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You will agree with me that the saying " spare the rod spoil the child" has a lot to do with how our children end up being useful to the family and society at large. In my own understanding and opinion, this adage does not necessarily mean beating up a child but discipline. Discipline in the way and manner we try to correct our wards when they do wrong things. To start with, some three four decades ago, this adage was so enshrined in the society and embraced by all such that the result was a society where its youth were found worthy in character, learning and sound judgment. I remember in my days in primary school though not too long but over two decades now, the fear of Mrs Dada, my class mistress's strokes of cane was part of the reason if not total why many of us were committed in doing our assignment, going and coming home neat, waking up early for school,being good boy and girl at home and in school and above all looking up to our parents and teachers as role mode

www.tribune.com.ng The controversy surrounding the Accord Party leadership and the influence of former governor of Oyo State and governorship candidate of the Accord Party in the 2011 election, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, took a fresh dimension as the National Secretary of the party, Dr Samson Isibor, has said that Senator Ladoja cannot contest election on the platform of the Accord Party because he had been expelled about a year ago. Isibor, who made the disclosure in an exclusive interview with Sunday Tribune, alleged Senator Ladoja of disturbing the party, saying: “There is one man that is disturbing the Accord Party. The man is Rashidi Ladoja... This man came to the Accord Party begging us to offer him a platform to contest the governorship election and we obliged him. We agreed but we knew that he is troublesome.” Senator Ladoja, it would be recalled, had stated his readiness to build the Accord Party in Oyo State, after his attempt to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PD

  I think more of the abundant resources endowed on us in OYO state and yet our Governors love borrowing. What happen to all the solid minerals being extracted daily in the state? what other use have we ever thought we could put our massive fertile land aside agriculture? It boils in my mind every day that those massive land owned by oyo state govt can be transformed to dry port where by the over bloated lagos port can have an annex there. To me oyo state can turn the basket of the nation over night if the govt can invest hugely into agriculture and encourage youth involvement. It's high time the govt stopped wasting our common wealth on white elephant projects. No one should take this as an abuse and I am not saying the administration has not being doing one or two things but what I am passing across is for anyone to take time out and assess d projects to determine d quality. How long can all those project last before proper maintenance? Our govt sower ... in borrowing w