It's clear that not all of us are on the same page as regarding the future of this country, One thing the emergence of Peter Obi has done is that it has exposed this difference, we must always look at the positives and look to the future against the odds
On this auspicious day, I extend my warmest felicitations to my brother, His Excellency Peter Obi, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Throughout his remarkable life of service and leadership, Mr. Obi has consistently distinguished himself as a man of exceptional enterprise, deep conviction, and personal integrity. His humility and modesty remain exemplary in a world that often celebrates excess.
As our candidate on the presidential ticket of the NDC, he has been an outstanding ally and a principled voice whose dedication continues to inspire millions of Nigerians across the country.
I wish him robust health, continued strength, and greater impact as he presses on in his unwavering commitment to the progress and good of our nation.
Happy 65th Birthday, my dear brother, Peter Obi. - RMK
@GloryIgwe12@AnambraNewMedia Mental captivity is real it also manifest as that nonesense called pathway to igbo presidency , nothing irritates me like that statement , its even worse when it comes from Ndigbo
First, every single right-thinking intellectual and systemic analyst who has taken the time to deeply study the colonial Liberal Arts education system used in our universities understands that this entire model is heavily flawed, fundamentally broken, and utterly incapable of addressing the most basic socio-economic needs of our society.
To put it in incredibly simple, unmistakable terms: it does not matter a single kobo who we elect today, tomorrow, or in the upcoming 2027 general elections as the president of Nigeria; this colonial Liberal Arts education currently running in our universities must be dismantled, demolished, and completely uprooted in its entirety before Nigeria can ever realistically talk about industrialization, technological sovereignty, or economic independence. I am not a genius for pointing this out. Dr. Joe Abah and his highly analytical team of policy intellectuals behind the latest NYSC reform understand all of this infinitely better than I can even imagine. This desperate NYSC reform, which is designed to spend exactly six weeks training graduates in basic vocational crafts and elementary tech skills, is in itself a massive, embarrassing admission that the four-year Liberal Arts degrees these graduates have been condemned to study in school are completely useless for helping them function in the actual Nigerian economy. And this is not surprising. There is absolutely no way that the Macroeconomic Theories of John Maynard Keynes, which our economics, finance, and business students are forcefully programmed to memorize in school, will ever help them survive in the real-world streets of Nigeria, where over 80% of our entire economy operates strictly in the unorganized informal sector, and where our national monetary policies are nothing but a set of humiliating terms, conditions, and austerity measures we must blindly implement just to remain eligible for the next predatory IMF loan. This is just the sad reality for the financial disciplines; a perfectly identical, depressing analogy can easily be made for other major fields like Sociology, Anthropology, Soil Science, Political Science, and the endless sea of other useless theoretical Liberal Arts degrees prevalent in our universities.
This Liberal Arts education is not working for us because the European colonizers who originally designed and planted it here never intended for it to work, innovate, or produce a proud nation of industrialists, tech pioneers, and sovereign builders. It was explicitly put there to produce compliant, administrative clerks, low-level typists, and obedient civil servants for the running of the British colony. Our academic intellectuals, university senates, and seasoned educational experts are supposed to be pooling all their diplomatic strings, intellectual resources, and policy frameworks together to completely dismantle this obsolete system. But rather than pulling down the entire leaking roof and building a solid, modern structure from scratch, they are far more interested in continuously patching up the rotten wood. This is precisely why they introduced the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) as a mandatory, cross-faculty course in our universities. They openly admit that the entire academic curriculum is a catastrophic failure, so their brilliant solution is to introduce a token, two-semester course. For this, they spend billions of Naira to erect flashy buildings titled "Centre for Entrepreneurship Development" and equip them with dusty computers, manual tailoring machines, bead-making accessories, and soap-making ingredients for basic vocational training. To run this new bureaucratic program, they have to hire directors, administrative staff, and technical instructors, putting them on bloated salaries, allowances, and bonuses. Each of these offices is immediately equipped with expensive air-conditioners, all of which aggressively adds to the already astronomical electricity bill of the university.
After all of this administrative madness, what actually happens? Absolutely nothing. The students are already heavily overloaded with their regular coursework, assignments, and exams because the CED program is usually introduced in their penultimate year of study, right when their major core subjects have become incredibly demanding, meaning the CED course is only given the bare minimum, box-ticking effort. And even for the select few students who religiously try to genuinely learn a practical skill, the time allocated for this learning is far too short to master anything of substance. To top it all off, the underpaid, frustrated non-academic staff who manage these centers are some of the most difficult, hostile, and corrupt people to deal with on earth, routinely taxing, extorting, and harassing the students just to let them pass.
These useless vocational learning centers exist in every single federal, state, and private tertiary institution in the country. Till date, not one single graduate can genuinely come out, stand tall with their hands on their chest, and declare that the job feeding them, paying their rent, or sustaining their family today is a skill they learned in those rushed, superficial six months during their university days. This is truly tragic, because the billions of Naira allocated to erect these massive vocational centers and fully equip them is money that should have been directly channeled to rebuild our dilapidated classrooms, fund public laboratories, and provide basic desks and textbooks in our primary and secondary schools across every state of the federation.
Yet, even after our so-called intellectuals have clearly observed that this original "reform" has failed spectacularly, their ultimate solution is simply to design another superficial, budget-draining "reform" in the NYSC. Under this new scheme, exactly six weeks of national service are supposed to be magically reserved to teach these identical vocational skills, supposedly to properly prepare graduates to function in our brutally informal economy. This means millions of laptops, sewing machines, hair-dryers, welding kits, catering ovens, and agricultural tools will have to be aggressively purchased, procured, and heavily inflated yet again by corrupt government contractors, and the endless cycle of bureaucratic madness continues.
Of course, this is absolutely not surprising. This is the exact same cosmetic way we have been endlessly "reforming" our corrupt police force, our overstretched military, and our compromised judiciary. Superficial "reform" is the only lazy, budget-friendly solution that our clueless intellectual class in Nigeria truly understands.
Our policies are elitist in nature.
Policies are formed by people in air-conditioned rooms who just assume what might be a problem and then attempt to fix or go ahead to fix.
Reminds me of a story that was shared about a community by my policy analysis course lecturer.
A rich man was passing and saw children going long distances to get water, he went into the community and decided to fix boreholes for them in the community but the men always vandalized the borehole.
This leaf him to have a sit down with the men and he discovered that whenever the children went away to get water was the only time the men had private moments with their wives as they had shortage of houses. This if more housing could be provided then the water in the community will not be an issue.He built more houses and boreholes lasted longer.
This policy only gives an opportunity for some people to feed fat from nysc allocation and leading to more leadership roles been open to lobby than solving the actual problem plaguing NYSC.