah blah blah.

For the last 8 years or so theres a comical tirade of predictions of doom,  imminent break up, war etc etc during the New year celebrations , sometimes with actual dates of the impending calamity, and when it comes to pass we all breathe a sigh of relief as the holy men explain how they averted the danger by the power of "prayer"  

One chap was actually arrested when his prediction of the presidents death came to pass without incident, and  baba declaring "i dey kampe"

Of course the holy man of God had simply altered destiny by "praying" away the great national calamity into the future.

Allah ya sawake mana Amin.

It is Nigeria that is the problem, the concept and the system. Nigeria cannnot work as a soveireign Nation.  It is better we de-amalgamate it or atleast restructure it.

IT IS NOT NIGERIA THAT NEEDS PRAYERS/FASTING, ITS D PEOPLE LIVING INSIDE IT. NIGERIA HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG. ITS SOME OF THE PEOPLE DOMICILED INSIDE NIGERIA THAT ARE @ WRONG AND NEED 2 SERIOUSLY REDEEM THEIRSELVES!!!!!! [/b]

No Ummita pls, God cannot be that partial to have the people of Nigeria to be incapable. People of Nigeria are as good as other people anywhere. Evidence of this is their achievements across the globe under a system and a concept different NIGERIA.

Nigeria in its geography, administration, vision and mission cannot work. Nigeria is wrong. Let it be restructured or at most be de-amalgamated.

Assalamu alaikum,
Mallam Ibrahim Waziri i agree with you that 'Project Nigeria' has failed. Nigerai needs prayer, after all Prophet Ibrahim prayed for Mecca, etc. It is allowed in Islam for people to pray for the betterment of their country. When all ideas does not seems to work people should turn to Allah (SWT) repenting and praying for His mercy.

Assalamu alaikum,
Mallam Ibrahim Waziri i agree with you that 'Project Nigeria' has failed. Nigeria needs prayer, after all Prophet Ibrahim prayed for Mecca, etc. It is allowed in Islam for people to pray for the betterment of their country. When all ideas do not seems to work people should turn to Allah (SWT) repenting and praying for His mercy.

Allah said "Tashi Na taimakeku" meaning "Wake up and i'll help you". Similarly to a verse that appeared in the Bible "God help those who help themselves".

So every Nigerian have to wake up, help himself against anything that is wrong (Bribery & Curruption) then things would be back to normal for him. Not to join alies of the corruption (leaders).

May A.S.W.T guide us in the rightous path.

Salam

I say Nigerians ought to work Hard and Pray Harder or vice versa!
Not much will change though. With the kind of leadership we have today it is a miracle Nigeria is still in one piece.

Restructuring or deamalgamation will NOT solve our problems.

Why?
Because it is the same Atikus and Obasanjos who will rule the loosely federated units. The problem is a problem of management and leadership not composition!
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Kun san ance baki (hau) ma yana sa abu ya lalace, Well as Ummita said, the ppl in nigeria need prayers.
My own is Allah ya shirya, (kunsan baki na yanada wani irin miraculus :roll:  albarka dat was passed on from my  great grand father's father)........
(oops am letting da secret out)

Neway...Allah ya bamu sa'an ci gaba. Amin

Assalamu alaikum,

A Letter to my Wife, Nigeria, on her 44th Birthday

By Prince C Dickson
pcdbooks@yahoo.com
October 13, 2004


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      My sweetheart, happy birthday in arrears. My plenty apologies over my inability to send you this before now, owing much to the stress you have put me through I hardly ever can keep to my deadlines.

My dear Nigeria, I want to state that, first, I love you, however I regret my marriage to you as it has only brought me and our family hurt and pain. At 44, it hurts me to see you still behave like a juvenile; Your behavior is such that as I write this I do not know honestly were to confront you from. Your promiscuity, has seen you, give money in the name of loans to Ghana, Sao-Tome and the likes while you groan at home under the pains of debt. Virtually all you lay your hands to do has had the signature of abysmal failure. Recently one of your sons the Nigerian Navy and its cousin the Nigerian police exchanged words over the disappearance of two ships, "ships not canoes", after many hullabaloos, one reappeared.

My sweetheart, the Yorubas have an axiom 'that a man who sells plates yet eat on leaves should have his head re-examined'. You have through your father, President Obasanjo, inflicted pains on the populace your children through "annual" fuel increase and the amount of strikes my uncle NLC has embarked upon in recent times simply makes military rule a Childs play. I wont burden you by chronicling your entire 44years but let me start from the recent past especially since it became obvious that at 40 you had started displaying the propensity, to be a fool forever. In contemporary times, you have started breeding talibans in the north, terrorists in the south all because of an ill-equipped security network. And leadership whose stock in trade is lying to the populace, 99% of times you have lied to you children, now each time you greet them 'good morning', they simply go outside to be sure its morning.

The way you have treated elders, 'pensioners' and senior citizens that have put in years of distinguished service only draw curses from these men. Maybe things would have been better, but the caliber of men you surround yourself with in your governing council "senate" is only wrong steps in the right direction. Their words of knowledge have only been shorthand in disaster. In the name of deregulation and liberalization, you have been deceived with into mortgaging the life of your wards to perpetual poverty, as you continually dance to the dictates of foreign countries to the detriment of your kids. At 44years you have displayed all signs of social stasis, nothing is moving in any direction, everyday your money loses value and each day glides toward becoming a worthless paper. As you prepare to count the number of your children, (census) some of your children from time to time decide to reduce their number in the name of God through religious fanaticism. Your children from different fathers which include me have just found it unable to co-exist.

In the last six months you have made 1.6 trillion Naira and all this have been "waked" and "chopped" by the looters that surround you, at the rate you are going my darling you have continually threatened the foundation of your own very existence. With so much in potential, you have continued to under-achieve my wife, nothing is happening, nothing seems to be working. All your kids ask for is three square meals; all you give is one round meal of hardship called reforms. On occasion of this your birthday, I don't mean to kill you with the negatives, but in the words of John Keats "there is no hell than failure in a great object." Your children are loosing patience on daily basis as they battle for survival. The name Nigeria has started to backfire.

My darling Nigeria a year older, should be a year wiser, I don't know if that can be said about you.

I conclude by asking you sweetheart what do you want from life, what manner of future are you charting ...your children may never forgive you for your actions today, I honestly believe my letter to you next year will include a congratulatory card because you might have changed your ways. 44 disheartening cheer to you my wife Nigeria.

Nigeria is the problem, project Nigeria has really failed like EMTL observed. All these things about hardwork and prayers were what Nigerians have been doing all these years and there is nothing good that was not recommended for Nigeria but all did not work.

Nigeria must be as some say deamalgated or it will just deamalgamate by itself.

The reasons for Nigeria's problems are not the constitution. They are corruption and incompetence which are widespread across the whole Federation in every tribe and in every religion.
If Nigeria is to break up it should not be for the wrong reasons. The present constitution is not the reason for corruption. How can the common people be expected to be incorrupt, honest and hard-working when they see all the "big men" stealing the nation's riches and getting away with it.
Nigeria will start on the long road to reform when the people see corrupt leaders in court charged with theft and corruption.
Nigeria needs an incorrupt and very strong leader who is ready to take some very difficult decisions and take fierce action even against his friends. I do not mean another military rule as those in the past have been no more honest than the elected ones.
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Wishful longing for Nigeria's breakup as a solution to our problems is a waste of time INHO. I've said b4 and I still say that self-determination is simply a mirage to the unbearable barrenness of a failed nation-state, i.e. Nigeria. The same problems that makes Nigeria unbearable will continue to haunt the mini-states. Would the Igbos really want to be with the Yorubas? And even if east ad west break up, what will become of the Niger- delta? Aren't these the ppl who were making noise recently (Asari and co)? Speaking of the south specifically, infact every village will demand the right to determine its own political future; so what we will have in the end is chaos. It's easy for us to think Nigeria's breakup will solve all our problems but it won't. Corruption wont just disappear because weredrew some boundary lines. Sometimes I wonder if our clomor for a break-up is due to our sub-conscious refusal to collectively accept the blame for the nations problems i.e. "it's the other side that messed up Nigeria, not us' mentality.