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29/04/2024

The question Nigerians are not asking is why the American International School, Abuja, is collecting school fees in U.S. Dollars for a school that is domiciled in Nigeria. That is wrong, and probably illegal!

Would the United States tolerate a school in America collecting fees in Naira or any other currency? Of course not!

Fact-check me: Last year, the American International School, Abuja, had over 500 students. Consider the downward pressure that school is causing on the Naira if 500 students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars each as school fees annually.

That is a bigger offence and more severe economic sabotage against Nigeria than the alleged actions of Yahaya Bello.

If I were the Minister of Education of Nigeria, that school would have been closed, and their Directors would be receiving the same treatment meted out to Binance executives.

If the EFCC swings to action and not only prosecutes the owners of that school, but also asks them to refund all parents who paid their fees in Dollars and ordered them to repay in Naira, it would have an immediate and positive impact on the Naira.

28/04/2024

We Can All Learn Tolerance From Globacom and The Yoruba

When the Central Bank of Nigeria relocated some departments to Lagos, there was an uproar on social media. Tinubu wants to move everything to Yorubaland.

But now that the Nigerian Navy is moving its training base headquarters from Lagos to Eleme, in Rivers State, there is silence online. Nobody is saying that the Chief of Naval Staff, who is from Enugu, is moving that critical infrastructure closer to his region. And that is the right thing to do. Onne is a better location for the navy.

Please note that the Naval Training Command headquarters is a more significant infrastructure, and has more human resources than the departments of the CBN that moved to Lagos.

Recall that some individuals tried to pull off a Yoruba nation agitation in Ibadan a few weeks ago, look at how their own Yoruba kith and kin clinically dealt with them. And not even by the Federal Government, but by the Oyo State Government, which is in opposition to the Federal Government. Elsewhere, secessionists are protected, and even celebrated by the local population, and the State Governments look the other way.

One man even boasted that, "They are not terrorists. I meet them and live with them." Please note that this is a direct quote.

Let us learn to imbibe the tolerance of the Yoruba, and Nigeria will go well.

The Omoluabi culture of tolerance stems from their culture, not from their DNA, so it is something all of us can also learn. It a not a racial trait, like their ability to have more twin births than any group on Earth.

It is built on two platforms. Iwa, which means moral character (Omoluabi actually is short for Omo-ti-Olu Iwa-bi, meaning children that the Lord of moral character gave birth to).

The second platform is Ebi, meaning family. Omoluabi Yoruba are taught to uphold fraternal relations above money and power. And not just among Omoluabi, but with all peoples.

That is why, for example, Colonel Fajuyi rejected the offer to surrender Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi to rebellious Northern officers, and replace him as Military Head of State. He voluntarily chose to follow Ironsi to his death. That is a combination of the Iwa and Ebi ethos.

And it continued even after Fajuyi's death. How?

After Ironsi and Fajuyi's death, Fajuyi's successor as Military Governor of the Western Region, Adeyinka Adebayo, looked after Ironsi’s children, who lived with him in his house. I bet you never knew that. Please, fact-check me.

Do you know the most Islamic state in Southern Nigeria? It is not Lagos. Please research it. The state with the highest percentage of Muslims in Southern Nigeria is Osun State.

Yet, the indigenes of that state voted for a man who is both officially a Christian and a Muslim as their Governor. Yes. Please fact-check me. Senator Ademola Adeleke regularly attends church and not so regularly attends mosques. At best, he is a Chrislamist. But officially, he has been tagged as a Christian in certain publications.

So, Osun has a Chrislam Governor, who just happens to be half-Igbo (Senator Adeleke's mother was Igbo and he was born in Enugu), a Christian Deputy Governor, and a Christian Speaker. Please note that Osun recently changed Speakers, and I do not know the religion of the new Speaker, Prince Adewale Egbedun. But his predecessor, Timothy Owoeye, is a Christian. However, I am told by those who know Egbedun that he is a Christian.

In that same Osun, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Olusola Obada, were Governor and Deputy. Both are Christians.

Recently, I had cause to defend Chief Eric Umeofia over the attempts by some people to destroy his business, and I cautioned them to understand that he had 4,000 employees. Though this fellow is not from the Southwest, those who led the effort to save his reputation and business are from the Southwest.

This is the type of pan-Nigerian spirit that we can learn from the Yorubas as we all imbibe their Iwa and Ebi ethos.

And nowhere do we see that culture on display better than at Globacom. This is a company wholly owned by an Ijebu man, Dr. Mike Adenuga. Yet, even when there were prominent Ijebu and Yoruba artists who were the biggest singers in Nigeria at that time, Globacom deliberately chose to promote the principle of One Nigeria.

Sunny Ade was there. D-Banj was then the hottest artiste in Nigeria. Paul Play Dairo was at that time ruling the airwaves with Mo Sori Ire.

But Globacom ignored them. The company took a relatively unknown as at then group. They took P-Square, and made them the face of their brand. And they sent them to etiquette school. Glo had P-Square on billboards all over Lagos and Nigeria. You could not go from Ikoyi to Victoria Island without seeing a giant Goo billboard with Nigerian music stars.

Dr. Adenuga bought P-Square their first brand-new Mercedes G-Wagon. Then he bought them brand new Range Rovers.

As Glo ambassadors, P-Square were featured on CNN for the Glo with Pride campaign, which blew them up worldwide. They thereafter bought houses in America, and would have become even more prominent globally, until quarrels over business made the twins separate for almost five years, which affected their fame.

But then there happened to be a quarrel between one of them and Seun Kuti, and in the heat of the moment, Peter Okoye called his own father "a nobody". Not Seun's father. Fela was never a nobody. No. Peter Okoye referred to his own father as a nobody.

Such a thing can NEVER happen in Yoruba land. Never a thousand times. And if by mistake a Yoruba man dares do that, the community will beat him to a pulp the way Ibadan people beat the Yoruba nation agitators three weeks ago.

I do not know if Globacom got vote for the money they spent on etiquette school.

Happy 71st birthday to one of Nigeria's most outstanding entrepreneurs ever, bar none. Dr. Mike Adenuga Junior.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. . Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Globetrotter. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

28/04/2024

How Awolowo Prophesied Peter Obi As Far Back as 1978

In 1978, there were frantic meetings between Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Unity Party of Nigeria, and Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe's Nigerian Peoples Party. As the August 11, 1979 approached, Chief Awolowo explained to the NPP that if he and Owelle Azikiwe contested, they would split the Southern vote and hand victory to Malam Shehu Shagari.

He thereafter argued that of the two of them, he stood a greater chance of winning the election, since he would get the Western Nigeria vote, the Midwest vote and some of the minority Eastern Nigeria votes.

Chief Awolowo further explained to the NPP apparatchiks that because Shagari's National Party of Nigeria had chosen an Igbo man, Chief Alex Ekwueme, they would split the Igbo vote and win, unless Azikiwe united with Awolowo, especially as there was a Naka Sai Naka revolution in Northern Nigeria.

Of course, Owelle Nnamdi Azikiwe's NPP did not listen and contested the August 11, 1979 election, having been assured by prominent Northerners that he would get massive votes in the North.

The election came, and Malam Shehu Shagari scored 5,688,857 votes, and Chief Awolowo got 4,916,551 votes, leaving Owelle Azikiwe with a paltry 2,822,523.

The primary reason for Shagari's victory was the votes he picked up from the Igbo states of Anambra and Imo and the then Rivers state, where Shagari polled 72.65% of the votes.

As predicted by Chief Awolowo, Chief Azikiwe had no path to victory and only served to divide the Southern votes.

Now, fast forward to 2022. Peter Obi called me to ask for my support, and I explained my position to him. I then followed it up with an article in my ThisDay column explaining that Peter Obi had no path to victory whatsoever. It was never going to happen.

I explained that the only purpose Peter Obi would serve would be to divide the votes the Peoples Democratic Party would have got. And by so doing, hand over a victory that the All Progressives Congress would not have had but for him.

It was obvious to most discerning pundits that both the men luring him away from the PDP, as well as the money they were funnelling to him, probably came from those who did not want Waziri Atiku to win.

He did not listen. He contested the February 25, 2023 election. Bola Tinubu was declared the winner with 8,794,726 votes. Waziri Atiku Abubakar came second with 6,984,520 votes. Peter Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes.

If Obi had not contested, Waziri Atiku would undoubtedly have won that election hands down, even with rigging, because. Please fact-check me: the Peoples Democratic Party has won in every state of the Southeast in every election since 1999.

If Peter Obi had not contested in 2023, the PDP would still have won in the Southeastern states during the and Waziri Atiku would have amassed at least above the 11,262,978 votes he scored in 2019.

Bola Tinubu did not defeat Waziri Atiku Abubakar. Peter Obi defeated Waziri Atiku.

History does not repeat itself. Men repeat history and blame history for repeating itself. And it is inevitable that if we do not learn anything from the history of the 2023 election, we will repeat it.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. . Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Globetrotter. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

19/11/2023

PROFESSIONAL ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN SECURITY MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS (WEEKENDS ONLY)

■TARGET AUDIENCE:

The programme is designed for intelligence Officers in Intelligence Office in the Armed Forces, Police, Customs, Prisons, NDLEA, Immigration, NSCDC, other security corps, Head of Security Units, Security Managers, Private and Corporate Investigators, Intelligence Managers, Operators of Security Services, Training Managers, Insurance Managers, Factory Managers and Personnel Managers, Safety Managers, Auditors, Officers and Supervisors of Security Outfits. Legal Advisers, Prosecutors, Analysts and Examiners.

■ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
■Professional Higher Diploma or HND in Security Management and relevant disciplines or Equivalents.

■Non relevant degree.

In addition to:
●Five (5) credit passes in WASCE, SSSCE/NECO/G.C.E. (O/Level) subjects or its equivalent.
●Grade 11 Teachers Certificate, Practicing and in-service Training course Certificate issued by Military, Paramilitary and Police Training Schools.
●Matured candidates of 25 years of age and above with minimum of (5) years working experience and three (3) passes in WASSCE/GCE may also be considered.

■APPLICATION FEE :25000.00
■TUITION FEE: #175000. 00 ■COURSE MATERIALS FEE: #40 000. 00

■DURATION: One Academic Session, (Two Semesters (9) months)

■Venue:
University of Ibadan Conference Centre ,
Opposite Chapel of The Resurrection,
Chapel Road,
University of Ibadan.
Ibadan.

■Admission is Ongoing. ...

19/11/2023

PROFESSIONAL HIGHER DIPLOMA IN SECURITY MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS (WEEKENDS ONLY)

■TARGET AUDIENCE:

The programme is designed for intelligence Officers in Intelligence Office in the Armed Forces, Police, Customs, Prisons, NDLEA, Immigration, NSCDC, other security corps, Head of Security Units, Security Managers, Private and Corporate Investigators, Intelligence Managers, Operators of Security Services, Training Managers, Insurance Managers, Factory Managers and Personnel Managers, Safety Managers, Auditors, Officers and Supervisors of Security Outfits. Legal Advisers, Prosecutors, Analysts and Examiners.

■ENTRY REQUIREMENTS*
■Professional Diploma in Security Management, ND,NCE or Equivalents

In addition to:
●Five (5) credit passes in WASCE, SSSCE/NECO/G.C.E. (O/Level) subjects or its equivalent.
●Grade 11 Teachers Certificate, Practicing and in-service Training course Certificate issued by Military, Paramilitary and Police Training Schools.
●Matured candidates of 25 years of age and above with minimum of (5) years working experience and three (3) passes in WASSCE/GCE may also be considered.

■APPLICATION FEE :25000.00
■TUITION FEE: #150 000. 00 ■COURSE MATERIALS FEE: #35, 000. 00

■DURATION: One Academic Session, (Two Semesters (9) months)

■VENUE:
University of Ibadan Conference Centre ,
Opposite Chapel of The Resurrection,
Chapel Road,
University of Ibadan.
Ibadan.

■Admission is Ongoing. ...

19/11/2023

PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA IN SECURITY MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS (WEEKENDS ONLY)

■TARGET AUDIENCE:

The programme is designed for intelligence Officers in Intelligence Office in the Armed Forces, Police, Customs, Prisons, NDLEA, Immigration, NSCDC, other security corps, Head of Security Units, Security Managers, Private and Corporate Investigators, Intelligence Managers, Operators of Security Services, Training Managers, Insurance Managers, Factory Managers and Personnel Managers, Safety Managers, Auditors, Officers and Supervisors of Security Outfits. Legal Advisers, Prosecutors, Analysts and Examiners.

■ENTRY REQUIREMENTS*

●Five (5) credit passes in WASCE, SSSCE/NECO/G.C.E. (O/Level) subjects or its equivalent.
●Grade 11 Teachers Certificate, Practicing and in-service Training course Certificate issued by Military, Paramilitary and Police Training Schools.
●Matured candidates of 25 years of age and above with minimum of (5) years working experience and three (3) passes in WASSCE/GCE may also be considered.

■APPLICATION FEE :12500.00
■TUITION FEE: #125, 000. 00 ■COURSE MATERIALS FEE: #25, 000. 00

■DURATION: One Academic Session, (Two Semesters (9) months)

■Venue:
University of Ibadan Conference Centre ,
Opposite Chapel of The Resurrection,
Chapel Road,
University of Ibadan.
Ibadan.

■Admission is Ongoing. ...

13/01/2023