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US Election: Lessons for Nigeria [OPINION]

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By Suyi Ayodele

We are a nation in perpetual contrast! We claim to want the best for our country. But at every election turn, we hand over the country to those who have the lowest mental aptitude to govern a complex country like Nigeria!

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In the heat of the 2015 election between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, I asked one of the Buhari supporters, a PhD holder, why he would support Buhari who paraded a questionable West African School Certificate (WASC) qualification against Jonathan, with a PhD. His response determined our relationship since then. “Even if it is a goat, I will still vote for him against Jonathan!”, he told me. The result is what we are seeing today. When you vote for a goat, you don’t expect the agility of a lion from it!

The first five chapters of Chude Jideonwo’s book, with contribution from Ademola Williams, How to Win Elections in Africa (2017), contain interesting topics. The chapters which run from page one through page 32 have the sub-topics: Legacy doesn’t matter as much as it used to, Change matters. Period.; Anger matters, more than you know; Establishment matters and Candidates matter, first and foremost.

The authors, on the qualities of candidates, say: “All the messaging in the world, all the ideas in the world, all the great plans and purposes and visions in the world amount to nothing if they cannot find the candidate who embodies this, that expresses it and that symbolises it” (Page 26).

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The excerpt above underscores the importance of the competence of any candidate who seeks to rule over a people. The greatest problem bedevilling Nigeria, I say without hesitation, is leadership, quality leadership.

We have been so unfortunate in the last 25 years to have had almost the dreg of humanity at the helm of our affairs as a nation. The situation has been more terrible for Nigeria in the last nine and half years under the administrations of President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Buhari was elected in 2015 under the guise of a pseudo-legacy of honesty, discipline and a strong stance against corruption. Nigerians learnt too late to realise that all the robes Buhari was decorated with were borrowed ones and misfits in fabrics, sizes and styles. Under his watch, corruption wore three-piece suits on the streets of Nigeria while the Mai Gaskiya kept on picking his teeth!

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Buhari’s successor, President Tinubu, gained access to the Aso Rock Villa because his handlers were able to successfully sell the dummy of a man with inimitable legacies of sterling performances when he held sway as the governor of Lagos State.

All attempts to convince the people, especially the poor masses, that the masquerade they were asked to come and behold at the political arena in 2023 was nothing but a normal human being with guttural voice and terrestrial robes, fell on deaf ears. Today, we are all victims of the terrible choice we made last year. The tendency that we may remain victims of the lacklustre performance of Tinubu for the next six and half years is very high.

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In the United States (US), today, November 5, citizens will be out to elect a new president who will take over power in January 2025. I have followed the US election with little or no interest. The problems at home here are more than enough to bother about what happens or does not happen in the US.

I agree that whoever becomes the president of the so-called God’s Own Country will have multiple effects on us here in Nigeria and the entire world. It is not lost on me, nor on many Nigerians, that Nigeria has rarely benefitted anything from the Western. In fact, the West often takes more than triple of whatever it offers us! Regardless of who emerges as the US president, their primary focus will always be “America First”!

This is where I think we should focus our attention. We should, in my own thinking, begin to ask if there will be a time when we will have a leader who will put Nigeria first before his personal ambition. That is the biggest lesson I have learnt from the US election and its electoral processes so far.

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The US is not a Superpower because God created it to be so from day one. No! Leaders after leaders developed the country to be what it is today because the US has been fortunate to have leaders who think “America First”.

Nothing captures this more than the attitude of the incumbent President Joe Biden. Biden had sought to be US president for a second term. He was the choice of his party, the Democratic Party, until the love for the country came in and he had to bow to public opinion by yielding the stage to a more robust candidate, Kamala Harris, a woman and Biden’s Vice President.

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The US is an institutionalised country. Nobody aspires to be the president without subjecting himself or herself to public scrutiny. It is not a place where a president-to-be will call the bluff of the people and refuse to participate in public debates.

The presidential debate in the US goes beyond an avenue to lay before the people, the presidential candidates’ programmes and plans. The presidential debate is essentially the avenue provided for the mass of the people to test the mental capacity of whoever aspires to lead the country.

The US has developed to that level of political maturity where the beauty of a candidate’s manifesto does not sway voters. While manifestoes are valuable, citizens prioritise the candidates’ ability to read the manifestoes, understand and effectively implement the ideas and ideals outlined in these documents.

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This is what Jideonwo and co point out when they posit that: “All the messaging in the world, all the ideas in the world, all the great plans and purposes and visions in the world amount to nothing if they cannot find the candidate who embodies this, that expresses it and that symbolises it” (op cit).

The above test is what President Biden failed during the June 27, 2024, presidential debate with his main challenger then, former President Donald Trump, who is also running as the Republican candidate in today’s election in the US.

At the debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta and watched by over 51 million viewers in the country, President Biden was rated poor in all ramifications and his performance was declared by Elliot Morris and Kaleigh Rogers of ABC News’ 538 as a “disaster.”

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One major weak point that the public noticed in Biden’s performance at the debate was his “frequent loss of train thought while he gave meandering, confused answers.” The general opinion was that Biden failed to convince anyone that he had the capacity and capability for another four years.

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Little wonder all hands; party officials, fundraisers, undecided voters and volunteers, were up for him to step aside. The Democratic Party and the public correctly judged his mental ability. Biden had no choice but to step down for his vice president, Harris, to take over.

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That is one of the beauties of the US democracy; the very one Nigeria claims to have copied. One single debate took Biden out of the race. But what do we have in Nigeria? How do we test the mental preparedness of our would-be presidents?

I have read a lot of comments by Nigerians about the US election and the Trump versus Biden debate. I have friends who were promoters of the spine-chilling cliche of “Buhari-can-have-NEPA-bill” – a reaction to the argument that beyond having no minimum certificate to contest the 2015 election, Buhari does not possess any inspiring mental aptitude for the office he sought- jumping and calling for Biden’s withdrawal from the race.

I did not also find it amusing that many Nigerians who did not see any wrong in President Tinubu asking his aides to answer questions thrown at him at the charade called Chatham House outing in 2023, pontificating on the Biden debate with Trump!

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It is on record today that since 2015, there has been no presidential election debate in Nigeria. Yet, within that period, we have held three consecutive presidential elections in 2025, 2019 and 2023. The implication is that for the past nine and half years, Nigerians have never had the opportunity to assess the mental aptitude of their would-be presidents.

The argument has always been that debates have nothing to do with performance! This argument, sadly, is the position of many Nigerians who stayed glued to their TV sets, keeping vigils, to watch the US presidential debates between Trump and Biden, and between Trump and Harris!

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This lazy mental reasoning also played out in the recent Edo State governorship election where the two major political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC), refused to push forward their candidates for any debate.

Ours is a nation where all a Fulani man needs to be president is to line up all the Almajiris of the North behind his candidature and his Yoruba counterpart to enlist the support of all street-urchins of Lagos on the election day! The Igbo candidate, of course, can always bank upon the home support of the Nzobu nzobu orchestra of Ndigboland!

A nation that sacrifices merit for mediocrity can never rise above the mediocrity of its leaders. The physiological, physical, mental and character configuration of a leader matter. The health and mental fitness of a president will have negative or positive effects on his output. This is why we should not support any candidate who is not willing to put his mental and health issues to test at public debates before any election. If Biden had not participated in the June 27, 2024, presidential debate, the Democratic Party would have fielded a “disaster” as its flagbearer.

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Nobody gives what he does not have. We have dwelt too much on lies and propaganda. We keep dressing dregs of humanity in our country in the celestial robes of Angels. We place ethnicity above competence and go after money at the expense of our collective future.

Those who should not hold the lowest councillorship positions are leaders of governments and legislative bodies in Nigeria today. We elect leaders based on sentiments and we expect them to be fair, just and equitable. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Check out all the leaders in the executive and legislative posts; what do you find?

A last quote from Jideonwo: “Elections begin with candidacies. And often, they rise and fall on candidates. If the essential candidacy is defective or inadequate, almost everything else is doomed to fail.” Do we need a further prognosis of our woes?

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OPINION: Death Of World’s Nicest Judge

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By Lasisi Olagunju

He was just a municipal court judge in a US city. Some years ago, he was asked: “In your 38 years of sitting on the bench, is there a case you still think about today?” This judge looked up, and did not hesitate before answering yes, there was a case, and he told the story:

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“I get upset even thinking about it. I felt crumbled at that moment. I’ve never forgotten that (case) up to this day and I was on the bench for 38 years… It was my first day on the bench. I asked my dad, I said ‘dad why don’t you come down and view me, I am sitting on the bench today for the first time.’ A woman came before me who had three kids. She owed, I think, $300 in parking tickets. And she said ‘I just can’t pay the money, I don’t have the money.’ And I said ‘maybe I can place you on a payment programme.’ She said ‘you can place me on a payment programme but I can’t pay anyway.’ So, I said, ‘okay, the fine is $300, see the clerk. If you don’t pay, the car is going to be booted.’

“The court is over and I said ‘Dad, how did I do?’ He said ‘Frank, that woman, you failed her.’ I said ‘dad, she was arrogant, she was rude.’ He said ‘she was scared. You should have talked to her, you should have understood her problem; you can’t treat people like that, Frank.’ And, I can tell you without fear of contradiction, it never happened again after that. Never.”

Judge Frank Caprio of Providence, United States, was that judge. Several headlines hailed him as “the nicest judge in the world” as he passed away at age 88 on Wednesday, last week (August 20, 2025). His official social media accounts which announced his passing said he “passed away peacefully” after “a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.”

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If you are an Internet-captured person as I am, your addiction must have included hours watching Judge Caprio’s hit TV show ‘Caught in Providence.’ The show documents the latter years of his career which ended when he retired in 2023. You watch him episode after episode, you see law and empathy meshing with compassion to deliver justice.

The Economic Times reported the case of a single mother who appeared before Caprio with her child for a speeding ticket. The judge asked the child to give the appropriate sentence for the mum. The child suggested “five days in jail.” The court heard the child and burst into great laughter. Judge Caprio dismissed the case.

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Gulf News published what it called the man’s “five most humane cases that moved the world.” The cases, in Gulf News’ voice and words, are summarised here: “A young motorist who was caught running a red light argued that the signal changed suddenly. Judge Caprio, upon learning the defendant was a high school student with dreams of college, decided to waive the violation on the condition the student must graduate from college. A father was charged with speeding 10mph over the limit. Judge Caprio called the defendant’s son to give a verdict on his father’s guilt. The boy admitted his father was guilty with no hesitation. Instead of punishing the father, the judge praised the boy’s honesty and dismissed the case. A man, Jose Barrientos, was ticketed for parking near a fire hydrant while his son picked him up from hospital after a brain surgery. After hearing the emotional context, Judge Caprio immediately dismissed the ticket and inquired about Jose’s health. A veteran pleaded guilty to parking illegally near a VA hospital. Judge Caprio acknowledged the parking challenges veterans face and commended the defendant for service. Recognising the fine as too harsh, he dismissed the ticket and all fees. A woman received a ticket for parking two minutes early before allowed hours. Judge Caprio found the violation absurd and playfully threatened jail but then dismissed the case, sparking laughter in court.”

The Irish Sun newspaper recalled one of his gracious moments on the Bench: “He received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations and left social media users in tears for the way he handled a speeding ticket involving a 96-year-old Victor Colella. Colella appeared in an episode of Caprio’s show and was in court, representing himself, after being fined for speeding in a school zone. Caprio immediately dismissed Colella’s case after the elderly man explained to him that he was not a fast driver, and was only driving to take his 63-year-old son, who is handicapped, to get his blood work because he had cancer. ‘You are a good man. You really are what America is all about. Here you are in your 90s and you’re still taking care of your family. That’s just a wonderful thing for you,’ Caprio told Colella in admiration.”

On Instagram, the man had 3.4 million followers. On that platform, he shared stories of spectacular compassion and of mercy around the world. It is there I saw one of his quotes: “Kindness is the verdict I hope we all deliver more often.”

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Watch his videos. The man sits a very patient judge. Justice Kayode Eso, late respected jurist and man of erudition, in his ‘The Mystery Gunman’ (1996) submits that ‘patience’ is one of the great attributes required of a judge sitting nisi prius. He says: “Patience in this context should never be confused with slow thinking. A trial court judge has to be endowed with a lot of patience. He listens to sense and nonsense with equanimity. His mind analyses the evidence simultaneously with watching the demeanor of witnesses…When the right judge is not in the right court, justice is never done.” (page 170-171). The American judge had patience in great abundance and it was manifestly deployed in service of justice.

In life, Caprio was celebrated across the world; in death, he came alive as a global hero. BBC’s announcement of his death came with the headline “Nicest judge in the world Frank Caprio dies aged 88′; The Guardian says ‘Frank Caprio, US judge who found fame online for his compassion, dies aged 88.’ The Associated Press and the CNN say: ‘Frank Caprio, Rhode Island judge who drew a huge online audience with his compassion, dies at age 88.’ The New York Times says: ‘Frank Caprio, Kind Judge on Rhode Island TV, Dies at 88.’ An online commenter said: “This is how men leave their mark on history… The date of birth and death does not matter as much as what is in between!”

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Caprio’s trademark phrase is: “I don’t wear a badge under my robe. I wear a heart.” In him, we find that judicial systems thrive when they temper rules with the most humane of the spirit of man. Nigerian judges can learn that integrating empathy into adjudication nurtures public trust and humanises the legal system. They can learn more from Caprio. The American judge did not run a rat race to be richer than the world’s richest. He did not set out for it, but he got a trophy richer than the treasures of Mansa Musa and King Solomon put together. He died as “the world’s nicest judge.” It is not likely that history will ever forget his humanity.

His story is almost identical with that of a judge who lived ten centuries ago in China. Bao Zheng (999–1062) dispensed justice fairly and evenly. He condemned the lowly of the low who erred just as he sentenced the Emperor’s family members who sinned. Dutch scholar, Sinologist and emeritus professor at Havard, Wilt L. Idema, in 2009 wrote ‘Judge Bao and the Rule of Law’. In that piece, Idema sums up Bao’s story in these words: “Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so his court cases have been adapted as stories, novels and plays over the centuries.”

In Nigeria, our lawyers are currently meeting in Enugu. They call their congregation ‘Annual General Conference.’ Whatever the theme of their meeting is, I feel they should tell themselves and inform one another that the darkest hour of the judiciary since 1960 is now. They should ask why it is not possible to have a Caprio or a Bao in Nigeria and why, in recent times, almost every (political) decision that comes out of our courts is caught in the web of deliberate ambiguity and vagueness. What kind of judiciary feels no horror that court judgments are so capriciously ambivalent such that victories in them are claimed by both plaintiffs and defendants?

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I wonder how both lawyers and judges felt when they heard the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar, yesterday (Sunday) at the NBA conference, saying what everybody is saying: the integrity of the judicial system is being undermined by corruption, and justice is being sold to the highest bidder. He said: “Today, justice is increasingly becoming a purchasable commodity, and the poor are becoming victims of this kind of justice, while the rich commit all manner of crime and walk the streets scot-free.”

There is a trending excerpt from General Olusegun Obasanjo’s new book where he declares Nigeria’s judiciary as being “deeply compromised.” There is nothing new in what the former president wrote. Indeed, more than one lawyer have told me that they are afraid to go to court in this era because they are no longer sure that law and facts have a place in our courts; they are horrified that certainty and predictability of the law have taken a flight from our judiciary.

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Obasanjo, in his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future’, is quoted by a Nigerian news website, the Cable, as lamenting the “steady decline of the judiciary’s integrity” while ramming in this: “I went to a state in the North about ten years after I left public office. Next to the government guest house was a line of six duplex buildings. The governor pointed to the buildings and stated that they belonged to a judge who put them up from the money he made from being the chairman of election tribunals.” Obasanjo concludes that part with a warning that “where justice is only available to the highest bidder, despair, anarchy, and violence would substitute justice, order, and hope.”

I have serving and retired judges as friends. They are as embarrassed as hell with what we have as judiciary in 2025 Nigeria. They all believe that the house has fallen.

Our lawyers are meeting in Enugu as a body, the NBA. I have heard some members of that association dismissing the conference as a mere jamboree. They may be wrong. And they will be wrong if the conference comes out with a definite cure for the ailments of our courts. If judges are the problem, they were lawyers before they became judges. The Yoruba say a bad head did not become bad in just one day; they say rot is always gradual and incremental. Now, because the courts are rotten, no one is safe; no business has rest of mind; and no position or property is secure. The courts have become as capricious as magicians; they conjure decisions to the shock of facts and the law.

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Robert H. Jackson was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1953 when he published his ‘The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary’. In it, Jackson urges “that the lawyer, as a leader of public opinion, can do no greater service to our institutions than to see that the people are repeatedly warned and kept everlastingly aware that they must be their own guardians of liberty and that they cannot thrust that whole task on a handful of judges.”

Some Nigerians reading that quote will hiss. They will say our judges and lawyers are Siamese twins in behaviour and misbehavour. Lord Denning says as much in his ‘Road to Justice’: “It is the lawyers who have made the law what it is.” If we agree that lawyers are as guilty as the judges in the eclipse of the sun of justice in Nigeria, can we, therefore, re-examine the training process of lawyers and the recruitment process of judges? If we agree with Sean Kierkegaard that “life can only be understood backwards” then we must be ready to learn from those who had been here and who made life better than they met it. If there are persons among Nigerian judges and lawyers who still read, I suggest they consult Justice Kayode Eso on pages 169 to 171 of his book cited earlier here. He has some nuggets there on how we got it wrong and what should inform appointment of judges in Nigeria.

The United States had Frank Caprio, the nicest judge in the whole world. China had Bao Zheng, pure, orthodox and incorruptible. We also had a golden, glorious past before the affliction of today. If we will get it right again, we have to bleach dirt out of the Bar and drain the swamp of the Bench.

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OPINION: ‘ADC Is A Mere Distraction’

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By Lasisi Olagunju

Yesterday, someone asked me to give my current impression of that coalition party called the ADC. I asked if the person knew the meaning of the idiom: a loud fart in a windstorm, or simply, a fart in the wind. That is my impression of the party that came loud and furious like Hurricane Katrina just a few weeks ago. And unlike that hurricane of devastating results, the ADC appears to have gone limp like a boastful eunuch’s potency, so soon after its entry.

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Apart from beautifully written press releases, what else have you seen of the ADC that should make any person in government uncomfortable, or make the distraught street trekker hopeful of a coming change? ADC’s National Secretary is Mr Rauf Aregbesola. The secretary is the engine room of the party. But the gadfly appears more interested in the politics of Western Nigeria than in making the party run strong from its national secretariat. Last month, the party announced its plan to inaugurate a 50-man policy committee to set an agenda for Nigeria. Have you heard anything about that since then? That is how you know the difference between a thunder clap and a fart.

A party seeking power does what the man seeking a woman does. They show practical, consistent, engaged behaviour. The party must do what great chess players do: “Great players consider their opponent’s threats before they think about their own moves; they avoid moves that will help their opponent. They also take the initiative whenever possible.” That is how ‘chess fox’, a website on the game of chess, put it. If a party is interested in taking power, you would know from its plans and moves. I have not seen anything extraordinary in the footfall of the ADC for it to be seen as a viable alternative to the party in the Villa. Could that be the reason why the South-West chapter of the ruling APC dismissed the ADC as “a mere distraction” last Friday?

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If a party is tired of being in government, you would see it pandering to, and pampering the opposition. Goodluck Jonathan was seen doing exactly that between 2013 and late 2014 with the Buhari/Tinubu combo. Jonathan nursed the APC boa with so much naivety until it was matured enough to constrict and consume him. I have not seen such suicidal inclinations in Bola Tinubu and his APC. Indeed, what we hear from the party in power is that “Tinubu is not Jonathan.” And I think those saying that are very right in their assessment of the man who owns Nigeria. Tinubu is not just a vote seeker; he is a ruthless vote maximizer. That is not the kind of man you can confidently remove with press releases.

During the Ileya festival of 2016, a group of young drummers went to Tinubu’s Boudillon to try their luck with him. And they were very lucky. He met them drumming and singing. The big man loved their song and danced to their beats with gusto and meaningful gestures.

As the boys beat the drums, they also sang out what the drums were saying: “Novice they are/ they don’t know anything/Ajanaku emerges from a distance, they went for canes/ The Elephant is more than an animal you beat with sticks…(Òpè ni wón o, won ò mo nkankan/ Àjànàkú yo l’ókèrè, wón lo m’óré dání/ Erin kojá eran à nf’òpá lù…). This battle song was composed for the Lion of Boudillon nine years ago. I wrote about it here on October 3, 2016. That was seven years before the lion roared his way into the Villa. Now, Tinubu is in power controlling all weapons of war, peace and politics. Anyone who would fight and worst him needs more than canes and bluster.

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“People tell stories. And, as they tell stories, they express and explore their ideas about the world and their place in it.” That line belongs to Christine Goldberg in her interrogation of ‘The Construction of Folktales’ published in 1986. Nine years ago, Boudillon celebrated the Elephant’s steeze in the face of impotent sticks. The song and its drumbeats stand on all four with an old folktale on a jungle that could not overcome its overbearing king:

Long ago, Lion (Kiniun) ruled the forest with pride and guile. Every animal feared his roar. Whenever he was hungry, he pounced on whichever creature he desired. He would snatch food from the monkeys, chase the antelopes away from their grazing fields, and even drink the river dry before Elephant could take a sip.

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One day, Tortoise (Ijapa) called a secret meeting. “Brothers and sisters,” he said, “Lion is too powerful for one animal to fight. But if we work hard and stay united, we can defeat him.”

The animals nodded, but their hearts were not together. Monkey boasted, “With my speed and skill, I can handle Lion alone.” Elephant grumbled, “Why should I dig or plan with smaller animals? My strength is enough.” Antelope said, “What’s the use of all this talk? Lion will eat whom he wants anyway.” And the little Rat whispered, “Even if I try, the big ones will not notice me.”

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So, instead of making a real plan, they argued and scattered. Some went to sleep, some local, regional champions boasted, some acted as moles for Lion, others simply refused to work. Only a few, halfheartedly, scratched the ground, saying they were “preparing a trap.”

When Lion came roaring to the river, the animals rushed at him without order. Monkey leapt from the trees, but Lion caught him with one paw. Elephant charged blindly, but Lion sidestepped and bit his ear. Antelope ran forward, bleating, and was knocked aside. Even Tortoise, who tried to crawl near Lion’s feet, suffered a badly broken shell.

Lion laughed thunderously. “So this is your rebellion? Disorganised, lazy, and divided? You thought you could defeat me without planning and unity? If you would farm like the king, you would do what the bard suggested: you would make a million heaps in one day!”

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That day, during the fight, many of the animals were injured. Each one had at least some bruise to treat, exactly as the palm trees of Ijaye nursed wounds of defeat 180 years ago. The scars, up to today, tell the gory news of the war that ruined their pride. The defeated animals limped back to the forest, ashamed and sorrowful. Tortoise shook his head: “I warned you. No one defeats Lion with pride, laziness, and quarrels. Disunity and half-work only strengthen the oppressor. Unity without action is empty; hard work without planning is wasted; pride and quarrels make the weak even weaker before the strong. Until we learn to plan, to work hard, and to unite, Lion will always rule over us.”

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FG Shuts 22 Illegal Tertiary Institutions

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The National Commission for Colleges of Education has uncovered and shut down 22 illegal Colleges of Education.

The discovery was made during a crackdown on illegal colleges of education in the country.

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The development was revealed in the commission’s achievements, seen by our correspondent.

“The NCCE identified and shut down 22 illegal Colleges of Education operating across the country.

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“The NCCE conducted personnel audit, financial monitoring in all the 21 federal colleges of education,” the commission said.

President Bola Tinubu had recently urged the National Universities Commission, the National Board for Technical Education and the National Commission for Colleges of Education to weed out illegal higher institutions of learning in the country.

Speaking at the 14th convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria in Abuja, the President ordered the NUC, the NBTE, and other agencies to take decisive action against what he described as “certificate millers” undermining the credibility of the education sector.

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Tinubu, who was represented by the Director of University Education at the Federal Ministry of Education, Rakiya Ilyasu, warned that the integrity of the academic system must not be compromised.

At this juncture, it has become imperative to reiterate that this administration remains committed to strengthening the integration of all agencies involved in the administration of education to enhance efficiency and quality,” the President said.

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He added, “The National Youth Service Corps, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, the National Universities Commission, the National Board for Technical Education and the National Commission for Colleges of Education are working in alignment to improve the quality of education and ensure that cases of forgery and unrecognised institutions both within and outside the country have no place in our education ecosystem.”

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