Forget about all the deceit and propagander from those in government. The truth is that it is becoming increasingly embarrassing to be called a Nigerian. But you don,t expect much from a Nation where the government is run by a sick man from a hospital bed abroad. Nothing is working at the moment because when the head is sick, the rast of the body is rotten. I was at the Murtala Mohammed Airport on 11/05/2009, to catch a flight to London. Just as we were passing through the security checks by 2200 hours, within a short space of 30 minutes, the power supply went off three times. What an embarrassment. Nothing works in Nigeria because those who should have asked questions are the culprits. Highly sensitive posts are maned by political associates even when they don't have the expertise required in that field. Now they are busy wasting our scarce resources all in the name of rebranding Nigeria. The truth is that Nigeria needs much more than rebranding because it needs heart, lungs, kidneys and liver tranplant. If you sum these up, that is equal to Transmogrification - a type of well structured revolution. Iyke Anaebuo, a native of Ihembosi in Anambra State, writes from London.

Nigeria may be ailing and many of its institutions and leaders currupt, but there are many Nigerians still struggling to right the numerous wrongs. We need to give credit to many who are making valuable contributions towards the growth of our fatherland. We will get there someday. The power situation is appalling and is unilaterally pulling down many sectors of development. In my opinion, it should be decentralized and possibly opened up for the participation of competent local and multinational corporations. Remember what happened in the Telecom sector? Decentralization will break the existing monopoly, create a compatitive environment and engender proficiency.

Could these power failures and inability to provide more power for the country not a delibrate act by the administration to reduce the south to the level of the north?

The country Nigeria needs an urgent overhaul. What do you expect from a cabal of uneducated leaders who would rather by jeeps/private jets rather than construct new roads or rehabilitate failed ones:

Fly abroad for medical checkup / treatment rather build and equip new hospital or consciencious total refurbishing of existing ones. Bearing in mind that Nigerian trained medical doctors from the federal and state owned Universities are making waves in the UK and beyond.

The most important - a political elite that would go back on their promises about the Education of their country who have somuch interest in getting educated. This is only possible with retrogressive parochial mindedness of the uneducated literate political elite that don't see that any great country puts educcation of their youths as paramount interest. Rather than fufil her obligations, the country nigeria would rather give licences to kindergarteens to operate as universities with the hoope of educating only the dull minded children of the political elite at exhorbitant cost that come from the ripping of tax payers sweat.

Furthermore, India and Pakistan so-called third world countries are leading countries in IT singularly because their governments encourage education and India is reaping the benefits today. It is a shame that Nigeria has to import TATA vehicles when under the infamous leadership of the rogue leadership of IBB, the nation society of Engineers prodoced her first indigenous prototype of a made in Nigeria car that was better kept in the Musuem than such efforts rewarded and encourage. Instead, the leader rather went to import S - Classes from Germany because she was hosting the the OAU summit in Abuja of which all those attending had the S-Class as take home gift. Such calibre of rogues as late Mobutu Sessi seko, and the likes are the king of friends the Nigeria political elites would rather have than sane minded people.