I will be reposting some of my old blogs. I need to remind you that Nigeria is not going to make it. It is the nations entrapped in Nigeria that have the possibility to prosper and become world powers.
Mr. Buhari changed the NATIONAL CHARACTER to the NORTHERN CHARACTER. He has no regards or respect for the other nationalities within Nigeria.
The Nigerian law system, one that makes it impossible to throw criminal politicians into jail during their service years and even after, is a mockery of civilization.
Buhari and the failed APC Mandate
By Adeola Aderounmu
It is amazing and shocking that Mr. Buhari is considering standing for elections in 2019. There are several reasons why he should not have given that a thought.
It is definitely one aspect of the agenda if the APC as a political party thought that it could still rescue Nigeria and another aspect if the party or Mr. Buhari himself thought that he is still the person to stand for election in 2019.
During the home run to the 2015 elections, the frailty of Mr. Buhari was obvious. He…
Make love. Make friends. Refresh your spirit. Laugh. Cry. Move, Run. Look back. Look forward. Reflect. Think. Read. Watch. Live! Find happiness and motivation within and around. Don’t take good health for granted. Exercise your body, mind and soul.
Living Abroad Is Not Immortality
By Adeola Aderounmu
Let me drop these few lines from the perspective of a Yoruba living far away from the land of my ancestors. These few lines will be based on my personal experiences.
I met a guy in Sweden in 2013 or thereabout. Indeed, it is a mystery how I didn’t meet him in Festac Town, Yoruba Country before I came to Sweden at the beginning of 2002.
We shared common childhood friends like the Olisehs and he knew many of the guys I played football together with, like Ubaka, George and several more. At that time of my life, my football skills took me near his own place of residence in Festac town precisely along 711 road/ 24 Road. But we met first in Stockholm at the reunion of Festac people in the Scandinavian, the first edition, which I hosted. In the subsequent edition in Finland hosted by Ebunoluwa, he could not make it.
During my visit to Malmö in 2019, he came to my hotel room and as usual we spent some quality time together.
Onyebuchi had probably arrived from Japan in the early 2000s and he contemplated whether to settle in Sweden or not. A few years later, he sent me a private message thanking me for inspiring him to stay in Sweden especially after we met in 2002. If you asked me what I told him or how I inspired him, I have no idea.
I have listened to people saying I (Adeola) did this and I did that, but often I have no recollection of what they are talking about. I just do the things I do and always stay positive that everything will work together for good. I remembered someone said I gave him the opportunity for his first white collar job in Sweden. How was I supposed to know that? It was a job that we needed someone to do, and I found him suitable. That’s just it.
In 2019 I travelled alone to Malmö in Sweden. In fact, it turned out to be my last major travel before the covid pandemic, and the last time I saw Onyebuchi in person. I drove all the way and stayed at a hotel in the central part. But I was visiting 3 friends, all with Festac connection, and Onyebuchi was one of them. It was 2 or 3 days well spent during the summer holiday. Seeing Adex and senior Tolu will always be a pleasure.
If I knew Onyebuchi had issues or could depart so soon (around Jan 1, 2023), I would have strained myself to make another drive to Malmö. Who knows what would have happened? Together, we may have changed the sequence of history. He may still be with us today. But we are mortals. We will die. That we will exit this planet is the surest thing in life. Nobody will leave planet earth alive no matter how long/short, or how good/bad we live. Death is our common denominator.
It’s just very sad to die far away from home when life has not been fully lived, when that dream of growing old is cut short. I’m happy that Onyebuchi made Malmö his home and that he loved his young son with all his heart. The agony that is felt by the families we left in our home country is the sad aspect. It is therefore imperative that whilst we are alive, that we see ourselves as living things that want to survive, that crave for happiness and fulfilment but in the end, not afraid to die. It will happen anyhow.
We left motherland to live in faraway places. Mostly it is in search of comfort, the pursuit of happiness and fulfilment. But our accomplishments of these feats do not make us superhumans. Those who left home to faraway places are not superior beings. They are made of flesh, bones and blood. They are humans living with pains, hope, laughter, good times, bad times, thoughtful and thoughtless times. They fall sick, they get depressed, they may be curable or incurable of their illnesses. It’s still all the same about our frailty and mortality no matter where we find ourselves.
The opportunities we have to succeed are also still relative. They depend mostly on our competences and then that element of luck or coincidence that place us at the right places at the right time. A sad outcome of chasing dreams far away from home is ending up worse than what you could have become elsewhere (home or another place).
Personally, I have no idea if being a professor of Parasitology in Yorubaland would have made me happier than my life in Sweden as a special education teacher (of mathematics). Can I still become a professor? Yes. Will I aspire? I do not think so because it seems I have reached a point where I do not want my knowledge about things and my ways of reasoning to be subjected to measurement any longer. I believe with the right tools; every person can see how infinitely the human brain can function. I have been infinitely influenced by a phrase I saw in my cousin’s hose in Ibadan around 1995/96. Bloom where you have been planted. How do you know where you have been planted though?
If you have family members abroad, you need to start seeing them differently. Indeed, there are several millions of Africans scattered around the world today and the reasons are no longer due to direct slavery (even if some circumstances are similar to it). Abroad is anywhere that is not home. So how many people do you have to take into considerations when you think of the people you know abroad or in different geographical regions from where you are?
People abroad are not superhumans. They will develop new ways of thinking and acting after a long spell in places different from home or birthplace. They will make mistakes; they will fall, and they will try to rise again. They may be out of jobs, and let’s hope that is temporary. Young people generally, will lose their minds and stability if they are out of jobs permanently. Some of us will be crossed due to unstable family relationships. Humans are social animals and any attempt to find a way around that socialization is unhealthy.
Whether we are at home or abroad, we should make efforts every now and then to reach out to another (but not in cases when reaching out can cause you trauma or discomfort). Make efforts to build a new bridge if the old ones get burnt. One of the harms you can do to yourself is to be static. Make love. Make friends. Refresh your spirit. Laugh. Cry. Move. Run. Look back. Look forward. Think. Reflect. Find happiness and motivation within and around. Don’t take good health for granted. Exercise your mind and body. Read. Watch. Observe. Live.
If you open your eyes every morning, if you get out of bed every morning, think about what you can do better this day than what you did yesterday. Think about newer opportunities and if there is a little effort you can make to achieve something great. Within the limit of your human capabilities, not doing harm to yourself, see if you can make a positive influence in somebody’s life. If you can do without a payback, ask them to pay forward. If all you can do at a certain time, is for yourself, to be happy, make it clear.
In the end, home or away, we are all mortals with the same basic needs: air, water, food, companionship, and shelter. The major differences in societies, mainly due to types of government and use of common sense, are access to these things and the infrastructure that adds quality to our lives.
Malmö 2019
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This essay is for you Onyebuchi Echigeme. May the city of Malmö remember you. May your son grow to be strong and worthy. Farewell my friend.
The British-Nigeria colony groom criminals called politicians who have the audacity to enforce poverty by enslaving the masses who in turn chose to be myopic, (stupidly) resilient, possessing a blackholed hope that deserve to be studied in anthropology worldwide.
The dreamers will go to the polls and choose among 3 major criminals in the land. What a country!
British-Nigeria: The Land Of Their Dreams
By Adeola Aderounmu
It is time to write again about the useless process (called election) that is about to take place in the British established colony called Nigeria. If someone had told me in 2018 that Nigeria will still be a country in 2023, I would have disputed it. The reason was/is because of the momentum that came with the aspiration for the re-establishment of the Yoruba Country and the Igbo Country.
These 2 countries that were destroyed by the British through colonization and deceits were on a run to self-determination again, but that positive aspiration was truncated when the Nigeria government headed by one Buhari kidnapped the leader of the Igbo Country, Nnamdi Kanu, in Kenya and forced him to an illegal trial in Abuja, Nigeria. To this day, the trial is ongoing and the travails of Nnamdi Kanu has now resulted in ill-health that may take his life, if unattended to.
The terror acts and gangsterism of the blood thirsty Buhari government were also unleashed on the home of the leaders of the Yoruba Country. Massacres were carried out at the home of Chief Sunday Adeyemi, aka Sunday Igboho but he escaped to Benin Republic which incidentally is part of the Yoruba Country that the French colonial burglars cut away from the main Yoruba Country that is concentrated in the useless country called Nigeria that was formed by the British. The madness of the Buhari-Osinbajo was extended to Benin Republic when the duo, with the help of terror-inclined Nigerian security forces, attempted to kidnap Chief Sunday Igboho but failed.
How can you (if you are normal) agree to go to the polls and choose between 3 criminals, who along with thousand others should be in prison for the rest of their lives. How?
The events that have happened in terrorists-dominated Nigeria since the truncation of the independence aspirations of both the Yoruba and Igbo Countries may have shown that more than 200 million people living across the British-formulated geographical area may have decided to live in Nigeria as it is, the country of their dream so to say. The most singular evidence that these people are living their dreams is their willingness to participate in the planned 2023 elections.
The elections would make it possible for these dreamers to choose among 3 major criminal elements in the land. Atiku, Tinubu and Obi are 3 major frontliners in the elections. We are at a point that I have argued about since 2011. We are at a point that I have written about for more than 20 years. Yes, for more than 2 decades, and I am still writing about it, the same thing. How do you rate my consistency? I have already given myself the award: The most consistent blogger in Africa.
How can you (if you are normal) go to the polls and choose between 3 criminals who, along with thousand others, should be sentenced to life imprisonment. Considering the amount of monies that Atiku, Obi and Tinubu have stolen together, with the consequences of more than 100 million people living in poverty, unsure of the next meal, the 3 of them should not even see daylight anymore. They are hardcore, unrepentant criminals.
So, we are back where we have always been. At a point when we can make life changing decisions. But these people called Nigerians have placed these 3 main criminals on a scale, they have rated their criminalities and found them desirable from different but mainly useless mentalities.
Listen to them. Obi is better, he is younger, he had not stolen so much as Atiku or Tinubu. The foreign report on his criminal activities do not count. It was ignorance, he was this, he was that, bla, bla bla. Nigerians will defend madness. Are they all mad ni? Tinubu used his money to develop Lagos. Are you mad ni? His money? He made men like Osinbajo, Aregbesola, this, that. Absolute nonsense argument. We may never even know who the original Bola Tinubu was. What we know is that this Tinubu threw away his own identity and stole another. A man nearer to 90 years than 75 may probably come to power to sustain the British colony, for the pleasure of the dead queen. No greater calamity on earth than any election in British-Nigeria.
Another criminal Atiku who single-handedly sold Nigeria to friends and cronies under the pretense of privatization during the corrupt Obasanjo (1999 – 2007) regime, will also attempt to keep the Fulani and the British dream alive. In several essays, I have described Atiku as the world’s greatest political prostitute. No one in history has changed political parties more than Atiku. His desperation for power is extreme and dangerous.
Even Peter Obi, a protégé of Atiku has followed that line of desperation, from APGA to PDP. Obi is now in Labour Party because of the desperation for enrichment and power. If he wins, his first assignment would be to pay huge reparation to the founders and stakeholders in the Labour party. Only idiots do not know that political organisations in Nigeria are investments of the Nigerian elites and the British gangsters headed previously by the late queen.
Under the political arrangements in British-Nigeria, the common people (especially those who cannot come in contact with influence to get good jobs or political contact) are destined to suffer for life, till death! I have also stated several times on “making it in Nigeria” which is possible but does not exclude anyone in that geographical area from living in poverty. For many years, my argument is the same: for as long as you are living in Nigeria, I do not see your escape from poverty. But it all depends on your perspective of the true meaning of life.
The British-Nigerian colony groom criminals called politicians who have the audacity to enforce poverty by enslaving the masses who in turn are myopic, stupidly resilient and possessed with a permanent, black-holed hope that deserves to be study in anthropology at every university in the world.
I do not know how else to express my permanent outrage on why a person will go to the ballot to choose a mad criminal to be his boss or so-called president. Even so, the only thing that validates the election in British-Nigeria is the participation and willingness of the people to be used. For, there could never be any validation or even any useless election if all the 200 million people decide that freedom is the only choice. Election results are already done even before election, but the validation comes from the participation of the slaves who think that their votes actually count.
Now they are under the stupid illusion that a plastic called PVC is their saviour. What an idiotic mentality? PVC? Really? What is wrong with these people? How many times can they be fooled in one life time?
A sane mind should be amused or confused in matters where 200 million people are zombified. Nnamdi Kanu was captured, and several million Igbo rallied thereafter behind Peter Obi, a representative of the establishment meant to keep them in poverty and underdevelopment. How? Millions abandoned the struggle that their leader gave his life for.
The human race will continue to suffer mostly because of treachery and treason amongst kinsmen. The kidnap and incarceration of Kanu would have been a catalyst for freedom if the people are normal. It means that they do not understand the meaning and purpose of life. They choose slavery rather than freedom. It is the same for Yoruba who aligned with Tinubu whilst Sunday Igboho is confined to exile in Benin. Yorubaland will not see progress or peace until the independence of the Yoruba Country is reinstated.
Of course, I do know that it is not that simple, that some Yoruba are in support of Obi or Atiku and some Igbos are in support of Tinubu and Atiku. Whichever way, that everybody slept with heads aligned in the same direction (as in looking forward to election in a slave camp/British-Nigeria) is absurd and abnormal.
I have also mentioned the enthusiasm with which I anticipated the 1979 elections. Yes, 1979! It is the same mad enthusiasm that several millions of Nigerians are expressing together. That means this generation of Nigerians will perish in a slave camp. Their children and grandchildren will be born into willful slavery. The same cycle will be repeated. Some will find good jobs; millions will live and die in abject poverty. Some will travel abroad where some will make it, and many will continue to live like slaves and still perish (even while abroad).
Therefore, not supporting The Yoruba Country and the Igbo Country is an aspiration for self-inflicted woes. Speaking of elections in British-Nigeria, participating in it, validating it and hoping in it is nothing but absolute madness. People who join in British-Nigerian elections are of different categories I have discovered. Some people will defend Nigeria to defend their “good” or “comfortable” statuses in the society. They are afraid of change and a system that will prosper all and sundry. This category are people with jobs, businesses and interests that must not be altered. They are insecure. They will support anything as long as it makes them feel good while the suffering masses remain poor and hopeless.
The political elites have remained the most consistent category since the invention of British-Nigeria. No matter their rivalry and hatred for one another, the political status must be maintained. In the end what goes round, comes around in the political circles. That is why the major political parties PDP and APC are in principle like identical twins. Never a love lost.
Then we have the foolish masses. If you want to know about them, please listen to the music of late Fela Kuti. They have been traumatized so much that they worship men and money. They are religious, hope for divine intervention even when all the powers (like abstaining totally from elections) are in their hands.
There is no time today to look at how the North, South, East and West differ in ideology. I have to stop writing somewhere. But you know surely that if the Yoruba Country and the Igbo country emerge, it will lead to the emergence of the Arewa Country, the Middle-Belt country and The Niger Delta Country. Just imagine the world we can leave behind for our children when all these independent countries compete for development and progress in infrastructure, education, medicine, sport and technology. Just imagine how prosperous your grandchildren would be in their time on earth, when you are gone. There is nothing sweeter in life than independence and freedom. Nothing!
This is what the choice is all about: living in slavery and transferring the slavery to your unborn generations, OR fighting/dying for freedom so that the unborn generations can live in a world of progress, harmony and fair pursuit of happiness in the various lands that their ancestors kept for them before the invasion of the British hoodlums created a disharmony that has now culminated in not just extreme poverty and penury, but a violent, intrusive terrorism that may not just wipe away your existence, but also the genealogy of your existence and the end of your type on the planet.
I cannot keep this any longer. On so many WhatsApp group where I belong, I see chats where my mates and people that I know are arguing about Atiku, Obi and Tinubu. These people that my mates and distant friends are arguing about are 3 of the several criminals who have stolen monies or looted monies in different capacities while pretending to be serving a state or the federal government.
For more than 2 decades, one of the cruxes of my essays have been “not settling for one evil over the other”. But still, someone will ask me, who do you support then? Stupid! It’s the electorates…!
It is just a combination of collective amnesia and collective deformed mental capacity that would make more than 100 million people to stupidly and aggressively pursue the sustenance of the British colony that enslaved their grandparents, their parents and them. Whose responsibility is it to break the chain of colonialism and slavery? Whose?
For so many years now, Biafra wanted to be an independent country. For some years now, The Yoruba country that was prosperous before the invasion of the colonial thugs have been trying to regroup to re-establish herself. The Middle-Belt and the Niger Delta have also tried without success to disentangle themselves from the strings of colonialism and now Fulanization.
If there is something worth dying for today, it is for the re-establishment of the civilizations that were destroyed by the invaders from Europe and the Arab world. But my friends, my classmates and my distant friends think that it is not their responsibility to prepare a free country for their children to inherit. They have not sat down for once to think about the possibility of the prosperous lives that our grandchildren and future generations can enjoy when we are gone.
Their silly mind is about today and now. They campaign for criminals in APC, PDP and the so called Labour Party. More than 100 million people are working hard to sustain colonization, slavery and intense terrorism that have wiped away many lives already.
In 2022 “Nigeria”, there should not even be anything called APC or PDP. Almost all the politicians in these political organizations are criminals. So, if there was proper law and order in the first place, all of them should be in prison cooling off. But they are all over the place because the entire population became zombies.
Take a look also at the propaganda machines they set in place. You see criminals like Femi-Fani Kayode, Festus Keyamo and Reno Omokri jumping up and down like rats jumping over glue. In a normal country that we can build for ourselves in Biafra, Yoruba Country, Arewa, Nigerl Delta and the Middle Belt, all these criminals will be locked behind bars forever so that civilization that move forward.
For more than 60 years, Nigeria-the failed entity put together by British thugs-continue to produce different sets of criminals and the people stupidly think that things will be better. Today, that country Nigeria is probably the worst place to be born or live in the whole world.
There is nothing I am going to write today that I did not write 20 years ago when I wrote Why Politicians Steal.
But it pains me, it hurt me that as my generation approaches its prime and soon exit, we have wasted yet another generation.
I do hope that some brave people in a certain generation will arise and free themselves and generations unborn from the slave camp called Nigeria. I will keep the hope alive for as long as a I live.
Did anyone think that Britain would create an artificial African state that would be more powerful or successful than itself? The most single important ray of hope for the people living in the geographical space called Nigeria is to break up the useless, terrorist-infected, terror-controlled country.
A Tragic Existence
Nigeria will remain that failed country that refused to fulfil her potential because that was how it was designed to be. Did anyone think that Britain would create an artificial African state that would become more successful or powerful than itself? Some people have argued that Nigeria is such a mess now because of failed leadership. But have they asked themselves why leaders that initially appeared to be good persons turned out to be criminals and stupid people at the helm of affairs at local, state and federal levels.
Let me be clear, Nigeria was designed as if it would become a world or super power, but it is that same thought of the potentials in the land that have kept the rising population, now more than 200 million people, in hope and bondage for more than 100 years. Do you get it now? The aggregation of the south, west, east and north in 1914 was a perfect recipe for retrogression, failure, disaster and future wars.
This is the end of october 2022 and for me, it sounds like I’m repeating some of the things I worte more than 20 years ago. So imagine if you have been writing about Nigeria for 40 or 60 years, you are writing about the same problems for decades and then somehow some compatriots and people hoping that Nigeria will be better? How? How do I explain to believers in Nigeria that my father and my grandfather had the same hope? Do these new believers descend from space? Were their parents and family members not believers in Nigeria?
Nigeria dealt to some of us a very devastating blow. Nigeria blew our dreams away. All the songs we sang as children and all the hopes we had of what we would be when we grew up all blew in our faces. Yes, some of you got lucky, your dreams came through against all odds. For that I say hats off!
At this end of October, the people called Nigerians have now been re-aggregated mainly into 3 stupid new categories. One for the Tinubus, one for the Atikus and one for the Obis. There are other small aggregations of fools here and there too. They are getting ready for something that I experienced first in 1979 when Awolowo, Waziri, Azikwe, Aminu Kano and Shagari were flagbearers for the 5 or so major political parties in Nigeria.
Please note that I did not at any time in my life studied political science. I knew these politicians because as a 7 year old in 1979, I was fully aware of the challenges that my parents had, so I knew of their wish that Awolowo should become president to solve their life’s problems.
Since UPN won in Lagos State, some of those challenges were met as I went to primary and secondary school for free. In any case, fast forward to 2023 and some people are today having the same hope that me and my parents had in 1979. Do you understand that my parents died never seeing the Nigeria of their dreams?
Do you understand why I can conclude that anyone backing any stupid politician is not a normal human being. How can you wake up one morning and start participating in politics where criminals like Tinubu, Atiku and Obi are the flagbearers? How can you even still be participating in the senseless politics in Nigeria? What is Nigeria to you? Which part of Nigeria still inspires you apart from the music by the youngsters from the south of the Niger? Are you planning to cast your vote and risk in your life in the part of Nigeria controlled by APC or the one controlled by the established terrorist groups?
We shall not find a saint in our regions but we must dismantle Nigeria to even see a new horizon, a new hope and a new dawn for the unborn generations. If you are reading this essay, the Nigeria of your dreams will not come in your lifetime. My parents did not see the Nigeria of their dreams. It was a mirage. We are made to believe and to hope and that is the foundation of Nigeria: Give them hope because that is what slaves need to remain obedient or stupid.
There are choices that will become clear blueprints for the unborn generations. These choices are not available for Nigeria because Nigeria is a house built on sand. What the people entrapped in Nigeria need to do is to set themselves free. They need to go their separate ways and make very solid decisions on how they want to live their lives. They need to discuss about their choices of leaders and make bold plans for the rest of their lives: perhaps some ray of hope to achieve some quality existence before the end of their days.
The people who will establish the Yoruba Nation, the Biafra Republic, the Arewa Country, the Niger Delta Nation and the Republic of the Middle Belt must become selfless when they go their separate ways. They must think with their brains and allow the most progressive members of their countries lead them into the future.
The rancours in the different countries (Yoruba Nation, Biafara, Arewa, Niger Delta, Middle Belt) need to be laid to rest. A common sense ideology of laying the foundation for the future must prevail. The demonic attitude of materialistice possession and folk oppression must evaporate from their mindsets. That stupid, idiotic, moronic, devilish ideology that they used to capture the centre in failed Nigeria must be left back in Nigeria.
In terms of security, these nations must employ all the necessary arsenals at their disposal and they need to cooperate at the international levels to uproot all sorts of terrorism in their respective domains. In the nearest future, Boko Haram and their offshoots must be in the dustbin of history. Kidnapping and all forms of vices in their respetive societies must be zero-ed ASAP.
Priorities should be given to education, health, infrastructure and employment opportunities. Equal opportunities and social justice must prevail. All children must have entitlement to at least 10 years of compulsory free education and laws must be enacted and applied to ensure that compliance come near perfection.
Social welfare and institutions that promote well-being, sense of belonging and sense of social responsibility must be on ground ASAP.
There are so many blueprints that could be copied and adapted to the various peculiarities of the nations that must emerge from failed Nigeria. The Yoruba Country for example was more prosperous in the 1950s than it is today. It is not a bad idea that the blueprints we left back then be re-dusted, updated and adapted to the new world order. Technology and computer advancements can be incorportated in the blueprints to put the Yoruba Country back at the front in the next 3 to 5 decades.
The suceesses of these nations or countries are not tied to our present needs or wants. They must be tied to what is best for our children and the unbron generations.
Anyone still hoping in Nigeria under the status quo will be a fool forever. I hope that a certain generation will read my articles, follow me suggestions, make bold to lay their lives to end the tragic existence of the human race in Nigeria.
The most single important ray of hope for people living in the geographical space called Nigeria is to break up the useless country. They need to retrace their existence as different countries (some listed above), compete with one another for development and set plans for 100 years from now. They must shed their stupid selfish mentalities and plan how their unborn generations can live meaningful and worthwhile lives. Nothing in this life is too late. Our existence has a permanent domino character, therefore the foundation for the good lives of our children’c childrens must be laid now in the different countries to emerge from Nigeria.
Any other suggestion, or the status quo based on senseless morally corrupt and baseless elections (as exemplied by the love and embrace for the 2023 elections) will set Nigeria permanently as the poverty capital of the world. Nigeria will invariably remain the worst place in the world to be born or live. Terrorism will be full-blown, insecurity will reach it’s peak and the meaning and value of life will depreciate even below the lives of earthworms and rats.
A View From The Scandinavian 