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They tried sha (and credit to Fashola for providing state funds for it)...
But frankly those items will fall apart in a few years unless properly PRESERVED.

They should ENCASE all of those items (shoes, clothes, instruments, etc.)...
And the "artiste" that made that statute should be publicly whipped at the Shrine!
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Wettoid123:
I have search for naija zip code when filling some forms but no headway. So what is the zip code or postal code for naija.

Next time, just fill in "00000" (which indicates a non-US or Canadian resident)...
Nigeria does NOT have actual "zip" codes, but (like the UK) it has postal codes (which is the same concept).

Of course in Nigeria, even postal codes are rarely (if ever) used.
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frankdudus:
I was filling a form online nd I came across d Zip postal code field, wasn't sure wat to put there so I google naija zip/postal code... for those of us dat had bn confused over this ish here is wat I found out

ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes apply ONLY to the United States . The US does not regard postal codes from other countries as “ZIP” codes. In all other countries, postal codes are used. However, ZIP codes in the US are used for the same purposes for which other countries use postal codes for mailing purposes. So, ZIP codes are to the US while postal
codes are to other countries including
Nigeria.

Nigeria's ZIP / POSTAL code is NOT +234 for all cities and states as most people think- Rather +234 is only the International Dialing Code for Nigerian phone numbers.. example +23470********

Postal codes in Nigeria are numeric, consisting of six digits. NIPOST , the Nigerian Postal Service, divides the country into nine regions, which make up the first digit of the code. The second and third digits combined with the first, are the dispatch district for outgoing sorting. The last three digits are for delivery.
The main postal head office in each region will have a postal code ending in 0001, so Garki Main HO in Abuja has the postal code 970001, Ikeja HO in Lagos has 100001, Lokoja in Kogi has 270001 and Port Harcourt has 500001. The lowest postcode is 100001 and the
highest is 930001.

The Nigerian Postal Services still works despite
internet / email and the other Big names in the
Business (DHL, UPS, FEDEX) taking over delivery of
letters and packages faster. They NPS still offer P.O
Box address amongst other services for individuals
and corporations.

You can Visit the New Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) Website http://www.nigeriapostcodes.com to get more info.

Tnks

chapatti:
It is very important to note that +234 is not actually the postal or Zip code for all the states across the federation. Infact, +234 is only used as the country Zip code.

Thanks guys, but +234 is not a "zip code" for any state or city whatsoever....
+234 is Nigeria's international calling code (just as +01 is for the US and +44 for the UK).

Meanwhile, next time you get a form that asks for a zip code, simply use "00000"...
That normally indicates that the filer is not resident in the US or Canada, and is processed thus.
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Tonnyray:
Cancer finished the black stupid, evil witch.. the white one was set up with her carousing Arab boyfriend and eliminated by tampering with the brake system of their Mercedes S Class.

Distasteful, Disgusting, Disgraceful and Despicable...
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daddytime:
Beautiful Maryam.

The ground dey chop better meat sha...

At the end of the day..vanity upon vanity

And one day, it will chop you and yours...smh
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Bruno3000:
I'm telling you. They can easily and effortlessly combine class and simplicity. I want to be white in my next life.

paix:
Meanwhile, enjoy who you are, and what you are for now.

Doubtful that his apparent LOW self-esteem would allow him to do so...
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mamajj17:
My dear they hv the Best Mode of Dressing

Nope! They do not...
Just a DIFFERENT mode.

BTW, bet that "simple" designer dress probably cost more than most folks make in a year.
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Lamanii22:
Awww funny how time flies... White people are simple sha....

Bruno3000:
The whites and simplicity...

Abegi, quit being racist...
Bet when you see someone like Oby Ezekwesili, you don't say "black and simplicity"!
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Fvckmoderators:
I hope IFRS9 was considered when declaring this, if not it would be like a facade.

GTB is listed on the London Stock Exchange...
Their accounts thus have to comply with the BEST international standards.
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zakim:
Banks are making profits while the customers are....

The customers should run their businesses the way the better banks are run...
Instead many of them use their so-called "businesses" as their personal piggy-bank.
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Ayam not understanding...
Why is she referring to "annual leave"? Is she a government employee?
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maasoap:
Not with the mindset of an average Nigerian, I meant no disrespect because I'm a Nigerian too. As long as the set price doesn't put farmers at loss, I'm okay. But the price that put burden on the consumers in the name of supporting locally grown food is a no no. The current price has nothing to do with the production cost at all

It does...

Rice is not just about farmers, but the entire value chain that gets it to your table...
Just the cost of running generators by millers (not to even mention poor logistics) renders local rice price uncompetitive.

Like I noted elsewhere, we have to HONESTLY ask ourselves how rice produced on the other side of the world (often with relatively more expensive labor) and then shipped halfway across the globe still manages to cost SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than locally-produced rice (stone and all).
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allthingsgood:
shut up and get lost

Not going anywhere...
But still won’t share the gutter with you.
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allthingsgood:
Pls shut up and get lost! Trash

Dude, I will not roll in the gutter of crude and uncouth personal insults with you...
It merely betrays a lack of substantive argument and a poor and crude upbringing.
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maasoap:
There is no ill-advice in this, it was long overdue. I even pray that there won't be policy reversal this time around because Nigerian government is known policy somersaults over the years. If we can stick to this, we will get it right.

I won't agree with you because there is still enough rice in the market. I haven't heard of anyone who went to the market to buy rice but unable to do so due to scarcity. It is greed in us as Nigerians. There was agricultural board in the olden days that normally determined the price of agricultural produce, may be we need that again since that's the only way to do with greed and corrupt way of life of many Nigerians

There is not...
Nigeria is now Africa’s leading rice producer (having overtaken Egypt in about 2017), but we are still way short of local demand.

Accordingly, even this government grants rice import licenses to some of Nigeria’s biggest local consumers (so long as they show evidence of serious investment in local production), including Olams, Stallion Group and Dangote Foods. This policy will not substantively affect domestic production (that has already been well on the increase and will keep increasing), but rather it will simply INCREASE PRICES of both domestic and imported rice (as we have already seen) for different reasons (the former because of increased demand in an efficient market, and the latter because of the transference of higher tariffs onto prices to the consumer), therefore further IMPOVERISHING POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY! Inflation has already risen from 11.01% to 11.24% in the last month (according to the inflation statistics released by the NBS yesterday), SOLELY on account of increases in the food price index. It will only get WORSE in the Ember months.

As for official price controls (which would be the practical effect of price determination by government marketing boards), our own national experience (not the World Bank’s or the IMF’s) have already shown us that it works to DIS-INCENTIVIZE production and deter investment.
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Cmeo:
No one is losing out. The rent seekers can be heavily taxed thereby resulted in high priced foreign rice, while the small traders can go to local rice which is not heavily taxed and where they can be easily accommodated accordingly

I AGREE there is the possible upside of collecting duties on shipped imports...
But that extra cost will be passed on to consumers, and still does not resolve the issues burdening local production.

Government should work for all ordinary Nigerians, rather than simply adding time strained burden of poor Nigerian consumers in the world’s capital of extreme poverty. Accordingly, instead of taking ill-advised actions that will increase prices (either because there are fewer products in the market or because imports are attracting duties that are simply tagged onto consumer prices), what a serious and thinking government should have done is to tackle the real issues burdening local production, including but not limited to, poor seedlings and poor yields, input, irrigation, storage, logistics, road, rail and internal waterways infrastructure to ensure more timely and efficient transportation of products (we currently lose anywhere from an estimated 40% to 60% of harvested products before they reach market, depending on the produce).

Sadly, the government has elected to pursue cosmetic POPULISM (either due to ignorance or sophistry)...
But these “kick-the-can-down-the-road” actions are not only INEFFECTIVE but will actually HURT the economy further as POVERTY increases.
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allthingsgood:
Lies. How do u know there will be inflation. What if there's a boom instead?? Abeg rest with ur motor park analysis

Duh! There’s inflation RIGHT NOW (11.24% if you believe the govt)...
Thus, unless interest on your savings account is above 12% the value of your money is ERODING even as you are reading this.

Sadly, a reason that Nigeria remains a Third World toilet...
Is there are too many folks like you (in and out of govt) who think the basic laws of economics and finance do not apply in Nigeria! SMH
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maasoap:
Some don't have stones at all. The price is the major factor. Why would they double the price in less than a month? Were they not making profit selling at the old price? Greed is the nature of every business man and woman in Nigeria. No patriotism, no nothing. If the price of imported rice is increasing for the reasons we all knew, must the price of local rice be increased too?

Because, no thanks to your government’s ill-advised border closure...
There’s fewer rice in the market, and also there are no alternatives (ie, foreign rice).
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wacuc0:
Can you here you self.
Other countries did this and succeeded you are hear saying you will eat their rice.
The rice of now is better than rice of 10years ago and the rice in 2years will be far better than what we have here now. This is the only way to solve unemployment. You can not invest if your people blindly reject your product. The bad products of China 20years ago has now made them world economic powers. For me I eat local rice and no stones, where you people are getting stone-rice is something we need to address. Just do your best to have a free stone local rice because they are available many places.

Sadly, that’s UNLIKELY to be the case...

If local rice today was better than it was 10 years ago...
It’s because local producers were COMPETING against foreign rice imports.

By closing the border, the govt has created a CAPTIVE market for local rice...
The problem with captive markets (with we consumers as effectively PRISONERS) is that there’s no competition and no incentive to improve.
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Tenses:
All these propaganda against local rice consumption. One will think it's only rice that is being affected by the border closure.

I have a rice processing company and I can tell u that the order for my local rice has skyrocketed to over 1000%. Forget all these propaganda. Farmers are reaping the fruit of their labour for the very first time. Just wait and watch how people will rush into rice cultivation next planting season. Nigerians are always quick to jump into the next big thing, this will lead to crash in rice price from next year.

Order for your classic long grain Abakaliki rice from Mikogo Foods. Contact Mikogo Foods at 08081905662

But between now and the “next planting season” (assuming no floods or other disaster)...
POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY WILL HAVE TO PAY HIGHER PRICES (since there’s less rice).
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Aderewah:
You misunderstand. I agree that art is beyond the most of the masses even in developed Climes. However, it enjoys a massive following. Infact, those who aren't followers of art trends still understand the value of art. A janitor can find the monalisa and will still have the Sense to keep it safe and take it to the police. An average Nigerian will just throw it away. I'm particularly fascinated by the exact that the artist painted a princess of ife in the 1980s. An igbo artist painting a princess that far back is surreal. Nigerians only admire the mundane. That's my grouse.

Go to some of these old buildings in our villages and you will see carved stools and tables there (when they could easily have just settled for utilitarian plain chairs and tables). That’s innate/inbred art appreciation, it does not necessarily have to involve the Mona Lisa or a Van Gogh.

PS: ‘Tutu’ was actually painted in the 1970s, not the 1980s.
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Njeps:
what are u saying

Meant to write “NOT blocking the drains in the first place”.
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We have a structural problem....
But we are trying to use a cosmetic approach to bamboozle folks instead of working to resolve the REAL issues.

Let examine the underlying structural issues that this cosmetic border closing does absolutely NOTHING to resolve, and why NIGERIA has some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production and why we still rely on imports for even some of the products that we produce in relative abundance. Let’s start, for example, with tomatoes (since it’s what has kick-started this discourse). Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer (and among the world’s leading producers) of tomatoes, but we lose at least 40% of our harvests (some estimates put our losses as high as 60+%) before it gets to market on account of a lack of storage and preservation infrastructure and terrible roads and poor logistics. Closing the border does NOTHING to resolve this. It merely results in POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices since without the Benin Republic imports, there’ll now be FEWER tomatoes in the market.

Now, let’s look at rice. It may surprise some to learn that Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer of rice, having overtaken Egypt in 2017 or thereabouts, but we are still short of meeting local market demand from entirely domestic production (either because our population keeps growing or our taste keeps changing, not surprisingly in tandem with increased urbanization). Accordingly, without importation, we merely replicate the situation with tomatoes - that is, POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices because without supplementing local production with imports, we are left with FEWER rice in the same local market. Meanwhile, we have to HONESTLY ask ourselves how rice produced on the other side of the world (often with relatively more expensive labor) and then shipped halfway across the globe still manages to cost SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than locally-produced rice (stone and all).

REALITY (and as my moniker indicates, I’m a hard-nosed realist) is closing land borders does absolutely NOTHING to redress why we have some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production, not only in respect of rice but with many other products. Our farmers still rely on mostly poor seedlings and poor farming methods, and thus we have probably the LOWEST yield per hectare in most of the developing world. In addition, we are lacking in irrigation infrastructure, and thus not only are we still compelled to rely on the somewhat unpredictable fortunes of “the rains” but are also stuck with seasonal farming instead of year-round farming (which is why we are Africa’s largest producer of maize, and among the world’s leading producers but PARADOXICALLY also one of the world’s leading importers of maize - because for more than half of the calendar year, we neither plant nor harvest corn). Of course, already discussed the issue of poor/non-available storage facilities as well as poor roads and other transportation/logistic infrastructure, that constrains getting products to the market TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY.

Accordingly, if this government was really serious about sound economic policy and development, it would help farmers with improved seedlings for better yields, with irrigation infrastructure to drive year-round farming, proper storage facilities including cold storage for perishables (such as these tomatoes), much better road transportation and logistics infrastructure, necessary market and pricing intelligence/information, in addition of course to better agricultural financing and insurance, among others. Even if some misguided policy makers in Abuja erroneously believe that the border closure is an optimal means to encourage local production (not sure why, but the cluelessness and incompetence in Abuja can never be overestimated), there would still be a LAG TIME for local producers to cultivate, harvest and mill (in the case of rice) their products before even getting to market, so why a SUDDEN closure which simply results in FEWER products in the market.

Sadly, Nigeria has become like the proverbial farmer whose farm is on fire and instead of fighting the fire, he busies himself with chasing bush rats fleeing said fire. Thus, instead of addressing structural issues that impede local production and productivity, we merely place an additional layer of effective ‘taxation’ (an Incompetence Tax, if you will) on POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY by DECREASING the quantity (perhaps even quality) of goods available to them and thus invariably condemn them to HIGHER PRICES for fewer goods (and choices). So, let’s be clear about this - the closure of the land borders is an ill-advised resort to cheap cosmetic POPULISM (in derogation of sound economic policy) that bedazzles the gullible but which does absolutely NOTHING to address/redress our structural issues! After, Mr. Buhari drives even more Nigerians quicker into POVERTY, we’ll still be at Square One!
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Skyfornia:
The border remain closed....Our forefathers ate local rice and lived healthy.

Ferdinandu:
The border must remain closed, if you want to eat foreign rice please relocate to Ghana. Ọ gịnị dị. Nigerians doesn't have an iota of patriotism in their blood. Everybody is bent on killing this economy yet Everybody is blaming the President as the sole cause of the problem. Buhari may not be doing well but I support him 100% on this

Cmeo:
No body should force anyone to eat Nigeria rice. Anyone who want to eat foreign rice should be ready to move to country where they import such.

But the land borders remaining closed does not mean foreign rice imports are prohibited...
It merely means that the RICHER rent-seekers who can import via sea will enjoy the MONOPOLY to import (while small traders lose out).
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Abegi, let’s get one thing clear that many comments on this matter seemingly fail to fully grasp...
THE ONLY THING THAT’S HAPPENED IS THAT SOME LAND BORDERS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. THERE ARE NO NEW IMPORT BANS!

What this means is that you can still import tomatoes, rice and everything you want to...
But instead of small traders importing these, it will now be the MONOPOLY of rent-seekers who can afford to ship these items!
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bluefilm:
Wicked soul.

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1stbest:
Can someone sale something like this?

Here is the topic = https://https-www-nairaland-com.0.freebasics.com/5094238/take-look-object-dug-out/9?iorg_service_id_internal=1646953538912597%3BAfo0a3td7SJKR5oC

Probably not...
But you can take it along and check/discuss.

There will be scores of collectors, appraisers and artists. Good luck!
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majamajic:
e be like say u be artist sef ?

Small collector...
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greenguy:
Please if the guy is late, who's collecting all these monies for him?

Whomever currently owns the art piece being sold...
However, his son runs the Ben Enwonwu Foundation (which probably owns some of his pieces).
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1stbest:
which date will the event take place? , I mean the art x.

November 1-3 at the Federal Palace Hotel in VI...
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aolawale025:
Great. Ideally that's idle funds that could be invested in a way to spur economic development

preshdoh:
I'm concerned about what they'll do with the money

solmusdesigns:
I hope they invest it to meaningful sector of the economy

There are VERY STRICT investment guidelines...
Because these are essentially people’s live savings.

For instance, only a very small percentage can be invested in equities (in the stock market)...
Accordingly, most of these funds ends up in Sovereign Bonds, treasury bills, etc., with high-yields and sovereign guarantees.
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