By Tim Akano

In nation-building, a branch can be stronger than the whole: e.g., Slovenia and Croatia are economically stronger that the old Yugoslavia that broke into six countries.Your country urgently needs VITAMIN D (Decentralization) to stay alive and fulfill its historic responsibility to the Black race. Your options are limited; decentralize or disintegrate. The UK embraced decentralization after witnessing how chaotic and

the Roman Empire was. Do you know that Scotland has its currency, the “Pound Scots,” and is still part of the United Kingdom? What stops the commercially oriented Igbo nation or the Fulani nation who is always ‘on the go’ from having their respective currencies to trade alongside the Nigerian Naira?

Tim: Ogbeni AE, tell me, how can Nigeria proceed? We are at a crossroads.*Ogbeni AE:* As a scientist, I seek truth from the forest of facts and figures. The ten most heterogeneous and centrally governed countries globally are also some of the most underdeveloped and crisis prone. Liberia is the most racially diverse country, with a diversity rate of 88.9%, followed by Uganda (88.3%), Togo (88%), Nepal, Chad, South Africa, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, and Guinea-Bissau in that order. The only exception on the list is South Africa which was developed under the Apartheid regime with brute force. Recall Apartheid South Africa had nuclear weapons. But since Apartheid was uprooted, the agitation by the whites is increasing because they are dissatisfied serving as a bus conductor to the blacks, therefore they are clamouring for their own separate country in South Africa. Meanwhile, European countries are 90%-95% homogenous (white Caucasians who built their civilization on Christian values). Similarly, the most peaceful and progressive Middle Eastern nations are homogenous, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, they built their civilization on Islamic values. On the other hand, “plural states” like Syria and Iraq are doomed under centralization. The most developed nations in the world are either homogeneous or, when heterogeneous, they are decentralized. For example, China is 92% Han nationality, Japan is 97.4% Japanese, Germany is 95%, India is 80% Hindu, and South Korea is 99.9% Korean. Heterogeneous nations like the United States, Canada, Switzerland had to embrace decentralization deliberately as a sine-qua-non for peace, progress and prosperity. I know you’re tempted to ask what happened in Somalia, where one nationality and one religion are killing one another. Somalia/Southern Sudan are rare abnormalities that prove the rule. Even God Almighty is a ‘’DECENTRALIZER’’. A careful study of planetary habitability in the solar system, as discovered by NASA scientists, shows the gravitational pull of other planetary bodies. They concluded that Pluto might be a dwelling place for GHOSTS. Besides Earth, scientists believe that other planets could host living beings referred to as aliens or UFOs. God made sure Angels have their own ecosystem ditto the beings in the seas and oceans. Assume for a moment that all the planets in the solar system strayed their paths, even just a little, their harmonious coexistence would cause a solar disaster akin to a cosmic cyclone, in a jiffy.What will happen if these aliens and ghosts set up their own political parties in Nigeria? Like the Aliens National Party (ANP) or the Renewed Ghosts Republican Party (RGRP), and decide to field their own presidential candidates in the 2027 elections? (Laughs). Although I have a hunch: with the velocity at which Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others keep disturbing the ghosts and aliens in their natural habitats, constantly taking trips to space, one day, these beings might get angry and descend upon Earth in millions to hold a public hearing for GHOSTS inside the national Assembly chamber! Now, can VP Kazim Shettima, of ‘’restructure-my-foot’’ fame see why God, in His incomparable wisdom, created a Decentralized universe! The Universe is one but it is a confederacy!

Tim: Ogbeni AE, we are gearing up for the Christmas celebrations and the “Cross-over” night. I’m happy to learn from “Professor Google” that you are now a godly scientist like our ‘’practising religious elites’’. Can you kindly help pray along for Nigeria’s transformation in the new year.

Ogbeni AE: Religiosity is not synonymous with godliness or spiritually. God is love, purity, and beauty. Tell me, where is virtue in the way your elites loot and create terrorism as a tool for capturing power and maintaining hegemony? Have you read what the Holy Book says about prayers, Tim? It says, “You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss.”

Tim: Ogbeni AE, can I give you our prayer list so that you can help us pray rightly? Nigerians don’t want to pray amiss in 2025. Please, Albert Einstein, kindly help us pray to achieve 24×7 uninterrupted electricity and power to feed ourselves as a nation. Pray for the 30 million out-of-school children to suddenly find themselves in classrooms by January 2025! Pray for our hospitals to receive wisdom to treat our leaders who jet off to France for medical tourism. Pray for our students to become problem-solvers instead of relying on Chinese to construct our roads and Israelis for protection.

NBS has just announced that kidnapping is the fastest growing business in Nigeria with a total turnover of N2.3 Trillion in 12 months, bigger than Dangote, please we need prayers for kidnappers to sleep a sleep of death on December 31st and not wake up on January 1st, 2025. And pray for the 30 million unemployed youths on the streets to get quality miracle jobs by the first week of January 2025. Please, we equally need prayers to bring down the food inflation rate from 34% to at least 5%. Was it not the fervent prayers of King Chales and the British people that brought down the UK inflation rate to 1.7% in November?

More importantly, Prof, we need big prayers for the sagging value of our national currency. The naira is completely impotent. We want it to be strong again. If we cannot get it to $1:N1 immediately, kindly use prayers to take it back to where Papa Buhari left it in 2023 at $1:N700. We are all in “sifia pains” directly or indirectly.

Professor Albert Einstein: Tim, God is process driven. HE will not do for Nigeria what Nigerians should do for themselves. Or do you think it is God that provides electricity, jobs, roads, and food to the Chinese, Jews, Arabs, Caucasians and Japanese? Transformation is 1% natural endowment and 99% hard work. In a wave of water, the amount of water which is above its level equals the amount which is below. Be warned: there is no equilibrium in poverty, some of your people may be at the treadmill of mere existence today- eating from the dustbins, but at least, people have not started eating one another yet! Conditions can cascade! More importantly, for your information, the Devil has publicly issued a disclaimer here that his hands are clean regarding Nigeria’s sorry situation, and we believe him! When interrogated, the Devil admitted he’s the one orchestrating chaos in Somalia, Sudan, Syria (the three “S” countries) and Libya, Ukraine and Gaza. But when asked about his involvement in Nigeria’s circular crises and untold suffering, the Devil swore by his name that neither he nor his children nor cousins have a hand in Nigeria.

The Devil revealed that on January 15, 1970, when the civil war ended, he sold the Exclusive Master franchise on Nigeria to the elites!When God created the world, He declared it good and issued four clear commands: (1) Be fruitful, (2) Multiply and fill the earth, (3) Subdue it, and (4) Have dominion over the fish of the sea (with ships), the birds of the heavens (with airplanes), and every living thing that moves on Earth (with artificial intelligence). Nigerians, however, chose to obey only one commandment: multiply and fill the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in “Compensation” (1841), had Nigeria in mind when he wrote the lines below, “The wings of time are black and white. Trembling balance duly keeps. Nature hates monopolies and exceptions but venerates Nemesis and abhors vacuum. The parted water reunites behind our hand. That in nature, nothing can be given; all things are sold. What will you have, quote God? Pay for it. The Devil is an ass. For, I plant into deserts, conquered from Chaos and Nothing. and see the darkness receding on the horizon. Nothing arbitrary, nothing artificial can endure because things refuse to be mismanaged for long. Res nolunt diu male administrari.”

And in 1953, Lao Russell also had Nigeria in mind when she wrote a book titled: “God Will Work WITH You but Not FOR You”! Let me conclude, Tim, by telling you a short story of a sculptor who once showed a visitor his studio. It was full of statues of gods. One was very curious, the face was concealed by being covered with hair, and there were wings on each foot. ‘’What is his name? ’said the visitor. ‘’OPPORTUNITY’’ was the reply. ‘Why is his face hidden?’ ‘’Because men seldom know him when he comes to them’’. ‘’Why was he wings on his feet’’? ‘’Because he is soon gone, and once gone, can never be overtaken’’. Finally, Tim, if it’s got to be it’s up to your elites, but you must bear in mind that the average lifespan of a badly mismanaged heterogeneous society like Nigeria is three scores and ten (70 years). Do the Math!

Tim: What time is it? 3:00 a.m.? It’s all a dream. This Harmattan Haze sef! Merry Christmas and wishing you a sweet 2025! Congratulations, you deserve a 2024 golden “Certificate of Survivor” Email me your details today to claim yours!

Tim Akano President, One Africa Initiatives timakano1@gmail.com www.timakano.com