New Nigeria Vanguard

To those studying Economics hoping for a banking career, please understand that With the increasing sophistication of electronic banking, transfer services, ATM’s and POS machines, the need for bankers will fall and there will be a decline in recruitment in that area. To be more concise, ECONOMICS is one of the growing number of useless courses if the curriculum is not quantitative based and focused on modeling outcomes and forecasting trends based on real time statistics and data.  Here are the jobs available to Economics graduates overseas: 1. Economist  2. Financial risk analyst 3. Data Analyst 4. Financial Planner 5. Accountant 6. Economic Researcher 7. Financial Consultant 8. Investment Analyst  9. Actuary 10. teaching 11. Public sector Based on this list, we can immediately eliminate 2,4,8,9, give some deferential award to 1,3,6 that in Nigeria all lead to 11 in policy roles, with the remaining extract from all defaulting to 10 or finally outside economics in the wo...

Whenever you talk about poor governance, Nigerians always mention restructuring as the catch all panacea to fix all problems and issues. But very few Nigerians really know what type of restructuring is needed or how to secure this much needed restructuring in practice.  Many believe restructuring is about returning to the regional government system predating 1966, and tagging on a few new regions, while others wish to retain the federalist state structure and others wish for tribal governments for each of Nigeria nearly 360 indigenous tribes.  Others talk about super imposing a true federalist structures over whatever system but to ensure regional control of resources, most of that agitation seems to be driven by the south east and south-south zones sitting on crude oil reserves, followed by a devolution of items on the exclusive list to those new federalist units.  Others see restructuring as repeal of the 1999 constitution in its entirety and fashioning a new constituti...

Remembering my stolen NWA tape back in the 90s and thieves stealing my treasured clothes during classes and surviving armed break-ins or waking up to discover that thieves have liberated electronics at home while we slept and many other episodes that caused untold pain and suffering has forced me to do a double take about some of the reasons for SARS brutality. The reality is that Nigerians have become highly criminalized right from the secondary school level, very few can be trusted and even friends will join in scamming you and act all innocent as you lament. These shocking incidents of stealing and criminality of Nigerians against each other has boiled tempers to the extreme action points were citizens take matters into their hands like the famous killing of the Aluu 4 youth by mob action. In fact you can’t have scrolled through Facebook for any number of months without coming across mob and jungle justice being inflicted on apprehended thieves who are set ablaze to a roaring crowd....

What Nigerians want comes from watching foreign TV and foreign media news channels and movies, Infact it is high time government banned these foreign influences. The truth is Nigeria has never had a history of providing jobs for youths or for the teaming mass of unemployed loitering the streets. Many of the jobs you see overseas have evolved over centuries, in the United States, delivering newspapers to front doors was the primary part time job of teenagers dating back centuries, so also postal and railway jobs and many other auxiliary jobs. In contrast Nigeria, does not have many of these century old private institutional legacy jobs nor can you even see the ads in newspapers to respond until the advent of cell phone and Facebook within the last few years but these jobs are for adults. The industrial revolution occurred in Europe over 200 years ago and sustained providing Europe with a laundry list of inter related cottage industries providing high skilled jobs requiring on the job tr...

Truthfully Sowore is someone Nigerian youth should be trying to emulate and his rise to prominence is not strange or mysterious. It is not his fault that his investigative reporting contributed in ending GEJ’s corrupt regime, it is Buhari who became the problem instead of the solution we voted for. You fence him from endsarsnow but you all forget he came back from America to lead the revolution (after meeting with Nnamdi Kanu) shortly after the rigged 2019 elections, but got arrested when the mood was very hot. He was detained for months by the DSS as the fury died down and was released months later and his passport may have been seized. Still he soldiered on to launch his delayed 2019 revolution ( Take it Back Movement ) in 2020 ( Sowore2019! TakeItBack Movement Lagos chapter ) that you have all forgotten, but it laid the groundwork for ENDSARSNOW. Typical of hypocrisy in high and low places, everyone will go to SAHARA REPORTERS later today, the one and only source of news in and abo...

In a recent submission to the Centre for values in leadership, in collaboration with the Governors forum, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, suggested that responsible Nigerians be allowed to carry AK47’s to reduce insecurity in the land. Coming from a state ravaged by ethnic cleansing and genocidal slaughter by suspected Fulani herdsmen his suggestion was not greeted by the strong applause it deserved especially from an advocate and government official so highly placed, perhaps because his call may have been perceived as a suggestion based on solving the background of violence in Benue State alone. In retrospect, it is time for Nigerians to not disregard his suggestion and to take the call for  gun possession by all Nigerians more seriously with the flight into worsening insecurity and endless slaughter and killings and burglaries and carjacking’s and kidnappings of Nigerians today, especially since the federal government cannot guarantee the safety of Nigerians, a core human rig...

Does Nigeria have an effective Government?  How is a rag tag organization of less than 5 years, and dubiously tagged a terrorist group, able to overcome that dangerous characterization and launch a diplomatic offensive to be able to convince foreign members of Congress and its diplomats right under the noses of serving ambassadors and attaches for different engagements, that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria. How is that terrorist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, with a meagerly budget 85K monthly able to counter the billion-dollar budget of the Ministry of external affairs with board seats at various international organizations including the UN where a Nigerian serves as the deputy Secretary General. Only two things could have gained IPOB access to all powerful foreign policy makers, one would be that IPOB is being used to undermine the federal government of Nigeria, but then do they need an excuse, or perhaps the true frightening reality, that they can rightf...

I am laughing at people who point at Buhari going overseas instead of fixing Aso Clinic, or flying Kyari to Lagos apparently because of it.  Others are amused that he is quarantined in the villa after suspicions that he may be corona positive. Still others blame him for not ordering border closures, not to be outdone others tie his delay in closing the airports because his daughter was enroute. Only a callous man will not try to have a daughter return safely and even besides that suspicion only a mad man will order the closure of all air traffic and complete border closure , the lifeline of the nation, without some hesitation, it’s not just health but Naira and dollars evaporating into thin air, Nigeria will pay the price for these actions even as all Nigerians, although still alive, will have morphed into looking like kwashiorkor victims as a result.  Only a mad man will stay in Nigeria to experience the third world socialist medicine available, it’s a waste of time.  In...

Typically many Nigerians feel they have very little to celebrate about Nigeria at 59. How Nigerians developed a new found culture of impatience, ingratitude to God and dreams of immediate prosperity is difficult to determine, but it is not unconnected to the discovery of oil in 1956 and they resultant influx of petrol dollars that transformed Nigeria from an agrarian economy to a sophisticated economy overnight without going through development stages. Nigerians have since then, aided by foreign influence and a newfound consumerism that has no bounds, and shows no sign of abating, become one of the most demanding and most unimpressed people on earth. Few Nigerians understand that Nigeria is not a rich country, a separate discussion from potential. Nigerians are so sure of Nigeria’s unlimited resources that for instance if you mention going to space, every Nigerian will state that Nigeria could go to space immediately, except for its bumbling and kwarapt government. As Nigerians complai...

.The Bible is viewed as a holy book, but all it really does is document the history of the Jews and their tribulations over the years at the hands of various oppressors culminating in the dreams of a messiah to take them to the promised land. If we had a written language or transcribed the stories of the griots that Alex Haley in his Roots book had consulted to track down his ancestry, you would discover it would encapsulate the histories of our various people and trace bloodlines leading back to a long forgotten supreme ancestor, no different from Abraham who descended from Adam and you would trace your genealogy like the Bible does in linking Jesus all the way back to the line of kings, specifically to David in his case, similar to the bible. Their native men and sorcerers foretold of the arrival of the various messiahs to take them to the promised land or to restore the kingdom of Judea.  Jews had Prophets akin to native priests and griots and whole tribes, like the Levites, ded...

I salute UNN for this first revolutionary attempt to begin a discussion about this topic in Nigeria today, perhaps the first original theme of its kind. Many Nigerians act so sophisticated, but deep down we are a bunch of primitive superstitious savages. Nigerians go to church and mosques during the day, but we consult native doctors aka “juju” or medicine men at night.  Bring a white male cock, bring me a tortoise, bring me white cloth, what is the name of your grandfather, swear an oath, etc For instance Ngige received his “native” blessings to see him remain as minister today, go and try him and see the forces that will kee you, even Abacha imported native doctors from Bamako before the superior juju of mascara wearing Indians with red dots on their head superseded them, juju pass juju oh. No one can die in tiv land without accusations that his mother or relatives or enemies conspired to kill them in the spirit world, deaths in the aftermath are traced to a deceased spirit secur...

It is not so much that the standard of living is falling drastically, but that Nigerians are not earning enough income to satisfy new and more sophisticated needs. Basically, the needs of Nigerians have expanded geometrically in the last few years.  For instance, increased access and subscription to cable and the use of expensive cellular phones and recharge cards are new expenses being faced by everyone that was not obtainable in the past, so also are market-based school fees at universities and enrollment of children into private schools at all levels unlike in the past. These expenses all reduce disposable income.  Even historical out of pocket expenses including taking care of relatives through the extended family system, health care expenses, burial expenses and weddings expenses are now prohibitive. The rise of burial and wedding expenses is so high that certain religious institutions have restricted they length of time a corpse can remain unburied and some traditional r...

The common reason adduced for the closure of the border is the protection of our rice industry and to force Nigerians to substitute foreign rice with local varieties.  Two of the biggest flaws of the policy are: 1. Miscomprehension of the appetite of Nigerians for foreign rice and all things foreign. Nigerians talk a good game, but are hopelessly addicted to all things foreign including rice. The situation is so bad that some enterprising criminals are now mixing sorghum with local rice and selling them in foreign bags of rice and Nigerians are paying a premium. No one has time to wash rice like I observed growing up, you can wash rice and remove stones, but tell that to Nigerians, they will abuse you about how sophisticated they are. Bottom line unless the government has rock hard determination it remains to be seen how long Nigerians will tolerate feasting on local rice, despite all the noise. Nigerians are grounded in their idea of sophistication and taste and cannot be weaned o...

Nothing can make one more unpopular than displaying even a hint of Buharism or sympathy for cows and honest herdsmen not Fulani militia, while not condoning killing, but Nigerians are so locked in their hateful mindsets to examine issues beyond their tribal prism. This post by an Igbo person says it all. Nigeria is heading towards a major crisis when it will wake up one day and not find beef for sale anywhere, no one really likes pigs and goats are notoriously slow breeders. Nigerians will wake up one day and suddenly realize there are no cows anymore, the Fulani, the custodians of Nigeria’s beef have given up the business and Nigeria must import meat by the ton, another import bill that will crash the naira. President Buhari must be blamed for his catastrophic handling of internal security issues related to dealing with the Fulani militia and occupation of tribal land by nomadic Fulani clans and unrestricted grazing that has made Nigerians turn against “Fulani custodians” and their co...

Sowere is legally not a youth, but he represents the “not too young to rule” and revolutionary youth movement presently in a state of utter confusion and rudderlessness.  Don’t come to social media and be complaining about all the ills of society, but then criticize or laugh at someone like Sowere willing to fight for, or express as revolutionary as he can, the utter frustration and sense of hopelessness about the state of Nigerian today that we all feel, you cannot come to Facebook without it hitting you in the face to the point of insults for even a whiff of Buharism.  I am not disappointed at my generation chanced of our destiny from growing up under military rule to wanting to maintain the status quo because they know no better, but I am thoroughly disappointed in they youth made of University students and they unemployed today. How many of you voted for Sowere?  How many of you voted for the eloquent and intelligent Moghalu or the many youth candidates of the other p...

There are some people who no amount of training or grooming or education can make literate or progressive in their outlook, gravitational orientation or conduct, basically, their mannerism and world vision and biases are already hard coded in their personalities. There are others (like me) whose accent cannot change despite living and interacting with all manner of people at various levels overseas, while there are others who come and spend one summer abroad and acquire a European (“acata”) accent for life. In the field of leadership there are those like Buhari, who despite undergoing the best leadership training program Nigeria has to offer, end up coming across as lacking intellect, polish and finesse and who display shockingly poor leadership skills if you believe all the stories you hear on social media. The newly appointed CJN is one such person, who despite sitting on the bench for donkey years and submitting briefs and supposedly acquiring a PHD and cross training in sharia law ...

As we debate RUGA and Fulanization many wailers and Nigerians act like we would not be faced by both prospects if only Atiku were President forgetting that his feeder lot proposal is tantamount in implementation to RUGA’s.  Nigerians need to understand that Whether you have an Atiku or Buhari presidency they objective to appropriate land for the Fulani, the “singular custodians” of Nigeria beef, to sustain and nurture our herd of cows remains the public policy goal of the federal government for lack of plausible alternatives or competition. According to reports even former president Goodluck Jonathan gave his premature to the project and an idoma man, the minister of Agriculture has not resigned over the proposal and has tried to sell it the only issue is that it is being accelerated by the Fulani dominated and partisan administration of President Buhari. The statewide implementation of RUGA across the country however was temporarily halted by public fury of non-northern states but...

As we debate RUGA and Fulanization many wailers act like we would not be in this predicament if Atiku were president forgetting that his feeder lots are tantamount in implementation to RUGA.  Whether Atiku or Buhari the objective to appropriate land for the Fulani, the “singular custodians” of Nigeria beef, remains the public policy goal of the federal government as even Goodluck according to reports gave his premature to the project and an idoma man, the minister of Agriculture has not resigned over the proposal.  State governments need to act proactively to thwart seizures of communal lands by creating their own ranches and paying attention to animal husbandry or stand aside and give up land they are not really using for anything to the Fulani who are the only ones serious about preserving the cows we depend on for EXTRA meat and PEPPER soup.  With all the lip service paid to agriculture by Middlebelt Governors why are there no vast tracts of farmland for cow rearing, d...

The hate of Buhari is blinding some Nigerians about certain issues, some Igbo and other Nigerians will be the first one to comment about this administration not obeying court order because Zakzaky and Dusuki are still in jail, but they will forget that abusive Nnamdi Kanu was released and allowed to escape. Others will not remember Buhari’s goal to Islamize Nigeria when advocating for the release of Zakzaky, others will applaud his followers for repeated demonstrations and recent attack at the National Assembly as a results of Buhari’s lawlessness and refusal to obey court orders. Even the tiv will decry Buhari’s lawlessness about Zakzaky but decry Islamization that the Shia movement is more militant about. Even though they have been demonized has anyone really explored the philosophies and radical bent of the Shia movement. Are they not based in the same Zaria that has been the bastion of a virulent strain of Islamic radicalism that caused so many riots in Zaria forcing ABU to close r...

It is tragic that there has been so much killing because of herdsman vs farmer clashes over the years to the point where the friendly domesticated cow is now the target of so much disdain. Our mission as a nation should be to bring the criminals and murderous Fulani and nomadic militia hiding under cover of cow herding to commit grievous atrocities to book and secure justice and compensation for victims and not take out our anger on a COW. Buhari’s is responsible for the animosity with his lackadaisical anafafd criminal partisanship conduct of withholding punishment that has blurred the issue for Nigerians about the national need to prevent our cows from going into extinction, just like our donkeys. In a few years all our cattle can be wiped out due to disease, just look at the ugly cattle we eat and abandonment by the Fulani themselves due to logistics and we will have to import beef along with everything else by the tons, only then will Nigerians understand the national and food secu...