tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44421692012805212562024-03-12T18:24:34.399-07:00 .....Oduche Azih's Blog..........Exploring the road not taken in Nigeria.Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-59860678983476270722020-02-20T12:29:00.002-08:002020-02-20T12:29:31.057-08:00WHAT HAS PATRICK O OKIGBO III BEEN UP TO RECENTLY?
Check this out. # NEXTIER POWER LISTS "TOUGH CHOICE" DECISIONS ASPIRANTS MUST MAKE TO REVIVE AILING ECONOMY - BusinessDay
NEXTIER Power, a public sectorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-51767609349039438402020-02-20T12:27:00.000-08:002020-02-20T12:27:42.595-08:00 117,000mW?
This must be a case of NUMBER NUMBNESS (apologies to Mr Lihu of The Guardian)
I have just observed that all media outlets copied verbatim the press release about the so-called 116,659mW in an accounting period, November, 2018.
What exactly does that number mean? How does that figure Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-90518363467369731122020-02-20T12:23:00.004-08:002020-02-20T12:23:35.058-08:00INADEQUATE ELECTRICITY IN BENIN CITY
Governor Godwin Obaseki is displaying an emotion here, anger, regarding a problem that requires rational analysis. Our people will ask, "Na today?"
From the Presidency, to the Federal Ministry of Power, NERC and the handicapped state governments, it has been obvious for years that no one Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-26312459306933002922020-02-20T12:19:00.002-08:002020-02-20T12:19:41.016-08:00 CHINESE ROAD SIGN TO LEKKI FREE ZONE
Some Nigerians have taken exception to the presence in Lagos of a road sign, written in Chinese, pointing towards the Lekki Free Zone. I find such complaints disingenuous, belated and completely missing the point. When and where did this rain start beating us?
As originally conceived, the Lekki Free Zone was a development concept targeted at the global investing audience. Of course China Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-55050534079276171492020-02-20T12:18:00.000-08:002020-02-20T12:18:03.308-08:00Nigeria's AMINA MOHAMMED makes BBC 100 Women Honour List. 2018The first time I came across this interview by BBC's Zainab Badawi, I couldn't concentrate on it because of the negative vibes it gave me. This was due to no fault of Mrs Mohammed. However since I have always taken on global issues from an unapologetically Nigerian bias, I couldn't help but take my mind back to the cultural millieu from which she was thrown up. Here I am referring to Nigeria's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-36255205296177962212020-02-20T12:16:00.001-08:002020-02-20T12:16:09.090-08:00RE: SENATE’S PROBE OF RAILWAY CONCESSIONING
Note the date of this report and my reaction to it. November 11, 2016.
Has there been any positive changes since thenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-2020075180654622412020-02-20T12:14:00.001-08:002020-02-20T12:14:34.838-08:00 HOW MUCH AGAIN DID ABACHA STEAL? This question is not aimed at reducing in anyway the significance of the financial malfeasance of the goggled one and a whole array of thieves before him and since.
WE have followed innumerable narratives in the foreign media, especially on TEDx talks, about how foreign banks in London,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-70646171600625261362020-02-20T12:11:00.003-08:002020-02-20T12:11:35.632-08:00WATER FOR THE INHABITANTS OF LAGOS
Thunder fire the person who is dissuading citizens from digging boreholes! . It's not as if they enjoy doing so. They say that Omole has not had tap water for three weeks. ONLY THREE WEEKS?! . I have lived in Okota for 20years. I cannot dream of one litre of water from the public supply. A commentator pointed out that there is water in abundance 24/7 in Mushin. If I try to point out the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-75475654225740355852020-02-20T12:09:00.004-08:002020-02-20T12:10:01.302-08:00"SNIPER" IN BEANS!Hello Nigerians. Yes, What you don't know can kill you!
Some Nigerians Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-68922926116201161672020-02-20T12:08:00.000-08:002020-02-20T12:08:01.587-08:00TO FIX A BROKEN WORLDThere is this book by Dambisa Moyo titled, EDGE OF CHAOS: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth. I imagine that here in Nigeria, it has passed essentially under the radar except perhaps in such circles as the Lagos Business School.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-80400809814315897962020-02-20T12:05:00.002-08:002020-02-20T12:05:20.884-08:00THIS IS THE MAN BUHARI PROBABLY NEVER CONSIDERED TO REPLACE DR AKINWUNMI ADESINA
DR. MARTIN FREGENE
Director of Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department, AfDB
Dr. Martin Fregene is a plant geneticist and molecular breeder with over 25 years of research and development experience at two International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs), a renowned Plant Science Center in the US (judged the sixth best plant science center in the US), at the Federal Ministry of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-75124239583613299482020-02-20T12:01:00.005-08:002020-02-20T12:01:51.285-08:00FREE EDUCATION FOR ALLI like that. But who is going to pay the bill? . Somebody has to.
More than two decades ago, Prof Francis Idachaba, Vice Chancellor at the Federal Government university in Makurdi joined the debate over fee-paying private universities in Nigeria and listed the many benefits of deregulating the Higher Education Sector. He attracted to himself excoriating commentary from people who closed their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-44240590185266623392020-02-20T11:58:00.005-08:002020-02-20T11:58:56.204-08:00FG BANS 50 PROMINENT NIGERIANS FROM TRAVELLING ABROAD
This is silly posturing. Gen Buhari has had the better part of three years to sort out the issue of who and who stole our money and force them to make amends, even outside the boundaries of the law. Not that we recommend such action. Which is exactly what Buhari is NOW doing.
It is instructive to note that Buhari waited to wrap up the mago-mago APC Presidential Primaries before springing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-83912550679049968292020-02-20T11:56:00.001-08:002020-02-20T11:56:52.117-08:00The other Trouble With Nigeria - WHO ARE YOUR TECHNICAL PARTNERS?
NTA anchor Obiayo had asked, "What is the guarantee of the quality of the project executed by OilServe?" # I doubt if I have met Mr (Engr?) Emeka Okwuosa. Nigeria is a big country. I have however interacted with a good many of his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-16567298520368432322020-02-20T11:54:00.001-08:002020-02-20T11:54:09.831-08:00THE CHURCH MILITANT (Not an Official Organ), THE POPE, ERRANT CLERGY, TRUMP & BEER! I still believe that I am a Catholic and hope to remain one for as long as I live. I must confess that it has been a torture continuing to follow the shrill commentary of Michael Voris and his merry band. It has been hard enough dealing with the constant Anti-Pope stance that has remained a regular staple on these pages. One would easily imagine that somehow the editors at St Michael Media see Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-27192047583633018592020-02-20T11:52:00.001-08:002020-02-20T11:52:28.380-08:00ATIKU ABUBAKAR and KINGSLEY MOGHALU (Forget Buhari!) Like all of us humans, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a flawed being. As at 24months ago, how many northerners of all persuasions dared come out to express the "satanic" opinion that there was something wrong with General Muhammadu Buhari and his presidency? Nobody. That would have been the take-off point for any Presidential bid. Nobody came forward. Faced with that, the issue then was/is how does oneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-35158285109986774222020-02-20T11:49:00.001-08:002020-02-20T11:49:09.924-08:00VIETNAM AND NIGERIA CAN WE DARE COMPARE THEM?
I stumbled on this World Economic Forum Report about the Vietnam Miracle as I was searching for something else on the Facebook wall of my inlaw Dr Gordon Ononiwu. The report spoiled my day. It all reminds me of my mantra THE ROAD NOT TAKEN. #
To think that just a few decades ago, Vietnam was at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-37611534370319310312020-02-20T11:47:00.002-08:002020-02-20T11:47:59.101-08:00THE BOKO-HARAM ARE NOT ISLAMISTS - Buhari
The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Conference, Dr. Youssef Al-Othaimeen (met the Nigerian President) on the margins of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. So we are told by presidential spokesman Femi Adesina.
The OIC scribe had told the Nigerian President that his organisation had passed a resolution committing member states to support Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-30922841742583054272020-02-20T11:43:00.001-08:002020-02-20T11:43:22.683-08:00WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE IN THE NAME OF PHILANTHROPY?
It's been out there in the open only that we have been too busy to recognize it. Now comes Anand Gridharadas. This review of his book WINNER TAKES ALL, points at "a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–EXCEPT ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it!". This should be a good read.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-22667859566572920432019-04-20T12:53:00.001-07:002019-04-20T12:53:12.474-07:00AMBODE VS TINUBU - Our Faults It is a matter of public record that we Lagosians did not choose Babatunde Raji Fashola to run as governor of Lagos State. Granted that he exceeded our limited expectations. Then again, we did not choose Akinwunmi Ambode. Former governor Bola Tinubu did. Once elected, Ambode became our Governor not Tinubu's governor. It is most strange that grown men within and outside the media would choose to Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-46942219944148963092019-04-20T12:46:00.002-07:002019-04-20T12:46:53.760-07:00THIS IS NOT FUNNY AT ALL # DANGOTE: THE TRAVAILS OF THE ONLY RICH MAN IN A VILLAGE -
Ik Muo, PhD; Department of Business Administration, OOU, Ago Iwoye
I always take delight in the words of our elders which convey pure wisdom and address issues that were yet to occur when they were coined. Our people say that the only rich man in any community is in trouble and indeed, VERY POOR. I was not there when our people manufactured this adage but having become an elder myself, I have Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-47660203251154153872019-04-20T12:44:00.000-07:002019-04-20T12:44:06.447-07:00NIGERIANS UNITED BY FEAR: BECAUSE I AM INVOLVED. WHAT ABOUT YOU? I do try to follow DANA MILBANK who writes in The Washington Post for an American audience. In the following article to mark the last 4th of July holiday, he summarizes the one thing that unites Americans across both the clear and nebulous ideological divides - FEAR! If we discount the half a million or so Nigerian citizens directly or remotely involved in the political processes, it would seem Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-71844681899607200322019-04-20T12:41:00.001-07:002019-04-20T12:41:58.622-07:00RE: HADI SIRIKA AND THE RETURN OF NIGERIA AIRWAYS - Reuben Abati | Sahara Reporters
- NAME, LOGO, COLOUR SCHEME of the new Nigerian Airline revealed?Very strangely writer Reuben Abati seems to have been completely sold on the rationality behind a new Nigerian government floated airlines just over a decade after two such were wound up. He has made no effort to play the Devil's Advocate, very necessary in these matters. We already know how brilliant Sirika's boss is, don't we?
Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-79838845956287509602019-04-20T12:36:00.002-07:002019-04-20T12:36:56.397-07:00RE: HAFSAT WELCOMES JUNE 12 AS DEMOCRACY DAY
In her reaction to Buhari’s recent announcement, Hafsat Abiola stated that May 29 was pulled out of thin air. Yes, it certainly meant nothing to the family of Chief MKO Abiola and the pro-democracy movement spawned by the unjust denial of his presidential mandate and his untimely unexplained demise. Meanwhile it meant something to the remnants of the Northern military political establishment whoOduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442169201280521256.post-17013610905157933062019-04-20T12:35:00.002-07:002019-04-20T12:35:38.966-07:00IS WORK PUNISHMENT FOR THE FALL OF ADAM?
[Being an address delivered to the Joint Meeting of the Catholic Men Organization of St Cyril's Parish, Okota, Lagos to mark Workers' Day.]
We dedicate this engagement in honour of St Joseph The Worker, the husband of Mary and the foster father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus, The Christ.
Joseph worked as hard as was required in his day to take care of his family. There has been no narrative in Oduche Azihhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00089741179656094973noreply@blogger.com0