We need to reform our Environment to reform our minds and build our attitudes far from Wild Empty Political based Criticism. Institution of Technology and Management, ITM Ugep and Ayade’s Signature Projects.
Cross Riverians, we cannot gain growth, looking at our problems alone without thinking about solutions. We cannot achieve development with our minds and brain set on outlining internal problems instead of thinking outside the box to getting possible growth solutions.
Nothing is impossible until we set our minds to make them impossible. We must live away from political mind-sets in handling our economic problems. President Obama once said, “Nigeria is not suffering from economic crisis but from information brain drain.”
Truly today, to a greater extent, Cross River and indeed Nigeria is facing Educational Crisis and an enlightenment crisis, more than an Economic Crisis. Politics is playing tricks on us. The youth want to be relevance by any crocked means whatsoever, since the older generations have refused to change along with time.
So many causes contribute to our financial crisis in the state and Nation at large. Apart from lack of True Financial education, another very important cause of our economic turmoil is a concept called ‘accelerating acceleration.’
“Acceleration of Change,” another author puts it. Why are there so many failures in our schools? Robert Kiyosaki said, “Schools fail students simply because the school system cannot keep pace with change.”
In today’s world of accelerating acceleration, what is new today may be obsolete in less than two years. While the youth hunger for the change acceleration to meet with the pace of time, our educational programmes and methods are stagnant. Most schools and teachers are too far behind to understand the longings of our teaming youth population.
It is not surprising therefore, that, many students are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorders. Boredom takes over their mental faculty and with the real world around them offering no opportunities to use their talents and natural skills right, Negative thoughts and native ways of fighting boredom sets in. Cultism and other negative vices take over our being. The political class take advantage to keep the young from growing, therefore, keeping themselves permanently in power or fighting the government that fails to favour them, fuel and finance negative environments.
The Nigeria Educational system foundation was founded based on Agrarian Age, marginally updated for the Industrial Age. “What is lacking today is the ability of our school system to serve today’s kids living in a fast-paced, ever changing Information-Age society.”
Entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have turned every home, rich or poor, first world or third world, into a first-rate university, yet these persons are school drop-outs.
Oprah Wnfrey found her genius on television. Thomas Edison found his genius in his laboratory. Tiger Woods found his genius on the golf course. And the Beatles found their genius in a nightclub. These geniuses never finished school.
Governor Ben Ayade’s signature projects therefore, are timely, precise and in accord with the times. Why? Because they technologically reform the Environment, Improve and Expand our talents and skills towards an industrial growth based society. Creates Opportunities and drives our minds to meet with the accelerated change.
These Signature Projects are the only live wires to keep Cross River State economy running. From the world class ITM Ugep with world class facilities needing Power and the most demanding Information Age equipment, with a monthly recurrent cost of about N100 million, to the CICC, TINAPA, and all our Tourism potential Capital ventures.
It is sad for some persons to look at our Collapsing Recession Economy and only pick negatively on the cracking points instead addressing best reinforcements method.
This is time to put to work our wealth of experience, be it in any discipline, educated or non-educated. Leaders are like the Stem of a Tree, without the leaves producing the necessary life wires from Sunlight, the whole Tree Dies.
Cross Riverians, we need to put our foot on the paddle of growth and work along Governor Ayade to create the change we need to carry on.
