SOCIAL IMPLICATION OF PROLIFERATION OF FIREARMS...... By Dotun George

Few days back the custom authority displayed caches of deadly ammunition imported into the country and it is a big signal to all of us and those in government quarters the dangers of the times we are in. Oscar Okafor who was the importer of deadly weapons. Mahmud Haruna Clearing Agent. Sadique Mustapha accompanying Consignment are not just doing this and probably this is not the first attempt. Let us just imagine for a minute the havoc these deadly weapons would have been used to caused if not discovered by another unit of  the custom after the immediate unit for checking and clearing had already given them a clean bill of clearing.

Two officers of the Nigeria Customs Service who allegedly examined and cleared the ammunition -laden container at the Apapa port , Lagos State , have been declared wanted by the custom authority . Abdullahi I, with service number 44483 ASC , and Odiba Haruna Inah, with service number 133386, fled after the weapons were uncovered by the operatives of the Federal Operations Unit , Zone A, Ikeja . Why did they flee, those who sent them and the Syndicate they worked with would have told them to do so, just to cover up and avoid being exposed.

It is obvious that the deadly weapons are actually smuggled into the country for evil machinations. If the custom authority can do thorough investigation, in fact they should do because that is one of their responsibility, every details about the motive behind the importation, who ordered it and paid for it ought to be unraveled, so as to prevent the future of occurrence.

Proliferation of guns and other fire arms are part of impediment that almost grounded America civility in the last three years and even till now, they are yet to overcome the social implications of proliferation of fire arms. Here in our clime, we battle day and night with the deadly attacks of terrorist, militants, kidnappers, armed robbers and killer herdsmen. One needs to ask who and what is fuelling their operations?  Without looking too far, the government officials and the political class are always behind this barbaric acts.

Proliferation of guns is one aspect of the security government and those who are saddled with the responsibility of securing the territorial integrity and civil rights of Nigerians must looked into and give topmost priority. The Fulanis who are herdsmen we used  to know don't carry guns, in fact they are friendly people and now, it has become the things of the past, because those who use them to ferment trouble have changed their nomenclature and their nature.

There is no season, time or situation that cannot be redeemed, the moment those in the place of authority are prepared to do the needful and wake up to their constitutional duties. The advancement of the world has also lead to the decay of the world, building a new nation requiring us building a new people with new orientation, new disposition to life, new approach to humanity and with new mentality.

Every genuine agitation that starts in Nigeria with genuine concerns always end as destructive means in our clime the moment the political class are involved. The importation of the deadly ammunition must not be treated with levity if we are serious with securing our country from the hands of the criminal elements who always do the bidding of propagandist.

PLANNING YOUR LIFE IN THE NEW YEAR... By Dotun George

Happy New year. Happy 2017!
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I see you taking over territories this year and beating your records in the previous year. Everything you were not able to accomplish last year, I see you achieving and surpassing them this year.

As you begin this great year, I urge you to write down your goals and work towards achieving them. Apart from this, I encourage you to get rid of any habit that may hinder your journey to success this year and cultivate successful habits. Just anybody can succeed, even, a dummy can do extraordinary things if he cares to know what it takes.

As an individual, family, community of people and society, we cannot be doing the same thing over and over again, and expect a new results. We are where we are today because of our romance with the old way, things, thinking, methods, system and approach to our peculiar problems. Unfortunately, the significant problems  that we face as a people, family, community of people, society and country cannot be solved at the same level we are when those problems are created. We all need a ways of thinking, system, approaches and solutions in order to solve the problem at hand.

Except we we all confront our significant problem at the individual level and corporate level, there is no headway and no end in sight. A true and strong man didn't run away from his problems, he rather confront them and deal with them.


When you do this, things will get better for you, your family and your organisation. Get ready for an awesome year ahead.
You will succeed!



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Dotun George
A motivational & public speaker. A social crusader, a life coach and a trainer
E-mail: dotungeorge009@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dotun.george
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RE EXAMINING DIVERSIFICATION... By Dotun George

At a time of serious economic crisis, everybody is singing the song of diversification even when we are still trapped in the idea of obsolete and out of fashion economy.
Okay, we want to diversify to agriculture but what is driving the campaign is no more than stomach infrastructure. And even when we talk agriculture, it is still basically within the realm of old fashion and obsolete economic idea and not knowledge: Fertilizer, importation of grass from Brazil etc. That explains why we cannot feed ourselves, essentially because we still rely on old models either for pastoralists or those who till the land.


The second area we want to diversify into is solid minerals. We are told practically everyday that buried in all our villages are precious gems that we must now begin to look for and with that, luck and chance remain the pathway to the future.
And the last area we are diversifying into is the same commodity that brought us to the current pass: oil and gas. That is why we are now expending huge sums of money searching for hydrocarbons everywhere.

Unfortunately, the only place that holds a promise to the future is one we have cynically neglected. We no longer invest in education, science and technology. In fact, at a time Dollars were being allocated in Aso Rock, funding the education of Nigerian children abroad was publicly declared as not one of the priority areas. Political office holders, who themselves have their children abroad, were giving hypocritical sermons, making it look as if it was a crime for other Nigerians to want the best education for their own children.


Education, science and technology are veritable and vital tools that gave Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan, India and South Korea a quantum leap and giant stride that we can see today. We can we change our approach on this diversification and see our nation taken a dramatic and instant turnaround.




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Dotun George
A motivational & public speaker. A social crusader, a life coach and a trainer
E-mail: dotungeorge009@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dotun.george
Blog: www.dotungeorge009.blogspot.com
Twitter : @dotungeorge

ASSESSING 2016 AND PREPARE FOR 2017.... Dotun George

2016 IN RETROSPECT

The economy was tough this year for many in 2016 and the same time people who knows how make the way . We need to sit down and evaluate ourselves. 

We need to ask ourselves questions :

1. Did your life achieve any landmark achievement this year? 

2. Can you point to any improvement in your life, family and career? 

3. Did you procrastinate this year? 

4. Did you hit your target this year? 

There is an autopilot /autocompass in us (paradigm), that keeps us perpetual in a wrong direction. 

You cannot live your life to prove a point (you can't live to prove people wrong or right). Mindset(paradigm) that needs to change. 

Your current activities need appraisal 

Question 

1. How many books did you read in the last three months? 

2. How many business or financial empowerment did you listen to in the last three months ? 

3. How many of your income did you saved In the last three months?  

4. Did you have a year goal written down?  

5. Did you have a life goals? 

6. Did you have a dream of business idea?  

7. What did you achieved with your goal in 2016? 

8. How many empowerment financial seminar did you attended in 2016?  

9. Did you have business and financial mentor?  

10. Did you try to market any products or services to any in the kast three months? 

SELF ASSESSMENT AND PREPARATION FOR 2017. 

Sincere and indepth accessment of ourselves -  Sit down and assess ourselves. 

What are are the things I started in 2016 that I failed in? 

Until you know how you underperformed in 2016, you won't know how to improve in 2017. 

 Understanding what it takes to succeed. 

There are keys to success:

Cycle to succeed in 2017 

1. Cycle of knowledge -  How to make money and how money can work for you. Find out what business and career principles. Personal development principles. Find out how successful people think and talk. 

2. Cycle of discipline -  You must know how to manage yourself. You need to learn the discipline of money and hardwork. Learn the principles of relationship. 

If you cannot connect the tw

What are the 12 most important goals you want to achieve in your life? 

Set goals for your family and businesses. 

If you can pick one areas of your life to be discipline, it will affect every area of your life. 

Read your goal every day. And review it every week and month. 

Knowledge and the level of thinking make all the different. 

Japan worst place to live but thinking of this people make all the different. Change our thinking 

Proverbs 16:2-3

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There is nothing call recession, it is economic terms everyone can design and build his personal economy. 

Identify your skills and abilities and weaknesses, develop the skills and strength and drop what you cannot do. 

EXCITING : UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BUILD OIL REFINERY..... By Dotun George

In our clime it is the political news of division, hatred and retrogress that sell and dominate our media and millions of our people have been conditioned to see life from that dangerous position and perspective. Many people would have come across this kind of news but it does interest them because it is not the news of APC and PDP.  So many things need to change in our clime before this country can breakthrough.

Ahmadu Bello University students build 1-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Kaduna. This is one of the best news that usually excite and appeal to me than the news of looting and plundering that have become the mainstream media headlines and subject of discussion. I have been reading, working on and do a lot of discovery in the recent times over different news and stories of possibilities and exploits coming from our clime at the time we are being told by Donald Trump that we need second colonization and we have no intelligence for new things.

 We need to do a little X-ray of this feat and extraordinary achievement. Two days ago i wrote a piece about two brothers from the same state who manufactured security vehicles, in that write up, i posed a challenge to the state Governor and Federal Government and here is another challenge for the government of our country, University Commission, Vice Chancellors and rector of various tertiary institutions across the country.

The achievement can be traced to the department of chemical engineering of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and honestly it has made history. The students of the department built a refinery with a capacity to process one barrel of crude oil per day. The refinery would be used mainly for the training of students The department of chemical engineering of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has built a refinery with a capacity to process one barrel of crude oil per day.


Since this technology advancement is designed now for training however I have confirmed from a source that the department had the manpower to build a refinery that would be bigger than that of Kaduna if it had government support. So what is our government waiting for?  Waiting for advanced development countries to help us and transfer technology to us will not avail us or better still, it will make the condition worse than what is it. Firstly, we must take ownership of change and development we are yearning and desiring to see.

Government must as a matter of urgency and policy should begin to invest heavily on research, innovative and creative ventures. Having consider the project work under reviews, the initial idea and plans from the onset was to construct a 1,000 barrel-capacity refinery, but lack of funding limited it to this one, where they would now be refining one barrel per day.

Checking the make and the configuration of this refinery, it is going to amaze you that only the controls were sourced from Hong Kong. No expatriate was hired from abroad. All those that were engaged in this project are Nigerians. Therefore, this mini refinery is a product of Nigerian brains. If government can come in, to support academic research, innovative and creative education, redesign our curriculum to meet the demands of now, if we can review our methodology and delivery approach, this country has the ability to do wonderful things, not only refinery but other technical and technological developments .

To drive change and bring about a true development in any nation, practical, innovative, technical and purposeful education is very critical and there is no how we try to downgrade it, it is still one of the solution out of the quagmire and out of the woods. With purposeful living, thoughtful strategies and intelligent planning er can change the course of this country.




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Dotun George
A motivational & public speaker. A social crusader, a life coach and a trainer
E-mail: dotungeorge009@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dotun.george
Blog: www.dotungeorge009.blogspot.com
Twitter : @dotungeorge

INNOVATION.. SECURITY VEHICLE MADE BY TWO NIGERIANS.. By Dotun George

As I surf and peruse virtually all news portal daily, it is not all the news that attracted and make sense to me, some are distractions so i ignore them, while other give inspiration and hope in the midst of the recession, hard times, global confusion and decaying world. One of the beautiful news that ignited my passion and made me add to the volumes of books i am writing and motivational talk that i have to bring to the younger generation is this interesting story of the two brothers from the state of Ekiti in Nigeria who added application to knowledge, and decided to break out from the mould and stereotype of being people of low intelligence and third world nation.


The two brothers have broken the jinx of many years in our clime, and putting up this innovative and creative venture should be commendable by all and sundry. Government must rise up to the big challenge posed to them these Ekiti brothers telling all of us that there is no impossibility anywhere except the one an individual sees to create in his or her mind.

Where the government of Ekiti state and federal government need to come in, is to ensure this ingenuity didn't die with these two intelligent men. They need financial, moral and educational support in terms of research and development. Can we do it?  Yes Nigeria has all that it takes to do the needful and offer the best assistance to the Henry Ford of our country.


Nigerians will always strike us as talented and brilliant people. There are so many sides to the people of this nation.

We live in an hostile environment, an environment that abhor positive thinking, mental exploit, innovation and attempt to break the mould that have restricted many people in our clime. The story and the reality of this invention is a possibility story of what we are made for and what we are capable of doing.

We all have potential, human content is the same everywhere in the world, it is the environment that conditioned so many people in our clime to think low of themselves. There is giant waiting for showdown inside every mortal man.

We are on the campaign since last year on advancing local production and patronizing local made products, this is the best time to put to practice what we are preaching. This story of possibilities must not die on the pages of newspapers, just celebrating the individuals and acknowledging their work, we must leverage on this exploits and innovative achievement to set a new standard for our  nation and educational sector because information is the baseline for any great feat we can talk about.

We must take our science, engineering and technology students in all tertiary institutions, who only go to school to cram theory and definitions without application to the kind of workshop set up by these men to learn the real application of knowledge. And at the same time, we can get replicate across our institutions.

QUALITY TEACHERS, GREAT NATION. By Dotun George.

The caption of this write up is a slogan I got at the matriculation ceremony of National Teacher’s Institute, Ogun state Office I was invited to. My assignment during the ceremony was to give a goodwill address (message) and to wish the matriculating students well.
Immediately I heard the slogan “Quality teachers, great nation”, in my characteristics manner and approach to issue of life, I began to ponder on what the slogan connote. I have come to understand that, what makes a great nation from generations to generations is the quality of the teachers produced by that nation. If a nation has unproductive, lazy, mentally retarded, and unqualified teachers, they will definitely produce students after their kind. That is the law of genesis and life. Who and what made great empires the world have seen all through ages? Great, qualitative, innovative, creative and productive minds in there produce great empires and great nations.

When I was growing up in life, as a little boys, all I know about teaching profession and teachers generally are known to be men and women who are disciplined, people who knows what they want and how to goes for it and get it, people of high moral and ethical standard, people of high integrity, they are honourable  and model to the younger generations. In every community, pre and post-independence, whenever they need someone to represent a community both in government and all other national or societal duties, there is no other place to look into, than the teachers within the community and sometime, they look in the direction of the clergymen. That was then and now reverse is the case. That does not mean, everyone in that profession has fallen short of the standard but the system and structure in our polity had wreak havoc for this noble profession.

I believe that you can’t give what you don’t have, therefore, people who ought to opt for teaching profession are the best and the brightest in our clime and not those who have lost all hope of going to tertiary institution or the rejected ones. If you understand the connotation behind the cutoff mark, then you will agree with me that, what they are driving at is that, Colleges of Education are for those who could not make it to universities and polytechnic.

If Nigeria will ever regain her lost glory, if we will be able to preserve the legacy and good heritage of our ancestors and build a nation that we can all be proud of, then we need to as a matter of urgency, begin to invest much in the teachers this country turns out every year. At the nursery and primary schools, we must ensure our best teachers are there to lay a solid foundation for the future we are all yearning for. A nation who looks down on its teachers, who fails to invest in them and fails to recognize their noble job, such nation is a disaster going somewhere to happen. To produce great nation, we need qualities teacher. We must begin to train and retrain the current one to meet up and cope with the challenges of the 21st century.