@Tolu__Grey Different context for different era’s. But, for someone aiming for a 1T economy, meaning key leaders in that sector with there ministers periodically will do a whole lot of good for us.
These are the 3 boys from St. Gregory’s College, Ikoyi, Lagos who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in Episode One of the Sterling Bank Mathematics Quiz.
Their names are Josiah Ebuka Chukwu, Osinachi Dominic and Onyiebor Franklin. They are all in SS2.
The school is on fire!
Dear Àbúrò @tokunbo_wahab,
I have come to accept the bitter truth - that you have chosen to drag your heritage into the cesspit of APC criminality.
If you had any sense, you would understand that the position of Commissioner for Environment was just a small step up from Special Adviser for Drainage - ask Joe Igbokwe. Ọ̀we ni wọ́n fi pa fún ẹ, but you didn't get it.
Your clearly obvious lack of capacity to carry out your duties - unless you think your duties are simply to destroy, demolish, obstruct and dance naked in the market square of social media - would be enough to warrant the resignation of a decent man in normal climes.
However, I accept that Lagos State is definitely not the best of climes at the moment, and you have clearly thrown any last vestige of decency you had out the window of crass APC opportunism.
All we can do at this point is wallow in the muck that you and your fellow @OfficialAPCNg Death Cult members have transformed Lagos State into with your shameful incompetence.
While I have your attention, tell your owners the following:
1. Return the Assessment and Collection of Tenement Rates to the LGAs as mandated under the Fourth Schedule of the 1999 Constitution, so that they can recover the financial capacity to carry out their duties, including 2 below.
2. Return Waste Management to the LGAs as mandated under the 4th Schedule of the Constitution. The ministry you currently superintend can concern itself with matters like air and water quality monitoring and other subsidiary matters.
There are other things I would like to suggest, but I have to respect your short attention span and keep it relatively simple enough for a man of your limited comprehension powers to digest easily.
Kind Regards,
B. O. Gbadamosi
You handed him all the ammo he needed, and now you’re surprised he turned it into a political agenda?
Be serious, man.
And let’s keep it a buck, if not for politics, do you really think you’d still be sitting in that Environment commissioner seat today?
Shago bugo.
Sustained wealth happens when you have a community thinking together. The key person who is visibly wealthy only achieves that wealth because others also have skin in the game and propel them for their benefit.
I am not engaging in "trillionaire worship" like others, but what was instructive about the SpaceX IPO was that the cafeteria workers and janitors at the same company also became wealthy. That is a bigger deal than anything else.
I hear so much talk about founders and investors in African entrepreneurship, but what nobody tells you is that the people who also became wealthy are the people who supported the entrepreneur and the enterprise with work.
Decades ago, I discovered that Dangote's depot operators, when he was selling commodities, were also Naira billionaires in their own right. They didn't need to cheat him to get wealthy, as most misguided people believe employees should do; they had an arrangement that made all of them wealthy.
Dangote took the financial risk while the depot chiefs took the operational risks. I see this same dynamic in many supply chains in Africa. My wife's aunt's 70th birthday in Accra last year was attended by all the key FMCG players and traders who worked together in an ecosystem that they all profited from.
Aliko became rich because his family learned about this model long before anyone else did. He benefited immensely from it, and he is passing this same ecosystem-building approach on to the next generation of his family.
This aspect of African entrepreneurship is rarely discussed. People want to hear grass-to-grace stories or miracles. True wealth in reality is built by communities and ecosystems that work in sync. I will be talking about it a lot more.
I survived surgery yesterday, and I am grateful for another chance to keep doing this.