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Rochas Okorocha’s ministry for happiness and the animal farm called Nigeria – Reno Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/rochas-okorochas-ministry-happiness-animal-farm-called-nigeria-reno/

2017-12-14T00:04:00.004-08:00

Rochas Okorocha, a man who has spent more money on statues than he has on living human beings has now appointed his biological sister as “Commissioner for Happiness and Couples’ Fulfillment”. What sin did Imo people commit to deserve this embarrassment as their Governor? And this Rochas, a man that so wants his people to be happy that he creates a ministry for happiness for them nevertheless delays their salaries and pensions. And when his unpaid workers and pensioners take to keke riding to augment their income, he bans that too. Apparently, Rochas has provided enough statues to make them happy! And the so called commissioner for happiness is anything but a happy camper. One could even ask whether she is commissioner for happiness or commissioner for ANGER? Her public comments since her appointment projects RAGE rather than joy. Perhaps she should have been made Imo state’s commissioner for DEFENSE? To every unhappy Nigerian, do not worry. Happiness beckons as Rochas Okorocha has announced that he will contest for President whenever President Buhari’s tenure of unhappiness ends. However, with this recent episode in dramatic life of Rochas, I am left with little choice but to conclude that Rochas Okorocha is a perfect example of why all aspirants to high office in Nigeria should submit themselves for psychiatric evaluation before being permitted to contest. But coming back to reality though, these are the types of tales you expect to see being dramatized in badly written Nollywood movies of the Idumota variety. Now I know what people mean when they say that no matter how strange fiction is, reality is often stranger than fiction. Governor Okorocha and the All Progressive Congress have shown such monumental cluelessness that even I, an opposition politician, am ashamed for them, because obviously, they have no capacity to feel shame. Coming on the heels of Okorocha’s joke of a government, we were regaled by the Presidency of the news that President Buhari had ‘commissioned’ the release of 500 inmates of Kano Central Prison. I kid you not! In fact, the tweet by the President’s spokesman reads as follows (and this is a direct quote). “President @MBuhari commissions the release of 500 inmates pardoned by Kano State Government at the Kurmawa prison. #PMBinKano.” Obviously, the spokesperson, Bashir Ahmad, does not have a heart for his job, because he deleted the tweet from his TL on @BashirAhmaad after he got pilloried by angry Nigerians. But what has Nigeria done to deserve such leaders? Leaders who major on the minor and minor on the major. Not only did it take President Muhammadu Buhari forever to respond to the atrocious treatment of Nigerians and other Sub Saharan Africans in Libya, the President betrayed his deep ignorance of the state of affairs in Nigeria when he expressed wonder at what Nigerians were going to do in Libya. President Buhari said he is sad that Nigerians are being sold like goats in Libya. He must have forgotten that his army killed 347 Nigerian Shiite men, women, children and infants, then buried them in a mass grave like goats. Has he done anything to those who committed that act? So how is he better than the Libyans? The President asked why Nigerian go to Libya. What choice do they have? Are they safer in Nigeria than in Libya? If Boko Haram does not slaughter them, herdsmen will kill them. If SARS doesn’t shoot them, the chief of army staff may send them to the great beyond for blocking his route. If APC does not finish them with joblessness, APC will finish them by increasing the cost of petrol, electric and food. And even if you have a job, your APC Governor may prefer to use their salaries to erect statues for leaders of distant lands. If all of that does not happen, kidnappers are there to fulfill all righteousness. So, Mr. President, please don’t ask such an obvious question! Many of those who are actually making the perilous journey to Europe through the Sahara desert via Libya belong to those described by President Buhari as the disfavoured 5%. After having being told by the man to whom they looked up to for leadership that they were not his priorities, should anyone be surprised that people from the South-south and Southeast began checking out? And speaking of leadership, if you you want to know the difference between a leader and a dealer all you need to do is compare President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inaugural speech with that of President Buhari. To help you, I have quoted the relevant portions below. “I undertake to be the keeper of the aspirations of both those who voted for me and those who did not”- President Uhuru Kenyatta. Now compare it with the following, “The constituents who gave me 97% cannot in all honesty be treated on some issues with constituencies that gave me 5%”-President Muhammadu Buhari. Now ask yourself if you will see a future for yourself in Nigeria if you are from “the constituencies that gave me 5%”? And that is why they are voting with their feet. In fact, to many of them, Operations Python Dance and Crocodile Smile were the last straw. Many of these long suffering Nigerians had noted that even where there was widespread killings and devastation by herdsmen and other ‘criminals’ (in Buhari’s Nigeria, you are only a terrorist if you are from the 5%) the 97% areas, no military operations were unleashed there. There is a lot I can write about the new and improved Federal Republic of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, but let me end by quoting the conclusion of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Reno’s Nuggets The only thing it should cost you to sleep with a woman is love followed by marriage. As long as it cost you money to sleep with a woman, she is a prostitute, whether or not you rebrand her girlfriend or fiancé. That is why you should never marry a Slay Queen. When distance comes between you and your Slay Queen, she will find another Wallet King. But when distance comes between you and a true Pray Queen, she will find another way to reach you #RenosNuggets Reno Omokri Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/rochas-okorochas-ministry-happiness-animal-farm-called-nigeria-reno/

2012-07-09T09:42:00.000-07:00

Make no mistake

2012-06-15T06:27:00.004-07:00

Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. (Nigeria)

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. Honest Men not crooks. Representatives not Representathieves.

This Nigeria is a country that is the direct opposite of what my good friend "Barrack Obama" was talking about when it comes to the fact that Nigeria has no sustainable development. Why is it that all the negative descriptions that he made reference to fit this good country of ours that is overpopulated by bad leaders, corrupt men and bad "KABANS" that even our president can do nothing about.

They say that we are 'good people great nation' trying to make us re-patriotic but that I feel will not work because we all are angry and desperate for an improvement on the ways that things run in the country.

If I am to score this country it will score the highest in poor and inadequate infrastructure, the country is just poor -poor-poor-poor in all things that have to do with good, ironically though not surprisingly rich -rich-rich with all vice, corruption, misconduct, madness, irregularities name them. When Obama my good friend was saying: No mistake - there was no mistake at all that he was telling Nigerians that he was not mistaking neither is the world making a mistake about Nigeria' place in the world which is no match for Ghana and the other petit countries

I think Nigeria should go and start thinking about who their match is in this continent, not to worry no longer about being the 'GAINT' of Africa, although I know that there was never a time when we were the so-called "GAINT" of this continent. I feel it is time that we stop this malicious deception and face the fact that there are REAL THEIVEs in amongst us.

One was just caught. We all know the name of this one. He was known as Mr. integrity. Funny enough before now, our very former President called all those in the white house REPRESENTATHIEVES and they all cried high heavens about that, even threatening to send a summon requesting he appears before them.

Well, let us join those who are laughing, and laugh a bit. A bit I say, so as to know when to stop laughing and proffer solution for our shortcomings and pardon our thieves.

2012-06-15T05:59:00.002-07:00

The House of Representatives on Friday suspended the former chairman of its ad hoc committee on the management of subsidy regime, Farouk Lawan, to allow for an unfettered investigation of his alleged receipt of $620,000 from an oil marketer, Femi Otedola.

The decision was taken at a special session convened by the House to deliberate on the raging bribery scandal.

Thunderous ovation marked the session.

The decision to suspend Lawan was based on the motion moved by Ishaka Bawa and seconded by Rafeeqat Onabamiro.

The matter was also referred to its Committee on Ethics and Privileges.

The House also asked the Management of the National Assembly and its Committee on Ethics and Privileges to investigate the committee’s Clerk, Boniface Emenalo, for his involvement in the scandal.

The session, which was marked by repeated thunderous ovation, was the second since the sixth legislature was convened on June 6, 2011.

The House also passed a vote of confidence in the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, based on a motion moved by Samson Osagie.

The lawmaker warned against a dangerous trend of using security agencies to intimidate elected members of the legislature in order to protect powerful people.
He said the recording of the alleged receipt of the bribe by security agencies was reminiscent of the Watergate scandal udner former United States President, Richard Nixon.

The legislators also mandated John Enoh to take over the leadership of the ad hoc committee and adopted a motion that two oil firms, Synopsis International and Zenon Petroleum and Gas (owned by Otedola) should account to anti-graft agencies for the sums of $51449977.7 and $232,975,385.13 respectively which they received as subsidy funds.

The House also directed its committees on anti-graft agencies to ensure the implementation of the recommendations in the report by the relevant agencies.

In a short speech, Tambuwal urged Nigerians to continue to support the House and vowed that it would not allow the scandal overshadow the report.

“”We shall never compromise our stand against corruption. May I also ask the executive to match words with action in the implementation of this report.
“”As members of the parliament, we enjoy no immunity and seek none,” he said.

The House dissolved into a Committee of the Whole at 11.58a.m chaired by deputy speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, and considered the motion for Synopsis and Zenon to be asked to account for the subsidy funds received by them.

After considering the report, it reverted to plenary at 12.09p.m and adopted the report.

Ihedioha said the implication of the resolution is that the House has asked the anti-graft agencies to investigate Synopsis and Zenon for collecting the said subsidy funds and failing to utilise them as required.

At 12.15p.m, Tsokwa moved the motion for the adoption of the votes and proceedings of the session and was seconded by Friday Itulah.

The motion was adopted and the House adjourned till Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 12.19p.m

The World is Watching

2012-05-23T04:23:00.000-07:00

The World is Watching: Will G20 Countries Lead this June at the Earth Summit?

Three years ago, the Group of 20 countries pledged to phase out environmentally-harmful and ineffective subsidies. The leaders of these twenty influential countries have since made many other promises to deal with climate change and the range of global sustainability challenges, including at the recently concluded Clean Energy Ministerial. As countries meet this week to set the agenda for 2012, they should commit to showing leadership where it counts. This June, we need to turn pledges into real actionsstarting at the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, and continuing through to the Rio+20 Earth Summit (read here and here for ideas).

NRDC, with Stakeholder Forum and Road to Rio+20, recently launched the Earth Summit Watch – a country-by-country progress tracker of the ambition (or lack thereof) of preparations before we all meet in Rio. The UN recently announced that 130 heads of state are already committed to attend Rio+20, but has not released their names, nor is there much information on how their governments are preparing for Rio+20. Therefore, we are gathering our own information on a handful of important questions from countries (“Will your head of state attend?” or “What new or scaled-up initiatives is your country preparing for the summit?”). Using these surveys, we have developed a map of where the world stands in getting ready:

We’ve seen a lot of activity already from a number of G20 countries. Germany partnered with Denmark and Spain to release a global renewable resource atlas to map solar and wind energy potential around the world. Italy and the U.S. recently announced the launch of Lighting India, a project to bring modern lighting to 2 million people by 2015 in affiliation with The Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP). The Clean Energy Ministerial concluded two weeks ago with a host of new partnerships on energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy access.

G20 countries are making unprecedented investments in clean energy. The U.S. invested $48 billion in clean energy in 2011, up 42% from the year before. India’s 2011 investments rose 54% from 2010, and the EU in total invested over $92 billion in clean energy. These investments, coupled with massive price drops in renewable energy, will help forge new industries and create thousands of jobs and opportunities.

Will G20 countries be world leaders at Rio?

However, according to our surveys, only 6 out of 20 of these countries have confirmed that their delegations will be led by their head of state in Rio (just inBrazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, and Mexico). Currently, we only have information from 8 out of the 20 on plans for announcing specific initiatives during the conference. Even fewer have begun to really engage their publics about what’s at stake if this summit fizzles.

In these trying economic times, countries are looking to the G20 for not only support but true leadership. As the “premier forum for international cooperation on the most important aspects of the international economic and financial agenda,” what could be more important than charting a new course toward sustainable economic growth?

Let’s not miss this opportunity to deliver progress to put the world on a more sustainable path. The world is watching.

Blog was originally published at www.nrdc.org

Simon's Theory of Administrative Behavior

2012-05-22T09:21:00.000-07:00

Simon's Theory of Administrative Behavior

Simon (1976) clarified the processes by which goal specificity and formalization contribute to rational behavior in organizations (Scott p. 45). He criticized Fayol's platitudes and Taylor's "economic man" assumptions, proposing the "administrative man" who pursues his self-interests but often doesn't know what they are, is aware of only some of the possible decision alternatives, and is willing to settle for an adequate solution than continue looking for an optimal one (p. 45).

Simon distinquishes between the decisions a person makes to enter or leave an organization and the decisions they make as a participant. Organizations simplify decisions and support participants in the decisions they need to make.

Organizations simplify decisions by restricting the ends toward which activity is directed. Goals supply the value premises that underly decisions. Value premises (assumptions of desirable ends ) are combined with factual premises to make decisions. The more precise the value premises, the greater effect they have on decisions.

Participants in high positions make decisions with a higher value component, people in lower positions make decisions with a higher factual component. The top makes "what" decisions, the bottom "how" decisions. Choice of ends can only be validated by fiat or consensus, choice of means empirically.

While goals are often vauge, they can serve as the starting point for a series of mean-ends chains where one develops a set of means for the overall goal, redefines each mean as a sub-goal, and then develops means for the sub-goal, branching until the means are activities.

Each goal in the means-end hierarchy is an end to things below it and a mean to those above it. Activities can only be evaluated against the goals above it. Goals can be delegated to different units which simplifies the decision making process for participants. Scott notes that "from this perspective, an organization's hierarchy can be viewed as a congealed set of means-ends chains promoting consistency of decisions and activities throughout the organization". p. 46

According to Perrow (1986), Simon's model stresses unobtrusive control of participants through training, information, standard operating procedures, etc. -- channeling of attention and information.

Simon also notes the cognitive limitations of decision makers through his and March's concept of bounded rationality (March and Simon, 1958).

Overall, Simon helps us understand how the decisions of hundreds or thousands of individuals in an organization can be directed toward ultimate orgnizational goals.

2010-02-26T02:35:00.000-08:00

Thank goodness my president is said to be back after 93 days in exile

Obama : My Good Friend

2009-07-18T10:08:00.001-07:00

Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. (Nigeria) Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

This Nigeria is a country that is the direct opposite of what my good friend "Barrack Obama" was talking about when it comes to the fact that Nigeria has no sustainable development. Why is it that all the negative descriptions that he made reference to so fit this good country of ours that is overpopulated by bad leaders, corrupt men and bad "KABANS" that even our president can’t do anything about?

They say that we are 'good people great nation' trying to make us re-patriotic - not rebranding but that I feel will not work – when the chief re-brander went partying with the minister of education that wasted 120 million naira in a birthday party when the education sector that the man is suppose to head is on strike over what the government can solve by mere blinking.

Nigeria is a best example of the way a country is not suppose to be – we have the kind of leaders that any serious country will choose to put out of existence so it can progress if that is the aim of our hardly earned democracy is to improving the lives of its citizens, if democracy aims at putting the citizens on top, while the leaders are the servants. Nigerian democracy is the other way round – leaders first – then comes the people.

we are trying to saddle our system with western democracy while forgetting that we are black and they started over 300 years ago.

if I am to score this country it will score the highest in poor and inadequate infrastructure, the country is just poor -poor-poor-poor in all things that have to do with good, ironically though not surprisingly rich -rich-rich with all vice, corruption, misconduct, madness, irregularities name them. when Obama my good friend was saying : No mistake - there was no mistake at all that he was telling Nigerians that he was not mistaking neither is the world about Nigeria' place in the world which is no match for Ghana.

MNDA

2009-07-14T04:29:00.000-07:00

the mend and the ministry of niger delta affairs are at loger head.

today i made some photos with MAHA and JUDE both the the press unit in the ministry of niger delta affairs

that is me with the cut arm, that is mr maha, see his cute glasses.

that is the world JUDE n me

2009-02-14T10:02:00.000-08:00

The Suicide

so sad to say this, but just the other day a 14 years old girl committed a suicide that left the whole neighborhood in a shocking state of quagmire, she is said to be possessed by an evil spirit that left her mentally unbalanced, leading her to take some corrosive substance which she bought from the famous "son of man". too sad u know.

OK now to good news - well one lady just put to bed a bouncing baby boy. another a girl.

good so let us go back to the real NY town stuffs. the Nigerian police finally arrested the chief priest of the Mali shrine which is Mali him self, but unknown to the Nigerian police the honorable D.P.O of the NY town police station is a very good friend of Mr Mali.... so we at the Nyanya life blog called it a well paid visit. to our greatest surprise Mali even got home before those that arrested him....

the town faced serious changes these past few weeks since the electric transformers were changed moving us one step forward from complete darkness to a DISKO LIGHT situation, the light comes on and off just the same way u see it in a BALL PARTY..... although for the first two days or so of the installation we were able to give the Cockroaches in our fridges a QUIT NOTICE, and my little sister has to move her books from the luxury of a FRIGO-SHELF to somewhere else, and for once nobody asked for the match box nor the feuer lamp.... the situation was a big celebration that even the wall gecko had to come out and dance to the tune of the flying insects that hover all around the lamp bulb that keeps bringing out lights that is not up to 85 volts hahahahahahahahah...... well that's it the fans had to be greased once again as the clothes that were hung on them we had to take of, well the radio that reminds me, the radio was heard for the first time..... well got to go net time we will talk about water

2008-12-30T06:00:00.000-08:00

Nyanya - the westside ghetto situated in Abuja-Nigeria. Nyanya is a pure representation of the ganster and ghetto life of the western world. Ha! our official language is the pidgin english.

Drugs... hard drugs...(igboo) men one cant even immagine that we even own a "shrine"... before 'ncor'...well the shrine for sure has a presiding chief priest known as the one and only 'Mali' of Nigeria ha!ha!ha! well what does one expect from a Ghetto... especially one from an underdeveloped world such as Nigeria. well this blog is trying to get it self completely devoted to the nyanya course... hahaha! what is even the nyanya course or curse any which one sha...

How do we even survive in this town called Nyanya - just trying to give it a little level sha! that's why i called it town! well let me give us a little description of life in this pleasure loving and seeking town were every thing is just 'the way a city is not suppose to be'.

Ok let go! there are electricity poles in the town that has strong wires attached to them, wire that are now ment to carry wet cloths on them cos there are no electric power on them!

Be carefull when you walk cos the shallowly laid water pipes will want you to take them with you... why cos even the water pipes are tirsty!!!

Now every potential tenant in this town must have a Generatot (alternate NEPA). If u dont, then you will be in total black out..... well the fact that you own a generator only stand to prove a point that 'you pass your neighbour'.... that is to say that you are in this ghetto not by choice in other words the critics will say that you are a prisoner of your own identity.... well not all will gladly go to jail, but we are all prisoner of our own identities.

In this town also known as NY town that is to say the NewYork of Nigeria, thugery is laid to the lowest minimum whilst young boys use knives and small arms on each other in a showy display of ones means of ANIMALITY. Dont mind that dog, it's just one of those Nyanya Boys that went RED one sunday afternoon.

Every day is a party in NY town, the girls and guys dress in a way that even you will wonder what part of the world this could be!!! It exists only but a tin line between sainity and insainity, nudity and modesty... in NY town that tin line has been closed to the point that one will only wonder if God still looks down on us!!!