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Ishilove:
Practice makes perfect na. You should have seen the first one

I kuku saw it ó .

He's doing well, it can only get better

armadeo:
2nd trial


Cc. Ishilove



Now apologise.

This guy

u still let the Samosa filling scatter small. U need to collect training finish o

pocohantas:
Hahahaha. I can totally relate to your pains. Lagosians would just rush out once the lockdown is over. Hmmm, I will put it in my notes. Would try it out sometime. Anywhere there is food, you’ll find me there somehow somehow sha!

U should try the place out. They have good food for cheap price.

I took this special egg rice with fish the last time I was there. The egg rice was ₦600 ( 2 spoons) and the peppered fried fish ₦800 if I can recollect.

OJURONGBE1:
Zahra Buhari come and see your mate o!

Make DSS see Ur handwriting fess, u go use mouth blow suya fire

Eezz like u didn't know DSS carry somebody because he buy Hanan Buhari's already reallocated Sim card, now u wan dey use style tell Zahra wetin Oshiomole tell that widow ; " Go and Die!"

pocohantas:
I’ll try that with my DANGOTE (not the human) and get back to you.

Meanwhile, who else had their favourite eat-out spot shutdown due to the pandemic? Was tough mehn! My Olaiya and Papa’s grill are back.


BlueRayDick, don’t you miss DodoPizza?

As in I'm just pissed

Not only do I miss DodoPizza, I miss so many hangout spot o.

I miss one new joint at ICM; Awoof Brekete. Anytime I want to swallow some nice African meal and I’m around Alausa I will just drop in and Eat some nice Pounded yam and Efo riro.

I kid you not , the efo riro is so rich that for u to eat more than one beef or small piece of turkey with the meal shows u have excess love for meat

pocohantas:
Lol. Really? I will try that too.
‘But won’t it be too long?

No worry, I forgive all of you. Na my people una be. The meal is colorful.

Yes not breaking the pasta works. Just stand the put it whole in the boiling eating and let it slide into the pot as soon as the water touches it's base. Once it enters fully u will notice it won't get sticky like it used to

Lunch: Stir fry spaghetti and Boiled Egg.

I observed not breaking the spag doesn't make it sticky/soggy. Going forward I pledge I won't be breaking my spag as advised by Prestonn ( Although this is not Dangote brand ó, before pocohantas thinks I've crossed to Team Dangote)

Breakfast: Rice + Spinach

larride:
Like I said the day when this argument started, there are some checks n balances which I mentioned that you have overlooked.

Let me break it down again and hopefully I don’t have to repeat myself again.

CBT is done by the communities where they define what poverty means for them and they collate their list in wards which they send to the local government. Yes the state government are the one that will train staff to carry out this CBT so it’s possible to falsify data from the local government.

Now NSIP (FG) are the one that does the verification through PMT (Proxy means Test) where they go to each communities and visit the homes of those on the list. Apart from checking out the communities, some of the questions they ask borders on the poverty index like source of income, TV, gen, widow or widower, dependent and the likes. This is the way the verification takes place. After the verification NSIP (FG) then does the data capturing through Household uplifting program (HUP) where they create a wallet for them and an ID card.

Now to payment, the money doesn’t go to state government or local government to share, HUP select a payment service provider to cover each state, SIP then pay to the beneficiaries directly after verification of their names.

Zamfara, Abia, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa beneficiaries haven’t gotten their own money yet, the Minister said their contract was terminated because they were delaying in carrying out their contractual agreement.

The chart you posted, it’s obvious Ebonyi missing is an error.

I'm glad we both agree on the fact that the Data can be falsified at the source which buttress the point Ibime was trying to make the other day when he was jokingly saying u should contact him for data if the government need it so u can share the money

I have politicians as friends and I know how they run some of these things. I'm just surprised the way u usually give simple explanations to all these things when we all know politics in Naija is very complex.

During this last general election, I was rounding up my Masters programme and one of my course mate happens to be a politician( In fact he's a former LCDA chairman aspirant). He was gisting me about a particular aspirant for House of assembly post in the opposition party whom I saw his video and asked wassup with that man.

He laughed and told me they played big joker on the guy and that's why I saw him raging like a bull in the video. What they did was simple, they had agents in all the polling units in the constituency aside the accredited party agents whose job was to monitor the results of the polls and send it straight to my guy.

My guy then had the job of collating all results and send same to the situation room. In the situation room they manipulated the figures and had them sent to their contact at INEC who did the magic. So results announced at INEC collation centre was inflated giving them a wider margin for each polling unit.

Now Here is the gist; my guy told me those agents who monitored the results were billed to get 10k each, but 2,500 was slashed out of it and the contract was giving to him for 7,500. I now asked if he also slashed ₦2,500 leaving the guy's with ₦5,000. He said " For where?" He actually slashed ₦5,000 and gave those guys the job for ₦2,500.

He said that right there is how politics work in Nigeria, u cut and cut and cut till it's impossible to cut again.

Naija politics is not the simple answers u always give here in most matters o, it goes beyond that

larride:
I have been looking for the chart that shows that But Ebonyi hasn’t received a dime.

Your 1 & 2 point doesn’t hold water. APC has members in all the state in country. So you are saying even in states controlled by PDP, even though it’s the state government that does that collation it list through CBT, somehow APC shred their list and replace them with the names of their members and we are not hearing any scandal about this program since it started in 2016. Those in APC must surely have superpowers.

Your last point, while you are partly correct, Buhari actually ordered the Minister to pay those on the list 20k during his broadcast on March 29. The Minister hasn’t paid anyone since Jan because she claimed she’s still studying how the all ministry works, it’s the same issue those on N-Power are facing. I’m not sure they have received their feb stipend though the minister said payment will start this week. The minister has done a shabby job compared to when Maryam Uwais was the one in charge of the whole NSIP.

Below is the chart I was referring to.

Your second paragraph I don't recall I mentioned APC specifically in that post u quoted. I said party members.

In states controlled by PDP it's obvious PDP will fill the list with their card carrying members and a few neutrals. Poor APC members will definitely not smell any kobo. What I'm saying is the whole idea of creating a social register that is not transparent enough for people to know about allows for the people in charge to pack their cronies full the list while the real poorest of the poor are left hanging.

I know local politician in my LGA who has 4 daughters. As far back as when they were in secondary school, 3 of the daughter's have their name in the council's payroll. Imagine if such man is allowed to be part of those in the LGA to mobilize people for the so-called social register. I hope u know he will help himself and his family ease their way into the list while the real poor people who are non party members will see nothing

You seem to take everyone who calls out the present government for how they run the government recklessly as a PDP sympathizers; well I'm not one. I just hate being taken as a fool by the government.

1. Haha! My point 1 and 2 is so easy for anyone to comprehend na. I said if there is a register like u claim, it is obviously filled by party members, associates and family members if those who compiled the list. And then that list going by the distribution chat they showed us has tribalism written all over it.

2. If indeed Ebonyi benefited why is it not showing in the chat below?

3. Maybe u should take this up with the FG that keeps making the Conditional Cash Transfer look like it's a palliative measure meant for the COVID-19 pandemic. They are the one putting the info out there that way. That is why people keep saying the apc government runs on propaganda. Immediately the whole pandemic issue blew up we've been seeing the woman minister going about saying they are sharing money and even Buhari himself had to mention it in his state address on the COVID-19 matter.....You should ask them why they are making it look like what it's not

larride:
I promise myself not to say anything about this CCT again but I find it funny you that was saying the program was a scam and nothing of such is happening will turn around to claim Buhari is using tribalism and nepotism.

So you now agree that the program is actually going on? Lol.

Well let me explain my stand on this whole programme.

1. I believe if there is any register at all, the register is computed by party people who are filled the so-called register with names of party members in thousands and a sprinkle of tens of neutrals. These neutrals will be the ones who will be sampled and asked to smile for the camera.

I asked for how the list was compiled without any form of message passed on radio, TV stations and print media, you couldn't give any satisfying answer other than referring to the 2018 BBC pidgin feature that talked about people getting paid, but not how those getting paid were drafted into the list.

2. I'm calling out Buhari for nepotism and tribalism because despite the shoddy job they might have done in the compilation of the so-called register, he could've redeemed himself by at least ensuring those that benefit from the cash transfer in the north and south should at least be the same.....But No! Buhari's tribalism is beyond redemption. He's pushing a figure that glaringly showed tribal sentiment was put into sharing of the money, yet we are only told it's cos those states are poorer than their southern counterparts.

3. Ebonyi is known to be a very poor state, in fact poorer than Kano dem....yet Ebonyi has not gotten a kobo...Care to explain this or do we go with Ur explanation that " Ebonyi governor and it's LGA chairmen didn't key into the FG initiatibe and saw it as nothing "?

4. I am one of those people that always blame state governments for failing the people despite getting huge allocations from FG( Like I blame all past and present governors of Bayelsa for the state being underdeveloped till now).....But when Federal government locks down economic nerve centres of Lagos, Ogun State....and then proceeds to share money to farmers in Katsina, Kebbi, Bandits in Zamfara and Kaduna....I believe educated person should be triggered to ask questions.

diggz:
https://www.nairaland.com/5796536/fg-excludes-lagos-borno-delta

See lamentations!

Baba I've never seen nepotism glaringly on display than what they did with this yeye conditional.cash transfer. I know Larride will refer us back to the story of some state governments not enrolling enough citizens of their states, while some took the opportunity but we all know that is not the case here.

Katsina got a total of ₦2,664,540,000.00 of national wealth, while Ebonyi got 0₦. They are claiming Katsina is the second poorest state in the country, but they forget Ebonyi is the seventh poorest state and yet they get nothing. States like Kano are not even poor by any standard, yet they got enough.

Buhari's tribalism and nepotism is not being hidden again...smh

iamoyindamola:
We used this slim light biro then(renult or something) and also bend the cover to avoid falling off easily.
Another one we did was tic toc(X and o), this new generation ain't ready jare

Damn. The Reynolds biro was a beast. It's beats Bic Boro any day any time.

Going into the game with an Eleganza biro was like conceding defeat before the game starts. The markings on the Eleganza biro makes it roll anytime it's placed on a desk

I also remeber one we played with peak milk tin. We will gather used peak milk tins, form them into a castle by pulling it on each other.....u can have 10 tins at the base, followed by 8 on the next floor and so on till one tin is standing on top.

The game is played by u standing in Ur corner behind Ur castle throwing one tin at Ur opponent's castle. If u are lucky Ur throw scatters Ur opponent's castle, u will look out for the tins not standing and tell Ur opponent to take them out while he will rearrange the remaining standing ones. He will then make his own throw two.

The game gets difficult towards the end when u have less than 4 tins to clear out in Ur opponent's corner. You need to greatly skilled to take out the last 1 or 2 tins standing in Ur opponent's corner before he does same to u.

We have some stubborn tins that get hit and still stand their ground.....one boy we used to play this game together back then will shout " o stand-by!" when his castle gets hit and the tin stands without falling sideways

Funny enough, I am a 90's kid but I didn't really play most of these games o. The primary school I attended was all these serious private schools they monitor us too much and don't subscribe to kids playing all those games.

But I remember I was good at biro fight; where u bring out Ur best biro against Ur opponent's biro. The game is played by making a flick with Ur thumb kicking Ur biro against Ur opponent's....if u give his biro a devastating blow, it drops off the table and u win the round. The sweetest part of the game is when Ur opponent's biro mistakenly lands on top of urs; this is a golden opportunity for u to give him a scissors kick that is similar to a smack down or body slam move in WWE...that's a goodnight move

Farmdog:
Me that is always hungry Twale!!

You and BlueRayDick should marry. I said my own

Kilode?

Breakfast: Noodles + drumstick.

You guys need to try adding little ginger to Ur noodles when next u stay fry it, the taste is unique.

diggz:
This is not some d1ck measuring competition my guy!

It is becoming more and more irritating how you people make assumptions about people you hardly know. You rudely inferred I was posting from the corner of my room without knowing my movements, how well traveled I am or how I'm invested in some of these places. Next time address issues squarely without coming off as condescending my guy. Let's move....

I am going to repeat it louldy for you....YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU SPEAK OF IF ALL YOU DO IS REGURGITATE EVERY WORD OF THIS RUBBISH GOV FROM SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, PAPERS AND ALL OTHER RUBBISH ONLINE SOURCES.

You keep repeating getting info from the state ministry of Budget and Planning like it's going to the supermarket to buy groceries. When last did you sign a simple doc in any LG? let's forget the state levelWhile you depend on Infos from various news outlets some of us have people who are actually in government and most are most are thieves! Yes, I said so!

Just like elections in this useless country is never free and fair....everyone apc card carrying member/their family and associate would get that money first before a kobo gets to those people the money is meant for.

My guy you are indeed a Partyman!

To even do a research project in final year that involves staff of LGA filling questionnaires for u sef, u have to grease their palm to get the info required....not to now talk of u going to the budget and planning department asking them for info wey no dey.

If person ni careful sef dem fit use the thugs attached used for tax and rate collections to harass you.

Don't mind him, he's just saying those things knowing fully well we won't walk into any LGA and start telling them we want to see their social register

Ibime:
The only way Govt can provide any sort of believable palliative in such short time period is by asking banks to credit any personal bank account in the country within a limit of transaction levels with a certain figure.

Only a fool will believe LGAs will get directive by end of this week, assess and verify poor households in their vicinity and submit list by end of next week. Some LGA will be using web-based data system, some will be using Excel while most will be writing on paper. What a massive avenue for corruption from APC house of confusion. LGA Chairmen will just write result jor.

And this is how you know the level of corruption involved here. Buhari said he wants an extra one million households. That means they will write result because surely all the LGAs in the country will not submit exactly 1 million. Infact, there is no reason why 20-50 million names should not be submitted by end of next week given many people can arguably claim they fit the criteria. What will APC do then, will they cut the numbers to fit their target of 1 million households? How do you cut numbers at a global level without delving into the individual status of each person on the register? That means there are no individuals. They are writing result and will just allocate numbers across each LGA to fit their 1 million target.

This is nothing new from APC. This is how they claimed Buhari won APC primaries with 15 millions votes. Does APC have 15 million members? How will 15 million people step out to vote in common primaries in this country and the country will not be at standstill like election day. They were writing numbers in APC primaries to justify the numbers they will write later in the general election. This Govt is despicable when it comes to numbers. Larride stop defending rubbish. What sort of sychophancy is this?

Buhari eyan Sinzu money

Bubu just dey cash out.

Ibime:
How does this infographic tally with Buharis claim of over 1m households on the register. These numbers aren't adding up.

Baba, they just cut and join speech for Buhari to read yesterday ni jare. Shebi u see how he was talking about palliative measures of cash transfer being done only for Larride to make us understand NISRAL hasn't transferred one kobo to anyone even after 2 weeks Bubu announced it.

Yet Bubu is talking as if he's about to roll out second phase when phase 1 never start.

Those heading APC Govt obviously don't rate us with the way they lie to our faces and dish out half truth like say we no get sense

The fact that the FG did not at any point put the information on Twitter, radio or TV that people should go to their LGA to get enrolled for the scoual welfare programme should tell anyone that whatever list they are parading as social register is a result of their mago-mago.

Did BBC pidgin mention how an advert was made prior to 2018 announcing that registration has commenced for the social welfare programme?

Larride please kindly point us to any form of publicity the government did to make people aware of the commencement of this programme. Saying things like the state/ local governments decided the poorest among the people and forwarded it to FG is just not it. You and I know if that is the case, then it becomes an avenue for party members to be compensated while the neutrals are left hanging.

hardeycute:
It will be hard to replace anyone from this list.

I will gladly take out Evans for Soyuncu.....and I will replace Henderson with Ndidi as well

larride:
The program is not meant for you. It is meant for the poorest of the poor in the rural communities. I already explained how the selection works for you and how the whole thing runs, there are still over 300 LGA that are yet to be enrolled in the program.

You didn't explain anything. Okokomaiko is a locality under Ojo LGA where the poorest of the poor reside in Lagos, why are people in this area not registered under the scheme. The talk about people not getting the info because they choose not to is not acceptable.

The whole idea of the social register being shrouded in secrecy is dubious in nature. Accepted It may not be meant for me, but who supposed to be the beneficiary don't even know about its existence. Is it not wise for the Govt to disseminate such info so I can encourage those who I know amongst them to register and become beneficiaries?

Ibime:
There is nobody on no damn register. In the whole of Nairaland, nobody has heard of anybody on no damn register except Larride. 1 in 10 Nigerians are supposedly on this register and nobody knows them. Even NASS members don't know. Na audio register for some APC members to chop money. How does someone compile a register of 17m Nigerians and nobody knows about it.

Na wa o. And Buhari stand for podium dey lie carry give us dey dey talk with confidence....smh

Ibime:
Story for the gods. We know Nigerians that struggle to eat day to day and ain't on no damn register. You mean to tell me those incompetent nincompoops can keep a register of like 17m people. When did they open the register? When did people queue to sign up, and nobody in the country was aware of it. Even common Big Brother audition, we know when they are queueing. Larride, stop publicising your audio register. Are you eating from it?

I'm seriously confused about the whole talks of social register o.

This government that didn't allow us rest talking 24/7 about how they've created jobs for unemployed youth with Npower; suddenly they can't maintain that same energy to gist us about the opening of the social register, it's closure, administration and disbursement of funds.....I don't know anybody both old or young that registered for this so-called social welfare package.

larride:
You have raised some valid point.

1. I don’t know what’s going on with NIRSAL so I can’t really say anything about that.

2. Those who are the intended beneficiaries of this programme are not on social media, the best way to get to them is through their communities since the community is closer to them and in most cases they know each other.

The fault lays solely in the hands of the state governments since they are the one that will coordinate and train staffs on the CBT while NSIP monitors will handle the PMT. one local government in Imo has 7200 beneficiaries but Ekiti State has 5,000 beneficiaries as a whole. The state government will answer to that.

While the National Social Register has 11m households and vulnerable individuals, it is still a neglible percent when compared to our population. A lot still need to be done.

Most people don’t know about the program because they didn’t care to get information as they are being released or they are outrightly rejected as been scam or audio just like Ibime just did even without trying to do any verification. It is what it is.

The bold part of Ur statement is totally untrue. The best form of passing information like that is through radio jingles in English, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba Languages. If the government has not passed the information through this medium, then you can't claim the people don't care to get the information or disregard it as audio.

I listen to radio to and from work, no day did I hear any jingle advising people to go to their local goverment for inclusion in the social register. I hear jingles by FIRS, LIRS encouraging people to pay tax, why is telling people of a package that will benefit them difficult for this government?( That is if there is actually such programme in place)

“I am essential,” he said of remaining open, adding, “I’m a preacher — I talk to God!”


I'm sure he's talking to God life and direct now

larride:
@ bolded, Yes, It’s an existing program not new.

To answer your question:

1. The Covid-19 palliative for those affected by the pandemic is to be handled by NISRAL. For both households and individuals. I’m not sure if NISRAL has done anything tangible yet. NISRAL are suppose to support individuals with CBN backed loan of 50bn Naira to support the economic during the pandemic. Though registration has commenced, I haven’t heard anything about it since days ago when the registration started. I think I posted the link here also.

2. See 1.

3. The planned expansion of the register will have some twerks during the PMT to accommodate daily wage earner and low income earner. Hopefully state government down south will take this program serious. It’s a shame that in the whole of Ekiti only 5,000 people are on the program.

1. If NISRAL is supposed to disburb the money tagged as economic stimulus 2 weeks into federal government ordered lockdown, don't u think that is failure on the part of the government?

Below is an excerpt of Buhari's speech

In the past two weeks, we announced palliative measures such as food distribution, cash transfers and loans repayment waivers to ease the pains of our restrictive policies during this difficult time. These palliatives will be sustained

Anybody who sees that will think the Federal government has done something tangible for people adversely affected by the lockdown; which of course is not the reality based on Ur post above. You see why I agreed with diggz that the goverment is still using propaganda despite being in power for 5 years now.

2. The issue of social register/ social welfare programme, I will not lie to you I got to learn about that on this thread while u were converting with someone last week. I beleive the government for reasons best known to them refused to give the programme publicity and create awareness so the people who are supposed to be beneficiaries will register. I don't know of anybody in my locality that is a beneficiary under the scheme, most people are unaware of the existence of the programme.

There are government owned TV and radio stations that can be used to run jingles to encourage people to register for this of the government is actually serious and being sincere about this programme. Things like that should be the job of National Orientation Agency. What are they doing? I know a lot of retired people who clutch on to their radio listening to news for news items like this. These are people who learnt about registration of LASRAA on radio, if the government announces this social welfare programme on radio I'm sure they won't hesitate to register.

This is why Ekiti, Osun and other states will continue to have low number of people registered under the programme because nobody is passing this info to them

Roland17:
The realities of not playing in the UCL and reporting losses in consecutive months is now staring in our faces. We are unable to pay our players their wages now that we have no stadium/ broadcasters income.

Somehow players like Mustafi go dey talk say he no wan collect pay cut o.....