An Engineer|IPMP certified Project Manager|Procurement Specialist|Alumnus Lagos Business School| Community Dev. Worker|Social Change Agent| Lover of Environment
I join the rest of the lovers of environemt to commemorate World Environment Day with the theme "Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future."
#WorldEnvironmentDay
-Data Boys: "Peter Obi was a failure as governor. He achieved nothing in Anambra state."
-Lagos Business School reeling out Peter Obi's achievements as governor👇👇👇
It has been reported that Governor Alex Oti of Abia State has named the Umuahia Bus Terminal in Abia State after Prof Mrs Nnenna Oti, the returning officer of the Governorship election of Abia State in the 2023, through which Gov Alex Otti became Governor of Abia State. Be it noted that Prof Oti and Dr Alex Otti are not related from my understanding. So the decision of Prof Oti not to allow herself to be compromised was not based on any percuniary interests.
Now electoral integrity is the cornerstone of democratic growth and development. Going by Dr Alex Otti wonderfull performance as Governor of Abia State, Abians must be grateful to Prof Nnenna Oti's uncompromising principle not to compromise electoral processes that brought Dr Alex Otti to power in Abia State.
I am not from Abia and I am not spokes person of Abia State. That said I am a Nigerian who believes in uncompromising integrity and honesty of purpose for the greatest good of the vast majority of Nigerians. I equally belives that good govenance is the governance that produces results that are visible for all to see. It is a notorious fact that Dr Alex Otti has done marvelously well so far that he does not need to campaign for his return to power in 2027.
I have always said that any government that struggles to advertise its achievements on the pages of newspapers and electronic media with pictorial evidence is a failed govenment. Governamental successes are visible, permanent and enduring for ordinary people to see. The successes of Dr Alex Otti as governor of Abia State are visible even to the blind. The deaf can hear it and feel it.
The production of Dr Alex Otti as Governor of Abia State in 2023 was made possible by the uncompromising refusal of Prof Nnenna Oti, not to compromise the integrity of that election. She did not give in to threats and intimidations to announce fake results as many would have done. She did not compromise integrity and truth for temporary gains. She was firm and stood her grounds.
There are many Dr Alex Ottis that were not allowed to assume power in government houses in may states in Nigeria because of crooked and corrupt infested professors who for a pot of porridge subverted the will of the people and impossed on Nigerians many unproductive governors whose only stock in trade in governance is to steal and destroy the future of Nigerians for their selfish reasons.
When Prof Attahiru Jega introduced the concept of professors as returniting officers in our electoral processes, it was reasoned rightly in my view that these professors will add colour to electoral integrity and will not announced concocted results. But the realitities on ground suggest otherwise. Many of these professors turned blind eyes to electoral malfeasances and announced results that we not based on real outcome of the decisions of the people.
As one writer on social media platform rightly put it: "Mrs Oti is a shining example of what an academic should be in character. The Nigerian university system has produced in great number,men and women who bear the title of professor but are not better than motor park urchins in character: all they need to change election results or accept doctored results is money. Indeed,some of them are in prison for this while some are in prison for raping girls. What a shame.Imagine the difference wrought in Abia for the singular reason that Mrs Oti resisted election riggers! It shows Nigeria's potential may have been imprisoned by Nigerian professors who take peanuts and rig elections for crooked politicians. people".
What else can I add than to thank and congratulate Prof Mrs Nnenna Oti for standing tall where other professors fell flat at the sight of Naira and Dollars. Dr Alex Otti thank you too for recognising integrity. Nigeria will only be better if integrity, honesty and truth become the guiding principle of those entrusted with public duties as done by Prof Nnenna Oti. God bless Prof Oti. Dr Alex Otti thank you.
Even by Nigeria's already low standards, this was cold and badly presented visually.
When I saw the video of the Nigerian president in Plateau, I didn't believe it. I waited.
The reason the nation permits private jets and helicopters for the president is to allow quick travel across the country at any time. This means the President can fly from Aso Rock to an airport, then to a Local Government area in Plateau State, and return, around the clock.
I have not seen instances where victims are taken to be comforted. Nor have I seen a leader state that he needs a power supply before leading.
In this case, a woman in deep mourning over a security failure is transported to an airport to meet the official responsible for security, who tells her, “I can't stay more than a few minutes because there is no power here.”
Words cannot express my sadness.
It is clear that the President only visited to tick a box — to provide visuals that will enable the media team to respond to Nigerians who will sincerely question what was more important than going to the very place where the killing happened.
What message has been conveyed? Will the president stay longer at a wedding of the rich than at a burial of the poor?
There is something deeply wrong with Nigeria's political class.
No wonder the President is often in France; France has 24/7 power.
Your phone disappeared.. You opened Find My Device from the laptop.
"Last seen: 3 hours ago.. Location: So-and-so Street."
After that? No updates.. The device went offline.
The thief immediately turned off the internet.. Classic move.
Back in the day, that was the end of the story.
Now? No.
There is no name they have not call me in the bank. Jack of all trade is one of them.😄
Here is my warning:
The day you resume a high-paying job, begin to plan your exit immediately.
Not because the job is bad.
Not because the salary isn’t sweet.
But because comfort has a way of stealing your future quietly.
Official car.
Paid vacations.
Medical insurance.
Pensions.
Promises.
They all make you feel settled, until the day they are no longer there.
Once or twice, I visited my Divisional head.
He lived on the Island in a beautifully furnished apartment.
Everything looked perfect.
And each time I stood there, I was tempted to ask him a silent question:
“Sir… are you the owner of the bank?”🤭🤭😁
He wasn’t.
And worse, there was no other stream of income.
When I left the bank, he came to see me at my head office.
He looked around my business space and said words I will never forget:
“Nduka, who gave you this sense to build this business?
While we were busy buying new cars, you were building an empire.
Look at you now…”
That sentence still echoes.
He had been relieved of his job.
Since 2007, I have been shouting it in the bank, sometimes softly, sometimes loudly:
Build multiple streams of income
Invest in other businesses
Learn new skills
Start while you are still working
Make your mistakes early, when your salary can absorb them
Sadly, many didn’t listen.
Today, some are retired, sacked or advised to resign.
Living in their own houses.
Yet battling hunger, and diseases.
Assets with no income.
Titles with no cash flow.
At old age, dignity does not come from stories of where you worked.
It comes from steady income.
From businesses and investments that still make money while you sleep.
So if you are earning well today, don’t relax.
Prepare your freedom.
Build something that will pay you when strength fades.
A job can feed you for a season.
Only what you build can feed you for life.
My name is Nduka Omeife, you can call me Jack of all trade.🤭🤭🤭
One of the downsides of video on demand platforms like YouTube is the disservice they have done to mythmaking. Last night's performance by Calvin Bassey was so outrageous that, even though it does not need it, it deserves embellishment.
I would like to be able to tell my children that Bassey stood as one man against a horde of red, tackling five men at once and striding forward with the ball while a further five hung off him, yelping, gliding on their bellies in his wake.
That he hung in the air for minutes at a time, accurately predicting the trajectory of every delivery to the chagrin of a packed Moulay Abdellah, and laughing in their faces as his prognostications came true each time.
That every time he hit a booming cross-field pass, the ball whizzed through the air, hot as the midday sun, searing the tops of Moroccan heads and leaving bald patches enroute to its targets.