The document discusses the Holocaust and draws parallels to issues facing Nigeria. It notes that the Holocaust saw over 10 million people killed by Nazi Germany, including 6 million Jews between 1933-1945. It warns that loose socio-political ideas can quickly escalate into desperate attempts at domination through mass killings, as with the Nazis. Unless Nigeria addresses threats like Boko Haram, militancy, and regional problems, it risks facing division or destruction, as Western powers have predicted. The document calls for Nigerians to set aside differences, condemn intolerance, and build a united nation that provides for all citizens.

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(As the world marks the 69TH Holocaust Remembrance Week, let
us take a look at this catastrophic episode in modern history, and
the devastating effects on civilisation in the 20th century and
beyond.)

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• It is characteristic of the West to use footage
of starving children in Ethiopia, Sudan, and
sometimes in Nigeria [Biafra Civil War, 19671970] to whip up sentiment around the world.

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• But have you seen [any] footage of the Holocaust,
the gargantuan reduction of human beings to less
than beasts of burden; used as slaves in
concentration camps - systematically tortured
and starved; gassed to death then burned in
furnaces; lined up and shot; forced to dig their
own graves, herded inside then shot dead;
dumped in mass graves; endless rows of horribly
emaciated bodies piled up in crammed detention
centres?

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• All the combined YouTube videos of victims of
Boko Haram bombings, shootings, burnings
and attacks till date will pale in Comparison to
what Nazi-Germany perpetrated during WW II
under Adolf Hitler and his lieutenants [from
hell] of the 3rd Reich.

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• It is important to note that all began as some
loose SOCIO-POLITICAL idea that quickly
gathered widespread support that snowballed
into a desperate quest for regional power and
futile attempt at world domination by the
extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Africans and
other races the Nazis termed 'sub humans'.

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• In all they would allegedly kill over 10 million
people; over 6 million of them Jews between
1933 and 1945; in what is now referred to as
THE HOLOCAUST.

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• In all they would allegedly kill over 10 million
people; over 6 million of them Jews between
1933 and 1945; in what is now referred to as
THE HOLOCAUST.

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• We can draw parallels here, too, in what
happened in Nigeria during the Civil War, the
South-South militancy that almost crippled
the nation, and now, the hydra headed
monster called Boko Haram.

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• The nation is struggling to stay afloat while
grappling with several kinds of regional
problems and political infighting threatening
her existence as one sovereign united nation.

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• A number of groups want to secede from the
federation; another group is trying to force
their ideology on the entire nation; waging
guerrilla-styled warfare across northern states
and continuously threatening to advance
across the Niger.

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• The problems are real as they are potentially
capable of destroying the bonds that hold this
nation together. It is no secret that the USA
and other Western powers have predicted the
obliteration of Nigeria in 2015.

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• We must all draw lessons from the painful
reality of the Holocaust, how Nazi-Germany
schemed to rid the world of those they saw as
'inferior races' and the unparalleled waste of
millions of lives of innocent people:
infants, children, teenagers, the youth and the
aged.

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• The time has come to set aside
religious/ethnic/tribal differences and face this
alien threat to our continued existence. There
cannot be growth and development without
justice and equity, true, but we must dig deeper
to find that human connection, that Nigerian
spirit that we can rally around to put down Boko
Haram, militancy, kidnapping, pipeline
sabotage, ritual killings, 419, embezzlement and
other vices retrogressing our growth and
development as a nation.

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• We must rise as one voice to condemn
political feuds and religious intolerance; put
an end to ethnicity and tribalism; stamp out
favouritism and high-handedness; and
collectively build a virile nation bonded in
unity as one nation where every citizen has
confidence in the Nigerian state as a
formidable enterprise able to provide the
basic necessities of good quality of life for all
her citizens.

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• FOR THE GREATER GOOD. Nigeria
Unbreakable. We are one.
• Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria. GOD
BLESS NIGERIA.

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