Showing posts with label Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Show all posts

Sunday, October 28, 2018

NYSC: National Service Or National Scam?

By Olatunde Akinyemi
It is the pride of most parents to see their wards all dressed up in khaki and boots. A symbol that the child has scaled through tertiary education, and successfully served the country,  a matured individual. For some,  it signifies a bonafide citizen of the nation, ‘omo ijoba’, as my Yoruba friends will say, a bragging right. 
Many years ago, as a Primary 5 student, my uncle came home on one particular  day in that popular uniform. I didn’t know what course he did in school, I didn’t know what school he attended,  no idea he had graduated, all I knew was that he had gone to serve.

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Forgery: Kemi Adeosun’s Disdain Without Remorse

By Sufuyan Ojeifo
From the way the federal government is hedging over the saga of the forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, it is clear that the felony is enjoying condonation by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari; otherwise, the matter should have been decisively dealt with by now and consigned to the dustbin of history. Or, put differently, Adeosun should have, by now, become history. 
*Kemi Adeosun 
But this is not the situation. The minister, who is in the eye of the storm, has taken refuge in feigned meekness and has, in fact, continued to benefit from the paraphernalia of her office, perhaps, in the hope that the matter will die naturally. This is not only nauseating but also treating Nigerians with disdain. It is obvious that the administration is acting true to type, either mollycoddling wrongdoers or vacillating before giving them the boot.  Adeosun is, without a doubt, being pampered; this is, perhaps, the reason she has not deemed it fit to show remorse.