Our Girls are still missing since April 14, 2015. We pray for their safe return.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, UN-SDGs, recently launched by the Secretary General should make us act to save our people, in spite of massive political corruption, incompetence and failure.
All development has a cost. We are all regretfully too familiar with the human losses suffered by the UN worldwide and even here in Abuja and on the Polio outreach.
We appreciate the efforts of the UN to make the world a better place in spite of the paradoxical and sometimes schizophrenic and double speak, do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do antics of many of its member states through variations of democracy and good governance.
Contrary to the unfounded belief in certain ruling class circles, the average human being was not born to suffer and does not have to Suffer-for-Development a popular axiom among the corrupt leadership of fledgling democracies except in extreme weather conditions beyond the power of man to avert. But man-made-misery and man-made-indifference to growing natural disasters have for too long taken precedence in the causation of additional needless human suffering-the suffering soul. The human psyche is largely selfish and vicious, adept at inflicting needless pain and it is greedy thinking nothing of the insensitivity and insult of parking a branded car beside a burnt body or a model in Blood Diamonds beside some else’s mud hut in an advert.
We should all want to get the private sector more involved in the SDGs and ‘CONNECT THE MONEY TO THE MISERY OF Million ’- the goal of the UN SDGs. Not only private sector money, but also love of country, allegiance to this generation, expression of private sector opportunity to participate in the creative alleviation of the consequences of bad governance and multi-billion naira corruption which is beyond the control of the victims –the needy. And nothing is Nuclear Physics! About 10 years after their mothers die in ‘hard labour’ failures, the motherless children are in shamelessly placed in bookless pigsties miscalled schools receiving empty exercise books as misnamed Dividends of Democracy, not textbooks from a failing government, because a bookless, posterless, fooball-less school is an education-less place, not a school –a learning space.
Yet from home and during break-time we expect and indeed demand that these unstimulated minds + and their parents spend billions buying private sector products to fill their bellies and clothe their bodies, wash themselves and use sanitary apparatus, even as we conspire, sometimes through ‘masterly inactivity’ to ensure that their brains remain empty. ‘They ask for bread and a football and unforgivably, we give them a stone to play with’, because the uneducated idiots, are easier to manipulate as cannon-fodder in elections. And tragically every school has an ‘I Have A Dream’ multi-coloured sparkling billboard with a plastic football but the advertiser bought no football, or books, for the children in the loveless school staring longingly up at the Brand Ambassadors sports stars in the N25M sky-blue billboard smiling the ‘it’s a goal’ smile from on high.
How close is your company to the community which your cash comes from? Is your company a user or user friendly?
The UN tries to keep us on course as the humane human race, a much over-rated species in the love-of-neighbour and if-you-can-do-no-good-at-least-do-no-harm department. The UN gave us the eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) which saved millions of lives by holding wayward governments to some benchmarks and yardsticks worthy of a Nobel Prize for the thinkers. At their expiration, the post MDG era has a new set of stepping stones to a human utopia –the 17 SDGs. The masterstroke- ‘political, financial and ‘I am very useful in the world’- is bringing the private sector on board and firing it with zeal further added to the billions of dollars being spent through the Global Fund and numerous Foundations and partners on poverty and vaccinations et cetera .
But and there is a big but…..in hindsight could the MDGs have been more effectively met if the world’s advertising agency gurus also sat at the UN high Command Global Fund Table dispensing wisdom on branding MDGs and participating in ‘Global Ignorance Elimination’ strategies?
With their access to a heretofore ‘wasted social development opportunity’ of multibillion advert budgets, billions of hours of radio/TV airtime and a runner under cartoons and music shows to access the youth brain during hours of boredom, millions of stickers and cartons and other product packaging, surely MDGs could have had and now SDGs must ride on the back of the adverting tiger to more quickly make a better, more informed world? The advertisers, corporate and agencies should be brought on board early for the SDGs adding billions at little extra cost –just shared space and time!
If knowledge is POWER, What disease pervades the world ‘for profit’ commercial [products we often do not need] and non-commercial ‘not for profit’ – the hard facts of life called social life skills. The private sector is the big brave doctor treating ignorance about its products and services using ‘for profit’ COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING-billions of messages worldwide. Advertising is king and queen especially ‘for profit’ ‘CORPORATE SATURATION ADVERTISING’ and for making Presidents and is 99.9% of advert budgets visualised and heard by every human but little for the ‘not for profit’ non-commercial advertising with social messages, less than 1% of advertising. This must change. [to be continued]
Tag: Our girls
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Our Girls; UN-SDGs and private sector
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Our Girls; ‘Borrow’ or ‘Lend’ me data?
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014 and recently there have been more bombings and late military war hero Lt Col Muhammad Abu-Ali and his equally brave six compatriots have been laid to rest after a strategic attack by Boko Haram. The nation joins their families in mourning them and 30,000 murdered victims. Life is so deadly serious. Contrast their heroic deaths with some of who they died for –National Assembly (NASS) members. Every time we see the ‘2-3 salaries and pension scams, I mean schemes, of ‘ex-governors ’ and other corrupt ‘legally illegal’ NASS antics, one feels like vomiting as its members act immune to the disasters in Nigeria and the political poverty inflicted by their greedy actions and evil-inclined inactions. Prostitutes, and apparently politicians, have a saying that ‘money for hand – back for ground’. The need to stop NASS and politicians’ financial profligacy is urgent. This profligacy commenced in 1999 reaching new lows in morals, decency and democratic demonism all totalling 15 ‘Years of Plenty’. This, paradoxically, instead of fuelling a Monumental Development Agenda, created the ‘Years of the Locust’ during which Nigeria was looted by its political citizens from every political party and civil service at all levels of governance leaving nothing for the youth and nothing saved causing the on-going ‘Years of Famine’.
Can we protect INEC from intra-political rascality? Nigerians, it is not the responsibility of INEC but that of the irresponsible party to choose between candidates from factions in political parties. Indeed such duplicity represents serious party indiscipline and a failure to meet INEC’s LEGAL DEMAND OF ‘ONE PARTY, ONE CANDIDATE BY DEADLINE DATE’. INEC is an umpire and should be put in a legal position to refuse to recognise both or all the candidates and de-recognise/ de-register the offending political party at that election for breach of trust -submitting two or more names instead of one –thus breaking the rules of political engagement with the electorate.
Power palaver: Shamefully ‘Power Generation reaches 3483.7Mw’. Will someone tell government that is failure and a shortfall of 146,516.3Mw by UN’s 1000Mw/1million? The political thieves have built their fortunes with our development money. Power failure has taught Nigerians we do not need power at home throughout the day. Cut out grid power during the day while at work and avoid high bills. At night 4-6 hours NEPA or PHCN or generator will keep your freezer and fridge cold, if your wife agrees and she will probably not.
The telecommunications companies could have eradicated a simple English error in Nigeria. Instead, they have reinforced the error with slogans like ‘Borrow me data’. Imagine exams where the choice is between ‘Borrow me your biro’ or ‘lend me your biro’. Obviously the ‘lend’ is correct and the ‘borrow’ is incorrect. However students will remember the adverts and wrongly tick ‘Borrow me your biro’. Corporate giants should ‘do no harm’ even as they ‘do no good’. Perhaps the NIGERIAN ACADEMY OF LETTERS should lead a campaign to get telecoms companies to change to the linguistically correct ‘LEND ME DATA’.
On Monday, The Punch newspaper published a picture revealing a failed road with several feet of red laterite and a too-thin layer of bitumen/ tar. The road was built to fail by corrupt government and contractors not using the foundation of rocks already paid for. They should ask the Romans whose stone roads have lasted 2000 years.
The refurbished hospital in Benin is a credit to Governor Oshiomhole and reminder to all states that they are each bigger than 20 countries in size or populations and state hospitals must outclass teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres. Governors must guarantee a citizen’s human right to good health which is not a dividend of democracy.
The whole ‘Abuja Political Project’ has become a crippling millstone around the drowning Nigeria’s neck. To the glory of God and Buhari [whose daughter got married without fanfare last week] and Treasury Single Account (TSA), a headline last week announced that politicians complain they cannot reimburse themselves for election costs through ‘business as usual’ contracts deliberately padded, brown envelopes for oversight function reports, envelopes with ‘finders’ fees’ for ‘introductions’ or ‘percentages in perpetuity’ and ‘receiving a percentage of ‘salary money’ illegally deposited in banks instead of paying workers. They have all dried up at source- Aso Rock. It is now a financial ‘ghost town’ all from fear of EFCC, dwindling access to ‘hard currency’ and a lack of budget-fraud funds. Good. Buildings bought at excessive costs cannot be resold even at 50% discount, because no-one has the old money, or is hiding it from EFCC in plastic bags in soakaways. Now it is the ‘Unusual Business Era’ without the thick ‘corruption club sandwich’ layers of political, civil service, legal, and CBN release envelopes and corruption, served in multi-star hotels around Abuja. We hope!
Hopefully this will also translate into cheaper election campaigns encouraging a more dedicated, participating Nigerian at the next election. Perhaps the Trump election will inspire new Nigerian politicians, not from godfathers and big money but from development. But will the people change from self-gratification/‘stomach infrastructure’ at the grassroots, ward and state leadership and their ‘rent-a-voter culture’ to higher moral goals of a development capability and intellectual capacity?
Thank you for the huge response to ‘Sex and Perfume’ which will save many marriages. Happily, Nigerians are more passionate about their marital partners than foreign football and politics- local and Trumped Clinton.
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Our girls; sex and perfume; China power
Our Girls are missing since April 15, 2014 with five million Internally Displaced Persons, home and abroad, staying with friends, family and working nationwide.
This leads us to ‘Let’s talk about sex’. The Human Rights Watch Report on sexual abuses against IDPs should have been anticipated at meetings with workers for organisations and victims’ funds, predicted and prevented. Even enemy captives are protected under the Geneva Convention. When any crime is committed, we must ‘Suspend, Investigate, Dismiss, Prosecute and Sanction’ those in authority. Did they not read about UN soldiers’ atrocities and learn ‘Prevention of abuse is better than a non-existent cure’? You cannot ‘cure’ a rape victim. Big heads must roll to jail for ‘Negligence of duty and failure to Institute Protocols, Preventive Measures and Monitoring Methods for staff’.
Lets’ talk more about sex. As doctors, we get queries. The human body has a MO, Mouth Odour, and BO, body odour, attractive or off-putting. Perfume was invented centuries ago and it can change life in public and at home! Who needs to talk when you can make a ‘Perfume statement’? Modern women try to ‘smell’ divine and enhance themselves with foreign attachments et cetera-adding to God’s gifts. Almost every man has bought perfume for a partner. But do men smell the perfume they buy? She wears it to work, NOT at home, giving the office more ‘Perfume Days’ than you who bought it. Even as a married couple, your ‘Perfume Days’ or even ’Perfume Night’ are just birthday and Christmas night without a fight.
Men wonder why women do not wear their perfume in the home and every night, unlike in week one of marriage or during a hotel weekend -remember. So ladies, open those perfume bottles in the drawer for more Presidential ‘Perfume Days’ and Presidential ‘Perfume Nights’ in your personal Presidential home, in your Presidential kitchen, in your Presidential sitting room, in your Presidential bathroom and in your Presidential ‘other room’ where there is often a useful chair and bed, your Personal Presidential space. Women, more ‘Perfume Days’ and ‘Perfume Nights’ will keep your marriage more Presidentially ‘Perfumed and Alive’ long after dark when the generator dies.
Love and sex are ‘a two way street’ and a man may require sex due of love, lust or ‘Cyclic Male Readiness’. Sex at home is love and simple lust from a recent sexy experience or the ‘Male Sperm Cycle’ a biological response to the cyclic sperm manufacture regularly fortnightly or monthly depending on protein, meat, intake. Plenty protein = plenty sperm = plenty sex in the ‘other room’.
The human is the only animal which clothes and perfumes itself. Unlike women, men smell particularly of stale sweat. Men and women use armpit deodorant and men shave and use after-shave lotion. Many men collapse into bed unwashed and must endeavour to consider a shower nightly before going to ‘the other room’ on Home Presidential assignment. Men must ‘be prepared’ day and night even though women answer too often ‘nay’ or ‘headache’ and not the ‘aye’ they agreed to on wedding day! Why not perfume your body every night, sex or no sex. Perfume companies will double sales, so buy shares. Beyond politics, every family must survive the corrupt earthquake called politics which has reduced happiness at home. A good family sex life is therapy to help emotionally survive a family economic crisis. ‘Perfumed Days and Perfumed Nights’ will help do just that.
Thank the President for raising ‘the other room’ discussion points. Political parties may divorce and disintegrate but families must survive political rascality. With a good perfume, a family can tune to a good Chanel to Escape as a Happy couple should to consume with Passion, without Guilt, and enjoy the Poison of an Eternity of Intimate Diamond studded Obsession without Brut force as they share Old Spice in married life at The One, the correct Fahrenheit. Perfume and the Other Room are more important to family than politics.
Now we have saved the family, back to politics. May no Nigerian sniff the other ‘evil perfume’ handkerchief of kidnappers in taxis and NAPEP seeking body parts, Amen!
Excuse me, as politicians return money taken under false premises -theft- know that N1b, N1,000,000,000 is stealing N6.6 from every single Nigerian baby, child and adult, many dead from no development. The ‘condemned to return funds’ are naturally visited by family, friends, priests and pastors as Jesus said pray for and comfort sinners and robbers. But who is comforting and giving ‘restitution’ to the robbed? Instead, honest Nigerians are insulted for demanding investigations and prosecution twisted to mean ‘persecution’. The holy visitors must demand from their adherents – confession, restitution and reparation, not just forgiveness and solidarity. Nigerians, STOP CELEBRATING, CONDONING, DEFENDING OR FORGIVING CORRUPTION BEFORE RESTITUTION AND JAILTIME.
Some ‘power experts’ gloomily proclaim Nigeria cannot provide or distribute 20,000Mw by 2020 – 15% of national needs at 1000Mw/1million UN recommendation. This is a Nigerian National Emergency. Because of population growth and additional technology development, even 20,000Mw by 2020 will be inadequate. To execute a 5-10yr 150,000Mw Emergency Power Plan, turn only to China which grows power at 50,000+ Mw /annum and provides 120m homes with wind power. Na development sleeping sickness de kill Niga?
Hurray, there is a Nigerian AB Bukarti-led petition for a REFERENDUM ON THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY as I have been calling for, for years? Sign up at www.change.org. www.tonymarinho.com
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Our Girls; Stop Parties Having Budget Access
Our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. We pray negotiations will work.
The question raised by a friend is ‘If you have a leaking water tap, no amount of wiping the floor will dry it until the tap is turned off’. Where is the tap of corruption in Nigeria and can it be turned off? That corruption tap is the national or state political party machinery in power overreaching itself with assumed access to the entire budget. Every kobo of the billions mismanaged, used to alter the course of elections, was meant to help give make Nigeria a 21st Century caring development.
President Buhari and the country must build trustworthy structures that act as a STEEL BARRIER, AN ANTICORRUPTION WALL TO CUT AND BLOCK THE CONDUIT PIPE BETWEEN THE BUDGET AND THE BRAZEN PARTY THIEVES OF ANY PARTY IN POWER AT ANY LEVEL who ‘Steal and Mis-allocate’ the budget. Some of these stolen funds are used for personal enrichment and as a ‘War Chest’ for election manipulation and ‘stomach infrastructure. Come 2018-9, the country will again be plunged into our ‘TRADITIONAL 3 ½ YEARLY PRE-ELECTION HIBERNATION’ and shut down for six months when no salaries will be paid, no government work will be done, no authentic contracts will be awarded. Government and party-in-power officials will steal the nation and state and the LGA blind through bogus contracts and use the stolen funds as their personal ‘gratuity’ and ‘war chest’. These war chests are rumoured sometimes to reach N10,000,000,000+, N10b+, by some governors. We see a mini-version of this in December every year when government offices rush to award a rash of rubbish contracts, a ruse to steal left-over money in department and ministerial budgets which they should have spent for the good of the people. They actually sit down and have a ‘December Plan to Steal’. Miraculously it was stopped in 2015 at federal level by the Treasury Single Account but not at state level where it continues unseen.
Buhari, his Kitchen Cabinet and the EFCC have demonstrated bias in their activities – incontrovertible administrative corruption as deadly to the citizens’ morale as monetary corruption is deadly to their development. However, only one party and its members had access to the entire federal budget, CBN and forex as its personal pocket money since 1999 at federal level. For the states, each state AGIP, any Government Political Party In Power did the same! Not many in APC come with clean hands and many cross-carpet-ers also are questionable.
So, History is back? Will those who executed the plan to destroy Nigeria’s intellect escape punishment through bad education decisions-a form of intellectual or administrative corruption? Does history’s reinstatement or resurrection require such an extravagant History Conference when it was dismissed with ignominy by easily identifiable Directors General and Directors of Education some 20 to 30 years ago? The minutes of meetings should expose the ‘Anti-History Coup Plotters’ deserving an ignominious ‘Anti-History Award’. Already some are talking of curriculum overload, shame on them! Making Nigeria the only country to bury history for 20+ years is worthy of jail time!
In the warped Nigerian economy, it was difficult to honestly do business with bank loans at 21-25%. How much more difficult in a depressed economy? Favoured businesses are having the ridiculously high MPR Monetary Policy Rate of 14% dropped making loans single digit. This should be extended to all Nigerians, crashing the cost of money and boosting business, living, leisure and pleasure. What company doing honest business can return 25% on a loan without extorting from the customer and increasing the cost of business and living? CANCEL MPR NOW!!
Personally I disagree with British ‘innocent until guilty’ and prefer the French ‘prove you are innocent’ approach to questionable offences including corruption charges.
Did any political party announce a policy to cut political Salaries and Perks, SAPping and draining Nigeria dry? SAP is real. Visit an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp to see malnourished citizens in 2016. Did National Assembly (NASS) announce a cut to one House, a cut in salaries to sitting allowances, a part time NASS of volunteer politicians? No, no, no. Did NASS announce a new law to increase the driving licence age from 70 to 75 or 80 or increase the driving licence life span from current three years to five or 10 years? Yet it calls for the sack of yet another lady. It is very fond of calling for ladies to be sacked! Remember Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Arunmah Oteh of the Stock Exchange, and now Kemi Adeosun. The few men in their radar are usually whistle blowers exposing Nigerians to workings of their ‘s-hallow’ chamber.
NASS is a millstone around Nigeria’s neck. God is waiting for politicians at each one’s personal ‘End Time Rapture or Rupture’. You may get an ‘Adjourned Sitting’ when you die in NASS but you get instant judgement. You do not die as a political party but as an individual, and instant ‘incorruptible judgement‘with no ‘perpetual court injunctions’. Beware: Chinese MP sentenced to death for corruption! Beware! Nigerians are sick of your tele vela soap opera on NTA and are nauseated when NASS and politicians appear!
For example what is an ‘Ultramodern Shed’ ‘donated’ by an LGA politician? Like irrelevant tiny 5,000Mw electricity targets, Nigeria takes too low standards from politicians!! The citizenry and media must set higher intellectual standards and development goals for the politicians to reach in 2016!
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Our Girls; Sack is not punishment
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Work and pray for their safe release.
Once again I spend my evening in darkness and protest, lit weakly by my laptop screen bent forward to illuminate the unlit keys. Why? Because for my sixth week, I refuse to ‘waste’ the money earned today as fuel burning in my generator, substitution for government, just so I can pretend that I live in a country struggling with South Africa to be the ‘largest economy in Africa’. Of what use is ‘economy’ without ‘electricity’? In fact electricity is the basis of any progressive economy. It is not only ‘the economy’ but it is also ‘the quality’ of life, electricity that matters to people and should matter to government. This is 2016 in the super-tech century with 400kph trains and nanotechnology. Nigeria should be better than this. Total commitment to electricity generation and transmission/distribution will allow Nigerians to get on with life. Governments have set too low targets making efforts to meet the national power demand a futile chase. The target should be 1,000Mw/1million Nigerians or 150,000Mw, recommended by the UN. It is no good for a country retarded by a history of corrupt visionless leadership. Our government is crawling in power supply to five or 10,000Mw by 2020???, when it should be ruining to 150,000Mw in multiples of 10,000Mw annually using emergency power companies which can easily supply 10,000Mw within three months and 30,000Mw annually. Do the research.
And Customs has a role to play in our suffering as the corruption or anticorruption ambassadors at the gateway to Nigeria. President Mills of Ghana publicly berated the Customs of Ghana for failing Ghana’s anticorruption campaign. Is our Nigeria Customs any different? In Nigeria we have just seen the ‘sack’ of customs officers. Nigeria needs more than sack. Nigeria must initiate a STANDARD ANTICORRUPTION PROCESS/RULE- SUSPENSION, RECOVERY, PROSECUTION AND IF GUILTY – REMOVAL FROM OFFICE, RECOVERY OF ASSETS AND RESTITUTION TO VICTIMS. Sack to enjoy ill-gotten gains is a stamp of approval, not censure. It is an additional crime by government too lazy or too intimidated to prosecute. Prosecution is next and restitution must follow. Property must be sold and bank account funds evaluated and recovered. EXTORTED MONEY SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE VICTIMS. In the case of Customs, importers are not willing givers of bribes. Importers are just victims. Like any victim of avaricious government uniformed officials who put obstacles in the way of ‘custom-ers’ causing frustration which forces compliance with their demands for bribes. Those seeking services are now exactly like a kidnap victim and the family forced to part with money to stay alive economically! The victim is the goods and the family is the company. Who can they report to and not have their goods destroyed by a forklift attack? I have witnessed such an attack on a crate of an intransigent wooden crate owner destroying all the goods in the crate by ‘forklift accident’; Oga you for pay o, why you no pay? Na you cause this accident o! Crash!!! Does a new wind blow?
Millions have worked very hard all their lives to keep Nigeria afloat during theft of 50-70% of budgets by military, political, civil servant and contractor collusion and abuse. Nigeria can be better. Are we failures or are the forces of evil too great? Many say Buhari is our last chance. Others say he is biased protecting his APC man and going after anti-APC judges. The thieves and their cohorts shout at President Buhari to forget the past, stolen multi-billions that have crippled Nigeria, and get on with the little left. They ask why is he investigating just Abacha because he is dead and Jonathan because he is a civilian and non-Northern or non-Moslem and not past regimes which also ‘lost’ a lot of money like Babangida’s and Abdusalam’s, but! They say Buhari should forget the anticorruption war even as the thieves are emboldened by a slovenly and corrupted magisterial and judicial court system slower than a sloth. These thieves gloat dancing from adjournment to hospital, conniving with doctors, and back to court. Meanwhile the naira suffers free fall from lack of dollar backing. This free fall makes the billions of dollars stolen from the national and state budgets and now hidden at home in fridges and abroad in children’s accounts grow in value against the toilet-paper naira.
The recent Justice Okoro account involving Amaechi is a huge opportunity for government to demonstrate that EFCC is unbiased in the war on corruption. The report should be investigated. Indeed the EFCC should be busy with an avalanche of petitions against many judges, magistrates and court registrars. How do court case files move or not move? Where is the electronic system in case filing? Electronic monitoring of file movement in courts is an antidote to court corruption of the file movement mechanism.
Every serious HND and University Economics, Political Science, Accountancy Department should incorporate classes to ‘Computerise, Detect, Prevent, Report and Whistle-blow on economic crimes. They must use the newspaper reports to compute the billions stolen ‘under investigation’ stolen from government coffers for party funding by all parties. This will give the ‘Quantum Fall in Quality of Life’ from stealing led by politicians. Also Law Faculties and Law Schools should teach how to computerise and make public all court filing and administrative Systems.
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Our Girls and ‘Court’ Corruption
Our Girls are missing since April 15 2014, snatched in the largest terrorist kidnapping in West Africa since the terrorist slave trade of which my ancestors were victims. Congratulations to negotiators releasing 21 Girls. More please!
Hurray, Ambode’s Lagos State accepts monthly payments for ‘Own Your Home’ mortgages cancelling the crippling 10-30% deposit and full payment within 1-3 years which enthrones corruption. Developed countries have ‘MONTHLY PAYMENTS FOR RENTS AND MORTGAGES’ as development strategies.
PMB/AB: Nigeria! Another 14-year-old married and a well-planned or spontaneous wife’s cry that her husband is under yet another ‘Cabal’, speculated as Kaduna Mafia remnants. Our PMB calls on ‘culture’ saying his wife belongs in the KITCHEN, THUS OUT-TRUMPING EVEN TRUMP – ‘BUHARI [K]PA TRUMPI’!!! Most men secretly applaud the FULL STATEMENT, as they like being idol worshipped and suffer sexual deprivation at home from not having ‘had any’ this month due to too many ‘Nays’ and not enough ‘Ayes’ in THE OTHER ROOM causing ABSENCE/ABSTINENCE. Women get- power O! Was his ‘spontaneous’ remark written by the KITCHEN CABINET to put her ‘in her place’? I always object to abuses of UNELECTED First Ladyism at Federal, State and LGA with cult-like expensive, grandstanding, over-dressed, NGO funding and even greedy and corrupt, wrongly distributing ‘our’ funds as ‘their’ charity. Many women eminently qualify in kitchen, ‘other room’, politics, Presidency, kitchen cabinet and President’s seat. They would be electable when we stop rigging! ‘What does AB, Aisha Buhari’s exposé mean and what will it gain for Nigerian democracy and cost her? Will she be dismissed as rantings of a disgruntled wife or heard as revelations of yet another whistle-blower? Will it empower or weaken the President? Will she be ‘arrested’, domesticated, confined, passport seized and, ‘humiliation of humiliation’, serve the ‘Kitchen cabinet’ snacks as it plots control and consumption of Nigeria, not its development? By naming names, are Fashola etc. targets for ‘political assassination or inactivated‘? Is it the first world press conference as the ‘first, first lady’ seeking Nigeria’s Presidency come 2019? But who ‘controls’ the President?
DSS/Judiciary: Judges, like Caesar’s wife, must be above suspicion. Justice means ‘Being impartial, apolitical, ethical, legal, morally sound and just to all political and individual parties concerned’. ‘Court’ should instil respect, not fear of being cheated and the odour of corruption in your nostrils when you arrive. But judges, prostitution and tax collectors are in the Bible needing special salvation! A Nigeria with ‘exemptions and immunities for common crimes’ for politicians and judges is ‘corruption’. Already conflicting legal comments confound us and confirm the law, if not lawyers, is actually an ass, as quoted! After the slow anti-corruption war even within the judiciary, we complain about the ‘unnecessarily violent’ earthquake in the judiciary which may taint good judges. The gain is the judiciary will NOT take a bribe from today! Abi? Abi no bi so? This harmattan cloud of DSS dust blinds us, while judges/magistrates/registrars relocate ‘loot/evidence’ from the traditional hideouts in home fridges to friends’ freezers and beer cartons. We need true petitions on other judges! The cleansing has begun but corrupt judges and medical doctors are masters at ‘sick leave’ for ‘caught at corruption’ hypertension adjournments. A judge found guilty of a common crime VOLUNTARILY REJECTED RESPECTABILITY and sinks to a criminal, beneath a common man. A corrupt judgement poisons the Nigeria’s drinking, bathing and cooking waters creating a murky muddy smelly cesspool of corruption and societal despair and destruction. May all innocent judges be promoted while the guilty are jailed after recovery of bribes, reversal of all their malicious judgements and not ‘JUST’ ice, retired or sacked!
Professor Toby Mike E AkenOva deceased@70 was a key part of solutions to Nigeria’s problems. Astute, punctual, analytical, encyclopaedic, a student/teacher of history, no nonsense with wide unbiased knowledge. He spoke his mind often writing letters in crisis/conflict, contributing to political and social debates at many U and T-junctions in Nigeria’s life. He was a master at ‘Letters to the Editor’ and articles, particularly in the Guardian. During the oppressive criminal malignant murderous military madness we both wrote under pen names.
We fought against the cancellation of History, Geography, Civics and Physical Education from Nigeria’s school curricular- a disaster. He cherished his school days especially at Kings College. He was excellently witty and deeply sarcastic, the hard working true Nigerian we seek but mistakenly complain is hard to find! Toby did not hide or at worst he was hiding in plain sight.
He was a founding member of Educare Trust in 1994 and in 21 years where he contributed his experience and time, his mini Japanese-style plants-Bonzi, and finance to uplift the youth through Educare Trust Youth Empowerment Programmes and Projects. He left a massive Print Media Archive of newspapers and magazines. Finally we must situate Toby in the struggle for the liberation of Nigeria from the political and educational tyranny against the deliberately underdeveloped youth and for the restoration of true valuable values in our punished society. As our hearts go out to Yetunde, his wife and Osato his son, we miss this exemplarily unassuming gentleman and his unique Toby humorous ways and means, particularly at Trenchard Hall, UI Concerts.
Toby, our truly great husband, father, first-born sibling, colleague, teacher of subjects and morals, mentor, linguist, author, wit and thorn in the flesh for wrongdoers and mediocrity, your work is done here. – Rest in Perfect Peace. www.tonymarinho.com
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Our Girls; A National Sacrifice: Suspend NASS for 180 days!!
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Work and pray for their safe release.
The Criminal Code Number 419 encompasses non-political and political criminal acts to extort money, favours, votes, all under false promises, a pastime of lying politicians and internet avengers. To add to the infamy of 419 as applied to them, the politicians have unwittingly provided a new number – 180. Their new telephone number is +234-419-419-180-180. On TV Nigerians witness a rash of questionably ‘legal’, morally repugnant, reprehensible, but definitely defensive closing of the political ranks across political parties, ‘ayes’ 100%, ‘nays’ 0% against whistleblowers and those playing discordant tunes. The new mantra is ‘Suspended for 180 days’ of ‘sitting’ effectively denying the constituents who voted in the individual, herein-after called ‘the victim’, of a key element of democracy, ‘representation’, and other services for an entire calendar year. This is also an anti-democratic devastating deterrent to any ‘different opinion’ whistleblowing political gladiator who will also receive ‘Are You Mad wahala’ from friends and family.
Nigeria should sacrifice for the economy by giving up our sick National Assembly (NASS). Give NASS a dose of ‘180 Medicine’, suspend it without pay for 180 days of sitting i.e. a year, as a multibillion naira cost-saving boost to our economic and political recovery. Alternatively perhaps NASS will self-medicate and commit suicide, ‘hara-kiri’, in the national interest. The ‘parasitic politicians’, under ‘parasitic parties’ announced ‘do-good projects’ which have always done ‘good’ only for themselves, their unborn progeny and their bank accounts. Nigeria cannot afford the gluttonous parasitic political class, parasitic party policies and machinery and the poor returns on political stock investment. Do Nigeria’s citizens benefit N100 in every N10,000 expended on and by the political class elected at murderous cost in bloody and violent campaigns, thuggery and death, voting time and rigging? What an institutionalised violent 419 against Nigeria.
Today’s ever bolder and violently evil Epidemic Of Antisocial Behaviour is a malignant growth by non-beneficiaries of the TV promoted Epidemic of Instant Millionaire-Ism of the past 20 years strategised and promoted by an avaricious and misplaced immoral Corporate Product Promotion Strategy and the morally corrupt instant wealth of parasitic politicians – Money Without Work. Who does not want to be an Instant Millionaire?
Justice Uwais’s Electoral Reform Committee provided solutions to illegal political funding, rigging and violence in elections perpetrated not by INEC or normal citizens but by the 419 politicians themselves and the party, never punished. Yet Nigerian political commentators castigate and vilify INEC for ‘failures’ when INEC is merely the umpire between inexplicably belligerent criminally dishonest, unpatriotic, unsportsmanlike and violence parasitic parties.
Now the Electoral Reform task, unimplemented, is before a new committee, under Ken Nnamani, who as a politician participated in the elections methodology needing reform. Will the Nnamani solutions also take ‘for never’ to implement – 2019+? Will Nnamani be nationalistic at this, yet another, critical crossroads in Nigeria’s fate, I mean future.
There are skeletons in every politician’s briefcase and even the most revered are found wanting. When some need money, they phone the CBN Governor for $10,0000 or $100,000 – no be 419? Can the police not see the master fraudsters sitting in NASS and government houses who perfected TAKING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES even by multiple pensions -THE DEFINITION OF 419? The big Nija political boys and girls have always been first place in 419, wheeling and dealing in budget padding, contracts inflation and phantom projects.
Nigerian society is conditioned to ‘no expectations’ from the political headship down to workless workers with low productivity and acceptance of government failure from a ‘combination lock’ of ‘Maximum Corruption, Incompetence, Negligence Selfishness’, ‘CINS’. This is the modus operandi of the parasitic political class, the lead architect of our ‘failure to thrive’. Which politicians removed or allowed the removal of history, civics and geography from our curriculum? We have not had an inspired or inspiring follow-my-lead leadership- until today hopefully. Is Buhari the leader, the stepping stone to the expected leadership or merely a diversion up to 2019 and replaced by a re-run gluttonous President –another of our harvest of treasury-looters? That gluttony is why there is no serious robotics in Nigeria’s engineering faculties. We must insert such items in the 2017 budget even if the space in the budget is filled with ‘zero allocation’ in 2017. Due to political gluttony today, five out of six cancer treatment units have collapsed. This emergency requires immediate courier solution! But Nigeria requires 37 to 74 such cancer treatment units, 1-2/ state, London has 250, and had the money. Is your governor not ashamed that cancer victims, 100 per day, must travel out of state for cancer treatment? One day someone in authority will make that long overdue allocation to robotics or cancer machines et cetera rather than steal. We live in hope and must raise our expectation and force it on the parasitic political class.
The economy did not fail us. The leadership failed the economy, mismanaging the raw materials of prosperity handed to Nigeria by God, and then leave in penury as they gloat gluttonously over their massed massive dollar fortunes as the naira falls deeper into toilet paper range! Our leadership constitutes the architects of this failure, lacking visionary vitality, consumed by the gluttonous conversion of Nigeria’s vote, treasuries and CBN for personal and party criminal gratification. Can Buhari, Uwais, Nnamani, stop the seasonal assault on INEC and Nigeria’s treasuries?
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Our Girls; Containing parasitic political parties and politicians
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014? Little talk and no returns, 905 days later. Shame.
So another Oct ‘FAST’ has gone. Uniquely we have perplexed politicians forced to come to terms with the coming ‘political poverty’ mainly precipitated by a history of Nigeria being infected by ‘Parasitic Politicians’ from a ‘Parasitic Political Party Class’. As yet they have refused to even reduce the financial burden they have created on Nigeria. This is exemplified by their expensive antics in National Assembly (NASS) and state Houses of Assembly, foisted on the nation with SAP –Political Salaries and Perks and double/triple pensions and even salaries, crippling and strangling Nigeria.
When will our ‘Political Parasites’ fully cut their coat to ordinary Nigerian size and just become another professional group and not make themselves ‘greedy mini-gods’. Outside their rowdy NASS ‘Parasitic Politicians’ they are becoming less noisy in society and more straitjacketed and forced into being ‘holy’ by an honest President in governance – no sleaze, stolen funds or envelopes slipped their way to get a good ‘Oversight Report’.
Every kobo a politician throws around or uses for personal use or claims is a Personal Donation or a ‘Dividend of Democracy’, DOD, comes from funds belonging to Fellow Nigerian. How can ‘Parasitic Politicians’ be forced to undertake their primary role of care for people instead of their greedy kleptomania and pathological or psychiatric addiction to inflating their pocket?
Complaints about the Treasury Single Account (TSA) are real but so also is the savings of billions from ghost workers not getting salaries which were used by many as a ‘slush fund’. The unholy mixture of previous party rejects and movers in the parties does not allow for a serious total move against corrupt practices as too many were involved before and are still seeking ‘rewards’ and ‘compensation’ for ‘funding’ elections with ridiculously excessive allowances. Only time, and time is quite short two years plus, will tell if good anti-stealing leadership at the very top of Nigeria triumphs over chronic ‘parasitic politicians’ and hangers on and vociferous bad followers seeking ‘refunds’ on election investments having been deprived by TSA and presidential financial purity of their easy money at the expense of Fellow Nigerians.
Certainly there will no longer be unbridled malicious misappropriation of the budget and CBN funds for party and politicians’ personal abuse. No one should ever again be allowed to seize access to the budget ‘as of right’ of being elected President, Governor, Senator, Representative, LGA Chairman et cetera.
Imagine a Nigeria like Togo or Ghana, 23/7 power, without the deafening sound of generators generating economic hardship and misery in their ‘oil-slick’ rivers – the noise, air and engine-oil pollution seeping into the ground and the pollution of our money wasting, pouring down the drain.
Research shows that Oxford University did not bribe to gain first place among universities worldwide. It worked hard by attracting $679m =N350,000,000,000 or N120-340b in research grants and donations. Asian universities also featured in the Top 40, and China in particular had allocated $33b to upgrade them to Top 40 through science and technology.
Remember all that ‘free money’ stolen by 419 politicians under criminal ‘soft-theft’ names like ‘padding’ and other ‘titles’ is available abroad but in developed countries they use most funds, not for theft, but for research grants-something alien to the Nigeria politician, even those with Professor as ‘prenom’.
If during the next two years alone, before 2019, all money available in the budget is actually used for the budgetary items identified, like in normal countries, we will make a giant stride towards maturing our budgetary process and spread, to many more items. We will probably achieve more than the inflated, non-transparent and corruptly spent budgets of the past 30 or more years. The 2017 budget and certainly the 2018 budget must have allocations along the lines of all advanced or developed country budgets. It would be super-wise for every Ministry and Department led by an intelligent team to obtain the budgets of similar organisations abroad, which are often available under transparency arrangements even from the internet. Imagine what a Faculty of Engineering in Japan would do without its budget for Robotics.
I suspect that an anniversary like the 56TH YEAR OF DEPENDENCE ON GENERATORS AND IMPORTED FUEL is yet another time for analysis of our status and nothingness in the world as we wallow in 3,000Mw, insufficient for a decent city abroad, and myriad hallmarks of a poorly developed and poorly managed society. The main reason why we are where we are so low on the all scales of civilised ranking from UN, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDO et cetera is because our leadership to date has only offered lip-service to projects, did not care and had transmitted that ‘I do not care’ to the citizenry. The citizenry in turn, instead of demanding a caring leadership, have adopted the ‘the leader does not care’ as an expectation or ingredient of governance.
The Nigerian psyche means that nobody expects a LGA chairman to be more than a stealing buffoon, a governor to be less than a flamboyant greedy non-performer, a NASS member to be less than a television clown and self-enriching and self-perpetuating liar, a minister to be less than an money-maker for himself, and a president to be less than a master-thief or 50% of the budget. The common denominator was glorified corruption and ‘legitimate’ theft… to be continued. www. tonymarinho.com/blog.
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Our Girls; ‘Nigeria@56 Dependence’
our Girls are still missing since April 15 2014. We pray negotiators from anywhere help.
Today we discuss The ‘Nigeria@56 Dependence’ on generators and imported fuel, our 3,000Mw rubbish power supply, Oxford University and UI!
I still sit in the darkness@56 of 3,000Mw, like millions, for my second week of pre-Nigeria@56 personal protest and money-saving for myself and Nigeria by not buying imported generator fuel by 100-150 litres/week. In this perpetual darkness, I never pray to God for light. God has nothing to do with our monstrous power-failure and is busy in famine-ridden Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. Nigerians refusing to protest decades of 419 governance abandoning grid growth and refinery output. Instead, we sheepishly ‘managed’ to buy 1+ million generators and now each pay N150-N10,000 daily for 10-100 million litres generator fuel nightly for light that should not cost 1/15th that if refineries, PHCN/DISCO delivered. I type this article in 22-24/7 darkness with a torch. Buy luminous keyboard laptops for Nigeria’s Dark Ages. A 20 year is going back home because there is ‘24/7 light- and no generators’ in Togo’. We struggle@56 with 3,000Mw instead of 150,000Mw. Generators generate pollution and corruption and must be silenced.
Breaking News: In response to President Buhari’s statement that Nigeria’s looters were behind the economic sabotage of bombing of oil facilities, The Institute of Looters Of Nigeria, I-LOOT-ON, direct descendant of The ABN- The Association to Bastardise Nigeria, sent the scum, I mean ‘some’, of their membership, a subsidiary called The Nigerian Professional And Political Official Looters Association aka ‘NIGAPPOLOOTAss’, from their secret guesthouse HQ, provided by a governor seeking future immunity in National Assembly, NASS for financial crimes to be committed, and situated somewhere near ‘14% Monetary Policy Robbery- I mean Rate’, MPR CBN Building, Abuja. [Who will bring the CBN Governor into No MPR and low interest rate line?].
They appeared disguised in mufflers, mufti and masks before a World Press Conference to deny the Presidential claim and mischievously asked the Accountant General and Minister of Agriculture how much Nigeria was spending feeding the Presidential pet cow ‘with no name’, last spotted in 34 states nationwide on a ranch or on rampage near you! Their identity is being determined by Wikileaks and Sahara Reporters. Many were seen heading in convoy [back] to the ‘Complex NASS’ perhaps to a meeting with the committee investigating the goodness of padding and the badness of whistleblowing? At NASS, a crowd, herein-after called ‘We-The Masses’, had gathered but did not stone them with the pure water sachets made available for the purpose by a Coordinating Member of the Civil Society Organisations as We-The Masses cannot afford to drink pure water, much less throw it even at the most 419 politicians. Sometimes at an ex-President yes! Instead ‘We-The Masses’ drank the water weapon, consuming the evidence, and dumped the empty plastic sachets in the drains of the NASS in a cunning ‘block the drain’ protest. ‘An Act of God’ or a Maradona-ic ‘Hand of God’ downpour conveniently immediately ‘down-poured’ and flooded everywhere. ‘We-The Masses’, well soaked were duly arrested for Environmental Pollution by road agencies because Environment Staff never come out in the rain to supervise the drains, and the Road Agencies were trying to meet an Internal Generated Robbery I mean Revenue quota, herein-after referred to as ‘IGRobbery’! The arrested protesters aka ‘We-The Masses’ some armed with umbrellas and brooms have since laid down these ‘dangerous’ weapons of kitchen combat, and been charged with false assembly at the National Assembly, sabotage, possession of dangerous water, poor sanitation and waste disposal, abuse of ‘immune’ ‘Distinguished and Honourables’, bringing Nigeria@56 into disrepute during Generator and Fuel Imports Dependence Celebrations and failure to stop for a siren. On parade before the media they all claimed they had great difficulty in identifying a truly ‘Distinguished or Honourable’ Nigerian@56 among those self-styled as such and had gone in search of same. They were given bail in the sum of N5,000 ‘bail-is-free-he-he-he’ non-refundable ‘deposit’ to the inconvenienced ‘arresting’ police officer, their own recognition, passport photo A4size and BVN. Then miraculously they were discharged and acquitted as a Nigeria@56 present from the Chief Judge or was it the President.
Meanwhile a group of NASS members held another Press Conference marking Nigeria@56 by insisting on part-time sitting and minimal sitting allowances, no salary or hidden allowances and to reduce the number of houses in NASS to one with one third the number of members if they could get 25million signatures demanding such followed by a referendum and threatened recall of all NASS members. They also ceremonially turned off their official jeeps and generators promising to wait for the grid to power their homes and offices. Nigerians are waiting for ‘change’ from a greedy 419 political class. A Luta Continua! We all have a dream for Nigeria come Oct 1st@56, abi?
As we congratulated Para-Olympians, congratulate World University Ranking 1st Place Oxford University where the commonest mode of transport is ‘the environmentally friendly bicycle’. Where do Nigeria@56 universities stand in a country unable to provide 100,000Mw? The University of Ibadan is threatened for being Nigeria’s Cradle of Western Education. We say NOOOOOOO! Science and Technology need research grants and 24/7 power. As a Chinese firm invents radar technology to track the US radar-proof stealth Bomber and the world uses robotics and debates AI, Artificial Intelligence, Nigeria still suffers corruption-driven ‘de ayes have it’ voice-voting in NASS. What ‘change’ in Nigeria@56? tonymarinho.com
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Our Girls; thinking out of the box
Our Girls are still missing since April 15, 2014. Pray and feed the IDPs.
Today we discuss ‘out of the box’ ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS and REWARDS FOR OLYMPIANS/PARA-OLYMPIANS.
The military bequeathed, and politicians perpetuated, a lifetime in darkness making Nigeria the UN’s LAUGHING STOCK ,no matter how many siren-ed Mercedes Benzes or UN General Assembly Meetings we address or US Presidents we meet. A country WHICH DOES NOT GET ITS POWER RIGHT HAS NO RIGHTS TO THE NAME ‘COUNTRY’ IN THE HIGH TECH 21st CENTURY.
Do we want to be just a ‘Tourist Carnival Attraction Demonstrating Primitive Life On Earth’? Right now NIGERIA IS DOWNGRADED TO A GIANT CATTLE RANCH. The cancer of power failure has grown since the military and now handicaps every Nigerian, building and business, truncating every economic advance. O! How we have been forced to suffer by coup-plotting Nigerian officers and plotting Nigerian politicians, too few gentlemen.
SOLVING THE POWER PROBLEM BY PROVIDING one to two million generators is stupid, uneconomical, mega-fuel consuming and NEGATIVE ECONOMICS, another huge backward step like the OKADA EPIDEMIC creating one million+ victims, orphans, widows and widowers. Everyone knows one okada victim and generator owner and has witnessed one okada crash and a generator poisoning the environment -The NIGERIAN GENERATOR EPIDEMIC.
OCTOBER 1, is our 57th year of Independence and since approximately 1975, 42+ years ago, when generators began their evil journey to power Nigeria, draining our fuel due to 42+ years of inability to provide grid power –an abysmal breach of Nigeria’s Human Right to a social development contract and a major military and political governance failure.
I have, 42 years and counting, this week sat in darkness whenever power was cut 15-24/24 hours/day and I am going to continue. It is a depressing experience with only torch and no radio. It saves money and does not pollute and is silent.
Contemplating our forced sacrifice for zero development, thinking out of the box, I recommend ‘ABSTAINING FROM GENERATORS’ for a DAY, A WEEK A YEAR as a powerful economic saving of billons of naira weekly to President Buhari, from the Federal Executive Council, Council of State, National Assembly (NASS), governors to LGA Councils and all MDA at all tiers of governance. BAN FUEL ALLOCATIONS TO GENERATORS NOW! Only then will they realise the bastardisation and backwardness from lost opportunity they, as a political class, have inflicted on the citizenry, even children reading for NECO, for 42+years through incompetence and devilry. Civil Society Organisations can champion a march against generators in government offices and homes as part of the march for one NASS house, part time sitting and no dual salaries/pensions to save billions. Nigeria will not survive more disgraceful powerless and political fissures without riots or revolution. Nigerians will not remain didirin or mumu forever!
The OUT OF THE BOX CHANGE IN POWER starts with a BUHARI PRESIDENTIAL ORDER to STOP GOVERNMENT GENERATORS AT HOME AND OFFICE TODAY. The grid will quickly start to work properly. We want the Political and Electricity Contractor Class to shut down generators bought with Nigeria’s money and Nigeria will run without generators.
The Emergency Economic Summit for ‘OUT OF THE BOX SOLUTIONS’ requires these ‘All Together Now’ solutions.
A] Morale Boosters, Peace: Stop the Niger Delta insurgency. Get Our Girls back.
B] LET THERE BE LIGHT! SAVE BILLIONS IN GENERATOR FUEL IMPORTS!! SILENCE GENERATORS, pollutants and money guzzlers! Give Nigerians ELECTRIC POWER in 2016!!! ‘Get out of the box’ with SERIOUS SOLAR and Google available EMERGENCY POWER COMPANIES TO PROVIDE AN EXTRA 10,000MW immediately within three months like for Japan post the recent nuclear plant disaster. Then add 5000Mw /quarter to get 30,000Mw by mid- 2017. You must use $2-5b CBN Solar/Electricity Power Loan Scheme to empower citizens and business to get into SOLAR.
C] Nigerian Marshal Plan to get NIGERIANS MOVING AGAIN. Nigerians need an enabling environment, not hampering governance. 1) Business is literally stuck in potholes. Employ millions to FILL ALL POTHOLES and ‘MAKE SMOOTH OUR PATH’. 3) Build 100 Lekki Bridges to redistribute road transport! Choose some 30+ KEY BRIDGES Nationwide for international soft loans 2nd , 3rd Niger Bridge and 1-3/state to decongest Nigeria’s clogged roads. 2) Implement through States/LGAs serious local materials LOW COST, MASS HOUSING SCHEME PERHAPS with Chinese and Pension Fund NOT SELFISHLY FOR FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS ONLY!
D] Announce POLICIES THAT IN SIX MONTHS ALL PETROL PRODUCTS WILL BE REFINED AT HOME AND THE EXCESS EXPORTED! Get 20 LGA/ private MODULAR SMALL SCALE REFINERIES APPROVED and working to CUT OUR FUEL IMPORT BILL TO ZERO in six months and make us exporter to West Africa.
E] SINGLE DIGIT INTEREST RATES OF LOANS for ALL NIGERIANS. Cut MPR to under one percent.
F] A ‘BUY NIGERIAN’ CAMPAIGN. NIGERIA IS OUR BIGGEST MARKET.
Congrats to our NECO successes, Hurray to our teachers!!
ABOUT PARA-OLYMPIANS: They got no Dasuki-gate or Halliburton grants. Beyond a ‘fat’ Presidential financial handshake covering their costs, emotional and economic, for the last four years. Will Nigeria give them jobs and corporations make them Brand Ambassadors, Media stars, Nollywood documentaries/films subjects, LGA and States role models, give museums/exhibitions Olympian Corners and Primary schools named, books and plays on ‘My Olympic/Para-Olympic Odyssey’ in school, rewards for carers, funded tours or will they be ‘dropped’? A physical challenge can be a challenge for life so they should not expect much in Nigeria which cannot save its own IDP children from war-like starvation.