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I am the voice that cries in Africa The voice that spoke for her freedom The voice that advocated against her inhumanity And now, I call for her peace and unity I am the voice that cries out of the valleys The voice that calls from the mountains And now, I call on my child Nigeria And his children Nigerians Who is my first born The apparent heir to the throne of Africa From the continent of Africa I conceived you In the west of Africa I bore you Unique and great among your brethren I made you With many talents and gifted hands I endowed you With numerous descendants and multicultural-language I ornamented you And with numerous gifted hands and gift of nature I beautified you The jealousy of they on the mountains I made you to be The envy of them in the valleys I bore you to be The earnest desire and dream of they around I fashioned you to be Oh! My beloved son-Nigeria What went wrong? Do not use your armor of defense As armor of offensive attack on one anothe...

I want to take this time to talk to the young people of Nigeria, especially the youth. We have allowed ourselves to be used and most times misused. We are hypnotized and deceived into fighting ourselves for nothing. Where and what we have directed our weapons at are not the causes of our problems. I have earlier pointed out that political and religious problems are not directly caused by Satan, but by selfish men and women (some political and religious leaders) who make a fortune or gain (wealth, fame, and power) from it. The problem we have in our nation is not the youth of various tribes of the nation (southern, eastern, or northern youths). It is not traders, market, or business youths, men and women who are in another state rather than their state within the nation. These people are assets to the economic development of our nation. Though they raise money in the state where they are residing to take care of their family, yet they in many ways add immensely to the economic and infra...