₦airaland Forum

VIPERVENOM:
I wonder why its hard for this country to build a power plant that can generate at least 1000MW instead of littering all these small tins everywhere. 1000MW power plant in each region could solve our power problems

Beremx:
DSS and their stupidity. I knew they have met Tuface and probably warned him to stop the protest.

Tuface has set the pace. He is indeed a hero!

bigl:
We are all shouting "it will reduce road accidents, this and that" without thinking about a scenario whereby armed robbers are chasing a commercial vehicle at 120km/hr?

What happens when you can't accelerate more than 100km/hr?

Even driving at 60km/hr is speed so, whatts the point?

The only thing that should be done is to give speed guns to frsc to check over speeding vehicles rather than this rubbish vehicle speed limiters!

ozyblazze:
dark souls, FIFA (as usual,try world class first)

omohayek:
Steel which can be bought on the international markets for a much lower price than you'd get it by wasting more billions on projects like Ajaokuta. Just because something is needed doesn't mean you have to be the one to make it.


What does any of this have to do with manufacturing steel? Do you think Hong Kong is a steel manufacturer? Is Bangalore famous for its steel? Since when did Silicon Valley start pushing out steel products? How does making steel make you a better software engineer, or help anyone better understand neural network architectures?

You're just piling up a bunch of non-sequiturs here, knocking down strawmen nobody ever put up: money wasted on Ajaokuta and other such uneconomic projects is money taken away from improving the electricity grid, the roads and the railways. You can't complain that these things are unreliable in Nigeria while arguing for taking funds away from them to waste on dead-end projects.


So by your reasoning, you need to be able to make steel to innovate in creating software, or to push the frontiers in genetic engineering? That's just nonsense. I've worked with actual innovators, people who are pushing the frontiers in AI and biomedicine, and none of them knows or cares in the slightest about steel and how it's made, because it is absolutely irrelevant. The way to innovate in a field is to learn the state of the art in the field you want to innovate in, not by getting involved in an irrelevant area which just provides one of many low-level materials you might indirectly need.

I suggest you do some reading on concepts such as "gains from trade" and "comparative advantage" to correct the faulty concepts you hold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gains_from_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

omohayek:
Sorry, but you're wrong on the last point. I am personally involved in several of the most cutting-edge technological areas of today, and know at first-hand that none of them require the ability to "machine or make tools". You don't need anything of the sort to write enterprise software, train a neural network, carry out gene editing, or even to design and mask a microchip, and all of these areas are far more profitable than a 19th-century commodity like steel.

Flaghouse1:
Omohayek,
I quite agree with your postulation above,in reality most of the developed economy we try to emulate today are not really making much from steel production,but in technology,drug development ,software development ,manpower development et al.we are no longer in. The industrial age but technological age where we think outside the box to acheive excellence.
The government realy needs to come up with radical solutions to improving power,roads,rail in the country to be able to increase our GDP without these there. Will be no small scale industries or enterprise developing in order to add to GBP and improve lives of the common man like me and you.Continous injection of scarce resources into the Ajaokuta project without a corresponding northward improvement in return will really be like putting water in a basket.
But our leaders are well read and travel outside why can't they implement some of the lofty projects ,ideas they see when they travel abroad

AZeD1:
No you cannot kick-start other industries because nobody would buy your steel.
Nigeria should be moving towards our competitive strengths not trying to capture the lost decades.

We should be spending any spare money on our power infrastructure and not on reviving dead steel mills.

Anybody who wants to open a steel mill is free to do so but government money should not be used.
PS: Tata is about to sell it's steel mill in the UK because it makes no business sense and that is in a country with light, and transport infrastructure.

What chances does Ajaokuta have?

awa:
As if this is true,something is wrong with this nation Nigeria. I can't imagine the NA coming out with this kind of news.
Come on we have gone past this as a nation. Won't we have some dignity at all

Politicalidiot:
my GPS just came on again (4th in 2 minutes) ..
No looking back..

talktonase:
what is wrong with this change government are they confused or what?

Henry240:
Landmines are not a risk. Besides they would operate away from the battle. The bikes would feel the much needed reconnaissance role, so general risks are lower.

fattbabakay:
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Built2last:
Saudi Arabia is facing exactly what Nigeria is facing but they took a different approach to solving their illiquidity problem.

The king of Saudi handed over the economic matters of the kingdom to his brother which has the expertise in that regard. (I hope PMB will learn that.)

His brother consistuted an economic team which in turn recommended that experts be brought in from Canada to supervise the economy in this trying time. they will do this in consulting capacity. Our president and his team of junketeers will not ask the Saudi team how they are weathering the storm. I am not one of those fooled that he has gone to pray for Nigeria to be good. Thats a dumb thing to sell. Nigerias problem is not from heaven. we refused to save when we ought to, we refused to diversify when we needed to . so how exactly is it God that is doing us.

The Saudis have a team of 9 experts who operate on the model of "PERFORM OR GO" these experts meet on weekly basis with ministers and heads of various ministries. woe be tied you if you dont show up in that meeting with tangible progress report. once the team recommends you should go, the king fires without recourse to you. every one is on top of their game to perform.

since our president appointed ministers, i can only remember 7 who appears to be on the media. I dont even know most of them talk more of performance.

Why did Saudi go to Canada to get experts. Canada was the only advanced nation in the world that during the 2007/8 credit crunch stood the heat and was never affected.

nations like Germany, U.K and U.S could not understand the magic Canada did. but the man behind the magic was Mark Carny, the then governor of the bank of Canada. In 2013, England broke their own law to hire this same man who managed Canadian economy in trying time to run their national bank and made him chairman of monetary policy

Saudi has learned and gone for other retired team members of Mark Carny.

Our president must go to any mile possible to have working brains on monetary and fiscal policy.

If we dont get it right and define our path in the next four to five months, this nation is headed for a cesspit.

Prof Wole Soyinka , Funsho Philips and other observers including myself are calling on mr president to assemble his economic team before its too late. the honey moon is over. we wasted time in appointing ministers and that is why the embarrasment of the budget. permanent secretaries and directors prepared a budget of yam in the absence of ministers. the lazy ministers came and never read it. here we are.

enough of the junketing, there is work to be done. The energy exacted on begging nations to help us will do better if we channel it to work.

seunmsg:
Though the story is true, Tope Aluko is someone that should not be shown any mercy. He his as guilty as Fayose in all the allegations he raised. In terms of criminality, he's worse than Fayose. He would have ended up killing Fayose or planning his impeachment if Fayose had made the mistake of appointing him as his Chief of staff.

I hope the relevant security agency will arrest and prosecute him and Fayose (after his tenure) for the crimes they both committed against the people of Ekiti. GEJ and Obanikoro should also be prosecuted for diverting N4.7billion of the country's resources illegally into Fayose's campaign.

Europija:
Hello all...My boyfriend started acting strange...I have been together with him for 4 years and now he started calling me only at night from midnight and he doesn't pick my calls when it is day time.

When he calls me at night we will talk for 1 or 2 hours and he will be happy when he talks to me and still talks about future... When i ask him why he doesn't pick my call at day time he will give me some silly excuse like he was sleeping etc..Also he doesn't have a job and we live in different countries...I am thinking maybe he is cheating on me but why then is he not sleeping with that girl at night? If he has a woman he would also stay at night with her...right? What could it be??

Julianne10:
lol,i was so angry,because he didnt tell me he was coming inside my room,infact i slapped him.

adconline:
For the simple fact the she failed to successfully prepare a national budget even with GEJ and OBJ budget expos...

99100:
I'm a resident and indigene of Orlu geopolitical zone.
After a turbulent week as a result of fuel scarcity and hike in Imo state , I'm compressed to ask this question ; Why do we buy fuel between #120 -130 and the same fuel is being sold #87 in the north? Does it mean that the govt only subsidises fuel that goes to the north.... and easterners can buy high.

ifymagik:
Hello Everyone, I seriously need your advice on this issue because am very confused. Here is my Story. I am in love with this girl that I met during NYSC, although it took some time for her to accept me but she eventually did. I have studied her closely and I see the qualities that I want in a woman in her, and so I intend to settle with her but there is a challenge. I am strongly against Sex before marriage and so the relationship has been Sex-free. But recently she said she could no longer take it, she said she want us to hav sex or I should not blame her if she gets it elsewhere because according to her she has exceeded her endurance limit. I am Confused, I don't know what to do. I really love her and I don't wanna loose her but I can't go against my personal principle. Help a Brother plz I nid your advice.

k7teen:
Please nairalanders I need your help and advise based on what you think, real life situations and general knowledge
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I personally I would like to study computer science because of my Intrest in programming and all sorts. bit people say computer engineering is more preferred ,please I want some advise.... and the really issue here is in my school (oou) am currently studying comp engineering but planning to switch to science, its only hardwares that's being taught and it really bores me..
any suggestions pls

calculator123:
thanks but i stick with my maths/stats programme.

emwye:
Uhm, I'm not here to take sides on either major but to correct this claim so others might not get get the wrong idea. The box you speak of really does not exist for engineers per se. They usually want to do other "not-so-cool" things like working with start-ups, automotive, space and energy (alternative or otherwise). Wall street actually likes engineers and i know many that eventually get bored and want to make more money by working for wall street. The skill set that wall street desires is present in both majors. You're opinion is a tad bit biased.

calculator123:
noted.

agentofchange1:
A good statistician is a good mathematician .

Statistics is a form of applied mathematics ....gat job opportunities in almost anywhere ...be it in engineering filds ( e.g NNPC ) , telecommunications , Large firms , industries ( Quality assurance manager ), NAFDAC., Hospitals, ....INEC, NCC, ...research centres ......I can keep listing. ...

Just make sure ur brain is burning mathematically., try master some statistical packages like..R., SAS; Spss, Minitab...e.t.c
n gat fast computational skills. ...cux..statistics is not really easy..but its interesting. . practical nd rewarding. ......" pace and prcision " is required. ...


good luck.!!

Durentt:
research harder.

Durentt:
stop displaying ur ignorance on a social media lik dis. I bliv am not supposed to answer dis. Use ur leisure time nd read it up yourself