Recall that in 2014, an estimated 520,000 to 675,000 applicants gathered at various stadiums and screening venues across the country for the infamous Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise overseen overseen by the then Minister of Interior, Patrick Abba Moro.
Allegedly, the exercise tragically resulted in the deaths of at least 16 to 20 young job seekers and left scores of others severely injured.
Twelve years later, nothing changed, things even got worst.
All of Bola’s career has been shrouded by what I now call the mystery of performance and, my god, isn’t he the don of narratives?
He slaps a word (reform, in this case) on the head so many times that you begin to think it’s true. His gubernatorial career is technically lauded for building Lagos, but thanks to documentation, we now know that barely any noticeable changes happened in Lagos throughout his terms.
Bola is not reforming Nigeria. Bola is looting Nigeria dry, he’s borrowing against our poverty, he’s servicing debt with the little we are earning, he’s running 3 concurrent budgets, he is not transparent with our we spend (daily transaction has been down for months), he is blackmailing politicians, he is watching children die, he is overseeing a Nigeria ridden by drugs, companies are packing up, the national % is high, we have never been this poor, he is stiffening the opposition, he is running Nigeria as a favor to friends and associates, and this one, Zach, is using national funds to support campaigns.
The young undergraduate studying electrical engineering wants to work in industry. They need experience and it is your responsibility as president to create policies to encourage industrialisation. It is not a good use of their skills and knowledge to start studying financial statements.
Some of our brightest engineering minds are writing ICAN while biochemists are arguing about frontend vs backend instead of working on innovative research.
You cannot build a country like this.
When people have the means to invest in the stock market, they’ll do so without ever needing an extra undergraduate course.