₦airaland Forum

iamoyindamola:
No sir
I got mine not up to a month and purely DIY
Captured Jan 22 by February 10 it's ready

Ur experience is obviously different from his. Na so naija be.

I have read about different people's experience on the same matter, some got theirs early like u did while others got theirs in 3 months following same process. I guess it is the immigration people that are definitely messing up the system.

Happy Birthday to the man behind the rejuvenation; our director of football :
EDU GASPAR !

Pix 1- League Table last season after 38 games.

NB: Man city lost 5 games last season and finished with 89 points to win the league

Pix 2- League Table after 37 games this season .

Arsenal has lost 5 games and will most likely finish 89 points (which is 2 points better than last season’s) while city will most likely finish with 92 points if they should win West Ham.

Any discerning mind can see that Arsenal posting city’s figures last season ordinarily should have won us the league under normal circumstances . . ….. Like , Arsenal did improve on their last season’s performance but so did city .

When some of us talk about the Pep factor , it is not an excuse for failure as it is being deliberately misinterpreted ; rather it is just speaking to the fact that we are actually making progress albeit not at the same rate city is doing hence why we have been unable to unseat them as champions .

Personally I think this team Arteta has assembled is a work in progress and we are almost there . I believe if for some reason the management believes Arteta needs to leave for the team to clinch major silverware , then the management should be getting us big name replacements with proven track records like Ancelotti , Zidane , etc and not another mid level manager that is coming in to start building all over again .

Finally I think it is high time we all sheath our swords and let’s discuss about progress of the club from this current position we are in. I mean we can discuss some of the issues we see that is wrong with this present team and possible solutions instead of joining senseless rival fans to troll our own club because of differences in opinion about the manager’s future .

For example one of the problems we have is how to break the spirit of teams who just come to play us with the intention of frustrating our play; some teams come to play low block which we find hard to break down, others come to set up counter attack to catch our defenders upfield . As of today we have already sorted our defensive issues as we have like the best defence in the league; a defence that rivals city’s and our GK is the golden glove winner . What do we do about attack especially against stubborn teams ? How do we improve on that ?

Theflint1:
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The intending bridegrooms go just be like “ which kind wahala be this “? 😁

TemporaryHansel:
Culture vs the Constitution, the law will always win. But, who's going to enforce it? Nigerians have proven over and over again to be ridiculously loyal to religious and cultural matters, most even respect those two things above the Nigerian constitution.

This is just like when the Supreme Court ruled that women must be allowed to inherit properties of their parents in the South East, but till today the women there are not allowed to inherit the properties of their fathers despite a ruling from the supreme Court ordering that. I'm sure you agree with me that there's nothing wrong with a female inheriting her father's properties, but you had to see the energy that south easterners used to insult the Supreme Court throughout that month for giving a fair and sane ruling.

@raumdeuter is right when he says the north isn't the only place with archaic and inhuman practices/ cultures. You just haven't visited enough places in the south.
If you visit some places in the south, you'd think you're in 1854.
The only difference is the northerners seem to make the news more often.

U are conflating issues on this one.

On the Supreme Court ruling on female child inheritance , once the Supreme Court has made such pronouncement, it is already the law. If today in the south east a female is denied her inheritance by her people, she can take the matter to court and the court will award the inheritance to her . If any of the family members thereafter goes against such judgement , then the court will hold them in contempt. They can be jailed for that .


To the child marriage issue , if a case on it gets instituted and it gets to Supreme Court level…. If the Supreme Court rules against child marriage, then it will form a precedent and going forward such judgement will be a reference point to fight future cases.

If I still remember my intro to General principles of law correctly , I think when it comes to customary laws/cultural issues there’s usually what they call repugnancy test . i . e the court will have to test if a customary or cultural practice is not repugnant to natural justice, equity and that such practice is not perceived to be inhuman and obnoxious .

Child marriage is obviously obnoxious and inhuman when u consider it is one of the causes of serious medical conditions like VVF.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If the judge na Sheikh nko?

Nigerian Judiciary wey two Federal High Court go dey give different judgements?[/color]

That one sef dey 😁

But on a norms sha the judge will be expected to interpret the law and not pass his religious believe as judgement .

Theflint1:
Yea, the woman no really try, if you're in the public eye, you can't use social media vibes and personal cultural disposition approach issues of this nature. I doubt the woman even know say na cultural and not criminal issue, hence her approach. She holds a sensitive and very important position, it's just sad that she's not quite fit for the job.

It is not a cultural issue per se.

The child rights act which protects the right of the girl child and actually does not support child marriage has been domesticated by 34 out of 36 states in this country . (It’s only Kano and Zamfara that are yet to codify the law in their respective states)

Well I don’t know if Shari’a law supersedes the Child Rights act, but certainly this is not a cultural issue but one that bothers on the legality of the honorable’s actions.

For all it is worth , I will like the ministry to take the matter up in court and let them test the matter in a law court . Let’s see how it goes

Theflint1:
I swear, the guy na smart rogue, I con even dey ask myself whether the whole drama na film abi na real...gotta hand it to him sha, the guy sabi this social media thing.

He actually knows what he’s doing ; he milks every controversy he’s enmeshed in to push his craft . Only few people can do that in the industry .

He’s a very smart ruffian .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So today is the International Day of the Boy Child, and nobody talk.

I did not see organisations disturbing my SM with different flyers and campaigns[/color]

I don’t even take all of those kinikan kinikan days serious . Any day wey no be public holiday no concern me

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Is there really any big deal in Emirates coming back?

I no be international flyer, but i have never heard passengers were stranded because Emirates left[/color]

Abi.

The news that would make much difference is if Dubai visa ban is lifted . There are people who have genuine business in Dubai and have not been able to go due to the visa ban wahala

Portable may be a lot of things negative , but he’s also one of the most intelligent guys currently in the music business in Nigeria

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7BWQUjtKpM/?igsh=MTlycTVuZXdndXFvaQ==

The weyrey even add the soundbite of the people wey arrest am inside song 😂

He was released yesterday on bail and today he already has a song about the incident out. Guy is milking every negative situation to make money .

It will shock the lady car owner that na proceed of the music he go use pay the gbese 😂😂

GloriousGbola:
I schooled up north. We were mostly Southerners. Then we had 3 core northerners in a set. Straight from the village. I doubt any of them had been in a environment where the girl child was expected to anything more than child rearing. Unfortunately one of the girls lost her dad in their jss3. Next thing her uncle married her off sharp sharp. We never saw her again. That girl could have been a manager in bank or mtn or an oil company. Instead na vvf.

That is northern 'culture'

Chai!

This is one of the reasons why most people who agitate for disintegration of this country do so.

Like we are so different in “culture “; the things that seem normal in the north appears abnormal to us here in the south and vice versa .

I also had my own share of cultural shock during NYSC when I was walking in town with fellow coroners and I hung my hands across the female corper’s shoulder without much self awareness. I no know say as we Dey waka almost everybody was looking at us with a sneer on their faces at my “disgusting” public show of affection.

It took me few minutes to figure the reason why everyone focused their attention on us cos that is actually not the first time they are seeing corpers. As I realize what the issue is, I quickly adjusted o cos they actually had sharia law in force , but it appears it doesn’t really apply to non-Muslims/ non-indigenes . From that day I just try to be on my best behavior once I’m not within our safe space ( Corpers lodge and the school compound )

Theflint1:
Na today Hausa/Fulani begin run underage paroles? There was a more sensitive way to handle things, especially since the issue was cultural and not necessarily criminal...the woman is ill-qualified for her role, another one of Tinubu's technocrats.

If u read the woman's petition to the IGP, u will see where she mentioned the issue of Childs right act.

How can a lawmaker be seen not only encouraging but sponsoring the marriage of underage girls in their dozens and then tagging it as constituency projects?

I don't think the woman is in the wrong for raising the issue ; it is within the purview of her office. Except of course if we are saying she's only on the seat to protect the right of southern girl child and not northern girl child.

This country sef!

CrystalTiger:
I wonder why the Women Affairs minister is the only high ranking female government official speaking out against this shit..

Of all the problems in Niger state, marrying out orphaned girls is now a top priority..

Well, it is her ministry's job to speak to these things but then I agree with u that the conspiracy of silence on the part of other high ranking government officials no make sense at all.

The fact that she's a southern woman sef will make the speaker and his imams dare her to carry on with the yeye weddings.

Olowunl01:
Bro, mistake number 1, after God fear governments, nothing Nigerian govt can do ke? Let just hope they actually meant borrowing by way of TBills or asking PFAs and PFCs to invest in infrastructure bonds or something, cos if it direct deductions omo its scary ooo, you know being the largest employer and defo the largest contributor to the pension funds they can do their magomago if they want & all that will end it will be all talk, and before you know it people will come to muddy the water with their dissatisfaction with PFAs & PFCs.

Funny how everyone suddenly forget this is Nigeria where government behave like they are above the law over and over again.

This is naija where government and its agencies don’t even obey express court orders.

No be today government Dey take irresponsible decisions and heaven did not fall. When they eventually take those decisions we thought they won’t dare, it is still government’s supporters/apologists that will still explain it away

larride:
Boss the FG cannot just deduct money that is not in their care. Most of the money are in pension funds manager account, not in FG account or FG care.

The right word might be "borrow".

I doubt Pencom and other stakeholders will agree to borrow the FG money though. Let them raise bonds and t-bills.

U are still not getting it.

Let’s say FG decides to raise T-bills , government bonds and other finance instruments . Will it be specific to PFAs alone ?

Will PFAs be under compulsion to invest in those instruments or it will be their prerogative to either invest in them or look at other investment vehicles ?


The tone of that news article sounds as if the FG is gunning for pension funds whether the PFAs and PFCs like it or not. The fact that FG even put a figure on the amount they are looking at and they were specific about pension funds makes it look somehow .

Well, let’s wait for more clarifications sha

Itsrm:
The link below further explains what I was saying earlier.

https://punchng.com/pencom-denies-lending-fg-n10tn/%3Famp&ved=2ahUKEwin8_6TqpCGAxWKYEEAHfSaBRkQFnoECDIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3WFgiQSP_XKFRG3UiBbjx-

I have read the article and let’s say I want to give the DG benefit of doubt that she’s saying the truth and not some cooked up story by a political appointee to save the government’s face 5 months after the issue was raised .

So what do we make of the news that says FG wants to DEDUCT and not sell investment products to PFA’s ?

In the past I’ve had chance to actually study the PENCOM act 2004 and I know PFAs are allowed to invest in government bonds and all….. but this news article is saying something different from that.

Itsrm:
Simple. This has been the practice for as long as I can remember.

If it's about them not paying back, the government will rather print money to pay than default.

We the owners of the money even get to earn some returns on our money. The accumulated interest for some of us is in 6 and 7 figures.

Again, I don't get why this is now generating so much uproar.

If it’s that simple, then why were retirees having issues assessing their savings as at October 2023 prompting the house committee to raise a motion on it ?

larride:
They are not taking the money because it's not possible. It's the same way pension managers have been investing pension funds into govt bonds and Bill's. There's no difference.

The government do not have the power to take money that is not even there's and in private custody.

What u are saying is different from the news article reported . Except it is the author that is reporting a wrong news .

The language of the news article is FG plans to DEDUCT….

Itsrm:
Nigerian government has been borrowing pension funds for as long as I can remember.

Pension fund managers are one of the biggest investors in NTBs and savings bond. When you buy fixed income instruments from the government, you're essentially borrowing the government money.

Why is this one generating so much uproar?

U are clearly not well informed about this matter for u to claim there’s been no uproar on this nonsense FG borrowings Bubari dem started .

https://www.thecable.ng/reps-move-to-recover-n10trn-pension-fund-borrowed-by-fg/amp/

As at October 2023 the house of reps was still trying to recover over 10 trillion

larride:
Pension funds do not sit in pension manager account. They are mostly used for investment purposes.

I know how pension funds are invested by the custodian. I have a fair idea of how the pension system works .

The idea of government taking out as much as 20 trillion out of the funds is not a welcome idea as far as I’m concerned . Let government source for their funding elsewhere .


The fund deoant belong to them . The fund is not there for them to borrow


There was a reason this contributory pension scheme was introduced by Obsanjo to ensure the minimum government interference

CrystalTiger:
Lord have mercy...

I think organized private sector , pension funds custodian and senior lawyers actually need to sue the Federal government on this matter .

Number one the pension funds do not belong to the federal government but to retirees whom the pension funds serves as their savings . The federal
Government does not have any legal right to just dip hands into the funds simply because of any phantom plan of infrastructural development .

Another issue is that Nigerian government does not have any capacity to return such funds if they are allowed to “borrow” it.

I read the full article and I saw them talking about phantom ideas of utilizing part of the funds for housing projects which they intend to make available to the pensioners on mortgage . From where I stand I can see through the bullshiiit that like most housing projects if and when such houses are built; like most government housing projects the masses whose pensions were “borrowed “ to construct the project will never benefit from it.

If government needs money for infrastructure development they should go to the international financial market where they have always sourced funds they waste and embezzle . Let them add to the gbese on the neck of the country . They should not put the funds of retirees at risk while going about their rubbish wastefulness .

Olowunl01:
The only people that can solve this problem is the government, it's Alausa, anything else is just a waste of time, until the govt starts jailing civil servants and heads of agency responsible for approval and monitoring, nothing changes.

There is no way these houses are built without the knowledge of the authorities in Lagos, so whoever was the commissioner, department heads in the last 20yrs have questions to answer. Most of these properties are sold on to non suspecting abroadians.

This is going to kill off private investment in real estate in Lagos state, there is acute shortage of descent accommodation in Lagos state, like how do you build a whole estate on a drainage and it is allowed? Not possible unless you have sorted someone somewhere.

[You engaging a lawyer who most likely doesn't have indemnity insurance and total networth is just a couple of millions doesn't give much succour when things go south neither does the prospect of going through the court systems which could take years.

You made a lot of sense here egbon.

When people say engage a consultant, engage a surveyor, engage a lawyer, etc to help u do background check on any property before u buy them....They forget that those professionals can actually do the findings and still end up advising u wrongly either because they were incompetent or were also misled by the government agencies they consulted.

In saner climes, professionals like that are expected to have professional indemnity insurance which will be cater for any liability arising of ur professional advice to client(Like ur client's house being demolished by govt after u advised him to purchase the property that it has clean title & approval). But here in naija, shey lawyer wey dey owe him landlord rent na him wan buy professional indemnity insurance ?

Government has the most role to play honestly. They need to do something like come up with a law to prosecute civil servants in those agencies who help all those estate developers with dagbo dagbo approvals . This is because I’ve never seen any of those estate developers advertise properties without claiming they have approvals , yet when government wants to demolish they always claim those approvals are fake

GloriousGbola:
People need to start engaging consultants. These developers and their promoters are shysters. I have one on our school WhatsApp group. Always promoting these multimillion naira properties. I now look at them like car dealers who will sell you a 'clean car' with dodgy custom papers.

I dread all those people always advertising Kinikan kinikan estate lekki, after Chevron, close to Lagos Business School, etc. It's almost like everyone is now a realtor once they finish school and there's no white collar job available.

Everyday like this u see different estates being advertised on WhatsApp status.

I think most people who fall victim to buying those properties without proper approvals are people abroad who intend to buy houses here where they can always crash anytime they are in naija.The desire to own a property in Lekki Axis always and the fact that they don't want to send money to relatives here to do findings on their behalf always make them fall victim.

iamoyindamola:
Sanwoolu need to demolish 90% of ikeja and design a better blueprint
Ikeja should be competing with Island but if rain start that place is terrible to come

Omo! All those Oba Akran area of Ikeja worse when rain falls.

I don't even know what they can do to that Ikeja cos most of the places drainages would've been dug are now full with properties.

Itsrm:
So how do you know provision was not made? Who says Fubara is not the one blocking the payment to frustrate the contractors who would have been associates of Wike.

This is a man who has a well documented history of saying something in public and does another in private.

As they say, when politicians fight, the truth suffers.

Well, for a fact I don't know if provisions were made or not. I'm sure u also don't know, but u are willing to believe it was made

I guess Wike himself needs to speak to the matter , this ur speculations of Fubara sitting on the supposed provision will not fly for now.

GloriousGbola:
As accountant General no way Fubara was not in the know about these figures.

The other thing is even businesses for one reason or another have delays in paying contractors. It is much worse in govt run orgs.

We were invited to do a design for a CNG Autogas project. We have done most of it. Three weeks later one story or another about payment.

Last year a payment we expected in November did not come until February.

Getting your money out of some clients is a delicate dance. In my day I have seen vendors come to the office, make a scene, get their money and get blacklisted.

I have been on projects where there were variations and we had to push for 6 months for the vendor to be paid. Sometimes the vendor has assumed his money has entered bush and then he gets paid. Happened to me as well with a client who owed for like 9 months.. I had written it off the boom out of the blue I was paid

Well, I expect Wike to come out with a logical explanation to why the payments are still outstanding, and more importantly state that provisions were made ahead of time for the payment from those particular financial years.

Yes businesses may delay in paying contractors but they always plan towards repayment na.

If the information online is correct, Fubara did not become Wike's Accountant General until 2020. Remember these are outstandings from 2016 and 2017 o

Itsrm:
You mean he had one project to his name after one year? Wonderful!

I am not an expert on Rivers state matters, na why I wan learn from u. The flyer u shared the other day showed more than one project commissioned by Fubara na

Itsrm:
It was clearly stated in the letter the money was for retention. It's standard practice in road construction to ensure the contractor adheres to required standard.

What they should have shown us is the contract document showing the money was due to be paid before Wike left and he didn't pay.

Simple as ABC

U this man !

So u actually believe that for roads completed in 2016 and 2017 the outstanding funds held for retention would not have been due for over 6 and 7years respectively?

Okay let us agree they were not due as at then but provisions were made for them by the administration, where are the provisions now? If there are provisions will Fubara be complaining ?

raumdeuter:
See the map of the area and how the canal was sandfilled to build houses

When these are demolished we will start hearing the usual noise

https://www.nairaland.com/8092733/lagos-state-serves-notice-properties#129962356

I support the government to demolish those properties cos they constitute environmental hazard.

I also think government agencies should be more proactive going forward; like they shouldn't wait for some of these properties to be put up before taking action. If possible, going forward they should actually prosecute anybody caught in the act sandfilling some of these canals.

I think that will save a lot of unsuspecting innocent people from buying those land and properties years after.

Itsrm:
The rat was chopping garri and had things to show for it.

This one is chopping, has a very loud mouth and very little to show.

U mean it was within first one year Wike achieved everything he achieved? Wonderful!

iamoyindamola:
Na only him rate wike
Infront of every Nigerian that wike is a nobody, remove violence he's just a noise maker
I stand with fubara sim btw

Me I no even stand with any of them cos na dem know where dem see each other(i.e Wike and Sim)

But I think Wike actually needs to be demystified. An ex-governor should not be holding a sitting governor by the neck and threatening fire and brimstone after he enjoyed his own tenure without problem. He should let the guy work and after the end of the guy's tenure let the people be the judge of who was a better governor