₦airaland Forum

Blue3k:
Dude get a clue. The IGR In the north is lowest of any region. Second yes people would get cut either way due to royalty check if federal government didn't hold exclusive domain over land and mineral resources.

Stop lying to yourself. The north has highest poverty rates, lowest standard of living, lowest GDP, lowest gdp per capita, lowest IGR, lowest igr to Allocation ratios.

Ps: I find allocation system to be bad system because it enables laziness especially the laggard north. Fiscal federalism would be better.

You don't get it and I don't blame you. You belong to the 99.9999% so for you to get it would be the miracle. If you're willing to widen your vista, I would be glad; otherwise, if you got it all figured out and can never see otherwise, then good luck. Afterall, that's why Nigeria is dying in the first place

Blue3k:
I didn't insult project. You're right people should be happy for their countrymen being productive. It's actually based on the fact north produces very little economicly compared to the south. The revenue is entirely generated in south but Noth receives a big chuck.

The parasite issue can be deflection but it is true either way. The issue is deeper for some nairalanders.

https://www.nairaland.com/3495061/injustice-revenue-allocation-nigeria

Many people make me laugh in this country with their age-old narratives without ever thinking. So because the Nigerian government commissions some oyibo people to prospect for oil and they find oil somewhere in Nigeria, and use their own knowhow to obtain the oil from the ground and refine it and make money for Nigeria and themselves, it means in your own skull that the people who happen to be living in the areas where the oil was found are being productive? Does that make any sense to you? If the economic activities of the North is stopped today, do you know what will happen to your own life? Go to any market and itemise each foodstuff and find out where it emanates. It is the places where oil exist in Nigeria that has the absolute laziest, idlest and most stupid troublemakers in this country other than those cursed by religion

oweman:
I know gradually the Niger deltans will make themselves irrelevant !

Now if this project is successful and the hydro projects breng proposed in most states in the north get to work. I don't seem to see the relevant of the Niger deltans anymore !
Meanwhile solar power is readily available everywhere in the north and is being tapped into UI ibadan s already having a power system to last the next 25years while that of ABU Zaria is under construction to last 25 years or even more

Please o, where in UI is it located because the one tiny one I saw has caught fire and burned the building on which it is located. Meanwhile they will prove they know everything. I've gone there to solicit business but their "oversabi" would weigh you down with academic ego battles. I've said we could have provided lots of jobs and put business people like me to work if this brick head ignoramus president told everybody to start patronising us and selling the power they generate to the government. National grid is the worst stupidity in the 21st century solar and wind reality. But alas these dumbo "leaders" are all technology illiterates. NIGERIA IS A JOKE!

Same way Kate Henshaw lost huge money to fire and I came here to say if they gave such jobs to experienced technical guys like me looking to help, they would have saved themselves the agony. Here we go again. Well, I'm not sure this wasn't deliberate since it is govt business. Nigeria is such a backward country IN THE MIND. When you use wrong-sized wire for airconditioners, you don't have fire alarm, no fire extinguishers up to date, then you prefer to be pound foolish

As usual, Nigeria is a joke! I'm not interested in whether he attended screening or not but that he is from MIT and needs to resign. Nigerians are EMPTY, INSECURE FOOOOOOOOOLS! There was once a Barth Nnaji with paper qualifications from all the universities in America to fill a file cabinet. WHERE IS THE LIGHT?! Now, Lawyer Fashola is the head of light and works and these bastard Nigerians are screaming that he's a lawyer and unfit for the job. Ladies and gentlemen, Maitama Sule no even go university but when he was in charge of light, works, mines, petroleum (one man o), all these things ran better than for the over- "qualified" people you have today. I repeat the one billionth time: Nigerians are the problem with Nigeria. Nigerian people and Nigerian leaders are both the same: they have NO CLUE how nations develop. They're just fumbling from one place to the other in mutual agreement on what they're doing and refusing to be brought into any real debate with someone like me as to whether no be craze dey worry all of una. Instead, moi has been declared the crazy person. NIGERIA IS A JOKE!!!

Sotenna:
I really will love to get married one day, but as the days go by and I see what men do to their wives and, what wives do to their husbands, my resolve and views about marriage disintegrate piece by piece.

No matter how good you're, bad things will happen to you, in fact it actually singles you out for that simple reason "that you're good."

My dear brother, with respect to your last paragraph, I would like to tell you I've now saved it and would be quoting it in my tweets, posts and discussions. I have lived what you just crystallised in words. There is no god in this life. If there were, I wouldn't see what I've seen

Is this how to run a freaking country? You just wake up one day and declare something, and people fight back and you rescind it for "further consultation". Why didn't you do that before? When did the government start to control prices of private sector goods and services? What kind of country is this I think the last few sane ones like us will eventually escape or die out and Nigeria will become a proper zoo and jungle for only animals

Jokerman:
However minister prayers are important, no country forsakes God and does well...

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach....

I think Nigeria should be praying for the mercies of God...

Clearly, you're as dumb as hell; typical Nigerian. I wish I could flog the disease out of your heads (millions as you are). Mumu!

eezeribe:
I DEDICATE THIS FTC TO EVERY EMPLOYER WHO WAS ONCE AN EMPLOYEE AND EVERY EMPLOYEE WHO HOPES TO BECOME AN EMPLOYER.

It's the Nigeria factor... Employees do also abuse their bosses directly and indirectly.

Some Employees are very rude to Clients and customers,and most times you will be shocked to see that the boss of such a rude employee is a very humble person.

And then some bosses really have a bad Attitude and are very abusive and exploitative.

Funny Enough, most of these employees who cry foul,WOULD DO THE SAME THING if they were in that position of a boss...
And most of those Abusive bosses went through the same Abuse when they were employees.

MY ADVICE TO BOTH EMPOWERS AND EMPLOYEES:

MR.EMPLOYER, TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEE LIKE YOUR FIRST AND ONLY CUSTOMER...

MR. EMPLOYEE, HANDLE YOUR EMPLOYERS BUSINESS LIKE YOUR OWN...


IF THIS POST DOESN'T GO DOWN WELL WITH YOU.. SIMPLY SACK YOUR BOSS AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS BECAUSE IT REQUIRES NO CAPITAL.

Very smart of you to realise that. The problem is in the society. Nigerians are a backward people. Only when the society becomes more enlightened and refined will things change. I've said it all over the place: Nigerians are victims of the very values they all subscribe to. And by the way, keep "borning" more and more children so that supply of "slaves" would continue even more to outstrip demand. Nigeria is indeed a joke!

Funkybabee:
may God help us shaa in this country called Nigerian seriously am tired may God make me quickly to commot to my dream land oooo

You are exactly the problem with Nigeria. And going to your "dream country" only serves to contaminate that country; this is why Trump won and Brexit happened. Evidence? You want a "god" to come and solve the problem. No further need to say anything. Pathetic country, pathetic people!

Seun:
If a particular illness runs in your family, it is probably because the disease is genetic in nature. For example, there are families in which every woman develops breast cancer at a particular age. Scientists have found that certain genes are responsible for their tendency to have breast cancer. Angelina Jolie discovered that she has this gene and decided to go for a preventive double mastectomy in order to avoid it. She has also opted to adopt kids so she won't pass the genes to the next generation. Some families tend to have a lot of sicklers, and this is because of the sickle cell gene. The solution is for people from such families to marry people who don't have the gene at all. These are medical issues, and not spiritual. When you attribute medical issues to evil spirits, you prevent the victims from seeking the medical help that they need. How wicked!

If marital problems run in your family, it's probably because nobody in your family knows how a healthy marriage works. Almost everything you know about marriage comes from your parents, and you are likely to make the same mistakes that they did. The solution is to educate yourself on marriage from external sources like books, the Internet, etc and to make sure the partner you choose is very compatible with you and preferably comes from a healthy family. And to seek counseling from marriage counselors, not your pastor who may not know much. If both partners in a marriage come from broken homes, it's highly likely to fail, unless both of them work really really hard to make it work.

If financial problems run in your family, it's due to lack of financial knowledge and education. The solution is to break that cycle by getting educated in an economically viable profession (not Yoruba Studies) and being enterprising. Also, it would be foolish to make financial decisions based on your parents' advice if your parents are poor or financially illiterate. You need to have advisers who know more than they do.

If bad habits such as alcoholism, smoking or drug addiction run in your family, the solution is to never expose yourself to these vices. Never take a glass of wine. Never try cigarettes. Never try drugs. Never keep a friend who does any of these things. Never go to a party or night club where you will be pressured to try these things. Because you are likely to be more susceptible to addiction than most people. One sip of wine could place you on the path to ruin. So don't risk it! However, if the habit bothering you is masturbation, don't worry about it; it's normal.

The suggestion that any problem that runs in your family could be caused by imaginary "ancestral curses" is damaging because it distracts you from the real causes of your problems and the real solutions. It's not even biblical anyway, in my opinion.

How can I ever thank you enough?! Nigeria as a society and the Nigerian people are under a thick fog of darkness. There's no way the enlightened can win. I wish I could explain how the tragedy of Nigerian base ignorance has affected me so so negatively. You're born into a wretched family in a country so poor that some in the West wonder how people survive there and someone will come and tell you that you are poor because of some curse or some other inanity and that you should line up in their church to be "delivered"! What kind of people are Nigerians? Once again: NIGERIA IS A JOKE!

AjaanaOka:
Well, ethnic groups do not exist in water-tight compartments, so you can be sure that there were to-and-fro movements between Ibaji and their Igbo neighbours of the Anambra River Valley; and that some Igbo came to settle among the Ibaji as well. At least one Ibaji community - Odeke - has traditions of Aguleri origins. During the recent Ibaji-Aguleri crisis over oil well ownership I was informed that Aguleri had both farmlands and fishing ponds on the other side of the state boundary, i.e., on Ibaji territory.

Just picked this to quote at random to make my point. This is why human beings killing themselves over ethnicity and other human-made subdivisions is just so stupid. Most Nigerians' worldview is wrong and that's why we can't make progress. Human being, human societies EVOLVED. Human beings spread across the world. Babangida is a Northerner today but it is very possible from his own admission that just 3 generations before him, his ancestors were Yoruba. Nigerians, live your one life in peace with your fellow man. You will die one day and everything will end, like you were never born (forget the claims of religion). There is ZERO genetic difference between human beings, be it Oyibo or black man, let alone Ibo or Igala or Yoruba or Hausa or whatever name humans have evolved thus far. The difference between a human being's chromosomes and those of a chimpanzee is less than 1%. I don tire!

CzarChris:
Easy guy, I feel you. I follow up on shell eco-maraton, where energy efficient vehicles are produced and the most energy efficient car(actually a tricycle) can actually accommodate one person and truth be told, you were correct when you mentioned "carry 3 human beings" because the weight differential would be better a nightmare for the said tricycle and how much energy does say two solar panels transmit to how many batteries. What got me laughing was the no engine part, haba! What moves the tires then, how would you change gears? WiFi or Bluetooth?


I believe a friend of the guy or his relation who doesn't understand the workings of engineering put up this thread here as as a publicity stunt...... But unfortunately for them, we have thinkers here.

Thanks lots. I just wanna point out that in those cutting-edge, experimental, lab instances you gave, it is much more hi-tech materials of the future they use. I can guarantee you the panels you described in the Eco challenge are not the type these clowns buy at Alaba with a 15-17% efficiency (maybe less sef in practice).

Regarding engine and gears, nothing stops a designer from making a motor with no gear shift (fixed ratio). It will work but not very practical or convenient. Also, you could design a system where wheels are directly powered by motors using DC currents which the batteries provide. That's the whole idea of Musk's Tesla cars, I believe. That's the beauty of engineering: it's all about design needs and specifications

There will never be resolution of the Niger-Delta situation. Government can never solve it. The problem lies with what's in the heart of the Nigerian: evil, greed, laziness, delusion of grandeur when you're actually NOTHING. I've said the solution is only one of two, both of which can not be carried out. One is to surrender ALL the oil and gas to the rogues and lords of the area (they don't care as much about Independence as they do about owning all the oil 100% and squandering all the money on themselves, and not the ordinary people); two, which would have been the most viable if Nigeria hadn't now turned into a failed state: utter military defeat and total occupation of the whole oil and gas area. Absolute total destruction of any individual or group which rises up in arms against the federal government. I'm sure after something like 100,000 people are killed and all armed militants are executed by firing squad on live TV, the rest will quickly become more peaceful and voice any concerns - if any - to the appropriate channels peacefully. Nigerians don't know NOTHING! Stalin killed over 10 million of his own citizens. Pol Pot killed 25% of his population for no reason. That translates to 45 million Nigerians! ICC and UN are bad for Africa. When the developed world was as backward as Africa, they did things so barbaric to their people, that we can't imagine doing in Africa today. Go figure

CzarChris:
My thoughts exactly, and I seriously have doubts that student did that project alone. Either way, nice innovation.


Proud futo alumni

It's all crap. I've tried to stay away from Nairaland but I can't help commenting whenever I read one of our egregious stupidities which have no end? I am a solar businessman. I am also a mechanical engineer. In secondary school, we are first taught in physics that energy can never be created or destroyed. It only transforms from one form to another. It gets more complicated as you get higher and higher degrees. Can the "inventor" tell me how much energy is required to transport three human beings for any stated distance, and then tell me how much energy the solar panel (bought from a shop, lol) produces? I know the answer. NIGERIA IS A JOKE! Ignorance is a very big problem in this country

kidman96:
University Education is for everyone. Some of them should learn some skills. There are too many unemployed graduates. Even in the United states university education isn't so cheap.

NIGERIA IS A JOKE!

calliope:
They were once head over heels in love with eachother.
Now one barely can't stand to see the other alive.
Life is a joke

No, they were not once head over heels in love. Marriage is a forced standard which everyone is forced to meet in Nigeria. They force you to marry from a certain age; they force you to add to the over-population in Nigeria. All of Nigerian society is a joke.

fr3do:
Some thing like this happened in Abuja some time ago.
The transformers have shorted, conducting high voltage 11000V to people's houses instead of 220V.

While we business people in the technical field are suffering due to lack of patronage, people prefer to risk death than spend money on us. A simple circuit breaker installed at the electrical inlet of their apartment would have saved their lives so they can wear the expensive clothes and brazillian hair they prefer to spend their money on. Kate Henshaw lost a lot due to electrical fire in her house the other day because she also had electrical jobs done by illiterate "baba Risika" type of people while real educated technical people are pushed to die of hunger. They're dying first and losing more money than they would ever have spent doing the right thing. For those of you out there that want to learn a lesson from this, contact me on 09097268834 for all your security, automation, surveillance and electricity protection devices and consultations, both for your houses and offices. I'm in Ibadan but can move around the South-West for a decent-sized job. I have measuring equipment; I do calculations; I have knowledge of things most don't know exist to protect their lives. A word is enough for the wise. There is only one life: no afterlife!

fr3do:
Some thing like this happened in Abuja some time ago.
The transformers have shorted, conducting high voltage 11000V to people's houses instead of 220V.

While we business people in the technical field are suffering due to lack of patronage, people prefer to risk death than spend money on us. A simple circuit breaker installed at the electrical inlet of their apartment would have saved their lives so they can wear the expensive clothes and brazillian hair they prefer to spend their money on. Kate Henshaw lost a lot due to electrical fire in her house the other day because she also had electrical jobs done by illiterate "baba Risika" type of people while real educated technical people are pushed to die of hunger. They're dying first and losing more money than they would ever have spent doing the right thing. For those of you out there that want to learn a lesson from this, contact me on 09097268834 for all your security, automation, surveillance and electricity protection devices and consultations, both for your houses and offices. I'm in Ibadan but can move around the South-West for a decent-sized job. I have measuring equipment; I do calculations; I have knowledge of things most don't know exist to protect their lives. A word is enough for the wise. There is only one life: no Heaven!

A country where it is the president that even pays his security detail as he determines every minutiae of detail on what will happen in his country on a daily basis is not a democracy; it's not even a modern state. Nigeria is a backward state in essence and can only understand the top man to be an absolute monarch. Nigeria is a joke

The only politics in Nigeria is the politics of identity. That's why we have a very entrenched sense of religious, ethnic identities while the progress of the nation has been destroyed and there's hunger in the land. Foolish people. Nigerians deserve what they're getting. I'm only sad that I'm suffering too when I don't have their type of STUPID minds. Go to Bodija market and tell yoruba beans seller that you're same yoruba and so she should give you her beans for half the price and she should sell for other "tribes" for double the price and wait to see if she will oblige. Go to the East and North and do same. Mumu country; mumu people!

BrutalJab:
[b] I don't know why yorubas will never learn, it beats me how they go about beating their chests shouting 'Sophistication' while everything is pointing to the contrary.



Benjamin Adekunle took his hatred for Igbos to another level during the civil war when he went about shooting women and children at the outskirts of Biafra while the hausa/fulani were watching. After using him, they disgraced him out of the army without any benefits such that he was looking for small contracts to feed himself before he died. At some point, his son was begging for donations to be made to take him to just Ghana for treatment. We are not even talking of taking him to the USA, Germany or UK oo, just to ordinary Ghana that we can trek into he could not afford it.



Obafemi Awolowo was also used by the hausa/fulani to wage the war against Igbos were he suggested that Biafran children by starved which lead to the death of so many. Awolowo was hoping that the hausa/fulani would compensate him by supporting him to become president but it only turned out he had been used and dumped. The northerners threw all their support behind their son Shagari and Awolowo was never president.


As though this was not enough, Babangida was about to arrest Awolowo(which would have been the second time the northerners would be arresting him if it had happened) and to avoid this disgrace, Awolowo had to commit suicide by drinking poison(I think Ratak).



Abiola the yoruba aare onakankanfo thought that he had the north all behind him only for them to cancel his electoral victory and throw him in prison. The hausa/fulani still went ahead to serve him a very special tea which he drank and died. They went a step further by dispatching his wife Kudirat to join him in eternity.



This brings us down to Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka BAT- jagajaga borgu. Like FFK said, Buhari is the spirit clearly behind Tinubu's woes. The hausa/fulani are out to destroy Tinubu and reduce him to one of those agberos running around Lagos shouting 'owomida' at the top of their voices. Again, another yoruba leader has been used and is being dumped.


I keep wondering why yorubas continue to mistake treachery for sophistication and cowardice for wisdom.
selah [/b]

For ya mind now, u don display knowledge and wisdom. Kai, no hope for my dya Nigeria o. Which kain school dem this one go sef?

This Aribisala is a nitwit. He's better than most of them but he's firmly in their school of thought of politics of personalities and ethno-regional balancing. Where is his call for a new politics and for people like me to come create a new thinking in Nigeria. Instead he's advocating for same old same old. He's simply asking for another political party with the same vultures doing another round of rearrangement. Jokers! To solve Nigeria's problems, a platform needs to be created so people like me can be heard, and then I get others like me, and resources, to prosecute the repair of Nigeria. Before that repair reaches political leadership, I would be old or long dead but it will be an unstoppable force at that stage. The first step is not politics - it is education. Politics is the last stage of the social revolution. Do they even come on nairaland to debate? Or even create another forum? No: they think they know it all and the rest 180 million Nigerians must remain spectators. THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT!

Governor Obi, the Nigerian youths you're talking about are doing pressups, desperate to take over and do even worse. Their oga Chude Jideonwo has already made 30 million naira to put Buhari there after chopping millions from the principals in Jonathan's government (remember "Future Awards"?). He refused to work for a new Nigeria or question why it has to be Buhari vs Jonathan as I kept on arguing on Twitter. When I told him he can't be an activist for better Nigeria and same time a businessman making money from the system, he went unhinged and attacked me to no end and then blocked me. Abi na Omojuwa? NIGERIA IS A JOKE! The system is rigged against those who will repair it, like me. It's not about age but even if we look in terms of age, the younger ones are WORSE!!!

Nigeria is a very backward and crude country. Nollywood shows it. Their narratives are fit only for unsophisticated and crude minds and that's why they're popular across Africa. The so-called "sales" they make in Europe and the Americas is from the crude same Africans that emigrated there. Oyibo would have watched for curiosity sake only to come out re-assured that Africans are apes. They have no capacity for subtlety even in the "modern" types of titles (i.e the ones not set in village settings). It insults my intelligence to watch and I certainly don't watch and my opinion of anyone who is a disciple of Nollywood drops precipitously whenever I find out. Some will say "why not encourage your own?" so you think anything a Nigerian does for economic reasons is by definition good and must be encouraged? Ok, why not go all out and encourage hardcore porn by the few ones raring to go (Afrocandy comes to mind). The truth is you can't just support any endeavour because it generates money. Music, movies and the entertainment industry in general and the values they introduce and reinforce in Nigeria are WHOLLY negative. You people should be glad our big men have contrived to shut me out of influencing what's going on in Nigeria or else it would have been a far far different place from what it is today. Nigeria is in the wrong place and is accelerating further in the wrong direction. Una never see anything yet!

All these absolute nothings, or worse - properties of people the Nigerian mumu people gave their money are just being lionised everywhere. What damage America has done to Nigeria can not be weighed. American debauchery and the celebration of the inane and absurd is like the excesses of a spoiled child of a rich man; Nigerian desperation to copy suit in a dead, wretched country is like a wretched man's child pretending to following suit. America has worked and they're in stupor; Nigeria, you can't just jump into the stupor when you haven't been able to buy one drink sef. Lunatic country!

I wonder what the logic is in preventing someone from commenting on here for a length of time and they later suddenly see they can. Does that make sense to the overlords here or are they just evincing the Nigerian in them? I used to tweet with this Lauretta Onochie on twitter and just like the mods on here, it doesn't occur to her to explore what I can do to better Nigeria as I seem confident and eager to do. It has never been about that to these people anyway; it's always been about self. THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA IS THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES! Oya, come block me, stupid kids

AntiWailer:
Yes by not consulting Pat Utomi who led BANK PHB and another company into liquidation.



Nigeria EXPORTS OIL and imports everything including RICE and Soldier's Khaki.

On the recession.

Check out several countries in recession. Buhari's Policy must have affected them too.

NOTE: Most of the top 12 Oil Producing companies in order of their oil production output are in RECESSION.

NIGERIA IS 13


1  United States 11,973,000
2  Saudi Arabia (OPEC) 11,624,000
3  Russia 10,853,000
4  China, People's Republic of 4,572,000
5  Canada 4,383,000
6  United Arab Emirates (OPEC) 3,471,000
7  Iran (OPEC) 3,375,000
8  Iraq (OPEC) 3,371,000
9  Brazil 2,950,000
10  Mexico 2,812,000
11  Kuwait (OPEC) 2,767,000
12  Venezuela (OPEC) 2,689,000
13  Nigeria (OPEC) 2,427,000



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-11/meet-2016-s-worst-economic-performers-flirting-with-disaster

Check the chart above and you will know that all this politicians are just trying to take advantage of the unfortunate period to score Cheap Points and escape prosecution for looting.

I will analyze TOP 13 oil producing countries and evidence of recession in 2016 some have been struggling since 2015.

Please check links, extracts and the bolded.

1. RUSSIA in recession



2. VENEZUEALA in recession Oil Producing (No 12) Crisis terrible and leading to Food shortage.



3. CANADA in recession


4. CHINA in recession



5. SAUDI ARABIA in recession



6. Kuwait


If you are expecting any Miracle if PDP or Jonathan were to be returned during the 2015 election, You are either a party agent, a tribalist, an ignoramus or a dullard.

The combination of the last 3 is usually the case.

NO SIR. I CAN'T GO INTO ONE-BY-ONE ANALYSIS, BUT IF BUHARI WERE NOT A DULL DICTATOR TAMPERING WITH FREE-MARKET NORMS, THINGS WOULDN'T BE NEARLY AS BAD. The tragedy of life is one would never know how things compare to something that never happened in order to make a comparison. If Jona had won, things would have been a little worse than before the oil crash but not ads bad as this, but people would say if Buhari had won that things would have been better and they would want to kill Jonathan for that. That's why I wanted to vote Buhari so that Nigeria would learn a lesson from placing all their hopes in human beings instead of processes and institutions to guarantee stability and continuity. Now, though I didn't bother to vote (and I'm happy I escaped it, lest I be also blamed for voting him in despite my explanations on twitter) I'm happy he won and became even worse than I originally feared and that all of Nigeria is having a good time with their choice

obontami:
and what is wrong with having seven kids ?

****I've said it: most Nigerians have NO IDEA how they killed their country and they're doing the same thing that ruined the country. As I hate Babangida reach, I still thank him for introducing hardship so great that it forced Nigerians to have practical common sense of producing children. We would have been 300 million by now. Not that they understand why they shouldn't "born all the pikin wey dey her bele", but the practical hunger Babangida put us through gave them quick common sense. The fact that Ransone-Kuti under Babangida's administration promoted a campaign of 4-children families with stars like Sunny Ade and Onyeka is not the reason the lunatic population increase slowed - it is practical hunger that caused it. I lived through that period and am myself one of the victims of dumb parents in a dumb society. I don't blame you; I blame the so-called leaders of thought in this country who don't know squat for not doing anything about this societal self-destruction. You're just an ordinary person whom as a Nigerian, is a dumbass by definition. Nigerians are the problem with Nigeria!

Dollyak:
I am pretty sure the reason why they are there was because they paid for the campaign fundraising dinner, effectively earning VIP slot.

You know something jare. Sometimes it's so hard to find someone with some knowledge here. Those people are so detailed in those things. To attend something, you'll show some financial commitment; to get up close for a photo with the main guy/woman, it's not an accident: there's a special financial commitment involved. This is how they raise money for campaigns and raising money for their foundations. It's not as easy here where you just inflate a contract or two while in office and you're made for life. I think the US govt should substantially raise the retirement money for ex-presidents. It is ridiculously small. It used to be something like $63k when annual salary was $200k but now the annual incumbent's salary is $400k. I'm sorry for this country. An average governor in Nigeria makes more money than the president of the united states