backbencher:
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1.We have a low GDP because we rely on selling raw materials whose prices we don't control, and we run the power sector at a loss, in the name of 'cheap electricity'

2.State owned companies fail because they aren't run like private companies...innovate or perish.

I.

Power is bad not just because of corruption but because many Nigerians and government agencies don't pay their bills.



We can only get there if we go industrial...not by selling oil, cocoa, etc. All african countries are just like us...we sell cocoa, oil etc...and we don't control the price, and most of the time, the price is way below what can sustain us..



On the other hand, running our education sector and power sector at a loss...means we either take more loans to make up the deficit....or we risk seeing them collapse.(We have a functioning GSM secotr, because we let the GSM COMPANIES charge at a profit...and they made enough to fix things up. Why can't we do the same for educaton and power? Plus, oil is not earning us enough money to adequately fund educaiton...like it did in our father's time..when realtively fewer people went to university.)

As for taxes...oil our major earner is at a price that cannot sustain us. Agrucyuture too cannot sustain us nor can minerals. That's why we must become industrial.

backbencher:


1.Germany has a tax rate of 50% of the income, as well as a tax to gdp ratio of 45-50% and a GDP 20-30 times higher than ours. Plus, not everyone goes to university in Germany (most do paid apprenticeships from the time they are 15 or 16 years of age)

2.Finland has a high tax rate, and a high tax to gdp ratio too. Plus, like Germany it is a highly exporting industrial economy...meaning they have the revenue to pay for quality educaiton (They also take in a lot of foreign students who pay ).

3.Norway is an oil producing nation who produces far more oil than we do for a population not passing 20 million people...plus they also export a lot of industrial products, and tax their gdp well well...thus they can employ a lot of people


4.Nigeria
-Has a tax to gdp ratio of 6.1%
-Less than 40% of taxable people actually pay taxes
-We produce one fifith of the oil Norway produces for 220 million people.
-We don't export industrial products.
-Or tax rate is 0-24% (and below a certain income, many don't pay taxes..legally)
-Education budgets are somewhere around $1 billion for 200million people...whereas Canada spent $60 billion for primary education alone in one year.
-Corruption and bad governance whether APC OR PDP complicates matters.
=Fees are below $200 or less per semseter.

backbencher:


Yes, corruption should go...but even then...Nigeria's problem is that we are not earning enough.

For instance, we spent $1.5billion on education alone in 2020. South Africa spent $25 billion on education alone in the same period..and they want to raise the money. South Africa has a GDP that is over twice to thrice that of Nigeria's.

Relying on selling raw materials whose prices we do not control is not the way forward.

Acidosis:


Awolowo won't be stupid enough to offer a free tertiary education in this age and time. Where will he get the money from? Dilapidated cocoa house in Ibadan?? Lmao


Elementary education (i.e. the ability to read and write) should be the only form of Free and Mandatory education.

einsteine:



That policy was a silly policy. It may have seemed great when only hundreds go to school but they should have foreseen a time when millions would go to school and realized the unsustainability of free education in the face of low tax collection.

The socialist policies of AG has created a lot of economic problems in Western Nigeria (trade unions and unlawful cartels, bloated civil service, etc). It also made a lot of people give birth to kids they can't take care of because they believed the government would take control. If people understood that education has a real cost, then they will birth less children and also hold politicians more to account. But if it's free, what are you going to say? Dilapidated schools are a result.

tunjilee003:
Most of my friends who are not schooling are into fraud, while chatting with them, they will always tell me i'm wasting my time and resources.... This always make me depressed.... I'm tired and don't know what to do....

megapriest:


My guy I disagree with that...Arsenal was terrible under Emery no attack, no defence, no possession.

Teams like Wolves, Leicester will be having 22 shots at goal with Arsenal having just 7. It was a terrible experience for us under Emery

Arteta brought more dignity and respect when he came.

Me I preferred Arteta to Emery.

richmondefosa:


Not an ambitious man in my books.

Manchester United gave this guy relevance by losing the Europa League final.

If not, who is Unai Emery?

An Arsenal reject.

player007:



Quack architects. A Nigerian would have done a better job.
I hope he comes out of this alive.

DWJOBScom:
Very unfortunate
I hope they prosecute the contractors, owners , state inspection team etc
Well they are well placed individuals
They are saints

MALIGNANTGuest:

Have you really watched the VIDEO?
You claim only FEMALES saw her...
I think you should watch the video again..
It may be of help!

MALIGNANTGuest:

No one is saying they shouldn't party.
But not getting nude nor stripping within the school premises and not even in the open.
Even in the CLUB HOUSES, they have restrictions too, else your business will hit the rock.
Even a prostitute has got limits too.
People must learn to conform with the directives of the environment that upholds them.

Gadafii:
That 14 years is 7*2 shey

Cos he said he was sentenced in 2013

Iyaebe:
Why are they trying so hard to tarnish her image,why? her old post could mean anything, what if she was referring to Jesus (like giving her life to Him).Nigerians and their subtle hate for biracial and light skin women.

Sonnobax15:
Exactly sis..To the extent that an owner of 2 duplex,an hostel,two bungalows and a shopping mall now has to packed to a room & palour apartment just for peace to reign...this life en.

Gambo told governor zulum that, the three who were kidnapped at Takulashu village of Chibok are Maryam Ishaya with one child, Racheal Simon with two children, and Esther Ayuba with two children, while Alheri Ezekiel has two children,. Victoria Andrew and Victoria James also with two children were kidnapped from Cofure village, Hong town in Adamawa State.

In the intervening years, the MoS has repeatedly exposed the corruption and bribery that had festered behind the scenes in the 2018-2022 process, and barely anyone came out clean: not England’s 2018 bid nor the Spain-Portugal bid for the same year, nor South Korea’s for 2022, nor Australia’s.

England and Australia, for example, both effectively tried to bribe ExCo member Jack Warner, a notorious criminal from Trinidad, when unsuccessfully soliciting his vote. Spain meanwhile were in cahoots with Qatar over their own forbidden voting pact, and their bid leader was later censured for refusing to take part in an official inquiry into the matter.

hopexter:


So because he asked before deleting made him a good fellow? You see yourself? Did you think what made the guy say yes?

If we’ve had an agreement and later you decide to threaten me cos of food, my brother, food don finish and you can delete it and fückoff.

Who agrees to having his wedding photos deleted in the first place if not pressure or blackmail?

Gadafii:
dem no pay am ni, abi he dey mad
he will refund my full money, sue him to court and demand for damages. abi he dey mad

AlexBells:
Oh boy, someone just crashed out real big, you never can tell how devilish some of these white guys can be, the dude can just keep this stuff for like a while, just to keep everyone down.

This is the second time this sort of thing is happening to a real big company okay, what's happening, facebook did not renew their domain or what, or someone used milliseconds to divert the process.

What if the guy refused to hand it back to facebook, and later resurfaces next year to take responsibility, I will personally assign him to hell;

God had just remembered the guy, finally someone can hold Mark by the balls, let him see how it feels when he dish out that checkpoint blocked nonsense;

The blockers had been blocked, google, Twitter, apple, Microsoft, amazon would find the guy, put in Elun Musk's rocket and fly him out of this world