MUST READ! "FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS; MODUS OPERANDI, THOSE INVOLVED, AND THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS" BY Professor Charles Adisa

The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people/s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have the requisite information needed for a thorough appraisal and resolution of problems as they arise.

GET BETTER, NOT BITTER

A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each tomato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates.

 Like this, the number of tomatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

A group of 50 people attended a seminar.

Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each person a balloon.

Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker.

Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

*I WANT TO BE A TV*

A Primary School teacher asked her pupils to write an essay on ”A wish you want from God?" At the end of the day, the teacher collected all the essays given by her pupils. She took them to her house, sat down and started marking.

Whilst marking the essays, she sees a strange essay written by one of her pupils. That essay made her very emotional. Her husband came and sat beside her and saw her crying. The husband asked her, "What happened?" "What's making you cry"

MAYBE...

One day, the farmer's horse ran away, and all the neighbours gathered in the evening and said ‘that’s too bad.’

He said ‘maybe.’

DEAD CURIOUS

**Why are they called STAIRS inside but STEPS outside?

**If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

**Who was the first person to look at a cow and said
    " I think I will squeeze these dangly things here and drink
     whatever comes out.???

KEY ABBREVIATIONS AND THEIR MEANING

1.) *NEWS*- North East West South
2.) *ATM*- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
3.) * CRV*- Current Replacement Value
4.) *UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
5.) *VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal
6.) *SMS - Short Message Service

HISTORY: DID YOU KNOW THAT....(NIGERIA VERSION PT 2)

1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million.

2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and Msc from University of Port-Harcourt.

3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”.

YORUBA EPIC POEM AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATION (AKOSORI YORUBA FUN GBOGBO OMO KAARO OOJIIRE)

*ISÉ NI ÒÒGÙN ÌSÉ
Work is the antidote for poverty.

*MÚRA SÍ ISÉ RE, ÒRÉÈ MI
Work hard, my friend.

*ISÉ NI A FI Í DI ENI GIGA
work is used to elevate one in respect and importance
(Aspiring to higher height is fully dependent on hard work).