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I reserve comment!

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All that bloodshed, U are a badcat!

I reserve comment!

Gbawe,

I read your response to me.

Apparently you don't me. Ask those that do, I preach the same message.

Sanusi Lamido wrote an article analysing the Southern political class. In it he gave the Arewa viewpoint - a very raw but true feedback sharing that "book knowledge does not correlate to intelligence".

I don't know how many times I've told the likes of Davidylan, Ibime, debosky. . . .and many others that if the two were interchangeable then South, not North, should be at the head of affairs in Nigeria. Likewise, counting by our lead in the index number of graduates and PhD holders per 1000 of population, Nigeria should be a contender in global developments.

Records show that we have book knowledge but facts on the ground show we are behind everyone. Something is amiss!

That something is "savviness" and "shrewdry". We lack these two values.

Those who are savvy and shrewd and are not anywhere close to us on the academic excellence index are running the globe and giving us handouts and hiring us and paying us in peanuts while they roll in rich fat and butter.

In local politics, Northerners that went to university to study Islam and Hausa language were boss over their peers in the South that went to Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard to study Law, Politics, Maths.

All these narrations are not meant to kill your spirit but instead I want to nudge your spirit to reflect, ponder, examine, in an age where on average our contacts round the globe will bring us in contact with someone who finished university, why is "smartness" still on our bragging tongue?

No prol'm bro!

Thank you Agaba.

No, it was not for me but I wanted to nominate someone and now she has her hands full.

I will still pass your response on nonetheless.

Thank you though and good luck.

Odale - sellout/traitor.

Ako bata - boot licker/boi boi

Aribisala,

Your intention with the original post is what our elders call "learning through humiliation". Its a psychological style of correcting behavioral problems.

The spirit often drifts away from reality and fail to attend to mundane duties. This results in delay and lag.

You talk "negative" to the spirit in an effort to awaken the individual back into the "positive" present so he/she can keep up with the race and avoid becoming the errand boy/girl to those who finished ahead.

Many people here understand your point and we appreciate it. In any forum on NL be prepared, in fact expect, fierce opposition. Its unfortunate the ones that oppose have the loudest voices.

Let Alj hear u.

<Quote>To respond to your questions, @Negro_Ntns, innovation is not ONLY about new ideas, its sometimes about improvement in business processes and execution, or the right timing.

That some ideas have failed in Nigeria/Africa before does not mean they can never work, what you do is examine what needs to be done differently or improved upon. Five years ago when there was little to no broadband availability in Africa, some ideas did not make sense, with increased broadband (especially mobile broadband), they may make sense now.

And rather than spout the principles of lean sigma on here, we will prefer to let our results speak for us. I hope to be back here in 18 months to share where we have succeeded, where we have failed, and what lessons have been learned along the way. What we will never do however is give up because some people feel nothing can be done!</quote>

Ioma,

In almost everything the colonialists asked us to do we Africans did a poor job of asking the "why".

Accountability!!!

We are still guilty of that today. I read in a post other day that Governor Amaechi was replacing the old Governor's jet with a newer model. The state assembly -the ones voted in to speak for the people and act as a check on the excesses of the state executive- were commending Amaechi for his leadership on that decision. They authorized the purchase. No questions asked.

When our politicians and business leaders present proposals we never ask how it impacts us and whether it will produce measurable and sustainable results.

Three successive governments, one after another, introduced and funded the same project under different names and never completed or reported its outcome.

Nobody asked questions.

A fourth regime is coming in with its own name and funding for that same project and still we will cheer it on as a good progress.

Our culture is programmed to cheer failures.

Successive generations of Africans, well tutored and brilliant, sitting on stacks of academic laurels and yet uncultured in true management and sustainment of society. We know how to read and pass exams but we have no clue on how to translate the theories of our instructions into practical utilities that resolve social barriers.

Please Mr Ioma, I do not mean to come across a party pooper, I am sure you have thought about these same issues and that's what led you in the direction you have championed.

The belief that an improvement is needed to resolve the unbearable stagnation.

That's an ideal. Your response for action is far better than what most people do; complain and do nothing!

So if nothing at all, you ought to be commended for the first step. So the Huffington award is deserved.

However, given your response to my questions, it appears to me that you have visions but you do not yet have the plans to realize those visions and believe that things will naturally fall in place as you unfold each stage of the vision with the help of veteran grassroot organisers and volunteers and NGOs that will come along or be recruited.

Be careful! Vision, Plans, Measures and Feedback are your friends in this endeavor.

I wish you the best of luck.


Y,

Temper your emotions.

I feel you and I know and can see your points clearly.
There is miscommunication. You are in apprehension of failed promises and deceit, repeatedly sold to unwary minds.

Your passion to protect the citizen from the deceit and exploitation of the foreigner is in harmony with Ioma's passion to unlock and awaken the citizen to self-preserve and survive. . . .but you miscommunicated.

What Ioma has is good. You and I See a need to protect but he sees a need to empower.

A conservative mind against a liberal one but both striving for the same goal.

Temper your responses and share with him what you know to help advance his good work.

Great article.

Gej needs to read this and Boko needs to read this.

The regions need to start shaping new proposals or dust up old ones for a reconfigured sovereingty and government.

Y,

I believe you read my post in a rush.

Please read again, in its entirety, starting from "Ioma". Lol.

Ioma,

Great job dude, more success to you.

I am reluctant to throw this out but feel the need to get your response to it given that you have a new exposure with this award from Huffington.

Some of the programmes you champion are not new in Africa. In one form or another they have been sampled before and failed.

Though we can attribute many factors for their failure but without doubt we will all agree that vision of exeution and sustainability is primary.

If you are familiar with the principles of lean and six sigma you know that well executed and funded projects are short lived if they are not reinforced with sustainment.

1. To remove redundancy and improve the efficiencies of these programs at the grassroot, are there existing projects that you can cannibalize and fold into your vision for a streamlined implementation?

2. What is your sustainment vision and its transparency through successive regimes on the African political landscape?

Again, Congrats and more successes to your efforts.

Great job and big applause to all the state governments who have responded and got their people out of the troubled area.

Each state took respopnsibility for its students. That good.

However, look at this: <quote> Edo State Government also evacuated 100 of its students af the Maiduguri University in Borno State and also helped to evacuate fifty students of Ondo State origin stranded in the state. Students were evacuated on Wednesday night, following the security challenge in the northern state</quote>

Edo is the BEST!!!

Up Edo!!! I salute una with gun honor! Keep up your exemplary leadership.