Some aggrieved youths have taken to the streets of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to demonstrate their grievances against the controversial video clip famous singer, Davido shared recently on his Twitter account.

Recall that Davido came under severe criticisms after sharing a clip of the music video of his signee, Logos Olori’s new single ‘Jaye Lo’ which captures people praying and dancing in front of a mosque.

Some prominent Nigerian Muslims including former aide to ex-president Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, Senator Shehu Sani, actor, Ali Nuhi, asked Davido to take down the video and apologise to Muslims for “disrespecting” their religion.

The singer eventually bowed to the demands after 48 hours and deleted the video.

However, in a video making the rounds on social media, some youths in Maiduguri were seen setting on fire a poster of the singer as they demanded that the OBO crooner should apologise to the Muslim community.

The National Industrial Court (NIC) has affirmed the status of the Congress Of University Academics (CONUA) and the Nigeria Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) as trade unions in Nigeria, thus dismissing the suit filed by ASUU.

In a ruling on Tuesday, the president of the NIC, Justice Benedict Kanyip, dismissed ASUU’s lawsuit which challenged the Federal Government’s registration of CONUA and NAMDA as trade unions.

Kanyip ruled that Section 27 of the Trade Union Act does not depict trade monopoly and makes allowance for more than one trade union in employment.

He added that both the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, and the registrar of the union, were within their rights to register both unions to co-exist with ASUU.

The Justice held that ASUU did not provide any evidence to show the complete registration of CONUA and NAMDA when the suit was filed, adding that any evidence that was provided by ASUU was hearsay because the suit was filed on October 26, 2022, meanwhile, CONUA and NAMDA’s registration had yet to be, gazetted in line with Section 523 of the Trade Union Act.

THE WHISTLER reported last year, when ASUU’s legal representative, Femi Falana SAN, stated that the union would sue the FG for registering CONUA and NAMDA while it was still on strike.

Falana said the registration of the unions is illegal seeing as only one union is allowed to operate in every sector, according to the Trade Union Act.

“You can’t have two trade unions in the same sector. Only a union is allowed to be registered for all academics in Nigeria.

“That is the essence of the classification of trade unions because we used to have mushrooms in the First Republic, so the government restructured the unions and grouped all academics together and all non-academics together. You can’t have two or three in one field,” he said.

Falana added that there is a Supreme Court judgment on the proliferation of trade unions, the Erasmus Osawe V Registrar of Trade Unions.

Suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been granted a N20 million bail by a Federal High Court setting in Ikoyi, Lagos.

As part of condition to perfect the bail, the embattled CBN Governor must produce a surety with landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.

Emefiele who earlier pleaded not guilty is facing two count charges bordering on illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

His lawyer, Joseph Daudu, SAN, who had applied for his bail contended that the offence for which he was changed is bailable, which the presiding judge, Nicholas Oweibo, agreed with.

THE WHISTLER on July 13 reported that Justice H. Muazu of Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja had given the Department of State Services (DSS), seven days to charge Emefiele, to court or release him from detention.

The embattled CBN Governor had sued the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and the DSS for arresting and detaining him in a commando style, alleging the agencies were carrying out a political witch-hunt against him due to his “people-oriented financial policies which several political actors are not comfortable with and are now looking for any means to scandalize and smear his image and reputation.”

It would be recalled that President Bola Tinubu had on June 9, suspended Emefiele as the apex bank’s Governor and had directed that the bank’s Deputy Governor of Operations, Folashodun Shonubi, resume office in an acting capacity.

The Senate requested the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt their proposed pricing increases and “allow Nigerians to breathe.”

Additionally, the Senate encouraged DisCos to no longer charge Nigerian communities’ electrical transformer purchase costs before requesting payment.

By immediately distributing affordable prepaid metres to all power consumers nationwide, it also put an end to projected billing.

The Red Chambers then considered several resolutions, including one titled “Need to halt proposed increase in Electricity Tariff by 11 successor Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos).”

The motion was moved by Senator Yunus Abiodun Akintunde (APC – Oyo Central) at plenary.

After due debate on the motion, the Senate resolved to: “Call on the Federal Government of Nigeria to intervene and halt the proposed increase in electricity tariff by the Distribution Companies (Discos);

“Urge Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to decentralize proposed engagement with Stakeholders scheduled for Abuja to the Six Geopolitical Zones of the Federation for effective participation by all;

“Also urge NERC to thoroughly look into the rate review applications filed by the Discos, taking into consideration the interests of citizens, affordability, and the need for improved service delivery;

“Further urge NERC to explore alternative measures to address the financial challenges faced by the Discos, such as improving operational efficiency, reducing technical and commercial losses, and enhancing revenue collection mechanisms;

“Equally urge Discos to henceforth discontinue estimated billing and make available to all electricity consumers prepaid meters at affordable prices; and

“Mandate the Committee on Power (when constituted) to engage with the Federal Ministry of Power, NERC, and other stakeholders to find lasting solutions to the challenges facing the Nigerian electricity sector, including the need for comprehensive sector reforms.

“Call on DisCos to allow communities recover cost of purchasing transformers before asking them to pay bills.

“Call on DisCos and NERC to allow Nigerians to breathe.”

Senators Ekpenyong Asuquo, Jimikuta David, Ipalibo Harry Banigo and Abba Moro in their contributions supported the motion.

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On Tuesday (today), former Governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, tendered a verbal apology to his colleagues at the 10th National Assembly after alleging on live television that Senators in the 9th Senate looted their offices, carting away office furniture and equipment.

Naija News recalls that Oshiomhole had, on Sunday, while appearing live on Channels Television Politics Today programme, alleged that some lawmakers from the previous assembly looted items such as carpets and TVs from their offices.

According to him, a development that led to most of the federal lawmakers in the 10th national assembly using their money to put their offices in shape.

“In spite of the presence of security men and women, television sets, carpets, and chairs were looted by the immediate past senators and House of Representatives members.

“The former lawmakers left their offices in shambles with holes in the walls, which had to be fixed by serving lawmakers from their pockets,” Oshiomhole had said.

Oshiomhole’s submissions, however, caused uproar in the Senate on Tuesday morning during the plenary session as a Federal Lawmaker, Solomon Adeola, slammed the former governor, demanding that he apologize to the Senate.

Senator Adeola said Oshiomhole breached the privilege of his office and demanded that he tenders a public apology to the 10th Senate.

Adeola explained that the procedure is clear at the end of every Assembly; lawmakers are to sign for every item in their offices before they are taken out, maintaining that no Senator looted their offices in the 9th Assembly.

He asked Oshiomhole to explain why he made these allegations on live television without confirmation.

Wading into the arguments, the Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, requested that the matter be discussed behind closed doors, but a majority of the lawmakers refused that the matter be discussed in an executive session.

To douse the tension in the chamber, the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, also intervened, explaining that all items in the offices of Senators depreciate to the tune of 25 per cent and the tradition every four years is to give lawmakers the right to offer to purchase those items and if accepted, the lawmaker will either pay outright for the items or the funds are removed from their severance gratuity.

Oshiomhole Apologizes

According to Channels Television, after a series of arguments, Oshiomhole was thereafter given the floor and expressed his utmost respect for the National Assembly.

The former Governor of Edo State explained that he indeed appeared on a respected national television station but said he defended the collective integrity of the Senate.

He emphasised that at no time did he say Senators looted their offices but rather that the offices were vandalised, prompting Senators to provide the basic needs of their offices by purchasing some furniture.

He, however, tendered an apology to his colleagues, who he says felt offended by his comments.

The Academy Staff Union of the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, protested on Tuesday over the suspension of the institution’s Rector, Dr Tajudeen Odetayo.

Academic activities were grounded, as staff members claimed the suspension of the Rector was an aberration of its constitution.

Recall that the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, suspended the institution’s rector following an allegation of corruption leveled against him.

According to a July 11, 2023 memo by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Muritala Jimoh, addressed to the Acting Registrar of the polytechnic, Odetayo is facing an investigation over “allegations of financial recklessness, corruption and misappropriation of funds and abuse of office.”

The governor also approved the appointment of Mr. Alabi Kehinde Adeyemi as the acting Rector with immediate effect, “pending the time the allegations against him are properly investigated by relevant bodies.”

However, displeased with the governor’s move, academic staff have come out to express their displeasure, saying it is an aberration against the institution’s constitution and has suspended the school’s educational activities over the suspension.

Naija News gathered that protesters, who were chanting solidarity songs, blocked the main campus entrance in Iree, which left the students writing examination stranded.

Speaking to a crowd of protesters, the President of the union, Dr. Fatai Afolabi, declared an indefinite suspension on academic activities, noting that the association frowns at what the governor has done.

Also, checks by Tribune reveal that classrooms were empty as students were seen standing in groups and discussing the issues.

One of the students who simply identified as Abimbola revealed that she knows less about the ongoing issues and, therefore, can not blame anyone for now.

Abimbola, however, appealed for the matter to be resolved amicably so that academic activities could continue.

A video of Boris Johnson riding his bicycle to a corner shop in London to buy some items have excited Nigerians a lot. Dressed in a black suite, blue shirt and red tie, with winter jacket and head warmer, the former UK prime minister is seen picking a few items himself in the store and looking relaxed. At the checkout counter, Johnson chats with the excited shop keepers and checkout clerks. Outside, he takes photographs with passersby before riding away. Someone shouts, ‘’Be safe, Boris’’, and he answers, ‘’I will’’. No convoy. No police escorts or secret police. The former PM appears like every other person in the neighbourhood. The caption accompanying the video reads, ‘’He is Britain’s former prime minister. See how he lives a normal life, no millions of pounds missing; no buildings scattered all over the world or cars all over England…’’.

Earlier this year, I have also seen a video of the Dutch prime minister drive himself in his own private car to work. No convoy. No SUVs. Only the PM, driving himself. The Ghanaian lady who took the video was exclaiming that she was chatting with the PM of the country who was heard telling her, ‘’I am going to work; and you’re doing your own work’’.

Now, compare this with the lifestyles and conducts of our political leaders in office, and those who left office recently or some years ago. We have read about former governors who took away government vehicles as they left office, some as in the case of former governor of Zamfara State, as many as 57 different vehicles. In and out-of-office, our politicians continue to live in opulence, with a large retinue of policemen and security detail, all at the expense of the people. Their looted funds are stashed away in foreign banks, laundered through lucrative deals or are buried in pits in their compounds. While the ordinary citizens continue to wallow in rising poverty and are constantly being called upon to tighten their belts and make more sacrifices, public officials and even former ones continue to live in luxury and illicit wealth. Last Monday, former governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State flew into Uyo in a chartered jet to attended a state function. It costs N10 million to charter a jet just for an hour’s flight. Who footed the N20 million bill for the return flight in that chartered jet for the former the former governor?

Corruption permeates every branch of government and every cadre of officials. National Assembly members reconvened last month to discover that flat screen TV sets, computers and other office furniture used by their predecessors in offices at the National Assembly complex have been pilfered. Huge sums are being voted to replace them. What manner of people will steal TV sets from offices and how could not be one single arrest for this?

The culture of a people determines the extent of their economic wellbeing. A culture that celebrates corruption, copious consumption and promotes incompetence and ethnic bigotry over excellence can never create economic development. Nigerians are impressed to see a former prime minister of a G7 country ride his bicycle for grocery shopping himself, but the same Nigerians would celebrate a politician at home who stole billions from the treasury and is living in unexplained opulence. The same people who are admiring Boris Johnson today would deploy ethnic sentiments to defend their kinsman who is arrested for graft. You’d hear such talks like ‘’Leave him alone; he is not the only one. Is he the only one who has stolen money in this country?’’ from his kinsmen. Former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has been accused by the EFCC of all sorts of corrupt enrichment and has been living in exile since 2015, was recently celebrated by her fellow Ijaw citizen, Ben Murray-Bruce, in social media as a dazzling beauty! I will not be surprised if other Ijaw folks take a cue from Murray-Bruce’s post and start a campaign to ‘’bring our daughter home’’.

Our political culture condones graft, ineptitude, decadence and wastes. People are no longer horrified by stories of high-volume theft, abuse of office and ineptitude. There is no longer a national outrage against decadence and incompetence in the polity, as we used to have in the 1970s. A new age of moral permissiveness is upon us. Everybody is looking for every opportunity to help himself. It is as if Nigerian citizens are in competition against each, or in some kind of stampede, to dismember the country and share its resources in a free-for-all struggle. Everywhere you turn, corruption oozes and the people applaud in a frenzy of excitement. Yet, the same people will turn around to complain of how the country has failed them; how the leaders have failed and how they would like to migrate to where they call ‘’saner climes’’. Can’t we understand the connection between these unbridled excesses and the helpless economic situation we are in?

The other day, a young man was lynched for stealing a loaf of bread in Yenogoa. He was said to be a fresh university graduated who recently left the university with an impressive first-class degree. Reports say he has been jobless since graduation and was living in very desperate situation. But the people spared no efforts in beating him to death for stealing a loaf of bread. But these same people would later in the evening troop to the homes of their political leaders who probably stole millions from the government and shout ‘’we are still loyal sir. Anything for us, sir’’. That is the way we are!

In 1992, a brilliant political strategist in the United States, James Carville, working for the Bill Clinton presidential campaign, coined the phrase, ‘’It’s the economy, stupid’’, as one of the three messages to focus on during the campaigns. His message was initially directed at the Democratic Party campaign workers, but was later adapted as the buzzword of the season for the Bill Clinton presidential campaign. The US economy was in a recession and Clinton’s campaign used the message to drive home the point that nothing else mattered to the American citizens than fixing the economy. Clinton’s pledge to fix the economy and grow jobs resonated with the voters, so much so that he went on to beat his challenger, President George H. W. Bush.

Thirty-one years later, Nigerians are confronted with rising poverty and cost of living crisis not seen in more than a generation, compounded by massive frauds and corruption that go way back. If the citizens, especially the elites, do not form a consensus and rise up against corruption, incompetence and decadence, the country will continue to go around in circles, mired by miserable economic situation. It’s the culture, stupid!

The 7th edition of the Annual Ife Summer Institute, a two-week academic engagement for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from around the world commences Monday, 24th July at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. ‘Advancing Africa Through the Academy: Innovation, Creativity, and Service’ is the theme. It is an annual programme organised by Jacob Kehinde Olupona, a Nigerian Professor at Harvard University who was recently inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

In the 2023 edition, there will be approximately seventy Professors from all over the world participating as speakers and facilitators. This year, past fellows of the Institute and Professors administered the selection process for the applications and planned the programme, with the internal program committee taking the lead.  
 
Over 230 male and female doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from STEM and Non-STEM fields from countries such as Cameroon, Canada, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sénégal, Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe applied to the Summer Institute in 2023. Only 73 were invited as in-person participants, including individuals with disabilities and nursing mothers, while 156 were invited as virtual participants.  
 
Based on the preliminary findings of the Graduate Employability research conducted by past fellows of the Institute in collaboration with the Michael and Henrietta Olupona Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation, this year’s edition will focus on how the creativity and innovation of the academy can promote African progress. The idea is to inspire participants to promote African development through research and to use African knowledge systems to chart a path to developing a sustainable master plan for the continent’s present and future. Consequently, the 2023 edition will be workshop-based, with conversations centred on creativity, innovation, and service through academic engagement on a variety of skills development-related topics.  

The 2023 Summer Institute commenced with a virtual Pre-Summer Institute titled ‘life cycle of empirical research,’ which was open to all early scholars, including the Institute’s intended fellows for 2023. The Pre-Summer Institute was organised by the Institute Secretariat with fellows of the Institute who participated in research on Graduate Employment in Africa sponsored by the Mastercard Foundation.  
 
The Pre-Summer Institute serves as a platform for training fellows and honing early career skills in the global community. It is also a platform for identifying talents within the Institute who could take over the leadership of several Institute-developed programmes. It is the belief of the Institute that its over 400 fellows should be continuously engaged in the program work of the Institute.  
 
The pre-summer institute’s objectives are to explain their research processes, including the tools used for research analysis, to help fellows, particularly those involved in the five-country research conducted by the Institute for Advanced studies, understand research beyond the classroom, and to develop project planning and management skills.  

Kamari Maxine Clarke, a distinguished Canadian professor at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, will deliver the keynote address on ‘Advancing Academia in Africa as an Otherwise Project: Foundations, Methods, and Transmission as a 21st Century Challenge,’ while Olupona will deliver the Convener’s address. Professor Simeon Bamire, Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, is the chief host.  

This year’s session will feature a variety of workshops, discussion panels, and host two special lectures: the Annual Babatunde Ogunnaike’s STEM Lecture to be delivered by Matthew Adigun, a Senior Professor of Computer Science from the University of Zululand, South Africa, and the IIAS-MCF Inaugural Entrepreneurship and Employability Lecture by Professor Joseph Eyo. Several professors from universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, and many African countries are also participating in this year’s programme.

[Thisday]

Ask not what your country can do for you:
Ask what you can do for your country.
- J.F. Kennedy

Peterside Ottong should have titled his 1989 hit track “Where are the Patriots?” and not “Where are the Prophets?”. I can understand him because, in a country where many people think it is prophets that provide political and economic solutions and directions, they should be more highly sought after than patriots who make sacrifices to do great things and they remain poor and unappreciated. Ask about Nigerian heroes of the past in the arts, sports and honest public service and see whether Nigerians of today don’t consider them to be stupid?

Today, in Nigeria, it will amount to anathema for anyone to ask any of us the above-quoted question by JFK lest one risks being beaten by an angry mob that is currently burdened by economic hardship and a bleak future hovering around by sweeping policies of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency.

I once served on a Federal Government Committee, where I was required to embark on foreign trips in the hope of reimbursements. Five years after I made two such trips, the government officials superintending the committee are acting as if it never happened, whereas they collected all they can get from the coffers of the government for themselves in the name of that committee while they expect me to sacrifice the thousands of dollars of my savings that I used to serve Nigeria. It is funny because there was a budget for the work of the Committee, and the result was done and submitted to the United Nations, but to pay or reimburse me and other persons who are not staff of either the Federal Ministry of Justice or Foreign Affairs Ministry, the matter is in abeyance and 5 years gone as we are left to figure out our fate. It is as if we are being punished for daring to work for the country and promote its good name to the world. What do they now want me to do? Go to court against my country to force its officials to pay me for what the work I did to make it great? Which court? Really funny!

In the first place, who among us can ask what we can do for our country when they, themselves, are not prepared to do anything for the country? Is it the politician or the preacher who claims to work for Jesus? What about the Imam? Is it the almighty public servant who hides behind the politician to do the real damage? They are all about self-service and nothing for building the country. They probably don’t want to build the people at all.

According to Fela Anikulapo Kuti (a good man in history), in his "Suffering and Smiling" classic, he refrains:
Archbishop na miliki,
Pope na enjoyment,
Imam na gbalado (bliss).

Yet the people following the above-listed prelates are "suffering and smiling", with 49 sufferers sitting and 99 others standing all in one commuter bus. And to think that it is the same thing that happens every day to them, but they are consoled to keep on because of their faith and religion. How much of an opiate can it be? So neither religious leaders nor public servants, especially civil servants and politicians, can dare ask Nigerians to make any "damn" sacrifice or do great things to make Nigeria better.

According to Fred KC Price, an American preacher, some people's prayers to God always go like this:
Gimme gimme gimme!!!
My name is Jimmie
So I'll take all you gimme.
So gimmie, gimmie, gimmie

If all a Country does, all the time, is to ask to be given aid- just give us! It simply means that the country is a taker. But life is supposed to be give and take, as they say. Do we think that other countries don’t have needs that’s why they are always giving aid to us? In Nigeria, the predominant culture and mentality, especially among public servants, is to take. Just take! Even when such public servants are in a position with a responsibility to give service, they turn it around to a position for taking and the taking for their own pockets. So in Nigeria, taking is the culture of service. I shudder each time Nigerian officials clamour and beg development partners for money as if they love the Nigerian people so much and really want to alleviate their suffering, yet much of what those officials are only interested in is just to cash in and get their own share of the aid money. Dead aid! The same applies to many civil society actors and players. Where are the Patriots?

There is no doubt that for our country to be better, everyone must be prepared to give more than they take. In fact, what a person has should be seen as a measure or reflection of how much that person has given. Therefore it should be presumed that a Nigerian who has become a billionaire has earned his money by giving so much to others in terms of goods and services. Shouldn’t that be true?

Yet there are pretty several billionaires or even millionaires in Nigeria today whose only basis for the money they have is by taking it from the public coffers or swindling others, or gaming the system. They make money without producing anything. They take the money that is meant for the public good and convert it to personal use. They literally steal resources. Therefore they are rich only by taking and not having given anything at all, whether commensurate to the money they have or not.

A country whose unwritten ethos is to take and take alone will soon implode from the fierce competition by its citizens to take and not to give to it and, in so doing, take the country out of existence.

That is why politicians make politics a career and a full-time job of what ought to be part-time public service (sacrifice) to the extent that Nigeria now takes external loans to pay their salaries, buy them new cars, give them houses and furnish the same. Shame! Can we then ever contemplate making careers in public service, apart from the military, to be non-profit and non-salaried? So that only those who have something to offer as public service are actually required to spend their time to build up the country without expectation of any reward? Do we now agree that being in politics or government is just to see what we can get for ourselves? So it is just for chop chop

Doctors whose thrust of knowledge should drive them to save human life often go on strike to increase their salaries. The same applies to nurses, teachers, lecturers etc. It is simply about the money! "What's in it for me?" The so-called service is just a means to an end. More money! Who cares about building a country? And we think we would have a country? Jokers!

It was a matter of time, maybe just in a space of six years, that a country which today would have been more affluent, better and had a standard of living higher even higher than China commenced its decline by its people who chose to milk it dry, never giving its people but always taking and now it is poor, begging for loans from the likes of that same China.

Corrupt and money-grabbing public servants did not build the countries many Nigerians are migrating to in droves today as we have in Nigeria. Their public servants made sacrifices. They gave more than their country gave them, and today, their children are living off the enormous sacrifices they made yesterday and today, Africans are dying to get a chance to step on their shores. Are we really cursed? If not, Where are the Patriots?

Shortly after JFK asked his fellow citizens what they could do for America, NASA beat the Soviets by landing a man on the moon, winning the space race to become the global military power that it is today.

In Nigeria, people take up responsibilities not with a sense of how to use them to serve others but to subvert such and make money therefrom. And those who sacrifice are considered to be fools by the majority who play the game. It is a tragic trend of anomie presently in Nigerian public service. Unless we redefine patriotism and focus on it as a critical factor in national development, Nigeria as a country and people will soon lose the willingness to become anything significant among the comity of nations of this world.

Meanwhile, I am not starting another doomsday reflection with this writing. I advise that you go ahead and enjoy whatever you have and be thankful. For me, I just listened to the memorable music of Abba, Boney M and Fabomo, the Bini musical maestro. You can try a combination of amala and ewedu or a new sex style with your partner. Sex turns out to be the most secretive yet so widely engaged exercise by Many Nigerians since it is good for the body. And who knows? A new pregnancy or a renewed love in the relationship will ensue. But you don't have to use any of those aphrodisiacs they lie to you about every day on social media. That's unpatriotic of them to do. The bottom line is that don't get too serious with this life. You didn't bring yourself here, yet somehow you think it is your suffering or smartness that is sustaining you and keeping you alive.

Let’s stop philosophising sometimes but suffice it to say that you just be your best self, be responsible for the things life brings your way and remember that you indeed have a command to enjoy this life with an attitude of gratitude no matter the present troubles of fuel hike, the rising cost of living and high rate of unemployment.

Frank Tietie
Lawyer and Social commentator, writes from Abuja as part of contributions from his coming book, Random Thoughts- Frank Expressions on Life @ 50