Letter to the Govrrnor of Central bank

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

Dear Governor of central bank nigeria,Mr  olayemi cardoso

You attended  a very very good  secondary school.saint Gregory's college obalende. Lagos has a reputation. Saint Gregorys college,  obalende, lagos. 

All the  gregorians  i know or have met have good reading habits and so I want to recommend to you and your research   Team  towards  ramping up creativity,productivity  and entrenching diversity and inclusivity. 

Three  important books by Professor  Jamaine Abidogun i.ndependent  scholar  and emeritus 

1africa science educatiion: gendering indigenous  knowledge in nigeria. 

Note Nigeria loses 25 bilion dollars  every year because  women are not properly located within the scheme of things.

2african education  and indigenous knowledge 

3 education  ,creativity  and economic empowerment in Africa.

Dear Mr Olayemi cardoso  the people have to claim  a national  vision. 

When usa Predident John f  Kennedy  visited  a space station, he met a janitor and asked" what is your job here?" The janitor replied" I am helping to land a man on the moon!" That is the spirit!   The people must claim the vision.

Governor of central bank you should also perhaps  invite the philosophers to dinner. To help in out lining  a national vision  for leadership and governance. 

I also  want to believe you are deploying technology  towards the vision  like artificial intelligence, quantum  computing,space  technology, biotechnology,  robotics,etc and using film,story telling empathy,history music,theatre,and sports  to galvanise nigerians in the desired direction.

Your plan and projection of a growth of one trillion  dollars in 8 years  perhaps  does not portray us as   productive. we need to ramp up productivity in every sustainable way .

The GDP of usa i's 23.3 million  for a population of 313 milion and of nigeria  its not acceptable  at 440 billion  dollars!

Chicago with less than10 milion people, has a GDP of 707.7 billion dollars. We have to ramp up productivity in  our top 20 cities. Or thereabout.

If   you made a projection  of 2.5 trillion dollars  to 5  trillion,dollars then i would accept and understand. 

Mr Governor of central bank new york city with 26 milion people  has a GDP of 2.1 TRILLION DOLLARS.   And  of course  there are  tens of thousands  of nigerians workaholics powering  the newvyork City economy.we have what it takes!