Politics Of Issues Not Ideas
My last two posts have been centered on secessionist and the development of the southeast of Nigeria, but today, I am writing about Nigerian politics and lifestyle in the form of why our politics is always centered on issues rather than ideas?
What are an issue and idea? According to the English dictionary, an issue is a" situation or event that is thought about" while an idea is " the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about."
The reason I brought up this topic is, over the years in this country Nigeria, we have seen countless stories that are some of its own personal issues trends and make headlines while important ideas that affect us as a country are swept under the carpet. These problems are mostly centered on things that divide us like religion, ethnicity and resource control.
In this same country, we have dealt with Niger-delta militants, Boko Haram and now Fulani herdsmen. We have also dealt and still dealing with the issue of Biafra and why it is wrong for Arewa and Odua Congress to have supported the declaration for the eviction of Igbos in the main parts of the country.
In dealings with issues as such, we have gone on to talk about how Saraki is working with the PDP and how Dino Melaye Insulted Oluremi Tinubu and the list goes on and on.... But we have never talked about our Education sector and the ways to better equip our children to stand out in this 21st century.
If you go to our schools today, you will find out we are still recycling graduates of the 1980s in 2017. How? Lecturers and teachers are not updated, some of them use text materials from 20 years ago, and nobody is talking about it. Term papers and projects are frats with plagiarism from the internet and lecturers don't care because they will never go through the stress of allowing students to submit assignments online where it can be quickly checked for plagiarism. If we can't make our graduates be able to think on their own, how do we then create idealist and innovators out of this generation?
We have also not talked about healthcare and why there are incessant strikes by doctors over the years and how this has affected our health care economy. We do not even look at the structures to find out if the primary healthcare centers and general hospitals are well equipped to cater for the common man or if it needs restructuring. Rather, we are more interested in the ethnicity of the next Nigeria president.
There reason great nations like US, UK, Germany, China are what they are today is that of ideas. Ideas will make us innovative and make us surmount any economic depression like the US, and the world did after 2008.
There are lots of issues to talk about with little ideas been brought up in the political policy, and that is wrong. When you see Americans debate about politics, they want to know what and what the government is doing to better their lives and not necessarily the skin color of the president as at that time. I pray we get it right in this country and I hope we do.
What are an issue and idea? According to the English dictionary, an issue is a" situation or event that is thought about" while an idea is " the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about."
The reason I brought up this topic is, over the years in this country Nigeria, we have seen countless stories that are some of its own personal issues trends and make headlines while important ideas that affect us as a country are swept under the carpet. These problems are mostly centered on things that divide us like religion, ethnicity and resource control.
In this same country, we have dealt with Niger-delta militants, Boko Haram and now Fulani herdsmen. We have also dealt and still dealing with the issue of Biafra and why it is wrong for Arewa and Odua Congress to have supported the declaration for the eviction of Igbos in the main parts of the country.
In dealings with issues as such, we have gone on to talk about how Saraki is working with the PDP and how Dino Melaye Insulted Oluremi Tinubu and the list goes on and on.... But we have never talked about our Education sector and the ways to better equip our children to stand out in this 21st century.
If you go to our schools today, you will find out we are still recycling graduates of the 1980s in 2017. How? Lecturers and teachers are not updated, some of them use text materials from 20 years ago, and nobody is talking about it. Term papers and projects are frats with plagiarism from the internet and lecturers don't care because they will never go through the stress of allowing students to submit assignments online where it can be quickly checked for plagiarism. If we can't make our graduates be able to think on their own, how do we then create idealist and innovators out of this generation?
We have also not talked about healthcare and why there are incessant strikes by doctors over the years and how this has affected our health care economy. We do not even look at the structures to find out if the primary healthcare centers and general hospitals are well equipped to cater for the common man or if it needs restructuring. Rather, we are more interested in the ethnicity of the next Nigeria president.
There reason great nations like US, UK, Germany, China are what they are today is that of ideas. Ideas will make us innovative and make us surmount any economic depression like the US, and the world did after 2008.
There are lots of issues to talk about with little ideas been brought up in the political policy, and that is wrong. When you see Americans debate about politics, they want to know what and what the government is doing to better their lives and not necessarily the skin color of the president as at that time. I pray we get it right in this country and I hope we do.
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