Resuscitate Nigeria’s Economy, OAU Lecturers Advise Buhari

Prof Ade Omisore, a lecturer at Faculty of Environmental Design and Management, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has advised the President-elect, Mohammed Buhari to resuscitate Nigeria’s economy.

Omisore gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Ile-Ife, Osun.

He appealed to Buhari to make the pronouncement by reversing the price of commodities that had been skyrocketing everyday immediately he is sworn-in as the president.

Omisore added that Buhari should ensure the foundation for this within his 100 days in office and ensure the supply of constant energy, good roads and water supply.

Also, Prof Olusola Ehindero, a former lecturer with the Faculty of Education, OAU, Ile-Ife, called on Buhari to regard the whole situation as not winner takes all in the interest of the nation’s unity.

Ehindero urged the president-elect to forget all the acrimonies associated with the elections and see himself as the father of the nation today.

He urged Buhari to make his first assignment to be national reconciliation, saying this is what Nigeria needed badly now.
The educationist said such would ensure that he would be productive and succeed in governance.

In this same vein, Mr Popoola Ogundoyin, the Chairman Petroleum and Marketer Association, Ile-ife, congratulated Nigerians for hitch-free general elections on March 28.

Ogundoyin commended President Goodluck Jonathan for conceding defeat and congratulated the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.
He said Jonathan has laid good example for coming generations to move democracy forward.

He noted that Buhari would experience challenges as presently there are no jobs, good hospitals, water; the naira devalued to zero level, corruption and insecurity among others.

Ogundoyin advised the president-elect to create jobs for the youth, establish new refineries, citing the example of Russia that still maintained its refinery for the past 70 years.

Contributing, Mr Sikiru Ayedun, a former Osun Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, lauded President Jonathan for accepting the outcome of the election.

Ayedun said that Nigeria was now growing in terms of political development, noting that Jonathan had proved himself as a great Nigerian and for which his name would be written on a platter of gold.

The commissioner counseled other politicians to emulate President Jonathan’s actions towards the general elections and know that it was only God that could install and dethrone.

He said that violence was not the best solution to political problems in Nigeria.


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Lagos Guber Poll: Audio Of What Oba Of Lagos Said To The Igbos

Before now, many people especially the supporters of All Progressives Congress(APC) have been saying the Oba of Lagos, HRM Oba Riliwanu Akinolu cannot make such statement to the Igbos in Lagos state. However, the audio clip of the tribal comments has eventually surfaced online.

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Extracted texts from the King's outburst

“On Saturday, if anyone of you goes against Ambode who I picked, that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and it is not my father who gave birth to me,” major national newspapers quoted the monarch as saying.

“Jonathan is my son and I speak to him everyday. By the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future.

“On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos State, the person is going to die inside this water.

“I’m not ready to beg you. Nobody knew how I picked Ambode. Jimi (Agbaje) is my blood relation and I told him that he cannot be governor in Lagos for now,” he said.

“The future belongs to God. I am not begging anybody, but what you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere, don’t do it here. If you do what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you. If you go against my wish, you will perish in the water.”


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SU President-elect, TY Appreciates OAU Students, Calls For Continued Support

The president-elect of the Great Ife Students' Union, Akande Omotayo a.k.a TY has appreciated students of Obafemi Awolowo University for coming out to vote for him during the much controversial Students' Union elections.

In a Press Statement released yesterday, TY expressed worries over failures by previous administrations of the Union to fight proscription, victimization, indictment, inimical increment and other anti-students development such as university under-funding, mass failure and outdated academic syllabus which debilitate the political consciousness and undermined the standard of education.

Below is the full Release

MY DEEPEST APPRECIATION

Greatest Ife,

‘In the battle between the conscienceless power and the powerless conscience, the former may win first but the latter will laugh last and laugh best’ Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi

With a deep sense of responsibility and all modicum of humility, it behooves me to appreciate the generality of great Ife students for entrusting on me their mandates. Your mandate which I owe to a very high esteem and consequently will spur me to serve your best interest, rubber-stamp our ideological alignment and socio-political attunement.

Out of the yearning for a diplomatically vibrant union, a union that is built on the tenets of collectivism, solidarity, justice and equity, great Ife students registered their mandate by giving me an overwhelmingly massive support at the polls on the 24th and 25th march 2015.

Over the last four years, as also in history, our union have had attacks - proscription, victimization, indictment, inimical increment and other anti-students development such as university under-funding, mass failure and outdated academic syllabus which debilitate our political consciousness and undermined the standard of education obtained.

The conspicuous need for a union that will constructively champion the collective cause of adding value and defending the interest of our members cannot be over-emphasized, as the ship of liberation to rescue the oppressors stranded in the vast ocean of oppression is a vibrant and astute leadership. I will in the best of my capacity ensure that I don’t renege on my electoral promises and will continually serve the best interest of students.

Your unflinching support became very astonishing, as even in the face of political machination and calculation, the deliberate or inadvertent shortage of ballot papers in some faculties while some other faculties has in excess, great Ife student stood their ground to exercise their franchise.

I will implore great Ife students to annihilate all fears and debunk all rumours, this union is not a left union or right union or a management union, it is a students ’ union that will always be accountable to the students ensuring the best of our capacity to maintaining a stable academic calendar.

Your support should not terminate at the polls, your support and participation is the fuel needed to continually run the engine of our union. I implore you to be actively involved, attend congresses and sitting, make submissions and give us your idea on how to serve you better because it is an all encompassing union.

ALUTA CONTINUA!!! VICTORIA ASCERTA!!!
REINSTATE OAU-6
OMOTAYO AKANDE (TY) 08027728756, akandus2@yahoo.com
PRESIDENT-ELECT, STUDENTS’ UNION

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Is Goodluck Jonathan Good Enough For The Mo Ibrahim Prize?

VENTURES AFRICA – A couple of days ago, African business mogul, Mo Ibrahim, lavished praises on Nigeria’s outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan, for delivering on his promise of a free and fair presidential election, and honourably accepting the outcome even as it was his defeat. This special recognition of Jonathan by the proprietor of the Mo Ibrahim foundation has raised the possibility of the Nigerian president receiving the renowned Mo Ibrahim prize for governance.

The Mo Ibrahim prize celebrates African heads of government who perform creditably in office and do not seek to entrench themselves in power. It grants the recipient $5million over ten years and guarantees a life time payment of $200,000 thereafter. The most recent winner of the prize is Namibia’s former president Hifikepunye Pohamba, international acclaimed for strengthening his country’s democratic values and socio-economic equality. President Jonathan, by ensuring credible polls, submitting to its outcome albeit against him, certifies the basic criteria for the award.

While the outgoing president stands out in enabling, or, at least, not inhibiting, the advancement of Nigeria’s electoral culture, he struggled to achieve the same impact in several other sectors of the society. These sectors- primarily the economy and security– constitute the factors that may deny him Mo Ibrahim’s bounty, if he were to be considered.

President Jonathan’s rebasing of the economy, which revealed Nigeria as Africa’s largest by GDP, helped scale up investor interest in the country. However, despite the increased flow of foreign direct investment, his government was unable to match economic growth with development. His government is accused of wastefulness and profligacy, evidence of which is its inability make good of savings during the years of oil boom. Jonathan’s image is also hard hit by allegations of corruption involving members of his cabinet, as well as parastatals and corporations under his executive purview. These issues, joined by the unsolved problem of power, massive unemployment, and widening socio-economic inequality, deny him the economic legacy that would have pushed his case for the Mo Ibrahim prize.

As with the economy, Goodluck, despite pouring in a good amount of money, struggled to develop the security apparatus of the country in the face of a spike in terrorism and incessant kidnapping. His government’s inability to ensure peace and stability, as well as accusations of its insensitivity to the plight of victims of terror, like the Chibok girls, led to popular disaffection against his rule. As proven by his defeat at the polls, not even the military’s recent triumphs against the boko haram militants has shed the perception of him as an inept president. However, while Jonathan’s inability to rein in the insecurity in the land will be a stumbling block to his consideration for the Mo Ibrahim prize, his calm reaction to the result of the tense election and strong invocation for his supporters to accept the victory of his rival, averted a post-election violence–in the scale of 2011, and made him a legend in Nigeria’s history books. This singular act is Jonathan’s biggest propellant for the prize. But will it be enough?

Although President Jonathan has received local and international praise for his election acts, it is improbable that it will win him the award. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has a reputation of awarding its prize to leaders with salient and incontrovertible record of good and effective governance, the reason only five leaders have received the prize in its 9 years of existence. Picking Jonathan would be so controversial, it could hurt the credibility of the prize.


Article compiled by Ventures Africa

Technical Issues Force Accommodation Request Exercise To Be Re-scheduled

A CONFIRMED report just reaching us now from the Division of Student Affairs has it that the accommodation request exercise for newly admitted students of Obafemi Awolowo University for 2014/2015 session earlier scheduled for today will no longer hold due to technical issues. It has now been re-scheduled for Tuesday 7th April, 2015 as from 10am.

It is expected that the date for accommodation request by finalists will remain 30th April, 2015.

Jonathan’s Congratulatory Phone Call To Buhari (Audio)

Listen to the historic audio of President Jonathan calling to congratulate General Buhari