CREATING A BETTER SOCIETY….. By Dotun George

Reading culture among  Nigerians is nothing to write home about. It is a pity our people are no more reading, especially our youths. Nigerian youths spend more time with their electronics toys, smart phones, watching movies and football, rather than investment in education. The system is destroying education. In Nigeria, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination debar youths and our children access to education. It is antagonist to the progress of the nation.

If i had my way, i would like us to remove every bottleneck by building enough educational infrastructures and allowing our children enter school after their Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE), and only impose other examinations thereafter. This would help stop our children from staying at home for 3-5 years doing nothing other than waiting for JAMB before having access to education. It will equally assist to minimize crime and laziness, because, when children have to wait for JAMB for 5 years after leaving school, they lose interest in education and reading further.

This is why today every child wants to become a footballer and musician. Which country has developed with football and music? It is through education and technology countries are being developed. But we are forcing our children into music and foot­ball to develop because we run a faulty systems and structure.

It is lamentable that politics today is the propagation of churches. I am not really happy that churches are telling people that salvation is in the hands of God for a nation endowed with enormous resources from the same God. Of course salvation of souls is in the hands of God but salvaging our land is our collective responsibility.

This is another barrier to the progress of our nation. This is everywhere, including Ghana, Benin and Togo, where people indulge in propagation of prosperity and salvation without applying themselves to reading books where we have every solution to problems. Karl Max said, ‘Philosophers had interpreted the world in different ways, what is important is for us to transform the world for our own existence.’

How do i combine scholarly work with human rights advocacy? It is not an easy task but at the same time one has to create time to educate the populace on the need to create a better society than the one we currently witness. We are better than this and therefore we deserve to be treated as a dignify being, who has a sense of belonging in his/her country.

STAND OUT WITH EXCELLENCE

Stand out with Excellence ' God has put unique abilities in you which, when developed attract success to you.
You may not have all the education you want.
You may not get all the support you expect from your parents or your friends.
You may not even have a job right now, but you can develop your God- given abilities.
You know what; you can harness your talents or abilities and develop it to world standard.

You must take deliberate steps to cultivate excellence.
Excellence is doing things right.
Excellence in the wrong thing still spells failure.
Excellence is the possession of good quality in an unusual degree.
You may be good in writing. You may have a voice good enough for singing or for being a voice Artist. It may be the ability to play musical instruments.

You may be good in fashion designing, marketing, teaching or catering. Yours might be construction or working with electronic equipment. You may have a flair for the computer or sports. Whatever it is, please know that God has placed that gift in your life.

Do whatever you find to do with excellence and you will reap a harvest of success and fulfillment.






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

SALVAGING THE PLIGHT OF OUR COUNTRY

Every country, and nation should find someone in its generation who will transform it. Our country is it at her defining moment in history, where we have a choice of operating at the default level or choose to redesign.

In 1960 per capital income in Nigeria is higher than that of South Korea.
Indonesia has the same experience we have but today, they have left us behind.
As at 1990, India according to World Bank and IMF, they are almost bankrupt, Less than $1b. They decided, should we believe the report or work against it and today they have gone ahead of many nations. Today they gave $50b to some the African countries.

Anyone who tells us we can develop by importing everything is lying to you. We are lied to yesterday by yesterday men and women in power, telling us we are the largest economy in Africa when we don't have any economy in the first place.
In Korea, the strategy is, “if we don’t have it here, we don’t need it here. That is the strategies that change the country.”

Why import from China, what we need to do is  get Chiness company to build plant here and produce and later export. We need a generation that will look IMF and World Bank in the face and tell them we got what it takes to drive our economy. In 1992, Mahathir bin Mohammad told them the same and walked away.

In Nigeria we can repeat what China, India, Brazil has done, because those are emerging economies. When you fix Nigeria you have fix so many African nation.
Asian, Latin American miracle is possible and is evidence telling us we can do it.



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

A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE MOULD.. By Dotun George

In 54 year of existence what can we do to improve our lot as individual and as a nation? We need a very strong national philosophy (Philosophy that will guide every citizen like America, all of them are guided, propelled by their national philosophy), national orientation (This very important because Nigerians have been conditioned to certain lifestyle like corruption, nepotism, cheating, etc that needs change) and direction.

We all need discipline, probity, integrity, hardwork, accountability and righteousness to build a new nation. Hardwork does not kill; it is laziness that kills the mind and the body. Hardwork is the essential to the building of a solid foundation for self, family and country. Hardwork is a cure for fraud, cheating, examination leakages, certificate rackets, secret cults and failure in life.

Discipline encompasses modesty, thoughtfulness, community living, punctuality, duty, leadership and followership, obedience, cooperation and discussion. We all need a self control.
Let us all be honest in accounting for actions and activities. Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach. Where are you? and what are you doing? If you say because others do it you will follow others to do evil? You are a jellyfish then. Avoid immoral shortcuts to achieve goals. Avoid cheating in class, in home, in class election and examinations. Then you will grow up to be a trusted, trust-worthy and reliable individual at home, at work, school and within the community. You will grow up to be respected person.

Money cannot buy everything. Resist the urge to join people in praising corrupt people and more importantly resist the temptation of following them. If all of us can start doing all this little thing there will be change in our society and it is this change people from the society that will later emerge has our leaders in all sphere of government. It is not too late for Nigeria to reverse the ill of the past.

All Nigerians are expected to be a activist in our own way, pursuing actions to a logical conclusion towards; good governance, exposing what is wrong, Industrial commitments, crying against instances of injustice, teaching/educating the people to be self-sufficient, re-orientate the mind positively, working behind the scenes to promote enhanced political leadership, promoting Political/Human Rights activism and using the media to propagate meaning leadership.






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

DON'T BE A VICTIM, MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

According to Dr.  Mysle Munroe People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

I have also found out that some people can be thermostat or thermometer. Thermostat determine what happened in its environment, while the environment and the conditions of things around determine what happened to the thermometer.

Socioculturally, the way we are raised and brought up has conditioned so many people to be thermometer, whose environment determine his survival and the outcome of if his life. By design, i am advocating we need to break that mould and act like a thermostat, who is the determinant of its environment and circumstances.
By creation we are not creation of circumstances but a creator of circumstances.

Majority of the problems in our climes today are created by man who has been conditioned by the environment and it will take men who can rise above the environment, their ugly experience and circumstances to create a desirable and creative future for themselves. There are problems you are equipped to solve, try to play your part and see how this world will turn around in a short while.


The only people who can truly know your story are the ones who helped you write it.
People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but their actions will speak for themselves pay attention.
#DotunGeorge.. #Wisdom4Life.. #MakeImpact.. #Legacy



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

WHO HAS DONE THIS TO YOU?

We don't have FOREX for business merchants, importers and SME but if you are going to Mecca or Jerusalem, CBN will give you dollars at less than N200/$1 from Nigeria's scarce FOREX.

But if you are a manufacturer or just any other Nigerians, you buy dollars at rate of N380/$1.

Is that not misplacement of priority and slave mentality? 

Nigeria and Nigerians ' mind need unblocking. 

The social implications of all these is that, Nigeria is helping Saudi Arabia and Israel to run their economy, while we run down our own 

Government should not get involved in pilgrimage. If you can't afford it then stay in your village and worship God. 

A country that allow her industry and factories to close down and converted to churches, where miracle preachers are doing business, cannot pretend to be moving forward.  In fact it is a sign of economic retrograde. When there are no jobs for the worshippers when would get their tithe and offering? 

This slave mentality that is being displayed both at the leadership level and followership cannot bring Nigeria to the place of prosperity, growth and development. It is an indication that we are still far from where we need to be as a country. 

Nigeria where is your pride and your dignity? 

THE CHALLENGES OF RESTORATION

The  founding  fathers  of  Nigeria  had  the  vision  of  leading  their  people  from  the shackles  of  disease,  want,  ignorance  and  development  to  modernity.  This  vision they  shared  with  great  men  like  Lee  Kuan  Yew  of  Singapore  and  Dr.  Mahathir Mohammed  of  Malaysia  in  the  60s  and  80s.

This  vision  is  aptly  captured  in  the message of the old national anthem if the politically incorrect language is ignored.

"Nigeria, We Hail Thee" (1960-1978)
Nigeria, we hail thee,
Our own dear native land,
Though tribe and tongue may differ,
In brotherhood we stand,
Nigerians all are proud to serve
Our sovereign Motherland.

Our flag shall be a symbol
That truth and justice reign,
In peace or battle honour'd,
And this we count as gain,
To hand on to our children
A banner without stain.


O God of all creation,
Grant this our one request,
Help us to build a nation
Where no man is oppressed,
And so with peace and plenty
Nigeria may be blessed

QUESTION 
To  what  extent  have  these  aspirations  been  met  by  successive government  of  our nation? The brotherhood was shattered by a needless  fratricide civil war where millions of Nigeria lost their lives. The  war  stained  the “banner”  handed  over  to  us  by  our  father,  contrary  to  the vision  of  the  founding  fathers.  A  whole  generation  was  wasted  in  33  years  of military rule- a period where truth and justices were literally on vacation.


We  become  a  nation  where  the  prayers  of  the  founding  father  to  build  a  nation where  no  man  is  oppressed,  rang  hallow.  Oppressed  typed  our  nation  until  people losing  their  freedom  and  even  their  lives  by  peaceful  voicing  opposition  to government. Our government was born into this atmosphere of shattered hopes, surreal dreams, blurred  vision  and  a  bloody  civil  war.

We  are  weaned  under  the  jackboots  of military oppression, ethnic and religious strife, urban violence and finally “plenty”of want. It is this generation that has now been called upon to restore Nigeria to the original vision of our founding fathers. The challenges are daunting in the sense that we lack one of the most basic tools of any political endeavour – experience of good governance. The founding fathers had a very short period to actualize their dream/vision before the noble enterprise was shaken to its foundations. The generation of our fathers was wasted by military rule that of our elder brothers was lost to economic depression. But we are determine to succeed.

Today,  we  are  literally  back  to  where  they  are  at  independence,  with  the  task  of building a united, prosperous and peaceful nation still a dream. Unfortunately, time is  not on  our  side,  we  are  not  at the  dawn  of  our  generation  but at  late  afternoon, with the twilight about to set in as to be expected of a people with literally  forlorn hope, Nigerian’s are importantly expectant. We  do  not  blame  them,  it  is  the  duty  of  government  as  the  generation  of  leaders called upon to restore the vision to meet their aspirations.

It  is  possible  to  achieve  modernity  within  a  generation  as  the  experience  of Singapore  that developed  from  a  3rd  world  country  to  First  (1st)  world country.  In 30 years between 1960 and 1990 and subsequently that of Malaysia has shown. All that is required is a Leadership with Vision and political will. This is probably our nation’s  last  chance,  as  from  the  current  global  trend,  it  is  doubtful if  any  nation will have another 40 years to experiment with government but as stated earlier, 40 years is more than a enough time for a nation to achieve modernity.