Broadband has gone pearl shape for the past 2 days now struggling with Dialup...I'm not blaming the West entirely for the present predicament as i said its a double edged sword..this morons we have for Ministers cruising in Jaguars and Rolls Royces past poor peasants on the way to work..I think to myself this people are just wicked and have no conscience..how can you keep a whole nations's wealth for you..family and cronies???..I know what some are saying here 'cos i've seen it with my own two eyes...
Nigeria is slowly getting accustomed to changing the realms of power albeit from the same party coupled with some shady voting but it was a somewhat smooth transition unprecedented in Nigeria's history...at least its a start..I know of a lot of Diasporans saying they need to go back me included and have some sort of input in its development...'cos we the only ones that can truly change Africa...in the short run I just cannot see how we can eliminate those so called despots who call themselves leaders..to be honest the firing squad would be too nice for this lot....

Apex Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday, advised President Umaru Yar’Adua to cancel his next week’s trip to the United Kingdom.
Afenifere said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, titled, “Yar’Adua must call off the visit to Britain,” that the visit would do Nigeria no good. The statement lamented that the planned visit was being overshadowed by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s offer of military aid to the Federal Government to tackle the crisis in the Niger Delta.
It also lamented that as a result, the “fragile peace” in the Niger Delta was at the risk of being shattered with the decision of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta to call off its ceasefire in response to Brown’s offer.
Afenifere said Brown’s comments demonstrated the “mindset of a ruler who still sees in Nigeria the milking cow that was granted flag independence in 1960 so that indirect exploitation can replace colonialism. It is unfortunate that Brown cannot see the injustice in Niger Delta, the environmental degradation and the social concerns of the peoples of the region. The military aid offer is a sad reminder of the Ango-Nigeria Defence Pact of 1961 which pressures from patriotic Nigerians restrained the Balewa’s government from signing.
”But 47 years after, Yar’Adua is planning to visit London next week on what ‘has been dubbed historic visit’ to ask for arms to kill fellow Nigerians. This is another attempt to flush the pipes with the blood of our own people so that oil can flow.”
Afenifere called on Yar’Adua to immediately call off the visit and “stay at home to find solutions to the Niger Delta problem. Or are we to believe that if Niger Delta were to be Katsina, the President will go and seek arms from Britain to resolve a problem there? Should the President be adamant and insist on the visit, we call on patriotic Nigerians in the UK to make it clear to President Yar’Adua and his hosts that Nigerians do not want British tanks in Nigeria. Finally, we warn Britain, not to turn Nigeria to another Iraq or Afghanistan. Britain has enough blood on its hands from those places.”

If this mother****ers had taken care of business..there would be no need for Gordon Brown to offer military assistance and isn't it the hausa nigerian leadership begging again with cap in hand to the british just as in the days of the civil war??
Niger Delta should be like Abuja-Dubai or Houston yet the place is so poverty ridden and a environmental disaster...all marine and vegatation is ****ed