RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UI on two-week compulsory recess because of student unrest

Very sad that Nigeria has not and not willing to solve her power problem, with all her millionaires and billionaires.
Oh Africa, what a shame of governance in destroying one of Africa's premier universities!!!

READ THE GOD'S LETTER AND REFLECT!!
KOFI

Culled from NaijaPolitics (originally posted on UmuIgbo forum):
CHI-BONAVEN <chibona@Yahoo.com> wrote:
God's Letter To Nigerians
Posted by admin on 2007/10/15 10:20:41 (339 reads)
From my writing stables, this is how I envision

God's Letter to Nigerians:

My dear people of Nigeria, thank you for knowing of
me, for acknowledging me and for blessing me every day.
Thank you for your dedication to church and mosque
going. You have very entertaining songs on Sundays;
only the singing voices of the African Americans and
South Africans rival your singing to me. I love your
worship. After Friday Mosque and Sunday service,
however, you seem to disappear.

I searched for you on Monday and I could not find you.
I came to your office to seek a contract and I was
asked to pay a bribe even before I was given a form,
but on the door of your office there were two signs:
one said you love my Son Jesus Christ and the other
said 'I love Allah'.

On Tuesday, I went to look for work. You see, I have
not had a job for over two years since my graduation.
I was losing hope. I went from office to office which
had all manner of leaflets adoring me, but no one of
importance would even see me or give me a word of
hope, even if they could not offer me a job. In many
places, the receptionist would shoe me away like a
dog, even as she is humming a song to me. Did she
never look for work?

On Wednesday, I took my only child to the hospital. He
had a high fever. I had no money on me but I had great
hope that the hospital which had, "to God be the
Glory" and other praise writings to me would surely
not let my child die. "To God be the Glory" hospital
insisted on "cash be the answer" before touching my
child. Young nurses stared on without blinking as my
baby convulsed in fever. "No cash no treatment," said
the nurse with the pin "Jesus Saves" on her dress.

On Thursday, as I was relaxing from an exhausting
week, I heard my name called in prayer so I went to
see what it was all about. It was a political meeting
that started with a Christian prayer and a Moslem
prayer. As the meeting progressed and I listened, all
I heard was who was going to get what position and who
had been cheated out of what sharing formula. Not once
did they say how they would glorify my name by their
hard work, charity, honesty, astuteness or kindness.
At the end of this vicious meeting, they said a
Christian prayer and a Moslem prayer. I fell off my
seat in laughter.

No one saw or heard me but I was there. You see I am
used to seeing people use my name in vain. They lie,
cheat and steal in and with my Name. They call me all
the time, but I am not in their hearts. They use my
name for profit and to manipulate others, but they do
not love me, because if they truly did, they will do
my will.

On Friday, there was a great commotion on the street.
I looked and saw great multitudes heading to worship
me in the mosque. I went to the front of the mosque to
buy some food. Everyone cheated me, giving me a higher
price than the goods were worth, right in front of my
house. I smiled. The cycle continues.

On Saturday I had an accident and I lay on the side of
the road for hours and no one picked me up. I only had
a fracture on my head, which if I had immediate
attention in a hospital I would have recovered, but
because no one helped me, I died. But as I lay on the
side of the road, I heard many cars speeding past with
Christian and Moslem praise worship songs blaring from
their loud speakers.

On Sunday, those rushing to Church almost trampled me
to death.

My dear people it is not in song or worship that I am
glorified but by how you love your neighbour. You have
perfected worship, now work on action and love. I will
only do for you what you cannot do for yourself, which
is why I am the God of the impossible not the
possible. I know that you can fix your hospitals and
provide better healthcare so I do not answer your
prayers to cure headaches. I know that you can fix
your roads and obey road signs, thereby safeguarding
precious lives that I gave you so I do not answer your
prayers to avoid accidents. I know that you can
conduct credible elections to choose the best leaders
for your country, so yes, I do not answer your prayers
to give you good leaders.

I have given you intelligence, resources, stamina and
population more than I have many other nations so I
know what you can achieve. So please only call me when
you have something you truly cannot handle such as
cancer, flood (as long as it is not due to blocked
drains), persecution from a stronger nation and so on.
I leave you a final message: the key to personal and
national greatness is to do to each other that which
you will want me to do for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of shina73_1999@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:12 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - UI on two-week compulsory recess because of student unrest

The management of the University of Ibadan yesterday resolved to send its students home on a two-week recess because of the protest initiated by the students over lack of electricity supply to their halls of residence. The students barricaded the main gate leading to the school while carrying placards and chanting songs.
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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