casualobserver:


We also had Nnaji and Babalola who were renowned experts in power, how did that go?

Like I said you are daft. I should also add that you are ignorant and uninformed. With the exception of attorney general. A minister is a political post, all that is required is intelligence and patriotism. Anyone with those skills can handle ANY ministry except justice.

In the countries we copy, the Secretaries of State or ministers have no professional affiliation to the ministries they are assigned. The role of a minister is simply one of a manager. The reason why we fail in Nigeria and look to the professional leanings of the minister is because we had governments in the past without an articulated plan or policy. When a government has a policy document, as is the case with serious governments, the activities of government are dictated by the policy not the minister.

Please educated yourself.

I suggest you research past and present ministers in the US and Uk to compare their professional qualifications with that of their ministries. I also suggest you research past Nigerian ministers and their portfolios at the time when Nigeria had national development plans. You will find that when we had national development plans the national development plan dictated the direction of the ministry not the minister. The problem is we have not had governments with policy documents or national plans for a while hence our focus on “technocrat ministers” to save the day.

If a government already has a plan to build 6000km of roads, increase power to 20GW, reduce unemployment to 10% in 4 years, increase no of hospitals to X per 1000 people for example, you don’t need technocrats to implement, what you need are people capable of managing and achieving g the stated goals. All the technocrats you need are in the ministries.

Like I said educate yourself and deliver your self from your ignorance and backwardness.

For every Fafunwa you give I will mention 10 Nanjis that failed woefully and equally10 ministers under Balewa, Gowon or Shagari whose ministries performed well under a clearly articulated national development plans.

The job of a minister is to implement the plan that has already been clearly articulated by the government not to alter the plan of the government or do his own thing.

The time for technocrats is in the policy formulation stages not implementation. A special adviser is more Important than a minister but ignorance will not allow you to see road. The special adviser is THE technocrat!!!!! The special Adviser is the one the president appoints of his own free will without political interference, the SA is the one the president listens to and many times the SA can be more influential than the minister.

Finally, was Amaechi who was the best minister under Buhari a railway engineer? Was Kyari who negotiated the Siemens deal the minister of power….did we not have a minister of power? Was Fashola a civil engineer? Is NOI a trained economist? Is Christine laggard the head of the ECB an economist or a banker? Stop thinking and talking like ignoramuses.

The history of Nigeria is that technocrats tend to fail in political office and are best in back office roles like SA.

Kukutente23:

What nonsense are you saying? No wonder you think I'm daft. I'm beginning to think I'm conversing with a nitwit.

Nnaji preformed well as minister of power especially compared with fashola. Same with borishade under whose supervision so many gas powered plants were built. Your ignorance is also clear from not knowing that NOI is a trained economist.

The most laughable part of the nonsense you wrote is claiming ministers are only involved in implementing policies formulated by government. May i ask who makes up the government then? A minister even has powers to make bye-laws in his area of coverage. Yet you're ignorant self thinks a special adviser has more clout than a minister. A minister acts directly as if he were the president in his area. So by extension, what you're saying is that the president's job is to implement policies formulated by "government". Such arrant crap.

I hope when you want to build your house. After the architect has drawn up a design, you'll go and give it to a bank manager to help you implement under the guise that technocrats are only involved in policy formulation and not implementation.
What a dunce!!

TemplarLandry:
He's being groomed as the next governor of Ekiti probably after BAO.

TemplarLandry:
He's being groomed as the next governor of Ekiti probably after BAO.

casualobserver:


I don’t think you are daft, I know for a fact you are daft!

TemplarLandry:
He's being groomed as the next governor of Ekiti probably after BAO.

hisexcellency34:
Dele Alake has been a journalist all his life. A former Commissioner for Information in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor.

What is your take on his appointment as Minister of Solid Minerals and Development?

lexy2014:


Do you mean that for the next 4 years Tinubu will use an important government position to "groom" Alake for governor instead of using the position for the betterment of Nigeria?

What is your take on his appointment as Minister of Solid Minerals and Development?

hisexcellency34:
Dele Alake has been a journalist all his life. A former Commissioner for Information in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor.

What is your take on his appointment as Minister of Solid Minerals and Development?

whippersnapper:
someone who read political science and mass comm heading the solid minerals sector, you know you are headed for doom. If you ask alake to name five solid minerals he might end up like that corper guy that was asked to spell hippopotamus but said he has to know what it did before he can spell it. or e fit talk say shwepps na solid mineral

AdesegunSanni89:
I believe ministerial position requires more of administrative skills rather than technical skills. One of best Nigerian petroleum ministers, Tam David West, was a virologist.

hisexcellency34:
Dele Alake has been a journalist all his life. A former Commissioner for Information in Lagos State when President Bola Tinubu was governor.

What is your take on his appointment as Minister of Solid Minerals and Development?