| Welcome to our BTNF Mini Site! BTNF is short for Beat The Nigerian Factor. It is a mini site located at http://www.btnf.spontaneousdevelopment.com - a sub domain of Spontaneous Development Dot Com - home of the Self-Development Academy(SDAc) Limited on the World Wide Web.
Apart from the pre-amble below the links provided, this home page content is served in four(4) sections :
Nigeria has wonderful talents that can add great value to the world. But she needs to give those talents a conducive environment to flourish. Tayo Solagbade's definition of the Nigerian Factor indicates how the Nigerian Factor stifles Nigeria's ability to do the foregoing : "The Nigerian factor is what makes things that work elsewhere fail to work in Nigeria. It is also what makes doing the wrong thing acceptable, and doing the right thing condemnable" - Tayo Solagbade SDAc believes that anyone who truly loves Nigeria will want her to develop to the point where many individual Nigerians will no longer feel a need to flee for Europe and America,( these days even Ghana/Togo!) in order to achieve worthwhile goals. Perpetuation of the Nigerian Factor currently(Jan 2006)makes this development process difficult, if not impossible.
The objective of this mini site is to provide education for re-orientation towards eliminating the Nigerian Factor. This is being done as a social development service. Why? Because we believe every business organisation will find her chances of survival and profitable existence threatened if negative influences that prevent stabilisation of political and economic conditions persist. We also believe we have a responsibility to contribute positively to the development of any environment in which we operate. Not all of us can get invited to high profile meetings with important dignitaries to discuss matters of national importance/security. :-) Click
here to learn about our adopted strategy,and how you can join
us. Our special report - "The Nigerian Factor UNMASKED!" - was originally written in June 2005. However events in the last quarter of 2005 - especially the unprecedented series of fatal aircraft crashes has revealed other areas where the problem has eroded any security persons in this country (Nigerians or foreigners) may be confident they have. At the special emergency meeting of stakeholders called by President Obasanjo(and broadcast on TV), one of the delegates provided revealing insight into the issue of age, and airworthiness of planes bought and used Nigerian airline operators. According to him, sometimes officers of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority(NCAA) who travelled abroad to inspect planes to be bought by an airline operator, would have their estacode, flight tickets, accommodation fees paid by the airline operator(who wished to purchase the plane to be given a pass or fail mark by the NCAA officer!) - in addition to being provided a shopping allowance. How can one then expect the NCAA officer to objectively carry out the assigned job?! The above more that anything
else confirmed the President's insistence on corruption as the root
cause was not wrong. All this however only came to the fore AFTER
multiple crashes claiming hundreds of lives within a few
weeks (including those of 50 very young students on their
way back to School) had occurred. The irony is that those responsible for cutting corners in vetting/ buying the planes and who circumvent established routine aircraft maintenance regimes for personal monetary gain are NOT all in government. Some are individuals in society who think it is smart to exploit the existing loopholes.
Maybe that is why many Nigerians
seem incapable of insisting that things be done as expected. They
can ask for a while, but they soon give up and accept anything they
are told hoping that the problem will resolve itself. The SDAc believes that this LACK OF POLITICAL WILL(note that political will need not be demonstrated through violence) is what makes Nigerians continue to suffer the hardships they complain so much about. The following quote reinforces this: "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them" - Frederick Douglas To get ANOTHER feel for how bad the Nigerian Factor is for Nigeria, think about the fact that Nigeria failed to qualify for FIFA World Cup - Germany 2006(for ridiculous reasons), despite having a star studded team of Europe based players. Yet, many Nigerians will readily
recall that before the above happened, and in another of the many
peculiar manifestations of the Nigerian Factor, Stephen
Keshi, Nigerian Coach of Togo's NOW World
Cup bound team, had been humiliated - with wide spread media
coverage - out of Nigeria few years earlier, by fellow
Nigerians while trying to do what he has now done for Togo
for Nigeria! Join Us And Get FULL Content Access You must be a registered member to read most of this site's content - including our analysis of Keshi's heart rending experience - coming soon - complete with our suggestions/ideas of how to prevent future occurrences), or the PDF report titled "The Nigerian Factor UNMASKED!". The latter report is the special
feature for January 2006. Click the preceding link to read a
FREE preview. To read the FULL report
Learn how to purchase your membership We look forward to having you visit us over the years to come, as we pursue our vision of promoting ideas that will help this beautiful country achieve her tremendous potential and add more useful value to the lives of her citizens, and those of others in the world. Tayo
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