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Politics › Re: Buhari Orders Immediate Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage by budaatum: 10:31pm On Jul 16, 2019

ITbomb:
A cleaner who earned 20k will now earn the same as a clerical officer who earned 30k before

Does that even make sense?

Dem say de are working on it! Read am below.

Ebullience:
Dr. Egbule however noted that “the negotiations between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council on the consequential adjustments arising from the new national minimum wage for officers who earned salaries above N30,000 per month before 18th April, 2019 in the federal civil service will continue.”

He assured that the “outcome of such negotiations will be implemented with the effect from the date an agreement is reached.” He also said all arrears arising from the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage will be worked out by all concerned agencies in partnership with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. He also said those who earn N30,000 and above now will still get their salaries adjusted after the negotiations with the unions.

Politics › Re: Buhari Orders Immediate Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage by budaatum: 9:59pm On Jul 16, 2019

Brightest04:
Haters will never stop hating,because it's certain they'll be sad about that order,even if it's implemented now they'll still be finding fault in it.And that's why progress is far from that region.

They will refuse the money because someone drew cow on it.

Politics › Re: Buhari Orders Immediate Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage by budaatum: 9:57pm On Jul 16, 2019

Plug0072:
Add also tell him I don’t need it I beg him

Send your letter to:

President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR
The Aso Rock Presidential Villa
Yakubu Gowon Crescent,
The Three Arms Zone,
Asokoro, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria

I advise you send it by recorded delivery since it's important to you. Goodluck.

Politics › Re: Buhari Orders Immediate Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage by budaatum: 9:45pm On Jul 16, 2019

Plug0072:
Please what good about 30k for a family man?

Why don't you write my bubu and ask him to keep your own at the 18k it was for years?

Politics › Re: Buhari Orders Immediate Payment Of N30,000 Minimum Wage by budaatum: 9:43pm On Jul 16, 2019

Cryomancer:
Another Twitter Order without implementation.

-Same way he ordered the tankers to leave the streets of Lagos but till now, they still occupy Lagos roads.

-Same way he ordered IG of police to go to Benue but instead the IG was flexing life in Abuja

-Same way he ordered chief of army staff to go to borno and the man went elsewhere

-Same way he ordered the investigation of kano governor and went to Poland to endorse same governor.

Please wake me up when he has finished his Ordering service.

If he don't pay us we will down tools and go on strike!

Please stop talking as if you are one of those powerless people. If you are powerless join up with fellow powerless people and you will all acquire power. When you have power you can force my bubu or whoever follows him to do the things you want. If you don't get power you will just remain on Nairaland lamenting, powerlessly!

Business › Re: How To Convince Foreigners To Do Legitimate Business With You In Nigeria by budaatum: 5:11pm On Jul 16, 2019

dgee1:
Yes I do. Is it connected to reading?

Is mentoring connected to reading? Of course it is! How else would you learn?

I checked some if your posts and think you are after someone to mentor you in money making. If I'm correct, then I'm afraid I'm not the mentor you need. Follow and read some of my posts and we'll see where you're going.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Huawei In Preparation To Lay Off Hundreds Of US Workers (photos) by budaatum: 5:04pm On Jul 16, 2019

grandstar:
If cheap labour was everything, Bangladesh would look like Japan.

Cheap labour alone can not bring the accelerated economic growth the country needs.

If I was the government, I would apply economic shock therapy. This will be in the form of deregulating the prices of electricity, fuel, air travel and ending all other forms of price control. All prices will be fixed by the market. This will cause initial pain but the benefit will be massively improved infrastructure and also massive local and international investments.

Next, cut company tax to no more than 15%.This will attract lots of investment, both local and foreign.

Liberalise trade further by bringing down the high tariff walls and outright ban on goods.

End the Naira substitution policy which will end the excess money problem which will in turn lead to low inflation and will lead to commercial lending rates crashing to single digit figures. Single digit lending rates will completely transform the Nigerian economy.

Cheap labour isn't everything. Highly skilled cheap labour makes an awful lot of difference. What good is labour that struggles with 2+2 or the sad work ethic amongst us Nigerians?

I agree with your deregulations. Prices are far too cheap for decent returns on investment, and higher prices will bring in new investment which will drive down costs and price in the long run. I'd add something on education too. Our curriculums need to be evolved into the 21^st century! And I'll strengthen bankruptcy laws. A company that can't service it's debt should go bankrupt, and that includes government agencies and individuals. We need to slaughter some sacred cows so more can eat more meat.

OAM4J, unantispambot me in the religious section and reinstate my post please!

OkCornel, spambot got me. Thanks for saving that post.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Saved by grace alone - A filthy doctrine of demons. Please beware! by budaatum: 2:20pm On Jul 16, 2019

OkCornel:
And the first thing Jesus taught you is how to call others Satanists without any evidence whatsoever to show for it..

I'm beginning to feel the faith of some is justification to do as they wish because it doesn't matter what they do, they are righteous. They sure do works, but not all their work is of the Spirit. They do works of the flesh and justify their so called righteousness despite so many texts to the contrary.

One of the so called anti-work verses would be the following.

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8-9&version=NIV]Ephesians 2:8-9[/url]

Except, as I have repeatedly mentioned, it is not an anti-work verse, as some pressume, but an anti-boast verse, which is much better explained in the [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A41-44&version=NIV]parable of the widow's offering[/url] who came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. The difference being her giving was of the Spirit, while that of the much wealthier was to be seen by the crowd.

The question in the Parable of the Samaritan was “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” it may not seem so but it is the same as "what must I do to be righteous?" Except without doing work to understand, it may not seem so to some.

First, take the teacher who asked the question. He knew he had to work and stated the work too, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” Work!

Would one wish to argue that the Priest and Levite had no faith? Only a lack of understanding would make one say so. The Priest and the Levite both believed and had faith, yet it was the pagan worshipping non-believing not faithful not born again nor regenerated unbaptized but doing good and shewing mercy Samaritan that Christ told the teacher to "go and do likewise". Was it not because of the work he did that Jesus said do likewise?

It can't be disputed that love is the most paramount lesson Jesus taught.

[url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13%3A13&version=ESV]So now[/url] faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

The thing here is that Jesus emphasized not just work but plenty of very hard work, for he said do not just love for those who are lovable, but for those who are not lovable like ones enemies whom the natural inclination is to hate and detest which is even more and much harder work. Or is it that some do not understand that "to love is to work"?

Righteousness, itself, the definition of which is to walk or do things in the right way, and in this case, according to God alone, is to do work, for one can not be doing that which is right in the eyes of the Lord by doing nothing.

The righteous are those who God lives and is complete in. Those who God lives in will be [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5%3A1&version=ESV]imitators[/url] of God and will [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A19-20&version=ESV]glorify[/url] God in their body by loving one another and their enemies too, which is work. For it is they who do these things that shall dwell in the tabernacle of the Lord, the home of the Righteous, while those who enter not through the narrow gate shall [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+13%3A22-30&version=NIV]weep and gnash their teeth[/url]!

For this very very reason, make every effort (work!) to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. (All work!)

I'll add what I'd call a caveat to all this which is that the Lord likely gave different messages to different people as stated when John sent people to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah. "The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor." So we can't obviously be bearing the same crosses or understand equally, for what the Holy Spirit may tell one might not be understandable by another, but to those whom much has been given, so much more is expected.

May the Lord God be our Minister. Amen.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Intelligent Designer Refuted by budaatum: 12:36pm On Jul 16, 2019

OpenYourEyes1:
Could you explain Natural Selection?

I suspect an attempt to derail, Eyes!

Evolution 101

Business › Re: How To Convince Foreigners To Do Legitimate Business With You In Nigeria by budaatum: 12:30pm On Jul 16, 2019

dgee1:
Please can you mentor me?

Do you read?

Christianity Etc › Re: Intelligent Designer Refuted by budaatum: 12:28pm On Jul 16, 2019

hakeem4:
The Bone of contention is “ do you have any evidence for the ID”?

None, whatsoever. I can still understand it as an idea though.

Intelligent design was a lame attempt to get God into the science class. It failed because it wasn't science.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Huawei In Preparation To Lay Off Hundreds Of US Workers (photos) by budaatum: 12:25pm On Jul 16, 2019*

urahara:
Chinas foreign capital from countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan , south Korea , u.s.a and a host of others.

Foreigners decided to put their capital in China because of cheap costs of labor.

It turns out that when a country is poor , it can use it's poverty to an advantage.

Nigeria is poor. Why aren't we using our poverty to our advantage?

Foreign capital went to China because the returns from investing in China are high. China has very highly skilled cheap labour, and that's the attraction and China's advantage.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Why Was A Christian Player Snubbed From The US Women's Soccer Team? by budaatum: 12:21pm On Jul 16, 2019

OLAADEGBU:
You are missing the point. Putting on the gay jersey in solidarity with the gay community is friendship with the world. Try and understand the Christian's position when it comes to gay matters.

"Some Christians" position when it comes to gay matters Deg.

Not all Christians have this position you mention and do chose to stand in solidarity with the gay community. Some Christians are even gay!

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Family › Re: Fighting False Accusations And Ridicule From A Father by budaatum: 4:23am On Jul 16, 2019

Doyou2019:
The irony is that he's the one who feels hard done by, especially now that everyone is keeping a distance from him. How do you love a father, who doesn't understand a word of what love means?
Well, this episode is the last straw. I have only my mother to be responsible for. He can keep on spreading falsehood about me. I don't care anymore.

Of course he feels hard done by. If he didn't he'd change but by not taking responsibility for his own actions he doesn't have to. And the error nice people like you make is you think it isn't their fault so you forgive them all the time especially when they say they are sorry - a trick to pull you in just to hurt you all the more over. You ask your mum whom he beat so often and I bet she tells you he repented every so often until he'd battered the poor woman again and again and she finally had enough and left him. I bet you ask yourself you might find dad was nicer after he'd beaten mum too when you were 5. Its what abusers do, beat you up, blame you for it then compensate by being nice.

I tell people who go through what you're going through to love themselves more. Think of it this way, what would you tell your younger brother if he was going through what you're going through? Wouldn't you tell him his father doesn't love him, he should forget about him? I bet its what you told your mum after he'd beat her and before you stood up to him.

These sort of people tend to destroy a lot and the more he has access to you the more harm he'd do, and unfortunately, we Nigerians, fed on "love your father and your mother", find it very difficult to break away and love ourselves. Their trick is to make one feel worthless and there's nothing more worthless that not loving oneself. So let me repeat myself and say you have a responsibility to take care of Doyou2019 and what you're currently doing to Doyou2019 is not kind of you at all. I bet you'd be more responsible and caring if Doyou2019 was a child of yours. Doyou2019 is your number one responsibility, or number two if you want to place mum at number one, so please love Doyou2019 more and take good care of him. And never ever take anything from that man ever again! He'll just blackmail you everytime. If you start now educating Doyou2019 he should learn to starve first before eating his father's food or take his money. Starving won't kill you and you'd even be prouder of yourself for refusing to eat his food whilst you were hungry and your next meal will taste much sweater too.

I got to tell you with tears in my eyes as I write this that I'm hurting for Doyou2019 already. Please know that all this is very easy to say and harder to actually do, but you owe Doyou2019 a lot already so start now, be strong and stop the harm being done to Doyou2019. While you're at it spend his 20k on ma and something good for Doyou2019. Call it money for plaster and put it over your distress. He can get it back when you throw his smelly corpse in the ground!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Usa Vs Uk by budaatum: 3:27am On Jul 16, 2019

CTPlayer:
Say what? LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UabHEhSlPkc

Foreign Affairs › Re: Usa Vs Uk by budaatum: 3:20am On Jul 16, 2019

There's quite a lot more to Africans in UK than "gangs, robbery, stabbings the crime". There's more lawyers, doctors, engineers etc amongst us than "gangs, robbery, stabbings the crime" for starts. Just that there so little "gangs, robbery, stabbings the crime" that a tiny blip seems like an epidemic. And where minorities are concerned, we see it as us not doing our jobs making sure no one is left behind. We like our peace down here is what it is. And we can't stand people dying on our streets stinking everyone up.

America though. I don't really think I get your point.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Intelligent Designer Refuted by budaatum: 3:10am On Jul 16, 2019

EmperorHarry:
Well I'm also saying that even if I did provide the evidence,it is certainly not enough to convince you if what I interpret as evidence is not the same with your interpretation.

Did you miss how tough johnydon22 was on op? Your evidence can only not be enough to convince because it isn't evidence or because the person you present it to refuses to look at it or see it, in which case we'd just say they are blind. Interpreted evidence on the other hand is of a different order, and more especially if its in the form of words which are subject to interpretation.

I'll give an example. I'm going to write a few words in my next sentence. I'm going to hide them just to make it harder for you. With them I intend to state how I feel about you. I have to forewarn you that its not pretty and if I were in front of you you might not like it a tiny bit. In fact that feeling rages in me at this very moment and I wish I'd change my mind.
You ready? Don't blush on me now!

[color=#F8F8FF]I love you.[/color]

There, interpret that!

Business › Re: How To Convince Foreigners To Do Legitimate Business With You In Nigeria by budaatum: 2:42am On Jul 16, 2019

Bizibi:
It seems this guy don't know the damage fraudsters in Nigeria have done to Nigeria's image.some of us are lucky because when we started it then fraudsters were not that much but it is a menace now and nobody want to blink an eye on that word Nigeria.

When was that? 1824? No one minds that I'm Nigerian. I just slap people with my mind and watch jaws drop. I think the fact that many are so dumb is what does it. When more Nigerians upgrade and stop their scamming I'm sure I'd have competition. Till then oysters is the world.

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Business › Re: How To Convince Foreigners To Do Legitimate Business With You In Nigeria by budaatum: 2:37am On Jul 16, 2019

nwaanambra1:
forget it bro.

it desnt work.

just mention nigeria and they will block u instantly.

if u like get president buhari id card!

scammers and politicians has so messed up the name of this country.

Forget wetin? That I have skills that the entire world pays me for? You're funny. You might as well ask me to forger the nice meal on my plate.

I strongly suggest this thread is for you. Don't ignore it unless you want to remain local like the op said one would if one don't upgrade.

Business › Re: How To Convince Foreigners To Do Legitimate Business With You In Nigeria by budaatum: 2:33am On Jul 16, 2019

asdfjklhaha:
Good...the accent one is what pissess me off most. you will see someone that has never enter cotonu forming accent. some people can be annoying Sha.

I swear! I no de speak oyinbo again!
angry

Education › Re: How Do You Keep Up As A Secondary School Teacher? by budaatum: 2:22am On Jul 16, 2019*

kkins25:
The teacher has about three periods per week of which he is to copy or dictate notes to the students, and ensure that at least 70% of the students understand the topic being taught.

You're sneaky! But that's beside the point. You took my money so I got to give you my time. Jesus said I must.

It's the "understand" above, see. Teachers spend so much time "copy or dictate notes to the students" that there's no time left to ensure that "at least 70% of the students understand the topic being taught". Kind of explains our believing attitude don't you think? You, teacher, might be ensuring we copy notes but student me spends 100% of my time copying notes in a language I don't understand full of words I never heard before and don't know the meaning of. What else you want me to do but take your word for it, believe you and cram my head full of your notes? After all, believe, they tell me and I'll get to go to heaven and live eternal life so why wouldn't believing you make me pass biology? Except you get to see how ignorant I am when the topic is evolution, which I'm certain is in the notes you made me copy but which I obviously do not understand. You got to shake your head, I'm sure, at how dumb you've made me be.

We don't see it in Mathematics which no one can cram. Students have to practice so much until they understand because if they don't practise they will not understand, and you try doing maths you don't understand and see how far you get.

I'm afraid our teachers are the ones who are dumb. Most are in the dark ages when education was religion so "believe student, believe these facts" is their teaching mode. They haven't evolved to "understand student, understand the implications of these facts!" And no wonder they don't get the respect they deserve. I'm more likely to return and say "thank you teacher" to one who taught me to use my brain to understand than one who crammed my head full of notes in a language I don't understand full of words I never heard before and don't know the meaning of and can only hope and pray and have faith I would remember at exams. Except all my remembering is worthless in the end. You, teach, failed me, or gave me a high mark to hide how dumb you are!

Teachers need to go back to school and learn what it means to teach, is the point. Only by their own learning can they ensure I'm an understanding proud to serve compatriot and not a flat earth non-evolving excuse for a biologist that you turned me into!

P.s. I'm sure I paid my school fees on time and in full. I got receipt to prove it too. So gimme my money back, teach! The education you sold me was a dud angry

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Christianity Etc › Re: Intelligent Designer Refuted by budaatum: 1:31am On Jul 16, 2019

hakeem4:
Then if we humans can understand the intelligent designers design. Then he’s not as intelligent has you claimed.

Why? Are you assuming you can't learn everything about the intelligent designer? You know that'll mean you're kind of not intelligent, right? Or that the intelligent designer didn't put the artificial intelligence model in you!

I don't agree you can't understand. You just being lazy!

Christianity Etc › Re: Intelligent Designer Refuted by budaatum: 1:26am On Jul 16, 2019

kkins25:
now you sound like me

I'm sure I sound like buda. You sure you read me enough? I wonder if you see religion and not the human being behind the religion. Lets try it. If I were to say Jesus is Lord, don't you automatically start seeing some grass eating, as Niflheim calls 'em, flat baby earth individual? It's a kind of blindness, the not looking at all sort which is endemic amongst humans. We look but we see not. I got to admit though that I'm seen. I'm in your face so I'm seen.

I'll tell you who I see when I look at you with my eyes that see. I see Kkins25 who made me fork out $50 for posting porn on a site I'm respected on! Not a lot of people dip their fingers in my money like you do. You owe me dude! You fuqing owe me!

Now tell. Who does buda sound like cool

Christianity Etc › Re: The Holy Spirit And The Believer by budaatum: 12:03am On Jul 16, 2019

solite3:
The Holy Spirit is a beautiful and powerful part of who God is. We need Him in our life as a conduit to become who God created us to be, and through His power we have aid in all situations. Without Him, we are powerless.

In physics, [url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_%28physics%29?wprov=sfla1]power is the rate of doing work [/url]or of transferring heat, i.e. the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. Having no direction, it is a scalar quantity. In the International System of Units, the unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt in honour of James Watt, the eighteenth-century developer of the condenser steam engine. Another common and traditional measure is horsepower (comparing to the power of a horse). Being the rate of work, the equation for power can be written:

Politics › Re: Killings Should Not Divide Us —tinubu by budaatum: 11:51pm On Jul 15, 2019

BishopMagic:
Your auto correct is on.

I helped you fix your post

Lol. Didn't know you were one of the kids! Thanks for correcting me.

Politics › Re: Killings Should Not Divide Us —tinubu by budaatum: 11:50pm On Jul 15, 2019

immhotep:
Buda sounds like RUGA

Goes to show your hearing is wonky.

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Politics › Re: Killings Should Not Divide Us —tinubu by budaatum: 11:46pm On Jul 15, 2019

immhotep:
Cc budaatum bishopmagic lzaa metaphysical

Did you not get the memo huh

Brainless individuals must not mention buda!

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Why Was A Christian Player Snubbed From The US Women's Soccer Team? by budaatum: 11:40pm On Jul 15, 2019

SETHWORLD:
friendship with God is enmity with the World, vice versa..

Really? You must mean a different God, and not the God who so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son to die for it.

Besides, didn't someone say "love your enemies", in this case, the world? Imagine if she'd been in the US world Cup winning squad and shouted " Praise God" afterwards, instead of this sacrifice of a platform to proclaim Jesus as Lord.

A pity, is what I say.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Why Was A Christian Player Snubbed From The US Women's Soccer Team? by budaatum: 11:35pm On Jul 15, 2019

OLAADEGBU:
Are you saying God and football are mutually exclusive?

Nope. I'd saying not loving others, sinners or not, and God, are mutually exclusive. Putting on a gay jersey does after all not make one sin as much as what one eats doesn't.

Point is, she died for Christ and should be glad she's going to heaven while those who put on the gay jersey would supposedly be going to hell, so why isn't she rejoicing?

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Why Was A Christian Player Snubbed From The US Women's Soccer Team? by budaatum: 11:09pm On Jul 15, 2019

God or football and she chose God.

Or does she want to have her cake and eat it?

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