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LETTER TO UNDERGRADUATES

Dear Undergraduate.

It delights me to address you through this medium. I have an idea of how crowded your schedule is. Thank you very much for your time. I understand what you have to evade to read this. Probably there's a 7am GES class today or an assignment, term paper that is due for submission this morning. Thank you very much for finding this worthy of your readership. .

Let me quickly state that the undergraduate life is a very spectacular period. If not for any other thing, for the fact that it's about the first time most of you get to live life solely on your own actions and reactions. Mummy and daddy can no longer detect the itinerary for the day. The best they can do is check on you through calls. There's likely to be no visiting day, no imposed activities. Just you, your actions and inactions. As you take responsibility for your life remember that life is all a journey of cause and effect. Everything that happens to you is an effect of a cause that was instigated by you, knowingly or unknowingly.

Basically, the import of this letter is to bring to your notice few important issues and aspects of life you may wish to pay critical attention to. I have been there and back so I'm in a position to advise. I need you to do better. My desire is that you leverage on my experiences, ordeals and circumstances and give your days in college a leap. There's is room for more.

One major area of life that you must take charge of immediately is career mapping. It is no longer news that most of you were admitted into disciplines that you never choose. Some of you got to study courses chosen for you by JAMB, your parents, peers and other external regulations. Whatever is the case you've gone far in the course now, so no need to worry unnecessarily. No need to consider a return to JAMB exams or a transfer to another department especially where that will give you avoidable issues. The thing to do is to do a personal asset analyses. Do a skills audit of yourself. You can call it a personal SWOT. It is easier to navigate to any career path. Take some time out and draw up a five, ten years career development goal showing how you will navigate from where you are to where you ought to be. Don't wait for graduation to do this. Graduation comes with pressure and pseudo frustrations. In other words, all I'm saying is that you should take out some time and discover your true self and purpose if you're yet to do so. That way you can thoroughly align your purpose to your career and then you can step into the real game. Self discovery supperceds any other idea you're chasing. Don't postpone it and don't think anybody will do it for you. It's already up to you. Take some time out and ask yourself very salient and personal questions as who am I? What is my purpose on earth? How do I align my purpose to my career. Do it today.

You see this issue of whether or not you intend to graduate with a first-class? It starts from year one. It starts by knowing the rules. Do you know the academic policy of your department? Do you know exactly what you would need to do to secure your desired degree? Get close to your course adviser. Ask questions. Study the academic policy. Don't be that student who will wake up to the realities of low grade point in the penultimate year. Set a goal. Commit some time daily for your studies not just because exams is by the corner but because you need to unearth certain mysteries hidden in books. Understand the standard in your industry. For instance there are jobs and scholarships that will not even allow you to write interviews if you did not make a First Class. If that is what you desire then work hard to meet the prerequisite. By the way, set a target to read at least one personal development book a month. Read about sales, public speaking, forex, evolution, astrology, philosophy, politics, government bonds, company shares, religion, slave trade among others. Don't be that student who will be completely disconnected from reality when sociology students are discussing just because you're in engineering. That's not it at all.

That said. It is important that you start early enough to prepare for the job market. You see this issue of 2 years experience that we keep saying where do they want fresh graduates to get it from? Employers already know that such is possible that's why they have decided to make it so. The answer is in internships. Both virtual and real time. Never sit at home during any holiday, look out for firms and start-ups and intern there. Even if it two weeks. Join a volunteer team. That is how you consciously build the two years experience the employer needs. Even as a student, you can intern during weekends. Before graduation you would have had up to two years experience. I never even knew this. Now you do, actually fast.

Another important area you must attend to is in your professional development. This has to start from school. Join a professional body that is associated with your career. Most of them have student bodies. Do what you can to get their certifications. There are other certifications you can get even for free online. Udemy, Edx, Coursera, slatecube among others are all websites offering exciting courses online. Some are free and some others can offer you a certificate from Harvard, MIT and other ivory league colleges for as low as 10,000NGN. There are several general courses you could take there and several industry specific courses as well. Take advantage of training programmes that come with discount for students because it might just be the only privilege you have to learn it at such rate.

Let's talk about soft skills. Leadership being the super structure. Basically when people mention social etiquettes, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, inter personal skills, excellent communication skills, what they really mean is leadership. A leader should posses all these skills. The aim of being a student should be to become a leader in your industry. There are several skills you will need as a leader and being an undergraduate offers you one of the best platforms to hone these skills. Check out AIESEC, ENACTUS, JCI, Rotaract and other international NGOs often found in student communities. Join at least one of them, be active and take a leadership position. Take a look at what YALI is doing. Take the courses. Apply for the opportunities available in those places.

Another aspect of your education you have to pay attention to is the effects of technology on your career. If there's no technological advances in your career, then it's an opportunity for you to create one. If you don't, you will be blown away by the coming revolution. Do all you can to align your education with evolving tech. Can I remind you about your social media presence and it effect on your personality? I hope you have a LinkedIn account. Set up a professional profile there and look out for available opportunities. Your LinkedIn account is your virtual CV. Facebook, instagram and twitter is no place for gibberish. What you might not know is that the people who are actually observing you are not necessarily the ones liking and commenting. Stay professional. Move away from discussions and posts that are offensive.

Let's talk about your finance. On an average you spend 270 days in school in a year of 365 days. If you spend 400NGN on an average day on feeding, transportation and others, that means a whooping 108k is being consumed by you every year on feeding and logistics alone. School fees and accommodation not included. And you say you are not rich. For a four years course, the spending is equal to 432k and 540k for those of you doing engineering for 5 years. This is me being very modest because in reality you actually spend more than that. But here is the point! Do you know that if you commit to saving just 100NGN daily for a year, you'll have 27k as savings for the days you're in school, holidays not included. That does not look like big money though. But remember that in five years it becomes 27k * 5 which gives you 135k. And that's just for only savers. How about if you had invested your 27k in an instrument that gives you at least 10% returns per six month on a compounding base. No work is required to make this happen. Think about money in the long term. Savings and investment might not mean much to you now until you graduate and cannot afford to load mobile data anymore. Unless you have parents who literally enjoy spoon feeding you till thy kingdom come, it is critical that you begin to set aside a portion of all monies accrued to you. That's how the journey to financial independence begins. By the way, if you have issues believing how much you have at your disposal, simply keep a comprehensive record of your daily income and expenditure for just a month. This was an eye opener for me when I started it in my 200L. Enough said!

There are students who know nothing else about the school except the ones happening in their departments. I can only imagine what kind of students those ones are. Some of you never ever visit the school website til it's time to pay the another school fees. That way you miss out of exciting events happening in school. Don't be naive. Attend social events, music concerts, talk shows, convocation lectures, dinner and award night. How can you be in school for four years and all you do is church and class. This might make you look like a great student while it last but trust me you're shortchanging yourself. There's so much more to learn out there. For goodness sake, it is called a university. The idea is to make you a universal brand after four years. Someone who can be of value anywhere in the universe. How then do you stay in school for four years and the only places you know are your classrooms and fellowship centre. Please join useful students groups. Be active in the union if you have the capacity. Don't be an armchair critic who knows everything wrong with the system but will never be an active player in the system. You cannot effect any change by merely complaining. Act! Be an influencer from your own little corner.

The statement, "there are no jobs" is not really as true as it is propagated. The truth is that there are jobs, but those jobs are role specific. So it is important that you are in touch with current trends and paradigms in your industry. Jobs are secured these days through effective networking than just sitting back and shooting CVs to various emails. Attend networking and industry events as a student. Walk up to people with confidence and introduce yourself and what you do. Keep valuable relationships. Improve your communication skills, people skills and learn about workplace etiquettes. One fad that you must jettison is that which tends to think of everybody as having not to work for anybody just to proof they are entrepreneurs. That's not true. You can be an employee and still be an entrepreneur just like you can be an employer and still be an entrepreneur. Your entrepreneurial journey might just start up as a result of a loophole you've noticed while working for another person.

If you can start a business. Facebook, dell, Microsoft, snap chat, wordpress, yahoo all started in campuses. The university provides a ready market and a good platform to testrun your seemingly crude idea. Imagine that out of twenty thousand students in your school, you have a product that sells to just 10% of them on a daily bases. The explosion will be ridiculously unimaginable. Sound you have a great idea. Get some like-minded folks to grind with you then start.

Probably getting a mentor is about the most important help you can give to yourself. You are not a pacesetter in that career. You are not the first undergraduate. There are people who have gone there and back. Go and learn from them. Mentors help give more clarity to your purpose and provide some springboards for you to jump-start your career. Leverage on the experiences of these people and give whatever you're doing an advantage. There's no need for avoidable struggles. Identify people who have gone through all the ordeals of life and have fallible proofs. Go and learn from them. Maintain a good relationship with them. Respect their time and the value they offer to you.

My dear friends. Make google your best friend! I wish I could repeat that a million times. Activate your spirit of curiosity to the point that you are swift to google just anything you have no understanding of. Have the patience to search out truths, demystify myths and misconceptions. Keep an open mind. Be objective. Explore knowledge.

Above all stay flexible. Adaptability is key. Charles Darwin's advice is what I always recommend. He said: "It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

I have a lot to say to you but time and chance may not allow that. I would love to tell you about all my mistakes, regrets and travails, but let me hope that I have captured them above. Stay true to your values. Be a role model worthy of emulation. Be the kind of undergraduate that will make every secondary school student in your community look forward to a time in the University. Be of help to others by bringing opportunities to them. Don't envy the best student in your class, learn from him instead. Keep a good relationship with your lecturers. Respect them. Send them good emails and sms on world teachers day. Thank them for teaching you, suppervisng your projects and practicals. Dress for success. Live your dreams. Be ruthless and bold. Be known for something unique. Make your absence create a vacuum. This can only happen when you have a value. I desire to see you become the best.
I love you.

Your Friend
James Udom
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I don't understand ooo.. All this cash: na America the money dey cos we no dey feel within una dey talk say una released... or na only me dey see the thing like that?

This APC are up to something... Guess they will hide under this and do the Inconclusive thing!

O boi.... see money.. Aba people don hammer again... The Original original from our beloved Bro go make sense pass..

Na them plant the thing...

nrexzy:
Finally d govt is working...remaining bag of Rice and petrol...

Dear white men, U asked us to wear coats under hot sun, we did; ~ U said we should speak your language, we have obediently ignored ours. ~ U asked us to always tie a rope around our necks like goats, we have obeyed without questioning. ~ U asked our ladies to wear dead people's hair instead of the natural hair God gave to them, they have obeyed. ~ U said we should marry just one woman in the midst of plenty black angels, we reluctantly agreed. ~ You asked us to use rubber in order to control our birth rate, we agreed..... ~ Now U want our MEN to sleep with fellow MEN & WOMEN with fellow WOMEN so that God would punish us like Sodom and Gomora? we say No!! We don't agree with U this time! Proudly African, we say a huge NO to GAY relationships and LESBIAN. ~ If U say NO to HOMOSEXUALS & LESBIANS type NO!!!..

Please let me explain to those of us who don't understand Economic terms. Dollar has not increased since Buhari became president 1. Dollar is not our currency so dollar should not be our business 2. Our problem is not d government but our problem is our importers and consumers 3. Naira has remained at 199 naira to 1 dollar since Buhari became president 4. Buhari has promised not to devalue the Naira and he has maintained that promise 5. Both at CBN and at interbank rates, dollar has remained 199 6. However because we are too lazy to produce what we use in Nigeria we import even toothpicks and matches 7. Buhari does not like d importation of luxury goods because luxury goods is d reason for most corruption, that is why he banned 41 products from having access to forex 8. However when Nigerian importers insisted on importing those 41 products, FG asked them to find their dollar at d BDCs parallel market also known as black market 9. And to discourage the pressure Nigerians are mounting on the Naira just to get dollars for importation, CBN banned DMBs from selling dollars to BDCs 10. To survive the pressure of excess dollar demands, BDCs resorted to sourcing for dollars from neighbouring countries through illicit money laundering routes 11. Because of the risks faced by BDCs to source for dollars, and because of the increase in demand for dollars by importers because China just resumed from their business holidays, BDCs keep increasing the price at which they exchange dollars to naira and now it is 400 Naira to 1 dollars 12. However that does not mean that govt has changed the exchange rate because if our genuine importers go to CBN and fill Form M to import raw materials for local production, they will get dollars at 197 naira each 13. So the problem is that we love to consume luxury foreign products yet we are too lazy to manufacture them here. 14. For example u will see a dull girl using iPhone 5 without even knowing simple physics and computer engineering part of how that phone was produced 15. I want Buhari to ban every foreign product from Nigeria until Nigerians learn to produce and use Made in Nigeria products 16. Let us stop complaining about dollar as if dollar has become Nigeria's currency 17. It is even bad enough that most of those complaining about the high exchange rate of dollar do not have 1 single dollar in their purse.

Only good council,knowledge and Jesus Christ can save!

Few weeks ago, I was at the local airport and as I waited in the departure lounge, I noticed there were many children roaming about but it was understandable since it was summer holiday. One other thing I noticed was the way most of the children were dressed. Most of them, especially the girls, were dressed in bum shorts, halter necks, cut off jeans, etc. The clothes in themselves weren't the issue per se; it was the overall look of the children that had me bothered. That was definitely not the first time I noticed it. A few months before, I had taken my kids to a birthday party and found myself in what could easily have been a night club for kids. Scanty clothing such as tight or very short clothes, bum shorts, long weaves, etc, seemed to be the dress code. I noticed my son glancing around, probably wondering, "What in God's world are these other children wearing?" Or something like that. Not long after, the kids were called out to dance to the hit songs of the season - these songs in my opinion should be rated PG 16. 4 - 6 year olds trooped to the dance floor, miming the sexually explicit songs and gyrating their bodies in the most sensual manner. They could have given Beyonce a run for her money. They ran their hands over their bodies, shook their booties hard while their parents cheered them on. The boys had their upper shirts unbuttoned and rapped along perfectly to gangsta raps while doing flawless break dance. Those who danced like actual children where shooed off the dance floor while the lewd ones were cheered on. As I watched, my child stared out of this circle looking longingly at the others dancing. I knew it was time to leave. As we left, we went to an eatery where I bought them ice cream and gently explained to them the concept of decency and dancing with decorum. Another time, at a game arcade for kids, I ran into a lady who had made-up her kids' faces like they were mannequins for Tara or Mac beauty products. Their skirts were so tight, that running up and down the slide was uncomfortable for them. So the question is, why are we sexualizing our kids? Why does your 4, 6 or 9 year old girl have to look like a chick? Why does she have to be hot or sexy? Should your 8 year old son go around with a comb in his hair and his pants sagged almost to his ankles? If your child wears bum shorts out of the house at age 3, why should she be expected to wear longer ones at 15? If she wears 2 rings and 12 bangles at 6, why won't she pierce a second ear hole at 17 and her bellybutton at 19? Why won't your son pierce his own ear at 15? Are you setting your children up to be immodest and indecent? What trend are you starting them on? That all these are fashionable or trendy doesn't mean it's ok. What happened to children wearing dresses. Children can look very nice and decent, they can be well covered and still look good. In this age, when children are being abused. Is it wise to make your child an object of anyone's sexual attention? When I hear some children belt out sexually explicit lyrics, I ask myself how they became exposed to this songs! As a parent, you can't play the CD of such songs and not expect your children to pick them up; the same goes for watching Mtv Base, Channel O, etc with your children. Studies have shown that children exposed to a high level of sexually explicit information tend to become sexually active early. Is that your goal as a parent? Being a parent involves sacrifice. You will need to avoid listening to such music where your children are. Most of those lyrics demean women and teach your daughter that she's just a intimacy gadget and her body is for squeezing. It teaches the boys that money is everything and women are things to be used to satisfy their primal urges. These music introduces them to a degrading pop culture. Our children have their lives ahead of them, let's set them on the right path by teaching them to dress decently and sing nice or age- appropriate songs. Let your children be children. Train up a child in the way that s/he should go and when s/he is old, s/he would not depart from it.!

We need battle strategy for Boko boys not Villa.....

In the early hours of today, I rushed to the bank hoping to make some transactions, having known how crowded the place will become in the afternoon.
I filled up my teller as requested and took my place on the queue. Owing to the fact that the place was a bit compacted and being the uber-cool individual I was, I decided to create a bit of space between me and the fellow before me so that people could easily walk through (I dey try form gentle man).
I was waiting patiently for my turn when out of nowhere a guy came and took the space before me. I became befuddled and asked him gently if he was there initially, he told me that he was and the fellow before me said he was lying.
I was nettled by this and was reprimanding him when an elderly woman (in her late 40s I think) did the same in front. The moment I saw this, I held my peace and didn’t utter another word.
A Yoruba adage says: An elder wouldn’t be in the market and a kid’s head would be bent. (Pardon my translation). This led me to ask what the society expect from the youths when those who we are supposed to look up to and emulate are the ones misbehaving and committing various forms of atrocities?
This has gotten to a point where political leaders who are supposed to rule and direct us are being charged to courts over various cases of fraud. (Some of them wey don die finish wey be say na extra time dem dey use on earth dey steal too. I sha no mention names). Little wonder why we have so many young boys who are criminals nowadays.
The elders in the society are supposed to teach us, they are supposed to direct us, they are supposed to be the light of the society, they are supposed to lead while we follow. But what are we to do when they themselves are lost and can’t tell the difference between right and left, when good and bad means nothing to them anymore, when they themselves are the scourge of the society?
Am not trying to be scurrilous or anything, I am only advocating for a better society where the elders do that which is expected of them and where they know the onus falls on them to do the right thing.
Written by Bakare Lanre
Seun and lalastica....Do the needful

When they leave him at home at the time to play "Need for speed" on his phone......

Lol..... Scottfield Micheal in kuji Prison! Season 1

The man on black suit......... Is that Dangote

Jesus Reigns makes its beautiful.... Love that Bible on top the constitution! In God we trust!!!!

Meh.... Every where in Port harcourt right now rocks..... You just need to see how happy people are!

Have you seen an Angel before?!.... She looks like her normal self not angel

Hahah.... #so Senate president no case again.... NA wa oooo.... Imagine a man with big case against his conduct to the nation when in power receiving VIP welcome from the presidency.. #whereisourintergerity

This article was first published in
March, 2015. With the reported return of $300
million of money looted by former military head of
state, Late Sani Abacha to Buhari’s government, it
has become topical.

Having watched the presidential standard-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, campaign around the country in the last couple of weeks, noted the emptiness and the near hollowness of the whole exercise, and having watched him garner some endorsements both from within and outside the country, I have come to the inescapable conclusion that those promoting the Buhari candidacy must have other reasons for backing him than the advertised prospect of saving Nigeria and setting it on the path of rebirth. Except we have all agreed that, it is better to settle for less, I see no plausible reason to present such shallowness as change and then proceed to premise the hope of a country’s rebirth on such disjointed motley assemblage of promises.
I however do not share the views of the change mob
hysteria about Buhari because we have not been
presented with the sheerest evidence to support
those prepositions other than hope. Rather, my
position is heavily supported by the evidence already
in the public domain and further buttressed by the
news last week that Candidate Buhari failed to
apologise 31 years after he jailed two journalists
under the jackboot of his obnoxious Decree No.4
which he used to gag and cow the press, despite
claims by Professor Wole Soyinka that he had shown
signs of “plausible transformation” and Buhari’s
claim at Chatham House that he is a reformed
dictator who has fully embraced democracy. Both
claims in my view cannot pass the sniff test. Rather,
what I see here is obvious deniability of the reality
of who Buhari really is.
It appears the blitzkrieg rebranding of Candidate
Buhari by the South-west (APC) apparatchik has
only succeeded at the superficial level of creating a
perception rather than reality, and that perception is
what has driven the campaign thus far. But the
reality is that the man being bandied around as the
face of change has not changed from who he is to
who or what he is not despite wearing different
robes to give the veneer of “change” and “plausible
transformation”. His refusal to show some
atonement for sins of the past sets him apart from
Mathieu Kerekou of Benin Republic who was
reported to have apologised for his actions in a
church. Has Buhari ever apologised for any of his
actions? Not that I recall.
In the March 18, 2015 edition of THISDAY
Newspaper, which reported the news of Buhari’s
failure to apologise, there was another news story
that caught my attention, titled: “Switzerland to
return $380m Abacha loot”. The timing of the action
of the Swiss authorities was particularly instructive
as we go into the election. Buhari whose twin
campaign sloganeering messages have been that he
will fight corruption and end Boko Haram has
consistently denied that Abacha stole Nigeria’s
money. According to him, Abacha neither stole nor
looted the country’s treasury. He described the
allegations of looting against Abacha as “baseless”,
because according to him, “ten years after Abacha,
those allegations remain unproven because of lack of
facts”. This was despite the fact that hundreds of
millions of dollars had in well publicised reports been
returned to Nigeria as part of the Abacha loot. Now
that Switzerland is set to return another tranche of
$380m, does Buhari still stand by his statement that the allegations or accusations against Abacha are “baseless” and not supported by “facts”? Here are three countries that have returned money stolen by Abacha to Nigeria. Switzerland: Switzerland had earlier returned more than $700m that the late Abacha hid in Swiss accounts and is now set to return another $380 million stolen by the dictator.

Liechtenstein: The Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein returned $227m stolen by Abacha in 2014.

Channels Island: The State of Jersey in the Channels
Island is set to return £315 million
(N90,040,634,775.00) to Nigeria as part of funds
recovered from the late dictator, Sani Abacha. The
Island had earlier returned the sum of £140m
(N40,018,059,900.00) to Nigeria in two batches.

But the man who has been rebranded as the face of
change; the man “destined” to save Nigeria and
fight corruption denies it ever happened in the face
of overwhelming evidence – and stated sternly that –
Abacha never stole Nigeria’s money.
Anyone who has a long memory will recall that
former President Olusegun Obasanjo earned many
flight miles in pursuit of Abacha’s loot. He hired
international lawyers to chase those monies
anywhere they may be located on planet Earth and
recover them for Nigeria. Buhari was fully aware of
all those efforts and yet denied Abacha ever looted
the country’s coffers. The irony today is that the
same Obasanjo is one of the front row supporters of
Buhari-for-President in the coming election. It is
most probable that Obasanjo will even deny his
efforts to recover the loot considering the manner he
recently dismissed the PTF report. What does this
say about our leaders?
On Thursday last week, newspapers lavishly
reported Buhari as saying “a corrupt government is
worse than armed robbery.” Really? I chuckled –
Was he kidding? I am sure his definition of a corrupt
government does not include Abacha’s thieving
government. Otherwise, he won’t have said the clear
evidence was “baseless …unproven because of lack
of facts.”
Meanwhile, the Swiss prosecutor’s office said
overall, the Abacha clan was thought to have
diverted about $5bn from the Nigerian treasury,
adding that much of it ended up abroad.
Now the question is: should Buhari go on to win
Saturday’s presidential election, it would therefore
mean that, he will be the one to manage the $380m
about to be returned by Switzerland. Will he hand
over the money to Abacha’s family since he believes
they were being wrongly hounded to return money
they never stole in the first place? Will he tell the
Swiss authorities to keep the money as no money
was ever looted and insist on being an accessory to
the fact of a conspiracy of lies and falsehood told
against Abacha family? Will he demand Switzerland
must apologise to the family?
This is the man now being advertised as the one who
will fight corruption and “restore hope.” Anyone
who denies that Abacha looted the nation’s treasury
not only holds our values in contempt but does pure
violence to those values.
And for the first time, and strangely so, the interests
of the activists, pro-democracy groups, career
critics, seasoned lawyers, ex-dictators, flawed
progressives, ably supported by a vocal section of
the intelligentsia have converged on a candidate –
Candidate Buhari – irrespective of the records of
history against him. What an irony!
As our highly revered Professor Soyinka in 2007 said when Buhari wanted to contest: “This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power as the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded.
It would appear that some, myself among them, had
been over-complacent about the magnitude of an
ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late
effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet
again to the honour of presiding over a society that
truly seeks a democratic future. What one had
dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by
other political improbabilities that surround us,
however, is being given an air of plausibility by
individuals and groupings to which one had earlier
attributed a sense of relevance of historic
actualities.” Unfortunately today, our respected
professor and wordsmith is now one of the
individuals championing the crusade of the
“plausible transformation” of Buhari without
“rigorous inspection of the evidence”. What a
turnaround!

No be new thing now..... Go rivers side self.. NA so dey take dey do the thing back to back

Cc: lalasticlala FP please!

Neymar be like ......Boss! I got your back here!

lalasticlala do the needful

Nigerians have an understandable—if somewhat childish and sometimes nasty—habit of singling out a trait in one of their rulers and examining critical arguments from the perspective of that trait every time. Take the Jonathan administration, for example: when critics raised an issue, Jonathan apologists would direct the argument to “But he is a nice (or good, meek, humble) person” or worse: “You are saying this because he is from an ethnic minority”. Or in Lagos, when Fashola’s spending was criticised: “But he is working, compared to others.” This social behaviour is generally amusing, but it becomes dangerous when it starts to repress the space for critical thought. And now, with the budding sycophancy of the Buhari regime, this attitude continues. Buhari apologists tend to review every criticism of current Nigerian politics and government from the perspective of: “But he is fighting corruption”. Hey, Buhari is disregarding the rule of law. “But he is fighting corruption.” Look, Buhari is not managing the economy. “But he is fighting corruption.” Buhari is ignoring religious/ethnic minorities with grievances. “But he is fighting corruption.” This particular defence mechanism is even more understandable because—who in Nigeria doesn’t want to fight corruption? Corruption is the sum total of Nigeria’s political experience, and we must all put our foot down and, fight it! Why, even some blatantly corrupt politicians now claim to fight corruption! “Sai Baba. Buhari is fighting corruption.” But we ought to examine this claim more critically. Is Buhari actually fighting corruption? Or, is the anti-corruption mantra—and the “Dasukigate” affair in particular—a sideshow to distract Nigerians from the, so far, unimaginative policies of this administration? Or, maybe, the president is genuine in intent but just clueless in execution? A lot of us, Nigerians, use the word “corruption” by rote. We rarely think of what it means and so we have no conscious idea of its social dynamics. If we consider it at all, we mostly confine it, simply, to an illegal benefit from public funds. This definition, if the presidential media chat is anything to go by, is also the one favoured by the current administration. But, is this all there is to “corruption”? To be clear, corruption shows up in Nigeria in its two primal forms: as the corruption of need; and as the corruption of greed. There is a third, but we will come back to that. Now, almost every type of society suffers from the corruption of greed (e.g., misusing public funds or public office or otherwise defrauding the public through private means). In this sense, even the Western countries are all corrupt countries. The difference in effect is, however, determined by the extent to which legal processes in a society can automatically and efficiently handle its occurrences. The corruption of greed is derived from a condition of human nature that exploits weaknesses in any political or economic system. An increase in the corruption of greed isn’t the cause of negative social conditions—it is, in fact, a negative social condition itself. Thankfully, it is a social condition that can be cured through a sound legal system. To handle the corruption of greed as efficiently as possible (because we really can’t wipe out human criminality totally), a society can simply shore up weaknesses in the existing system: usually by capping regulatory loopholes, strengthening the capacity of the police, upgrading prosecuting authorities, promoting respect for the rule of law, and assuring the independence of the judiciary. It is under this process that Mr. Dasuki and his merry men should be handled. The Obasanjo and Yar’Adua administrations utilised these processes—to a limited extent. GEJ stalled its progress with characteristic indecisiveness and misguided pardons. Buhari, so far, seems to be following in Obasanjo’s steps. In any case, utilising the legal process to convict offenders is a normal, system- preserving, expectation that is hardly worth the socio-political energy and hysterical “support” that is currently attached to it in Nigeria. On the other hand, the nature and causes of the corruption of need are much more complicated and requires the full participation of society. This is because the corruption of need is a symptom of a dysfunctional political or economic system. The corruption of need is peculiar to underdeveloped or developing countries. It is a corruption of survival that emerges from our daily trade-off between a patriotic desire to obey seemingly good laws, and a deeper, natural, instinct for self-preservation from the unjustifiable adverse effects of the system. The corruption of need is the corruption of our daily lives: from negotiating a bribe with the (poorly paid) policeman to avoid lateness for work, to reconnecting your electricity line illegally (because “NEPA” wants to frustrate you). This is a corruption that exists because the price of honesty far outweighs—sometimes fatally—the consequences of corruption. This is the corruption that destroys us. And it is this corruption of need that any serious Nigerian leader ought to tackle,first. But this is, almost, asking for the impossible; because the corruption of need stems directly from the nature and design of the political and economic system in which it flourishes. And so: in an economic system where the government owns and controls all land, minerals, and other resources of production, the corruption of need necessarily emerges from the ensuing patronage system. In a political system where, despite the heterogeneous nature of the society, all effective policymaking power is concentrated in the central government and local authorities have little or no efficient policymaking, the corruption of need necessarily emerges. In an economic system where the relationship of a manufacturer to political power—and not his “brilliance” or innate productive capacity— determines profit-making, the corruption of need will necessarily emerge. In a political system where the economy relies on the government’s budget and the government’s budget does not have to rely on the economy, then the corruption of need will necessarily emerge. In an economic system where almost 70% of the revenue from economic resources goes into maintaining the government—and not the society —then the corruption of need will necessarily emerge. Yet, somehow, in these underdeveloped or developing countries, the success of any government is assured if it can convince the population that the socio-economic gaps that allow the corruption of need to thrive stems, not from the systemic dysfunctions, but from the corruption of greed displayed by a “previous administration”. Hence, in Nigeria (and a lot of other African countries) from 1966 to date, this singular argument has been a major justification of revolutionary power transitions. But history shows, again and again, that this argument is untrue. Instead, after every transition, the system merely resets the cycle. And, no, we cannot cure the corruption of need just by strengthening the police or increasing the independence of the judiciary; not by arresting people or building more prisons. It requires, instead, the dissolution or reformation of the political and economic structures of the dysfunctional system. This takes imagination, innovation and persuasive charisma. It requires a working knowledge, by the politicians, of how to structure a productive economy. But how can people who have not really worked for money, who get paid just for showing up, understand how to structure a productive economy? But, does Buhari understand how to? Does Buhari understand that limiting productive activity (e.g., through erratic foreign exchange controls) is part of what breeds the corruption of need in black markets and borders? Does he understand that trying to run Nigeria—instead of trying to reform Nigeria—factors into the corruption of need? Does Buhari understand that the Federal Government of Nigeria is, in fact, the number one culprit? “But Buhari is fighting corruption. We should all stand with him.” I understand that Buhari has some economic gurus around him, but it is hard to believe that these people, almost of all whom have risen to their positions through the system, are capable of advising the president to set in motion the steps to dismantle the same system. Well, as some try to argue, maybe Buhari is fighting the corruption of greed first, as a process of reform. But this position is hard to support considering that: (i) this approach has been taken before, and it solved nothing permanently—after all, even the Dasuki loot is derived from the “anti-corruption” crusades of the early 2000s; (ii) nine months in, and the Buhari government hasn’t processed the Dasuki case alone efficiently enough to secure any conviction—not that this will solve anything in itself; and (iii) even worse, the Buhari government questionably accommodates, at least, three people in the cabinet with dubious reputations from their time in state governments. It seems more realistic to consider Buhari’s anti- corruption agenda as: the usual settling of private or public political scores with specific members of previous administrations—like almost every other Nigerian ruler before him; or—to put it very nicely— as evidence that the president has no clue what corruption in Nigeria really means. In short, President Buhari is not quite fighting corruption. I believe that the president can perform much better if: (i) as Femi Falana has impliedly advised, he disengages from his overt personal interest, particularly in just one case of the corruption of greed, and “allow” the legal process to fully handle all instances of its occurrence without the presidency’s involvement or influence; while (ii) he concentrates on and engages fully, instead, with the political and economic reforms necessary to eradicate the more intricate corruption of need. “Whatever. But he is fighting corruption. Let us stand with him. Nine million Nigerians will march for Buhari.” And this insistence on mindless “support” is proof of the third way corruption manifests in Nigeria: the corruption of mind—or mental slavery.

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