Femi Ojo's Premise

There are few people who motivate us by their boldness, courage, intellect, humility, grit, smartness, unmatched energy, multiple skills, and boundless love for humanity, compassion, composure, wisdom, comradeship, honesty, braveness and selfless service in our society today.   One of such young Nigerians, who is an embodiment of all those characteristics above is Prof. Josiah Adeyemo, a professor of Civil Engineering in faraway   Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa and  an Adjunct Professor of Water Engineering at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya. He is one of the few intellectuals in the world that National Research Foundation (NRF) has rated so high and has about 158 citations from 2009 to 2015 and h index of 7 from Google Scholar and globally quoted in the academic and civil engineering industries respectively. There are many things that make Prof. Josiah Adeyemo thick, a trail blazer and difficult to ignore in t...

Agriculture is perhaps and arguably the last frontier and indeed offers hope for economic empowerment and many opportunities for Nigeria and Africa as a whole. The great potentials in this sector are enormous but unfortunately many of our young Nigerians (including yours truly) are sitting on this gold-mine complaining and frustrated about how horrible the economy of our nation has turned out to be.    But in faraway town of Ogbomoso in Oyo State is a young man, Debo Olushola Thomas who is energized and motivated to create something different in agricultural sector. The young agro-entrepreneur who barely managed to complete his secondary school and who could not further in tertiary education,   is today one of the biggest agro- real-estate entrepreneurs in Nigeria.   Though he may not possess any formal degree from any university but he is an encyclopedia on agricultural business and this intellectual attribute has made him to be widely consulted by those...

Picture courtesy of Google Last week’s visit of President Buhari and his men to the United States of America on the invitation of President Obama was one political significant event in the International Relations that reconfirms Nigeria as a very strategic country and ally in the Africa region.   I am of the opinion that President Buhari’s near-saint image was re-confirmed going by the international testimonials by U.S proximate political actors on the expectations from Nigeria’ current President   perhaps because of   Buhari’s   over-hyped positive image and past   anti-corruption stance. The visit by the President to the White House was timely, at a period when the world’s focus is on Nigeria, observing how the country will be re-engineered and how it will tackle the current economic challenges facing her as a result of the chronic corruption that the former administration bequeathed to the country. Nigeria is currently in a very challenging t...

Picture courtesy of www.nta.ng and Arisenaija Add aption The current drama in the National Assembly especially the boxing contest in the red chamber last week where politicians who supposed to be honorable in the manner in which they carry their legislative functions but who became disparagingly dishonorable by combating themselves like Mike Tyson of this world in a boxing ring, has clearly shown that the ruling party’s political mafia’s family is yet to settle for a mutual political capo. Capo di tutti capi simply connotes in mafia parlance a supreme “godfather” or Italian parlance “boss of all bosses” and it is common knowledge that in mafia world, tensions and internal warfare for supremacy and power to control other members typified this game. One can see similar characteristics in our ruling party looking at the different contradictions that the party has been characterized with in the current post-election period. The outcomes in both chambers of the Nation...