Hi guys,

I just developed a simple word game on Android.

The rules are given below.

a. You are to spell 5 words in each level.

b. You are to choose words from the word (Sport) spelt on the first line of the puzzle.

c. You are to spell either 4, 5 or 6 letter words.

d. To determine how many letter words to spell, check the figure on the last cell.

e. Words are spelt forward, backward, upward or downward.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olamideeyinla.findwordsfromsportsvol

Then

https://www.nairaland.com/1340886/lessons-learned-elvis-scam-saga

https://www.nairaland.com/1341142/request-when-elvis10ten-cleared

https://www.nairaland.com/1341883/elvis-chidera-14-year-old-nigerian-programmer


Now

http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/12/africa/rural-nigeria-lagos-mit-startup/index.html

(NOT) Doing Business In Nigeria

February 5, 2015

In August of 2011, I was contacted by the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and begged to come to Nigeria. He had just come from visiting our sister company in East Africa. He was very convincing. I along with another Board member soon arrived in Lagos to a great fanfare of private planes, helicopters, and fancy hotels. We were promised the world, if only we would come to Nigeria to build another Dominion Farms.

The 30,000 hectares of land offered by the Government looked great for farm development, located right between two rivers. Abundant water, the promise of a paved road, low interest government loans, streamlined import procedures, and help directly from the President himself. It was all "too-good-to-be-true". We said we would consider it, and we did. Our first trips were to the community, the State Government, and to Upper Benue River Authority. In the community I personally spoke at every church open in the town and at the Mosque. Additionally, we held town hall meetings sponsored by the Emir for everyone in the area. Next we went to the State where I addressed the legislature and held press conferences. Lastly we went to Yola and spent a half of a day with the Upper Benue River Authority executives. In Abuja we had extensive meetings with the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Water, the ports and customs office and the US Embassy. All agencies offered their firm support for the project. Several trips later we made the decision to proceed.

On 17 February 2012 in the Abuja Hilton Hotel we signed an "MOU" with the State of Taraba and the Government of Nigeria. Hundreds were in attendance inviting us to come to Taraba and begin. Some of the terms of the agreement included Dominion training in modern agriculture for the masses, the State of Taraba paying all compensation to anyone on the land, and for a new road to be constructed. Ninety percent (90%) of the land was to be utilized in a community farming operation with trained local people being in possession of these lands and the remaining ten percent (10%) used as a nucleus farm for training purposes and support. The following day Dominion in conjunction with Taraba State paid for 50 local Nigerians to go to East Africa for six months of training.

What was supposed to happen in six months is still in the process over 3 1/2 years later. It has been a calamity of failed promises. The Government contracted for provision of a new all-weather road however, it is still a dirt trail as the Government funding did not exist. The promised financing from both the State of Taraba and the Government of Nigeria was all talk but no money. Help from the President came in the form of a waiver for all duty on Agricultural equipment for everyone in the Nation, not just us. Treasury and Customs quickly hid the waiver and hid it in their "Secret Files". We fought for a year to get the promised exemptions and only after tape recording the direct demands for bribes from high officials in the Treasury did we even find out about the "Secret File". The Treasury attempted direct extortion from our manager and he recorded it and gave the copy to the highest law enforcement agency in the land but the culprits scoff at us with impunity. Government officials asked us to just forget the whole thing and pretend it did not happen. That was two years ago and nobody has been prosecuted to date. In every facet of Nigerian society money does all of the talking, corruption reigns supreme, and nothing moves without dirty money to grease the way.

The land leased to us was and now still is partially occupied by Upper Benue. They have no lease nor is it in their mandate to occupy land, only to control the rivers. A broken down water treatment plant and many unoccupied homes and buildings came with the project. These were all master planned to be immediately converted into a training school with dorms, classrooms, and sports fields, but as we arrived Upper Benue changed their minds and refused to leave. Pleas to the Government brought little relief and finally they recommended we just build new facilities, but we had not budgeted for this. The State and Federal money promised for financing the project were just not there so finally TY Danjuma, a very influential and wealthy person from Taraba State came along and requested to be part of the project. The Danjuma Foundation committed to constructing a new school and that sealed the deal. Dominion partnered with TY.

As our equipment arrived at the ports, bribes were demanded. The clearing agents added "extras" to our billings and when we demanded to know what these were there was no response. We would not be part of their corruption. We eventually changed clearing agents and it helped for a while but it always came back to a hold-up about something. New rules were put into place as we attempted to bring in 120 shipments of supposedly exempt tractors, rice mills, and the like. The agents ignored the President's directive. The Minister of Agriculture tried to intervene many times but to little or no avail. In the end we paid massive amounts of duty not budgeted for, but NOT ONE BRIBE! Delays added up so much demurrage that finally it was necessary to quit the fight.

We have totally experienced Nigeria. I have been extorted, arrested, detained, lied to, and about anything else one can imagine. We have held to our convictions, not paid bribes, obeyed the law, and kept our dignity, with our frustration levels continuing to rise on every occasion. Nonetheless, we have plodded on through years of delays, because we will not compromise our standards. It has cost us dearly in both interest and in valuable time. We have battled to import around 120 loads of equipment. Virtually everything is finally there for the making of a fantastic farm but it is years late in getting there. Every shipment was a struggle and a shakedown.

We began construction on the site including flood protection dikes, 12 small homes, a maintenance building and the beginnings of a rice mill. We started clearing lands and our relations with the community were good. Upper Benue still occupied the buildings but they had left the land. We were finally about ready to plant crops at the end of 2013 with the State of Taraba promising to pay compensation as was their contracted duty to do when things suddenly changed.

Shortly after we arrived in Taraba, the then Governor Danbaba Suntai made a serious mistake when he ordered the pilots off his plane and decided he would fly it himself. Of course he crashed and nearly killed himself and others on board. First they said he was dead but somehow revived him again but the time with no oxygen left him with serious mental problems. We now had an acting governor, Umar that was trying to fulfil his role but TY did not respect his position. The fight ensued and our road building stopped, the compensation from the state did not get paid and we sat still again. A cabal was formed to try and place the ailing governor back into his office. This was supported by my partner TY so here Dominion sat in the middle of a political war. Then the bomb dropped! An old consultant to Governor Suntai and some of his aids decided they needed to be back in control so they came to TY and fabricated a story of how Upper Benue and Dominion were having extreme difficulties and that the Federal Government had to pay the compensation. They took this to TY who evidently summoned the President to his house and passed on the fabricated story. Mr. President called the Minister of Water on the carpet. The Minister then called Upper Benue, and Upper Benue got mad. They felt Dominion had double crossed them, and now our good spirit of co-operation was gone and they decided to occupy the land. The State got involved along with the Minister of Agriculture and State legal counsel. In effect we have no land to occupy so no farming has been done and none will be. Two sections of Government lay claim to the land we were allocated and the battle goes on. The President gave a directive through the Minister of Water that Upper Benue vacate the premises completely and let Dominion operate unhindered. It is yet to be complied with ten (10) months after the order was issued! This was our main condition for opting to resume work rather than walk away from the project.

Boko Haram is a subject of its own. This group wants an Islamic State with no education for women, and only Islamic studies for men. They kill thousands and the government can seemingly do little or nothing to intervene. They kidnap hundreds of young girls at one time and the army can't find them. Kidnapping of foreign nationals is part of how they finance their operations, and many expats just end up dead. Boko Haram has formed a caliphate like ISIS in Iraq and is already capturing multiple cities in Northern Nigeria. In Taraba State the Muslim Fulani tribe of nomadic people has taken up a war with the TIV and Jukun tribes of Christian and Animist people. These groups kill each other weekly and between them all, thousands have been killed or driven from their homes. Their domain is moving closer to us. It used to be three hundred kilometers away from us, then two hundred, and now it is just next door.

Meanwhile, Dominion has six policemen protecting the equipment on what is supposedly our land which is occupied by everyone but us. Around 1,000 hectares were cleared in March of 2014, by Dominion in readiness for planting by Dominion. Instead Upper Benue, in conjunction with the local community, moved in and planted their crops! There seems be no let up as everyone is ready to go back to the same land in the next cropping season!

Dominion is caught with no way forward. I now must have heavily armed police protection with me for safety at all times and this is no way to run an operation. Our operations manager and his family have been moved away from the location for their own protection.

The final blow came with an article by the Times of London. It is obvious they put a lot of work into this story in order to make Dominion a villain of some sort. Dominion has been accused of taking land, displacing people, and using dangerous chemicals, when in fact not one of the accusations is remotely true. Dominion was not aware of the presence of the reporters even though the journalist had to pass right in front of our offices and operational area at the farm site with Upper Benue and the locals the day they visited the site. No one deemed it fit to hear or ask side of the story, nor were we given adequate time to respond to the many allegations outlined in the article. The images in the article are a true representation of the lack of current farming activity with not a single home on the ground. This appropriately describes how we have not occupied anything or displaced anyone. As for journalism this is nothing more than a smear campaign on the Nigerian Government and upon Dominion Rice and Integrated Farms.

Nigeria is in a crisis. In reality it is much easier for an investor to leave Nigeria than to come and invest in such a stressful climate. Environmental Rights Action (ERA) / Friends of the Earth Nigeria (FOEN) and Center of Environment Education and Development (CEED) all boast of your decision to support the communities affected by Dominion. It is now your obligation to do so. The people of Nigeria need massive support and huge investments. These precious people lack desperately for every need of life. What will you do for them when their children are hungry, and there is nobody to turn to? Please take up the challenge and invest the billions of Naira necessary to change these lives. Dominion will no longer be in your way.

Sincerely,

Calvin Burgess, Chairman
Dominion Rice and Integrated Farms, Ltd.

http://dominion-farms.com/NigeriaStatus.html

Afonjashapmouth:
I hope this Money order thing wont be hijacked by this ill mannered children of evil like they did back then. However, why are they not doing anything about Nigeria's addressing and numbering system. They should come up with codes or numbers which can be applied for online and tagged on a proper Nigerian GPS system for a proper tracing and delivery.

That is a typical Nigerian problem. We wallow in our ignorance and yet, make semi-intelligent comment (apologies for the rudeness). As per the addressing issue, work has been ongoing for a while. Read the link below.

https://what3words.com/partner/nipost/

Interesting. Could also be as a result of lack of good night rest.

The reality is that the birthday is for the oldies. They are just looking for an excuse to spend money.

This is why I like technology. Technology improves and simplifies life.

I am almost certain that this will have no side effects sha!!! Way to go!

adisabarber:
The only solution to our agricultural problem is guaranteed market. If you have 5 million tonnes of tomatoes, bring them to the government and we will buy at a price updated weekly. If you have 20 tonnes of cocoa, bring. If you have 500 broilers, bring. This will encourage people to farm and not be scared of what to do with their harvest. There was a time a lot of people went into fish farming but most lest because they end up begging market women to buy. If I know a processing plant where I can get a fair deal, I will farm and at the right time I will take my harvest there and collect my money. Even if the profit is small, I will manage it.

Why must they take it to government. Can't Nigerians set up Private Business to buy and trade this?

PrinceMario:
But education in Germany is cheap. A quality one at that.

Are we a tenth as rich as Germany. Let us wake up, we are poor. We need to be rich to start these comparison.

Let us compare with countries that earn similar per capita income with us and judge.

centvin008:
Students of the of Ghana Medical School for some years now have been faced with a lot of challenges including the deplorable nature of their hostels and difficulty they endure in transporting themselves daily from the main campus to Korle-Bu for their studies.

Today, it’s exciting to know that, the next batch of UG medical school students will not suffer the same fate. Thanks to President John Dramani Mahama, the narrative has changed for our future medical practitioners.
In a few weeks, President John Mahama will commission the new 600-bed capacity University of Ghana Medical College situated on the University of Ghana, Legon campus.
Apart from providing a serene atmosphere for effective teaching and learning,this project will also significantly boost the university’s efforts to develop World-Class Human Resources and Capabilities to meet National Development needs and Global Challenges.
These exciting US medical college photos will make you want to become a medical student.
This project is Timely and a game changer especially for our medical school students and for an improved healthcare delivery in Ghana.

http://www.jbklutse.com/university-of-ghana-medical-college-photos/

Before Nigerians jump on this as usual. Compare the fees

https://www.ug.edu.gh/sites/default/files/documents/2017%20-%202018%20-%20college%20of%20health%20sciences.pdf

Convert to Naira. Use Full fee paying for Ghanaian citizens.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun remarked that 87% of Nigeria’s VAT comes from four states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) while only 13% comes from 32 other states in the federation.

The Minister, while speaking at the parley between the federal government and progressive governors forum (PGF) on Tuesday stated that Lagos has the highest VAT collection, amounting to 55% of Nigeria’s VAT.

According to her, FCT has the second place with 20%, while 6 % in Rivers, 5% in Kano and 1% in Kaduna.

As reported by TheCable, she also reiterated the need to increase tax compliance rate in the country which according to her is very low.

There is no poor country that has a high tax compliance rate, and no rich country that has a low one, Adeosun said.
Expressing her hope and expectation, the minister said she looks forward to a Nigeria where Internally Generated Revenue by state would serve them such that the Finance Commissioners will no longer need to visit Abuja monthly to share FAAC.

Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC)
Speaking of FAAC, recall that a total sum of N462.36 billion was disbursed in June summing up the total amount disbursed by the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the Federal, State and Local Government in the first half of 2017 to N2.79 trillion, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Similarly, as noted in the June report, the FAAC disbursed the sum of N462.36 billion to the three tiers of government in June 2017 from the revenue generated in May 2017.

Out of this amount, N79.99 billion came in from Valued Added Tax (VAT), which is 17.3 % of the total sum.

The sum of N204.77bn was generated as VAT in Q1 2017 as against N207.35bn generated in Q4 2016 and N186.43billion in Q1 2016 representing 1.25% decrease Quarter-on-Quarter and 9.84% increase Year-on-Year.

It noted that other manufacturing generated the highest amount of VAT with N28.73bn generated and closely followed by Professional Services and Commercial & Trading, both generating N20.82bn and N12.89 billion respectively.

Mining generated the least and closely followed by Local Government Councils and Textile and Garment industry with N35.07 million, N99.84 million, and N230.89 million generated

However, out of the total amounted generated in Q1 2017, N126.64bn was generated as Non-Import VAT locally while N31.72bn was generated as Non-Import VAT for foreign. The balance of N46.41bn was generated as NCS-Import VAT.

The Minister had in her previous remarks lamented on Nigeria’s low tax-to-GDP ratio, which she said was at 6 %, stating it to be one of the lowest in the world.

989900:
This should have been done since.

The earlier this country starts thinking and acting like a company, the better we will all be, we are far too poor to sustain social and other responsibilities for 180 million souls, countries with population of 4 million or thereabout have budgets bigger than ours!

$20 billion budget for a country like Nigeria is piss-poor, 70% or so goes to recurrent expenditure and a good chunk to corruption, while 4 million or less population countries like UAE, Qatar, Singapore, have budgets in the $50b-$120brange.

Malaysia: $70b
Turkey: $200b
South Africa: $90
Egypt: $90b
Angola: $33b
Kenya: $17b
Algeria: $40b

Most states in the US have budgets bigger than ours.

We are a poor country in revenue; we need to go commercial or perish.
Ironically, we are very rich in potentials and resources, rich enough to do a thousand times better -- only if we kill bigotry, sentiments, laziness, corruption and sense of childish entitlement.

We need to go commercial!

If not for your handle, I would have thought I typed that.
Well done mate.

VickyRotex:

Old Testament

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu visited the Dangote Petrochemical Complex, the largest single line refinery project ongoing in the globe.

It was an opportunity for him to gain further insight into the capacity of the project and management of the Dangote Industries, on the potentials of the project. Fielding questions after the presentation on the project, Dr Kachikwu said the Petrochemical complex keyed into the 7 Big Wins reform of the sector.

Proshare WebTV brings you excerpts of the event.


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

dealslip:
Almost a trillion Naira for a 36km bridge. This people should fear God oh!!!

But this is less than 3 Billion USD for a 36km bridge (Probably the longest in Africa). Let us compare with what is out there and see whether there is a big difference.

The Lagos State Government Monday formally inaugurated the state-owned oil company, Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation (IOGC), as a business arm of the state in the oil and gas industry.

Speaking at the formal inauguration of the company’s corporate head office in Lagos, the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, said the initiative was another giant step in the determination of the state to leverage on the recently acquired status of oil producing state in Nigeria.
He said the company was set up to manage the downstream and upstream activities of the state and protect the interest of all stakeholders.

“Lagos State is at the threshold of witnessing a boost in economic growth and employment generation given the evolving developments in its investment climate, particularly the oil and gas sector. The Dangote refinery, the largest in Africa and one of the biggest in the world, will soon come on stream at the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ).

This multi-billion dollar investment will effectively complement the oil exploration activities of Yinka Petroleum and other oil exploration companies that will also operate in the Dahomey Basin in the future. This will complete the Lagos State oil and gas security tripod of exploration and logistics in the western axis, refining in the eastern axis and funding and exportation through the banks and the ports in the central axis,” Ambode explained.

The governor said with the inauguration of the office complex, the Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation is being positioned to become a leading player in the oil and gas industry.
He said his government was aware of the multiplier effects that a viable oil and gas industry would bring about in terms of investment opportunities that would be created in allied industries and sectors of the state economy.

According to him, this has been the main driving force behind his commitment to develop strategies and policies that will continue to ease the process of doing business in the state.
Ambode, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Mr. Olawale Wasiu Oluwo, added that “as a government, we are also not unmindful of the potential risks inherent in the oil and gas exploration industry in terms of oil spills, underwater aquatic contamination, gas flaring, community conflicts, youth restiveness, and health and safety issues.”

He, however, noted that the state government is taking proactive measures and would soon commit substantial investment to prevent possible occurrence of these challenges.
In her welcome address, the Managing Director of the company, Ola Debayo-Doherty, stated that to flag off the company’s operations, the company is finalising the front –end engineering design and development work on a gas commercialisation project to be completed in 2019.

According to her, the project will enable the achievement and realization of the state’s aspiration to make a step change and become the preferred business hub in Africa and also grow its economy to transform into the desired mega city.


https://brandspurng.com/lagos-inaugurates-state-oil-company/

What that will eventually mean is that the Government can't keep determining the Price of Petrol.

Prices shouldn't be determined by government, as price is determined by cost of production as well as demand and supply.

Looking at NLNG, FG does not determine the price of gas.

Shikena.

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ShinnBet:
Bloody liars


The worlds leading rice producer is China with just an annual turnover of 144,000 tonnes


Why must these people always lie?

Are you really this ignorant? Can't you see the 1,000 unit of measure. That means that China produces 144,000,000 tonnes of rice.
You may hate the man/government, which is your right, but don't expose folly as well.

Nice work there.
Please, is there any reason why you are not pruning your plant?
It helps increase yield significantly.
Cheers

Pavore9:
Water the seedling either in the mornings or evenings. The variety is disease resistant thus no need for any chenical spraying.It starts fruiting from the 9th month and harvesting is from 4 to 6 weeks post fruiting. It fruits twice a year and one harvests between 50 to 100 apples per harvest from the apple tree.

Any updates, please?

kel4soft: The Federal Government said on Friday that it had
approved N213bn facility to rescue private
electricity companies.
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-
Madueke, said this while speaking with State
House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in
Abuja.
She briefed journalists on ‘Electricity market
stabilisation facility and the bankability of the
power sector’.
“The CBN, in collaboration with the Deposit Money
Banks, will provide a total facility of N213bn to
settle both the legacy gas debts as announced on
August 2 and also the shortfall in revenues to the
sector since the handover of PHCN companies on
November 1, 2013,” she said.
According to her, N36bn would be tied to
commitments to supply specific volumes of gas-
for-power and to negotiate and execute bankable
gas supply agreements with power plants.
She also said there would be a new electricity
tariff to reflect the new developments.
The minister said, “NERC (the National Electricity
Regulatory Commission) will publish a reset tariff
order (MYTO 2.1). This tariff order will take into
account the CBN provided facility, current levels of
energy output, the new baseline gas price and
other variables that more closely reflect the true
cost of running electricity businesses.”
She said the electricity market, mainly consisting
of private operators, would repay the facility with a
first-line charge on their revenues over a 10-year
period.
She added that there would be a moratorium on
repayment of the credit facility by the distribution
companies until electricity supply improved
across the country.
She said this would ensure that the cost of
electricity for ordinary consumers continued to be
affordable.
The minister added, “The CBN will, on a case-by
case basis, be working with the Deposit Money
Banks on some of the prudential guidelines
associated with acquisition loans for electricity
assets through extended restructure of the debts
repayment during the moratorium period.
“This will only apply where it is clear that strains
on loans are a direct result of recent, unforseen
adjustments in the policies that guide the
electricity market.
“The credit facility will be disbursed via
commercial banks and a special purpose vehicle,
which will be managed by a dedicated fund
manager. This structure will ensure that the funds
are repaid in full, within the time frame of the reset
tariff order.”
With her at the briefing were the Minister of Power,
Chinedu Nebo; Governor of Central Bank of
Nigeria, Godwin Emefuele, and Chairman, Nigerian
Electricity Regulatory Commission, Sam Amadi.



www.punchng.com/news/fg-bails-out-private-power-firms-with-n213bn/

I thought the govt said they needed a 1billion dollars loan to fight Book Haram. Sure, this is more than 1 billion dollars. People Deceiving People.

I think the understanding of People is either anti-FG or Pro-FG.

Import Duties is usually meant to encourage local production and not kickstart it. There is a difference beyond duality in Encouraging and Discouraging. If you are discouraging importation, it does not directly imply you are encouraging local production. In simple term, if after the tariff introduction, the prices of locally produced and imported are at par, then what happens. Many manufacturers in Nigeria keep complaining imported competition, yet, there is duty on them.

I strongly believe that the government needs to encourage local production first, before raising Duties. A basic one is tyres. No car should be imported into Nigeria with Tyres. That will help our tyre producing business (I believe we have Dunlop and probably Michelin for that). Then, we go windscreens. Oluwaglass and probably Frigoglass will see a market.

Raising Duties to 250% without commiserate activity by government to improve this sector is only a Joke. Nigerians are survivors and we will survive; Smuggling will become viable again. I am not very sure that a big car manufacturer will come to Nigeria to produce cars for the Nigerian market only. I wonder where we were when Toyota went to South Africa and UAE. Having another Toyota Manufacturing Hub in Nigeria is not very viable for me. So, I am ruling them out. The relatively smaller manufacturing companies from Europe and Asia could be approached like the Mazda, Nissan, Geely, etc. The cost of producing for only the local market will make the prices of the car exorbitant.

If the government is not taking a strategic approach to this, I think it will NOT bring the expected results.

Symphony007: These southern and eastern africans are a pathetic breed. They are so lazy and consider themselves victims of life and want to make a living on the sweat of another man. This has been happening in south africa fro a long time where farms owned by whites for generations. Farms which has been profitable and standard for hundreds of years are taken from their white owners and given to a black man. Then the farms closes down within months or a year. If zimbabwe thought their economy was a mess, this will makes it worthless. The country will soon start living on hardouts.

Nigerians and our superiority complex. Who says indigenization fails only in Eastern and Southern countries? Read a simple literature about indigenization in Nigeria and you will learn that we are the same people wherever we are. Nobody is lazier than another as a people. We are who we are.

Just looking through my archive and I came across my Friend's mail to his Line Manager at the peak of the Terror that Aba became infamous for. This mail was sent in September 2010.

Good afternoon sir,
The intent of writing this report is neither to cry wolf nor to create defence mechanisms for current negative trends in our sales; the report has become necessary in view of the fast-degenerating security situation in Aba and its environs which has dealt a big blow to staff morale and customers businesses. The tension in the town has reached a crescendo; It is thick and palpable - one could nearly touch it!
The spate of kidnapping and other criminal activities has taken a sudden upward surge leading to an unprecedented panic and confusion in the town. the story is too long to communicate via official mail, but kindly oblige me to highlight some of new threats to our business.
Chief NwaChukwu - our number one customer- gave us a shocker this morning when he announced his temporary relocation to his home town as a security measure. He has brought us an agent who will run the business while he will be away. This is clearly a setback as no one can run the business like Chief himself.
One of our biggest SD buyer - Orjiaku Enterprises - has vowed not to resume at his business post in Aba again after kidnap attempt on him and his family. The account is now on -89% ;we are helpless and the only thing we could do is to limit their purchases to cash to forestall indebtedness to the company.
E. O Igwemma is our Number six customer overall and number four in Health and Beauty. He has left Aba for an unknown destination to escape the radar of kidnapping gangs who are hell-bent on constantly milking him of millions of Naira. His business has suffered for it and plan is at advance stage to limit his purchase to cash as his agent now struggle to balance the account.
Edet Ekeng is our Health and Beauty strongman in Ariaria market. He has been served with " get ready letter" by kidnappers and they kidnapped his immediate neighbour to drum home their seriousness. He has left his permanent residence to an unknown location. His plan is to balance his account next week and gradually make arrangement to relocate to his hometown near Okigwe, Imo State.
Operation of our AD van assigned to cover Ogbor hill axis has been hindered by the dangerous terrain of the area. Two or three van salesmen of other companies had fallen victims of kidnapping in the area. Nestle van salesman was recently released.
The wind of crime blowing in the town does not exclude wholesalers and retailers especially inter-state border businessmen. Sales from neighbouring towns have simply dried up as the traders are constantly molested across Aba border - robbery, kidnapping and raping has been their lot. The story is endless- an wholesaler in Ariaria was just released today and two others who are even owing our Jobbers are still in the kidnappers net.

Glezeria Enterprises is expected to balance this week, but she would only balance her account and go without buying since several trucks carrying goods along Ikot Ekpene - Aba route have been seized with their owners in the past few weeks
I rest the story here while we hope and pray for a better days ahead. Meanwhile, Banks have shut down as I write this report as some of them were just serially robbed today.


Kind regards,
Charles,
ASM
Aba

http://stiq..com/2010/11/lamentation-of-distressed-sales-man-in.html

In as much as I liked Keshi, I have been less of a fan of his since his second appointment. Nigerians are known for their emotions and it is clear even when we talk.
Because we are an emotional people, it will be difficult to draw the line in Keshi's statement. In other to simplify this, can you imagine if a white person says to Mikel,that he is mad and the black guy should go back to Africa. I believe you know that by now, he would have been fired, and many of us here taking Keshi's since would still be castigating him.
Historically, the white have been unfair, but that doesn't excuse us acting in any racial manner especially not when there is so much work abt kicking out racism.
Keshi should be more careful in his utterances without obviously exposing his racial biases.
Laptop warriors, please digest before throwing tantrums.

Icon4s: Nothing outrageous abt d average of N37M per annum( less than $20,000/month) which am sure includes other allowances. These ar top senior & management staff. Most oil workers in d US earn abt $30,000 to $60,000/month as salaries excluding certain allowances. Nigerian oil workers ar abt d least paid world-wide.

This is so very untrue. The middle level managers earn abt 8,000 - 10,000 a month. Pls always be sure for making this kind of posts.

@netotse
The figures there are annual and not monthly. I work with the wages dept in my organisation

netotse:

@gbawe
you have a point sha the extra income isn't that much. . .


@xavier
the figures are per month o, if you earn 3m a year you still fall under the 0 - 300k band, so you're paying less P.A.Y.E. na the armed robbers wey dey earn above 3m a month don enter one chance

@aletheia
na why I put "?" in the topic o, I still dey look for other sources to corroborate the matter o. . .even though the pepper sellers I work for should know what they're talking about

Why does anyone think the immediate past NUC chair sent his son to one of those 'rubbish' schools?
Go and analyse info on both schools to conclude.
Despite all the talk about no quality lecturers, How come one of these schools have the 1st prof of Physics and Solar Energy in Africa there? Prof Aro is his name. Fed Schools used to be great. People with info usually make better decsisions. I see no reason why the NUC chair whilst still in office will send his son to such low quality schools.

Please point of note, I was top 40 in my class in CU on graduation and top 10 in my class in UI.

Very Interesting Post.

I graduated from CU a few years ago. Thereafter, i went to UI for a PG.

I have experience from both.

UI's rep is on past glory. Sorry but truth. Most lecturers there are just collecting salaries from government. When we resumed in the dept. out of 16 weeks coursework, all the lecturers were away for 7 weeks. Before the started coming in sparingly. They were all back by the 11th week. Sorry, that can't happen in a private school. And i am sorry, but that was a shocking discovery for me.

The second salient point why i will say UI or most of the other federal unis as far from almighty is the quality of knowledge passed. During exams and we are to prep for exam, the same exams since 1996/97 set is still what is being set. As a matter of fact, we were being taught from the same notes.

Another is the PhD programme. It is more or less a battle programme where substance is relegated by popularity. If you are unfortunate that your supervisor is unpopular, forget it. I was once in the field report seminar for the Phd student, which is a must for the MSc students. A PhD candidate was thrown out for refering to the faculty as faculty of social sciences instead of faculty of the social science. This was embarrassing.

Others include hostels, poor internet areas, old Kenneth Dike, Old infrastructures in Lab, etc.
Not everything was poor. Roads are good, New Hall(PG) not bad.

For confidentiality purpose, i will say this dept is the most arrogant in the faculty of the social sciences.


My humble opinion is that many of us here that went to this govt unis don't want to admit, but the fact is this guys are so close. UI is an old institution and a new one of 9years shd not be compared with it but if they don't move on, it will be unarguable. It is more like comparing NITEL and MTN/Glo/Zain. Older is not necessarily better.

Let us forget the grads. Govt unis statistically can't say they produce better students. I have first hand information. Many of them tend to do exceptionally well in IQ tests. Why? I don't know. Like i said i graduated from there and i know they are not teaching them anything extra to pass such.

Many Profs of govt unis have their children in private unis. I knew abt 6 from UI when i was in school.

It is painful, but it is the truth. Govt Unis esp Fed Unis have nothing but brags.


I hope i make sense to the few rational minds out there.

Ciao!