The Senate on Wednesday (Nov. 14) confirmed the allegation that it awarded a N500m (about USD 2MILLION) contract for the live telecast of the screening of ministerial nominees in July 2007. The confirmation was contained in a 16-page report which was submitted to the Senate by its Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions.
I understand the contract was awarded to two TV stations.
I’m just too numb (and indifferent) to react…
Nigerians, in this case our elected officials, need to be schooled on how to P-R-I-O-R-I-T-I-Z-E and make sound D-E-C-I-S-I-O-N-S.
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things” – Peter Drucker.
Spending half a billion Naira on TV publicity isn’t “doing the right thing”!
November 15, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Jesu Kristi, I don tire!
November 15, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Well, it is all too glaring that all these National thief thief and Naira Squandamaniacs must be stopped. This is getting too ridiculous for words. What exactly has Nigeria been turned into?
November 15, 2007 at 8:33 pm
How about getting together and project managing home from away? Maybe this is the catalyst/example we need in order to really game our shared knowledge.
November 16, 2007 at 4:57 am
Beauty: Managing Nigeria from away? I’m not sure about this. However, there is a lot of room to brain storm on how our “key-board activism” can be translated to real-time activism, or some productive ventures back home. Id one thing is clear, just venting on online forum ain’t going to come far, and magically translate to changes.
I did make a proposal on some form of Nigerian legislative score card on this blog in August; the post got just 2 comments. Maybe this is a good spot to start, maybe.
November 16, 2007 at 9:09 pm