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Barselonia:
after struggling to prepared a pot of stew with 1500, buy one tuber of yam for 800 aand one bag of rice for 26,000 ....

What do u expected.....

this kind time,, If you come greet me ffor house, na to ddey look each other....

where u dey buy bag of rice for 26k?
a 50 kg bag is like half dat price

hawking is trading, but trading might not be hawking.

Hawkers move about with their goods , manytimes in d middle of the road.

bqlekan:
Anybody who wants Portugal to win euros because of Ronaldo is an enemy of football. Such person should be banned from anything football related for life..


I mean 5 Fücking draw..

Actually, Only Portugal is undefeated after 5 games in this competition. The other undefeated teams so far, France & Germany have only played 4 games.

What is it with all these hate comments above?


Embittered lowlifes

FuckTheM0ds:
Shame unto portugal. 5 Matches in this tournament and are yet to win a full 90 minutes game.

Wobble nd fumble to the final. and who knows ? win the euros . The sweetest form of victory is made of such.

SWOT analysis always needed in such decisions, to fashion out mitigation measures, but sentiments clouded reasoning means only the strength and opportunities are considered, the weaknesses and threats are veiled with the lens of sentiment. Now the lens of sentiment have been removed from the eyes of the leave EU campaigners, they are now forced to deal with the negatives of their decision.

Pavarottii:
Nairaland is not a place to show seniority, is a place where people argue constructively about their beliefs and discuss solutions to make Nigeria it a better place(even tho it's been abused by ur likes). All I said, following d calendar of the alleged corruption charges meted on Fayose, freezing of his account,rebuff by aisha buhari, and the zenith bank scandal and these protest following suit, u don't need a soothesayer to tell u that the forces against Fayose are behind dis protest hence how could they pay for those prints, pay for d mobilization so quick, do u think it's d people that used their money and energy to create such and av u ever heard of corrupt charges against Fayose b4 this? And u read wen the APC of the state that FG should refuse Fayose bail out to pay workers salary that is only wen the people of Ekiti state suffer, they can win in 2018.
Finally, if u think these people were not sponsored by the powers that want Fayose out. No prob, I leave u with ur opinion.

Av a great day.

I laugh @ d boldened. Which year dem born u ? Fayose was removed as Governor on corrupt charges in year 2006. He set up a fake poultry where he hired birds days before Obasanjo was to commission the poultry in ekiti. Obasanjo asked him on the day of commissioning, "Fayose these ur birds no dey shit" ?

Jer29v11:
Hello all, I'm new to this thread and I must admit I have found a lot of the info very useful. Thank you.

I am also new to the Canada Immigration Process and I have quite a number of questions. I am waiting for my WES evaluation and in the meantime, I calculated my CRS score using an online tool. To my surprise it came back with a total of 393. I strongly believe I haven't input all the details required and probably missed a chunk of my points. Can anyone help with a rough estimate of my CRS score? Below is a summary of my details;

IELTS Results; S-8.5, R-8.5, L-8.5, W-6.5. Total Band Score = 8
Highest Degree qualification - MSc.
5 years work experience in Engineering/oil & gas
No family or relatives in Canada
Single
Age 34
No Canadian job offer (yet)

Please let me know if you require any other information to help with my inquiry. Thanks

Your IELTS result is the problem.
Your result is very nice, however, it misses the Canadian Language benchmark 9 , which requires a minimum of LRSW 8777. A 7 in writing would have added over 50 points to your current CRS score. Retake your IELTS exam and aim for CLB 10 (LRSW 8.5 8 7.5 7.5) or at worst a CLB 9 (LRSW 8777). You can also seek for a remark of your writing test to see if the score could be upgraded, although the response time for this process is roughly 2 months. You can not seek for remark of a test that the result was released over 6 weeks ago.

climate change

The real reduction can only come when refined fuel is no longer imported, this reduction is not in any way sustainable.

Great initiative. Recently, a study showed that giving out livestock to poor households for rearing can bring them out of the poverty threshold.

Fayose should take such initiative instead of dashing out rice in the name of stomach infrastructure.

It is a low hanging fruit.

Pavarottii:
PDP is Back!
PDP reclaiming Edo state loading...

It is losing Ondo state btw, and i doubt APC will not retain Edo state

Pavarottii:
Very soon only Rivers, Lagos, Delta, Kaduna and Akwa Ibom that will be able to pay salaries.

Maybe you meant Lagos. This moth and next month allocation will be close to nothing, and the oil producing states will be hit like never before.

I saw clearing works this money. Contractors are back on site. I guess this news is belated.

. I guess my emotions sleeps a lot. I cant understand. Did he win a gold medal at the olympics

No be life prison he dey enter so?

TBankxx:
So is only saudi u can mention abi?? check others that produce less. Venezuela etc.. even Algeria & Libya minimum wage, pump price & employment rate is way better than urs.

i didnt want to derail this thread. Check others to, we are both on the same webspace. Nigeria is not in any way oil rich, expecially when you factor our population and other factors like mono economy (oil as about the only mainstay).

Libya - 6 million population, Before the libyan crisis/war, oil production was 1.6 million barrels, it is currently under 400,000 barrels.

Venezuela - 30 million population 2.6 million barrels .

Algeria - 39 million population , oil production 1.4 million barrels.

You can check for others. Nigeria has the potential to be quite rich, but currently it is not, it is more of a low income economy, during the oil boom we were close to being classified as a middle income economy., but not anymore.

TBankxx:
So are u supporting the Government for their backwardness & poor leadership? Is this all they can do wit tax payers money & Niger Delta crude oil money?? Go & check all OPEC countries & compare the standard of living u'll come back & requests for a gun to sh**t ur leaders. They're victimizing u & all u can do is applaud them?. How myopic! Why would the law makers earn highest in the world?? ur president earn more than Obama are u aware?? ..& all he does is travel round the world wit d money from crude. Let any1 that want to voice their mind do so let whole world know the height of insanity

The part highlighted makes me laugh.

Your argument is like that of a wife telling her husband who works in CBN to compare his standard of living with his other members of staff.

That OPEC binds us together does not mean we are mates o bro? Shoe get size.

Discounting other main sources of income, Shey na Saudi Arabia wey dey produce 9.2 million barrels per day, you dey compare with Nigeria of 2 million barrels. One will use its 9.2 million barrels to cater for 25 million, the other has close to 200 million . Them be mate so.

Ibudus:
You see, i think this is the problem...people who come here to criticize initiatives are not in anyway the targeted. At least you can afford to fly, many like you cant even pay 50 naira for okada and you say 23k is nothing? Many of us heared far less during NYSC and life wasnt bad. Given the current realities, i think its a good program. Its a temporary engagement and a skill acquisition program, many will fly high if they put in their best.

I think it is even better than the NYSC environment, in the sense that those graduates can take the 'token" and have the opportunity of most likely still live under their parents/guardians, meaning they might not fend for food or accomodation expenses, they now have at least money to attend job interviews without being a total pest to parents , and who knows save the money and merge with funds from other sources to start up an SME.

Eddygourdo:
and thus what happens to the unemployed millions of graduates holding degrees in education, NCE and the likes. Why can't they be employed to fill such vacancies . People who are trained in teaching people. What type of teaching can someone with a degree in economics have in a nursery or kindergarten class. Are we not taking food from the mouth of others ? When the program is over. What happens to the volunteers . They have simply wasted two years of their lives garnering experience that doesn't better them affter the program. Is that a proactive plan for the nigerian youth ? I really disagree

I have just read about the program, if you take pain to read like i have, instead of sulking you wont be asking the first question. the post talked about B.sc/B.a edu, As for N.C.E i didnt see them listed in there, but it is basic common sense that if 500,000 is removed from the unemployed millions to earn a living, irrespective of how much of a token it might appear, it is something. There are graduates with degree in economics education, my male cousin is one, he can be posted to teach related subjects that best fit. The fact that someone gets a volunteer job that has a lifespan of two years does not mean such fellow press pause or stop on his/her life pursuit na. Some will most likely drop out before the end of the 2 year scheme because they got access to greener pastures, and the vacant space will be filled up with others. Most of the teachers in private schools in Nigeria barely earn 23,000. It is a shame, but it is the fact.

Almonda:
The way NYSC corpers were used as volunteers in the North during the election and were all lynched abi. You can as well resign your employment and take up the job as a voluteer. mstcheewww!!! Father Christmas

Volunteer comes from the word voluntary.

You can check the meaning of the word voluntary and volunteer in a dictionary if you have one.

Eddygourdo:
To fools and educated illiterates, the teaching programme is laudable. How can you be so daft, are they producing future teachers? What skills could u garner from teaching that would be useful to the grauduates on completion of the 2 year program. Or are we merely extending the wasted years of NYSC. What happened to an iintensive two year skill acquisition program , what happened to entrepreneurship programs, programs that can actually help the graduates become self sustaining. Since it is voluntary what is the aim of this N power thing. To produce teachers or to empower our jobless youths .

I thought we would be creating models for diversification, self employment and job creation. Yet some of u half baked graduates who can't reason thinks a two year teacher voluntary teacher program would help you become a good engineer, doctor, business manager when you finish it or maybe the 23k would make you rich ? Or the laptop to be given would make u an employer.

Fools deserve to be lead by one eyed blind men. You all disgust me

The programme is not primarily tailored for skill acquisition, it is meant to meet the shortage of school teachers in the nations schools, and volunteers are called to offer their services. Govt will appreciate the efforts of the volunteers. This programme is not primarily meant for the volunteers, it is meant for the school kids.

ZUBY77:
So how is this crap related to the fact that some cook somewhere is going to be responsible for what my kids eat in school?
I understand your primitive logic would be to ask if it is by force to eat. In which case i would want to ask if you have seen where a kid is eating biscuit while another hungry kid looks without any hope of getting some.

Dont send your kid to public school na, there are alternatives.

riddler4real:
What do u know?u sit in ur village and u say what u hear n read from Naira land. Tell me that swampy area in lagos that was converted to railroads?

I live n work in dubai and I have lived in lagos for years

You are super ignorant, just shut it.

I was thinking you will come and rebuff the earlier statement as an error, but you are writing about living in dubai and Lagos for a century......, Your comment negates common sense, except if we are discussing about planting rice here.

You are actually living in a village called Ignorant but loud.

sabama007:
Well, what's the economy of Dubai like when compared that of Nigeria?

I'm not backing up the budget of the Lagos light rail but then we all know how things are in Nigeria. Corruption is a bane to our socio-economic growth.

Well, I'd like you to help me with the links showing the features of the Dubai rail as well as that of Lagos.

I want to be well informed

That one is ignorant, the moment he wrote it cost more to build same projects on a desert terrain than a marshy land, i knew he was a clown.

kinibigdeal:
Lagos Light Rail Line is too costly compare to a similar project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia .

Please see below :


Addis Ababa Light Rail Project,Span : 34Km. Cost : $475m
number of Stations : 39
Project Tenure : 2011 - 2015

Status : The project is already completed and running effectively .

Lagos Light Rail project

Span : 27km
Cost : $1.2Bn
number of Stations : 13
project Tenure : 2010 till date
Status : not completed

Is the new 4th mainland bridge worth the cost?

I dont think it is same model, lagos is building an overhead light rail. To the best of my knowlege Addis Ababa light rail is not like such.

otipoju:
Universal Basic Education is a right as enshrined in the UN charter and not a privilege.

Please show me a receipt where you paid tuition for a child from elementary to high school in government owned schoo in the USAl as I specified in my post.

As for tax, Nigerians do pay taxes especially PAYE taxes and VAT which is always factored into the cost of items and usually not listed seperately.

What will kill Nigeria is kleptomaniac, government officials pure and simple.

The problem is not just kleptomania, it is way beyond that. The income base of most states is quite weak, and the leaders are not creative to expand IGR partly because the structure of governance we practice is faulty and another because followers love deceit .

Nigerians overestimate income of the country and state, when it is compared to the population it becomes close to nothing.

South africa with 50 million population has over 25 trillion naira budget , compared to a 180 million population with 6 trillion naira budget.

Oyo state receives barely 1 billion naira mothly from FG in the last few months. I just gave a simple calculation where paying salaries of secondary school teachers will gulp the whole 1 billion naira. What then happens to building new secondary schools, renovating old ones, employing new secondary school teachers ? What about paying primary school teachers?, tertiary institutions nkor Other sectors nkor ? Abi health workers like doctors, nurses e.t.c no go collect pay? Govt would not build infrastructures? High population is a two edged sword, one edge is an advantage, the other edge is a disadvantage.

the VAT you are talking of is overrated. Do you know how much each states get from VAT.? Dont give Awolowo example to justify free education o, Many years back, University students were fed fat with meal tickets and there where one or at most 2 in rooms of HOR that now has 7 students +? While Govt needs was growing in geometric progression, its income was barely growing, or at best it was growing in arithmetic progression. Every govt worker wants increase in pay na. A teachers reward is no more in heaven, My late grandmother retired as a head mistress of a primary school, and she jocularly told me the pay then meant most landlords avoid renting out houses to teachers. The question for debate should be what can be done to generate tangible income across the states ?

MemphisDepay:
did I just saw you write my furrrking name? I will be consistent next season. You bae has bn with me every evening after training. That's why I have been shite all season. And that's also why you are on NL. Lol

Weyrey !

kinibigdeal:
Hi there! i'll advice you take my advice frankly. There is nothing wrong with her and your relationship is safe. If you know the hell of stress involved in a PhD program, you wouldn't have been suspecting any fowl play. When writing a thesis, the best time to concentrate is in the dead night. A PhD program entails at least a 100 publication within 2-3years nowadays which need a serious scrutiny by some panel. And she also need to be submitting a report every months to her supervisor if she really want to complete her degree within 5years. If she can't concentrate now, she might end up completing a 4-5years programme for 10years. Sometimes, all this assigned professor frustrate their candidate , so you don't know what's on her mind each time you call. Kindly note that you should expect more strange actions from her during her program because its entails full concentration especially for those that want to complete it within a fast paced time. It not what you think bro, don't forget you are dating a career lady in the making. At 32 she's no longer a baby dull

Abeeeegi

PhD mean say you no fit speak to your boo for 5 minutes. Even minutes before entering the room for almight PhD thesis defence sef, you can still pick your call and talk to the one you profess you love. Some of us sef dey do PhD o.

@ op, Why spend 2 million on a girl not yet your wife sef?

Love, see what u made me do, starrring on GOtv. The way love dey shack some people ehn, i no go like fall in love o.

The quality of education in Oyo state is shameful, the govt income can not cater for the kind of free education most people are clamouring for, I suggest Govt give out free and QUALITY education within primary schools, and not the kind of free education govt is currently offering in ramshackled classrooms and disoriented teachers.

IN Oyo state there are close to 650 secondary schools, if there are average of 40 teachers in each schools , and they earn average of N40,000 monthly. 650 * 40 *40,000 = over 1 billion naira monthly to pay salaries.

This calculation excludes primary school teachers and tertiary institution lecturers /members of stafff.

How realistic is govt paying over 1 billion naira as monthly wages to teachers in just secondary schools in the face of dwindling income? What then happens to subvention to schools to run and maintain these schools? Little wonder most of the schools are in decrepit state .

N.B = My estimate is quite conservative.

Anyone still believing in the Awolowo type of free education in 2016 is living in the past. Awolowo was quite intelligent, and the strategy of the past might not necessarily apply now. Free education electoral promise is a deceipt that guarantees sub standard education that can not make students compete in the environment. I can bet many secondary school graduates in Oyo public schools can not write better than some primary 5 common entrance applicants trained in private schools.

Govt should focus on primary education and make it truly free and qualitative. It is the basic building block.

eleko1:
Nah onlY her missed his test?What bout her course mate dat missed the test too? Is her course Rep cripple? So if dat Prof had awarded her 23 mark out of 30 and possible score 78"A" in his paper,she'll record it/tell the whole world abi? What's she doing with the recording if not to disgrace the Randy man.Let ur NO be NO.U write ur test,attend class,write ur exam.And u are so sure of urself,let me see the useless thing that will fail u.

It is of no concern if there are 100 people that missed the test, She didnt come to school because of those ones. She approached the man for missing a test, whether the girl is a professional olosho or not is not the concern. People miss test test for cogent reasons. Dont turn logic on its head.

0molara:
I am not trying to support anybody here, but ladies if you miss a text and you need to inform your lecturers, do it thru your Hoc or class rep and don't go and advertise yourself to him by going to his office. I rest my case.

Not necessary, lecturers are not demi gods or super human. Every lecturer must have stipulated time when they meet students for varying reasons. Students must be encouraged to record and report this sort of malpractices. If a lecturer tells your younger sister in the lecturer room to come and meet him in the office with evil intent to sexual harass her. What way has she advertised her self??