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The actress who is based in Port Harcourt is said to have gotten closer to God as she leads women who go from church to church, organization to organization to preach the word of God. Folks are saying she's hoping to become a full fledged evangelist soon.

SAYS :I’m still married –Hilda Dokubo-Mrakpor

Actress Hilda Dokubo-Mrakpor has said she is still married and not in any way bothered by the news going round that her husband, Karo, married another lady recently.

When Life&Beat sought her reaction to the story, Dokubo-Mrakpor said she wasn’t ready to comment on the issue.

“What have I done again? I’m not bothered by all the stories people write. I think when they realise they have nothing to write about, they will suddenly remember me,” she said on the telephone.

As far as she is concerned, her marital status still reads ‘married.’

“I’m not divorced. I don’t know what you are talking about and I’m not ready to comment on any issue. I’m a complete woman. I’m a preacher and a child of God. A lot of good things are happening to me. So my dear, I’m not ready to comment on things that are not necessary,” she said.

Though she has been off the movie scene for some time now, Dokubo-Mrakpor used to be a hot cake in the industry.

Married to movie director (Karo Mrakpor), it was reported sometime ago that the marriage had broken up, but the actress denied having issues with her hubby.

It was reported that Mrakpor got married a lady called Ibiware on April 30 in a traditional ceremony at her home town of Bonny Island, Rivers State.

30 feared killed as herdsmen raid Benue communities

From Simeon Nwakaudu (Makurdi) and Abosede Musari (Abuja)

Tsiga seeks better security

AGAIN, insecurity in Benue State worsened yesterday as a band of armed herdsmen invaded villages around Udei and Yelwatta communities in Isherev areas of Guma Local Council, leaving about 30 persons dead, with more than 10,000 persons displaced.

30 feared killed as herdsmen raid Benue communities

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Muharazu Tsiga, has attributed the death of the 10 corps members in the recent post-elections violence in Bauchi State to national insecurity rather than a problem with the scheme.

Tsiga, who spoke in an interview with journalists in Abuja yesterday, explained that the major problem was with national security, which should be urgently addressed rather than call for the scrapping of the scheme or for regional posting of corps members.

Also in Makurdi, the police averted a riot when members of the opposition party almost lynched a young man suspected to be a thug.

He was accused of being one of the suspects who killed an ACN supporter, Ezekiel Yusuf, at the Angwan-Jukun area on Sunday evening.

An eye-witness, Terna Igbasue, who is taking refuge in Makurdi, told The Guardian that the herdsmen moved into the village at about 8.00 a.m. when most people had gone to farm.

He said that when they invaded villages in the area, they started setting homesteads ablaze and killing those who were at home, especially the aged and children.

According to him, other villagers on their farms were alerted that there had been an invasion of the villages around the area. He stated that at that point, the armed herdsmen were already shooting and marching towards the farms.

He said: "Many people escaped from the farms and headed for the federal road to avoid being killed by the herdsmen. Some persons who were not fast enough were killed on their farms."

Igbasue claimed that the herdsmen had sent earlier message to the communities in the area that they would invade them on a revenge mission over a misunderstanding that arose between farmers and the herdsmen.

When The Guardian drove along the Makurdi-Lafia, hundreds of displaced persons were trekking towards Daudu town, a major Tiv settlement on the route. Other displaced persons boarded pick-up vans and headed to Makurdi.

Also, when The Guardian called the State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Mohammed, an aide who picked the phone said that he was in a security meeting.

On Monday morning at about 11.00 a.m., opposition youths accosted one young man suspected to have participated in the Sunday's killing of Yusuf. He was about being lynched when police patrol teams alerted by neighbours arrived the scene and arrested some suspects.

Despite the arrests, some youths held a peaceful demonstration in the area, denouncing Yusuf's killing.

Tsiga added: "Does it mean that if NYSC scheme is scrapped or if there is regional posting, that will be the end to insecurity, unemployment and distrust? The solution is to address the security challenge in this country. When I assumed office, I visited the 774 local councils in the country so that the traditional rulers and the police officers can form security committees to secure the corps members but we heard the news of the traditional ruler that raped a female corps member whom he should be protecting. Posting is not the issue, the issue is to address national security and get the people that should be protecting corps members to perform this obligation towards them."

He continued: "I'm appealing to Nigerians, particularly parents, to encourage the young ones to do their best. The youths are not the problem of Nigeria but we the elders, please encourage us", he said, adding that already, some of the corps members have started sending him text messages asking when they can go back to their places of primary assignment.

While he condoled with the families of the slain corps members, Tsiga said that the NYSC would pay insurance to the families of the slain corps members and was already working with INEC to compile the names of corps members who were affected or wounded or who lost their properties during the incident in order to compensate them. According to him, President Goodluck Jonathan views the incidence as a national calamity, which was the reason state burials were accorded the slain heroes and a token sum presented to their families.

The Kaduna State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change on Monday claimed that it had secured bail for no fewer than 600 suspects arrested and charged to court by the police in connection with the April post presidential election violence in some northern states

The CPC also said efforts were still being made by the party to ensure the release of the others still in detention over the violence.

The party further stated that those suspects, whose release had been secured, were not all CPC members as several others were also saved by the party from further detention on compassionate grounds and in the spirit of oneness.

The Kaduna State CPC Chairman, Alhaji Ahmadu Yaro, who disclosed this in Kaduna, at a press conference, however, denied allegations that members of his party were responsible for the post-election violence in the northern states.

Rather, Yaro argued that the blame should be placed on the doorsteps of aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, who were aggrieved over their loss at the party's primaries.

Yaro claimed that the violence was erroneously being attributed to the loss of the CPC, adding that the police arrested people all over the state in connection with the violence and not because they had any connection with the party.

He said although most of those arrested shortly after the post-election violence were mainly CPC members, "their arrest was done in error while the allegations against them are false and baseless."

Yaro added, "It was PDP members who were fighting one another as a result of the fallout of the primaries. It was the crisis within PDP that caused the crisis; many of their members were not happy, that was why they started the crisis. It was not CPC.

"They want to blackmail CPC; that was why they said it was CPC that started the violent protest. They saw that CPC was about taking over the government and they didn't want the CPC to win. For instance, there has never been an election in Nigeria where Army or Police attacked people like the recent elections. So that's why they moved the military against the party because they didn't want CPC to win."

Judge decries delay tactics in Akingbola's trial

GUARANTY Trust Bank Plc has asked a Federal High Court, Lagos, for an order declaring renowned businessman, Alhaji Abdul Azeez Arisekola-Alao bankrupt for his alleged inability to pay a N6.9 billion loan facility granted to his company.
The bank also wants the court to order that all assets, interests and holdings of Arisekola-Alao either held personally or through third parties and privies, be liquidated and the proceeds applied towards offsetting his debts.
It further urged the court to divest the alleged debtor of all shares, interests and holdings in all public and private companies and a perpetual injunction restraining his appointment as a director in any public or private company in Nigeria.
The bank said it has imperative for the court to make these orders because Arisekola-Alao is also indebted to many banks and that a large number of his assets have been pledged to these banks as security for the loans.
It noted that the alleged debtor was on the edge of insolvency having lost billions of naira in his businesses and was making efforts to dissipate assets as a result of massive debts owed it and other banks.
It also contended that he is currently selling and transferring his assets to third parties and that he has the intent to defeat or delay the claims by leaving the country or remaining out of public domain in order to be out of reach.
Meanwhile, Judge Habib Abiru of the Ikeja High Court has expressed dismay over the delay being exhibited in the trial instituted against former Managing Director, Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Abiru expressed his dismay as the EFCC yesterday failed in its attempt to arraign Akingbola for the third time due to a fresh application by his counsel seeking an order of the court declining jurisdiction to entertain the case.
The application also sought an order restraining the EFCC from arraigning the accused persons in respect of the fresh charges.
"I want this matter to have a clear direction. I cannot grant such an ex-parte order for their release without hearing from the prosecution. It will be presumptuous of me to assume that they are in contempt as you have alleged without hearing from them", the judge said.
Fagbohungbe, in his submission following the attempt to arraign Akingbola before an Ikeja High Court on fresh theft charges, said the EFCC chief should resign because a court has already adjudged her and the Senior Advocates of the commission in contempt.
According to Fagbohungbe, rather than Waziri purge herself of the contemptuous act, she had allegedly resorted to abusing the judge by calling him names on the pages of the newspapers.
The counsel, who has already filed a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court to try Akingbola and Bayo Dada, also urged Abiru to order for the release of his client, alleging that the EFCC was trying to intimidate the judiciary.
However, EFCC's lead counsel, Kola Awodein (SAN), asked the court to grant the prosecution a short date to respond in writing to the fresh application filed by Akingbola's lawyers.
Judge Abiru subsequently adjourned the case till May 31, 2011, to enable the prosecution respond in writing to the fresh application.

LAGOS – BLOOD flowed freely Tuesday in Badagry, Lagos after a group of heavily armed soldiers from the 242 Recce Battalion, Iberepo Badagry took over strategic locations in the ancient town maiming and killing any police man on sight in an apparent reprisal of the killing Monday, of one of their colleagues. The Divisional Police Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Saliu Samson, his Divisional Crime Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DPS) Samuel who were out in the ensuing fracas to appeal for calm were shot dead. Two police patrol vehicles belonging to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) were set ablaze while their occupants were chased and shot dead. As at 2.30 pm yesterday, corpses of police officers littered the Iberepo roundabout while the rampaging soldiers were spotted with every imaginable dangerous weapons scouting for police men.

Sources said some police men and their families who lived in the Iberepo barracks were chased out and seriously wounded. According to sources, a soldier in mufti who was escorting goods from the Nigeria\Seme border was accosted by a police officer attached to RRS and Monday and demanded to search the vehicle. It was learnt that the late unidentified soldier had challenged the policeman and threatened to disarmed him if he does not allow the vehicle free way; prompting the trigger happy policeman to fire at him at close range.

The soldier reportedly slumped and died on the spot. Vanguard was told that the news of the killing of the soldier soon filtered into the Iberepo barracks and some soldiers mobilized as early as 9,00am yesterday and started attacking any policeman on sight contrary to a non violence order given to them by the commander of the barracks, Colonel Nabasa. Contacted, the Force public relation officer, DCP Olusola Amore said he was yet to get details of the clash saying, “Let me talk to the CP Lagos then I will be in a better position to react to the matter. But his counterpart in the army, Lieutenant Colonel Kayode Ogunsanya of the 81 Division said the situation had been brought under control stressing that it will be throughly investigated. “The situation is under control and I can assure you that the cause of the clash will be thoroughly investigated,” he assured.

A 17-year-old student, Uyiosa Ehigiamusoe was among the 31 suspected members of violent gangs paraded yesterday by the Edo State Police Command. The suspected gangsters were believed to be behind recent gang-related killings across the state.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mohammadu Hurdi who paraded the suspects at a press briefing in Benin City yesterday, said they were arrested in their various hideouts in Uromi, Ekpoma and Benin City.

Others paraded include Ojo Nasiru, 20 and Joseph Ajayi, 20.

Mr Hurdi said no fewer than five persons were reported killed in clashes between rival gang groups across the state. He stated that the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigations are completed on the matter.

Caught in cross fire

Among those killed was a middle-aged man who allegedly returned to Benin City from Abuja on Monday night. He was said to have visited his girlfriend on his way before getting home. He was, however, unlucky as he was caught in a shoot-out by suspected gang members before getting to his house.

“We call on the general public and the good people of Edo to give us relevant information to bring to an end this issue of cultism, because we have to preserve the sanctity of lives and nobody has the right to take another person’s life,” Mr Hurdi said. “We should do our best and join hands together to ensure that people in the state live happily.” There has been a upsurge in gang-related violence in Benin City in recent times, making life unsafe for the people.

In his strongest weigh in so far on the burning issue, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday emphatically declared that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will not be scrapped.

He made his stance known while speaking at an interactive session with a cross section of Nigerian youth as part of activities leading up to the presidential inauguration on May 29.

Mr Jonathan, who was speaking during an audience with a delegation of General Electric (GE), led by the company’s vice chairman, John Rice, at State House, Marina, Lagos, also reiterated his determination to hit the ground running after his inauguration. He disclosed that the new federal cabinet would, barring any unforeseen events, be ready two weeks after his swearing-in.

The time would have been shorter, the president explained, but for the fact that the new National Assembly which still has to approve his nominees, won’t be coming on stream until June 6.

At the meeting, the president, who said he would be “a leader and not a ruler”, responded to a question on the continued relevance of the NYSC, by saying: “It is a programme that is helpful to the Nigerian youth and has exposed them to different cultures.”

According to him, the federal government would continue to encourage the programme because of its unifying benefits.

He however noted that after more than three decades, it was time to review the scheme “and make it more functional, practical and profitable for Nigerian youth.”

Following the killing of youth corps members in the northern part of the country, parents and groups alike have called for the scrapping or review of the NYSC scheme.

The president, who dedicated his victory at the presidential poll to the Nigerian youth, declared that his election was made possible by the youth.

Noting that the presidential election demonstrated how “this country is one and belongs to all of us”, the president stressed that the broad mandate given him “is the beginning of unity and change in Nigeria.”

Mr Jonathan, who described the youth as a vibrant, energetic and significant proportion of the country’s population that must be planned for, said the “challenge in four years is to form a base for a robust economy to take care of the needs and potential of our young ones.”

He assured them that the federal government would work with them while restating his administration’s commitment to continue to encourage women to play significant roles in all sectors.

Representatives of various youth groups such as the Nigerian Youth Council (NYC), National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Nollywood congratulated President Jonathan on his electoral success while reaffirming their hope in his ability to change the fortunes of Nigeria’s youth.

Importance of power and rail

At the meeting with GE representatives, the president reiterated his determination to make his four-year mandate meaningful to all Nigerians.

“I want the next four years to be very beneficial to Nigerians and for effective delivery of democracy dividends and not for talking,” he said. “I promised myself to pick the few things I can do and say that these are what I have done.”

Mr Jonathan, who identified power and rail transportation as key to the transformation of the economy, noted that without railways “our roads will not last.” He said that the plan of his government was that “every where we have a major industry like cement factory located, we must plan to link it to the rail system in order to reduce the pressure on our roads.”

Mr Rice, who congratulated President Jonathan on his election, said GE was prepared to deepen and fast-track the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with Nigeria since 2009 in oil and gas, rail, energy and healthcare sectors.

GE has been operating for 30 years in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria and has provided 25 locomotives for the Nigerian railways.

Director-General, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Dr. Harold Demuren, who confirmed the crash of the American-registered aircraft, said that it was sold to the new owners by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Ibadan.

Miami (CNN) -- NASA plans a return to yesteryear by developing a space capsule that will carry humans into deep space, it announced Tuesday.

"We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.

The new spacecraft, to be built by Lockheed Martin, will be known as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV. It will carry four astronauts and be based on designs originally planned for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, whose development was canceled by President Barack Obama.

NASA says astronauts would not fly onboard until at least 2016. NASA has not flown astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit since the Apollo program, in the 1970s.

"We hope to have test flights in this decade. We're not sure when but certainly as early as possible," said Douglas Cooke, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems mission.

Like the Apollo spacecraft, which landed 12 men on the moon, the MPCV will splash down in the Pacific Ocean upon return to Earth. However, the new craft will be the 21st-century version: Much larger and 10 times safer to launch and land than the space shuttle, NASA says.

"We would have an abort system, all the way from sitting on the pad, to flying up, up and away. The space shuttle has never had that capability," Cooke said.

This new spacecraft is NASA's first step forward in its next great leap, as the U.S. space shuttle program heads into retirement.

Officials say this vehicle will be able to go to the moon or do a deep space mission to Mars. Any deep space mission would be accompanied by a larger compartment for the crew, Cooke said.

The MPCV is currently at Lockheed Martin's facility in Denver, undergoing testing.

NASA is hoping to start flying as soon as possible to close the gap in the U.S. manned space program. With the retirement of the space shuttle, expected in July, the U.S. will have to pay the Russian space agency to take astronauts back and forth from the station until the MPCV is ready.

NASA is also hoping that private, commercial companies will soon be able to fly astronauts to the space station in newly developed vehicles.

The original Orion spacecraft was part of NASA's Constellation program to take man back to the moon, and later, to Mars. That program was canceled.

In 2010, it was resurrected, and downsized to be used as a "lifeboat," in the event of an emergency on the space station. Five billion dollars have already been spent on Orion -- another reason to keep the design.

NASA has not yet developed a rocket powerful enough to propel this spacecraft out of Earth's atmosphere.

"As we aggressively continue our work on a heavy-lift-launch vehicle, we are moving forward with an existing contract to keep development of our new crew vehicle on track," Bolden said.

Obama has committed $3 billion for NASA to develop the heavy-lift-launch vehicle.

I've often heard Nigerians say, "you cant make it in Nigeria with being a corrupt citizen; in Nigeria, honesty doesn't pay". 
I often laugh when I hear such because it's obvious to me that people who believe such crap aren't using their heads. Because if they were, they would know that just isn't true.

Why would I say that? It's simple.Picture this:
When your car gets bad, which mechanic do you take it to? Is it the honest one or the corrupt one? When you are selecting a bank, is it the one that has a reputation  for fraud or the one that has integrity? When you want to buy a car, do you go to the corrupt car dealer or the one that will be honest with you?When you want to buy drugs, do you go to the pharmacy that has a reputation for selling fake drugs or the one that is known for selling only quality drugs?Even a bad man wants a good wife and a corrupt politician looks for those with integrity he can trust. 
I could go on and on giving your more examples.
So you see integrity is even in high demand in Nigeria because it is scarce.So it's absurd to say that you cant make it in Nigeria without being corrupt.

Harold Camping speaks! The 89-year-old Nostradamus from Northern California, who spent millions of his followers' dollars to get out the word that the world was ending on Saturday, has been noticeably silent since that day came and went rather unremarkably. But he's at last ready to talk — and oy, what a weekend. Don't get him started.

Appearing at his front door, sfgate.com reports, Camping told the crowd of journalists and angry followers that "it has been a really tough weekend."

[T]here was Camping, "flabbergasted" in Alameda, wearing tan slacks, a tucked-in polo shirt and a light jacket. [...]

"I'm looking for answers," Camping said, adding that meant frequent prayer and consultations with friends.

"But now I have nothing else to say," he said, closing the door to his home. "I'll be back to work Monday and will say more then."

Sure, easy for him to say! What about poor Robert Fitzpatrick, the former MTA employee we told you about earlier, who spent his savings on doomsday subway ads and billboards. Here's video of him being accosted by an angry mob in Times Square. Downside: No apocalypse. Upside: Jersey Boys is half-off at the TKTS booth! [sfgate, video via Daily What]

Over one-quarter of the performers who took part in 1991's Wrestlemania VII have died, a wrestling website noted in the wake of the death of "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
The Wrestling Observer newsletter discovered that 14 of the 51 performers at the event have died in the past 20 years, with many of the deaths attributed to drug use (link is subscription only).
The list of wrestlers who have died since 1991 include some of the biggest stars in the sport like Savage, Andre the Giant, Miss Elizabeth and The British Bulldog. Causes of death include suicides, murder and heart attacks, some the result of years of anabolic steroid use. Savage died last week after suffering an apparent heart attack behind the wheel of his truck. His ex-wife, Miss Elizabeth, passed away after overdosing on a variety of drugs in 2003.
Looking at the list is a sobering reminder of the realities of a make-believe sport like professional wrestling. Not all of the men and women listed played a part in their own demise; referee Joey Marella was the victim of a car crash that occurred when he was driving home from a match.

As wrestlinginc.com points out, none of the 44 starters from the Super Bowl played in 1991 have passed away and only two of 44 boxers who held a championship belt that year are gone.

At 58, Savage made it nearly a decade longer than some of his deceased colleagues.

Just recently John Campbell the former United States ambassador to Nigeria was denied visa by the Nigerian government to visit Nigeria where he was scheduled to speak at the graduation ceremony in the American University of Nigeria in Yola. A few months ago Nigeria spearheaded the unpopular call to forcefully oust Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire from power despite the fact that the Supreme Court of that country had ruled in favor of Gbagbo as the winner of the disputed election result. About the same time also Nigeria went contrary to the majority decision of members of the African Union concerning the Libyan Crisis. Nigeria signed to destabilize and destroy Libya by groups which recent facts coming out following the death of Osama bin Laden show that they may have connections with the international Islamic terrorist network, Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida.  

How do these stories connect? They are the pathetic painful tossing and thrashings of a diseased murderous monster at the throes of death. The ill-fated behemoth, Nigeria is choking in the blood of innocent children, women and men that it has murdered over several decades and it is spending the terminal stages of its existence throwing tantrums. And as it were, with soiled hands Nigeria is grabbing at every gossamer strand, weeds and straws, gasping and trying to save its last breath. Nigeria is drowning; in the blood of the slain Igbo/Biafrans and other Southern Christians, it is dying and it is blaming everyone else but itself. This is true to form of the country. Nigeria hates to hear the truth about itself which is why it is in pains anyway. The ambassador John Campbell is being blamed by Nigeria because he was sincere enough to be critical of Nigeria in his book; Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink. He alluded to the predictions on Nigeria’s inevitable destiny as pointed out by a research group.

The group that carried out the study has no link with the respected diplomat, Mr. Campbell. The published report which is accessible to the public has it that Nigeria will disintegrate into several countries along ethnic/cultural lines in the year 2015. This prediction by the group, of course is based on very sound and obvious conditions that are currently playing out and assuredly leading up to the fulfillment of the predictions by the dispassionate analysts.  Nigeria’s 2015 “doomsday” is actually freedom date, the time when all the peoples who had been falsely and forcefully subjugated in an inconvenient union shall be free.

The best thing that Nigeria can ever do to prevent the coming of that day is what they have just done; persecute and kill the messengers, those who tell them the truth, people like John Campbell. Of course Nigeria can do whatever they wish at this late hour, the Ambassador and other honest people the world over will have the last laugh because in about four years from now there will be nothing like Nigeria as we know it today. It would have disintegrated as the Ambassador and other people have foretold. One of the many important reasons why this will happen also comes from the same honest and bold Ambassador. This time was during the December 2010 annual event of Chinua Achebe Colloquium by the Brown University Rhode Island in the United States. In his speech titled: “The Niger Delta Crisis: The Political, Economic and Environmental Conundrum”  Mr. Campbell in his usual honest and sincere candor stated the obvious when he said that Niger Delta and its people are under colonial rule of both Nigeria’s government and the oil companies operating in the area. In his words the; “imperialists in that case are not some foreign country, but some other parts of Nigeria.”

(The Northern and Western Regions Islamic hegemony). And what is Libya’s connection in the equation? In March 2010 Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi had called for the division of Nigeria along ethnic/cultural lines to help end the endemic killings of innocents in Nigeria. At the time the Northern Islamic extremists had as usual slaughtered thousands of Igbo/Biafrans and other Southern Christians. When Libya’s Gaddafi made the call, Nigeria as expected, instead of acknowledging the truth of Gaddafi’s sincere statement went berserk. It expelled Libya’s ambassador to their country and recalled its own from Tripoli. That was Nigeria’s solution, the best foot it could and can ever put forward in all situations that require honesty and competence.  When Gaddafi made the very obvious and logical statement, Nigeria’s elite who are the beneficiaries of the vile system, feeding fat from the filthy Nigerian table which is continuously made viler daily with the spilled blood of Igbo/Biafrans and other Southern Christians shed by the Islamic North, called for the head of Gaddafi and when they could not have it waited for the opportunity that would present itself a year later. That opportunity came when the al-Qaida’s backed rebels capitalized on the popular uprising in the Arab world and struck to cause trouble in Libya, Nigeria cashed in.

Nigeria went against the consensus of the majority of the members of African Union and sided with the rebels of Libya. But the question is how long can the destruction of Libya help stave off the inevitable fate of Nigeria, the demise of a rudderless ship on a collision course with the jagged iceberg?  Cote d’Ivoire was among the five nations that gave recognition to the Republic of Biafra when she declared her independence from Nigeria on the 30th of May, 1967. Cote d’Ivoire as well as taking in Biafra’s Leader Emeka Ojukwu when he had to leave also took in a lot of Biafran survivors of the Nigerian Genocide in Biafra (3.1 million people were murdered by Nigeria between 1966 and 1970) and gave them safety and a new beginning. For that Nigeria never forgave Cote d’Ivoire. Nigeria saw Cote d’Ivoire as part of the obstructions that prevented them from finishing off their avowed human quarry, the Biafrans whom they wanted completely destroyed from the face of the Earth. So when the time came for Nigeria to get even with Cote d’Ivoire they championed the call to the regional body Economic Communities of West Africa, United Nations and France to use force and commit genocide on the Ivorian civilian population and destroy the country in spite of the illegality of their actions.

Nigeria had conducted elections in 2003 and 2007 and both elections were regarded as among the worst rigged elections of all time anywhere, by every standard. So one wonders where Nigeria gets its moral strength from to justify their support of removal of anyone accused of electoral malpractice if it were not the case of the kettle calling the pot black. With all that go on in and about Nigeria one keeps wondering just how some Nigerian commentators who of course are serving as the Islamic Northern Nigeria’s mouthpiece could find time to focus on Middle East issues. Recently one of them in an article went to the ridiculous level of calling on United States to break from her relationship with Israel. The writer’s insane reason for the call is that some 12 Nakba multiple-border protesters of Israel’s right to existence were killed when they rushed at border fences and Israeli forces. (The question is if the writer knew the difference between self-defense in Israel and unprovoked aggression in Nigeria)? Now the trouble is that this person who wants to be regarded as being sympathetic with an “oppressed” people of the world is just another of those insincere and confused government sponsored critics who pretend to commenting on world issues when they have no enough honesty by first acknowledging in true perspective the ugly events taking place in their own places of origin. (They are playing out the usual old trick of diverting people’s attention from real issues at hand). A people’s blood is being unnecessarily wasted by Nigeria but the unconscionable writers and advocates would prefer their distorted “patriotism” over the people’s lives. The entire Igbo/Biafra and other Christian population can be wiped out by the Islamist jihadists, that is alright, so long as the One-Nigerian state is preserved for the writer and the rest of his ilk. Yet these great One-Nigerianists most times prefer the residential comfort of other societies made right by honesty and truth, to their “wonderful” One-Nigeria.

That writer’s opinion would have been better respected if he had spent the same energy talking honestly on Nigeria’s last April polls when Nigeria and Nigerians once again murdered 3000 and displaced 65000 Igbo/Biafrans and other Southerners just for being Christians and believing differently. (Even Nigeria’s president elect Jonathan acknowledged that the Igbo/Biafrans killing orgy that followed the April election was a reenactment of the prelude to the Biafra War of the 1960s). The truth though is that dishonesty and senseless championing of a “patriotism” based on unreason have never preserved or advanced any society. Nigeria’s ship has run its course; it has hit its fated rocks as a result of the bestial and dishonest people who have heedlessly operated the diseased vessel against all standard navigation rules and caution, the deadly journey must end now. The world has watched with bated breath, almost helplessly, as Nigeria continued on this dangerous journey, destroying every good thing that would have been in the past fifty years. For Igbo/Biafra people the only reasonable thing to do is, rather than continue to fight for an undignified existence and political relevance in this capsized and fast sinking ship and, trying to bail out the water with blood-stained sieve, they should abandon ship now; they are in the process anyway, but they must hasten up. Why go down with a dead ship that would not stay afloat no matter how well you wish for it to? The rest ethnic groups should also leave if they so chose,

why not, this is the era of Self-Determination. All over the world people are asserting themselves and getting free of colonial subjugations of all sorts. Freedom through Self-Determination is legal and it is right. Unfortunately this Dying Ship Nigeria cannot be saved now because it was doomed from the beginning of its creation because of the indiscreet patching together of incompatible component parts. Igbo/Biafra people must leave this ship today with whatever breath that is still left in them. It is now clear that no superman with any supersized brain can save Nigeria’s self-inflicted death; no any good luck can keep its sails up in the wind any longer. Nigeria is doomed, it is finished, Nigeria is dead.