tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85691634904174643572024-02-19T13:24:50.919+01:00SQ's DiaryPolitics....News....Stories....PoetrySadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-79016761147209877312019-02-16T16:48:00.001+01:002019-02-16T16:48:22.282+01:00INEC SCORE AN OWN GOAL TO NIGERIANS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1998, General
Abdulsalam dissolved NECON and established the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC). INEC organized the transitional elections that ushered the
Nigerian fourth Republic on 2019, 1999. Since then, INEC has successfully
organized and conducted elections in 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2019
respectively, headed by different chairman with the solid mandated of
consolidating Democracy through free, fair and credible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The political
atmosphere in Nigeria begun in 2018 which political parties were formally
allowed to campaign for office bid for, the incumbent party and oppositions
parties have move round the 36 state of Nigeria FCT inclusive canvassing
support for victory in February 2019. A lot of money was spent for logistics
and planning by all political parties, serials of debate was organized by
different media bodies, so that Nigerians will decide wisely who will pilot
their affairs for the next four years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the midst of
loggerhead between and among the executive and legislative arm of government
over the propose 2019 election budget, yet according to INEC election project
planning propose about 189 billion naira, which was broken down into four
important viz the election operational cost which is estimated at 134.4 billion
naira, the election technology cost estimated at 22.6 billion and 144.6 billion
naira for election and election administrative and contingencies respectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was reported that
INEC has received 80% of money budgeted for the 2019 general elections. Yet 5
hours to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the INEC chairman in
person of Prof. Muhmud Yukubu in national broadcast <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘in view of logistic and
operational costs’ postponed the elections for feburary 23, 2019</i></b>. It was
quite a disappointment for Nigerians especially for youth corpers that slept in
classes, open places and squatted in rooms with no security, other INEC ad hoc
staffs and elections observers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">INEC Job is mostly seasonings;
once in four years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes good 3
years to prepared for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2019
general<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>elections,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>upon all the money and man power needed which
was been provided by the federal government but at the very few hours to
elections. INEC disappoints Nigerians without any apology; the President was in,
his home town ‘Daura’, the vice President in Lagos and leading opposition
candidate in Adamawa for their civic responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The postponement has curse a lot to Nigerians
because what we see today is simply a waste of national financial resources that
were committed in terms of transportation of electoral officers, deployment of
security personal from state to another, invitations of foreign and domestic
observers, ordinary Nigerians engaged in patty business feeding from hand to
mouth were remain in door, market closed, business shut down, offices closed
and school closed. So many parents traveled</span></div>
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across different state to move
their children out schools, sequel to the public holiday given as a result of
anticipated election, many Nigerians travel back home from different places
across the world to exercise their civic right. Is government going to
reimburse them for such expenses? This simply put that INEC is not a goal but
score an own goal at midst of international community but can still do better.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The president and the
leading opposition party candidate have depict their disappointment over the postponement
of the election to 23<sup>rd</sup> February<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>by INEC and urge Nigerians not to relent to come out and vote next week.
The electoral body has taken a step by organizing the stalk holders conference
to resolves lingering issues, I urge INEC to re-strategies its plan for next
week general elections and also retrieve the already distributed sensitive and
non sensitive materials to avoid further national disgrace in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>midst of international observers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To conclude with the
words of Samir Amir “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nobody is fighting for ideology but for
materials benefit and better future for its love once</i></b>”. Please
Nigerians come out in mass on 23<sup>rd</sup> February 2019 to vote for
candidate of your choice, your vote is for better education, health, infrastructures
and employment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘No sit down look’</i></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“No
sleeping on election day”.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the past couples of
years, President Muhammad Buhari have been bidding for presidential ambition
but his mandate was denied in April 2007 presidential elections competing with
late Umar Musa Yar’adua of People Democratic Party (PDP) and in April 2011
presidential elections competing with Goodluck Janothan of PDP; PDP was said to
have won the elections respectively. PDP for the last 16 years of leadership
was reported to be found in gross economic misconduct, insecurity, corruption
and poverty.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It takes courage,
confidence and trusts for PMB with almighty merger of some political parties
that form All Progressive Congress (APC) which defeated the PDP in March 2015
presidential elections. Who are the masses? Who are the elites? How did the
both contribute in the victory of PMB in 2015 general elections? Masses are the
ordinary people who form the largest groups in the society, while the elites
are some selected groups that are superior in terms of ability or qualities to
the rest of groups. Karl Marx posit that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘the history of the society is that of class
struggle between the proletariat and bourgeois’</i></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PMB in 2015 APC
primaries informed the delegate that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘I don’t have dollar to share to you but I
have Nigeria at heart’</i></b> his statement attracted delegate sympathy and
therefore makes him to won the APC primaries elections, defeated kwankwanso,
Atiku and Rochas. PMB bedeviled with financial constraint and incumbency factor
of PDP in 2015. The elites gave their private jets and cars for mobilizations
while some masses donate an amount through a customized recharge cards which
amounted to millions of naira for his campaigns and above all the masses came
out in their mass number to vote out PDP in 2015; I can deduce that PMB in 2015
presidential elections was a product of both the masses and the elites.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Immediately after the
presidential inauguration in may 2015, the led administration started in slow
bureaucratic process <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the economy induce with recession and
inflation; the policy of PMB embargo in importation of food items most
especially rice imposed hardship to ordinary Nigerians, find it difficult to
have food on their tables, on other hand some politicians were been chase by
EFCC for an alleged corrupt practice. For the past three years in government,
the led administrations remind faithful in implementing its campaign promises
of improving the economy, securing the country and fighting corruption. But obviously
much have to be done in security, economy and human capital development.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The recent defections
of APC senators, house of representatives members, and governors from APC to
PDP has became a top public agenda in Nigeria, as of today<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 APC senators including the senate
president, 37 reps members and 2 governors were reported to have defected to
PDP. The PDP is now carrying weight in Nigerian politics with members both from
the masses and influential elite like Atiku, Kwankwaso and Tambuwal to write
few but few. One cannot predict the outcome of 2019 general elections because
all parties are really ready and drawing all the strategies for victory in 2019
but the questions is that, did the elite vote? What is percentage of the elite
in Nigeria? The elites are few in number, most of them don’t vote and even
their sons and daughters are not living in Nigeria and do not even have PVC talk
less of voting. PMB in 2019 might be for the masses but the question is that,
are the messes happy with his administration? The answer will be for another
day.</span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-76428564929923599562018-01-04T17:43:00.000+01:002018-01-04T17:43:33.433+01:00THE LEGISLATOR DUTY AND YOUTH EMPOWEREMENT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The legislator are the members of the legislative branch of government,which are responsible for making new laws and changing existing laws, the govern by proposing bills, beholding votes and passing bills. similar the legislature is the representative of the people, this is because, it is elected by the people from all area of the country.<br />
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I will give president Muhammad Buhari a pass mark in setting up social investment programs such as the conditional cash transfer, Npower, home feeding program and lot of more. Although the government have to do more, to set up adequate entrollement into federal jobs because Nigeria struggle to create jobs is getting worse. New data published by Nigeria Bureau of Statistic pegs the unemployment rate at 14.2% in the last quarter of 2016 up from 13.9% in the preceding quarter.<br />
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The recent interview made by National Daily to Hon. Aminu Suleiman Goro a member representing Fagge Federal Constituency aroused youth public interest on social media, which i deemed it necessarily to applaud his contribution in securing 789 federal jobs for his own constituents youth, 789 jobs in Federal Government will go a long way in ameliorating poverty and social deviance.<br />
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How many Legislators can did such? only very few, we have seen the live of a former member of Jos North/Bassa Constituency in person of Hon. Samaila Muhammad and the current member of Wase Federal Constituency in person of Hon. Ahmad Idris. they have did so much in impacting the live of youths in social, economic and political milieu.<br />
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Is an irony to the people of Jos North/Bassa because the current member in person of Suleiman Yahaya kwande value sports and tourism morethan the constituent project and youth empowerement. 2019 is not far, our legislators please adhere to rule of law and social justice. Please the electorate shine your eyes! </div>
Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-77567597094516821032016-05-13T21:49:00.002+01:002016-05-13T21:49:50.540+01:00Subsidy removal: A Panacea for change!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The scenario of fuel
subsidy removal has bounce back again which has a long history of debate and
has a multiply effect on both politics and economic. Right from return of Democracy
in 1999, every regime came with fuel subsidy politics which can be flash back
in Obansanjo, Yar’adua, and Jonathan administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It became a matter of
concern in this current administration, when government are on thin line to
remove subsidy or not! Finally the State Minister of Petroleum in person of Dr.
Ibe Kachikwu address the nation that henceforth fuel will be sold not beyond 145
per litre. There is no harm to Nigerians in subsidy removal, as the government
promises to increase and stabilise the supply of fuel, added that individual is
free to import the product subject to existing quality specification and guidelines
issues by regulatory agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nigerians need to calm down
and remember who is ruling the country, as we have trust on the president to fulfil
his campaign promises especially as depicted in 2016 budget. The exorbitant amount
of money been paid as subsidy to oil cabal is exploitative, as we are inform
such amount is equivalent to some African countries budget. Why Nigeria? When abject
poverty is bedevilled millions of Nigerians, dilapidation of social amenities,
when average Nigerian bought water, health and power, yet our government is
paying a huge chuck to few individuals who are by far above poverty level and
can even feed thousand Nigerians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When is Nigeria going
to be developed? Are we waiting for manna from heaven? When you travel to some
developed countries like London, USA and china no single kobo is paid as
subsidy and petroleum resources is available all over couple with adequate and
standard social infrastructure and above all citizens are happy. In Nigerian case
is an irony, subsidy removal should be a panacea for change to average Nigerians
lives through job creation, social amenities, improve in health standard, adequate
money in circulation, loan for small scale farmers, traders and support for
young graduates as depicted in 2016 budget of change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The hike in food items
and transports fierce will be in just a moment as negotiation is still on going
to come with a stable price of fuel, if you can look back before the hike some Nigerians
sold fuel at 1000-1500 per gallon and now when sold at 145 per litre, gallon of fuel will be 580. As far as the fuel will
be available and money is in circulation, Nigerians will waves hands and shout ‘<i>sai baba buhari’.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will like to called
all Nigerians to be patients, let the going get going, it shall be well by god grace,
let us gave chance for subsidy removal, also urge the government to revisits
the Subsidy Re-investment Programs(SURE-P) as thousands of Nigerians benefited
from such programs. Please ‘<i>baba buhari’</i>
we have so much trust in your administration, do not disappoint us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-85822575271052138752015-11-08T09:07:00.000+01:002015-11-08T09:07:38.061+01:00SO IS NIGERIA FINALY BROKE EH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Wow!
So Nigeria finally succumbed after all the millions, billions and
trillions <i>disfarahan?</i> We have been asked for several years:
how much money is in that Country when so much keeps on
disappearing? We wish we know how much we lost, actually nobody
knows for sure. What is surprising is that the Country is still
standing. Right now there is a consensus between the ruling Party
and the Opposition that we are on our way to the poor house. Lower
prices! I doubt it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Some
of you might have been too young when General Gowon declared that
our problem is not money but how to spend it. When this writer told
people he was in Nigeria when Gowon was the Head of State, he was
told everyone they know got rich then. Instead of keeping quiet, he
also said he was in Nigeria when Shagari was the President. Anyone
not rich during the time of Gowon or Shagari, must have got a curse
on him!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Economic recession is usually a slowdown in economic activities over
a period of time like two or three quarters in a business circle
which our people have endured for even longer period of time. In the
western countries, it will qualify for a depression that lasts for
two or more years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">One
would expect that in a deflation where there is a negative inflation
rate, the general price level of goods and services would decrease
below zero percent; not in Nigeria. All prices keep going up just
as we pay more when African currencies are devalued on foreign
experts’ advice. What do you expect when only less than one third of
economic activities are between Africans? </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">
Deflation by negative price index may be good if naira is not
devalued. We have gone through recession. Indeed we had depression
with the rest of the world. Note the difference between these terms
though. Economists and other academics have technical definitions
but the man on the street has another definition that is acceptable
to most. A popular one is that if you know people that are out of
jobs, that is a recession but if you are out of a job that is a
depression <i>O</i>! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Awolowo whose achievement was fueled mainly by agriculture, warned
Shagari’s Government</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nigeria would go
broke. Mismanaged economy and liberal</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">imports killed
textile. Not even Awo predicted this level of poverty in the land
flowing with <i>wara</i>, honey where any crop grew if we only
plant. He was ridiculed by R. Akinjide and called Prophet of Doom.
Little intra-African trade, in Africa’s total trade over the past
decade was </span></span>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">only about 11%,
compared to 70% with Europe</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Africans must kill an inferiority complex that we can only be rich
when we trade with Americans and Europeans not with ourselves at
home or with Africa. We must not forget that Groundnuts, Cocoa,
Coal, Palm Oil, from North, East and West of Nigeria gave us more in
terms of quality of life than our new found oil wealth crooks looted
away. While West Africa achieved relatively growth of 6% in 2014
despite its battle with the Ebola virus; slowly and gradually,
</span></span>
<a href="http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Nigeria’s growth of
6.3% came mainly from non-oil sectors showing that the economy is
diversifying.</span></span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The irony of all these is that African markets in general and
Nigerian business in particular never respond to the economic model
taught in foreign schools. Applying old wine to new bottles will
always fail. Yet, those that are looting the treasury are preaching
austerity measures to tighten our belts for another roller coaster
ride. Any further belt tightening, stomachs would burst </span><i>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">PAU!</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We
have this mentality that the best managers of our treasury are
foreign employed and trained staff of International Monetary Fund,
World Bank, Paris Club etc. that can navigate the trick and
complexity of African aspiration. After devastated us accordingly,
the so called experts go back to their masters where they are
recognized with foreign jobs and awards. Well done!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Another case in point: Money Nigerians pour into the so called
“American” or “English” schools. If they can only spend half of it
with parents’ participation in many neighborhood schools, these
private schools will have good competition from locals but they will
never survive with the little starving salaries they pay local
teachers while</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">their “expatriates”
are handsomely paid. Apart from teaching children how to “<i>speak
like European and American</i>” what else do they offer? </span>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Poor
people complain too much. Well, <i>Saro say na poor I poor, no be
craze I craze</i>. What an excuse from a poor man, eh! One can now
understand why they sent their children to Jakande School in FESTAC.
No wonder, the mothers told some wives we have gone crazy by
sacrificing the children for Jakande’s cause: “Our families do not
send children to such primary schools”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The
only way to understand this is that some Jakande’s schools,
especially the one in FESTAC and another by Eric Moore in Surulere
were run like private schools mainly because of parents’
participation in those areas. FESTAC was the best town in Nigeria
where the houses and streets were pretty and smooth even better than
American cities. If you got out of FESTAC town, you could not wait
to get back home, sweet home. Boy, that is now history! </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">What
has this got to do with broke-ass Nigeria? Our mentality got us
broke. Even after Jakande left Office, many people expressed fears
they would never have had the opportunity to own a house but for
Jakande. Federal Govt. was forced to compete with states in
providing housing, schools spurring private trades and manufacturing
jobs. So when we say poverty is relative, it means Nigeria has never
had so many poor people with so little, while a few got filthy rich.
</span></span></div>
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We are
now in the age of impunity and callousness where the very few dare
so many poor people and those that complained are labelled as the
enemy of progress or political opponents. We cannot recognize which
party is for the masses and the one for the very few rich because
crooks are evenly spread across the parties. The masses are so
confused; they do not know who is against them or who is using them
to acquire more loot into individuals and cronies‘ pockets</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
aim of NYSC scheme is to incalculcate into the Nigerian youth the spirit of
selfless national service to various communities and to promote the spirits of
unity and brotherhood of all Nigerians of ethnic, cultural and social
background. It also facilitates the deployment of corp members across the federation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to the perverted level of insecurity
and insurgency<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that bedeviled the nation
which serve as a roadblock in attaining the scheme of NYSC in promoting unity
in diversity, thus led to issue of relocation and redeployment.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Am
a graduate of Bayero University, Kano with indigene of Kano state but a Jos
base corp member.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before mobilization
list is out, all my thought is to be deployed to south-west, south-south or
south-east. Therefore can’t wait to saw the list of mobilization and
deployment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God in his mercy and
blessing was deployed to Plateau state (Mangu permanent orientation camp). I
was very excited and at the same time disturbed because as plateau state has 17
local government council, I feel a bit relief as my friend collect a request
letter from my former secondary school to be submitted to the state coordinator
office.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Camp
life experience is the best ever! Its memory keep on flowing in my vein indeed
a regimented life especially Mrs. Peace inspirational voice calling for morning
meditation, man o war drill, parade especially our camp commanded Captain OS
Kadri (yash<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up) to enforce discipline on
us, camp variety night and above all MSSN paradise night. It was fun as I get
to know many people from East, south, west and north in hostel, parade ground
and mosques. Even though I was inactive at the OBS because been in OBS is a
full time responsibility that I can’t opt to.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My
request was approved to serve in CAIS RIKKOS JOS, the secondary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school
that I attended, now in the same shoes with my former teachers and at home
enjoying all benefit most especially was been nominated by the principal for
WAEC supervision for which I go round 50 school in Jos ERC custodian, it was a
bunch of experience as I meet so many students and have make an impact to their
life. As I relate with some corps members, find it difficult to secure
accommodation and even the 19,800 is not sufficient parents have to supplement
an amount to them while others engage in business, save and even remit money
back home, others are planning to remain on plateau after service.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During
the 2015 INEC General Election exercise my room turns into a mini camp in such
some corp members inclusive of female member’s lies their head in preparation
of the exercise. During the CDS meeting I serve as a Provost always quarrel
with some members in refusal to pay lateness fee but at last rejoice and laugh
as it said ‘we disagree to agree’. Am proud to represent my corp members in
passing out parade upon all stress and hardship by the military instructors,
thus ‘under the sun or in the rain’ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is
not easy to be a graduate and to serve a year upon all hardship and simplicity
we under goes but now we have step forward to the larger society, I urge us to
be good ambassadors of Nigeria and should not wait for white color job get
something doing as it said “an idle man is work shop of devil” God is in
control. Wish all batch C 2014 plateau state corp members success in life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadiq
Ibrahim Ayuba</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pl/14c/0464</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-27386635069669762822015-06-10T12:09:00.000+01:002015-06-10T12:09:34.908+01:00BUHARI: NOW THAT WE FOUND CHANGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Today is the fifth day since the swearing in ceremony of
President Muhammadu Buhari and already the tell-tale signs are
evident that his honeymoon period is destined to be the shortest in
the history of our nation. Nigerians who have been baying for blood
since the APC swept the polls last March cannot understand why the
heads of their perceived traducers in the last administration are
yet to roll.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Many cannot understand the seeming slow pace of appointments
announced so far. Their definition of change obviously also meant it
must be done with military dispatch. They seem to believe in the
precedence already established by the PDP. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">When Olusegun Obasanjo assumed the mantle of leadership in
1999, the first thing he did was to retire all the service chiefs
and a generation of top military brass conveniently put out of
circulation on the excuse of being politically exposed people. The
late President Umar Yar’Adua also did the same, just like the
immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan. The dismissal of the
service chiefs they met in office was done almost as soon as they
were sworn into office. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">But here we are in the era of Buhari’s second coming albeit as
a democratically elected President. Five days into his presidency,
the service chiefs appointed by his predecessor are still sitting
pretty and seemingly under no threat of immediate dismissal. </span> </span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Not only that, apart from the appointment of his two media
aides, most of the other key appointments such as those of the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation and other critical
appointments in the presidency are yet to be announced as I write
this. What could possibly be responsible for the delays? Is the
delay part of the change promised Nigerians? Knowing Buhari’s
well-known antecedents, are the delays caused by his insistence on
picking only the most fit and proper persons for the affected
offices?</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Whatever may be the reasons it is now obvious that managing
the change the new administration has promised is going to be even
more herculean than sacking the PDP from office. The scenario
reminds me of the racy musical hit released by the Jamaican reggae
group “Third World” more than two decades ago titled “Now that we
found love, what are we going to do with it?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The more I contemplate the current situation, the more I am
tempted to also ask: now that the APC has found the change it
sought, what does it intend to do with it? It is not only in the
delayed announcement of appointments that the APC appears to have
got Nigerians worried. If care is not taken, they risk doing serious
damage to themselves in the manner the principal officers and
leadership of the National Assembly are going to emerge. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">It may be far too early to predict anything, but already the
signs are obvious that managing the change it promised Nigerians
will have to be handled with greater tact and urgency. Nigerians
voted for change on the overwhelming belief that the PDP
administration was inherently corrupt and inept. In President Buhari
they saw a beacon of hope, integrity and above all efficiency and
incorruptibility. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Nigerians want answers to all the missing billions of dollars
in the oil and power sectors that defied seemed to defy belief. They
want those who arranged the sham recruitment exercise in the
Department of Immigration in which scores of Nigerian youth perished
after being scammed to pay for their crimes. They want answers to
the mystery surrounding the ten million dollars seized by the South
African government to the embarrassment of Nigerians at home and
abroad. They demand quick answers to these and other scandals that
are too numerous to recount here for lack of space.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">But to be fair to the President, it is obvious that he is
trying his best to prove to the world that he is the converted
democrat he promised. It is also possible that even the delays can
be explained as part of the change his party promised Nigerians in
the first place. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I have never believed that sacking of our military chiefs each
time there is a change of leadership in the country is the best
thing to do except for reasons of corruption and incompetence. Even
so, the current service chiefs will be hard-pressed to explain the
colossal military budgets in the past six years and the
corresponding poor results in the fight against Boko Haram. At a
point foreign mercenaries even had to be brought in to our eternal
shame. They owe the nation a lot of explanation without a doubt.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">That said, the President’s seeming slow pace, so far, will
also be justified if it is to avoid the damning arbitrariness of the
past by enthroning the rule of law. We cannot forget that at a time
Nigerians will not mind if some members of the immediate past
government are given the Mussolini treatment, he has erred on the
part of caution. It is highly commendable that he directed airport
officials and security agents not to molest or prevent members of
the previous administration from travelling abroad if they so
desired. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">It is equally commendable that he reminded them all Nigerians
remained innocent from their alleged crimes unless otherwise proven
by our courts. That is obviously change in motion and it must be
recognized and applauded. In any case, the world is now a global
village. Treasury looters can run but they can no longer hide.
Information technology has made it extremely difficult to hide
illicit funds. </span> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I can hardly end this discourse without this broadside to the
many uninformed bigots that sarcastically wrote to congratulate me
because “My brother” is now in Aso Rock! It gives me maximum
pleasure to remind them that I did not endorse his presidency on the
basis of ethnicity, religion or creed because it would be primitive
to do so. I voted for him because he seemed the most serious and
competent candidate to get Nigeria out of its present quagmire. And
if after four years the president and his party fail to perform I
will not hesitate to show them the red card.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">That is the essence of change and indeed democracy.</span></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-76772200699031157172014-12-04T12:05:00.001+01:002014-12-04T12:05:50.119+01:00Criminal Tendencies In Single Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">There exit, sometime in the life of a
person, particularly, someone obsessed with pursuit of excellence,
when he/she will encounter a literature or article or even a mere
statement that will instantly transform his/her thought and almost
in a single move change his total perception of issues or an event.
This is one of it. Of course, this is not the first time. Recently,
I came in contact with a jewel authored by Rev Mathew Hassan Kukah.
The lecture he delivered at the occasion of the 80<sup>th</sup>
birthday celebration of Prof. Wole Soyinka. The lecture titled “Wole
Soyinka: 80 Years of Genius and Prophetic Outrage”. Even though I
was not opportune to there in person, it was no less the
authenticity of the rendition as contain therein and the powerful
message conveyed. It was to the delight of the attendees and at the
same time to their bewilderment when Rev. Kukah raised powerful and
thought-provoking questions to the celebrant, the attendees and to
any person who will come in contact with the lecture. He said “Our
celebrant has committed most of his adult life exhibiting genius and
making trouble by banging on the doors of African leaders. But at
best, he might have been blowing a muted trumpet. Of course at
another level, we could ask why, beyond the entertainment and
artistic value, what is the value of writing? Who exactly are we
writing for and for what purpose? Why has writing not effected any
change in our societies? What is the scope in our narratives? We
blame our politicians but in reality are they not doing better than
us? Are there lessons we can learn from the distances they cover to
sell their messages? How is that members of political parties
crisscross the country in a way and manner that writer do not?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> A friend of mine
transferred a recorded audio of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to my phone
she was talking on a general perception of story-telling and the
making of herself and her writings. In the course of listening, I
stumbled on so many jewels which left me wanting, thinking and
meditating. One of the many jewels that got me thinking is “Single
story creates stereotype”. Instinctively, my conscience temporarily
got me thinking whether I have been fed of more than that I can chew
with single story. An instant introspection puts me on a
not-too-distant victim of single story. And my story is not
different with many. Prior to my exposure to some literatures and
writers which is of very recent, the very Kukah was once a victim of
single story in my mind. I remember vividly, when President Obasanjo
constituted his political and constitution reform in 2005 which
Kukah was a prominent member, as at then, he was among the members
of the conference that I detested with passion. And this is the
resultant effect of the polarized environment that got over-charged
as a result of the selection procedures of the members. Until very
recent, I am ashamed to confess, my perception of Kukah is from
single line of thought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> Let’s make a quick glance
on some issues and events that were/are usually premeditated on
single story. Firstly, it is almost a unanimous stand by the authors
of Pro-Biafra and their sympathizers that the civil war was only
fought out of enmity that the non-Igbos harbored to Igbos. In their
narration, what led to the secession was pogrom in the North. On the
other hand, they failed to acquaint their audience of what led to
the pogrom. The single story was/is Hausa-Fulani are anything but
evil. Have they spared some space in their narration by telling the
young ones that, many Easterners celebrate the killing of their
leaders (the Hausa-Fulani), In fact, some conveyed a party for the
killings. Never mind open-mockery that the very Easterners: who
were/are earning their living in the North yet mocked and even
mimicked a goat-bleating-sound depicting how the very leader of
their hosts died or get killed in the hands of their kinsmen. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> Of equally important
was/is the story from the side of the anti-secession. The single
story was/is Igbos killed the Northerners and their allies because
they were/are Muslims. So, Igbos to Northerners represents
everything evil. Have the story-tellers spared some space and inform
their audience of the corruption, tribalism and nepotism that
characterized the regime, the story will have been different.
Assuming the actors (Pro-secession and Anti-secession) have provided
a balanced account of the causes and effect of the civil war, at
least the persistent hatred/strife that seems to appear
un-repressible, which defined the aftermath relationship of once a
United entity, would have been much less.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> Secondly is of leadership and
followership. It is a common belief that usually occupied the mind
of non-actors in the governing scheme of Nigeria that Nigeria fails
to realize its potentials and lives to its expectation because of
the failure of leadership. Even the celebrated author, Chinua Achebe
shared this notion. At least in his small book, The Trouble With
Nigeria, depicted so. Achebe argues that “the trouble with Nigeria
is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. The unwillingness
and inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility to the
challenge of personal example.” Achebe did not shared this
perception of leadership alone as can be evidently seen in the way
Nigerian discuss their leaders and the often insults and denigration
that are celebrated in social media or any other media outlet.
Nigerians love to criticize their leaders and country perhaps far
more than any nation in the World. Yes, we have all earned the right
to be cynical and even contemptible about the way we have been
governed and about how the resources of our nation have been
frittered away mindlessly. In as much how sweet the argument may
sound it is as well cheap and too romantic to say the least. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> The postulation that the
problem of Nigeria is leadership ignores the deep structural
constraints on human action and psychology. It is pre-critical to
ignore the complex ways in which social structures mediate, modify,
condition and constrain human choices. Leadership works within
institutional, historical, cultural and economic contexts which
place limits on what human agents can and cannot do. This notion of
structural determination of leadership means that a leader has
inevitably to work within and exist in a system and a political
logic whose proper system, laws and operation his or her leadership
cannot, by definition, dominate absolutely. The leader despite
having a certain measure of freedom has inevitably to be governed by
the system within which he or she exists. And although men and women
make their own history, they clearly do not make it as an act of
will, or in their own freely-chose circumstances, but under
structural constraints of the accumulated past and inherited
traditions. Nigerian leaders cannot be miraculous changed men or
women of their country but the changed men or women of their
country’s changed circumstance. It is not surprising that today,
Boko Haram <i>wahala</i> enjoys the same unilateral view from both
angle. To many Southerners, particularly those of the lower stratum
and those obsessed with false superiority complex, Boko Haram is a
grand conspiracy of the Northern elites to destabilize Jonathan’s
regime. Never mind the simplicity and hollowness of the postulation
and argument. How will a rational human being destabilizes his
enemy’s regime by first destroying himself and his economy and
environment? Similarly, to many Northerners, at the altar of
sounding juvenile, Boko Haram is a grand conspiracy by GEJ-led
government to downsize, decimate and decapacitate Northern Nigeria.
Never occurred to the proponent of this school of thought the many
years of illiteracy, poverty, poor distribution of wealth and
economic stagnation that characterized the region for so many
years—these in so many ways, may contribute to the proliferation and
domestication of terrorism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> Thirdly, it is on religion
and sectarian affiliation. The common belief, on which perception is
built, with respect to single story, is religion. The usual
disposition of thought toward the non-member of one religion is
total condemnation of his/her belief system. Narrowing the scope of
the writing to intra-religion affiliation, one will quickly seen, as
evidently displayed here at home and globally represented—the total
intolerance of other people interpretation of text. The usual
perception is that, for instance, as in my case, I am Sunni Muslim,
even in my Sunni affiliation, I am a living witness to the
regrettable way of exchanging words and open despisement of the
other fraction of the Sunni as a result of differences in the
interpretation of text. Giving the single story that we used to hear
from our teachers, parent or read from books authored by our sect's
intellectual arm, which is often a portray of the other sect as bad,
evil, and many unprintable names while our sect epitomised
everything good. With this mindset, one will be full of empty boast
of himself and sect that, they are the only good people on earth and
any other person represents devil. Our think-tank will never tell
us, Oh! Those people you are seeing, they are good in this or that.
No, the only thing we will hear about the other sect is evil. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">On this note, I want to illustrate one
trend that I found it so disgusting when it comes to unilateral view
of issues and single story of personality, says a writer. For
instance, since the serialization of <b>HAJJ AND THE SAUDIS; IN
DEFENCE OF SHEIKH; IS THE NORTH A LIP</b> by Malam Adamu Adamu,
which revealed to many readers a glimpse romanticism of Malam Adamu
with Iran and their policies. From that on, I have read many
distasteful comments on his personality which was only judged by the
afore-mentioned write-ups, one of the menacing effects of single
story. Unbeknown to many of the so-called commentators, Malam Adamu
epitomized humility and sincerity. He lives a true life without an
iota of pretence. It was reported from impeccable sources that, once
his brother built a befitting house for him to relocate, Malam said
thanks and declined the offer. He was given a slot of deputy
governor in his state, yet he declined. His pen could have secured
him billions assuming he is greedy--hence, many writers who are
unmatchable to his wit and sagacity are today millionaires, until
today, he lives a modest life. It was to his integrity that he was
to write one of the afore-mentioned articles as a result of his
humbleness and humility. He was supposed to be at Sultan Bello
mosque for the marriage solemnization of Namadi's daughters, he
could have been the <i>Walee</i> (the person to give a daughter out
for marriage) assuming he is after this temporal world, yet, he
openly declined and chose to honor the birthday celebration of his
teacher. Funny enough, the very teaching and people that made Malam
Adamu a potential monster before their audience, were the very one
scavenging on the left-over of political loot. What a pity! And what
an incidental hypocrisy! One interesting thing with Malam Adamu that
will left one in astonishment of that paragon of virtues that he
represent is, he is not use to missing the fasting of Monday and
Thursday. He is with his people. He lives among them. He loves them
and they love him. Alas! Single story put a blind eye to all these
virtues and dwell on shortcomings which are not in any way
match-able to the virtues. Mallam Adamu, despite the afore-mentioned
virtues, is equally a victim of single story and unilateral
interpretation of issues and events. Suffice to have a diagnosis of
the referred articles of his. In all the articles, Malam Adamu never
failed to mock, ridicule, denigrate or look-down on people that did
not share his romanticism with Iran. His intolerance, resentment,
despisement and pathalogical hatred for their (those that didn't
share his sect) scholars and followers are usually very glaring. To
him, they represent anything but evil. Indeed, single story creates
stereotype. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Conclusively, life is a journey which
man can never carried it all by his self. We cannot live in
isolation and can never be independent of others. We have to live in
groups and societies. And that society will not necessarily be
homogenous. It is certainly going to be heterogeneous. Single story
creates stereotype. We should imbibe the habit of giving the benefit
of doubt and of course learn how to have a bi-lateral view of issues
and interpretation of events. For a peaceful and successful living
and interaction among the constituent of the entity called earth, we
must learn to live by the ethos that depict our humanity.
Unquestionably and undeniably, we must uphold the principle of live
and let others live. </span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-62625624748425291072014-08-26T14:05:00.000+01:002014-08-26T14:05:22.127+01:00RIBADU---GOODLUCK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I write this
morning with a very heavy heart. This is because one of my
political heroes decided to commit what I consider political <i>hara
kiri</i>. My sadness also stems from the realisation that Nigeria
may be in trouble because those you feel have the moral suasion to
drag the country by the force of their characters cesspit we have
been taken to, to the Eldorado our politicians always promise to
take us to, are turning out to be not better than the worst of the
lot. My sadness stems from the fact of knowing that most of us who
grandstand on most national issues actually use our grandstanding as
a vehicle for personal gain and nothing altruistic.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The defection
of Nuhu Ribadu from the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) to the Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP) came as a very rude awakening to those of us
who still believe that it is possible to change the country through
the force of our collective characters. What Ribadu did to us is
akin to thumping his nose on all those who still believe in him and
those like him, but to be fair to him he has only toed a line
earlier toed by some of his former colleagues in the Obasanjo
administration like Femi Fani-Kayode. Much as one may not like to
lump Ribadu in the same political and ideological category with
Fani-Kayode, one is forced by Ribadu’s action to do so. This
singular act by the former EFCC Chairman gives credence to the
conspiracy theorists who went to town in 2011 with the rumour that
Ribadu and Shekarau were bribed with huge amounts of money to ensure
that Buhari wasn’t the only candidate from the north, thereby
‘dividing’ the northern vote between the three of them. I refused
to believe the nonsense then. I am now compelled to reassess my
perception of the story now that both Ribadu and Shekarau belong to
the PDP.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">My personal
bellyaching aside, is there anything that Ribadu wants to prove by
jumping into the PDP train? Is he in the PDP to spoil the chances
of those who have been in the party fighting the course of the party
and for the entrenchment of democratic norms in the general polity?
Has Ribadu done a’Shekarau’ or is he continuing a project he began
in 2011 and might have enjoyed the fruits of that particular
misadventure? Much as one may respect the ex-policeman, his latest
move has effectively put paid to any claims of perpendicular
leadership. We just hope that Ribadu is not going to the PDP as
Mu’azu’s battering ram in Adamawa. There is already a long list of
eminently qualified aspirants in all the political parties vying to
contest the by-election without Ribadu joining the fray and muddying
the waters. There is also already so much rancour in our politics
and personal relationship without some people trying to pour fuel
into the cauldron. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The talk on
the streets is that Ribadu has never been averse to lending himself
to be used and most often negatively. This, I refused to believe.
Proponents of this line will quickly point his role in the
production of the “advisory list” during Obasanjo’s disastrous third
term campaign. It was a list wich contained all those who stood
against the actualisation of the demonic agenda. Next they rehash
his presidential aspiration of 2011, which termed as infantile. It
was prove-positive to many in the north that Goodluck Jonathan was
bent on creating a third front in the north to scuttle any dream of
a northern president. And he has now being drafted to come and play
the same role in Adamawa. I refuse to believe this. </span></span>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Though the
PDP has its own way of doing things, I just hope for the first time
they will get it right for the sake of the long suffering people of
Adamawa State. The herd of aspirants from the stable of the party
are all imminently qualified to fly the party’s flag in the
forthcoming October 11<sup>th</sup> by-election. If I were to have
had a voice in how the affairs of the party are to be conducted, I
would have suggested other considerations for the nomination of a
candidate besides eligibility and suitability of the candidates. It
is conventional wisdom that whenever you have primaries in any of
the parties, you are left with the burden of managing rancour,
animosity and bitterness. Most times, these acrimonies lasts the
live time of an administration or even that of the contestants.
Also the malice, mutual suspicion and the distrust generated by
Nyako’s impeachment are yet to go with the winds in some quarters. Nyako’s
tenure itself midwifed these problems we are trying to overcome. My
suggestion to the PDP is simple – without appearing to be
autocratic, the party can present the acting governor of the state
in the October 11<sup>th</sup>, 2014 by-elections to contest for the
residual tenure of Nyako. This way, the party won’t have to go
through two primaries in the spate of two months. Another primaries
for the February 2015 general elections will hold in November 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">The other
gladiators may then go for the mother lode – the February 2015
general elections when you will have the chance of being a governor
for four years and not anybody’s residual tenure. The current
acting governor will then be advised to excuse himself from the
contest, be a statesman and superintend the elections.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">All I could
wish Ribadu is – GOODLUCK.</span></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-12661929056741612172014-07-16T09:38:00.000+01:002014-07-16T09:38:41.839+01:00DEMOCRACY AND VIGILANT YOUTH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are many school of thought
in the discipline of Political Science which informs us about the best System
of Government in practice which ensure Good Governance and Economic Development
for instance Benthem Utopian, Green Anarchy and many argue that Socialism is
just like a chameleon pieces which change colors; but Marx believe it is the
best system that will wipe class struggle while others are in support of Capitalism
because it promote the wellbeing of the master; Aristotle classify Democracy as
a perverted form of government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To me the best government is
Democracy because it gave sovereignty to the people and government drives their
power and authority from the constitution, it also provide transparency, guarantee
equality before the law, freedom to the communities, economic development and
above all vigilant society. Countries like USA, Britain, China, Malaysia and
others are vivid examples of a good Democratic state, but in case of Nigeria is
one step forward, three steps backward! What an irony? My interest in Democracy
is social responsibility of people which makes Democracy as an evolving
Democracy in Nigeria especially in Jos Plateau state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A month ago there was bomb
explosion in Jos plateau state which climbs lives and properties of thousand
innocent people to which both Muslim and Christian are victim to the tragedy. The
elders and youth of Jos plateau state feels that the best way to protect themselves
against perpetrators is through vigilant groups societies in collaboration with
state police commissioner on which each street has its own vigilantes for
instances ‘Yan shanu’, ‘Gangare’, ‘U/Rukubu’ to cite but few. I most comfiest
that, the vigilant groups are doing a very good job because a night that is
made for sleep is use to protect and watch over their neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There used to be a loggerhead
between the National vigilant groups of Nigeria which were register nationwide
and the neighborhood watch of Jos north endorse by State Police Commissioner,
the former are well trained and oriented therefore felt that they are in best
position to protect their neighborhood. This created rivalry among the groups,
also the neighborhood watch became an avenue through revenge, embarrassment,
trickery and conflict among youth, so many factions vigilant groups arise in
quest of leadership which serve as a path to collect resources from
individuals, politicians and businessmen and be diverted into their pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Urge the parties involved to
join hand and work together, also advising the neighborhood watch to negate putting
roadblock on main road, to be prudent in recruitment and proper orientation on
how to execute their duties to avoid clash of responsibilities between police and
vigilantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government should try
and support the group in all ramifications <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sadiq Ibrahim Ayuba <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="mailto:Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Aspiring leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-89793397235763029002014-05-16T15:03:00.003+01:002014-05-16T15:03:59.852+01:00SIGN-OUT BUK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262309"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It just as yesterday 2007 I
came for diploma program, in 2009 I secure admission to study the ‘science of
state’ with patient, hardworking and endurance, today am a graduate of Bayero
University, kano concluded my exams waiting for result. It was never an ease
especially at final round on which I engage in so many struggle such as ZTC
Chairman, Photo Album coordinator, NAPSS welfare officer, PA to NAPSS
president, have experiences a lot of things especially when we when to excursion
to Abuja-Bauchi and also when am handling a diverse interest groups of my class
member for photo album of which I try my possible best to see we have a united
interest and have attain it, with the help of the following people below; acknowledgment
directly from my final year project.<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc381262309;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have no
doubt that ALLAH is one and Prophet Muhammad is His Servant and Messenger,
therefore uncountable thanks, Praise and Gratitude goes to ALLAH for everything
HE has done to me as a mercy and blessing in this world, sincere gratitude goes
to my hardworking and ever ready father, for so much he has done to me, may
ALLAH give me the chance to do good to him as well to depart in peace together.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262310"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My sincere gratitude and special appreciation goes
to my supervisor for whom I wish to call my father, mentor and indeed a friend,
in person of Alhaji Mallam M. M.YUSIF,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with you sir, I have learn beyond Political Science, may ALLAH gives us
long life with health and prosperity.(Amin) THANKS</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262311"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My profound gratitude goes to my level coordinator
Mallama Hafsat Y.Yakasai, my H.O.D Dr. Aisha Abdul Isma’il and all lectures of
the Department especially<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malam Abubakar
Salihu, Dr. Muhmud M. Lawal, Malam Ibrahim Mu’azzam, Prof. Habu Muh’d,
Prof.Shehu Dalhatu, Malam Maisara Nuhu Wali, Dr. Abubakar Jika Jiddrere, Dr.
Fatima O. Ibrahim, Malama Halima Idris From Geography Department and Malam
Gambo Na Baba from Mass Communications Department, may the gentle soul of Dr.
Haruna Salihi rest in peace (Amin) our demise HOD.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262312"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I will like to register my great appreciation to my
concern uncle in person of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muh’d Adamu
for so much care, love and support, a big thanks to uncle kabir Adamu, Maman
kano, Shamsu Shehu Soda, Salisu Hassan, Abubakar (babamiwo), Engr. L.D Abdul,
Hajiya Zaliha my Grand Mum, lovely sister Hadiza Muh’d and brother Aliyu
Ibrahim</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262313"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Friends indeed are friends especially Na Baba
Badamasi (BABEE), NAPSS President in person of Wakili and his kind wife Asma’u,
Shamma, Al-Amin, Abubakar (202), Maryam honorable, Zainab Bala, Unche Ibekalam,
kega, umma kulsum, Anka, Abdulaziz, Tofa, Najibullahi, Muh’d Dauda,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bara’u, Abdullahi, Gabello, Malam Ali, T-boi,
nasiru jigawa and all that support me in the course of this research and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>during campus politics struggle, they are
worthy of remembrance in future.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc381262314"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Global age, thanks to my laptop because work has
become easy with you, also a big thanks to all relatives and fellows that, I
was unable to write their name’s to be sincere their effort is highly
appreciated and May ALLAH reward them abundantly.</span></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-89376390873669959512014-04-17T12:47:00.002+01:002014-04-17T12:47:33.335+01:00S.U.G ELECTION ZTC-BUK OBSERVATION REPORT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
aims and objectives of ZTC as observers of S.U.G ELECTION are to ensure Free,
Fair and Credible election in Bayero University, Kano. It has become part of
tradition of BUKIECO to invite ZTC to organize a Presidential debate for the aspirants,
of which BUKIECO provided all the logistic needed for the debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ZTC members and official provide questions
and also host the events, we have invited Dignitaries to which Dr. Muhmud M.
Lawal ASUU chairman BUK chapter, Mallam Abdulmalik Auwal, the PATRON NAPSS and
some lectures in attendances, it was quite unique and marvelous different from
the previous year’s, even though the crowd made a lot of turmoil in trying to
support their aspirants, but the Presidential aspirants were able to voice out
what they intended doing for BUKITES if elected to offices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have 19 Polling units across the campus that covers the various faculties in BUK;
therefore we divided our self into two people per each Polling unit, with tags
that will identify a member as an observer. On 10<sup>th</sup> April, 2014 as
early as 9am, am at the Security Office BUK new site, very surprisingly BUKIECO
has already made all the arrangement and fully prepare for the election, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they also brought out the ballot papers in
ballot box which is been allocated to a Presiding officer and Polling Clerk
that covers the whole 19 Polling units. By 9:30am with aid of the Security Personal
we go round in dispatching Presiding officers, Polling Clerk, their materials
and with two security men to their various Polling units.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As
I compile the observation of my members and also go round to the two campuses,
election commence as exactly as 10:09am, in some places 10:30, in Mass Comm.
10:40am. The Presiding officer read the rules and regulations guiding the
election alone side count the ballot papers, register the agents of the various
aspirants of all the positions in Executives and Senators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Categorically
students of BUK lack Political culture to which, they don’t know even who to
vote for, only the Agents dictate who they are going to vote for, this made the
Polling unit very nasty, unscrupulous, as if we are in a war field where
exchange of fire is going on, I tend to wonder the difference between we
students and outsiders, in some faculties like Law, they are even fighting
tearing the ballot paper to which I even met the Presiding officer to stop the
election but he prove as far as he sign and stamp the ballot paper, he has no
problem with their attitude of voting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In
some Polling unit it was quite well arrange to which the Agents cooperate with
the security personal and have a peaceful election without any rudeness,
secondly the turn out for the election is very poor, to which students are not
up to four thousand that came out to vote, the President with the highest vote,
has one thousand two hundreds and ninety two vote, in compare to the previous
year where the Presidents with the highest votes, has three thousand and six
hundred vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As
exactly as 3pm the election should be legally stopped, but in some Polling
units, it takes an additional hour while other places it takes half an hour,
this create rivalry between Agents and the Presiding officers, Polling unit
like FAIS, as I interact with the Presiding officer, he laments why he add an
additional time, to enable him finish the students that, he collected their I.D
Card as exactly as 3pm. This creates a lot of violence to the extent that the
security man has to run with the ballot box and the students also follow him,
fighting and chanting, that they have to defend their ballot papers. Before a
group of security men came with car and rescue the ballot box to the security
office of which it was counted there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Before
the compilation of each polling units election results it was around 10pm in new
site while in old site some polling units reached 12am before their result is
been brought to new site security office for total compilation of the result
and in each Polling units there were Agents of each contestant as well after
the compilation, they would sign beneath indicating that, they accept the
result. Finally, the result is been voice out by BUKIECO and winners were declared
but the campus Agents of Maigari Sani Auwal refuse to sign the election result
as they are dissatisfied with election result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Conclusively,
the election was conducted and for the first time, after the election result
was counted and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pasted as soon as
possible there in for students to also see, the election materials were
distributed very early without any delay and no any were of missing ballot
paper except that of faculty of law were 46 ballot paper were missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Proper awareness should be made by
BUKIECO that would devoid Political Apathy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Lecture free day should be declare for
every election day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">BUKIECO should be prudent in discharging
their responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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HEAD OF MEDIA EFCC, KANO STATE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-36594808414239818302014-04-17T12:30:00.001+01:002014-04-17T12:31:37.933+01:00ENVIRONMENT, INDUSTRY AND POLLUTION CONTROL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Environmental issues
continue to dominate our discussions and consciousness as it is now clear that
the physical, chemical as well as the biological integrity of our planet is
being compromised daily. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, we live in a
precarious world; one of the greatest problems the world is facing today is
that of environmental pollution, increasing with every passing year and causing
grave and irreparable damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consist five
basic types of pollution, namely, air, water, soil, noise and light. Air
pollution is cause by the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks,
trains, and factories, namely sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxides and nitrogen
oxides even smoke from burning leaves and cigarettes are harmful to the
environment causing a lot of damage to man and atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Evidence of increasing air
pollution is seen in lung cancer, asthma. Water pollution caused industrial
waste products released into lakes, rivers, and other water bodies, has made
marine life no longer hospitable. Humans pollute water with large scale
disposal of garbage, flowers, ashes and other household waste. In many rural
areas one can still find people bathing and cooking in the same water, making
it incredibly filthy. Acid rain further ads to water pollution, noise
pollution, soil pollution and light pollution too are damaging the environment
at an alarming rate. Noise pollution include aircraft noise, noise of cars,
buses and trucks, vehicle horns, loudspeakers, aircraft<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and industry noise, as well as high-intensity
sonar effects which are extremely<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>harmful for the environment. If these trends continue, it would
definitely result to deflection of ozone layer and global warming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ladies and gentlemen, I
will affirm that trade openness brings more production efficiency to the
economy. Higher competition would close down companies operating with old and
inefficient equipment. Higher prices for energy are an incentive to reduce
energy consumption. As well, the removal of subsidies to capital intensive
industries in developing countries would represent an incentive to labor
intensive activities in developing countries would represent an incentive to
labor intensive activities, which are less pollutant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My commission came up of
with environmental goods and services industry which consist of activities to
produce goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimize or correct
environmental damage to water, air and soil, as well as problems related to
waste, noise and eco systems. This includes cleaner technologies, products and
services that reduce environmental risk and minimize pollution and resource
use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Furthermore, in our effort
toward pollution control, we classify the environmental services sector to
comprise sewage services; refuse disposal services, sanitation services and
other cleaning services to exhaust gases, noise abatement service, nature and
landscape protection services, and other environmental services. Organization of
Economic Cooperation Development Countries modernize and updated the
classification of environmental service of which recycling services and
protection of biodiversity were included in order to protect the environment,
yet there are hosts of industries around the developing countries today that
are being consumed by coastal and gully erosion, sea incursion, bush fires etc.
with lives and billions of dollars’ worth of properties being lose. As our
compliment effort to control pollution, my commission spent billions of dollars
in order to ensure that pollution is controlled across the globe through
environmental services and equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Almost all the developed
countries are free from pollution because they adhere to international treaty
and legislation, but 56% of developing countries are still facing environmental
pollution because they failed to adhere to international standard guided trade
in environment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-1183636704082261282014-02-01T15:07:00.000+01:002014-02-01T15:07:42.371+01:00GOOD BYE MUM! UNTILL THEN!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #59008e; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is
far above rubies. Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in
time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law
of kindness. She looked well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the
bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her. Proverbs 31:10, 25-28<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #59008e; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mother, a word that means the world to me. A
mother is a vessel that God has used and ordained to birth “purpose” A mother
nurtures her new born with love and care. She’s there for the feedings, the
changing of diapers, for the embracing, the first steps, the weaning, the potty
training, the smiles, the tears, the healing and the disciplining. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #59008e; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mum dies on 29-01-2014, as written in the Qur’an
‘all soul shall tested death’ HAJIYA AMINA ADAMU. I love you but Allah loves
you more than me. Mum your soul rest in peace! I pray to ALLAH to have mercy,
forgive, and a grant you paradise (Amin), exclusive of your three children’s
that pass away Auwal, Salisu, Ayuba and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the other un named baby that also die, May
Allah grant paradise to all and to rejoice in paradise together. AMEEN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #59008e; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">GOOD BYE MUM…………….UNTILL THEN! We shall join you,
because everybody must die, May we die as Muslim with pure Islamic monotheism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-77654609526989872412014-01-14T13:13:00.002+01:002014-01-14T13:13:50.448+01:00RETHINKING THE AMALGAMATION OF 1914<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Malcolm Fabiya</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
occasion of the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Frederick Lugard’s amalgamation
of the Northern and Southern protectorates of Nigeria has reopened discussions
about whether that action was a monumental error – one which has led to the
entrapment within the same country of ethnicities that would otherwise never
have been in union with one another. There is no question that the amalgamation
of 1914 was intended to benefit the British. Its goal was solely to reduce
colonial administration costs by consolidating the two civil service operations
of the Northern and Southern protectorates into one. Frederick Lugard, the
architect of the amalgamation was an unapologetic advocate of colonial grandeur
and a fervent believer in British Imperialism. Lugard served as a colonial
administrator in Nigeria, Hong Kong, and Uganda – spreading his imperialist
ideas and dutifully serving his Queen wherever he went. Like most of the
Colonial actors of that period, Lugard was insultingly paternalistic. In his
book the “The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa,” Lugard likened the
“virtues and defects of this race-type (Africans)” to those of “attractive
Children.” If there were any benefits that would accrue to the new Nigerians,
those gains would be merely incidental. To attempt to interpret Lugard’s action
in any other way will not be supported by the facts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However,
the fact that the amalgamation was not instituted with the interest of
Nigerians at heart does not imply that there was nothing about amalgamation
that could benefit the inhabitants of the newly formed nation that became known
as Nigeria. Was there anything about the amalgamation of 1914 that
enhanced any movements towards unity that Nigerians were themselves already
working towards? Were there any attempts by the peoples of the lands now known
as Nigeria, to forge unions – through peaceful engagement or conquest – with
each other prior to Lugard’s actions? Nigeria made sense to the British
for the three primary reasons that motivate all expansionist conquests.
Firstly, the Nigerian nation offered lands that were rich in minerals, superbly
arable and fit for agriculture and animal husbandry; rivers and oceans that
teemed with aquatic bounties. Secondly, the Nigerian nation offered inland
waterways and unfettered access to seas that allowed for the movement of
persons and goods. Thirdly, Nigeria offered an abundance of hardworking and
enterprising people who would transform the factors of production with which
Nigeria was abundantly blessed, into products and services that could be
taxed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
North had ample land and mineral resources. Spanning three vegetation types –
the Sahel, Sudan and guinea savannah – the North’s lands could sustain a
diverse variety of crops. Grains, cereals, cotton and legumes could be farmed
in the Sahel and Sudan Savannah regions; Yams and fruit crops were especially
suited to the guinea savannah. The extensive grasslands of the North, and its
dry, low humidity climate were excellent for cattle rearing. The South
had land that was particularly suited to the farming of yams, cassava and oil
palms. Its forests offered an abundance of timber and jute, and its lands were
especially conducive to growing cash crops like Cocoa. The South also had an
abundance of coal – a fuel necessary for providing the energy to be used for
transportation and for production. While the North offered lands, minerals and
people, it had no access to the oceans. While the South had an abundant of
enterprising citizens, it did not have the diversity of lands and climes that
the North offered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
amalgamating the Northern and Southern protectorates, Lugard could consolidate
the disparate benefits that the two protectorates offered. By consolidating the
colonial civil service into one and reducing administrative costs, Lugard was
able to obtain what modern productivity experts would call synergies – benefits
that provide higher gains than would have been obtained by a simple addition of
the benefits offered by the sum of the parts. What Lugard and the British saw
in Nigeria over a century ago has not changed. If anything, in the intervening
century, Nigeria has become a much more viable proposition. It turns out that
the North does not only have Tin and Columbite, but its lands also contain
enormous reserves of Iron ore, Tantalite (the source of tantalum – a major
component of capacitors used in cell phones, laptops, DVD players, TV sets,
Medical equipment, etc.), Talc, Gypsum, Gold, Kaolin, Lead, Zinc, and
Gemstones. The South, it has since been discovered, has an abundance of Oil and
Gas, Bitumen and Gold, in addition to Coal. Apart from Oil and Gas, most of
these mineral resources remain largely untapped and underutilized. While it is
proper to credit Lugard with the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern
protectorates, it is wrong to ascribe to Lugard the original idea of Nigerian
unification. Long before Frederick Lugard stepped foot in Nigeria, Nigerians
had looked across the Twin Rivers – the Niger and Benue - and imagined the unification
of the tribes on either sides of the divide. Lugard was a century away from
setting foot in Nigeria when Dan Fodio launched a Jihad in 1804 which was aimed
amongst other things at extending Hausa Fulani hegemony across all of Nigeria.
About 400 years before the Dan Fodio Jihad of the 1800s, the Yoruba had
occupied Nupe in the heart of the Middle Belt in a wave of expansion of the Oyo
Empire. Yoruba mythology suggests that the deified Yoruba King Sango, son of
Oranmiyan, was born to a Nupe Princess. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
the Igbo were historically a largely republican people, who spurned empire
building, their cultural and economic influence extended well beyond their
South Eastern enclave to reach the Southern extremities of Nigeria.
Like other Nigerian tribes, the Igbo also have a story of origin
that includes stories of migration from the Upper Egypt region of Northern
Africa. Ethnic admixture, cultural exchange, trans-border migrations of people
and products, has long been a part of the DNA of the people that inhabit the
land called Nigeria. All of these facts make a strong case that the original
idea for the possibility of interchange, admixture, and unity of the peoples of
the Nigerian nation was initiated historically, by Nigerians themselves –
sometimes through trade, but also by conquest. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lugard’s
amalgamation therefore was no more than a convenient fast-tracking of a project
that Nigerians had themselves set in motion over 500 years earlier. By
the time of the amalgamation, Nigeria was probably well on its way to
unification through conquest by the Hausa Fulani. Dan Fodio’s Jihad had already
claimed all of the core North, and large swathes of the Nigerian middle Belt –
including Nupe land, Auchi in the Benin Empire; Ilorin, the Kogi highlands and
Old Oyo in the Oyo Empire. The truncation of that possible historical pathway
by the British implies that we will never know what Nigeria could have been,
had Dan Fodio’s army swept onwards to the Sea. We will also never know how far
the Igbo, the Yoruba, the Ijaw, the Nupe, and other groups would have gotten in
their quest to extend their reaches beyond their frontiers. To speak of the
amalgamation as the “accident of 1914” is to hold the view that there were no
plausible geopolitical considerations that could have led to the emergence of
the Nigerian nation in its present form. History is clear in its verdict that
Nigeria’s constituent nationalities have long had expansionist aims that would
have ultimately led to the unification of Nigeria. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nigeria
was, and remains a viable proposition. Nigeria’s lands remain arable and
superbly fit for agriculture. Its inland and coastal waters offer rich
potential for aquaculture. Since Lugard’s time, its population has grown almost
tenfold from an estimated 17 million people in 1914 to about 160 million –
increasingly literate, and extremely creative, energetic and entrepreneurial
people. In the 100 years since Lugard’s amalgamation, the riches in Nigeria’s
earth and the numbers and dynamism of its people, have exploded. Its
potential is more immense, than Lugard could have ever imagined. Nigeria’s
tragedy is that its people, particularly its leaders, have not been able to
turn the potentials offered by the amalgamation of 1914 into enduring benefits.
The amalgamation brought Nigeria’s constituent nationalities into a melting pot
that was intended to distil its disparate peoples into one united country.
Nigerians have so far been unable to birth a more united nation out of the
crucible of amalgamation. That failure has nothing to do with Lugard, or with
the amalgamation. It is primarily a failure of Nigeria’s leaders – especially
the triumvirate that led Nigeria to independence. For all their brilliance and
erudition, none of those three – Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Azikiwe – can be
called a father of the nation. They did more for their tribes than they ever
did for Nigeria. They were all sadly incapable of forming a nation. At the end
of their two decade control of Nigeria’s politics from 1946 to 1966, these men
had managed to create a country whose inhabitants identified themselves first
as members of their regions and ethnicities, before they were citizens of
Nigeria. It must be conceded that the three leaders of the Nigerian nation
created fully functional and effective regional governments. The period of
their leadership of their various regions has been unrivalled since, in terms
of the real growth engendered in schools, public health facilities, public
infrastructure, and economic development. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
Nigeria enters into its second centennial, the question that still lingers in
every mind is whether the Nigerian nation will make it. Will this marriage
survive? There are two answers to that question. If Nigeria continues along its
current path, where charlatans and ethnic jingoists jostle for power and place
their interests above that of the nation; Nigeria will die, if not a sudden
death, then a slow, painful death that will include bloodshed and internecine
strife. However, if leaders who are genuine in their intentions and nationalistic
in their outlook emerge, and find a way to win the confidence of the Nigerian
people, a strong and virile Nigeria will yet emerge. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
challenge of nation building and the capacity to achieve true unity is best
exemplified by the South African nation and its timeless hero, Nelson Mandela.
The majority black and colored people of South Africa were victims of the
racist policy of Apartheid for most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. It is easy
to forget that Nelson Mandela was sent to jail, for his fight against
Apartheid, and for his struggles on behalf of the black and colored people of
South Africa. After his release in 1990, Mandela began his service for South
Africa. He championed forgiveness as a national principle, and pushed for the
new South Africa to be racially inclusive – a true rainbow nation. Mandela
became a champion for the rights of the minority whites. It was not a popular
position to take, and there were many black South Africans who vilified him,
and accused him of selling out. The task of leadership is however not one that
always takes the path of public adulation and praise. The Mandela that was
jailed in 1963 was a leader of black South Africa. The Mandela that died in
December 2013 was the father of a rainbow nation. Nigeria needs leaders in the
mold of Mandela - selfless men and women of clear vision and strong will. Divided
as we might imagine ourselves to be, our differences pale in comparison with
nations like South Africa and the United States. We must learn from the
examples that those nations offer, how lessons from a painful past, can be used
to build a more perfect union. We might be Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw and
Ibibio – but we are all black and brown sons and daughters of Africa. We
have none of the racial complexities of nations like South Africa and the
United States. We might complain about the dominance by certain groups of our
national life, however, no Nigerian ethnicity has been systematically denied
its humanity and consigned to second class citizenship through laws and
policies instituted by the State. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
the new world order in which we live, where global conflicts are no longer
ideological but based on religious cleavages and value systems, Nigeria more
than any other nation on earth, offers the world a natural social experiment
for how nations must address the new challenge of our times – the so called
“Clash of Civilizations.” With its near 50:50 split along religious lines, its
diversity of ethnicities and fledgling democracy, Nigeria is an object lesson
in nation building. The amalgamation of 1914 was no mistake. Here in Nigeria,
we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate the workability of the African
dream of unification. What other nation in all of Africa combines within its
polity, all of the contradictory factors that plagues modern day Africa.
Feudalism exists side by side with an emergent democratic culture. Superstition
and religious fatalism inhabits the same space with an emergent technological
modernization. The Nigerian state stacks Traditionalism versus modernism;
Community versus individualism. The Nigerian experiment is also the global
black experiment. Black people everywhere need a success story from the
continent. South Africa, despite its impressive technological and economic
returns cannot claim the pride of place that Nigeria occupies in the black
sub-conscious. The world is rooting for Nigeria to succeed. As the world’s
largest back nation, Nigeria’s fate – its progress or the lack thereof, will
determine not just how the nation is viewed, but how black people everywhere
are regarded. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
we enter into our 2<sup>nd</sup> century as a nation, there are a number of
small gains that we can celebrate. Faulted as our democracy is, we have managed
not one, but two successful democratic transitions. We have shed blood for this
union in a brutal Civil War. We have demonstrated in Western Nigeria that Islam
and Christianity can survive and thrive in the same space – a lesson that the
world, and the rest of the country, would do well to learn. We have laid to
rest the myth that Nigerian leadership is not accessible to minority
ethnicities. We simply need to demonstrate that Nigeria’s leaders can work for
the good of all Nigerians, and to define for ourselves the terms under which
we, Nigeria’s peoples, will engage with one another. For one hundred years, we
have managed to move this socio-political experiment forward, even though it
has tottered on the brink of collapse at times. Faulted as the Nigerian
experiment is, it has blessed the world with poets, authors, jurists, doctors,
scientists, diplomats, athletes, footballers; it has brought an end to
fratricidal wars in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Cote D’Ivoire and Congo, and
spear headed regional and continental growth. Nigeria can yet be salvaged. What
needs to be done is to address the structural faults that the union presently
has, and then to forge ahead with the urgent task of catching up with the rest
of a world that has continued to move ahead, in leaps and bounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The beauty of indirect
Democracy paves way for Representations through elected politicians,
emphatically the National Assemble serve as the mouth piece of Indirect Democracy
were issues related to human and social development of the country are
constructively discuss and bills are propose to which laws are made. The
National Assemble encompasses the House of Representatives with 360 members and
the Senate House with 102 members are elected base on senatorial district and
constituencies. Members are elected irrespective of religious inclination or
tribal differences but rather simple majority of vote in an election, the
representative serve as the voice of people at national level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a country where we
live 160 million population with different ethnic groups to which Direct Democracy
is never suitable but yearning and aspirations of people are gear through
representations at state and national level, indeed the will of people is
bestowed on representative’s to which they derived their Power and Authority
from the constitution and they are subjected to change when the need is arise
by the people. Why National Dialogue? President Good luck Jonathan calls for
National Dialogue which is expected to resolve Nigerian difference and promote
unity among Nigerians, the national dialogue panel was inaugurated with 13 member’s
conference advisory committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One can picture the
National Dialogue to encompasses delegate across the six geo-political zone
including special interest groups such as women labor, youth union, religious
groups and the disabled people since the conference is about nationality.
National Dialogue is an attribute of a good Democracy but in essence the
representatives which were elected by people should be question by the people
on their welfare and development of the country. Everyone in Nigeria knows the
problem of this country even a 7 year’s old child knows that educational system
has collapse, proximity in electricity, water, and road network, level of
insecurity is pervasive, noting good to write home about more over our
representative keeps on asking national questions which has no answer, yet the
president call for national dialogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">President Good Luck
Jonathan National Dialogue will be a curse and a blessing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Nigerian’s, as a curse dialogue can be
lure through our representatives at State House and National <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>House of Assemble because if the
representative are truly representing us definitely members will travel back to
their respective constituency and discuss about national questions on which the
will table it to the house and provide solutions, secondly it will be an avenue
for greed politician to steal public fund and campaign as 2015 polls is nearby,
thirdly some few Nigerians will benefit in the preparation of national dialogue
through contracts which will amounted billions of naira instead to be used to
boost other sector of the economic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As a blessing national
dialogue will be meaningful and imperative to rescue the nation especially now
that the nation is with intractable crisis, secondly Nigerian’s to embrace
national dialogue beyond the expectation of President Jonathan and make him
understand if he had announced the national conference to suit his personal
interest, he has committed the greatest mistake as Nigeria will not allow him
to temper with the outcome for partisan political reason , thirdly the unity
will be uphold with strong faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Urge the presidential
advisory committee on national dialogue to make prudent look on both the curse
and blessing of national dialogue as well as to make it work as a panacea to
all our social, economic and political problems. Political parties should not
play any role in selection of the delegate; the conference should be free from
sentiment, polarization and not a tool for manipulative political shenanigans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cmr.Sadiq Ibrahim
Ayuba(sq)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com</span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-15093053871734478402013-09-10T17:11:00.000+01:002013-09-10T17:11:13.861+01:00ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION: OPTIMISM <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coal, oil, gas and hydro power are abundant in Nigeria
to which</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nigeria owns the world’s ninth largest
gas reserves; much of it is flared off or left underground. Nigerian government
is duty bound to provide basin social amenities inclusive of electricity. The
importance of electricity to Nigerians cannot be overemphasized as 95% of
economic activities are done with electricity and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Electric power supply is the most important
commodity for national development. With electrical energy the people are
empowered to work from the domestic level and the cottage industries, through
the small-scale and medium industries to employment in the large-scale
manufacturing complexes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nigeria’s
state power company produces only a few hours of electricity a day, forcing
those who can afford it to rely on expensive diesel generators that drain
billions of dollars from the economy. Average Nigerians whose source of income
is below 1 dollar per day remain in total black out as they cannot afford
diesel for generators which courses untold suffering and pains to them as
majority<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of their activities is done
with power supply. Nigerian </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Government’s
have promise to generate 6,000 MW, or even more power through the old
Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, the former Niger Dams Authority and the
defunct Nigerian Electric Power Authority, now Power Holding Company of
Nigeria. (PHCN)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. President vowed to reform the
power sector through privatization which he has succeed in doing so, on which the
complete payment is made last month</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> which has been broken up into 11
generation companies and six distribution companies, all being sold separately
to private consortia, for a total of around $2.5 billion.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Most bids were
led by Nigerian oligarchs or local firms like Forte Oil but many have
recognized technical partners like Siemens and Manila Electric Co</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. privatization in Nigeria can be traced back to 1992 when
Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) was introduced which research has depicted
that SAP <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">in Nigeria worsen the
economic standard of Nigerian’s because there was increase in cost of living,
increase in level of poverty resulted in serious industrial crises. It creates
dependency upon commodities which have artificially low prices as they are
heavily subsidized by economically dominant nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
ball is now in the court since Nigerian government has shun there role in power
supply, optimistic that electricity supply will be improved from 40% to at
least 90% daily, because Nigeria government has invested billions of naira to
boost the power sector and the worst part is that </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nigeria is
borrowing a total of $1.6 billion from the World Bank, Chinese Exim Bank, the
African Development Bank and through a Eurobond to upgrade the creaking
transmission network that connects power plants to distributing substations but
yet no power supply because of corruption and attitudinal in responsibility of
some Nigerians with the popular saying that ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">government work is not my father work’</i>. Therefore they will
mismanaged and misbehave with public resources, in essence as the bid is been
sold to most of our political, industrial and commercial bourgeois here in
Nigeria, they will enforced strict measures to ensure that power is stable
across the federation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sadiq
Ibrahim Ayuba (SQ)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Political
Engineer (BUK)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-91506901811915161982013-09-03T17:56:00.001+01:002013-09-03T17:57:56.110+01:00Politics, Neglect, and the Heaviest Penalty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Muh'd Dahiru Aminu</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Classical Greek philosopher, Plato, in his famous Republic, noted that the
heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to
you. It doesn’t matter if one is charmed by philosophy or not, but, in today’s
Nigeria, Plato’s statement does not only inscribe the basis for Nigeria’s
character defect, it equally awakens the subject of inept leadership that has
served as a classic peculiarity of our country. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Starting
from 1999, when Nigeria transitioned to democratic rule, the most troubling
start for the country at that period seemed to be that the bunch of the
politicians that launched the democratic system—or the republic—as a
representative form of government, were, to put it sympathetically, inept. It
won’t be too tasking to reckon that at the time, most people that signed up to
politics and contested elections were hardly tied up to an auspicious career. In
the Nigerian clime, such a people of discouraging futures—career wise—are most
ably eligible to contest political offices. Nigeria’s 1999 transition to
democratic rule was, therefore, a perfect point—in the history of the country—in
which the crooked amongst us had the ideal opportunity to take control of power,
which they did relentlessly. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It was
regrettable that at the time, credible Nigerians with integrity and honour
couldn’t have considered venturing forth to partisan politics, perhaps for the
time-honoured presumption—that not only is partisan politics most suitable for
people of discouraging futures; without active careers to build—that politics
itself is a dirty game. Out of their own volition—and at the peril of our
country’s future—credible Nigerians with unmatched track records in the public
and private sectors of the economy; who had their careers on the upswing
couldn’t think through abandoning their otherwise assuring professions only to
take the deep plunge into the murky waters of politics that carried with itself
the overt currents of uncertainty. Although Nigeria was successful in leaping
out of successive military dictatorships, it unfortunately leapfrogged into a
democracy guided by the mostly incompetent ones found from our within; an
oubliette democracy, if one may call it that. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But,
regrettably, like Plato has told us, in the end, everything boils down to
politics, whether or not we like it. Decisions taken by politicians today have a
way of influencing and shaping all aspects of our individual and collective
lives. From education, arts, literature, agriculture, economics, labour, and
manufacturing, and to all other sectors of the society, the influence of
decisions taken by politicians can never be played down. Thus, the disregard and
neglect for partisan politics by more competent people in the country—as opposed
to the crooked—must be the single most elemental factor that is responsible for
the sundry of issues Nigeria is battling with today. In a country of more than a
hundred and fifty million people—that lays claim to professionals and experts in
almost all facets of any and every preoccupation—it is quite biting and most
strange that the political showground of Nigeria’s democracy has been
subjugated—in the majority—by the mostly ineffectual elements of society.
</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There is
an insistent need to overturn this trend by encouraging and reassuring the fine,
adept people amongst us to answer a calling in partisan politics by joining the
socio-political system at all levels; local and central. It is high time we saw
participation in partisan politics from an untainted, unsoiled perspective. We
must collectively raise the spirits of our people so they could get a handle on
the fact that partaking in partisan politics is not dirty, all together. No one
should be made to feel that to sign up to and engage in partisan politics is
akin to risking one’s sanity. Rather, it should be seen as an avenue for
enervating one’s rationality; the ability to go in there, takeover the polity
from the hands of the mostly crooked, and to unfetter the sufferings of our
people from a life of captivity, oppression, and suppression. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
civil society groups have a duty to encourage young Nigerians possessing the
passion and the instinctive intuition of managing people and resources to join
politics, en bloc. For quite a while, Nigeria has been losing the dexterity of
the sharp-witted amongst us. Our people, out of disappointments have either left
the country for the far-off; never committed to returning home until the days of
innocence is recouped once again, or have chosen to live a somewhat quiet life
in the academia and other sectors of our society. Nigerians with exceptional
skills and capacity to spearhead the affairs of the country must be ready to
contest elections at all levels of government, from the peripheral to the
central. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">No
momentous improvement is certain for Nigeria until we all are ready to succumb
to a logical, hard-nosed decision, to reverse the institutional challenges that
confront us on a daily life, which obviously are all attributable to a
miscarried, mercilessly corrupt leadership. Not only must we contest for
political offices to change the course of action in governance, we should rally
round and abet candidates for political office who have got a history that is
free of venality and corruption. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">More
importantly, incentives and perks that has become the enticing inspiration for
aspiring to win and to occupy political offices must be grossly reduced so as to
make such offices not as much attractive to perverts. Doing this will ensure
that the best natured amongst us present themselves for political offices more
willingly than the dishonest. Electioneering processes should also be conducted
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called to debate and deliberate on matters of contemporaneity, and how to set
about tackling societal problems. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Not to
overlook, the society should also enact and uphold stringent laws of inflexible
penances that would effectively deal with persons caught within the webs of
graft as a way of demonstrating deterrence to would-be duplicitous offences
often committed in public service. All these and more can be achieved, just so
we could reverse the awful trend we are faced with; the heaviest penalty—to
quote Plato—that we all have unduly been punished with, for not daring to
participate in partisan politics, and for declining to rule.</span></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-36177470273909774682013-08-29T09:16:00.000+01:002013-08-29T09:16:08.025+01:00ASUU STRIKE: NANS HAS FAILED NIGERIAN STUDENTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National Association of
Nigerian students(NANS) is the mother of all Nigerian universities unionism
which was ought to be a body that fight for rights and privileges of students
and to ensure that we have good Education system and sound academics
environment alongside with ASUU and other student bodies. In those years when
NANS was NANS there was unity among all Nigerian students with the spirits of
ones and comprise of young vibrant, energetic and student minded union, were
ever the called for assembly students across the federation will match until
the seen the light of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">History has inform us
how students struggle for the independent of Nigeria and also how students
stood against the SAP implementation in Nigeria in 1992<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8569163490417464357" name="_GoBack"></a>
and so many movement for emancipation of our rights. The irony in NANS of today
is quite alarming when the leadership in NANS was dictated by stalk holders who
are Non- students or university drop out, who are in forefront in NANS affairs
to manipulate and maneuver issues according to what suit them and their Godson,
it will not be an exaggeration to write NANS of today is full of impersonation
and factional teams who are more corrupt then some Nigerian politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The ongoing nationwide
8 weeks strike by ASUU which has paralyzed academic activities in Nigeria on
failure of the federal government to implement the 2009 agreement was quite a catastrophe
for Nigerians and a shame for Nigerian government as the giant of Africa, who
are bless with abundant natural and human resources, but the issue at stalk,
health workers are on strike, bad road network, no water supply and
environmental sanitation, electricity is privatize, similar story in all<span> </span>sphere of life in Nigeria, there was nothing
to write home about. Even due there was an effort by the government to ensure
that striking lecturers resume back works, but the ASUU under the leadership of
Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge remain adamant until the 2009 agreement is fully implemented.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The scenario has reach
zenith as series of meetings and negotiationshas been holding between ASUU delegate
and FG representatives but concluded deadlock, to the extent that ASUU has pull
out negotiations and very soon FG will declare ‘no work no pay’ which will
implicit stress to our lectures. When Nigeria politicians are paid millions of
naira every mouth as take home apart from other allowances and yet some loot
billions of dollars to swizz account. A country where 6 million is spent every
day in Mr. President Kitchen and billions of naira for his welfare and yet
cannot afford 92 billion for striking lectures. Just because their children are
not studying in Nigerian universities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Third party is
emergency needed between the two fighting elephant,which will mediate and call
for dialogue so that issues will be resolve, who are those third party? The traditional
rulers, theNigerian Generals, the statesman, the elite and of course the
Nigerian students.The best in position to mediate over are the Nigerian
students.Since ASUU demand is purposely for student’s welfare as well to
promote the Nigerian educational system. Students umbrella is NANS and yet NANS
executives are stooges of FG whose interest is to safeguard the reputation of
President Jonathan calling for sacking Minister of Education and Minister of
Labour and Productivity, so that, they will be used in 2015 polls and be given
millions of naira as what happen during the fuel subsidy protest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The leadership of NANS
led by YinkaGbedo has failed Nigerian students which was jettisoned the
interest by using strike to make money for their pocket. They have failed to organize
a peaceful demonstration against FG failure in fully implementation of 2009 agreements
but rather calling of state of emergency in ministry of Education. We are tired
of press release, we need action and we have constitution back up in peaceful
assembly. If not history will repeat itself as in 1993 when ASUU wasled by
prof. AttahiruJaga and now currently the INEC boos, when on strike and lasted
for 8 mouths.Which no one will pray for such to happenagain.NANS leadership is
immature; I wonder how they will mediate over ASUU strike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The leadership
should be able to consulate beliefs as well as mobilize its members and the
citizenryfor positive action. The leaders should commune emotionally with their
followers. They should not be selfish individuals who ride on the back of the
people in order to achieve personal goals and ambitions. The goals of the
leadership must not be at variance with those of thefollowers. Like national
leadership, the leaders of the movement must be ready to suffer severe
deprivation in the interest of the people. No matter how important or effective
the leader may be, the qualities that endear him to his people may soon fade
away, ifhe operates in an ideological vacuum. Even if he manages to cope, as
most charismatic leaders do, things could be very difficult for his successors.
This is why the issue of ideology is linked with leadership. Until then, we can
say aluta continue victoria acerta!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sadiq Ibrahim
Ayuba(SQ)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student of power
and political analyses (BUK)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="mailto:Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ibrahimsadiq194@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-66418642634895346862013-06-23T14:10:00.002+01:002013-06-23T14:11:40.884+01:00Battle for Public Offices: Nigerians Yearning to Serve? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In just under two years, Nigerians
would be called upon to exercise their constitutional rights of voting for
leaders of their constituencies, state governments and most importantly, their
nation. This wonderful process of democracy allows Nigerians to give their
mandate to whomever they so desire, being accountable to no one but themselves.
Although the elections are not yet in our faces, the campaign and propaganda
are. Depending on where your sentiments lie, you may find the
‘we-have-performed’ claims from those in power either laughable or laudable. On
the other hand, you may find the ‘we-are-saints-and-messiahs’ insinuations from
the opposition either nauseating or stimulating. Regardless of the political
bandwagon you hop on, you can’t deny sensing the palpable tension leading up to
2015. The trash talk between political rivals alone is enough to give one
nightmares. All this hullabaloo leads one to mindlessly defy temporal
dimensions and think 2015 is tomorrow. Indubitably, it is not. Then why are we
being bombarded with such hoopla and noisy clamor at this early stage? Well,
for the novice, it may seem early. For the political office hustler, it is just
right. The power struggle for those fat-cheque-paying offices is well worth the
fracas. Public offices shouldn’t be seen in that manner, however. They
shouldn’t be seen as opportunities for personal wealth accumulation, bully
pulpits for intimidation, platforms for settling political/personal vendettas
or ways to lay dibs on a piece of the so-called ‘national cake’. Public offices
should only be seen as avenues to be used to positively impact and better the
lives of common Nigerians. Judging from the state of the nation, it is clear
that these offices, along with their monetary allures, are regarded as routes
to utopia and getting to them should be nothing short of a do-or-die affair.
Aspirants of such offices entice us with their often overly optimistic and
unrealistic promises, camouflaging under the name of patriotism and dismissing
any allegations that pecuniary magnetisms are the primary reasons behind their
contest. But how true is that? Well, let us look at a very popular example: The
Nigerian lawmakers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to PM NEWS, each <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Nigerian senator heads home with an annual allowance of
N180 million ($1.2 million) and a member of the House of Representatives laughs
to the bank with an annual allowance of N144 million. This is excluding their
basic salary and the estacodes for in-house and foreign committee work. There
are 109 serving senators and 360 house of representative members. In 2011, the
CBN governor, Lamido Sanusi, infamously stated that </span><span style="color: #262626;">“Twenty five per cent of the overhead of the Federal
Government budget goes to National Assembly’’. He added that as of 2010,
‘’total government overhead was N536, 268, 492, 080. Total overhead of the
National Assembly was N136, 259,768,112 which was exactly 25.1 per cent of
Federal Government overhead’’.</span> <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">To put this
in context, </span>a lawmaker in India earns N3.7 million ($23,988) per annum
and so will need to work for at least 49 years to earn the annual allowance of
a Nigerian senator and at least 39 years to earn the N144m annual allowance of
a member of the House of Representatives. The Nigerian lawmakers are
unsurprisingly, the highest paid in the world. Section 70 of the 1999
constitution states that the salaries and allowances of the federal legislators
shall be determined and fixed by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC). Therefore, these outrageous sums are apparently in perfect
alliance with the laws of the land. <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">It is worth
noting that non-electable public offices are no different. According to the
report by the Adamu Fika led-committee </span><span style="color: #262626;">on
the Reform Processes in the Public Service</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">, </span><span style="color: #262626;">salaries and allowances of permanent secretaries and top
civil servants rose from N126.7 billion in 2007 to N1.126 trillion in 2012. It added
that ’’Out of this, salaries took a mere N94.56 billion, while allowances
gulped the whole of N1.03 trillion, which represented 91.56 per cent’’. This
shocking sum is once again approved by the </span>Revenue Mobilization
Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). <span style="color: #262626;">It is
worth noting that the entire civil service makes up less than 0.013 per cent of
the total population of the country.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us delve into the discussion of
this unsustainable, insensitive, immoral and indefensible package of allowances
by looking at current state of the nation. According to the Bureau of National
Statistics (BNS), the current unemployment rate is 23.9 percent. The Labor
force total in Nigeria was last reported at 51,669,297 in 2011. This means at
least 12 million people are unemployed. To put this in context, Chad has a
population of 12 million people. In addition, over 70 percent of the Nigerian
population ekes a living on less than N160 a day. So how is it morally
acceptable or socially just for the House of Assembly (469 people) to pocket
revenues worth 25 percent of the federal overheads? Are we waiting for the
lawmakers to say ‘cut my allowances, we’ve had enough’ before we act? Nigeria
ranks 187 out of 200 countries in the World’s health systems rating by the
World Health Organisation (WHO), way below countries like Chad, Rwanda and
Mali. <a href="http://apps.who.int/gho/indicatorregistry/App_Main/view_indicator.aspx?iid=93"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">General
government expenditure on health as a percentage of total government
expenditure</span></a> is 7.5 percent. In terms of education, <span style="color: #262626;">over 70 percent of students that take the WAEC every year
fail and only 1 out of 5 university applicants gets offered a place.</span> So
how would we ever ripen sectors such as health and education (that are
paramount to our development) when the civil service (<0.013 percent of the
population) alone hijacks 70 kobo out of every N1 that Nigeria earns? This
leaves just 30 percent of the yearly Nigerian budget to serve the remaining 168
million people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Section 4 of the 1999
constitution tasks the legislature to make laws for </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“the peace, order and good government of the federation”<span style="color: #262626;"> but many believe the House of Assembly is the bane of
our development. With over 70 percent of the Nigerian budget accounting for
recurrent expenditure (payment of salaries, allowances and government running
costs), when should we expect the much needed infrastructural development? 30
percent of the budget allocated for capital expenditure is grossly insufficient
to impact a continuously growing population. Many have expressed their
disagreement with this social injustice, the prominent ones being the CBN
governor, Mr Femi Falana, Solomon Kehinde and the Adamu Fika-led committee.
Personally, what worries me most is not the financial aspect of things, but the
psychological impact this unfairness has on the youths. It’s an undisputed fact
that our education, health and security sectors need major reforms. But how do
you convince the youths to follow career paths in these sectors? How would you
convince them that, in the interest of the nation, it is better to be referred
to as ‘Mr. lecturer’ rather than ‘Honourable’ or ‘His Excellency’? Nigeria is
not in need of more politicians; it is in dire need of good teachers, doctors,
policemen and entrepreneurs. But would you convince your child to join the
police force and earn N40, 000 – N50, 000 a month as a constable, while risking
his life in service? Or would you rather see him at the air-conditioned
national assembly gatherings in his flowing Agbada? The sooner we reduce the
monetary appeals of public offices, the sooner we would know those who really
want to serve the nation. The sooner we tackle this lopsided allowance and
salary structure, the quicker we would reverse the unhealthy trend of spending
70 percent of the national budget on recurrent expenditure. In conclusion, the </span>Revenue
Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) needs to revise their
salary and allowances allocation formula to a more sustainable, fair and
patriotic alignment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-38651494190708469052013-06-13T22:00:00.000+01:002013-06-13T22:00:20.647+01:00ARMS ECONOMY AND THE GROWTH OF CAPITALISM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In the written of Earnest
Mandel in his book ‘Late Capitalism’. Ladies and gentlemen, capitalism is a
child of necessity in modern political economy because as human beings started
from babies to adult likewise capitalism grow, historically from the renaissance
period capital is in childhood age, immediately after the second world war
capitalism shift to its adulthood stage which could be refers to as monopoly
stage, In the 1970s capitalism advance to the period of its zenith, in other
word the golden era.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The world has experienced
political instability and economic meltdown as the result of first and second
world war, the fascist movement<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the
era of cool war has emphatically resulted to the production of weapons which
plays a significant role in the imperialist economy, in essence the production
of weapons and arms for the dynastic wars from the 15<sup>th</sup> to the 18<sup>th</sup>
century was a major source of primitive accumulation and one of the most
important midwives of early capitalism, as a stimulus to accelerate industrialization,
arms expenditure and war played a considerable role in the acceleration of the
capitalist market throughout modern epoch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1961 the production of
weapons amounted to nearly half of gross investment in the world all over, this
could be seen in the proportion of arms production and military spending in the
gross national product of the USA, which depict 70% in compare to the other
sector of the economy. The growing significance of the arms traffic in world
trade is a treat to the production of weapons as commodity production as well
as capital accumulation in imperialist state. In 1955 arms export in the world
market is totally approximately 2.2 billion dollars. In 1962-68 the average was
already 5-8 billion dollars, of which the Soviet Union was responsible for 2
billion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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permanent arms economy is vividly seen in the parasitic nature of capitalist
monopoly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on which prophet Karl Marx has
criticize the imperialist state in the fusion of arms companies, military
commanders and of course the bourgeois politician; which made off up the
‘military industrial complex’. Sir Karl Marx also criticize the expenditure and
budgetary of military especially in developed countries on which military
spending supersede other sector of economy, also in process of arms production,
the military industrial complex harness surplus value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-89814337203405001912013-06-04T12:36:00.002+01:002013-06-04T12:36:46.037+01:00WHAT A COUNTARY..................<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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to sources, Former Bayelsa state Governor Alamieyeseigha, Ex-Nigerian convict
who was pardoned by President Goodluck Jonathan, was pardoned in a bid to
fulfill his senatorial ambition in Bayelsa central senatorial district in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During
his tenure in office, Alamieyeseigha stole several billions of Naira from
Bayelsa state and was investigated by the EFCC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of many Nigerian former governors that were convicted as looted now they are
enjoying national cake and so called legitimate power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this the kind of Justice any Nation should give its citizens?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadiq Ibrahim Ayubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05333120608740549679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569163490417464357.post-60459933303666473492013-05-31T12:28:00.000+01:002013-05-31T12:28:02.130+01:00What Governors? What Forum?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anger, danger, hunger that Nigerians suffer from governments’ ineptitude are
unimportant. Everything is about 36 men and some outsiders who have created
another distraction to keep our eyes off them as they steer the Nigerian ship
recklessly.<br />
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What is the NGF? Why is it suddenly so important? Why if the Presidency is not
interested in the crisis, one of the factions feels obliged to report to the
Vice President (the President was at the African Union 50th anniversary
celebrations in Addis Ababa)? Would the faction have reported to the President
if he was around? Why the presidential support for a factional NGF secretariat?<br />
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Sentiments and issues have tangled; it is difficult to separate them. Governors
who participated in the election, certain of their group’s victory, are turning
around to smear the exercise as flawed. If they won would their position have
been different?<br />
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Thanks to technology even those who said they did not vote have been
contradicted.<br />
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Where was the rigging? The 35 votes cast matched the number of governors in
attendance. Nobody complained about the counting until the loss. Political
miscalculation is at the root of what has been promoted to a crisis. The
complaining faction believed it had the numbers to win.<br />
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NGF is an association of governors. Membership is not compulsory. Attendance at
its meetings used to be poor until the past two years when NGF has rallied
governors’ positions on issues, mostly States’ participating in decisions about
dispersing Nigeria’s resources.<br />
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Every governor wanted more money, presumably to develop his State. The forum
met a need. Among its critics are those who wonder why states resources are
spent on NGF, an exclusive club, whose membership is only 0.0000225 per cent of
Nigeria’s population.<br />
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The undue importance placed on NGF is an excellent example of how our
governments think only about themselves. They would stop at nothing to please
themselves, showcase their importance, and disrupt things to get things done
their way. Quests for power platforms are primed at annexation of any
association that could raise a contrary voice. NGF was a prime target.
Opposition would not be brooked. The point is made emphatically enough to
strike fear in dissenters.<br />
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Politicians have again placed their greed above everything.<br />
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We hope parties to the conflict realize Nigerians elected them to serve the
people. Nothing is more important than the welfare and security of the people,
the NGF crisis cannot enhance them, especially governor Jang that failed to manage
his own state, I wonder how, he will manage the whole northern part of Nigeria?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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life is full of risks and danger due to the maturity of technology because act
of terrorism has reached its climax and militarization is the order of the day.
In view of the speech of President Jonathan on May 15, 2013. On which he
declare state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe state of Nigeria, as he
lamented over on high level of militancy, criminality, and act of terrorism
bedevil the nation, the declaration is aim at restoring public order, public
safety and security in the affected states of the Federation, but it depict
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The ideological underpinning of the speech
could be seen from different point of view, I specifically view it form post-modern
paradigm because of the changes that occur in Nigeria and incident of bombs
here and there. More over the activities of insurgents and terrorists have been
reprehensible, causing fear among Nigerians and a near-breakdown of law and
order in parts of the country. In these scenario government of the day lamented
over and over, in order to tackle the issue, the enter into persuasion and
dialogue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but there effort prove
abortive, due to the high level of militancy and criminality couple with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sophisticate weapons which were given from
other terrorist group across the world. The assist them with money, weapons,
and other electronic machines that would destroyed a country within a twinkle
of an eye, this has depict post-modern paradigm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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declare the state of emergency but still Mr. President is urging the governors
of the effected state, to continue with their constitutional responsibility and
cooperate with the military personnel, this capture the saying of Roser about
the value of military in capital accumulation, because definitely, the military
that are sent to those state would be given allowances which will amount
millions of naira, there uniform will also be change, more weapons will be
given to them. In these scenarios, capital accumulation would continue as must
of the top Nigerians military personnel are members of global military
industrial complex including the defense minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I am a citizen of my nation, a nation always eager to forgive. This
is a nation that offers forgiveness even when it is not asked. Mine is a
deceived nation, sold the counterfeit religion in which it gloats. The messages
coming from the pulpits of many religious congregations are adulterated. Nigeria
is made drunk from spiked religious wine. Wrong theology has made us inured to
evil and hateful of reason. Many of my people believe that reason is
antithetical to true religion. But reasoning is the path to true knowledge of
true religion. “Come and let us reason together” is a phrase common in true
religion. I call on Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to come along with me on
this journey of reason.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">If right living follows right knowledge, why is it that in spite of
so many churches on our streets and many Islamic sects in Nigeria this nation
has known neither peace nor purity in either private or public conduct? The
reason is that what is taught in churches and mosques is not right knowledge. If
traditional religion was the repository of pure knowledge, why is it that the
custodians of culture, Nigeria’s traditional rulers, have not shown a better
example than politicians do? </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Religious, traditional, and political leaders in Nigeria always
call for forgiveness, unity, and peace. The louder those calls are becoming,
much worse have killings, kidnappings, public corruption, and private
corruptions become. Religious leaders live like kings and queens while the
majority of their congregation lives in abject poverty. They promise prosperity
and “breakthroughs” to their congregations, but extreme poverty is the sad
result. They make merchandize of the people, but the people worship and revere
them. When you attempt to point out the wrong of either religious or political
leaders, you are warned of the destructive fate that awaits those that
dare—“Touch not the Lord’s anointed!” There is hypnotism of religion,
complemented by quasi-democratic fraud.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">If the primary purpose of government is security and welfare of the
people, then we should not “just forgive” offenders of the state whose actions
have impoverished the people, reduced the life expectancy, brought people to
untimely deaths, and worsened all human development indices. Religious people
parrot that we should “forgive”, that “to err is human, but to forgive is
divine.” So we have cheapened forgiveness, and engaged in public distribution of
“forgiveness” even to those who neither appreciate nor deserve it. But there is
a fact about forgiveness that Nigerians often overlook. Political leaders are
“Avengers” for God, “sword-bearers” for God, and “ministers” of God, who must
reward those that do good, and punish those that do evil. They cannot forgive on
behalf of the people except this serves public interest. Furthermore,
restitution must follow. For instance, if a road project was paid for, and yet
the road was not built, it would be a public offence for the leader, the
avenger, the sword-bearer, and minister, to “forgive” without first recovering
all embezzled public funds and resulting fines from the contractors and
conniving thieving public officials. Even at that, as a deterrent, those
criminals must be punished. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Many religious Nigerians would call for accountability from public
officials, but when you ask their religious leaders to give annual account of
the offerings and “tithes” that they collect, you would be branded badly by the
same religious folks. They hold their pastors, overseers, and bishops like some
demigods who are beyond reproach and questioning. Why do we hold different
standards for different people? A Nigerian pastor would warn his congregation
against “politics” and claim that “politics is a dirty game.” The next moment,
you see him hobnobbing with those “dirty politicians” and collecting gifts from
them. They also “bless” the same “dirty politicians” who visit them to “collect
blessing”. What a contradiction! Furthermore, when you get close to their
churches, you would witness first-hand the deadly politics for power among
pastors and church leaders.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> Politics is not a dirty game anymore than church governance is.
Some players may be corrupt, but that does not make the game so. Can you imagine
a world without political leaders to whom God refers as his “ministers”? Every
man and woman has their calling from God, and this is a private matter. Our
religious leaders have done a poor job on Nigerians, many of whom are members of
their congregation. Those are left uneducated about holding their leaders
accountable. Rather, they are told blandly to “pray” for their leaders. “The
Pharisees sit in the seat of Moses. Don’t do what they do, for they say and do
not.” These are the words of Jesus Christ who took time to teach his disciples
about the position and responsibilities of leaders. A religious leader must be
well-informed about the constitutional provisions (the responsibilities, rights,
and privileges of citizens and leaders) of his country in addition to his
professed knowledge of the scriptures. The same goes to Islamic leaders, and
leaders of other religions. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Many Nigeria scholars and professors have equally failed the young
that sit under their tutoring. A professor of Chemistry, for instance, can
hardly comment intelligently about public issues such as budgeting, democratic
governance, constitutional rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizens
and leaders, etc. They only write “research papers” for either promotion or to
keep down their jobs. They are not ashamed to say, “I am not interested in
politics.” Is it any wonder that Nigerian students pass through their academic
care and cannot discuss intelligently their nation, but react only by spewing
out vulgarities when they lack the intellectual dexterity to engage in
discourses? I believe, and I have written that Nigerians must give themselves to
reading for national renewal. Nigerians, thieves won’t steal your books; so why
don’t you invest your money in buying books that will expand the quality of your
thought? We seem not to have faith in the power of knowledge. We believe rather
that with plenty of money we can buy just anything in Nigeria, including votes
and public offices. This is also a deception. When the light of proper knowledge
lights up Nigerians, this cannot happen anymore. The probability of lies winning
in an oasis of knowledge approaches zero! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We don’t need mega parties to win elections. Every election is won
locally. Have you heard of Operation 774? A Nigerian patriot told me about this
idea, and I would like to share with you. Concentrate your political capital on
your local government. If that is too much to start with, I suggest you start
with your clan. Call for a meeting of the youths in your clan. Teach them what
you know about Nigeria (Please, take time to acquaint yourself with the Nigerian
constitution). Let them see the difference between reality and the ideal, and
then ask how committed they are to bringing about the ideal. Take a look at the
second chapter of the constitution, Fundamental Objectives and Directive
Principles of State Policy. Explain to them those wonderful privileges of
citizenship. As they begin to enjoy the possibilities, open to section six and
show them how their hopes cannot be guaranteed by the current arrangement except
they get into the national assembly and state houses of assembly the people that
would fight for them. Show them in the Fourth schedule of the constitution how
it is the responsibility of local governments to build and maintain homes for
the homeless and infirm. Then let them know how their governor is an enemy to
this objective. Let them know that the allocations for their local government
are being kept by the governor for himself and maybe for his village and family
members. Paint a graphic picture of how they are being robbed by their governor
while they watch like cowards. Make it clear to them that local government
chairmen cannot fight the governor because they are appointees of the governor
who has forced them on the people; that they (the youths) must embark on public
pressure and awareness to halt the continual impoverishment of their local
government and villages. More importantly, tell them that it is their
responsibility to spread the information you give them.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">If you need help with implementing this in your village or local
government, we can help you. I am willing to travelling across this nation to
help. Don’t be in a hurry; but be hopeful as you start meeting with your people,
your children’s people. They may be 50 here, 100 tomorrow. But know this; one
convert makes two of you. Remember, elections are a local
affair.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Because there is no independent candidacy in Nigeria, you would
need a political party. Don’t choose any of the parties that have destroyed your
village and local government for the past decade. This is because all the
neglect of the people that you will show in plain narratives before the people
happened under the ruling party. Find a virgin party. People make parties;
parties don’t make people. Build integrity for at least two years, and then run
or sponsor people to run. Make the people understand that it is their duty to
contribute to any campaign fund they believe in, and that it is the
responsibility of candidates to give monthly account of how much money they have
raised and how the money has been spent.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We must not forgive the misrule of the ruling parties in our
various states and local governments. We shall punish it. All contractors
(Enemies-In-Chief of Nigerians) who have assisted to deceive and rob us for
years shall give account. All the trillions of naira that they and politicians
have collected since 1999 for public projects, which have not been completed,
must be recovered and not forgiven. Let us get to work. Let us reject deception.
Let us arise without any more distractions.</span></span></div>
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