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What type of reconstruction will be best for Nigeria?

1. Devolution of Power?

a. Regional government- 6 regions or countries?

b. Confederation- 6 Confederate states?

c. 6 Prime Ministers and a Union Ceremonial President?

d. Arewa, Benue/Middle Belt, Oodua, Delta/Oceanic, Biafra Republics?

e. Discuss:

While each region caters for their citizens, the revenue accrued from oil will be shared equally among these regions to aid their respective governments in running their regions.

All citizens of each region are free to live and work in all the confederate regions and will not require a passport to travel but as a means of indentification and correct data.

Each region must specialise in providing a product that other regions may aquire from them through trade or exchange of services in satisfying their respective wants.

Professionals must be sourced from these regions first before being advertised on the international job market. Fines will be set to punish offenders to the rule by the Union.

There must not be any conflict resulting to bloodshed in war among these regions and any region that threatens another will be suspended from the "Union" for a number of years during which they will not be traded with and communicated with by the remaining regions.

A period of 5 years maximum will be set for each region to build and sustain a specialist hospital, different to other regions to serve the needs of the whole regions as profitable as obtains internationally-particularly Germany, revamped primary and secondary schools and atleast not less than three or maximum five, fully equiped internationally standard universities. In this way, Johnny-Walker Presidents and his cohorts at Abuja and environs including the motley crew from copy-cat states will eventually be cured of perambulating tendencies and, when they do start, the region will fly such character to Ibadan Neurological Hospital, Enugu Othorpedic Hospital, Kudje Psychiatric Hospital or Bassa Retirement Home, all specialists centres found in the regions.

Each region must have accessible viable airports for local use use and one international airport to serve each region and their international ventures. Each region must maintain their road networks and dualise where neccessary otherwise be fined by the Union.

There should not be a pronounced dividing boundries as each region automatically constitute itself by the number and boundary of states constituting that region. Boundary disputes must always be brought before the union and villages, wards or local governments involved will by cultural and language affiliation chose which region best suited them or they will be divided between that same affiliation.

Each region must have a national football team and may engage each other in tournaments in opossing groups to qualify for any international football fest. In the end, instead of one, Nigeria as a Union will produce six national teams.

Each regional government must build their part of the railway in their regions as they see fit to connect with the other regions as effective as roads for transportation and frieghting of goods. Railways must be made for comfortable luxurious traveling connecting all regions in the Union.

To make all these to happen each region must firstly invest in electricity generation, solar, wind, hydro, gas, coal,nuclear, etc. The most successful region will be determined by amount of electrical power they generate and how constant to sustain comfortable living and industrial revolution. Infact, uninterrupted power supply will be the highest redeeming factor for any of the regions as they will become the financial and business hub of the Union which consequently will emphasize on the security of lives, businesses and properties of every citizen in that region as paramount.

Each region must be adviced to use their indeginous languages for administrative works leadership, schooling and national language. Business deals with other regions shall be in English including international transactions.

Each region must be distinctive of each other and must be a defining patriotic value that must be respected in the Union. A citizen should maintain a home base in any region that took their fancy as citizen in the Union if they can afford it legally as of right of citizenship. They may live and work and contribute positively to that region and obeying their laws while living there. Such citizen must not be termed a foriegner as there are no such thing in the Union.

The Union may have five Members of Paliament each representing the six regions. Elections must be conducted as they deem fit in each region as ther will not be any more national elections because each region has become a nationality of it's own. And each region must chose the type of government and laws that will suit their regions. The Members of Paliament in the Union will look after the affairs of the regions at Abuja and will make sure their revenue accrued them are fully paid and to make sure their regions are not misrepresented in the Union.

Each region must have their national flags, anthems, logos and emblems. They must have their national dressing and cultural distinction.

All the regions must come to the aid of any region that needs it and repeat, no region must attack or go to war against another as they will be punished by the rest of the Union.

Robot  # 1 | 02.06.2008 14:02

What type of reconstruction will be best for Nigeria? 1. Devolution of Power? a. ...Read the full article.

yashuaib1  # 2 | 03.06.2008 04:45

You mention 6 regional government or is it countries or federate states? I get confused. Yet you state them as follows: Arewa, Benue/Middle Belt, Oodua, Delta/Oceanic, Biafra Republics. I think this is oversight only 5 you mentioned instead of your 6. In addition which side is Arewa? Is it the North West side that has 7 states based on their population or the North East Side that has 6states? Which one is the Benue/Middle Belt? I hope you dont mean the North Central where they have 6 states and most of them would rather be refered to as North Central than Middle Belt. YAShuaib

Sadiqomo  # 3 | 03.06.2008 08:40

This venture is already based on inequality, since "the revenue accrued from oil will be shared equally among these regions". Until this is redressed, any form of government is doomed. You must compensate the lands that are degraded and polluted to get oil period.

Onari  # 4 | 03.06.2008 11:31

So, When these are created, who will be in-charge, how do get people elected? Will it be the same political leaders that will still lead as usual? Will the fundamental issues and services be fixed and by who? In the regions will we be able to do away with leaders like Adedibu, the Ubas, the Odilis, The Iboris, the Jubril Aminus, the Turakis, the OBJs etc? This is a tall other. The problem of Nigeria definitely is not the structure of the country, but the structure of leadership and fellowship. You can even divide the country into independent villages, so far as we continue our altitude of rat race, selfishness, dishonesty, corruption, nothing will change...unless we look out for each other we still will remain the same...a failed state.

NWANZA  # 5 | 03.06.2008 11:35

Thanks for the draft and thinking about better Union. The name "Nigeria" is an issue because of its notoriety as a scam and corrupt country. Let's drop the name and come up with something else. I like the idea of having an international airport in Southeast, because it has been deprived of this right for forty years. Each region should be allowed their own police force. Nigerian police is one of the sources of insecurity today. There is more, but l will stop here.

draftman  # 6 | 03.06.2008 15:46

This article should be Nigeria most Nigerians want: We dont want any agitators, no mo MASSOB, no more Biafran, no more decoy or fake nigerian, you either a full nigerian citizen or you're not. No more war, no more demand from our government for hand out. No more bad mouthing our country in the world and then expect the world to respect you. No more effoding our forefathers value, no more foreign religion, no more wearing suit in hot climate-lets be an individual-they dont wear our clothes, no more missionaries, no more churches or sunday business center at every corner, no more english as the official language, it can be a business language, it is a shame our children are not speaking our language anymore. No more frequest road block, no more european, chinese, lebanese, indians, giving the plump contract first right of refusal, I am not banning them. No more respecting foreigners at the airport than nigerians. Is this too much to ask?

NWANZA  # 7 | 03.06.2008 19:06

=draftman;4295049925>This article should be Nigeria most Nigerians want: We dont want any agitators, no mo MASSOB, no more Biafran, no more decoy or fake nigerian, you either a full nigerian citizen or you're not. No more war, no more demand from our government for hand out. No more bad mouthing our country in the world and then expect the world to respect you. No more effoding our forefathers value, no more foreign religion, no more wearing suit in hot climate-lets be an individual-they dont wear our clothes, no more missionaries, no more churches or sunday business center at every corner, no more english as the official language, it can be a business language, it is a shame our children are not speaking our language anymore. No more frequest road block, no more european, chinese, lebanese, indians, giving the plump contract first right of refusal, I am not banning them. No more respecting foreigners at the airport than nigerians. Is this too much to ask? You just want to live in a cave or wander the desert like your forefathers. Nigeria is not an African name but a gimmick!

Justin Case  # 8 | 03.06.2008 21:20

How about MEND? Do you think we need them more than we need MASSOB or even Ooduwa Republic?

Nokia  # 9 | 03.06.2008 21:54

=draftman;4295049925>This article should be Nigeria most Nigerians want: We dont want any agitators, no mo MASSOB, no more Biafran, no more decoy or fake nigerian, you either a full nigerian citizen or you're not. No more war, no more demand from our government for hand out. No more bad mouthing our country in the world and then expect the world to respect you. No more effoding our forefathers value, no more foreign religion, no more wearing suit in hot climate-lets be an individual-they dont wear our clothes, no more missionaries, no more churches or sunday business center at every corner, no more english as the official language, it can be a business language, it is a shame our children are not speaking our language anymore. No more frequest road block, no more european, chinese, lebanese, indians, giving the plump contract first right of refusal, I am not banning them. No more respecting foreigners at the airport than nigerians. Is this too much to ask? Primitive fula, there is actually no need for your ramblings here whenever any topic about Igbo, Biafra, Ojukwu and MASSOB is raised here. The fear these names creates in you and your ilk will surely drive you to hospital one day and finally shut you up forever. You and your ilk can not stop Biafra from rising again. Deal with it. I still do not understand why you and your ilk can never join with other interested parties and form your great niggaarea and leave Igbo/Biafrans out of your great country. Must Ndigbo be part of your Niggaarea?? Is this too much to ask?? Maybe you think that every part of niggaarea is ridden with sharia law as it's obtain in your own northern enclave. What you should rather be advising here is the need to ban islam and mosquues and imams and no use of arabic language by anyone.

ttonjo  # 10 | 04.06.2008 01:25

This article should be Nigeria most Nigerians want: 'We dont want any agitators, no mo MASSOB, no more Biafran, no more decoy or fake nigerian, you either a full nigerian citizen or you're not. No more war, no more demand from our government for hand out. No more bad mouthing our country in the world and then expect the world to respect you. No more effoding our forefathers value, no more foreign religion, no more wearing suit in hot climate-lets be an individual-they dont wear our clothes, no more missionaries, no more churches or sunday business center at every corner, no more english as the official language, it can be a business language, it is a shame our children are not speaking our language anymore. No more frequest road block, no more european, chinese, lebanese, indians, giving the plump contract first right of refusal, I am not banning them. No more respecting foreigners at the airport than nigerians.' draftman @draftman: You are one of the things that is WRONG and blocking Nigeria progress. I noticed in your response about no more this, no more that, but you carefully by ommission or commission left out your Arabic Islamic religion and Islamic names etc. My question to you is this. Is Islamic an African religion? How about your Arabic names? Are they part of the African heritage as well? Not until your Islamic northern Nigeria stop all these senseless discrimination and killing of fellow Nigerians at every flimsy provocation against anything Islam, then the rest of the southern part of Nigeria is better off without you, chikena!!!:(:(:(

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