Kolade Chris Blog

My four-year tertiary education journey in Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko was endowed with some “incredibly unforgettable set of people” that imparted my life in one way or the other. It is true I was a subject of ill-treatments from some sordid individuals, but when I look back and reflect on what some people have done for me, “I ignore the shits from the authors of shits because shits are the best they can offer in life”. The ten people I want to discuss about are not the only ones that were good to me, but I had to reduce the numbers to that figure to reduce monotony to a considerable extent. 10. KUYE DAMILOLA The always-smiling Ikale boy. He hardly gets angry, extremely humorous and a friend of all because he mixes with the bad, good, mature and immature. Throughout my years in Akungba, I saw Dammy get angry once, he is a perfect epitome of clean-heartedness and above all, generous in his capacity. As we head to the labour market, may you find your rightful place an

Imagine the scenario: Mr X is a young man who has cultivated the act of giving right since his years as a toddler. He never gives expecting another in return from anyone, he does with a clean and sincere heart and never looks at the status of his targeted recipient ~ he simply does not care whether they are poor, rich, or in the middle class. In fact, he would share whatever he had with anyone in need. Another incredible character inculcated by Mr X is that he let go freely and move on swiftly when such need arise. Since those years as a toddler up till the adolescence, a lot of people from the outside – and even the family members of Mr. X – would say he is a “fool” for caring and thinking about others at his expense but he never listened. Mr X himself does not really know about the benefits in giving until his late teenage years, he just give to anyone in need without expecting anything in return. One day, this young man noticed whenever he gives or have it in mind and promise to, h

What the word “Godfatherism” entails is not just sponsoring someone to get to the mantle of leadership through guile and other juggling means, it is a corruption of the highest order. By definition, Godfatherism is a political corruption in which an influential mafia leader assists another person in the climb to [a] leadership role[s] through intrigue, cunny and evil machination at the expense of the major determiners of the role[s]. Since time immemorial, there is no society in which godfatherism thrives that experienced meaningful development in any walk of life, this is evident in a lot of countries in the third world and some notable states in Nigeria. The major havoc wreaked by this perilous act is denies people the right to elect the candidates of their collective choice because of an incurable predilection to all-time relevance, attention and power. As a result, “dummies” who have no idea of what good governance and quality leadership is are elected into leadership roles and th

DEMOCRACY OR DEMOGREEDY? It is another democracy day! The special day in Nigeria that commemorates the transition from military to civilian rule in 1999 when Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar handed over the affairs of the country to the soldier turned civilian, Olusegun Obasanjo [now Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo]. A perfect definition was given to democracy by the late Abraham Lincoln that "democracy is the government of the people by the people and for the people". Nigerian leaders claim our country is a democratic one; apparently, we achieved democracy on May 29 1999 but the question is: do we practice true democracy in Nigeria? I mean are we truly democratic? Having a system of government in which the three arms—executive, judiciary and legislature—are all represented is one of the basic attributes of democracy but does it end there? Our executive arm of government has not been fully functional since 2006 according to my personal observation. The legislators are now in Abuja f