Monday, July 8, 2013

NASA Finds Message From God on Mars

NASA Finds Message From God on Mars

mars-rover-landing-sequence-landed_57831_600x450NASA announced today that its Curiosity Rover has found an unambiguous message from God written on tablets in a Martian cave.
According to an official press release two giant stone slabs the size of small elephants were located deep inside a cavern abutting Aeolis Mons, a large mountain.
Upon one tablet is a copy of the Ten Commandments and the text of John 3:16 written in 12 languages - including English, Spanish, Chinese, Basque and Hebrew. On the other tablet is a simple message in English reading "I am real."
According to top scientists who have studied the discovery extensively, these findings may have definitively established Christianity as the one true religion.
"This is amazing," says Syms Covington, an Australian researcher working for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. "We went into the cave looking for water, and we found proof of God's existence instead.
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"I mean how else did those tablets get there? I can tell you one thing: there's not a single atheist inside NASA's control room now. What we saw was jaw-dropping."
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NASA's Curiosity rover arrived on Mars in August of last year with a mission to explore the Martian climate and geology for signs for habitability.
Thus far the mission has been a success, with the discovery of an ancient seabed and chemicals needed for life suggesting that Mars was once suitable for life.
However the tablets, both of which are signed "Peace and Love - Yahweh," represent the rover's most significant find to date, and is perhaps the most important scientific event in history.
"When people find out about this, they will demand change in our society," explains a political scientist at Georgetown University. "Democracy will have to give way to theocracy. We're gonna have to build more churches and reintroduce prayer into schools. Abortion is defiantly going to be illegal within a few months."
Despite its potential significance, Covington fears that the Earth-shattering discovery may not make the impact it should.
"Unfortunately, the mainstream media is so anti-Christian, they might not even pick up this story," he explains. "But God is real. We have proof. And everyone deserves to hear the truth."

Friday, July 5, 2013

SOLVING A NATION: ECONOMIC RECOVERY THROUGH STATE POTENTIALS UTILIZATION II



EDO STATE



Edo State is an inland state in central southern Nigeria. Its capital is Benin City. It is bounded in the north and east by Kogi State, in the south by Delta State and in the west by Ondo State. Edo State with an Area of 17,802 km2 (6,873 sq mi) and an estimate population of  3,497,502 (2005), was formed on 27 August 1991 when Bendel State was split into Edo and Delta States. 

Edo State is home to several ethnics, among them the Bini, Esan, Afemai, Ora, Akoko-Edo, Igbanke, Emai and Ijaw.

                

  
The University of Benin, Benin City, the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, the Igbinedion University, Okada, and the Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, the Federal Polytechnic Auchi, Auchi are among the institutions of higher learning located in Edo State.
             

Tourist attractions in Edo State include the Emotan statue in Benin City, Ise Lake and River Niger beach in Agenebode, Etsako-East; Ambrose Alli Square, Ekpoma, River Niger beaches at Ilushi, BFFM building at Ewu, College of Agriculture and Aqua Culture Technology, Agenebode, Okpekpe with its hills and scenes and the Somorika hills in Akoko Edo, where a government-run tourist center at Ososo is set among spectacular scenery. The state produces crude oil. The state is also noted for the following agricultural products: rubber, cocoa, cashew nuts and is blessed with precious stones like Quartz, Amethyst, Mica, Dolomite, Granite Stone and Lime Stone used in the production of Cement at Okpella. Among the Tourist centers is the Imiegba Uchikpo River in three Ibie Clan and hills.

Edo State consists of 18 Local Government Areas and 3 Senatorial District. As at May 2013, Edo State had a standing debt of Edo owes $42.7 million (http://mienpamo.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/states-monthly-allocation-for-the-month-of-may-2013-from-the-federal-govt-there-huge-dept-profiles-2/). In May 2013 received about 2.4% as State Allocation from the Federal Government N894,000,000,000.00 from the Federal Government Monthly Allocation to States 

Economic Position in Edo State

Presently, Edo State could be described as one of the many States in Nigeria with a very poor economic situation, as it experiences huge and raising rate of youth unemployment, lacks industrial and commercial advancement and obviously poorly funded Federal Government presence. 

Edo State is a State that houses one of African's oldest and recognized Traditional Monarch system and serve as a major Economic link/ root between Nigeria's Largest commercial hub (Lagos) and two of Nigeria's Most vibrant Market indicators (Onitsha and Abuja). Edo State is one of Nigerian's most popular States in Europe and some Africa countries as it has a large number of its Son and Daughters living in various towns and city around the world with an aim to improve their economic situation and that of their families. 

The present Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, in his administration's move to make a difference in the lives of the people of the State, deployed a technique of massive structural development and political reshuffle, which led the construction and new roads, dualization of existing Federal roads and beatification of major areas of attraction around the main city. These activities have consumed a period of about five years without any trace of improved economic vibrancy in the State which has now resulted to increase taxes on the people to help fund the State treasury. 
    

Is it a Right Move Towards an Economic Improvement in Edo State?
Nigeria is a constituent of States or ethnic divide with different human, material and political potentials (resources), which requires differential approach towards achieving their sectoral economic development”.
The approach by the Comrade Governor led administration must has been seen by his analyst as a suitable method of reviving Edo State, as I have heard in various argument placed by sympathizers of the administration, that structural development is a first that would help Edo draw up investor that could help revive the Economy of the State.
In my argument I totally disagree with the Comrade Gov. and his administration sympathizers on this technique rather I would use my next view paragraph to suggest a viable technique that would help the Edo people pick up their Economy and generate enough revenue to effect structural developments.

Solving Edo State Using its Human and Natural Resource
In my categorizing of State for economic resolve, I would like to place Edo State under the Categories of socio-political and eco-resource State.

Socio-political - Edo State with its multiple ethnic could be described as a politically active State that enjoys sharing its social activities amidst it diverse political consciousness.
Eco-resource – Edo State, a geographical location best described amongst Nigeria’s rain forest region is blessed with a vast deposit of environmental resource (raw material) in the likes of mineral and terrestrial resource.
The best way towards solving the economic problems in Edo State is by putting these two classifications in to consideration, to promote equity in economic distribution.
Edo State having three (3) senatorial districts has its environmental resources shared evenly around them, making it a proximity in accomplishing total economic recovery around the net coverage of the State
The Gov. Lucky Igbinedion (1999 -2007) made attempts towards this path of economic recovery but failed in the areas of implementation as the corrupt activities in his administration did not allow a well master plan to effective to the lives of the people.
Edo State is one State in Nigeria that prides its self in human resources having been known for performing acts and acts of craft works. It also reigns as a domain for highly rated citadel of learning. But has suffered a crunch in human resource development as a result of poor and abused economic standard, so the first area of interest of any government in Edo State would be Human Development through Resource Utilization.

Resource Utilization

Esan Land (Edo Central Senatorial district) is popular for it fertility for the production of Citric Fruit and root plants like Cassava. It is presently one of the sources of fruit distribution around the Middle belt and Mid Western regions of Nigeria.

The Lucky Igbinedion administration established a phantom Pineapple juice factory at Edhor which had a vast acre of pineapple farm land (well proposed project but . . .). I expect any State administrator to capitalize on this after checking the proposed planned analysis of the project as set by the past government (probing where necessary, for failed implementation).

Building a Fruit Factory at a location where raw material is near could have been an advantage for the State. Establishing an Edo State Fruit Juice Company would help boost the economic stands of the State as this will spiral employment, revenue and promote commercial competition with brands like Chi, Dangote etc.

The Lucky Igbinedion administration established a phantom Cassava mill factory at Uromi which had a vast acre of cassava farm land (well proposed project but . . .). I expect any State administrator to capitalize on this after checking the proposed planned analysis of the project as set by the past government (probing where necessary, for failed implementation).

Building a Cassava Factory at a location where raw material is near could have been an advantage for the State, as this will collectively add up to promote the revival of the Ewu flour mill in the State. Flour and cassava by-product are in large demand and any industrial supply of this product will largely promote the economic factor of the State.

Afemai Land (Edo North Senatorial district) is popular for its chemical and mineral deposits.
 
Also, The Lucky Igbinedion administration established a phantom Fertilizer factory at Auchi. I expect any State administrator to capitalize on this after checking the proposed planned analysis of the project as set by the past government (probing where necessary, for failed implementation).

Fertilizer is a huge market for Agricultural boost. Presently Economist are advising government all over the world to consider increasing its interest on agricultural production as the world is moving towards a visible Food recession. So for a State that proposes economic development for its people, the fertilizer production could have been an investment that would serve for a long time interest.

Its other mineral resources like limestone, granite etc, could also be placed into productivity as a source of promoting industrialization and developing the human resource through employment and career development by way of industrial input and training.

The present Structural development project been embarked upon by the State government has not been able to fulfill the economic revival of the State but if the government has considered human development first through industrial actualization and allow revenue collection fund structural development, then the Area of Nigeria called Edo State could have now been approaching a splendid Economic Recovery.

Other Areas in Edo State that needed industrial investment to promote its Economy are:

i.      Bendel Brewery 
ii.     Okpella Cement Factory (requires PPP from a fresh National investor)
iii     Tourism 
         a.  Oba Palace
         b.   Ososo Mountains
         c.    the Benin Morts 





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SOLVING A NATION: ECONOMIC RECOVERY THROUGH STATE POTENTIALS UTILIZATION



SOLVING A NATION: ECONOMIC RECOVERY THROUGH STATE POTENTIALS UTILIZATION

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The Nigerian economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes over the years, with a list of socio-economic programmes/ policies, like Economic Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (3R’s) (1975), Operation Feed the Nation (OFN) (1978), Shagari’s Green Revolution (1980), War Against Indiscipline (WAI) (1984), Directorate of Food Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI) (1986), Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER) (1987), Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) (1988), Vision 2000, Universal Basic Education (UBE) (1999), National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS) (2000) and  Millennium Development Goal (MDG) (2000), Vision 2010, Vision 2020, Sure-P , just to mention but few, and still there is evidence, however that the structural shifts in the economy have not resulted in any appreciable and sustain economic growth and development because Nigerians still see themselves as a subject of a failed economical institution,  deprived from fundamental economic benefits like roads, affordable food, electricity, education, health care and good working enumeration.
As I ponder on what the solution to the problems of Nigeria’s economic frustration could be, I tried a flash back study on how the country’s economy boosted in the oil boom of 1973/74.
 
. . . However, the oil boom of 1973/74 brought a new dimension into the economic activities of the country. The sharp increases in oil revenue from N735 million in 1972 (Ibid.) had a pervasive effect on the Nigerian economy. This was because the increase in revenue led to large increases in public spending designed to expand infrastructure, non-oil productive capacity, human, capital and to heal the wounds of the civil war that ravaged the country between 1967 and 1970. In other words, the performance of Nigerian economic growth during 1975-1985 periods has its antecedent in the quadrupling of crude oil prices in 1973-1974. The resulting large windfall gain enabled the country not only to expand the public investment almost three folds over the subsequent years but also to build up its foreign reserves. But many of those investments were carried out without sufficient attention to their economic viability” (Oyejude, 1991)
Extract from a paper written by Dr. Dappa Dappa Tamuno-Omi Godwin and Daminabo Dagogo titled - DEREGULATION OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY :THE THEORETICAL MILIEU, being a Proceedings of the 1st International Technology, Education and Environment Conferenc      

….. Consequently, with the sharp fall in the international oil price in the early 1980s, early 1985 and late 1986, Nigeria’s economy was almost at the verge of collapse. This led to the country’s built up of large fiscal and external deficits and other macroeconomic imbalances which ensured. To address this problem, government introduced several policy measures which started with the Stabilization Act or 1982, budget-tightening measure of 1984 and finally the ‘Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of late 1986. SAP was aimed at laying the foundation for a self-reliant and dynamic economy. The corner stone of the SAP is the deregulation of the economy in other words called privatization of the economy.”

Extract from a paper written by Dr. Dappa Dappa Tamuno-Omi Godwin and Daminabo Dagogo titled - DEREGULATION OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: THE THEORETICAL MILIEU, being a Proceedings of the 1st International Technology, Education and Environment Conference


By reasoning with the authors of their research document in which the above extracts came from, it could be deduced that the country enjoyed a level of economic boost in the late 70s and early 80s through its activities in the international oil trading. Also to be noted is “. . . But many of those investments were carried out without sufficient attention to their economic viability” (Oyejude, 1991). This I guess was where corruption found its way into the Nigeria system. Also worthy of note, is how various economic technics has been deployed tactically with view to safe the falling situation but without success and at a rapid growing rate of corruption the virus of the fall. Anyway, without sticky to rhetoric, I would like avoid political bias of blaming any particular government on this crunch that has made Nigeria “a wealth of no Nation”.

I have been opportune as a Nigerian to visit a number of States, Local Government Areas and communities in the Nation. As much as I can testify to the impoverishment of Nigerians across the Nation, I must still confess to the vast abandonment of a wealth of potentials and resources either waiting to discovered or laying careless without proper utilization. Though successive governments have employed professional economists who have in turn deployed various economic techniques in finding solution to the problem as being faced by the people, yet not much has been achieved as these economists mainly concentrates on the capital development of the economy without considering the effect of Human development in a best described as a multi-camera Nation.
     
In my hypothesis of the Nigeria States, I state that “Nigeria is a constituent of States or ethnic divide with different human, material and political potentials (resources), which requires differential approach towards achieving their sectoral economic development”.

To further expand on this hypothesis, I would like to highlight some States, defined them by human and material resources and I would go further by suggesting economic recovery modules that could be applied in this States to achieve long awaited economic revival required for this areas.

States under-review shall be Edo State, Delta State, Bayelsa State, Lagos State, Oyo State, Rivers State, Ekiti State, Kogi State, Plateau State, Nasarawa State, Kano State and Kaduna State. On this review I shall also be acknowledging areas at which individual State can tolled a relative economic path. One would wonder why I am not mentioning the Federal structure on this task of economic development for the people knowing fully well that the 1999 constitution empowers the FG over all Natural resource as described by the Land use decree/ act 1978. This economic approach is a bottom-top approach, thus solving the economy from the bottom while the top serves as the capital market.



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