Nigeria has a curse on it!

Nigeria has a curse on it!

This is the sad, but inevitable, conclusion one has to come to, following the recent increasingly-strident calls by Nigeria's Federal Executive (through its increasingly and obnoxiously insensitive Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency...the PPPRA) for an increase in the price of petroleum products (including gasoline/petrol and kerosene, the two prime energy sources of this long-misgoverned nation of over 150 million disheartened citizens)!

FACTS: 1. This is the same nation that has gained a windfall of over 10 billion dollars due to unanticipated earnings from crude oil and gas sales; 2. a nation where lives were lost the last time there were increases in these products' prices, as the masses protested the apparent government desire to keep them in debilitating poverty, whilst the self-same government's officers and officials wallow in nauseating wealth that they have corruptly, and otherwise, taken from the common coffers of the nation; 3. a country that is on the verge of collapse due to the dissatisfaction of the generality of the people with the style of lopsided governance that is fast-tracking the widening of the rich-poor gap; 4. the nation-state that is being threatened by different calls for autonomy and balkanisation because its putative citizens do not feel that the government represents their interests anymore; and, 5. to twist the knife in the wound, this is the same government that is advocating the hand-over of this windfall (as soon as it hits the 12 billion mark) to a bunch of vampirish "creditors" who have helped suck this nation dry, by conspiring over the decades with her outlandishly corrupt leaders (including the present leaders!) to siphon the wealth of the people into "laundered" offshore-systems that stash these stolen monies in secret (and even open) accounts with absolute impunity, save for occasinal bursts of BIG LIE-style pretexts by government, to appear to be fighting the corruption that's virtually endemic in the system, and that is patronised by the compradore capitalists and rent-collecting politicians who are slowly, but surely, bleeding Nigeria to death...all this after this same government had (O Integrity, why have you deserted all Nigerian leaders?!) reneged on its covenant with the people, through an elaborate sham of a process, to cushion the last increases in fuel prices!!

Can one but conclude, given all these (tip-of-the-iceberg!) pointers, that this nation is cursed?...

How else can one rationalise the seemingly mad rush by government to lead the nation over the precipice of stability into a free-fall into anarchy, anomie, and the beginning of a vortex that will suck not only Nigeria into destruction, but also so negatively impact Africa, Europe and the whole world as it destabilises the resources of the United Nations, that one fears for humanity ultimately...whilst one kneels and tremblingly prays against the horror of revolution that this present government (that loves equating its governing-style with tsunamis!...can you believe the insensitive and foreboding crassness of its choice of imagery?) is so cut-off from the people as to not realise how very little it could take to spark off "the end" even this very year.

SOMEBODY, PLEASE, HELP US SAVE NIGERIA FROM HERSLF!!!

Shalom!!!