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This is really really strange. Seeing a crocodile in a big city like this! Especially since Ibadan is not really swampy.

When employers want staff to join their company, what really do they want? A general answer will be that they seek persons who can fit into job roles in the company. A job is essentially a set of responsibilities that contributes to the production of goods and/or services in the organization.


The writer desired a career in the military as a teenager, specifically the Nigerian Air force. I fantasized very much about the prestige of the work. When I became 20 I realized it wasn’t a career for me. In the armed forces, compliance with orders of superiors is a cardinal principle. The chain of command is almost always sacrosanct. If your commander gives you an order to get something done, there is little room for disagreement with or even discussion about the order. I would like an environment where we can discuss the order and probably give my views. I prefer an environment where the better ideas ‘win’. That is not the setting of the military. In fact asking questions too much about a plan or strategy by a superior officer may be considered insubordination, and there are consequences for that.


Is that not what is obtainable in most companies too? Instructions are given out and employees are harassed to carry them out. That may be true but the important difference is that a person can resign from a firm at any time while resignation from the military may be disallowed!
(This is not to disparage career in the armed forces. The military is certainly one of the most noble professions; reliable and disciplined. But someone like me with a deep quest to engage my environment may not thrive there).


When many organizations (both in the government and private sector) put out job vacancies, who they really want are DUMMIES.


Dummies do want they are asked to do without serious evaluation of what they are instructed to do. The MD of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, spoke recently at a Youth Leadership Training of the ‘travails’ she had in her career. That woman is as far from being a dummy as you can get. She worked at the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). At a time when the agency had a new director general she found that her work lacked meaning and motivation so she decided to get leave of absence. She wasn’t granted the leave of absence so she resigned. When she was working at Etisalat Nigeria, her ‘job’ at the regulation department of the company required making presentations to the telecoms regulator (NCC) that her firm had implemented some regulation when in reality they had not! (I am convinced this was not limited to Etisalat and that all the Telecoms giant were (are?) involved in this). She also resigned after 6 months when she could no longer stomach the duplicity of the industry. Now as the MD of Nigeria Ports Authority (the first woman appointed to the post) I hope also that she will be able to resign if she is being pressured to do things that are not consistent with her principles.


Dummies don’t use their initiative on the job. They act like wheel barrows. They go as far as they are pushed. Why then do organizations prefer dummies to people who are self-directed? The reason is that good dummies won’t give them unexpected ‘problems’. They are fairly predictable. They are standardized individuals. Managers in such organizations therefore have a perception of control. Employing dummies is how they ensure order (but there is a much better way to ensure order).


On the other hand, initiative-taking individuals are ‘dangerous’ people. However, they are dangerous only to managers and leaders with small minds. For organizations led by people who have good understanding of unlocking people potentials, it is so much bliss to have initiative-taking individuals as employees. They have a keen sense of responsibility. They don’t need to be controlled because in any case they are difficult to control. They are like the educated people that Henry Brougham described:

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.


Initiative-taking individuals are ‘controlled’ by strategy and statements of purpose of the organization and not by whimsical directives of superiors. While dummies are just content with just doing what can get them their salary at the end of the month, self-directed persons draw from within themselves to highlight protracted problems and sometimes offer solutions to them.


In Stephen Covey’s view, “Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.” Organizations who prefer dummies to self-directing individuals are really shortchanging themselves. There is a limit to which such organization can grow because almost all creative outputs by the organization emanate from management/owner. Sometimes the CEO can indeed be a genius but even then if he surrounds himself with dummies, the organization’s performance will be much lower than it is capable of. But in the case of the one populated by self-directing staff, creativity and initiative can come from all across the firm.


Sometimes I wonder at the helplessness/uselessness of the Federal Road Safety Commission officials on the interstate roads. Some motorists speed on when they are flagged down by the FRSC men. The poor officials have to jump out of the way in order not to be knocked down. (Bribe-taking by the officials is a matter for another day). But many of them are not concerned enough that the essence of their presence on the roads is being violated regularly. If I was in their shoes, there would be two clear options before me. First is to escalate the issue of recalcitrant motorists to the highest level in the commission and demand that an effective method of penalty be devised to sanction these motorist. And if the commission does not show enough commitment to the issue, the second option is to resign. When initiative-taking individuals stay too long in environments that are ‘dummified’, they start to lose their ingenuity.


Even though most firms seek dummies as employees, there are certainly those who look out for persons who use the initiative.


Olusola Aladejebi does work in building effective people systems in organizations. He also writes on Leadership and Organization architecture.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/job-vacancy-dummies-only-apply/

By Olusola Aladejebi

I was present at a youth leadership programme recently when a lady asked at the end of the 3-day programme why the organizers chose speakers who were more of the entrepreneurial leanings than those who spoke on career development. I can’t recall the answer she was given but it is a common fact that leadership is often associated with entrepreneurship. (A past article discusses this http://mouthpiece.com.ng/entrepreneurship-and-leadership-a-remarkable-overlap/
). So with this continual call to entrepreneurship, is it really for everybody? Can everyone be good at it?

I got the views of 2 business people at a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp market. The first is Miss Maryjane Awai. She is into the food business. Asked if she thinks entrepreneurship is for everybody, she answered that entrepreneurs are born, meaning if you have it you have it and you don’t have it then you don’t. Maryjane who studied marketing in the university says she had been into business since she was a little teenage girl. She thinks being your own boss is the greatest thing. She doesn’t like people tying her down. Since she is in the food/catering business I asked if she would be willing to leave her business to work as the head of Aso Rock kitchen. Her response was NO. She resents control.

Maryjane believes some people who struggle with business have not identified the right business. She also thinks entrepreneurs encounter needless limitation because they seek to do everything by themselves. There are some aspects of the business that are better left for others to handle. In order to do that, the entrepreneur must understand the terrain and find how to compensate for his or her weakness.

In March 2012, the NYSC inaugurated a scheme for serving corps members called Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurial Development (SAED) programme. In the scheme corps members are trained in one skill or the other and are introduced to entrepreneurship. Maryjane who passed through the programme during her service year rated it as “95% waste”. In other words, the scheme largely fails in ensuring that corps members learn those skills. She cited incompetent SAED instructors as one reason for the failure. She wondered how a corps member who wants excellence be motivated to learn from a fashion designer whose office (or let’s call it shop) is ill-equipped and the quality of her clothes poor. Another deficiency is the fact that some SAED instructors give clearance to corps members—whether they come for the lesson or not—as long as they have paid for the training.

Another entrepreneur, Mr Komolafe Busuyi, whose views I sought rated the SAED programme more highly. He thinks the programme is 50% successful. He is in fact an instructor in the programme. Mr Busuyi believes along with MaryJane Awai that some people are not just cut out for entrepreneurship. He began entrepreneurship before gaining admission to study Political Science. His entrepreneurial voyage began after he read the book by Robert Kiyosaki—
Rich Dad, Poor Dad. He says the book showed him how to be wealthy—a desire he had always had.

Komolafe Busuyi clearly affirmed that he does not believe in certificates. He undertook his first degree to more or less gratify his mother. Komolafe’s Masters programme was undertaken for the same reason. He believes that graduates who get to use their certificates in Nigeria are the very few ‘lucky’ ones.

While I do not think everybody has clear entrepreneurial temperament, neither do I see entrepreneurship as a binary—one or zero. It is not an all-or-nothing affair. Entrepreneurial behaviour is more like a continuum. Some people are incredibly entrepreneurial. People like Aliko Dangote and Ibukun Awosika fall in that category. Ibukun considers herself a serial entrepreneur. She identifies a business opportunity, sets up a business to exploit the opportunity, then she moves on allowing other people to do the actual running of the business. Some others are not as entrepreneurial but clearly have some leanings towards it. By associating with people who are extremely entrepreneurial their own latent ability sparks to life. Personally I regard myself as falling into this category. Some others fall into the class of people who, rather than go into entrepreneurial activity, won’t mind doing the worst of jobs. If they ever start a business, it just would not take off the ground. I know a man who intends to start a business. He puts 100% of all the business finance available to him to build a highly sophisticated facility. If he spends about half of that amount on the facility it still would be suitable for production. Afterwards he has no money for materials for production. He does not understand the process of value creation.

Doing entrepreneurial work is more of comparative advantage. We ask ourselves: would I be more accomplished if I choose to work for a firm or choose to start my own business? Contrary to what some ‘entrepreneurs’ would want us to believe, one choice is not superior to the other.

Olusola Aladejebi works to build effective people systems in organizations. He also writes on Leadership and Organization architecture.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/is-entrepreneurship-really-for-everybody/

Nigeria Police: It’s Too Late to Cry

by Olusola Aladejebi

In 1980, in Ibadan, there was an attempt to steal my father’s car. The robber and his accomplice had succeeded in breaking the gate padlock and had opened the driver’s door of the car. Thanks to the incessant barking of a dog in the compound that awoke everyone, they could not make away with the new car. At the gate vicinity my father and other residents found the damaged padlock and the metal rod used to damage it. The padlock even had the greasy finger prints of the robber. Investigation made simple!

My father goes to the Police station to report the attempted robbery (primarily to guard against implication had the robbers taken anything in the car). The police asked him to make a statement after which they asked whom he suspects. He told them he didn’t suspect anybody. ‘Then no crime’, was their reply. That happened about 40 years ago! A concerned Ghanaian neighbour, who probably recently migrated to Nigeria, asked if the police had come to take fingerprints! My father shook his head in his heart. He wondered in himself if any of the policemen in the station knew what taking fingerprints meant. Today in 2018, I seriously doubt if there is any facility in the whole of Oyo State for analysing fingerprints.

The Nigeria Police having had a long history of incompetence, it therefore didn’t come as a surprise to me the report that 3 suspects in the case against Dino Melaye escaped from custody (although police have told us they have now been rearrested). The Inspector General of Police (IGP) swiftly suspended the Kogi State commissioner of Police to which I say to the IGP: It’s too late to cry when the head is off.

Last year, based on findings in 2016 the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI), the Nigeria Police was ranked worst in the world. This didn’t come as a surprise to many. Of course, the spokesman for the Police, Jimoh Moshood, condemned the report noting that the Nigeria Police is the best in Africa. I doubt he even believes himself.

I have had some pitiful experiences with the Nigeria Police. I will relate one of them. Few years ago, I thought it was something good if I had a number of the Divisional Police station close to my house in case of any violence or crime in the neighbourhood. When I asked the policewoman I met at the counter, she was immediately defensive asking questions like: who are you? What do you do? Why do you need the number! As I was stating the ‘visible-to-the-blind’ reason I wanted the number another policeman in mufti who I adjudged to be a superior walked out to counter. The lady police gladly put the ‘case’ in his hands. He also asked meaningless questions but essentially told me they couldn’t give me the Police Division’s number but to call State patrol in the event of crime in my area. And so I asked for the numbers of the police patrol. He directed me to the State Police Headquarters! You would think I was asking for some classified info.

Recently, however, the State Police Control number is publicised daily by the State-owned TV station. Some sensible person at the TV station thought it was a number every citizen should have. Be that as it may, my experience I related above shows the Nigeria Police as an organization that is grossly disempowered. Many personnel are shifty, showing little confidence on their jobs. The reason? Because they understand that the terrain is filled with mines. Right is defined at any point in time by what their boss wants, even if it is something criminal. And right for that boss may also defined by what his own boss wants; and so it goes up the hierarchy. Thus for the majority of policemen on the street, what is right to do on their job is not what the constitution or the criminal laws states.

I pity the few honest patriotic ones who exist in such toxic environment. The resident toxicity of the system manifests, for instance, when for citizen A who commits a particular crime, he receives harsh treatment from the law; an hour from the event another citizen B who commits the same crime is treated as VIP. The compass is lost. They are at sea without sure guiding light.

So to IGP Ibrahim Idris the problem with Nigeria Police is not suspending a commissioner of Police. (Maybe if the boss of the IGP, President Buhari had acted in a similar vein the IGP himself should be under suspension as we speak for disobeying an order to relocate to Benue to handle the herdsmen crisis. But that is discussion for another day). The suspension may be a step in the right direction but as a stand-alone action, it is meaningless.

Again I say: it is too late to cry when the head is off. The head is off because the Nigeria Police which is the foremost law enforcement agency is Nigeria is teeming with personnel who are very lawless. But you retort, ‘the Police is lawless because society itself is corrupt.’ That fact is undebatable. But the reason there is law enforcement (police) in society in the first place is so as to keep persons with overt criminal tendencies in check. This suggests therefore that persons who are to be police should be persons with above average moral fibre. This clearly is not the case with the Nigeria Police. It even seems the direct opposite is true. The same thing should apply to education. The smartest of us should teach in schools. However, the opposite is more so than not. Dysfunction all over!

The head is off. The current system in Nigeria Police is NEVER going to work. For a new head on a fresh neck, there must be a total system overhaul. But a smart way towards this total system overhaul is being talked about now and then: State Police. Having State Police is a just a smarter way. It does not necessarily make the task easy.

If we however continue with a central police structure, the total Police system overhaul is still attainable. It may just be the greatest achievement we can pull off as a nation! The task is considered so huge that when I told a fellow summit participant of my wish to be among the non-police component of the nation’s police system overhaul, he looked at my hair (the writer is in his mid 30s), and said before long my hair would turn white!

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/nigeria-police-its-too-late-to-cry/

There is another scheme now. They say when you register you will be given world bank grant (not loan oo). Many are falling for it.

Meanwhile, world bank Nigeria office has dissociated itself completely from the scheme. The sponsors are some Sunlight Foundation, Kingdom wealth, Etc.

kimjongJezebel:
He's a bit older than I am or almost the same age range. With his education and exposure, he still went ahead, campaigned and voted for Buhari despite his terrible antecedents shows he's extremely myopic and beyond redemption.

I now prefer a dead rat than this guy called Durotoye

He had the choice to vote and support whoever he wanted just a you have the right not to support him. I suspect you are still pained by the loss of GEJ. But forward is where to go not backwards.

Finally, I am sure you don't want Buhari. Who then is your candidate?

A Continent Without Leaders
by Olusola Aladejebi

There is the story of a Head of Department of the Department of Geology, University of Ibadan many years ago who on the convocation day addressed the gathering to the effect that his students had refused to graduate that year, hence the reason no student from the department was presented for graduation.

Something similar has been happening on the African continent with the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.

For those who may not be familiar with it, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership instituted in 2006 is an award by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to celebrate excellence in African leadership. It is awarded to former African presidents or head of states who fulfil the criteria for the award. (Mo Ibrahim is a billionaire telecoms businessman).  

The first prize was awarded in 2007. Although the prize is meant to be yearly, there has been more years the award was not given than years in which it was given! In 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016 the Prize Committee, after in-depth review, could not find former presidents who were worthy.

Is Africa a continent without leaders?

 A look at the criteria reveals they are not too extraordinary. The critical ones are that the leaders are:

*democratically elected

*served his/her constitutionally mandated term

*demonstrated exceptional leadership

The third criterion may need a little ‘footnote’.    Exceptional leadership is demonstrated by heads of government who rose above challenging circumstances to develop their countries and strengthen democracy and human rights for the shared benefit of their people, paving the way for sustainable and equitable prosperity.

Sadly, most former heads of state have not been able to develop their countries fundamentally. It is not just ok to superintend over a period of economic growth while human rights go to the dogs. Neither is it worth celebrating a relative de-escalation of violence while official corruption remains pervasive.

The five (5) past winners of the Mo Ibrahim Leadership Achievement award are Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, Festus Mogae of Botswana, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde, Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Most of the winners have come from southern region of Africa. Our southern counterparts seem to have a system that throws up the best among them to lead them unlike other regions.

Conspicuously missing among the award winners are the former presidents of the ‘largest democracy in Africa’. I sought to know the view of some people on absence of Nigeria’s past leaders. David Adeyemi, a youth involved civil society advocacy, has this to say: ‘I think the award committee believe Nigeria leaders haven’t demonstrated true leadership since the beginning of the initiative.

Most qualities possessed by former recipients of the awards can’t be traced to our leaders. For instance, despite the fact that former president of Mozambique, who got the award in 2008, took his people out of post-independence war and had the privilege of a third term he peacefully left after his second term.’

In the view of Adekunle Adekoge, an employability skills facilitator, he considers Nigeria’s past presidents not have met up with any parameter for achieving sustainable development. In his words, “I think they do not follow any specific blueprint or roadmap’. If the views gotten from those I discussed with are anything to go by, President Muhammadu Buhari also may not get the award.

Despite the dearth of excellence in political leadership, the leadership landscape of Africa is not that gloomy as there are exceptional leaders in other aspects—business, education, technology, entrepreneurship. Strive Masiyiwa is a transformational teacher of entrepreneurship and development. He holds no political office but empowers and mentors millions of Africans, especially young people through social media, especially Facebook where he currently has a massive followership of over 3 million.

Fred Swaniker cannot be a recipient of the Mo Ibrahim leadership achievement award (unless, of course, he decides to participate in politics) but is involved, with others, in reshaping the African continent by establishing educational institutions that reimagine leadership and entrepreneurship.

The leadership of Aliko Dangote is obvious to all by his exceptional entrepreneurial acumen by which he builds businesses across Africa employing several thousands. And there are many others—Ibukun Awosika, Mustafa Hassan, Tony Elumelu, Dr Jerry Brown, Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Patrick Lumumba—who are beacons of hope in a continent where true leadership cannot be taken for granted.

When John Maxwell said that everything rises and falls on leadership, it wasn’t only political leadership he meant. Therefore, in whatever aspect of the African society where we observe excellence and outstanding work, true leaders are at work—be it on the football field, rural farm or higher institution.


http://mouthpiece.com.ng/a-continent-without-leaders/

I just wonder who these early commenters are! Many don't read the post at all. They just mess the thread with preconceived views.

Is it not sensible to patronize grown in Nigeria rice rather than imported ones?

By Olusola Aladejebi

The term ‘shithole countries’ became popular because the president of the United States, Donald Trump allegedly made the remark in a discussion on immigration policy. Trump was said to be angered that despite immigration control being a major campaign point, many people from ‘these countries’ were still pouring into America. Although White House has continued to deny that US president used such words, however some who were present at the gathering insisted that they were made. So what are shithole countries?

The meaning may be gleaned from another negative comment attributed to Donald Trump, also on immigration. He said that once immigrants from countries like Nigeria had seen the United States, they would never go back to their huts. Shithole countries, then huts. They are countries that cannot manage their affairs and whose citizens are ready to run to places that are run properly. Corruption, disease, poverty, are rife in shithole countries.

Condemnations upon condemnations have attended this alleged crude remarks by Trump—international Press, Civil Americans, EU, AU, various African countries. The South African government even sent for the US Ambassador in the country. But as many commentators have pointed out, there is message in the mess.

If there are countries that take aid from international donors to help eradicatem polio or some other disease but much of these funds end up in private pockets; if there are countries where ordinary electricity is ‘rocket science’; if there are countries where their leaders would do everything possible—legitimate, illegal, immoral—to cling to power even if it means the destruction of their people; if there are countries where election outcomes are considerably determined by hand-outs voters receive from politicians; if there are countries where the police and other security agencies regularly brutalize the citizens with almost no hope of justice, how can we describe such societies?

There is a human imperative to organize society. Since the primitive times, humans have tried to solve problems that arise in their environment. Problems of food, water, weather, shelter have been basically solved in many societies. As with life, as one solves one problem another problem arises. Life even seems to be journey of problem solving. More organized nations have some other kinds of problems they solve.

Being a ‘shithole’ country has nothing to do with colour or race or region in the world. The fundamental criterion that excludes or includes a country from the designation is how well they have organized their society. Is the country planning for the future? Is there a working system of justice? Can they utilize their resources to provide for their people? Do they have a values system that can ensure continued social development? This last question is important because it takes the consideration beyond per capita income or standard of living or some other economic indices. The point is: A ‘shithole’ country may be a rich country today.

When we consider the shift in values that have taken place in the Western world over the last 60 years one can come to the conclusion that the foundations on which they built their organized society are being eroded fast. Values like family, child discipline, morality. No people has ever been completely moral. Some part of what developed the Europe and America were slave trade and colonization which were very evil. They pillaged Africa and some part Asia of its human and natural resources to develop their societies. But the big question is:

Could they have been able to use this ‘economic windfall’ of exploitation if they did not already have some kind of developed society?

We have seen countries, especially in Africa, that had sudden access to much resources. Rather than for them to lead to development of the country, it caused them more problems than benefits. Sometimes I wonder how we could organize more advanced aspects of our society if we cannot ensure something as simple as keeping vehicles from facing oncoming ones on our roads!

Much studies have been carried out to show that slave trade and colonization resulted in much damage to the psyche of the oppressed people. Our natural evolution was assaulted by the intrusion of European opportunists. We suddenly found themselves in a world heavily influenced by forces outside us. It has thus been a struggle for the ex-colonies. But as was said earlier, life is more or less a journey of solving problems. We must face it.  We cannot hang on to the negative effects of colonization and slave trade as an excuse for our very poor ability to manage our affairs.

The man who described some as ‘shithole countries’ is President whose administration has witnessed very strange things since inauguration. 36 of the administration’s key officials have either resigned or been sacked! 36!  I think Donald Trump should look at what is happening under his nose before telling off other countries.

 Olusola Aladejebi does work in building effective people systems in organizations. He also writes on Leadership and Organization architecture.

http://mouthpiece.com.ng/the-problem-with-shithole-countries/

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Immature people cut their nose to spite their face.

spartan117:
She doesn't know who she is in Christ that's why

You sef; Does a person who can talk like that be someone who has ever seen the light of God? En!

You seem to think everyone who attends church belongs to God. No. Many Church goers will end up with Satan.

yaki84:
i don't have any sympathy for people who voted for change just to spite gej.
Change they needed, change they got.




Next tragic news pls

Your thinking is the problem. That is believing anyone who voted Buhari did so to spite GEJ. When you stop thinking that way you will gain better understanding of the state our nation.

God bless and keep her. Amen.

Some months ago before fuel scarcity, I saw that there was a little queue in one of their stations. Since I went to refill gas I asked an operator why there was queue when there was scarcity. He simply replied: This is BOVAS.

That's brand right there. Not some cosmetic superficial artificial project one yeye consultant does for you.

From report:
#They don't sell above regulated price
#They don't under dispense

Good work BOVAS.

What makes you saved/ born again/ become a child of God is your faith in Jesus' sacrifice for you. When you are saved the Holy Spirit will start working in your heart to put to the death the manifestation of the flesh--greed, sexual immorality, etc.

I suspect the grace of God is upon you; that's why you are seeking to know the 'short cut' to righteous living.

A very important thing however is the Church you go. In many of these so-called churches they don't feed the people with the word of God. It is the word of God that strengthens your heart and makes you wise unto salvation. So called big denomination churches are empty of God's light. I pray that God leads to a true assembly of his saints. Amen.

When writer said the moral fabric of the nation has gone shreds he was saying a sad fact. Now see the abundance of immature insensitive infantile comments.

They are only obsessed that Kemi Olunloyo suffers. They couldn't see the injustice and the corruption in our system!

As regards majority of senators and HoR members voting YES for restructuring, will that be possible in the nearest future. A restructured Nigeria won't serve their selfish interests so they most likely won't support it; unless they are 'compelled' to do so.

URGENT VACANCY!


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hucienda:
Osun too? Didn't know the state is [now?] majority muslim. Soon, Kwara and Oyo could join the fray in that axis.

The bulwark of Christianity in Nigeria - the former eastern region - and christian parts of the former western and northern regions had better watch out.

On fool's island is that individual who thinks Nigeria is a 'secular' state.

Oyo state also declared.

Bobnotrouble:
I didn't see any credible Yoruba leader in that gathering yesterday.
Only elements of irresponsible opposition from pdp and incurable wailing wailers.

I bet you don't know up to half of those mentioned! If you knew, I am certain you wouldn't say that.

First Google Kunle Olajide, Reuben Fasonranti, Chief Areoye Oyebola.

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A male teacher is required at Abimbola Private School, Basorun, Ibadan.
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Requirements:
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Interested candidates should take copies their CV and relevant qualifications to the school.

Call 08054329226

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A male teacher is required at Abimbola Private School, Basorun, Ibadan.
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Requirements:
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Interested candidates should take copies their CV and relevant qualifications to the school.

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innosaint27:



If after this encounter with God's servant,
You still die poor,
Heaven & posterity will not forgive you!

Ur camera suppose dey vomit money now ooooo.



Congrats on your encounter with pure grace!

If money is what comes to your mind when a person supposedly met a 'servant of God', then I have to ask you if that 'God' is the God in the Bible. When people met Paul or Samuel or Moses or Jesus himself, was money and wealth anything on the agenda?

You had better renounce this cash-God and seek the true God.

ollah1:
Which other country speaks Madarin besides China?

Which Arabic speaking country trades a quarter of Nigeria's trade with China?

Is all our trade with Arabic countries up to a half our that with China?

I have nothing against Arabic. Arabic language spread because of Islam. English spread because of Colonization, technology and Christianity.

Chinese language will spread, not because of any religion or colonization, but because of technology and trade.

Both are useful international languages. Don't degrade one for the other.

Demmzy15:
Arabic is part of Nigeria's history, it was adopted by both the north and south. The missionaries were successful in getting rid of it in South easily and earlier, but not the north. It's a major language with French, my brother's school offered it with French and alot of Christians enrolled.

This government wasn't responsible for the change but a Christian-led government. If no one made noise then, why now? They're millions of Arab Christians, in fact these Christians are older than most Christians in the West.

Did you say Arab (or Islam as it is interchangeable in this context) was accepted in the North AS WELL AS SOUTH before the arrival of the Europeans? Just a HANDFUL of Southerners accepted Islam/Arabic before Europeans came. Those handful are in some SW states. SE and SS had and still have low presence of Islam/Arabic.

The poor governor is being honest. But maybe not being visionary.

Anyway I SUPPORT restructuring however, let us give it a TIMELINE. Let's say 5 years from now so that all the proposed federating units can PREPARE! I kid you not, restructuring will be cruel if done ill-timed. It will be like weaning a baby. Babies are weaned gradually. So it should be about Nigeria's restructuring.

This is my view.

As someone has said, what about phone not bought in Computer village? Also, the 'tracking' may not be foolproof if the initial buyer has changed number or is unreachable.

Well, maybe if they start other phone markets will join in. In the long run if this registration becomes widespread, it might even encourage buyers to buy phones only in markets where it will be registered.

It is like owning a phone. It is not worth much if there are no other users you can call. But as users multiply your phone becomes more valuable. So the real benefit will be derived if 'reg and track' spreads.

In conclusion, I say GOOD IDEA.

None of una commend Gov. Fayose for recognizing such feat and awarding scholarship. Some governor might not do such.

ItsMeAboki:
So in a real democratic setting ppl are not free to proposed their candidates again?
If we are to go along with your attitude then Trump should't be America's president today.

Pls stop twisting things the other way round.
If northerners truly have a born to rule mentality; then they wouldn't take out a southern prisoner on death row and put him in the presidency against their own candidate or cede their regional/numerical advantage and allow for political restructuring of the country into geopolitical zones along with rotational presidency in order to simply accommodate the 'we must rule by hook or by crook attitude' of their southern counter parts - who by all indications are ironically the real 'born to rulers.'

The reason the major parties in 1999 had Yoruba presidential candidates was because of MKO Abiola who had more votes in the 1993 election but was not declared winner. It was a bid to pacify the SW.

EntMirror:
Why do I need to waste over 18 years of my life reading and cramming theories that will never be used in the real world? Why would I be in a system that prepares me into being an employee, into being a slave? A lot of people might say that everyone must not be an entrepreneur, my response is usually brutal. Of course everyone can't be an entrepreneur, everyone can't be rich.

I just feel pity whenever I go around campus at night, watching students with their lamps and books, reading like their life depend on it. I'm not against education, I'm against school..

It's true that school teaches you how to write essay, how to solve basic trigs and sums.. But that doesn't discard the fact that time and resources used are just wasted.

I'm an entrepreneur and I'm closer to the real world than those who still dream of working in an oil firm. Don't be surprised, they will start searching in Google basic skills to acquire after service. The veil has been unveiled lol..

The purpose of this write up is to help you as an undergraduate redefine your purpose of going to school. school isn't a road that lead to a job. it's a road that leads to education. what you do with what you've acquired makes all the difference.

www.entmirror.com

All these upcoming entrepreneurs that won't allow us hear word! Even Strive Masiyiwa won't talk like that.(That studying in school is waste of time and resources). That is too general. Keep your you-must-be-an-entrepreneur sentiments to yourself.

I don't hype schooling and degrees too but that doesn't mean you should consider it as waste of time. I bet with your entrepreneurial skills you can conduct a surgery if your life depended on it! Keep to your lane. Don't force people to join it. In some people, insecurity makes them want others to be like them. (I am not saying insecurity is causing yours ooo!)

NwaAmaikpe:
These soldiers are disgracing the force.

They should have gotten a few bloody civilians to do this dirty job.

I am almost speechless at such misguided comment.

Maduawuchukwu:
Baba what I mean is that people are wrong to link the Soldiers shooting with the fact that he is Hausa. That is wrong and it is a bait. We need to be very careful in this country.

You must be among the reasonable people on Nairaland.