ADMISSION CRITERIA IN NIGERIA: A NEED FOR CRITICAL EVALUATION BY ESAN OLUWATOBI DAVID
Education has often been described as the key to success and the backbone of a successful society. Lack of education was said to be the pioneer cause of African colonialism and enslavement, this propelled a lot of African nations to thoroughly invest in the education sector after they gained their independence.
Although we cannot shy away from the basic fact that the percentage of allocation being awarded to the education sector now has reduced drastically and the first love for education is dwindling daily.
Taking a critical look at the cause of this dwindling one might say that, just has every business expect profit at the end of sales, the expected profit people get after being educated is not in commensuration with the effort and pressure people in recent times put on it, hence it makes education a loss business for people who quest after it.
The frustration of people for what they get after being educated has been summarized with this sarcasm “when we were young, we were told that education is the key to success, so we decided to purse that key so well, only to discover that the padlock has been changed after we got the key, which is education”
I will not dwell on the various challenges being faced by education in Nigeria today; rather I will pitch my tent with the new criteria for entering into tertiary institution today. The adoption of these new procedures started over a year ago, and it is impatient to bring out the implication of this process to our education system and the potentials of our dear nation.
It is no longer news that post UTME has been scrapped and the cumulative score of jamb and grade point of students O’Level results are the major yardstick for admission processing in Nigeria today.
Of a truth, this very system has its own advantages, ranging from improving the education standard of intakes into tertiary institutions which will to some extent stop the abnormalities involve in the process of post UTME ranging from bribery and Nepotism, it also help the sub-conscious mind of students to get more serious with their studies among other rare benefits.
Nevertheless, the system could not stop the exploitation of money from admission seekers as money is still been collected for screening just as in the days of paying for post UTME, so of what effect is the scrapping of post UTME?
More so, from the first year of its practice, we have seen a lot of students with very high score in both Jamb (above 300) and very good O’Level results (above 5 distinctions) not getting admitted, of course the competition it has brought to the system is great, but we must also be conscious that it will constantly relegate the best outside what they planned for and if care is not taken it will increase the rate of secondary school dropouts in the nation, as the competition will squeeze majority out, and if private institutions cannot be affordable for them, we risk losing great potentials to the street.
This system in coming years will increase pressure on student to want to achieve, and continuous pressure will lead to desperation among students, because even the very best are not been admitted in the best schools and if they will get admitted, they will have to settle for lesser schools who won’t have the capacity to build great quality in them. Consistent desperation among secondary school students just to attain A’s might in no time bring about a do or die educational system and increase the rate of examination Malpractice in the nation. Students will look for every means possible to get the desired distinctions needed for their proposed course.
More so, in coming years, we will find the very best students in the secondary schools fighting for places in the polytechnics and colleges of education due to the high standards that universities are demanding from students in their O’level. This will in turn lower the general standard of education in the nation. I am not saying setting very high standard is wrong, but we must be realistic and considerable in setting such standards. Students will prefer to run to institutions with lower standards and at the end will become products of mediocrity.
It is not a gain saying that most universities in the northern part of Nigeria has very lower standard with all due respect to them, compared to does in the west, now if the universities in the west set all distinctions as a criteria for gaining admission, someone with distinctions but could not meet up with the high standard of the universities in the west could go to the north to study the same course, at the end we produce graduate from the two institutions into the society. The difference is lucid, both students are excellent students but one process of learning is thorough than the order, but they will both end up in the society.
The same post UTME that was scrapped happens to be the basis for most people who are now dictating standard’s today life line for admission, how many of them can boost of having the set criteria for each course they studied today? How many doctors have 5 or 6 A’s at one sitting in their O’level, how many professors, directors, senators, policy makers among others, how many can boost of that? Can we have over 50% of them per discipline? They have also benefited from either using two sittings, having one or two A’s with mixture of B’s and credit, they have benefited from scoring above 200 in jamb and their post UTME result pave way for their admission not their O’level result. If it is by O’level result most of them will never have seen the four walls of tertiary institution today.
However, in a nation that is not given too much cognizance to sponsoring and supervising the education sector has before again, unpaid teachers’ salaries and other allowances happens to be the order of the day, from where does the teachers get motivation to impact such knowledge standards into their students, when they have even lose passion for the job, yet the education criteria and standard of acquiring higher knowledge keep increasing.
The underlining basis of the write up is to in treat the consciousness of tertiary institution on the implication of setting relatively too great a standard on the ground of maintaining a status quo, as it will in no time backfire on the society. If standards are getting too unrealistic for students to attain, human by nature will look for a substitute and an alternative, looking for a substitute is never the problem, but the quality of the substitute is the issue, which in no time will revolve round the society.
To the policy makers, it is a well known fact that change is a constant thing but if we have to change from an old way of doing things, the advantage of the new one should far out way the old one. On the issue of admission, the new policy should strive towards improving the standard and quality of tertiary institutions intake, but it should at the same time be annexed towards improving the level of literacy in the society.
If this new policy continues the way it is been done in its first year of inception, in no time we will either have great numbers of secondary school drop outs in the society or the society will be filled with a lot of educated illiterate or educated mediocre, either of the case it is bad for the nation.
I submit by saying that a critical evaluation be done on the new admission policy in Nigeria as another Jamb and secondary schools final examination approaches.

LIVING LEGEND 2017.

NIGERIA EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS HEADING TOWARDS WATER LOO
Education is said to be the bed rock on which sustainable and intellectual development of a country is been built, hence high cognizant is being given to the educational sector of a nation, most especially for the developing country.
Nigeria being among the third world country so to say has in no wise embraced this particular tenancy of education as the basis of the nation’s development. However the effect of the colonial master’s on the Nigerian society has not helped the situation anyway because as at the time they were fully with us, we were made to believe that we are in deep darkness and in a kind of slavery of our own indigenous culture, hence western education was prescribe as the only sustainable measure to get out of the acclaimed darkness and slavery. This has in no wise eaten deep into the subconscious mind of majority of Nigerian citizens. Suffices to say that the major responsibility that parents believed they owe their children or ward is education and all other thing is secondary.
The value of education to both individual and the society cannot but be over emphasized as it helps one to develop both mentally and physically, it also fosters the provision of sustainable solutions to human need.
However, education in contemporary Nigerian society has witness a lot of immense progress which can be said to be the necessary cause of the level of development that the nation has witnessed till date. It will be unfair to overlook some salient occurrence within the educational sector which are affecting the growth and development of the nation and if proper cautions are not being taken, our educational fence as a nation will become rubbles. However, I have decided to run a quick and critical analysis of some of this happening from cradle to the tertiary level.
First, the primary school education is believed to form the foundation on which a great future will be built upon, but just as the Holy Scriptures say, “if the foundation is faulty, what can the righteous man do”. The high rate of primary and secondary schools in Nigeria without proper government monitoring as given the coming generation a very weak foundation to build their career upon. It is not a gain saying that most private primary and secondary school do not really allow children to fail even when they fail, they don’t allow their students to repeat just because they are scared of loosing kids. Government schools which should serve as a bailout has more crises than one can imagine, ranging from teachers strike, over population shortage of staffs among other predicaments. However, any children who is ask to repeat or withdrawn from any government school receives warm reception by this private school, hence we create more of a moist foundation for our children than we can imagine, I am not saying private schools are bad but nevertheless we should be careful of the private school that we take our children to as we have a lot of private schools in the nation that are just after making of profit.
Furthermore, both parents, teachers and schools are creating more career problems for the upcoming generation than they can imagine, the expose the young kids majorly to big named courses so to say like medicine, law, accounting, engineering, among other popular courses, making the mind of this young children to be very narrow-minded and have a very myopic view about their future, most kids in SS2, SS3, do not know that courses like early childhood education, education management, German, history and international relations, philosophy, plant science and bio-technology , among other low name courses exist in our tertiary institutions because we have held a myopic view that only those who study those so called big named course can be great or be wealthy in life, no wonder such courses are always being crowded in terms of number of people selecting them as preferred choice, hence when this children could not meet up to the demands of those big name courses or cannot get admitted into such courses, they get other course reluctantly without proper vision about the course. The reaper caution is we having a lot of frustrated graduate who just want to do any job on the street, just because they have never had plans for the course they end up studying in the school since they were not properly enlightened from their early days in school to see success in life outside course of study but passion and determination. If a child has the knowledge of Yoruba education since the JSS classes and was encourage to study it, such child would probably have started thinking about how he/she will go about it after graduating or building a career round it so early, but its unfortunate that over emphasis on big named course without opening our kids eye to other courses that they can easily build a career around. If this is not corrected most young admission seekers will end up becoming like most Nigeria undergraduate who don’t know why they are studying a course except what their lecturer tells them. Let them understand their future themselves, do not persuade them against their wish or force them to study a particular course, give your children and students very wide options and knowledge to choose from.
Readers they say are leaders, on the basis of this particular axiom, the only secret to success has been basically reading, however, without any form of doubt, we have had people who read and study hard for examination without haven results that collaborate with the effort they have put in. the reasons are not farfetched, we emphasis reading but we do not encourage group discussion among students to share ideas on what they have read. Parents and teachers encourages students to read but they do not allow or call them to teach what they have read, research has shown that when you allow someone to teach or talk about what he/she has read, it becomes difficult for such a person to forget what was taught and it build confidence in a child as well as making them to understand what have read. Also you will agree with me that we remember what we hear longer than what we read, hence, just as reading culture is being encouraged, listening and group discussion among pupils should be encouraged as well.
Also, the attitude of teachers and lecturers setting limitation on the score of student before even marking is barbaric, if a work is over 20, and the markers will have assume nobody can score more than 15 out of 20 without even knowing what a child might right, I ask a fundamental question, is it a crime for a child to score 19 or 20 out of 20 in a written exam, while should some teachers believe that some grades cannot be attained in their subject, all this constitute what I call academic ignorance and intellectual nuisance.
I will not be shying away from the very fact that the secret of every invention rest in the indigenous language, contemporary Nigerian parents do not encourage their child to speak their indigenous language even at home, no wonder Nigerians are starving in terms of critical inventions, I believe that students would understand Mathematics, physics, chemistry among others science subjects if they are being thought in their indigenous language, for instance, if 2+2 is being thought in Yoruba, Igbo, etc, let’s say because of the diversity in Nigeria we have to uphold our Lingual-Franca but parents should encourage their kids to speak indigenous language at home, so that it can help them mentally, let’s stop intellectual enslavement, let people teach them and explain to them using their indigenous language at home if the school will not allow that.
At this junction, before I drop my pen, I will like to as a fundamental question,” Is it the same physics, chemistry, mathematics etc that are being thought in the western countries which enables them to construct airplanes, cars, ship that is being though in Nigeria?” Because I wonder why Nigerian scientist and engineer are not springing forth with new inventions or manufacturing of engines and equipment. Parents who are very much aware of the deficiencies of their ward academically who go ahead to find short root for them are doing nothing but destroying their life let our educational system follow the right path.
On a final note, I implore that all this critical aspect should be look into to avoid our educational system from heading towards waterloo.
ESAN OLUWATOBI DAVID
LIVING LEGEND

[b]COLONIALISM OF THE MIND: A PANACEA OF NIGERIAN’S UNDERDEVELOPMENT
Over 50 years of Nigerian Independent and freedom from the colonial masters, the years appears like yesterday due to the concurrent influence it has had on our Society, most especially its effect on our psychology and thinking pattern.
Nigeria as an independent nation with diverse ethnic group and rich cultural heritage has continued to entangle herself in what i call, “COLONIALISM OF THE MIND”. Needless to say that the path way to succeed in life seen and adopted by Nigerians, especially the youths is finding their way out of the shores of this country Nigeria. Travelling to western countries has in no wise suddenly become a miracle by God that people give testimony anytime they find their way outside the country or someone close to them does. It is a daily prayer point from parents to children and a song in religious houses in present day Nigerian society.
At this point, i would love to ask a critical question which is "How many people pray to Leave Nigeria for Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan etc”. the answer is obvious. It then implies that going to such part of the world is more like placing curse on an individual. On this basis, one can validly deduce that if we Nigerians are born in the good western Countries, it will be like a curse if we were asked to relocate to Nigeria. suffices to say, is it not better to put hands on desk towards moving Nigeria forward and make it the most desirable nation to live in, so that our Children will see it as a curse not a blessing nor a miracle, if they are asked to relocate out of this country.
Yes, making this country desirable is a very difficult task and looks impossible, but if every individual are passionate to make Nigeria the best by decolonizing our minds, then it is just the easiest thing to achieve in a short time.
If everybody wakes up to sweep the Front of their House every day, the whole world will be clean.
Nigerians of which am a part must take a bold step towards decolonizing their minds from the following:
First, we must understand that we are not an inferior race; neither do we possess an inferior skin color, though the story writers have painted our warriors as being bad, even when we are their stronghold.
we must accept our origin and uphold our historical background, Nigeria and Africa have great history of success which we must know and uphold, for instance, the man who invented the super and fastest computer is a Nigerian, the root meaning of Chemistry was gotten from an Egyptian word called KEMAT, which means black man science, this and many more must be upheld.
It is important that every cultural entity in Nigeria posses some unique traits, which manifest mostly in their language and culture. Hence we must encourage ourselves to speak our indigenous language, most especially when we are in non official places or places that the language will not look intimidating. It is 21st century Insanity to ban your children from speaking your language at home or learning it, you want only English, then you are killing tomorrow’s future. S.L.D Itanrin said, “The secret of any invention lies in the language” If we all are thought science and technology in our own native language, Nigeria would have produce great inventors today, do not forget, Language is powerful, stop making us feel our language is inferior to one.
Often time i have heard the word “Official Outfit” who is the judge here? Who told you your Traditional Attire are not official? It saddens my heart to see Traditional outfit been relegated to a Friday-Friday Attire in Nigeria, we are killing our rich Tradition and relegating it by ourselves. Our minds are still being colonized. They say Western Attire makes one look smart and make you comfortable, Let us decolonize our mind from these ideologies. I have seen pastors jump up and Down on Traditional outfit, our Traditional rulers and some of key politicians in the state, go about their daily duties on Traditional Outfit, so why must we continue to colonize ourselves again?
We are where we are Today because we have continue to colonize our minds and putting it within the shackles of western structure which is alien to us. What is wrong with Abakaliki Rice, Taimakwo Mokwala Rice in Niger State among many Nigerian products, we have become a dumping site of the world because of colonialism of the mind. We do not have any believe in ourselves or anything that comes from us again.
Of a truth, i will agree with you that some Nigerian product are bad or deceitful, but nevertheless, it still demand our trust from the very first Citizen to the last, things we import are not totally perfect as well, we cannot continue to consume. Every Consuming Nation Will Consume and consume, till they get Consumed.
Olakunle Soriyan Once said, the way we have colonized and entangled our minds have gotten so terrible to the extent that, if a Nigerian comes into the country with a degree from oversea, he is viewed to be like ten years ahead of his colleagues with the same degree here, not minding the name and quality of the acclaimed institution the person finished from. It is never the case that we do not have genius in Nigeria but we have refused to view them and value them because our minds are colonized already.
More so, in African culture, the name a child bears carries great meaning along , but nowadays, Almost every one want to bear English name, our African Names seems to irritate us, they don't seem good and appeasing to our ears again, all this among others are constant point to the fact that our minds still remained colonized long after colonialism ended in Nigeria.
I submit by saying, until we decolonize our minds in Nigeria, and go back to cherishing and improving what we have got with honesty and truthfulness, The path to Nigeria’s success still remain vague and will be unclear. Until we deal with the pest of colonialism of the mind and moving out of Nigeria prayers will seem like a curse and not a blessing, the promise land is still not at our sight.
GOD BLESS EBONYI STATE
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
ESAN OLUWATOBI DAVID
LIVING LEGEND

CHANGE

It is no longer a gain saying that Change happens to be the only Constant thing in life, Hence, The word change has become a daily song in the mouth of all and sundry most especially when things are not going as planned.
The word “Change” is seen as a driven force in human existence, most especially if you want to attain greatness in life. The word Change cut across every sector of human existence, hence the history of man cannot be complete without the use of this word. No wonder, the Ancient Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, said “Change is the only Permanent thing that exist”
Needless to say that this work aims at looking at Nigeria contemporary society and the need for individual change which will serve as a springboard to what we desire in the nation. Many a times, the problem of this country has been attributed to poor leadership, which has serve as the engineer to our present day predicament, just as Achebe of Blessed Memory Championed.
Nevertheless, i am not disputing this particular opinion but however, i will be discussing the topic from what i perceive to be the root cause of this predicament. When a building rest on a shabby and watery foundation, they that live in it must live in fear. if we claim a miraculous change by our leaders will birth us a nation we desire, then we are wrong on the basis of some critical question which will be raises below.
First, are our leaders in various homes, where couples turn the house to a boxing ring in front of their children, thereby feeding their minds with hostility and hatred from childhood instead of love? what about parents who do not give attention to train up their kids and imbibe them with right moral values, what becomes a child who was starved of moral training when he was young when he eventually get to the corridor of power?
What becomes of Nigerian students, who have been a victim of teachers or lecturers victimization, or was a product of school that lecturers do not come to class always, some collect bribe to sort result and most ridiculously uses outdated notes of their old school days to teach in a constantly changing society? Permit me to say that if Nigeria Graduates are Half Baked, then the arrows should be directed to the bakers
We cannot shy away from medical practitioners who take instrument and drugs from their health care centers and hospital for personal use or to sell in their private establishments, not neglecting religious leaders who have because of stipend jettisoned and thrown away their so called faith and believe.
Suffices to say that almost all sector of the society needs change, but if change do not start from individual, it will be meaningless even if the leaders change.
The questions to be asked is that, the leaders we cry and complain about, are they from the sky or alien from another planet? They are nothing but the product of the society, they are product of individual failed system, so we should never expect magic. i cannot feed a child with spoilt milk and expect the child to be healthy.
Of a truth, it is believed that the youths are leaders of tomorrow, but i get scared every day because most youths in Nigeria today would not perform differently if they are given the chance because they have been fed from the decayed food in the society, which makes the Adults get scared of given the youth a chance. Their steps are speaking of worst than can be envisioned already.
I would love to draw the cotton close with this short story “A certain man was walking along the street one day and he saw an inscription on a billboard of a restaurant that says eat as much as you can, your children will pay for it, he went in happy, ate so much than he should since he is not going to foot the bills, but as he was about leaving, he got a hug bill, which he must pay, and he said, i should not pay but my children, then he was told that was the bill of his father"
I however conclude by saying until we have change individually and act everyday with the consciousness that we do not want to leave dept for our children, our children will pay for the damage we are causing now, just as we are paying for that of our fathers.
Let us live the change we want individually.
ESAN OLUWATOBI DAVID
LIVING LEGEND

NIGERIA MY NATION! MY ISREAL!
It becomes necessary for me to release my first article in the year 2016, not because I must write, but as a social critique who is known for sincere objectivity, it becomes impatient to write.
I look back at the recent development in Nigeria, ranging from the problem of payment of workers salary by state government across the federation, security challenges, decrease in the value of the naira, economic crises, fuel scarcity just to mention a few.
All this crises have given rise to a lot of comments by people both physical discussion and on social media in particular. needless to mention pictures and images denting the image of the present administration, to the extent that the two horses in the Nigeria coat of arm are pictured running away, with the popular word in the mouth of Nigerian's going thus"You people are clamoring for change, you have seen the change you want now".
Anyway I must say to be realistic, things are going so hard in the nation, the price of goods and services are unbearable to even the middle or average class in the society.
Martin Luther king JR said" We start to die the day we stop to talk about issues that matter to us" on this note, it becomes something worth appreciating when we manifest our consciousness level by talking about the economic situation but I must also say that our talking must be constructive and must be timely.
It is a notable fact that almost a year ago, we all went out in mass to reject the PDP administration, which we claim we are tired off and we wanted change, just as the Israelites run to God during crises, but we fail to realize that change is a gradual process and sometimes it take decades, am not saying that we should wait for decades but however, we should not forget quickly where we are coming from. So quickly we have started wishing that we still have the last administration in power.
Critically speaking, I am not saying that the PDP led administration is bad, far from it, they do have some notable achievement which you would permit me not to mention because they are lucid but however I am not saying the APC led administration is good but we should not be like the Isrealites who saw the red sea and ultimately which they return to Egypt. patience is what I ask from Nigerians.
Permit me to remind us of few things, the APC led administration has championed by president Buhari came to power less than a year ago, but I must tell you that just seven month into former president Jonathan's administration we witnessed the removal of fuel subsidy which we are still feeling the effect till today, perhaps the administration is still running on last year 2015 budget. It was only during the last administration that we witnessed strange things that should not happen in a nation's economy; there was inflation and unemployment in the nation at the the same time, I will not explain the implication of this as an economist will be in the best position to explain this, but the implication is what we are seeing now. I still repeat that the Jonathan led administration has its notable achievement, so also has the Buhari led administration made some mistakes, but the underlining fact is that things are not so palatable in the first year of both administration. we must keep calm, watch and let our comparison, criticisms or our desire to return back be erected on empirical evidence base on the test of time.
It is believed according to the hedonism theory that man is a pleasure seeking being, hence it is normal for us to react when we feel any little pain, but we must also remember that the universe is governed in a way that we cannot have pleasure without pain, which is what I think we are going through now. the Isrealite at last, went through the red sea safely and even ate manna. I am not saying that president Buhari will lead us to the promise land, but I require patience from us all. my pen will never stop to write objectively and the fact that I write to call for patience does not implies am a supporter of the APC led administration, I am not a politician nor any party faithful. I remain a social critique with integrity and the Voice of the Voiceless.
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF RAPE: LEGAL PROSTITUTION AS THE RESCUE- by Living Legend
Sex is as old as the creation of man and can be regarded as one of the greatest or the highest level of pleasure that men derive. Both male and female enjoy the very pleasure of sex even amidst the price of it being painful. It is in the mist of that pain that the pleasure lies. The theory of hedonism by Epicurus positions man to be a pleasure seeking being, hence, man is ready to undergo any form of pain just to get pleasure. Since sex happen to be the highest level of pleasure contextually, the crave of sex by man is as constant as change.
The persistent nature of man to attain this great pleasure of sex has resulted into man going to any extent to achieve this, up to the extent of forcefully having their way on opposite partners.
Rape has been in existence as a very grievous crime towards fellow human beings for ages. The act of forcefully having sex with opposite partner at the detriment of their own personal “free and conscious will” is rape. It must be noted that the practice of rape is in multi-dimensional phases. Husband can forcefully rape their wife; wife can rape their husband, male and female of different family background can rape themselves respectively, rape between family members, females raping male among others. All of this cases are bad and destroying the prestige and dignity of man.
However, we have cases of raping that are done via free will but yet unconscious and due to ignorance of the victim. this cannot be overlooked, for instance, a grown up man deceiving a young child with a sum of 500 naira just to have sex with her, in that case that child can be regarded as been ignorant of what the man is about doing, or a man sleeping with a 4year old girl after giving her #10, all this are absurd and barbaric but still part of rape. This implies that not all cases of rapes are carried out in a forceful manner.
Causes of Rape
We have both physical and metaphysical explanation for an act of rape, never the less we will be picking some empirical and scientifical reasons why man perpetrate this act.
When the sexual hormones in the body over secretes, the desire for sex will be raised and hence, if not properly managed by the individual, it could lead to desperation and forceful diverting of the inborn hug to the opposite sex.
It is a laudable fact that poverty and ignorance has constituted more to the cause of rape in recent time, when people are in quest to search for how they can survive, they come across people with low self instinct who are ready to meet their demands, but because of their refusal to dance to this people’s music, yet want to have their cake, they arose the inner anger of such people who in turn forcefully rape them, perhaps some deceive them and out of their own ignorance they fall.
Men they say are move by what they see, hence immoral and indecent dressing by young teenagers and youth of now a day’s calls for alarm, scientifically, when a man sees a sensitive part of a woman, it registers in men’s memory for a long period of time than you can imagine. The mind with its innate ability to imagine is capable of creating some psychological image which arose the sexual hormones of men. The result is evident.
Watching of phonographs, sexually induces videos, pictures and lack of proper sexual education has also contributed to a reasonable extent to the high record of rape cases that we have witnessed in the past.
Effect of Rape
Wanting to measure all the effect of rape will be like wanting to count the number of sands in the sea, suffices to say, the effect of rape ranges from psychological breakdown, hatred, murder, suicide, lost of dignity and value among other. At this junction, it is important to ask some critical questions.
1. Can the immoral practice of rape be totally stopped?
2. Can man stop craving for pleasure?
On the basis of these two fundamental questions, which serve as my anti-thesis, I proffer my thesis. If indeed Epicurus is right, then Aristotle must be right. If man is a pleasure seeking being, then man has a great link with the animal kingdom, and we are only a bit rational than them. It then implies that, man is a rational animal. If man is a rational animal, then Sigmund fraud must be right about his theory of ID, EGO and SUPER EGO.
On this note, one can say that it will get to a point in time, when the desire for pleasure is at his peak, and the super ego can no longer control the innate desire from within, man will have no option than to bring out the animalistic nature in him just to satisfy its sexual desire at that time, hence, the history of mankind and the emergence of rape can never be separated.
Since man is a pleasure seeking being> man can never stop craving for pleasure
If in having sex man gets great pleasure> man can never stop having sex
If willing woman cannot always be there for man to have sex with>rape is inevitable.
On the basis of this short argument, it means for us to cob the rate of rape in the society their must always be women who will be willingly available for man to satisfy their pleasure always. And since this women cannot just give that without taking something in repay, it then lead to a form of business which is PROSTITUTION.
Going by historical basis, it is right to say that prostitution is an ancient business and one of the oldest businesses so to say, aside farming and hunting. Even in religious books, this business of prostitution still find itself there to show how old it is. Since after the desire to eat and have good shelter, the next desire for an average man is to crave for pleasure, hence we cannot sideline and kill this business of prostitution in our society just as we cannot stop planting and hunting.
It is evident that a lot of people will subscribe to religion as a rescue for rape, but even if the whole world turn into religious house, the whole world cannot still be free from crime and sexual immoralities because, man was created with that desire and when it goes out of hand, no measure can be used to restrict that animal nature in man until it satisfies its desire. So the best rescue is to find how to cob rape.
Of a truth, we cannot say prostitution is not totally good, yes, there are evil in it, and it pose great threat to human existence most especially through the spread of deadly diseases, but we must understand the very fact that even if prostitution is abolished totally, we will still have prostitute and sexual immoralities will not stop which is a more greater danger than prostitution being allowed itself, hence, why not create a suitable environment for prostitution which will pose lesser threat to the existence of man and reduce the spread of diseases. This suitable environment for prostitution will lead to my synthesis.
Since, the thesis argues for prostitution, then, there is a need for the government to come out with well organized policy to make sure that prostitution is a real business duly registered under the law, any one involve in prostitution or want to be a prostitute should be registered with the government and must be health-wisely fit.
For those who have communicable and deadly disease already among the prostitute, government should make sure they go for medical service always and restrict all prostitute from having unprotected sex, if anyone is discovered to have an unprotected sex, such person should be sentenced to jail term, both the prostitute and the person who patronizes her.
Prostitute should be moved away from staying on the street and be confined in some area as directed by the government for proper monitoring and regular healthy checking of the prostitutes.
Any prostitute who is going for home service must get the approval from the appropriate authority and must be tested before been admitted back into the mist, hence people in charge of prostitution issue must be experienced counselors who are both rigid and flexible and must be essay to access at any point in time by the prostitutes.
There should be a law to melt out capital punishment for anybody involve in rape, so anybody who cannot control his sexual pressure should find a prostitute lodge around or call for home service and pay.
On a final note a well organized and package prostitution which is being anchored by the government is what I call LEGAL PROSTITUTION, this I prescribe to be the logical rescue to high rate of rape in the society.
On this note I submit by saying every synthesis can still become an anti-thesis, hence, the only rescue that will have no further anti-thesis is Jesus Christ. Its pays to give your life to him. I remain the VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
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BE A TRUE NIGERIAN: A CALL ON NIGERIAN MOVIE AND MUSIC STARS TO BE A NATIONALIST AND EMULATE GHANAIAN STARS by LIVING LEGEND
Little did I know that the so called acclaimed republic of Ghana are also facing electricity crises, because of our ignorance, we have often claimed that Ghana has no power surge at all, but thanks to the news which revealed the Ghanaian protest about the epileptic power supply in their country which has been lingering for over 2years now before they took out to the street to protect, clamoring for an instant change as they are fed up of the situations which was affecting their business, claiming they were no longer interested in the excuses of the government again. My pen is not crying to let you know the present situation in Ghana but to bring to your consciousness the role played by some notable Ghanaian super star in the protest, giving kudos to them and accepting a challenge as a nation.
A nation begins to move forward when majority of the people in the nation has the mind to make the nation develop than enriching themselves, this was the case in Ghana, I was surprised to have watched top Ghanaian movie stars, directors, politicians getting out on the street to join the masses in a protest. In fact, the protest was championed by these set of individual, I must give kudos to actor Van Vicka, Nylvon nelson and a host of other who portrayed the spirit of patriotism in their action, although people see this sets of people as the well to do in the society, but yet they never consider their social status or level of wealth and income, they never saw themselves as the higher class in the society, they maintained the spirit of nationalism by coming out to protest against what was wrong in their nation, they saw themselves as Ghanaian’s, they saw Ghana as their home, they want the good of Ghana irrespective of what they have acquired in life and to this end I must give kudos to this people.
I then wonder if Nollywood and music stars could have done the same thing in Nigeria, they have considered themselves as the higher class forgetting the very background from which they emerged, what a pity, I then ask how many decades have we been facing epileptic power supply in Nigeria, even during the saga of the fuel subsidy removal this people did not come out to feature prominently. All they do is portray luxury life for people to see and contribute to the decaying of African culture. This should be a challenge to the rich minority in Nigeria that there is a need for them to adopt the spirit of nationalism and be patriotic to their fathers land.
One thing we must learn from the Ghanaians super stars action is that, they have in no wise encourage people who will not want to support the struggle, they have also help to form a strong force to drive home their desire to the government of Ghana. Unlike the case of Nigeria where our stars make people see them as a semi-god and people look at them afar off, in fact they accord themselves with more security and privacy than the government, traveling outside the country has in no wise being like going to the market for them and hence, they are another world power who have form another class of the bourgeoisie in the nation.
The very amazing aspect is that they all pretend as if everything is all right in Nigeria, gone are those days when we have patriotic musicians who entertain the people with societal, economical and self liberating music even during the military era, someone like Fela Kuti of blessed Memory, it’s high time our music and movie stars became an activist and patriotic, it’s time for them to stop entertaining us with mere bits and productions that only arose emotions but not rationality, it’s time we sing and act the nation to become indeed a mirror to the society.
On a very final note I implore all Nigerians stars to please move more close to the masses, if indeed literature is a mirror of the society and drama which result into movies today is part of literature, it is therefore imperative for them to serve as a mirror in the society and not a wood which we cannot see through. There is a need for our movie and music star to be closer to the people and let people see them as fellow human beings, fellow Nigerians and not like the regular thin-gods who go about with guards or bouncers. I prescribe for them to be more patriotic and more of a nationalist than a rich role model that mislead upcoming generations which a lot of ignorant Nigerians wants to emulate.
Kindly drop your comments and reactions.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
CEO LEGENDARY FOUNDATION
GEMSTONE AMBASSADOR
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OPEN LETTER TO THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY AND ALL PETROL DEALERS IN THE NIGERIA BY LIVING LEGEND
Nigeria a land flowing with milk and honey, so we say, a land with lots of mineral and natural endowment, the giant of Africa. Indeed the wealth of the country called Nigeria is well enough to cater for the wellbeing of the citizens of the country but yet we have seen ourselves languishing in penury and over 70% of the citizens languish in poverty.
It is widely said by a lot of people that the problem that this country faces right from time immemorial has been the problem of bad leadership, but it could be argued that majority of the problems faced by Nigerians are caused mostly by the followers than the leaders because there is a very wide gap between the rich or the very privileged and the poor masses. Although critically speaking, the decisions made by this very few minority who are directing the affairs of this nation has a strong hold on the poor masses but the effect would not have been so painful on the masses if not for the few privileged and greedy masses inflicting pain on their fellow masses, instead of sharing the pain from the leaders evenly it is being over-concentrated on some particular group or set of individuals.
One of the irony of life which I have witnessed in recent years, has been how a gateman will oppress, victimize his fellow citizen who came looking for his boss all in the name of that very little position he is occupying at the moment, how the arrogance of clerks and secretary in offices are greater than that of their rich boss, we have turned every little position given to us into a kingship state to oppress our fellow humans, the bond and unity within the traditional African society where we see ourselves as brothers and sisters is eroding away at a very high rate and this has caused my pen to cry again concerning the scarcity of fuel and the high price being demanded by petrol dealers in recent weeks.
It is the prayer in the mouth of most Nigerians that this nation should be good and great but our actions are not in any way supporting our acclaimed professions, very early in the month of may 2015, there was a case of fuel scarcity in Nigeria resulting from the strike of the petrol dealers within the country. I am not writing or probing into the actual cause of the strike, but I write to give a critical examination into the actions that transpired during the period of the strike and after the strike
First, immediately the strike was announced major petrol dealers began to hurled there markets by locking up their feeling station in other to create a scenario of fuel scarcity which the after math was to increase the cost of purchasing liters of fuel. This very action is against humanism as the locking up off petrol station further inflicted more pain on the suffering of the poor Nigerian masses who have to suffer to even purchase what they need at a very high cost, the queue in the sun, at night, early in the morning has in no way affected the health and integrity of Nigerians, and one way or the other damage our trust towards one another. I cannot but ask petrol dealers a very fundamental question, why should you make this poor masses who are suffering from the government also suffer from you for no just cause? knowing full well that those who cause the crises (government) are not been affected in any way, because hardly do they buy fuel from the local feeling stations we find around and even if they do they will never go through the pain of forming a queue, so it turns to a case of fighting the bourgeoisie to inflict pain on ourselves and innocent people.
Furthermore, should fuel scarcity lead to increase in the sales price of fuel? there was a strike because the government refuse to pay some outstanding debt and not that there was an increase in the cost of refining oil or exporting the oil among others, but we seek an opportunity to inflict pain on ourselves, must it always be a case that any little strike in the petroleum industry must lead to increase in the price of commodity and disobedience to the regulating body that controls the price of fuel? Why must we Nigerians take unnecessary advantage of ourselves, why should we turn to an opportunist? This act is very bad and dehumanizing which calls for serious attention and the sad part is that, even after the emergence of fuel in the petrol stations, some or most fuel station has refused to go back to their normal price instead they have proved themselves to be an advocate of evil in the land who do not want good thing in the nation. They have become an apostle of doom who seeks to always take advantage of their fellow poor masses to exploit them at any slightest problem; it then means they were never even praying for the improvement of the country at first but rather agitating in anticipation for evil things to happen so as to take advantage of people.
A lot of things to just mention a few transpired during any uprising within the petroleum industry which point to the fact that most petrol dealers in Nigeria are more or less exploiter of the masses, even after the price of petrol has been reduced to 87 naira per liter, most petrol dealers have instead stock to 100naira per liters which was sold in the past, from my observation, I prescribe to the incoming administration of the federal republic of Nigeria that high level of disciplinary measure should be put in place to curtail any abnormities in the industry most especially during cases of industrial actions as they perpetrate a lot of unjust act during this period.
Lastly, I appeal to petrol dealer in Nigeria to turn a new leaf and embrace the spirit of unity, oneness, togetherness and patriotism. I am not saying that they should not fight for their right but they should not turn themselves to opportunists who take undue privilege on the poor masses whenever they are fighting for their right. They should be moderate in whatever they are doing and let Nigerians be able to enjoy their services properly even if there is a lingering problem, I can’t imagine that fuel price could be as high as 200 naira, in fact 500naira per liter in some places, which is making the nation’s economy to head into a waterloo, let those who have fuel at that time sell it, not selling it will only amount to the fact that they are praying that the issue should not be resolved and the future of their fathers land should remain in a state of jeopardy.
Kindly drop your comments and reactions.
GOD BLESS THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
CEO LEGENDARY FOUNDATION
GEMSTONE AMBASSADOR
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RESTRUCTURE THE NIGERIA MOVIE INDUSTRY a Call on Nollywood by Living Legend
It’s very much loud able that “that thing” called African culture is an embodiment of the mode of dressing, religion, moral values and belief system. Why then should most of our production be more western than African even in an African continent? How African are the productions of the white?
Of recent, I took more time to observe the Nollywood movies being produced under the hospices of the Nigerian movie industry, I cannot say I am surprised at the trend in which the movie industry took because they are trying to satisfy the daily demand of the countrymen but this I cannot but pen down that the movie industry has been contributing more to the loosing of African integrity than promoting the tenance of African wholeness and identity. Also, in most films what are being portrayed by the industry are in contrast to Nigeria’s reality or the Nigerian world view so to say.
First, the dressing in most Nollywood movies most especially by the youths or young adult does not really portray any form of Africaness and as such leading the upcoming teenagers to have a shadow knowledge about the nature of African culture, because just as growth is in stages, so does the level of exposure of an individual go pari-passu with growth, so just as you are trying your possible best to entertain people, try and as well educate them with the knowledge of African culture, most especially in the aspect of dressing and food eaten in the cities.
Second, I must comment your effort in trying to portray the present reality but we should also be conscious of the fact that, human’s are gifted with various degree of mind capacity and as such portraying realities such as kissing, romancing, and having sex being shown in movies demands a critical evaluation, aside that it promote immorality rather than fulfilling the purpose of entertainment and education which your movies should aim at, it also tend to drive the western Ideology into an average African man’s sub-conscious mind, you would agree with me that such practices like kissing, romance etc where actually alien to indigenous African culture, alien in the sense that most African society if not all perceive it to be an evil act and an abomination even when we were yet to be enlightened through civilization. We had sense of morality even without education, so it will be ugly to say that our education and enlightenment has eroded away African sense of morality. I hereby appeal to your organization or association to look into this issue before it derails most African youths and teenagers and make a sexual slave out of them, most especially people with very tender and easily absorbing mind.
Moreover, not pointing to the way some of your movies do portray getting rich in life to be a bed of roses would be a great error of omission, not even in a country or continent where majority are classified as been poor, I hereby recommend that your movies should be more realistic than portraying fantasies, it should be more of entertainment vis-à-vis educating people on how to be successful in life gradually not a case of going to the city and always meeting good and ambiguous fortunes most times as it is being portrayed, I advice that your films should follow a gradual process of reality than fantasy. Also it is not compulsory for films to always have an antagonist; an antagonist should be a sufficient condition and not a necessary condition.
I would like to ask before I drop my pen that is the movie industry short of cast or just fail to recruit new faces? because there have been a case of re-surfacing of casts of faces of people we have being too familiar with in most movies, and the fact remains that the beauty of a movie comes out if there is proper casting and a sense of reality, but that I think is lacking or eroding away gradually in the Nigeria movie industry, people who are old enough to be parents are still been casted as children, undergraduates or secondary school leaver’s, people like Ini Edo, Tonto Dike,Uche Jumbo, and the male folks are no longer portraying the reality of a university life, gone are does days where we have more of adults than youths in the university, today the youths we have in the university are even being seen as adults while the ones who populate majority of our tertiary institutions today are very young, in fact, the tertiary institution is filled with undergraduates who are young teenagers so to say, so I think there should be an overhauling in the future casting in the movie industries, we are now in a generation where people both male and female get married at their 20s perhaps, early 20s so people representing such roles should be selected base on the present societal trend, which see more teenagers in the universities today than adults. Also the luxury life that is been portrayed in some Nollywood movies about Nigerian undergraduates are totally unreal, in fact, very few people live a luxury life in school as an undergraduate than the usual flat or duplex apartment undergraduate students that the movie industry do portray.
There is a great need for the Nollywood to change their direction of movie to just a show of free fun and entertainment, to a case of picturing the political and economic reality of the nation in their movies, not at a time when Nigeria needs change, your movie should be an avenue to correct the abnormities within the government sector and expose some societal secret without pointing accusive fingers on name, it is high time we started liberating the minds of the people than promoting nudity, fun etc. don’t let pretend that all is well, let’s picture the nation so that people can see and be liberated from the shackles of ignorance. Let every aspect of the nation clamor for change for the betterment of all.
Finally, I think and recommend a general re-shapening in the Nigeria movie industry and a reformation, we need a lot of new faces and few old once for the sake of experience. Give other people rooms naturally to prove themselves and not a case of lobbing, connection or paying a prize, if you all were never given a chance you won’t be where you are today. I love Nollywood. I support the Nigeria movie industry.
Kindly submit your comments and reactions.
GOD BLESS NOLLYWOOD
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
CEO LEGENDARY FOUNDATION
GEMSTONE AMBASSADOR
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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA by LIVING LEGEND
“We begin the building of a house once we have a grain of sound, even the rubbles are essential to the makeup of a great house”- Esan Oluwatobi.
On this very note I start by saluting the outgoing president of the federal republic of Nigeria who so many people have called a true hero of unity and democracy. Indeed, that was the only legacy we want to live to remember you for and that was just the only area in which you surpass your predecessor. In all this, I must appreciate your spirit of sportsmanship and dedication to Nigerian’s democracy which will serve as an example to other African nations that leadership is never a do or die affair.
My pen cried aloud today, to welcome a man of high esteem, which so many people has raised a lot of aspiration towards, the man whom the quest for change and an instant magical solution to Nigeria’s predicaments rest upon. A man people are waiting for him to swing into action instantly, that people consider to be a messiah to this nation, a man of history, a man who is about to get to the corridor of intoxicating power of this great nation. I must congratulate you for making a history by winning the election at the same time welcome you into a state of Hobbesian state of nature as you shall be handed to an epileptic nation in a state of comer which some even perceive to be a dead nation. At this junction I must let you know that the Living Legend is neither your fan nor the fan of your predecessors, but your actions in coming years could award you such privilege of the Living legend becoming a fan of you.
Mr. president sir, I must say I should inform you through my open letter about some important things you must keep in mind about the hopes and aspirations of the masses on you and also to welcome you to office for the second so spell, I must also inform you about the fact that your predecessor has only wished you well in words and not in action as he prepares to hand-over to you a crumbling economy worst than that which was handed over to him. I must let you know that you are going to work seriously; not work as a credit to what you will do but work tirelessly to revive a dying economy.
Mr. President Sir, it is my pleasure to inform you that following your success and war against indiscipline and corruption in your previous spell as the head of state of Nigeria. Nigeria’s are not expecting anything less than that land mark in your return, in fact their expectations are so high that they are not even ready to hear any kobo being stolen from the federation’s account and anything short of that will raise criticisms. I am not expecting such stand from you but expecting that you instill fear of stealing government money into the heart of your cabinets and co-cabinets members, I am expecting you to reduce the corruption and crime rate by 60%, that I think should not be too hard for a retired major general.
More so, by the time you will be taking over the baton of leadership in this country, you and I are quite aware of the lingering problems in the petroleum industry which has caused excessive increase in the fuel price and other commodities in the nation, you are also aware of the epileptic or no power supply at all in most parts of the country due to the uprising in the power company, you are also aware of the fact that banks are on the bridge of not rendering a selfless service as it ought to be because of the fuel scarcity, you would also be aware of the threat posed by the telecommunication agencies to go on strike because of the fuel scarcity, all this pinpoint to a crumbling and almost finished economy with some workers also owing claims of not payment of salary or entitlements. All this, the people expect you to restore drastically within the first 14days in office and even probably make the things far better. I am not expecting such miracle from you Mr. President, but I am expecting that you employ the tool of critical analysis and empirical verification with full reference to rational obligations before you swing into action. I want you to indeed restore every crumbling sector but definitely not in a year, but make things a bit comfortable for the suffering masses within your first two week, either by given standing order on some issues or promise the affected societies or sector to look into the issue within some stipulated time but then they should first return things back to its normal state, from their I presume you will swing into proper investigation so as not to make serious and costly errors because of the pressure of the people or demand of the people without proper verification. So I advise you to keep calm and cool.
I must point to the fact that there are two very corrupt ministries so to say which you should take keen attention to, the police force and the education ministry. There is a need for you to put honest and dedicated people to mar these ministries, not neglecting the petroleum and aviation ministry, they have been at the centre of corrupt practices in recent years, so I advise you to re-shape does ministries. Also I will advice that you should be careful of peoples advice most especially people who will be close to you, who will portray some nonsense tradition to you, that this is the way things are being done, I want you to hold firmly to your philosophy, not neglecting and putting to consideration the advice of the good and bad people as they will help you to be strong and succeed. My keen advice is for you to take time to study Robert green 48 laws of power and read the Machiavellian principles, study the pace and development of other countries, learn, unlearn and re-learn so as to bring up a furnished idea and society, always learn to use your enemies in accomplishing most takes as they will not want to disappoint you as your friends will do. Study greens laws of power to know more about that.
Furthermore, I will want you to have a strong hold on your senators, members of House of Representatives and the governors of state, instill your philosophy into them as their flop will in turn become yours. The failure of each state will later become yours, so you must pay close attention to interfere into the affair of any executive or legislative members not implementing your philosophy, which is why it is a federal system of government and not a con-federal system of government. Choose honest cabinet members and don’t hesitate to discipline anybody who wants to destroy your reputation as they have other chance to redeem their image later by joining other political parties, but you don’t have any chance again as you are old already and you cannot look forward when you fall down but backward, but they can still look ahead to make an impact, so pay close attention to them and how they spend public funds, not neglecting the reduction of the exuberant money being collected by government officials, you have to start by leading by example then reduce the income of the legislators, governors and other political office holder. Invest more in the country than in people.
On a final note, I will bring to your consciousness that we have both the good and bad people of Nigeria, listen to them all, including the union leaders who have become slaves to money and sold their people, listen to them, operate an open and transparent government. You will be criticized a lot but make sure you are transparent; Nigerians are not animals they will understand if you explain things to them well. They see you as their messiah now but I see you as someone who could build a solid foundation for Nigeria in which others can leverage on and make Nigeria great in coming years. So I don’t expect you to solve all Nigeria’s problems but to build a foundation and instill a philosophy of nationalism and patriotism in the mind of most Nigeria’s. This foundation will not just make you a hero but an icon.
My pen really which to continue to cry but my heart tells me a word would be enough for the wise. People may ask me when my pen will ever stop crying. But I say my pen will stop crying when Africa becomes the most desirable continent to live in and Nigeria becomes a place of pride.
“A man changes once the beliefs changes, change the beliefs of a man and you have change the man, it may not appear suddenly but I can guarantee you of a gradual change in the man till he attain the level you want”-Esan Oluwatobi So start your change by first changing the beliefs and orientations of Nigerians to see unity and development of their nation as the core reason for existing in that nation, then you will achieve your aims.
I submit by saying the expectations are too high, get prepared you can’t afford to fail. Congratulations once again.
For readers do drop your comments and reactions.
GOD BLESS THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
CEO LEGENDARY FOUNDATION
GEMSTONE AMBASSADOR
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MY HONOURABLES MY IGODE by LIVING LEGEND
We all have the dream of a better tomorrow for Nigeria right from childhood and we boast of our ability while we were yet at the corridor of power but we forget so easily about the standard of integrity, truthfulness and loyalty which we will cry for after we left this mansion of politics. So is the case of the Igode’s in Ondo State.
I believe that when the current Igode’s in Ondo state were young, their utmost agitation for the decaying Nigeria society was bad leadership, which many of us are clamoring for like them today, but the fact remains that, just as Abubakar Gimba has justified in his literary work “letter to the unborn child” that our leader’s never fell from heaven or other planet but are constituent of the society, on this note I write not as a politician nor any party faithful but as a social critique with integrity to speak to the public the voice of the voiceless.
It is audible to the deaf that the spirit that drives a nation to a better place is lacking in Nigeria and most especially in Ondo State. For any nation to progress whatsoever the spirit of nationalism and patriotism to one’s fathers land must be imminent, no wonder we have a lot of cases whereby political office holders and politicians in the country has taken cross-carpeting from one political party to another as a daily meal without following the due process of meal preparation, in view of this, it has exposed the lack of patriotism and nationalism spirit in our politicians, because if indeed you (politicians) have the best interest for the great people of Nigeria, then, there won’t be need of moving from one party to another because all you are after is the interest of the people and not the party. No matter how bad your political party is, you can win an election there if you have good personality, so from this we can logically infer that all politician that moved from one party to another without following the right procedure, are politician’s without integrity, this lack of integrity and good will does not exclude all the people that cross-carpeted from one party to another without following the right process.
It could be said that the basis of the division of the arms of government is for the purpose of check and balance, but when the three arms of government are not fulfilling this very purpose in the aspect of truthfulness and criticality one cannot but see abnormalities in such society as we witnessed in Ondo state.
It is visible to the blind that the cause of the impeachment of the Ondo state Deputy Governor is base on the political saga that he decamped from the people’s democratic party to the all progressive congress, although he was alleged for gross mis-conduct and misappropriation of funds, but it should be noted that it is not only in Ondo State that the governor and deputy will not belong to the same political party and nothing will happen, it then implies that the impeachment show case lack of will to work for the people among the three arms of government in the state. It is explicit to analyze this issue critically for the purpose of clarity and avoidance of falsity.
Firstly, the deputy governor decamped unconstitutionally some few days before the presidential election, this does showcase his zeal not to work for the interest of the people irrespective of the excuses he might have given because if he had wanted to be justified, he should have resigned and not decamp to another party. But nevertheless it should be noted that if justice must really take its place all Igode’s in Ondo State and political office holder’s including the executive’s and representatives who moved from their political party to another party prior to the last election should be ask to vacate their position.
Moreover, I wonder how Igode’s has stoop so low that they could not even allow their rationality to teach them orderliness if they were even going to still undergo this act of unfaithfulness to their oath, yes the committee set up brought a response back to the house that the deputy governor was guilty of all the charged levied against him and the entire house member as lead by a moribund voicer could not even verify the outcome for some few days to know if the outcome was not being influenced at all, I want to believe if the house has estimated 3months for a job and the result came out after a week, such result should be verified at least even for a day, but rationality did not deem it fit to notify the Igode’s, then I ask a very fundamental question that what if later in the future there came a new discovery and u find out the result was not totally true, then it means logically we cannot guarantee the truthfulness of the entire result. What a disappointment to see educated representatives behave as if they have no idea of logicality in argument.
I want to believe that the swearing in of any political office holder must take due process, at least if I don’t know, I have witness commissioner’s, ministers, and even the vice- president of Nigeria gone through process of screening before assuming offices which was never concluded in a day, then I ask the rationality, logicality, and criticality behind the impeachment of a deputy governor and also swearing in another one that same day? It does portray that it is nothing but a game of politics and a concluded mission by set of greedy and lawless men and women of no integrity directing the affairs of a state. On this note I asked what where the criteria’s that were used in selecting the new deputy governor and why should someone assume a political office without stringent assessment and screening.
To the wonderful judiciary arm of government, I salute your intelligence, to have used just four days to verify and investigate into seven charges, am not saying your result was wrong, but rather it calls for questioning, when a directive for setting up a committee was made on Monday, I believe that the first meeting of such committee should not have come earlier than Tuesday, which should just be to strategies on investigating, investigation proper I presume started on Wednesday, and was concluded on Friday, I don’t think I can guarantee the truthfulness of such investigation. The most amazing part is that after the investigation has been concluded, there was no place that stated that the deputy governor is to refund the money he was alleged to have collected without using it for the right purpose, all that was clamored for was impeachment. From this we can logically infer that the whole act was not for the sake of justice but rather for the sake of political-selfishness, because if it was for the sake of justice, I believe the deputy governor should be asked to return that money even if he will still be impeached.
When we have about 26 dogmatic individual who lack the right vision and purpose the abuse of such power is inevitable, individual that came onboard without the people they are representing knowing them by name or appearance. Representation demands feedbacks and accountability, I then throw the questions to all members of the house of representatives in Ondo State that before they voted yes for the impeachment, what was the percentage of people they are representing that they consulted? Because even the deaf could ear audibly on programs organized on media stations across the state about the public opinion of the people on the issue, in which most people voiced that the man (Alli Olanusi ) should just be left to complete his tenure.
One’s again I congratulate Mr. Governor for a job well done and the history that was made, to be the first Governor in Ondo state who’s deputy was being impeached, I congratulate the people of Ondo state for the new history just made, which is joining the list of states in Nigeria who have either impeached the governor or deputy governor. I congratulate the legislative arm of government for emotionally upholding the law and I congratulate the judiciary arm for un-aired hearing and investigation.
I will like to retreat at this junction that I am neither a politician nor a party faithful, but I am only a social critique with integrity and no bias. I love the governor of Ondo State, I wish Ondo State well.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF ONDO STATE
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
I AM A NATION BUILDER

XENOPHOBIC MOVEMENT YES! XENOPHOBIC ATTACK NO! by LIVING LEGEND
It is a great prayer when a man is being told that he will bring forth the good of a foreign land home, but the greatest question has been where is a foreign land, and why do we have to go to a foreign land?
In the past, foreign land is seen as going to the more developed and advanced areas of one’s country to work and returning back to the rural area to bring back the achievements you have got to develop the villages, no wonder we still have this orientation in Africa of always going back to our various villages at least to erect an enterprise or build a house their either for one’s benefit or the benefit of the entire society. That was what our father’s call in Yoruba o ko ere oko dele but today there has been a miss conception of this concept of foreign land.
In present day Nigeria society, it has become a daily prayer and an act of good will from God to leave the shore’s of one’s father’s land to another land, all in the name of searching for greener pasture, in fact it is not a prayer that is been taken with levity in religious houses today, but one simple question I have been asking from people is, can someone in USA, Canada, London among other top advanced countries in the world pray to relocate to Nigeria? I guess the answer is audible, so it necessarily means that such prayer’s will be a curse in such countries of the world, as prayer’s of going to Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan will be a curse for a Nigerian. Traveling outside the country has never been a problem but the development of the country we are jettison has been my concern.
It never met me in shock when I had about the xenophobic attack in south Africa, most especially the attack on my fellow Nigerians. I wonder why should millions of immigrants be in another man’s land all in the name of searching for greener pasture, sincerely that is too much, I am not condemning travelling to other countries but am condemning the population of my fellow Nigerian’s in another man’s land, why should we have such number, is Nigeria as bad as that?, why not bring your business inside the country and develop the country than going outside to develop another man’s land.
Yes, I quit agree with you that the situation in the country is not all that favourable, but never the less, why must it be Nigeria’s in most cases that will be having the largest number of immigrants in most countries of the world. A brother of mine once said “I should name that country in the world that you won’t find a Nigeria, that means such country does not exist”, why should this be so? I know you would want to say let the government of Nigeria do what is right, but have you forgotten that we all are the government of the land, and I ask you today, is this nation the worst in terms of economic development in the world?
Of a truth, we really would want to dispute the allegation laid on us by the south African’s that we are the one’s perpetrating evil in their country, but the fact is that if we drag the issue from today till forever, we will still have no justification, because the end result will still be “is South Africa our land”.
It is much said that we have some notable South Africa business organization in Nigeria, like MTN, Shoprite, etc, which we clamor to send packing, but critically speaking, how many of Nigeria’s organization is really up to the standard of the South Africa organization in their own different category, I guess the answer is obvious, then how many standard companies and organizations of Nigeria are highly rated in other countries, come on! my fellow nation men and women, it’s not a case of fighting, but a situation of thinking and establishing companies, industries, organizations that can be within the range of the world standard both within and outside the nation and not boasting of our small and middle scale business which we have within and outside the country.
It is audible to the deaf that a lot of nation supported South Africa during the apartheid period, including Nigeria, but that does not mean because we have helped them, we most also go against their wishes, making them see us as lords will be another level of enslavement which we will be putting the people we helped unconsciously.
Nevertheless, I implore the South African’s to as well employ rationality in their actions, they should not be killing and destroying the properties of their fellow African brother’s and sister’s such issue can be resolved via dialogue and diplomacy.
Moreover, I want to point the South African’s attention to the fact that the African’s are not the only immigrant in their country, why are they not also attacking the whites, it then portray a bad mentality and poor orientation held by the South African’s.
I will like to retreat that am not against sending immigrants back to their land if they are too much in another man’s land or if the economic resources of host community can no longer accommodate them, but am against killing and destroying of property to achieve such aim.
I submit by saying countries can engage in xenophobic movement but not xenophobic attack. I remain the pen that always cries the voice of the voiceless without bias. A social critique with integrity.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS SOUTH AFRICA
GOD BLESS AFRICA
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
LIVING LEGEND

WORKERS OR SLAVES?
BY LIVING LEGEND

Waking up this very morning to discover it is the first day in the month of May, I was surprised that the year is fast running, on this note from the desk of Legendary Liberation Movement, I do wish every one of you happy new month. I must say I did not realize fast that today is worker’s day celebration. Then, I ask myself a question that,” in spite of the public holiday, why did it not stick to my sub-conscious mind that today is worker’s day celebration?” In fact people around me never felt the celebration as people took it like a Saturday.
It is much arguable to say that in present Nigeria society, we do not really have workers but rather laborers. I call them laborers because the way and manner the Nigeria work force is been constituted is just like the master-slave system which we inherited from our colonial master and we have allowed it deep into our marrow and changed the indigenous African instinct in us.
I wonder what is what celebrating in a nation where we have a lot of workers that are not yet paid for their jobs for months, I wonder what is what celebrating in a nation where workers are languishing in the ocean of penury at a period of this fuel scarcity because of the inability of the government to answer the request of some set of workers.
It is only laborers that are been under-paid for the job they do because they have no particular say before their masters who they count as a very great privilege to be working for, so are the Nigeria Workers. The economic situation has made them see that having the job they posses is never a right but a privilege as such they get under-paid with joy. I have always ask myself a question that there is no Nigerian Tertiary Institution that pays #18000 below as school fees, when the minimum wage of a Nigerian Worker is #18000, it then means an average Nigerian Worker must go extra miles to be able to finance a tertiary institution for his child if not more than one anyway. From this statistics, it means been a Nigerian worker is been a laborer that must leave on loan, cooperative and borrowing to survive.
One of the attributes of slaves in the past is that they cannot revolt against their master, even if they are starving to death, they still owe allegiance and worship the master for the unprocessed good will, so are the Nigerian Workers; despite the situation of slavery and hardship which they are made to face, they never stop running and wailing their wrinkled tails praising the set of bourgeoisie ruling them, then I ask why should slaves deceives themselves when the politicians and government actually knows the truth.
If I won’t forget, I know that there are people we call the slave head in the old traditional society, people who will look after the well being of the slaves, they are the present day Nigeria Union Leaders who are nothing but bunch of leaders without self discipline, the slave head at that time always posses the attribute of betraying their fellow slaves for the benefit of little for themselves, so are the Nigerian Workers Union doing today; even when they are aware that all is not well with the workers they still go about with two unholy left legs to appraise the government of the day in Media Houses and in Public Places just because of what they will get even when the people they are representing are starving to death. When are we going to stop deceiving ourselves because of our belly?
Karl Enrich Marx was quick to discard the very existence of God, He said it is because of the unfavorable condition faced by the working class and the suffering they face that made them always look up to the sky for a savior who can save them from the suffering they are facing in the hands of the bourgeoisie. Same is the Nigerian Workers situation, who have all but resigned to fate and destiny only to look up on daily basis for a supreme being who can come and save them, it should be noted that I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Marx position but am only observing as a critical philosopher which I’ve always been.
“Who are really the workers?” I ask myself, Is it the set of men and women in the image of canker worms eating down the economy and life of the present and future generation all in the name of I want to serve you? Or the average people on the street who work tirelessly a day before they can get a square meal like slaves?
Finally, I will like to say that whatever we are doing, let’s have it in mind that we are paying for the meals which our fathers’ ate and our own children will surely come and pay for our own meals, very soon where we are running to will start rejecting us and we will be left in the hands of fate to judge our unborn generation. I submit by saying happy workers in the laborers form day. I remain that pen that will always cry for the people.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS THE GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE OF NIGERIA
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
LIVING LEGEND

MY HONOURABLES MY IGODE by LIVING LEGEND
We all have the dream of a better tomorrow for Nigeria right from childhood and we boast of our ability while we were yet at the corridor of power but we forget so easily about the standard of integrity, truthfulness and loyalty which we will cry for after we left this mansion of politics. So is the case of the Igode’s in Ondo State.
I believe that when the current Igode’s in Ondo state were young, their utmost agitation for the decaying Nigeria society was bad leadership, which many of us are clamoring for like them today, but the fact remains that, just as Abubakar Gimba has justified in his literary work “letter to the unborn child” that our leader’s never fell from heaven or other planet but are constituent of the society, on this note I write not as a politician nor any party faithful but as a social critique with integrity to speak to the public the voice of the voiceless.
It is audible to the deaf that the spirit that drives a nation to a better place is lacking in Nigeria and most especially in Ondo State. For any nation to progress whatsoever the spirit of nationalism and patriotism to one’s fathers land must be imminent, no wonder we have a lot of cases whereby political office holders and politicians in the country has taken cross-carpeting from one political party to another as a daily meal without following the due process of meal preparation, in view of this, it has exposed the lack of patriotism and nationalism spirit in our politicians, because if indeed you (politicians) have the best interest for the great people of Nigeria, then, there won’t be need of moving from one party to another because all you are after is the interest of the people and not the party. No matter how bad your political party is, you can win an election there if you have good personality, so from this we can logically infer that all politician that moved from one party to another without following the right procedure, are politician’s without integrity, this lack of integrity and good will does not exclude all the people that cross-carpeted from one party to another without following the right process.
It could be said that the basis of the division of the arms of government is for the purpose of check and balance, but when the three arms of government are not fulfilling this very purpose in the aspect of truthfulness and criticality one cannot but see abnormalities in such society as we witnessed in Ondo state.
It is visible to the blind that the cause of the impeachment of the Ondo state Deputy Governor is base on the political saga that he decamped from the people’s democratic party to the all progressive congress, although he was alleged for gross mis-conduct and misappropriation of funds, but it should be noted that it is not only in Ondo State that the governor and deputy will not belong to the same political party and nothing will happen, it then implies that the impeachment show case lack of will to work for the people among the three arms of government in the state. It is explicit to analyze this issue critically for the purpose of clarity and avoidance of falsity.
Firstly, the deputy governor decamped unconstitutionally some few days before the presidential election, this does showcase his zeal not to work for the interest of the people irrespective of the excuses he might have given because if he had wanted to be justified, he should have resigned and not decamp to another party. But nevertheless it should be noted that if justice must really take its place all Igode’s in Ondo State and political office holder’s including the executive’s and representatives who moved from their political party to another party prior to the last election should be ask to vacate their position.
Moreover, I wonder how Igode’s has stoop so low that they could not even allow their rationality to teach them orderliness if they were even going to still undergo this act of unfaithfulness to their oath, yes the committee set up brought a response back to the house that the deputy governor was guilty of all the charged levied against him and the entire house member as lead by a moribund voicer could not even verify the outcome for some few days to know if the outcome was not being influenced at all, I want to believe if the house has estimated 3months for a job and the result came out after a week, such result should be verified at least even for a day, but rationality did not deem it fit to notify the Igode’s, then I ask a very fundamental question that what if later in the future there came a new discovery and u find out the result was not totally true, then it means logically we cannot guarantee the truthfulness of the entire result. What a disappointment to see educated representatives behave as if they have no idea of logicality in argument.
I want to believe that the swearing in of any political office holder must take due process, at least if I don’t know, I have witness commissioner’s, ministers, and even the vice- president of Nigeria gone through process of screening before assuming offices which was never concluded in a day, then I ask the rationality, logicality, and criticality behind the impeachment of a deputy governor and also swearing in another one that same day? It does portray that it is nothing but a game of politics and a concluded mission by set of greedy and lawless men and women of no integrity directing the affairs of a state. On this note I asked what where the criteria’s that were used in selecting the new deputy governor and why should someone assume a political office without stringent assessment and screening.
To the wonderful judiciary arm of government, I salute your intelligence, to have used just four days to verify and investigate into seven charges, am not saying your result was wrong, but rather it calls for questioning, when a directive for setting up a committee was made on Monday, I believe that the first meeting of such committee should not have come earlier than Tuesday, which should just be to strategies on investigating, investigation proper I presume started on Wednesday, and was concluded on Friday, I don’t think I can guarantee the truthfulness of such investigation. The most amazing part is that after the investigation has been concluded, there was no place that stated that the deputy governor is to refund the money he was alleged to have collected without using it for the right purpose, all that was clamored for was impeachment. From this we can logically infer that the whole act was not for the sake of justice but rather for the sake of political-selfishness, because if it was for the sake of justice, I believe the deputy governor should be asked to return that money even if he will still be impeached.
When we have about 26 dogmatic individual who lack the right vision and purpose the abuse of such power is inevitable, individual that came onboard without the people they are representing knowing them by name or appearance. Representation demands feedbacks and accountability, I then throw the questions to all members of the house of representatives in Ondo State that before they voted yes for the impeachment, what was the percentage of people they are representing that they consulted? Because even the deaf could ear audibly on programs organized on media stations across the state about the public opinion of the people on the issue, in which most people voiced that the man (Alli Olanusi ) should just be left to complete his tenure.
One’s again I congratulate Mr. Governor for a job well done and the history that was made, to be the first Governor in Ondo state who’s deputy was being impeached, I congratulate the people of Ondo state for the new history just made, which is joining the list of states in Nigeria who have either impeached the governor or deputy governor. I congratulate the legislative arm of government for emotionally upholding the law and I congratulate the judiciary arm for un-aired hearing and investigation.
I will like to retreat at this junction that I am neither a politician nor a party faithful, but I am only a social critique with integrity and no bias. I love the governor of Ondo State, I wish Ondo State well.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF ONDO STATE
LIVING LEGEND
VOICE OF THE VOICELESS
I AM A NATION BUILDER