₦airaland Forum

Olalan:
Very bad criteria he used, might have lost the best person for the job, what happens to accepting the beat candidate and showing him reasons why he has to get a PVC

seriously, at the current state of things, we have to force people down South like this. We are too complacent when it comes to voting but the illiterates up North have their pvc. Is it not a shame to beat your chest and call yourself a graduate but don't have what the illiterates up North have--pvc.

I support whatever means to get people down South to register. Enough is enough.

If I had the wherewithal, I would have led a massive media and cyber campaign. Your pvc becomes your passport or else you don't get access to basic things...

Enough is enough please.

SoapQueen:
Just got home! Had the time of my life! Was a great and fun meet.

oh wow congrats.

izzou:


For a moment, I thought it was Nnamdi Kanu

I swear bro.

Shugavee:
why couldn't you add something useful to the thread than insulting the Op! I wonder why grown men behave like kids!!

He got my two accounts banned because I retaliated after he had insulted me and then he goes around looking for investors that will invest in his transport business. I already told him.... that business will never materialize.

EgunMogaji:
Many have cursed their destiny like that.

boss for me it is all about earning respect o. if an elder doesn't respect himself, then I can't help it.

My life principle is equal respect. If an elder openly lie to my face and we are discussing a very delicate issue such as politics, which affects the general well-being of the masses, an elder sees truth but chose lie like I experienced 2 days ago, then I would give him more than he bargained for.

It took only the grace of God not to slap that man that day and that is because of his age.

Respect is earned, not given on a platter of Gold. Me I no send, I go treat your fork up if u make pim...

2 days back, I almost insulted an elderly man... I know I shouldn't but I can't stand it when an elder is lying, lying at the detriment of the masses, despite his precarious state(he looked wretch) the man opened his bloody mouth and said the war between Calabar people and Igbos is more than the war between benue and Fulani.

Jeez if not for his age... If not for his age, I would have given him a dirty slap.

IAmHollumix:
I didn't specifically get the answer that I was looking for, but I met pretty interesting and impact oriented articles on your website.

Thanks a lot.


Cheers!

Take my advice... get real skills that you can use to earn money even without a job from your supposed dream. Welding is one of them, Pipe fitting is another, underwater welding is another area, get more technical skills!

CaptJeffry:
Shut your trap old man, this is a paid propaganda and every sane person knows that.

don't mind the malu... as if he is too young to rule a country.

seunmsg:
Abeokuta, Nigeria - Dozens of children cheer at the Baptist Nursery and Primary School compound in Bode-Ijaiye suburb of Abeokuta city, the capital of Ogun state, as their friends try to outpace each other on a 100-metre dash in a dusty field.


Ogun state inter-school football and track-and-field competitions are just around the corner, and teachers want to prepare the children physically and mentally for the task ahead.

Away from the laughter and shouts of encouragement on the field, four female cooks with aprons on top of traditional indigo-dyed adire gowns ladle porridge mixed with vegetables and fish into hundreds of stainless steel bowls with lids.

As the cooks ambled into a nearby classroom and began to place bowls on wooden desks, the 64 pupils remained quiet. After the dish was served, the students stood and began to sing "Bless this food O Lord for Christ sake Amen." Then they sat down and began to eat.

"I want to say a big thank you to the federal government of Nigeria and the Ogun state government for providing food for us," 10-year-old Ramon Samuel told Al Jazeera before opening the lid on his bowl.

Samuel and his classmates receive free meals every school day thanks to a national programme, which aims to provide nutritious meals to young schoolchildren in order to increase enrolment, help them stay in school, and reduce malnutrition, particularly among children from low-income families.

The Home Grown School Feeding initiative, a movement launched in 2003, is driven by national governments to improve the lives of schoolchildren and farmers alike. It is practised across the continent, including in Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia, Namibia, Botswana, Ivory Coast, and South Africa.

The concept is not confined just to the continent as Brazil, Japan, and Italy have similar programmes aimed at keeping children fed while promoting local agriculture.

Though the scheme began in December 2016 in Nigeria, it is not entirely new here. Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo launched a pilot programme in 13 states in September 2005, but after a few years, only southwestern Osun state maintained it.

The plan was reintroduced by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016 as part of his administration's multi-million dollar National Social Investment Programmes to address poverty, hunger and unemployment in Nigeria.

The school programme operates in 20 out of Nigeria's 36 states and has fed nearly seven million pupils in about 40,000 public schools, the programme's manager Abimbola Adesanmi told Al Jazeera. She said more than 68,800 jobs have also been created through the initiative.

Knock-on effect
Adeleke Adewolu is the commissioner of special duties and inter-governmental affairs in Ogun state. He said the meals are not only nutritious but also serve as a "social safety net" for low-income households.

"If children eat nutritious food it will enhance their learning ability and this will have a knock-on effect on their cognitive development and help to encourage enrolment and retention," Adewolu said.

The programme provides income for thousands of people, including farmers, cooks recruited from local communities, and those involved in the processing and transportation of food, he said.

In Ogun, the coordinating team collaborated with the ministries of education, health, agriculture, women's affairs and community development to divide farmers into cooperative groups and link them to about 3,000 cooks who were trained and deployed to more than 1,500 schools. Farmers received training in seed quality and fertilisers to grow enough food to meet demand.

The cooks - who are responsible for procuring ingredients for the daily meals - are given a budget of 70 naira ($0.23) per child each day. With help from the state government, they received 57,000 naira ($188) in loans to purchase water drums, pots, bowls, uniforms, and cooking utensils.

"It gives me great joy to help in feeding the children in Baptist Primary School," said Omole Imoleayo, who left a career in banking to join the programme. "We receive our payment without delays and I have more time for my family now."

Sourcing foods locally helps millions of small farmers who produce up to 90 percent of Nigeria's food but are mired in grinding poverty.

"This has created a well-structured market for the farmers since they now know how much to produce and when it is needed," said Tinuola Shopeju, Ogun's programme manager.

Shopeju said the initiative is a "perfect model" for addressing food insecurity and improving local agricultural production in Nigeria, which imports about $20bn worth of food annually.

The menu differs daily and every state adopts its own meal schedule. In Ogun, schoolchildren get rice, stewed fish, and beans but also delicacies such as Ikokore - a dish made from water yam.

Deworming
Nigeria's programme also offers health services including deworming children in public primary schools across 17 states. Adesanmi said worms affect the health of schoolchildren, potentially causing anaemia, malnourishment, and the impairment of mental and physical development.

"In the short term, children with worms may be too sick or tired to attend school or to concentrate. Basically, we do not want to feed worms, rather children," she said.

Teachers in Ogun say the programme is not only helping young students stay in school, but also attracting those from private schools. Ogunkola Adefunke Deborah, headteacher of Baptist Nursery and Primary School, said her pupils now "come to classes regularly" and are "very punctual".

"We have over 80 new pupils, most of them came from private schools," she said. "Before you hardly see parents coming here, but now they come to ask us why their kids beg to be brought to school early and why they always return home with their pocket money."

Deborah shared an anecdote of a boy who refused to go home even when he was sick because he didn't want to miss a meal.

Rebecca Faronbi, 72, was devastated when her son died and left her with four grandchildren to take care of. Her three-year-old granddaughter now receives the free meals at school.

"Until the feeding programme started I was struggling to feed the children. My granddaughter wakes me up before 7am and tells me she wants to go to school because she will get free food there," Faronbi said in the Yoruba language, which is widely spoken in southwestern Nigeria.

Rampant malnutrition
Research has shown that 42 percent of schoolchildren in Nigeria suffer malnutrition, and this has caused a high rate of absenteeism.

UNICEF estimates about 2.5 million Nigerian children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition each year, with about half a million children dying from it.

With a quality assurance tracking system known as #TrackWithUs, the programme handlers have urged Nigerians to visit nearby schools to check if meals meet the required standards and report any cooks who aren't serving proper food.

Several cooks were fired in southern Cross River state last November for serving biscuits in lieu of meals.

"The campaign has helped us track activities in schools and strengthened our existing monitoring and supervision mechanism," Adesanmi said. "Since there is a reward and sanction system in place we have been able to name and shame cooks who do not comply with our standards."

A major barrier to the programme's success is the inability of state governments to scale up the meals to senior classes in elementary schools. The federal government caters to pupils from Grades 1 to 3, but with many states struggling to pay salaries, pupils in higher grades are not being fed.

Experts hope the government will not repeat the same mistakes made a decade ago when a combination of inadequate funding, poor logistics, and corruption crippled the scheme.

"We need to promote community participation, community ownership, community implementation, community monitoring, strong institutional arrangements and multi-sector partnerships," Adesanmi said.

Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/nigeria-school-food-scheme-revolutionising-education-180219074804535.html?__twitter_impression=true

Whenever Buhari sees he has shot in his image, he looks for nice story to cover his mess.

Remember the Bill Gate vs Martin Luther award? It has been they style ever since, a trademark of a government built on propaganda... now they went ahead to use our oil money to bribe Aljazeera

castro316:
Come. Let me love you call me 08092431893

u no dey shame?

alezzy13:
The more I see youths hyperventilating over the comment he allegedly made, the more he is vindicated.

Less than 1% of the empty drums making noise over the place have not even seen the clip.

The same people who openly climaxced when the foreign leader referred to us as "shytehole" insisting the man was "saying it as it is", are now complaining? Isnt PMB "saying it as it is"?? (Never mind the he NEVER actually used d word lazy)

Are there not a sizable number of youth who are uneducated and just wait for freebies?

Smhg

Have you seen this? https://www.nairaland.com/4463008/weve-been-particularly-inspired-youths

You and buhari are ingrates

alezzy13:
The more I see youths hyperventilating over the comment he allegedly made, the more he is vindicated.

Less than 1% of the empty drums making noise over the place have not even seen the clip.

The same people who openly climaxced when the foreign leader referred to us as "shytehole" insisting the man was "saying it as it is", are now complaining? Isnt PMB "saying it as it is"?? (Never mind the he NEVER actually used d word lazy)

Are there not a sizable number of youth who are uneducated and just wait for freebies?

Smhg

Oga... U don't go outside and disgrace your family, no matter what. Other countries have their own set backs but u will hardly see their leaders go to an international gathering and make such ridiculous statement about its citizens.

It is very undiplomatic... And a disgrace.

nwaanambra1:
i don't really understand why all this noise about buharia's comment!


you all fail to remember that to buhari, NIGERIA IS ONLY AREWASTAN!

SO WHEN HE SAYS THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY AND UNEDUCATED AND WAITING ON OIL MONEY, HE WAS REFERRING TO HIS AREWA YOUTHS! AND BELIEVE ME HE IS VERY RIGHT! IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT THEN VISIT THE NORTH AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!

BUBU IS RIGHT! YOU PEOPLE SHOULD PLS FREE HIM!

even at that bro, Northerners are not so lazy Abeg. They feed this country with their farms. They hustle hard. Come to the south to fight for daily bread. I have even seen Northern girl cleaning windscreen last time I was in Benin and I had to Cross over to her and gave her some money.

Please the man is a complete waste that should have been aborted.

francesawesome:
She was seriously in love with you. Girls who are in love can do anything for a guy. Hope you are still with her if not I pity you. That's the mistake some men makes, they will use their wife as girlfriend and their girlfriend as wife. At the end of the day, when things aren't working for them they will say women are evil

I have never had a girl spend on me lol... I have always been the one spending and I often envy those guys who have had a girl spend on them... we all can't be that lucky.

However, I don't really fancy the idea of woman spending on me, wouldn't reject it though. In a clime such as ours, a girl who spend her money on a guy shows a lot about the content of her character and shouldn't be toyed with.

Furthermore, knowing who I am, not many girls fit into my ideology of "wife", if she lacks proper skill of inculcating good moral principles in a child. Millions of Nigerians fail in this department. You don't just bear children for procreation purpose only... you don;t just give birth to a child to lead a family, you raise them to lead a tribe and a nation.

sonnie10:
Only banks can officially issue a Form M and not agents. Any other way you go about it is backyard business.

According to Connoisseur, some Agents apply for the Form M from the bank in advance in expectant of a prospective client and by extension, they use their own Form M and act as the importer, which allows the client (me in this case) to use theirs.

He didn't say agents issue Form M. What he meant is that the agents go to the bank and apply for it but front as the importer, using his or her name but the client will be aware of all these while it is on going, which saves time too!

I am also aware that a form M is valid for 180 days and can be extend to another 180 days, bringing it to 360 days validity usage.

hamzyluv:
Its called musical instruments ..

lol... don't mind that guy.

ITbomb:
I got bad news for you

Mobil prefers Geoscientists to Petroleum engineers, others even prefers Mechanical

Petroleum engineering is one of the courses you can't finish and get equipment to practice on your own

I have people who earn some money as consultants to oil servicing firms especially those in exploration and reservoir management.

All they do is to analyze PVT data for the lazy ass in the office and get paid.

Apart from that, if you are unfortunate to get into an oil company,
1. Get higher degree and pray for lecturing job (BTW, that is scarce as most schools don't even do the course)
2. Get a ICT skills and certifications and switch or prepare yourself for a bank job
3. Join Politics
4. Get your visa and leave this shithole

Outside of these, your degree will be a waste

You have given the OP best advice. lol I was once crazy about being a Petroleum Engineer until reality hit me hard. Been hustly off the street after NYSC and still at it. Some of my friends are still hooked on the "pipe dream" but I ain't.

How I turned myself into this kind of person still marvels me... because I was a book worm at one time in my life, wanting to solve all the mathematical questions that I find but like they say, nobody knows tomorrow.

That industry is so forked... na so so courses upon courses people dey do, spending 270k and above for one course or the other.

[quote author=SoapQueen post=66875985]Hi dear, I got quite some mentions so I had to take time to reply some. Thank you for this. Very true. People tend to take one's simplicity for stupidity, not anymore.

Why would someone do something like that? That's really bad of him. I mean the guy that decided to rat on you.

Young? I cancelled last minute. It rained cats and dogs yesterday. We had to reschedule, but not today. I have some articles to work on.

Peace dear!
Have yourself a lovely weekend![/quote Yeah... it rained heavily today at my end. Comman tish me article writing na.. u always avoid this part when i ask where you are getting them done. not fair ooo

Yoshy:
I was expecting to see someone like you, you're finally here, congratulations!

no mind them bro.

Itanna:
most of them r in2 drugs. I'm very sure of what I'm saying.

Na u put the drugs there? Where is your prove mister surety... You think everybody in the Nigerian music industry are stupid not to know how to invest their money wisely? I believe I go die is into drugs too... Comparing them to them to the idiots that are not investing outside music is very unwise.

I go die for instance has a construction company and many more. They won't tell you where they are investing.

You guys should respect people working hard and smart. If I ask u now can you turn 100k into 20M in 1 year, you will shout IMPOSSIBLE like a typical Nigerian that has failed to realise that there better ways to do things now if you are well informed and know how shiiits work out there.

Smart leverages and hard work can make you accomplish huge things

I tire for una.

lloyds:
How many hit songs does this guy have? He is obviously into something else aside music.

May be needs to be probed. If it's wiz kid, davido or even tiwa salvage, I may understand.

you not wise for speaking like this...wizkid and tiwa and Co that are only dependent on their music with no tangible investment anywhere will wake to reality when the time comes. They should enjoy their moments.

SoapQueen:
Never say something as disrespectful as this to me ever again.

you have got to learn to have thiCk skin. I have been here long enough and here is my Advice: when they try to bully you, never shoe signs of weakness. Give it back... In whatever ballistic shape and size. That is how to deal with bullies on nairaland.

95% of the time, they always never say anymore. They let you have peace.

That guy that came to my thread, derailed and insulted me, had me ban doesn't know what he just got into. After spoiling work to seek for ways to settle my own problem, he goes out seeking for funds from investors lol. He just signed his own warrant. I will hunt him down on every thread where he seeking for fund and make his life a living hell. I only gave him a peace of his own shiit few days ago but I am coming out full loaded.

Don't let anybody here bully you here. They always run away with their tails between their legs.

SoapQueen:
I've done so many things for love.


Life though.

I'm willing to do more because love is worth it.

yeah but letting a lady know I love her is now like swallowing bone and getting hooked in my throat.

They always abuse it. It is best I hide it.

SoapQueen:
OgaBoss Sir, I'm good Sir.

oh great. Have you met with young yet?

Hadeaks:
Very beautiful edifice. I wonder if there is something else this guy is doing beyond music though. The wealth he displays doesn't seem to correlate with his standing/popularity in the music scene.

He might have a recording studio or any other offline business. When you are popular, you are brand and it makes getting clients/customers easy.

SoapQueen:
.

Keep it up! Best wishes! Inspiring!

How are you,my oyibo

sweetrace:
All these politicians trying to tell the public what they want to hear. Nigerian youths are extremely lazy. Silverbird owned by Bruce is a perfect example of their laziness. I haven't been to a cinema with toilets as dirty as the ones in the galleria. You can smell the toilets from the corridor. Meanwhile a number of youths are employed to keep these clean. Youths who are most often gisting.

Yahoo boys�� slay queens and kings��blackmailers are all examples of laziness. There are no jobs is the usual cry. But the truth is that there are so many jobs. Our slay queens and kings just think these jobs are beneath them. They want instafame and instamoney.

Our slay kings won't work on farms. Their grandfathers have land in the village that is overrun by weeds simply because no one will touch them. Farming isn't a white collar job.

They pile up in one room in Lagos looking for one dubious opportunity that will require NO effort.

They are respectful when they smell
money. They spend the day grumbling and mocking. Our kings and queens o�� kindly create jobs o. They refuse. They have first degrees. Some not all. They forget that a degree is supposed to open your mind. As in change the quality of your mind. Make it better so that you can be a responsible and productive member of society.

You are disgrace to your education.

Sirjamo:
Those of us who want to work are working, but many others don't want to go to school or work at all, that's the gospel truth unless you want to continue to deceive your self.

will u shut up? What nonsense is this?

Connoisseur:
You do not need to have an agent before you pay for your goods. You need to have an agent before the seller ships or at the point of shipping. This is because the agent would have to guide you on some of the process to make clearing easier.

I understand but I was talking with respect to the Form M requirement, since it is stated that one should open a Form M first before importing and you also mentioned that agent can help with theirs (Form M). I interpreted it to mean that I have to get an agent FIRST to sort out the Form M before proceeding to pay the manufacturer.

sonnie10:
Let me explain. It's not that your goods won't fit in the 20ft, it certainly will. The issue is that it is by itself and would have it's own bill of laden. This bill of laden is what customs and other authorities at the port look at to inspect, collect tax and allow your goods in. Your agent would have a lot of work to do, but at the end, the money comes from you and this drives cost.
However, in groupage, a predetermined amount is charged by the agent and cost is reduced by leveraging on others who will also contribute their own share towards their own goods. That is how small impoter survive the high cost of shipping and clearing.

hello, if I am gonna do groupage, whom do I tell to make it so? That is, is it the manufacturer or the shipping line that would be told to make it groupage?

olatunji71:
Let me also emphasise that importation of goods is not for the faint hearted be cos there are lots of intrigues involved. You don't have prior knowledge like you stated earlier on so you must equally thread with maximum care by seeking for series of advices from experienced importers. That would do you a lot of good and you would have yourself to thank for doing just that.

Thanks, at least I have started asking as u can see from this thread.

Connoisseur:
Most clearing companies are Form M compliant. They process these forms months in advance in anticipation of protective clients. The agent's gives you the Form M and BA no which is processed with their name, the BoL is issued in the name of your agent's company while you are the notify party. This simply means your agent is the importer.
The benefits of this process far outweighs the inconvenience of not having your name as the importer.

Good morning sir. Was just going over the thread again to take down any point I must have missed.

Based on your submission Here it means before I even pay for the goods or shipping, it is therefore imperative that I should get an agent FIRST, am I right?