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OLUBUNMI OJO: WHEN COMPETENCE JUSTIFIES OPPORTUNITY By Otunba Segun Showunmi I have read the writerโ€™s reflections on our recent visit to the Honourable Ministry of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, and I must say: every word resonates deeply with my own impressions. In fact, I feel compelled to add my voice not merely to agree, but to affirm, with the weight of experience, that what we saw that day was not accidental. It was the unmistakable signature of a man who understands the responsibilities of public office and is determined to meet them with courage, innovation, and discipline. The meeting was not premeditated. It was not staged. It was not a political courtesy call arranged for optics. It was simply one of those encounters that reveal the true measure of a leader. And what we encountered in Olubunmi Ojo was clarity of purpose, passion for reform, and a refusal to accept the institutional mediocrity that had plagued the ministry for years. Let me state this clearly: the writer is right. This is not the Ministry of Interior of old. This is not the era of bureaucratic congestion or administrative chaos. There is a new energy here cleaner, sharper, more deliberate. From the moment we walked in, the tone was different. Ojo received us warmly, without the unnecessary stiffness that often accompanies government offices. But courtesy was the least of what he offered. His mind was the real revelation. As he spoke, I saw a public servant who has internalised one of the most profound truths of leadership: impact outlives identity. When he said, โ€œWe remember Shakespeare and Alexander the Great not for their faces but for what they did,โ€ I understood the driving philosophy behind the reforms he has championed. The writer highlighted one of these reforms the consolidation of Nigeriaโ€™s passport system and he is absolutely correct. For years, the passport regime represented the very worst of our inefficiencies: duplication, abuse, exploitation, and reputational damage. How does a country justify ninety-six processing centres? How do we defend two contradictory passport regimes? It was chaos, and it was embarrassing. But Ojo confronted that chaos. He simplified the system. He unified the process. He restored order. And he did it with a level of decisiveness that gives me hope for our wider administrative future. The fact that the new central processing centre was built at zero cost to government speaks not only to prudence but to genuine creativity in governance something our nation desperately needs. And when he spoke about technology-driven homeland security and the transparency of the current recruitment exercise, I saw a man who is not only reforming an institution but redefining what public service should mean in Nigeria. Some say he is there because of his relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. My response is simple: even if favour opened the door, merit is doing the work. One must learn to recognise excellence when one sees it. This is excellence. This is serious-minded reform. This is public service that answers to conscience, not convenience. In my years of observing and working around leaders, I have come to know the difference between performance and performance-for-show. Olubunmi Ojo is not acting. He is working. The difference is stark. So I stand with the writer. I affirm his observations. I echo his conclusion. Olubunmi Ojo deserves commendation real, enduring, and unreserved commendation. His work is not illusory. It is not political theatre. It is tangible, measurable, and profoundly consequential. If this is what the future of public service looks like, then Nigeria still has a fighting chance. Otunba Segun Showunmi The Alternative

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'๐ˆ ๐‚๐š๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐,' ๐‚๐š๐ง๐š๐๐ข๐š๐ง-๐๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐–๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐˜๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐›๐š, ๐๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ Canada-based Nigerian woman, Amaka Patience Sunnberger, has dismissed the possibility of arrest or deportation after the Nigerian House of Representatives urged the Canadian government to prosecute her for inciting violence and genocide against Yoruba and Benin people. In a viral video clip that started trending on on Thursday, Sunnberger cited her Canadian citizenship as protection, stating that Canada's legal system is unlike Nigeria's, where arrests can be made without questioning. She said, "Somebody just send me message, say them arrest me, say them wan deport me, with passport? I be Canada pikin. "See am now, I dey house, why I go dey lie? This comes after a video clip surfaced on Tuesday, showing her making threatening comments against Yoruba and Benin people during a virtual meeting on TikTok. The woman, claiming to be a resident of Ontario, Canada, vowed to harm Yoruba or Benin individuals she encounters, sparking outrage and prompting the House of Representatives to request her prosecution. The House of Representatives has written to the Canadian government, urging it to investigate and prosecute Sunnberger for her inciting comments, which it said violate international and Canadian laws. --- Follow us for more breaking news and videos

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#StuartSeldowitz #Stuart_Seldowitz #StuartSeldowitzIsRacist The key message here is that engaging in harassment with a history of fraud risks inciting investigations into your past misconduct. Seldowitz, a U.S. foreign service officer, was investigated for defrauding the government by submitting altered travel vouchers with false lodging costs during his assignment in Geneva, leading to a settlement where he agreed to pay $15,000 in restitution. He later attempted to sue the State Department over this matter but lost the case. Here are the details: Seldowitz, a career foreign service officer, was assigned in 1989 to the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy. In this capacity, Seldowitz served on the United States delegation to the Nuclear Space Talks in Geneva, Switzerland. Seldowitz's wife, Rosalinda, also traveled to Geneva, serving as the secretary to a deputy negotiator. Seldowitz received per diem paid by the Bureau of Political/Military Affairs, and his wife received per diem paid by the Arms Control Agency. The Seldowitzes rented a private apartment in Geneva, and each obtained a separate receipt from the landlady. Because the receipts reflected the entire amount of rent, Seldowitz crossed out the number of Swiss Francs paid and wrote in half the amount. After submitting the receipts, Seldowitz was told by an administrator in the Bureau of Political/Military Affairs not to annotate the receipts because the per diem amount was not contingent on how much Seldowitz paid for lodging. After this conversation, Seldowitz did not annotate future receipts. However, Seldowitz does not dispute that the entire amount of the rental appeared on the travel voucher which he signed. 1 In 1990, the Office of Audits of the State Department's Inspector General reviewed the travel vouchers of the Geneva delegation. Based on this audit, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigated Seldowitz for submitting a false claim against the United States as a result of amounts claimed on his travel voucher. The findings of the investigation were turned over to the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. In 1995, the United States Attorney informed Seldowitz that he was contemplating a civil prosecution under the False Claims Act, see 31 U.S.C.A. ยงยง 3729-33 (West 1983 & Supp. 2000), based on a report prepared by the OIG. Seldowitz then met with officials from the State Department, the OIG, and the United States Attorney's Office to discuss the possible civil prosecution. During the meeting Seldowitz mentioned that he had annotated the first housing receipts to show only half of the housing expenses, and an AUSA then showed him allegedly the same receipts from the OIG's files which did not reflect any annotation. Shortly thereafter, Seldowitz entered into a settlement agreement with the government in which he agreed to pay restitution of $ 15,000. Seldowitz later requested copies of his travel vouchers from the National Finance Center and he received the copies in October 1995. Included in the packet from the National Finance Center were annotated receipts showing half the amount of rent. Seldowitz also requested in the fall of 1995 that his attorney obtain copies of the OIG voucher documents, including the receipts showing no annotations. Seldowitz received these materials on April 17, 1996, and for the first time made a side-by-side comparison of the annotated and unannotated receipts. To Stuart Seldowitz: Regrettably, you are unable to use immigration as leverage against me. I invite you to pursue legal action, if these statements are false. VICE VICENews Aljazeera.net โ€ข ุงู„ุฌุฒูŠุฑุฉ ู†ุช Al Jazeera World The Hill The Guardian The Telegraph Daily Mail City & State NY MintPress News Lowkey Rula Jebreal Collin Rugg

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