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Mohammed Babangida, Statesman Working for Nigerian Progress

Mohammed Babangida, also affectionately called "IBB" by his countrymen, has long been an integral part of Nigerian life. He served many years in the Nigerian armed forces, rising to the rank of two star General.  Following that, he stood as the President of Nigerian from 1985 until 1993, when he handed over governmental control to a Civilian Transition Government. His contributions as the President of Nigeria in a time of tremendous change is remembered as a time when many national improvements were made. Among these, "IBB" is credited as bringing a time of abundance in terms of value in business and a surplus of food for the Nigerian people.

Mohammed Babangida still plays a role in building alliances between Nigeria and other leading governments. He has long been an avid and highly skilled polo player. His talent was such that he was compared to a leading Argentine polo player, and was given the nickname of Maradonna, after that world famous player. Recently, he participated in a polo game held in Dubai. The polo exhibition was arranged by the Al Habtoor brothers, who have a working friendship with "IBB".

In the view of Mohammed Babangida , the alliance with Dubai has the potential to build business and political alliances far beyond concerns for polo matches. Following the matches, closed door meetings held will seal many business agreements beneficial to Nigeria. His goal has been and remains the end of poverty in Nigeria. He has used a catch-phrase to signify this goal:
"Live and Let's Live". At about 70 years of age now, it would seem that his goal is much further along the road to attainment than he would have imagined in his early years of service to Nigeria.

Globalization: Has it Changed National Allegiance to Corporate Allegiance?

With the remaking of the world into one big marketplace, shifting jobs from countray to country, and production into maximum efficiency locations, has a new world perspective been adopted by the average person? Do we no longer feel allegiance to a nation, because the importance of nationality has diminished so greatly in the face of the importance of business and economics? Should the smart person feel greater loyalty to a particular corporation instead of a particular country? I believe this is what has happened. Because the nations have shown themselves to have no loyalty to the citizen workers, then it has created a similar sentiment in the hearts of those citizens. How can one be loyal to a nation who has erased all employment hopes away with not much to replace the life sustaining such employment gives? How are we to dig our way out of the current economic collapse if there are no jobs with which to grow the capital and production to do it? The entire dilemma demonstrates the thoughtlessness that the globalization plan was created by.
Duh !!! Ship the work to other countries.. what will the citizns here do for gainful employment? Will they continue to be unemployed, with workers in phone banks in India calling to remind them their credit card payment is overdue????
This is exactly what is happening. What a nightmare "globalization" has created for so many millions of people already.