Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on August 7, 2019, 8:34 PM

I must confess that the oil & gas sector knows how to run conferences. Maybe, it could be because they have tons of money to simply plan things well. This is one of the few conferences I have attended in Nigeria in the last few years where all sections began and ended as planned. 

Even the titled men know how to keep to time. The Nigerian government has a lot to learn from the sector on safety culture and mechanics of business systems. They planned with amalgam of redundancies that nothing was open to surprises!

We have everything we need in this country to get it working. It is a shame we are severely underperforming  as a nation. 

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The Oil and Gas sector largely employ elite graduates and professionals, they do not have plenty dumb people there. So it's not too difficult to understand why things are done properly, having plenty money is just a plus, the brains are already good.

Again, when a Nigerian goes to Total or Shell to work, he/she doesn't go there to behave as a Nigerian, rather you are expected to align to the culture of Total or Shell, that means a lot; because it's a well defined system, not about what you feel like doing.

What is Nigeria's culture and how many elite graduates and professionals does Nigeria hire to help manage her systems? Does Nigeria have any known system or culture? Humans don't just become disciplined and responsible, you have to create systems and structures that discourage and minimise misbehaviour and unethical practices; we currently lack such as a nation.

So at individual or elite levels, you will continue to see brilliant Nigerians who know how to get things done, but collectively they may continue to falter, because the political space and governance system abhor excellence, while celebrating mediocrity at same time.

Our problem is from within, quite simple in nature, only that it requires strength of character.