2013 budget dey?

I was watching TV one quiet morning when a news headline from the national dailies was quoted which reads thus:"2013 budget unimplementable". It wasn't quite surprising to me,really,however, it was quite amusing that the first budget failure is happening NOT DURING MILITARY RULE but a civillian rule! Especially,the supposed best tenure in Nigerian history.
Its unfortunate that things can go this bad,I mean, every Nigerian and all businesses operating within our territories always look up to the national budget for economic direction. Its the budget of the country that helps businessmen to carve out a most effective business plan which has direct and indirect effects on the on Nigerians. It helps businesses to determine whether to employ more staff or to retrench some of their present employees,it also help to know whether to increase production or even shut down production of some products. This is because THE NATONAL BUDGET IS A YEARLY FINANCIAL PLAN THAT SHOWCASES THE GOVERNMENTAL ECONOMIC POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE YEAR.
You see,without a national budget,its quite difficult to tell what direction the nation is heading to financially and economically which in turn makes it difficult to tell which business to invest into and which business  you need to stay off from. As a result,businessmen tend to be cautious and either stop production or reduce it to the bearest minimum which is the reason why the economy seems to be at a grand halt.
A nation without a budget has no plan for the year,NO PLAN on spending for the year. He who fail to plan,they say,plans to fail!
In a situation whereby the president and his ministerial cabinet with their legion of special advisers that are paid so heavily to deliver democratic dividends to Nigerians have failed to deliver the very basic instrument of national economy,one cannot but wonder what people in government are actually doing in office?
Is it that the President refused to present a budget or the members of the national assembly refused to endorse it? Or,could it be that the unnecessary and rather childish 2015 second term ambition and the PDP faceoff has pre-occupied the President so much so that he has forgotten all about the budget? I mean,no budget for the year 2013... its very ridiculous!
The fact that he is currently changing his cabinet seems to have dashed all hopes that anything is happening this year. No budget,another first from President Jonathan...abi 2013 budget dey?

Nigeria Project

The greatest hinderance to Nigeria's development and progress is non other than the Nigeria's citizens' attitudes to the Nigerian project. If you ask an average citizen who he is,the probability he would say he is Nigerian is pretty low. Most would rather answer for their tribe and ethnical sect than answer for Nigeria. Most Nigerians donnot believe in Nigerian project. To add salt to sore,this ungodly attitude has been enshrined in our constitution backed up with law and a commission setup.
Literarily,this said commission,the federal character commission,is empowered by the constitution to enforce the sharing formula as agreed by the commission and the national assembly. For instance, if an hausa man is the Inspector General,the Director General of the State Security Service must be a yoruba
man even if there is a more qualified Ibo man while the Chief of defence staff would be an Ibo!
This highly sectarian way of appointment has the GREATEST damage to our co-existence and poses the greatest treat to the spirit competition and high quality productivity. And one more thing...it doesn't adequately provide for certain ethnic groups in the country!
People in the middle belt region,for instance,are often marginalized. By middlebelt,I am referring to the peoples of Benue,Kogi,Kwara and Niger states. We do have other minority ethnic groups that are not properly covered due to their small population and the discrimination of the larger ethnic groups in the same region.
The Okun,Tiv and Ebira people of the middle belt are few examples of such minority groups.
These minority groups of people seldomly get a fair share of the federal appointments allocated to their region. The Hausa/Fulani ethnic groups of their region dominate and take the largest chunk of the federal government appointments and benefit that are allocated to the North-Central region where they belong.
This has been the basis of most of the crisis and conflicts in the region. The Jos-plateau inscessant crisis,for instance, where the crisis,over the years have developed a religious undertone is a typical example of the adverse effects of encouraging tribalism in form of federal character!
Had it been that the federal character abuna no dey and every position in the country are competed for and ONLY the best is picked IRRESPECTIVE OF HIS RELIGION AND TRIBE,Nigeria would be better for it.
This federal character thing is killing us,in fact,it should be removed so that all governmental appointments are thrown in as opportunities to be competed for by EVERY AND ANY INTERESTED NIGERIAN. This would not only rejuvinate the spirit of competion and enhance productivity,it would also give a sense of belonging to a whole lot of marginalized sects and tribesmen of this country which in turn strenghten our unifying factor - the project Nigeria.
I therefore implore all Nigerians,home and away to call for the scrap of this evil sectarian policy and law and EVERYTHING associated with it. We are all Nigerians same and equal before the law,if we all contribute to the progress of the country,then,why should we have to share the benefits and rewards of everyone's hardwork by some formula that doesn't properly cover ALL those that laboured for it???
SAY NO TO INJUSTICE,SAY NO TO PARTIALITY, SAY NO TO SECTARIAN GOVERNMENT AND TRIBALISM,SAY NO TO THE FEDERAL CHARACTER PALAVA!
God Bless Nigeria!!!
Regards,
Abdurrahman.