Sweetguy25:
You're a diagonal slowpoke.

major466:
Last week, one ninja compared pa Buhari with Abraham Lincoln. Now another ninja is trying to compare Buhari with Lee Kwan Yew Give me a break!

Gerrard59:
Would really miss him. My political icon, a man of no nonsense. Astute, shrewd, visionary, pragmatic. Words cannot elucidate my adoration for you, because of him I feel in love with Singapore, so much that the first news I browse every morning is about Singapore and its everyday.

Loved the way you govern your country. Gave them the basics of life, public housing, adequate health care, security, economic growth etc. Today Singapore a backwater state during the 50s is

*fourth financial city in the world
*Second busiest port
*Best airport
*Second safest city on earth
*Second cleanest city in Asia.
*NUS, best in Asia, top 20 in the world. And many more. For a country that doesn't have crude oil but refines 25% of the world's crude.

When I planned buying any of your books, I saw the headline. Singaporeans would miss you, but know that a young fellow in Africa, Nigeria misses you most.

Running a country like an enterprise/corporation. The highly ever mertiocratic LEE KUAN YEW. Rest in Peace. To think that I even cried as I write this.



Love you.



Mods it would be appreciated if this is on the front page, as every politican, businessman, student, policymakers need to study and learn about this man. Most esp in Africa.

JonBee1:
Lee kwan Yew's tremendous role in Singapore economic development is beyond doubt but it also came at a significant cost for human rights.
His determination to lead his country from a third world contries to the leader of first world nation, also came with restricted freedom of expression, strongly enforced discipline and self censorship.

JonBee1:


Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91
26 minutes ago
From the section Asia
Lee Kuan Yew gives the victory sign to his supporters in April 2011
Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91.
Mr Lee served as the city-state's prime minister for 31 years, and continued to work in government until 2011.
Highly respected as the architect of Singapore's prosperity, Mr Lee was also criticised for his iron grip on power.
Under him freedom of speech was tightly restricted and political opponents were targeted by the courts.
The announcement was made "with deep sorrow" by the press secretary of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Mr Lee's son.
"The prime minister is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore," his office said in a statement.
It said Mr Lee died peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital at 03:18 local time on Monday (19:18 GMT on Sunday).

Media caption
The first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the country for 31 years, has died at the age of 91.
He had been in hospital for several weeks with severe pneumonia. Over the weekend, people left tributes and messages of goodwill at the hospital as his condition deteriorated.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply saddened" by Mr Lee's death and offered his condolences to the people of Singapore.
Obituary: Lee Kuan Yew
'Meritocratic nation'
A charismatic and unapologetic figure, Mr Lee co-founded the People's Action Party, which has governed Singapore since 1959, and was its first prime minister.
The Cambridge-educated lawyer led Singapore through merger with, and then separation from, Malaysia - something that he described as a "moment of anguish".
Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew speaks during a rally at Farrer park in Singapore on 15 August 1955
Mr Lee speaks during a rally at Farrer park in Singapore on 15 August 1955
Speaking at a press conference after the split in 1965, he pledged to build a meritocratic, multi-racial nation.
But tiny Singapore - with no natural resources - needed a new economic model.
"We knew that if we were just like our neighbours, we would die," Mr Lee told the New York Times in 2007.
"Because we've got nothing to offer against what they have to offer. So we had to produce something which is different and better than what they have."
Tight controls
Through investment in schooling, Mr Lee set about creating a highly-educated work force fluent in English.
He reached out to foreign investors to turn Singapore into a manufacturing hub, introducing incentives to attract foreign firms.
A picture of elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew and messages are placed outside the Singapore General Hospital where he was critically ill in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Singapore on 21 March 2015
Mr Lee had been critically ill at the Singapore General Hospital, where people left tributes to him
The city-state grew wealthy and later developed into a major financial centre. But building a nation came with tight controls - and one of Mr Lee's legacies was a clampdown on the press.
These restrictions remain today. In 2014, Singapore stood at 150 in the Reports Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below countries like Russia, Myanmar and Zimbabwe.
Dissent - and political opponents - were ruthlessly quashed.
Today Mr Lee's PAP remains firmly in control. There are currently six opposition lawmakers in parliament.
Other measures, such as corporal punishment, a ban on chewing gum and the government's foray into matchmaking for Singapore's brightest - to create smarter babies - led to perceptions of excessive state interference.
But Mr Lee remained unmoved.
"Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up," he told a rally in 1980. "I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down."

Through investment in schooling, Mr Lee set about creating a highly-educated work force fluent in English.
He reached out to foreign investors to turn Singapore into a manufacturing hub, introducing incentives to attract foreign firms

Jarus:
Most epochs in history, from Singapore to Taiwan to Japan to China, were not achieved under exactly liberal setting.

Even Ghana under Rawlings set the tone for their current progress.

OLADD:


Don't just try to compare death with ordinary sleep. Don't dare equate light with darkness. Lee Kwan Yew did not trample on the rights of common masses when in power. He did not circumspect the laws of demand and supply by forcing people to sell their wares below cost price. He did not enact a decree that retroactively snuffed life out of an accuse whose offence did not attract death sentence. Lee did not engage in international high profile kidnapping of his fellow citizen. The architect of modern Singapore did not condemn his govt for killing insurgents. He did not instigate people from his faith to vote only those who can protect their faith.

major466:

Exactly. Mr Lee is well grounded in basic laws of economics - demand, supply and the principle of free enterprise. Qualities Buhari lack.