I’m sorry if I’m digressing from the better life gist a little. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel really really moved when I think about Nigeria. Do you? I know I am not alone, I certainly am not. I’m not even the first to feel this way, but I feel so strongly that I must contribute my quota into transforming Nigeria into the future I know it has. We might be divided in our past, but we are united in our future. We might have diverse tribes and languages, but we can aspire to one vision. My destiny and if you think about it, yours as well, is tied to this country! When we pray for the peace of our Jerusalem, we are qualified to prosper in it!
I’ve had an opportunity to attend a few brainstorming sessions recently with Fela Durotoye and a number of other passionate change agents in Nigeria, and I know that the cloud is gathering, and the rain will fall! I have had the opportunity also of speaking with accomplished Nigerian business leaders, and the question I find on the lips of the ones with the right values is, “after we have made all this money what next, what legacy will we leave to generations unborn, is this our best as a country?” Think about it, we all believe we deserve a Nigeria that is better than this. I mean, really think about it, you and I know people who would lead and administer every state, ministry and parastatal better. What will it cost us to have 36 Fashola’s spread across Nigeria? What will it cost us? I’m not claiming that he’s a saint, and really maybe what we need as a next step is not an outright saint, but concientous leaders who believe they owe us something in their tenure as leaders.
I regularly marvel at how blessed we are as a nation. You sit down and think about it, not out of patriotism or anything, but standing outside as an observer, if I wasn’t a Nigerian, I would have said that God favoured this country.
Is it arable land? We have it in abundance! While countries like Japan are chocked up without space, and to survive would build airports on water, we have land mass, not only land mass like they have in the Dubai and UAE deserts, we have arable and fertile ground. We have land that can grow anything without much efforts. CIA reports say that we have very good surface water, Malaysia for a fact proved that we could have made more from palm oil than crude oil. Our problem is not our land.
Is it brilliance or intellectual prowess? I don’t mean to be proud, but I have heard of average and percieved below average Nigerians get overseas {yankee or Jand} and become classified as geniuses. I’m sure a number of you out there in diaspora can share stories and testimonies of how you got to your class with a complex and became a super star in 1yr. Do I have a witness? If you look into different disciplines globally as well, you’ll find Nigerians excelling and in top positions. Our brains are correct. Our problem is not in our brain.
Is it man power? Skilled and Unskilled labour, we have! With a population that makes us the most populous black nation on earth, a quarter of Africa and 10% of the black race. We have the numbers and the cost of living that can help us be the manufacturing hub or IT hub of the world. Our unemployement and underemployments rates are so high, some of us are doing more than we should be doing. We have people that we can direct, we have an army that we can lead. We’ve got the numbers. Our problem is not our population.
Is it natural resources? We have in Nigeria over 37 mineral resources that have been discovered in commercial quantity. This means if we shift our gaze from oil, there are 36 other minerals that can occupy our attention sufficiently. In natural resources we rank among the top countries in the world so blessed. We don’t have a want of what to naturally generate income from.
Is it our personality? Nigerians are some of the most passionate people in the world, if not the most. If you want to know, just get two Nigerians to argue about a football match or anything in particular. I once attended a training in poland where I was approached by some of the facilitators on the account of my contagious passion. I told them, that if they think I am passionate, it’s because they have not been to Nigeria. Passion is that quality that makes you put a lot more into whatever it is you are doing. We are passionate people.
Is it our culture? We have one of the closely knit together cultures in the world. We have very close extended family systems, we are more united than most countries. Telecommunication companies are making a killing in Nigeria because we like to be in touch. If viral marketing can work anywhere in the world it’s with us, if word of mouth epidemic can be spread anywhere in the world it’s with us. If all the nations of the earth do network marketing together we have proven our capacity to be number 1. Our culture is not our problem.
What then is our problem? What one thing will we solve that will make it clear to us that things can begin to change? I believe very strongly, and I have the backing of my elders in saying that that thing, is that we the enlightened rise up and take responsibility for our nation. If darkness reigns it’s because light refused to shine. Darkness has no measure, the degree of darkness we suffer is a direct measure of how lightless we are. For how long will we have candles and not light them up, for how long will we have generators and not switch on the light. For how long will we be slaves in our own countries? For how long? For how long will we travel out of our nation to slave it away for other economies simply because they have better systems and consequently better leaders? For how long? For how long will you and I continue to be spectators in the game of our lives? For how long will we wait for television and radio to tell us the fate of our nation. When will you and I become news makers? When?
The answer my friend is NOW! The future is a moving target that changes with every passing second. To capture the future, we must begin NOW. In the weeks ahead, we will put flesh on it, in weeks ahead we will come out with our strategy. Today, let’s build the workforce and the financiers of the future. You are not alone, we are legion! When we come together our productivity increases by as much as 80%. Together, we must build a critical mass of people who when they put their voices together and step out in the same direction, can steer the direction of this nation. Our quest is simple, we want to deliver for Nigeria, the right (visionary administrators who have concrete plans for Nigeria and have demonstrated the capability to lead us) political leadership, and an enlightened (people that are easy to govern, difficult to rule and impossible to enslave) followership. To Join us, click here.
We will celebrate key milestones. Once we are 100, everybody on the database get’s a congratulatory text message. Our next milestone will be 1000, all the 100 will be required to get 10 of their friends subscribed. Then we will work towards, 5,000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 1,000,000 and 5,000,000. There is no demand from anybody at the moment, but the demands will come – demands for skill, for time, for finance, for vision, for presence. Together, we will make this country work, we will leverage on support in Nigeria and in Diaspora. Our brothers and sisters outside are a great advantage, they can be our voices in the cases where our being on ground can be threat. Our activities will be pro-good governance, we will not be a political party but we will work with all political parties. We will be a voice and an arm in the birth of the future. Am I interested in politics? Yes! Do I want to vie for political office in 2011? NO! If we find someone who wants to and has what we are looking for, we will make them our leader. We need light in this country, in evey sense of the word!
The future is the Voltron, the New Nigeria Club is one of the Lions. Let’s form the Voltron! Join the future movement today, and send the mail to your friends. www.thefuturemovement.org/register
46 thoughts on “The Nigeria we deserve!”
“All it takes for evil to triumph over good is for good people to refuse to do anything.” The reason why Nigeria has not witnessed tremendous growth and development is because only few Nigerians are doing something about the state of the nation. The truth of the matter is that good people outnumber the bad people in this country .The only reason why they seem to have an upper hand is because majority of us remain neutral when we should speak up. We may not contemplated on what Martin Luther King Jr.,said about neutrality: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis remain neutral.We must all enlist in any cause that will better the lots of our dear country.I will be part of this!
Hmm,
I’m speechless. May God help us take our destiny in our hands.
The only question is that of leadership and I believe that’s what God is set to give us now!
Yes we can.
“I’m sure a number of you out there in diaspora can share stories and testimonies of how you got to your class with a complex and became a super star in 1yr. Do I have a witness?”
YES O!!!
Wonderful…I have been expecting a post of the future movement here since..Thank God it came right on time.
A friend asked me on facebook
“James, Yes i agree wif u..we are the change our Mother- Nigeria is waiting for – and now is the time.
I registered on your website some weeks back and no respond what so ever…. why that?” Well, i have directed him here..
Nigeria will indeed be what we want it to be.It just need a large number of well meaning Nigerians to cater for her needs..
I’ll keep the flag flying!!!
N.b:
Mr. Deolu
Can i duplicate this on my blog?
Chairman, we will not wait until we are a 100 before refering others to this cause.
I can hear the sounds of abundance of rain… The journey has started, and we must move with speed to actualise this dream.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!
Hey thank God i joined last week without reading this,i feel like joining again.
Nigeria yii ti gbogbo wa ni,
ko ma gbodo baje
Tori kosi ibomiran,Ti a le lo,
Ajo ko le dabi Ile,
Eje ka so wopo ka fimon sokan
Gbee kemi gbe!
Long Live Nigeria!!
Good news, great news, exciting news, the die is cast, yes we can, i’m in for this with the whole of my being, Nigeria’s Future is very bright and we are the future, together we will make happen.
A long road ahead, but we can, we must and we will.
The Future is Now…Now we can deliver the future we dream of. Now we can fulfill the dreams of our Fathers. Now we can fulfill our own dreams and hopes tooo.
Hmm….Hmm……Hmmm…….
This is more than just words o. The records show change won’t come overnight so let me say welcome to the journey of change which has already begun.
Will a new Nigeria emerge? Yes! Will it be in our lifetime? That’s the golden question which by our actions we answer…..
You have my total support on this project. We can not continue to be on lookers and spectators in the scheme of things in this great nation.
Ti ina ba wole….okuku a parada
This is our chance
Oluyemi Adeosun
I look forward to that day when this army, fully prepared and ready will unleash the power of commitment, vision and sacrifice to take back our country from the forces of deceit, lies and rudderless leadership.
The journey will be long, the climb will be steep but certainly one step at a time, with our eyes on the goal and our hand steady on the course, we will reach the mountain top of a great country, where truly Nigeria becomes the pride of every Nigerian…. and everyone who hears about Nigeria
Interesting words that capture the essence of the vision! A great one indeed and kudos for championing the cause. That Nigerians can dream is a well known fact documented in all the numerous blue and white prints which abound in the country with no results. The difference we can make is to match our actions with words and take the campaign beyond mere rhetorics. Possible then we can be assured that the change will come in our generation.
I am registered to the movement based largely on what I have read here. There is a paramount need to increase the information available on the futures website as what currently obtains is not encouraging and will not really provide the required drive needed for a dream this big. Any volunteers required?
Hmmm. Nigeria, our dear dear land. So massively blessed…
I’m proud to be a Nigerian and together we will have a greater Nigeria.
The light is already shinning; there, there is the end of the tunnel…. Oh I see a silver lining. We are definitely in for a big change in Nigeria and it’s going to start this year 2009.
Well done, uncle Dee…This is truly inspiring.
Hi Deolu,
I wish to commend your efforts to organize great minds around making this potentially great country great.
however, please permit me to state my objection to your view that “our culture is not our problem”. Let’s be careful: our culture is our problem and unfortunately we can’t just truncate our cultural systems. The only way to change a culture is to replace it with another one. Our culture is not just the way we dress, what we eat, how we greet, how we wed, or our religion. Our culture is the totality of our thinking pattern and our value systems.
We need to return to the values of our forefathers: Honesty, hardwork, loyalty, selflessness, service, vision, love for neighbour, and moral uprightness.
Righteousness exalts a nation– be it christian or moslem or atheist nation. Our reproach has been due to loss of the values of our forefathers.
Our private sector leaders are yet to demonstrate their ability to do better than their public sector counterparts because both are product of same culture and value systems.
Singapore became the most productive nation on earth because of its national value systems.
What is our national value? What do we celebrate in our country? What do we elevate? What (who) do we worship?
The mind is the key to life. Our mindset is the foundation of our culture. Culture matters!
Same question I ask myself almost every day…
What EXACTLY is our problem?
What really is wrong with being black?
I’ve tried a lot of answers but I’m dissatisfied with them all…I’m still searching…
I am in the midst of a vital chemical reaction when i saw this write up. My heart aches because i will be in this lab till tommorow morning. As i quench this reaction with ice water i began to see the growth of crystals which is just the begining of the remaining 9-steps of this organic synthesis. I read this mail with smiles, as i wonder how similar this synthesis is with the birth of our new Nigeria. I am writing this comment for each step in the reaction.
Believe me, the reaction is on the verge of finishing because i am right now on the 6th step, the other three seems very simple.
Please, i am not adding to this write up, but i am alligning my passion with it and want everybody to put their hearts together in this timeless project as it may seem. We have started the growth of the crystals, without doubt we will get there. Whatever needs to be done, whether by reconscientising our minds from the unseeming culture we are trying to adopt which is far from the ancient landmark as said by Opeyemi Onifade or any contrary position by any other person. All we crave for is a starting point. Once it comes, believe me,like this large organic molecule, we will synthesize the new and blessed Nigeria.
Please count me on… Oga Deolu. I salute your passion again.
@ Opeyemi,
I believe you have just decided to look at the cup from the other side. Half empty or half full, are not factually different.
You said it rightly when you said the good culture is that of our forefathers. Our forefathers who were the founders of our nationhood, esteemed great values.
If we dig back into our past however, we’ll see idolatry, adultery, and all forms of wickedness. We can’t like the US boast of a past where our forefathers met to agree that in God they trust. We have one thing in common however, the future. That future must be our rallying point.
Today we have nothing that binds us, so we create. We say that we are PATRIOTIC Nigerians. P-Problem Solvers, A- Aspirational, T-Timely, R-Role Models, I-Integrity, O-Outstanding, T-Trustworthy, I-Impactful and C-Compassionate. We didn’t have it in the beginning, but now it’s in our now future.
Singapore did not become the most productive nation from a value system, they became from a leader who instilled with business precision, a value system. If Li Kuan Yu died before he finished he would have been called a tyrant. He drove his people to excellence.
Under the leadership of Idiagbon, our people bought a value system by force, and like the dog in Pavlov’s experiment, it was becoming a habit. We were gradually coming to also ask WAI.
How do we fix our value system, how do we cure our society of corruption? How do we wipe away the reproach of ignorance and illiteracy. I have one answer – Leadership. That’s the fulcrum on which it all hangs. How do we as a nation get our minds to focus in the same direction around the same values? Leadership!
How is Dubai doing it.. Visionary Leadership, how is China doing it- they are driving the right behaviors from the top. My brother, when we first assemble ourselves together, and ensure that we are led by people who if we had the choice, would lead us, then we would have started moving.
No doubt the solution is not as simplistic as one thing, but you know, that by background I am an engineer, all I need to find is the fulcrum, the lever and find the spot that with least effort can get our world moving. Many things matter my brother.
Good job chairman.
I am glad to announce to the world that the cloud which now appears like a man’s hand will soon lead to a deluge.
You are either part of the rain or get beaten by the rain.
I am happy to have enlisted. I am drawing a list of my 10 friends to take us to 1000 once we reach 100.
Nigeria will flourish again in our time.
@Deolu as much as I hate to, I beg to disagree with you.
you said “We can’t like the US boast of a past where our forefathers met to agree that in God they trust”
I think we can very well boast of that past Deolu,
we only need to look back a bit to do that, not to the leader’s imposed by colonial master some 50 odd years ago, but to those who formed and cultivated those same values you mentioned in your write-up. they agreed and cultivated those same vaues we are now proud of under the God they believed in.
Oyinbos did not teach us how to care for family, respect old and young, be selfless, hardworking, speak the truth, refuse to lie, steal or cheat they did not even teach us how to chose leaders with the right judgement. we chose some great Alaafins, some wonderful Obis, and some amazing Sarkin’s. we also chose bad ones too. and we did all that before the first whiteman rowed his boat to the bight of Benin.
yes, along the way, just like any people all over the world, we lost a connection to that which is good in us and allowed the values of our society to be eroded by the vicissitudes and circumstances of life
Deolu, I agree with you though that we need to look to the future and climb on the shoulders of those who are doing it right, but we should not dismiss those who taught us those same good values we boast of and call them idolaters.(whatever that means) there are bad Muslims and Christians amongst us now who are not living true to the values of the faith they profess.
Like Opeyemi said, we need to address our value systems. we have issues, but I believe they are human issues that we can solve as a generation if we are willing to make the sacrifices.
well done.
I wish us all the successes as we you push for those changes
Deolu, i am totally with you on this and i support what you and others like you are doing, our future is in our hands indeed! This is a Revolutionary road that will yield great dividend for us all and generations yet unborn, I am spreading the word of what is happening here like a pregnant woman that has a craving! I crave change! I see change coming and i want to do more as a change agent! The bible in Rev 3-16, says if you are neither hot or cold, God will spew you out!I am hot as regards true change in Nigeria! For me there is no sitting on the fence! God will help us all
Pls let us know if it will be okay to put this on our blogs, and various groups on facebook!Thanks again!
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Adeolu you have wowed me again! you are a genius you know, I met a man yesterday about 45 or 50 years old who was a mentor to me when i was doing my SIWES at NTA 10. He asked me what I do and i told him about them, he then asked me if i was making enough money from it, to which i replied that money is not the attraction but to reach young Nigerians and chart a new course for them. Behold he started telling me i was not a nigerian, i do not have nationality at all that what i see today as Nigeria was the amalgamation in 1914 of strange bed fellows. and any effort i put in nigeria and supposed NIGERIANS is wasteful. i didnt have much time to spend with him and educate him ‘cos i was hurrying to catch a bus to my destination. but i believe so many youths have believed this theory and have resigned to just standing by doing nothing. but with this, i am sure they will wake up, and realize that we can make this “nigeria” whatever we want it to be.
N.B the next edition of my magazine comes out in march after NUGA games, can i use this article and then direct readers to this future movement website????
Chairman i suggest newnigeriaclub start a TV programme like a townhall or village square meeting.
More nigerians need to share and benefit from this discourse.
Deolu i agree with you about driving the right behaviours from the top. I am not an AC card carrying member nor a friend of Fashola, but he has exemplified leadership and right behaviours, the guy does not pass through the BRT lane even if he was in a mad traffic, he does not use his siren when moving, he moves just with the convoy and lights and sometimes outriders, and i dont see im in one party or the other spraying Naira as if he prints them. I stand to be corrected, but level of discipline has gone up in Lagos, the streets are clean, you wont even feel comfortable throwing things on the road anymore and almost every part in Lagos is going through a reconstruction, a total construction or a simple repair. We can get it right, history or not if we get our leaders right, like you said “find is the fulcrum, the lever and find the spot that with least effort can get our world moving” getting right leaders is the spot where we can set the lever and get things moving. “GUIDE THOU OUR LEADERS RIGHT, HELP OUR YOUTH THE TRUTH TO KNOW” I think we should just adopt second stanza of our national anthem. check it out Deolu!
I have begun inviting people first by giving up my facebook status feed for shouting about it. Building the nation from the ruins is a conscious, deliberate effort.
The Obama movement is a great example of what we can achieve if we dont remove our hands from the plough.
I think we can create stickers, Lapel pins, souvenirs and more to raise inquisitiveness about the Future movement. We can multiply the rate of informing people about it by create in the login page access to people maill addresses by entering their e-mail and its password and then mailing them invites. or simply give room for pple to give pples maill addresses etc.
I completely agree with Opeyemi. A person is a product of its values. I have the opportunity of passing through Oshodi everyday and when I consider the values people live by, I know why we are where we are. Our values are responsible for where we are today and until they change we can’t make any kind of progress.
That we need visionary leadership in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. Nigeria is blessed with people that will follow (and not rebel) when there’s ANY kind of leadership pointing the way. Ever wondered why the market women at Oshodi and the area boys have not dared to return to the rails after Fashola chased them away? Its just that, we will follow once someone shows the resolve to lead.
Before we wait for another person to handle it for us (passing the buck), let’s begin in places where we have some form of influence. Some of us are parents, elder siblings, employers of labour, and leaders in various areas where we can exert some influence, teaching the right values-honesty, timeliness, integrity and stuff like that.
We can build this country, if we choose not to be a part of the problem but a part of the solution. It is a gradual change process but it to be conscious and deliberate. We can if we decide to and if we pursue it.
I’ve given up my status feed on facebook to invite people to join the movement and will continue to do so but i’m sure there is a lot more driving we need to do to raise the 5 Million.
Obama did it with the Change movement so can we.
The future has begun no stopping now
thanks
wow… where do I start from now. I’m so awed by all these comments, the ones that agree totally, and the ones that disagree in part. Thank you all, thanks. We will find strength in the intersecting points of beliefs aka our common grounds.
@ Biddy and Jesus Freak – Please you have my total permission to replicate the same thing on your blogs. In fact, it is open to every one. You can use the image, the write up, anything you need.
@ Christopher – Please go ahead and use it in as many magazines as you want, everybody else, pls, no copyright on this article.
@Toni – You are a genius! I’ll send your comments to our IT team. Anybody who is willing can also please give up their status messages for a few days to the future movement. And yes, we have a number of concepts that we are learning from the so successful Obama movement. A lot of it is under development.
@Barigi – Well said, volunteers are needed on all and many fronts. As soon as we reach key milestones, we would engage the hands. Ideas, thoughts concepts, are very welcome now.
@ Oluyemi – You must be a prophet. TV is the number 1 domain we’ll be hitting, and trust me, you will be so excited when it begins to unveil. -not village square… but extremely extremely cool concepts. What we are forming now is the voltron.
@ Olumide – I read what you wrote and I’m not sure where we disagree. In case we do, you are welcome on board. We need all the voices to project a future that works on a plan that considers all the possibilities.
Please know, that I am only one voice amongst many voices advocating for the future. In time, all the lions will connect. Let’s keep it cracking!
THANKS DEOLU, inform me please when the time comes for the tv programme, i may be able to contribute a thing or the other. who knows? we will get there bro!
Splendid! I attended the World Future Energy Summit (www.worldfutureenergysummit.com) in Abu Dhabi last week – over 16000 profesionals and business men, passionate about sustainable develpment, energy innovation and climate change were there. World leaders and Fortune 500 CEOs were also there. Guess what? the few africans that i met there were almost all nigerians!
Our nation currently has, and is developing more competent visioners than ever before. The die is cast, and those that ignore these opportunities today would have themselves to blame. I’d gladly join anything that involves the future. I would be honoured to be a part of the future movement! Thanks Deolu!
The Future is now! Abu Dhabi is a wealthy city that normally ought to sit down and just relax in their massive oil wealth, but guess what? they are pioneering innovation in renewable energy, with their Masdar City initiative (www.masdaruae.com), and young people are the driving force of this initiative.
We have no reason to be indifferent. “Innovate or Die” is the challenge faced by global businesses today.
Sir you touch my heart again, i feel like crying but it will not solve the problem,am 100% in support of this am ready let move sir .
ALWAYS PROUD OF NIGERIA ANY TIME ANY DAY.
Thanks.
YES WE WILL, WE MUST!!!
The cloud is no doubt gathering and when it is thick, it brings down the rain.
YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ all
y’all gettin me fired up.e no go easy sha,change dont come cheap.but i’m all glad that you guys represent change.
@ deolu
i’m young i’m proud i’m nigerian!i’m the 129th member @ thefuturemovement…m excited!i’m a fresh grad of OAU,ife waiting 4 aug nysc batch.
dee,can i hold it down for OAU maybe ife as a whole?i reside in ib,ibadan,i could be useful in ib too?..aint got be easy tho but i guess i got my obama on!hearts are on fire!i’m down!
the land is green.lets go there!hola!
my brother you are not alone,i have had toughts on why nigeria our beloved country has allowed us to be relegated to the lowest division in the world affair or economy.and the worst part is that we are no where close to the top of the division,sighting an example lets assume chelsea fc was relegated,i know this must be you would say i am dreaming but hay it is possible afterall nigeria was one of the emerging economies thanks to our able leaders until we messed up everything they dreamt and hoped for us to be by now,oo what a shame may their gentle souls rest in peace ameen.back to what i started lets really assume chelsea was relegated with thesame owner,directors,manager,players and fans still at the helm of their respective positions.and find them selves strugling to survive with all the potential they have got,that is the way i kind of see nigeria.we have got everything but none of this group or at least most is willing to take responsibility and do what is right.the owner which i believe we all are,the directors and managers who are governments,the players who are pivate sectors and ordinary civillians and the fans who are foreigners who i bet are scared of us and our nation would be the least place they would like to visit.we as nigerians put our selves as a religeous country but we still dont know what faith is,americans believe faithfully and passionately about their country thats why they are where they are today.i bellieve the time to act is now as everythin we are borsting about with nothing to show for would one day expire but what we establish would not for generations to come after all the world would to an end some day!
Oga D,
Thanks for being a source of inspiration to many. The ripple effect has started and trust me, than you can ever imagine.
Well, i am glad that as true Nigerians we are ready to take our destiny in our hands. A big question is how much are we ready to sacrifice to chart this course, people? Keep the fire burning and keep the shovels moving. The end has come to bigoted governance. The New Nigeria is evolving!!!
Thank u for this piece,i believe we can make it work together. Nigeria has got it and soon will start to flunt it. we are gradually waking up,this generation believe in its people and the nation,and desire nothin but the best. GOD BLESS NIGERIA
Thank you so much for this master piece. This is a clear vission and a very big dream. I know dreams comes in sizes that we grow into them. I strongly belief the dream will work if all stakeholders, major players and youths put hands on deck .
All we need to get started is to have one vissionary thinker like Deolu Akinyemi, in all 37 states in Nigeria.
I want to encourage you to be focused on this project, because positive change does not come easily. But I assure you, this is history in the making. I don’t want to fold my hands and watch great things happen around me. I greatly desire to be part of history. I am highly interested in this great vission to make our only country work. Please, am enlisted as one of the major advocates of this great vission.
Thank you Deolu.
Oyeniyi Olubobokun.
My brother,
Just wants to add that you should focus, focus, focus on this dream I know you passionately believe in. I’ve been following things up on the movement and I know to some extent a few things.
Please FOCUS and avoid DISTRACTIONS.
You remain blessed.
bros, what is our problem? i dont want to say i have stopped believing. i am still a believer and a doer. but its just as if when i turn my back, a worse thing just happens. just look at the Ekiti state re-run. what do you have to say about it.i visisted fela’s website and there was a page where he was outlining the goals that will be achieced by 2025 and it pained me so much because i just feel with what happening now if we can really achieve the vision.
its no doubt that we are a blessed people and very religious too. that is why i wonder if God has turned his back against us.please forgive me for bearing my mind. i am deply hurt with whats happening.
OMOZELE, you made a cogent point, a country like ours is worth praying for. the issue of Ekiti comes not as a suprise but a repeat of the Jos incidence some years ago.
in my own opinion a sole administrator should be assigned to that state and let the elections be suspended till further notice, because we cannot afford to waste the resources that “we say are not available” on a group of people who do not appreciate the emergence of a NEW NIGERIA, where violence in all its forms and holiganismwould be a thing of the past.
let this message go to friend and foe alike, that IKOTUN ADEBISI believes in a NEW NIGERIA, one where peace and justice rains, where people are passionate about being patriotic, where the common man is given fair hearing in the place of deprivation of Fundamental Human Rights. all who anticipate this dream will definitely see it come to reality.
PROUDLY NIGERIAN
today we celebrate 10 solid years of democracy in this country. i strongly believe that a country like ours having achieved this feat should be able to boast of certain landmark achievements. today we stand in the face of a depressed economy, we live in an environment where good morals are no longer encouraged, where the meaning of democracy has be re defined to suit the Nigerian environment and characters- “DEMON DEY CRAZE” and a lot more that pains me as i look at them.
what is the future of democracy in this country?, what are the benefits we hope to get?, where do we go from where?
the democracy we claim to bring liberty, has it not been the instrument which our politicians use to oppress us? is it not this same democracy that has created a more conducive environment for thuggery and other social vices?
NIGERIA MUST BE SAVED FROM ADULTERATED AND MISCONCEIVED DEMOCRACY, WE MUST STAND UP AGAINST EVERY FORM OF DEMOCRATIC MADNESS THAT IS GRADUALLY GAINING GROUNDS IN OUR SOCIETY.
HAPPY DEMOCRACY DAY NIGERIA. !
2011 is so close and many who have been victims of poor leadership are nowhere to be found. many are sulking and crying telling stories of woes and sorrow instead of saying enough is enough to bad leadership! i do not know if anyother person isnt tired but i am tired of incessant strike by asuu thereby hlting the dreams and destinies of many youths, i am also tired of the continuos power failure and many more.
please let us understand that “things do not change, we change inoder to change things”. let everyone who still believe in our country to come out and start taking action.Nigeria will rise again.
hmnn…strongly believe in d new nigeria and as embarsing as dis mst sound m just hearin bout a forum like dis 4 d first time(wia in heavens av i been?)Nigeria has been dubbed d ‘generator generation’ wia things that r suposed 2 b alternatives r d main thing!…pple employ vigilantes 4 security wen d police has failed,generator in lieu of electricity,boreholes wen there is a virtually non existent water corporation,…d list is on and i believe wit all my heart dat nigeria wuld rise again,wen it is darkest dawn is about 2 show up…d wen i dnt kno but i pray it wld b in my generation.d past generation has failed us,hope d next generation wnt say d same thin bout us…m wit u guys all d way,great jod deolu.God kip u!
God Bless Nigeria!