Education: A Call for the Declaration of State of Emergency, By Sunday Ogidigbo

What our country needs now
is a clear vision and
pathway that will ensure
that every Nigerian child
gets a universal and quality
basic education. Until this is
done, the money budgeted to
commence the schools meal
programmes might as well
be flushed down the drain.

The greatest resource that we have as a country
is not our oil and gas reserve in the Niger Delta
or the countless solid mineral resources strewn
across our land from Abia to Zamfara. The most
valuable resources that we have as a country is
the over 170 million human beings that
comprise Nigeria, which makes it the most
populous country in Africa; this makes one out
every three black persons on earth a Nigerian.

However, the true value of human capital
resource is not in the numbers but in the state
and quality of the mind of the people. The
nations leading the world politically,

economically, militarily and socially have one
thing in common – they value the human
resource. They invest a lot in human capital
and respect the right and dignity of the human
person.

WE FEEL RELIEVED!

With the election/selection of the semi-illiterate blood thirsty Ali
Modu Sheriff as the so called chairman of the PDP, we feel relieved
now that the whole world knows PDP has been the party behind Boko
Haram!

We feel relieved that even dogs on the streets of Nigeria now know
that Boko Haram is a mega scam. Boko haram has nothing to do with
Islam or any religion for that matter.

We feel relieved that everyone now knows that the marauding Boko Haram
barbarians are a Satanist group, created by the likes of Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan, Ali Modu Sheriff, Azubuike Ehejirika, the PDP cabal
and their foreign co-conspirators to destroy our lands, its economy
and subjugate our people to perpetual slavery.

5 Famous Movie Quotes That Can Inspire Entrepreneurs

I'm not sure if this will finally be Leonardo
DiCaprio's year, for The Revenant, or if newcomer
Brie Larson, in Room , will trump perennial favorite
Cate Blanchett for the latter's role in Carol. What I
can tell you is that people are inspired by movies
and jazzed by Hollywood's award season. But
what does that have to do with business?

The answer: inspiration. Where do your business
ideas come from? From a variety of sources, I bet.
Whether it's a personal experience, a business
experience, a billboard you saw when you were
driving down the road or something your
significant other said at the grocery store:

The New Kolo-Mentality!, By ‘Tope Fasua

  

Nobody should sell us short, on a wholesale basis. Nigeria may be bad, we do have our many challenges, but hey, we have one or two lessons to teach the world as well. Indeed, on a few of these issues, like in how to live proper marriages, where tolerance, magnanimity, sacrifice, perseverance, reasonability, consideration are the key words, the world looks up to Africa.

I usually laugh at myself when I listen to Fela Kuti’s “colo-mentality” song, especially that part where he describes the African man, who dresses up in singlet, pant, trousers, shirt, jacket, tie, overcoat, hat, socks, shoe, umbrella, and then picks up his briefcase and goes sweating in the Lagos heat like the proverbial Christmas goat! That is me! Ok, remove the hat, overcoat and umbrella! Since the day I heard that song properly, which is fairly recently, I started to really examine the way we think as Africans and why we think everything that is good for the white man is also good for us. Whereas MOST of what the white man prescribes turns out good, but there must be a point where a discerning people draw the line.

There was a raging argument when President Jonathan approved the anti-gay law. Many asked why that had become a priority. I had a few answers. One, while we all admit that governance is perennially weak in Nigeria, we should also agree that weak people will usually do that which seems easiest. Not only weak people. Even strong people and institutions have what is called ‘quick wins’, or ‘low hanging fruits’. It seemed that banning gayism in Nigeria was one of the low hanging fruits the then government recognised, and it went for it! Politically speaking, it paid dividends, since apparently a majority of Nigerians (and democracy is said to be a game of numbers, right?) are religious and the religious books apparently frown against it. Also, majority of Nigerians are tribal and religious, and our traditional institutions also call gayism an abomination. More on that later.

ALL NIGERIANS ARE WEED-SMOKERS!

I had just moved out of my parents house and was sharing a room with my "friend". I had no idea he smoked weed, despite his suspicious movements and signature weed scent(abi na odour?) barely two weeks after moving in with him, my worst fears were confirmed as he started bringing home his weed smoking buddies and they would occassionally roll a wrap and smoke it right there in the room or mix the weed with beans or spagehtti. Being a very curious person i always wondered what made them happy after smoking, so i decided to find out for myself(wrong move)


It was a very hot day in february, a saturday i think it was, my friend was out as usual. I searched everywhere for his stash but couldn't find it so i decided to go and get mine. I arrived the weed joint all sweaty and nervous, half expecting to get muged but nobody seemed to be aware of my presence there, they were all on different planets all expect one i concluded that he must be the seller so i approached him and the following conversation ensued: