on of these days the Mr. Acting President Yemi Osinbajo could be a President of Nigeria by one day that's all.

coolestchris2:
Yes by destroying more shops
Today' shops were destroyed in ibafo ogun state

So they should allow u on the express way while the contractors are still working there? Some of u don't reason before typing!

Nogodye:
Click like if you want Osinbajo to become the President of this nation.

Is it not clear, l mean very clear that this man is thinking. It's very simple to spot leaders that are thinking. The president should pls continue on the sick leave, we don't need him.

Lordsocrates:
Wailers will die so early... the thing is, Buhari Resigns or not, it will still be a big, win win for the progressives,

Please who are the progressives?
What makes them so?
Which policies qualify them as progressive?
Policies like free and compulsory education for all children?
Free basic health care?
Comprehensive, graduated taxation by everyone?
Are you sure that there is any progressive in Nigeria?
Are you sure that you know the meaning of a progressive?
Better not say what you do not know to avoid embarrassment.

You know, it won't be bad if Baba stays in London for the next two years. Good news coming since he left.

RHETORICS AS ALWAYS

seguno2:
Please who are the progressives?
What makes them so?
Which policies qualify them as progressive?
Policies like free and compulsory education for all children?
Free basic health care?
Comprehensive, graduated taxation by everyone?
Are you sure that there is any progressive in Nigeria?
Are you sure that you know the meaning of a progressive?
Better not say what you do not know to avoid embarrassment.

Too many FAKE people in our country pretending to be what they are not.

Babasessy:

Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)







The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

The "ordinary commissioner" is the boss now. Imagine! The President of the Senate treated him with disdain at the commencement of the regime of Buhari.

I hope they took time to talk to business leaders within the nation. Along with general suggestions from World Bank index.

Jonwesley:
The "ordinary commissioner" is the boss now. Imagine! The President of the Senate treated him with disdain at the commencement of the regime of Buhari.

That is the general attitude of the "owners of Naijeriya" towards their slaves.



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God bless Nigeria and the leadership of the country...

I do not support this artificial remedy. Let Nigeria be restructured so that states can fend for themselves. The idea of sharing the oil and gas money of the good people of the Niger must stop.

Let each states look inward to harness the potentials in their various states.

Magic of the year.

The Acting President, who addressed journalists after the Council’s meeting attended today by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara at the State House, said the Council will within the stipulated period focus on areas that will not only deliver tangible changes for SMEs but also help improve Nigeria’s entire business environment within the shortest possible time.

It is when the dollar rate reach six hundred naira per dollar then Nigerians will know what to do. Abeg the acting president inaugurate the committee on food security , please has it materialized. The food keep increasing by the day. Now a congo of rice is now #750 and still the inflation rate is very high. Sorry to say this again, it won't work. It is their policies that caused all this mess we are in. Some even say they should remove CBN governor as if he's part of whistle blower.

greenpasture:
Please add registration of business and the filing of Trade marks and patents to the mix. Registration is don't take longer than 5 days and one day express should be possible.

True dat. I think in the proposal, Registration to action commencement of the business will be domiciled in a single office instead of CAC - -POLICE- FIRS - BANK etc

bbmate:

coolestchris2: :
Yes by destroying more shops
Today' shops were destroyed in ibafo ogun state

So they should allow u on the express way while the contractors are still working there? Some of u don't reason before typing!

They don't reason at all...........when everything is about "shop"

greenpasture:
Please add registration of business and the filing of Trade marks and patents to the mix. Registration is don't take longer than 5 days and one day express should be possible.

Registration of business in one day is already possible.
At least in Lagos, their CAC office on point.

greenpasture:
Please add registration of business and the filing of Trade marks and patents to the mix. Registration is don't take longer than 5 days and one day express should be possible.

The most reasonable of all the comments.

seguno2:



1. Policies like free and compulsory education for all children?
2. Free basic health care?
3. Comprehensive, graduated taxation by everyone?

1. Numbers 1 and 2 are already in place, depending on how you view it. Public Pry & Secondary education is free. Compulsory? may be not, cos the prerogative is still with the parents. That is why for example school feeding program and conditional cash transfer is targetted at incentivising parents to send and keep their children in school and also allow children to be immunized; not to talk of the targeted 10k PHCs in all Local govts

2. Comprehensive, graduated taxation? This is a mouth-full, but be that as it may, the tax law actually "attacks" the rich. For example, CEO's are now taxed based on a comparative evaluation of income. Gone are the days when a CEO or business owner can pay himself very low salary on paper (while all his expenses are deemed company expense) so as to avoid paying huge tax. Tax agencies now have a template whereby there is a benchmark for a category of CEO's of related organisations - Hypothetically speaking, If the CEO of GLO likes, let him earn 50k on paper, he may still be required to pay 1.5m in taxes

wink2015:
I do not support this artificial remedy. Let Nigeria be restructured so that states can fend for themselves. The idea of sharing the oil and gas money of the good people of the Niger must stop.

Let each states look inward to harness the potentials in their various states.

Classic case of comprehension deficit. You need to go back to read what the topic is about or better still ask someone to explain it to you.

The legislators and executive working together is a new high, quite commendable!

The legislators are playing their games well, kissing up to Osinbajo as he sets to move to the permanent site. Nobody wants to make the mistake some people made with GEJ, that sent them to political exile.

I hope it works out for our good though. They need to push out more daring reforms. But as long as there is a possibility of Buffonhari returning, we would have to just enjoy these little crumbs.

#Buhari_RestInLondonPeace

mapet:


Classic case of comprehension deficit. You need to go back to read what the topic is about or better still ask someone to explain it to you.

I think this guy actually comprehends the post better than you. I share the guys opinion, until we restructure from this our parasitic system of centralized administration to a more commensal system of a true federal state. All efforts will just be like attempting to use MaryKay to cure Eczema.

coolestchris2:
Yes by destroying more shops
Today' shops were destroyed in ibafo ogun state

But those shops were all built on right of ways, if you are talking of those on Lago Ibadan Express way

Meka78:
No policy seem to be working

Testing the policy..

mapet:
1. Numbers 1 and 2 are already in place, depending on how you view it. Public Pry & Secondary education is free. Compulsory? may be not, cos the prerogative is still with the parents. That is why for example school feeding program and conditional cash transfer is targetted at incentivising parents to send and keep their children in school and also allow children to be immunized; not to talk of the targeted 10k PHCs in all Local govts

How can you talk about free education when less than 20% of the enrolled children are in public schools? Unlike the UK that has over 95% in government schools.
Not to talk about the % that are not in school and the pathetic condition of the public schools?

Candybob:


Registration of business in one day is already possible.
At least in Lagos, their CAC office on point.

Really? That hasn't been my firms experience.

seguno2:


How can you talk about free education when less than 20% of the enrolled children are in public schools? Unlike the UK that has over 95% in government schools.
Not to talk about the % that are not in school and the pathetic condition of the public schools?

1. You did not read my submission well. Govt has made education free.......but the prerogative to take it is with the parents. Our laws does not allow you to "force" kids to be in school.

2. I agree with you in part on the conditions of learning environment......but you need to cut some of the goverments who are building new school environment some slack

3. I am not part of the people who define our narrative using other people's. UK educational system is a good benchmark but should not define us in totality. We must have our own local content

Candybob:


I think this guy actually comprehends the post better than you. I share the guys opinion, until we restructure from this our parasitic system of centralized administration to a more commensal system of a true federal state. All efforts will just be like attempting to use MaryKay to cure Eczema.

Keeping it simple, Ease of doing business and restructuring of the country.... how do they mix? is one a condition precident to the other? You lot just process issues from wrong perspective.

This is talking about refining the ability to execute investments and commerce. It is not even talking about Oil specifically

mapet:
1. You did not read my submission well. Govt has made education free.......but the prerogative to take it is with the parents. Our laws does not allow you to "force" kids to be in school.

2. I agree with you in part on the conditions of learning environment......but you need to cut some of the goverments who are building new school environment some slack

3. I am not part of the people who define our narrative using other people's. UK educational system is a good benchmark but should not define us in totality. We must have our own local content

Six decades ago, primary school was free and compulsory in the Western region under Awo. It was an offence not to send children to school and our region progressed magnificently.
China also has free and compulsory education despite its huge population of over 1 billion.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/education/184879.htm

Any society that wants to make progress must find the means to educate all its children.
There is no short cut.

Let's suppose Osinbajo is purposefully trying to build positive momentum. ..

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mapet:


Keeping it simple, Ease of doing business and restructuring of the country.... how do they mix? is one a condition precident to the other? You lot just process issues from wrong perspective.

This is talking about refining the ability to execute investments and commerce. It is not even talking about Oil specifically

The difficulties involved in the registration of business and ease of commerce are as a result of the inefficiencies of the many agencies (usually federal) constituting themselves into nuisance in the name of regulation.

The Decentralization matters because these decisions should be taken and executed at state level, subject to state made laws. As long as the centre is cooking for everybody we are always going to complain about what they cooked. Let everybody cook for himself.

Decentralization is not always about oil. But making the system work more productively.