Joshua King's Free Press

Yesterday 11th October, 2016, I stumbled on a piece written by Rotimi Fawole. It was a delightful read. He aptly captured and brilliantly delivered a piece on Nigeria, how we got here and where we should be headed. It was so beautiful that I spent a bulk of the day reading it all over. Besides the fact that I already expressed the thoughts he articulated in the piece before now, the brilliance of his delivery is such that those who cannot see the truth of it are either pretentious or consciously unwilling to change. For too long, I've been meaning to write a piece just like that on the subject but often find some decent reasons to procrastinate. It is only natural that I feel this good when someone else has done the job and done it excellently. Here are some excerpts:  This regional-central anomaly is the big argument for federal character and quotas, which place an emphasis on regional balance, rather than competence. In fact, the evidence suggests that it has promoted mediocrity.