Public Governance

Accountability and transparency is fallen in the public places and somewhat a public deterrence to good governance .The current president bola tinubu is yet to change the bad habbit building new governance tradition lacking in African society.Beginning from next year attempt has been made to review ministerial impact and role through signatory to performance bond as disclosed by president himself.This is aimed at ensuring good governance and we should support this government.It is the first initiative after the final verdict of supreme court upheld the February election.Hopefully new bounties are competitive  disclosed and more fortunes in the national projects open up gradually.

DARBY AND JOANS

                                                           

Tempestuous gallivant of tremour rattles the sitting room

Cadence stiffens vendata as it romps from dead pan into

a deadlock ;

The nimble-sighted fracas annexed by counterblast  and

Armada of arggy-baggies thus began;

‘’love so arduous tarry long;love so dicey loves forever,

And loves so cumbersome smears forever,

And so in the upper enclave  they steed thy loins.Thou knoweth it not ‘’

‘’Trade not armistice ,thou mole of wretched asshole ,

-an apologia that thou canst not defend ;

Will thy argot saved thee to defend the allegory ?

Blethering pounds of bligthers  in thy loins romps  apoplexy

Thou gatherim g clouds of cacophony  in whose wench cadavenous

 cackles wither ‘’

‘’Behold you knave of Mongolian neanderthal  ,a dolt of bathos ,a

 Dumbel of common ailment,

A plainant pointificate haunted by knackery and caught in the cadges

of the cad and cabages;

Chide the cadavers and lampoon the calisthenics-callow of the cadgers

Salacious galls so dainty ,they meed in hell ;for love so arduos so dicey

 loves forever ,

Revert to camaraderie and capitulate!’’

‘’What cannibalistic mien art thou, so smeared of brasstacks

And knoweth not how   disgusting  thy lacuna ;tis  love never let thee inquire ,

And blind thee to the counsel of verity;

Barricading  the promenade to veracity,let alone caress thee to the beauty

 of feminism  ;

How warden love trimmed hardest love to carol its effigy –

A carte blanche in derision and a cauldron of gender  repression;

Fairer maids never come at nights  and to thee mire I gave ,

In exchange of cause celebre

O blessed deceit ,ignoble chavalier ,wither !’’;

‘’Shall I swear  by ignoble ego ,so thy grievous self be all righteous

And appurtenances of blissful  garden by thy trademark?‘’.

‘’Chinless won der swear not with thy ignoble humble self ;

And a cipher hound of luminous   circadian rhythm,

Knowest not thy follies , that thou mayest  not falter at thy beckoning ,

Bless thee now that thy folly can depart  and swear not with the earth

Under sun  but thee the  sun of  heaven  ,

For thou didst not keep them  and gallows at heart‘’.

Jocund  gay  to jockey for position clamours far away,

Did the falconer not fagged at the fag’s end ?

Did she hear the falsetto of pooves at its stable?

Swung to avidity and fervidity whose festal pomp and festoon

Of fuddy-duddy tosses , in trenches of furore,

Fabled on the hoof of hohas and hooeys ,of hoopla to scoop  disgusting

clowns ,

Gift of the gab now gift of the garb,so direst to calumniate .

She gleans on this glebe amidst the glistering pawns of glees

And pouncing glides ,

Pure,kink-hearted goons steeds to lapse and still out of the lather

,the latitudinarianistic lather struck the latch,

A bigotry netherly derelicts and a pantaloon hoodwinked by voodoo

Of astigmatism;

Prim-ridden palor ,a bald plate of peregrinated  wit,a perk of phantom

 Harangue;

And hooded by phantasmagoria picketing of the Queensberry rules

Does the goose pays the piper and the gander?

Does the radicle rot before its rapist?

Scraggly whore of a scoundrel  feedeth on her palm,

And like a scotch of a scourge scouts for scam in the direst villain of

 Teleology.

                                                           CHRONOPHOBIA

Brashtide lurks in its veil wherein deadweight is sinewy and shred

See,how it dampens to coat lever upon the belligerency of its cocoon

Fested oars;

And golden nuggets and pearly-foxes interred beneath seashores 

muzzled an ox;

To hound the  personages of this bombastic logophobia and gladiators of eschatology

And rays of epistemology;

Cast over lushy curtains of agoraphobia.

Does the spinage takes the next line of defence;

In dark disdain and utter disgust as frosty bland of studded briddle?

Was she not so coy and forced to content  upon the brawny

sinewy of the senile ,

To feed on the heavenly steam ?

That moisture of grace that thou  refutes  at guillotine ,

And calls it bluff with pure chaste held alloyed over charm,

 that breedeth more beauty than the whole of Alupluto ,

And crimson sallow overworn  and bruised from the earth-bliss,

A renegade that thy sallow dismayed upon the pleading balm to

infect the soothing nerves ;

That deprived monarch of charm canst not hold down  her resolve

And lo, forth from beneath to above and hence rigmarole,

Chasm  reflex flexes the ambience of  mortals

Oh chronophobia ,thy repugnance fits the fiddle as thy wrath and penalty

Did she not spin in veil that thou mayest bridle this fury?

Whose venom on the art of derision knows no bound

And no balm even for its personages to refrain fury .

Anachronists are known to fall into this orgy and penals

Whose remorse  zeutergeists grope in the dark

Cast in bellicose rapture and galled by foible and chasm .

Smitten by fury , did she ever remorse too late too soon?

Too soon ,too late forever caught by wedge never recover

It pays the ritual that jury might sacrifice to chaste this fury

Inquire the motes as they evanesce to spin off recklessness of arts

Plead not for justice by thyself of exuberance of ambivalence .

Heavens dews thrill the earth of the salved ;that thou mayest fly

as the eagles ;

In whose benumb the dead must be shed and the furies chastised by

Entreaties and pleadings of the salved to scythe outbreak

Art is vile behold wherein man is vile and man is vile wherein vile is art ;

Peregrinated wit unction its galls as arts savour replenishes  its brawl

Shall the brawny veins flex in vain and vile and the fury evermore disdained ?

Alas ,the strike is terror and the terror the strike

And for the vigilant the strike is victory ;for the smart at heart befriend it.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMIC EQUALITY.part 1

the security for growth and development is accesible to societies around the globe at the click of economic justice . As it appears ,indeed a farce on paper and those given to the actualisation of such bogus dreams could be seen to be living like ROBINSO CRUSOE and caught in an island,and not haunted with resolve to proffer solution but also unable to  cure his ignogrance .
hOWEVER,GIVEN THE FACT THAT ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE INVARIABLY DEVISED TO PREDICT UNOBSERVABLE PHENOMENA,describe unobservable mechanism and structures and that the value of a theory is embedded in its structure to predict this observable phenomena,it automatically becomes aprediction or forecast instruments,even thogh has likewise face incessant criticism from the philosophers of science. Friedman-1953,Leplin 1984 and Ibikunle20018.
Is there any possibility whatsoever that the forecast task of economic equality attainable and parameters and indicators induced towards this elusive direction?In the same way,in which Hausman1992,in its realistic approach to economic theory and the main goal to arrive at assumptions that approximately true,which also suggest economic theory theories and economists should strive to pay greater attention to economic institutions,cmparative analysis and economic history,the notion of economic equality ought not to be jettisoned either.
We are  banboozled but not concerned at the ballooning proportion of economic inequality of mordern times and no society is spared in the international community.The dearth of economic theories and relevant institutions stare in the face as public misery persist and escalate.

HISTORY ON THE RADAR : THE NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP Part one

                 

Nigerian got independence  in 1960 and the new nation was born and today is  the most powerful  ,richest and the biggest economy in Africa and the biggest black nation on earth .A lot  has happened  in more than a century  of nation building yet the strategic ideals of nationhood is far from being achieved .Inspite of the challenges the nation has emerged even stronger much against the speculation of a possible break up from external aggression ,international conspiracies and the mutiny of the fifth columnists .In this chapter ,we review the checkered antecedence of the Nigerian leadership profiles right from independence till this date .This critiques the nature and the direction of leadership  generations  in general  its challenges and the solution required to revisit the Nigerian project  abandoned long ago perhaps from the first republic .Enjoy the reading .

                                      A Review Of Nigerian Leadership Antecedence -1960-2014

                                       Tafawa Balewa.

Right from independence the challenges facing leadership has not been that easy and the mantle of leadership of course has fallen on average Nigerian like us   At the dawn  of the new nation,  Tafawa Balewa became the first prime minister  .As a common Nigerian of northern extraction during the colonial era he was trained as teacher  and became a political appointee in 1952 as a minister of works .He later served as minister of transport and was elected in 1957 was instrumental to the formation of a coalition government between the northern peoples forum-NPC and the national council of Nigerian and Cameroons –NCNC later known as national council of Nigerian citizens –NCNC led by Nnamdi Azikiwe .In a military coup on January 15, 1966, the Balewa  was overthrown  and killed including his old companion –Ahmadu Bello and several leaders .Six days after his murder his body was thrown at the roadside near Lagos .He was buried in Bauchi and Tafawa Balewa university was named in his honour .

                                           Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe

On November 16 , 1904,Zik of Africa as popularly known  was born  in Newi and died 1996 at the university of Nsuka teaching hospital , Enugu.He was one of the nation ‘s leading lights of the nation’s nationalist struggles showed patriotic vigour  and adorned our five hundred notes like a colossus ,espoused the African nationalism liberation that set the pace for freedom of countries like South Africa and produced distant mentee like Nelson Mandela –the later hero  of Anti partheid movement in South Africa emulated in other nationalistic struggles.Little wonder ,the moniker of ‘Zik Of Africa ‘had come to stay that depicted the historical colossus and by far  the greatest singular impact and influence a Nigerian leader   has had on the African continent.He got his master  from Abraham Lincoln University in Penysylvania in U.S.and later became an instructor in the same University .He joined the African Morning Post in Accra ,Ghana as Editor .With this strategic tool of Journalism ,he was able to drive his liberation policies and ideologies such as regisomentos etc –a platform that he efficiently used well to earn the moniker . He became a leading light in the Nigerian Journalism beginning with his various publications such as defunct west African Pilot and a host of others in his stable-the Zik Group of Newspapers across the country.He had a successful  political career  and a great contributor to the nationalistic struggles that led to the formation of national council of Nigerian Citizens which he co-founded alongside Herbert Macauley –the pioneer nationalist in the country .He was selected into colonial legislative council of Nigeria in 1947 and   by 1951 became a leader of opposition to the government of Obafemi Awolowo in the then western house of Assembly .He was premier of the eastern region in 1954 and by 1960 ,Zik of  Africa born in 1900 in Zungeru in the northern region became the 1^st senate president in the country.

                             JTU AGUIYI IRONSI

Between  1924 and 1966 – a Nigerian of Igbo extraction was born and lived and a strong political figure with uncommon touch, transformed his nation and polity .Johnson  Thomas Unmunakwe Aguiyi   Ironsi ,on January  16, 1966 became the President of Federal republic of Nigeria .He was murdered in a coup perpetrated on July 29,1966.The Nigerian first military president was born in 1924 in Umuahia ,Abia State and later joined the Nigerian army in 1942 and became a major general in 1964 . On that fateful day in 1966 ,he was murdered in broaddaylight alongside Adekunle Fajuyi  on a visit to the ancient city of Ibadan by Kaduna Nzeogwu and the northern led cabals.

                  GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON

General Gowon is the youngest president to rule Nigeria at the age of 27 became the head  of State contrary to 32,38 and 48 years recorded by Obasanjo,Murtala and Ebele Jonathan respectively .He was overthrown by blood thirsty colleagues after spending 9 years in government . He took over government by means of coup d’etat in 1966 and successfully kept government  and the country together during the civil war of 1967 to 1970 in which about 3.5 million Igbos were massacred .The war responded  to  the aftermath of regional tension that built up in from January and July 1966 coups .As a vdevout Christian he hails from kanke local government of Plateau State –a successful careerist prior to becoming the head of State of his great country . Between 1960-61 and then in  1963  as part of united nations  peacekeeping force also fought in Congo, Zaire .During his nine year tenure as head of state,beside national development plans that facilitated unprecedented national infrastructural development  ,he was credited with creation of 12 states including Lagos –the nation’s capital and expansion of civil service .He started and implemented the first two national development plans before the civil war .

          GENERAL MURTALA MUHAMED

General murtala muhamed was responsible for the responsible for the successful coup that deposed the Gowon regime on July 29 ,1975 in partnership with fellow young soldiers who desired to return the nation  to democratic rule .Muhamed like Danjuma , Yar’adua opposed the  regime of Aguiyi Ironsi .He was a brigadier when he took over government and later a general .As a northern muslim of hausa stock , he was trained as  a military academy in Sandhurst,U.K. and became a great commander of federal field forces and played a prominent role in the dangerous northern cabal that unleashed a bloody  1966 coup which fell Ironsi. In a reprisal , however he was killed on February 13,1976 after his vehicle was ambushed by fellow soldiers like Dimka in an abortive coup.He was succeeded by his chief of staff –Olusegun Obasanjo  who completed the political time table for the transfer of power to the Civilians .Murtala portrait adorns the nation’s 20 naira notes .

In the succeeding pages we explore Obasanjo legacies more elaborately and the successive democractic regimes since 1999 .But before that we briefly summarise the successive regimes from Shagari era -2^nd republic until 1999 as noted below .In this elaboration , the achievements  of each government in the nation’s history  are juxtaposed to determine the best President Nigeria ever had  or the top three.

                                         ALHAJI SHEHU SHAGARI

Alhaji Shehu Shagari was born in the Shagari village area of Sokoto State on February 25 ,1925 .He became the first  most popularly elected president of the country following the introduction of Presidential system in 1979 .Shagari rose from obscurity into national prominence after hand over of government from the military caretaker government of Olusegun Obasanjo.This altered once again the nation’s political history and a new beginning that flagged off the second republic .He was formerly a teacher before venturing into politics in 1954 as elected member of federal  house of reps .As a continuation of 3^rd national development plans ,the 4^th national development plan took off and focused on industry ,Agriculture, large scale housing program like the Shagari estate , transportation etc ,the completion of Delta Steel in 1982 and massive investment were made in Ajaokuta Steel  complex and Steel rolling mills .In an attempt to protect the country austerity measures and economic stabilization programme were introduced .This was oriented to bridge the gap or shortfall in oil revenue due to the slump in world oil market of the 70s .The coup that followed in 1983 brought down that government ..

                             MUHAMED BUHARI

Muhammed Buhari –a Fulani and a devout muslim who hails from Katsina State and born in December 17, 1942 took the nation by storm in 1983 to become the new head of State of his great country. He shot to limelight as the governor of newly created northeastern Nigerian State. In 1975 he became the minister of petroleum and national resources. Under General Olusegun Obasanjo  in 1977 ,he headed the Nigerian national Petroleum Corporation  and  with the exit of 2^nd republic which the masterminded together  with Tunde Idiagbon  as deputy and chief of Staff assumed the mantle of leadership  on December 31^st ,1983 after a successful coup d’etat by the high rank and file of the military forces .He initiated campaign against indiscipline-WAI during the shortlived regime .He had contested elections three times under the current era of  democractic dispensations.First under the All Nigerian Peoples Party-ANPP in 2003 and 2007  and later in 2011 under congress for progressive change –CPC .He was  branded as serial loser having lost in all attempts to people democractic party –PDP.\

               GENERAL IBRAHIM BABANGIDA

He was born in 1941 in Minna ,Niger State .He introduced the concept of military presidency and the ideology of political debate into the nation’s political governance lexicon .He was popular both as a villain and a hero to some when he adopted world bank introduced  Structural Adjustment Programme –SAP into the country on July ,1986. He bruled for eigth years and his tenure was truncated by political transition programme rather than outright hand over to popularly elected democractic government .He was deposed by popular will after the annulment of June 12 , 1993 election adjudged as the freest and fairest election in the nation’s history .

 

                                       CHIEF ERNEST   SHONEKAN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Ernest Shonekan   was a leading CEO of UAC and  Nigeria in general  in the 90s ,born on May 9, 1936 as Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan  in Lagos.As a British educated   Lawyer and  industrialist ,he was appointed as interim President of Nigeria in the political transition programme of former president Ibrahim Babangida .The administration lasted barely three months after it was overthrown by the palace coup of General  Sani Abacha in which he was forcefully resigned by the new regime .This further undermined approach needed to strengthen the democractic institutions in the country.

                       GENERAL SANI ABACHA

He lived between September 20, 1943 and June 1998 and was the president of Nigeria between 1993 to 1998 –a devout muslim of northern Kanuri extraction .Prior to becoming the head of state  and commander-in-chief of the armed forces ,during the IBB regime ,he was the chief of staff of that administration in 1988 and later  minister of defence in 1990 .It is on good  record that he was instrumental to the coup that brought down the Buhari regime .He took the country to the highest level of dictatorship with human right abuses second to none ,the peak of which was the murder of human right activist –Ken Saro wiwa and the Ogoni -9 .It was speculated to have been poisoned or  died through heart attack or overdose of viagra .Without any autopsy ,he was buried the same day .

   GENERAL ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR 

Abdulsalami was born on June 13,1942 but became Nigerian President in 1988 to complete the political transition programe and hand over to democractic regime .His wife Fatima was a high court Judge and was almost 56 years old on June 13 when he became the commander in chief of the armed forces after the death of brutal dictator  . His notable achievement was the strengthening of democractic institutions and completed  the hand over to civil rule in May,1999.  With a credible constitution of 1999 ,the Nigerian nation entered into a new era with a successful election