Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2014. Pray and work for them.
Remember how I told you to tell your children and grandchildren to practice, practice and practice mathematics? Did you? How far? No Nigerian child should fail maths or English or any subject just because you did not tell and teach them how to practice, practice, and practice. Nigeria’s poorly developed politics does not immediately matter to the millions of Nigeria’s children ’rotting’ in school who should be led correctly. Happily Oyo State has approved non-political local role model and business BOARDS OF GOVERNORS FOR ALL ITS SCHOOLS. Next step is to initiate OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATIONS AT PRIMARY SCHOOL level and offer competitive awards for quick action to help revamp the schools just as is being done by you for your secondary school. Nigerians, without you your secondary school would probably be as rubbishy as our primary schools are. But remember that most secondary schools are substandard in spite of Old Students Associations.
Why do we forget the history of our absent development in our paradoxically boastful ‘rich cultural history’ but dark country? As Nigerians, we endure our suffering in the most costly electricity darkness in the world. Shamefully, every state under every political party had more than enough funds and each LGA had almost N1billion/year for several years which was largely squandered or stolen as the leadership refused to develop citizens by refusing to carry out structured brick on brick, road on road, equipment on equipment upgrade.
All hail whistle-blowers. They should form an association to ensure they get their 5%, no magomago. The N8b and $151m recovered and the EFCC seizing $9,800,000 only confirms the ‘HUGE NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP CAPACITY FOR CORRUPTION’ and that reality is much worse than the rumours and suspicions. Surely the man involved is doing follow-follow dancing the dance and walking the walk of predecessors and many hundreds of others ‘still at large’ who have polluted the oil and every MAD and industry with their ability to receive ‘solicited- Bribe Me’ or ‘unsolicited- gifts’ just for being Group Managing Director and assigning legal documents. Were his predecessors less accumulating in their avarice or like him?
Do National Assembly (NASS) and Presidential and judiciary officers also not get such ‘gifts’? Does NAFDAC and, dare we ask, EFCC also get gifts or are they Standards Organisation of Nigeria ‘SON-CERTIFIED 2017’ CORRUPTION FREE? Obviously there is much more than $9,800,000 to be searched for. Who else ‘Received Stolen Goods’ in his office; who got more than he did? After all he was an employee of government, not minister! Where did the money originate? Is it genuinely ‘Thankful Contractors’ the type of Grateful Contractors who fill the wedding ceremonies of children of governors, presidents, ministers and commissioners. It reminds me of the permanent stench of Nigerian Ports Authority, as yet un-investigated.
A word about the QUANTUM OF CORRUPTION in Nigeria-a disease! This money, $9,800,000 or averaging N4,000,000,000 i.e. N4 billion, can only have come from multiple episodes of SHORT-CHANGING NIGERIA IN OIL DEALS and would have saved lives and improved the quality of live for millions. Development needs abound like filling millions of potholes nationwide, giving N100,000 worth of books, laboratory or sports equipment to 40,000 school libraries or N10-50,000 education grants/scholarships to 80,000 to 400,000 students/university undergraduates or allowed $25,000 one year scholarships to 400 Year abroad students or bought 50-100 cancer treatment units at $100- 200,000 or N40-80,000,000. O, yes for any wealthy thieves out there, $9,800,000 is only 300+ jeeps at $30,000 each, nearly one for each NASS member or 200 buses for a mass transit scheme.
University social scientists should multiply these losses by the real but as yet uncalculated unknown billions of dollars corruptly removed from the public purse directly or through bribery or undeclared ‘gifts’. Then we will all see why we, as a country, remain a laughing stock of the world ranking third from last in WHO Health Provision and all Life Indices ranking and we remain nowhere compared to our available funds, past and present. Except of course for the Corruption Index where we are still ‘proudly’ in the top five and climbing.
The truth is that many Nigerian leaders at all levels of authority behaved little better than foreign invaders or serial sadists, killing, not building on every development idea and leaving underdeveloped component parts of an Nigeria. All policies, no matter how good on paper or in principle, are dissected into corrupt segments. Everyone wants and expects a handout just for occupying the position, doorman to director, gateman to General Manager, at checkpoints. All this because the majority of Nigerians in positions of government and political leadership are not monitored on the job by EFCC and do not love Nigeria enough to want to get the development that is the right of all Nigerians. NIGERIANS DEMAND DEVELOPMENT after years of THEFT.
We must all force development as the way forward for the country in public and private sectors. Cattle and crops can grow around the country, not just in certain places.
And then we turn on the news and find the National Council of State pontificating on our national failures, allocating new cars to themselves, and the buffoonery of HYPER-PENSIONED ex-governors in NASS if you have electric power. NB: Identify and expose to the public ‘I LOVE NIGERIA’ KNOWLEDGEABLE CANDIDATES for the next election.
Tag: Our girls
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Our Girls; Whistle-blowers pls; Hyper-pensioned politicians
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Our Girls; Poor development since 1970s; Armsgate2
Our girls are still missing since April 15 2014.Will they return home? Trump’s new customs regulation? Prove you are a ‘lactating woman’. Na wa O!
The hardship meted out to Nigerians in the name of unachieved poor development since 1970s deserves Political Science research and documentation at this time of protest against Buhari’s governance. Nigerians seem not satisfied with a President and team which largely does not, steal, or give handouts. The government certainly failed Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
Things are really bad but did Buhari make them bad or worse? They say we should not look back but forward. But Buhari was given an iced national cake with the inside ripped out by massive corruption and political abuses of his predecessors. Now that hollow cake has melted and collapsed in his hands in the hot sun in full view of a starving public with fickle opinion. This is compounded by a world economic slowdown and an oil price collapse that has cut profits in many oil companies by 60%.
Buhari is holding the ‘dead cake’ and past governments are thanking that their rape of the economy and their political and monetary malfeasance are blamed on Buhari, not them. However all political parties are guilty of the political financial arrogance that is National Assembly, (NASS), state governors, state assemblies and LGAs -‘NIGERIA’S POLITICAL EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’. Blame goes to our failed past rulers who allocate RETIREMENT CHOP-CHOP and national honours for ‘ZERO RESULT’.
Becoming a Head of State or governor by coup or corruption, selection or election is not enough. PERFORMANCE MATTERS and the abysmal state of Nigeria’s infrastructure show that we have lacked that driven, visionary and practical leadership PERFORMANCE that could have propelled us into the 21st century. Nigeria always had money but never enough to 1] Steal more than 10% or misappropriate; and 2] Develop at the same time. So leaders and their acolytes’ stopped development instead creating highly developed families with money and shares and stakes in everything and these families are the ‘new development’ and legacies. The negative impact on development is paralytic.
Governments establishing underfunded universities is not a legacy but a burden on the unfortunate students sent to study therein but forced to spend extra years while strikes strike and cash-strapped teachers sell cement and teach the ‘theory’ with no infrastructure because someone has stolen or misappropriated funds. Criminal consequences of nationalised corruption!
The smuggling of 661 pump-action weapons, ‘ArmsGate2‘ seized by Customs is a mega-normous covert operation.No matter whether it was a nationalistic tip-off or a disgruntled ‘you did not pay me enough bribe’ tip off, please go through the Nollywood blockbuster steps. Start by immersing yourself, family or office colleagues in an ‘Arms Buying Game’. Ask and answer the questions: ‘Let’s arm ourselves or others’, ‘Why?’, ‘Where do we get arms?’, ‘Have we got enough money? Let us squeeze that man, he owes us and his money is in Asia buying Chinese doors. Maybe we can put the guns in the doors.’, ‘Haha, don’t be silly.
The Chinese manufacturer will not agree’, ’Don’t’ worry, Dora Akunyili is dead, we can have fake doors now!’, ‘Which arms dealer will sell to us after the last Armsgate?’ ‘This is not government business, no probe‘, ‘Who should we use?’, ‘What type of arms should we get, single, double barrel, Uzi, AK47?’ ‘No, ‘Pump Action Rifle’. ’I have a friend…’, ‘How many arms can we bring in?’, ‘Should we bring the arms in singly or in bulk?’, ‘I know one Customs chap’. ‘I know two’, ‘I know ten’ and the especially Niga question ‘why buy new weapons and not Tokunbo- second hand as we normally buy for government and repaint to look like new?’. ‘Oga go kill you O, I no de.’
The questions Nigerians ask are, ‘Is this the total shipment or the first, middle or last container as part of a larger arms shipment in the same or other containers on the same or other ships?’ ‘Are these all the arms or is this a part of a larger shipment, and where is the rest of the shipment, has it already gone through?’ And remember the guns need ammunition. Is that supplied from Gadhafi-land? Are the weapons being supplied without ammunition? Is the ammunition in other two or 10 container loads of Chinese doors or Indian windows this time? Has the ammunition already gone through? Destination questions arise. Which part of Nigeria? Was the routed destination a decoy for the truck to be high-jacked to the real destination? Has the company ordering the consignment of Chinese doors been interrogated or exonerated and have the destination people been apprehended before the seizure? Were the guns put in at the Chinese door factory or elsewhere?
There must be thousands of people involved in this Armsgate2 Affair from ‘respectable’ banks paying huge sums around the world, to Customs to labourers and administrators. Let us add to the cost of this project at a landing undercover and blackmail cost of maybe $2,000-3,500 mix the 661=$1.3-2.3m=N520,000,000 to N920,000,000. Including worldwide bribes, =N1billion+ black-market arms trade deal prices. This excludes the price of the metal doors, tens of millions. It suggests maybe N1-2billion. Who paid and why? Where is the paper trail? Look at your metal doors differently. But who can put their finger on the kingpins?
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Our Girls; Maths; ‘Violent Death Calculator’; Love Nigeria
Our Girls are still missing since April 15th 2014. Watch Trump for entertainment and ‘reality TV’. Anambra State’s clampdown on thugs collecting illegal levies is ‘photocopy-able’ nationwide. Governors must save citizens from Government 419 and illegal taxation from LGAs staff and Ex-staff ‘419ers’. Lagos State Employment Trust Fund gives loans of N1b for SMEs. Good. Please investigate East Uganda’s $19m solar farm with 32,000 panels across 30 acres providing 10Mw to 40,000 homes and offices. Even SUN Nigerians refuse to utilise!
Malcom Gladwell’s book ‘Outliers’ mentions Alan Shoenfeld, Berkeley Maths Professor who found the more maths you do the better you get. Simple? I remember failing maths in St Gregory’s College. In Form 5 with WASC looming, I fearfully sat Past Question Papers (PQPs) for 2½-3 hours. Self-marked, I got a F9, 33%. During the next six months, by working PQPs 1-2 hours/day, I got better achieving a ‘C‘ in Maths in WASC. Tell Nigeria’s children: ‘MATHS PRACTICE MAKES MATHS SEMI-PERFECT’. Maths requires a Martin Luther King’s ‘I shall Overcome’ Attitude not prayers. Maths practice is ‘Maths Practicals’ and for weak students is DIY, Do It Yourself, at HOME and DAILY AND PRACTICAL MENTAL ARITHMETIC!
Lest we forget and before we forgive, add up the INCALCULABLE COST on our ‘Nigeria’s Violent Dead (VD) Calculator’ of our dead and injured in this boastful ‘power dark’ country. ‘THE MATHS OF WAR CASUALTIES is simple = DEATH: INJURY: DISPLACEMENT’– 1 DEAD: 10 INJURED: 20-100 DISPLACED from – BOW/ARROWS, BAYONETS/MACHETES, BIKE, BULLETS, BOMB, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE-typhoid, cholera etc. Start with the Civil War 1+million dead. The ‘revelation’ of 10-20,000 dead in Southern Kaduna require ethnic and religious breakdown. Government underestimates by 50-200%, suggesting that 50,000 are dead. Since Deaths: Injuries are 1:10 then the injured, psychological and physical, amount to 500,000 from Southern Kaduna and IDPs in hundreds of thousands, many have fled nationwide. Add the 30,000 dead and 3,000,000 IDPs from Fulani herdsmen: Farmers, also murderous in Southern Kaduna, and the 30,000 dead and 3,000,000 displaced by Boko Haram, including University of Maiduguri mosque murdered and the 10,000+ kidnapped. The ‘Nigeria’s VD Calculator’ has post-slavery dead of 1,100,000 dead and five million IDPs without adding the dead from government incompetence–the pothole and power failure dead- the fuel explosions, generator fumes, remember Jesse’s 1,000 and dead from scooping fuel from punctured or corroded pipelines or crashed tankers, and from military and government extremism exemplified by murdered Ken Saro Wiwa, Uncle Bola Ige, Funsho Williams, Odi’s 100, coup plots -real and imagined-, ECOMOG, et cetera. Add ‘one chance’ victims of public transport kidnapped or ritually murdered for body part concoctions to ‘guarantee success’ in studies, business, politics and love, the victims of student cultism e.g. ‘The Ife 7’ and the murdered lecturers in Ilorin and the police killed in robberies and police killings by ‘accidental [-ly on purpose] discharge’. ‘All present and correct’-ly dead! Add 30,000 ‘Deaths by Politics’. Add 100,000 deaths and 1,000,000 physical and psychological injuries by the political class supporting the Okada Epidemic infecting even your family.
Even ‘Nigeria’s Violent Dead Calculator’ cannot calculate the death of the 1960 Nigerian Independence Dream to live and love Nigeria ‘In A Great Country Turned Into A Great Nation By Great Leaders’. The Martin Luther King’s I had a Dream and the American Dream may dominate Hollywood but we have had a dream and desire for Nigeria’s greatness from our St Gregory’s days in the early 1960s with Johnny Uku, Tokunbo Marinho. The dream survived coups, conflicts of conscience, and the Nigerian Civil War when my best friends were ‘First In Class’ Pius Idigo and Charles Hammond and the yet-to-be Great Fela was our idol and Sunday Jump our home. It grew into a patriotic raging bull in the University of Ibadan with great medical student friends like Cyril Etomi, Funso Onafowokan, Wale Kabiawo and Wole Ogunseiyinde in the late 1960s- early 1970s. It became a huge badge of pride during NYSC in Jos/Lafia in 1975/6 and in the late 1970s-early 1980s, when the naira was Baba Dollar and the Green Passport was ‘The Passport to Beat’ and UCH was UCH and members of The Group notably Dele Fawole and friends like Tobi Aken’Ova made families into families. Later ethnic and military politics, time and circumstance cut every dream into mere harmattan mist and I have lamented in 1,000+ articles and with friends like Toks Abiose and Banwo Smith the Murder and Death of the Nigerian Dream. I mention these wonderful people as representational of true Nigerians so that you may know that we are many, legion, hands chaffed, clothes bloodstained and hopes dashed at the barricades of moral rectitude and integrity. We are assailed daily by a spiteful greedy ‘POLITICAL EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY’ which charges so highly for services of questionable quality and pays itself outrageously, while failing every leadership test. We witness the looting of treasuries and erection of empires while we work, with bare hands, at nation-building on farms raided by Fulani herdsmen.
Dream shattered, true Nigerians may not be rich by Nigeria’s outrageous rich-political thieving standards, but we are rich in the spirit dampened by naira, political, fuel and power failures. Nigeria must stop THE UGLY MATHS OF NIGERIA’S SELF-HARM -VIOLENCE AGAINST ITSELF! I dare to modify Wole Soyinka/Tunji Oyelana’s chant for Nigeria@57¼ to ‘I love my country I no go lie, na inside am I don de die’. Find and raise Political Leaders Who LOVE NIGERIA! -
Our Girls; IDPs; ‘In-sourcing USA’; Trump-ing Nigerian politics?
Our girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. It was heartening to see the Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) and the federal government touring Sambisa Forest to get ‘wartime’ appreciation of each other’s efforts. Make war documentaries.
The Air Force bombing of Rann IDP camp was a preventable, anticipated tragedy and serious setback to Nigeria and intelligence sources. The Americans call it ‘Friendly Fire’.
Did the federal government remove EDUCATION from the Concurrent to the hated Exclusive List- a totally failed federal might preserve of conservative reactionaries? The growth of Nigeria depends on shortening the hated Exclusive List. Is the federal government merely a few ‘wrong agenda’ men and women spearheading this? Is this an APC or sectional agenda? Buhari, Osinbajo, Oyegun please explain the resultant forthcoming illiteracy cloud!
If the ECOWAS/AU/UN Gambian solution had been applied to Babangida, Nigeria would have been better today?
In Davos 2017, electric power for Africa championed by Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), is spending $12b over five years and $20-50b from private sector including Dangote Group. Meanwhile Nigeria has 3-5,000Mw for all its stolen billions. Adesina says that ‘TO REMAIN IN POWER, POLITICIANS MUST PROVIDE POWER’. What hope? Power is the next big thing in Africa.
The Minister of Finance Mrs Kemi Adeosun correctly told National Assembly (NASS) that our fat banks, fed fat on government money, often corruptly, must change their diet from Treasury Single Account (TSA) and government deposits to normal banking, giving loans to all and living off the interest. Banks should support development, businesses and families. Every Nigerian is an entrepreneur needing SINGLE DIGIT LOANS. CBN must cut the Monetary Policy Rate to zero for everyone.
Billionaire Trump has achieved the yearnings of billions of suffering world citizens by breaking the political dynamic of power- the financial excesses of politicians and the ‘low services’ and low returns for huge tax bills – massive costs of election and tribunals, loss of life, huge government running costs, corruption and SAPP-Salaries Perks and Pensions – even post humus, all for near zero development – not even a few roads, rail, a bridge or electric power or a well-run hospital, clinic, school. Nigerians are not greedy. Yet they must ‘SUFFER FOR DEVELOPMENT’. Potholes and taxes grow malignantly from empty promises, projects uncompleted and more outrageous the new government beast- Internally Generated Robbery strategies – like 419 scammers –‘Give ‘us’ N1m, to reduce this bill from N5m to N2.5m’ and a credit to highway robbers and carjackers- ‘Give me N10,000 or we will tow you and charge N25,000 in the office- all ruining city parking even on wide-enough roads. ‘NO PARKING=NO CUSTOMERS=NO BUSINESS=NO TAXES’ IS NOT NOBEL LAUREATE ECONOMICS or even nuclear physics. It is common Trump business political sense. EMPTY STREETS=NO BUSINESS. Customers go elsewhere. GOVERNORS – YOUR CITIES ARE DYING ECONOMICALLY AS YOU READ THIS!!
TRUMP IS AN EXPERT OUTSIDER and has suffered and studied politicians to get projects like taking over the National Post Office Building and making it Trump Towers, near the White House. He now ‘owns’ two USA prime real estate areas. Trump has character and thinking negatives, accused of being sexist and racist. However, he believes the political class is not God but a catalyst and conduit to service citizens. When the POLITICAL CLASS ENCOURAGES AND CONSUMES MORE THAN 10% OF THE BUDGET, by corruption or legally-illegal ‘419’ acquisition, the country is doomed to decay and death. NO BUSINESS OR GOVERNMENT CAN SURVIVE 10%+ THEFT, CORRUPTION OR WASTE! Nigeria has far too few living patriotic leaders. Buhari is one as a defender of the naira and financially not corrupt, thus saving 50% of the budget going by records of his Presidential predecessors. To become a great statesman, he must, however, be publicly and impartially exonerated from ethnic or religious bias in public and military offices and in the terror of Fulani herdsmen.
The transition in the USA is a lesson to Nigerian politicians preoccupied with amassing fortunes and mega-pensions while the minimum, often unpaid, wage is N10,000-15,000/month- cheaper than A FULL TANK OF PETROL FOR A POLITICAL JEEP. Trump does not drink. In Nigeria, January kicks off government madness, issuing deliberately inflated tax bills to give ‘opportunity’ for ‘corrupt negotiations’ UNREALISTIC ‘DEMAND NOTICES’ WITH 7-14 DAY ULTIMATUMS AS AN INSULTING RUDE LETTER, while the Ombudsman and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sit by silent at this annual human rights abuse and mental torture. Politics must change worldwide.
There will be slivers of good governance we can learn from Trump’s ‘Big-Business Approach to Get Small- Government for the People’. Big Government is killing Nigeria. However Berlusconi in Italy was also a billionaire but he did not change anything except scandals. Will Trump be different?
Trump announced ‘In-sourcing of the USA’, anti-globalisation. His people have no jobs. He has to tackle cheap labour, foreign alternatives from China in particular and the AI, Artificial Intelligence ‘robotisation’ of American factories taking human jobs. Are Americans patriotic, enough to ‘buy expensive USA’, over cheaper foreign goods?
From Trump, Nigeria should learn Obama’s ‘Audacity Of Hope’ and confront Nigeria’s development-killing political dynamics by grooming NEW LEADERSHIP MATERIAL, a newer broom to succeed Buhari-Mr Anti-Currency Corruption. we should be ‘TRUMP-ing Nigerian politics’ and raise a ‘CLEAN MODIFIED ‘TRUMP’ to deliver what MOST NIGERIAN WANT: A CHEAPER, LEANER, SITTING ALLOWANCE ONLY, PART-TIME, ONE HOUSE POLITICS AND NASS POLITICIANS PAID/SPONSORED ENTIRELY BY HOME STATES.
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Our Girls; Build real bridges; Slaps injure eyes & ears
Our Girls are still mostly missing in spite of the near closure of Sambisa Forest and the recovery of Nigeria from Boko Haram. Some of us continue to pray for their families and their safe return. What do you pray for in this 2017? Did you include ‘Freedom for Our Girls’ in your 2017 Prayerful Wish-List? It pays to pray for others and not just for yourself and your family. Governor Ambode has just brought true freedom to the people of Badagry. His government has built a 500-metre bridge in Badagry among many new projects being executed. Bridges cut distances and costs, bringing communities together but have been largely neglected by governments with the notable exception of the wonderful example of Federal-State cooperation, the Lagos Lekki Bridge, built during the Fashola administration. Nigeria requires 100 new bridges in new directions for development to break the stranglehold of the colonial-driven major roads built to evacuate goods to the UK and now largely abandoned by the federal government. If 2017 can become the year of bridges, we will get to places through ‘bridge short cuts’. More bridges please!!! Meanwhile we have been waiting 25 years for the 2nd Niger Bridge.
In the light of the political profligacy, in the past and ongoing, I think we all need to do reality checks regularly. My reality check is what I see in my clinic. Every family is affected one way or another by illness in members of the family or friends or co-workers. I see the pain of illness and the joy of health daily in my work and contacts. This week I saw in my clinic a three-year old girl who was blind since birth in both eyes, a 25-year old woman who will never have a pregnancy because she has no uterus, a 40-year old man who will be dead from liver cirrhosis by Feb 1, a 15-year old girl pregnant for her father’s brother, a house girl pregnant for her employer’s husband, a 51-year old man who has cancer of the pancreas, a 10-year old boy with one testicle, a 13-year of girl with a breast lump probably not malignant, a 25-year old undergraduate with a breast lump probably malignant, a 30-year old woman with a 28-week pregnancy with twins only one of which is alive, a 29-year old with kidney stones and blood in the urine and backache, a 45-year old politician and a 55-year old priest and a 60-year old woman lawyer all with fatty liver disease, a 35-year old man with a scrotal fluid collection-hydrocoele, a 25-year old woman with a pregnancy of a baby with short limbs, three women with ectopic pregnancy not in the uterus, several women with dead pregnancies in the uterus and many women with perfectly normal pregnancies. One of the most painful to me personally was a child who had lost an eye to a slap from a parent.
Slap injuries really annoy me because of all the diseases and conditions mentioned that we see daily mentioned above, the one really preventable condition is a slap injury and yet it is so common, slap injuries are not the only problem affecting the eye. The SLAP EYE INJURY is followed quickly in numbers by the BEATING EYE INJURY from beatings at home and in school using canes, belts, whips and often affects innocent children and bystanders as the weapon for beating is raised over the shoulder or the individual being beaten seeks refuge behind another individual. The dirty slap and the beating eye injuries from family, friends, workmates or foes and enemies like teachers, bullies, security personnel and other violent people are recognised medical effects of GBH- Grievous Bodily Harm- an assault.
But partial or total blindness in one eye is not the end of the matter. Please note how close the eye is to the ear. Do you know how many of you readers, your children and your colleagues are deaf in one ear following a perhaps long forgotten dirty slap in the past- so treasured in bad language fights –‘I will give you a dirty slap’. The force of the slap can make the eye pop out and also burst the eardrum. So next time you hear someone say ‘I will give you a dirty slap’ or takes a whip or cane to someone please take preventive action or someone may go blind and become deaf in one eye and one ear for a lifetime because you took no action. Why spend so much time in hospitals and money on investigation, medication, operation and seeing and hearing aids. SAY NO TO THE SLAP AND THE BEATING.
When did Nigeria sign on to babysit and offer geriatric care to anyone elected or imposed on it? Yes, a pension is eight and just for long service, but is politics worthy of such stupendous rewards? Nigeria’s eternal gratitude to its voted and coup-leading Presidents, Vice Presidents, High Civil Servants, Governors, Deputy Governors, has recently been partly measured. It grew exponentially under the Jonathan era. To complicate matters it seems that such people are blessed with long life meaning that we have many, some say too many, ex-leaders to feed, clothe, bath, transport, medicate, and eventually terminate in a grand funeral.•[To be continued]
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Our Girls; Police Barracks; Kaduna Killing; Bridge Bombing
Our girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. As the year 2017 begins painfully for many parents, may they all return safely, Amen and Happy New Year 2017 to you and yours.
The collapse of the Police Barracks with the death of a recently transferred Sergeant and his visitor speaks volumes of the level of ‘responsibility for staff movement’ and discipline in the uniformed services as an ‘unsafe building’ on which quit notices had been administered twice. It also tells of the quality of maintenance in Nigeria. The police barracks nationwide are unsightly buildings wholly-owned by government with no maintenance in 50 years while government gives its (109+ 360 = 469) National Assembly (NASS) members billions annually for housing etc. What a paradox as the same police leave their collapsing barrack hovels to protect these NASS members living in luxury at Nigeria’s expense. The maintenance money, perhaps also padded heavily over the years, has been allocated and stolen by the police hierarchy or was stolen elsewhere so there was no allocation. NASS could investigate sums allocated for ‘maintenance’, though the exorbitantly high NASS salaries and perks, SAP, are partly responsible for under-allocations in budgets. In the 60s, the standards decay had not set in. As students in St Gregory’s College Ikoyi, we lived next to a clean Obalende Police barracks. Historically the coups led to the military policy of a weakening the police through a reduced or diverted budget and a blind eye to internal fraud which resulting in massive diversion of funds for maintenance and barrack buildings into private pockets making barracks – a disgrace to Nigeria and uninhabitable by human beings. We should recall the Channels TV investigation into the Command Training College in Ikeja and the withdrawal of the Americans from a joint training exercise at that same college because the sanitary and teaching standards were subhuman. Add the persistent failure of the police to aspire to Global Police Practice by establishing an International Standard Forensic Laboratory in spite of checkable N50m annual budget allocations ‘BELIEVED TO BE STOLEN’. Yes, a FORENSIC LAB is at last coming on stream but will maintenance corruption remain? Of course some local heads will roll, but the big fish will continue to escape. President Buhari should enquire as to who ‘chopped’ or mismanaged the police building maintenance money over the years. Could the police corruption 1999 to 2014 be any less than the military corruption being investigated by an EFCC crippled and made ‘headless’ by NASS questionably motivated refusal to confirm Magu?
You can then see our predicament in a country were FINGER-PRINTING AND FACE PHOTOS are not routine in every station and added automatically to a Nigerian data base. Why not use common cell phones. How do we use the existing databases -Voter, Driver’s Licence, Passport, Cell Phone SIM Registration, Bank BVN, Tax [TIN] etc.? Are they interlinked, crosslinked for security or kept separate, fragmented, incomplete and virus-corrupted by recruited ‘419’ experts to protect a corrupt elite?
Can we get some honest results from NASS enquires into other people’s activities? The second reading of the law apparently criminalising even accusations against NASS members in social media suggests NASS will be protected. Accusations always come before investigation and prosecution. Unfortunately there appears to be NO PARALLEL LAW PROTECTING THE CITIZENS FROM OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS, LYING AND STEALING BY POLITICIANS in general and NASS members in particular which has an unrepentant, and unenviable reputation in probity and leadership qualities and love of country aka nationalism. It is on record that even actual charges often do not result in any shame or punishment for NASS members who appear to mercilessly adverse to higher moral goals and have a very thick skin, so the new law will only attempt to muzzle the Nigerian citizen more. This law will allow NASS members to continue their unbridled and avaricious grip on power for their own benefit and not that of the nation which still lacks Nigerians who love Nigeria in most political offices.
Since forever, each spike of killing fellow Nigerians in Southern Kaduna results in a spike of the same political platitudes, a lull and further killings of fellow Nigerians. This cycle of murder and violence matches the three+million IDP, 30,000 dead siege of Nigeria by Boko Haram, the 25,000 dead blood soaked trial of Fulani herdsmen criss-crossing the country. Is this a country with a future when we add the disasters of false federalism? In the actual electrical and economic darkness of the times as we end the year with two hours of power a day and nearly N490:1$; the foiling of the plot to blow up Third Lagos Mainland Bridge must bring congratulations to the security services. The press should not give too many details or over-flog the issue so as not to spread the infection. I am not sure that we ever had regular or irregular surveillance patrols along the underbridge water route to detect criminal activity or recruited local fishermen as patrols or spies on strangers. Even the on-bridge police patrols to secure rush hour traffic seem to have been withdrawn. Surely there are some constants in security that limits crime and terrorism? Unfortunately the stepped-up police patrols and the complementary FRSC and other patrols inside cities and on expressways make life miserable for travellers, driving tourists away.
We must put INCREDIBLY KNOWLEGEBLE AND NATIONALISTIC PERSONS IN POWER at the next elections. Search. -
Our Girls; Identify ‘Love and Work for Nigeria’
Our girls are still missing since April 15th 2014. As the year ends may they all return safely, Amen.’A Poem Unread Is Dead’ and there will be nothing more to be said!!!! I want to share with you my 2016 Christmas Poem read at Trenchard Hall University of Ibadan Christmas Concert. Preamble: In our greed, Nigeria failed to feed our own Nigerian family of IDPs and thus created a crisis of malnutrition and starvation in our IDP camps awaiting a UN solution while Fellow Nigerians steal their food. What manner of criminal culpable and preventable incompetence is that @Christmas?
POEM: Where do we go from here?/ It is so difficult to generate Christmas Cheer/ Empty bank accounts are creating Christmas fear/ Empty pockets shed a Christmas child’s tear/ A new meaning for cashless economy/We have no bank card to use as money/Naira worth less than toilet paper/ Disappears like water vapour /With no money to travel home or for presents
Parents’, replace Christmas presents by Christ’s presence/ Christmas is under deadly attack/ / Throwing our life, work and home off-track/ Merry Christmas replaced by an anonymous ‘Season’s Greeting’ Pack / Who wants Christmas Dead?/ ISIS, Boko Haram and now Berlin/We must make sure they do not win./How will the living cope/ 3 million IDPs [Internally Displaced Persons], malnourished cannot give a Christmas laugh/ As their food is stolen, cut by half
But December 25th, Christmas, is an annual reminder/ For us to be kinder/ To friend and foe, employee and enemy/ Christ forgave the repentant thief/ And gave him Heavenly relief /There is no repentant politician to forgive/ We die in penury, their progeny in luxury live/ Perhaps it is time to find a person in need/ And do a good Christ-like deed/ Are you an employer of labour/ Then it is time to imitate your Saviour/ If only our politicians listened as well/ Then we would not be living in this kobo-less hell/ Powerless, waterless, cashless/ But politicians could not care less/ Today’s Christmas Concert carols lighten the load/ Of the tormented timid and the brave bold/ Rich or poor, Christmas offers everyone a free gift –the Child Christ / Christ is be born on Christmas Day / Will you rock the cradle or move it out of your wicked way?/ Will Baby Jesus smile at what you do and say? / This Christmas you may be empty-handed/ But never be empty-hearted/ Give a BJS, Baby Jesus Smile/ To bring the Christmas Sun/ To someone… and everyone/ Merry Christmas END
I hope you had a good Christmas and shared it with someone in serious need, and shared a smile and some fun. Even the poor are entitled to laugh.
There is no doubt we are in serious trouble. I say this in spite of the efforts of this government to rescue the country through Presidential and official reduction in the traditional ‘top down corruption’. But ‘uniformed’ corruption at the grassroots is alive and very well. Buhari hopefully is not corrupt. Are those around him? How much have we saved as ‘the President is not corrupt’? Corruption is also about ‘Policy Corruption’. One policy like killing the railways can impoverish a country while enriching trailer owners. One policy like developing Tin Can Port instead of Apapa Port can guarantee a life of haulage instead of rail evacuation. One negative power policy can provide ZERO power forcing economic darkness and environmental pollution. One policy can pit an immoral Federal Might against pauperised states’ right to develop and build 100 Lekki Bridges nationwide. One policy can turn an oil nation into a generator generation ‘exporting raw oil material and importing ‘fine finished fuel’. Some say this government should ignore or legitimise the wholescale politically driven robbery over many years also used by all parties to fund fraudulent elections as ‘war chests’. We have been here six times before with tumbling naira and quality of life, absent salaries and high loans and ‘belt tightening’. It is hard to stomach the stolen sums–the cause of part of our current penury complicated by policy weaknesses.
A friend Professor Osofisan asked rhetorically ‘Is this what we are going to leave for our children?’ It appears so. The change may be in progress but in less than two years, the battle lines of politics will be drawn again and billions of naira will feed a dirty billion poster and mega billboard advert campaign and the campaign trail of vultures, vagabonds and voters-for-sale, all to expound the questionable virtues of those with political ambition but little or no pedigree, personality, policy or potential to actually change current misfortune and stop ‘50 year corruption curse’ against the poor and rich Nigerian alike.
Check out your friends, acquaintances, even strangers you come across for their sterling qualities in this koboless country. Can they be introduced into the next political race to save Nigeria? Of course sterling qualities before being elected or selected often fail in office. Nigerian leaders have covered the spectrum. Too few have succeeded. Put an illiterate, professional, man, woman, rich or poor there. Most failed spectacularly but almost without exception come away rich and in-famous for their capacity to acquire huge chunks of national cake for themselves and progeny. All this while in ‘service’. Find future politicians who will LOVE AND WORK FOR NIGERIA to make it grow, not regress! HAPPY NEW YEAR. -
Our Girls; DSG Amina M: UN-SDG life skills advert prog?
Merry Christmas to all and ‘Our Girls’ many missing since April 15, 2014.
Shameless country owing hard-working athletes with no sanctions against corrupt administrators who disrupt Olympic and sports development with impunity? Buhari, root out this sports administrator corruption. How hard can it be? Easier than with judges. Change!
While politicians jostle for double pensions in Senate, other Nigerians impact positively. Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is new UN Secretary-General, the ninth and appointed Amina Mohammed as UN number two – Deputy Secretary General. Congratulations. Wow! She is leaving as Nigeria’s environment minister and former Director Nigeria MDG Programme after posts as Assistant Sec General/Special Advisor on MDGs, and negotiation/creation of the SDGs -United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Former Health Minister, Professor Babatunde Oshotimehin is also ‘high up’ as Executive Director of UNFPA, a UN Under-Secretary-General. These are Nigerian role models for children, not the destructive shameful corporate instant millionaire programmes and those in National Assembly (NASS).
She has to tackle famine and starvation from Nigeria and elsewhere. One huge ‘take-away’ from Nigeria to the UN HQ that Amina Mohammed can take, is a UN-led 21st Century revolution to quickly ‘get the SDG message across’ by recruiting our billions of adverts to support the UN’s ambassadorial effort to publicise and implement SDGs from birth to the grave. At more than 10billion+, adverts outnumber citizens worldwide, reaching from Time Square to every village square and hamlet. In spite of this advert blitz about products not needed, citizens remain ignorant about LIFE SKILLS – THE NEGLECTED WEAPON OF SDG MASS DEVELOPMENT and COMMERCIAL MESSAGES ARE THE UNUTILISED DELIVERY SYSTEM for this weapon. Massively inadequate budgets for UN SOCIAL SKILLS PROGRAMMES cause a disease ‘Ignorance’ in society about measures to stay alive, healthy and productive causing with a lower quality of life, added misery and even death from preventable medical/social causes. But corporate bodies know that dead citizens do not buy commercial products. It should pay them to keep citizens alive to buy their products longer.
A new worldwide UN SOCIAL SKILLS ADVERTING PROGRAMME should bring empowerment to achieve SDGs. It should be the responsibility of the state to educate the citizenry on ‘The Top UN 100 ‘How to Stay Alive’ Points and not the NGOS as at present. The UN must institutionalise attacks on social ignorance with a booklet UN BOOKLET OF 200 LIFE SKILLS’ taught at assembly in schools worldwide and funded by the commercial world.
This will help achieve the UN-SDGs –credited to Amina Mohammed and others. One mark that hindered the MDGs was a lack of big corporation commercial, social and cable TV media opportunities as strategic partners to enlighten citizens. We are all unpleasantly alarmed at how ignorant the Generation Next is about Life skills. The UN-SDGs should develop strategies to recruit commercial, social and cable TV media to save mankind from ignorance of not-for-profit life skills, they already know for-profit commercial products. Nobody dies from not knowing about the top 1,000 commercial products advertised with billions of dollars. Citizens die from lack of knowledge of life skills. Correct this with a sign strategy. There are red drinks advert stickers in every corner and kiosk world-wide, billions, especially in schools and homes but children still get bullied and women still get battered and raped. Sticker signs are not sacrosanct. They can be added to especially the mega advert market influencing the purchases of females for self, family, food and friends. Let the UN-SDGs associate that red sticker with an ‘ABC-Avoid Bullying Children’, ‘XYZ Drinkers Respect Girls And Women’ Or ‘ABC suit wearing Men Don’t Beat Women’. The UN says ‘Wash Your Hands, It’s Bad For Germs’, ‘Girls Deserve Education Too’, ’Invest In Education’, ‘Citizens, Do TBM Total Body Monthly For Lumps And Anomalies’, ‘Do Your Blood Pressure’, ‘Cut Back On The Salt And Sugar’, ‘Don’t Burn Tires’.
Most of the media wrongly believe that social adverts are a waste of space and time, no profit in them, but think nothing of receiving billions from companies marketing products of no life-preserving use. The world needs to either advertise social messages or marry commercial messages to social messages in a marriage, piggyback, joint or twin message programme. Since the world knows negative messaging on cigarette and alcohol packaging, it is logical to harness the world’s Global Advertising Giants like Sir Martin Sorrell to help save customers lives through positive social message add-ons to help keep customers alive longer and thus buying their commercial products longer.
Surely Amina Mohammed can spearhead a new UN ‘Ignorance Elimination Adverting For Life Initiative’ and hold a SG or SDG driven top-level Annual UN –Advertisers Strategic Exhibition’ with big corporate giants with big advert budgets to ‘selfishly’ give space on their packaging, billboards, product bottles, boxes, bags and tins used in every kitchen, office table and school desk or fund 1,000-1million UN Posters. Even football and basketball team shirts can carry UN messages. This would educate the citizens about the ‘TOP 100 UN Messages for Life’ from UN agencies annually. The UN can invite the Face book, cable, twitter, Disney etcetera to put UN Message Runners under their programmes. UN led Annual UN SDG Media Strategy Awards, Rewards and Recognitions will bring multibillion dollar funding for UN adverts at no extra cost to the corporate world. The UN is a huge brand the corporate world should want to work with. Ask Bill Gates. to_marinho@yahoo.com, -
Our Girls; Starved IDPs; NASS Constitutional Mis-Amendments
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. We pray for their safe return.
The disgraceful hand of stealing and sexual assault meted out to three million Nigerian Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the nation’s care, by those charged with the mantle of ‘aid-giver’ or ‘protector’ was as preventable as it was predictable. Nigeria’s administrative skills are severely limited and the care of the IDPs was a project bound to fail. Why? Because we do not know when to alleviate the suffering and not be selfish. We stoop to stealing food ‘from the mouths of babes and sucklings’ or self-gratification by ‘harming the hair on the head of one of these children‘ with rape of them or their mothers or insisting on a ‘SEX-FOR-FOOD PROGRAMME’ instead of security or administrative duties.
We have clamoured for educated and professional IDPs and indigenes of North-east to be in-charge of their own affaires instead of employing out-of-state cowboys who come to feast on the misery of distressed Fellow Nigerians. Nigeria tragically failed the North-east when Boko Haram was controllable. Nigeria fails the IDPs again in IDP camps by releasing unsupervised predators in sheep’s clothing to ‘feed on them’ instead of ‘feed them’. Add those displaced by Fulani herdsmen terror. God is watching. Is nothing sacred in Nigeria, even children’s suffering? We need a new leadership for the National IDP Programme not agencies struggling to be ‘The Worst Carer’. We need an IDP food and safety watchdog or ambassador like Dora Akinyuli, may she RIP. The children are undernourished in a country with no food crisis or famine – just national incompetence and irresponsibility in child-care. This is a monumental earthquake and structural failure of governance which should bring shame to rosy-cheeked, pot-bellied Abuja occupants in and out of ministries and National Assembly (NASS).
Referendum is the answer OO! Italy had a referendum to reduce the bloated, expensive parliament naturally refusing to self-reform, cut costs and reduce numbers. Sound familiar? That referendum failed but democracy is moving with harsh economic times beyond flamboyant democratic practices. We have called for a referendum to reduce our NASS to one House, the Representatives, part time with sitting allowance funded by their home states. They say referenda have no basis in Nigerian law. This is simple because the paid ‘constitution writers’ were told to leave it out. But the weight of public opinion must count in this oppressed lopsided country where to politicians ‘STEALING IS ‘A RIGHT AND A RITE’ and for others it is a jail-able wrong. The consequences of political arrogance are visible on TV. The way and offhand manner NASS’s postponement again of the confirmation hearing of the EFCC Acting chairman are insulting. Instead of an apology, the matter of ‘national corruption’ was ‘not a priority’ for Senate. This same Senate seeks to ‘mis-amend’ the constitution by stripping the presidency of more powers.
The same NASS is seeking to ‘enshrine’, a poor choice of word for our military imposed constitution, constituency projects in the constitution after the same NASS brought the very term constituency projects into disrepute with major NASS corruption. The odour emanating from constituency projects is a stain on NASS.
The attempt to ‘CONSITUTIONALISE through MIS-AMENDSMENTS’ such mainly fictitious projects will favour only NASS, as usual guaranteeing a corrupt gravy trail. Nigeria is too broke to afford another cunning plan to rape and rob Nigerians by a morally compromised, ‘legally illegal’ creation of corrupt practices like constituency projects maliciously enshrined in what are personalised constitutional amendments. Introducing constituency projects into the already warped constitution is an effort to ‘DRY CLEAN A ROTTEN CLOTH’.
In the light of past horrible corrupt experience with the ‘Harrowing Chamber’, if a NASS member ‘has a cunning dream’ for delivering a pressing project to aid the development of constituents and a constituency, that idea should be taken to the relevant ministry well in advance of the budget or discussed at special public NASS/Ministry Constituency Project meetings with the men from the ministry. The various Ministries, Departments and Agencies would then include such chosen projects in their budgets. We the citizenry say ‘NO TO CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS’ because of past abuse and to prevent further abuse. No more robbery of the citizens through constituency projects. Expunge constituency projects from the Nigerian political and economic lexicon. Most never existed in reality as they were conduits for graft and should never exist in the Nigerian political and economic space. Legislators legislate and let governments initiate and execute contracts.
The Nigerian Press should have mass appeal programmes for the people to see the Constitutional Amendments, CA, maneuvering in the NASS and view the exercise with suspicion and engage in an enlightenment campaign and vox pop and analytical programming on this selfish tinkering with the constitution which really requires implementation of the many of the recommendations from the Constitutional Review held under Jonathan. Nigerians demand full coverage of future CAs, not a minute news bite on TV but massive media coverage, analysis and broadcast to prevent high-jacking of the constitution review by the Abuja based multiparty political elite in spite of an announced ‘Retreat on Constitutional Amendments’ by NASS. It will be a pity if the media does not fight for the citizenry in this CA matter before another NASS coup to perpetrate questionable laws which defy logic, law and morality, all to preserve the NASS in all its abused power and glory. -
Our Girls; Potholes; Total Body Exams; SDGs
Our Girls are still missing since April 14, 2015. We pray for their safe return.
As Europe enters winter, what would the death toll be if Nigeria had cold life-threatening harmattan with only 3,000MW when electricity is the only lifeline for warmth? Already 20,000Mw of the UN-recommended 150,000MW for Nigeria is an insurmountable by 2020, a Nuclear Physics Problem, for the violence-prone Nigerian scenario? Answer? Go solar. However ‘Nationwide Pothole Filling’ is a competence daring issues, not Nuclear Physics or stopped by violence. Nigeria’s potholes are created by Nigerian government’s active decision ‘NOT TO FILL THEM’. This is confirmed by the mad FRENZY TO FILL A FEW POTHOLES FOR VISITING ‘DIGNITARIES’. All Nigerians deserve an ‘EPIDEMIC OF POTHOLE FILLING’. Even broke Nigeria can ‘make straight our path’ and fill all potholes. POTHOLES ARE AN INHUMAN WRONG THAT MUST BE FILLED AS A HUMAN RIGHT. President BUHARI can answer the critics that he is slow, by an urgent ‘NATIONWIDE POTHOLE FILLING EXERCISE’.
UN-SDGs Continued: Have you wondered why Nigerians seem to have taken a ‘vow of suffering for development’ in the midst of formerly available plenty? There is serious life, lived and suffered by the majority of hardworking honest Nigerians nationwide, beyond the gaudiness of debilitating politics that keeps Nigeria prostrate.
The UN recognised this and created the MDGs, especially for suffering countries, to save those parts of the world afflicted with the disease ’Underdevelopment’ from its evil cause – the gluttonous political class. That political class seems happy to steal money meant to save the lives of the corpses of dead children, mothers and unemployed fathers without pensions while the same politicians accumulate single and double pensions for life for four years work. Is that not blood dripping from their mouths?
Am I too harsh? Look at the example of a Black politician in America, Obama’s neck and his abdomen, and Michelle’s neck after eight years as American President and first family- the most powerful worldwide and compare them to the gaudy National Assembly (NASS) men and women roaming Nigeria doing the now familiar oversight functions for example. Are they receiving the traditional rumoured illegal ‘perks’ and double transport and lodging and inconvenience or bush allowance perhaps including girls from the ‘oversight-ed’ companies forced to ‘buy’ a favourable report or face public ridicule, the weapon used against whistle-blowers and those who fail to play ball? I am not harsh, just reporting the harsh and blood-spattered reality of Nigeria’s greed driven politics, bereft of higher moral goals, Olympian ideals of fair play and honest losing or winning. That politics even lacks the simple fear of God’s wrath for ‘padding’ aka ’criminal inflation of budget items’ which is contrary to the injunction not to ‘harm the hair on the head of one of these little ones’ through theft of the budgets for health drugs, education books and pothole free roads.
There are human and humane challenges in every country, rich and poor, even Obama and Trump’s America. However poor countries are especially punished by the excessive financial and moral burden of a criminal visionless politics. Why is stealing a jail-able crime for the poor but a congratulatory event for the ‘Politicians Perpetuating Poverty Party’ PPPP???? Stealing should be a reprehensible and punishable crime for politicians too. Politics is inert, non-mobile. It is politicians who drive and manipulate politics for good or bad.
As the world’s greatest ‘humane’ doctor, loving lawyer, peaceful policeman, endearing environmentalist, quickest tent builder and sociable social worker for the poor worldwide, except for some tragic events, the United Nation’s launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, UN SDGs, by the Secretary General is the next step in an unending Herculean struggle, against bad politicians, to save the poor. Unfortunately the majority of politicians may smile but are pathologically of evil character and intention. This fact should make us all ashamed and act to save our ‘Fellow Nigerian’ people, in spite of massive political Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence and Selfishness, CINS. Politicians celebrate serial failure-to-perform daily in parliaments, government houses and uncivil services. Hopefully most of that corrupt excess stopped under Treasury Single Account and Buhari. Vocal people are yearning for the ‘bad old times’ when corrupt money circulated to corrupt families and friends. Did you benefit corruptly during the Babangida to Jonathan era?
Life skills are about health and social issues including knowledge of Breast Examination and Total Body Examination for every human monthly, blood pressure, violence, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, dangerous driving, safe motherhood and that the sex of a baby is the responsibility of the male partner.
An absence of life skills including the ‘moral compass’ causes a darkness impenetrable to the tiny torchlight of UN Goodwill Ambassadors, Special UN Days or tiny advert budgets of the UN, NGOs or media houses ‘allowing’ a CSR social message. Indeed some media outlets expect not-for-profit social messages to cost for-profit commercial rates.
Let us not ignore the new media, the ‘social media’ with billions of hours of audio/visual social media streaming to a vulnerable mainly young audience eager to absorb the good, and especially the bad and ugly messages. What is the UN SOCIAL LIFE SKILL MESSAGE for today, changed daily, in 10,000 languages and in braille, worldwide on all social media outlets? It does not matter who delivers the life message, celebrity or blogger, child or geriatric, a Kardashian or Hamilton, Nollywood or Bollywood star. Just to create ‘HUMANE-ITY’ a HUMANE HUMAN RACE. To be continued wwwtonymarinho.com