Bill Gate’s Speech To The National Economic Council And How Dangote’s Daughters Wedding Could Have Influenced It

 

We all saw that famous picture of the wedding and how one of the richest men in the world looked like the humblest man of all the people sitting at that table. It only tells you of the difference between our mentality as Africans and that of the West.  I can imagine that Bill Gates, who is well-traveled across the continent of Africa, and has spent considerable time in Nigeria trying to help us solve some of our problems like fighting Malaria, Cholera, Poverty, etc, attends a wedding like this and see’s that the solution to a majority of these problems can be solved with half of the money spent in such a lavish celebration or by a couple of the people sitting on that table with him.

Granted, Mr. Dangote has done his fair share of helping Nigeria try to reach its full potential infra-structurally, even though he, Dangote has also benefited greatly as well. That is why when Bill Gates gave his speech at the special session of the National Economic Council, correctly pointed out that our leaders need to invest more in human development, by investing in education, health and creating opportunities for the people and less in physical capital or at least place more priority on the first.

Do we realize that if we cut government salary earnings of top officials, I’m talking from local government chairmen upwards, by 60%, that we will make government jobs very unattractive except to the right people and will be able to generate enough funds to pay off most of our debt if not all or solve one of our major problems like power virtually overnight?

What are we still waiting for? All we need is the right person or persons to lead us, someone who cannot be bought or controlled, someone younger than 50 years old, someone who is educated, thinks differently, fearless, has a plan and yes, someone who is ready to die if they must. Where will we find such a man? Hmmm!, women of Nigeria…you’re up…LET’S GO

African Politicians And Their Need To Cling To Power

What is it that makes African leaders and particularly Nigerian leaders in this context refuse to relinquish power even when its obvious they are medically incapable of running a country, or state or any position of influence, effectively? Today I saw an article from HuffPost online(see below), the American news agency citing an article that Senator McCain, once a former presidential aspirant has been diagnosed with Brain Cancer.

 His illness has been in the news for a while although no one knee the cause, but nothing was hidden. 

The President of Nigeria, whom I’m ashamed to say is my president lies in the UK on his sick bed or rather sick couch as the pictures being released show. He has been there for months on medical leave receiving treatment that he could have gotten in his home country if his predicament is not as bad as his cohorts say. He is consuming tax payers money to foot his bills and pay for the presidential jet parking. Even with all this, no one in his government can tell us his citizens what he is actually being treated for. To me, this is an outrage. I don’t care whether the constitution covers his actions he and his cohorts should be investigated and impeached, at the least. His party and his government won on the premise of ‘Change’. That is his party slogan and he won largely on his reputation as a former military dictator that abhorred corruption and imbibed discipline even to the criticism of his peers and the international community based on the extents to which he carried his propaganda.

Why is it so hard for these men to stick to their words? And why do the people allow them to get away with it?

THE NIGERIAN ATTITUDE, EVEN IN THE DIASPORA……WHAT A BIG SHAME!!!

http://www.cbc.ca/video/share/share.html?ID=2402356609

Nigerian embassy in Diaspora closes without notice punishing its customers.

its really sad, what more can i say. when people ask “are you going back home after your masters degree”, and i tell them “i’m not in a hurry or if i see an opportunity here, where i am in the UK or any where else i will take it rather than go back”, sometimes i get these looks like as if nobody especially my kinsmen know what is going on in Nigeria. Some say why don’t you go home and be part of the solution and I say to them I have to become the solution first by solving my own problems and that of my family then i will be unburdened enough to find the time to die for my own people. Sometimes its just frustrating being a Nigerian….

The great Divide: Nigeria’s Rich Man, Poor Man Culture

In Nigeria, those that are rich are very rich and those that are poor are very poor. The gap is so wide. Those at the top see those at the bottom as if they are looking at them from a very tall sky scrapper. they can see movement but they have no clue as to what exactly is going on. sometimes they throw some money from their place at the very top thinking they are really making a difference when all the have to do is take the damn elevator or stairs and go down to meet this people because inherently all these people at the bottom really want is to know that someone cares and money is just the product of that action

My Response to a friend’s question: Who is to blame for Nigeria’s issues: the leaders or we the next generation of followers?

wow, well written my friend, there is no Nigerian that can’t tell you what our problems are but there are many who can’t tell what the solution is either. Don’t get me wrong i am a strong advocate for those who constantly remind us that we have problems but i am sometimes frustrated with the fact that those who speak out or are willing to take action think that because we are in the minority we can’t make much of a difference. David defeated an army with just 300 men so what are we waiting for? but where do we start? the answer to your question is that it is not our leaders or the next generation of follower’s per se that is the problem but it is more of a generational problem that began with the generation that liberated us from our colonial father’s, a rot that has kept eating into generations and is threatening to eat right through to generations unborn. So, what can we do? nothing, at least not with the generation in power or with our current generation, us, no but there is hope any child born now and in the future. why? because they haven’t been corrupted yet by the social ills and perverted doctrines our parents and leaders subjected us to or to the repercussions of bad leadership or governance, as is the case. we have never really had good leader’s, i mean leader’s that were willing to die for what they believed in, leader’s that didn’t care about the cloths on their backs, like the president of Uruguay, who clearly cares about doing just his job. i can go on and on and on. you may challenge me and say, do you mean to say that i am corrupt that i envy those corrupt politicians? No, maybe you are not corrupt in that fashion but ask yourselves this if your parents couldn’t provide for you a good education, send you abroad to study, if you didn’t grow up with an average comfortable life, with security, would you still not envy those corrupt men? let me ask you another question, would you give up the comfort of your life, all your degrees and accomplishments if you were called upon to save this country, our beloved country Nigeria. finally, if it comes to it, and i think it might, even sooner that we think( i pray not), will you take up arms to defend what is right? IF WE ARE TO CHANGE NIGERIA FOR GOOD THEN THE CURRENT AND NEXT GENERATION OF CHILDREN MUST BE BROUGHT UP TO THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY FROM US, AND IT MUST START FROM THE MOMENT THEY CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES, AS YOUNG AS WE CAN GET THEM. THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE ONLY VIABLE SOLUTION. ASK THE AMERICANS, THEY HAVE BEEN BRAIN WASHING THEIR CHILDREN FOR DECADES. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CAN OPT TO GO FIGHT WAR’S THAT THEY BARELY UNDERSTAND. WE MUSTN’T DO IT THEIR WAY BUT WE CAN DESIGN A MUCH BETTER WAY. THE KEY EVENTUALLY IS “EDUCATION”