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WHen GEJ admitted that his generation were spent horses, Fashola was the first to throw a punchline, saying that it was only Jonathan that has failed. After reading this article however, I must admit GEJ was a 100 percent correct. We, the youth, rather than following a septuagenarian about for eight years, should come up with a plan to move Nigeria ahead. I know some youths that are capable of doing this if we come together. Nigeria belongs to us and not to the Buhari generation that has failed to give us anything important. Let us plan for the future. |
Was sahara reporters hacked? |
obailala:Unnecessary digressions. Were we talking about tolerance to the press or something else? |
Ilekeh:You should've known I meant the federal government. |
.. Innovative but trouble making. I'm really loving the way our democracy has evolved in the past 6 years or thereabout. |
obailala:But GEJ signed the freedom of information bill that other presidents were afraid to even think about. GEJ is the most tolerant president Nigeria (even Africa) has ever produced. I'm not his fan, but I have to give him credit for that. |
Ilekeh:Sahara is an anti-government media. Their support for Buhari and the APC will not be as romantic as it is if the APC finally seizes power. They're like the linda ikeji of Nigerian politics, most of their reports are hogwash and nothing but idle gossip. |
These sahara reporters think Buhari will tolerate their gossips and mudslinging? ![]() |
Looks Sexy to me |
GREAT minds think alike. It was during our neighbourhood meeting at my residence in Lagos that one of our members, Mr. Dominic Ottih, a worker of one of the oil companies who is probably in his early 40s at the heat of a debate on sensitive issue affecting him and the community pointed at me who is in his early 60s and said that the older generation are corrupt and have failed this country. That was in December 2014. Barely a month later, our number one citizen Dr. Goodluck Johnathan in his late 50s who is truthful to a fault, said “our generation has failed” while flagging off his re-election campaign in Lagos. Expectedly, this claim attracted reactions from the polity, some of them downright negative like the editorial comment in The Guardian of January 23, 2015 titled “The Generation Question.” If I understood Mr. President very well, what he means is that his generation of leaders has failed Nigeria. Much as The Guardian in its criticism of Mr. President’s claim concluded that the young and the old are needed in nation building, it did accept the fact that “there may be some element of truth in the president’s remark; after all, his generation might have been the last beneficiary of quality education.” I will use failure in education as the basis of my write-up that the old generation has indeed failed Nigeria so that I will be at par with the respected The Guardian newspaper. This is because according to Diogenes, ‘the foundation of every state is the education of its youth.’ The foundation of Nigerian state was destroyed by the old generation of leaders that politicised education or brought politics into education. At 61 years, I fall into the generation bracket that had good education. Before the civil war of 1967 to 1970, both private and public schools were well funded, well staffed and had curriculum like Civics that taught patriotism and good behaviour. I attended the Methodist College, Uzuakoli (UZUMECO) in present day Abia State founded in 1923. I gained admission in January 1967. I was taught English language and literature by an English man, one Mr. Lodge. We also had other English men like Mr. Ritchie, an Irish and Mr. Mugglestone who taught the sciences. All of them were university graduates. With government takeover of missionary and other private schools, UZUMECO does not have that kind of teachers any longer because an Englishman does not teach them English Language and literature. Education became politicized by the military that took over missionary schools at the end of the war in 1970. The military establishment suddenly discovered in 1978 that there was a wide education gap between the North and South and they established the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to prevent a brilliant student from East or West from gaining admission into more than one university while his Northern counterpart does not gain admission. States were categorized into educationally advantaged and disadvantaged. Admission quota was introduced as admission policy and allocated state by state and with it catchment area was created. Result? Inequity was created with a brilliant youth that scored say 70% from educationally advanced state being denied admission while a dull youth with scores as low as 40% from educationally disadvantaged state got admitted. That is failure number one. When this policy was made (sorry to mention name), Colonel Ahmadu Ali (rtd) was the Minister of Education. When I applied to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1973 as an awaiting result applicant, there was nothing like quota, catchment area, educationally advantaged and disadvantaged state. All students competed for admission on equal terms and equal opportunity. If you performed better than others, you are offered admission. You do not need to know anybody to be considered for admission. Col. Ahmadu Ali was a beneficiary of equal opportunity admission policy, why did he introduce inequity in admission policy? Today he is a stalwart of the ruling party. Yet he failed the present generation of youth. In 1973 when I gained admission into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, the school fees was N340 per annum for tuition and boarding. After paying the acceptance fee of N40 my family did not have the resources to pay the N300 because my father, William Enyinnaya of blessed memory, was a Nigeria Railway Corporation pensioner. My siblings and family friends contributed my first term fees of N100. As a student, I became eligible for loan from Nigerian Students Loans Board established by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon administration for N1000 per annum. That was how I financed my education but the Government of Shehu Shagari scrapped the loans board on coming to power in 1979. Consequently, indigent but brilliant students can no longer get the benefit of higher education the way I did. That is failure number two. After squandering Nigeria’s riches in hosting FESTAC 77, Nigeria became broke. General Obasanjo in his wisdom with Col Ahmadu Ali as Minister of Education removed subsidy on education at tertiary level. The National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS ) under the leadership of Segun Okeowo of blessed memory went on nationwide demonstration. Universities were shut. Kunle Ojo was shot dead by the police and several other students were wounded; others rusticated. The policy was not reversed. Today, university education is out of reach of the poor but brilliant students without the kind of support my generation enjoyed and the National Universities Commission (NUC) is doing nothing. That is failure number three. The ripple effect of the bad education policy by old generation leaders is still with us. University, Polytechnic, and College of Education lecturers go on strike now and again .The last strike by ASUU was nearly one year. Same with Polytechnic academic and non-academic staff and lecturers in Colleges of Education all as a result of neglect and non-implementation of agreements. Lack of motivation has ruined education at all levels in Nigeria. After my NYSC in 1979, all the universities I applied to for masters degree in the USA and UK offered me admission to enroll directly for my course on arrival. Not anymore. Today, even with first class honours, graduates of Nigerian universities are subjected to internal tests which, if they pass, are allowed to go straight to their programme unlike my own time. That is failure number four. We can go on and on. President Goodluck Jonathan inherited a polarized country, a country held hostage by a constitution not agreed upon by her citizens in a referendum as is the case with nation states. A constitution that brought poverty and unemployment to Nigerians with General Obasanjo’s Land Use Decree of 1978 that took mineral resources that rightly belonged to the communities away from them and vested them on a federal government that lacks the resources and capacity to exploit them for the benefit of her citizens. That is failure number five because unemployment was a strange phenomenon in the first republic when the regions controlled their resources. The old generation of leaders failed to create an equal opportunity for the country, and seem not to have the courage, nay the sincerity, to correct all the identified unjust policies which are outside the dreams of the founding fathers of the Nigerian nation, like Ahmadu Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Herbert Macaulay, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Anthony Enahoro, Adegoke Adelabu, Michael Okpara, Akanu Ibiam etc, whose vision of one Nigeria is freedom to treat anywhere you decide to settle in Nigeria as home, has been truncated by the old generation of political leaders. That, to me, is the message Mr. President was passing to the youths in contradistinction to the position of The Guardian Editorial opinion. To say the least, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as a leader is truthful to a fault. Indeed in terms of nation building, the old generation has failed if after 100 years of staying together there is still mutual suspicion and disaffection among the people of Nigeria. The youth must speak with one voice until we have an egalitarian society. God bless Nigeria. http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial-opinion/columnist/196266-enyinnaya-failed-generation-president-is-dead-right |
Kola4uniadgog:Bro, believe me when I tell you that a vast majority of Nigerian youths are useless upstairs. This country has very little hope with the caliber of youths we presently have. I've had the opportunity of interviewing graduates seeking employment in my organization and I'll honestly state that over 90 percent are dull upstairs. When people say 70 percent of Nigerian graduates are unemployable, some people think its a joke. Just think about it, they say the youth consist about 60-65 percent of the Nigerian population - that's huge. If only half of the 65 percent are sensible, this country will be a better place. I always tell my friends that a country is as good as the attitudes and behaviors of the majority of people living in it. Nigeria is a useless country because the majority of the people living in it are dumb, ignorant and near useless. |
Kola4uniadgog:Which youths are educated? If our youths were actually educated, the unemployment rate wouldn't be so high. Remember that over 70 percent of nigerian graduates are unemployable. |
CaptainAmerica1:Whats the price of diesel in Nigeria? |
Independent oil marketers may have carted away an estimated N132 billion in the past eight months by maintaining supposedly deregulated diesel prices at an average N145 per litre, despite a 55 percent drop in global crude prices. BusinessDay gathered that Nigeria’s total diesel consumption of about 12 million litres per day, is still sold at varying prices across the country, ranging from N140 up north to N150 down south and it appears that the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) is either unwilling or incapable of calling the diesel cartel to order. Last week, the Federal Government reduced the pump price of petrol by 10 percent, to N87 per litre and many in the public space commended the government for transmitting perhaps the only benefit of the falling oil prices to Nigerians. However, independent oil marketers have yet to align their prices with the massive drop in global crude oil prices. According to the latest AGO pricing template released by the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Authority (PPPRA) on Friday 23 January, the estimated open market price (EOMP) of diesel is N99.75 while the landing cost is N90.41. https://businessdayonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/PPRC-chart.jpg Yet actual pump prices across several filling stations visited by BusinessDay as at Sunday 25 January, averaged N145 per litre, which is equivalent to a 45 percent margin above the open market price recommended by PPPRA. This reality raises the question of why diesel prices are yet to fully reflect the price adjustment. Investigations by BusinessDay revealed that independent oil marketers appear to be having an internal price war and no one wants to be caught dancing when the music stops. One industry source admits that the diesel stock bought when oil prices were relatively high, have been sold off, leaving marketers with no excuse for selling diesel at a price that does not reflect the cheaper stock now being either directly imported, or bought off other suppliers. Nonetheless, marketers are careful not to adjust prices downward too sharply, especially when competitors have not reduced prices in similar proportion. The control of the market by a few, has therefore created a support level for the price of diesel, bestowing on the marketers a huge premium above actual landing costs. More so, BusinessDay gathered that supplies originating from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are sold at N137 per litre, which creates a natural benchmark for the marketers to build sales margins on. “Although the NNPC accounts for at least 25 percent of industry supply, we let market forces determine the diesel price. We cannot fix it,” says Ohi Alegbe, NNPC spokesman, in defence of alleged price fixing by the oil corporation. “It appears the diesel prices are not fully driven by market forces … there may be still be some form of government regulation or extraneous costs beyond the pricing template.” says Biodun Adedipe, economist and chief consultant at BAA Consult, a leading economic research firm. The recent devaluation of the naira has also been cited as a major factor for maintaining diesel prices at N145, on the premise that 75% of supply is imported and devaluation has led to higher importation costs for the product. Evidently, this is not the case as shown by the PPPRA template. The adverse effect of the diesel prices being sticky downwards is a sustained high cost of energy generation for the Nigerian economy, where most manufacturers and middle- to-high income households rely on diesel-powered generators for alternative power supply. A recent report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that generator fuel is the greatest of all intermediate inputs in the manufacturing sector, with the cost overhead growing by a compound annual growth rate of 17%, which could rise to about N2 trillion in 2015, by our estimates. Industry watchers are of the view that the silence of the NNPC and the PPPRA as regulators could be interpreted as being complicit in such a pricing conspiracy. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen if oil marketers will deflate their appetite for excessive margins and adjust diesel prices to fully reflect the present reality of a sub-$50 international oil price. |
CaptainAmerica1:I don't whats the problem here. NNPC sells diesel at 137 naira per liter which is about 60 - 70 cents. Almost the same price with what obtains in most parts of the world. |
CaptainAmerica1:America is an oil producing country. |
HNosegbe:But if the government is not in control of the prices of diesel, should they be blamed for the supposed high cost? |
I like this guy. He looks more presentable and intelligent than his competitors. Such a shame he might not win |
chamboy:The prices of diesel are in the control of the private sector. Government stopped subsidizing the prices of diesel years ago. |
chamboy:Did you know that the government doesn't control the prices of diesel? |
If GEJ acts weak - they'll complain; If he acts strong- they'll complain; if he doesn't do any- they'll complain. Nigerians will complain if GEJ is re-elected as president; They'll complain if Buhari is elected; Some are calling for Fashola to be president - when he's elected, they'll still complain. Even as people like Obama reach - if he becomes president of Nigeria- Una go still complain. The. Truth is bitter but let it be told - it is nearly impossible for Nigerians to have a president that meets their expectations. Are you guys who are shouting change and Febuhari really believe you'll stick. With Buhari for four years? How. Exactly do you believe that Buhari will be cheered on for years as president? The major problems we complain about are unemployment, poverty and corruption. These are problems that no Nigerian politician within this current dispensation can solve. The truth is bitter, but it is what it is. So for those of you shouting change, I'm sorry to reveal to you that there'll be no true change. It is the politicians who'll win and you'll continue suffering. Our ability to achieve accelerated development lies with our state governors and not the president. We may never have a president majority of us like and support. I'm not a GEJ supporter, in fact, I don't have a PVC. I'm just saying my mind... |
You can see clearly from the graph as it was stated that average prices for diesel are 1 dollar. Last I checked 1 dollar converts to 167 naira. I hope you know where I'm driving at? |
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2067785_akin_jpegb805f43ffb302685195277c2b7fc94ee This guy would've been a successful pornstár. What a waste! |
And Buhari will do something in edo state abi? When a governor makes a statement like this, I feel sorry for the people he governs. I'm not a GEJ supporter but I hate people who talk nonsense. People like Oshiomole, Amaechi, Rochas and Kwankwanso. |
Boss13:Like I said in my post, every administration can boast of facts and figures. Even Abacha and Buhari's administration has stats and figures to boast with. Why don't you start by telling me how Obasanjo's government is the best we've ever had? |
Luchitec:You dey mind the man. |
Did I just read Mr Soludo praising Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida for their so called economic achievements and solid foundation? The same OBJ and IBB that Nigerians were tired of and chased out of office? Anybody who call's Obasanjo's eight year rule something worthy of praise is an ídiot! I didn't witness IBB's rule but judging from what Nigerians think of IBB, then I can same of him. Obasanjo was president for good eight years; the only positive thing he can boast of was paying our debts and saving money for us. Our transportation network was in shambles, education was a mess, and everything was a big mess during Obasanjo's regime. Obasanjo never laid any foundation for anything worthwhile. Obasanjo wasted critical years of our national life! Compare us with other countries from 1999 to 2007 with similar resources with ours and you'll see my point. Statistics never paint the true picture of events and situations some countries like Nigeria face. Every president has good statistics to back-up their bullshit. Goodluck and his team of economists will reel out positive statistics their administration can boast of. Even IBB and Abacha can do the same. Honestly, what I find disturbing is our inability to make valid judgment and opinions from our collective history. I'm not a GEJ or PDP supporter. Buhari or APC is not what we need, neither is the PDP. None of the current political parties have what it takes to change this country for the better. I was telling a friend that Nigeria does not have a "well performing" governor; we have not had one for the past 16 years - None that I'm aware of. He tried to mention Fashola, Akpabio and the rest we normally call "performing". We tend to call these people performing because we're like slaves. We've had so much suffering that we'll accept street lights and traffic lights as tremendous positive change. In a country like Nigeria that needs rapid investment in critical social infrastructure and strong sustainable institutions, the crop of leaders we've had at all levels are useless. From the presidency to the local government chairmen - all of them from a - z! Simple things that will facilitate the growth of businesses and the economy that other smaller nations can boast of, we don’t have. No proper steel manufacturing companies – its 28 years now since Ajaokuta was developed and destroyed by successive military dictators (Buhari inclusive). Please Nairalanders tell me, how do expect to drive manufacturing without having reliable steel producers? No electricity – How will businesses survive without constant power? No good proper identity management system – Nigerians underestimate the lack of a proper identity management system on the economy. It basically means there’s no trust in the financial system, you can’t borrow money without collateral. We don’t know our citizens, anybody can sign an affidavit for 200 naira in a local Nigerian and claim to be Nigerian, collect a passport and national ID card and also a voter’s card. No proper addressing system; Businesses can’t deliver or ship customer orders without efficiently. No proper education: In a country where a vast majority of the youths are ignorant of critical knowledge necessary for growth and development, how will businesses survive? I can go on and on but the fact remains that we don’t a single good leader who understands what this country needs and it’s painful. It pains me every single day. Nigeria is a perfect example of a disorganized country! |
JonBee1:Did you say last seven years? |
This will be on gotten from NNPC fuel stations. So what's the point? |
In a country full of mediocre political leaders |
Olamitisoji:Mr Fashola, you are just a big fish in a small pond. Saying that you have done well on your job tells of your conceited self. The fact remains that Nigeria is a home to too many under-performing political leaders with the inclusion of you Mr Fashola. Stop blowing your trumpet to the naïve nigerian populace. You are month better than the others and you have under-performed if your administration is analysed properly. Have a nice day. |
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