A move for the second stanza of our national anthem

1. PROJECTNEWSO
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Ayodele Akin-Adewolu
ayodeleakinadewolu@yahoo.com
08165505959 2928BCF8
NIGERI
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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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”.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Prof. Pat Utomi of Lagos
Business School in one of his
write ups said
"Nigeria has no business being
poor".
WHY?

13. 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)

14. 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)

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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”.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Thank you.
God bless you.
And God bless the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.