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kulyie: it is just what i feel.poverty and mama ngozi pls i wan buy 50 naira garri and pampers,i will give you the money next week,next week the seller comes to harass borrower for her money and shes like mama ngozi,give us time,we just pay landlord money,i will pay later is avoidable.how can a man who can hardly sustain himself take care of a family.remove sentiments,sho mogbon wa.

I am not in any way saying the man has to be super rich or a billionnaire before he settles down for marriage or find a wife,my point is that at least,he should first establish his feet on the ground.you are a married woman yourself and you should know that lack of finances causes friction in the home except you decide to pretend like you dont know.

My dear,i love you does not pay the bills o.tell him the HOME TRUTH

I will only concur with this post, if only you have never owed at anytime, be it credit card, Bank loan, friends loan and buy on credit, etc

Moderator, Please move this to frontpage jare.

Toy Drones for Nigerian Toddlers at Christmas.

$21-$300 Cheap remote control toys converted to a $3 million drone is a sick game.
Mr Jo-Lantern and his donkey cabinet should present this to their children as a drone and not to Nigeria. I will like to know what local standards were followed in assembling the toy and its joysticks.
http://i.imgur.com/3lRXYe5.jpg

With $300 every Nigerian can buy a drone asap. Here are links.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__22175__target_drone_v1_5_fibe...

http://www.nitroplanes.com/projet-drone-2500mm-kit.html?gclid=CIqq0MzguL...

Guys, wise up before the dumb leaders waste your future!


CREDITED AND SOURCE TO: Lanre Kolawole on Saharareporters.com @ 12:53pm on 12/18/2013 (http://saharareporters.com/gallery/photonews-president-jonathan-unveils-locally-made-drone-didnt-fly)

It is would be a big disappointment if eventually one goes to death home and finds no skull, not because death lost its name but because it couldn’t perform its job. So also, it will be a disappointment on the part of a farmer who planted a mango tree and after nurturing the tree, allocation of time to weed and application of fertilizer, etc the mango tree neither grow further nor fruit because the gardener fail to give the needed diagnosis and therapy. This illustration is exactly what is happening at the Centre for Management Development (CMD) in Nigeria. According to its website, The Centre for Management Development (CMD) was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria as the operational arm of the Nigerian Council for Management Development (NCMD) in 1976. In 2004, the Federal Government merged National Centre for Economic Management and Administration (NCEMA) to the Centre so as to provide the needed synergy and enhance the capacity of the Centre to provide high-end capacity building, regulatory functions and professional services in management practices. The Centre was known to operate from its Head Office in Lagos and five other area offices.

Since the appointment of Dr. K.K. Usman (the current Director General of the Centre) in January 2010, the Centre has seen a turnaround to a mirage caused by the mismanagement and gross incompetency of the DG. At first, one would doubt his appointment on merit, as he is a family relative of the longest ever served minister of Nigeria - Dr. Shamsudeen Usman who the Centre was directly under his Ministry - The National Planning Commission. However, his time at the Centre buttress the doubt for his incompetency to run the affairs of the Management Centre. His qualifications right before his appointment in 2010 shows no relevant academic or professional qualifications cum experience to assume the dynamic leadership role of the Director General of the Centre. He was a lecturer of Chemistry almost all his life prior to his appointment in 2010. His almost 4 years old leadership attitude proves foul of the management qualities in all the resources of the Centre. Aside his incompetency in management skills, corruption and diverting the Centre fund for his personal use, adds salt to the injury.

At his resumption to this office, his predecessor - Dr. Maiyakai left a whopping sum of over 400 million Naira in the coffers of the Centre, while the Centre also receive a yearly budgetary allocation of an average of 800 million Naira yearly apart from what the Centre generates internally through donations, excess on the programmes, revenue from Accreditation, etc without having to remit any percentage of the excess back to the Federal Government of Nigeria. In the years of his tenure, apart from the fact that the Centre as not conducted any research work for the development of management practices and not any significant fulfillment of his mandate regarding policies as the operational arm of the Nigerian Council for Management Development (NCMD). All we have seen in recent times is to move the headquarters of the Centre in Lagos which spanned over 2 Kilometers on Lagos – Ibadan Express road, Ojota popularly called “Management Village” to a 4 flat (3 bedroom each) residential designated building in Wuse II, Abuja that spanned just 2 plots of land. Not only that some high rank officers were transferred from the Lagos office to this new relocated Abuja Headquaters of 4 Flat apartment, but the inhuman treatment of allocating Kitchens as Directors’ offices. There were cases of transferring staffs from their location to a new location and back to their previous location all within 14 calender months which translates to paying a huge transfer allowance to a person twice within 14 Calender months, all on the order of the DG and at the expense of taxpayers money, while some transferred officers were even short charged of their allowance while the difference goes to the D.G’s pocket. Aside this, 10 million was spent to build power generator shed at Lagos, frequent traveling so as to claim per-diem, employment of grossly incompetent hands whose productivity to the centre is close zero. Neither the acquisition of the centre’s property nor the selling of its assets follows the public procurement act process. Recently, the Centre’s some valuable assets were give away to the D.G’s allies both within and outside the Centre without any respect to the Public procurement act of the nation but to a shoddy auction deal and many more. Plans are already at an advance stage to sell off lands and buildings at the Management village to himself and his cronies.

Although it is true that the Centre has accredited more trainers and training institutions in recent times which translates to more revenue for the them, but a thorough glance at the account book of the Centre will announce that the DG has spent every Kobo that comes into the account and keep track of huge debt incurred to the Centre’s account. It is no news that most of the contractors of the Centre like the Cleaning and the security firms have not been paid for the past 4 month and even more. As part of the Centre’s institutional building role, the past Director Generals of the Centre has facilitated the establishment of a number of professional associations with a view to raising the standards and quality of management practice in Nigeria that includes Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria (IMCON), Nigerian Association of Management Consultants (NAMCON), the Nigerian Institute of Marketing (NIMARK) and the Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD). However, under Dr. K.K. Usman (the present DG of the Centre) watch, the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria (IMCON) is stagnant while the Nigerian Association of Management Consultants (NAMCON) is total disorganized and paralyzed so as to ensure he is in absolute control and have no insider or direct watchdog. Nevertheless, on number of occasion, the Nigerian anti-corruption agency like Independent Corrupt practices Commission (ICPC), Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has called him for questions due to petition written by some concerns Nigerian, but the questioning always ended after a phone call from “power that be” within these commission. This is easily possible because he employed relatives and associate of key personnels in different quarters that he knows could question his mismanagement (this include the Budget office of the federation) in order to always have his way out, a strategy he fond of using to ensure he gets cover up all the time. His attitude of bribing Kano descendant journalists resulted to a very few newspapers and news journals of no stronghold showcasing his cooked achievements and sugar-coated talks.

The most regrettable part of this is his claims that his actions receive the support of the president of Nigeria. The reason why this write up exist is just to salvage the mismanagement at the Nigeria’s foremost and apex management centre and if any reader is in doubt, take an independent tour, survey or research to the Centre to verify the content of this write up. By its establishment roles, the Centre ought to actively involve in the regulation of standards, development of managerial manpower for the country and a broad range of skills and policies to enhance the quality of management and leadership for the attainment of national economic goals.


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