Unity in Nigeria’S Diversity

By Vitalis Chi. Nwaneri

In this Book, the Author illustrates this view based on Nigerias Experience..In the face of their ongoing crises, most Nigerians go on with their lives Smilingand Suffering as their famous Singer, Fela stated in one of his songs many years ago. Vita is calling onall his fellow Nigerians to continue smiling but to fi nd some time to refl ect on their Sufferings that arisefrom their Development crises across all sectors. These crises had been discussed extensively by manyauthors including Chinua Achebe , Wole Soyinka, Peter Lewis and more recently by Ngozi Okonjo -Iweala. Here Vita asks the questionsIs Nigeria really Unreformable? Can Nigeria grow in UNITY while remaining in her DIVERSE state ? Vita believes that Nigeria can be reformed if she is courageous enough to take what he calls a Holistic Approach to her Development Challenges. Such an approach involves the following Holistic actions in Governments Development Policies and Cultures of the people

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• Release date: Jul 22, 2013
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Vitalis Chi. Nwaneri

Vitalis Chidomere Nwaneri, brings to these five Books, his experience in Religion, Economics, Politics, Science and Philosophy, and exposure in various advanced and developing countries across the globe. He acquired his experience from the Graduate School of The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (1962-1968). He joined the United Kingdom Government after his graduation and quickly rose to the position of an Economic Adviser by !970. He left the Government in 1971 to join the World Bank in Washington D.C. U.S.A. . He worked there till 1980 and rose to the position of a Senior Economist . At the World Bank, he traveled extensively across the globe and gained exposure and firsthand experience on some of the major Political, Economic and Social Development problems of the world .

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

VOLUME 1

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PART A

WHY A HOLISTIC VIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ?

PART B

INTRODUCING THE HAND BOOKS

PART C

INTRODUCING THE ANNEXES AS OUR BACK-UP TO THE ANNALYSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS BOOK

VOLUME 2

RELIGIOUS HAND BOOK

CHAPTER 1

IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS ACTIONS IN GOOD SECULAR GOVERNANCE

CHAPTER 2

CORRUPTION, VERSUS GOOD AND HUMBLE SERVICES IN GOVERNANCE

CHAPTER 3

WHY A HOLISTIC VIEW OF NIGERIA’S CHALLENGES

CHAPTER 4

INTRODUCING THE POPE’S GLOBAL NEW EVANGELIZATION

CHAPTER 5

—CHRISTIAN VERSUS ISLAMIC IDEALS FOR GOOD SECULAR GOVERNANCE

CHAPTER 6

—CHRISTIAN Versus ATHEIST IDEALS OF GOVERNANCE—

CHAPTER 7

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

CHAPTER 8

SATAN’S CORRUPTIONS—PART 1

CHAPTER 9

SATAN’S CORRUPTION OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD—PART TWO

CHAPTER 10

VATICAN COUNCIL—2

VOLUME 3

POLITICAL HAND BOOK

CHAPTER 11

DEMOCRACY PROMOTES ALL PEOPLES’ INTERESTS

CHAPTER 12

SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF POLITICS

VOLUME 4

HAND BOOK ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 13

POORLY DESIGNED ECONOMIC POLICIES FRUSTRATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

CHAPTER 14

ADVERSE EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FROM BAD ACTIVITIES IN OTHER RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL SECTORS

CHAPTER 15

CHRISTIAN PILLARS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 15

ILLUSTRATION WITH THE OBASANJO DEVELOPMENT PLAN

VOLUME 5

HAND BOOK ON SOCIAL, TRIBAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES

CHAPTER 16

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 17

HAND BOOK ON CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS

CHAPTER 18

HAND BOOK ON EDUCATION, HEALTH, SECURITY, LAW AND ORDER

VOLUME 6

ANNEXES—BACK-UP TO OUR ANNALYSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS BOOK

CHAPTER 19

MY NIGERIAN WAR FRONTS

CHAPTER 20

LAUNCHING THE BOOKS AND KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS MISSION-K of XM-IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER 21

ADDRESS BY THE AUTHOR ON NIGERIA AND THE NEW EVANGELIZATION AND YEAR OF FAITH

CHAPTER 22

PROGRESS REPORT TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF OWERRI CATHOLIC DIOCESE, NIGERIA, ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE BOOKS AND K of XM.

VOLUME 7

THE GLOBAL CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARITY

CHAPTER 23

THE CHURCH IN THE SECULAR WORLD TODAY

CHAPTER 24

REFLECTIONS ON THE YEAR OF FAITH FOR NIGERIA

CHAPTER 25

THE MYSTERY OF FAITH

VOLUME 8

MORE ON THE ROLE OF CHRISTIANITY IN SECULAR DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 26

INTRODUCTION—PROMOTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN NIGERIA

CHAPTER 27

THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NEW EVANGELIZATION IN NIGERIA OF TODAY

CHAPTER 28

THE WORLD TODAY NEEDS REPENTANCE

REFERENCES

INDEX OF CHAPTERS AND PARAGRAPHS

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Jesus Provides The Pillars of Modern Life,

Governance and Civilization

DEDICATION—

TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD AND SACRED HEART

OF JESUS CHRIST.

To which I trust my Family, Relatives, In-Laws, Friends and Associates and our Country, Nigeria.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vitalis Chidomere Nwaneri, brings to these six Books, his experience in Religion, Economics, Politics, Science and Philosophy, and exposure in various advanced and developing countries across the globe. He acquired his experience from the Graduate School of The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (1962-1968). He joined the United Kingdom Government after his graduation and quickly rose to the position of an Economic Adviser by !970. He left the Government in 1971 to join the World Bank in Washington D.C. U.S.A. He worked there till 1980 and rose to the position of a Senior Economist. At the World Bank, he traveled extensively across the globe and gained exposure and firsthand experience on some of the major Political, Economic and Social Development problems of the world. He saw how the secular authorities battle with Religious and Philosophical issues in some countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and America. These experience and exposure had inspired his military perspectives of our global challenges of peace and good governance. He reflects on these challenges in his analysis in these six books.

Back in Nigeria in 1980, he became one of the country’s pioneers in Indigenous Banking and the Establishment of the First African Commodity Exchange. During his twenty years in Nigeria (1980-2000), he embarked on the audacious mission of bringing his global exposure and experience to contribute to the development of Nigeria’s Finance and Private sectors to enable them lead its National Development. His Book on MISSION 2000 highlights his audacious proposals for the future development of the country in the new century. His Proposals also reflected his experience as a Consultant for the Nigerian Government, The World Bank, African Development Bank and The U.S.A.I.D. His pioneering projects in Nigeria’s Banking and Trade sectors exposed him to the weakness of Nigeria’s Politics and Governance. So he decided to take a shot at Nigerian Politics.

There he learned much of the confrontation with the evils of corruption and bad governance, all of which he had seen through his World Bank tasks in the developing countries across the world. His experience in Nigeria frustrated his shot at Politics and his pioneer projects on Indigenous Merchant (Investment) Banking and Commodity and Futures Exchange in the country.

Vita, (as his friends call him) provides in these Books his own Confessions like St. Augustine. He showed how God had always turned all his failures into good according to His Will. He stated that this is also true of world history. He attributes his frustrations in Nigeria to Satan’s Bad Governance in Nigeria and other countries of the world. Bad governance is one of its most vicious weapons against man and God. Vita highlights this in his analysis of the war fronts between Secularism and Christianity. The war has been going on since God mandated Adam to keep and rule the world as its Secular and Priestly Head. Through its temptation, Satan destroyed the Perfect world given to Adam and Eve. This launched our war with Satan. Vita surveys the history of the war with Satan in his Book One based on the Old and New Testaments. He observed that God has a way of turning some of Satan’s attacks to good results. With respect to the war with the enemy, Vita showed that throughout the Old Testament the enemy fought to stop God’s Plan of salvation through His Son Jesus. One could see Jesus clearly hidden in all the accounts of the battles in the Old Testament. Consider the story of Isaac being offered for sacrifice in the Book of Genesis, the serpent lifted up to cure the sinful Jews in the Book of Exodus, Joseph being sold by his brothers only to end up saving them from death and Moses leading his people through the desert just as Christ is leading us through our deserts in this world.

Ultimately, God turned Satan’s attacks on His Son to the greatest good of all, salvation of Man.

Another good secular example is the establishment of the United Nations system. The institution rose from the enemy’s attacks through its agents like Hitler in the second world war. Since then The U.N. had been a major force in stopping further satanic attacks like the one in the second world war.

Back to the USA in 2002, he continued to contribute to Africa’s Development efforts along with his other Professional Associates through their Organization of African Professionals and Associates in the Diaspora (OAPAD Inc.), incorporated in the State of Maryland where he lives.

Vita had written several books on Nigeria’s Economic and Trade Issues as well as Articles in the London School of Economics Journal of Transport Economics, the World Bank and IMF Journal of Finance and Development, Newspapers and Magazines published in Nigeria (see References in Book One).

Above all his efforts, he has been a devout Catholic since his birth in the Eastern Igboland of Nigeria 70 years ago. As indicated in several chapters of his Books, his main mission in these Books is to contribute to the New Evangelization launched recently by Pope Benedict XVI when he established the Pontifical Council on The New Evangelization (PCNE). The Pope called on all lay and ordained members of the Catholic Church to join hands to contribute to the success of the Council. These Books are Vita’s response to the Pope’s call.

Vita shares the Pope’s concerns over the gradual deterioration in the level of world peace and Christianity.

Vita attributes this to the Enemy’s increasing attacks, crises and wars. Satan uses intellectuals in Religion, Politics, Economics and Science to launch its war between Secularity and Religion. He concludes that these wars result from the Temptations in our hearts by the devil. These Temptations brew the war in our hearts from which they emerge to the surface as crises. He quoted the statement Christ that what kills us emerge from our hearts and minds. These are the evils of greed, hate, envy, corrupted use of power, wealth and sexuality.

The world needs to be reminded of these facts. It seems to have forgotten that its real enemy is Satan and its evil spirits and that these are indeed behind man’s crises, attacks and wars. This real enemy makes us go around blaming ourselves for all our crises.

Accordingly, Vita makes several audacious Recommendations that call on Christian and Secular leaders across the globe to consider joining hands in promoting the Pope’s PCNE. On the local levels, Vita calls on local Parishes of the Catholic Church to consider setting local Warriors he calls, The Knights of The Cross Warriors—K of X, to promote world peace. Members of The K of X will launch new fronts of the war with the enemy from the family to the national levels. They will fight against the enemy from the homes to offices, Churches to Parliaments, through the Streets and Business Markets, with the Television, Radios and Internets, by foot, cars, ships and airplanes. They will be guided by the commands of Christ to Love even our enemies, wash the feet of those we serve, pray for those who persecute us, turn the other cheek to those who slap us and forgive those who offend us seventy seven times because they know not what they do as Christ prayed on the Cross. Only the enemy, Satan knows what it is doing. It is indeed the master of Lies, Deceptions and Confusion across the world. In Books Two and Three, Vita calls on the world to reflect on its roots and find that Christ established Pillars that had sustained our modern civilization and Governance, justice, peace, human rights, equality and progress for all. Only through Prayer and His weapons in the Church can we fight a spiritual enemy.

VITA now lives with his family in Maryland U.S.A. from where he wrote these four Books.

FOREWORD

Vitalis Chidomere Nwaneri and I met for the first time in 1968 at the Graduate School of the London School of Economics and Political Science, L.S.E., University of London, where he was taking his graduate courses in Economics. We have been close friends all these years.

Vita, as we all call him, has a passion for several fields of study. I was not surprised therefore when, at the end of his graduate studies, he was quickly appointed by the British Government as one of the few African born Economists in Her Majesty’s Government Service. He quickly rose to the position of an Economic Adviser after playing a strong role in the Commission set up by the Government to determine a suitable location for a Third London Airport. Before he left H.M. Service, he published in The L.S.E Journal Transport Economics, an eye opening Article on the difficult topic of Integrating Income Distribution Issues, (Equity) in Cost-Benefit Analysis

He then left the U.K. Government service in 1971 to join The World bank in Washington D.C. USA, as an Economist. After serving the Bank across the developing regions of North Africa, Middle East and Europe, he rose to the position of a Senior Economist by 1980.

He returned to Nigeria in 1980 to apply his global experience and exposure to Nigeria’s Development. To that end, he undertook pioneering projects in the Banking and Foreign Trade Sectors. Despite many obstacles he faced from Government and secular areas, Vita braced these challenges bravely.

I discovered later that underlying all his passions was his deep faith in the Catholic Church. I am not surprised therefore that he had the audacity to venture into the topic of these five Books. He had shown similar audacities in taking up challenging and pioneering ventures in Nigerian Banking and later the Establishment of the First African Commodity and Futures Exchange in Nigeria.

These Books are, without any doubt, one of his greatest ventures and a clear demonstration of his audacity and Faith. In these Books, he takes up a topic that would challenge many experts in Religious and Global Affairs. In a world bewildered by what he calls The Crises of Realism, Secularism and Relativism, in Politics, Morality and Human affairs, Vita offers what looks like a very simple explanation, We Are At War With Satan, Man’s Only Enemy. With that explanation, he undertakes fascinating journeys across Biblical history and the present world, to tackle very complicated Religious and Secular issues. He makes profound Conclusions and Recommendations.

As a Professor of Economics and a Community leader in Nigeria, I welcome Vita’s proposals as a new way to confront local and national conflicts especially in my own country Nigeria where corruption and bad governance had been the principal weapons used by the agents of Satan against the people to cause conflicts from the family to the national levels. Therefore, I have little hesitation in recommending these five Books not only to religious and political leaders but also individuals at all levels across the world, especially in Africa.

To my fellow Economists, I recommend the books as having a most interesting view of global trends towards a breakdown of the global economy as a result of the conflicts of terrorism and other crises in international governance. Vita attributes these conflicts to the gradual erosion of the political and economic pillars of governance established under the principles or Pillars of Christ’s teaching. He shows that Satan is behind these erosions and conflicts. He then calls for a coordinated defense and counter strategies by the secular and religious authorities to minimize these attacks by the enemy and avoid a breakdown in global political and economic structures.

Please find time to read his views in the last Section of his Book One. May be, through this new Military and Christian perspectives of life’s challenges, we can learn how to tackle our own challenges at the personal, family, business, community, national and global levels…

It is my honest conclusion that Vita has proved himself a true Development Economist of whom the profession should indeed be proud. All through his life he had lived fully his Religious Faith and secular profession, from his Family to his Community, Regional and National levels. He had shown a rare passion for advancing the Religious and Secular progress of his neighbors as commanded by God. Through his initiatives in rural projects, he contributed remarkably to the Rural development and Local Governance of his Community of Amaimo in Imo State of Nigeria and that of his fellow Igbo people of Nigeria.

At the National level, he championed the modernization of Nigeria’s Financial and Trade Developments against tremendous political frustrations.

At the Continental level, the development of Africa had been the clear target of most of his writings and projects. He is currently the Founding Chairman of The Organization of African Professionals and Associates in Diaspora which is based in the USA. Its mission is to advance the Global image of Africa and mobilize assistance to the continent.

His career at the World Bank took him across the globe tackling the difficult and challenging issues of economic and political developments and promoting good governance in developing countries across the world.

Finally, he has moved up to the global level to tackle the on-going tough issues of advancing world peace through cooperation between the leaders of the Religious and Secular worlds.

On behalf of our fellow Economists and Christians in Nigeria and beyond, known and unknown to him, I wish him success and God’s Blessings in his endeavors.

—Professor Nwankwo

MY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This Book takes a Holistic Strategy to Advancing Nigeria’s Current Development Culture in the country’s march towards Personal and National Development. A part of this cultural advancement is the spirit of Acknowledgment and Appreciation for services, favors and other Good Works to us from Other Institutions, Family Members, Friends and Associates. We expressed the view that most Nigerians today lack this cultural spirit. As a result, people are often reluctant to do more services, favors and good works to others all of which are crucial to Personal and National developments As the Igbos say,

If one appreciates God’s gifts and favors through others, God grants more gifts and favors

Accordingly, in this Book, I most humbly make Acknowledgments for God’s favors granted to me through the following—

Members of Nwaneri Duru Family, Our In-Laws, Relatives, Friends and Associates too many to list here.

My Prayers—May God grant Peace to those who are late and Good Spiritual and Bodily Health to the Living. In God we trust all these and our Country, Nigeria, Amen.

PREFACE

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