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Deride, can you please show us the correct list of ministers under Balewa leadership from 60 - 66?

He has been intimidated. No party led by a weakling shall win elections in SW; never!

Arosa: Well that is why we have Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, his job is to create jobs.

Really? So why is Dr Ngozi issuing report in areas outside her ministerial role?

[quote author=Donalð Genes]So, I heard this on channelsTv this morning during their morning daily rise program after an indepth interview with The minister for Information via skype,that is if you ever watch it by 7 am.
The presenter said it will take come into effect from year two in all our Ivory towers curriculum.

Hmmmmph! And i ask'd, ''What happens to other language like Ibibio and Efit,Yoruba and Hausa,Delat Igbo,Kunari, I think they should do same for all languages as it is highly improbable it will not create an unhealthy dose of political hatred even in school..This is a no brainer political move at all to who ever birth this kind of idea..Lets watch and see

Looking for source, you may ask channels News on their Twitter handle and they will confirm it to you[/quote]Its not that Yorubas spontaneously jump up and start denigrating Ibos; plenty of times Ibos love to be denigrated. You guys beg for public humiliation. A post such as this one achieve exactly that - a public revealation of gaps that ought to be kept secret and from which to save yourself an unecessary ridicule and embarassment.

Dr Ngozi is a renowned economist, a theorist on how the factors of social exchange interact to create growth. This woman does not know what to do or how to transform growth pragmatically. It is evident in this report and many such reports issued by her in past. We need pragmatists who can substantially back up the creation of 1.6million jobs and move productivity and earning power on the ground up.

Guys stop cussing her please, she is not to blame; we are at fault for misidentifying our needs.

This is a lie.

Ibos are deficient on greatness, so they attach to wherever they can find elements of greatness to use as platform to attribute importance to their empty history.


First, Obj was born in 1938.

Second, there was no police outpost in Owu in the years before or immediately after 1938.
The police were posted to administrative seat of Native Authorities and Owu was not a Native Authority in 38. Abeokuta was a Province with five Native Authorities and Owu was not one of them.

Third, the supposedly father was reported to be an Obi of Onitsha from 62 to 70. If there were cameras to take his picture back when he was in Police force, there should be cameras with pictures of him after he ascended the throne. Where are other pictures of this mysterious father beside the one in uniform?

Fourth, Police in 1938 and up to 1960 were called constabularies and the uniform of thr native constabularies did not carry epaulette on collar or shoulder.

Fifth, the man in uniform was Olusegun Obasanjo himself in army officers uniform likely at the Officers Mess and in a relaxed mood.

Sixth, to use the word of Musiwa, THIS IS A FRAUD!

[quote author=Frank-C]Sanusi has just a B.Sc in Economics and another in Islamic Studies in Sudan. He has neither M.Sc nor PhD in anything. He lectured B.Sc aspirants in ABU with B.Sc. We have discussed this guy severally here and if anybody wants to contradict my claim, it should be very easy to prove.

That was actually my problem with the guy and the system that made him CBN governor. That's really why he can believe that $50b can get lost from the nations coffers in 18 months. Most 3rd year Economics students will not even agree with such crap.

We need a replacement that has global exposure in this fast globalizing world. I really felt that Mansur Mukhtar woulve have been a better nominee but Yar'Adua felt otherwise and brought Sanusi. Now is the time to fix that problem and bring in an exposed man/woman. Anyway, the new CBN governor is very qualified. You will confirm this when he is announced. In my opinion, anyone who has not had stint in the top 20 business schools in the world nor the major multilateral UN level agencies should never near that office again.[/quote]I will disagree with this criteria.

1. We have had people serve in the top tier of our government, whether military or civilian regimes, who if they were Americans or English would be serving in the cabinet of their respective countries. Nigeria is not short on skilled professionals; the problem we have is indoctrination. Let us look at two names that my brothers in East throw around as high achievers - Soludo and Okonjo-Iweala.

Soludo is well accomplished intellectually but he lacks execution and strategy. He is academic but not political, it does not matter how many UN and global exposures he has on resume his acumen on political front is blunt. He exhibited that laxity as CBN Governor and after leaving the office he contested for Anambra state governorship and was outwitted by Obi. This year he tried to run again on PDP platform and he was again outwitted. He dumped PDP and joined APGA and was again outwitted. The man is not a good posterboy for Ibo politics or National politics; he belongs in academic field.

Okonjo-Iweala is a two-time finance minister and she is still struggling to get a good grip on decision making. Judging by her performance so far, its easy to see why Obasanjo removed her from Finance portfolio when she served under him. One must wonder if her position as Director in World Bank wasn't just for image. World bodies are required to maintain diversity in their staffing. Beside that, as a policy, the World Bank retain point of contacts for their high end clients, like Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and so on. She has been running powerpoint slides so far since her return to the finance ministry and attending hearings in Assembly. What policy, if any, can we credit to her? She does not know how to execute, her capabilities is confined to analysis .

What we need is not necessarily someone who has international exposure or UN appointments, though it will be value added to such selection. Our priority ought to focus on models and by that I mean high achievers with track records we'd love to see repeat within the context of our own political landscape. Imagine that Nigeria is an employer and need to high manpower to manage the development and growth of our socio economic policies. At this stage of our democracy we need executioners. We have tons of papers and strategies o what to do and when to do it but unfortunately we are not blessed with transformers...people who are savvy at deploying and implementing the paper process. People who can map a policy into discrete modules and then expand the modules into a process model and step action or activity flow that mid level and low level staffers and managers can use to to efficiently operate the daily functions of their departments.

We must not keep hunting for analysts and developers when what we truly need is operators.

It is a blessing to have a person who is robust and well packaged with all these proficiencies.

My posterboy, a model, for this skillset i described is Mr Akinwunmi Adesina. Im not saying he should be put in CBN but he has a competency that should be repeated in other portfolios and departments and therefore we should look for people that have this executioner instinct and are self supervised and credible.