₦airaland Forum

sogodihno:
All this Ipob people tire me o, but you guys were supporting Fayose now, despite the fact that he owe salaries too.

Talking of hypocrisy. SMH!

Typical hycroyical situation. They are always blinded by hate. At the end of the day they cry fowl.

Tolexander:
Hello, stop this abeg!

Wealth is measured based on the combination of debt and asset.

USA is heavily in debt and has heavy asset base on GNP and resources.
Dangote is the richest in Nigeria and may likely be the most indebted man in Nigeria. The refinery he is currently building is sourced from financial loans. But he has assets as collateral for the loan.

What is Osun state's wealth and assets to cover up for the debt incurred by Aregbesola?

Both of you are somewhat right. It's all about the ability to service debt. If only both of you know the indebt of what you are arguing about this arguement wouldn't have taken long.

Wilfredpat22:
A friend in AIT said the president s’allient an order that live broadcast should be stopped that is why channels stopped

May God help us

Guy lie with sense. Which friend?
And some dumb people will believe this.

God help us

Brilliance

Lol and so it happens. This is Nigeria APC just keeps proving they are better at PDPs games.

Well all said and done, it's obvious APC has won, I'm starting to see lesser activities from PDPs nairalanders. The fact remains that in every election we are always given the option of two evils and are always expected to pick the lesser evil. Nigeria politics is dead, I might not be in support of either party but I really wanted Fayose to loose today cos that man is a clown. He really exploited gullible Nigerians and it actually worked for him. Nigeria will become better when we stop believing everything we see online and start asking the neccesary questions. Too much tribalism is making us loose sight of a better nation and that's what our leaders always take advantage of.

donstan18:
Wow!!,...you are indeed a very wise man!, you are so intelligent that I'm beginning to envy you now, don't mind them brO, you are wise.


Next time, when you see her drinking Garri with a guy in your house, ask them if they enjoyed very well.

If you see a guy being shirtless with your babe in your house, tell him to remove his boxers to get enough air.

If you see a used condom you didn't use in your house, don't bother, just pick it up, lick the ice cream in it and start using it as Balloon.

Whenever you see male nude pictures in her phone, just say to her "Wow!!, these nudes are dope, do you have more?" tell her that.

When making love with her again and you notice the wideness and space in her pussy, just kneel down and apologize to her for not having a huge d*ck that will match her pussy.






MUMU!!....Since you don't have sense
C'mon will you get out of here, now!!!!

I swear capital letter MUMU..

Helpfromabove1:
DID I HEAR YOU SAY PEOPLE ??

this is not for people, na person wae fit get am, dey get am simple

True sha

Lol..

Benz remains my favorite anytime any day..

They will still cut people's head with price..

Ok

How is this news.

I just came to laugh.. Funny guy.

NwaAmaikpe:



This is goodnews for Okpella youths,
It is however bad news for HRH Dirisu, the OkwuOkpellagbe.

That man has milked his community dry. Collecting royalties from quarries and Cement companies.
And eating it all alone.

Thank you FG.
More of this

Where are you from?

From the 1st pics down to the last, it's clear that these people where executed after being caught alive. The first picture shows some bloodied stones and dumbell, which shows they where stones to death, and the positions in the third pics shows when some where still alive with a bottle of water close to one, which shows they where interrogated before being killed. Which begs the questions.

How are we sure these guys are actually thieves?

And even though they where thieves what right do the Sars have to take there lifes in such a manner.

What will prevent Sars from doing this to innocent civilians since the dead don't defend themselves.

I'm not an igbo person but this is the reason why Nigeria is called a zoo. A place where the law protects the rich and eleminate the poor.

So?

IkpuMmiri:
Why is Buhari Harassing ndigbo? Is it 97 Vs 5%?

Clown.

Lolzzz

Nigerians love fake news more than anything, they are the most easily deceived people on earth. Most expecially relating to government.

So?

Juchii:
I am now fearing this terrorist around me. Since I told them that I don't support Biafra, they keep tracing my steps

Fear not, you are covered.

Lol FFK always exploding. Too much skunk too much weed.

IPOBs and propaganda are like 5&6..intercontinental ballistic pigs..

Lol nice one..

piff82:
dead body no dey fine at all

Has anyone tried this guy.

Hello guys I'm a huge fan of last Empire War Z, I have been playing it for quite a while and haven't found anyone around me playing it or even in the game, I have looked for Nigerians in the game but still haven't seen anyone. any player out here that plays the game should drop his name, base level and state lets hook up and probably coordinates.

We need to revisit the exclusive legislative list in the constitution and systematically reduce the responsibilities of the Federal Government vis-a-vis the States. Resources have to be handed back to the States that generated them but place an obligation on each States to contribute an agreed percentage to the common federal purse to service obligations of the Federal Government. There is no reason Education, Policing, Prisons (only people convicted of federal offenses should go to federal prisons!!), Ports, Inland waterways, natural minerals, even marriage (yes, english form of marriage!!) and so many other items should be the concern of the Federal Government.We will never develop with such weight that weigh us down at the center. Nigeria can never raise its head in the comity of nations because of the sheer weight of the head.

There is more to say, but scarcely any time. But to emphasis the point i've been laboring to make, shall i say again that there is absolutely no reason or need to fight for oil in the Niger-Delta. There are so many things that can bring more revenue to States in Nigeria than oil. South Africa has no oil, but it has Gold, and is richer than Nigeria. Let us fight for a system that will promote both equality and equity

Source: Agu Emmanuel

You would think this is not a problem until you understand that Nigerians spend over ONE TRILLION NAIRA every year to study abroad, despite there being over 100 tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Not one is deemed good enough. You see, the reason why you have Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, etc is not only for academic excellence of the citizens of the countries which have these schools. No. They invest in their institutions so that they can earn revenue from foreign students from countries like Nigeria which has destroyed its educational system. Abroad, schools are so important to society that the economy, business and lifestyle of whole cities and even States completely depend on or revolve around schools. What would the city of cambridge be without Cambridge University. Or Cambridge, Massachusett without Harvard University. These cities depend on these universities to survive. And imagine that Nigeria had invested in its universities and was earning $1billion dollars a year from foreign students seeking to study here, who would be fighting over oil in the Niger Delta? How many car manufacturing companies would we have in Owerri near FUTO where students are constantly doing and selling their research products to burgeoning engineering and manufacturing companies? Recently, three students in Sweden conducted research and came up with a product that could improve wear and tear on tyres. The product became so successful that Volvo had to partner with these students to patent the product. Now when this product hit world stage, can you imagine how much revenue sweden would earn from these product? Do your research, most of the world-class products we buy today off the shelf, at great cost, were invented by university students. As you are reading this, do not forget that without Harvard University, there would not have been facebook, and this our interface would have been impossible.

But our students In Nigeria are not entirely without inventions. We invented the Pyrates Confraternity, the , the Eiye, the Vikings and what not!! Students resume school with guns and bullets, rather than books and scholastic ideas, as though academic institutions were a war college. Lecturers fly colors as do students. And when the turf war begins, people die in droves. But States can do nothing about this because some of these institutions are controlled by the Federal Government. Even for the ones controlled by States, you still can't do much because the security apparatus is controlled by the Federal Government. The Federal Government will provide or withdraw security from the State, depending on whether it is happy with the sitting Governor. So every year, all sorts of characters are vomited from Nigerian Universities to take their place in Nigerian society. So you have Judges, Lawyers, Engineers, Doctors and so forth whose first and primary allegiance is to their cult group, before the Country. The multiplier effect of this, is a treatise for another day.

But suffice to say that as long as this problem persist, let's forget about Silicon Valley in Nigeria, because there will never be a Stanford University here to provide an infinite supply of ideas and prodigies to feed the invention value-chain!

Nigeria cannot wake up from its slumber today because it cannot lift its head. The entire weight of its existence is concentrated in its head. From the viewpoint of government, the weight is In Abuja. From the viewpoint of revenue source, the weight is in the Niger-Delta. We need to urgently restructure and evenly distribute this pressure points and weights to diffuse tension in Nigeria.

Items like Variances (adaptation of state law to local conditions,) Public works (yes, public works!!), Contracts for public works, Licensing of public accommodations, Assessable improvements, Basic public services are all left for local county governments to handle. The State handles weightier matters like Property law, Education,Commerce laws of ownership and exchange, Banking and credit laws, Labour law and professional licensure, Insurance laws, and Electoral laws, including parties and Civil service laws. Items that the Federal Government, the center, handles affecting the States, are actually very negligible.

Nigeria on the contrary will never do well unless we restructure. We pretend to have a Federal system but we are actually operating a unique form of unitary government, and it is weighing the polity down. Can you imagine a country where the school curriculum is regulated by a national central body and states have no powers to vary or amend their curriculum? So, if the rest of the developed world is light years ahead in what they teach their children from primary schools, and our Minister of Education has absolutely no clue, the States must be burdened with antiquated school curriculum until such a time (if we are lucky, before rapture perhaps!!) that we have an Education Minister who would realise how far behind we are and bring the curriculum up to date. Just take a look at the science curriculum for grade students in advanced countries and you would cry for Nigeria. I recently read of a high school in Japan which has amended its curriculum to include robotics and drones technology. IN HIGH SCHOOL!! But our Professors here don't have a hang on Robotics even! Students are still taught the very prehistoric rudiments off physics and chemistry in our schools. And this is even in the few schools that teachers and students still meet in the classrooms! For the few public schools that are lucky to have labs, all you see are miserable nameless creatures trapped in formalin, to which nobody ever pays attention. These creatures suffer a double jeopardy having suffered the first misfortune of being caught and preserved in formalin in Nigeria, and then thereafter completely ignored, even in death! And because the control of our curriculum is central, there is nothing potentially proactive or progressive-minded States can do about this.

California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It's economy is larger than that of France or Brazil.

The little problem is that California is not a country. It is a State in the United States of America. It has little offshore oil, yet its economy is larger than States in the US that are famous for their oil reserves, like Texas. California generates much of its revenue from non-oil products. It found a way to absorb and domesticate much of the intellectual output from its premier university, Stanford University, into saleable products within its economy.

As a matter of fact, much of California's economy is built around Stanford University. So with this, Silicon valley developed. I'm sure you've heard of Silicon Valley at least once in your life. Now with Silicon Valley came companies like Apple, eBay, Cisco, Lockheed, Hewlett Packard (HP), Google, Netflix, Facebook, Oracle, Tesla...and the list goes on and on ad infinitum.These are multibillion-dollar companies. The yearly budget of any one of these companies might be larger than the entire yearly budget of, say for example, Akwa Ibom State. I'm taking about companies that are richer than countries. They are all in California. But that is just in the technology industry where the technologies and inventions spewing out of Stanford are caught midair and converted to money spinning enterprises.

But there is also the entertainment industry in California. Yes, Hollywood is in California. The US movies industry contributes about $504Billion to USA's GDP. Hollywood, as you know, contributes over 70% of that figure. Most iconic movie studios are in Hollywood. As a matter of fact, the "Big Eight" consisting of 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Paramount Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, United Artists, Universal Studios and Warner Bros are, or were, all in Hollywood. These again, are multi-billion dollar companies generating revenue for California.

Despite the above, California also thrives on agriculture. As at 2014, California had nothing less than 77,000 farms and ranches raking in about $55Billion in revenue yearly. It produces over 400 agricultural commodities, a large chunk of which it exports. It is the leader in producing exotic fruits in America. Its wine industry is unique. California wine is drunk with relish the world over. I used to drink some too.

This is just one State in America. You see, California actually had a choice of sitting back and striving to get a piece of the revenue generated from Texas' oil. It could have depended solely on Federal allocation to survive so that every month end, it will send its Commissioner of Finance to Washington DC to receive monthly allocation so that it can barely pay salaries of its workers and nothing more. Then San Francisco would resemble Ajegunle in Lagos. And there certainly would not be those beautiful sights and sounds that make California what it is today. But No, not California. Not America. California gives to the center and, because of its wealth, despises the idea of depending on it for survival. The Federal Government actually needs California to survive, not the other way round.

You see, America is structured in such a way that States must look inwards to exploit their wealth for the good of its citizens. There is no free lunch for the lazy States. There certainly is no commonwealth. But there is your wealth, if you can create it. Under American Federalism, you are the captain of your ship. But again, you are also the waves upon which the ship will sail. That is America. The local government, the government closest to the grassroot, is deliberately made the strongest level of government. Items like Variances (adaptation of state law to local conditions,) Public works (yes, public works!!), Contracts for public works, Licensing of public accommodations, Assessable improvements, Basic public services are all left for local county governments to handle.