CORRUPTION MUST NOT BE CELEBRATED..... By Dotun George

"The act (of corruption) was a 'deliberate and calculated wickedness' against the Nation's existence. The impunity is too much. Sometimes I shed tears in the morning before I go to the office. It is just unbelievable. The rot is terrible....."  ACTING EFCC CHAIRMAN, IBRAHIM MUSTAFA MAGU.

“If those accused of lesser crimes are handcuffed and paraded by the police and got no sympathy from the public, Mr. Metuh and others accused of diverting huge public funds, should not have sympathy.”... Adams Oshiomhole

My take......
As a little boy, when someone stole  money, meat from his mother's pot or took anybody's property without permission or consent of the owner, and such person is caught. The usual practice is call the person thief and it was done publicly then, before justice is done. We are not always ashamed  to call any criminal who steal thief.

What now happened to us, who steal our voice? Why are we afraid to call these characters who stole and robbed us of our commonwealth? Why are we like this? Why do we still have people supporting these criminals that ought to sent into a dungeon that nobody should about. They are even lucky, that it is Nigeria, in a nation like China, Indonesia, Singapore, by now they would have been reduced to size. It is a big shame that, at this pitiable state of Nigeria, some deluded and confused entities are still putting defense for the common enemies of our nation.

Crime is crime, wrong is wrong and we can't re invent the wheel. I thought we should be happy that, those who robbed us have been questioned and gradually vomiting what they ate illegally. Let me remind the noise makers, the wailing wailers, who are the real victims of corruption but never see what is wrong in evil and criminality that have become the trademarks of our national life, that, we stand no good by not punishing every criminal acts against this country and her common good.

I urged Nigerians not to celebrate criminals ‘when we all can feel the amount of the consequences of their rascality on our collective wellbeing’,  President Buhari ought to be supported in the fight against corruption. PMB and Nigerian people will win the war against corruption because it is a winnable war.

GOOD NAME CANNOT BE BOUGHT...... By Dotun George

I watched a documentary that detailed the public life of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. So fascinating, educative and instructive.
At the time of his death, what he left behind apart from his moral character and integrity, the following items were found in his apartment: black and white TV given to him by Queen Elizabeth, one radio, photos on the wall, furniture and one chair and books in his library.

In the process of watching it, I remembered again, the biography of Pa Adekunle Ajasin that read about Five years ago. At the time, Pa Ajasin was leaving government house, he did not enriched himself with public funds. The furniture in his house when he was swore in as the Governor of the old Ondo State was the same furniture found in his house when he left government house. Compare these patriots with the present day political jobbers, whose preoccupation was to loot and plunder the nation, you will discovered there was a wide margin. The likes of Tafawa Balewa,  Ajasin, Awolowo and few other who sacrificed all for our common good cannot be forgotten. History and posterity has bless them already for the roles they played during their public service.

You can't buy integrity, character, and good name. You have so much to lose by living on the negative side of history.
Any man who gain his wealth, riches and fortune through the ruins of his country is doomed already. History cannot bless him and posterity will curse him.

A good name is better than silver and gold. Its last longer than dollars and what money can buy. It is inexhaustible riches.

MODEL OF EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP..... By Dotun George

Lee Kuan Yew: A Model of Exemplary  Leadership

Lee led Singapore for 31 years and was widely credited with transforming the small port city into today's global financial hub. He stepped down in 1990 and remained a key political figure in Singapore as Nelson Mandela was in South Africa, Martin Luther King Jr. in America.

Lee Kuan Yew was a charismatic and unapologetic figure, a co-founder of People's Action Party.

He built a meritocratic, multiracial nation. Singapore has no natural resources, Lee gave a new economic model that set Singapore on the path of prosperity. He turned Singapore into a manufacturing incentives to attract foreign firms.

Under Lee Kuan Yes, Singapore became a center for oil refining industry. The city-state grew wealthy and later developed into a major financial center.

“I am not here to play somebody else's game. I have a few million people's lives to account for. Singapore will survive.”
- Lee Kuan Yew

RESET THE PRIORITY

The co-founder, Bridge International Academies, Dr. Shannon May, has said that many Nigerian Certificate of Education holders (NCE) failed the institution's teaching assessment tests. This was as she said that certificates were not the only consideration in the recruitment of teachers.

MY TAKE....
It is laughable in the first and it is bound to happen. This is kind of result a nation like Nigeria will get when priority are misplaced and when lopsidedness characterized our admission policy into tertiary institutions, when we allow the best to be admitted into the university and allowed the frustrated ones, those who can't secure admission into either University and polytechnics were force to go into colleges of education without personal interest and flair for teaching and those who just want the certificate, just because Nigeria public arena has been bastardized and became certificate oriented society, where certificate is valued over capacity to deliver, skills and interest.

We have not seen anything, the better the stakeholders, playmakers and policymakers rise up to the occasions and face the challenge now, the better for all of us and our children. The dearth of quality teacher is bound to boomerang tomorrow if care is not taken.

In Finland, the best students are send into teaching profession, because they knew over there, that the future lies in the quality of the teachers and the quality of substance pour into the pupils and student.

There is fire on the mountain and no one seems to be running. I am weeping for our children and the future that is bleak.

BRIDGING THE GAP....... By Dotun George

BRIDGING THE GAP........ By Dotun George

The Lagos State Commissioner for Wealth Creation and Employment, Babatunde Durosimi-Etti, has lamented that jobs meant for people in the country are being given to foreigners due to the absence of local skills and expertise.

He described the situation where the jobs that could be undertaken by Nigerian artisans were given to their counterparts from neighbouring countries as worrisome, adding that the trend could be reversed if the home-based artisans were equipped with qualitative skills.

He said, “Presently, about 60 to 70 per cent of skilled jobs in our country are being handled by foreign artisans. The Lekki Free Trade Zone as of today has the deficit skill gap of almost 2,000 technicians that they couldn’t get among our artisans. Contractors handling construction works in the country come into Nigeria with their workers because they don’t have confidence in our artisans.
So I keep wondering why can’t we have Nigerians who have those vocational skills and who could also bridge the gap of the over 50 per cent unemployment rate in Lagos?”..........................................................

I want to help the commissioner to answer his puzzle and questions. The dearth of vocational skill, confidence artisans, employable youths and expertise are part of the havoc our poor standard of education, outdated curriculum, obsolete teaching techniques and personnel, placing too much emphasis on classroom and certificate and laziness of Nigeria youths have caused us as a people and a country.

Except we discard and replace outdated curriculum, improve or setup a new standard that can meet up with the challenges of 21st century, intensify on practical oriented subjects and course, have qualified and quality teachers and personnel, the state and this country will continue to grope in the day as if we are in the night.

Something tangible, decisive and urgent must be done to help our students in school now to have a focus learning, relevant subjects and course that can make everyone skillful, mentally resourceful and independent. We all go to school to cram theory and definition and after graduation, such student with first class cannot put to practice what he learnt in school when the challenge comes. Are we not at a disadvantage? Are we not creating a lacuna already that future cannot fill and fix?

Mr commissioner just consult people like us and you are already with the solutions. To solve a problem, the best place to look into is the source or the cause of the problem. As long as you detect and discover the source and the root cause of the problem, you are not far away from the solution. What then need to be done, is to channel energy and resources to practical, pragmatic and effective solutions.

As a state and country, with our determination and readiness to address skills deficiency through investment in skills acquisition centres, improvement and upgrade of our school curriculum to meet up with the challenges of now, and also help our young ones choose subjects and course base on interest and passion, will help in restoring the glory of this country and  the influx of foreign artisans into the country would become a history.

LET THE PAST GO

LET THE PAST GO.....

Unless we overcome the crippling past, we cannot take hold of the bright future. Except we break the hold of the yesterdays failure, we cannot attain tomorrows wonderful blessings.

Except we forget the nights of fruitless toil, we will not be able to launch out into the deep and let down our nets for the abundance that is coming. Are you experiencing failure, in cap a citation, stagnation or frustration, you can let go of the pain and embrace anew tomorrow.
Forgetting your past, releases your future and opens the door to all the promises, riches and blessings of God. In order to walk in new dimensions of blessing and progress, you must forget your past. If you want a blessed and glorious future, you need to let go of your failure.

You need to always remember that the past holds you back from what God has for you. It places shackles on you. If you dont let it go, the past will weigh you down, stress you out and deplete your energy. Someone had said if you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are you will never grow. To enjoy happiness, you need to let go of the past.

Stop allowing the failures and mistakes you have made to prevent you from embracing new option, ideas, opportunities and friends. Enough of permitting painful and hurtful memories of what other people have done to you to occupy your thought and life. Put those challenges behind and move on. The best is yet to come. Jabez overcame his yesterdays sorrow and became a man of honour. Jephthah, though born a bastard, overcame his miserable past to rise to heroic achievement. Jacob prayed through to victory.

He overcame his crooked past to rise to become a noble patriarch. Joseph and David were persecuted but they endured the pain and got to the palace.
Letting go of the past is critical if you want to attain that glorious future. You should learn from the past but you must not live in the past. You need to learn to forget and let go of the past in order to move on to new blessings. A defeated past can glue you permanently to mediocrity.

You need to move from a defeated past to a dynamic present. Interestingly too, a successful past can generate in you a kind of smug satisfaction that makes you to coast along on past glory. You must learn to move from a successful past to a significant present and fantastic future. You can acknowledge or be proud of your past, but must guard against thinking your past success means you cannot improve and achieve new dreams, efforts and breakthroughs . More importantly, we cant assume that our future will be anything like our past. Just because something worked for us in the past doesnt mean it will work in the future.
Let go of the past, embrace a new future and become the best God wants you to be.