The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. The issue here is not about designing another list model of Nigeria men call it Distinguished Nigeria - post independence -50 years or Fifty Plus Fifty Nigerians Hall of Shame List as I heard suggested on the forum, but I think we should look beyond that euphoria by seeking critical thinking with psycho-analytical approach on how to move forward in the Next 50 years. Past is past, there aren’t nothing to it.  We can't  go back and change our past, it’s gone into oblivion, what  remains is a memory ,yesterday is a canceled check, today is money in your hand , the way you spent it shows how you live tomorrow, tomorrow is a dream if there is no actions towards its realization, Nigeria train left the station already after 50, however, since we can't make changes to what had happened in the past, I will want us to take solace in preparing for our NEXT 50 years ,we as an intellectuals can seize the opportunity of the moment of  NEXT 50 years, to make invaluable  changes to NEXT 50 years with action not with shenanigans and bigotry, we need to start anew BEGINING today. When the going gets tough, you are going uphill; you don't run down your stakes. We can be changed by what happens to us as a country in the past...We can learn from mistakes of 50 years. Enough blames can carry all around. Be you a Northern, Southern, Yoruba, Hausa, Ibo, Ibibio’s etc. But we must refuse to be reduced by it, by what divide us, the forces that bedeviled the good spirits of Nigerilization.  This nation has a vision and we need a plan without ulterior motives. A vision without a plan is a hallucination, some people are like slinkiest, not really good for anything, "the Charlie’s" , but they sure make you laugh when you push them down the stairs on the steep but that's all you get from them.- satire. So the question remains are you useful or should you go stand beside some stairs -wait and see tactics. T-A-L-K is C-H-E-A-P. If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes. There is a risk and cost to action. But they are far less than the long-range risk of comfortable inaction. I believe Einstein once said the biggest tragedy in life is that the most valuable and rare gift from God, the intuitive mind, often gets killed by the reasoning minds. Winston Churchill said, "When you find yourself in hell, just keep on walking" because staring watching the glow burns the heart. We both know we have tried more than often, a square peg in a round role trying to make it fit. When it doesn't fit, don't fix. We should learn not to operate from fear but operate from our wisdom. We as an individual Nigerians must be the change we want to be in our own world. Let's start from our individual communities from, let's start from an innocent 3 years old boy and above. We must establish decorum so to say an “Operation War against Lies “(OWAL). Average Nigerians lie. Whatever you can do, or dream you can., why don't you begin it now. Act now never delay! Boldness has a genius, power and magic in it. A 3 year old boy listening to his father's conversation on the phone lying to the person on the other end, it tell us so much how this societal ills  had eaten deeply into the fabric of our nation. As a nation, what would one expects from that 3 years old when he becomes an adult - a 419ers, kidnappers, white -collar corporate thieves, embezzlers, armed robbers etc. No place for all these ills in the NEXT 50yrs. The urgency is now.

Our thoughts are the architects of our destiny. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them, by going into the impossible. Some of us that are in our 50's - No hope is all lost for our generation, together we can still make some difference, if not for us but for generation yet unborn or for our children's children. For me, forward Ever, Backward Never. In life, you can't worry about what you can't control, majority of us dwell so much and spend so much time and energy on negativity, and we must try not to manage our time in other to move forward, but learn how to manage our wasted ENERGY. Day over day on trivial matters. We spent last 50 years on Nigeria this ...., Nigeria that...., we all know where our problem emanates from, let's critically think together, if a child is born into poverty, kidnapping, 419ers, corruption, pilfering, nepotism, embezzlement, contract contraptions, power aggrandizement, lies and imagine a child grew up with that inadequacies/shortcomings for that 50 years, he or she doesn't know any better way to survive because that's only way he knows how to roll. It is only when we are no longer afraid, do we begin to live as normal human being. We were all born an original; we can't afford to die a copy. Let's start looking and seeking solutions together not cheap inapt and mere criticism. We can always become the kind of change we want, dreamt about. We can't imagine, how much success Nigeria would have accomplished in its 50 yrs in existence if we focused on basics and fundamental principles of economic sustainability not the applied theories of yesteryears, most that had even failed the originators in western economies hemisphere. We always think we know it all and become master of none. We must come down to simple basics, African democracy , review the civics programs of our founding father belabored on during their quest for sovereignty, start from our elementary educational level, change the ways and mentality of average Nigerians towards wealth. Hardwork pays too. We got drawn to this crazy idea of wealth that jumping into politics is a goldmine and we become less creative with our God given talents. As we rarely understand the payback and emotional intelligence rate of return. As a nation, that the only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary, richness of a country is been measured by its progressiveness in nature not by GDP (Gross Domestic Products) but by GPI (Gross Progressive Index - aspect that put its subjects well being before material transaction). We must embark on guidance and counseling from primary school to tertiary levels - One child one teacher policy (OCOT). We must change our perception to wealth, nothing is wrong to become rich, but make sure you activate it by hardworking that by doing so it all factored in. Like Asian martial Arts masters once said “I’m not impressed/scared by your 10,000 strikes you know and you learn one time each, but scared/impressed with ONE strike you learnt 10,000 times those help you seemingly help you to recreate anew better ways to do things, a great value. Average Nigerians think big dreams but no action to support it. Nothing wrong in thinking big, we all learnt that way in our MBA classes but without action it’s as dead as a frozen goose.  In 70's, some of us recalled that we started with Iraq on electrification of our country, just on the same level barely 2000 megawatts power grid plan but today we are struggling with 2500 capacity, not that we can't afford 10000 capacity today if we want but our priority are so biased, while Iraq with its instability proudly enjoy over 10,000 grid capacity today and his Nigeria brother are struggling with between 2500-3000 nationwide capacity. To me, no sweat, let's start new beginning today and make NEXT fifty years a period in the history we can all be proud of. I heard someone claiming his State made 14% of the Distinguished Nigerian list over 50 years of suffering and smiling - May Fela souls rest in perfect peace, There is place and time for something like that,  jubilating over sheer poverty, millions of  Nigerians can't afford 3 square meals a day, celebrating  for one State in the federation having majority names on Distinguished 50 Nigerians  is aptly disappointing  and  uncalled for,  If for anything , Nigerians should be celebrating 50 years of achievements of this or that, but not  50 years of Independence that shows nothing but hardship of our poor citizens, It is  nothing to write home about.. Nigeria needs prayer and absolute God intervention to change some of our leader's mind to seek for greater Nigeria and for them to know that he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. We should understand that until we've done it ourselves in a 24 x 7 environment listening to your ideas, it is hard to understand
 where to go from here. Nigerians are so gullible, and sometimes I wonder if we are destined to the back places in the assembly of the world Nations. This is not about a list of this or that? It is about looking for ways to change our prowess mentality to individual wealth accumulation. Majority of Nigerians are barely surviving today's ass-scratched economy and better still average Nigerians can't just remember pains he or she just went through few years back, few minutes ago, just some nanoseconds ago. Why? Why? Poverty is not a trait, it is epidemically endemic and raises pan demonic questions in a nation that endowed with abundance resources, a nation with 250 natural mineral resources ( oil is one out of 250- what happened to  249 others  natural resources, where is our pride of Groundnut pyramid of the North and Cocoa of western region . It all gone to the wind of oblivion. They are gathering dust and remained untapped and no one cares. Even our so call private sectors give no hoot about it. We are country with invaluable human resources. When I looked at the list with some of our founding fathers names that had died, I looked back and realized some of this people fought for Nigeria independence when they are in their 30's and 40's and today we have people in 50's running in the circles, no clue of what to do,   still can fix Nigeria problem, but rather remain egocentric with bellicosity full of unworthy bunkum. Why is it that Nigerian always looks for easy way out? We always play to choose to be escapist and defeatist against the Intra-tribal loyalty which hasn't add any infallible values to our existence for the past 50 years but ONLY has led us to inter-tribal rivalry culminating in nepotism and favoritism among us . We can't continue to walk into second half of a century with the idea in our head "WIIFM" (What’s In It for me). Obstacles are those frightful things we see when you take your eyes off your goal. Opportunity knocks at the strangest times. It's not the time that matters, but how you answer the door. Thomas Edison once said - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. And again he said, and I quote...I know 999 ways not to make a bulb because he failed 999 times the 1000th research made him a legend of history... (Edison after his discovery at 1000th attempt) Let just say, we learnt 50 years of how to exist, or we know 50 ways to be a successful nation and we failed but let's take our lesson learnt of those experiences of 50 years to NEXT 50 years. I do not believe Nigeria failed for 50 years, I believe, we just found 50- year ways that hadn't work. It always takes a little more to be in first class. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. A journey of a thousand miles, starts with the first step .Nigeria will be become Good People!!! Nigeria will be a great Nation. Just matter of time.

Humbly Yours,

Nigeria in the NEXT 50 years, a dream, myth or Reality?

The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. The issue here is not about designing another list model of Nigeria men call it Distinguished Nigeria - post independence -50 years or Fifty Plus Fifty Nigerians Hall of Shame List as I heard suggested on the forum, but I think we should look beyond that euphoria by seeking critical thinking with psycho-analytical approach on how to move forward in the Next 50 years. Past is past, there aren’t nothing to it.  We can't  go back and change our past, it’s gone into oblivion, what  remains is a memory ,yesterday is a canceled check, today is money in your hand , the way you spent it shows how you live tomorrow, tomorrow is a dream if there is no actions towards its realization, Nigeria train left the station already after 50, however, since we can't make changes to what had happened in the past, I will want us to take solace in preparing for our NEXT 50 years ,we as an intellectuals can seize the opportunity of the moment of  NEXT 50 years, to make invaluable  changes to NEXT 50 years with action not with shenanigans and bigotry, we need to start anew BEGINING today. When the going gets tough, you are going uphill; you don't run down your stakes. We can be changed by what happens to us as a country in the past...We can learn from mistakes of 50 years. Enough blames can carry all around. Be you a Northern, Southern, Yoruba, Hausa, Ibo, Ibibio’s etc. But we must refuse to be reduced by it, by what divide us, the forces that bedeviled the good spirits of Nigerilization.  This nation has a vision and we need a plan without ulterior motives. A vision without a plan is a hallucination, some people are like slinkiest, not really good for anything, "the Charlie’s" , but they sure make you laugh when you push them down the stairs on the steep but that's all you get from them.- satire. So the question remains are you useful or should you go stand beside some stairs -wait and see tactics. T-A-L-K is C-H-E-A-P. If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes. There is a risk and cost to action. But they are far less than the long-range risk of comfortable inaction. I believe Einstein once said the biggest tragedy in life is that the most valuable and rare gift from God, the intuitive mind, often gets killed by the reasoning minds. Winston Churchill said, "When you find yourself in hell, just keep on walking" because staring watching the glow burns the heart. We both know we have tried more than often, a square peg in a round role trying to make it fit. When it doesn't fit, don't fix. We should learn not to operate from fear but operate from our wisdom. We as an individual Nigerians must be the change we want to be in our own world. Let's start from our individual communities from, let's start from an innocent 3 years old boy and above. We must establish decorum so to say an “Operation War against Lies “(OWAL). Average Nigerians lie. Whatever you can do, or dream you can., why don't you begin it now. Act now never delay! Boldness has a genius, power and magic in it. A 3 year old boy listening to his father's conversation on the phone lying to the person on the other end, it tell us so much how this societal ills  had eaten deeply into the fabric of our nation. As a nation, what would one expects from that 3 years old when he becomes an adult - a 419ers, kidnappers, white -collar corporate thieves, embezzlers, armed robbers etc. No place for all these ills in the NEXT 50yrs. The urgency is now.

Our thoughts are the architects of our destiny. The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them, by going into the impossible. Some of us that are in our 50's - No hope is all lost for our generation, together we can still make some difference, if not for us but for generation yet unborn or for our children's children. For me, forward Ever, Backward Never. In life, you can't worry about what you can't control, majority of us dwell so much and spend so much time and energy on negativity, and we must try not to manage our time in other to move forward, but learn how to manage our wasted ENERGY. Day over day on trivial matters. We spent last 50 years on Nigeria this ...., Nigeria that...., we all know where our problem emanates from, let's critically think together, if a child is born into poverty, kidnapping, 419ers, corruption, pilfering, nepotism, embezzlement, contract contraptions, power aggrandizement, lies and imagine a child grew up with that inadequacies/shortcomings for that 50 years, he or she doesn't know any better way to survive because that's only way he knows how to roll. It is only when we are no longer afraid, do we begin to live as normal human being. We were all born an original; we can't afford to die a copy. Let's start looking and seeking solutions together not cheap inapt and mere criticism. We can always become the kind of change we want, dreamt about. We can't imagine, how much success Nigeria would have accomplished in its 50 yrs in existence if we focused on basics and fundamental principles of economic sustainability not the applied theories of yesteryears, most that had even failed the originators in western economies hemisphere. We always think we know it all and become master of none. We must come down to simple basics, African democracy , review the civics programs of our founding father belabored on during their quest for sovereignty, start from our elementary educational level, change the ways and mentality of average Nigerians towards wealth. Hardwork pays too. We got drawn to this crazy idea of wealth that jumping into politics is a goldmine and we become less creative with our God given talents. As we rarely understand the payback and emotional intelligence rate of return. As a nation, that the only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary, richness of a country is been measured by its progressiveness in nature not by GDP (Gross Domestic Products) but by GPI (Gross Progressive Index - aspect that put its subjects well being before material transaction). We must embark on guidance and counseling from primary school to tertiary levels - One child one teacher policy (OCOT). We must change our perception to wealth, nothing is wrong to become rich, but make sure you activate it by hardworking that by doing so it all factored in. Like Asian martial Arts masters once said “I’m not impressed/scared by your 10,000 strikes you know and you learn one time each, but scared/impressed with ONE strike you learnt 10,000 times those help you seemingly help you to recreate anew better ways to do things, a great value. Average Nigerians think big dreams but no action to support it. Nothing wrong in thinking big, we all learnt that way in our MBA classes but without action it’s as dead as a frozen goose.  In 70's, some of us recalled that we started with Iraq on electrification of our country, just on the same level barely 2000 megawatts power grid plan but today we are struggling with 2500 capacity, not that we can't afford 10000 capacity today if we want but our priority are so biased, while Iraq with its instability proudly enjoy over 10,000 grid capacity today and his Nigeria brother are struggling with between 2500-3000 nationwide capacity. To me, no sweat, let's start new beginning today and make NEXT fifty years a period in the history we can all be proud of. I heard someone claiming his State made 14% of the Distinguished Nigerian list over 50 years of suffering and smiling - May Fela souls rest in perfect peace, There is place and time for something like that,  jubilating over sheer poverty, millions of  Nigerians can't afford 3 square meals a day, celebrating  for one State in the federation having majority names on Distinguished 50 Nigerians  is aptly disappointing  and  uncalled for,  If for anything , Nigerians should be celebrating 50 years of achievements of this or that, but not  50 years of Independence that shows nothing but hardship of our poor citizens, It is  nothing to write home about.. Nigeria needs prayer and absolute God intervention to change some of our leader's mind to seek for greater Nigeria and for them to know that he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. We should understand that until we've done it ourselves in a 24 x 7 environment listening to your ideas, it is hard to understand
 where to go from here. Nigerians are so gullible, and sometimes I wonder if we are destined to the back places in the assembly of the world Nations. This is not about a list of this or that? It is about looking for ways to change our prowess mentality to individual wealth accumulation. Majority of Nigerians are barely surviving today's ass-scratched economy and better still average Nigerians can't just remember pains he or she just went through few years back, few minutes ago, just some nanoseconds ago. Why? Why? Poverty is not a trait, it is epidemically endemic and raises pan demonic questions in a nation that endowed with abundance resources, a nation with 250 natural mineral resources ( oil is one out of 250- what happened to  249 others  natural resources, where is our pride of Groundnut pyramid of the North and Cocoa of western region . It all gone to the wind of oblivion. They are gathering dust and remained untapped and no one cares. Even our so call private sectors give no hoot about it. We are country with invaluable human resources. When I looked at the list with some of our founding fathers names that had died, I looked back and realized some of this people fought for Nigeria independence when they are in their 30's and 40's and today we have people in 50's running in the circles, no clue of what to do,   still can fix Nigeria problem, but rather remain egocentric with bellicosity full of unworthy bunkum. Why is it that Nigerian always looks for easy way out? We always play to choose to be escapist and defeatist against the Intra-tribal loyalty which hasn't add any infallible values to our existence for the past 50 years but ONLY has led us to inter-tribal rivalry culminating in nepotism and favoritism among us . We can't continue to walk into second half of a century with the idea in our head "WIIFM" (What’s In It for me). Obstacles are those frightful things we see when you take your eyes off your goal. Opportunity knocks at the strangest times. It's not the time that matters, but how you answer the door. Thomas Edison once said - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. And again he said, and I quote...I know 999 ways not to make a bulb because he failed 999 times the 1000th research made him a legend of history... (Edison after his discovery at 1000th attempt) Let just say, we learnt 50 years of how to exist, or we know 50 ways to be a successful nation and we failed but let's take our lesson learnt of those experiences of 50 years to NEXT 50 years. I do not believe Nigeria failed for 50 years, I believe, we just found 50- year ways that hadn't work. It always takes a little more to be in first class. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. A journey of a thousand miles, starts with the first step .Nigeria will be become Good People!!! Nigeria will be a great Nation. Just matter of time.

Humbly Yours,

The ku Klux clan is a secret terrorist organization that originated in the southern states during the reconstruction following the American civil war [1861-1865], and was reactivated on a wider geographical basis in the 20th century. The original clan started in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865-1866, by six former confederate army officers who gave the society the name adapted from the Greek word kuklos [“circle”].

A recent programme of Vision Africa Radio (104.1fm, Umuahia) focused on 'Co-habitation.' They tried discussing the reasons why people, especially young people co-habit, the benefits if any and the dangers of co-habitation. It is no longer strange to see in our society, men and women(neither blood-related nor legally married)living together under the same roof as in a legitimate marriage. Obviously,