EXCLUSIVE: THE CONCLUDING PART OF JAPHETH OMOJUWA'S INTERVIEW

In this concluding part, Omojuwa dissects and proffers solutions to issues around unemployment, Boko-Haram, his anger with people likening him to Reuben Abati, and which topic he won't discuss on twitter amongst others.  In case you missed the first part here is the link http://larigold.blogspot.com/2012/08/exclusive-interview-i-do-not-speak.html

Lanre Olagunju:  you talked about the involvement of young people especially via the use of social media…what other result oriented things can young people do so as to redeem the country.

Omojuwa: first of all we have to understand that you cannot bring about change in other people or change anything until you bring about change in yourself. So these young people that are saying that they want to change the system and all that what are they doing with their own lives and what are they doing with their time?  It’s not enough to be passionate about change in Nigeria. If you are not competent you’ll get there and mess things up. Any idiot can be passionate, a thief can be passionate. Passion is a driver that pushes you to do that which you want to do. And if you’re not able to do it, passion will drive you to mess it up. So it’s not all about passion. Being passionate is good, but it’s about competence. Young people have to build competence and ability because the time will come when they’d also be in charge when they’d also run the country. Without competence it’s going to result in the same tragic story. So the first thing is that they should build competence then secondly they must align and create synergy by coming together which is not there at the moment. These days many young people are doing the same thing and it’s beginning to look like a competition. Young people need to come together and think as a people and not individuals. They must also insulate themselves from the grab-grab Nigerian mentality that says when you get there you sort out yourself first. We need to start thinking for the whole and not just ourselves. Then we must have the understanding of where to place money and wealth. We must begin to understand how to think in terms of prosperity, how to think in terms of the fact that the world has created a lot of wealthy men that are dead and forgotten but the world hasn’t created great men that are forgotten. So we must aspire toward greatness and not just riches in terms of silver and gold. Greatness comes by being a change agent in the real sense of the word. In my opinion we don’t have great Nigerians in the class of Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama despite his failures in America and Abraham Lincoln. We need nationalist that think for the nation and not what they can grab out of the system. Young people should begin to think like that.

Lanre Olagunju: if you were in the shoes of GEJ, strategically what would you have done to phase out corruption?

Omojuwa: In terms of corruption in Nigeria… you can’t phase out corruption anywhere in the world but you can fight it to the barest minimum and when it comes to fighting corruption in Nigeria or in Africa, what you do is make statements. How do you make statements? It’s not difficult to fight corrupt government officials; it’s very very easy because these guys are not that smart with the way they steal. By the time he got in to office on May 29 2011, shortly by July of that year, he’d have had like three or four corrupt cases and you know there’re transferred corrupt cases from one regime to another. And he was an acting president before he became president via what he called “the real mandate” and they would have been seeing such practices. By the time they get the Economic and Financial Crime Commission to arrest like five of them, within 10 days, charge serious and tight allegations against them, prosecute them, then send five of them to jail, shortly a lot of people will sit up. But if you allow corruption to just run with no form of punishment, you’ll just have it grow. It’s a process. Start the fight. It doesn’t mean you end it immediately, at least start the fight. This president has been there for two years and he has essentially been breeding corruption rather than fight it. So what would I have done? At least I would have started the fight. I actually wouldn’t have won it in day one or even after two or four years in office but I’d have at least started the fight

Lanre Olagunju: talking about the EFCC, how independent are these agencies?

Omojuwa: they are not independent and that’s the saddest part of it. The EFCC chairman is appointed by the president then the senate have their own role to play but the bottom line is that the EFCC chairman more or less answers to the president. If the president says Mr Lanre Olagunju wants to contest in 2015 I need you guys to build some corruption cases against him from now. And the EFCC has got to do it. I mean we saw what Obasanjo did with the EFCC, these are things we need to look at. …separate the office of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from the presidency, the office of the Inspector General of police also should be separated from the presidency. The INEC chairman… how can I appoint somebody who is going to be a referee in my own   match? (Omojuwa screams and gets irritated) those are obvious anomalies that we need to correct. These are some of the things that we have to change if we are going to move forward or else we are not going to have a society that runs on the bases of law and order.

Lanre Olagunju: former minister for youth and development Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said a couple of months ago that over 67million young Nigerians are unemployed. What do you think can be done to solve such problem and what is the impact of such on the Nigerian economy?

Omojuwa: I’ve said that already. What can be done to solve that is to put a system in place that allows people to fulfill their dreams because when you say 67million Nigerians are unemployed there are other unemployed people who are unemployed who don’t fall into the category of young Nigerians so it’s about all Nigerians. We have about 112million poor people do you understand me? I mean you feel me? This is a disaster anywhere in the world 112million poor people gathered in a place is a social disaster so it’s not about 67 million unemployed young Nigerians alone, it’s about the general society and it’s the same solution. You don’t gather a few thousands of people out of that figure you mentioned and you say you are giving them jobs or that you are giving them grants. You have to think holistically and thinking holistically, you have to think of the masses .You do not call 1000 people the masses when you have several millions of unemployed people. It’s about allowing the economy to run by providing the basic necessities. People spend eight hours in traffic that’s more or less murder because by the time you calculate all the time spent multiplied by all the different people and you put it together you realize that that’s a lifetime. So these are things that we have to begin to check out. Allow the economy to run. Create a free market economy and do away with cronyism and monopolistic tendencies in terms of granting access to only political jobbers and friends of those in politics.

Lanre Olagunju: there seems to be a cozy relationship between you and Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, do you talk highly about him because you know him personally or because you belief in his achievements?

Omojuwa: I don’t talk highly about him. I’ve met quite a number of people who were in government and what I do is to ask them about their achievements while in office and also request for documents that affirms that these were the things they did. Then on eagle par, I’m not the one passing the judgment. An average person most especially in Abuja agrees that he was an outstanding public officer. A member of this government let me mention his name Reno Omokiri also told me … and Reno is not in any way a friend to Mallam el-Rufai. He said and I have it in written records that when it has to do with public service in Nigeria nobody has been able to get to the bar of Nasir-el Rufai. That was what Reno said and I have them on record in an email. He actually said that he has set a bar that has not been reached. So if people like that and Kanu Agabi are able to say things like that and majority of people I see in Abuja are saying since he left, things have gone bad. And I as a person, I’m trying to encourage young people into government, I see it as a responsibility to have young people relate with people like that because obviously it was not every Nigerian that was in government that failed. Aunty Oby Ezekwesili didn’t fail, so I don’t have a problem with being close to people like that, learning and finding out how they were able to go through a system that essentially looks like we have to be corrupt to be there? So when you say cozy relationship, everyone defines cozy in their own way but I have a very good relationship with him and with a whole lot of people that were in public service. But he’s a kind of person that uses social media a lot and social media is a place where whatever you say everybody sees it. So it looks like his case is much more different. When you see former public officers that I exchange DMs with every day you would think that…it’s basically out of what he has done in the past. Let’s also know that as we speak he’s being investigated and till date nothing has come out of it. And you know how much it is to criticize the government. If there are things he doesn’t want them to know he would have probably settled with them and he would have kept quiet. For me that’s something that has to be recognized, otherwise we would keep allowing the bad people in government to keep having their way without giving the good ones the opportunity to speak out.

Lanre Olagunju:What topic won’t you discuss on twitter?

Omojuwa: none…. Laughs

Lanre Olagunju: from your brilliant analysis via your blogs, column, tweets and the rest, many of your followers have expressed that you might just be another Reuben Abati in the making considering that so far you haven’t done anything differently from him before he became the presidential spoke person.

Omojuwa: (Japh becomes infuriated) …I don’t know why people keep comparing me and Reuben Abati. I haven’t even done anything close to what Reuben Abati has done. You feel me?! I mean I just finished serving last year; last month (June) makes it a year after my service year. I don’t understand why people keep bringing this Abati thing into it…I don’t have any column on any major newspaper.  I’m majorly focused on the internet and social media and of course I get to do some other things offline but I don’t like….because each time they bring the Abati thing up the next thing they say is you too will be like Abati and those are all crap for me.  Personally I’m not interested in such…are they saying that because majority of Nigerian politicians have failed so if they get into office they will fail. Let’s treat people and judge people based on themselves and not based on what others have done with their own lives. I’m who I am. I want to be judged based on who I am and not what I will do in the future you can only judge me based on the facts of today; you can’t say because some Abati has done something wrong then you use that to judge me. To do that is to set yourself up to be a fool!

Lanre Olagunju: what in your opinion do you think is responsible for the present insecurity issue in Nigeria?

Omojuwa: The insecurity issue is as a result of our failed system. Failed systems produce certain things and one of them is insecurity. Go around the world, many countries that has unemployment rate of 3 or less than 3percent don’t spend money on insecurity. Countries that spend a huge chunk of their budget on insecurity are countries that have huge unemployment issues. So unemployment is directly proportional to insecurity. In a country where you don’t have employment, there’s going to be insecurity because if people are not gainfully employed then they will be un-gainfully employed. They have to do things to spend their time. The human mind is dynamic. If it’s not producing something positively it will produce negatively. When the system cannot channel the positive vibrant energy of the young people into production then they are bound to have other means of expressing their energy and that’s why we have terrorism, kidnapping and then touting in places like Lagos. And that’s why you find Nigeria where Nigeria is today.

Lanre Olagunju: it’s quite unfortunate that things are the way they are today. But as it is, what solution do your proffer to the insecurity issues in Nigeria today?

When it comes to solving the kind of insecurity situation that we find ourselves at the moment, you don’t take anything away from the table. People are dying every day and I’m shocked that people are saying they shouldn’t do this or do that. You don’t take anything off the table. You take it through an holistic approach. Only when some options have failed is when you now take it off the table. As at today you don’t take anything off the table. If dialogue will make them stop the killing, will you rather not want them stop the killing?

Lanre Olagunju: looking at your point of view, don’t you think it’s delicate to dialogue with terrorist. What if after dialogue, tomorrow another group emerges with crazy demands.

Omojuwa: There is no perfect solution to a social problem. Every solution to a social problem has its own disadvantages. If for instance, they are able to dialogue and are able to get these people reformed. It’s not just about giving amnesty like what was done to MEND. After giving amnesty what did you do to the general society? There has to be a process in place so as to ensure that other young men who were not militants are gainfully employed or else the amnesty idea becomes a waste. It simply means that you reform the present militants and then you abandon the unemployed ones to become future militants. So while reforming, the unemployed ones must be provided employment. For instance, now you are focused on amnesty then you abandon some other 69million people. You’re just wasting your time because it’s just a matter of time the unemployed 69million will also emerge as militants.  So while dialoging with Boko-Haram the government should squarely face unemployment as well. Unemployment in Yobe is seven out of ten. Borno state is a disaster so you are not just looking at Boko-Haram members directly but also the general members of the society across Nigeria and making sure that people are gainfully employed, making sure that opportunities for self-employment are there. When you do that a lot of things will fall in place. Solutions are not a one off thing it has to be holistic. You have to look into the big picture. If dialogue will make them stop the killing today let’s stop the killing.

Lanre Olagunju: What are your thoughts over the Lawan Farouk and Femi Otedola bribery scandal?

Omojuwa: it’s sad that you aren’t asking me about the fuel subsidy report but rather on the consequences of the report, which is sad. My opinion essentially is that those who don’t want this country to progress are again winning in their quest at keeping Nigeria and Nigerians poor. Rather than focus on some N2 trillion or so that has been stolen from our people, now we’ve been distracted by Farouk Lawan and Otedola. So at the end, Nigeria and Nigerians will be the biggest losers if we don’t begin to look at the bigger picture. I’m not saying Farouk Lawan and Otedola’s case is not an important thing but let’s allow the law take its course on both of them and let’s face the subsidy report.  If people say the messenger has been discredited therefore the message has been discredited so are they saying that the 2 trillion Naira plus wasn’t stolen? Of course it was stolen.  So let’s find a way to get the money back and it’s not about setting up committees to review another committee and then committee to aggregate the committees that were reviewed. That’s just foolishness! (omojuwa frowns and screams). If we are going to solve this problem let’s solve it and if we aren’t going to solve it let’s stop wasting time and money pretending that we are solving it.

Lanre Olagunju: the president said publicly that he has no hand in the whole drama. How much can Nigerians belief that statement.

Omojuwa: you see trust is born out of antecedents. If I use to tell you things in the past that turned out to be lies will you trust me if I say a new thing? That’s it. I have answered that question. Someone that has never kept his words before now, so how can people begin to believe his words today?

Lanre Olagunju: with this present administration, our debt accumulation is sky rocketing what did he do wrong?

Omojuwa:  As at the last count, one year N1.2trillion. What did he do wrong? Everything! Some N44 billion just disappeared from our account, no one has gone to jail and nothing has happened. Fuel subsidy scam is just hovering around the news nothing has been done, SEC scam nothing has been done, pension scam nothing has been done. Scam! Scam! Scam! What did he do wrong? Look, there are two types of governance, there are things you do and the things you don’t do. For the things he does, he does them wrongly and for the things he doesn’t do, he doesn’t do at all. You talk about the fight against corruption? Dead! He’s such a disaster. Everything is pretty clear, whatever they tell people on NTA the results are there for everyone to see. And what we have is a disaster.

Lanre Olagunju: Are you married

Omojuwa: isn’t that obvious. I’m not married……laughs

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST GOVERNMENT” SAYS JAPHETH OMOJUWA

Lanre Olagunju: What defines Japheth Omojuwa?

Omojuwa: I’m about results, I’m about change , I’m about creating value and essentially I’m about making sure that when I finally exit this planet  I’ve the chance to look back at the things I’ve done and I’d be smiling at the things I got to do. Essentially it’s difficult to define anything because there are many ways and perspectives to define any phenomenon.  So in defining myself, it depends on where you find me but I’m essentially about creating value and solutions.

Lanre Olagunju: @omojuwa on Twitter is one handle on many TL known for speaking against government and tweet slapping the present administration with sharp and hard tweets. Same goes for your articles as well .What exactly do you aim to achieve?

Omojuwa: First of all let me clear something, I don’t speak against government, I speak against what is wrong with government because they are two different things. Government in itself is not a bad thing; government in itself is not a good thing. It’s what the government does that makes it good or bad government. So I don’t speak against government. I speak against bad government, I speak against corruption, I speak against insensitivity, I speak against lack of development, I speak against lack of commitment, I speak against lack of passion on the side of those that are supposed to make things work for us. I speak against lack of sincerity. And what do I intend to achieve? There are many sides to that. First of all, I want Young Nigerians like myself to know that we cannot just sit down and allow things to happen and just keep quiet. Without even getting on the street to do something by just saying I’m not going to take this you’ve at least started something. By just saying this will not stand you’ve at least started something because if you cannot speak what you don’t like how can you bring what you like to pass? For me it’s about making my own constituency know that if we don’t want it, we have to speak against it. Then on the other side, it’s to make the government know that the times have changed. The era of closed government and the era of secrecy are over. Now it’s about open government, now it’s about making sure that whatever goes on in there in their meetings can get out and when it gets out it can go viral so they’d better be careful, and from the people I’ve spoken with, I mean those in government, we haven’t done enough of what we’re expected to do and all that but change is not something that happens overnight. You’ve to start from somewhere, you keep pushing, you keep digging then one day you hit the gusher and the result actually gets to show. But there’s change happening right now, a lot of people might not see it but it’s happening. For me, essentially it’s about change, it’s about making people know that we can be part of change even from the use of our mobile phones.

Lanre Olagunju: Many people find it difficult to understand when you say Omojuwa is not an activist. What does that mean?

Omojuwa: Being an activist, first of all emm…somebody that goes to the hospital to treat people of their sicknesses is a doctor but the fact that I’m able to treat you…for instance say you have an injury that I’m able to give you a good treatment doesn’t mean I’m a doctor. To be a doctor you have to go through several processes. I haven’t gone through the process of being an activist. I’m just an ordinary Nigerian that speaks his mind on a lot of issues including politics and governance. I speak on other things. The first post I published today was on relationships, I speak on relationships, I speak on movies, football, and tennis name it. So are you going to call me whatever name they call all those people? So I’m not an activist. I’m just an ordinary Nigerian who speaks on several issues. I’m not an activist in every sense of the word.

Lanre Olagunju: As early as June 2011, one article of yours that went viral on the internet was “Jonathan has fooled you again” what were you thinking because the president hadn’t spent two months in office as at that time?

Omojuwa: It seems like I was seeing the future, right? Yeah because I was a fan sort of…I was a supporter of the president as at 2010. On the 18^th of September when he declared to run I was excited and my excitement was based on the fact that I felt that for someone who essentially wasn’t a member of the political class, though he was a beneficiary of the system but he’s not someone you’d see in the class of the conventional member of the political class in the likes of the who is who of Nigerian politics. So I felt this person would have the power, knowing where he was coming from and bring about change, but I started seeing from his primary process the loads of money they were spending. It was obvious that something wrong must have been done. Where did they see all of that money? What Jonathan administration spent on campaigning is one of the world records in campaign history if it was actually recorded. So I began to see a …an empty person. I personally got to find out that his campaign was built on sentiment and good luck and things like that. Trust me I’d have voted anyone, apart from somebody that says “vote for me I’m goodluck”. So as at when the government started, just two months into his administration in 2011, a boy from their camp was writing an article on his successes and he wrote fifty things he had done and that was shocking because everything he was writing was fiction because there was nothing truthful about it so I came up with ‘fooling the president’ which was my beginning of general acceptability not that that was my first time of writing. Then something happened again, and then I wrote “Jonathan has fooled you again”

Lanre Olagunju: At that point in time didn’t you feel that you were not giving him benefit of the doubt?

Omojuwa: benefit of the doubt is based on antecedent. When I discovered who this person is and I started paying attention to things I wasn’t paying attention to. I looked at his records in Bayelsa, I looked at the things he did as vice-president. I found out that he was absolutely a sham.  So when you say benefit of the doubt I actually did give him the benefit of the doubt and I discovered that he was a sham.

Lanre Olagunju: looking at the PDP and how far they have taken Nigeria so far. Do you have any hope in the PDP?

Omojuwa:  Hope! Hope is …they say when there’s life there is hope, right? Now when you’re hoping, hope has specifics. You might hope to get a job tomorrow and when you’re hoping to get a job tomorrow you are going to be looking at yourself, are you a graduate?do you have the competence? So in hoping to get a job you definitely have certain jobs in mind.  The fact that you’re hoping to get a job doesn’t mean that hope is broad and that you can get any type of job. You know as a person that there are certain jobs that you can get based on your competence, and things you’ve done in the past. In putting my hope on the PDP, I’m going from the same angle of what has the PDP done in the past 13 years? So I can only build my hope on their antecedents and their records and if you look at what the PDP has been able to do in the past 13 years. To build my hope on the PDP; is to build by hope on an empty ground, on failure, on corruption, on a group of nonentities who know nothing about creating service, about bringing about change for the people, is to put my hope on people who think the best way to govern is to distract, is to put my hope on people who see citizens of Nigeria as their subject and not their co-citizens who need the basic things of life. So 112 million poor people, we don’t have good roads, dilapidated infrastructure, people wailing and crying, penury, poverty destitution. What kind of hope do I want to put in this kind of people? There’s no hope for the PDP going forward

Lanre Olagunju: If you’re saying that you don’t have hope in PDP because they have no result. Come 2015 if Nigerians succeed at voting the PDP out of government. Will that yield any positive result? 

Omojuwa: The danger of having another party succeed PDP is that Nigerians are going to measure the success of that party against that of PDP. Which means that the bar of expectation will be very very low which is a disaster for any country. You know, if as a governor of a state I never built a kilometer of road for eight years like Igbinedion. It means that any government that comes in and builds 10km is a success. So what I’m trying to tell you is that you’d expect that whoever succeeds the PDP will succeed. But the real question is will these people succeed in the real sense of the word. Or would they just do better than PDP and people will say “wow thank God!” so we’ve found ourselves in a place where  failure is the standard so even a little bit of success gets celebrated. But I’m absolutely sure that things can’t be worse than it is under the PDP government. They can’t!

Lanre Olagunju: Do you for-see a coalition of opposition party come 2015

Omojuwa: the fact that they come together and they form an alignment doesn’t guarantee victory at the polls but that’s the starter but if they don’t do that that means they are doomed and that means Nigerians are stuck again with the PDP for at least 8 years. And from what has happened in the past you can imagine what that means?

Lanre Olagunju: as an individual and a Nigerian what political party do you endorse?

Omojuwa: I’m not going to endorse any political party….laughs 

Lanre Olagunju: but why?

Omojuwa:   there are no elections …but certainly I won’t endorse the PDP because the only thing they know how to do is that they know how to fail. So any party apart from the PDP has a chance of getting my endorsement. Though many of the parties are at the point of forming coalitions…so let’s see what happens. But you can be sure that PDP is out of the picture for me and I don’t have apologies about that.

Lanre Olagunju: like you said Nigerians don’t have a standard for measuring success…

omojuwa cuts in… our standard is poor it’s easy to succeed as a leader in Nigeria. ..

Lanre Olagunju: so in your own view what’s the picture of a new Nigeria? 

Omojuwa: the picture of a new Nigeria is not a picture you have to get from nowhere. It’s a picture of modern global realities. It’s a picture of a people that are able to produce, but how can you produce when there’s no power? How can you produce if there are no good roads? How can you produce when there are monopolies? I cannot go into the cement business today I’ll get crushed because there’s a monopoly. There are certain businesses I cannot do today because in one way or the other the government has been able to put checks around places to kill your productivity. We must begin to see our country as a part of the global village where we understand that the things we do in this country have a bearing in the world and the things that happen around the world have a bearing on us. What stops an average Nigerian from producing things and exporting? It doesn’t happen to average Nigerians.It happens to people I will refer to as crony capitalists. We need to free up the economy system, we need to put a system in place that allows people to be productive, create entrepreneurs, a system that allows us to create not just business men that depend on politics to succeed but business men who don’t need to know anybody as long as they have their head, they have the passion and interest to do what they want to do. When we begin to have such a system like that in place everything not necessarily all …but a lot of things will work well. But a system where people leave school, do their NYSC …I’ve a lot of friends doing nothing, not because they are not able to work, not because they don’t want to work but just because the system breeds unemployment. Why won’t there be unemployment when the government is the highest employer of labour? That’s an anomaly. We need to put a system in place that allows the private sector to run. How can the private sector run when the banks have exorbitant interest rates?  Why won’t the banks have high interest rates when governments’ internal borrowing has crowded the banks themselves? You can’t aid the private sector like that. These are the basics that we must look at as a nation then the picture we desire by itself will eventually fall in place. It’s not something we necessarily have to go and paint and say this is the future that we want. It’s something we can actually build by consistently doing things right

Lanre Olagunju: You sound quite brilliant with your analysis about the economy and also governance. So how soon do we expect to see you in politics or isn’t that the summary of yourlabour?

Omojuwa: politics?! You don’t expect me in politics. I’m not cut out for politics… cuts in

Lanre Olagunju: is it a no-no thing?!

Omojuwa: politics in Nigeria is not a place where you say things the way they are, it’s a place where you say things the people want to hear. And I’m interested in things that people have to hear.  So until I know that the majority of Nigerians are ready to listen to the truth especially the so-called political class and ordinary people. Until I know that they’re ready to understand that there are many things and that there’re certain things that we shouldn’t’ allow to happen, then I can say Ok politics. But I as a person I believe in processes. The time isn’t right for me to be in politics and I haven’t done enough with my own personal life when I’m satisfied with my own personal success  I can begin to think about politics. May be!

Lanre Olagunju: looking at the involvement of young people in politics today, do you feel that the time is ripe for young people to venture into politics?

Omojuwa: Of course the time is ripe…

Lanre Olagunju: yeah young people are so passionate, but how much can we rely on that?

Omojuwa: yes the time is ripe for young people to be involved in politics and when I say politics, now I mean partisan politics, more or less I’m part of the system. I have a blog that caters for well over 200,000 different people and millions of hits in a half year. Essentially I’m more or less a part of the political system. So I’d rather say young people get involved in politics in terms of not staying on the sideline and complaining but in terms of being part of the system in terms of making government and those in government know that “look things have changed we can’t just take this” and if all of those things doen’t work, then things like civil unrest and civil disobedience are things that are meant to bring about change.

Lanre Olagunju: That reminds me. The occupy Nigeria protest that held the nation at a standstill in the early days of January, you were strongly involved…you were on air a couple of times making analysis and also a mover of the Abuja protest. As that act of civil unrest achieved its all?

Omojuwa: I really don’t know why people keep asking this question. Occupy Nigeria wasn’t about regime change, because most of those who said it failed were thinking we were going to have a Nigerian spring then you change the regime. That for me wasn’t the objective. The objective for me was to get the price back to N65. As an objective, that essentially wasn’t a success. But we were able to remove N43 from the price per litre. If you calculate the effect and the direct cost of saving N43 compared to if we’d allowed the prize to stay. Analyze the effect on the direct price of goods and services. I heard the inflation unit jumped by 200 units in January if we’d allowed it to stay we’d be talking about some 500unit jump by now. From abroad the kind of attention we’re able to get in terms of saying that Nigerians aren’t going to sit down anymore and accept all that is being thrown at them. That was the first time in the history of this Nation. I mean we put the nation to a standstill for about two weeks…so one way or the other if you are not able to appreciate your small success for what they are you will not be able to value the big success when they come. It’s a gradual process. I don’t believe in instantaneous change I believe in procedural change, change process that graduates by itself. And the thing is that Nigerians are more involved in politics today than ever before. I know because before now, we dint have political blogs that have crowd pulls, people coming to read and all that. But now we have a lot of political blogs springing up here and there. So it’s a sign that Nigerians are more interested in politics and until people are more interested in the politics of their nation they won’t be part of the political process and if they are not part of the political process we are bound to have a few people run the country…but things are changing and occupy Nigeria was a part of that process. It’s a beginning in itself of a better Nigeria.

Watch out for the concluding part of this interview....

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WHY SHALL I FEAR BY @ LANRE_OLAGUNJU

We’ve been told by motivational speakers that fear and anxiety are destroyers of destiny and we’ve been programmed to see fear as a huge detriment to success. I wonder if they can ever get enough of the bad press. Humans and animals alike have the ability to experience fear

Everyone has either been afraid of or is afraid of at least one thing. Any daring attempt to boast that one has never been afraid is nothing but a cowardly behaviour. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi “Fear has its use but cowardice has none”

It’s good and very natural to have a healthy size of fear over some things. A small amount of fear before presenting an important speech or an examination might serve a great purpose. Such a felling pushes you to study hard and make adequate preparation so as to avoid the shame that convoys failure.

Ironically, fear in this sense becomes a great tool. Even if you weren’t passionate about studying; the fear of being an empty head becomes a motivator. This type of fear is essential in sharpening the mind and also bringing out the best. I see it like this, if you are not afraid of anything, the truth is that you are not living! For it is only when you summon the courage to conquer your fears that you truly become yourself.

Same goes for the fear of poverty. Many have been able to achieve their financial goals and aspiration because of the knowledge and fear of what poverty is capable of doing.  I could remember the response of Chude Jideonwo, co-founder and Creative Director of RedSTRAT/The Future Project, when he was asked in an interview–why do you do the things you do? “Besides being a passionate person, a lot of things I do are driven quite seriously by the fear of poverty”, Chude explained. The world is truly a better place because young people like him were afraid, yet they didn’t turn away.

If only Nigerian leaders were afraid. Afraid that their thoughtfulness to looting and insensitivity to the people they govern will one day make Nigeria a failed state, remain permanently on the list of most corrupt nations and of course the sixth most dangerous country in Africa as the case presently is.

Fear helps to focus. Are you asking how? Ok come to think of it, in what circumstance do we catch ourselves extremely focused?  Like me, have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and feel that a housebreaker has found his way into the house, probably because you could ear some imaginary foot steps you can’t account for? Have you ever been chased by a dog before? Did you at that point call for coffee or try to remember the movie you saw last? Absolutely No! 

We avoid and deny fear, feeling we would be better off without it. We forget that it’s from the artificially induced fear from adventure that we gather the greatest emotional excitement. Simply because it makes us focus, agile and alert. If you check thoroughly, you will discover that there is only a slight difference between fear and excitement. Besides that one is a negative emotion and the other is a positive emotion, it basically boils down to how you see it. The sensation is the same. It’s just that you add a little “oh no!” for fear and oh boy!” for excitement.

Fear helps to check and put balance to things by helping to ask the important question. Such as, hope nothing is missing out? It also helps to concentrate on the most important things and ensure that they are achieved in the shortest time possible. How? Imagine I give you two minutes in the shopping mall to fill in a chopping cart with things of your choice. You know too well to ignore things you can always afford, you don’t even want to say hi and chat away your time with that old friend that just walked in to the mall, simply because you don’t want to waste such an ample opportunity. 

In the same vein I strongly feel that we should be afraid of missing out of life ‘cos we only have about 70 years to grab all we can. And come to think of it, life expectancy over here is estimated to be forty-eight years, and you must be reminded that that was before bombing started.

We should be afraid that we just might be focusing on the trifles and frivolities of life alone.

It’s worth noting that no one on the death bed regrets not having enough sex, wine, food, shoes or designer wears. What many regret at such point is; not having spent enough time with loved-ones, not having spent time in the most productive way possible, and not having made enough significant impact in the lives of others essentially when they had the opportunity.

On the other hand, some types of fear that are excessive can inflict severe pain and anguish, but majority of the daily fears we encounter are basically illusions and many of them shouldn’t be given more attention than television commercials and the jumbo size election year promises of fresh air and  transformation

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6 VALUABLE LIFE LESSONS KIDS CAN TEACH ADULTS BY @LANRE_OLAGUNJU

Look into the eye of the child close to you; you can be sure that his/her eyes are clear and bright. Kids know how to smile and when they laugh they just don’t care. Little wonder why when they breathe their shoulders don’t have to go up and down like many adults have mastered. No thanks to our mastery in worrying.  It’s quite amazing to discover that majority of what made our childhood memorable and fun has been lost to adulthood. Not knowing that many of them are basically the recipes answerable to making our lives memorable and fun. The greatest of all law is to love and like Mahatma Gandhi puts it “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children” That makes it easier to understand why Jesus said "I can guarantee this truth: Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven”. The following lessons can be learnt from kids;

 Dream Big

Every child has an expectation of what he or she would become. A child wants to become a doctor or a lawyer just at the site of one. Their intricate ability to dream and live in their imagination is evident in their discussion and play. A child would ride in the best jeep of his choice, create sound of the engine with the mouth and then get the same feeling with anyone who drives such a car as he drives to the destination of his choice. All in the mind! Only kids do such. They are naturally armed with the mindset that they can be anything, giving no thought to fear, limitations or boundaries and to a great extend nature works with the imagination and expectation of the minds. Though to dream is cheap, yet, many adults can’t afford it. 

Honesty

Kids are honest to a fault and they just don’t know how to hide their feelings like we adults do. They say things just the way they are, to the best of their descriptive intelligence and proficiency. Kids wear their expressions all over them. You essentially don’t need to have a degree in soothsaying to tell when a child is angry, happy, frightened or indifferent. Contrarily, with adults, you have to listen carefully to what is been said and then discern the messages behind non-verbal expressions. Adults conceal expressions for many reasons, making communication and ability to maintain sincerity very difficult.  

Valuing Relationship

There are only few things kids love much more than hanging out with their friends. Given the chance, Kids would never leave their friends’ side.  At that age they still have the mastery to admire, respect, and trust their friends unconditionally. Adults forget that a healthy personal relationship is a vital key to happiness.  Adults are the ones scared of talking to strangers. We still hold in high esteem the ‘don’t talk to anybody you don’t know advice and when they call or talk to you, please don’t answer’ –hence not meeting new people, forgetting that our old friends were once strangers. Adults are too careful to spare anyone benefit of the doubt, so very afraid of betrayal. We say all men/women are the same despite that all men don’t have the same name, face or genetic makeup. 

Unending Curiosity About Everything

No one is constantly driven by curiosity as a child. The fact that kids are constantly in pursuit of the unknown guides their education and help them input important files in their virgin but big memory. They ask questions like there’s no tomorrow, and you wonder if the questions will ever end. Look at how P. J. O'Rourke puts it “You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going” Naturally adults don’t know that you hardly loose a thing when you ask but you risk all when you don’t ask.  Adults don’t ask questions for all the wrong reasons. We feel it’s shameful not to know, but it’s foolish not to ask when you actually don’t know. Adult feel safer to assume not noting that assumption is the least form of knowledge. You might not get answers to all questions like kids don’t but you’ll never get an answer to a question you never asked. 

Playfulness and Simplicity

The primary occupation of every child is to play and it can be amazingly dramatic to see parents spend the first 12 months teaching a new born how to talk and walk all for them to be later yelled at to sit down and be quiet. Kids are the ones that discover dance well before coming to terms with what music is or is not. It’s not a terrible thing to be childish every once in a while. We ‘serious adults’ feel we need to constantly remain so serious to retain our maturity. Maturity is sometimes overrated. Kids live spontaneously and that naturally affords them to maximize fun, enjoying the beauty of every moment.

Great Forgiving Spirit

Kids do not know how to hold grudges; malice is a word kids have to grow up to understand. When they are hurt they might say things like “I won’t play with you again” but you can be so sure that it won’t last. Un-forgiveness has been traced to severe stress and anxiety.

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MASTURBATION AND WET DREAMS By @Lanre_Olagunju

More caution has to be taken these days since notable words have been released from religious quarters. May I offer to advise that you don’t laugh whenever you are in the bathroom, especially if you fall into the category of those who get inspiration under the influence of the shower, else, it would be simply assumed that you’re having a nice time playing with yourself.

It’s a known fact that there are a couple of grey areas in religion. Many of these cloudy zones are better handled by personal interpretation either based on one’s level of understanding or conviction. If you cast your mind back a little, you will remember that it used to be quite controversial to wear a pair of trousers to church as a woman, now we all know that it doesn’t stop the anointing from flowing from the altar. In addition, we all know that the era that God is only pleased with hand woven hair or hair plaited with local thread is long over. Today, contrarily, men won’t even let women have enough shampoo and hair relaxers to go round.

In the same way, I nurse the apprehension that masturbation, one-day, will become the prescribed religious way-out of avoiding the real thing. Just as it is secularly advertized that “if you no fit hold body, abeg use condom”. Or what exactly was pastor Chris Oyakhilome thinking or trying to say when he said “masturbation is not a sin against God” in that video? Was he trying to say that the guilt that comes with touching one’s own sex organ for the promise of pleasure is not from God, or was he just trying to emphasize that Christians might as well, now freely wank in the Lord?

Irrespective of cultural attitudes and religion, masturbation has been found in all societies. Fifteen years of research in human sexual behaviour by the famous sexuality researcher, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, revealed that 95% of males and 60% of females had at a point masturbated. Of the three forms of sexual release, sex, masturbation and nocturnal emission widely known as wet dreams, masturbation has pulled more controversial attention for itself than others, especially among the religious.

A whole lot of fabrications have been conjured from time immemorial as regards the addictive habit. Opinions that masturbation leads to blindness, physical problems such as mental illness and growing hair on the palms aren’t true. Some even nurse the idea that others, including medical doctors and sexual partners, will be able to tell if you masturbate. Another interesting one is that men will run out of semen or sperm if they masturbate excessively. The testis is a factory for mass sperm production and masturbation isn’t going to close down that factory. Myths of this nature and a host of others are big opinions with no factual medical basis.

Medically there hasn’t been physical or mental side effects like many of these myths propose, but doctors are worried about over masturbation especially when it’s a symptom of obsessive/compulsive disorder. Too much may lead to a reduced response to other people’s touch, which might be injurious to any relationship. Obsessive masturbation may be offensive to one’s sexual partner as it might be seen as a substitute for seeming unsatisfactory intercourse. Compulsive masturbation can be a major challenge if it affects a person’s daily personal or professional life or when it hinders a person from fulfilling their responsibilities and commitments.

If religiously we claim that wanking is sinful and morally we regard it as shameful, then what about nocturnal emission, where ejaculation occurs while asleep? Doesn’t nightfall also bring some level of shame during the first occurrence? May be you need to remember how embarrassing it was to first discover that the cartographer in your sexual center can also conjure maps well designed with beautiful white paintings. How many times did you wake up to wonder who sketched the maps of countries and places that don’t exist all over your short and bed spread?

It is well expected and reasonable to say that we are not responsible for our actions in our sleep but according to research by Alfred Kinsey, men who have low masturbation may have higher frequencies of nocturnal emission, though taking certain drugs containing high volume of testosterone might as well be responsible. Also, Dr. Vora in his book ‘Wet Dreams’ said wet dreams are almost constant accompaniment of young adult who are yet to explore sex.

He described wet dreams as a natural way of getting relief of sexual tension while still observing continence. He further explained that a healthy man living with his wife in normal condition should not necessarily have them including those who are given to regular masturbation, for there is little time for the accumulation of the secretion to produce distension of the vesicles.

Some nurse the impression that even wet dreams are bad, though they cannot ascertain that they are sinful, since its occurrence is not under any willful control. It should be noted that the cause of nightfall is not always related to erotic thoughts or dreams. They majorly occur when the reproductive organs are unable to hold excessively produced seminal fluids. One might as well conclude that man needs to ejaculate from time to time even when he’s not sexually active.

This implies that the body can hold a max amount of semen and when it reaches its threshold, it needs to get rid of the excess. So if two actions achieve the same result, how come one has been more controversial than the other?

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CAN WE BLAME GOD? BY LANRE OLAGUNJU

The existence of a supreme being is an issue that till the end of time will keep generating an unending controversy among different races and people. Though I’ve got no intention to delve into that, I can only advise that it’s smarter to live and assume that a God exists somewhere, so as not to die and shockingly discover that He truly does. And if perhaps he truly doesn’t exist, shouldn’t your gentle soul just rest in peace like family, friends, and enemies repeatedly prayed, while you speechlessly watch from another world.

Those of us who agree and confess to believe in the existence of God also acknowledge that He’s so loving, caring, and perfect; reason that He’s made provision for all that man needs to govern over the entire planet earth amongst other reasons.

Though some are too religious to ever nurse the thought that God created pain, but before you rebuke me or the devil that isnt anywhere in me, think about those critical times, when you or someone dear to you went through pains and excruciating experiences that doesn’t match the traditional belief of a good and loving God, though we don’t ventilate it. We just want to think that probably He must have goofed in this area. If not. Why did God create pain? What was the pain mechanism suppose to achieve? This has been my major source of headache from time and I think the quest to know and understand might just be a lifelong assignment.

Great philosophers have posed questions like ‘why hadn’t God designed a nervous system that protect us without the unpleasant aspect of pain. So many conflicting believes even amongst people of faith. Some are of the opinion that man must have stepped out of God’s will and that God uses circumstances to bring us back to normalcy.

The reason why we cherish pleasure is because of the reality of pain. So from a perspective, pain is essential to normal life. Although to one suffering from cancer and the miserable pain of chemotherapy, pain to such is far greater than misery. But to anyone with a reasonable health, pain is a communicator that protects.

Ok let’s take the oldest recorded and the most dreaded disease, Hansen’s disease-(leprosy) for instance. It’s the only one I can think of for now and it’s vital for this discuss. Leprosy is a disease of the nervous system. The bacteria practically attacks the pain cells of the skin, peripheral nerves in the hands, feets, and mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and eyes to numbness.

If we fear disease because of the pain and misery it brings, then what is so horrible about diseases that cost no pain? A woman whose infant was suffering from “congenital indifference” told a horrifying story of how she heard her child cooing and laughing loud all alone as if she’s discovered something new. Only for her to amazingly discover that her daughter had bitten off the tip of her fingers with her newly grown four teeth and was playing in the blood, making patterns with the drips. Could pain be created as a quality that saves us from destruction?

We have at certain points made God lesser than he is over the issue of pain and suffering ignoring that even man has brought more pain to man. Many of the things we derive satisfaction from we don’t complain or lament over. Things such as our ability to perceive, eat and drink, pleasure derived from scratching when the skin itches and also the wild fire pleasure of orgasm.

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7 WAYS TO BUILD STRONG SELF ESTEEM IN KIDS BY LANRE OLAGUNJU

In both kids and adults, low self esteem has always been responsible for; blaming oneself for things that are distance from personal fault, underestimating one’s ability and the making of a super pessimist. Constructive parenting in a healthy family setting gives a lending hand in attacking the challenges related to low self esteem, essentially in kids. Children who don’t have this sense of well being quite early, most times, end up struggling through life searching for it, still unsure of what exactly they are looking for. Since they don’t know how it feels.

 Difficult is not enough to describe the act of giving what is not there. Parents who probably didn’t grow up with great self confidence might see it as a great hurdle nurturing kids to have one. The result of the following self esteem boosters makes the different between the brilliant kids who become successful and the others.

1. Affirm in public and correct in private.

Children need to be showed enough love and acceptance and parents are the only people biologically automated to do that. But most times parents withdraw with a large overdraft. You need to affirm enough to correct. Strict reprimanding is better done in closet, after all the basic goal of correcting is to help improve and not to hurt, attack or destroy. Appraisal should be done from time to time when kids get things right. When correction is done publicly it stops been correction, it becomes humiliation and nothing kills a child self esteem like humiliating them publicly. And if you think that kids will ever forget such words overnight you can be sure to be very wrong

2. Don’t compare kids to others – not even siblings, it’s not worth it.

The uniqueness in every child is always crying out loud for deep expression. Some parents with the intention of motivating their wards do so by comparing them to kids next door, not knowing the peculiar behavioral challenges such kids are also battling with. It’s more profitable to help kids compete with themselves, not others. In every sense there will always be somebody somewhere better.

3. Every child is good at something, discover and encourage it.

As every child grows older she naturally does well at something though only very observant parent discover it. When a child enjoys a particular activity, it boosts her self-image, and this in a way has a magical way of translating into ripple effect on other activities. This phenomenon, in psychology is referred to as the  “the carry over principle” a parent who has mastered the principle explained how she encouraged her child’s passion and involvement in athletics despite that he’d a poor interest in his academics. It didn’t take time before she discovered that his school works improved as his over all self confidence increased.

4. Don’t set unrealistic expectations for kids

It’s so unimaginable how parents automatically feel that because they did exceptionally well in academics, sport, music or a particular career, then just like that their kids will. Error! Every child has her uniqueness and when a child is so exposed to many unrealistic expectations, its damages by threatening her sense of competence which is a valuable confidence builder. Child psychologist advise that striking a balance between pushing kids to do their best and protecting them is safer.

5. Address kids by name.

Researchers say that when you address a child by name essentially when accomplished by eye contact and touch it projects a “you are special” message.  It has also been researched that beginning an interaction using a child’s name helps to gain attention, break barriers and also paves way for corrective discipline

6. Be available to welcome and answer questions no matter how stupid they might sound.

We must be reminded that parenting can’t be outsourced. If the house maid is the first to answer questions like “where do babies come from” or questions like “why do I have a small rat between my legs and Daniella doesn’t?” Then just know that no matter how much money you make the child bears the name of that maid ‘cos he who sits with the child induces the child identity. Make them friends, such that their friends say things like “I wish we could exchange parents”.

7.  Give plenty of touch, attention and eyes contact.

I heard this particular story from a very insightful and distinguished clergyman, Poju Oyemade. During the 17th century, Emperor Fredrick wanted to bring to assertiveness one of his mind bugging observations on the significance of expressive love. So he carried out an experiment that was later discovered to be an expensive one. He gave an order to nurses and baby sitters that they shouldn’t express any form of love or affection to some selected infants. Though they were permitted to feed them, change their diapers and do all other necessary things apart from expressing love in any form of touch, cuddling, care and communication. To the utmost surprise of the monarch and the midwives, all the babies died.

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FREE ENTERPRISE: AN ANTECEDENT TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY BY LANRE OLAGUNJU.

It’s becoming evidently clear that nations get on when individuals are permitted to decide economic choices that represent their utmost interest. From America, to Japan then Europe, even the uninitiated can quickly reach an agreement that free market has helped to realize economic advancement in such zones. The concept of economic opulence to a considerable extent is inseparable from the theory of freedom which is a forerunner to economic abundance, even the law of first thing first agrees that something must come earlier as a source of development or advancement of another thing.

Prosperity is attained when labour is well channeled and constructive. Constructive labour involves the adequate use of one’s intellect and natural resources to meet needs with rewarding benefits. Economic prosperity a la can be achieved when individuals who comprise of the society harness their individual skills and intellectual brain seed into profitable ventures. However, such an act can only be realizable within the jurisdiction of freedom and the promise of incentive, knowing too well that man is a psychological being and his actions are mostly fuelled either by the avoidance of pain or the promise of pleasure.

Free market system puts productivity ahead of hard work. Productivity is boosted in the sense that taxes are kept low, therefore producers can produce more since they can keep more of what they earn.  It is a result oriented system that ensures the satisfaction of consumer wants, and when consumer satisfaction becomes a culture, sure, demand will increase which will equally push up prices, increasing profits to producers and investors. Increased profits will attract more investors and eventually push up wages to attract more workers, thereby reducing unemployment. It should be noted that as supply of a particular product gradually increases, consumers are definitely going to experience a fall in price. Therefore, free market creates an atmosphere where consumers needs are satisfied, it creates more employment and rewards workers with apt incentives. This explains why workers in third world countries labour for long hours with little or nothing to show for it.

Free enterprise promotes civility. Commerce makes it possible to do business or service to another without bearing him real kindness, traders require the trust and confidence of those with whom they trade, and so contribute to a climate in which promises are kept. Though altruism might be very appropriate in other areas of life like family, we just know that it won’t take us any far in business.

Free enterprise has a brilliant way of reducing cost of living and yet increase the standard of living.  As I write, I can’t think of any other apt scenario to verify my claims apart from the great revolution that took over the Nigerian telecommunication sector. Before 2001, NITEL, one of the prove that shows that the Nigerian government has nothing to offer, succeeded in providing only 400,000 lines for a population of over 150 million. So inequality might reign among the haves and have-nots. At the onset, when GSM was introduced into Nigeria, as usual only the rich could afford it. The poor might have to use-up an entire savings to purchase one. 


During this period, since the nation was still bound with the psychological chain and fetters of a comatose telecom system, we all felt it was Ok to be charged $0.65 for sixty plus one seconds call. Customers paid per minute, and in cases when you don’t use up a minute, mathematically you dash away money for service that you dint use. In fact, MTN at that time had said that per second billing was absolutely impossible. It only took the advent of GLO to realize that that wasn’t just a lousy joke; it was also a market lie! Today, the onetime luxury of the wealthy, only accessible to the rich few has become the necessities of the many. Now that all telecom providers have to strive amidst healthy competition, prices of both GSM lines and call rates have drastically fallen. Lines that were sold for N20,000 in 2001 are now been sold for a giveaway prize of N100 with many value added benefits. Sure you’d agree that a whopping 19,900% decrease in prize in every sense signifies a reduction in cost of living.

It’s a common place mistake to think that freedom in its real sense is the absolute absence of restraint. No! Permit me jog your memory to the theory of civil society which spells it out that freedom is a system whereby just restraint is applied to men. Restraint is vital because power is open to abuse by those who exercise them. This is where the rule of law now comes to play, because rules must be rules else, men will become savages and undomesticated. Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers in 1787, “Men love power ...Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.” At the risk of adding yet another quote to this paragraph, may I quickly bring to mind the words of the British historian, Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell in 1887? “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are always bad men” were his own insight. Private owners yes must be able to decide how well they use their property yet, they must be held accountable for their actions.

Critics and challengers of economic liberty are fond of the opinion that freedom does inevitably lead to a degree of inequality in people’s wealth and income. I concur. Yet, I must point out that they most times forget that attempts to use government to determine people’s income creates an haphazard society where access to political office determines wealth, like it’s the case of Nigeria and many African nations. At the point of choosing a lesser devil, it must be noted that this form of inequality is more detrimental to the poor than the inequality of wealth created by free enterprise. Free enterprise rewards people with high incomes only as long as they serve the customer better than others do. So?!

 Others are so very quick to blame recession on economic liberty during times of economic expansion while they neglect the fact that economic recessions are triggered by inflation as a result of government expanding the supply of money and credit recklessly at a velocity faster than the growth of the economy itself. Inflation is birthed by increasing the supply of money relative to the supply of goods and services. This has always been a way of whittling away the value of money. This in-turn takes the rate of unemployment northward, which lend credence to Newton’s law which says that “for every action (including economic, emphasis mine), there is an equal and opposite reaction” the way out isn’t to murder free enterprise, but to simply take the supply of money out of government. Sometimes, unemployment is caused by regulations and unbearable taxes, which causes a misalliance between supply of labour and consumer need. In a free enterprise economy there is always availability of work .Come to think of it, can the demands of consumers be exhausted?

If Nigeria and other African nations must be healed of poverty majorly caused by corruption and gross irresponsibility of political leaders, a free market system is the right medication. The idea of partial- deregulation is just like strengthening the cause of a disease and passionately attacking the symptoms. It’s a colossal waste of time!

No one tends to take care of what belongs to no one or everyone like what belongs to him.  

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