This explains why the receiver/recipient of such education is a mere parrot and coconut, hence Africa has lost its children to the rest of the world, the West particularly.
Consequently, to say there are Nigerian/African graduates; Nigerian/African children; Nigerian/African youth is to expose one’s ignorance and display gross naivety.
What the current colonial educational system has left Africans with is what I call herd instinct. Africans behave like cows without thinking. Imagine a herd of cattle being led by a Fulani boy to cross the high way – once one of the cows enters the high way to cross without looking, left and right, the rest will follow suit, and nearly all will get knocked down by oncoming speeding vehicles.
For example: During the colonial times, every African scrambled to read and write to become clerical officers. And on the departure of the colonialists, that head instinct became very pervasive such that all the first generation of educated Africans wanted to study either medicine, engineering or law (MEL) and who ever studied any course outside of MEM or LEM (law, engineering and medicine) was considered not having ambition, and consequently no future. All in this category were then referred to as NO FUTURE AMBITION or NFA for short!
As the erstwhile nationalists moved to Government Reservation Areas, hitherto the abode of the colonial administrators and missionaries, every Nigerian/African at the time desired to go into politics so they to could live in the former European quarters in addition to enjoying many other perks of offices as civil servants/administrators; when the army struck on 15th January 1966, having a career in the army suddenly became fashionable and attractive, even amongst the Southerners who hitherto considered the military as a vocation for the illiterates and the ne’er do-wells, just because the new moneyed men in town were now the khaki boys.
Also, when the Daily Times conceived the idea of Miss Nigeria in 1957, soon afterwards and till date, even Boko Haram would like to organize their own Miss Boko Haram Beauty Contest (MBHBC); the undoing of the pioneer of the pure water business in Nigeria was that the fellow stupidly did not patent it, hence in today’s Nigeria, every shameless and mindless person without the fear of God would sell and package ‘faeces’ in sachets and sell to the public in the name of pure water, especially in a nation like ours, where no one bothers about health and safety – even if the Nigerian had patented the pure water business, as lawless as Nigerians are, such business even though covered by the law means nothing.
I have had to stop sending my articles to politicians, academics, Governors and legislators and their so-called media assistants because they were plagiarising my articles/essays and using my peculiar phrases without giving credit to whom it is due.
When I wrote NIGERIA: WORK IN PROGRESS, today, every Nigerian, particularly the so-called intellectuals, who are to me thoroughly shameless having been using it without crediting the source.
Whilst Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was still in the Presidency, sensing from here in the Diaspora how some of his thieving and morally bankrupt media aides, who merely dusted their first degree dissertation to earn their so-called PhDs were tempting him with ‘naked’ girls – scantily cladded, as Omotola Jalade Ekeinde did before the then President, with Jonathan staring at her exposed breasts palpitatingly, I came up with an article on the demons in the Presidency/Aso Rock, warning Reuben Abati and his gang to be careful so as not to cause Jonathan’s fall by always bringing him into contacts with such whores – Jezebel. That article was sent into the then State House email box, and a few months after that administration was disgraced out of office, Reuben Abati wrote on the demon in the Presidency. I will publish my article and Reuben’s sooner or later for Nigerians and posterity to read and judge!
There is hardly any area of our national life that this absence of creativity, originality and copycat syndrome and herd instinct (CS) has not manifested – be it in politics, in studying a particular course such as MBA or working in a bank or in oil company, selling green guguru and even in acting, which was once derided by Nigerians – undoubtedly, there is now not a space to move about in Nollywood any more as every Nigerian now wants to partake of the now glamorous profession – to be an actor or an actress, when in fact, the whole nation remains a virgin island for all vocations and avocations.
By this I mean, the entire nation remains till date a virgin economy.
LET MY PEOPLE WAKE UP…
THE FULANIS HAVE NOW SET UP RUGAS/COLONY (TIME BOMB) IN EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF THE 36 STATES OF NIGERIA AND MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND APC’S NEXT LEVEL WILL BE WORST THAN THEIR FIRST AND SECOND INTIFADAS…LET MY PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THE MIDDLE BELTERS WATCH OUT AND ACT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THEIR ANCESTORS!
Enter, Anthony: And let us presently go sit in council
How covert matters may be best disclosed,
And open perils surest answered.
Enter, Octavius: Let us do so. For we are at the stake
And bayed about with many enemies.
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,
Millions of mischiefs
Exeunt
*ACT IV SCENE I, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
To be continued.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Odey Aduma was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator and the Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; member, core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit's chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; Foundry Association of Nigeria’s Representative on the National Steel Committee, 1997-2000; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endangered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.
He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001.
General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.
That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge successes during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day. Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.
In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism with Specialism in Environment at City, University of London in 2003-2004.
Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).
He is also, involved in professional mentoring at Post Graduate level in the City, University of London’s Post Graduate Professional Mentoring Strand.
- Johnny Boy
ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
