Projectnewsong presentation ppt

PROJECTNEWSO

NGAyodele Akin-Adewolu

[email protected]

08165505959 2928BCF8

NIGERI

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May we please bow down our heads for

prayers?

Oh God of creation, direct our noble

cause

Guide our leaders right

Help our youths, the truth to know

In love and honesty to grow

And living just and true

Great lofty heights attain

To build a nation where peace and

justice shall reign.

Fellow Compatriot,

The Nigerian government through the

Federal Ministry of Information and

National Orientation launched the

Nigeria Image Project, now renamed

The Heart of Africa project in July 2004,

following in the footsteps of some other

African countries which had launched

similar image campaigns such as South

Africa which launched a Proudly South

African image programme.

To Rebrand Nigeria is to

redefine our concept of

Nationhood and engage

wholly in the process of

National renewal to attain a

height where National Interest

is exalted far and above

personal, ethno-religious and

regional interest.

It is total rededication and

recommitment to the dictates

of the National anthem and

recognizing the lines in these

visionary statements as

sacred oath of allegiance to

our Country, to rekindle the

fire of patriotism to our Nation.

What is Projectnewsong?

Projectnewsong is a national

movement that the second stanza of

the national anthem be made the

first one, a movement to move a

motion for the amendment of the

constitution, to make the second

stanza of the national anthem the

first one and also to mandate that it

be sang at every of our gathering as

a people.

The song of a nation depicts the kind

of citizens therein. After two scores

and half years of independence, it’s

high time that we have a new song

in Nigeria. A time for us to return

back to God, to sing a song of a

spiritual call to the God of creation,

that he directs our noble course,

guide our leaders’ right and help our

youths the truth to know.

First and foremost, Nigerians should

realize that we have a rendezvous with

destiny and that, the task of reshaping

our individual and collective destinies is

our sole responsibility and that, we owe

the next generation a duty to craft a well

projected, practical and workable

blueprint for Nation building or we may

be, in former US president Ronald

Reagan’s word: at the edge of

“sentencing our children’s children into a

thousand years of darkness”.

Now is the right time for Nigeria to

overhaul her value and believe systems

by discarding the imperialist ideology of

Nationhood that was transferred by the

colonial masters to our unsuspecting

founding fathers. Who were psyched at

Pre-independence, Independence and

Post-independence into believing that

once independence is granted, all is

done, they are unaware that

independence leads to the wilderness,

only freedom leads to the promise land.

At these defining moments in our

National lives, We need, as a matter of

urgency, to start replacing the

Imperialist administrative structure

inherited by our founding fathers from

the colonialist which has thus far been

recreated and promoted by us; which

is described as DICHOTOMY:

Hausa/Yoruba/Igbo dichotomy,

Christian/Muslim dichotomy,

Military/Civilian dichotomy, Rich/Poor

dichotomy, Male/Female dichotomy, to

mention a few.

We should begin to uplift our

political commitments above

the ancestral political jingoism.

For example, let us start today

to talk more positive things

about Nigeria and about

ourselves, by invoking the 2nd

stanza of our national anthem.

Prof. Pat Utomi of Lagos

Business School in one of his

write ups said

"Nigeria has no business being

poor".

WHY?

WHY?

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$369.8 billion (2010)

$346.2 billion (2009) (32ND in the world)/196

countries in the world

GDP - real growth rate:

6.8% (2010)

5.6% (2009) (27TH in the world)

Population below poverty line:

70% (2007)

WHY?

Electricity - Production:21.92 billion kWh (2007) 70th in the world

Electricity - Consumption:19.21 billion kWh (2007) 69th in the world (2.71

billion difference)

Electricity - Exports:0 kWh (2008)

Electricity - Imports:0 kWh (2008)

WHY?

Oil - production:

2.211 million bbl/day (2009) 15th in the world

Oil - consumption:

280,000 bbl/day (2009) 45th in the world

Oil - proved reserves:

37.5 billion bbl (January 2010) 10th in the

world

The Nigerian Rain forest is the

best in the world.

Most of the Nigerian Mineral

Resources are in the best

existence form, many are

untapped, many are yet to be

discovered.

Nigeria made from the Gulf War

excess crude oil profit in 1996. 6.5

Billion Dollars and that’s a few

billion less what the whole oil

producing states in Africa made

from 1963 to 1996 and that’s why

the MD/CEO of a multinational

telecommunications company in

Nigeria can, in a meeting in

London said “any fool with half a

brain will make money in Nigeria”.

Our leaders, if they are truly

Nigerians at heart and are not

mere caricature leaders,

should be convinced and not

finds it difficult to make the

second stanza of the national

anthem, the first, as public

opinion is quite in its support.

The song on the lips of all Africans

especially Nigeria is no more

independence but FREEDOM and

only God can set free

You, I and all of us need to rise up

and support this movement in

whatever capacity you can, so that

we can begin to see the changed

Nigeria we are all clamoring for.

Thank you.

God bless you.

And God bless the Federal

Republic of Nigeria.