TheRareGem1: For finding his way into the hearts of millions of citizens for whom obtaining or renewing the Nigerian passport had become a nightmare; for his bold, extensive and exceptional reforms tackling the perennial passport booklet debacle at the Nigeria Immigration Service, in less than five weeks into his assumption of office, a stride which earned him the sobriquet “Minister Talk And Do”, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo is Public Servant of the Year 2023.
Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the minister of interior, was a seasoned business executive and consultant with over 17 years of extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. He excelled particularly in project, policy and strategic management.
Riding on the “Renewed Hope Agenda” of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, Tunji-Ojo, whose ministry oversees the affairs of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), the Federal Fire Service (FFS), and the Civil Defence, Corrections, Immigration and Fire Service Board (CDCIFB), has no doubt distinguished himself as a stellar politician and public administrator with capacity to lead others to achieve admirable results.
Despite the challenges he met on ground, Dr Tunji-Ojo has been resolute in his zeal to move the Ministry of Interior beyond the stage his predecessors left it, and break new grounds.
On his orders, NIS recorded the now celebrated record-breaking clearance of 204,332 passports backlog, which, until his directive, was a gross national crisis. It was the highest clearance ever recorded in its 60 years of existence, just within three weeks.
The 41-year-old Tunji-Ojo started his tertiary education at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, before moving to the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) where he studied Electronics and Communication Engineering and graduated in 2005. He obtained a master’s degree in Digital Communication and Networking from the same institution in 2006.
Dr Tunji-Ojo is an accomplished business and management executive with a flourishing career in ICT and who grew to become the CEO of a leading indigenous ICT consultant company in Nigeria, Matrix IT Solutions Limited, at the age of 24. As a professional, he holds 18 professional qualifications in ICT such as Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures. He is also a certified CompTIA Network Plus engineer and a Britannia Hardware A+ Management Certificate holder, among others
Before his foray into politics, he consulted for the World Bank and several government agencies, including the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), National Health Insurance Scheme, and Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).
However, despite the universal accolades and commendations he got for pulling off a seemingly difficult task at the NIS, the go-getter, who has brought professionalism, political sagacity and his wealth of experience from the public/private sector to bear on his new tasks, remains one of the eggheads in President Tinubu’s government that Nigerians look up to for bringing forth the radical changes expected in the new administration.
He has, among other strides, announced a two-week timeline for processing of passport applications, promised the commencement of home and office delivery of passports to applicants from February 2024, threatened to commence the execution of the principle of reciprocity in international relations by halting the visa-on-arrival privilege granted foreign nationals whose countries subject Nigerians to rigorous visa application processes, commenced personal upload of passport photographs on NIS passport application portal, as well as established more e-passport offices in Europe.
A man with the Midas’ touch, Tunji-Ojo has within two months in office led the advocacy for fair compensation for paramilitary officers, insisting that their salaries must align with those of the Nigeria Police Force personnel. He also commenced arrangements to set up a functional pension board for paramilitary personnel as a mechanism to secure their future. All this will no doubt improve staff morale and lead to greater output.
No doubt, Tunji-Ojo has proven bookmakers right — that he is more than equal to the task of reshaping the ministry of interior, elevating its role in securing the nation’s well-being, and fortifying the nation’s extensive borders.
A man of his words, Dr Tunji-Ojo again, on November 18, 2023, lived up to his promise to, within four weeks, clear fines and compensations worth N585 million for 4,068 inmates nationwide on account of their inability to pay their fines as penalties for crimes committed, all in an effort at prison decongestion.
The minister, often hailed for drawing clear targets and upholding a definitive timeline of action, is at the verge of transforming correctional homes into centres of rehabilitation rather than condemnation.
He has also within this period engaged with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and international partners to discuss critical areas of reforms to tackle illegal migration, counter organised crimes as well as out-think and stay ahead of criminals.
Between August 21 and today, the operational capacities of the NSCDC, FFS and NCoS have witnessed massive improvements on his watch.
A true yoruba son..........not the likes of mc oluomo and freestuff! who say one thing at night and do the exact opposite during the day! The guy na real public service guyman.......nobody in those passport offices can bamboozle him at all! You can always tell those yoruba people who have worked in federal establishment from the lagos riffraffs that followed Tinubu to Aso rock!
Ogene001: Nobody declare and assert an ethnic nationality for himself. Ethnicities are classified using certain yardsticks. You can decide your country, your state, your zone etc but it's not within your powers to decide your ethnicity.
Austria has never had anything to do with Germany throughout history. While Germany was formeless without any recognized political leadership, Austria already joined the empire of Hungary. Austria and Hungary was together throughout history. But, Austria was classified as a German ethnicity. They don't want to be part of Germany as a country. They had historical ties with Hungarian empire and nothing with Germany, yet, they were classified as a German tribe. So why don't we have Austria claiming "Austrian ethnic group". Austria has never subjected their German ethnicity any debate despite not liking the country of Germany because it's stvpid to do so. Ethnicity is beyond your power to decide for yourself. Linguistics and Anthropological factors decide ethnicities. Not history, not political choices, etc. If your ancestors came from Benin, good for you. Other Igbos also have their ancestors coming from different places. An Ethnic group are not bound by blood relationship or one government. An Ethnic group is a group of different tribes related by language and culture and geographical contiguity. The only way ikwerre can become an ethnicity is to eradicate all igbo cultural practices and languages. To corrupt igbo spelling is not enough, the meaning remain the same.
Bros............take a digital handshake, in fact i doff my hat for you.......you too much! Your assertion was concise as it was precise! Please educate the funtional illiterates that populate nairaland! Ndigbo are largely republican and will definitely not provoke if Ikwerres want to even join the zulus politically but to twist history and facts is what really gores.................
Pakute: Oshiomole is a dodged fighter but as soon as he was no longer the party chairman, he became powerless, Wike is a beast. He took down Ameachi, took down Atiku, bullied Obi out of PDP, Fubard is a boy.
The only option left for fubara is to rally his so called Ijaw oil militants hiding under IYC ( ijaw youth congress) and try to blackmail APC but federal government has divided ijaw wella! Tom Polo is collecting 5 million - 6 million dollars monthly in the name of pipiline surveillance , he will not sacrifice that monthly subscription to come and defend Fubara...( who is a complete Igbo man)........Fubara is toast....it is code red for him!!
I don’t agree with his choice of words but you have a mental issue if you think you accommodated someone in his our country.
All over Nigeria, different tribes lives and settle everywhere and it’s only one particular people that shout accommodation like they give land freely.
You sell your land, rent your shop and houses and turn around to should accommodation. Don’t you guys understand what it means to be in the same country with the same constitution, abi it’s just you guys are dumb.
You didn’t accommodate anyone and if it pains you they are there
1. Stop selling your properties 2. Fight for a referendum to leave or they leave the country.
chikena ! You finish work there! Why do you subject yourself to the discomfort of people you so much detest.......all you need is to campaign for them to leave the union! You claim you do not like dog meat yet you are offering to share the same dog meat with your teeth! na wa for agbadorians sef!!
DO NOT TALK DOWN YOUR COUNTRY WHILE OTHERS SEE ITS POTENTIAL AND TAKE ADVANTAGE:
Over a thousand Chinese have built factories worth billions across Nigeria, producing almost all consumer items.
America started its LARGEST consulate globally in Lagos
Chinese investors are building a plant for mining Lithium in Kaduna
Indian Investors are set to complete Nigeria's first steel plant and one of the few on the continent
Local and foreign investors have just built a new seaport and the most significant the nation has ever had
Portuguese investors are funding the high-speed rail link from Nigeria to Niger
A Gambian investor has built the biggest estate in Port Harcourt
An Indian investor has built the biggest Cassava plant in the country
Elon Musks Starlink has launched one of its first continental projects in Nigeria
Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc have all launched new mega projects in Nigeria.
South Koreans have grown their business with Nigeria to over a billion dollars.
Germans funded the first national comprehensive electricity usage mapping app in Nigeria.
German Siemens are revamping Nigeria's electricity sector.
Spanish companies just recently signed agreements to develop the Gas sector.
Etc etc etc...
NIGERIA IS ON TRACK TO BECOMING A GLOBAL MANUFACTURING HUB BY 2025.
INVEST IN NIGERIA. INVEST PRAYER INVEST RESOURCES EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE FINANCIAL RESOURCES, JUST PRAY AND BLESS THE LAND AND BE A WORTHY CITIZEN AND GOD WILL REWARD YOUR PRAYERS AND DILIGENCE OF GOOD WORKS WITH RESOURCES TO INVEST.
IF YOU NEED TO LEAVE NIGERIA TO PURSUE LIFE OR A CAREER ELSEWHERE, GREAT, BUT
PLEASE DON'T CURSE THE LAND. REMEMBER IT IS THE SAME LAND THAT GAVE YOU THE EDUCATION AND SKILLS THAT YOU ARE USING ELSEWHERE.
GOD BLESS YOU AND BLESS ALL NIGERIANS AND ITS FOREIGN PARTNERS WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN IT.
I AM PROUDLY NIGERIAN 🇳🇬👍🏼
🇳🇬♾️✅😍 CFA
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Oh you have finally woken up to rep Nigeria instead of Lagos alone! Have you ever posted anything positive about Nigeria outside of Lagos and perharps the North! I will only take you serious when you post something positive about Federal governement presence in southeast! The second Niger bridge is good but more work is needed on FG roads in the east.............Awka and Onitsha are cut off from Enugu, Aba is cut off from Port harcourt ...and Onitsha is cut off from owerri due to erosion menace............if all these cities were transplanted to Houston Texas , they all will be within the greater houston metro area! Tinubu needs to restart growth in the economy but he has left the low hanging fruits like repairing the mentioned roads and is busy wasting his time looking for foreign investors.........................Do you know the amount of economic growth that will happen if these roads are fixed ? What about the new Enugu international airport terminal ....that Buhari refused to complete! You post new rail lines in lagos but never talk about a terminal that will attract a lot of local investment into the southeast!
Fubara is almost gone ! since he claims to be Ijaw and not Igbo let IYC go and fight for him! He is fighting the 2 deadliest snakes in Nigerian politics ...wike and Tinubu! Fubara should claim igbo and get some eastern firepower but he will try the oil militancy blackmail but it will not fly...cos they have settled Tompolo! is it the Asari Dokubo who hates Fubara that will fight...................na only ESN that will save Fubara now!
Nothing makes sense in Nigeria. There's no support for the aviation industry. Now, jet fuel is not subsidized. It's only natural that the citizens bear the brunt. I hope that the jet fuel/palm oil mix works so that God will lift some families out of abject poverty through it.
As for the South East, Yuletide has its uniqueness. During Christmas, people only fly down to the East and rarely fly into Lagos and Abuja from the Eastern airports.
Going back to those two airports during the Yuletide means the planes fly empty and the airliners incur huge losses. Now, they are pushing the losses on the passengers. The same thing happens to buses that ply to and fro the Eastern routes from faraway distances.
Rubbish talk no be return tickets ........people dey buy!
Mumu....how do you know you will not die this night! Is your miserable life in your impoverished hands? Is it not better to remain silent and keep us guessing if you are foolish than for you to talk and confirm your mental retardation!!!
Generalmystic: You see, when oyibo without a form of interest or emotional attachment to Nigeria speaks, you can't help but agree with him.
I'm not from SE, but that region has been so neglected.
The same people that claim Igbos are always playing victim and are not marginalised, are still the same people who will mock igbos and tell them to go back to their poto poto and neglected republic........the wickedness inherent in he hearts of some Africans is something else!
Generalmystic: You see, when oyibo without a form of interest or emotional attachment to Nigeria speaks, you can't help but agree with him.
I'm not from SE, but that region has been so neglected.
The same people that claim Igbos are always playing victim and are not marginalised, are still the same people who will mock igbos and tell them to go back to their poto poto and neglected republic........the wickedness inherent in he hearts of some Africans is something else!
Houseontherock1: Once you get involved in illegal deals, you must learn how your colleagues launder their funds! How can you under declare when your bags and baggages will go through security checks?
mumu is more afraid of Nigerian banks and his relatives than US customs.........! who lose now!
benuejosh: While i commiserate with the community, such measures are needed for IPOB-ESN and other minor/up springing indigenous groups bent on making the living environment unconducive for living in Nigeria.
You are a complete buffoon.............an online misfit and a digital coward! The igbo race is created far stronger than the Nigerian cotraption you love so much...Oga, alaigbo will outlive Nigeria as it is presently constituted.............Providence is dismantling the Lugardian gradually , right in your presence and this f**l does not even know it! Everything happening in the world today ,ukraine wwar ,gaza war etc is being manipulated for one thin only.........TO FREE NDIGBO.........eee go soon clear for your eye, Tinubu has given shettima to duty to prepare ground for the release of Kanu.......eee go shock you! Anu ofia...................come and bomb ESN ,make we see!
BitterTruth0001: Wow . Nigeria went from having lost the case and being ordered to pay $11 bn , to winning the case , having the judgement debt set aside and being awarded $20m in compensatory costs.
Not only has the company P& D lost this case and will pay $20m , their investor is also suing them. They took money from an investment firm to finance the lawsuits believing they’ll win and give the investor some share of the money they’ll collect from Nigeria
Now they have lost the case , investor is suing them to return the money and also pay damages and the profit they were promised
Either way , lawyers are just cashing out steadily
The damage that agbado and aboki have done to Nigeria is unbelieable! No be that serial scammers Jimi lawal and Lanre whatever is his name that perpetrated this scam
SSFeedsNigeria: I once saw data from the 1960’s that showed how the old Eastern region (comprising the entire SE with Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Cross River) was the fastest growing economy in Nigeria, and among the fastest in the world. The region was registering new businesses far more than Western and northern regions combined! Then the civil war happened in 1967-70 and that momentum was lost. The region turned into a sorry state. New centers of growth and investments shifted to Lagos/Oyo and Kano/Kaduna axis.
Infrastructure in the East decayed. Investments fled the region. Even Igbos themselves abandoned their region and instead chose to invest in the new centers of growth outside their region. Onitsha deterioted. Aba decayed. Enugu, Owerri, Nnewi, Awka, Umuahia, Abakilike etc. became glorified villages. People looked down on those that choose to remain in the East as unambitious people who don’t want to make it big in life.
From the 1980’s, 1990’s and up to early 2000’s there were constant religious riots in the North, and each time it occurred, Igbos and their investments became targets. As a result, calls for “aku ruo ulo” which loosely means “bring your investments home” became rife but unfortunately, the East was still in a very bad shape. This pushed Igbos to start making demands from their governors on infrastructure improvements. Having realized that North was no longer safe for them and their investments, Igbos began to move massively into Lagos & Abuja in the interim, along with their investments. Not long after, the aku ruo ulo calls began to yield dividends as Igbo investments began to trickle into their region.
As Igbo population & assets in Lagos spiked, Yorubas began to get uncomfortable. Then 2023 election happened & they weaponized tribalism. Several Igbo dominated markets got burnt. It was followed by the demolition of houses and plazas in Igbo dominated areas too. Just like North in the previous years, Igbos also realized that Lagos isn’t safe for them and their investments too.
Almost same situation that occurred in the North in the years prior to 2000, is now occurring in the West. The period Igbos began to abandon North coincided with its economic collapse. I’m not saying that North collapsed economically because Igbos abandoned it but several other factors added to it.
Now, calls for Igbos to divest away from Lagos region is happening at a period foreign investors are also abandoning the region. Lagos/SW loss now becomes SE gain as investments are now pouring into the East in an unprecedented manner. What makes it more remarkable is that SE is rising when other regions are stagnating or even regressing.
Just like in the 1960’s when the civil war truncated the rise of the East, Igbos should avoid history repeating itself. You can make IPOB or ESN your pressure group but never escalate things to unmanageable crises level.
Another good thing is that Nigeria is finally being restructured without many being aware. The North may or may not be aware that Nigeria is being restructured against their age long hindrance to it. However, there is little or nothing they can do to stop it. Fuel subsidy removal, unbundling of power generation and distribution, removal of certain things from the exclusive list etc are restructuring that will make regions grow at their own pace. This is the opportunity Igbos need to roar back like the Asian Tigers and it is gratifying to note that the prognosis indicate positive signs. Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi are back on track. SME’s and manufacturing in the SE is thriving once again.
Unfortunately for the northern region, they failed to invest in Human Resources. If Tinubu sustains the covert restructuring, the region is likely to collapse further without new investments and rising insecurity. With foreign investors also fleeing Lagos region & Igbos doing same, the SE is now poised to become the new axis of growth in Nigeria. Also, with AFTCA now in place, Lagos no longer has locational advantage like in the past, when ECOWAS was the trading region. Now, the entire Africa is, and SE is well positioned between West and Central Africa.
Igbos can truly achieve their mission even within a dysfunctional BUT DECENTRALIZED Nigeria.
The only SE Governor that is aware of what you posted and is WILLING to do the needful to prepare ground for Igbo investment is probably Otti In Abia state! Soludo knows wetin dey but has his badly hidden presidency ambition distracting him! The SE governors are a big problem for the Igbo people!
Never4getU: It's time to weed igbos feom their hideout in Lagos. Stupidity of one yr is a wisdom for d next. We don wise up and no going back on this plan.
U must return and think East by fire by force since u're no longer here for business then u're no longer welcome among us. Leave and see how the business u think others can't do how it boom
Ok o! get ready to live Igboland including all Igboland in delta and rivers state! we go see who e go pain pass!
So because they control america hamas has the right to kill Israeli civilians? So because Israeli came back to their ancestral land in 1948,they are not Israelis but Zionist. All this your twisted argument is not helpig your mental health. Nothing you say here will stop israel from destroying hamas. Thank God for this hamas terrorist who are already surrendering.
Both of you are unaware of the truth.........Biblical Isrealites were negroes of today's sub saharan Africa! The isrealis of today are largely from Eastern Europe.........even Benjamin Netayahu's parents were born in Poland........his familly name is Kowalyski........he was born Bemjamin kowalyski...FACT The jewish people in Isreal today are impostors....the language they claim is ancient Hebrew is largely made up of German grammar...................it is called yiddish! Christians in the world and especially Nigeria are under a very strong delusion.......Tell me any tradition of western Europe that aligns with Biblical traditions? God said he will use circumcision as an ensign of his covenant with his chosen people............which country has the highest rate of circumcision in the world? Sub saharan Africa....particularly Nigeria! Especially among the south east and south south ethnic regions
TimeMachine2: Imagine this foolish bigot that will never see anything wrong with the carnage going on in his home state, talking nonsense.
While you are at it, why don't you tell us why you are living in lagos after developing anambra? The legendary 'Go and verify' nematode has become a gossip blogger dishing outs fake aba made statistics on per second basis.
You mean the carnage happening in your mind and the bloody pages of nairaland...u no serious! The same Anambra that is launching industries left right and center! Na your mumu pass sef! The APC government just lacks focus and it is showing! Any Nigerian president that fails to understand that what Nigeria lacks in a deep and qualitative market...she makes up with quantity..............even the mass of impoverished humanity in Nigeria na market all the same............what Peter obi is saying is that Tinubu has failed to engender a feel good factor in Nigerians and the international investing market! The mumu in Aso rock should have started his presidency by visiting all 6 geo political zones assuring all and sundry that he got their backs! instead the vindictive orc allowed his mc oluomo urchins to start a vindictive demolition of property of percieved political opponents! That very act spellls TROUBLE COMING to investors.........................
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For petes sake .....why did heaven chain Ndigbo with this hideous looking people.........look at the agbado demons with their mis-shapen skulls bearing down on this poor woman! I am just tired of these people.........make i go sleep before I vex!
olisaEze: The Nigerian political terrain is awash with politicians who have virtually failed at everything else in life but crime, so Mr Ubah is not looking to join the looting class on the strength of his business acumen! He doesn't even need the highest number of votes to win anymore. With only I-nec & the courts in a sizable portion of his wallet, he's good to go!
Even soludo is small minded,the ability to see the bigger picture is a problem for most Igbo politicians.........Nigeria is not for the faint hearted pollitician in order to insulate oneself, a good politician has to align himself with the desires and feelings of his people! Alaigbo is under tremendous persecution of the useless Nigerian state, instead of him to codedly support the sit at home protest ,the guy went code red on IPOB...........so who is going to fight for him during the election that Tinubu will rig! If APC can try rubbish in volatile Kano ..is it in Anambra that IPOB is being caged that soludo will survive! SOLUDO had better wake up........and make sure Mazi nnamdi Kanu is released soon! The vandals in government fear Kanu pass satan.....................a word is sufficient for the w***
LeoDeKing: NASS said Tinubu went to drop an empty box.
One clown whose voice resonates like female teenagers didn't get half of the concept, he started echoing what he heard the lawmakers saying.
To him, that is how to play opposition. Even his unintelligent followers agreed with the bullshit he vomited.
Meanwhile, what is displayed here is just the State House Budget, the rest are still in the flash.
You are as uncouth and uncultured as you are ugly in face and thought.........why did you not give these details since last week or on the day the budget was presented....We are waiting for you people to perform the American wonder you performed in Lagos...............you guys are just being arrogant over nothing!
see the groundbreaking and world standard infrastructure that much less endowed nations in Africa are dropping all over their countries...una no go allow us rest over the rickety and overpriced contraptions you guys managed to build in Lagos!
see the standard airport terminal just opened in Kolwezi Congo ....a mere regional capital o! Una no go ever get shame again!
Yoruba toolike tribalism jare. Look at how they are dying in silence all bcs their brother na president
Almost all of these so called Pastors from yorubaland were born into muslim homes and practiced islam well into adulthood o! Bakare,oyedepo,Ashimolowo etc.........how are we sure their mat and kettle are not neatly tucked under their pulpits??
Politics / Re: LEADERSHIP Awards: Dr Olubunmi Tunji-ojo Is Public Service Person Of The Year by Abufo: 1:51pm On Dec 12, 2023 
He can still have all them as his wives if he adopts the religion that accepts that. 
, to winning the case , having the judgement debt set aside and being awarded $20m in compensatory costs. 