Jarus:

Back to NL Politics sections, after being busy with sallah activities in the village over the last few days. A lot of interesting things had actually gone on while I was away, especially the thread on critical reasoning, which I just saw now, and can't help reading the incisive analyses by a chance team of Nairaland's most informed political analysts, as opposed to news-copying-and-pasting posters.

On the topic at hand, I have said elsewhere on Nairaland in similar topics, that my Nigerian role models are three:

1, FOLA ADEOLA: Founding CEO of GTB and founder of FATE foundation. I chose this man as my role model when I was in my first year in the university. I read about him and chose to tread his path. His corporate governance credentials endeared him to me. He is core professional with high regard for ethics. He is the man behind the brand GTB boasts of today. With a humble background and an HND from a Polytechnic, Fola broke barriers to become one of Nigeria's most respected CEOs of the time. After leaving the corporate scene(at operational, day-to-day management level), he set up FATE foundation.

2. WALE TINUBU: The CEO of Oando Group. It was sometime around late 2001, the newspapers were awash with a giant stride in Nigeria's home-grown entrepreneurship history. A company called Ocean and Oil, owned by a trio of young Nigerian businessmen which had been operating silently since 1994, dared to acquire Unipetrol, a government-owned oil marketing company put up for sale. The guys did not stop at that, they took over the Nigerian downstream arm of Agip. Enter Oando Plc and welcome the brain this daring foray, Wale Tinubu. And the guy was just 34. Wanting to be brief here, I will not debunk beforehand, the claim that he is fronting for some people. The claim is nothing but arrant gibberish. Yes, Wale was a silverspoon, but you need to know him and follow him closely like me to know that he is arguably Nigeria's brightest entrepreneur of his generation. His is a man of vision, a man that is demystifying the conception that multi-nationals cannot have a third-world origin. He hardly makes noise like our Harvard-trained lau-lau entrepreneur that employs people on papers. Let me just stop here because if I go on, I will do a thousand-liner on my man.

3. LAMIDO SANUSI: Former CEO of FBN and now Governor of CBN. Did I ask somebody say Jarus has stirred the hornet's nest again? Yes, it's me and Sanusi again. I have had Sanusi as one of my role models before he became this popular, before most of you knew him, before he became CBN governor. Refer to this thread that was done in March this year, far before Sanusi's name came up as candidate for CBN governorship: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-248924.0.html .
Why did he I choose Sanusi? 1, He is one the folks that demystified my long held perception that Hausa/Fulani folks are dumbheads. First northerner to become GMD of FBN in its over 100 years of existence. Lesson: Irrespective of the backwardness of your people, intellectually, you can stand out and compete with people from the other end. 2, And chiefly, I admire his having time and being knowledgeable enough outside his primary field, to contribute to national socio-political discourse despite his being a top banker that is ordinarily having meant to overtly neutral, politically. He is wide read and has a good grasp of history, philosophy and politics apart from his primary field of economics and banking.


Am I following their footsteps?
Trying to. Professionally, still meandering between going Fola Adeola way(work your way to top CEO of a company you are not necessarily the owner and become a personality brand, an institution) or Wale Tinubu way(with little resources probably from family or savings, start something local, dare, take a bold step, and go global). To the extent of ignoring one's corporate personalities, at times, and openly contributing to national discourse(in newspapers), I'm already on Sanusi path, which is only coincidental anyway, as I had been doing that even before I knew him. I only found encouragement in him. But I doubt if I can be wide-read in philosophy, politics and history as him, much as I would love to. Maybe, when I temporarily hang this morning-to-midnight corporate job and go back to school.

Paroh_frey:

^^^^

And if they buy them new, you will be the first to run to nairaland to say that government is wasting tax payer's money to buy aircrafts.

texazzpete:

It's not 'tokunbo'. While it's not brand new, buying used millitary hardware is not so out of place.
Do you have any idea how much it could cost to purchase a brand new unit? It's far more cost effective to buy well maintained used craft with good service history.

Don't be an silly. The aircraft are being purchased from the French Government and it's almost a given that contracts for parts and equipment are already in place.
Without any access to the service record of the helicopters, calling them 'flying coffins' is pretty much FUD.

walakolobo:

please can you tell us why you will die for the West but fight against your fatherland Nigeria.


PS- dont give me that bull crap about divisive posts, if you dont like it, then scram or I plaster your face with dung shit!

AfroCynic:

I am very happy about this. Make dem taste their own broth, I cannot stand South Africans, black or white, they have this superiority complex that bother the hell out of me.

rethink:

@back2back

Where is the evidence that OBJ stole 16 billion?

In Brainwashing to establish a truth you just need to repeat a lie thousand of times The Nazi used it.
With abacha the funds are founds

Beaf:

You sound very bitter and jealous.   Tell me why Nigeria is not a jungle, hell or a failed system, instead yarning ridiculolous tosh. Or go straight back to the sexuality section

The only point you have raised is people calling Nigeria "that country", but how many times do you come across that?

Beaf:

You sound very bitter and jealous. Tell me why Nigeria is not a jungle, hell or a failed system, instead yarning ridiculolous tosh. Or go straight back to the sexuality section

The only point you have raised is people calling Nigeria "that country", but how many times do you come across that?

chosen04:

So u mean another name for the game is MONEY?

hackney:

No black fatality so far worldwide.
These little flu things have ben swirling around african for all time.
doesnt bother african blacks that much ; natural (hardened) immunity and all that.

PapaBrowne:


To be sincere, I would have preferred Sanusi as an EFCC Chairman. That job is more suitable for the guy. He isn't smart enough to be CBN Governor.

toba:

No wonder a pastor said if fashola becomes d president for 3years,he out perform 16yrs of obj+yar adua