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April 23, 2018

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Buhari: Nigerian Youths Are Lazy

Buhari is an elder, and he knows what he is saying. I agree with him 100 percent that we Nigerian youths are lazy, even if that is what he said or meant.

People are castigating him because they cant think deep to reason and understand what he said. A lot of people are seeing it from only one view. That's why you see all over the internet now, people posting statements like 'I'm a Nigerian youth, I am a doctor, engineer and I am not lazy'. People are posting different pictures of youths toiling under the sun like welders, bus drivers, construction workers, teachers and many other professionals.

To me, such response is a bit myopic.

Buharis is an elder, and I believe he has deeper meaning to his purported statement. Even if he doesn't have deeper meanings to it, we should give it deeper reasoning.

To me, I am gonna tell you that we Nigerian youths are lazy for the following reasons:

1. Most of our military past leaders before 1999, who are now today's elders got into power at very young age. Most of them shook the nation and made impacts at their youthful age e.g. The following were heads of state at these ages:

Aguiyi Ironsi (42yrs), Murtala Mohammed (37yrs), OBJ (39yrs), Buhari (41yrs), IBB (44yrs), Abacha (50yrs)

Pat Utoma was anspecial adviser to Shagari at 24/25 years.

Bola Ige was a commissioner for Agric, old western region at 37 years

Ojukwu ignited Biafran war at 34 yrs. Mind you, Okukwu was born into wealth. But he was a visionary youth.

Kaduna Nzeogwu led the first military coup in Nigeria; he was only 29yrs.

Gideon Orkar led the almost-succesdful copu against IBB government in 1990 at age 38 yrs.

All these were youths who had their convictions and pursued their goals. They shook the nations during their time. They made things happen.

Do we have youths like these again at the moment? We may have them around; maybe they are hiding in their closets or have run out of the country.

2. The Arab uprising of 2011 that shocked and shook the Arab world and resulted in rulers being outsed in Tunisia, Egypty, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain and other affected Arab countries was caused by the action of a single young Tunisian man, Bouazizi who set himself on fire when the fruits he was selling was seized. He was a graduate who turned to fruit hawking after he couldn't get employment.
Nigerian no wan die (lol!) but prefer sufferring and smiling or complaining

3. South African youths were active in the liberation of their country from apartheid. Mandela, Oliver Thambo, Thabo Mbeki, Winnie Mandela, Walter sisulu, Desmond Tutu, Steve Biko, Albert Luthuli were all youths when they started or joined the anti-apartheid struggle. Some of them died in the struggle. Steve Biko was a medical student; he was killex in the struggle at age 30.

But our current Nigerian youths are lazy. Not like the youths that confronted the IBB, Abacha military junta.

4. The student union movement (youths) of now has lost focus. They are now into cultism, being stooges to political theives robbing them of their future. Student unionisn is no longrr like in the days of tge past youths like the late Segun Okeowo (Ali must go protest)

5. Many Nigerian youths feel comfortable playing sport betting games all over the betting centres, and even remotely on their mobile phones. One sees them everyday. Expecting to have sudden breakthroughs by winning millions of naira. The employed and educated ones are not left out of it.

6. Millions of Nigerian youths are into yahoo yahoo, scams, money rituals all because they want to drive Venza, G-wagon and other exotic cars. Unemployed graduates want to use the latest andriod and iphones.
The vocational job apprentices are no longer patient to learn skills and gain tutelage under their masters. They all want fast money (e.g. betting, rituals, yahoo yahoo)

7. Millions of Nigerian youths will seat down to watch and follow TV programs, where they spend millions of money daily to vote for contestants e.g. in big brother naija/africa. How I wish we youths will come out to vote enmasse like we do for all these TV shows. Let's take our destinies into our hands for once.

8. Millions of Nigerian youths know the names of all foreign clubs, coaches, players, and how much those players are worth. But do not participate in the running of their own country. They dont participate in the politics of their own country. They are not just interested in what happens in their own country. They can watch and vote for bigbrothernaija but can't collect their PVC to vote on elections days.

9. Many Nigerian youths are ready to be used as political thugs (electon is coming) instead of fighting to take over the political scene from the elders. The thugs that stole the mace from the senate few days ago are not old men. They are youths used by an old man. Can you see?

10. At the moment, we do not have any state governor that is less than 40 years of age in Nigeria. The only one that got in at under age 40 is Yaya Bello of Kogi state, and we can all see how he is messing up

Let me stop here for now.

The laziness, which Buhari referred to is not mainly about physical laziness. Yes, naija youth are workaholics, and are physicslly active. But ours is more of mental laziness and lethargy.

Buhari was a youth when he became the military president, and I guess he is wondering what is wrong with us that we cant seize the space from them like they did during their own times.
Mind you, the old ones wont just vacate and handover power to us. It doesn't happen anywhere. We (youths) have to wake up from our laziness, and become active.

Buhari is indirectly telling us to rise up to the challenge but instead of picking up the clue we are castigating him.

Mr President has thrown us the challenge.
Let us prove to him and the other old gunners that we are not lazy. Not by engaging in unprofitable ventures and distractions.

Pick up the challenge and stop whinning!
We too can become governors, senators, honourables, ministers etc.

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The MYTH and the PROPAGANDA; ABACHA LOOT

The Swiss government last week confirmed, through its ambassador to Nigeria, Chad, Niger and the Economic Community of West African States, Mr. Eric Mayoraz in an exclusive report with Daily Sun newspaper that Switzerland had returned the remainder of Nigeria’s public funds looted and stashed by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, in some coded accounts in the countries of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.

That confirmation came on the heels of an article, written by an Abuja-based journalist, Mr. Sufuyan Ojeifo, which was published in some newspapers and online news portals wherein he asserted that $322 million had been repatriated according to information he received from some credible grapevines in Abuja. That report, in a way, underscored and still underscores the integrity of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

The final figure (reportedly made up of $250 million from Liechtenstein and $72 million from Luxembourg) is $1 million more than the figure of $321 million that had hitherto been widely reported to be the remainder. This is worthy of commendation. It is a product of transparent and transformational leadership provided by Buhari.

His point man in the Ministry of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), who is the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, should also get some plaudits for acquitting himself creditably in the final process leading to the repatriation.

Malami has been a subject of some myth and propaganda contrived by some forces within and outside some official quarters in Abuja aimed at discrediting him and the engagement of some Nigerian senior lawyers who helped to scrutinize, vet and tidy up the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) such that a trilateral agreement crystallized from it on December 7, 2017.

Malami was in company with the team of Nigerian lawyers led by Mr. Oladipo Okpeseyi (SAN) at the signing of the MoU by the Swiss government, World Bank and Nigeria at the inaugural Global Forum on Assets Recovery (GFAR) in Washington DC in the United States of America for the repatriation of the money which must be channeled into some national safety net projects. Part of the provisions of the MoU is that the World Bank would monitor the projects on which the money would be expended to guard against misappropriation. This is also a welcome development.

But what is, however, reprehensible is the attempt by some forces back home to insinuate that the decision by Malami to engage some Nigerian lawyers to complete the processes involved in the signing of the MoU was an attempt to re-loot the repatriated fund. Their argument is hinged on their claim that the process had been completed by the Swiss lawyer, Enrico Mofrini, who started the process of tracing, confiscation and repatriation of the looted funds in 1999.

Their argument was obviously to rebut Malami’s claim that the process had not been completed which was the reason he engaged the Nigerian lawyers after Mofrini reapplied to complete the process on a fresh payment of 20 percent professional fees on the value of the money. Malami had, in his counter offer, expressed the willingness of the Nigerian government to pay five percent.

By the way, Monfrini’s twenty percent offer, if Malami had accepted it, would have amounted to $64.2 million as against the five percent ($16.1 million) with which he counter offered and which Monfrini rejected outright. The Nigerian lawyers engaged to deal with Monfrini’s mischief, however, eventually settled for four percent to complete the process.

The pertinent question to continuously ask the forces that have deployed the instruments of myth and propaganda in obvious attempts to discredit Malami and the process is: If Monfrini had completed the process, why then did he reapply to complete the process on a fresh professional fee of 20 percent? Monfrini can answer this question. And, in doing that, he should be aware that he has Malami to contend with in case he tries to insinuate some unlawful activity.

Monfrini is a lawyer of international repute and I believe that if he had been unfairly treated, he should have taken it upon himself to sue Nigeria for breach of contract. He has not done that. I do not believe that Monfrini suffered any breach of contract, the reason he has decided to keep quiet.

However, it is interesting that some forces in Nigeria have reportedly been on the trail of Monfrini to speak on the matter. Initially, he was reported to have disappeared and become inaccessible as he was no longer responding to their e-mail requests. Did they have to pressurise Monfrini to do the needful if he had been wrongly treated? He would have fought his own battle himself.

Amusingly, the forces that are determined to discredit Malami had gone ahead, following the successful repatriation of the fund, to claim that Monfrini had finally responded to their e-mail request, claiming that he did not ask Nigeria for any fresh payment. Such a one-line claim is rebuttable. It amounts, in the main, to his words against the words of the Nigerian government that he actually requested for fresh payment of 20 percent professional fees.

Therefore, I posit with all sense of responsibility that in order to dismantle the myth and propaganda against Malami, the process and the Nigerian lawyers who completed it, Malami may have to declassify any form of correspondence or communication relating to Monfrini’s offer and the Nigerian government’s counter offer. This will help to appropriately portray as unsophisticated the new onslaught by the anti-Malami forces that are projecting and syndicating Monfrini’s purported claim in the media to the effect that he did not ask for an extra dime from the Nigerian government to complete the repatriation process.

Besides, it would also answer the question on the social media as to whether the engagement of Nigerian lawyers to complete the process on payment of four percent professional fees is not a classical case of re-looting the Abacha. Even the dimwitted would know that this can only be a classical case of hard negotiation and prudent management of public fund. In this instant case, there appears to be no truth in the allegation of re-looting the Abacha loot.

The premise of the social media-contrived narrative will also be shattered by raw documentary evidence that the Nigerian lawyers of Okpeseyi and Temitope Adebayo acted properly in the discharge of a legal contract on which they were entitled to specific percentage as professional fees agreed to by both parties. Upon completion of the services, they deserve to be paid their fees and not taken through needless anguish due to the antics of some distraught forces.

The suggestion by the anti-Malami forces that he probably did not need legal consultants to help him complete the process cannot hold waters as such services are not illegal. Those were the exact services that Monfrini was offering to past Ministers of Justice and Attorneys-General of the Federation since 1999. Malami could not, therefore, have been wrong to have engaged Nigerians lawyers whose experience he leveraged on in that area at the least possible cost to the nation.

If the anti-Malami forces are complaining about the Nigerian government having to pay the Nigerian lawyers as they have claimed N6 billion, would they have preferred that the Nigerian government paid the Swiss lawyer, Monfrini, close to N40 billion for the same services? What are they talking about? If it is bad belle against the Nigerian lawyers, they should go pursue other consultancy contracts elsewhere. The operating space is wide for birds to fly without clashing now. Fact of life.

Why CBN retain monetary policy rates - Emefiele

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opted to retain monetary policy rates to rein in inflation and stabilise the economy.

Inflation, which is the aggregate cost of goods and services over a period, dropped from a high of over 18 per cent in January 2017 to about 14.33 per cent at the end of last month.

Even at the current level, analysts say inflation is still high, and would need to drop to single digits before any intervention in the prevailing Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to avoid further dragging real interest rate into the negative zone and blurring the impact in the foreign exchange market.

The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, said this informed the MPC’s decision during its rescheduled meeting on April 3 and 4 to retain MPR, popularly called lending rate, at 14 per cent.

During the meeting, the committee also resolved to maintain Cash Reserves Requirement (CRR), which is the minimum fund the CBN can allow a commercial bank to hold in its reserves, at 22.5 per cent per annum.

Also, liquidity ratio was kept unchanged at 30 per cent, with asymmetric corridor maintained at plus 200 and minus 500 basis points around the monetary policy rate.

Speaking on the topic, “Sustaining Economic Growth Beyond Recession”, the CBN governor said the bank’s policies and interventions played a significant role in bringing the country out of its first recession in over 25 years.

Represented by the newly appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank in charge of Corporate Services, Edward Adamu, the CBN governor identified the massive drop in global oil prices from an average of about $110 per barrel to less than $28 as one factors that plunged the Nigerian economy into recession.

Other factors, he said, included the sudden withdrawal of about $85 billion per month from the global economy by the United States’ Federal Reserve System and geopolitical tensions amongst global trade leaders.

Mr Emefiele said these global shocks triggered five consecutive quarters of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contraction of the country’s economy at minus 2.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2017, from nearly 7 per cent in previous years.

With inflation rising to a peak of over 18 per cent in January 2017, he said unemployment rate equally increased to about 16.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2017, while the exchange rate depreciated to over N520 to the dollar during the period.

He said under the difficult economic environment, the bank was compelled to consider policies, including increasing monetary policy and aggressive open market operations, to stimulate the recovery of the economy and reverse the negative trends.

Other measures included demand management by restricting foreign exchange supply for imports of 41 items to boost local production and increase external reserves.

Besides, he said, the bank also stepped up its intervention in financing activities in key high sectors of the economy like power, aviation, education, micro, small and medium enterprises as well as agriculture, including the Anchor Borrower Programme.

These policies and interventions, he noted, helped the economy to recover, with GDP recording positive growths of 0.7 and 1.4 per cent in the last two quarter in 2017; inflation declining from a peak of 18.7 per cent in January 2017 to 14.3 per cent in March 2018, and exchange rate stabilising for more than eight months at about $360 to the dollar.

Again, he said, the country’s foreign reserves have continued to grow from about $23 billion in October 2016 to more than $47.37 billion as at April 5, 2018.

To sustain the recovery and avoid slipping into another recession, Mr Emefiele warned Nigerians to remain vigilant and ensure political leaders and policymakers were not allowed to be complacent of their responsibilities.

“We must strive to improve and sustain the same policies that got the economy this far. Our import bill may have fallen, but our manufacturing and agriculture sectors still have a long way to go if we must attain self-sufficiency.

“We must not be quick to discard the restrictive measures which aided our recovery simply because the metrics have improved,” the CBN governor said.

On its part, he assured that the bank would continue to fine-tune its policies and strategies and remain proactive in optimising the welfare of Nigerians, including the provision of access to credit to sectors with potentials to create jobs on a mass scale.

Apart from expanding the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme to other crops and states, he said the bank was currently finalising the creation of a N500 billion fund with the Nigeria Export-Import Bank to assist local manufacturers interested in non-oil exports.

Why I’m running for second term — Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has formally announced he will seek re-election in 2019.

Mr. Buhari made the announcement on Monday at a meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress leadership.

The National Executive Committee(NEC) meeting of the party is holding in Abuja.

Mr. Buhari made the declaration after the media had left the NEC hall of APC secretariat in Abuja.

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