ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A highly successful and award–winning British Chevening Scholar, Poet, Editor, Columnist, Communications Consultant, Philosopher, Author, Commentator on national and international issues, Environmental and Publishing Consultant, with expertise in Security, Conflict Management, Public Surveillance, Media, Business Management and Administration, General Marketing, Market Research, Sales, Advertising and Public Relations.
 

John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, Author of The Diamonds Are Here and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria. He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in  International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a  Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management, 2006.
Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment. He also holds the UK Chartered Institute of Environment Health (CIEH) Certificate in Food Safety.
He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1993. He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.
In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi. He was a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society, he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit, and was the Summit’s Publicity Chairman, Products and Exhibition sub-committees.
Other national and important committees on which Aduma had also served or headed included the National Planning Committee, Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; Chairman, Planning Committee, Alhaji Babatunde Jose’s 75th Birth Day, 2000, (Dr. Jose was a doyen of Nigerian journalism and was the first African Editor, Managing Director and Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc); Chairman, Planning Committee of the 7th and 8th General Murtala Muhammed’s Memorial Lecture (the late Nigerian Head of State), 2001 and 2002; Chairman, Planning Committee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc’s 75th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria.
Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Philosopher, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000), Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), Coordinator and Public Affairs Manager, Southern Zone, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Heads of State and now President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria), General Muhammadu Buhari; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, 2000-2003.
He was one of the twelve eminent persons appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora into and out of Nigeria in 2003.
In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an MA in International Journalism with specialism in Environment.

Also, Mr Aduma is currently a Professional Mentor (Post Graduate), at City University, London, was Guest Motivational Speaker, at City University, 2013 and in 2015, he was nominated for Professional Mentor of the Year (Post Graduate), City University, London.

In addition, he is the Chief Executive Officer of UK Magazines Ltd, publishers of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com) and SCORPION NEWS CORP (www.scorpionnewscorp.com).

SERIES: NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY (NEE)

SAVE OUR SOUL, O' SAVE OUR COUNTRY

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BED) AT A TIME OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY

"Knowledge is knowing or knowing where to find it." - Alvin Toffler.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (WITH IMMEDIACY)
1. Change the Naira immediately to get all mallamnomists in the Black Market out of business;
2. Redenominate the Naira immediately with the highest denomination now to be N50xx instead of N5, 000xx;
3. Introduce coins once more into the economy and make refusal illegal with a jail term of 7 years;
4. Nigerians and not the court should reject the dollar as a legal tender in domestic trade;
5. Outlaw the black market with prison terms between 14 and 21 years;
6. I'm calling on the President again to declare a state of emergency on the economy sector;
7. There should be salary harmonization - all citizens in all sectors starting from: ENTRY LEVEL, MID LEVEL AND SENIOR LEVEL - every person working in whatever sector be it oil, bank, INGOs must be on the same salary scales as above;
8. ALL including expatriates MUST henceforth receive their salaries in Naira;
9. Adopt the 3Cs, 3Ds and 3Gs (Cut! Cut! Cut! Diversify! Diversify! Diversify! Grow! Grow! Grow!). The President to sell off all jets in his Presidential Fleet and use commercial airliners or leave himself with just a jet, but my opinion is that in times of this National Economic Emergency (NEE), he should step forward and lead by example and travel on commercial planes.
10. New population policy that is in tandem with the current reality MUST be formulated immediately - indiscriminate breeding is fueling crimes of unprecedented proportion amongst teenagers and other youngsters in their 20s.
11. (a) Be creative, immaginative, grow the economy, embark on expanded and strategic taxation  - P.A.Y. E, raise tax, corporate taxation including VAT, but salaries are not being paid and industries are folding up, so how justified?
(b) Adopt a national taxation policy with a slogan: ANY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN AN ECONOMIC SPACE is taxable, making all economic activities, no matter how small taxable/rateable - a pepper grinder must pay tax, a palm wine tapper must pay tax, a pap seller must pay tax, an ankara seller must pay tax, a shoe shiner must pay tax, akara, seller must pay tax, a kerosine seller must pay tax, newspaper vendors must pay tax, etc, etc.
12. As part of national sacrifice aimed at NATIONAL RECOVERY, the President, Vice President, Senate President, Chairman, House of Representatives, Governors and other high ranking public officers, both elected and appointed are called upon to give up their salaries and start living austere life style, cutting down their convoys as I had recommended earlier.
13. Adopt what I call NEIGHBOURHOODISM or reformed capitalism.
14. Introduce franchising into the economy.

THE NIGERIAN RENAISSANCE

The starting point is national rebirth and not corruption as a change of attitude/mind set is required for the war on corruption to succeed, even the current war against terrorists in Nigeria and globally, where there are little or no counter-narratives at the end of the day will be won by a stirring up of the spirit and a change of heart.

Every Nigerian has to enter into the deep recesses of themselves and begin the process of self-examination by attacking the acquisitive tendency in them which attests to the current societal emphasis on materialism, instead of service to God and humanity.
This is where we are now in Nigeria and Africa generally: Money is God; money is king; money is the measure of value; money maketh a Nigerian/African; money is status; money is everything. And those who don't have and don't want to come so low to steal or partake of the so-called NATIONAL CAKE are regarded as failures and sick who need deliverance. These otherwise honest Nigerians are treated like lepers and avoided like plagues!

Therefore, we must all resolve individually and collectively too, to attack the culture of GET RICH QUICK, LIVING ABOVE ONE'S MEANS, WEALTH WITHOUT SWEATING (WWS), NATIONAL CAKE SYNDROME (NCS), THE WORSHIP OF MONEY, THE WORSHIP OF MAN WHICH HAS DISPLACED THE WORSHIP OF GOD, UNBRIDLED OSTENTATIONS and jettison the current PROSPERITY GOSPEL and return to the true gospel of the Kingdom - the gopsel of repentance, for the true gospel is that which enjoins us: to "seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you", Matthew 6:33 (King James Version).

And John the Baptist chided his generation: "7...O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits befitting for repentance," Matthew 3:7-8, (King James). And that inward renewal/rebirth/regeneration ought to begin thus: "...be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:2, King James Version.  Only then can we like the Saints describe money as a mere: FILTHY LUCRE!

I'M ADDICTED TO NIGERIA AND I'M A NIGERIAHOLIC

THE NIGERIA OF MY DREAM

I dream of one indissoluble nation, one people under one God with a common dream, vision, goal, purpose, destiny and a cohesive national philosophy AIMING to be the best, the greatest and the most powerful country in the world, having the highest per capita income, highest standard of living, enviable human rights records, ensuring harmonious and peaceful co-existence amongst all of its people and their neighbours; be a nation where all of its citizens are the most creative, inventive, most innovative, most cultured and the most accommodating people on the planet earth, leading and surpassing the nations in all things and having life, and having it more abundantly.

As a motivational, writer, speaker and a professional mentor, I always advise my audiences and mentees to dream dreams, not just dreaming, but DREAM BIG DREAMS as well as my belief that just like the individual, a country/nation should dream dreams and dream big or they mustn't dream at all! A serious and a healthy nation therefore, should have a goal, a strategic national goal, an aim, a mission, a dream, vision, a purpose - the reason for its existence as a nation, a cohesive national philosophy and governing national standards enshrined in a MISSION STATEMENT and a government, whether a serious or an unserious Government must have a blueprint, a programme of action or plan of action or an action plan, so for a Government to come to power without any of these is not just hoping for miracles, but such a care-free and foolish attitude is tantamount to an incurable sickness - and if a Government having been in office for nine months remains diretionless and rudderless, only to resort to planning  to organise a conference at a time of national economic emergency for people to donate ideas to it before it can commence the business of governance, then such a GANG in Government have admitted failure and must, if they have any sense of shame, not remain in Government a second longer, and failing to throw in the towel and give way to a new Government, they must be chased out of office and subsequently be arrested, tried, hurled into prison and be forgotten for showing utter contempt and disrespect to the people, posterity, all humanity and God, above all.
But when the APC was seeking power, what did they hope for and why did they seek power, power for service or power for power's sake?

WRITING DOWN THE VISION, Habakkuk 2 New King James Version (NKJV):

2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it."

GIVE US YOUR BED O' BUHARI, LEKE OSINBAJO, GIVE NIGERIANS YOUR BED!

With respect to the Vice Prident Oluleke Osinbajo, I do read the trash from the naive, ignorant and generally illiterate journalists in Nigeria who are now just newsrooms political egrets perpetually hopping on the hunchbacks of ignominious political officials in Nigeria with some of them becoming rubbish awards-giving companies, chasing their questionable awardees to their homes/houses, bedrooms, cultic rendezvous, toilets, board rooms, palaces, hotel rooms, suites in 5-star hotels, mountain tops, hills and valleys just to present them letters for the KILE JEKU(?) AWARDS, do hail Mr Osinbajo as an erudite scholar of international repute, which I can't get or see or will ever see him so. In any case, anyone who sees Sinner as an ordinary village letter writer, should go to Yaba Psychiatric Hospital to have their heads examined as all of the APC members seem to be on MADs (Mind-Altering Drugs), hence their crass insensitivity to national issues.
Buhari has spent over 31 years dreaming to be President without a PLAN OF ACTION, PROGRAMME OF ACTION, BLUEPRINT, and Sinner merely staggered into that office from one of the HOLY GHOST NIGHT VIGILS, hence he has been hoping for miracles for the economic and political deliverance of Nigeria, whilst his mentor, DADDY G.O said we should pray for that economic liberation, but anyone by the ears of the man of God (MOG) should tell him all prayer, all faith without action is dead!

YAHWEH Himself had long ago asked Moses: "Moses! Moses! Why criest thou to me? What is that in your palm?" So governance is about work, about action and not about locking oneself in one room at a retreat hoping for miracles.
But can His Grace Enoch Adejare Adeboye who we learnt was the one that had prayed his TIMOTHY, Leke Osinbajo into becoming the Vice President of Nigeria, stand before God and challenge Him thus: WHY DID YOU NOT GIVE NIGERIANS THEIR OWN ROD JUST AS YOU GAVE TO MOSES?
No Nigerian living or dead can face God and ask Him: "Why don't you bless us, God?" But can all Nigerians look around them, North and South, and be able to name one thing God has not given to that country in order to become the greatest country on the planet earth with the highest per capita income?

THEREFORE, MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND OLULEKE OSINBAJO, JUST STRIKE THE ROD!

14The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. 15And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea," Exodus 14:14-15

THE FAULT IS NOT IN OUR STARS

Meanwhile, William Shakespeare has a word for Buhari, Daddy Adeboye and all Nigerians:
The fault, dear Muhammadu Buhari, Oluleke Osinbanjo, Enoch Adejare Adeboye and all Nigerians, is not in our stars -
 

"The fault, dear Brutus (NIGERIANS), is not in our stars,
   But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
   Cassius in  Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)

INTERPRETATION IN MODERN ENGLISH

"Cassius, a nobleman, is speaking with his friend, Brutus, and trying to persuade him that, in the best interests of the public, Julius Caesar must be stopped from becoming monarch of Rome. Brutus is aware of Caesar's intentions, and is torn between his love of his friend Caesar and his duty to the republic. Cassius continues by reminding Brutus that Caesar is just a man, not a god, and that they are equal men to Caesar. They were all born equally free, and so why would they suddenly have to bow to another man? On another level this phrase has been interpreted to mean that fate is not what drives men to their decisions and actions, but rather the human condition."

Meanwhile, I do IN THE NAME OF GOD  beseech both Muhammadu Buhari and Oluleke Osinbajo to give Nigerians their own BED immediately!

B - Blueprint for
E - Economic
D- Development.

The truth is, if Osinbajo indeed is a scholar, a visionary and above all, if he ever dreamt to be where he is right now as the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA and not just roller-coastered into that exalted office by the rot and unseriousness within the Nigerian system, and calling God to testify, methinks, NINE MONTHS ARE ENOUGH for him to put his BED together, if not earlier than nine months, hence I do humbly ask the Vice President to kindly send to me in the United Kingdom his BED immediately, just as a similar request was made to Buhari over a year ago to convince me of his preparedness for that exalted office, but which has not been successful.

But come to think of it, does this our so-called ERUdite and interSHIOnational scholar have just a single scholar/intellectual friend in Nigeria and in all realms and climes who can help him and his boss out in this time of national economic emergency? I'm embarrassed to think Osinbajo wears the prefix PROFESSOR before his name!
Let it be here recorded for posterity that I did warn Buhari then in my capacity as Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, when he was nursing the ambition to run as President that he was not cut out for politics, urging him to give up the idea and warned that if he dared, he would not only be disgraced, but be de-mystified. The title of the article was: A Buhari, not a Lincoln.

Unarguably, I have been vindicated in that Buhari has been stripped bare of all legendary and almost mythical attributes usually attributed to or associated with him. And I can see him rolling from that once Olympian height into the valley of utter condemnation and disrepute.
If the truth MUST be told, Oluleke Osinbajo just as Mohammed Namadi Sambo remained thorougly useless and treacherous to Goodluck  Ebele Jonathan, is totally useless to Muhammadu Buhari in that "high and lowly" office, a mere "microscopic consequence" and a "repeater station of the major station" (apologies to K.O. Mbadiwe) in the current APC-AREWA - BUHARI GOVERNMENT.

MEANING OF THE D.R.E.A.M

D - Development
R - Revitalization of the economy
E - Exportation
A - Agriculturalization
M - Manufacturing

But what is the Nigeria of Mr Muhammadu Buhari's dream?

This BED has been written to help Mr Buhari and his good-for-nothing team, but can MUHAMMADU BUHARI & AND HIS NOISE MAKING BAND INTERNATIONAL recognise help when they see one, I doubt very much, especially when none of these political Agberos, tacklers, parallelists and Bolekaja crooks that fight by the book of budget, best to be described for decency's sake as mere street politrickians don't know their 12 Times Table and would gleefully announce to the world that "2 x 2" equals six trillion!

Apart from all ideas I have been dishing out to them in all of my writings since they came to power, I had as soon as Mr Buhari was sworn-in re-published an article of mine containing 192 ideas which was posted to some former Heads of State and Presidents, all the Governors, highly placed persons in that country, some journalist friends and colleagues - Femi Adesina, including very important offices in Nigeria, but what did they do with those nation-changing ideas?
Any way, what does anyone expect such a gang to do with anything that will dismantle the status quo and usher in a great revolution in our body politics, when all their eyes were glued kakaraka to the NATIONAL CAKE BUDGET, hoping all to be partakers of the bonanza?

Lest I forget, no economic conference, please. The idea of having a conference when the ship of State is capsizing is not only ludicrous, but stupid! I had earlier warned Buhari against appointing advisers, even though the constitution says so. Realizing his so-called team was mere efulefu - worthless team, I had suggested all he needed was a formidable think-tank comprising the very best that that country could boast of, both at home and in the diaspora - and anything short of this recommendation of mine is planning to fail on the part of Mr Buhari and members of his Obrukutu Drinkers Club (ODC).
As one of the ways of helping him to arrest the drift in the mid ocean, all Mr President needs is a three-person economic team.

THE BEST DEAL

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BED)  & THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ADUMANOMICS AT A TIME OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY

PART 1
Proverbs 24:10

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.” King James Version (KJV)
 
⦁    Abundant food supply (by exploiting our agro economy) under the Federal Food Programme (FFP).
⦁    Qualitative National Health Service (QNHS)
⦁    Creative, productive and service-orientated Educational System (CPSES).
⦁    Creative and Affordable Shelter (Housing).
⦁    Clean regular water supply
⦁    Satisfactory and guaranteed jobs with living wages and peace of mind that surpasses any other on the planet earth.
⦁    Hourly remuneration based on earn as you work (EAYW).
⦁    Good value for money, people and business-orientated regular power supply.
⦁    Sustainable development (infrastuctural) with guaranteed and long-lasting network of roads.
⦁    Development of all forms of transportation system - Land, air and water ways - set up national road agency/watch which will be in charge of road and other CNI maintenance on regular basis using the services of young engineering graduates/NYSC and the Nigerian Army Engineering Corp, liaising with the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and the Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN), taking statistics of all the trunk "A" network of roads and the pot holes thereon, encouraging citizens to sue the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria together with the contractors in the events of accidents, deaths, tyre burst on the roads, especially where such is due to pot holes and other faults arising from poor engineering work and if the guaranteed years by the contractors are yet to expire.
⦁    Accelerated industrialization having cottage industry as its foundation with foundries, if viable and desirable in all the 774 Local Government Areas of the Federation.
⦁    Mutually beneficial foreign direct investments that will not short change Nigerians and imperil home made goods and the thriving of indigenous industries.
⦁    *Sound and well defined foreign policy with Africa and all persons of African ancestry on the planet earth as its corner stone.
⦁    Opening up of the economic space within a specified period of time with a very well developed retail, high street, night, Sunday and weekend economies.
⦁    Effective taxation system and strategies hinged on pay as you earn and according to profits.
⦁    Guided or highly moderated importation with emphasis on home made goods and the protection of indigenous industries.
⦁    Opening new market frontiers for exportation of home made goods whilst encouraging extant ones.
⦁    Creating and developing the sporting economy and opening of the sporting space to accommodate new sporting activities that exist now only in other lands and thriving to make all types of sports very competitive.
⦁    Enforcement of corporate responsibilitiees, ensuring they give back  about 10% of their after tax  to communities of operations, besides paying the right amount of tax commensurate with their profits.
⦁    Establishment of the Charity Commission to regulate the conduct of all local and INGOs.
⦁    Resuccitation of the national airliner.
⦁    Use the Nigerian Army Engineering Corp to maintain all Trunk "A" network of roads by filling pot holes, doing light maintenance working alongside young Nigerians on National Service.
⦁    Use prisoners for agricultural and food production, building vocational academies inside the prison premises and changing the name from "prison" to TRANSFORMATIONAL CENTRES and making prison houses liveable/habitable, bringing it to international standards.
⦁    Return all police guarding the so-called VIPs, companies and traditional rulers to frontline and establish the Nigerian Security Industry Authority (NSIA) from where these VIPs, companies and traditional rulers will hire private licenced security officers, in addition to utilising the services of legionaires and other ex-service men and women from the Nigerian Civil Defence Corp, the police, customs, immigration service, etc.
⦁    Abolition of the death penalty laws in Nigeria
⦁    Abolition of domestic 'slaves' which go by the name HOUSE HELPS, and professionalise the sector such that all resident house keepers will be employed by those who need their services from registered recruitment agencies within the subsector, having new professional appelations to be known and called "home hygiene experts"/"home evironmental specialists" or as may be determined later and place them on the national minimum/living wage.
⦁    The above also, applies to all private drivers/chauffeurs, bricklayers, vulcanizers, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, moi-moi sellers, Mama Put (food vendors), pepper grinders, paintesr, carpenters, tailors, trailer drivers, bus conductors, commercial drivers, tipper drivers, labourers, porters, cobblers/shoe shiners, barbers, beauticians, make-up artists, market men and women (all types of petty trading), mai-guards/mallams (domestic security guards), kunu sellers, suya sellers, mai-ruwa, well diggers, etc.
⦁    Introduction of INDIGENOUS apprenticeship-orientated construction - NO MORE WINNERS TAKE ALL and with emphasis now on indigenous construction engineers or construction-trainees. We cannot continue to have foreigners come here and get all the major Government contracts only to turn round, use the services of our people with just one person out of these foreigners standing on the sideline as a site supervisor/project manager, barking like a dog at our people and paying the Nigerians who actually do the work peanuts. No matter how qualified African engineers are on these side of the Atlantic, nobody will give them any sort of contract in the guise they can't do it. PhD holders in engineering and construction are mere site workers (COMMON ORDINARY LABOURERS) at construction sites running errands for college leavers who are indigenes. Fellow Nigerians and Africans, STOP BEING FOOLISH! In a recent documentary on Nigeria featuring Chinese contracts in Nigeria, in a VERY MAJOR contract, ONLY one Chinese was in the midst of Nigerians who were actually doing all the work with the Chinese holding a photocopy of the dessign during rains - guess what? Nigerians were holding a big umbrella over his head as the rain was falling and he was literally backing at them. Apart from the despicability of holding an umbrella over the head of an Oyibo as to the average Nigerian, any person having a different skin colour to theirs is WHITE - can you see what I mean about the RUBBISH EDUCATION we have been giving to generations of Nigerians/Africans before and since the 1960s till date? So isn't it about time we got a type of education that is indigenous in nature aimed at decolonising the African mind - a sort of education that questions everything and will not rely on authority? Example: Once Wole Soyinka called for an economic conference recently, the whole nation concurred immediately with scholars after scholars, intellectuals after intellectuals bowing down and deifying him as all of them even my former lecturer at the Lagos Business School, Professor Pat Utomi as well as the media in Nigeria, the Presidency and the President himself screamed out: WE ALL CONCUR-O-O-O just because Wole Soyinka had proposed a call whose origin is now in dispute. This is FALSE APPEAL to authority and as a matter of fact, a Wole Soyinka is not an authority on economics/economy and it's high time W.S. began to apply humility. But why has Soyinka not been loading his 'dane gun' and shooting the bunch of thoroughly bankrupt elements we have now in this Government? Bo-o, no forest in Aso Rock, so no guinea fowl their (there), huh? But W.S must be reminded one of the very persons he once described as DEAF in the 80s is the one back in government and heading it as President in a democracy. W.S must be careful as I see this Government using him to legitimise evils and it wouldn't be a nice epitaph to say: WOLE SOYINKA STARTED WELL, BUT SOLD OUT. W.S must realize he is a major influence and a great inspiration to this writer and generations of Nigerians. He must therefore, refuse to be used as the poster child of this administration as Rotimi Amaechi succeeded in making him. A word is enough for the wise! As a matter of very strong warning to the Presidency, I will again repeat myself: DON'T WASTE OUR MONEY ON ANY CONFERENCE. Merely agreeing such a conference is an embarassment to the nation and a source of great concern to international investors and governments with interest in Nigeria!!!
⦁    Emphasis on fiscal discipline throughout the country.
⦁    Build a strong solid relationship between the Nigerian people, their Government and Nigerians/Africans in the Diaspora
⦁    Put appropriate machinery in place for Diaspora voting
⦁    Adoption of a sort of foreign policy that all Nigerians will be proud of, choosing our friends very carefully, taking due cognizance of its secularity, so Nigerians, wherever they are domiciled on the surface of the earth will have peace of mind and not having their dignity and personal liberty violated and exploited, without showing our red eyes, especially if the obverse becomes the case.
⦁    The teaching of moral instructions, civics, comparative religion, literature, cultural studies, history with emphasis on the indigenous, compulsory office practice and business ethics at all levels, etc.
⦁    Emphasis on economic pastoralism as against the current subsistence pastoralism/nomadic grazing which has brought about avoidable killings of peasant farmers and the herdsmen - Government will endeavour to identify the real owners of the cattle, who of course, are in high places and palaces - and Government will be interested in knowing whether pastoralists are just innocent Bororos or home-grown jihadists or hired mercenaries from neighbouring West African and North African countries, finding out if there is any link between these herdsmen, Boko Haram, ISIS and such other monstrous organizations from far-off Middle East out for ulterior purposes such as jihad, land grabbing, forceful religious conversion of citizens against the constitution of  our country, ethnic cleansing by way of population decimation through the frequent wanton killings of innocent Nigerians, most of who are either ambushed on village paths or taken unawares, especially at nights whilst they are asleep with their families. Well, since successive Governments do not know what to do about this blood-thirstiness of the pastoralists, it may not be a bad idea to establish a department in the Police Service (not Force) to be known and called: BUSH POLICE who will do BUSH PATROL in and around the country, following the herdsmen, both night and day whilst taking their MASTERS' cattle to graze in and around the country. There should be a MIDDLE BELT SUMMIT immediately on how best to respond to the incessant killings and displacements of Nigerians in that sandwiched geo-political zone of Nigeria. Need I stress here again that the Tivs stopped Uthman Dan Dan Fodio and his blood-thirsty band while trying to access the East through the Belt, that bitterness against the Tivs' invincibility is still in the minds of even the latter days' jihadists, hence they are all out to subdue the Tivs and their neighbours, the Idomas and other ethnic nationalities within the Belt? Therefore, what is happening in the PENDULUMIC AXIS is not about grazing, but actual JIHAD as in the North East. Nigerians should keep sleeping whilst the jihadists spread their tentacles all over the land and there is a ploy to set up EMIRATE COUNCIL in the 774 LGAs and this is being disguised in the GRAZING LAND BILL. No worry about how dem go do am, kudi plenty dey flow in from the Middle East! Bo-o, make I shut up my mouth-o-o-o!

⦁    WHY WE CO-OPTED MAJOR-GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI TO HEAD THE PASTORAL RESOLVE

 
⦁    Mr Romeo V. Barberopoulos: A great and foresighted Nigerian who founded the Pastoral Resolve to contend for the liberty of the pastoralists, integrate them into the larger society and to amongst others, encourage them to embrace economic pastoralism as against subsistence pastoralism. Mr Barberopoulos, very passionate about Nigeria aimed to use PARE to amongst a host of other things, which will receive greater attention in my major work on the herdsmen and farmers' incessant clashes and blood-lettings, aimed at ending the internecine war between the herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria, hence he co-opted the then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to head as its President the NGO he had formed and funded till the very end. In deciding for Buhari, we had calculated he and other eminent Nigerians of the Hausa-Fulani ethnic nationality were best placed to bring the problems of the pastoralists to the front burner and put an end to the frequent clashes which often do result in killings on either side, destruction of crops and animals, displacement of Nigerians in their own ancestral homes in and around the country, when it is not known their country is at war with its West African neighbours or any other aggressors. But looking back now,  especially against the backdrop of the escalating killings in the avoidable clashes between the herdsmen and farmers, can I record  for posterity that in deciding  for Muhammadu Buhari , we got it wrong in inviting him to head PARE?

⦁    Whilst still in Nigeria, between the late 90s and early 2000, we set up THE PASTORAL RESOLVE (PARE), a pastoralists NGO established and funded by my former boss and great mentor, Mr Romeo Barberopoulos (pictured above) based on my three-month investigations all over the Northern States of Nigeria to look at the environmental problems of the whole North including the disappearance of grazing land, the plight of the herdsmen (the Fulani Bororos) their children's education, their political space within the Nigerian polity as different to that of the urban Fulanis, etc, etc, costing N70, 000 then (I'm here referring to the cost of the investigations only) to address the internecine war between the Fulani herdsmen and the farmers across the country and co-opted the then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), now the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to head it as its first President. Besides my boss, many other eminent Nigerians, numbering between 11 and 14, mostly of the Hausa-Fulani stock were invited to be on the Board of Trustees of PARE - Muhammadu Buhari, Ahmed Joda, Jibril Aminu, to name just three for now.  So Mr Buhari, the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria cannot feign ignorance about all that had been happening between the herdsmen and the farmers all over the country as he has INSIGHT KNOWLEDGE of everything! The question Nigerians and the entire world should be asking MUHAMMADU BUHARI, AHMED JODA, PROFESSOR JIBRIL MUHAMMAD AMINU, etc, is: WHAT HAPPENED TO PARE (The Pastoral Resolve) which we formed between the period I had mentioned above? But how many more will have their lives snuffed out of them by the jihadists before the likes of General Yakubu Gowon, General T.Y. Danjuma, General Jeremiah Useni, General Victor Malu, General Domkat Yah Bali, General Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, General John Nanzip Shagaya, General Lawrence Anebi Onoja, the Tor Tiv, Och' Idoma, Ohinoyi of Igbirra, Iyorchia Ayu, Abubakar Tsav, Jerry Gana, Gbon Gwon Jos, Ata of Igala, General David Mark, Senator Olusola Saraki, etc, will get out of their comfort zones to defend their hapless people from these jihadists?

⦁    It may be worthy of note that apart from the fact that THE PASTORAL RESOLVE was founded based on the findings of my investigations, I was its Southern Coordinator and Public Affairs Manager. I designed all of its literature, initiated campaigns in the media, wrote the letters we sent to very important offices in Nigeria, eminent Nigerians, the Presidency, then under Olusegun Obasanjo, but signed by my boss and mentor Mr R.V. Barberopoulos which we used for fund raising. Before leaving the private sector for the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, where I was Chairman, Editorial Board, I had already researched and initiated a livestock exhibition, sensitized the stakeholders in the subsector on the neccesity for such an exhibition, meant to be the first of its kind in Nigeria, stressing to them our overall objective of encouraging the herdsmen to begin to settle down for economic pastoralism as against the current subsistence one, and on this basis did I conclude the findings of my three-month investigations, which in fact, were preceded by the earlier ones begun in 1992, which of course, won me the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as Reporter of the Year, 1993, presented to me by the then Minister of Information and Culture, Professor Jerry Gana at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island in Lagos. Save for jihad reason, Buhari actually bought into the findings and conclusion of my investigations which led to the formation of PARE and had he really been serious about putting a stop to the unnecessary and mindless killings that had been going on between the herdsmen and the farmers even before I was born, he would have made ECONOMIC PASTORALISM a cardinal programme of his Government as one of the key ways to reposition or diversify the economy.  Buttressing the fact that the clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and the farmers all over the nation had been been in existence even  before I was born, I'd like my readers to know that I first heard about my granfather's exploit against the Fulani herdsmens as a boy. As I was told, my grandfather Ogri Ekawu was the one often relied upon by the Yalas in the present day Cross River State of Nigeria whenever  the Fulani herdsmen led their cattle to destroy their crops.  As legend has it, after several pleas and warnings by the elders to the herdsmen to leave Yala with their cattle for having become destructive and constituting a great deal of nuisance, but with the refusal of the Fulanis to leave, the elders would ask my granddad who was a very well known warrior with mystical powers to go single-handedly, I mean grandfather alone would go to the farmland where the Fulanis were and warn them furiously that their period of indulgence was over and the whole Yala was not ready to host them any more, so it was time for them to leave immediately, and failing, grandpa would either climb a tree neaby or merely take a vantage position a few metres from their cattle and would start pointing his fore finger at their cattle and their cows, goats, sheep, every other animal would start dying with their children and wives falling sick. Granpa would not stop even when the Fulanis began begging him they were ready to leave and had begun packing! He would reamain with them and watch them pack until the last family of the Fulanis had departed. I was therefore, not surprised seeing myself naturally contending for the liberty of both the Fulanis and the farmers without taking sides since 1992 when being thorougly shocked by the condition of the hersdsmen and their families after my first trip from Southern Nigeria to the North, I wrote as part of my many stories I had returned with from the North to  RUTAM HOUSE in Lagos about the pitiable conditions of the Fulani Bororos, Almajiris and the poor of the North generally (THE TALAKAWAS) entiltled: THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE OF THE SAVANNA published in 1992 in The Guardian on Sunday. That story with its facinating and eye-catching title was very much commended and praised with many saying I had enlightened them about the true nature of UNDER DEVELOPMENT in the Northern States of Nigeria through that feature. As a very idealistic and ultra-radical young man that trip to the North opened my eyes to the purposeless malignity of the Nothern Oligarchs against the Talakawas and I began blasting them for their unjustness to their hapless brothers and sisters and the entire people of Nigeria. Before that trip, I used to think then like many ignorant Nigerian that our brothers and sisters in the upper Niger had stolen all our money to develop their own side of the country, but was thoroughly shocked on discovering that the North was the MOST undeveloped part of Nigeria, and even till the very present! That shock led me to  castigate the ones I was close to: "You all have been unjust to your people and the nation. What then did you do with all the money you have stolen?" If you too are asking this very question, when next you are in any of the Northern States, just visit the GRAs (Government Reserved Areas) and see the obscene mansions/castles, exotic cars, none manufactured in Nigeria, vespers, tennis courts, gold wrist watches, swimming pools, etc, etc. After that first trip, in one of the many subsequent ones that were to follow, I visited the then Major-General Muhammadu Buhari's house in Daura hoping to interview him, but he was not in at the time. However, I was received by a man who told me he was his uncle, Lawal by name. And thereafter, I proceeded to the emir's palace, whereupon I was received by a former Chairman of the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER) during the time of the Shehu Aliyu Shagari-NPN Government, who then was holding forth at the palace, pending the appointment, installation and coronation of a new emir as he told me the substantive emir had then died and he like Uncle Lawal told me all about young Buhari up to all levels of appointments he had held within the Nigerian Federation. The then General Buhari and former Head of State of Nigeria is very well loved and adored by his people who would excitedly announce to the visitor: "Walahi, Buhari has done us proud!" The following day I was at the Local Government Headquarters, not far away from MB's house, where I was given a VIP treatment, but refused their offer of accommodation and other things as a way of their reciprocating my gesture of coming all the way from Lagos to do the investigations and helping to highlight their problems to the nation and the world - and therafter, I moved to Zango (LGA), the last Nigerian community bodering the Republic of Niger.

⦁    Strengthening of border control/patrol and management by way of recruiting more hands to get the job done and equipping our boys and girls defending our territorial integrity at our various international borders, whilst doing all to maintain a cordial and friendly cooperation amongst our international neighbours and their border staff/agencies.
⦁    The need for workplace ethics/culture, health and safety to protect all of our citizens working to make us competitive in global arena, putting the "C" Caution signages to warn of possible threats to health and saftey and when ever it rains, so people do not trip.
⦁    Making our economy and human capital competitive as well as our export produce, in which utmost care must be applied to produce and package them to international standard.
⦁    There is a strong necessity for a new philosophy of education, stressing industrial education cum case and experiential studies that are in tandem with after school-graduation realities, instead of the current emphasis on the "3-Rs", where degrees or certificates awarded are mere meal tickets".
⦁    Henceforth, degrees, certificates, diplomas awarded to Nigerians leaving schools at all levels will be on loan basis and thereon will be indicated: This Degree/Certificate/Diploma was loaned to ODEY OKABO OBOYA ADUMA on completion of his course/programme at the YALA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY and upon attestation to his/her good behaviour, but will be withdrawn if they fail to carry high the crest and good name of the awarding institution whilst in the world serving God and humanity.
⦁    Commencement of the Nigerian history project - it's now time we began to tell our own story ourselves and this include all Africans.
⦁    The need for a new NATIONAL MORALITY AND STANDARDS IN PUBLIC OFFICE, following this with the inauguration of national standards vis a vis national goal, vision, mission statements, etc.
⦁    Government will promote NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS as against the current ethnic consciousness which allows citizens residing outside of their natural States and birth places to be labelled "settlers", "aliens", "strangers", "intruders", etc and it should henceforth become a criminal offence to label fellow citizens thus, with penalties ranging from six months to seven years in prison depending on the circumstances that warranted one citizen to ascribe such perjorative terms to another.
⦁    All ethnic associations will be encourgaed to wind up and embrace the spirit of NATIONALISM.
⦁    As evidence abounds that traffic in cities are wounding the economy very seriously, Government will introduce shift policy into the economy, with people working at various times such as morning, afternoon, late shifts, etc, and with a view to making our economy a 24/7 one, instead of the current 8/7 - and Government will introduce high street, night, weekend and Sunday economies into the national economy as well as widening and upgrading the retail economy to attract graduates to be suya, pepper, pure water, vegetable (groceries), ponnmo, groundnuts sellers and do radionics, mechanic, butchers, carpenter, vulcanizing, plumbing, etc.
⦁    Set up JOB BOARDS in all the nooks and crannies of society and partner with the private sectors, churches and mosques to create jobs for the teeming population and encourage them to have job boards in their immediate localities. Government is aware some churches, particulary mega ones and some mosques are using the services of Nigerians, including jobless ones without being remunerated - where this practice does occur, the leadership who now own jets bought with money collected from their hapless and gullible congregations merely promise these Nigerians (members) blessing - the leadershp of such religious bodies must be aware that this is exploitation of the highest order tantamount to taking advantage of the poor - and the Bible says: THE LABOURER DESERVES THEIR WAGE.
⦁    Establish JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES CENTRES in all the 774 LGAs.
⦁    Henceforth, non-payment of salaries will not only be regarded as just a light offence, but it is in fact, a serious criminal offence and a clear example of economic sabotage, which has forced most young persons whoses parents have not been paid for months into crimes as from my OBSERVATORY here in the United Kingdom shows the demographic trend of crimes now are mostly youngsters in their teens and twenties.
⦁    Cottage foundries to be established in all the local council areas, in addition to reviving indigenous cottage industries such as pottery, blacksmithing, goldsmithing, silver/coppersmihting, carvings such as IGUN CARVINGS in Edo State, watch/clock repairing, cotton weaving amongst the Ebiras of Kogi State, dane guns manufacturing, bicycle repairing, shoe shinning, MAMA PUT, figurine making in Ife, Igbo Uku, the Noks, etc.
⦁    The monthly Environmental Sanitation will continue to be encouraged as: CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS, etc.
⦁    Sanitary Inspectors will be returned.
⦁    Establish Agricultural and History clubs in schools, colleges and the universities
⦁    Governing Nigeria by the rule of law is non-negotiable as well as the existence of the country as a FEDERATION.
⦁    Encourage competitive social as well as sporting activities in schools, colleges and the universities.
⦁    All political parties to constitute their think-tanks immediately and the nation's multi-party State culture MUST be preserved and halt any deliberate or unintentional tendency toward a one party State.
⦁    The MIDDLE BELTERS which I call the SANDWICHED BELT or THE SANDWICHED GEO-POLITICAL ZONE must wean itself from the North by canvassing SELF-DETERMINATION within the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, instead of always sheepishly attaching itself to the North!

PART TWO

MIISCELLANEOUS

ACT NOW!

MEANING OF A.C.T N.O.W

A - Aspire genuinely to lead the world
C - Control situations, events and circumstsnces
T - Tackle all problems of the country
N - Nigeria will lead the world
O - On(ward) to greatness
W - Wheel of progress

WHY A PLAN OF ACTION OR A BLUEPRINT IS NECESSARY FOR TAKE OFF

Habakkuk 2 New King James Version (NKJV)

2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it."

⦁    Rid all institutions in the country of corruption and strengthen them.
⦁    Do away with the SANDWICHED TIER OF GOVERNMENT called THE STATE to have just the centre and the local governments in order to save cost, for the State as a tier of Government is unnecessary - it's money-draining/guzzling and constitutes avoidable waste in the system.
⦁    Go Parliamentary - Presidential system is not in tandem with our cultural DNA and dynamics. What is more, it is very expensive, it encourages corruption and at best, will always end up in DEMOCRATIC UNITARISM with a very weak Opposition or none at all, as is the case in Nigeria now.
⦁    Make the business of legislating for the country a part-time affair, remunerated only for sitting as in sitting allowance/s, no official cars, no official quarters, no perks, but constituency allowance/s might be looked into.
⦁    Pending the scrapping/abolition/discontinuation of the State as a tier of government in Nigeria, any State that currently has more than 2000-2,500 staff in the totality of its core administrative ministries, save in other State ventures, is not only wasting resources, but very sick.
⦁    Scrap Bureau De Change and let only the registered and approved banks handle all matters of currency trading and such other matters as appertain to forex market.
⦁    Make black market illegal and non-compliance punishable by a minimum term of seven years and a maximum of 14 years in prison.
⦁    Redenominate the Naira and make the highest denomination be N50.00 to force down inflation
⦁    Re-introduce coins into the economy to act as a check and balance on inflation
⦁    What is the current interest rate and what should it be in times of economic emergency?
⦁    Keep the economy very busy at this time - no idleness in any sector and no stagnation.
⦁    Widen the dragnet of taxation
⦁    All Nigerian Citizens and foreigners working in Nigeria MUST receive their salaries in Naira, and not in dollars, pounds and in any foreign currency...I'm close to some expatriate top executives who after receiving their salaries in dollars/pounds will invite Mallams to their homes to change the money into Naira - so long as this chicanery is seen by the Nigerian authorities as legal, the Naira will continue to be put under undue pressure perpetually. But why has the nation entrusted its economic direction in the hands of these illiterate Nigerians whom I call: MALLAMNOMISTS since the ignominious Gbadamosi Babangida era? Mallams are simply trading for CBN and Banks staff/directors, government officials returning from trips abroad, exchanging their estacodes/allowances, traditional rulers, top notches in Government, members of the President's entourage just back from the many trips abroad, civil service top notches, expatriates, Generals, top business execs, industrialists, top military/police/para-military brass, etc, etc.
⦁    Nigeria's economy is still virgin, please open it up - in fact, evey sector is still virgin and calls for investment - THERE IS SURE ROOM FOR EXPANSION!
⦁    Preach cottage thinking as a programme of Government whose over all goal is cottage industry with a slogan: THINK SMALL AND GROW BIG.
⦁    Encourage small businesses and ensure all of them are registered in order that they pay tax, do annual returns and pay corporation tax as the case may be.
⦁    Give loans to small businesses and set up loans utilization monitoring group to avoid the fate of NERFUND, People's Bank and such other revolving loan schemes of bygone eras - anyone under this programme must have a business mentor/adviser and the whole programme supervised by participating banks who must register and pay a non-refundable deposit of N5-25 million in order to participate in the scheme - and in view of previous experiences, any Nigerian desirous to benefit from this scheme must have guarantors in frontline monarchs, commissioners of police, top executives, etc. And repayment rules must be very stringent to disabuse the minds of the borrowers of such rubbish, corrupt and unscrupulous Nigerians often resort to as NATIONAL CAKE, FATHER CHRISTMAS, AWUUF, BONANZA, etc. Defaulting must not only affect credit record/rating, but be made a criminal offence.
⦁    Encourage the thriving of foundry in virtually all the 774 Local Government Areas.
⦁    Initiate upstart business programme and encourage Nigerians to embrace it.
⦁    Encourage indigenous contruction, making big construction companie like Julius Berger, Solel Bonel, Starabag, RCC to train the nation's future contruction personnel/experts/contractors/engineers under a policy NO MORE WINNERS TAKE ALL, inviting the Nigeria Society of Engineers to partner with the Government. This is what I call APPRENTICESHIP-ORIENTATED CONSTRUCTION.
⦁    Launch a programme to be tagged: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION. Scorpion has gone ahead to launch this. Please see: http://scorpionnewscorp.com/index.php/campaign, click on JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN. As a matter of fact, we launched the BUY MADE IN NIGERIA campaign during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan years to challenge the Government, but they just couldn't get our message! It is hoped this Government will get the message and join us to promote the concept above.
⦁    In times of economic adversity, banks must show patriotism and be encouraged by the Government of the day to give loans - IF WE FAINT IN TIMES OF ADVERSITY, OUR STRENGTH IS SMALL! “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," Proverbs 24:10. And what is more, ..."we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose," Romans 8:28.
⦁    Avoid Q. E.
⦁    What is our strategic national defence policy in the 21st Century?
⦁    What is our strategic national security policy  in the Age of Terrorism?
⦁    What is our strategic national population policy at a time of population explosion?
⦁    What is our strategic national economic policy (what sort of economy are we running, or do we want to run - capitalism, reformed/conscientious capitalism, socialism, communism, welfarism, ESUSU, mixed economy or what?)
⦁    What is our strategic national environmental policy?
⦁    What is our strategic national health policy
⦁    What is our strategic national educational policy?
⦁    What is our strategic national industrial policy?
⦁    What is our strategic national foundry policy?
⦁    What is our strategic foreign policy? Fellow Nigerians would agree with me that from the Olusegun Obasanjo era till date, there no doubt is confusion and identity crisis on the foreign policy front as we have been oscillating from Asia to the Middle East and abandoned our traditional allies, the West, and when we have problems we run to the West who do avenge by shunning us in our hour of need. Buhari has moved the nation to the Arab world and he needs to 'shine' his eyes - and just as there is no peace in the Middle East, and likely there will be none in our land, Nigeria is already living at a time of the BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS due to this policy shift and redefinition.
⦁    What do we do with our military in peace time?
⦁    Kick start a programme on industrial education to launch what I call: WORKSHOP & STUDIO EDUCATION (W+SE) - You don't need to spend fortunes to train the trainers under this programme as they abound already in every nook and cranny of the nation.
⦁    Launch a programme on: RESPECT AND APPRECIATE COMMON LABOUR to enable graduates embrace common labour such as selling kerosine, kunu, pepper, doing conductor, selling akara, suya, mending and shining shoes, working as janitors, as agbo epos (environmental officers carrying/collecting faeces), growing mushrooms (send people to be trained at FIIRO, Oshodi), butchers, selling fish, vegetables, grinding pepper, selling pure water, selling ogi/akamu (pap), etc. As food for thought, any person derided, disrespected and treated unfavourably just because they are into non-graduate jobs can be encouraged to seek redress at the court of law and there must be a law for people to respect common labour, and failing should attract severe penalties and fines.
⦁    Launch APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME to attach school leavers and graduates to top professionals, companies, factories, construction companies, retailers/supermarkets, businesses, etc. People can grow, progress on the job and become whatever they want to become in life with necessarily having to go to universities. After all, the university is just ONE out of life's limitless pathways, and nothing, repeat, NOTHING with all emphasis, capital letters underlined-underscored, should make a graduate pompous as to warrant them to begin to look down on the so-called non-graduates.
⦁    TEACHERS: What really does the nation need/want or what is the nation aiming at regarding the quality of its teachers - justs volunteer teachers or well trained, qualified and committed teachers?
⦁    Community service scheme for all primary and secondary schools pupils/students
⦁    Work placements for all students in tertiary institutions regardless of courses to make them employable and meet the demand of employers.
⦁    Open drop-in and community complaint centres in all the cities and local government for citizens to go for counselling and venting of their anger.
⦁    Build Community libraries in all the 774 local government areas including career guidance and counselling centres.
⦁    Establish Community computer centres in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria
⦁    Establish community sports centres, theatres, gardens, etc.
⦁    Discourage MEMORIAL LECTURES as it's sheer nonsense - merely an ego-boosting exercise, rather, people of means should be encouraged to set up charities in their places of birth - home towns and villages, give scholarships, bore holes, build hospitals, clinics, donate ambulances, fund researches, offer pre-and post- natal counselling, career guidance and counselling, etc.
⦁    Scrap the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF NIGER DELTA AFFAIRS immediately and send all of its current units to the Ministries of the Environment, Agriculture and Water resources, doing this will expand the scope of operations to include the frequent clashes between the herdsmen and farmers, amongst problems in the land OR if we are so uncreative and unimaginative, we can simply expand its scope and rename it: FEDERAL MINISTRY OF MISCELLANEOUSE in order to tackle the Niger Delta's problems, Boko Haram, IPOB/MASSOB, OPC, MEND, FULANI HERDSMEN v THE FARMERS, FORCEFUL CONVERSION OF CITIZENS TO FAITH DIFFERENT TO THEIRS, TO FISH OUT UNDER-AGED GIRLS AND SAVE THEM FROM PAEDOPHILES IN PALACES, ABDUCTION, BABY FACTORY MENACE, CHILD TRAFFICKING, MODERN DAY SLAVERY, KIDNAPPINGS, etc.
⦁    Establish Community Dispensaries with trained dispensers/pharmacists/locums, etc.
⦁    Trained pharmacists should be encouraged to open local pharmacies/chemists as it is dangerous for the nation to entrust its health to quacks who operate chemists - all having anything to do with public health MUST be trained and supervised and hencforth, all untrained street chemists must be under the supervision of the trained ones who will help them to be trained and obtained certificates for short courses as may be decided by the Health Minister of the Federation together with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN).
⦁    Stiffer penalties for quacks in the built industry with prison terms ranging from 37 years to life.
⦁    Grow the retail economy and encourage graduates to go into retail businesses.
⦁    All mai guards must be trained in secuirty and licensed, be paid the minimum/living wage and must now be recruited by all those who need their services through registered security companies and they must pay tax as any other citizens.
⦁    Establish CITIZENS FORUM in all the LGAs of the country.
⦁    Establish Career, Guidance Counselling and Citizens Advice Centres in all the 774 LGAs
⦁    Henceforth, all churches/mosques MUST be registered, monitored and be under the CHARITY COMMISSION that should be established for this purpose and many others.
⦁    Henceforth, churches and mosques must give back to their community of business by paying 10% of their revenues to the Charity Commission in addition to each having a CHARITY DEPARTMENT.
⦁    Establish Health Check Centres in all the LGAs of Nigeria and making checks compulsory and monthly.
⦁    All foreign supermarkets operating in Nigeria MUST source 95% of their products locally as against the current 95% from abroad, particularly their home countries and economic regions.
⦁    Establish the National Book Clubs in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria to encourage reading habit amongst Nigerians and to let Nigerians know that there are higher values than money and crass materialism.
⦁    Establish foundry institute in all the LGAs of the nation
⦁    Put machnery in place to establish the Nigerian Youth Vanguard. I did experiment on this in 1999 by forming the YALA YOUTH VANGUARD which saw to the fall of the then Yala Local Government Chairman with the youth of Yala preventing him from moving into his palatial mansion he had built with the public funds.
⦁    The rental economy in Nigeria currently is a jumble of mess and needs control, hence all landlords and landladies MUST register their homes as businesses, even if the said landlord/landlady has just a tenant, because once a person has decided to rent out their residential homes to tenants, it ceases to be residential, but businesses. Landlords, especially in Nigeria, who privately rent out their homes instead of going through an estate agent, do charge commission of N50, 000! This is a fraudulent practice which the Lagos State Government has to look into immediately - and in order to attain a level of sanity within this subsector, all rentable properties MUST henceforth be handled by estate agents who themselves MUST be registered. What is more, rents should be weekly or monthly instead of the current upfront of one year to 5, 10 years or more, which no doubt, encourage corruption. Landlords/Landladies in Lagos particularly, are collecting from prospective tenants, such mindless fees as electricity, water, money for pumping water from their private wells/boreholes, generators, security, owo damage (deposit? But this is not refundable), filling of form in order to view vacant rooms/flats (non-refundable fees of N2, 500 and if you don't like the room/s, flats you have viewed the money is gone. What a country!), environmental, which they don't normally render to appropriate authorities as due them. Other unnecessary fees being extorted from landlords by the so-called OMO NILEs (owners of the land) are: Owo foundation, owo roofing, owo house warming, owo painting, owo prayers, owo ancestors, owo blessings, etc.
⦁    Henceforth, carrying cash in large quantities must be discouraged and Nigerians must be encouraged to pay all their bills, debts and many other kinds of transactions into designated banks and saving culture must also be incentivised instead of penalising them.
⦁    Our debt collection agency economy is nil currently - diversification involves opening up a virgin economy such as ours in all its ramifications, exploring all of its frontiers in the farthest possible way.
⦁    Our high street, retail, night, Sunday and weekend economies have largely remained untapped over the years after going to 56 years of our existence as a nation.
⦁    Our public health as well as other sectors MUST be organised - sanitary inspectors must be re-introduced and all food vendors must be registered and pay tax just like other citizens.
⦁    NDLEA must widen its tentacles and not limit itself to just drug policing as its official name is actually NATIONAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
⦁    Henceforth, there must be public health education with the teaching of hygiene returned to schools and colleges.
⦁    Civic Studies must be returned to schools and colleges
⦁    The teaching of INDIGENOUS HISTORY must be returned to schools and colleges.
⦁    Adult literacy must be given a boost.
⦁    Introduce the NATIONAL SALARY SCALE HARMONIZATION, making all persons working in all the subsectors of the economy to be placed on the same salary scale, whether such people work in oil companies, banks, INGOs, education as teachers, etc, beginning with such scales as: ENTRY LEVEL. MID LEVEL AND SENIOR LEVEL as salary disparity breeds corruption and arrogance amonsgt those who receive mouth-watery salaries working in banks, oil companies, etc, and making members of their generation who are better qualified, but working in other sectors not well remunerated to look inferior to their friends and generation, and in order to live the lifestyle of these friends of theirs are tempted to steal or be involved in all sorts of sharp practices.
⦁    Establish the Nigeria Security Industry Authority (NSIA) and return all police to the frontline - we can't have police guarding individuals when crimes of all kinds are swallowing up the country with shortage of manpower - those who have the police now with them including foreign companies who should know best as this is NOT the practice in their countries, should know that they are the reasons for the increase in all sorts of crimes in the country and the blood of all victims of crimes are upon their heads and their companies, because they are holding onto national officers who ought ordinarily are supposed to be in the front line.
⦁    What really are we exporting and in what volume - are we stuck in the traditionals or we are being imaginative and creative about this all-important subsector, and what henceforth, should we be exporting in addition to the regulars?
⦁    States are borrowing too much, they are hereby warned and must stop - all they need do is to be creative, imaginative and innovative, etc.
⦁    Introduce road tax and not tollgate as this encourage corruption.
⦁    Insurance revenue in a virgin economy such as ours leaves much to be desired - we need to stretch our imagination and be creative about this, for instance, are all cars on our roads insured, domestic appliances, individuals, businesses, houses, real estate, both subjacent and superjacent resources, which of course, must all be insured - a person who has chosen to rent out their home/house, which now must be through an estate agent, must of necessity insure such a property including content insurance with all health and safety facilities in place - fire extinguishers, smoke detctors, fire exit points, evacuation centre, etc.
⦁    Let workers contribute 10% of their salaries to the LGA of their domicile or to chosen NATIONAL CHARITY.
⦁    All garages in Nigeria must be under managements and not left in the hands of touts/agberos and all public parks and hospital parking spaces must be paid for - hourly.
⦁    All professional associations/artesans should give 10% of their after tax to either the LGA of their operation or to their preferred national charity.
⦁    The Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should establish six national charity that citizens will contribute to as most charities/NGOs in Nigeria are mere money laudering outfits and their founders use them to hoodwink the West to part with hard currencies which they in turn use to feed their extravagant lifestyles. This being the case, the Federal Government must investigate all NGOs operating currently in the country with a view to knowing the reason/s for their existence, how they source funds and how and what they use these funds for - also, the Federal Government must ensure certain INGOs are not mere spying outfits camouflaging as charity INGOs. More, all NGOs MUST be registered with the CHARITY COMMISSION to be established and also as a SOCIAL BUSINESS with the Corporate Affairs Commission with fees to be determined by the CAC - and NGOs not registered with the two Federal bodies must be regarded as illegal and cannot issue press releases to the press, cannot heat up the polity in the name of activism or Aluta, they cannot grant interviews to the press either, except however, as private citizens, but certainly they cannot comment on national issues on behalf of illegal organisations. They lie and deceive the West, run down the country for pecuniary gains, they are no doubt extending the frontiers of corruption internationally, whilst they claim to be fighting corruption, illegalities and injustices back home. Henceforth, any local NGOs wishing to source funds abroad, which of course, MUST be a registered one must route their applications through the CHARITY COMMISSION to be established immediately who will vet the said NGOs and the reasons for seeking such funds outside the country to disgrace the nation - the CHARITY COMMISSION to be established must insist that local NGOs source funds/funding locally because as an international environmentalist of over 27 years, I'm aware these so-called activists and their NGOs are deceiving the West about the state of affairs back home in order to make them part with their pounds and dollars, which after the collection, they use them to fund their abysmal lifestyles and then cut newspapers stories and pictures which they lied to their unwary Western sponsors/funders/financiers as the projects/investigations they had sponsored and investigated with the monies they had been given. Those who used my environmental stories and lied to the West that they sponsored such environmental investigations of mine are all millionaires today and some of them are now dead, so I know what I'm talking about - the current Government must hurry up to tidy up things in the sector - for instance, are all the militant organizations causing troubles in the country registered, if so with which authorit(y)ies, and if NO, why then have they not been proscribed and declared illegal and treated like criminals which in fact, they are?
⦁    Take statistics of landlords and landladies in each State of the Federation and make them register their properties as businesses to be so run and pay tax accordingly, but henceforth, all rentals must be controlled and be through registered estate agents.
⦁    All traders in all States and LGAs must register their businesses, do annual returns, corporation tax and pay tax accordingly
⦁    All hotels/brothels/lodging accommodation operators must pay 10% of their after tax to the State, pending when my proposal for them to be scrapped will become effected or to the LGA of operation.
⦁    All conductors and bus drivers must register with appropriate authorities as professionals in order to pay tax and be paid the national minimum/living wage. They should now be recruited through registered employment agencies, be trained in customer care and service and dress reponsiblibly in line with nationally acceptable dress code for businesses including banks, where female staff dress like prostitutes to entice public servants to part with public money.
⦁    All transport owners, who are mostly police and military officers must register their transport business with the CAC and the daily delivery must be done in a business-like manner involving the owners and drivers signing documents/contracts before a solicitor, such that if the daily delivery of a particular driver is such that by the contract signed, that driver is expected to deliver N5, 000 at the close of work on daily basis, such a driver MUST not come back and tell the transporter: "Em...emm..emm (scratching his head)...ehen...polohi, em...oga, tire burst KPUA, KPUA for road...em--they arrest me and I spend the whole day at the police station...em..I bribed police for N5, 500... Oga na true...no be lie I dey lie, I won make you ask HAKEEM, abi no be so HAKEEM? De other day Inspector FASHOLA say make all drivers  contribute money because police won do WEBSITE and another day, em..em..DSP FASHOLA say all drivers wey dey drive pass "Zone X" must to pay N5, 900 ebriday (every day) because him won do bore hole for drivers and conductors make them no come die of thirst...Oga UDOMA, things tire me-o...na all these make dey DAILY BUDGET no yawa, even na Kemi, alias MAMA SHAKARA wey dey sell AMALA for dey garage give me rice and kinkini ponmo for N5xx credit, she even dey hala say her BUDGET NO CATCH, Oga. Mama SHAKARA dey tell all dey passengers wey dey wait for their CHANGE say CONDITION DONE FORCE AM TO DEY DO ZERO BUDGET and LEKE LONDON COME DEY LOOK AM ANYA-ANYA AND NGHUE-NGHUE!"
⦁    All bill boards must be taxed on monthly basis.
⦁    No posters on walls in cities as they constitute environmental nuisance - and N10, 000 fines for environmental nuisance on small scale.
⦁    All cars in VIP section at airports must pay N5, 000 hourly
⦁    All public car parks and garages in the country must be contracted to car park management experts who will charge car park fees hourly. It is simply stupid to leave public garages in the hands of agberos/touts who will collect fees from bus drivers only to use the money to buy bleaching creams, oblokoto, marry more wives, breed like pigs to put presure on States resources with some of them ending up in crimes, holding parties (owambe) blocking streets, buying odeku, etc, etc.
⦁    All parking spaces at public places such as the universities, hospitals, States secretariats, local government secretariats, Federal secretariats, national museums, primary and  secondary schools premises must be monetized and done hourly. Street and roadside parkings are a good source of income for councils. There are many sources of revenue generation in the country, but creativity, inventive, imaginative and innovative faculties have been killed by the notion that there is always oil money, a sort of "Food is ready", free for all, bonanza, because we have been running a NO MAN'S LAND ECONOMY since the discovery of oil in 1956. What this means is that from my OBSERVATORY here in the United Kingdom, I can confirm that the car parking economy is simply zero! Also, private companies can decide to charge their staff hourly for parking on their corporate premises - we must grow the Nigerian economy and open up new economic frontiers which by my reckoning is limitless - in a vibrant economy, there must be no free lunch and we must all learn to imbibe fiscal discipline. If all these ideas are embraced, they will impact positively on traffic in cities across the country. Lagos State has large car parking spaces all over the city of Lagos, look at the sprawling car park at the Lagos State Secretarita, Alausa, imagine a situation when the LASG starts charging its staff, contractors, visitors and its commissioners N1, 000 - N2, 500 xx hourly for parking at its car park, and to follow suit are the LGCs, the Lagos State House of Assembly, Radio Lagos, LSTV, NUJ, Ogba, the University of Lagos, Ikeja General Hospital, Lagos Island Hospital, Sheraton Hotel, Hilton Hotel, LASU, schools, colleges  in the State and all over the country, etc!
⦁    The idea of some faiths practioners blocking economic routes whilst praying on Fridays, holding and those holding endless crusades must be made illegal - religion is a private enterprise and despite the superabundance of churches and mosques in Nigeria, that country ranks amongst the most corrupt and it wonders me why all Nigerians are not embarrased by this?
⦁    Except privately owned prayer grounds, where religious people are to use public spaces to pray or do religious events, they must pay for such venues - this also, include religious and labour rallies. People hold all sorts of events at the Eagles and Tafawa Balewa Squares free of charge - this is simply stupid! When the President go to prayer grounds to pray, the question is: If such public spaces converted into prayer grounds, albeit, temporarily, did the President ever ask if such public spaces so converted had been paid, for? Eagles Square and such similar others MUST be commercialised and be under a management immediately, so that no body sells or holds events, whether such event is the 56th INDEPENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION or such others, MUST henceforth be paid for and no more free parkings at all the Federal Secretariat or any areas/opens spaces in and around it - so also, anyone selling anything in and around the Federal Secretariat, whether the Old Federal Secretariat or the new one must be vetted, giving ID cards which must be paid for, registered with fees to be determined by the management whose adverts must go out immediately, tenders fees must be N2.5 million just to obtain forms, then pay a non-refundable deposit of N25 million and then whoever gets the contract MUST pay N500 million to run the Federal Secretariat car parks, Eagles Square, open spaces around it and other such open spaces that belong to the Federal Government or the FCT Authorities. NO MORE FREE LUNCH, YOU KNOW! Anyone selling around these areas who has not been vetted, given paid for ID, not registered, etc. should be regarded as a security risk.
⦁    All churches must register their car parks with specified fees to the Corporate Affairs Commission or other such body on behalf of either the LG, SG or the FGN as economic spaces belonging to the State, their chargeability or monetizability must be by the management of an independent registered car park management company. The way to understand it is that any economic space is monetizable and a car park, streets, roads, open spaces, halls be there institutional halls such as those of college lecture halls, university halls, lecture theatres, road sidess, church and mosque auditoria, etc, are all economic spaces, so chargeable.
⦁    Henceforth, all social events such as christenings, weddings, anniversaries, concerts, public lectures, memorial lectures, book launches, product launches, birthdays, house warming, thanksgiving, etc, must attract the attention of local councils and the tax man in order for them to be taxed. And at such events, people cannot block other economic spaces such as streets, roads, whether trunks "A, B & C" without being fined, starting from a minimum of N15, 000xx to N25, 000 or a jail term of two and a half years. I hear people doing weddings these days show off by blocking economic routes and go on a convoy of cars longer than the Niger Bridge. This is crass idiocy which must stop immediately! In order to bring disciplince to bear on this madness and crass ignorance, a minimum number of guest at weddings may be pegged at 25 guests and a maximum of 50 guests - and above these required numbers, the local council must start charging N5, 000 per person, failure should attract a jail term of between six and 30 months.
⦁    Goods & Own Personnel vans, public vehicles such as those of the armed forces, NASS, police, company vehicles which statutorily are NOT registerd as commercial, but which are used for picking up passengers, even if just one passenger have at that particular moment been converted to commercial, thus denying registered commercial vehicles and cabs of hansome revenue/s, and such person/s must be arrested and fined instantly up to N25, 000 or go to jail for 3 years - and in addition, the Road Transport Workers Union (RTWU) of the zone should take such person/s to court. All such cars should now have cameras/CCTV camera installed on them to check non-compliance/s.
⦁    Drivers of Petrol tankers, taxis, tippers which block economic routes must be arrested and asked to pay specified fines as may be determined by relevant authorities.
⦁    Government MUST seriously consider introducing a two-car per family policy with above heavily taxed.
⦁    States/Local Government must introduce chieftaincy title tax to bring sanity to bear on the whole exercise. Traditional rulers who have the desire to award chieftaincy titles to deserving persons must apply to the Local Council and the State Government to seek approval, providing details of the prospective recipient/s for a thorough scrutiny - and whilst the the traditional ruler will pay a fee of N50, 000 to the State/Local Council, prospective recipient/s must pay N100, 000, and thereafter, pay a statutory sum of N25, 000 yearly as a holder of the said title, and failure should attract a jail term of 7 years.
⦁    The Federal Government/States/LGs must stop sponsoring people on pilgrimages. The Presidency/President/VP, Governors, other political officials, elected/appointed and their cronies MUST henceforth desist from going to pilgrimages at the expense of the electorate/tax payers. IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO DO SO, this include using official cars to private social functions like weddings, churches/jumai services, book launches, etc. Just how much did it cost the nation during the President's recent show-off photos and attention-getting/headline-grabbing pilgrimage in Mecca, where he was seen without full clothing on together with key members of his team, amongst who were ministers? This is the WORST TYPE OF CORRUPTION as there is no and MUST be NO BUDGET for such an unnecessary EXTAVAGANZA. THIS MUST STOP HENCEFORTH AND STOP IT MUST!
⦁    Abandoned cars/broken down vehicles on economic spaces must pay N25, 000 on daily basis.
⦁    Cars parked on streets must pay N5, 000 hourly
⦁    There should be a policy on hourly remuneration of workers instead of the traditional monthly which encourages gross indiscipline and corruption.
⦁    All petty traders to pay a quarterly fee of N5, 000 to the Local Council Area of their businesses for security and environmental cleanliness. This must not be collected by Coucil officials by hand, but be paid into the bank directly with receipts issued.
⦁    The State as a tier of Government must be scrapped in order to save cost.
⦁    Legislators to pay 10% of their constituency allowance to any charity of their choice or to the Local Council of their constituents or use it to build community libraries and community computer centres or such other worthy causes as they may deem fit.
⦁    Introduce TV licensing, radio, TV, bike, Keke NAPEP/MARWA, bicycle taxes.
⦁    All traditional institutions, especially the frontline ones must have museums and websites to tell our stories.
⦁    All payments to Governmental institutions or from Governments to individuals and institutions and corporate organisations must be done through banks henceforth, to avoid temptation and corruption.
⦁    Henceforth, no civil servants must touch money whilst on duty and all official transactions must be through banks - Government can evolve a policy to prevent civil servants to hold money at any given time during office hours not more than N500, and where money exceeds this amount, it must be declared to security and entered into the cash declaration note book which must immediately be provided by the Government.
⦁    Henceforth, civil servants must NOT turn their offices to places of merchandise selling wares or other such and civil servants MUST wear name tags whilst at work.
⦁    Henceforth, civil servants are  NOT allowed to welcome private vistors during office hours, save in an emergency due to the death of relatives, sick relatives or such other problems that may qualify as emergencies. The private sector too MUST take note!
⦁    Encourage the growth of commercially-orientated indigenous theatres and all kinds of indigenous and modern entertainments that are elevating and mind-building aimed at promoting indigenous languages and cultures, especially such things as indigenous dances/dance steps, songs/music, drumming, poems, story telling, etc.
⦁    Promotion of indigenous foods through exhibitions and celebrating indigenous chefs including indigenous fashion and exhibitions.
⦁    Resuccitation of the national airliner, making it the best in Africa and in the world.
⦁    Boost tourism by encouraging political top notches and top executives to look inward by spending some of their holidays at local resort centres in and around the country, but the issue of security and the right facilities have to be looked into and provided to attract foreign tourists. It should also be stressed to tourism managers in Nigeria that tourism is business and about not just business, but SERIOUS BUSINESS and not a fashion exhibition to appear OBSCENELY EXTRAVAGANT hunting for headlines with excessive make-ups which often do put foreign tourists off.
⦁    Building of YOUTH CENTRES in every constituent should be seen as a challenge before elected representatives. This is what they can easily do with their undeserved mouth-watery salaries and allowances. This generation and indeed, their immediate community will appreciate and remember them eternally for building and donathing such youth centres having computer labs, community libraries, leisure centres, gardens, sport centres, etc than the billions they are STUPIDLY wasting in buying exotic cars, which of course, are not manufactured in Nigeria - so why invest in things that moths will devour?
⦁    TEENAGERS TAKING TO CRIME: The President must summon Mr Solomon Arase and confront him with the age bracket of people going into crimes these days, who of course, are mostly under-aged persons in their teens and early twenties (Please take a look at the pages of newspapers in Nigeria to see what I mean), asking him to write a 250-word essay which he MUST submit to the President this week, letting Mr President know why this is so, and how he has been addressing this proactively, failing to give a satisfactory answer MUST lead to his sack this week because what Mr Arase has been doing since coming to office is SLEEP-WALKING POLICING, instead of  PROACTIVE POLICING! But who needs a DONGARI as INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE? Mr Solomon Arase having subjected and actually SURRENDERED his constitutional powers to a titled village bloody tyrant is not fit to be the INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA any more, so must be relieved of his post immediately. Go, Arase! Arase, Go!
⦁    Indiscriminate use of sirens must be checked, but who should use sirens? Only core emergency services personnel and selected public officers MUST henceforth use sirens and any violation of the law to be enacted must attract a prison term of between 2-5 years as it does not only constitute environmental nuisance, indiscriminate use of sirens by unauthorised persons causes traffic in cities, and many genuine patients have lost their lives, when road users doubt the genuineness of even those classified under emergency services.
⦁    All acts of gross indiscipline on public roads must attract sanctions, fines and outright ban, not just when a person drinks-drive or exceed the national speed limits which I had proposed some years back. Irresponsible drivers can be withdrawn from the road and banned; those who throw rubbish from their cars have shown gross indiscipline and should be banned from driving on public roads for a period of six months, fined and made to pack the rubbish so thrown or other road users can take the number plate of such a driver and report them to appropriate authorities; those who fight on the road; those who make U-turns indiscriminately must be sanctioned, banned from driving for upward of one year, plus a fine; the same goes for all those who drive on pedestrian lanes, etc.
⦁    Officials of the Ministries of Agriculture, especially at States level are colloluding with foreigners who are given access into our rainforest as environmentalists, researchers, etc, but come in to steal our exotic species of fauna and flora, besides medicinal plants used by Western and Asian pharmaceutical companies only to return these to Africa in form of manufactured drugs at very prohibitive prices!
⦁    Henceforth, all ambassadors/high commissioners to Nigeria MUST desist from making comments, whether in private or in public about how our country should be governed or undertake to teach political officials in Nigeria how they should govern Nigeria or try to make suggestions/inputs in/to the governance of Nigeria. They ALL don't need to be reminded that NIGERIA IS A SOVEREIGN NATION. They usually tell off anyone who tries to make suggestions/inputs about the goings-on in their countries thus: WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO COME AND TELL US WHAT TO DO or TELL US HOW OUR COUNTRY SHOULD BE GOVERNED. Journalists in Nigeria must desist from going to foreign diplomats to interview them in order to comment about the goings-on in Nigeria or make inputs into the governance of Nigeria. Such MEDDLESOMENESS in the INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF A SOVEREIGN NATION is NOT part of their terms of reference. Foreign ambassadors/high commissioners in the West are like caged animals, they never make any comments about whatever is going on in their host countries - good or bad, wrong or right, pleasant or unpleasant! Also, all foreign leaders cannot dabble into the internal affairs of a SOVEREIGN NIGERIA by way of commenting or telling that nation or its officials about what to do. The INTERNATIONAL MEDDLING FORCE (IMF) and its officials MUST not make the Presidency in Nigeria an ANNEXE of the IMF and they must henceforth desist from making uninvited comments about Nigeria and inputs into the governance and fiscal polic(ies)y of a SOVEREIGN NIGERIA. A word is enough for the wise!
⦁    Establish what I call NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY FUND (NERFUND) and through out this period of emergency, all Nigerian workers should contribute as part of national sacrifice part of their salaries, depending on their levels such as ENTRY, MID and SENIOR LEVELS - I'm suggesting from N500xx and above on monthly basis till the economy stabilises. But what will be done with this money? Suggested names of Nigerians to head it: Emeka Ayaoku, Ishola Williams, Balarabe Musa, Christopher Kolade, etc.
⦁    Establish community libraries and community computer centres in all the 774 LGAs of the country.
⦁    Create an institution to be named and called the NATIONAL INVENTIONS, INNOVATIONS & CREATIVITY AWARDS (NIICA) to recognise talents of young Nigerians in schools, colleges and the universities.
⦁    Revive inter-collegiate competitions in schools and colleges, especially in such areas as sports, debate, quizz, cultural festivals, indigenous songs/music, dance and dance steps, drumming, poetry, story telling, etc.
⦁    Create more cities in all the current geo-zones to decongest cities like Lagos, Abuja in order to encourage free flow of traffic.
⦁    The African Time Syndrome (ATS) should begin to attract sanctions.
⦁    People booking for event halls MUST henceforth keep to the time for which they had booked and must not be allowed to hold the event, even if the President of the country was billed to attend such an occasion - the mere fact of their not keeping to the time should be considered as a serious offence, attracting litigation -  and another organization that had been booked to hold their event after the first event must be ushered in - and where authorities concerned insist on holding the event just because the President was billed to grace the occasion, the management of the event hall together with those of the organisers of the next event must go to court to sue the President, organisers of such event, the Federal Government and all the security agencies that forced their way in just because the President was to be at the event. The dignified thing to do by the President is, he should turn back at any event that did not start on time and send bills to the organisers for the cost of taking him off the affairs of State, time wasted, resources, what if accident had occured, God forbid, postponed appointments in order to attend the one in question, cost of convoy and personnel that went with him, personal psychological anguish experienced including unforseen cost, etc. For example, some years back, I was billed to review a book at the National Theatre, Iganmu in Lagos at 11. a.m, but the event never started until 4 p.m! It was to be a 2-hr event, the question is: who paid for the lost hours and what if other events were to take place at exactly 13:00?  Can you see how we have not been business-like or I should just say: WE ARE NOT BUSINESS LIKE/MINDED! More, if I had known what I have known now, I would have sued the organisers for wasting my time, cost of what I had left undone in my office at the Daily Times, the cost of missing or postponing my other appoitments slated for that day in order to attend the event, taking of allowance for that day, cost of making me idle, hourly costing of my wages for the hours I was rendered idle, headache, psychological anguish, cost of not respecting my time, costs of my breakfast and lunch, cost of likely accident or other issues on the way whilst going to the event, etc. PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE NATURAL RESOURCES, USE THEIR BRAINS, BUT WE DON'T AND HAVE BECOME VERY STUPID BECAUSE OF THESE RESOURCES WHICH HAVE MADE US TAKEN LIFE FOR GRANTED.
⦁    Th e information organs of Government, for purpose of impartiality and uncontrolled dissemination of information must now be paid for by the people of Nigeria  and be placed under an impartial Trust, Authority or a regulatory body.
⦁    Self-help police/policing: Many a Nigerian has rejected the idea of a Regional Police, State Police, yet we already have ALTERNATIVE POLICE in Vigilantes and ALTERNATIVE ARMED FORCES in Boko Haram, MEND, OPC and many such others. So who are we deceiving?
⦁    As a way of correcting the global imbalance of trade, African nations can now begin to think VERY seriously about sending only manufactured products Overseas instead of the current method of sending raw materials which are converted abroad and sent back to Africa at prohibitive prices.
⦁    Taxi cabs, all trades, petty traders, pure waater sellers, all transporters/commercial vehicle owners MUST henceforth register their businesses with the Corporate Affairs Commission, really run them as businesses, do annual returns and pay Corporation tax. The current system where local councils use thugs to beat, harass and terrorise petty traders at Oshodi, Matori, Ladipo and elsewhere and extort money from hard working traders must henceforth stop! All dues, fees, rates must be paid into banks, this is where creativity in banking and taxation comes in - these petty traders must be encouraged to patronise accountants to keep their accounts, do annual returns/corporation tax, have business mentors and cultivate the culture of saving.
⦁    The relationship between the miliatry/police/para-military and the public is worsening by the day. In this wise, these public institutions need to establish such offices as Armed Forces/Police/Customs/Immigration/Public Relations Offices who will coach their personnel on how to relate with members of the public, who of course, are their employers. Nigerians in uniforms must not continue to prey on their fellow citizens just because they wear uniforms - more, they must be taught how and when to apply ESPRIT DE CORPS! Need it be stressed that every Nigerian on the street, at home and everywhere is a uniform person in waiting as all of Nigerians will be ready to wear these uniforms (that they so get intoxicated just by wearing them and start behaving like animals) and defend their country in times of emergency?
⦁    Discourage the culture of moving cash in large quantity.
⦁    Discourage money spraying at parties and make it a serious economic and moral offence punishable by a jail term of six months - one year.
⦁    Discourage over/extravagant celebration of all kinds.
⦁    JIHAD IN NIGERIA: Full scale religious war beckons in and around the country - it's already raging in the North East and in the Middle Belt of Nigeria.
⦁    Will the hired mercenaries and the Bororos finish killing Nigerians before Muhammadu Buhari, Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar (III)  and all well meaning Nigerians in the North, especially those of the Hausa-Fulani stock speak out?
⦁    Traditional rulers like Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who comport themselves as totally above the law must know that they are mere citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria just like any other Nigerian and there is no wisom in a citizen exhibiting a sort of crass arrogance which gives their compatriots the impression that they are ABOVE THE LAW! This is simply a case of delusion of grandeur.
⦁    My advice to any government in power (AGIP) still is: KEEP RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS.
⦁    Who is a citizen?
⦁    What is a citizen?
⦁    Ought a citizen be referred to as a SETTLER/STRANGER/ALIEN/OPPORTUNIST in their own fatherland?
⦁    When are we going to depend on on our own locally manufactured weapons to meet national exigencies?
⦁    The war on corruption as is currently being fought is without strategy and commonsense. Muhammadu Buhari and his team are not fighting corruption holistically, but fractionally. They are concentrating too much efforts in fighting OFFICIAL CORRUPTION, which in fact, by my reckoning is just 0.03% of the total level of corruption in Nigeria. So what happens to the remainder 97.07% of corruption in Nigeria? Any war on this disease which does not start first by dissecting the problem in holistic terms - especially in defining it and asking the question: What constitutes corruption is bound to fail.
⦁    What shall we do with the Almajiris?
⦁    Lest I forget, what ought the FINANCE MINISTERS, BUDGET & PLANNING be doing in times of NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMERGENCY (NEE), just SIDDON DO NOTHING and become mere ANNOUNCERS?
⦁    Carry out share buying education and enlightenement. If many Nigerians really know this is a legimate way of making money without sweating i.e, entrusting your money in the hands of other people who will use it to trade on your behalf and bring you cool profits/money, they will whole-heartedly embrace it and we are likely to have less corruption.
⦁    Stop all forms of FREEBIENOMICS at this time as the African society is still largely communal and extended family-orientated. However, States, pending when my proposal for them to be scrapped is carried out, can build habitable/liveable OLD PEOPLE'S HOMES, well funded and catered for. The money that had been budgetted to do AWUUF/FATHER CHRISTMAS by the Buhari-APC-Arewa Government should be used to build skills and vocational academies in the six geo-zones of the country or in the 774 LGAs. But what is the Government's definition of the VULNERABLE? The FREEBIENOMIC idea is fraught with inherent contradictions, laden with vaguness and ambiguity. A jobless graduade receiving the so-called N5, 000 in the name of being a volunteer teacher who will take time to apply for jobs to pursue this so-called pathway by every definition of the word is a VULNERABLE PERSON. What is worse, this our so-called volunteer teacher before he handles chalks, I see him from my OBSERVATORY as a noncommittal-non-chalant-CHOP CLEAN MOUTH-NOT MY BUSINESS TEACHER. This is another foolish idea being pursued by our so-called PROFESSOR/ERUdite/SHIOscholar in the Presidency who simply has no business being in politics.
⦁    THE NEED FOR A CLEAR CUT POLICY DIRECTION AND HARMONIZATION: There seems to be a policy conflict between the President/his team and the Vice President/team. Whilst the President's body language suggests this stolen idea from a welfarist and highly individualistic nation like Britain is not his, but that of his Vice and should be abandoned because of its unworkability and also, against the bacckdrop of the current reality and Nigerian condition, the Vice President and his team are stubbornly, blindly and stupidly saying: LET'S GO AHEAD WITH IT JO-O, without reading the President's body language and clear anguish over such stubborness and foolhardiness, as if saying: "Mr Vice President, can't you see? Why can't you read the signs of the time? DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT AT A HOLY GHOST NIGHT VIGIL, MR PREACHERMAN, BUT AT A HOLY GROUND OF SERVICE, SO MUST TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES?" In my reckoning, the President is attempting to pursue in his own way BU'ARIPRUDENCE and the Vice President is out to introduce into the Nigerian system what I call OSINBAJOVAGANCE (his own brand of extravagance even at a time that patriotism demands of all Nigerians to fasten their seat belts as well as tightening their belts! It is my candid advice here to the duo to endeavour to speak with one voice, tell the whole truth and nothing, but the truth; just aim to pay Nigerian workers their salaries (NATIONAL LIVING WAGE OF N35, 000 as against the current N18, 000xx) as at and when due...aaaah, when they can't pay the £40xx national minimum wage? When the salary issues are very well addressed, in a family-orientated, communal system like ours, people will take care of their loved ones, moreso, these so-called THE VULNERABLE! Therefore, the whole idea of FREEBINOMICS must be dropped and the Government for once, should be humble enough to say to the good people of Nigeria: WE ARE SORRY! WE GOT IT WRONG! AND GOT IT WRONG INDEED, WE DID!
⦁    Every State, Local Government and individuals of means should establish museums. Private museums can also be established in honour of such Nigerians as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, J.P. Clark, Christopher Okigbo, Ben Ewonwu, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Muhammad, Margaret Ekpo, Fumilayo Ransome Kuti, Hajia Gambo Sawaba, Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Aminu Kano, etc.
⦁    It is high time Government began to offer counter-narratives to the emails scams (419 emails) which have done untold damge to the image of Nigeria internationally. As a matter of fact, some of these emails are not generated by Nigerians, they actually come from those who do not wish us well, thinking once Nigeria gets it right, she will drag out the other African nations from their current valley of shame and infamy. You see what I mean about the presence of INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY AGAINST NIGERIA, A FOREMOST AFRICAN COUNTRY?
⦁    Also, what is the Governmen'ts counter-narratives to the ideologies of Boko Haram?
⦁    FOREIGN INVESTMENTS AND APARTHEID IN NIGERIA: Due to the lack of a well defined policy, monitoring and accountability mechanism guiding operations of foreign investors in Nigeria, the general tendency is that foreign investors in Nigeria constitute themselves into apartheid enclaves, first by bringing from abroad, their home countries and economic regions all of their core and management staff to work in Nigeria, whilst the only Nigerians in their midst are cleaners, drivers, gardeners, house helps. This is a very stupid arrangement. Whilst in Nigeria, I did express my objection and distate about these to some so-called multinational companies whose MDs/CEOs I was very close to and they did agree that it was only in Nigeria such an arrangement could thrive - and I drew the attention of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to this ugliness in my writings and in editorials, but these efforts of mine remained largely unheeded until I left the shores of Nigeria. In going round the world to invite foreign investors to come and invest in Nigeria, there have to be rules and regulations guiding their operations with respect to staffing, where and how they live in the country and their relationship and behaviour towards the Nigerian people. The Chinese in particular, and Asians generally, are treating Nigerians in their own country like social outcasts and pests, just because no one in any stratum of Governments in Nigeria including security agencies care a hoot about these ill-treatments of Nigerians by foreigners living in their midst. I hear there is a place called Chinese Village. This is wrong and MUST be diluted immediately. A nephew of mine worked without salaries for four months in a Chinese restaurant in Lagos until I had to get him out of the place, set up a barbing business for him and his brother during the ABBA MORO RECRUITMENT SCANDAL, hoping to recommend its successes to any government in power some day. I did specifically tell them it was an experiment and I was out to challenge the stupidity, unreasonableness and the lack of creativity of the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Government. That experiment has paid off and I am hereby recommending it to the Muhammadu Buhari Government. But whilst Oluleke Osinbajo stubbornly holds onto his OWAMBEGANCE POLICY (ULTRA-FREEBIENOMICS) he should be told to return to Olive Branch Parish and join the children's Bible Class, where he will imbibe the wisdom in the word of God when in stressing the importance of work, Paul says he who does not work should not eat!
⦁    Warning against Idleness:" …9 not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example. 10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. 11 For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies...", 2 Thessalonians 3:9-11.
⦁    But what has Arase done to the Chinese who cut a finger of a Nigerian at a factory in Cross River State recently? Has the violent Chinese been deported, or he is to be allowed to stay in the country and do more violence to other Nigerians in the name of the matter had been settled amicably?
⦁    THE ENEMIES ARE WITHIN: The saboteurs of the government are actually within - those who are out to destroy the Muhammadu Buhari-led Government are in fact, in Muhammadu Buhari's Government. They are in the Presidency, Ministries, NASS, CBN, NNPC, PPMC, power sector, mafia preventing the refineries from working, palaces, Buhari's core staff, etc, etc....SHINE YOUR EYES, PROVOKE INTERNAL AND STRUCTURAL EARTHQUAKES!
⦁    Churches and mosques must start paying tax. They may not be corporate citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but they are in fact, SPIRITUAL/FAITH/RELIGIOUS citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. (Bible passage to support this proposal):
Peter and His Master Pay Their Taxes, Matthew 17:24-27
⦁    24 When they had come to Capernaum,[g] those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?”
⦁    25 He said, “Yes.”
⦁    And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?”
⦁    26 Peter said to Him, “From strangers.”
⦁    Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27 Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money;[h] take that and give it to them for Me and you.”
⦁    Construction workers, goods vans, trailers, tippers should work only at night to ease traffic
⦁    Introduce shift system (pattern of work) into the economy as well as morning and afternoon schools for secondary schools, either throughout Nigeria or mainly in cities such as Lagos, Abuja, etc to take in more students and also, to decongest traffic.
⦁    What shall we do with the hawkers? No doubt, they are a reality in the economy. But what are the contributions of the hawking economy? If they must be allowed to sell as they now do, then they should be registered as businesses in order for them to start paying tax.
⦁    Henceforth, no LG officials must go to any market to collect raw cash from Nigerian traders or any other Nigerian for whatever reason/s. However, all tiers of Government MUST have designated banks so people including traders can pay money/their dues/rates/fees into. The office slogan all over the nation should be: NO TOUCHING CASH WHILE YOU ARE AT WORK, NO TOUCHING MONEY AT WORKPLACES, NO TOUCHING RAW CASH WHILST YOU ARE AT WORK.
⦁    REFINERIES...AJAOKUTA...ELECTRICITY (To be dealth with in a major work).
⦁    Henceforth, all workers in offices must now wear name badges for security reasons and other easily identifiable purposes.
⦁    Henceforth, civil servants, market men and women including artisans, drivers and conductors will be given training in customer care and services.
⦁    Establish the LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF NIGERIA (LAON) - one in the South and one in the North.
⦁    Moving money from one ministry's/agency's to another must not be encouraged. Whilst in Nigeria, money meant for the NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COUNCIL (NAC) was said to have been learnt to the Ministry of Agriculture. When I was EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, FOUNDRY ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA and NAC being one of our members, we did query this idea and sought to know the connection between NAC and the Ministry of Agriculture, but we were merely told the money would be returned.

⦁    DEFINITION OF TERMS FROM ADUMANOMICS - "Economic acctivity", "Economic space."

⦁    An "economic activity" is whatever you do to earn a living or as a hobby which brings you internal, social satisfaction and economic rewards different to services rendered to charity or within the charity sector.
⦁    An "economic space" is wherever you carry out such an activity, be there public space/s, open spaces, religious premises, inside liveable places, etc.
⦁    FOCUS OF GOVERNMENT'S PREACHINGS:
⦁    NATIONAL REBIRTH
⦁    JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION
⦁    SELF-RELIANCE
⦁    BUY MADE IN NIGERIA
⦁    START SMALL AND GROW BIG
⦁    DIGNITY OF LABOUR
⦁    AIM TO MAKE THE COUNTRY A CITY SET ON A HILL FOR ALL HUMANITY TO BEHOLD
⦁    TOTAL CITIZENS FOR FOR A TOTAL NATION
⦁    RETREAT: After nine months of the DO NOTHINGNESS of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the pertinent question to ask at this juncture is: just what did Buhari and his idle ministers go to do during the much publicised retreat?

THE BEST DEAL

The good people of Nigeria deserves notthing, but the best deal, hence I'm offering them these deals as above itemised and hereby presented to the people in this great assembly with a rapturous announcement to them such as shall reverberate across our Republic and be echoed to the children of the coming generations of Nigerians:
DEAL OR NO DEAL?
And the great people of Nigeria do respond as one people: D-E-A-L!

Signed: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.......

Signed: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GREAT PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.......

AND LET US JOINTLY SING THE SONG OF NIGERIA:

NIGERIA WILL RULE THE WORLD

Nigeria, great country, destined to rule the world
There’s no nation in the world as great as our Nigeria
With God, this Nigeria, God’s own beloved nation will rule the world,
Yes, Nigeria, God’s own beloved nation, shall someday rule the world.
God, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth,
Help us to live together as one, brothers and sisters,
Accepting one another in spite of our differences,
Understanding and forgetting such differences
And working together side by side with our children
To build a strong and virile nation, where in our diversity
Every citizen is treated equally and fairly.
God of Nigeria, give to all those to whom you have entrusted
The task of governing Nigeria to govern well in a manner that will glorify you,
Give them the grace not to think highly of themselves,
But to in their entrusted little corners think of themselves as servant- leaders;
O God of Nigeria, give our leaders the grace to be selfless and patriotic;
Give them wisdom and hearts large enough to love and serve all;
Keep them away from greed and corruption,
So that instead of asking, “What’s in it for me?”
They will ask, “What’s in it for all of us?”
Give them the grace to in judgement be impartial, remembering the poor in our midst;
Showing no respect to persons, but acknowledging you always as the God of Nigeria who has placed them in authority over us;
Give them the wisdom to be broad and whole in thinking,
And let them embrace strategic thinking and shift away from oil and genuinely diversify the economy,
O God of Nigeria, implant in the heart, mind, spirit,
Soul and body of every Nigerian, love for each other,
Respect for each other in an atmosphere of peace,
Surpassing all understanding and having respect for one another’s faith without recourse to religious bigotry in dealing with one another
On daily basis in word and in deed;
Let this spirit of love permeate every fabric of our society
So that whether in the North, South, East or West of our country
We shall in peace and harmony live together
In a country where there’s no North, no South, but one Nigeria;
In a country where there is no division as to ethnic nationality, but one Nigeria;
In a country where there’s no division as to indigineship, settlership, but citizenship only;
Where all Nigerians are citizens of one great and indissoluble country,
Having one mission, vision, one dream, one purpose, one destiny with one commonality
As one people, set to take over the world in all things-politics, science, innovations, technology,  sports, agriculture, cultures, standard of living, social welfare and per capita income, etc.
Help us to build a nation where no one will be persecuted, killed for embracing or belonging to a faith;
Give us the spirit as a people to strive for excellence, competitive performance instead of the usual recourse to hereditary privilege;
Help us to do God and not religion, church or mosque,
O God of Nigeria, give us the wisdom, courage to bring up
Our children in the fear and nurture of you;
Give them and the coming generations the grace not to give up on Nigeria;
But that they should act their own part in the rebuilding of our Nigeria,
Never to be bitter, but be sufficiently angry
to challenge the status quo, committed, loyal and patriotic
And when they shall ask us in this national odyssey,
“Are we nearly there?”
Let us then respond with love and inspiring words that
“We are not nearly there yet, but on our way,
And we shall arrive very soon on eagle’s wings.”
Yes, we shall soon arrive on eagle’s wings
And some day our Nigeria will rule the world
Again we sing the song of Nigeria in unison:
Nigeria will rule the world!

EPILOGUE

Until I return, think on my poem below which is the slogan of the MOVEMENT FOR AFRICAN RENAISSANCE AND GLOBAL PEACE, UNITED KINGDOM titled: THE NIGERIAN SPIRIT.
The Nigerian spirit is the spirit that stirs up the best in Nigerians.
It constitutes great visions and great dreams; dreaming big dreams and seeing to their realization; a giant will and a spirit of invincible determination; marvellous possibilities, resilience and boundless elasticity; tenacity of purpose; selflessness and loyalty to fatherland; the highest level of patriotism; giving God a prime place in the Nigerian mind and in national life; a strong abhorrence for religious bigotry and irreligiousness of religion; an enterprising and inquiry mind; an excellent spirit; dedication and devotion to duty; a spirit so strong that it cannot be discouraged; the truth, without which the citizen is not free; fearlessness; confidence in self; the fatherland, humanity and posterity, yet very humble; a sense of nationalism rather than ethnicity; absence of avarice and thievery; honesty and integrity; a sense of community rather than individualism - being one's brother's keeper, creating a sense of sanity in one's little corner in the midst of endemic or pervasive corruption; walking tall without entertaining grasshopper complex; the spirit to say to oneself after the accomplishment of a great task that the best is yet to come; the ability to recreate one's world, where one is thoroughly dissatisfied; utmost enthusiasm rather than grumbling; time consciousness rather than getting hooked to the so-called African time; a high sense of moderation instead of unbridled ostentation and acquisitive tendency; a great sense for details and observation; a sense of service rather than pecuniary consideration; observance of the country's laws and order in order to keep the peace. The Nigerian spirit is to be cultivated and practised.

God bless our Nigeria,

FROM THE VOICE OF ONE...

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