drnoel: A little bit of misrepresentation between the differences of both political positions. But the president is a ceremonial position. It is the chancellor that names the president not the other way around.
Misrepresentation. Simply repeating what I wrote and claiming that it is a misrepresentation. Must you always engage in contortion just to be negative .
He simply repeated what I wrote about the presidency being largely ceremonial, then he added some nonsense that I didn't write (he even included something that is false). He obviously didn't read my post 🤣
NEWS: IWOSAN Investments Limited (co-founder & Chair, Mr. Fola Adeola; co-founder & CEO, Mrs. Fola Laoye) has announced the acquisition of the Lagoon Hospitals Group.
Lagoon now rebranding as “IWOSAN Lagoon Hospitals.”
Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola is a Nigerian businessman and investor. He is the Founder of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank Plc.)., a member of the Commission for Africa, as well as founder and chairman of the FATE Foundation.
Education
Adeola completed his secondary school education at Methodist Boys High School, Lagos. He obtained a Diploma in Accounting from Yaba College of Technology in 1975 and became a Chartered Accountant in 1980 following his training with Deloitte, Haskins and Sells and D.O. Dafinone & Company (both Chartered Accountants). Over the years he has received professional development training at notable institutions worldwide including Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland.
In 1999, he completed a one-year sabbatical at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Jos, Nigeria, where he carried out research on economic development and job creation policies.
Private sector
In 1990, he (together with Tayo Aderinokun) established Guaranty Trust Bank, which he served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer from 1990 to July 2002. The bank has since expanded beyond Nigeria to other neighbouring African countries (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia) and in United Kingdom. The bank became listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1996.
In 2002, Adeola voluntarily retired from Guaranty Trust Bank, after twelve years, handing over to his deputy, Tayo Aderinokun. Since then he has served as the chairman UTC, ARM, Lotus Capital, Eterna Oil, CardinalStone Partners Limited, Tafsan Breweries (board member), and Credit Registry Services.
He is also the chairman of Main One Cable Company Limited which completed the construction of an open access submarine cable system that spanned 14,000 kilometres and provides international and internet connectivity to countries on the Atlantic Coast from Portugal to Lagos in 2010.
Public sector
Adeola served as Chairman of the National Pension Commission, following the promulgation into law of the Pension Bill (principally authored by him), by the National Assembly of Nigeria. He chaired the Lagos State Disaster Relief Committee which was set up following the 27 January 2002 Lagos armoury explosion. He was the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) serving as running mate to former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chairman (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu in the 2011 presidential elections.
Adeola was also a member of the National Honours and Awards Committee and was appointed a member of the Governing Council of Lagos State University in November 2004. He served as a member of the Solid Minerals Committee (constituted by the Federal Government) and was the Chairman of Ogun State Development Trust Fund Committee. He was a council member of Lagos State University and until 17 January 2011 served as a council member Olabisi Onabanjo University.
Civic work
Adeola established the FATE Foundation in 2000. FATE is a non-governmental organisation which aims to encourage entrepreneurship, using a mix of training, mentoring, loan support and consulting to support young Nigerians. To date it has served over 30,000 young Nigerian entrepreneurs, of which over 65% are fully employed by their businesses and are employing on average about four staff.
FATE opened an innovation centre in Abeokuta, the Institute for Venture Design, in collaboration with the Centre for Design Research at Stanford University, which runs an entrepreneurship program focused on engineering, technology, and innovation, and which aims to promote development of industry in Nigeria.
Adeola served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee on Philanthropy of the World Economic Forum for four years. In 2001, he was invited to join twenty-four other business leaders for the Aspen Institute ISIB Annual Business Leaders Dialogue in Aspen, Colorado. In May 2004, he was appointed Commissioner on the Commission for Africa by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
He was a Council member, and is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria; Fellow of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria.
Honours and awards
He was nationally decorated as Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) in December 2002 by President Olusegun Obasanjo. He has an honorary doctorate from Nkumba University, Ntebbe, Uganda. Banker of the Decade in 2009 by the Vanguard Newspaper group. Distinguished Famous Alumni award by Yaba Tech. Zik Leadership in 2003. This Day Awards 2011 – Change Makers in Social Entrepreneurship.
Personal life
Adeola is married to Hajara, and has six children.
naptu2: I forgot to explain Jimi Disu's comments about the nursing school.
When Jimi Disu asked Jimi Agbaje the question about the nursing school on Sunday, I said that it was one of his favourite topics. I listened to his show in 2014/2015 when he interviewed Akinwunmi Ambode and the nursing school was one of the issues with which he tackled Ambode.
The Lagos State Nursing School was on Awolowo Road for many decades. The complex is almost opposite Creek Hospital (military hospital) and it is just before the ramp that takes you to Ring Road Bridge (on your way to 3rd Mainland Bridge).
However, the school was moved to Igando c2012 and the complex in Ikoyi has been abandoned. The walls are covered in dust and weeds are growing in the premises.
There is a rumour that Bola Tinubu bought over the complex from the Lagos State Government and it is that rumour that annoys Jimi Disu very much. He often challenges APC candidates that they should explain what has happened to the complex and none has given a satisfactory answer.
Jimi Disu said that the nursing school was built at that location because it is close to the General Hospital Lagos, the Island Maternity Hospital and the Massey Street Children's Hospital and this makes it easy for student nurses to get practical experience. He is angry that the school was moved to a far place like Igando.
However, on the other hand, I've also heard a different story.
I remember that Bola Tinubu fell ill when he was governor and he had to go to the United States for treatment. Many people criticised him for going abroad for treatment. When he returned he said that he was working towards establishing a hospital in Lagos that would be like the hospital in which he was treated.
He later came up with the idea of a medical park (the Obasanjo led federal government also had a similar idea). The idea was that Nigeria had many medical doctors that were practising abroad. These doctors were among the best in their field. Therefore, the government would provide infrastructure (land, electricity, etc) for these doctors to come back to Nigeria and set up practices where the major ailments that were afflicting Nigerians would be treated.
Basically, it would be like a large park where surgeons, dentists and other Nigerian medical professionals that are based abroad would be able to practice for a few months every year. This would reduce the need to go abroad.
It was initially proposed that the park would be in Lekki, but it was later decided (during the Fashola era) that it should be at the nursing school complex. There are billboards on the walls of the nursing school that advertise the medical park idea.
However, the complex has been abandoned since c2012 and its decrpit state is annoying a lot of Lagosians.
Governor Bola Tinubu fell ill and was rushed to the United States for treatment. This was in the early or mid-2000s, so might not find a record of it online, but I remember it very well.
His return was marked with fanfare because people were happy that he had recovered. There were a lot of journalists and other people at the airport when he returned. I remember the news footage very well. The present Oniru was his ADC at the time.
Governor Tinubu told journalists that he was happy to be back. He spoke about his ailment and said that he was feeling better. He also spoke about how impressed he was with the hospital in which he was treated and he spoke about his desire to build something similar in Lagos.
There was talk about the hospital that Tinubu wished to build and this talk went on for months after his return. However, just before he left office, this talk changed from being about a hospital to being about a medical park.
The idea was that there were many Nigerian doctors abroad and so the government would get into a partnership with them. Government would provide land (there was talk about it being sited in Lekki) and other amenities and the doctors would also provide some kind of investment. The doctors would spend some time in Lagos every year and use their world class skills to treat Nigerians, while the government and some private entities would provide the equipment that the doctors needed.
This arrangement would ensure that Lagosians would not need to travel abroad for first class medical care and in fact, it might attract other Africans to come to Lagos for treatment.
The Federal Government, led by Olusegun Obasanjo, also expressed its desire to build a medical park.
Tinubu left office but no medical park was built.
During Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola's second term the government began saying that the medical park would be sited at the Nursing School, rather than at Lekki.
The land for the Lagos State School of Nursing was provided by the legend, Mrs Ayo Vaughan-Richards (here is Mrs Vaughan-Richards' 1988 interview with the Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-05-29-8801030310-story.html) and the idea was that its location should be close to General Hospital and Island Maternity to make it easy for the student nurses to get practical experience.
The Nursing School was on Awolowo Road in Ikoyi and you could actually walk from there to General Hospital, Odan, Marina and to Island Maternity, both on Broad Street.
The Nursing School was subsequently moved to far away Igando. It had been on Awolowo Road for many decades.
The Nursing School was moved, but nothing was heard about the medical park. In fact, that complex on Awolowo Road was abandoned and people began to speculate that Bola Tinubu had bought it. I wrote about that speculation on this thread in 2015. Akinwunmi Ambode was the APC candidate in the governorship election and Jimi Disu interviewed him ahead of the election and asked him about the complex. Mr Disu was very angry because he believed that Tinubu had taken over the place. Ambode could not provide an answer to Mr Disu's questions.
I knew that the place was the designated site of the medical park and I was shocked that Ambode did not know this. Signboards had been placed on the walls of the complex just a few months before that interview and the signboards stated that it was the proposed site of the medical park.
Ambode became governor and in 2016 his government signed an agreement with a private company for the development of the medical park at the former Nursing School on Awolowo Road. You can find articles about the agreement online. The signing of that agreement was the last that we heard about the medical park.
The former School of Nursing and hostel complex has been overtaken by weeds, wild plants and small wild animals. I can't imagine how Mrs Vaughan-Richards would feel if she sees the place today. You can go see it for yourself. It is located beside the ramp that leads to the Ring Road Bridge at the Onikan end of Awolowo Road. It is opposite Creek Hospital (Military Hospital) and Protea Ikoyi Westwood Hotel.
I have attached some pictures just in case you can't go there. You can see the signboards and banners that were put up by the Fashola Administration. They've all faded. Just take a look at this nonsense!
UPDATE: Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu today performed the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Lagos Medipark project, located on the site of the former Lagos Nursing School, Awolowo road, Ikoyi.
This Project is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement between the Lagos State Government and IASO Medipark Ltd. promoted and led by Iwosan Investments, a proudly Nigerian Healthcare Investment company, and owners of the Iwosan Lagoon Hospitals.
The Lagos Medipark will have a 140-bed multi-specialist hospital, a state-of-the-art diagnostics centre, emergency services, essential support facilities, integrating residential spaces, training facilities, commercial and retail medical spaces, which will create a community where people can live, work, and receive quality health care—all in one place.
Today, we had the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lagos Medipark, an innovative healthcare project that represents a collaborative effort between our government and IASO Medipark Ltd.
This facility is set to be a transformative healthcare center for Africa. It will feature a 140-bed multi-specialist hospital, cutting-edge diagnostic facilities, and living quarters for healthcare professionals.
We’ve also incorporated training spaces to cultivate a highly skilled medical workforce. Our vision is to reduce Nigerians’ dependence on medical tourism, which will ultimately boost our economic potential.
I’m pleased to announce that the first phase of this project is scheduled for completion in 2026.
Omoluabi16: Better to laugh than weep, because those comments there are depressing and the ignorance fit make person wail. How can they no know the position of a chancellor? Didn't the media space go crazy when they had that Angela Merkel years ago? Na wa!
There was a screenshot that I was unable to upload. Someone replied to the Ugochukwu guy:
Simple google search of Olaf would have saved you this embarrassment
And he replied:
Why should I Google about him? Of what importance is he? Maybe to you.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Nigeria in December 2024 and some people said that he was a mere traditional ruler, that nobody in Germany knew who he was and that the German Chancellor would never rub shoulders with someone like President Tinubu.
Some said that there was no position like German President (they said that there was only a Chancellor) and others said that Germany was not a Federal Republic and that the Nigerian Presidency goofed when it referred to Germany as a "federal republic".
German Chancellor, Olaf Sholz, visited Nigeria in October 2023 (he was in Abuja and Lagos) and some people said that President Bola Tinubu had disgraced Nigeria by holding a reception for an ordinary university chancellor.
Politicians are quite often divisive figures. There are people that passionately hate Donald Trump. They can't stand him and they hate anything that's connected to him. There are also people that love Donald Trump very much and think that he is a hero.
Sometimes this division can affect people's feelings towards the state. There were people that hated Goodluck Jonathan so much that they wished that the whole country failed just because of him, there were people that hated Muhammadu Buhari so much that they wished that the whole country failed just because of him and there are people that hate Bola Tinubu so much that they wish that the whole country fails just because of him.
Some countries have figured out a way to overcome this problem. They have a head of state that, while he has some constitutional powers, he is above partisan politics.
This head of state does not get involved in partisan politics, controversial issues or day to day policies. Therefore, it is hoped that all people can love and support the head of state because he or she does not make policy that negatively affects people, does not take sides and is a symbol of the country. It is hoped that the head of state can be a unifier.
This system has been adopted in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. In the UK the head of state is a monarch (king or queen) and in Germany the head state is a president.
These countries also have a head of government, who makes all the difficult and divisive political decisions. The head of government in the UK is the prime minister and the head of government in Germany is the chancellor.
PRESIDENT OF GERMANY
The Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany) is the head of state of Germany.
He represents the Federal Republic of Germany in matters of international law, concludes treaties with foreign states on its behalf and accredits diplomats. Furthermore, all federal laws must be signed by the president before they can come into effect; presidents may veto a law if they believe it to violate the constitution.
The German President tries to stay away from partisan politics and political decisions except when absolutely necessary. Therefore, his role is mainly ceremonial.
The President of Germany is elected by the Bundestag (Federal Council, that is, the parliament) and the 16 states of Germany.
CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY
The head of the German Government is the Federal Chancellor. The Chancellor is elected by the Bundestag (without any debate) on the proposal of the Federal President. The Chancellor is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces during war, while the Defence Minister is the Commander in Chief during peace time.
The chancellor is the chief executive of the Federal Cabinet and heads the executive branch.
Photo 1) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Our attention has been drawn to a fake news narrative circulated by a section of the social media claiming the purported death of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at a London hospital. The story first appeared on Monday, 9th December 2024.
We hereby appeal to the public to disregard the rumour. Prof. Yakubu is alive, hale and hearty. In fact, he has not travelled to London in the last two years. He was present at an interactive meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters on Wednesday, 11th December 2024. He also chaired the Commission’s meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners on Thursday, 12th December 2024. Both events were widely covered on television and reported on the front pages of most newspapers yesterday, Friday 13th December 2024.
The public may recall that mischief-makers on the social media carried a similar fake story in 2021. Three years later, they are spreading the same rumour again.
Those who indulge in this practice, as well as those who spread it, should be mindful of its effect not only on the individual but also the wider society.
The Commission will continue to work with genuine media professionals to combat the scourge of fake news and the danger it poses to society.
Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman, INEC Saturday 14th December 2024.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Explaining The Positions Of German President And German Chancellor by naptu2(op): 7:33am On Dec 15, 2024
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