₦airaland Forum

Knowledge of history is very very important. Mischievous people always want to hide the truth. Whoever removed history from secondary school subject is either mischievous(which is more like it) or very ignorant. Jagaban called for its restoration at the launching of a book on Buhari--which was history essentially.

If anyone disputes the points listed above let him share a more factual history.

Niaja and contradictions!!

We were told to export and export and export. But now there is 'threat' of famine. Anyway, I think this is a good famine. It will lead to increased food production. I think we will survive it.

prof12:
Do you blame Buhari or the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners and some insane Nigerians who pressured the federal government into negotiating with terrorists BOKO HARAM.

What is this thing you are saying?!!! Are you Lai Mohammed? Because you sound like him. Always looking for who to blame!

So it is now BBOG to be blamed and not a government who made a blunder! Be responsible!

Adagba01:
Ezekwesili, Aisha Yesuf and BBOG should should burry their heads in shame for these killings that turn many women to widows, many children to orphans, happy parents to mourners. The deaths of young men and women with bright future cut short for the sake of Chibok girls, doesn't achievements anything other than more sorrows and tears.

Misplaced aggression. Wetin concern BBOG and Ezekwesili? Were they the ones who paid the ransom? They called on government to rescue them. If your daughter was among them, won't you want them rescued. But it is one thing to ask them to rescue, it is another to thing for govt to pay ransom.

Cooly100:
Even at that, both regions have worked had to support most Nigerians...The Igbos are everywhere helping communities in interior locations with one service or the other, like trades, chemist, building materials, autoparts, and other wares. The north are everywhere too providing services in form food, meat and chores. While you lazy lots hide away in your cesspit in the SW, helping no one but yourselves...That's being clannish and selfish...How does an average South Westerner impact the lives of other Nigerians in Maiduguri, Kano, Onitsha, Aba, Abakiliki, Markurdi, Jalingo, Warri, Asaba, Agbor, Okene and several other towns and villages...? Of the three major tribes...SW should be heard least...Get it now!!!!

What are people from other regions flooding into Lagos if SW is not adding anything to them? Especially our people from the Ugandans.

ShinnBet:
Bloody liars


The worlds leading rice producer is China with just an annual turnover of 144,000 tonnes


Why must these people always lie?

Open your eyes now! Can't you see that those figures are x 1000tonnes. Therefore China produces 144,000,000 (144m) tonnes. Hope you have rechecked and corrected your error.

Many of those insulting the vice president are wishing they get selected. Some Naija people and pretense.

V-mobile. Can't even remember the number!

Olusola Aladejebi wrote:

How pathetic, how disastrous if having walked 8km into the Sahara, I find out that the bottles in my backpack contain oil rather than water! I’ll most certainly be filled with despair. I have reflected deeply the role of higher education (especially in Nigeria). I have also read views of profound thinkers across the globe on the role of the universities. I therefore conclude that many are pursuing an education of illusion. The picture of my hypothetical foray into the desert is an apt metaphor for the reality ahead of some people.

Education, be it basic, secondary or tertiary, is aimed at learning. Impartation of relevant knowledge is, or ought to be, the most fundamental objective of any school system. To the degree it deviates from this objective, it is to that degree that the school system loses relevance. A test for any educational system is: if all students and parents are made to understand that no certificates will be given at the expiration of the course of study, how many students will remain? I dare say less than 20%.

There is clearly an undue value placed on higher education, especially postgraduate study, at the expense of acquiring useful, creative knowledge. ‘Will you do masters’ has now been replaced by ‘when will you go for your masters?’ Such talk only fuels the rabid desire for an unthinking master’s degree. There exists this spurious idea that with a master’s in hand the gates of success will open to you more quickly than when you hadn’t. Holders of such idea do not yet know that the gates of success open to the man or woman with relevant knowledge and skill regardless of where he got them or where he did not. It is noteworthy that one of the most important ‘exports’ of U. K to Nigeria is now the Master’s Degree. All over the web space you find advertisements for university upon university. They seem to understand that we place an inordinate value on a 2nd Degree. In a declining European economy they cash in quickly on our thinking handicap.

Time published in 2010 the list of the most successful college drop outs. Some on the list include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zukerberg, Frank Lloyd Wright and James Cameron. Dropping out of college to pursue a passion and create value is not a recent phenomenon. Frank Lloyd Wright for instance dropped out of University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1886! to become America’s most celebrated Architect.
Gone are the days when the universities held the only key to knowledge. The information revolution has now provided access to knowledge on anything through the internet.

My point is not whether people drop out of university or whether they continue to post graduate study. Any idiot can drop out of school as well as any idiot can finish school. If your unique contribution will be realized by an extended stay in the university, please stay on. But never just continue to gather certificates as if they are ends in themselves. Delete the mind-set: now that I have this certificate, I can now be successful. Rather the mind-set should be: now that I have detected the unique contribution I will make in this life, I will seek relevant knowledge that will help in this quest.

In closing, Peter Thiel, an entrepreneur and billionaire, expressed the view that, ‘although higher education is definitely useful for some career paths (medicine, engineering, etc.) and people learn very valuable things in the university, there are many career paths, such as entrepreneurship, for which higher education is not useful and simply leads them to waste years they may have been doing something more productive’. I am convinced that the most creative among us will never be the ideal university student. They will find school uncomfortable for their ideas. They may find lecturers speaking a different language from the one in their hearts. Three things may happen to these most gifted ones. Some may try hard to finish schooling while keeping the fire of their new creative ideas burning. Some may detect that their continued stay in the university will drown that pure, fresh creativity growing in the hearts and hence escape for their lives! (Those on the TIME’s list above obviously thought so)Some others unfortunately because they didn’t develop the courage to step out allowed the old stuff to kill their unique creativity. Sometimes to think outside the box, you have to step outside the box (university).
Even if you are not one of the most gifted among us, you should not have the illusion that unless the university certifies you, there can be no excellence for you!

ceospecial:
Mourinho is a talent killer if you ask me... From mata to de bruyne to even. Hazard.

The same way he killed the career of Drogba and Lampard and Lucio and Milito. Murinho has his problems which are many but to say he kills career is exaggerating. All coaches have their favourite players.

SultanOfBrunei:
what are their names? why sack them instead of them facing the law? is paddling a national budget not an economic crime?

So if a person is to be prosecuted he must not have been sacked?
Isorite. Kwantinue!

mandax:
Almajiri Voodoo Economics. Proceeds from sales of assets don't revive Economy.
Rather, when you sell assets, you further impoverish the country.

Proceeds from exports of goods and services mostly prop up a country's Economy.

Not everything that can be sold is asset! Some so called asset are indeed liabilities.

An example is in order:
If UAC Plc seeks to divest from its Soya Oil business, is the sale of all oil processing equipment a REALLY sale of assets? No! Those equipment don't have productive capacity anymore.

Not all sales are 'ASSET SALES'.

SureDan001:
can someone enlighten me on why CBN cannot print more cash in this recession??

Cash is just a medium of exchange of value(goods and services). So there MUST be value in the economy that corresponds to the cash in it. If the cash in the economy far exceeds the value of goods and services it would lead to inflation(more inflation).

So to strengthen an economy in recession, the way is to increase production/productive capacity. In order for money to pumped into the economy, for instance, no govt would be buy a bag of beans for #70,000. Lol!

Economist in the house. More light please.

Where did Buhari mention GEJ's administration(specifically) in that speech? But the GEJites won't let us hear word. Guilty conscience.

'The wicked run when no one pursues'.

TPAND:
No wonder we are where we are.

But wait a moment Buhari... Hol up, hol up just hol up,

I have never heard you blame IBB, Abacha, Abdulsalami, OBJ for our woes.
All I hear is past administration or GEJ

Please read well. ...The past 16-17years. Was GEJ the only president for those years.

TonyeBarcanista:
On Saturday, September 24, 2016, I wrote a piece on this platform titled APC Humiliation: Time For Jagaban Bola Ahmed Tinubu To Consider PDP. In the piece, I made a passionate case for the leader of Ruling All Progressive Congress to switch over to the Umbrella side of the political divide after seeing the humiliation meted to his loyalists orchestrated by those that once benefited from his political benevolence in order to disgrace him. The most recent being the sham of Ondo APC governorship primary and the rejection of the APC Appeal Tribunal recommendation by the National Chairman of the party despite majority members of the National Working Committee present at the deliberation insisting on upholding the position of the Appeal tribunal. Barely 24 hours after the piece, His Excellency Asiwaju (Senator) Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a strong but patriotic call for his party's National Chairman to do the honorable thing by resigning.

To some people, Asiwaju Tinubu deserves whatever ill-treatment is coming his way simply because "he is too powerful as an individual" or "he should be tamed by fire by force". However, these individuals forget that power comes from God, and in any society, there will always be powerful citizens whose acquisition of power and influence could be attributed to factors such as show of benevolence, performance while in public office, intelligence, charisma or any other reasons. While it is no crime taming powerful individuals in society, such must be done according to laws, statutes and precepts of the society concerned.

In the Tinubu case, his acquisition of power was not due to sheer luck or something he attained overnight. For those that may not be aware, prior to 1999, Bola Tinubu was elected into the Senate to represent Lagos West Senatorial district in the Red Chamber in 1992 in the defunct Third Republic. After the June 12, 1993 Presidential election annulment which was arguably won by late businessman Chief MKO Abiola, Bola Tinubu along with other patriots formed the National Democratic Coalition(NADECO) to seek the restoration of Abiola's mandate that was freely given him by the Nigeria electorates. The struggle for the restoration led Asiwaju to flee to London in 1994 where he stayed on exile until 1998 after the death of Abacha and during the transition period that led to the fourth Republic which began in 1999. Tinubu stood for a cause even at a period when many politicians found it convenient to wine and dine with the military in order to satisfy the voices of both the stomach and pocket.

In 1998 Tinubu was elected Governor under Alliance for Democracy platform, the crises in AD led his faction to form the Action Congress of Nigeria. As the only AD/AC Governor between 2003 and 2007, Tinubu's performance was second to none, and he deployed his protege and exWorks Commissioner to Osun in 2007 where he defeated incumbent Olagunsoye Oyinlola. He also held his grip in Lagos by ensuring the victory of another protege Raji Fashola. Not forgeting the role and support he played to Comrade Adams Oshiomole of Edo and Rahman Mimiko (legal assistance) the Labour candidate in Ondo in 2007, ALL became successful. Not even the exit of strongman Atiku Abubakar from the ACN in 2010 deterred Jagaban, he went ahead to do a clean sweep of SW in 2011 with exception of Ondo state.

During the merger that formed APC, political observers would agree that the ACN bloc controlled by Tinubu brought more to the table more than the Buhari CPC bloc(which had only a poor Nasarawa state) and Modu Sheriff controlled ANPP bloc which had only Borno and Zamfara states. Yet, Tinubu allowed the CPC bloc to produce the Presidential Aspirant, while settling for a VP aspirant despite being the major contributor to the merger. It is a fact that without the ACN bloc, the CPC or CPC/ANPP wouldn't have won the Presidential election of 2015.

However, is is a shame that members of the CPC bloc led by President Buhari's men in connivance with the ANPP group(Oyegun) and ungrateful former beneficiaries of Tinubu's political magnanimity who are not politically relevant in their states in Southwest are out to humiliate and frustrate the man whom God used to shoot them to power through undemocratic and illegal means. For instance, APC Chairman John Oyegun has been in ANPP but has never won his polling booth in Edo state not to talk of producing Governor, Raji Fashola could not deliver his choice candidate in a free and fair APC Governorship primary in December 2014 despite being an incumbent, Kayode Fayemi could not win even his LGA in Ekiti state in his failed 2014 reelection bid despite enjoying incumbency, losing to Fayose in an historic 16-0, Amosun contested for Governor in 2007 under ANPP but was defeated by PDP Gbenga Daniel, it took his defection to ACN and adoption by Tinubu for him to win in 2011. The case is same with Ajimobi of Oyo state. Even President Buhari, despite his alleged popularity in the North has never delivered any Governor in his Katsina state nor his Kaduna political front prior to 2015. In fact, he has NEVER defeated any Northern Presidential candidate in Katsina state. Meanwhile, Tinubu has 100% record in delivering his candidates in Lagos state guber since 1999.

None of these people can stand shoulder to shoulder politically with Senator Jagaban Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none of these men enjoy the popular support Tinubu enjoys. They couldn't even defeat his preferred candidate Mr. Segun Abraham in Ondo APC Governorship Primary but had to manipulate delegate list. Despite the manipulation, Akeredolu only won by slim margin. To show the popularity and acceptance of Tinubu. They are scared of conducting a rerun because the are aware that a rerun will deal a fatal blow on them in favor of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu candidate Mr Segun Abraham.

Though I am neither a member nor sympathiser of the ruling All Progressive Congress, I see an opportunity for patriotic Nigerians irrespective of party to take a position that insists on justice and sanity in our political environment, especially internal democracy within our parties. We are in a country where injustice has been tolerated for long and accepted as norm especially when victims of the injustice are not on our personal or political good books, this acceptance of undemocratic values has to be kicked out if we must sanitise of country and political space.

Like I submitted earlier, those against Bola Tinubu and want to bring him down must follow the accepted and democratic path otherwise, they are on a wild goose chase. Tinubu rose to the height that he is through consistent hardwork and mercies of the Almighty God, those that wishes to humiliate him must do so through hardwork and hoping for God's mercy. Anything short of that is an exercise in futility.

Finally, I reiterate my call for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to consider quitting the undemocratic and false progressive APC, and join hands with the PDP to help build a better country when power changes hands in 2019.



May God Bless Jagaban and Bless Nigeria
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There is no doubt the stoutness of Tinubi's political weight. And much of what the writer's view is valid. But saying Amosun and Ajimobi lost in 2007 because they were not in ACN(and therefore under the umbrella of Tinubu) is NOT TRUE.

Obasanjo, with his do or die politics, was still president and thus the PDP 'must win' in those states. Adedibu of Ibadan was still alive then. So, do not over stretch the political influence of Jagaban.

Today I had a nice experience with my DISCO, Ibadan Electricity Disco (IBEDC). I went to their office closest to my house to make a complaint. Power, though has marginally improved in recent weeks(maybe due to Fashola's 400MW Lol!) voltage was fluctuating dangerously. I didn't meet the officials. I was told they went for repairs. I was given his number. Later I called and said his team would come over when they were through with the task at hand. About an hour later he called me that they were almost at my area!


I promptly reported the complaint. Less than an hour later, problem was fixed! I thanked them and we said our byes. Is that why IBEDC got the award for best DISCO in the country? I know it is not all fair stories about them! But this service today is commendable.


However, the official however came with his own vehicle(a saloon car) and put the ladder on top. No. That is not right. They should have pickups for repairs standby. So what happens when Mr Repair Supervisor's vehicle is bad?

#IBEDCimprove

Mujaheeeden:
anonimi please show our brother here how Tinubu cheated Fashola and impose ambode during the primaries.


Tinubu has just being served his best soup

I am not a Tinubu fan but how did he cheat Fashola? Was Fashola contesting for 3rd term? Lol!

Jagaban wanted Ambode Fashola wanted another person. Tinubus man won. Simple.

bigtt76:
Gain Fawehinme later backtracked and got awarded a SAN before his death.

Anywhere in the world, a university degree is awarded not only based on academic worthiness but also on individual moral character.

The university is also bound to withdraw such an award if after graduation such graduate is found to be lacking in moral character.

Gani Fawehinmi back traced! Backtracked on what specifically. Let us stick to what we know. He was pressured into applying for SAN. Even after his SAN, he preferred SAM (Senior Advocate of the Masses).

ogawisdom:
D little rat is a product of failed home which gave him wrong home upbringing.

Nw dt he is rusticated let him go n rut in hell, he is nt worthy in character for a degree

U cant abuse d highest decision making body of d University - d uni senate n go free.

D uni shld arrest him and sue him for defarmation I.diot

Sorry, people don't get arrested on civil offences like defamation. They are sued and given court notices.

Thank you very much OP! Very useful information.

davidif:
WOW!!! So this are all the LGA's in Ondo? Why should a state that small have so many LGA's? What's even sad is that most of this states are not even self sustainable. Without allocation from the central govt, this local govts would collapse.

His list is HIGHLY incorrect! Only some are LGs in Ondo State.

Temitope101:
Please have not gotten any sms from them and am due to write today according to released time table

Check the released timetable. Whenever your name falls on the released timetable log in and do your test ON THAT DAY WHETHER OR NOT YOU RECEIVED THE SMS. Network problem could be responsible for not receiving it.

My family member did today though she didn't get SMS.

People who don't understand economics and principles of value creation and distribution will believe that MMM is sustainable. The lawyer above is not a good student of Economics.

True, MMM is not illegal and may not be rightly called investment scheme but a lot of people see it as an INVESTMENT--many people looking for quick returns on their money in this time of high inflation. 17% inflation to 30% returns after 30 days looks like a good deal. Many have benefited from it. But the simple fact that SEC tries to pass on to people is that a time will come when the people who wish to 'donate' won't have those who want to donate to them. When this happens we will console those who would be victims.

DIFY20:
all dis ofonjas dat buhari dey use as economic team na wash from fashola to adesue to minister of health etc they dont kw anything na only ewedu and amala full their head....



till 100 years to to come all of them put together cannot match soludo, brth nnaji, pat utomi, kaku, not to talk of okonjo iwuala

A Ugandan speaking.

So this writer doesn't see any connection between informed citizenry and development. So he would prefer an Animal Farm kind of existence.

When such exposé do not favour people, they cry foul. When SR was hounding Saraki, this writer was probably silent.

Ejaisky:
Mind you NECO is not a mushroom exams body. Other exams bodies in the country are no where near NECO in terms of credibility and standard. The problem with you and other Nigerians is that you don't see anything good in what is yours.

WAEC is west African. It provides us with a comparison with other countries. Don't you have problem that we 'do well' in exams conducted by our local exam body and do badly when we write exams that is regional? Are we not just deceiving ourselves?

It is like Eyimba claiming to be an excellent team just because it can beat Shooting Stars. Let Eyimba face Leeds United let alone Liverpool to see if it is indeed excellent. Mediocrity.

I don't trust NECO results at all. My problem with it is that there is so much difference in performance between NECO and WAEC.

Look at the comparison between them in 2015. 39% to 85% SMH.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/waec-releases-results-with-38-68-pass-in-engmaths/

By Dayo Adesulu
The West African Examinations Coincil, WAEC has released the May/June 2015 results and witholding the results of students in 13 states that are owing the Council.
The Head of Nigerian Office, Mr Charles Eguridu who disclosed this at its Yaba Office said:”Out of 1,593,442 candidates who sat for the examinations, only 616,370 candidates, representing 38.68% obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics.”

kilokeys:
painful truth ... but the world has to see this too..

poverty is not a death sentence... below are pictures of the bajau tribe off the malaysian coast.. they are poor, live on water.. but my pple.. their waters arent polluted.. geez whats wrong with us in africa

Those pictures of Malaysian coastal settlement is surely not urban and the population is low. Almost every poor and over populated environment is dirty. Lagos slums may be some shades dirtier though.

taurusmena1:
I won't bait an eyelid if he were killed. Why can't we mind our business and have respect for other people's religion? I'm a Christian and concern myself with christianity and do not mock other religions. We should b able to tolerate each other and desist from making trouble.

Do you know what he actually said they called Blasphemy? Are you sure you are a Christian?

sukkot:
lolzzzzz just dont provoke hausas and your life will be OK. is that so hard ? me ? a yoruba man, I intentionally keep away from hausa people because i know they are fiery. why cant everyone be like me so peace will reign ? stop provoking people

You are not Yoruba. Keep Kwayet!