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Originalsly:
What wave? What exactly do they mean by cases?... people who test positive?...or people who are sick with the virus? If you are tested for malaria anti bodies ... would the result be positive or negative? If it is positive... does that mean you have contracted malaria and should be counted as another case? It is the Delta variant that is spreading .... how they know that?... why not the South African variant? Can any of the testing kits determine which variant was detected? This is not about being smart ... it is about those with common sense ... the common sense to chew before swallowing and those who choose to open their mouths wide and swallow whatever the FG and media pour down their throats.

This is about whipping up fear so that short sighted people will rush to get the vaccine.

I will answer your questions, hopefully you have an open mind.

Third wave or fourth wave irrelevant , the fact is that the no of covid infections is rising worldwide again including in Nigeria.

What exactly do they mean by cases?... people who test positive?...or people who are sick with the virus?
Anybody who test positive with or without clinical symptoms is a case. You can be positive without being sick.

If you are tested for malaria anti bodies ... would the result be positive or negative? If it is positive... does that mean you have contracted malaria and should be counted as another case?
There are different types of COVID tests ( PCR, Antigen and antibody tests etc.). Each of the test serve different purposes. PCR test is the gold standard, it can pick up an infection at the early stage of exposure. It is good for active infections ( potentially contagious) and indicate the viral load to measure the success of treatment . Antigen tests are fast and very cheap . You can get results in 10 mins but you cannot trust the results if it comes out negative as it can not pick up the disease at the very early stage. It is good for mass screening of a population . A negative result needs to be confirmed by PCR test. The antibody tests shows your previous exposure to the virus , it is used to measure the prevalence of the disease in a particular setting. It measures your immune response to the SARS COV 2 VIRUS. It is not a test to measure current infection.

To your next question ....It is the Delta variant that is spreading .... how they know that?why not the South African variant? Can any of the testing kits determine which variant was detected?
Genetic sequencing is the lab technique to know the variant . A positive sample can be sequenced by readily available kits for a particular variant or even new ones. It is not rocket science to know the variant that is spreading most.
A simpler technique to know the variant spreading is to take samples of the waste water from a particular setting and sequence it for the different variants. First , it shows when there is an outbreak even without testing the people and it also shows the variants.

I hope your questions are answered.

I must commend the level of honesty and customer service of this company.
I saw the advert here on nairaland and decided to whatsapp her to compare her prices with what was quoted by my carpenter.
Their prices were competitive but most importantly was the savings accrued from accessories , transportation and quantity reduction . The quoted quantities by most carpenters are usually inflated . This is the reason for their insistence that you should buy from their selected vendor . For this particular project , after slightly reducing the quantities from the carpenter´s quotation , i chose my own independent supplier ( Anita) and they provided me a carpenter who did a great job at a fair pricing. At the end of the day , we still have 30 square metres of roofing sheet left unused from my initial quotation . The cost saving was significant and the transparency of this lady is highly commendable . She is worthy of recommendation .

I am considering buying a property with Adron Homes i.e City of DAVID. I am being disocuraged by friends claiming they have a lot of hidden charges and long waiting time for land allocation. Can someone confirm that it is mandatory you use their engineers and builders? Sharing your experiences with this company will be of great help for those of us at a crossroad.

Do we have CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY for the plots? what documentations are available?

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This time table means corpers will be doing their Easter in camp. Is this possible ?

I think its time we create a thread for fellow Ex-Mays on Nairaland.
Sweet melodies,sweet songs of Mayflower is all coming back to me.
Congrats Sheila for a life well spent.

[/quote]Saxywale, i cant but laugh at your stupidity.. I want to see were Fashola will see just 200 doctors to take the jobs. Ogun state pays 200k minimum, Oyo pays 210k, ondo pays 195k and all these states are with very little tax. You think doctors are silly? if they offer me 400k for that job, i wont take it. Do we look like slaves? All over the world doctors are the highest paid and they can afford basics. in Naija as a doctor you cant even send your children to the best school. They say doctors have more than one job. Have you ever seen any human being that likes to work like Jackal? if the rubbish salary they pay in government hospital is sufficient for their need will they take other jobs and be away from the comfort of their homes and children? If you go to the market and the market woman knows you are a doctor, your bill will quickly increase in 2 folds. But the govt can spend 3 billion for Jagaban Borgus birthday.Lagos state government doctors are the greatest slaves in the whole country. Fashola increases hospital size, declares free treatment and doesnt increase the work force. when doctors in other states do half of their jobs.

dejato, you have sickle cells in your brain. Learn how to pass you opinion or facts without swearing. If you had gone through my post, you would have seen its not firsthand information and I did mention that things might have changed. I am sure its the likes of you that make up your crazy union of heartless beings. Sun of a gun.

1 Like [quote][/quote]Ogun state pays 200k minimum, Oyo pays 210k, ondo pays 195k and all these states are with very little tax- what is the source of your statement?

2.All over the world doctors are the highest paid - how come a doctor is not among the top 50 richest people in the world? I live in GERMANY, DOCTORS are not as highly paid like their counterparts in I.T, Engineering and even MBAs[/color]
3.Fashola increases hospital size, declares free treatment and doesnt increase the work force - Another lie, 842 doctors were recruited by lagos ministry of health in the last three years.check the state website.[color=#990000]

I will like to commend GEJ for backing down on the subsidy removal on the other hand i hope the consultation does not include bribing or cajoling the NLC and civil society groups to accept that demonic policy.

I think i understand Al harem and jason's confusion your confusion was orchestrated by Ruben Abiati and GEJ by proxy.

How many of you have researched on this subsidy issue before taking a stand?

There are more misnomers than facts surrounding this subsidy brouhaha.
First, the Govt said the economy will collapse, ridiculous indeed
Secondly, the Govt said oil importers are a 'cabal', nearly fell off my seat.

Fellow Nigerians, there are no cabals, in 2009 the scarcity of petroleum products became intense and the Govt admitted that Nnpc through its subsidiary PPMC has failed Nigerians by their inability to meet up with the supply of pet. Products and that phenomenum gave rise to licensing of some people to 'assist' the Nnpc in doing their job for which they are paid for.

Please don't forget that hitherto, Nnpc has been doing the importation and refining themselves before corruption eroded their common sense.

These importers went abroad and came back with a price Nnpc is already aware of comprising of logistics,storage and administrative costs, these were quantified before they arrived at a price.
The FG now fixed a price tag of 65naira on Pms and agreed to be reimbursing the importers the balance knowing fully well that the landing cost is higher than the stipulated price
To my greatest chagrin, the odechukwu administration woke up and termed them 'cabals' who are fleecing the nation.

Assuming Ruben Abiati goes abroad to buy a TM underwear for 1k and decides to sell it 1.5k adding purchase price plus logistics plus profit and the Govt tells him to sell at 900 naira, wont he ask for the 600naira balance? when the incompetent NNPC agrees to reimburse him, then he has become a cabal stealing from the GOvt?
Are we this docile? If Nnpc lived upto their responsibility, we wont have need for the importers in the first place.

There is no doubt that the subsidy regime is met with corrupt practices, is it not the responsibility of the govt to clamp down on those malfeaseance?
The only solution that came to the minds of this disgruntled PDP administration is to remove subsidy into-to not minding its inflationary consequences.

This is the most silly approach any human being with brain if they have one can summon.

Thirdly,

Odechukwu insulted the intelligence of Nigerians telling us that we don't benefit from this subsidy except for the importers and he had the unbridled temerity to be advertising it on NTA saying the rich are getting richer.
This people are demons.

When Ruben abiati's mother goes to the market to buy vegetable at a price, does he not know that the seller included cost of transportation to that price?
So when the transporter buys PMS @ 65naira and fixes his price based on that, he says his mother did not benefit from the subsidy that guaranteed the price in the first place?

It is either Ruben Abiati and his employers are drunks or they think that Nigerians are m0rons.

I feel sorry for people that think that competition will crash the deregulated price erroneously juxtaposing it with GSM.

Do you know that the price of crude being the raw material for refined pet. Products is sold at the same price in the whole world?

If you agree to this, then, even if you deregulate and license 5million importers the product will still be expensive because crude itself is expensive. You will still need to subsidize it to 65naira. Exactly why deregulation of diesel in part did not work.

The only reason you have not bought diesel @ 200naira is because there are so many illegal refineries who bunker crude, settle JTF and refine diesel at a lower price.
This people still pose a great threat to the importers who buy at a higher price that is why you get diesel @ 140naira elsewhere but in the delta i buy as low as 70naira.

At this verge you will not over rule the fact that these unscrupulous elements contribute to the availability of diesel, if you are in doubt, anywhere you see cheap diesel, ask the dealer the source of his consignment
If he is honest he will tell you the truth, when i was told, i took an hr 20mins boat ride to a remote village in the delta between Belema and Kola communities and i saw the local refinery myself. I will post the pictures later.

Conduct a chemical test on those cheap diesel if you are not convinced and you will realize a lot of additives are missing.
Sounds incredible but that is the reality on ground.
You now know why many importers in the delta hardly have diesel.

I still feel sorry for those who think the Govt should build more refineries, that will not solve the problem because there is no cheap crude to supply these refineries.

The oil production of Nigeria stands at 2.37 million barrels of crude daily. nigeria get this crude in a JV (joint venture) with IOC's (international oil companies) and the Nigeria's cut stand btw 55% to 60% of the lot, if we go by 60% then

That gives a total of 1.4m barells daily.

If we average the crude price from 2009 till date, the price falls close to 100usd/bbl.
In that case, Nigeria makes 140,000,000usd daily from this JV.

Nigeria has a policy called DSO (domestic supply obligation) which mandates 250,000bbl/d of this crude to be refined and consumed locally,
In monetary terms, the Nigerian govt is giving us 25,000,000usd worth of crude to refine.

Our three refineries at optimum capacity utilizes 450,000bbl/d which gives 45,000,000usd in monetary terms in other words, the price of raw material in this case, crude, accrued to our refineries comes at 45m usd per day, if you add refining cost and profit of 6usd per bbl,

The total cost becomes 270,000,000usd per day.
There is no way you can refine that crude at that price and sell it 65naira/l and make profit.

Meanwhile, once we mark out that 45m usd worth of crude for our refineries (assuming they are working at optimum capacity), the govt has already lost 45m usd from their 140m usd daily earnings (which will affect budget implementation) and after refining will still spend more money to subsidize it to 65naira/l

With this analogy, you will agree with me that if all our refineries are working optimally, the govt will spend 3times our present day subsidy to bring the pump price down to 65naira/l.
So, for those of you clamoring for refineries should be careful what you wish for because there is no cheap crude for you to refine.

I have argued abinitio that the sales of other derivatives of crude will bring down the cost of most sort PMS,DPK etc but after doing some feasibility studies, i realized i was dead wrong.

I further argued that to make cheaper crude available for our refineries, the Govt should reduce the price at which it is supplied unfortunately, the senate mandated the then GMD of Nnpc that the DSO must be sold at international crude price.

This i believe was proposed for the following reasons:

1 the refineries are working below capacity so what the heck does Nnpc use the crude for?
2, there is a benchmark on crude price for budget implementation.

With this reasons, any existing or yet to exist refinery in Nigeria will get crude at a high price and must need subsidy to sell at 65naira/l, at this cross road, the then GMD of Nnpc decided that all crude should be exported and subsidy be paid on imported products.

Guess he was left with no choice.

At this verge, i must reiterate here that competition amongst importers will only crash the profit margin but not cost price.

Even if every Nigerian becomes an importer of pet. Prods, we can never change the fact that crude in the int l market is already expensive before thinking of refined prod. So we must need subsidy to make profit.

Before this issue of subsidizing petroleum products can be addressed,
You must have the following at the back of your minds:

1, Nigeria pegs a benchmark on crude prices to enable it implement budget. This stands at 75usd/bbl. And this crude is sort from the JV.

2, if crude price exceed the benchmark above, Nigeria makes excess crude revenue (ECR)

3, if we make excess crude revenue, then the price of subsidy on refined products shoot up.

With the above analogy,
One can argue that the ECR be used to subsidize imported petroleum products since both are a function of each other unfortunately in Nigeria, it comes with its own challenges.

By law, the constitution clearly states that all revenue accrued to the FG be shared amongst the three tiers of Govt.
This alone makes it illegal for the FG to keep the ECR to itself for whatever reason.

This is where the wahala started, during GEJ's campaign, he astronomically increased workers salary without consulting the state Governors,

most Governors have refused to pay on the grounds that they cannot afford it. On that grounds Taraba,jigawa and some other states have a genuine case.
With the above development, the states started scrambling for funds and remembered the ECR and insisted it must be shared to enable them pay the new wage and develop infrastructures.

The FG had no choice but to capitulate

With this development, the FG is left with little or no choice.

The way forward:

In the short run:

While the FG is consulting, they must consider these options,

1, identify and tackle the corruption prevalent in the subsidy regime. That will push down the cost of the subsidy in the first place.
Like i said in April,no matter how sincere GEJ think his administration is, he cannot make any reasonable progress in the face of corruption,

2, the power projects must come upstream before removing subsidy, this will reduce the demand on pet. Products to a very great extent.

3, Nigeria must accommodate Gas export, port duties and other forms of revenue in their budget implementation policies.

4, Govt must never invest an extra kobo in our moribund refineries, by doing otherwise, the cost price of the refineries will rise to an extent that it will no longer be attractive to investors or will prolong their repayment plan.
Thereby making it very capital intensive.

5, Instead of deceiving Nigerians with their cabal bullshit and deluding them that they don't benefit from this subsidy, the FG should channel that propaganda with intense lobbying to the senate,NLC and civil society organizations to stop the state governors from demanding for the ECR, this can be achieved by the FG asking the state to pay whatever increment they can afford for the workers that way the ECR will be used for subsidizing pet. Products.

In the long run:

Nigeria must seek local production capacity.
It is no longer news that Nnpc and its subsidiaries have failed woefully in meeting the needs of the Nigerian people.

Nnpc through its subsidiary Npdc and Ngc are saddled with the responsibility of the above for oil and gas production respectively, but as i write, the current production of NPDC stands at a paltry 90,000bbl/day which is a huge failure for an agency set up 23yrs ago,

The IOC's has made us believe that it will cost less than 12usd to extract 1bbl of our oil. The Management of NPDC must be reshuffled and if possible experts brought in on contract basis to improve NPDC's production

These experts must be placed on targets appraised by milestones. in ogoni land for instance, Anglo dutch has a lot of abandoned production facilities and marginal wells and others scattered all over the country, these can be bought by NPDC with the money FG want to waste on refineries to improve production,

If NPDC can extract oil at 12usd/bbl and make a little profit, with this cheap oil available, Nigeria will have no reason going to the JV. This cheap crude will attract investors to build refineries and create jobs,

A 250,000bbl/d refinery will cost a little above 5b usd, dangote alone can afford two of those only if NPDC can guarantee cheap oil. This is why no investor is coming to build refineries.

A crude price of 18usd/bbl from NPDC will guarantee pump price of less than 22naira per litre of pms from these refineries.

With this plan,By the end of this Administration, NPDC will have robust production capacity and the refineries will guarantee steady refined products.

These refineries shouldn't be operated by the Govt for any reason.

The FG will generate revenue from both ends, export of crude and export refined products and the production of NPDC must be increasing periodically.

Once the above takes effect, there wont be any need to be paying subsidy because pump price will be around 23naira/l and inflation will reduce by 40‰.

Now how competent is Allison Madueke and iweala if they cant figure this out to think of removing subsidy at this stage where there is no electricity and high corruption rate will be tantamount to economic suicide.

what iweala forgot is that in the face of inflation the cost of running Govt projects will be high, All Govt contractors will definitely come back for contract variations or Abandon those projects.

As a sound economist, she should tell Nigerians the value of 1.3 trillion naira in the face of 60% inflation and how many projects Nigerians will benefit from the subsidy removal.

If you remove subsidy and the money disappears, then it is a NO NO for Nigerians

There are lots of things questionable with this analysis.

1. when a barrel of crude from NPDC costs 18usd and the international market price is 75usd, this is an excellent ground for abitrage. The cabal only needs to steal crude from NPDC and sell it to international clients at 75USD, OR take the better option of stealing it from NPDC,sneak it down to their private refineries in south africa and import it back to nigeria at international market price. i think they will even make 20 times greater profit than what they are making from genuine importation at international price.

2. Before 1999, NNPC was selling to the four refineries at almost half of the international crude price and it was discovered that the whole petroleum product used in cote de ivoire were all stolen crude from nigeria.Cote de Ivoire had no official invoice of crude oil transaction in the international market.Their economy was lubricated from stolen crude from NNPC. it has happened before, it will happen again.

3. JV means joint venture between the NNPC and the multinationals.In most of the JV agreement, NNPC has the dominant share with as much as 55% in some. How come the party with the dominant share is not the manager of the venture? The multinationals put in less money and are at the same time the operator of the JV agreement and yet almost all the risks of the business is on the federal govt as represented by NNPC.

4.The subsidy is very high because the marketers factored in the logistics of exporting crude, importing products, tax to foreign govt and nigeria, storage, high cost of labour in developed countries ( e.g 15 euro/hr in Germany). when you produce in nigeria, all these costs are minimal and the true cost of PMS even with international crude price might not be up to 65 naira per litre.

5. The refineries are not working because the cabal are not making it to work.

6. ONLY A WEAK AND INSENSITIVE GOVT CAN ALLOW ALL THE ABOVE TO CONTINUE. THE ONLY OPTION IS TO FIGHT THE CABAL HEAD ON RATHER THAN THE WEAK APPROACH OF PASSING THE COST OF GOVT INEFFICIENCY TO THE MASSES!!

Because of the measures we have taken on the economy, our GDP is today one of the fastest growing in Africa. We are currently growing the economy at 7.8%. We expect to sustain an 8% growth rate and a better GDP in the medium term, on our journey towards realizing our Vision 20:2020 goal.

Deliberate misinformation from Uncle Joe, he forgot to tell us that GDP growth of 7.8% for Nigeria is  among the worst in the last decade. OBJ was doing well above 8% GDP growth in his second term in office. Nigeria since 1999 has one of the highest GDP growth in the world, why is he Joe limiting his comparison to Africa now?

Our zoologist president can obviously do better than this!

Exclusive - Mrs. Sheila Solarin, Wife of the Late Dr. Tai Solarin, Advises Nigeria

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Minimum Wage is Not the Problem; MAXIMUM Wage is the Headache
Nigeria

Nigerian House of Representatives

The richest 20% of the population in Japan get less than four times more than what the poorest 20% get. In Singapore the richest 20% get about 10 times what the poorest 20% get. In Nigeria, a member of the House of Representatives gets 847 times as much as the ‘lucky’ man who gets N18,000 per month!

There seems to be one factor missing in the national equation that we are trying to solve. We have been discussing the minimum wage, but should we not also be fixing a maximum wage?

The minimum wage in Nigeria is N Zero, for the 20% of the population who are unemployed. However, let us deal with the N18, 000 per month that the states say that they cannot pay. A member of the House of Representatives is supposed to carry home N15,181,875.38 each month, according to Punch of June 19, 2011. This is 847 times the minimum wage!

Some research over the last few years has looked at inequality of income in some of the developed countries of the world. The research suggests that there is a close correlation between inequality of income and many of the social ills that plague us all. Some of the socio-economic problems that the researchers focused on are listed below:

1. Level of trust
2. Mental illness
3. Life expectancy and infant mortality
4. Children’s educational performance
5. Teenage pregnancy
6. Homicides
7. Overcrowded prisons

In countries where the gap is wider, the problems get worse. In a more equal society with less disparity between the richest and poorest citizens, these problems are much reduced.

Is there a day when you read a newspaper and do not find some of those problems tormenting us in Nigeria? The richest 20% of the population in Japan get less than four times more than what the poorest 20% get. In Singapore the richest 20% get about 10 times what the poorest 20% get. In Nigeria, a member of the House of Representatives gets 847 times as much as the ‘lucky’ man who gets N18,000 per month!

In the early 1940s, I worked in an Income Tax Office in the UK when there was a Super Tax. Any citizen who had an income higher than a certain cutoff point paid 19 shillings and 6 pence in tax on every pound of the excess income. Let us say the cutoff point was 100, 000 pounds per annum and our citizen got an income of 110,000 pounds. The tax man would take 9750 pounds out of that excess 10,000 pounds that our citizen had earned, in addition to the regular tax on the 100,000 pounds.

Perhaps we should consider some such arrangement in Nigeria. The present inequality of income and the problems it breeds should be at the top of everybody’s agenda.

Mrs. Sheila M. Solarin is the matriarch of the renown Solarin family in Ikenne, Ogun State, Nigeria

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/jonathan-nominates-siemens-bribe-taker-haliru-bello-mohammed-minister

In a discomforting sign that Nigeria’s new president will travel a familiar old track after all, Goodluck Jonathan has nominated two questionable men, Haliru Bello Mohammed and Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar Mairago, for ministerial appointments.

Mohammed is famously known as one of the beneficiaries of the infamous £8.6 billion Siemens international bribery scandal that spanned several countries and embarrassed Nigeria, while Mairago, who has been nominated to represent Kaduna, was the executive director of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF). He was arrested and detained by the EFCC for close to one year over his fraudulent activities in the PTDF.

Mr. Mohammed has previously been Minister for Communication. Recently, he was also the deputy chair of Mr. Jonathan's party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

In the Siemens scandal, several other Nigerian officials besides Mohammed were named by Reinhard Siekaczek, who faced charges of bribery in a Munich court in 2007. Others named include Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Cornelius Adebayo, Alhaji Elewi , and Professor Jibril Aminu, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources who went on to become a PDP Senator.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did investigate the scandal but no prosecution of the main culprits ever arose from it even though the former Ministers reportedly admitted to taking the cash payments from Siemens.

Jonathan’s nomination of tainted officials to high office is an important early signal either of weakness, or of readiness to betray the promises he made to voters as he campaigned for office, or both. On almost every campaign stop, he promised to engage in the “transformation” of Nigeria, including combating corruption.

For that purpose, some Nigerians claimed to have voted for him but not his party, the PDP, which they said they loathed.

@9ija man, pls feel free to use!

WEEP NOT: THE PEOPLES GENERAL

Candidate of the CPC in tomorrow’s Presidential elections was addressing a world press conference and mid way into his moving speech he broke into tears, the crowd erupted into wailing and tears.
Images of weeping General is not a news in the Nigeria media ( e.g Gen.Diya cried for his life after the infamous coup to overthrow Abacha, Gen. Obasanjo and Gen. IBB wept publicly at the loss of their wives). What makes General Buhari’s case different is that while the other GENERALS wept for their Lives and that of their loved ones; the Peoples General is crying for the Nigerian state. He wept for a nation wallowing in hopelessness in the midst of resourcefulness and poverty amidst plenty. He wept for a nation whose endowment and natural opportunity for greatness has been squandered by the reckless opportunism of the political class. Buhari wept at the irony of the Nigerian state: ocean of gas but no power, 5th largest oil deposit yet world largest importer of refined petroleum,80 % arable land but the world largest market for imported rice, toothpick etc
Buhari by his tears has joined the list of the nation’s foremost statesmen driven by emotions on their campaign trail. Sadly, this is the path our greatest minds have engaged in the course of a great and arduous struggle for our national liberty: Awolowo wept for the nation, Abiola wept and more recently Gani Fawehinmi wept for Nigeria in the 2003 elections. When Jesus wept, he raised up the dead (Lazarus). When Nigeria’s statesmen weep, they ask the question: when and who will save the national flag? Will Nigeria allow another generation to be on the WASTED GENERATIONS LIST?
I personally have high respect for the cause and patriotism; as well as the abilities based on past records of the worthy BB gentlemen. Tomorrow’s presidential election is an awful decision moment to our dear country, Nigeria. I consider it as a decision on the continuity of the status quo or CHANGE. Buhari/Bakare has only one lamp that is swaying my vote for them and that is the lamp of experience and integrity. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. Does the PDP have anything new to offer after 12 years in office? Association of looters can never produce saints; no matter how meek or humble they look. TRUST THEM NOT,DEAR FRIENDS…they have resorted to religious and tribal entreaties and humble supplication to cover up their corrupt and blood sucking fangs that they have used to snare our feet and collective wealth in the last 12 years.
If we wish to be free. If we really mean as a nation to get those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending…for wish our great statesmen both living and dead have been so long engaged and wept for publicly. WE MUST VOTE THE PDP OUT! We must vote for a leadership that will make just and efficient use of the resources which GOD has placed at our disposal. There is no retreat but in continuation of the status quo. The battle is for the vigilant, the active and the informed to spread the message across to others. I know not what course the others might take but for me and my family: BUHARI/BAKARE IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR THE MOMENT!
Ogunbowale Olusola

@ AYINBA 1, Please feel free to do so.its my honor and pleasure to join people of like minds and contribute to the political discourse of our nation.

The focus of most of these MBA courses listed here is on UK and US schools. The economy of these countries are still bleeding from the financial crisis. As a result ,these nations have been forced to take austerity measures . As usual immigrants are usually the first one on the line of attack. No nation will give the job to foreigners when its own workforce are jobless. so what happens after an MBA in these bleeding economies like UK and USA especially after paying so much to school there as a foreigner.
I did my MBA in Germany and i have no reason to regret it for one day. There are MBA courses in english and also an opportunity to learn the most spoken language in Europe. More interesting Education is still highly subsidized in Europes largest economy. The German economy is opening up to professionals with excellent English skills as its multinationals take over the whole of Europe as a result of prudent management of the financial crisis. Dont be deceived by the rankings, you need no middleman to apply directly for MBA in Germany.I did my MBA in this school with the link below and am currently working now with Lufthansa in Germany :


http://www.hs-esslingen.de/en/the-university/faculties/graduate-school/masters-programs/mba-in-international-industrial-management.html

You may wish to check it out yourself. A word is enough for the smart

Nice jobs guys. I just go to know about this thread this afternoon and i contributed my little piece by writing in response to Buhari's tears for the nation. i tagged most of my friends on facebook to it ( close to 1000 contacts) and also posted it in different fora. Here is the little 1 page piece as my contribution to the BB campaign from away Germany:


WEEP NOT: THE PEOPLES GENERAL

[b]Candidate of the CPC in tomorrow’s Presidential elections was addressing a world press conference and mid way into his moving speech he broke into tears, the crowd erupted into wailing and tears.

Images of weeping General is not a news in the Nigeria media ( e.g Gen.Diya cried for his life after the infamous coup to overthrow Abacha, Gen. Obasanjo and Gen. IBB wept publicly at the loss of their wives). What makes General Buhari’s case different is that while the other GENERALS wept for their Lives and that of their loved ones; the Peoples General is crying for the Nigerian state. He wept for a nation wallowing in hopelessness in the midst of resourcefulness and poverty amidst plenty. He wept for a nation whose endowment and natural opportunity for greatness has been squandered by the reckless opportunism of the political class. Buhari wept at the irony of the Nigerian state: ocean of gas but no power, 5th largest oil deposit yet world largest importer of refined petroleum,80 % arable land but the world largest market for imported rice, toothpick etc

Buhari by his tears has joined the list of the nation’s foremost statesmen driven by emotions on their campaign trail. Sadly, this is the path our greatest minds have engaged in the course of a great and arduous struggle for our national liberty: Awolowo wept for the nation, Abiola wept and more recently Gani Fawehinmi wept for Nigeria in the 2003 elections. When Jesus wept, he raised up the dead (Lazarus). When Nigeria’s statesmen weep, they ask the question: when and who will save the national flag? Will Nigeria allow another generation to be on the WASTED GENERATIONS LIST?

I personally have high respect for the cause and patriotism; as well as the abilities based on past records of the worthy BB gentlemen. Tomorrow’s presidential election is an awful decision moment to our dear country, Nigeria. I consider it as a decision on the continuity of the status quo or CHANGE. Buhari/Bakare has only one lamp that is swaying my vote for them and that is the lamp of experience and integrity. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. Does the PDP have anything new to offer after 12 years in office? Association of looters can never produce saints; no matter how meek or humble they look. TRUST THEM NOT,DEAR FRIENDS…they have resorted to religious and tribal entreaties and humble supplication to cover up their corrupt and blood sucking fangs that they have used to snare our feet and collective wealth in the last 12 years.

If we wish to be free. If we really mean as a nation to get those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending…for wish our great statesmen both living and dead have been so long engaged and wept for publicly. WE MUST VOTE THE PDP OUT! We must vote for a leadership that will make just and efficient use of the resources which GOD has placed at our disposal. There is no retreat but in continuation of the status quo. The battle is for the vigilant, the active and the informed to spread the message across to others. I know not what course the others might take but for me and my family: BUHARI/BAKARE IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR THE MOMENT!
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Only truth, i think u are the one that is a mutant here! can u please justify the reason for 3 international airport withian a radius 80km? For your information that is just 2 minutes airtime. What is the economic output here to justify it?

This is a misplaced priority from Jonathan. Our main problem now is not Aviation infrastructure, infact we have overcapacity with respect to airports and the new being built. How can GEJ explain that it is spending 10 billion naira on upgrading Enugu airport when less than 50 km from it , a new international airport is being built in Anambra state. Just 20 km from Onitsha , the warri airport is also being upgraded to an international airport by the delta state government. Why should Enugu airport be a priority for GEJ only for him to request to go and get loan to invest in power! Somebody should please educate me further. Where in the world is the government investing in airport, from frankfurt in Germany to Hearthrow in London, all are owned by private investors now.
This is simply a political decision that was not well thought through just like the building of a petroleum refinery in Kaduna. Does the so call upgrading involve a cargo terminal with latest cooling technology to preserve cargo for exports? Apart from Lagos no other airport in the country is operating at full capacity, international passenger traffic decline in Abuja and Kano for 2010. so where lies the justification for this project/

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