Frank Ukonga Lecture 52: The imperatives of rolling up sleeves and work to rebuilding & Re-branding the Nigerian State: A functional Approach: by His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga, the President of National Peoples News group;@ 2015



 Frank Ukonga Lecture 52: The imperatives of rolling up sleeves and work to rebuilding & Re-branding the Nigerian State: A functional Approach: by His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga, the President of National Peoples News group;@ 2015 

The 2015 general elections has come and gone with remarkable results of a historical paradigm shift of power for the first time to an opposition party in the Nigeria federation and it is praise worthy to applaud the winners and the losers for the maturity and democratic culture of peaceful transition of power.
The people’s votes counted in one of the most competitive polls of sub Saharan Africa who voted clearly for  ” change” based on issue oriented manifesto and promises from the winners; where the hopes of the peoples were seduced very high in expectations of the delivery of the dividends of democracy and above all of the promises of greatness made by the winners; which should translate to the delivery of quality services, novae opportunities and advancement of the peoples of the Nigerian state. At this juncture it would be pertinent to espouse on a number of crucial premises where the proletariat of the Nigeria state are eagerly expecting rapid changes in order of priority addressed to lift the Nigerian state to sustainable economic, industrial and agricultural prosperity in a short distance of history yonder…
Diversification of the mono cultured economy of crude Oil exports: The global down turn of the prices of crude oil in recent times need be given critical analysis to ascertain the causes and the future prospects of oil export base economy with a view to urgently kick start a realistic program of diversification of the Nigerian economy if Nigeria is to remain relevant as the economic giant of Africa whose GDP is estimated to a little over one trillion dollars by 2020; largely due to the re-basing of the Nigerian economy on the economic indicators of service industry including music, Nollywood film production etal which in real terms are a deviation from the international standard practice of certification based on post modern economic  indicators of the Real Sector of the economy, the overall power generation capacity of Nation and its consumption per head, GNP/ Head, pulp and paper consumption per head, the stock exchange, the amount of liquid steel per head; the level of redundancies, capacity utilization of install industries, contribution of the real sector and agric sectors to the economy etal…if the re-basing of the Nigerian economy were based on any of the aforementioned economic indicators  the result would certainly be different. Whence there is the urgent need to diversify the economy to areas of comparative economic advantage.
Nigeria as Rental state vs Tax State; Focus on IGR: Imperatives of constitutional enabling Acts: The Imperatives of constitution provision & Review:  Nigeria is classified as a Nation in the category of Rental state that makes the bulk of its earning from export receipts of crude oil and gas into the international market. These earnings is used to fund the capital, recurrent and social spending expenditures through statutory budgetary allocations monthly and annually… though attempts are made by the government to collect taxes through the various tax / Inland Revenue generation departments and by various states and local governments of Nigeria there is an urgent need of a constitutional discuss of national scale on these vexing issues to once and for all transform Nigeria from a Rental state to a Taxed state or perhaps invent a functional synergy of both .. In most states peoples pay levies, taxes to lga, state govt and to federal government without really knowing who should collect what, and what amount should be collected from peoples, companies and enterprises..it is a jungle out there in  the context of tax regimes in the states level…double taxation, Arbitrariness and lack luster approach to this aspect of crucial internal revenue generation to the three tier of govt in the country is part of the problems of the inability of states/ LGA to meeting up its financial obligations to the electorate in the context of financing their budgets .Whence there is the urgent need of a white paper from the various Houses of Assemblies in collaboration with  the National Assembly on this crucial aspect of revenue generation and its synergy into the entropy of state/ LGA management.
Mobilization of  Developmental Finance: The two major stratagems of mobilizing developmental  finance the world over is either one use her  own money through mobilization of excess liquidity in the economy or the second option of using other peoples’ money via borrowing; but remember the classical maxim that those who go a borrowing, goes a sorrowing:
Mobilization of excess liquidity in the economy: The financial sector of the economy could play a vital pivotal role in the mobilization of excess liquidity in the economy with a focus on supplying the urgently needed developmental finance in Nigeria and most emerging democracies of the world.
Mobilization of developmental finance through Banking consolidation: The Nigeria Experience; A critique of Soludonomics: Banking consolidation of economy is done the world over not only to restore confidence in Banks and to manage distress, illiquidity, insolvency and collapse of banks and financial institutions but also as a fulcrum to develop & mobilizing the resources in urban and rural areas into bankable products through Research and development, research and innovations; Which pulls all the national resources together continuously in the pursuit of provision of highly needed developmental finacees for lga, state, federal government, institutions, industries and the private sector. But unfortunately the Nigerian Banking consolidation of Professor Sochukuma Soludo , a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was dysfunctional as it lacked the necessity and sufficiency premises of adequately mobilizing developmental finances for various segments of the polity…and no sooner after the banking consolidation of the previous decade of mundane recklessness in Nigeria the consolidated funds vanished through director related borrowings…and the problems is still with that industry till today…HRH Sanusi Lamido also a former governor of the CBN, came to the rescue as in  the emergence of Eco Bank takeover of Oceanic Bank, emergence of Street Bank, Keystone Bank etc…  the Universal Banking concept immediately pushed aside the secondary and primary banking institutions of mortgage banks./ community Banking concept that became atrophied as they could not compete with the universal Banks which necessitated the creation of Micro Finance Banks that also was dead on arrival because of several reasons which made it unworkable as a supportive auxiliary to the universal banking ethics…. The African finance corp. and the African Monetary Fund concepts of Soludonomics  that led to seeding Lagos as a Banking and financial Hob for the sub region and the African continent became only  a hob of speculation and peddling hob of other peoples financial products due to defaults in the fundamental reason de entree of the entire scheme. Even the rebasing of the Nigeria’s GNP/ Head from 250 dollar to an astronomical level of 1200 dollars/Head by Soludonomics , though acceptable for National pride sake but puzzling to esoteric minds… For the banking institution In Nigerian to adequately mobilize developmental finance for the nation there is the urgent need to overhaul and re invent it in the Schumpeterian sensibilities.
Capital Market: The stock Exchange needs to be overhauled and new marketable products to be invented and marketed aggressively to grow the Nigerian capital market into a world class market. Investors could be protected through a national insurance scheme if possible. This would generate new source of capital.
Accessing Developmental Finance from external, formal and private capital syndication: This simply translate in most cases to going a borrowing and going a sorrowing… The experience of the debt burden of the previous 20th century where the third world were owing over 500 billion dollars to its western creditors was a great lesson that cannot be swept under the carpet. It became so bad that countries had to borrow to reschedule dept further compounding the situation. Virtually all countries caught up with the debt trap of that era of living dangerously became net exporter of capital…and till today Africa is  caged in that bondage of being a net exporter of capital annually to the tune of over 600 billion dollars… The favorable receipts of oil exports in the OBJ era came to the rescue of Nigeria where we paid close to 20 billion dollars for questionable debts of mundane era of sqandemania and the investment were not there to show for the money borrowed. A bad case. For now the external debt portfolio of Nigeria is within acceptable manageable scope but if we must go a borrowing again, we must be twice shy…as it is said once bitten twice shy…
FDI, Infrastructural developmental finance vs Industrial developmental finance: focus on external sourcing: I often warned several countries of emerging democracies including the Nigeria state on the dangers of going a borrowing for infrastructural developmental which usually leads to dept trap and debt burden through illiquidity and insolvency.. it would be dialectical if external loans are accessed for industrial and agricultural investments, It would be ideal if external capital is accessed to develop the generation and distribution of electricity and the iron and steel sector, it would be seen as dialectically rectitude if external fund is used to develop the real sector economy but to borrow for infrastructural development of roads , schools, bridges etal , to borrow to fund recurrent expenditures and social spending of the budget which cannot bring back the money is to commit economic suicide …it is a stratagem of self destruct…otherwise the options of encouraging FDI- Foreign Direct Investment, equity financing, joint venture projects, PPP, etal.. Could be seen as appropriate and harnessed as credible alternatives.
The Real sector economy: Power, steel, Petro chemical and small and Medium Scale Industries: The aforementioned aspects of the economy need radical transformation if we must develop to substantial standard that can anchor the nascent democratic dispensation in Nigeria and in most emerging democracies of the world. Electricity is the backbone of all modern civilization of the contemporary world and the more you can generate and distribute the required level for industrialization the more other problems like voluntary and involuntary redundancies are solved. In the case of the take off of the petro chemical boom of the Nigerian federation it is imperative that all forms of subsidies in that sector be removed otherwise it would not give room to proper harnessing  by the private sector to grow Nigeria out of the woods. In this case the low prices of crude oil and gas would become a blessing for the Nigerian state if we remove all subsidies from that sector. And this would encourage Nigeria to stop exporting its crude oil and gas but export refined petroleum products all over the world. Most advance economies of the world thrives on the plentiful of Small and Medium scale industries…in particular the United States and the German Economies that are doing very well. Nigeria could borrow a leaf from this and encourage the establishment of small and medium scale industries in the plentiful as well; this would create a stable middle class cadre on which the nascent democratic experience can be crested for sustainability.
Redundancies: Voluntary and Involuntary & the vulnerable: Most governments of emerging democracies employ less than 4 % of their citizen directly in the civil service and other parestatals, remaining a huge labor force of above 95%. The private sector cannot absorb all of them so above 60 % work force is unemployed and redundant. This is a huge waste to emerging democracies who has a favorable demography of large army of youth that if gainfully engaged could become the back bone of greatness for these nations. So it is advised that Nigeria look inward seriously to gainfully engage the large army of youth that are currently redundant in the country through various schemes already mentioned above.
Terrorism, kidnapping, robberies, corruption, indiscipline & delinquencies: No nation can develop in the midst of terrorists, corruption, kidnapping, delinquencies and indiscipline. So Nigeria need to intensify it resolve to confront these security challenges addressed to create a peaceful, disciplined, law abiding and congenial atmosphere for business to thrive.



His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga Wish all fathers out there Happy Father's Day.

H.E Prince Frank Ukonga
His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga Wish all fathers out there Happy Father's Day.

Prince frank ukonga lecture 51: How the Western Imperialist Raped Africa to death: Focus on the ICC / President Al Bashir case and the resolutions of South African Government, ANC based on the Advice of H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga to the Government of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on ICC, the quest for Reparations and other Matters arising.




How the West Raped Africa: Anew Book from Frank Ukonga
Prince frank ukonga lecture 51: How the Western Imperialist Raped Africa to death: Focus on the ICC / President Al Bashir case and the resolutions of South African Government, ANC   based on the Advice of H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga to the Government of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on ICC, the quest for Reparations and other Matters arising.
His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga the Chairman of IPAC - Inter Party Advisory Council Edo state / South South Region of the Nigeria federation thank the government of Jacob Zuma of South Africa, and the ANC- African National Congress, the Ruling Party of South Africa, thank the NEC of the ANC For Supporting my clarion call to release the President of Sudan- H.E. Al Bashir from the ICC set up and idiosyncrasies of the Western imperialist armed with diabolical passions of dis uniting, destroying and exploiting the African continent and its peoples through slavery, colonization and post modern imperialism addressed to dominate and exploit the African continent and her God's children with impunity forever and ever..
South Africa may unsubscribe from the ICC and many African countries are advised to do same: secondly i thank the NEC resolution of the ANC that has fully backed my philosophy of developing the weak African institutions like the African Court of Human Rights and Protection as alternative to the ICC and as Africans we can solve our problems within Africa without the need of the imperialist cabals taking Africa to the knackers and savoring her to feed beasts and swine of a raven epoch of truculent days of yore but rather to hold our destinies by our hands...and all other African countries are advised to do same…
The Rape of Africa: The Anti Bellum Triangular Trade of Black slavery, colonization and imperialism and the universality of black poverty, denigration and basterdization by the imperialist for over 500 years: it is also gratifying to receive the decision of the ANC based on my advice to unsubscribe from the Rome Statute of the ICC and all such vestiges of  slavery, colonization and imperialism that that strategy has received favorable disposition...otherwise the evils of  slavery, colonization and imperialism  lasted for more than 500 years where the white Race forcibly removed more than 50 million innocent men and women from the soils of Africa To slave from Eternity to eternity in  the land of America, Europe, Arabia and Asian Minor under extreme hardship that would terrify cannibals and the exploits of Chiron the centurion...who is half beast, half man...they raped Africa dry..The white race..the western imperialists destroyed Africa...raped our women continuously from generation to generation...stole away all our wealth, gold, diamond, farm products, legacies of more than 10,000 years...cry oh yee beloved Africa cry...as the glory of Israel [ Africa] has been slain upon the high places...tell it not in Garth...publish it not in the streets of Askelon.. .least the daughters of philistines rejoice...least the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph...
The Destruction, imprisonments and Assassination of African Leaders BY Western Imperialists: The African case is a bad case ...a despicable case...they went ahead to destroy all the leaders of Africa that want to change that imperialist order hounding them into prisons, shame, death and grief...like they did to Kwameh Nkrumah of Ghana, Secou Toure of Guinea,  Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, Patrice Lumumba of Congo, Ramdan Albain of Algeria, Alfred Olympio o Dahomey, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Samora Michael of Mozambique, Anward Sadat of Egypt, Jafar El Nimeri of Sudan, Siad Barre of Chad, Hessen Habre, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, Gen Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria, MKO Abiola of Nigeria  etc...etc... And recently they did it to Mau ma Al Gadafi of Libya...so no African leader is safe from the dangerously calculating diabolical Western imperialist..
African Unity as the  weapon to free Africa from Bondage: consequently the only way out is for the African union to unite under one voice and act as one to repelled the 21 century western expansionism of the moribund imperialist to take control of Africa under another gab of neo colonization and foster neo imperialist regime on the African continent addressed to loot Africa to the end of the 21 century and for ever...the time is ripe to say no to this satanic activities of the western imperialist and swerve Africa from the bondage of eternal slavery, denigration, humiliation in the continuum of the anti bellum trade and the universalization and internationalization of black enslavement from generation to generation till the end of time....to fight this cleaver, crafty, cunning diabolical and satanic evil all hands has to be on deck...armed with the wisdom of eternal vigilance...and pro activeness...
Terrorism and Civil strives in Africa: The imperialist are also responsible for the increase in civil strives in Africa, terrorism in Africa, hunger and diseases in Africa , dumping of hazardous chemicals in the soils of Africa, dumping of dangerous outdated goods in the soils of Africa and promoting mediocrity leadership in Africa. They would overthrow the good governments that want genuine Pan African ideals for the African continent and install mediocres in governments who agree to the continuation of the status quo that Africa should be a slaved continent to eternity…so in partnership with these surrogate traitors they dominate and rape Africa to death from generation to generation…till the end of time…
 Reparations and its imperatives for Africa: Lastly it is the duty and destiny of all African living to demand for Reparations for the damages of yore, for the rape of the African Continent which made the white man richer and the black man poorer; and which is the causality and universality of Black Poverty till today and will be till the end of time...except we all stand up with one voice in the African Union and the United Nations Organization to demand for Reparations and a new world order, of truth , justice, universal brotherhood addressed towards lasting world peace and unity....otherwise we shall all perish as fools...

His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga IPAC chairman Edo state/ South South Region wish all Muslims of Nigeria and the entire Muslims of the World happy Ramadan Period

His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga IPAC chairman Edo state/ South South Region wish all Muslims of Nigeria and the entire Muslims of the World happy Ramadan Period. He admonish all Muslims of the world to use this great period of fulfilling one of the most important cardinal prerogative of the Islamic faith which is observing the Ramadan period of fasting and praying as Prophet Mohammed [SAW] Peace be unto His Holy Name has brought the good message to enlighten and ennoble the entire world to eschew wars but to dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of noble virtues in honor and service with absolute humility and reverence in submission to the will of the Holy One , the creator, the Benefactor , the Beneficent. Amen
H.E. Prince Frank Ukonga

His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga grace the Inauguration of CONPAN EXCO [Community Newspapers publishers Association of Nigeria] Edo state @ NUJ HQ Benin city, as special guest of Honor; with CONPAN National President Hon. Monday Ehiwere, NUJ Secretary Edo state Hon. Titus Akigbe, CONPAN Chairmen from Delta state and the south south Region, CONPAN Stalwarts from Abuja & all over the federation gathered to inaugurate the Edo state chapter of CONPAN in Benin today the 14th of June 2015.CONPAN is an association of community newspaper publishers of Nigeria with over 5000 members publishing more than 2000 titles of community newspapers on weekly/monthly basis in Nigeria in all 36 States and 774 LGAs of the Nigerian federation ;as the grass root Newspapers reaching out to the bulk of over 250million Nigerians on weekly basis.




Prince Frank Ukonga and CONPAN Leaders @ the International Conference Centre ABUJA, Recently    
His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga grace the Inauguration of CONPAN EXCO [Community Newspapers publishers Association of Nigeria] Edo state @ NUJ HQ Benin city, as special guest of Honor; with CONPAN National President Hon. Monday Ehiwere, NUJ Secretary Edo state Hon. Titus Akigbe, CONPAN Chairmen from Delta state and the south south Region, CONPAN Stalwarts from Abuja & all over the federation gathered to inaugurate the Edo state chapter of CONPAN in Benin today the 14th  of June 2015.CONPAN is an association of community newspaper publishers of Nigeria   with over 5000 members publishing more than 2000 titles of community newspapers on weekly/monthly basis in Nigeria in all 36 States and 774 LGAs of the Nigerian federation ;as the grass root Newspapers reaching out to  the bulk of over 250million Nigerians  on weekly basis.
Comrade Frank Akigbe emerged the Chairman of Edo state CONPAN with 7 members EXCO charged with the responsibility of promoting and entrenching the ideals of community newspapers publishing and readership in Edo state.
In his keynote address Prince frank Ukonga lauded the dexterity of the National President of CONPAN in person of Hon. Monday Ehiwere noting that “CONPAN is the best thing that ever happened to the field of mass communication in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa”. That CONPAN With membership across all the 36 stats and 774 LGAs of the Nigerian federation with members publishing more than 800 titles of community newspapers on weekly basis is a great  polit economic and mass communication union that has a bright future for the Nigerian federation, crating employment, investing in the economy and contributing its quota to the GDP-gross domestic product of Nigeria as well as educating, entertaining, communication and bringing the colligation of more than 250 tribes of Nigeria to one united family .
Furthermore Prince Ukonga admonished all the publishers as social, cultural and educational praxis to dedicate their time to quality service delivery to the electorate, to shun the habit of collecting brown envelopes from clients or undertaking the so called special projects to launder the images of some individuals in the society because this will impact negatively on the professionalism and on the sales and circulation of their newspapers.
Prince Ukonga advised community newspaper publishers as the grass root publishing category on which other National publishers and media practitioners do often gauge the entropy of public interests in their reporting and at times poach them; to be less partisan and cultivate the ethics of balanced reporting.
 Prince Ukonga appeal to the federal, state and Local Governments in Nigeria to support community Newspapers Publishing in Nigeria as they are the ones doing the real job in reaching out to the majority of the Nigerian masses.
Prince Ukonga also appealed to advertisers to patronize the community Newspapers as they are those that reach the grass root of the Nigerian federation…for example products like cooa cola, pepsi cola, indomee, magi cubes, milk, juices, telephones, MTN, GLO,- telecommunication companies etc that really want to reach the grass root and double its sales and productivity should turn to community newspapers. The so called national Newspapers hardly reach the grass root and mostly the thinking of the masses is that those newspapers are for the elite and they sell for prohibitive prices ill affordable by the grass root masses, so this is a golden secret I have let out to advertisers, product managers of companies that want to make high sales all over the country should reevaluate their advert portfolios and patronize the community newspapers and once you see your sale turn over begin to soar, you would be overwhelmed.
Henry Ogbemudia
Edo/ South South Bureau chief- National Peoples News

His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga advice South Africa on the Arrest order of the serving President of Sudan Umar Al Bashir by ICC.:ANC and President Jacob Zuma, remember we are all Africans,,,President Bashir of Sudan is covered by Presidential immunity and he is your guest in South Africa attending an OAU Meeting...it would set one of the worst precedence in international relations if you detain the serving president of another country who is your guest and who did not violate the laws of south Africa


His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga advice South Africa on the Arrest order of the serving President of Sudan Umar Al Bashir by ICC.:ANC and President Jacob Zuma, remember we are all Africans,,,President Bashir of Sudan is covered by Presidential immunity and he is your guest in South Africa attending an OAU Meeting...it would set one of the worst precedence in international relations if you detain the serving president of another country who is your guest and who did not violate the laws of south Africa . So the candid advice that a court order of ICC ask you to detain a serving president of a sovereign nation if you enforce that order would destroy for ever the mutual respect and diplomatic relations and reciprocity among all African nation sovereignty...the confidence among African leaders, among its peoples Would be destroyed for ever; There would be apathy, suspicion, hate and grief...So this decision you are about to make today would impact on the future of the African Union and bilateral relationships among all African countries and emerging democracies of the world...i pray God guide you appropriately to take the decision that would further bind together all African Nations, than the one that will put wedges and partition Africa in the 21 century... gratitude...from frank ukonga

His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga IPAC[ Inter Party Advisory Council] Chairman Edo state and the South South Region congratulate His Excellency Bukola Saraki the New Senate President of the Nigerian Federation: On the behalf of myself Prince Frank Ukonga and the entire Ukonga family we congratulate the new Senate President His Excellency Bukola Saraki whose family has been a long standing friend of the Ukonga family of Edo State of Nigeria. We are proud of his achievement as our inlaw, brother in law, friend and associate and we cherish your tremendous dexterity in becoming the President of Senate of the 8th Republic of the Nigerian federation and wish you the best and we look forward to a fruitful working relationship with Edo state and the South South Region...frm Prince Frank ukonga


His Excellency Bukola Saraki Senate President of Nigeria
His Excellency Prince Frank Ukonga IPAC[ Inter Party Advisory Council] Chairman Edo state and the South South Region congratulate His Excellency Bukola Saraki the New Senate President of the Nigerian Federation: On the behalf of myself Prince Frank Ukonga and the entire Ukonga family we congratulate the new Senate President His Excellency Bukola Saraki whose family has been a long standing friend of the Ukonga family of Edo State of Nigeria. We are proud of his achievement as our inlaw, brother in law, friend and associate and we cherish your tremendous dexterity in becoming the President of Senate of the 8th Republic of the Nigerian federation and wish you  the best and we look forward to a fruitful working relationship with Edo state and the South South Region...frm Prince Frank ukonga