Fathers’ Day: Dogara Urges Leaders to Play Fatherly Role by Providing Qualitative Leadership

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has urged Nigerian leaders to play a fatherly role in governing the affairs of the country by providing qualitative leadership. 

According to a statement issued by Turaki Hassan, the Speaker’s spokesperson, Dogara made the call on Sunday during the Fathers’ Day service at the Aso Villa chapel, where he represented the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

The service, which was presided over by the chaplain, Pastor Seyi Malomo, had a special segment during which children appreciated fathers, and the Speaker was presented with gifts of indigenous artworks from the Chapel for the President, the Vice President, the Senate President and for himself.

Intelligent Stealing

I have been wondering about Intelligence. Even though I disagree with the concept of "Intelligences", The Nigerian situation gives me the parameters to believe there must be another intelligence behind unhindered stealing from the public till. I will like to call it the intelligence of stealing. Yes, Intelligent stealing as perfected by Nigerian leaders lends itself to serious investigation and study by psychologists and evolutionary biologists.

George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker in “De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum - There’s no accounting for tastes.” argued that economics should not be concerned with explaining preferences and values, but instead with how constraints affect choice. Money is fungible but what influences its accumulation? The models by these nobel price winners in economics explains how constraints affect choices but what are the factors influencing that choice? What influences what people want? Does values and upbringing play a role? What life preferences must be present to induce intelligent stealing? Is intelligent stealing infectious? What are the environmental factors involved in intelligent stealing and why the prevalence in Nigeria? The answer goes beyond corruption because the trait tend to lie dormant in its carriers in foreign environments. What thoughts have you had lately about Nigeria's "peculiar mess"?