EXPLOSIVE!!! WHAT WE MUST KNOW ABOUT FASHOLA, SANGO AND GOD.

Wonderful and provocative convocation lecture by
Babatunde Fashola titled "Freedom from fear - choices before the new generation"

He speaks to our growing religiosity that has completely become anti-progressive; because life is choices, life is consequences......


Great UNIBEN.


This is the greeting amongst students on the campus of the University, and it has endured after graduation and stayed with the alumni; decades after graduation.


May this greeting endure also for all of you who graduate today, and may you fulfil your destiny of greatness as products of a great institution and citadel of learning.


That this university is great is beyond argument now.


The evidence of this abounds in the human capital supply she has produced for Nigeria in fulfilment of the objectives of founding fathers.


It is a rich store of personnel, not only in quantity, but defining in quality.


In all spheres of Nigeria’s developmental endeavour, there is a representative of great UNIBEN, not only in a participatory role, but also in a leadership role that is setting worthy and commendable examples.


The boys and girls of yesterday have become the men and women who define the developmental character of our nation and they are waiting for you all to join them to play your role.


Therefore, I intend to start my interaction with you today by telling a story.


Many years ago, sometime in 1983, in a Philosophy classroom, a lecturer was telling his students about the theory of evolution, based on the Big Bang and atomic perspective of our evolution.


He charged them not to believe things that were not demonstrable by evidence.


He taught them about cause and effect relationships of man’s existence and that everything was ultimately traceable to Matter – something that can be seen.


The students it appeared seemed to enjoy this explanation of life and their own existence; the problem was that it debunked their understanding of faith, religion and God.


They had grown up believing, as Christians and Muslims, that there is God. But they could not see him. How were they going to resolve this matter of ‘Matter’ and science on one hand, God on the other hand.


This lecturer professed no faith, and did not believe in God, or so the students thought, until one fateful morning when one of the students sighted the lecturer walking out of church after a Sunday morning service.


Bewildered, confused feeling misled or deceived by a teacher who told him not to believe where they did not see or could not prove, (and this in the student’s mind extended to God) and to see the purveyor of that view walking out of church, with Bible in hand, was the biggest betrayal that was not going to pass unchallenged.


The student walked up to his teacher, quickly conveyed his courtesies of “Good morning sir” and the following conversation ensued:

“What are you doing there sir? You came to church?”

“Yes,” answered the teacher. “I worship here every Sunday.”

“You believe in God?”

“Yes I do.”

“Why have you been deceiving us?”

“How have I been deceiving you?”

“You taught us to believe that God does not exist since we cannot prove it,” the student said.

“No. I did not. I believe in God,” the teacher replied.

“My faith is different from my job. Your school is training you to become lawyers.

“They have employed me to develop your minds to question and challenge things. To seek knowledge, never to be easily satisfied.

“To think, and to challenge the existing order, to drive change and never to settle for the path well-travelled.

“To dare and to dream, to seek new ways of doing the same thing, because as lawyers, people’s fates will be defined by choices you make.


“Their lives will sometimes depend on your abilities, as will their businesses or their marriages. That is my job.


“Whether you believe in God or not is not my business. That is your personal choice.”


Ladies and Gentlemen, that is as best as I can recall this event.


The school where this event happened is where we gather today. The great University of Benin.


The faculty that offered the course in Philosophy is the Faculty of Law.


The lecturer was either Greek or Cypriot. His name was Theodoropolous. I was the student in question.


That encounter shaped my life in many ways; and even if I say so, I am the better for it having gone through it.


If I had to choose a university again, it would be University of Benin.

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It is that experience I had that I feel bound to share with you today as you leave the University.


If I successfully connect with only one of you, I believe the effort will have been worthwhile.




That is why I have titled my intervention: “FREEDOM FROM FEAR, CHOICES BEFORE THE NEW GENERATION”, in the hope that I will challenge you to take control of what happens to you and what happens around you.


I say this because there seems to be an increasing manifestation of our collective surrender of our individual choices and free will to divine intervention and the possibility of endless miracles.


We are now in the realm and reality of constant expectations of miracles and divine intervention.

Superstitions have taken over reason and logic.


When we pass examinations, win football matches, conduct successful elections, or achieve any feat, we seem all too frightened and unsure of ourselves to take credit for even the most modest of successes attributable to our efforts.


The first thing you hear is God did it.


For the avoidance of doubt, I believe in God, and only He can question my faith.


But I also believe He gave us a lot of free will.


Regrettably, we have surrendered our capacities and abilities in a frightful way to FEAR, that we have become victims of some confidence tricksters who deceive, disentitle and prey on our fears and frailties in ‘gods’ name.


Every man and woman of substance now has a Pastor, Imam, Spiritualist or even a witchdoctor or Dibia who is responsible for telling them what to do, when to do it, in a way that diminishes his abilities and surrenders his talents and free will to divine intervention or spiritual consultation.


Many people are disappearing and are being murdered in a crazed quest for human parts because some who have been entrapped in fear and superstition, believe that you can make money through ritual sacrifice.


Nothing can be further from the truth.

Human parts are tissues, bones, muscles and all that, and they have no place in the materials used to manufacture money.


There is nothing Divine in money making. It is entrepreneurship, production and hard work.


The teaching of science as espoused by Theodoropolous tells me that money is a product of man and not a product of God.


It is manufactured in a place called a Mint, by a process of printing, using special paper, ink, engravement and embossment, to make it difficult to fake or counterfeit.


When we play a football match and get to half-time, which is a few precious minutes to quickly refresh, renew and re-plan in the dressing room, we instead gather to pray, on the field, in a huddle that the whole world is still trying to fathom.


We waste the precious time that is allotted for tactical review, and return to the second half, singing and praying, “He is a miracle working God” in search of divine intervention.


The truth is that we have done well when we prepare and done badly when we do not.

Sometimes of course, working hard does not always bring the expected results but it is better than not working hard.


Yes, God is a miracle worker. I believe, but he is not an unjust God who rewards those who make no effort at the expense of those who do.


I once listened to a sermon broadcast on Television, asking people who are indebted to step forward for prayers that will make their debts disappear.


It frightens me. It does not make sense to me.


Debts are accounting, matters of credits and deficits. They do not vanish.


It is people who live in FEAR who fall prey to such teachings and become victims of misery from poor choices.


I urge you to free your minds from such fears.


There are many teachings about freedoms.


Freedom from want, Freedom of Associations, Freedom of speech, freedom of choice (including the choice of leadership by voting at elections) and many others.


But the least expressed freedom, is the freedom from FEAR, which in my view is the most important.


A mind taken over by fear cannot express free will and will therefore not fully optimize or benefit from the other freedoms.


For example, we have seen that elections are conducted in other parts on the basis of polls, campaigns, analysis of human behaviour rather than any occultic or sacrificial offering.


Candidates who wish to win elections must persuade people to agree to their messages and promises, and seek to change the minds of those who are unpersuaded, by understanding what they want and taking steps to address them.


Those who may not be initial converts can change their minds, as we have seen in our own President who finally won after 3 (THREE) unsuccessful attempts.

For those who do not know, let me share with you some of the things that President Buhari did to win the last election.


A poll was conducted across Nigeria and administered to 20,000 Nigerians as a sample, with each person answering 60 (sixty) questions administered face to face.


That meant that the poll had to analyse 1,200,000 (ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND) responses on what Nigerians wanted in the 2015 election.


The top 3 (THREE) were security, corruption and economy, which was to form the core of candidate Buhari’s campaign message that produced President Buhari. This is how to win elections.

Polls are of course not fool proof. They can be manipulated or misinterpreted by those who analyse data. They can also be misunderstood . – Hillary leading but had over 60% Trust deficit.


Let me tell you another story related to me. This is the story of the ram.


A friend related to me how his mother had a bad dream concerning his well-being.


The dream was related to the mother’s Imam.


His response was that there had to be a sacrifice.


I interrupted by asking if the sacrifice involved buying a ram and he said yes.


Seeking to know how I knew. My response was that Ileya (the Muslim festival of Eid-El-Kabir) of Ram sacrifice was 3 (THREE) weeks away and (at the time) any trickster who could not afford one would find foul or fair means to get a ram even though Islam does not make it a matter of compulsion.


Whilst I am not passing any judgement on the Imam and any other man of God, because I cannot question their faith, the coincidence was just too uncanny. Yet I agree I may be wrong.


However, I do not see how sacrifices are solutions to dreams.


Dreams are scientific events occurring as a result of the Rapid Eye Movement during sleep at a stage when our brains are most active.


Let me reiterate again that I have no quarrel with faith. What I seek to advocate is the lack of FEAR, and the resort to faith out of conviction rather than as a result of FEAR.


Fear takes choices away, and choices can and must be the product of conviction.

If we pursue our choices with as much conviction as we pursue our faith, we will certainly be a more prosperous society.


Let us remember, that at least the two dominant faiths are not original to us. They are inherited. The propagators of the faith have made them personal affairs and not public ones.


I have attended meetings in the West and in the Middle East and not on one occasion have these meetings been started or ended with prayers.


Meetings represent public undertakings and places of work and productive undertakings to deliver prosperity.


When those people have worked hard for the week, they go on Fridays and Sundays to their places of worship and their homes to offer prayers, for God to bless and prosper the work of their hands.


Sadly, back home, the head of Governments, heads of ministries, and businesses, devote early mornings at work to prayers with their staff while productive man hours tick away, they do the same at home and on weekends, we  socialise.

In effect we spend a lot of time praying and socializing.


How can this lead us to prosperity? If this is not faith influenced by fear, I do not know what it is.


If you visit many construction sites where the Chinese are employed as contractors, you will find that they work on Sundays, but we who have unemployment challenges, do not often work on Sunday.


We have invested a worrisome amount of money in building places of worship compared to what we have in building factories, businesses and schools.


This is worrisome compared to the investments I see in businesses and schools that outstrip investment in places of worship in the West and Middle East.


Recently, while driving along a road of not more than 5 (FIVE) kilometres in a Nigerian city, a colleague and I took an unplanned census of building types and this is what we counted:

a) 1 laundry outfit for washing and dry cleaning clothes (Job place)

b) 3 clinics for healthcare (Job place)

c) 2 petrol filling stations (Job place)

d) 1 bank branch (Job place)

e) 4 shopping outlets (Job place)

f) 1 eatery (Job place)

g) 10 religious houses (Worship place)


As you go around your states and neighbourhoods, I urge you to do a similar count and tell your neighbour what you see.


Again I reiterate, I do not criticise worship, but I am challenging you to think through the choices you will make.


We will not pray our way out of recession, we will plan, and produce our way back to prosperity and out of recession and you are the freshest, youngest and most energetic workforce we will have to work with.


You are the new batteries to power the engine of growth of our country.


Your choices must be clear, free from fear, not reckless but driven by analytical thought, questioning and probing and ultimately determined by convictions.


In order to test the consequences of choices based on faith influenced by fear, I advise you to look at the world map and 2 (TWO) Island nations who are situated on the Northern Hemisphere.


I will not tell you their names. You find that out. But I will tell you they are close to each other. One believes in God and works hard. The other one is the home of voodoo and spends all time practising this.


If you follow their history, the first one is prosperous and the second one seems to have made a permanent contract with poverty.


This can be changed if and when they make the right choices.


While still on this matter, let me speak about traditional medicine as distinct from divination.


Traditional medicine, from herbs, roots, and other endowments
of nature have their place of pre-eminence in the assurance of our wellbeing and good health.


I cannot say the same thing about divination and sacrifices.


We must choose to work our iron ore to produce steel and build skyscrapers, machines and tools like others do instead of worshipping the god of Iron.


We must use engineering to manage and control flooding and erosion.

We must probe the treasures of our forests and depths of our oceans as bastions of possibilities that we must manage and dominate instead of worshipping the god of the sea.


If we continue to fear the sea, oceans and waters we will perpetuate the practice of sacrifice, instead of undertaking the enterprise of understanding; and dominating them for energy and transport.


We must approach our rock formations as treasure troves of building materials like marble, tiles and granite rather than treat them as totems of salvation that require animal sacrifice.


We should stop deifying the moon and stratosphere beyond the visibility of our eyes out of fear.

Instead we should develop the courage and resolve to send men and women to land a space craft there.


I fully understand that some of you who have been raised in an environment dominated by your fear, may have been adversely affected by it.


But let me assure you that freedom from fear is not the same as courage. Instead while fear is an emotion, freedom from it is the ability to overcome it by refusing to surrender to it.


It comes from developing an ability to question things, to challenge the existing order and create a new order.


It has been done before. It requires us to know our choices and beliefs and dispense with culture that is not dynamic.


That is why twins survive today. We stopped killing them and turned our backs against a Philistinic practice that was masquerading as a culture.


If you surrender to fear, people less educated, less intelligent and less qualified than you will take over your minds, your homes and your decision making powers.


Many of such people are confidence tricksters who will prosper at your expense by preying on your fear.


Therefore, let me say to you that while your education may not be perfect, while there may be challenges, there is room to improve on it, because your education does not end here.

Indeed, your education has just started.


What you have learnt in the controlled environment of university classrooms will be subject to the test of real life situations.


How you improve and educate yourself depends on how you use your minds.


For example, do you simply repeat and reaffirm what you hear people to say simply because they are highly placed and supposedly intelligent?


Do you verify it yourself before repeating it to others ?


Do you ever ask yourself if those people could be wrong? Yes, they can be. We are all flawed.


Do you ask yourself whether those you quote without question even read as much as you do?



Do you think in terms of these words:- “Impossible”, “Improbable,” “Unlikely” ?


If you do, please stop it. They are symbols and signposts of fear.


Almost everything that was once thought impossible, improbable, unlikely has happened.


Men and women now fly thousands of Kilometres in the sky. They eat, sleep, even now shower on the Airbus A380, an engineering feat delivered by engineers of Airbus and Boeing who started out life like you, as young graduates like you.


There are now driverless cars, and men have landed on the moon and have communicated back to Earth on missions driven by freedom from fear, sheer dedication, hard work and an indomitable spirit that refused to surrender to divination, but persevered against the odds of failure before success was achieved.


But these men and women who have freed their minds from fear are not done. They are pushing to send men to Mars - The Red Planet, they are looking for cures for cancer, alzheimer’s and other diseases.


This will be the work of science, research and engineering driven by freedom from fear, not by prayer, or sacrifice of fetish to some inanimate deity.


How do you free your mind from impossibility, improbability, and unlikelihoods?


The answer is simple. Remember always, that those words are negatives. Replace them with positive thoughts and actions.


This is what frees your mind from fear and helps you to choose, to see solutions and to look for opportunities, instead of dwelling on and surrendering to problems.


If you see unmanaged refuse as a problem, you may not think of recycling and re-use and the economic opportunities that have multiple benefits, including the ultimate removal of the refuse.


If you dwell on traffic gridlock as a problem, you are unlikely to focus on developing intelligent traffic management solutions like traffic lights or a radio station to manage it and create opportunities for yourself and others.


If you focus on crime and its burden, you may lose the opportunity to focus on crime management strategies like more policemen, crime detection methods, employment and training of judges.


Indeed, as they say, if you see every problem as a nail, the only solution you might evolve is a hammer.


So, please look for the positive angle of a difficult situation, because there will be one, if you look hard enough.


I urge you to free your mind from fear, reach for the skies, choose by conviction and not by fear; trust in your abilities and God given talent, take responsibility, work hard and pray if you believe.


Yes, Sango is the god of lightning and thunder, but all the sacrifices made to Sango has not generated 1 (ONE) kilowatt of electric power.


Electricity is produced by using nature’s gifts , such as gas, water, solar and wind, harnessing their capacity through turbines made from steel to serve our energy needs, not by making animal sacrifices.


I will conclude by urging you to look for the book titled “Start Up Nation” by Dan Senor and Saul Singer , it would provoke your thinking as it did mine.


I am done.


Congratulations on your graduation. May the wind be behind your sails as you set forth in the journey of life.


May you fulfil your true promise, and may you be free from fear so that you can make good choices in your contribution to our national development.


Thank you for listening.


Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN
Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing

25th November 2016

WHY BUHARI CANNOT CONTINUE PAYING OUR FORMER PRESIDENTS FOR TEN MONTHS NOW.......

The former Nigerian presidents who reportedly were not paid their allowances for almost a year Former leaders of Nigeria, including ex-Presidents Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, General Ibrahim Babangida, rtd, General Abdulsalami Abubakar; General Yakubu Gowon and Chief Ernest Shonekan were not paid their salaries and allowances for almost a year now.

The information was made known to senators during the visit of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, led by Senator Tijjani Kaura (APC, Zamfara north) to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)

According to Vanguard, the federal government hasn’t paid the ex-heads of state for the last ten month


– The ex-presidents of Nigeria are still waiting their allowances be paid to them since January this year



 – The news was made public by the presidency officials on Thursday, November 18

IT WAS OUR FAULT WHY PDP FAILED...NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA

JONATHAN NOT BUHARI RESPONSIBLE FOR NIGERIA’S CURRENT ECONOMIC WOES – DR. OKONJO-IWEALA
August 13, 2016.

TheCable – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, on Thursday said the zero political will to save under former President Goodluck Jonathan is responsible for the challenges the country is facing.
Speaking on “inequality, growth and resilience,” at George Washington University, the two-time finance minister said the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must seek means to embed savings in national constitutions devoid of political manipulations.
Okonjo-Iweala added that Nigeria was able to save $22 billion under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, which saved the country in 2008, when there was global economic meltdown.
Speaking on the Chilean saving example, Okonjo-Iweala said: “We tried it in Nigeria, we put in an oil price based fiscal rule in 2004 and it worked very well.
“We saved $22 billion because the political will to do it was there. And when the 2008 /2009 crisis came, we were able to draw on those savings precisely to issue about a 5 percent of GDP fiscal stimulus to the economy and we never had to come to the bank or the fund.
“This time around and this is the key now, you need not only need to have the instrument but you also need the political will. In my second time as a finance minister, from 2011 to 2015, we had the instrument, we had the means, we had done it before, but zero political will.
“So we were not able to save when we should have. That is why you find that Nigeria is now in the situation it is in. Along with so many other countries.”
On solving the problem of political will and political manipulations, she said: “That is the question that I ask, what do we need to do to these countries to save over a period of long accelerated growth.
“We need to devise mechanisms not just that are good technically but find a way to either embed them in the constitution or find a way to separate them from the political manipulation so that these countries can survive over time.
“To build resilience, African countries need tools, mechanisms and it is doable and we need to interrogate ourselves why we have not done it.”
She added that manufacturing was also critical to growth in Nigeria and the rest of Africa, quoting manufacturing as just 11 percent of GDP in Africa, and nine percent in Nigeria.
“I do not believe that we can be resilient, except if we can encourage manufacturing even on the goods we consume, services, entertainment industry, agriculture.
“I think these are the kinds of questions that policy makers struggle with on a daily basis and that is what we are going to answer to get resilience.
“If we don’t get these mechanisms, we politicise them, find ways to transform the base of the economy and create jobs including in manufacturing, I believe we are going to go into this looming deceleration that is being talked about.”

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Trouble Again? Why Buhari. Should beg APC governors......

– Political re-alignments are taking place in the All Progressives Congress (APC) – This is in anticipation of the 2019 presidential elections – There are indications that some state governors elected on the platform of the APC will leave the party A report by New Telegraph indicates that nine governors under the platform of the APC are mulling the idea of exiting the party ahead of the 2019 election

 2019: 9 governors to dump APC as party crisis

 – Political re-alignments are taking place in the All Progressives Congress (APC) – This is in anticipation of the 2019 presidential elections 

– There are indications that some state governors elected on the platform of the APC will leave the party A report by New Telegraph indicates that nine governors under the platform of the APC are mulling the idea of exiting the party ahead of the 2019 elections. These 9 governors The report quoted an unnamed source in the party saying, unless President Muhammadu Buhari and the party leaders move fast to quell the crisis within the party, no fewer than nine governors and other party chieftains will dump the party. The rumoured exit of the party stalwarts is expected to be more prominent in the South-west and North-central regions of the country. According to the report, nine out of the 23 APC governors in the country, have become disenchanted with the party and the government at the centre. Another source quoted in the report said some of the governors are reaching out to their colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for alliance in forming a new political party

The negative policy has manifested mostly in the alleged lopsided appointments made by President Buhari since he assumed office 16 months ago. The governors are also not happy with the non-fulfillment of many populist campaign promises upon which the APC rode to power in 2015. “Most of these governors are fed up with this style of leader ship where everything is done by the so-called cabal in Aso Rock without consultation with other stakeholders. “You know that since 1999, the governors have been major stakeholders in our democracy. Some people may not like them, but they deserve some respect because they are the political leaders in their various states. “They do not just have control over the machinery of government in their states, they have their loyalists at the two chambers of the National Assembly and a President can only ignore them at his own peril,” another source was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, the National Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni has dismissed the report. According to Buni, President Buhari and the governors “are on the same page of providing democracy dividends to the electorate.”

BUHARI SACKS OSINBANJO.........BUT WHY............

OSINBAJO LANDS HIMSELF A BETTER JOB


– Presidential Committee on Asset Recovery (PCAR) has been set up to look into the recovery of assets from looters – The committee is to headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo – PCAR is set up to aid the fight against corruption, says the Federal Government Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been handed the task of chairing an inter-agency Presidential Committee on Asset Recovery (PCAR). Share on FacebookShare on TwitterVice President Yemi Osinbajo is to see to the smooth asset recovery operations between looters and the federal government. According to NAN, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in Abuja on Friday, November 18, when he received the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas. The minister who called for the support of the UN in fighting corruption said that the PCAR was set up on the recommendation of the Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption.

He said the committee headed by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo will oversee the anti-corruption agenda and coordinate asset recovery process. The minister said that the committee is coordinating the collation and categorisation of recovered asset from 2015-2016. He said it would verify the records and status of physical assets such as buildings recovered under previous administration. It would also set up the framework for management of recovered stolen asset to avoid re-looting and mismanagement of asset as was the experience in the past. According to the minister, the committee will create asset register for recovered asset to avoid a situation where former or even serving public officers carry away government asset like vehicles, computers, among others. He said the Federal Government was determined to recover all asset illicitly acquired by public officers and other politically exposed persons.                                                                                   

Mr. Mohammed disclosed that measures were under way to enhance recovery of illegally acquired asset and they will be announced from time to time. “To encourage whistle-blowers, the government is also considering an incentive framework for those who provide useful information that lead to recovery of stolen or illegally concealed public assets. “Government is soliciting the support of Nigerians in Diaspora and international NGOs in the campaign for asset return from foreign governments,” he said. The minister reiterated that Nigeria remained determined and focused in stemming corruption, which is part of the reasons that the country is suffering from economic recession. “Just as you (UN) have supported us in the fight against insecurity in the North-East, we need your institutional, technical and diplomatic support in fighting corruption,” Mr. Mohammed told the visiting UN official.  Mr Ibn Chambas commended the government for its unwavering efforts in fighting corruption and insurgency.

He disclosed that the UN and other multinational agencies had scaled intervention programmes in the Boko Haram ravaged north-eastern parts of the country. The UN official noted that the upsurge in humanitarian crisis in the north-east was as a result of the success of the military in routing the insurgent groups and liberating more communities. He explained that many of the malnourished children and others in need of assistance were from communities that were hitherto under the siege of the terrorists but liberated by the military. Mr Ibn Chambas said that a number of persons in need of humanitarian assistance in the region were not in the IDP camps alone, In addressing the crisis, Mr Ibn Chambas said that the UN had scaled-up food programmes beyond the IDP camps, increased its personnel from 40 to 200 and deployed two helicopters for distribution of food and other supplies.
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Buhari Again...What have ASUU and our Universities done?

For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely.....

1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.

2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards

3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres.

4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities

5. Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches

6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated.

7. 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects

8. Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian universities are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old.

9. 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet

10. UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively).

11. All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels

12. 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as "Glorified Primary Schools" Laboratories are non existing

13. There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government

14. 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed

15. 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers.

16. 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics

17. 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce)

18. Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same

19. 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background)

20. Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities

21. 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female.

22. 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities.

23. The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities:

24. LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:111

25. (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15).

26. Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs

27. Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books

28. Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications

29. While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture

30. There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5)

31. Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders.

32. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs

33. Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers.

34. MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis.

35. 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers.

36. In Gombe State University, only 4 out of 47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers are visiting

37. In Plateau State University, Bokkos, 74% of the lecturers are visiting.

38. In Kaduna State University, only 24 out of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff.

39. 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are receiving more funds anualy than 20 Nigerian universities under 'Amnesty Scam'

40. 80% of published journals by Nigerian University lectures have no visibility in the international knowledge community.

41. No Nigerian academic is in the league of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel Prize.

42. There are only 2 registered patents owned by Nigerian Academics in the last 3 years.

43. Numerically more support staff in the services of Nigerian universities than the teaching staff they are meant to support

44. More expenditure is incurred in administration & routine functions than in core academic matters in Nigerian Universities

45. There are 77,511 full-time non-teaching staff in Nigeria’s public universities 2 Times number of academic staff

46. University of Benin, there are more senior staff in the Registrar cadre (Dep. Registrars, PARs, SARs) than Professors

47. Almost all the universities are over-staffed with non- teaching staff

48. There are 1,252,913 students in Nigerian Public Universities. 43% Female 57%Male

49. There is no relationship between enrolment and the tangible manpower needs of Nigeria.

50. Nigerian Uni Horrible hostel facilities, overcrowded, overstretched lavatory and laundry facilities, poor sanitation,etc

51. Except Nigerian Defence Acadamy Kaduna, no university in Nigeria is able to accommodate more than 35% of its students.

52. Some universities (e.g. MOUAU),female students take their bath in d open because d bathrooms are in very poor condition.

53. Laundries and common rooms in many universities have been converted into rooms where students live, in open prison style.

54. In most improvised cage called hostels in Nigerian Universities, there is no limit to the number of occupants.

55. Most State universities charge commercial rates for unfit and unsuitable hostel accommodation

56. In off-campus hostels, students are susceptible to extraneous influences and violence prostitution, rape, gang violence

57. Nigerian University Students sitting on bare floor or peeping through windows to attend lectures

58. Over 1000 students being packed in lecture halls meant for less than 150 students

59. Over 400 Nigerian University students being packed in laboratory meant for 75 students

60. University administrators Spend millions to erect super-gates when their Libraries are still at foundation level; Expend millions to purchase exotic vehicles for university officers even though they lack basic classroom furnishings; Spend hundreds of millions in wall-fencing and in-fencing when students accommodation is inadequate and in tatters;

61. Govt interested in spending money on creation of new uni instead of consolidating and expanding access to existing ones; Keen to award new contracts rather than completing the abandoned projects or standardizing existing facilities; Expend hundreds of millions paying visiting and part-time lecturers rather than recruiting full-time staff

62. Govt spending hundreds of millions in mundane administration cost instead of providing boreholes and power supplements; Govt hiring personal staff, including Personal Assistants, Special Advisers, Bodyguards, Personal Consultants, etc.

#WHYASUUSTRIKE ?

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Is Fayose's birthday cake Poisonous that he pays ekiti people to eat it???

                        POISONOUS???

Governor Fayose pays Ekiti people to eat his birthday cake???

"Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose on Thursday, November 17, celebrated his 56th birthday on the streets of Ado-Ekiti with residents".

The fish and ponmo peddling governor is at it again.
A slice of cake and then N200.00 consolation fee for wasting busy people's time with a ridiculous stunt. all in a bid to make him more popular among the poor people of ekiti state instead of finding a way to make the people better

What and who did the people of Nigeria wronged that required such a bad leadership currently ravaging our society?
~Chizelu Emejulu.

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Charlie Boy and Group OccupiesNass and Reclaims Nigeria..........

The group led by "be the change" and "#OccupyNass" on the 15th of Nov. 2016 occupied the main gate leading to the national assembly complex of Nigeria by exercising their fundamental right in a bid to mount a good pressure on the national assembly and make the following demands that

1. The state joint account with local government system which has crippled and rendered the local government nonexistent

2. The removal of Immunity clause for President, vice President, governors and deputy governors as regards to criminal matters

3. The opening of the books and budget of the National assembly for transparency and more accountability

4. Reviewing the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria with regards to the benefit of office for political office holder and economic growth among others

5. The inclusion of death penalty for financial and political corruption in our laws with speedy legislation on the five executive bills in support of the war against corruption among other requests,

However, the group which was led to the national assembly complex by one of it's convener and sympathizer Mr. Charlie boy a.k.a "Area Father" planned on occupying the national assembly complex unlimited until their demands are addressed and assured of implementation where met with a representative of the Senate by senator marafa in the second day of the event who accepted their letter and assured of speedy consideration by the house leadership following a meeting brokered by him between the house and leaders/conveners of the group led by Retson A Tedheke who made all the effort to see that at least three of these demands has been promised to be granted within the shortest possible time by the Senate and that a committee of the Senate on #OccupyNass was set up to further address these issue.

Finally, the group has transformed to a more broader mission to occupNigeriaUnlimited by planning to #occupy the judiciary, the RMFAC the various failing MDAs and the presidency at aso-villa it However calls on all the well meaning Nigerians to shun complaints, social platform activism and join it in it's practical moves to strengthen the Nigerian state using the most effective, peaceful, available and civil means of protest/occupying to reclaim and redeem Nigeria as a country.........

Visit;www.occupy.org.ng

By; Ejike Ndubuizu.(member and proud occupier)


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Avoid these "THREE TYPES OF FOOD" If you value your sex life......


Men love sex. truth is We all do. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Many women also love sex, although few of them quite as much as we do. If, however, you learn how to touch your woman in ways no man has ever touched her before, your chances of getting more sex from her will increase tenfold. In this article, we are going to talk about 3 foods that hurt your erection and ultimately do not let you last long in bed. Before I continue, for the sake of those just reading my articles here on naij.com: “My name is Peter Adeyemi who used to be a one minute man like most Nigerian men, almost lost my beautiful wife due to this problem. That was when I started researching and trying everything out there, its all now history as I have solved the one minute riddle, I now last more than 30 minutes every time I have sex with my wife now am out to help as much Nigerian men out of this problem too. Over 1000 Nigerian men have had great results taking my advice and saved their marriage”. Are you a One Minute Man? Click here if you want to Last 30 mins + on Bed Starting Tonight. No side effect, 100 percent natural! Without wasting much time; here are the 3 foods you should either abstain totally from or drastically reduce them 

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2. Wheat: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp Eating wheat is the equivalent of injecting yourself with sugar. Your insulin is spiked, then it crashes. Wheat also contains gluten which causes many digestive disorders. Sluggish digestive system means a sluggish brain, which means loss of sexual dexterity. Wheat is a common ingredient found in cereals, bread, sandwiches, muffins, bagels, biscuits, cakes, meat patties, processed meats and as a thickening agent. Click here to discover an amazing solution that would help you last 30 mins+ starting tonight

 3. Fried foods: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp We all know deep fried foods are delicious, but the harm they cause in the body are not so interesting. If you are one of those men who want to eat fried yam, fried plantain, fried fish, fried this and fried that, all in one sitting, you may want to have a rethink for the sake of your sexual health. High consumption of fried foods has been linked to many cases of erectile dysfunction, weak erection and impotence. Opt for healthier foods that are baked and cooked with less oil. If you are already suffering from the bad effects of one of these foods, then get the solution for weak erection and quick ejaculation HERE. 

4. Too much alcohol consumption: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp While alcohol may increase a man’s desire to have sex, it however does the exact opposite when it’s time to get down to business. It is not unusual to experience difficulties performing in bed after a night of much drinking, so just imagine the long term effect constant consumption of alcohol would have on your sex life. No one is saying men should stay completely clear off alcohol forever, but if you must drink, do so responsibly and in considerable amounts. There you have it..if you must continue taking these foods, you should reduce the rate in which you take them hence they would kill your erection. Now if you are a one minute man and would like to completely cure the problem naturally. I have a special amazing solution for you, it works so effectively that you would bite yourself why you haven’t known about it all this while. Click here to discover this amazing solution today – This solution is a natural herbal supplement that is approved by NAFDAC and FDA. – Works for men of all ages, no matter how long you’ve had the problem – It reverses the condition and repairs your body system so that you can start last as long as you want in bed (even when you stop using it) – This is the same solution that helped me, and as at today, more than 1,000 men have been transformed by using it too. Click here to discover the NAFDAC approved herbal supplement that reverses premature ejaculation and help you last 30mins+ staring tonight. You will also discover a brand new Japanes

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Ex Miss Anambra... Chidimma Okeke Reveals the whole Truth about the Cucumber she used...

Miss Anambra 2015, Chidinma Okeke, who was trailed in recent weeks by a cucumber-inspired lesbian sextape, is claiming that she was under the influence of something when she did the video. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Lady Nora Okeke, mother of the embattled Miss Anambra 2015, Chidinma Okeke, disclosed that her daughter said that she was under the influence of something she does not even understand when she did the lesbian sex tape which went viral in the past few weeks.

 The woman said her daughter told her: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp Chidinma Okeke ‘Mummy even if I did it, I didn’t know when it was done honestly, I’m surprised and confused. I don’t know what happened mummy’. As a mother watching the video broke my heart but I have stopped crying and committed everything to the hands of God who always fights my battle. When I spoke with my daughter, I asked her what led her into such an unholy act despite the fact that I brought her up in a Godly way,” Lady Okeke said in tears. On whether or not the family supported Chidinma to participate in the pageant, Chidinma’s mother recalled: “Chidimma came home to say she was going to take part in Miss Anambra Pageant and I discouraged her; I told her to use her beauty for God. She went back to school and returned later to say she has been selected among the final contestants. “I can never support any of my children to take part in any beauty pageant because we are a Christian family and don’t have liking for such things. 


Chidimma went into the pageant without our knowledge but she is a little girl and we cannot abandon her; she remains my little baby and the baby of the house. When she won, it was her sister that called to tell us. She is my last child and came seven years after my sixth child.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp PAY ATTENTION: Get all the latest gossips on NAIJ Gossip App “Chidimma was simply a pawn in the hands of both the organisers of Miss Anambra and her former manager hence things went awry when she decided to free herself from the bondage. The entire controversy affected my daughter because when I went to see her, she had emaciated so much and not looking after herself at all, when I asked her why her hair was so unkempt, she said, ‘Mummy leave that hair alone, that’s not my worry.’ My prayer is that they should not kill my daughter.” In yet another exclusive interview, Chidinma’s father, Sir Jeremiah Okeke, declined comments on the controversy because he felt the deed had already been done and could not be reversed. His words partly read: “I have embraced prayers and seeking the face of God and I know in no distant time he will expose the people behind all this. They have rubbished my daughter and my family name but my God will fight my battle, I trust Him and he has never failed me. How can a beauty queen be borrowing money to pay her driver, where is it done? Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Whatsapp Chidinma Okeke “Why was the crown taken away from her three to five months before the due date for another queen to emerge? Why was I called and told to declare my daughter missing by the Managing Director of AB? A man does not say all that he has seen…leave that alone, God will expose the truth soon. This MD is neither known to me nor my wife. “Then he called me to suggest I declare my daughter missing? My response to him on the phone was – you say I should declare my own daughter Chidinma missing? Okay, I have heard you and I dropped the phone.

” Details gathered from Chidinma’s father showed that the dethroned queen was not even paid the full amount of N1million which she won while she was made to share every kobo she made while reigning as a beauty queen until she couldn’t contain it anymore and she was advised to take her complaints to the person currently managing her. It was the tears of a drowning queen that made the current manager to swing into action. It was alleged that the take-over did not go down well with the former manager who called to query Chidinma on the move describing it as a wrong one to make. 
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why Is Government Favouring Anambra state while cheating other oil producing States?


Lets look at Anambra state and see why it is  more sustainable than  most oil producing states.

There are three major cities that drive the economic prosperity of Anambra state; Nnewi, Onitsha and Awka.

Nnewi is the industrial city of Anambra State. Nnewi is home to several indigenous industrial manufacturing companies. Nigeria’s first car manufacturing plant is located at Nnewi. Nigeria’s auto part manufacturing factories are located at Nnewi, the first Nigerian made motorcycle was and is still been produced at Nnewi. There are several number of indigenous industrial products been produced at Nnewi. Technically, Nnewi is referred to as the ‘Japan of Africa’. One fascinating thing about Nnewi is that most (if not all) of the industrial estates and manufacturing factories located there were built by indigenous efforts and by Nnewi people. Ibeto Group of Companies, Cutix and ADswitch, Uru Industries Ltd, Omata Holdings Ltd, Cento Group of Companies, Coscharis of Companies Group, Innoson Group of Companies, Ebunso Nig. Ltd, John White Industries, Ejiamatu Group of Companies, Chicason Group, Louis Carter Group, etc are all manufacturing companies established by Nnewi people at Nnewi. These indigenous industrialists simply transformed Nnewi into what it has become. Nnewi alone accounts for over 70% of the auto parts manufacturing business in Nigeria. Nnewi has a private sector driven economy.

The indigenous industrial efforts at Nnewi means thousands of jobs for residents and millions in revenue for the state government.

Onitsha is the commercial city of Anambra State, it is gradually also becoming an industrial city too. A number of new manufacturing companies have recently sprang up within the city, making it not only a trade center but also a production center. The Onitsha main market is one of West Africa’s biggest markets and provides opportunities for thousands of entrepreneurs and revenue for the state government. Onitsha is a private sector driven economy.

Awka is the state capital of Anambra state. As expected, it is a city mostly funded by state government activities. Awka hosts the government structures, universities, and a pocket of small commercial activities.

Anambra state govt seem to have an efficient civil service that has helped it survive through this period of low federal allocations. Anambra internally generates between N2-3billion Naira monthly. After Ogun State, Anambra recorded the highest improvement in IGR within the past two years.

Anambra has an impressive road network system that makes almost all of its rural communities connected by road. The same applies to electricity distribution. The state also has an impressive system of funding and managing of its basic schools.  Secondary school education is subsidized, students pay between N2- 4,000 per term. Public basic education is therefore not free like it is in the Delta. This is a sustainable approach.

Every public secondary school has a made-in-Anambra-Innoson school bus. The waste disposal trucks in the state are made-in-Anambra- Innoson trucks. Some local security vehicles are made-in-Anambra-Innoson vehicles.

Anambra has a ‘community police’ system which it calls ‘vigilante’. This security system is decentralized in such a way that every community has its own team of indigenous security men, managing the security of the community. They are armed and have patrol vans. The vigilante system is more effective than the Nigerian Police system. These security officers are not paid by the communities but by the state government. These set of security officers are more visible than the Nigerian Police officers.

In the government school where I worked, we have a brand new sound proof generator which Peter Obi delivered to the school years back. I am sure the school has never used that generator since it was delivered.  We also have two other generators, we only use one of them. The school has also replaced its black boards with white boards and have therefore replaced chalks with markers. The school is a beneficiary of an NCC initiative and therefore has internet access, tens of laptops and desktop computers which it uses to teach its students. Our library has good books and the overall management of the school is commendable. Supervisors show up from state ministry once in a while to assess teachers performance. Its a state owned school.

The youth corpers who passed out of service last month in Anambra state received between 80-140k backlog payment for their  service to the state. Surprisingly, while oil rich states like Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom have either slashed state youth corpers allowances by half or even stopped payment, Anambra state early this year increased corpers allowances and paid them all sometime last month before their passing out.


Anambra has an impressive number of indigenous billionaires who are driving their local economy. It is rumored that Anambra state alone has the highest number of billionaires in Nigeria as at today. I do not mean resident billionaires, I mean billionaires by state of origin. You can research this yourself.

On agriculture; there is a group of people called Anam in Anambra state. These people are driving the agricultural revolution in the state. They are as hardworking as the Hausa/Fulani manual workers. Those who know the Hausa/Fulani manual workers in the South will attest to their productive ability to deliver on difficult projects at cheap rates. And they provide cheap labor. In Bayelsa for example, the local Ijaw unskilled workers are complaining about how the Hausa/Fulani manual workers are taking over their manual jobs. These set of people can deliver on any kind of labor work and their prices are unbelievable. Anambra has these kind of people too and they are from the Anam area. The Anam people of Anambra state are predominantly farmers. In terms of agriculture, they are as productive as Northern Nigeria. Farming is their religion and their location along the Niger River gives them an edge over other farming groups in the state. They grow yam, tomato, plantain, rice, cassava, melon, potatoe, and many others. It is rumored that Anambra is now getting close to been self-sufficient in tomato production; thanks to the Anam people. I also hear that Anambra now exports vegetable.

One interesting thing I like about Anambra people is their hustling spirit and the drive to develop their hometowns even without government support. You will be amazed at what individuals and diaspora town unions are doing to develop their communities in Anambra state. A man named Ichue Mike Ezenduka built a 4.2 kilometer road for his community from his personal pocket. Another man named Dr. Godwin Maduka is building a 15 storey specialist Orthopaedic hospital in his hometown, this is outside the number of other projects he has constructed there. An Anambra business man named Authur Eze pays every youth corper serving in his hometown an additional ten thousand Naira monthly from his personal pocket. There are several other interesting efforts by Anambra people that I do not want to mention here. The point is, the rich people of Anambra consider themselves as part of govt and also take social responsibilities, especially as it affects their immediate hometowns.

Anambra state is a sustainable state because, just like Lagos, the economy is not funded by politics of allocation alone which boils down to the civil service. The industrial and commercial activities are what drives the economy and even the politics.

In oil states like Delta and Bayelsa, the bulk of the economy is funded by politics. Asaba for example is a city sustained by government patronage. Yenegoa depends heavily on federal allocations. If civil servants are not paid, the economy (down to the market women) becomes grounded as it has recently become. After churches, the next biggest industry in Yenegoa is hotel. These hotels are patronized by mostly oil contractors and govt officials, with the grounding of the oil sector which by extension also grounds the govt, the hotel industry has nearly collapsed due to low patronage. In the past, due to free oil money, the govt of Bayelsa employed 'everybody' to work in its civil service as a way of empowerment and wealth creation. Today, the action is no longer sustainable and the decision is difficult to reverse. Today, the civil servants cannot be paid nor sacked. The state is almost grounded. Despite the free oil money that has accrued to the Niger Delta states over the years, the region still suffers from been seen as a sustainable region. Its civil service is fraudulently bogus, its development contracts are ridiculously inflated, its businessmen are administrative based, they rise with an administration and fall when the administration leaves office. Their sources of wealth cannot be sustained because it is based on govt patronage. Akwa Ibom has fantastic public infrastructures but there are no serious internal economic activities to sustain the system.  Port Harcourt city of Rivers State is gradually feeling the heat of the oil sector crisis. Port Harcourt industrial economy is oil servicing based. The other economy is funded by politics. With the oil sector in crisis, Port Harcourt is becoming a stagnant city in terms of economic prosperity. IOCs are unable to pay contractors. Contractors are forced to lay off staff to remain afloat. The Onne Port which would have created an alternative economic prosperity for the state is greatly and wrongly tied to the oil & gas sector and is badly affected by federal politics.

While Anambra state is producing and selling indigenous products to the rest of Nigeria and earning exchange to sustain its people and state, most Niger Delta states are still at the level of consumption. This is the big difference.

Recently, a development commission in the Niger Delta needed a client to purchase some plastic products worth over two hundred million Naira. I was directed to find a manufacturer that meets the specification. I could not find any in Port Harcourt or any other Niger Delta state. I ended up recommending Innoson factory at Enugu and another at Lagos. The deal has already been struck. Enugu and Lagos will be patronized for the contract. This is what we are talking about. Enugu, Anambra and Lagos have products to offer Nigeria just like the North is offering in agriculture. What are the Niger Delta states offering the rest of Nigeria to earn more money for its govt?

The future of Nigeria lies not even in agriculture but in manufacturing. This is why I am impressed at what indigenous people are doing at Nnewi and Lagos.

The Niger Delta might have lost its golden opportunity just like other regions of the country due to the resource curse syndrome which comes with free oil money. Anambra is successful because indigenous Anambra people have a natural inclination to succeed by whatever means necessary. Alot still has to be done by the state govt though.

Anambra could have been better if the federal politics was right. Anambra could have been better if the constitution made room for community based govt which they already do practice in some sense. I have seen community unions donate transformers, build public schools, manage hospitals and do many more things in that Igbo land. It all shows that there is a sense of responsibility towards home. With a community based govt system in a  place like Anambra, development will reach the grassroot. I see a place like Anambra becoming an ideal destination for economic opportunities.

I hope the Niger Delta people will learn a thing or two from the Anambra people soon. Its time to think home in a sustainable manner.

It is time for state govts to pick up the list of imported products into Nigeria and say to themselves, what and what on this list can we replace between now and three years time from our states? What is our comparative advantage?

The Igbos are already trying to overcome the Forex crisis by expanding their local manufacturing base by finding local substitutes. The Igbos are both traders and industrialists. They don't only sell, they also produce. Onitsha and Nnewi is a perfect example of this illustration and Anambra state is simply reaping the benefits from its peoples effort. Everyday you see trucks moving finished goods from Anambra to other parts of Nigeria just like it is done from Lagos state. You hardly see same from most Niger Delta states.

The unitary system that we practice has hampered competition among states for too long. It is becoming clearer now that there will likely be no more free oil money soon. Those like Anambra who have laid the foundation for industrial revolution have nothing to fear. The industrial companies will provide the taxes  through which the govt will survive. That is how it should be.

I feel worried for Bayelsa state. I worry for Delta state too. And I pray that the oil sector collapse as soon as possible. That might be the only opportunity for us to start thinking. Not just here in the Delta but in the whole of Nigeria.

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Buhari Wants to finish Ndigbo oh! What did we do to deserve all this???

REPORT BY HON. MINISTER BABATUNDE FASHOLA ON THE PROGRESS MADE SO FAR WITH SOME ROADS ACROSS THE NATION.
ENJOY!

💢 WORKS: This ministry as we all know is responsible for civil Works especially the construction of roads, bridges, buildings and other similar civil engineering undertakings.

💢 As I mentioned during my briefing on the agenda setting, we had inherited about 206 road projects already contracted out; with outstanding completion costs in the region of N1.5 Trillion.

💢 Although the works ministry share of the 2016 appropriation was N260 Billion, which was a lot more than the 2015 budget of only N18 Billion that the last administration left, it is a drop in the ocean against the liabilities that were outstanding to contractors.

💢 Our interactions with contractors showed that many of them had not been paid for an average of 2 to 3 years before we resumed, and this explained the stoppage of works, by the contractors, the layoff of workers, and consequently poor condition of many roads.

💢 With limited resources against liabilities, with debts already owed, we had to make difficult choices of deciding which of the 206 roads under contract we should start with, and how many.

💢 Our choices were informed by the realities of our economy and the size of our resources,

💢 We resolved that all roads are economic roads but that some were more urgent and more impactful than others.

💢 So our choices were determined by roads that carried the heaviest cargo, to allow farmers, businessman, industries and travelers move their goods and themselves across the country in order to drive productive activity.

💢 Secondly, we chose roads that support our energy sufficiency and put our resources in roads leading to and from petroleum tank farms so that we can move petro, diesel and kerosene across Nigeria.

💢 We also chose roads that led to and from our major sea and airports so that maritime business can go on, to drive the economy.

💢 Therefore, we re-mobilized contractors back to work on roads across the 6 (SIX) Geo-Political zones, with the list provided in Annexure I to this brief which I will leave with you.

✅Some important roads in this category are:

⭐️ - The Port Harcourt- Aba Road, where mobilization was delayed until Monday 31st October because of rains, and the difficulty of establishing a works yard.

⭐️ - Sokoto – Tambuwal - Makera-Kontagara Road where work is going on, - (Sokoto-Kebbi-Niger States)

⭐️ - Ilorin-Jebba Road, - (Kwara State)

⭐️ - Loko-Oweto Bridge, - ( Nasarawa/Benue States)

⭐️ - Shagamu- Ibadan , - (Oyo-Ogun State)

⭐️ - Shagamu – Lagos, - (Lagos-Ogun State)

⭐️ - Ogbomosho-Oko-Ilogbo-Osogbo , -(Oyo-Osun State)

⭐️ - Funtua-Katsina , -(Katsina State)

⭐️ - Wukari-Akwana , - (Taraba State)

⭐️ - Abriba –Arochukwu – Ohafia , - (Abia State)

⭐️ - Abuja – Lokoja – Airport , - (FCT/ Kogi State)

⭐️ - Oji-Achi-Obeagu-Mmaku-Awgu-Ndeaboh-Mpu-Okpanku , -(Enugu State)

⭐️ - Ajase Ipo – Offa – Erinle – Osun State Boundary , - (Kwara State)

⭐️ - Ikot Ekpene Border- Aba – Owerri Dualisation , - (Akwa Ibom/Abia and Imo States)

💢 We also paid consultants who are supervising these roads and had been denied payment for 2 to 3 years. This has helped to recover lost jobs, and put some money back in circulation, as part of a government strategy to build out of this recession.

💢 As I said during our first briefing, our short-term objectives are to complete uncompleted road contracts, restore motorability back to as many roads as possible, improve journey times and reduce the cost of travel for commuters.

💢 This has clearly started on the roads I have spoken about; and the results will accrue as progress on the works improve over time and the roads are completed.

💢 In the medium to long term, we intend to cover more roads as our resources permit, and increase our maintenance capacity of road assets to ensure that we do not neglect our highways again in the manner we have done over the years to our collective detriment.

💢 The first step to maintenance is to restore the authority of all the states controllers of works, to charge them to take responsibility for all federal roads within their states posting, and to bring up an annual budget that will be submitted to Parliament.

💢 This will help us decentralize authority over road maintenance, vest responsibility on the people who are on ground and closer to the Roads so that they can resurface damaged roads, clear over-grown vegetation, enforce axle-load compliance, install signs and lane marking and gradually restore our highways back to contemporary quality.

✳️ 2017 AND BEYOND – WORKS

💢 Going forward in 2017, we have developed proposals for the budget to intervene in critical roads in the 6 (SIX) Geo-political zones that lead to and from major food producing states based on information supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture.

💢 We plan to do the same for states that produce minerals from mining activity, and for states where we have strategic fuel depots.

💢 For decades, we have paid almost no attention to bridges built across the country as though they are indestructible.

💢 We are beginning to see erosion, stress, and in some cases failures and near collapse in Kano (Tamburawa), Lagos (Ijora), Kogi (Lokoja) Ogun (Long bridge on Lagos-Ibadan) Kaduna (Jaji) and other places.

💢 Although we have started some work in a few places, we have only about N2 Billion to work in the 2016 budget.

💢 We have nonetheless developed a 3 (THREE) year plan to cover 42 (Forty-Two) bridges that will require about N277 Billion authorization by Parliament over the period.

💢 I must also point out that we received representation from parliamentarians about roads in their constituencies and from the monthly FRSC reports all of which have been factored into our next three-year plan.

💢 How far we go, how much we get and how much we can do, now depends on how much money the country can get, and how much she gets approval to spend.

Prophet T.B Joshua Said his prophesy about Clinton has been Fulfilled......

The founder of The Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, on Sunday said his earlier prophecy on the U.S. presidential election was given different interpretation by people “on a different level” with him.

In his Sunday sermon, Mr. Joshua (popularly known as TB Joshua) said people would need the spirit of a prophet to be able to recognize one.

“We have seen the outcome of the election in America,” Mr. Joshua said in a message later posted on the church’s official website and Facebook page.

He also hinted that his reference to Hilary Clinton as eventual winner was reflected in her winning more popular votes than Donald Trump.

“Having read, you will notice that it is all about the popular vote, the vote of the majority of Americans. In this case, we need the Spirit of a Prophet to recognize a Prophet. Our levels are different. We are not on the same level.

“We might have great cathedrals, huge bells, and all kinds of activities that are good by human standards but human point of view is limited.

“1 Corinthians 1:25. The foolishness of God is wiser than that of men and the weakness of God is stronger than that of men. There is no shortcut to spiritual maturity unless earthly understanding gives way to spiritual enlightenment.”

Last Sunday, with two days to the US Presidential election, Mr. Joshua had predicted a “narrow” victory for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential candidate.

“Ten days ago, I saw the new President of America with a narrow win,” he had said in his prophecy which was later posted on the church’s official Facebook account.

“The new President will be facing several challenges over many issues, including: passing bills, attempts to possibly pass a vote of no confidence on the new President. The boat of the new President will be rocked.

“By the way, in order not to keep you in suspense, what I frankly saw is a woman.”

But on Wednesday, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate and Mrs. Clinton’s main opponent, clinched the ticket to the White House by winning 306 electoral colleges to Mrs. Clinton’s 232.

Mrs. Clinton, however, garnered more votes with 60,981,118 to Mr. Trump’s 60,350,241 votes.

In the aftermath of Mrs. Clinton’s defeat, Nigerians trooped to social media to mock Mr. Joshua over the failure of his prophecy.

On Wednesday morning, Mr. Joshua deleted the prophecy from the church’s official Facebook account.

In its place, he posted a seven-line message urging his members to join him in prayer.

On Sunday, Mr. Joshua said people tried to interpret the prophecy “on the basis of their own minds and ideas.”

“The prophecy seems (sic) to cause uproar, to many who gave it different meaning and interpretation,” he said.

“Finally, campaigns and elections in any democratic country in the world are never about one person, it is about the country we care and love. Whichever way it happens, we must accept the outcome and then look to the future (God), the Author and Finisher.

“Democracy is all about accommodation. All democrats must value the process of democracy more than the product. God bless the United States of America.”

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