Buhari’s Full Chatham House Speech

Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges,>>>> Read on>>>>

The Youths, Political Participation and 2015 Elections in Nigeria by Sesan Michael Johnson

Reportedly, about 70% (119 million) of Nigeria’s population (170 million plus) are youths – evidently, this is huge. Therefore, the youths occupy a strategic position in putting Nigeria‘s democratization on the right path. No doubt, there has been increase in the involvement of the youths in politics, particularly, considering the involvement of youths in the collection of the permanent voter's card (PVCs). Also, Nigerian youths are now engaged in deliberative democracy, mostly on the social media.. >>> Read on >>>>

First World & Third World Ambivalence to Underdevelopment Architecture of Third World Countries - by Sesan Michael JOHNSON

Up until World War I, countries that were either unable or unwilling to repay their loans were simply occupied militarily by the creditor nations. With the emergence of Pax Americana and the Bretton Woods system (1944 – 71), gunboat diplomacy was replaced by subtler methods of ensuring ‘repayment morale’ among debtor nations. What remained unchanged; however, were the underlying relations of power in the international credit system. >>>Read on>>>

My top 10 quotes on change by Richard Branson http://virg.in/qoc

10. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.- Buckminster Fuller

9. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.- Leo Tolstoy

8. A year from now you will wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb

7. By changing nothing, nothing changes. – Tony Robbins

6. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. - C. S. Lewis

5. Change before you have to. - Jack Welch

4. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

3. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.- Albert Einstein

2. Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.- Margaret Mead

1. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin