LEGENDARY J.O.E
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Golden pen with the ink from the gods, silver tongue forged in Yonder, I'm a Gift that won't stop Giving. SHALL I BEGIN? SA to the Speaker HOR on New Media.
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“And I must thank the Gov., who along with me, about 20-something years ago were starry-eyed young men being mentored by another Gov. who is now President today. He entrusted us, and this is the story of our journey.” – Fashola, at the Omo Eko launch yesterday Again, I will add, whenever providence presents you with the opportunity to lead, in whatev3r capacity, Please, build people... Build other leaders... So you don't have to rely on 'street urchins, ill-bred dogs', when aspiring for higher office....
LEGENDARY J.O.E193,892 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
I have a different observation. The actor who played Justice Nelson arrested my attention completely. His diction was flawless - the articulate command of tenses, the impeccable pronunciation, that fascinating, deliberate emphasis on consonants. Among actors across borders, only Morgan Freeman - that American custodian of the English tongue - wields the language with comparable finesse. What equally surprised me was discovering a veteran I had never encountered - Yoruba practitioners especially. And this is me we are talking about o. That can conveniently place Pa Hubert Ogunde, Duro Ladipo, Akin Ogungbe, Oyin Adejobi, Baba Ajimajasan, Baba Sala, even Jacob of the Papalolo jester group who left us too early - Lukuluku without his makeup, Baba Dento and the rest. I know these faces even on B&W TV. So who was this eloquent thespian with the mesmerizing command of English? Curiosity would not let me rest. I searched. What I found shook me further. The man was not merely a veteran - he fathered generations. At least three of his sons are active actors. Names we all grew up loving, whose talents lit up our screens. Through them, their father's name became legend to young fans like myself - but never his face. RAY EYIWUNMI - Father to Murphy, Lasun, Muka, and others. It was at that point fascination gave way to concern... My curiosity evolved into worry and my revelation of the man's raised more questions than answers, particularly knowing his children in the industry. What do you think troubles me? Shall I Begin? Good Morning Severally...
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DR. NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA'S INCISIVE ASSESSMENT ON FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL: "It's a question of, of saying where can the money have the most impact? is it really getting to those, for-- to whom it's supposed to help, or would it do better, delivering services that people don't, don't have? would it also lead to more job creation if it were used in a different way? And lastly, is it leading to a situation where down the road, really the country would be facing, bankruptcy in a way, and, and I don't say that lightly. We look at what is happening in Greece now and in Ireland. For years, these countries didn't make the right decision. It, it, it takes a lot of courage... ... they kept borrowing and borrowing to finance their development, and it came to a point when they crashed, and it's the crash is so bad now, there's massive unemployment, the country doesn't function, and, you know, the-- it's, it's a bit a basket case." - Dr. NOI NOW, LOOK AT THE REALITY THAT FOLLOWED. At the time of this interview, 27 state governments reportedly struggled to pay workers' salaries, including Anambra State under Peter Obi. The Federal Government itself was increasingly borrowing to meet recurrent obligations, including salaries. Our tertiary institutions were starved of adequate funding, while the academic calendar was repeatedly thrown into disarray. In 2013 alone, Nigerian universities were shut for approximately 5 months and 15 days during the ASUU strike under Jonathan. And then our debts grew in an unsustainable proportion... Now, understand the context - Debt may not be evil in itself. Nations borrow to build roads, railways, power plants, schools and industries. The danger begins when borrowing becomes a substitute for production, and debt becomes a companion to consumption rather than development. Because when a government borrows to consume, tomorrow becomes the collateral for today's appetite. And years later, Nigeria would find itself in the uncomfortable territory where an increasingly large portion of government revenue was being swallowed by debt service, leaving less fiscal space for the development Nigerians desperately needed. This is why Okonjo-Iweala's warning deserves to be read beyond the politics of the moment. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by the way holds: • A.B. in Economics - Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude. • Master in City Planning (MCP) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). • Ph.D. in Regional Economics and Development - MIT. On the other hand, Atiku Abubakar's documented academic qualifications include a Diploma in Hygiene/Public Health from the School of Hygiene, Kano. This is not an attempt to insult anyone. It is a question of expertise, training and demonstrated competence. When the subject is the architecture of an economy, fiscal sustainability, public finance and national development, whose analysis would you ordinarily give greater weight to? The economist trained at Harvard and MIT, who spent decades at the World Bank and twice served as Nigeria's Finance Minister? Or the politician whose formal academic qualification is principally diplomas in sweeping and mopping public spaces AKA 'Wole-Wole'. Politics may make everyone an expert at the microphone. But economics remains a discipline. And when the chickens come home to roost, the economy does not respect political slogans. Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E17,424 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
TINUBU WAS VOTED IN BY LESS THAN 35% CITIZENS – RUFAI OSENI AN UNPLEASANT DIET First, let me confess: I try as much as humanly possible not to poison my appetite with toxic content. That is why I rarely sit at the table where the Arise Morning Show serves its cuisine. But truth be told, what they dish out there is not a single plate - it is a full buffet. One can dodge the rotten meat, skip the burnt soup, and still find a few nutritious morsels worth chewing. Dr. Abati, for instance, is often one of those nourishing dishes. Sadly, even the most discerning diner may sometimes grind teeth upon stones in their beans. Such was my bitter harvest this morning when I forgot to skip Oseni's segment like I always do, and I witnessed Rufai bellowing from his mountaintop: “LESS THAN 35% VOTED OUR PRESIDENT!” “THE CITIZENS HAVE CHECKED OUT!” “THE PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN DEMOCRACY!” I nearly choked. A CALL TO REASON First of all, for a man who consistent brags about "empirical" accuracy and precision like Adam Smith. Asiwaju did not get less than 35% of the votes in the 2023 election Sir. He got 36.61% - a fact Rufai, misstated, repeated and sustained more than thrice in the same breath, like a broken record playing the wrong tune. The margin of error here is at least 1.61%, and could be far worse, because “less than 35%” could mean 34… or 20… or even 6%. In economics or in finance, this is an unforgivable blunder, especially for one who carries himself as though he is omniscient. But that, my friends, is not even the kernel of the matter. Rufai's ignorance transcends numbers and percentages; it is a deficiency deeply rooted in historical illiteracy and an insatiable appetite for inflated lies. He who doesn't know where the rain started beating him will say it was that very day it rained heaviest. NOW TO THE FACTS Let us be clear: any election involving 3 major gladiators - whether in Nigeria, France, America, or even Heaven itself - the possibility of any candidate soaring above the 50% threshold is as rare as hen's teeth. History overflows with testimonies: NIGERIA – 1979 Shagari: 33.76% Awolowo: 29.19% Azikiwe: 16.75% By Rufai’s logic, Nigerians must have “checked out” in 1979 - ironically our first democratic election after 13 long years of military darkness. Yet Asiwaju, in 2023, secured more votes proportionally than Shagari did in 1979. If Asiwaju lacks sufficient legitimacy with 36.6%, then I shudder to imagine where Shagari should stand in this hall of judgment. AND THIS IS NOT A NIGERIAN CURSE USA – 1992 Bill Clinton: 43% George H. W. Bush: 37.5% Ross Perot: 18.9% Did Americans check out of their storied democracy? FRANCE – 2017 Macron: 24% Marine Le Pen: 21.3% François Fillon: 20% I suppose the French abandoned their republic at the 1st ballot. BRAZIL – 1989 Fernando Collor: 30.5% Lula da Silva: 17.2% Leonel Brizola: 16.5% Brazilians must have turned their backs on their nation by Rufai's curious mathematics. WHAT IS MY POINT? Since 2023, this malnourished and jaundiced analogy has persisted like a stubborn cough: “Only 36.61% of Nigerians voted Tinubu,” meant to suggest three things: 1. The government lacks legitimacy because he was elected by a minority. 2. That Asiwaju is uniquely unpopular for not crossing 50%. 3. That the figures prove unprecedented apathy and rejection. Those emaciated and sickly premises die today and shall proceed to receive befitting burial. In a contest among three formidable candidates (with a mini-fourth force lurking in the shadows), the results will always mirror this pattern, whether the battleground is Nigeria or Mercury. Democracy is not necessarily about who captures more than half the people, NO! It is about who gathers more people on the appointed day, and the margin of victory matters not. The cock that crows first at dawn does not ask how many slept through the night. Good Evening Severally
LEGENDARY J.O.E46,392 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
“Without them, without NELFUND, they wouldn’t have gone to university at all at all. They wouldn’t have.” Mr. Jim James Ovia, CFR, CON, Founder of Zenith Bank Plc. Meanwhile, for adequate context: Of the over 1.7 Million applications received, approximately 1.64 Million students, from over 350 tertiary institutions across the 36 States of the Federation plus Abuja, have since benefitted from the Nelfund intervention programme. Read that figure again: ONE MILLION AND SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND young Nigerians. These are not just numbers or statistics, because no be statistics we go chop. They are dreams kept alive. Futures rescued from the precipice. Families spared the agony of watching their children abandon learning because education is expensive globally... 1.64 Million students that otherwise could have been forced out of school and left vulnerable to the numerous traps that await idle and frustrated youths - fraud, violent gangs, banditry, drug trafficking and other criminal enterprises... ... are now being productively engaged, courtesy the radical and revolutionary approach by the Tinubu led government to education. We are not cutting grass here... The World Bank sees it. The IMF confirms it. Dr. Okonjo Iweala applauds it. Emir Sanusi commends it. And now Jim Ovia, one of Nigeria’s foremost private-sector builders celebrates it - the Tinubu led administration revolutionary reforms... The only ones yet to acknowledge these laudable feats are the ones either cutting grass or in constant street fight with his boss. But then, who would we rather listen to? The children who are proud beneficiaries daily celebrating the opportunity? The parents who are now spared the economic pressure of keeping their children in school? The institutions tracking the reforms? The global economic community applauding the feats? Or those who have turned politics into a permanent gidigbo with their own shadows? You cannot hold the harvest in both hands and still insist there is no food. We are not cutting grass here. We are cultivating human capital.We are planting futures.And when the harvest comes, history will remember who planted. Good Morning Severally... Where were we before NELFUND? Shall I Begin?
LEGENDARY J.O.E14,189 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
"I SAVED MONEY" - Peter Abacha Obi Imagine Tony Elumelu standing before a room of investors - tie straight, confidence unshaken - and with the gravity of a man announcing the cure for a terminal disease, he declares: "Distinguished gentlemen, despite the complete collapse of our infrastructure, the total breakdown of order, the unpaid salaries of our staff, and the dividends our shareholders have not seen in years - - we have savings." Can you imagine? A man who saves while his child dies of treatable malaria is not prudent; he is merely budgeting for a funeral. "Savings" in the middle of ruin is not prudence. It is incompetence. Lack of Vision. Barreness of ideas on how to develop a society. Good Morning Severally...
LEGENDARY J.O.E20,911 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
"NASIR EL RUFAI IS NOT A DEMOCRAT" - Prince Adewole Adebayo of the SDP. "Nasir El-Rufai tried to hijack the party." "He knows about party administration." "He printed his own party card, had a parallel register." Forgery? "The party warned him, but he thought he could buy everybody." "He was then expelled for 30 years." It is indeed poetic justice that the man who was accusing Asiwaju of not running the party along democratic values was allegedly expelled from a far smaller party for indiscipline, forgery, and anti-party activities. They are very loud - always very loud to preach what they can never practice.
LEGENDARY J.O.E35,158 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
7. Another Finally, d Igbos, and I'm sure not all, but d most vocal of them began hosting spaces, discussing strategies on how to capture Lagos and dislodge d yorubas..Chase us far away that under d bridge would be luxury. Ok! And then we rose to prove, LAGOS ISN'T NO MAN'S LAND.
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RUFAI MAY NEED HELP - ESCAPE IMBECILE You know what the street call escape albinos? Those remarkably fair people science suspects missed full albinism by a few hours. I submit to you today a cousin condition: the escape imbecile. He walks among us fully certified as normal. And yet, he periodically unveils concentrated strains of Down syndrome and flickers of psychological instability. Rufai - what was that dance on the What's Trending segment of Arise Morning Show as Ojy appeared? Those exaggerated gestures? That hyper-animated combustion at the sight of beautiful women who would not, under any atmospheric condition, consider him good enough? Others remained composed and organized on the table, only Rufai spinned out of control. Kilosele gangan! We have been observing this through partisan lenses. Perhaps that is our mistake. Strip the politics. Look at the man plainly. Our brother may be in genuine need of help. His kith and kin will call it a mental health challenge. But strangers will deliver the blunt, factual diagnosis: ??? Good Morning, Severally.
LEGENDARY J.O.E21,873 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
THE ABEOKUTA DECLARATION The Greatest Public Speech Ever Delivered in the Nigerian Political Space It was the 2nd day of June, in the year 2022, that historic day when Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu stormed the ancient city of Abeokuta. Abeokuta - the city rich in history where memory is carved in stone. Abeokuta - A city that did not beg its enemies for mercy, did not negotiate with terror, but looked to the Ancestors and found shelter in granite. The Olumo Rock - that ancient, immovable colossus - did not merely shelter the Egba people from the fury of their adversaries. It became the people. It became their testimony. And on that June morning, Tinubu walked into its shadow and borrowed from its spirit. When Asiwaju stood before the National Delegates of the All Progressives Congress to seek their endorsement at the party's convention; He was not making a speech - He was performing a covenant. He was not merely addressing delegates - he was speaking into the earth itself and demanding it bear him witness. He was not canvassing votes - he was writing in permanent ink upon the scroll of history, in a city whose memory is as enduring as the rock. On that day, in that declaration, Asiwaju Tinubu established no fewer than FIVE DISTINCT QUALITIES that set him apart - irreversibly and irrecoverably - from every man who now suffers the cold frustration of playing against him on the field of progressive politics and visionary leadership. THE FIRST QUALITY: The Preference for Priorities At the height of PMB's frustrations with consecutive defeats at the Presidential polls, he approached Asiwaju and sought to rely on the Jagaban's impeccable electoral winning streak, his formidable structural machinery, his unrivaled capacity to deliver. PMB demanded a joint ticket with Asiwaju, one he was certain would shatter the wall that had kept him from Aso Rock. What was Tinubu's answer? You wanna hear? "General, priorities matters. Institutional fortitude must precede personal ambition. We are not yet at that stage. Let us first build this party." Meditate on that response. A lesser man - a man of hunger rather than visions - would have seized that moment. Would have calculated his personal leverage and extracted the maximum advantage. Dude would have said: yes, let us ride together and efritin. But Asiwaju did not. Because the Jagaban has never been a man who mistakes the battle for the war. Haraka haraka haina baraka - haste, haste carries no blessing. He understood that a party built on solid foundations outlasts any individual who rides it to victory. He understood that the structure must precede the occupant. You do not move furniture into a house that has no roof. And this is precisely the quality that confounds his opponents to this day. They jockey. They scheme. They announce presidential ambitions before they have organised a single ward. They seek the crown before they have forged the kingdom. They want harvest before planting season has even been announced. And then they wonder - why does this man always seem to be three moves ahead? Should those who now gather themselves as opposition possess even a fraction of his foresight - even a single digit percentage of his strategic patience - they would not be scrambling individually for races they cannot win before first building the collective system capable of accommodating their ambitions. But they do not. And that is why they lose and then turn around to accuse the superior mind of dictatorship. Guess my second point! SHALL I BEGIN? Good Evening Severally
LEGENDARY J.O.E22,258 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀ - My translation. Do not measure my life by the fate of the Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀ (Beaded gourd rattle), Sekere - Opulent with cowries, whose rattle shepherds successul occasions home Only to be forgotten when the table of spoils is set. The Egbere does not know another song. From the forest depths, it carries only tears - wailing is its identity, grief its only fluency. And so it shall be for every hand raised against our ascent: Their harvest shall come, and it shall be watered with the very tears they planted. Rate my translation: After saying AMEN.
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