dayokanu: I disagree Fashola not in all cases.

The most important attribute of a leader should be to have the interest of your populace at heart

Compare the education of Adams Oshiomole with someone like Emmanuel Uduaghan a Medical Doctor and their achievement in governance over the last 6yrs

Retardeen Jonathan has a PhD for fucckk sake and we can see how he brought extreme cluelessness to governance

Gbawe:

Goodluck Jonathan, much as it pains me to say so as a Nigerian, is not an example of an 'exception' that dispels Fashola's conclusion. GEJ, rather, is validation of what Fashola is saying precisely. I don't know many contemporary leaders as unintelligent-sounding as GEJ is. I don't know many who are so lacking in the basic/routine leadership skills, at the level GEJ is operating at, as our President embarrassingly is. A bit like saying one is a professional footballer when one cannot even kick a ball properly !!!! Frankly, I am sure his peers , worldwide, joke privately over what GEJ's PHD reveals about Nigerian education.

Regarding Obama and his stance on gay rights, poor contextual example. Irrelevant actually. You are simply letting your personal opinion sway you against what is inevitable and must be planned for. You cannot conclude the support for homosexuality or the rigid rejection of it as being related to education or the lack of it. You cannot conclude Obama is 'uneducated' because he backs gay rights. Rather, I think Obama accepts that Gays are here to stay. We either accommodate them or keep being driven by the sort of ego that never gets things done and can leave humanity, as is the case with Africa, unprepared for the future and inevitably/inadvertently preparing itself for future headache because of today's myopia. In fact, it would not be unusual for rabidly pro-Gay activists to argue it is you who displays lack of education with homophobia that is fast becoming the equivalent of a 1979 suitcase phone in 2013. there should be a middle ground of 'live and let live' in my opinion.

dayokanu: I disagree Fashola not in all cases.

The most important attribute of a leader should be to have the interest of your populace at heart

Compare the education of Adams Oshiomole with someone like Emmanuel Uduaghan a Medical Doctor and their achievement in governance over the last 6yrs

Retardeen Jonathan has a PhD for fucckk sake and we can see how he brought extreme cluelessness to governance

Dee60: People making comments do not need to abuse President Goodluck Jonathan all the time. I am not a fan of his policies, but I think we should respect his office. GEJ is the president of Nigeria. Criticize him and his policies if you wish, but no need on earth to abuse him or call him names. Abusing the president, an elected one for that matter, is like abusing all Nigerians that voted him to power.

Dee60: People making comments do not need to abuse President Goodluck Jonathan all the time. I am not a fan of his policies, but I think we should respect his office. GEJ is the president of Nigeria. Criticize him and his policies if you wish, but no need on earth to abuse him or call him names. Abusing the president, an elected one for that matter, is like abusing all Nigerians that voted him to power.

Fhemmmy:

And what is education?

Negro_Ntns:

In absolute terms, the answer is broad. To stay within topic i will narrow it down and say Fashola made the cimment in context of academic scholarship; by which he meant if our leaders had sound "academic training" the Nigerian political situation would be better evolved and prospered.

In the financial sector our leaders are doing good. In the industrial and services sector our leaders are doing good and so in the telecomms sector. The people that lead these sectors of our general economy sat in the same classroom and received the same tutoring as our leaders in politics. Si what's the differentiator, why is one side performing and the side is failing?

Zero accountability! Indiscipline!! Poor judgement!!!

If our political office holders have something to loose the instinct to self-preserve will stimulate them to serve us in faith......as it stands they have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Adura_ngba: So where is the future of Nigeria judging from the poor education of the youths as exemplified on NairaLand alone, talk less of looking at the graduates churned out from the higher institutions yearly. Who can you single out on NL to worth a prospective Nigerian Leader. I cant find.

CyberG: The retardeen is an illiterate Ph. D.

Fhemmmy:

He never said lack of education, but poor education, so this is to raise awareness about the quality of education in Nigeria, there are so many educated illiterates

Katsumoto:

That is assuming that there is no inverse relationship between the poor management in government and good management in telecom/finance industries.

For instance, bad leaders create monopolies and duopolies in certain industries. The financial strength of those companies in such industries is not down to their competence and ability but due to the relationship that exists between government and certain individuals. For instance, Carlos Slim is the world's richest man and made his money from Mexican telecoms but yet, his firm is never used as a case study for management and innovation simply because he controls the Mexican telecoms industry. Many such examples abound in Nigeria.

dayokanu: I disagree Fashola not in all cases.

The most important attribute of a leader should be to have the interest of your populace at heart

Compare the education of Adams Oshiomole with someone like Emmanuel Uduaghan a Medical Doctor and their achievement in governance over the last 6yrs

Retardeen Jonathan has a PhD for fucckk sake and we can see how he brought extreme cluelessness to governance

Symphony007: What sort of rubbish is this man saying? Because he is a "charge and bail" lawyer. Olusegun obasanjo did'nt have much education but he led this country out of massive debt that plagued us after the military regimes. Winston churchill was a dullard but today he is britain's greatest leader ever. I can go on forever. So let this stop making factually in accurate comments! And the press never calls him out for it.

Symphony007: What sort of rubbish is this man saying? Because he is a "charge and bail" lawyer. Olusegun obasanjo did'nt have much education but he led this country out of massive debt that plagued us after the military regimes. Winston churchill was a dullard but today he is britain's greatest leader ever. I can go on forever. So let this stop making factually in accurate comments! And the press never calls him out for it.

ekwah: e be like say some nairalanders no sabi english sha:

Fashola said:

The performance of the nation’s economy is a function of the quality of education those managing it received.”

ekwah:


That's not the point. It's really easy to call out the so-called 'achievements' of the government... but how have the poor
in Nigeria fared over the years? Not much progress has been made. We need pesin wey dey sound both intellectually/ in leadership skills to run things for this country. As far as I am concerned, most of our past leaders do not fit into this category at all.They all came into power through some sort of military connection.. Fashola made sense here. daz all.

pappythinko: Why do u hve 2 mke such a ridiculous &stereotypic statement?? 2me der are stil sme gUd brains in ds forum though smetymx beclouded by ethnic bigotry.I supos u r postn on cedisland&nt nairaland.

Katsumoto:

Winston was a dullard? On what basis?

The man was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature.

He gave some of the best speeches in the history of man. You clearly don't have a clue.

And Obasanjo was a rogue. The only reason why OBJ appears to have been competent is because the standards of leadership in Nigeria are so low.

Symphony007: look at this kid wants to lecture me about winston leonard spencer churchill, he was dull because of that he had to change school three times because each kept on pushing him out,that was in ireland, when his father was the viceroy there, why do you think he joined the army? and because of that, he has his father the duke of malborough did'nt speak alot.

That sandhurst you talk about, he failed the entrace exam three times before he was admitted because of his noble background.

He won the nobel prize for literature because his governess when he was a child who loved him and was the only one who belived in him taught him to love books and writing which he did, he also won due to his fierce speeches against hitler and the articles he wrote in the evening standard warning of the rise of hitler when he was still a backbench mp. All this was the little he learnt from his governess. Don't lecture me on what you don't know.

Katsumoto:

Since you able to call a man who led the Brits to victory in WW2 and who won the Nobel prize a dullard on the basis that he failed the entrance exam to a prestigious institution, can you tell us what you have achieved yourself? Have you won the nobel prize for physics/economics/medicine? What entrance exams did you sit? Have you contested an election and won it? I am only asking, ordinarily I wouldn't, because it seems you have such high standards. Please don't disappoint.

asha 80: you are only collaborating what he said.if actually churchill repeated three times and was actually pushed out a school then the only word that comes to mind is dullard(classroom education anyway).