₦airaland Forum

saasala: By mentioning me, I got the notification and read her post.

If she's smart, she should open another account and never let me know. I told her how to go about it already on phone.

I don't think the highlighted is a nice thing to say about your gf IMHO

Dee60: I guess it is a bit more complex. Values are there in society when you have leaders who are driving those values. Look at South EWest today and you will see the impact of education as sponsored by the likes of Awo. Even the younger people in SW do not have these values anymore because the region has failed to continue on driving values.

The crop of politicians we have today are consciously keeping the masses in the dark and robbing them of education and value creation so that the masses will be slaves forever.

We should not blame the populace when they have not been given the right education.

Let us STOP giving excuses for our COLLECTIVE failure. Who elects the politicians? Before you say our votes don't count ask yourself why the politicians campaign and promise us heaven on earth literally to clinch our votes! If we ALLOW ourselves to be CONNED by their false, unfulfilled promises who is to blame
You may wish to remember that people paid to be ordinary party members during the 1st and 2nd Republic politics. Today we expect the politician and/or his godfather to spend for the campaign and still work for us- are we THIEVES who reap where we have not sown

Onegai: As usual, people will blame the US, APC and anyone else except themselves for their problems.

We import Paper, Toothpicks, Clothes, Shoes, Jewelry, Pencils, Palm oil, Apples, Almond oil, Fish and Meat, the list goes on.

Meanwhile, oil exports are our main business and corruption has given it to few wealthy people.

If we continue like this, we're going to be a big economy made up of 20% wealthy and 80% poor. And it's already showing: Education standards keep dropping (no-one accepts your local degrees internationally without backup from a foreign degree, public or private university), we are losing our Healthcare business to foreigners, just like Telecomms was lost. So Nigerians are getting poorer, but you can't see it until you change your salary to any foreign currency and realise you're too poor to relocate on your current income. You're also losing jobs, so that Employment you've been crying and praying for, it's not coming soon.

Instead of stoning every single politician in this country, so that they fear the masses and do the right thing, you are fighting for them, as if they will give you a job after (story!). Continue! Foreigners are happy to profit off Africa's foolishness, as usual.

We do not stone the politicians because they adequately represent our AGGREGATE values as individuals in the society.
How many of us support foreign football clubs, praise our Kings who celebrate birthdays in London, adore our celebrities who announce their engagement & wed in New York, Dubai etc while our national resorts, parks, monuments and other TOURIST landmarks for national PRIDE are rotting away due to NEGLECT

Moreover those of us who know better need to get MORE involved in the political process rather than shying away and letting thugs, retired COUP plotters, fraudsters, drug-money launderers etc decide our policies & fate. If we do not contribute money and volunteer our time, talents, efforts to these candidates how do we expect them to fund their campaigns and subsequently RECOUP their investments and those of the sponsoring godfathers

In the final analysis, awuf/ofe/freebies nor dey for life oh, definitely not from a politician.

@ lastpage,

The problem of inflated food costs is the fact that there are too many people who receive too much money for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Thus the classical definition of inflation applies to our country- too much money chasing after too few goods.
How much does a LGA Councillor receive guaranteed monthly
What of State Assembly legisLOOTER as well as his Abuja NASS counterpart who is a SINator and representaTHIEF who also collect mega-millions without producing any Bill to address the multiple legal loopholes in our constitution or bring issues concerning their constituents whom they REPRESENT to the attention of the executive i.e. governor/commissioner & president/minister The wage DISPARITY therefore discourages the underpaid civil servants & other real sector workers from doing a good job & producing goods + services as they are clearly demotivated

Meanwhile your proposal of gradual phase-in while it seems good in theory may not be ideal in our situation as you need to encourage private investors by putting in place reasonable, stable & long-term import tariff protection so they can decide to produce locally rather than opt for quick TRADING returns from importation. That was what our really CLUELESS military DICTATORS did that brought us to this rotten stage of cheap & cheerful but deadly import-everything which the Jonathan/Sambo administration is slowly but steadily correcting.

Lastly, anyone who cannot fast/sacrifice meaningfully for a season will only remain perpetual slaves to those who can. May that not be our portion!!!
When you stayed in school for education you were making a sacrifice of your time & efforts in addition to that of your parents who paid the fees. You could have chosen to start "enjoying life" much earlier as maybe others did and are way below you now, normally.

stinggy: This guy and crayons sha
You didn't get to paint much in your nursery days

Wetin be nursery I be agricultural seedling ni?
Anyway nursery na for ajebotas and PRETENDING ajebotas nor be for ajepakos, bushman like me

Sincere9gerian: The so called terminal operators should wake up and smell the coffin. The ports are for imports AND exports and not just for imports. We also need to create JOBS for our people.

Few days ago, I bought well milled, stone free, full bag (50 kg) Abakiliki rice for only N7,200 at Ogbete market. I couldn't believe it when someone told me about it initially until I gave him money to buy it just to confirm.

Likewise, the Nigeria milled Ebony rice, Stallione rice and others are taking over the rice market in Enugu.

Smuggling is definitely a problem because of our mostly ineffective custom officials but as local capacity grows, smuggling will become increasingly less profitable and gradually disappear just like is happening with rice.

Thanks for sharing this news story, your personal purchase of Abakaliki rice and encouraging us to smell the COFFEE.
However 80% reduction is definitely an exaggeration and opens the otherwise LAUDABLE efforts of the Jonathan/Sambo administration in the agricultural sector to unnecessary RIDICULE by its detractors of whom they are not only many but they are a legion.

prophecy: Galatians 6:1 Living Bible (TLB)
Dear brothers, if a Christian is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help him back onto the right path, remembering that next time it might be one of you who is in the wrong.

Great Bible quote you have up there but please note that it does NOT apply for those who sit in authority over other Christians such as a Pastor, Deacon, Bishop etc. If he is humbly helped "back onto the right path" he must CEASE to instruct others in the way of the Lord as the instruction will be pointless if NOT matched by his actions, i.e. Do as I do is the golden rule for leadership.

Your quote also ASSUMES that the fallen Christian "overcome by some sin" is WILLING and READY to accept being helped. Do you know if that is the case of Chris Oyakhilome

bakandow11: i grew up seeing ma dad watching NTA netwrk like he was gonna write exam d next day....stories like 6.7B naira as bin allocated for d nigerian agricultural sector.....am 26yr old up till date no changes. Fellow nairalanders let see d rain move first befre we celebrate. na only fashola fit promise way i fit dey hope.YEYE PPLE dem B.

Na wah for you oh, Fashola don MUMU you finish with im sweet oyoyo TALK

Shey all the promise for Lekki airport, Lekki seaport, Light Rail etc since seven years wey im dey for Alausa House still dey give you hope even though the man has less than nine months before his non-reneable tenancy expires.
Ordinary TAP water sef the man nor fit provide even plus during the eight WASTED years of his godfather, Ogbeni Ojuyobo That is a total of 15 years with IGR of N 300 billion and annual budget of N 500 billion with N 20 billion allocated for the Lagos State Water Corporation, yet Lagosians continue drinking their own sh'it from boreholes in their compound where they also have SEPTIC soakaways

Chai, no wonder these leaders take us for CLUELESS mofos

This is what Apostle Paul, in 1 Timothy 3, had to say about the requirement of Bishops & even Deacons to manage their family/households to be ELIGIBLE for the office:

Qualifications of Bishops

1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, [size=14pt]how shall he take care of the church of God?[/size])
6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Qualifications of Deacons

8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.


From: http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=1+Timothy+3&ver=kjv

Is Chris Oyakhilome qualified to even be a Deacon talk less of being a Pastor

Olajumokeibk: As expected it was a classy event with pomp & pagentry!

But these four wives ehn *lips sealed*

How can you describe the Alaafin's celebration in London in such glossy words. Why associate yourself with obvious CLUELESSNESS by someone who is supposed to be Chief Custodian of yoruba tradition

Do you think the Queen of Britain will dare celebrate her birthday in Oyo town while Britons sing her praise for doing so? Maybe you and other BLACK people who think like you do simply consider yourself INFERIOR to white people despite SCIENTIFIC evidence to the contrary

Meanwhile Oyo Ile with its monuments and TOURISM potential rots away

Reference: What will become of the party is another matter for it has little ideology or thinks of forming any. The PDP has no real back bone.

What exactly is the ideology of APC

Excellent initiative with great follow up action. Good to emulate.

Stevosty: while PDP is focusing on winning election at all cost, APC is focusing on the people's welfare.

You must be joking, right
Maybe you did not read my post before responding

berem: don't quote me again or you simply Go and Die!!

Go and find out the old Beetle car advert.
Best

edogirl2: Nigeria without APC or at least an opposition as visible as APC will leave us the people at the intolerable mercy of the nasty party.

Is this valid for APC controlled states where there is no opposition party, hence the people of the state are "at the intolerable mercy of the nasty APC party"

How many LGA elections conducted by APC governors were won by the opposition compared to those elections overseen by the president? Does this not confirm that APC are master riggers

berem: I have warned you severally about the way you colour your comments. It doesn't make you more intelligent. Next time you wanna quote me, write in plain colours.

And if I don't

berem: Sule Lamido is the best performing governor in the North west zone of Nigeria followed by Kwakwanso. He has done so much for his people more than any other governor of the state. Get thet into your shallow brain.

And what exactly did he do for his people on these BASIC constitutional RESPONSIBILITIES of state governors -

- free education for ALL children to which the Jonathan/Sambo administration contributes via UBEC.
- TAP water coverage of the whole state.
- Primary health care clinics and General hospitals adequately staffed & equipped.
- FEEDER roads

nagoma: Have you not read the list of 91 Jonathan's election promises?

Where is the link?
Then one can compare with the performance of others.

berem: He said Jonathan does not fulfil his electoral promises to Jigawa state. Abi you no read am for the topic?

Do you know those promises so we can all verify Sule Lamido's statement

Djicemob: All i'm saying is NW needs to improve.I don't know but there should be some kinda board regulating the industry to save us from those thrash we see everywhere.More like a central regulatory board to receive every movie on completion for assessment,and if its not up to standard shouldn't be allowed release.Even if we make ten movies for the whole year and they are good,no problem.

It seems you are too LAZY to use your purchasing POWER to influence the production of good movies that you want as clearly explained to you already.
Why
is anyone forcing you or some other person to watch what you yourself have described as crappy films
No regulatory board should control what standard of movies are allowed to go out or not. Their business is to ensure movies are APPROPRIATELY CLASSIFIED for viewing age and ban those that are completely outrageous.
The MARKET made up of sundry consumers like you will determine (over time) what quality/standard DOMINATES in the industry.

P.S: If they do not bring the good movies to show in cinemas in your base- (Abuja?), then you can travel over a weekend to where they have them showing in cinemas. Na so oyinbo people wey dey live for small towns/villages dey go big town for go chill

Djicemob: So u mean a poor man doesn't have the right to a good movie too? why must a movie be made in my country and i have to go the cinema before i can see it

How do you think Americans see the "movies made in their own country" - by going to the cinemas paying a small amount per person or buying pirated copies and staying home to watch

tonyayo1: P.S - I know there are a lot of mediocres in the industry that doesn't want to improve their craft, what we hear everyday is that we suck we suck, why? because we watch rubbish they produce, I rather use my N150 to buy 20 in 1 HW 90's movies than to buy or rent all those craps they call movie, the only way to change all this is for us to stop patronising their crappy movies, many of us that bashes those movies will still hire and watch them, still we come here to complain that NW is crap, you rather stop watching those craps than coming here to bash them. O.P it's nothing personnal o, abegi ejoo...

Very excellent comment highlighted there.
Simple demand & supply..........if there is no demand for a product the supply will soon dey up or re-invent itself.
No more, no less.

Onegai: Front page, please

Many thanks for sharing..............I am also sharing it further ex-NL.

otokx: I did not vote for PDP, according to Wole Soyinka, how can you vote PDP and go back to switch on your generators at home?

But is it ok to have voted ACN, ANPP, CPC,etc governors and go back to drink water from the borehole in your compound that may contain traces of sh'it in your soakaway pit because they did not provide TAP water

oliidell: Something tells me this list is faulty. All the schools u listed are in Lagos. There are equally expensive schools in other Nigerian cities and the FCT.

Simply shows you the VERY LIMITED world Nigerian view of the OP and most Lagosians/yorubas.
We are so myopic, it is such a terrible shame as it limits our development

Samunique: Seun wouldn't listen to u, he's an hypocrite, a dumb Atheist, until we Christians know how to draw between the line and maybe desert this ungodly forum.

The bible says all things are good for me but not all things edify and profitable.

Maybe we Christians should do the needful.

The FACT remains that Christianity is MORE tolerant of critical examination and comments than Islam is.
Any REAL Christian should be grateful for that and highlight that to any Muslim who is willing to open up his mind to greater understanding of the world in general.

Does it mean that the Spanish priest who also received the ZMapp drug but died serves a God who does NOT answer prayers
Or maybe our own very brave, good Samaritan & national HERO, Dr. Adadevoh as well as other people who died of the Ebola virus are also serving a God who does NOT answer prayers
Sometimes you wonder why religious ZEALOTS throw reason & LOGIC out of the window in their obviously INTOXICATED state of religiosity

bigtt76: Are these state debts or PERSONAL or PADDY PADDY Loans?

Good question.
Someone said the amount for the south west states is so high because they are FAKE loans from JagaBandit's offshore accounts, hence NO impact on the people

slimfit1: This does not count as development please so let us try to avoid unnecessary pleasants. Build factories andindustries

Abi o!
In 3-5 years this new building will be so shabby due to lack of MAINTENANCE.
And this is due to INADEQUATE focus on the BASICS of education and absence of TAP water, both constitutional RESPONSIBILITIES of our CLUELESS governors. Ordinary FLUSHING of toilets will become such a major challenge without TAP water, talk less of hand-washing and cleaning the place
Let us leave the condition of FEEDER/INNER roads for another thread/time

deeobserver209: The OP made a very important point. Borrowing huge sums of money in the name of infrastructural development is counter productive as far as the economy of a state is concerned. What it means is that debt will be pilled up gradually through interest and other charges until the State Government is overwhelmed by it.

From observation over the years, I realized that the major problem facing Nigeria is not corruption per say but lack of strategic investment and development. Strategic development in this case means investing in key sectors with huge impact and capacity for a sustained economic development. This is the bane of our underdevelopment.

Take for instance Agriculture. The first step towards industrialization is Agriculture.This sector alone has the capacity to generate huge income to the states far more than oil. If only state governments especially northern states would realize the gold mine awaiting to be explored in Agric sector the better for everyone.

I would rather prefer a situation where a state Governor borrow funds for the purpose of agricultural development to using it on building roads that may not have a direct impact on the economy.

Very good points you have made to complement that of the OP.
The only thing that I will add is the URGENT need to invest in quality education for ALL our children, which is a sine qua non for SUSTAINABLE development. It requires having a very long term view to societal development as the well-educated populace becomes highly creative and productive to generate exceeding VALUE, which provides improved taxation base for repayment of the debt.
No wonder China with almost 1.5 billion population guarantees FREE education for nine years to all its children. The results are obvious to any one to see.

No one remembers the late great sage, Awolowo for the infrastructure he built- Liberty stadium, WNTV/WNBS etc.
No!
He is mostly remembered for the FREE education for all children of primary school age some 60 years ago that lifted many from abject poverty and the society was transformed. Today's elites are mostly the children of those paupers lifted by Awo's free education back then.
All that is now lost due to the Akotiletas (Prodigal sons) that now CLAIM to be his political heirs- when they are no more than BASTARDS by their actions.

Jaideyone: mehn these guys have balls o I won't do that for a million dollars

Probably explains why the hunters look so dirt poor

blasterman: forget o oyinbo brave past fear fear africans, everything no be power sometimes brain strong pass muscle

Na you sabi am pass. Our people talk the same thing- Ogbon ju agbara lo.

When shall we black people ensure that all our children are educated

Tazmode: I just hope this ain't taunting the BringBackOurGirls campaign, i just hope

IF true, this will be a senseless gesture.
Better to use 4MoreYears simply.