{"id":582,"date":"2010-10-01T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opeosho.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:21:51","slug":"happy-birthday-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opeosho.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
Its taken more than six months for this post to come, and now it has come, it is on a very emotional and topical issue on the entity called Nigeria<\/strong>.<\/address>\n

First, I must state that at 50 there\u2019s not much to jubilate about, but we must jubilate and jubilate we must. I remember when I clocked 18 and also when I clocked 21, I did not only jubilate, I celebrated it, not because I had achievements to show, but because it is a tradition to celebrate such milestones.<\/p>\n

The Idea<\/h3>\n

A lot of us carry the tag Nigerian yet aren\u2019t proud of the entity called Nigeria, not because we are ingrates but largely due to a failure of leadership and mismanagement of the Nigerian economy. For some time now, I have nurtured the idea of dissociating myself from the geographical entity called Nigeria and rather claim to be a citizen of the World (the geographical entity where the Almighty has created me). This idea has not progressed beyond that level because of the many man-made structures and barriers standing in its part.<\/p>\n

Now I resolve to keep that idea in the cooler till a much later time when it becomes feasible to translate it into reality.<\/p>\n

The Substitute<\/h3>\n

The very foundation structure of the entity called Nigeria is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dated 1999.<\/p>\n

The constitution determines how the president and other leaders of the country\/economy emerges so it\u2019s in our best interest (a better Nigeria for us all) to play by the rules. When we have problems the solution, we all know is not to siddon look<\/em> but rather take concrete steps towards its resolution.<\/p>\n

To stand a chance of occupying any of these leadership roles, you have to belong to a Party, emerge as the candidate of that Party for the general elections and then be elected by the entire populace at the general elections.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to go about making this change we desire, one is ensuring that the right people get there, and the other is to volunteer your good self for service of our father land. Whichever way you choose to go about it, you have to belong to a political party (card carrying member), and join in the change process.<\/p>\n

I have made it a personal duty not to listen to rantings about the problems of this nation anymore,without first asking the ranter if he or she belongs to a registered political party.<\/p>\n

God bless you, God bless us, God bless Nigeria.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s our Jubilee lets Jubilate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its taken more than six months for this post to come, and now it has come, it is on a very emotional and topical issue on the entity called Nigeria. First, I must state that at 50 there\u2019s not much<\/p>\n

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