Friday, 24 May 2013
Crucifying Dr. Akinwumi Ayo Adesina, Minister of Agriculture: Matters Arising By Pius Adesanmi
Pius Adesanmi
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Pius Adesanmi The Jonathan administration needs to buy a white cock and go wash its head by the riverside in order to know how to start a new year without irritating Nigerians. Luckily for President Jonathan, Dr. Akinwumi Ayo Adesina, his Minister of Agriculture, is the one who has opted to usher Nigerians into a new year with a half-brained initiative. Last year, the culprits were President Jonathan and his fuel subsidy cabal – Diezani Allison Madueke, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, and our alienated friend, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who had serious trouble knowing which kind of fuel the ordinary Nigerian uses for his I-better-pass-my-neigbour. It seems the administration can only start a new year with steps that attract fury or scorn and contempt. Last year, it was fury. This year, it is scorn and contempt and they are being generously heaped on the head of the Minister of Agriculture. His sin? He wants to spend sixty billion of our hard-earned naira buying cellphones for farmers in rural Nigeria. I heard with one ear that the target is ten million phones – or handsets as they call it out there.
It’s been laffomania and ridiculepalooza on social media since this initiative was announced. My good friend, Kayode Ogundamisi, announced the arrival of “Harvard-trained lunatics” (I think he meant Purdue-trained though) in government. However, before we get carried away by the hysteria, it is pertinent to look at the profile of the man in the eye of the storm. This will help us address pertinent questions. There are several detailed online profiles of the Minister but this one from the website of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria will do. It’s a three-paragraph bio and I don’t want to summarize it. Bear with me:
“Akinwunmi Adesina is Vice President (Policy and Partnerships) for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization established with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the goal of bringing a green revolution to Africa, and lifting millions of poor farmers out of poverty and food insecurity. Mr. Adesina has over 20 years of experience in African agriculture, development policy and rural development. of Nigerians. Despite massive injections of subsidies, productivity remains low, with many concerns about the effectiveness of existing programmes. He won the Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship in 1988, which initiated his career in international agricultural development. He has worked in senior research positions in international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. He joined the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, as a senior scientist for Africa in 1998 and later served as Rockefeller Foundation representative for Southern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe (1999-2003).
He is also an associate director (food security) at The Rockefeller Foundation, based in Nairobi, Kenya (2003-present). Dr. Adesina helped to design, inspire and galvanize support for the landmark Africa Fertilizer Summit. He is consultant on agricultural development issues in Africa by the World Economic Forum, World Bank and African Development Bank, among other institutions. Dr Adesina was a lead organizer of the Africa Fertilizer Summit for African heads of state in 2006. He was instrumental in framing the soil health policies adopted there by over 40 African governments, the African Union the New Partnership of African Development (NEPAD), and other leading global development institutions. Mr. Adesina has worked in senior research leadership positions at IITA, WARDA and ICRISAT. In July 2007, he received the YARA Prize for the African Green Revolution in Oslo for his pioneering work with agricultural inputs and agro-dealer networks in Africa.
In 2008, he was honoured with Purdue University’s College of Agriculture Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award, for his inspiring leadership in spearheading transformative change in African agriculture. In 2009, Mr. Adesina was appointed into the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group that will drive the rapid achievement of the Goals across the globe. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon described him as an “eminent personality’’ who had shown outstanding leadership in promoting the implementation of the MDGs. Dr Adesina holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University (USA). He is married to Grace and together they have two children, Rotimi and Segun.”
I have gone to this length to show that contrary to a certain impression of him now circulating like a wildfire in the harmattan on social media, this Minister has nothing in common with the caterwauling charlatans gorging in government and in the corridors of power. This is not the profile of your typical government official. The man we have on our hands here is an intellectual with unimpeachable academic achievements, a seasoned technocrat who has cut his teeth at the highest instances of international development. The question we need to ask, the puzzle we need to address is: how on earth did the man profiled above come up with such a brain-dead idea?
I’ve been following Dr. Adesina quietly for a very long time. Whenever a new government is formed in Nigeria, I check out the profiles of the new players in town to determine who is worthy of higher levels of expectation from Nigerians. My system of assessment of those running our lives has an unapologetic Apartheid ring to it. Usually, one look at the cabinet and list of other appointees is sufficient to determine that only a few names are worthy of retention.
The rest are usually pedestrian come-and-chop political jobbers unworthy of one’s attention. Once I determine the few whose work and progress I will monitor carefully, I set the bar really high. For instance, I have written previously that I cannot assess Sanusi Lamido Sanusi or my friend, Sam Amadi, with the same yardstick I use for the school certificate forgers who populate the National Assembly. In essence, when you hear certain names, you raise the level, the bar, or the benchmark of expectation or whatever you prefer to call it. With other names, you shrug and expect the usual. When I hear Diezani Allison Madueke or Tony Anenih, for instance, I lower the bar because I expect to find only charlatanish corruption going on and nothing cerebral.
This explains why my pen can be very violent whenever Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Sam Amadi or any of the few people with cerebral minds in government misbehave. As the Yoruba aptly put it, it is disappointing if you find yesterday’s leftover eba and rotten okro soup where you expect to find steaming pounded yam fresh from the mortar and egusi soup. Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture being one of the two or three positive needles in the monumentally corrupt and clueless haystack that is the Jonathan government, we must repeat the question: how have we ended up finding yesterday’s eba in his “sakani” (domain) when we expected fresh pounded yam?
How on earth did Dr. Adesina sign on to this project? Why has such a cerebral technocrat joined the ranks of the resident comedians in the Jonathan cabinet? Yes, the cabinet has comedians. One wants to go to the moon – or is it Mars – by 2015. Another one says evils spirits are responsible for inefficient power generation. And, now, this brilliant technocrat wants to spend N60 billion buying cell phones for farmers in rural Nigeria. The idea is actually not bad. I think the Minister has been inspired by similar cases elsewhere in Africa. Consider, for instance, this case: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/2009/jan/04/katine-uganda-africa-mobile...).
The tragedy here is that the Minister is going to waste public funds on a project that should be entirely private sector-driven. He should have used his good offices to approach a consortium of NGOs and development funders to buy the phones and work in partnership with cellular providers in Nigeria to ensure cheap access to airtime for the concerned farmers in a carefully determined framework. He could even run a pilot in all geopolitical zones to see how things work out.
The second tragedy – and this is very important for Nigerians in the diaspora as well as highly-trained Nigerians circulating in international organizations and global agencies – relates to disconnection and deracination. The story by now should be familiar to Nigerians. Every new government in Nigeria casts its net wide, plucking compatriots from the diaspora and from international organizations to come and run the show. They pluck them from European, American, Canadian, and Australian Universities; they pluck them from the UN System, the Africa Union, and the European Union; they pluck them from Bretton Woods; they pluck them from international Foundations, Thinktanks, and Institutes. Usually, they have excelled and made Nigeria proud in all these places. Then they get to Abuja and fail colossally. We get rotten eba from them instead of fresh pounded yam. The failure rate is so overwhelming that I can’t even immediately come up with success stories. They brought Aganga in from Goldman Sachs and I don’t know what to make of his service; they plucked Arunmah Oteh from the African Development Bank and she has ended up a total disgrace; the jury is still out on Ngozi Okonjo Iweala. And now the Minister of Agriculture is running the risk of becoming a comedian.
Perhaps there is something about the culture on the ground which these naïve returnees from the diaspora or from international agencies and bodies misjudge in terms of their own modes of reinsertion into Nigerian society? I suspect, for instance, that Dr Adesina imagines that he is still shaping policy and initiatives for the Rockefeller Foundation or for NEPAD. Perhaps he imagines he is still working on MDGs for Ban Ki-Moon? Somebody had better wake him up and tell him he is in Abuja. He will understand the folly of this cellphone project when he starts receiving letters from above regarding whose wife or whose concubine should get the contract for the importation of the phones. He will wake up to the reality of Nigeria when body language begins to tell him how many of those phones – if they ever get to Nigeria – should go in Easter hampers to Aso Rock, to fellow cabinet members, to members of the National Assembly, to party chieftains and elder statesmen. He will understand Nigeria when, he after allocation to the 36 states, the phones disappear on arrival in the state capital. He will understand the nature of things when he discovers that virtually every civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture has opened a cellphone supplying shop or business and are already quietly telling potential customers that they are awaiting stocks and consignment.
Dr. Adesina has ample examples of Ministers embarking on woolly-headed projects to learn from. There is Dora Akunyili, who wasted millions on her moronic rebrand Nigeria project and castigated those of us wailing against it as noisy armchair critics. What did Nigeria ever gain from that project?
Hundreds of millions of naira down the drain. Just like that. I once called for Dora Akunyili to be prosecuted for criminal wastage of funds. Perhaps that would have dissuaded Dr. Adesina from buying cellphones for farmers with public funds? Why can’t he go to his people at Rockefeller and sell this idea to them? Why can’t he approach the oil subsidy cartel in Nigeria and see if they could cough up the funds for his project? Why not approach corporate institutions and see if they want to come on board and fund part of this thing as corporate social responsibility? Oh, I better not mention corporate social responsibility. Our unpredictable CBN Governor may get to read this and rush a check of N60 billion to the Minister of Agriculture, claiming it is the corporate social responsibility of the CBN to provide the phones.
Anyway, I hope the Minister did not burn bridges at Rockefeller. When this foolish project bites the dust, he may need to pack his bag. It’s a familiar story. After failure at home, we usually tuck our tail between our legs and return to the diaspora or to our respective international agencies to resume the task of accusing Nigerians back home of not knowing how to run Nigeria.
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Copying India
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 15, 2013 - 09:30.
Interesting...
It seems it was the same Rockefeller that concluded we were not good farmers, last year.
I have never heard of this GES plan, and the achievements it's been given. Everyone knows a farmer in the village, can you ask them if they've ever been given a phone from GES.
Looks like we are copying the same system in India. India is not Nigeria, Nigeria is not India.
desperate
Submitted by gerd meuer (not verified) on January 11, 2013 - 17:05.
I am still farming in the BLACK forest,
and my cellular has not yet reached me -
how now ?
do I have to wait till Germany has been annexed by Nigeria, as Okay . promised she would do ?
Prof-of-penkele-waits
This is so true,Eddie Iroh.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 11, 2013 - 02:01.
This is so true,Eddie Iroh.
JJC and KONGI
Submitted by gerd meuer (not verified) on January 10, 2013 - 11:52.
important infomashon:
I have reserved a cage for JJC at ARO hospital - with immediate effect!
Pro-you-know-who
ADESINA, MOBILE PHONES AND FOOD PRODUCTION
Submitted by Eddie Iroh (not verified) on January 8, 2013 - 12:01.
I do not think you need a PhD to understand what is needed to boost agriculture in Nigeria or anywhere in the world. In nearly all cases where we have appointed eggheads, they have failed to deliver. Let us look at Britain, for example. Most often ministers do not have cognate training in the portfolios they hold, yet they deliver. The current secretary of state for health is not a medical doctor; the chancellor of the exchequer [finance minster] is not an economist. The principle is that if you are intelligent enough, you will understand your brief from a practical, not a theoretical and academic view point - and deliver. As always we depend on paper qualification, and we judge them not by their perormance, but by the number of degrees they have. Adesina is no exception.
He was banker of repute. Get
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 8, 2013 - 10:39.
He was banker of repute. Get your facts right.
What has this to do with
Submitted by oniyanrin (not verified) on January 7, 2013 - 18:32.
What has this to do with Soyinka, whom "JJC" gratuitously descried as a Rockefeller "economic hitman'?
Why can't some people confine themselves to the issue at hand instead of slandering their superiors?
Saunusi Lamido Sanusi...
Submitted by Sumanguru (not verified) on January 7, 2013 - 13:53.
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi cerebral???? A graduate of Arabic studies??? Are you OK, Pius?
Questions
Submitted by Eniguematick!! (not verified) on January 7, 2013 - 13:37.
Question: How does fones for farmers improve d agricultural sector? Wheres d place for scale of preference?
ADESHINA IS AN ECONOMIC HITMAN, LIKE SOYINKA
Submitted by JJC (not verified) on January 7, 2013 - 04:51.
ask first, what is ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION? Has anyone read CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN? Yes, Rockefeller was mentioned there as a recruitment agency for hit men who want to screw countries in Africa. Soyinka cut his teeth there, and would today sell nigeria down the river to his american masters. JD Rockefeller himself is a quintessential robber-baron, a criminal price fixer, a greedy bastard, and a coup plotter (implicated in the 1934 coup plot involving Gen Smedley Butler). do you research. google it. so Adeshina is merely showing who he really is. This administration is full of 'em! Any wonder Johnnie Carson of the CIA was very active in putting Jonathan in place? they will fuck us well, without applying vaseline!!
N60 Billion for Farmers' Mobile Phones!
Submitted by Charles (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 15:34.
I DEY LAUGH OOOOOOO!!!
N60 billion phones
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 14:26.
Over the decades, we have had such bad leadership and so, it is understandable when Nigerians lash out with skepticism on virtually every issue.
Notwithstanding, our 50 years experience confirm that we will not grow a country with skepticism. We need to ask for clarifications on all issues if we want to move forward.
Let us not act like fools. The same Nigerian Press and Social Media agreed a while ago that Agric is being underfunded. The intelligent question to ask is - how can a Minister with a budget of 80 billion spend 60 billion on phones? When we all know recurrent expenditure usually makes up as much 70%!of such budget. So, isn't it clear that something is not in context here?
Let us begin to learn to seek clarifications rather than continue the tradition of speaking so passionately about something we know very little about
ADESANMI U GOOFED, ACCEPT PLZ
Submitted by Awwalu Mohammed (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 13:36.
Pius, i respect u so much, but this time, ur haste to remain relevant has made u look silly. u were too much in a hurry.
u wrote this "The tragedy here is that the Minister is going to waste public funds on a project that should be entirely private sector-driven. ...what shame bcos Dr adeshina just agreed with u. did u read his statement?
This is what the minister said "The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), which supports expansion of mobile operators into rural areas, through a tax, will support this initiative, in partnership with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. We intend to work with existing mobile operators in Nigeria through a public-private partnership.”
we shd keep govt in check but not join the mob spewing misinformation and crap bcos govt is corrupt
Jury duty
Submitted by Heed (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 12:18.
One thing jumped at me in your write-up. How could you say the jury is out on Ngozi despite the monumental corruption and wastage going on under her watch? Aren't you aware that another 161 Billion supplementary budget for fuel subsidy was submitted and acceded by d senators in December? Personally, I feel she's the biggest disappointment of the lot of so-called technocrats.
Expect more silly ideas from govt. in this magical year 2013
Submitted by tundemash (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 12:15.
@Pius:
AIDS (Acquired Intelligence Deficiency Syndrome) is no respecter of anybody. The moron Jonathan has infested those around him with AIDS. Expect more of such stupid ideas in the magical year 2013. Just last week, the Minister of mis-Information told us Nigerians now have 18 hours of regular power with 4500MW of electricity !
I agree with @Kool, it's all part of the rigging machine of PDP trying to garner votes, this time around from farmers but they would fail woefully !
Minister of Agriculture has AIDS !
Submitted by tundemash (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 12:14.
@Pius:
AIDS (Acquired Intelligence Deficiency Syndrome) is no respecter of anybody. The moron Jonathan has infested those around him with AIDS. Expect more of such stupid ideas in the magical year 2013. Just last week, the Minister of mis-Information told us Nigerians now have 18 hours of regular power with 4500MW of electricity !
I agree with @Kool, it's all part of the rigging machine of PDP trying to garner votes, this time around from farmers but they would fail woefully !
Adesina's International Profile
Submitted by Olukunle (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 07:34.
I have always suspected Adesina as just one of them. The phone conundrum has confirmed it. By the way, I don't buy into his so-called 'international profile'. It is just an excuse to appoint another come-and-chop minister. If he has served in those international organizations, so what?! All we need in Nigeria are people with sincerity and genuine integrity. What qualification does the minister of agriculture need? The desire to serve the country with a patriotic zeal. International Organizations are tools for maintaining the external control of African states. Since when has any of them helped to save us from poverty?
RIGHT.
Submitted by LAFFOMANIA (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 06:34.
THE NAME LAFFOMANIA IS A COMMEDY GROUP THAT CAN BE TRACED EASILY BY PIUS TO HIS DAYS IN UI EVEN BEFORE THE ADVENT OF STAND UP COMEDY IN NIGERIA. AND PIUS SOME WAS PART OF THIS HISTORY ATLEAST THE SUB PART. ALL MEMBERS ARE DOING WELL AND ONE IS NOW THE FACE OF A MOBILE TELECOM COMPANY IN NIGERIA
SO PIUS YOU MUST PAY COPYRIGHT FOR USING THAT NAME WITHOUT CLEARANCE.
What a dump Idea!!!
Submitted by Lighthouse (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 02:27.
It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that there is nothing called "common sense"
These managers and not leaders will not stop to amuse us...Yes! we have managers and not leaders in Nigeria.
Why talking about phones for farmers? Does the minister know what is called "scale of preference" at all?
Where is the network coverage for these rural areas? Who funds the credit for these phones? Where is the power to charge these phones...or will he also provide solar system for charging the mobiles?
How will these phones help a common farmer?
What farmers need is low interest loan to execute their projects, mechanized farming at low cost; good irrigation system; access to good road; access to fertilizers; stable power supply...and of course breaking of monopoly enjoyed by Dangote and do...etc, and not mobile phone.
If the manager of Agriculture does not know what to do, he should resign!
Most incisive article once
Submitted by 2Big2Fail (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 00:16.
Most incisive article once again Pius,
Having song his praises to high heavens, I had a lot riding on Adesina, as one in the midst of mostly forgettable ministers, as you rightly fingered, with the cerebral capacity, and principles to shun AsoMentalism and deliver - especially on such a potentially transformational, though hiddenly cabal-infested sector of our economy. Indeed, it looks like he was succeeding for the most part; that is, until NOW! Why the befuggingbleedingblazes should he sponsor this kind of initiative -- worse still, at the taxpayers, and not, Private driven expense.. Or, is he privy to something we do not know and heading-for-the-door - bailing out as it were! and laying the foundation for his pension.
Jan Hazo, I feel you and concur 201%!!! Ole Boy I tire o??
I defer to beg
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 6, 2013 - 00:13.
Most incisive article once again Pius,
Having song his praises to high heavens, I had a lot riding on Adesina, as one in the midst of mostly forgettable ministers, as you rightly fingered, with the cerebral capacity, and principles to shun AsoMentalism and deliver - especially on such a potentially transformational, though hiddenly cabal-infested sector of our economy. Indeed, it looks like he was succeeding for the most part; that is, until NOW! Why the befuggingbleedingblazes should he sponsor this kind of initiative -- worse still, at the taxpayers, and not, Private driven expense.. Or, is he privy to something we do not know and heading-for-the-door - bailing out as it were! and laying the foundation for his pension.
Jan Hazo, I feel you and concur 201%!!! Ole Boy I tire??
Savlanoot for the Honourable Minister
Submitted by Jide Odu (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 23:47.
Prof. Adesanmi, you have obviously misundestood the Honorable Minister of Agriculture, firstly, you need to get familiar with the policy statement on this issue. The Ministry is not buying the phones, its going to be a joint sponsorship among many players. This will definitely put alot of pressure on the service providers to expand their current base and repeater stations to capture to rural areas. We need all the improvement we can get in the agricultural sector so that curruption and insfficiency can become history. Save for the flood of last year, we would have started experiecing surplus, thanks to the policy of the Minister. Please be patient with Dr Adesina.
Strong Institutions & Not Super Men
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 23:31.
Quite on point once again Pius.
What Nigeria actually need are strong institutions and not strong men from UN, ADB, World Bank etc.
Without strong institutions, all these heavyweights are failing woefully. The reason is that our current system is run with gross corruption and ineptitude. However, where they are coming from, there are policies and guidelines that people follow religiously.
Environment shapes human behaviour!
Pius don craze, no be small.
Submitted by akpos1 (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 23:29.
Prostrating and cowardly Pius, na where you dey wey Hausa Fulani dey colonise Yoruba for Illorin?
The entire Yoruba race has been CLUELESS for over 200 yrs now since they were colonized by the invading Dan Fodio descendants. Yet stupid Pius wil dare to refer to Great Jona as clueless. Idiot.
...by the way, what is brilliant about Adesina? is he d only one to graduate from US? Has he invented anything?Nonsense.
...and who told you that money to be spent in Nigeria's money? How dare u refer to the money of the pples of the United SS&SE as Nigeria's money. Be warned!
Long live d United Republic of the SS&SE
Dr. Adesina has Abati's mental disease!
Submitted by Okwuchukwu Ezeanyika (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 23:16.
Dr. Pee, you ask the question, what has come over this global intellectual? Simple, the same mental disease that afflicted Reuben Abati ensnarled Dr. Adesina. I know for certain that some of these farmers have upwards of 5 cell phones. By the way, what type of phones are we talking about, GSM or fixed lines or another form of cell phone with a different control center not applicable to the generality of Nigerians?
I believe strongly this N60 BILLION is meant for Ebele's 2015 Presidential campaign quest. The funds will be appropriated but no phones would be purchased or issued out. It would be like the N12 BILLION expended on SIM card registration. But I know the day Ebele publicly declares his candidacy will be the day Nigeria will become like the present Syria and henceforth there will not be a country for him to lead. I know he is no Asad and neither Aso Rock nor Otuoke will be a safe haven for him. Let him continue to fool himself that he is governing or is it leading?
is Pius not from Kogis in Canada
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 22:45.
A 46-year-old herbalist, Hosea Folorunso, has been arrested by the police in Egbe, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, for allegedly killing and using his four-month-old son for rituals.The suspect was said to have slaughtered his son, Sunday Folorunso, on December 31 at about 11:55 p.m. and hurriedly buried the corpse in his compound. Residents who saw him performing the ritual reported him to the police. While parading the suspect before the media in Lokoja on Friday, the state’s Police Commissioner, Alhaji Mohammed Musa Katsina, said that on the 31st of December when Nigerians were expecting the New Year with joy and happiness, a herbalist at Egbe was busy perfecting plans to kill his own son for rituals.
tinubu madness vrs buharis insanity
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 22:32.
YEYE Oodua, Chief (Mrs) H.I.D. Awolowo on Friday hosted Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko at her residence in Ikenne where she described him as a real Awoist. Chief (Mrs) Awolowo, who expressed delight for the visit, said she was happy.ttttttttt..
retire to kogi state if u are tired of thinking 4 buhari &BH
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 21:54.
(Compare the increase of fuel price by over 900% in just under 2yrs in 1994(from 23 kobo per litre under Ernest Shonekan to N11 per litre under Abacha), which enjoyed the support of BUHARI, with this present increase of about 110% in 5yrs, from N65 per litre in 2007 to N141 per litre in 2012. Buhari did not see the WiCKED increase of over 900% in 1994,over 2yr period, under Abacha as DECLARATION OF WAR on the Nigerian people. He did not feel any MORAL BURDEN in heading the PTF to manage the proceeds from that murderous increment. But Buhari and his CPC has described the 110% increase of fuel price, in 5yrs, under GEJ, as DECLARATION OF WAR on the Nigerian people. SHAME on those who have been CONSISTENTLY INCONSISTENT. He truncated democracy in 1983 only to come back to contest elections in 2003,2007 and 2011. He vowed not to go to court after 2011 elections but we later found him in court. Again he said he'll quit politics but he is still LOITERING around politics. SHAME!) ify demo
Its target for every minister
Submitted by Ferdinand (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 21:52.
This Dr Minister has a target to raise some money for JEG's 2015 agenda. All the good grammar is just filling the necessary gaps. What a shame. Its a pity he has gone the way of Dieziani and co.
"PROFILE" AS ACHIEVEMENTS?
Submitted by Oluwole Macarthy (not verified) on January 5, 2013 - 21:07.
As a rule, I don't read activist-columnists/"journalists", but I thought you want to
tell me of the farmer-in-suit's latest contibution
to "cellphone" farming in Africa. But alas, you subtly insult readers by insisting that a person's
"profile" is his achievements.
Thanks you mention Bill Gates. We all know his concrete achievements
