It’s funny how when you people talk about your future spouses, you speak about them with kindness and softness (anyone that has a differing opinion is seen as bitter), but on the other hand when you talk about your future children that are blank slates, you talk about them with
re: gentle parenting
love and abuse cannot coexist. as bell hooks famously noted, love is an action word and describes the will to nurture and care for the spiritual growth of yourself and another. abuse, by contrast, is rooted in control, manipulation and domination.
See all these stories on the TL about child abuse but if I support abortion now, all hell will break loose.
Please stop procreating if you don’t want to nurture a child in love and you hate kids! It’s not by force!
We cannot keep complaining about limited space in the room while ignoring the elephant standing in it.
The only reason this programme sounds “relevant” to the stakeholders who designed it is because our universities have failed to deliver the minimum required of it.
If our universities were still true citadels of learning, why would we be discussing general leadership and entrepreneurship training—essentially General Studies 101—for a group of graduates?
A university graduate is expected to be a stakeholder, ready to contribute to national development through expertise in their chosen field, not someone who still needs six weeks of general studies after earning a degree.
Don’t get me wrong (if you like do, that’s your business), I’m not saying graduates are omniscients who shouldn’t upskill and improve themselves, my point is that NYSC cannot solve the systemic decay in our education. We can reform it all we like
We need to be honest with ourselves fr and back into the room and address the elephant.
This is one reason why Nigeria's public policies are always flawed.
With no disrespect to Dr. Joe himself, but policies shouldn't be based on individual ideas or what a group of elites considered progressive or "the brightest way of doing things".
It should be based on collected data, survey, democratic inputs and feedback from the populace. People sitting in an air conditioner filled room can't just assume what is best for the mass population in the country.
It's a monopolisation of abstract and pedestrian knowledge that no single human being or a group of politically privileged human beings can know.
On NYSC reforms, what's the data that show that the current system isn't working? And if any, where's the data that indicate that the new system will solve the identified problem? What research was carried? Where's the democratic input from the people who are currently in the system (the corp members)? Where's the feedback mechanism that made this new approach justifiable?
Without any of this, we just propose ideas that sound and look good on paper only for it to become adversely inapplicable to those who the ideas directly affected.
The same way I asked Mr. Oyedele then what data was driving his tax reform bill, and the proposed increment in VAT and CGT in the bill, only to have the host and the co-host kick me out of the space.
Our intellectual and political elites must be humble enough to know that not all ideas in their head are made of gold.
Else, we continue to fix what necessarily isn't broken.
i promise you, any nigerian company where they do opening prayers before meetings is not god's plan for your life. the toxicity in such places will drive you nuts and damage your self esteem if you are not careful
Lol. People are not dirty by by default, they are dirty by the system around them.
I remember when the bin workers went on strike in Birmingham last year. People who you would think were clean and neat, suddenly there was rubbish piled in front of their houses and rats everywhere.
Point of my shalaye, the problem is not the people, it is what the government puts on ground for them. In Lagos only about 11% of waste is collected the proper way, so nearly half of it ends up dumped in the canals and drainages because where else will it go? Then the same drainage blocks and the place floods.
Government will provide what people need first, the right drainage, the right refuse management, and then you enforce the cleanliness. You don’t expect people to fall in line when there is nothing on ground for them to fall in line with.