₦airaland Forum

Nzogbu2012:
A draft bill proposing regional government in Nigeria is expected before October 1, 2024.

Are you in support or not?

Absolutely in support

And each region should have their own anthem written by an indegine and not Yoruba western region having an anthem written by an Igbo man from the east or Nothern Hausa man.

In this things we have to use our brains.

StOla:
Was it not a competition on 1959 that lead to the old anthem that has now been returned?

Who did the Military consult to decide to change the anthem, when a democratic Nigeria adopted the previous anthem on 1st October 1960?

Is it not a democratic government with a National Assembly bill that has now signed into law the return of the same democratic national anthem that the military replaced with autocratic power?

So why are you trying to spin your own ignorance into a misinformation for public consumption?

Shame on your misunderstanding of whose action is actually democratic or dictatorial.

Which one is more representative

1.
‘Arise, O Compatriots’ National Anthem written by a collective of young Nigerians, including John A. Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B. A. Ogunnaike, Sota Omoigui and P. O. Aderibigbe in 1978

2.
Nigeria, We Hail Thee’, written by an English woman, Lillian Jean Williams.

Imagine someone from Abeokuta being the Author of God Save the King or the American national anthem.

You cannot shave a man's head in his absence
In Nigeria's case, their head has been shaved in their presence without a say in how it is shaved.

How else do you explain a change of the national anthem in 24 hrs?
Even the military under Obasanjo was more democratic about it by calling for national competition in the newspapers.

How on earth does a government full of old people that I would not like to call old fools wake up and decide to change the anthem of 200 million plus people?

The contempt for docile Nigerians has reached an all-time high.

How do you pick an anthem created by a white colonial master's wife more than half a century ago of which our old cargo dim and inferior-minded legislators have fond memory off? No pride or brain whatsoever.

Imagine some government officials just waking up to change The Star-Spangled Banner anthem in just 24 hrs to an anthem written by an African woman some 70 years ago.

A country named by a white woman with the derogatory term Nigga Area like a dog is named now reverts to an anthem by another colonial master's lady of the other room.

This must have been a double-dare by the puppet master to see how docile and stupid Nigerians are.

It is now time for the young minds not infected by this inferiority complex to take over.

It is time to disband Nigeria as it is and let every region be by itself the way it should be.

It is time to erase artificial lines dividing blood brothers and families across Africa with artificially imposed lines and allow free movement.

The Europeans would have killed all of themselves if they had this kind of union where the French, the Italians, the Spanish, The Germans, and the English were all merged into one country by some outsiders and forced to fight in a game of the throne.

Instead of focusing on agriculture on our fertile lands across Africa, every head of tribe is stupidly waiting for their turn to taste the sugary poisonous national cake while their family is begging for food that can easily be grown on the most fertile land in the world God has gifted us.
You throw a seed on the floor and it will grow. Instead of harnessing this gift, Africans are busy cutting down trees and clearing bushes to build foreign religious worship centers and praying and begging for food.

It is time to wise up

The young uninfected minds should take over from the brainwashed heads.

Soro soke gidi gan... Speak up very loud young Africans.

Nigeria has a significant amount of manpower

What is stopping the contractors from assigning 1 kilometer each to 700 different teams

This is how China builds at an incredibly fast rate

The government should eradicate joblessness and street begging of capable able-bodied men and women

Nigeria's biggest underutilised asset is the youth

The big population of idle youth has been going to waste and encouraging all kinds of nefarious activities

The government should start a job center that will assign jobless people to various businesses like farms and production factories, road and railway construction, infrastructure laborers, and so on

This will create a better society

Just draw lines on the roads and give us this driverless trains


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCl12X7nqrk

gare:
you can use this for the coastal highway, it can be used in the cities

Actually you can.. on a dedicated protected lane with barriers

Railless Train

It is as cheap as drawing lines on a road and buying driverless trains on wheels that can follow the line

This new technology is a no-brainer.
It eliminates the need for building rail tracks on a smooth surface.
Essentially, it utilizes drawn lines that trains can travel on.
Trains can be easily rerouted by manually driving on wheels to a new line, eliminating the need for a permanent structure.
It will eliminate the need for constructing a separate rail track on the Coastal Highway.
The Nigerian minister of work should reach out to the Chinese companies implementing this technology.

Governors of States in Nigeria can easily adopt this as well.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCl12X7nqrk

Oyo state should bring back the Intercity Light Railway Awarded To China CCECC

https://www.nairaland.com/7885209/what-happened-oyo-intercity-light

The one that escaped has no honor

Escaped like Binance is escaping with Naira

Lack of Unity and selfish interest is why the Igbo's are treated like that. But they will blame the Yorubas for their shortcomings even though Yoruba is the tribe helping them the most.

Nnamdi Kanu, Omoyele Sowore, Sunday Igboho, and Adeyinka Grandson were all in Prison around the same time
All are now Free at this time except Nnamdi Kanu

Release him

Felabrity:
how can you be converting a product you are buying with an unstable naira to another currency?

It has to be unstable until it reaches where it should be.

Validated:
@akingagan: Hi mugu, pls stfu as directed.
Please, stop commenting on what is beyond your academic knowledge. This I why the likes of Tinubu and Buhari could deceive you guys, and you were shouting, "on your mandate".
You need to leave your village and travel out. Your points are rusty and incoherent.
In EU and America's people are paid hourly. Go and check minimum wages. Most countries you refer to, the minimum wage rate per hour is your Nigerian monthly wage. If you earn N100k a month in Nigeria, that is someone's hourly wage rate. So, the one earning N100k per hour can decide to spend N50k a day for food and he would not know that he spend money. So stop showcasing your ignorance.

Perhaps you should check my previous post - Nigeria Should Introduce Per Hour Minimum Wage

https://www.nairaland.com/8005500/nigeria-should-introduce-per-hour

Stephench:
Did you read what I wrote. The only thing expensive in Europe is rent. If you have 1000 you can rent a 3 bedroom house. If you're 3, you pay less than 400. Bills are average of 100 - 200 if you rent such apartment. 100 or 200 is sufficient for feeding

If you are earning 100 thousand in Nigeria you are better off than someone earing 1000 in Europe... Because you can rent a house, eat comfortably and transport comfortably especially outside of Lagos

Stephench:
In Europe, some or my friends that get paid 1000 to 2000 euros per month pay rent from the money - rent 3 bedroom with 3 people at 1k each to their rooms. Pay bills. Eat food - food is very cheap in Europe, pay transportation. Flex a little and still have some money to send back home.

How is Nigeria cheap if the monthly salary can not buy a bag of rice?

Some of my friends have bought cars from their month salary. Some buy the newest release of iPhones and Samsung . Even before the current inflation, Nigeria has been the most expensive country to live in

Earning 1000 in Europe a month is not enough to rent a room and pay the bills in most European cities.

It's like earning 100,000 in Nigeria.

Macdeey:
Can someone tell this mugu to STF up ?

Provide argument instead of blind lamentation.

Nigeria is incredibly cheap and unprofitable for multinationals.

Why should Coke sell for 200 Naira in Nigeria and the same Coke manufactured the same way sell for 2000 Naira equivalent in UK

If you are a company where would you invest your money UK or Nigeria

A plate of Jollof rice in UK from a typical Nigerian restaurant is 20000 Naira... and that is the very cheap one

Things are cheapest in Nigeria compared to other countries

Food in Nigeria is 20 times cheaper than many other countries
Accommodation is 20 times cheaper compared to other countries

It's just the Salaries that should be increased
and Nigerians should work harder like other countries.

It is basically common sense.

Ok, using a private school as a scenario.

If a teacher must earn minimum wage of #5000 per hour, and parents are paying #200,000 per child.

If an employer decides minimum wage is too much and relieves people of their jobs.
Parents will remove their children and find a better quality school and the school owner loose #200,000 per child, so it will make sense for the school to pay the minimum wage or loose everything.

In a scenario where a banker has a child minder/house help and a driver. Having to pay the minimum wage with not enough for both will force the banker to choose the child minder otherwise no going to work. The driver can then find an executive driver position or go to start a business.

Farmers will have confidence farming and traders trading because the purchasing power comes from everyone including the child minder, driver, banker etc

This is the kind of economic revolution needed.

Imagine the productivity of teachers, doctors, nurses etc...

That is the trick these western countries are using to brain drain Nigerian trained workers who are working 7 to 7 almost half a day. That is a typical shift for doctors and nurses in UK.

A criminal penalty should attached to any worker not paying the rate.

matify83:
We still dey!

I'm just wondering how they are going to be calculating my wage on an hourly basis.

I don hit jackpot be dat now!

Keeping me from 8am to 4pm will be at government 's disadvantage big time.

By @op's estimation that will be 40 dollars/day or 200k daily.

This one na die!

It's normal in a lot of sensible countries

Your quality of work will improve and your employer will expect more from you while respecting you.

The best time to introduce per hour minimum wage is now.

By doing so a middle class will emerge and there will be dignity in labour

People will start working harder and smarter.

Exploitation of the likes of house help will stop instantly.

Nigeria will then catch up with the rest of the world.

Ask all the Japa people and they will tell you they are doing any work they see so far as it pays their bills.

Someone should tell this to Tinubu and Labour

A good minimum wage in line with international standards will be at least $5 per hour or 5000 Naira

Bring it on

The UK just literally scammed Immigrants. They are now planning to send them back home after collecting their money.

Added pain of Living and working in freezing weather

People are selling all their belongings to migrate to dying economies abroad with no jobs.

The Nigerian government should start creating awareness campaigns to educate Nigerians that the grass is not greener abroad.

If anything what is going on is like modern slavery where people are schemed into going abroad doing care jobs like cleaning bum and taking care of old and special needs people.

Still, the earnings from these jobs will be taken from them through high rent, taxes, and penalties.

People have died due to these harsh conditions

People are living in horrible conditions with several families living in the same house and sharing everything including the toilet.

The typical rent in London for one month is the rent for a nice house in Lekki for 1 year

People are renting rooms in houses to live in

People keep to themselves and usually, when a new Japa arrives they think their extended families are hostile not knowing that people keep to themselves due to work and living conditions.

Reality sets in after a while when it has become too late to undo all that they've done and sold to make the move

If people know the realities of these conditions they will not sell all their properties to travel abroad into the unknown

Nigeria is a good country if we can stop complaining and focus on the job of building the nation to its full potential.

The UK has made about $50 Billion from Nigeria in the past 2 years alone and taking unimaginable amount of skilled manpower away to be used in menial jobs