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owobokiri: You dont put the cart before the horse.
You first try to have a "manufacturing base" before you devaleu your currency to energise export. You devaleu before putting up a manufacturing structure, you end up a net importer like Nigeria after SAP. The Chinese manufacturing ability is huge and fervently protected by the state. So your chinese example is not on. Maybe she is trying to entice the sex-tourists as somebody earlier mentioned. . Again her views on same sex marriage was mentioned in the original post and thats why it is an issue to MANY Africans.

I do not think China had a manufacturing base before they had the policy of keeping their currency value low. You can disprove me if you have evidence to the contrary.
It is up to Africans to DECIDE to take their fate in their hands instead of depending on foreign handouts/aid. She can attract factories to Malawi for low labour costs to add value to its raw materials. Do you know how many "American products" are made in China including iPhone, iPad etc

The homosexuality matter is about human rights. Each person should not be dicriminated against based on her/his sexual preferences/orientation as long as it does not interfere with other people's choice. The same way no one should be discriminated against based on his race, religion, political convictions etc.

gtrust: I'm sorry but did I hear you say 'saves'
She just devalued their National currency 3times over!

Devaluation in itself is not a problem. In fact the Chinese have an ongoing battle with the US over their deliberately keeping their currency "undervalued" so as to have cheaper exports to the US. What she needs to do is strenthen the country's manufacturing base and value added to the raw materials (including oil) exports that most African countries rely on.

The Malawian president has done good to sell the jet and the car, which is the decision being examined here and that a poor country like Nigeria (low Human development Index) should emulate. We need to focus on education, more education and even more education focused on the sciences and mathematics to improve our collective productivity and reduce corruption.

Those who want to examine her gay rights reversal should open a thread on that!

Doctors are to strike for 24 hours in protest against the Government's controversial pension reforms.

The walkout on June 21 will be the first time since 1975 doctors have striked and may be followed by further industrial action.

Doctors will provide urgent and emergency care but will postpone non-urgent cases on the day, the British Medical Association (BMA) said.

The BMA said it was taking action "very reluctantly" but attacked the Government for retreating on a deal on pensions agreed four years ago.


Dr Hamish Meldrum, of the BMA, said: "We are taking this step very reluctantly, and would far prefer to negotiate for a fairer solution.

"But this clear mandate for action - on a very high turnout - reflects just how let down doctors feel by the Government's unwillingness to find a fairer approach to the latest pension changes and its refusal to acknowledge the major reforms of 2008 that made the NHS scheme sustainable in the long term."

The BMA council made the decision after more than half of doctors eligible to vote cast in favour of industrial action.

The criticism from healthcare professionals comes as the latest changes would see them contribute up to 15.4% of their salaries in pension contributions - almost twice as much as other public sector staff.

The changes could also see younger doctors working until the age of 68 before being able to claim their pension, according to the BMA.


Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "The public will not understand or sympathise with the BMA if they call for industrial action over their pensions.

"People know that pension reform is needed as people live longer and to be fair in future for everyone. We have been clear that the NHS pension scheme is, and will remain, one of the best available anywhere."

Dean Royles, director of the NHS Employers organisation , said they are "deeply disappointed" over the decision to strike.

Mr Royles said: "Doctors know that any industrial action will impact on care and cause distress and disruption to patients and undermine trust and confidence in the medical profession.

"We know that doctors are anxious about changes to their pensions. But no-one wants to see patients dragged into the argument.

"Industrial action could potentially mean delays to treatment.

"It would be particularly distressing for patients and extremely worrying for staff who are dedicated to putting patients first."

Mr Meldrum added: "Non-urgent work will be postponed and, although this will be disruptive to the NHS, doctors will ensure patient safety is protected.

"All urgent and emergency care will be provided and we will work closely with managers so that anyone whose care is going to be affected can be given as much notice as possible."

Yahoo

So oyibo doctors too dey strike if government nor fit do wetin dem been don agree for already

I hope Fashola's tax agents are reading this.
They should ensure they collect appropriate personal income tax from the twins who are normally residents of Lagos based on their expenditure and acquisitions.

THE last has not been heard about the controversy surrounding the death of late Super Eagles goal king, Rashidi Yekini as his lawyer, Mohammed Olanrewaju Jubri has debunked the claims that his late client blew N60 million in 60 days.

Jubril said the story was a total false and not true at all and advised that thorough investigation be made by journalists before such publications are made. He claimed that no bank in Nigeria can reveal the account details of their clients to any third party unless a law court requests for it when dealing with Will cases.

He also warned Yekini’s Sister, Rafiat to keep a lid her utterances as failure to caution her utterances may heighten the tension and controversies his client’s family is already experiencing since the demise of their son.

“I read a publication in a national daily on Friday, May 25th, 2012 saying Rashidi Yekini blew N60 million in 60 days. I don’t know the source of that information and I certainly know that no bank will descend so low to give the details of their customer’s relationship with them.

“I want to state here that I know too well that that is not true, no bank will give the details of its customer’s transactions”, Jubril disclosed.

“I also read some reports claiming Rashidi Yekini’s younger sister, Rafiat claiming that my client was sick and that is why they took him away from his residence in Ibadan and they rushed him to the hospital where Yekini was pronounced dead. I don’t know whether she (Rafiat) would be able to provide the details of the first hospital they took him (Rashidi Yekini) to and what was diagnosed and what treatment was meted on him.

“To me all these things are speculations and they are just putting the whole facts upside down. I just don’t want to cause more trouble for them and I am just allowing some of these things to die down so that we can finish the 40 Days Fidau rites. But if she wants to continue going to the press all the time, I don’t mind where this matter will take everybody to.

Yekini’s lawyer also faulted the report that Rafiat gave in the interview when it was said that they sought the assistance of the former Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Baba Adisa Bolanta to assist them in Yekini’s issue before the striker passed away.

“That is not the story. Rashidi called on me when they tried two times to abduct him. Then he sought Police protection and I did not have a choice than to personally drive him down to the Police Commissioner office where they (the family) too were invited. It was the Commissioner of Police then (Bolanta) that invited them to his office and warned them not to take Rashidi Yekini out of Ibadan against his

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joejeezy: My own senator na only during campaign we d c him wen he cm share t-shirt n rice n salt, my rep i neva c him b4

I hope you educated as many of your folks as possible that he was only giving them micro-crumbs of their rights and they should ask for more and still vote their conscience

lukecent: I am proud of Sen Ike Ekweremadu, he done much to ma constituency, Enugu west, & is stil doin more.

Can you please provide more details based on the criteria below.

1. How many bills did she sponsor to completion
2. How many projects did she attract to her constituency from the federal, state and LGA
3. How many petitions/complaints/grievances of the constituents did she resolve and how promptly did she do it


Thanks.

Thanks to the OP and all those who have noted that the legisLOOTERs are doing just that: RECEIVING mega millions for doing nothing. Those who are celebrating mediocrity can continue to PRAY to God to come down and fix Nigeria even as they praise their elected REPRESENTATIVES for giving out crumbs to the electorate.
the measurement of a legislator's perfomance should be:

1. How many bills did she sponsor to completion
2. How many projects did she attract to her constituency from the federal, state and LGA
3. How many petitions/complaints/grievances of the constituents did she resolve and how promptly did she do it

Barrack Obama sponsored 137 bills in his four years as US Senator.Google

Those of us who know should engage those who do not know on these responsibilities that the legislators OWE to us, the electorate.

omoabike: I stopped supporting the doctors when I heard on STV News that one of their requests to call off the strike is that they should not be made to pay income tax on the money that they were asking to be paid.
That to me is delusional to say the least.

Are you sure about this?
What is the source?

I hope the BRF administration is not TRYING to spread LIES about the doctors' request to gain puiblic sympathy for itself

javascript101: @ violent the US of A is spending lump sums to get information and this shows that money is the real deal. Why do y'all think russia lost out during the cold war. They had knowledgable scientists but had no freaking more. So the sons of b**ches had no option but to defect to where the money is,America. Money is the wings that information soars high on. With money and foresight all the information you need, you will get. And if you decide to kill the info so that ppl around you will suffer your money will take of your evil quest.pass me the money already!

You got your narration about Russian scientists migrating to America very wrong.
They migrated for freedom to seek more collaborative information/knowledge from which they can make money.

Whoever has watched the film- The Gods must be crazy- can recollect how the Bushman was given money and he threw it away as he did not have information on the value of money.
That happens everyday with people having resources and throwing it away or not using it because they lack transformative information and knowledge.

information aka knowledge is more valuable.
you can have money as Africans have (actually & potentially) yet we are dominated by/inferior to our white counterparts who take our money.
the north has received more money from Nigeria since 1960 is it a better place to live as a society for all its people compared to the south that has information/knowledge and can use it

^^^
That is why NLC, TUC etc are content with N18,000 minimum wage while LG councillors, chairman, state & federal legislators, governors, president and other political jobbers RECEIVE mega millions for doing almost nothing for the electorate.
We crave priviledges (access to the political jobbers for sham contracts & deals) and abandon our RIGHTS as we wait for God to descend and fix our country.

Okija Priest: Most Nigerians living abroad are poor in comparison to their mates in Nigeria.

When they are abroad, they can only afford those houses because their is a mortgage system their that allows even a 21 year old to apply for a loan and buy a house.. Even their cars are on a mortgage.. They spend all their lives repaying the darn thing.

Indeed- How many people in Nigeria can live on their legitimate earnings ONLY
ALMOST everyone is busy doing deals without producing, supplying or adding value to anything. We are all getting our share of the national cake i.e. Niger Delta oil drilled by white people.
Yet we somehow expect that Nigeria will develop with constant public electricity supply, pipe borne water, dedicated police force, civil servants, teachers etc.
Oh, I know it is a problem of leadership, right

Congratulations to the Prof. to reach such a position in his career.
I thought I would read also about the scholarships that the very bright son of Ifon, Ondo state has given and continues to give to bright indigent students from his hometown.
I will not be surprised if a substantial part of his education was on scholarship contributed to by ordinary Americans, including alumni of the universities he attended.
A tree does not make a forest. Prof. Adeshida's achievement does not affect Nigeria's ranking on Human Development Index and the mass poverty in the country of his birth!

Mkpakala: Have You Ever Been Oppressed/molested By Police? Feel Free To Share It Here

Hello nairalanders,

my intention of creating this thread is to make a lighter mood of any form of embarrassment by policemen.if you have ever been molested or oppressed by a policeman just feel free to come and share it here.

It would be more useful if your objective also included encouraging people to seek legal redress against those whose uniforms and salaries are paid for from our taxes and the income received on our collective behalf from oil companies.
We are in a democracy now and we should endeavour to expand its law & order frontiers the same way Atiku did against OBJ when he tried to impeach him as VP vecause he opposed his third term bid.

Meanwhile, he goes to Awo's memorial and being an hypocrite has no problem saying:

“At this period of our national life, Nigeria is in dire need of people who play politics of self-sacrifice, commitment and focus. Papa had graciously provided us with a time-tested compass to chat the right path”.

Guardian

Hundreds of workers of Ewekoro Local Government Area, Ogun State on Tuesday protested against the alleged plan by the council to spend the N34.2m to host Governor Ibikunle Amosun, who is scheduled to visit the area on Thursday.

The workers, who protested under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, Ewekoro branch, alleged that transition committee of the council led by Sunday Akinyemi, had decided to pay them only 50 per cent of their April salaries due to the governor’s visit.

The protesters workers locked the council secretariat gates while the chairman and the other members of the transition committee were holding a meeting.

They held placards reading, ‘N34.2m is not enough to pay salary’. ‘Why now?; Mr. Governor, Ewekoro LG staff are suffering’ and ‘We say no to half salary for the month of April 2012’.

Speaking with reporters, the Ewekoro NULGE Chairman, Akinsola Akintola, warned that the workers would not call off their protest unless the Itori council paid them full salaries.

The council chairman however declined comments on the issue.

But the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Muyiwa Oladipo, confirmed that the state government was aware of the payment of the half salary.

Oladipo, who spoke through the Information Officer in his ministry, Lateef Oshitelu, said the problem was not peculiar to Ewekoro as it also affected all the local government councils in the state.

He added that the state government chose to re-distribute the allocation from the Federal purse in order to ensure even development of all the 20 council areas in the state.

Oladipo, however, blamed the development on the “meagre” federal allocation which he said was too small to execute projects at the grass roots.

Punch

Association of Conmen in Nigeria - ACN
Baby mi don dey show eim true colours

texazzpete: As Eko Ile says, you want Lagos State govt to keep water transportation on ice while they build a multi billion naira shipyard?

Ferry services were inaugurated and running some three decades ago:

He lamented that the Lagos State Ferry Services Corporation (LSFSC), which thrived during the Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Marwa administrations, had been abandoned

Nairaland

So progress 30 years later would be making the ferries at home instead of siphoning the federal allocation received on behalf of residents of Lagos as well as their taxes, levies and bonds to mortgage their children's future through some Australian company!

1st generation ferries which will definitely not be up to the standard of the australian built ferries?

Are you saying our IQ and hence capacity to produce quality ferries, is inferior to those of Australians

This soundbite is beginning to sound like that from a broken gramophone record.

We have heard it so often without seeing any follow up action that it is scratching the ears or rather eyes just reading them again!!

Someone please wake me up when the sponsors of terror are ACTUALLY exposed, TRIED and JAILED.

Btw, why has NASS not reviewed our anti-terrorism laws to have stiffer penalties including longer sentences, freezing of accounts for the jail term and forfeiture of properties
ACN with all their noise on GEJ won't ask their legisLOOTERS to draft such bills.
They are obviously contented to continue [size=13pt]RECEIVING the mega millions monthly for doing nothing while the same Nigerian government pays N18,000 monthly[/size] to hard-working civil servants.

chaircover: @Femi 80%?

There is nothing wrong in cutting the wedding plans to fit the 20% of the original cost that the groom still has.

Problem solved

@OP,

Do you want to do a WEDDING and then be married

Is marriage only about the man or a union of both man and woman

Did the religious folks not say the woman is a helper to her husband!!!

You should really not be asking whether you should CONTRIBUTE to your own wedding and marriage.

I am sure his enemies were trying to assassinate him just like Oshiomole is now claiming.
Abi na only [size=13pt]underperforming, overpaid politicians[/size] wey dem dey try assassinate

Identify which party rules in your area.
Then buy your way into a political office even if na LG councillor and you are on your way to mega millions since Nigerians don't ask much of their leaders.
[size=13pt]Just loot us silly and do no work and we will not only praise you but also give you religious and chieftaincy titles plus including bigger political offices opportunities to loot us even more.[/size]
Best of luck!

The only comment/question on my mind is:

[size=13pt]When will the Commander-in-Chief sack his underperforming, overtalking NSA[/size]

Except cassava-bread-eating Jona employed Azazi and pays him all that humonguos salary and allowances from OUR taxes for his loquacious abilities rather than his ability to secure the country and its citizens

El-Rufai is simply a good choice to give PDP and Jonathan or whomever they select a tough fight in 2015.
Can he win? Not impossible.

So who is holding the North from breaking away
They have enough legisLOOTERS in the NASS to propose an amendment to the constitution to actualise their oft-repeated threat of breaking away.

I will take SNG, NLC, TUC and other activists serious when they organise strikes to force legisLOOTERS to stop paying themselves illegitimate mega-millions as salaries and allowances beyond what RMAFC approved vis-a-vis the N18,000 minimum wage for workers of the same Nigerian government.

Until then they are all a bunch of hypocrites!!!

So now they are french people
Abi that will make the villages where they come from to be like Paris!!!
Shame nor dey catch black man at all, at all.

You are Abraham and lie to king Abimelek that your wife, Sarah is your sister [url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2020&version=NIV]Genesis 20[/url]
#God is watching#

You are Jacob(Israel) and you lie(pretend) to your father that you are Esau in order to receive blessings.Genesis 27
#God is watching#

Face governance and your health problems, PDP tells Aregbesola

Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:42 administrator
From Ayodele Samuel,Lagos

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has admonished the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola to face governance and his obvious health problems, instead of raising false alarm that there were threats to his life.
The PDP said the call became necessary following the governor’s admission in newspaper interviews last year that he was in India to do PET scan, adding that “If there is any threat to Aregbesola’s life, it must be from the health problems that took him to India last year.”
PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Hon Kayode Babade, said in a statement issued yesterday that by Aregbesola’s confession in an interview published in the Leadership newspaper of September 11, 2011 that he was in India to do Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, no one should be in doubt as to health challenges facing the governor.
“It is on record that Aregbesola said by himself that; ‘My local Medical Doctor had insisted that I need Medical check-up and I should do PET scan or clinical image and the only place in the world that is good is India.’
“In medicine, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical imaging technology that allows physicians to visualize the body’s abnormal cellular activity. PET scans produce digital pictures that can, in many cases, aid the physician in identifying several forms of cancer, damaged heart tissue and brain disorders.
“The reality is that, if Aregbesola was asked by his own personal doctor to examine his body system, especially his brain, no one should be in doubt that something is wrong with him.
“Even his behaviour since he came back needs further analysis especially his utterances, and most importantly the burning of his bedroom in the Government House with him locking the door and travelling to Lagos as the place was on fire.:eek::eek:
“Therefore, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) should stop making noise about anyone planning to kill Aregbesola. Rather, the party should show love to the governor by advising him to pay more attention to his health, which poses greater challenges to his life,” PDP said.
On the alleged ‘intelligence report’ referred to by the ACN, the PDP said “Our position is clear, we only called on security agencies in the country to investigate what we viewed as threat to the corporate existence of Nigeria, and we are not the one to teach the security people their job.
“However, from the ACN’s statement, it shows clearly that the party has something to hide and is afraid of the consequences of its sinister plots against Nigeria, which Aregbesola is coordinating.”

http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/politics/politics-today/34345-face-governance-and-your-health-problems-pdp-tells-aregbesola