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PoliticsAug 24, 2021

Ludo skills are useless in chess competitions

Perfecting your ludo skills in a chess competition is a total waste of time and effort if you do not learn how to play chess. In politics, you take a stand and proudly defend your stand whether or not you win the election. Opposition is still part of politics. The South West or Yorubas played opposition politics for so many years and when the opportunity GEJ created in 2011 by destroying the PDP zoning formula that ensured no geo...

By Afam Nnaji838

Business and EconomyAug 24, 2021

Need for the FG to genuinely support home grown software solutions

A client asked me to add a Koo share button on his newspaper website since it doesn't appear (according to him) as if the FG is in any hurry to lift the Twitter ban anytime soon. To be honest I never heard of Koo social media platform before now so I downloaded it from Google Play Store and guess the first 2 Koo profiles they recommended I follow - Government of Nigeria with over 47K followers and...

By Afam Nnaji554

DevelopmentDec 24, 2020

My NYSC experience in Bonny Island - Part 3

This is part 3 of a 5 part series. See part 2 here From there the task moved to supervising both hydrostatic and pneumatic tests for process lines and signing them off as completed projects or reporting the tests as failed tests which the main contractor JGC didn't like because they were already behind schedule and that meant that they would be paying Mobil money that Mobil would be forced to pay to the company that had already paid upfront...

By Afam Nnaji1618

DevelopmentDec 8, 2020

My NYSC days were exciting, why talk about scrapping such a scheme? Part 2

This is part 2 of a 5 part series. See part 1 here We quickly settled down in Mobil for the 1 year national assignment. I was sent to OSO/NGL Gas Recovery Project department, on the same 6th floor where Projects department was located in Mobil House. Only 2 of us were sent to the department, myself and my friend right from the orientation camp Gbenga Adeyefa. The main bosses late S.O. Otori and Sonaike were in Lagos but the...

By Afam Nnaji1906

DevelopmentDec 8, 2020

My NYSC days were exciting, why talk about scrapping such a scheme? Part 1

By the time we were rounding up the NYSC orientation camp in Lagos my step mum asked me where I would like to serve in Lagos and I said Mobil just because I liked the name as I knew nothing about Mobil then other than it was one of the oil companies in Lagos. My step mum (may her soul continue to rest in peace) was the NYSC Zonal Inspector in charge of Eti-Osa so I was...

By Afam Nnaji1597

DevelopmentDec 1, 2020

The craziest election I ever took part in and won

Sometime in January or February 2000 in Warri, Delta state about 100 of us came from different parts of Nigeria for the Shell Special Intensive Training Program that was handled by Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, Scotland to select the officials of the Hotline Press board.The previous SITP Batch 1 formed the Hotline press and it was the official newsletter for the SITP trainees. Those that indicated interest to be part of the Hotline Press board were gathered...

By Afam Nnaji1432

DevelopmentOct 8, 2020

Global institutions not ready to lower their standards for Nigeria's unique brand of quota based merit system

A merit based society would pay us better. President Buhari nominated 2 Nigerians to join 2 global institutions World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Criminal Court (ICC). The Nigerian that was nominated for the WTO top job is now one of the 2 remaining contestants for the top job there and her name is Ngozi Okonjo Iweala. The Nigerian that was nominated for ICC job was reported to have scored very low even though the current ICC president is...

By Afam Nnaji1721

DevelopmentSep 18, 2020

Rotational presidency or zoning is still a matter of federal character

As much as I not happy that the cut off mark for a child who wrote a national exam with other children in Nigeria is say 10/200 which is an indictment on the political leaders of such states in Nigeria I believe in the principle of federal character and quota system.What do you think would happen if say all the admissions are based on 100% merit where you have only Igbo people taking up say 90%...

By Afam Nnaji1945

Business and EconomySep 4, 2020

Sale of our refineries: Olusegun Obasanjo was right, late Umaru Yar'adua was wrong

Before former president Olusegun Obasanjo left office in 2007 he had concluded plans to sell off the two refineries that had been producing at a loss without any end in sight and actually sold the 2 refineries to Alhaji Aliko Dangote who led a consortium of investors and actually paid $750m to the government.Unfortunately, his successor, late Umaru Musa Yar'adua reversed the sale of those refineries and refunded the $750m paid to the FG back to...

By Afam Nnaji2002