Executive House of Commotion

     
                                               

Good day Nigeria. You know what they say, "when the cat is away the rats play". While the President was away in London, Minister Rotimi Ameachi and his counterpart, Minister of State Ibe Kachukwu decieded to get into a little public squabble, to flex their muscles,  just because they could.
I watched the video of their little power tussle at the Akwa-Ibom town hall meeting  on YouTube over and over again this past week, and each time,  Rotimi Ameachi's body language appeared to be more flagrant the the already blatant words that fell out of his mouth. Minister Ameachi had always been a loud mouth from time immemorial, he uses words without caution and respect for the recipients of his addresses.

Minister Ibe Kachukwu on the other hand showed character.  His character really impressed me and other Nigerians alike,  according to the views aired on Twitter. However, not too long ago in April, I wrote a piece in respect to the unguarded utterances made by the Minister of State for Petroleum, at a time when fuel scarcity in the country was at its peak, and Nigerians were yearning for answers. The Minister's words then,  seemed unforgivable, but with his recent show of maturity  and respect to the Nigerian populace by standing up for what is right and giving a higher minister a good reply on all our behalf, we not only forgive his earlier excesses, we forget them.

When Change Collides with Education.

 The present Buhari Administration promised us "change" during their 2015 campaign.  Judging from the dictionary meaning of the word,  one would have no choice but to agree with Minister Lai Muhammad that this administration is hereby living up to all her promises. Starting from changing the price of tomatoes,  to changing the state of our economy, up to the recent change in our education.

Education in Nigeria is one industry that has collided with change more times than we can remember, since its inception.  Whenever members of the older generation starts reminiscing about the good old days,  I tend to ask a million questions before I get to understand phrases like "... back then in standard one. " or "... before I entered class four".  Even younger members of our society as well succeeds in putting me into confusion nowadays with words like " basic science " and all what not.  I look around our educational system,  and tend not to see a system that gives hope for a better tomorrow, but a system that says "change is constant,  even when Buhari is not President".