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I used to be a staunch supporter of Sanusi when he got to the office of CBN Governor and kicked off the reforms in the banking industry but I now know better.

He is just another one of the big government bureaucracy run at the centre called FGN. They have so much power and money but they are blinded by their greed and lack of basic knowledge of running this country......the FGN is our own natural disaster in Nigeria. I read a funny statement here on nairaland that "we would not die as virgins as the government will PH*****K us all up at one time or the other" Funny and indecent but true.

1. CBN is on the loose and they alongside other government officials will be held to account very soon by the masses. I see another occupy naija coming soon. People are dying of poverty and they are thinking of 5k note!!!

2. CBN's banking reforms has resulted in tighter credit, massive job losses and economic downturn, he denied that he had an agenda to sell the banks to his cronies. History has shown he was lying through his teeth.

3. CBN's 5k note is at variance with the cashless Nigeria they are trying to push (Cashless Nigeria in my opinion is good but has it's limitations hinged on lack of infrastructure)

4. CBN should tell us why the coins are no longer available after the huge costs of production.

5. Sanusi is clearly a religious extremist and is not ashamed to demonstrate this using the instruments of the state

Clearly FGN's progress is just too slow to keep Nigeria running and together as a corporate entity. Imagine of not for the coalition of civil society that organised Occupy nigeria , the subsidy thieves will have made a way with the monies and Nigerians will have had to pay more at the pumps.

I watched the interview of the CBN corporate affairs guy on channels yesterday and he just did not make sense but went on talking about achievements in the power sector and infrastructure and T1! He did not have anything reasonable to say in defense of the 5k note. I think we should occupy the home of anti people government officials.

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Please is this ride still available

Hi,

Please can this go for 1m?

Hi, please can this fly at 750?

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Nice ride, does it have a second gear? Can this go for 750k. It is a good car but I have a low budget apologies for the hard bargaining.

........Ordinarily Ignore such stuff including the one on poisoned orange....good enough I am wearing a red shirt and I am waiting for whatever!

True our underdevelopment is attributable to the fact that we believe anything and take anything!

Just listening to Pastor Bakare on LTV - 60 minutes with Angela - He talked about the letter and confirmed it was badly written, he told the messengers that he was not a journalist in the business of interviewing people. Though he said they treated him professionally.

I tire for the SSS o, if they are writing to any member of the public, it should be in a manner that a common man would understand. I respect them so much but I am badly let down by such a blunder.

Communication is not what the communicator understands but for the communicatee (If I may use that word) to understand the message.

Sahara reporters of today says the Governor has gone to seek investors at the Olympics with a large contigent......These people have planned their strategies very well. The house of assembly that should check suck reckless travels have been roped in!

Gbajabiamilla, please know that as a Nigerian who wants a better future for my child ,You have my support to give clues to the clueless and head to the headless, Ignore the distractions and lets all focus on helping this president do something positive for Nigeria. It's not about complaining about Boko haram but dealing with the problem. Its not about removing subsidies but eradicating corruption.

Reasonable people know the snail brains around the president will attack the messenger and leave the message.

NUPENG, PENGASSAN, TUC and NLC, you don't have integrity,your unions are being led by thieves who are worse than our politicians.

The generality of Nigerians are not bothered with your strike and we have lost confidence in you all. Your members are stealing and clueless FGN is trying to retrace its steps and you go on strike. I am happy most Nierians are not panic buying or showing interest in your stupudity.

You bribe takers had better call off your strike before we occupy your offices. Your members have taken the leeway given by the politicians to steal blind and kill Nigeria's ability to refine locally. Your members have aided the subsidy thieves to loot and steal. Please shut up and dont insult us

To hell with all the compromised and corrupted unions

Vernor: Pple talk here as if dey dont have past, they talk as if they are saint or angel, let d sw fedefe keep quiet, where were they when hembe and facrook, im not here to surport gbaja but let us face it all d money left by obj whr are dey + d subsidy money, if jona cant manage funds properly wot do u think will happen to babies we hav now, their future morgaged because he cant think, no jobs for our youth due to d foolishnes of pple in power. Until we call a spàde a spade. I wish we can stand up like d arab spring.

God bless you my brother many of the people calling for his head have done worse things in their life. The guy has no CRIMINAL charges and has not been found to have committed any criminal offence.He did mention in his statement that he wrote it in his bookand he openly admitted it;

PDP calling for his resignation is quite funny, the should also call for the resignation of the following with serious cases of Misconduct

1. The petroleum minister for siting of a monumental trillion naira subsidy fraud in the Petroleum ministry
2. Hembe for stealing government money
3. Bamanga Tukur for bringing up a subsidy thief
4. Ahmadu Ali for bringing up a subsidy thief
5. Mr Shoeless and clueless for impoverishing the people of Nigeria which is the greatest crime of all.
6. David mark for the missing monies under the ministry of telecoms when he was minister

Address the issues not the person, we all know the Snail brains around the president are trying to blackmail Gbaja or Gbajabi or Gbajabiamilla. Leave the guy and answer all the questions he has asked you Mr shoeless clueless and headless.

[quote author=Godman_n]Does a man visited by Criminals pray for them or confront them? Are Nigerian Rulers not worse than criminals? Of what effect have all the prayers said in our churches since 1960s? As a member of the Catholic church, I can witness that we have said a prayer against Bribery and corruption in every Church in this country since 1993 or thereabout. Now tell me, is corruption getting better or worse in this country? What does this tell you about our silly prayers without good work.

Wake up, Bakare may not be totally sincere, but he is going the right way. Imagaine what would have happened if a fifth of the pastors and Imams in the country will queue behind him to protest against the massive stealing and bad governance going on in our country.

It is very funny when the pots call the kettle names. Uninformed are calling the informed names. So has our world ever been.[/quote]KpakaM! You are so right !

We all sit and pray for the country without doing anything, the politicians will come to the places of worship and sit in front, the men of God will pray for them, they go back and continue to steal........we continue to pray and they continue to steal.

If you ask the folks up north who have been denied the right to worship under a secure environment without fear of bombings they will tell you religion and politics must mix

We cannot sit in our rooms to pray and watch the whole country collapse.

If not for the useless unions that called off the January strike, Pastor Bakare's SNG would have made the FG reverse the pump price of fuel. And carry out strong reforms. GAJ promised results in 6 months, this is July and what new thiong and value has the FG added to our lives? ………..

………..But even at that the big success is that the subsidy thieves are being prosecuted today without any credit going to that man and his SNG that organised the mass protests. If Pastor Bakare had not come out with facts and figures and organised the protests we would have been buying petrol at almost 200 naira per litre. Look around you can you not see poverty ravaging the land? The people that do evil are not too bad because they are doing the works of their father the devil.....the people who see evil doers and keep quiet even if they are in the position to fight them off for the sake of the weak and downtrodden and do not fight it , are the real devils.


Pastor Bakare may God continue to strengthen you and grant you favour. Many of us are behind you ooooo ride on , if your utterances will irritate this FGN into improving this nation then so shall it be.

I don't know what to believe now

See below another painful story in the Punch of today 23 July 2012. If I had the powers I will ensure every PHCN staff accounts for what they have done to provide enhanced power supply and service delivery including safe provision of electricity before they are paid gratuity. Awodi jeun epe sanra! (the bird called Awodi eats the farmers seedlings and as It get filled up, the curses upon it fills up!)


To hell with all inefficient and non challant PHCN staff....May they be paid back in multiple fold

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Punch 23 July:
The electrocution of a father of four, Simon Nwafor, by a high tension wire of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Aguda, Surulere area of Lagos is stirring controversy.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Simon, a driver, was electrocuted on July 3 at about 6:20am while he was on his way to his boss’ residence on Somosu Street.

It was learnt that Simon, 47, who had taken cover from the rain in front of some shops close to the power line was electrocuted few minutes after he helped some schoolchildren to cross the road and board their school bus.

A resident of the area, Theophilus Eze, said his corpse was found inside the gutter around 6:30 am.

He said, “I just came down in the morning and saw a dead body in the gutter while the PHCN high tension wire was also dangling.”

A trader in the area, Joseph Okeke, said there had been several reports to PHCN on the precarious state of the wire.

He said, “This is the third time the wire will suddenly cut. It happened towards the end of 2011, in February, and this third one which unfortunately took Simon’s life.

“The sad part of it is that we have been lodging complaints with the PHCN authorities on the precarious state of the wires for long.

“To be candid, the death of Simon is entirely their fault because we informed them about it. When I expressed concern about the state of the wire with the technician in February, he simply accused me of embarrassing him.”

Another trader in the area, Gloria Agwuncha, while corroborating Okeke’s claims said the poor maintenance culture of the PHCN was responsible for the sad event.

She said, “The high tension wire snaps whenever rain falls. I’m surprised that they are not taking responsibility for Simon’s death.

“Whenever the wire snaps, all they do is to manage it by joining both parts together until it becomes very fragile and weak. This last one snapped at the point where it was previously joined.”

Simon’s wife, Esther, said she was surprised that the PHCN authorities did not accept that their negligence caused her husband’s death.

She said, “The negligence of PHCN authorities has made me a widow overnight. I am a housewife and Simon was the breadwinner of the family. I and the four children he left behind are now living from hand to mouth.

“Up till this time that I speak to you, none of the PHCN officials had visited me on the death of my husband. It saddens me whenever they say that they are not to blame for cause of his death.

“All they keep saying is that the fault was not theirs. If the power line had been properly fixed, would it have fallen on my husband?

“Apart from finding it difficult to feed the children it has also been difficult to keep them in school. Our rent would soon lapse and we might likely be sent packing as there is no means of getting money.”

Simon’s daughter, Ugochi, a Junior Secondary School three pupil, who spoke to our correspondent in a pensive mood, said she had yet to recover from the shock of her father’s death.

She said, “I mourn the death of my dad everyday and the thought that the carelessness of the PHCN caused his death adds to my sorrow. He was a loving and caring dad and he shouldn’t have died like that.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone.

She said, “The case of electrocution of Simon who was said to be passing by before a wire fell on him was reported at the Aguda Police Station.

“Policemen from the division went to the scene to recover his corpse. The corpse had since been handed over to the family of the deceased.

“No foul play was suspected. In fact, an autopsy was carried out on him, which confirmed that he died of electrocution.”

When contacted, the phone of the spokesperson for PHCN Eko Distribution Zone, Mr. Idemudia Godwin, rang out.

Also, a text message sent to his phone was also not replied to.

...........Interesting, it would be good to know the source of funding of this jamboree. They could have learnt how to support their husbands from their imam or pastor or Jujuman. If the funds are from government, the funding arm should be queried for waste of state resources. To imagine that they increased the price of fuel to 140 in January to fund this type of reckless waste.

If they chartered a place, this is the type that should have crashed. These politicians are not aware that Nigerians are now more involved in how the collective resources are allocated and we would continue to hound and piker them until they do the right things

Shame on them all

Virgin Nigeria RIPm you were destined to die young

Where are the Delta Taxis today and what value has it added to the economy of the state. ...............Tractors would have delivered value

Deiok: It pains me to hear some people who dont know anything talking trash of not having light and phcn staffs disconnecting their light and collecting bribe, if you pay your bills will they disconnect your light, and those of you who don't know that the electricity problem of this country is in the hands of the past and present president of this country. You guys better go and do your research.

Yes indeed the electricity problem and many other areas of our lives is hands of the leaders and the management of PHCN and the politicians but note that the workers are major contributors to the rot. I will tell you my experience.

1. I completed one property and applied for connection and a meter. ......after 3 months, no luck with all the fees paid.

2. The marketer in charge of the area approached me, he said people who paid 1 year before had not been connected to power and they had to connect illegally.


3. I got tenants after 6 months of completion and I was desperate, I did not want to give bribe or do anything under the table and went to the business manager who told me to go and see the marketer in the undertaking.

4. I wrote to the PHCN regional office at Ikeja, after one month no response, I lost two prospective tenants who felt I was too slow and out of this world waiting for NEPA. No response, 15 years after.


5. I went back to the marketer and I was told to raise new drafts for the connection as they could not trace the previous payments (though i presented my receipt which took several demands of bribe and three weeks to issue after payment) I parted with 15k (at the time big money). I got the official receipts and they connected me and brought a meter. I was told the bills would come after three months because they had to open the account in some central data base.

6. 6 months of chasing and inconvenient and time wasting visits to the NEPA office, no luck on Bill.


7. My tenants called me each time they was disconnection in the area and yet we could not pay because I had no account. On two occasions they claimed the meters were stolen and they fleeced my tenants under threat of arrest and fines. I was not in town and I had to refund my tenants. I went to report to the manager of the undertaking, he told me to write, I did, and no response to date. Another time they said we should have installed 3 phase rather than single phase meters

Without telling all the full details and making this post boring, I had to reregister the third time and paid loss of revenue and then started getting bills because someone introduced me to one of their directors then in Abuja who gave me a note to a big boy at the Lagos regional office. They know people without accounts and have the list and they visit all such places when they are broke. They

• They demand bribes if you report a fault and expect action
• They deliberately switch of power to demand bribes
• They are to lazy and inept to read meters
• NO customer focus; see themselves as gods
• They over bill and demand bribes to reduce your monthly billing subsequently and they make the bad processes in PHCN even worse. Is it the work of GEJ or OBJ or Yara, or IBB or directors in Abuja to run the daily operations. They collect money to buy equipment from customers and get these things out of stores free. I have been to the lagos central stores and see transformers rotting away........yet they collect money to buy transformers from localities and you have to pay for the installation. I just completed another property and I had to pay for the pole, cables, and insulators above market prices and if you buy yourself they will tag it as substandard. All the materials carried the Nepa logo but I am tired of reporting these fellows without action from both middle level and senior level managers. Hear this, the head of the undertaking said he had been on the look out of the owner of my new place and he said thank God I came to him otherwise he would have ordered that the remove the cables and disconnect he told me he would say we used substandard materials. He said some of his boys are trying to undercut him.!!!!!


These people protesting are major contributors to the rot and inability of NEPA to provide power to our homes and businessees. If you have family in there, sorry but the truth should be told.


Poster Playah says his mum has not been paid salaries while some are abusing posters for Ignorance, playah these guys your position is not correct! They claim they no better and are calling people names.

I will be the happiest Nigerian the day the inefficient people in PHCN are botted out and young fresh blood injected ino the system. Where were the unions when their management was stealing and misappropriating funds? They should shut up and stop insulting Nigerians

Una dey joke since o make una call Multilinks and u shall know!...........after waiting on hold for so long they will start by BARKING at u to say why are u disturbing me....and if u no get strong mind u shall drop the phone in fear

See them! Heartless bunch of people who will do anything to get bribes and do nothing without bribes. The got should pay them off and send them packing, employ and empower young and focussed people to run the damned Phcn.

Their workforce is bloated and they do nothing rather they are killing our economy. Wish they had done this in Lagos, the area boys will have given then the flogging of their lives..........onyioshi onyiori

chief batiatus: Funny enough the IT company I worked in did job of almost N200m last year at sec and bliv me we didn't know anybody there and when we finished we got paid and the woman hasn't looked at our face till today oh! Many IT firms participated oh my people because she initiated total infrastructural turnaround of more tham N1billion, yet no IT was asked to settle oh! My people God will never stop punishing nigerians for bringing good people here all to disgrace them oh! It is northern muslims in sec that are fighting her oh! I dey pain them say she has never married and has no time. She does not keep airs around her and carries her bag herself oh! U need to see how the last DG wrecked that place oh!

Thank you for coming out to defend this lady. I quiver when good people are rubbished by the SYSTEM! Imagine some calling this professional GEJ's sex tool, haba, even if she is his babe, that is her business!, she accused HEMBE who was hounding her at the panel of stealing and conversion……… investigations have confirmed that. He is facing the music in court and I pray he goes to jail for a long time at the end of the day.

I don't know this woman and I don’t want to know her but any intelligent person following the probe will know she has not stolen but applied her skills in the private sector strongly and did not allow her aides to CHOP. She might have in her over zealousness made a couple of mistakes but that does not qualify her for the gallows.

We are quick to run down single career women may be due to inferiority complex I don’t know but can someone show evidence that the woman has stolen. ....NO

She should ensure disciplinary action is taken against all the thieves working at SEC...ride on Otteh we need more of you for Nigeria to move forward.

deenee: She has not done anything wrong. This is one of the reasons why we cannot move forward as a nation. The complacent people at Sec want business to continue as usual. I cannot believe that in this age and era, that the regulatory arm is still run like a moribund government agency where people wear slippers to the work place and carry files up and down. Information from the grapevine suggests that the bane of her woes was because she advocated for a complete overhaul of the IT infrastructure and was shocked when she discovered that firms that were favored during the bidding process were owned by existing directors and board members! She then used her executive powers to cancel the old bids and placed a request for fresh bids with very stringent conditions.

Apparently, the other directors and board members were not happy because she had denied them yet another opportunity to have their share of the national cake. She has not known peace since then.

Good thoughts, these government people are LARGELY thieves and they will only shout when it is not business as usual for them. I am happy that GEJ has retained this woman. The more there is acrimony between the heads of the stxealing FG agencies the better cos they will expose themselves. No one has found her hand in the pot.

Please unleash the scorn of a woman on those stealing bastards called fed civil servants.....the unions have no credibility as far as I am concerned, The TUC and NLC messed up big time in january by calling off the Fuel subsidy removal strike prematurely.

Thiefs ooooooooooo barawo oooooooo

How did we allow this to happen to us in Nigeria? We should not vote based on sentiments but competence. The quality of utterances from our President are at the level of max a LG chairman. This is very embarassing that my dear country Nigeria will end up with this? A country of Intellectuals and great minds.

to sad to comment further , I am quite heart broken

BRF is so much an inspiring leader, I think we can all do the right things in our own little way. When we all contribute our quota this country will become better. Amechi is another governor that would do the same thing. I hope we all including the politicians will learn from this great man of our time

Nigeria shall be better.


See story below from today's punch 18th July 2012



Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Tuesday reprimanded two military officers for driving on the dedicated Bus Rapid Transit lane.

The soldiers were accosted on the BRT lane at the Outer Marina on the Island.

Fashola expressed dismay that those who should show discipline and professionalism were the ones violating the BRT regulation.

Colonel K.I. Yusuf drove an Army Green Peugeot 406 with registration number BO1 – 150 NA, while Staff Sergeant A.J. Adeomi drove a black Toyota Camry.

Perhaps realising the problem that could come from being accosted by the governor, Yusuf reportedly alighted from his car and saluted Fashola repeatedly, saying, “I am sorry, very, very sorry.”

But the governor instead asked, “Why, as a senior military officer, did you choose to break the law instead of preserving it?”

The incident was said to have drawn the attention of commuters and other passers-by who reportedly commended the governor for showing good leadership.

Fashola, after the incident, said it was unfortunate that those who ought to be defenders of democratic values were the ones violating the law.

He said, “The highest levels of the military command have continuously expressed their commitment to supporting democracy and to subjecting themselves and their officers to the laws of the country. Those officers that I caught today are a very bad example for the military.”

The governor added that he had complained to the superiors of the culprits, saying they would be sanctioned appropriately.

He said his apprehension of the military men signified his commitment and that of his government that all violators of the law should be sanctioned.

He said, “There is a zero tolerance for lawlessness. There is zero tolerance for breach of our regulations and we are going to do more of this. We are going to take control of our traffic. We cannot build our way out of traffic congestion; our responsibility is to manage traffic and manage congestion.

“I don’t use the BRT lane, I sit down in traffic and I expect everyone who wants to drive his car to do the same. The alternative is to use the bus.

“The passengers in the bus have the right also to use the road and we cannot encroach on that lane which we have reserved for them. This is democratisation of the road and I will defend it.”

Cool ride, i am gathering funds to buy this beauty. If this is sold before my money dey complete I will order another.

Is this American or European version? is there any warranty and will Lagos auto shops be able to handle this?

I am not a fan of the laid back and watch it blow over presidency in Nigeria today but this is a good one from Goodluck. Thanks for not using the Federal might to upturn and impose your party on the good people of Edo state, thank you for allowing the people to speak and be heard, thank you for not allowing the rigging mechineries of Anini and PDP to take over the state

Thank you Jega for not being used to distabilise the state.

Oshiomole the ball is in your court, do away with propaganda and get the job done in Edo, let the whole state benefit from your government.

Yes GEJ good outing, I commend you for this is what OUR president not the sectional president or party president should be seen to do

God bless Nigeria

Yes o , The late Peter Esele and his kola chewing friend Omar should not insult our sensibilities by commenting on national issues if they have any iota of shame. They should be shot or sent to Boko Haram for drilling. After letting us down in January una wan show say U dey with the people. Comon get lost you two.

I beg please this is not a religious or tribal matter, I know the minister and I can confirm that he has very low IQ, he is one of the mentally challenged that got unto Goodluck's government by quota for the disabled. He suffered acute down syndrome during his chikdhood. I beg I apologise on his behalf, however I expect his supervising minister to have checked his limitations before making it public. What a shame I really feel sorry for the guy.

Rotten fish head will spoil the whole fish this is a classical example of Government by the mentally challenged for the people...kpakam

clubone05: Will you shut up there!!!!

What stupid inquiries should he have made....is it today that bastard bank staff have been miss leading its customers.

If he came back the next day how is that impatience...fool.

Guy sue 1st and see the outcome.don't let any stupid formal staff tell u rubbish.

My sis works for a bank's legal dept...and I know for a fact that banks are coughing out millions to settle out issues like this.

Please and please do not abuse Kaysy, though I agree 100% with your underlying opinions but I think he has a right to his own opinions and let's keep this civil.

What I can see from KAYSY's post is one of the major issues with the banking industry where mediocrity is LARGELY celebrated. What I see is a product of capitalism where banks just do not care about training and developing its staff to provide quality services. KAYSY did not read the post carefully to understand that the poster was misled into applying for a new card by a suit wearing and handsome or pretty empty head at the front desk, he arrogantly thinks it is ok for network to fail and it is the customer that is dumb to have followed the instructions of the incompetent bank officer.

It amazes me when people claim a brand and it’s all about packaging without content. GTbank has a good training program for its new entrants but the strong culture of intelligence and quality was diluted when they opened the doors to employ middle level managers from the outside.

Kaysy, in case you are still in the service industry it is not right to blame your customer who has been misled the same service provider. It is the customer not the service provider that is always right

He can sue the bank and he can win provided he can show that he made steps to remedy and also show that he suffered some inconvenience or loss as a result of the charge and if he does not win the case he can get the bank to sit up by training it's staff and ensuring they know what to do at their desks rather than just smiling and speaking fake accents.


God bless

clubone05: Will you shut up there!!!!

What stupid inquiries should he have made....is it today that bastard bank staff have been miss leading its customers.

If he came back the next day how is that impatience...fool.

Guy sue 1st and see the outcome.don't let any stupid formal staff tell u rubbish.

My sis works for a bank's legal dept...and I know for a fact that banks are coughing out millions to settle out issues like this.

Please and please do not abuse Kaysy, though I agree 100% with your underlying opinions but I think he has a right to his own opinions and let's keep this civil.

What I can see from KAYSY's post is one of the major issues with the banking industry where mediocrity is LARGELY celebrated. What I see is a product of capitalism where banks just do not care about training and developing its staff to provide quality services. KAYSY did not read the post carefully to understand that the poster was misled into applying for a new card by a suit wearing and handsome or pretty empty head at the front desk, he arrogantly thinks it is ok for network to fail and it is the customer that is dumb to have followed the instructions of the incompetent bank officer.

It amazes me when people claim a brand and it’s all about packaging without content. GTbank has a good training program for its new entrants but the strong culture of intelligence and quality was diluted when they opened the doors to employ middle level managers from the outside.

Kaysy, in case you are still in the service industry it is not right to blame your customer who has been misled the same service provider. It is the customer not the service provider that is always right

He can sue the bank and he can win provided he can show that he made steps to remedy and also show that he suffered some inconvenience or loss as a result of the charge and if he does not win the case he can get the bank to sit up by training it's staff and ensuring they know what to do at their desks rather than just smiling and speaking fake accents.


God bless

Great poster don't be discouraged go ahead and sue. If you do not win , at least for the b=nuisance value the bank will sit up. Though I love GT bank but they have not done well this time if your story is the FULL version.

Let me just mention that even if you get the the services of a lawyer free of charge , it is still quite expensive to go to court in Nigeri. have a good budget of not less than 250k for the filing and all the processes.

I think service providers will get more careful when they see nigerians are ready to enforce their rights. Thieving companies like Multilinks should get ready