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@emiye, Your copy and paste job is remarkable for being silent on the key issue, what is the cost of the Opon Imo project? How can its promoters be insistent that the project saves 8.6bn Naira when they can't say how much it costs and how they arrived at the cost? |
Also, a former Director in the Ministry of Information, who also prayed anonymity told DailyPost that, he was reliably informed that, those youth hunting for Boko Haram members in Maiduguri were 300 in number and were selected 20 from each of the 15 wards in Maiduguri and supported by the hunter, Ali Quara and some of his boys.We are probably seeing the making of a new Boko Haram. |
What seems to be missing in this discussion is the question of cost, what is the cost of the Opon Imo project? It is by analysing this that we can determine whether the project is worth it from a cost/benefit perspective. The opacity of the project's boosters about how much the project costs is worrying. I have heard the figure of N200m touted as the total cost of providing 150,000 tablets. The question at this point is what is the cost of the 150,000 Opon Imo being introduced in all public senior secondary schools in State of Osun? Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of the state who conceived the whole idea while window shopping in an electronic store announced during the launching that the total cost of the project is slightly above N200 million.http://saharareporters.com/article/governance-knowledge-nexus-opon-imo-inspirational-message-state-osun-salihu-moh-lukman Assuming an exchange rate of 155 Naira to $1, each tablet will cost $8.60. That is a truly absurd figure. The closest thing to this project I have heard of is the Aakash tablet project:[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_%28tablet%29[/url]Here, tablets were being sold to university students, subsidised by the Indian Govt, at $50 each with the hope that the price will be brought down to $35.00 each. It will be interesting to hear how the Govt managed to get tablets at $9.00 each, how they got round the question of licensing for the textbooks that they are downloading on the system. . . are the textbooks' publishers giving it away for free? My sense is that the lack of transparency regarding the costs is to mask the fact that this is a mere publicity, perhaps, fraudulent ruse masquerading as an innovative education policy. |
The downside to this is that it elevates Shekau in the eyes of jihadists and their sympathisers in the Middle East which will mean more help; financial, materiel and men. |
Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has claimed that his throat cancer was caused by performing MouthAction on women.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334749/Michael-Douglas-reflects-cause-throat-cancer.html |
50calibre: Nigeria is a very weird place, economy is growing yet it isn't evident in the lives of the average Nigerians. Incomes aren't rising, prices aren't falling, people aren't getting richer, how the hell is the economy growing when people aren't spending as they should.People make this comment glibly, I used to say the same, that people are not spending and incomes are not rising but this is demonstrably false. If your baseline is 1999, the end of military rule, consumer spending in Nigeria has exploded and wages have risen significantly. I know anecdotes are not the best benchmark, but when I contrast the wages of our security guard/driver with 2004, converted to British Sterling, wages seem to have risen significantly even for blue collar workers in the last decade. |
Fisher's case is a US Supreme Court case which was brought by a white petitioner who claimed she was denied admission to the University in preference to lesser qualified black and Latino students due to the school's affirmative action policies. She wants the Court to rule on whether affirmative action is constitutional. The anti-AA argument is fairly straight forward: that discrimination in favour of Back and Latino students is unfair to other races and violates the principle against racial discrimination. Asian students who are a minority themselves suffer the most as they have to achieve higher grades than Black students just to get admitted to top tier universities. Black and Latino students are admitted to schools they are ill-fitted for in the name of racial diversity only for them to drop out or otherwise struggle academically. For the pro-AA argument, the imperatives of achieving racial diversity and remedying historical injustices against Black people justify the continued use of racial preference policies to help Black and Latino students. Though it's interesting that the beneficiaries of AA in top tier schools are often African immigrants or their descendants who didn't suffer the historical racial discrimination in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas |
This is a perfect example of the propensity to incarcerate blacks more than any other racial group In 2007, an Illinois college student named Olutosin Oduwole was arrested after a campus police officer found a note promising “a murderous rampage similar to the [Virginia Tech] shooting” inside Oduwole’s locked car. Even though Oduwole insisted that the note was only a draft of some rap lyrics, he was nevertheless convicted of attempting to make a terrorist threat and sentenced to five years in prison. This March, Oduwole’s conviction was reversed on appeal, but the Illinois attorney general’s office promised to fight the reversal. Yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court refused to review the appellate court’s decision. Oduwole is a free man.http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/05/31/olutosin_oduwole_unjustly_convicted_college_student_s_long_legal_nightmare.html |
I will reiterate the point I made in another thread. Nigerian culture defines citizenship by descent rather than by place of birth. So a Nigerian whose parents are from Anambra but who was born and bred in Enugu is seen as an Anambranian. By the same token, a person whose parents are from Ogun but who is born and bred in Lagos has no hope of running for Lagos Governor. Given how we narrowly define citizenship with Nigerian neologisms like "indigeneship", it is incredibly hypocritical to see the same Nigerians claim that 2 people whose parents are Nigerians are not really Nigerian because they were born and bred in London. Clearly, we won't be saying this if they were in the news for something positive. |
Sanusi has identified two inflation boosting risks: disruption to agricultural output due to the insurgency and elevated fiscal spending to fund the counter-insurgency. It could be said that reducing the latter increases the former. Besides, whilst I think the military operations have no chance of success, inflation is hardly a reason to constrain operations. |
dhardline: I think i know where all this is going.By accusing Nigerians in this recent events and possible in more to come it will make the world see us as a terrorist country and hence a gradual hatred for Nigerians starts to arise around the world then they will have the full support of the world nations to invade Nigeria with their drones and armies just like they did in Iraq and other places.Accusing? 2 Nigerians in broad daylight and in front of eye witnesses murdered a soldier and you are talking of an accusation as if their actions are unproven. |
The arguments on this thread are moot with the identification of the second suspect as possibly Nigerian born. |
MI5 spooks were last night facing tough questions about how the fanatics who butchered Drummer Lee Rigby in broad daylight had slipped through the net. The two killers who beheaded the soldier in a Woolwich street had cropped up in “several investigations” by the security services in recent years, Whitehall sources revealed. But MI5 did not suspect that Michael Adebolajo and his accomplice – named locally last night as Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale – were planning an attack, the sources said. In another dramatic development, police revealed a man and a woman, both aged 29, had also been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. The announcement followed raids on six properties yesterday – one in Saxilby, Lincs, another in Romford, Essex, and four in London. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woolwich-attack-mi5-knew-killers-1907859 There's talk that he was born in Nigeria but became a naturalised British citizen after coming to the UK. |
Funny thread in a forum for a nation of people wedded to the idea of ''indigeneship''. . . a word which is a Nigerian bastardisation of the English language. Google it and it will inevitably lead you to a Naija site. Paternal descent is so ingrained in Nigerian culture that an indigene of Enugu born and raised in Anambra has no hope of being Governor of Anambra, never mind the melting pot of Lagos. Yet and out of sheer pride, a rabble of cognitively dissonant forumites now trumpet the idea that a Michael Olumide Adeboloja with a Nigerian father is not really a Nigerian. Maybe this marks social progress and an Ogun indigene can run for Governor of Lagos. . . .I doubt it. |
If the news was ''Michael Adebolajo wins academic award'', he will be claimed by us as Nigerian with the ethnic warriors trooping to inform us that this proves the innate superiority of their ethnic group. Deal with it, his background is very much relevant to why he acted the way he did. |
[quote author=ola_pluto]He is likely a British citizen. Why must his roots be brought up when he commits a crime. Can we please have this label for Nigerians representing well in UK? Can we call Chuba Akpom a Nigerian too please, Christine Ohuruogu, Gabby Agbonlahor, Carlton Cole, Andrew Osagie, Idowu Phillips, Ronke Phillips are all Nigerians but never referred to as Nigerians. This guy probably has never stepped into Nigeria, so why call him Nigerian? His accent is a proper Londoner's innit![/quote]Of course, it part of an attempt to understand why they acted the way they did. Carlton Cole's Nigerian origins is irrelevant to his football. These two's background is very much relevant to understanding their motives. |
Afam4eva: First it was Mutalab now this. Before these people think of soiling their image and that of Nigeria, they should realize that we already have a lot on our hands.So you want Nigerians to be left out of the global jihad phenomenon? |
adaobi123: you mean 7/7 ? I never knew........7/7 rather Lindsay was born in Jamaica and had lived in Dalton, West Yorkshire, following his arrival from Jamaica at age five, where he attended Rawthorpe Junior School and Rawthorpe High School.[2] A carpet fitter, he subsequently moved to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Lindsay |
adaobi123: hahahahahahahahahahaGermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/11 bombers was of Jamaican descent. Black people are gullible. You will never see other races adopting our religions and shedding blood for black people's causes. We get brainwashed by people from other continents and start foaming in the mouth. |
Michael Adeboloja is reportedly one of the London attackers. He allegedly answers to his Muslim name "Mujahid," or "one who fights Jihad." He is reportedly the man in the video alone. Word is that he is a Muslim convert.http://www.punditpress.com/2013/05/michael-mujahid-adeboloja-information.html |
Bliss4Lyfe: See where follow follow has led blackman. The biggest problem and War Blacks should be fighting is Poverty but no they want to fight the Arab man land and virgin(women) wars.Arabs never return the favour but Blacks are slavishly promoting the murderous ideologies of the Middle East. |
I wonder how the lady he kissed is feeling now that he's apologised for kissing her. |
This Olumide is hilariously trying defend an argument that is illogical and hopelessly misinformed. We accumulate foreign reserves because we have a current account surplus. Strong reserves keeps the Naira exchange rate relatively stable. Without it, the Naira will plunge lower and inflation will skyrocket as we import a lot of what we consume as well as bond yields and the cost of credit going up as the CBN pushes up interest rates to restrain inflation. The famous common man will suffer in an environment of hyper-inflation and rising credit costs. I went to Nigeria in April and exchanged pounds sterling at N240 which is roughly the same amount as I exchanged it for in 2003. I am old enough to remember significant Naira currency devaluations on an almost daily basis in the 90s. Abacha tried to mask the problem by fixing an official exchange rate which was way at odds with the real exchange rate but inflation pummeled Nigerians then. Nigerians seem to have short memories. |
I'm not sure why people are obsessed with the idea of sponsors of Boko Haram. It seems its a desire for a simplistic solution to what is a complex and intractable problem. If Boko Haram were fighting with night vision goggles, kevlar bullet proof vests and surface to air missiles, perhaps the obsession with sponsors will make sense. Even armed robbers are able to cobble together AK47s, RPGs and explosives talk less of an Islamist group that has foreign links. They don't need the assistance of IBB, Buhari or whatever Northern name you can mention to put up the level of mayhem they have shown so far. |
This is a comment by a UN official and not the outcome of an official ranking done by the UN or any credible body. He was probably playing to the gallery as a lot of people do when they visit a country. |
Parnassuss: ?..what u are saying that irrespective of the fact that a product is sourced and developed locally, it is still subject to international prices? Maka why my brother, please teach me this economic principles that states oil prices must follow the international bench mark!Because the cost includes foregone export revenue when we send barrels of crude oil to local refiners. Each barrel earns us about $100 when we export it not factoring in the oil coys share. When we don't export, that itself is a cost unless the oil is sold to the local refiner at the price we would have sold it to the foreign buyer. If its cheaper to refine crude abroad and bring it back to Nigeria, refining it at home won't necessarily be best if the foregone export revenue exceeds our subsidy and our local refining operating costs. Remember, each barrel you refine locally is a barrel you don't export. |
Why do people think that having refineries in Nigeria will bring down the pump price of fuel? It may even be cheaper to import refined fuel than to refine it locally. Most products tend to be cheaper to import than to source domestically as foreign producers are more efficient and operate in a lower cost business environment. Having locally refined fuel does improve our trade balance thus reducing capital flight, creating jobs at refiners and improves local capacity. It doesn't translate to lower pump price. For that you need a drastic fall in crude oil prices. |
Strong advertising growth can be an indicator of an increase in purchasing power amongst Nigerians, alternatively, it could be a by-product of a decrease in connectivity costs. Accessing the internet isn't free so Nigerians either have more money to access the net or its getting cheaper, perhaps a combination of the two. Either way, it's a positive development. |
pekelepekele: You are a joker my friend. If Israel is monitoring Nigerians pc it means we can never mess up with them . They will be saving all our datas your company information , even the president information will also be stolen and you will be surprise to hear of a new app that gives information about Africa that google , yahoo and facebook are struggling to buy . Mtcheww.Do you seriously think that Israel, the US or UK do not have presently have the capacity to access our security agencies' IT systems? This contract is immaterial as nations like Nigeria have no military secrets that the world's great military powers cannot presently obtain. We do not produce the computers and software that our military and intelligence units use, we are not exposing anything they don't already know. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311030/GUILTY-Teenage-paedophile-TWO-convictions-raped-11-year-old-girl-park-way-home-school.html GUILTY! Teenage paedophile with TWO convictions raped an 11-year-old girl in a park as she made her way home from schoolIt is clear pedophilia is a pathology as this man couldn't help himself. Perhaps, medical castration might be of assistance and he can return to a semblance of normal life. |
What's this rumour I hear that the Bayelsa Gov and those behind this billboard are buffoons in serious need of lobotomy? |
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