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No option of fine - That's what we want to hear.

'In the end, Nigerians, who are the real masters will spot the difference'..... couldn't have been said better.

Is this not the same issue that Rotimi has been complaining about? The same issue that Asari and Co insulted him severally. ....Now they have come to realise the truth..The east West Road which serves the Niger Delta states has been on repair for more than 8 years still working one lane.....And yet some clueless southerners will wake up to say let's support Jonathan he is our brother...

Very well said Charles. These days people attack good critic...throwing insults on people that come up to address cultural issues... We are Africans, We are Nigerians...If Sheyi was an Arab she will never dress this way and she will be loved even by foolish Nigerians far and near...but these same foolish Nigerians who only know how to throw insults on people like Charles wont realize this. They always want to embrace foreign cultures but never promote theirs. Keep up the good work Charles.

Proactive Nation...Rwanda keeps making Africa proud with its policies.

kaorama: It is not all about putting this machine in place. What efforts is his govt making to empower local farmers to produce the cassava roots needed for the machines to run? How will the machines run, on water? Or has his govt done anything about independent power generation? How good are the roads to the interior farms from where farmers get cassava roots to the machines cos I know the roots must be processed within 24 hrs of harvest, less it will give a very low quality flour.

Governor Ameachi is far clever than you have shown yourself to be. If you can't commend his developmental strides in Agriculture then please shut up and let other meaningful nigerians appreciate. You have clearly not done any investigation before rushing here to spew rubbish else you would have known that the largest songhai farm in the world is in River state.

dsonofmaan: Thought you said you were out of the market till next year?

Bad people full these faceless forums sha

Real bad people....typical personality of someone that sees much or knows much but shares little or nothing. Let him accummulate his greed.

myjoy08: Good day my Nairaland Family, Thank God it is Friday. As for Transcorp Q2 result, it will be out any moment from now. It might be today or anytime from next week. Make sure you positioned yourself well for it. And by the grace of God next week, i will share some opinion about some opportunities in insurance stocks sector. We are making some money this year by the grace of God. Stay tuned and don't give up on God's promises for your life and your goal. Peace unto you and your family.

Keep up the good work bro. God bless you.

Techmogul: A governor can't explain what happened to Sunburn Yacht worth 8bn naira and insists a single dollar of tax payers money is important. Cannot explain buying lekki toll and from LCC and it's attending debts. GOD save us from hypocrites. Easy to point at a speck with a log right in your face. Politicising a tragedy for popularity. FG has not lived up to expectations by any standard true! But people lost lives, some respect to the family of the departed would have been a more appreciated response

Rightly said bro. We should also ask fashola if the federal government is meant to build rail tracks from the depots to all filling stations in lagos because I dont see any sense in what fashola just spewed. If he has nothing good to say then he shuld just shut up and lets mourn d dead peacefully. Who's fault is it that the inferno raged for over 10hrs? What happened to the lagos state fire service? Perhaps if they were well equiped by fashola properties worth millions of naira would have been saved. I so much hate it when leaders try to politicize every situation, thats being silly.

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Being a paper presented by Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, at the 2013 Quintessence Ball and Awards ceremony held in Trenton New Jersey, recentlyThe difference between followers and leaders is that followers need leaders to help them follow what leaders themselves are following. This relationship takes the form of a shared response-ability to a shared calling. Both find each other in a true fellowship to create the world responsibly
The ‘African King’: In the words of Ali Mazrui, famous Kenyan writer-scholar, leadership in Africa falls into four broad categories. First is the intimidatory leader. Second is the patriarchal leader. Third, is the leader of reconciliation.

Fourth, is the mobilization leader. The intimidatory leader relies heavily on the use of force and coercion to have his way always. The patriarchal leader is the father-figure who commands neo-filial reverence. Meanwhile, the third type of leadership derives its effectiveness via tactical accommodation and a capacity to discover areas of compromise between otherwise antagonistic view points.

Africa provides an avalanche of examples, from the traditional, feudal, all-knowing, unquestionable emperors to military dictators and political overlords. They abound in the past and in the present. Africa has birthed the good, the bad and the ugly.

Perhaps the geographical size and cultural complexity of the continent makes this inevitable. In recent history, we easily point to leaders in the caste of the late Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic, as a clear example of a coercive and intimidatory leadership, on the other hand, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela stands tall as a classic example of a reconciliatory leadership. Clearly, we can see the resultant followership and societal welfare engendered by the duo’s individual styles.

Norms must be ‘normal’: Ideally, leaders must be seen in the true light of what they are – persons called to serve and not to be served. In a fast-moving, democratic world, it is detrimental to continue to hold fast to the norms, cultures and beliefs that ensure our continued socio-economic enslavement. Leaders must be seen as ‘servant-rulers’. In a democracy, there must be a tipping point where the followers determine the direction of leadership. Africa cannot remain isolated from the rest of the world in terms of citizen power.

Africa, and indeed, Nigeria must remain culturally authentic but it must of necessity remain dynamic. The ‘normal’ world of today is a world that questions, that probes and that demands accountability from those who are elected to rule. We stand today at a critical point in the history of our great nation, Nigeria. The increasing mis-governance and the growing stifling of opposing voices is known to us all. Our patriarchal instincts cannot dictate to us at the times of decision-making – when our raised voices will make a difference. The discerning can hear the clear voice of change.

The people have a say, after all…The concept of leadership in African socialisation and followership shows that much of the time the people are unaware of their inherent ‘People Power’. Therefore we have a situation of servitude, trampling of rights, the stifling of opposing voices and the flagrant abuse of power. In the end we have a followership that is subservient, muffled, and unquestioning.

The people’s commonwealth is hi-jacked by a select, powerful few and transparency, accountability and good governance are thrown to the whirlwinds. Consequently, Africa continues to tag behind in the league of global development. How long should this continue?

‘Like followers, like leaders…’ It is often said a people deserve the leaders they get. This may not be true at all times, yet it holds a lot of water in a good number of African countries. Without any doubt, both followers and leaders are products of their society. The society can therefore only reproduce itself.

Therefore, for the followers to earn good leadership, for the followers to see dreams of development and improvements of the society and the people crystallize into reality, the followers must be prepared to re-invent themselves. They must be prepared to be accountable, transparent and mean well for the collective good of the land in their ‘micro-governance’ levels. As the proverb says, ‘you cannot throw stones from a glass house’ or, better still, ‘he who must come to equity must come with clean hands’.

CONCLUSION: ‘WHAT CAN MAN DO?’

Having examined the above, do we throw our hands in the air and ask: ‘What can man do?’ as many are bound to say in these days of uncertainty?

The people are the core determinants of the dynamics of every society. It is common place to hear in Nigeria that ‘our votes don’t matter’, but I tell you that through constant participation and insistence on transparency and accountability in the electoral process, the people can eventually have their way and the system has no other choice but to be straightened out.

The people remian the power-base of the nation. They determine the quality of leaders they get, and determine the direction of the governance. They can monitor accountability in governance and the strategic direction of the country. Never forget that the voice of the people will continue to remain the voice of God.

True, there is always a tipping point…

In the words of Michael McKinney, “Followership, like leadership, is a role and not a destination.”And, for Barbara Kellerman, “Followership does not mean changing the rank of followers but changing their response to their rank, their response to their superiors and to the situation at hand.”

I therefore strongly believe that as Nigerians emboldened by the love of country, we must stand up to the challenges of the moment. We must stand up, as they say, to be counted. We must question the status quo within the ambits of the law. We must ensure probity. We must fight within the ambits of the law to ensure that Nigeria realizes its greatness in the comity of nations.

Sooner than we imagine, our children will ask us what parts we played in the affairs of our nation when it mattered most—as active, patriotic actors or passive and passive citizens, even traitors? That time is nearer that we assumed all along.

If today or tomorrow we have a failure of governance, how can the governed heap all the blames at the doorpost of the government when they did not carry out their civic obligation of lending their voices at critical times?

We have in our hands, today, the power to steer the affairs of state. We have the power of ‘the Voice of the People’ – our mandate. Luckily, trends in social media and the globalization now ensure that nothing is hidden any more. From our various corners, we can awake and make a difference. We can hold our governments at the various levels accountable. They are not gods or masquerades; they are flesh and blood. We can hold them accountable.

Today, we can truly rise to be the citizen-kings that would produce and sustain the ideal leadership that our progenitors, our future generations would be proud of —a Nigeria that truly embodies its capacities, its potentials, the Pride of Africa and a testimony to the world!

No one says that the road to Realization will be paved in gold. No one says Change will go unchallenged by the unchanging Status Quo. Yet no one doubts the divine truism in the time-tested truth—THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE REMAINS THE VOICE OF GOD!

Truly, followers are leaders. Truly, you can be the change that you so passionately yearn for!

God bless the good people of RiversState!

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

God bless you all!

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/great-leaders-beget-great-followers-great-followers-beget-great-leaders-rotimi-amaechi/#sthash.LkOQnXPZ.dpuf

The truth is clear for all to see. These are the forces acting against Rivers State (Bipi and his group), acting against the interest of the majority of Rivers people. Amaechi remains unshaken.

Very stupid talk from the governor. Other states are building bigger projects and commisioning world class public schools as evidence of good governance and fashola is busy commisioning street lights, and now saying rubbish. Go to Rivers state to the see the world class public schools built in every local government area or is it the massive road projects being carried out by Akwa Ibom state government.

He should please stop saying rubbish. What is he doing with his public funds? Building roads to put toll gates? Nothing is free in Lagos. Rubbish.

just like someone said....


U shld learn 2 infer when u read

hope you don learn something today

Could this guy be one of the muderer's of aluu4?and he just realized what he did and couldn't bear it anymore. Time will tell.

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pDude: Why is naija so filthy

U mean why is Lagos sO FILTHY

Una be fool: My relationship will never end. It's a distant relationship but growing faster than the speed of light. I can't wait to walk down the aisle!

Read the question before you comment. If you have nothing to say then please stay out of it. [b]

Una be fool: My relationship will never end. It's a distant relationship but growing faster than the speed of light. I can't wait to walk down the aisle!

The United Kingdom has said it will no longer tolerate the abuse of its National Health Service (NHS) by Nigerian women who travel to the country to have their babies in British hospitals.

This followed allegations that a Nigerian woman, Bimbo Ayelabola, received treatment for the delivery of her babies totalling £10,000 but returned to the country without paying anything.

UK ministers had warned that government would not tolerate abuse of the NHS by foreign visitors after the Nigerian flew into their country to have her baby in a British hospital.

Ayelabola, 33, reportedly took a fertility drug (Clomid) overdose in order to aid conception after losing her first pregnancy.

As soon as she found out she was pregnant, the woman allegedly relocated to the UK to be able to take the needed rest outside of the hustling and bustling of Lagos.

While in the UK, she underwent a scan which revealed that she was expecting four babies in the first instance before it was discovered during the delivery that there was a fifth baby.

It was learnt that she was put on an emergency NHS programme which as at July last year, had depleted the scheme’s purse to the tune of £200,000 ($320,000).

The heavily pregnant woman was said to have travelled from Lagos to Manchester because she was concerned about the standard of treatment she would receive in Nigeria.

She was said to have gone straight from the airport to Wythenshawe Hospital where she told staff that there were complications with her pregnancy.

Two midwives, two consultant urologists, a radiology consultant, two consultant obstetricians and two anaesthetists were reported to have been involved in her treatment before her healthy babies were born by emergency Caesarean section last two weeks.

Prior to her discharge from hospital on Monday, staff were said to have informed her that the cost of her treatment was around £10,000 and asked her for billing details.

The woman was reported to have left without paying anything.

UK Health Minister, Simon Burns, said: “We won’t tolerate abuse of our National Health Service. The NHS has a duty to anyone whose life or long-term health is at immediate risk but it is not there to serve the health needs of the globe.

“There are comprehensive rules and procedures to charge visitors for hospital treatment but we know that the system needs to be improved. That is why we are currently reviewing those arrangements to prevent inappropriate free access to the NHS and provide a fairer more balanced system.

“Hospitals have a legal duty to recover any charges made to overseas patients. The government has also recently amended the immigration rules so that anyone with an unpaid debt to the NHS of £1,000 or more can be refused a new visa.”

This is a pure lie. This is the oil cabal fighting dirty to bring down the good works of access bank and spoil the name of Aig-Imuokuede. We wont fall for such rubbish.

Cheap Talk.

37% of 100 = 37

9% OF 1000 = 90.

Why are we all jubilating. Have they told you the population of Nigerians compared to Americans. Abi are we saying Nigerians are now more than Americans in their own country? Percentage without a number attached to it is no value.

Pips take note.

Could he be talking about Mandela? Let's pray for Mandela. I fear he might be close to his time.