Wednesday, October 22, 2014

4000 NYSC Fee: House Of Reps Has Betrayed Nigerian Youths—ACT

A youth political pressure group, Advocates for Collective Transformation (ACT) has described the endorsement of 4000 online registration fee for NYSC mobilization by the House of Representative as a misrepresentation and betrayal of Nigerian youths.

ACT in a statement signed by its President, Tayo Fashogbon and National Secretary Isaac Ifetoluwa Ajayi describe the endorsement by House Committee on Youth Development Chairman, Hon Kamil Akinlabi despite public outcry against the fee as ‘evil endorsement of oppression’ of young people in the country. The group said the action signals that youths cannot be assured of quality representation from its elected lawmakers.

The group said young people in the country are at greater risk with leaders like Hon Akinlabi representing Nigerian youth interests at the legislative chamber. "Hon. Akinlabi and his committee has swallowed the NYSC pill to extort fresh Nigerian graduates, we wonder how it taste in their mouths. If Nigerian youths cannot be assured of quality representation from its elected lawmakers, our future is at greater risk. "Representative like Hon Akinlabi and his committee members has failed promising young Nigerians who deserve better representation at decision making process at all level of governance."

The group called on the Speaker Hon. Aminu Tanbuwal to immediately disband the committee on Youth for falling to protect the interest of Young Nigerians. The group however insisted that it’s unfair, wicked and satanic to monetize any process of the NYSC scheme, saying there is no justification for the fee.

The youth group added that arguments that the fee charged is to provide technology at all NYSC offices across the country lacks merit, saying the NYSC has run for more than 40 years without charging any corps member for money and the scheme has not collapse. It maintained that the government has not says its broke to fund the scheme noting that the scheme stills takes more than 70percent of money allotted to the Ministry of Youths.

"We also call for immediate suspension of this fraudulent extortion of helpless and jobless fresh graduates who are eager to serve their fathers land. We called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately stop the online fee and ensure all prospective corps members who have been defrauded in this process are refund back their parent's hard earn money."
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Elma's Dream (The GUARDIAN, April 4, 2011, Pp 64) - A Goodluck Campaign in 2011


When President Goodluck won the PDP primary elections, my father was very happy. 

He said it was the beginning of good things to come. He said Power will be fixed and there will always be light so I can do my home work. Education will be improved and all childern will go to good schools and my school will have computers and teach music like they do in private schools; water will be steady and I wont (won't) have to go to the well to fetch water. All roads in Nigeria will be fixed so no one has to die because of bad roads. The president says he will Transform Nigeria. I believe he will, because my father says so.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

At the Independence Day Special Interactive Session with Pastor Sam Adeyemi


Trust you all had a splendid Independence Day celebration. Happy Independence Day to all our readers. I am sorry I could not come online all through yesterday. I had to attend some events in the spirit of Independence celebrations.

Let me first say that God has been faithful to us as a nation in the last 100 years of nationhood and 54 years of Independence. We have gone through the rigours of corruption, deficient leadership and above all terrorism to mention but a few and we are still standing strong.
I was privileged to attend the Independence Day Special Interactive Session with Pastor Sam Adeyemi at the Daystar Christian Centre, Ikeja yesterday. I would like to give brief highlights of the programme.
The senior pastor gave an insight into what it takes to solve Nigeria’s myriad problems. He humourously started the session by saying that Nigeria’s problems could be described as the outcomes from blind men told to touch the parts of the body of an elephant.

The Success Power host continued by saying that Nigeria has been spoilt by nature. He however said that Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria. From the pastor’s perspective, the cardinal points from which individuals can impact the nation are basically nine categories of influence namely Government, Family, Sports, Media, Religion, Education, Economy, Entertainment, Science and Technology.
An average of two persons spoke on the nine areas of influence. He pinpointed the fact that “if you try to control what you have no power over, you have signed a contract with frustration.” In his words, “You cannot solve Nigeria’s problem beyond your purpose. Everyone in Nigeria will not and cannot solve her problems at the same time but God needs some people.”
I believe Nigeria can be better off when we start aligning ourselves to our purpose in our everyday activities. God bless Nigeria!