₦airaland Forum

NOBLEDANDY:
and so??
meanwhile better go ask your mum who your biological pa is

Forwetinnah:
The WEST
Smh!! Is Hypocrisy a full time business over there?

Bevista:
That's fine by me, as long as prepaid meters are available. Scrapping the fixed charges is also a welcome development.

As long as people only pay for what they actually consume, Nigerians should learn to pay the right price for a service. That is the only incentive for investors to commit their funds for long term improvement of the sector.

The telecoms model is a good example of how appropriate pricing stimulates service, competition, jobs - and ultimately - lower prices.

dabossman:
This is okay as long as I get my prepaid meter soon. But if any Ikedc official brings me estimated bill with this rate, na wahala o.




Oga, when did the House of Reps become a judicial court of law?

Proudnigga:
Osun wey dem budget no fit pay NEPA bill no

omolami:
Diya is on his own. Abacha na his master. Born to fear man. Am sure he is afraid of Buhari now, may be he shared out of Dasuki's loot hence patching gari. Diya not speaking for the generality of the Yorubas. Not all Yorubas like Buhari. Who is Buhari please?

watered:
I'm not surprised at all that this is coming from Diya after all he wept at the feet of Gen. Sani Abacha while Abacha offered him handkerchief to wipe his tears.

Seun, please grant me permission to say what I want to say else Nairaland does not guarantee freedom of speech.

Seun please allow me as I'm standing by cos I even have video proof though it affects Yorubas

muh4eva:
So are you telling me OKOROCHA, SYLVA, OSHOMOLE, AMECHI and other are muslims? Would people top being silly for ones?

Agwoden:
Cry cry general.

omonnakoda:
The question is not whether it is a good idea or not .This is not an ideological issue but a practical one. Nigeria is not China and Nigeria does not have the resources or capacity to police its borders. We cannot stop guns and drugs coming in so what are we talking about? Let us focus on what will work in practice not in theory. Even under a military government it will not work how much less a civilian one. There are far too many problems to police in Nigeria,Armed robbery Boko Haram,Illegal refineries,kidnapping and the vast majority f our police are corrupt.

You cannot stop rich people spending their money because of ideological hang ups what is important is to focus on the big picture. If rich people have FOREX of their own and want to import garri that is fine just Tax it . I would have no problem with a 1000 naira cup of German garri if 900 naira of it goes to government. Even today a litre of petrol in the EU is well over 300 Naira and much of that is TAX!! while we are fighting for subsidy so effective tax is a smarter curb on demand than banning.

The idea that China closed their border totally is a bit exaggerated anyway China has always been more advanced than Nigeria. Our workforce needs major overhauling and upgrading.
Nigeria has signed up to WTO rules and has some obligations ther too so we cannot just use bans for everything some of the people we are trying to export to will react so we must think carefully about consequences before acting. But yest the objective should be to increase our productivity and without electricity power some bans will not make sense so we need to act in national interest but do so taking everything into consideration and acting wisely

mykl01:
Nigeria sounds Strategic enough don't you think
Please let's not wish others war. Liberalise the economy, allow Naira to find its value, decentralise government, allow southern ports to function, reduce the price of maintaining the Senate, House of Reps and Presidency, sell off Presidential fleet and encourage Bubu to stay at home, make agriculture more interesting, tractors, harvesters, fertilisers, remove fuel Subsidy and government regulation on fuel and fuel issues.....
We will never do any of these things, just cosmetic nonsense by Emefiele who is teleguided by the body language master...
Ndi ara!!

erico2k2:
Boss sorry to say ur Ideology is a acient thus wrong.

tucky200:
busshh munkhey

omonnakoda:
I don't think closing the borders can work rather there should be a smarter approach of effective duty collection and effective market surveillance .If rich people want to eat bread from London fine just make sure government taxes it and collects the tax e.g $1 per loaf. For those items that are not negotiable government should carry out extensive public enlightenment and give an amnesty perion e.g 6 months and warn people in the markets about which products are prohibited and give them time to adjust . After that start seizing. Even that will not eliminate it 100% but will me more effective. No one takes cocaine to the market to sell and it should be the same for anything government wants to prohibit. Right now the thinking is if you can bring it in then it is OK but when it is impossible to sell frozen turkey anywhere in the open that would be a game changer.

Right now the body language of government on banned items is ambivalent

YourMain:
I still wouldn't beat my child oo.

YourMain:
Yes my parents were all about the punishments. My parents would take away my clothes, shoes, phone. I had my door taken away for three months. My mum shaved off my hair once. Best believe I went to school bald. My parents would take away literally everything. I'd go to school and come home. Stay in my room. No food no nothing. And every hour they'd come in and lecture me. I'd write 20 billion I'll never do it again essays.

But my parents would never ever put their hands on me. I think it's really really really bad. And it's worked for me. I would never ever disrespect my parents.

989900:
You are almost 100% correct -- we need to get off dependence on oil.

However, if there is anything I have come to learn since the late 70s, it is : never write off oil!

The bankers and world financial powerhouses will ensure that oil rises; when, I don't know.

They'd start a war somewhere strategic maybe.

YourMain:
My parents never ever beat me. And I think I've turned out pretty alright. I know kids who've grown up with parents who have hit them and they're destroyed.

My kids will be perfect. Thank you very much.

leonard509:
wise one.

YourMain:
Really ?

Well I can't tell you the way to raise your kids. So if your daughter came home with 4th position you'd beat her ?

omonnakoda:
There is no strategy that will work in the short term. Nigerians need to tell themselves the truth: In terms of aggregate world production we are not productive but we like to consume and do so with an incomprehensible sense of entitlement. The only thing that will push up the Naira is external demand for Nigerian products and reduced consumption of imports in Nigeria. Nigeria economy was not strong enough to allow people spend money abroad on VISA cards that was a mistake. That should only happen with PREPAID CARDS i.e you buy the card and load the dollars NOT spend from your account.
We cannot continue to blame government for everything. Indians come into Nigeria to make orange juice while we sit on our lazy butts. Even those who steal government funds take it abroad to buy houses. South Africans come to open TV stations and Supermarkets. Ibos pride themselves as businessmen but the core of Ibo business does not bring dollars in rather it helps us consume and spend even more dollars. We need to stop blaming government and look at ourselves. Imagine all the money airlines take out of Nigeria yearly
The number one strategy is simple . REDUCE OUR APPETITE longthroat for imported goods. There is no right to consume what productive people in other countries produce.

yudee233:
It is a pity that the gurus in economic matters are sleeping. Just take a closer look at the developed countries you will see one denominator "focusing on finished goods". Everyone is crying that the Oil price has fallen so low we can still mitigate this by revamping the refineries and encouraging investors to build more refineries. This alone will reduce 40% pressure on dollars request in Nigeria

YourMain:
Beating your kids is lazy parenting. Your child will have learnt nothing. And one day you'll reach a stage where you can't beat them. Then they are free to do all the things you used to beat them for.

mbulela:
Your craze get level

coolscott:
[size=13pt]You can't take these people seriously. These are the same people that said Lagos is no man's land in a bid to further go on to claim it saying they built it.

Have you not noticed that Efiks, Ibibios, Ijaws, Igalas, Tivs, Kanuris all live in Lagos state? Not one of them ventured that kind of disrespectful error (of declaring that Lagos is "no man's land" ).

When the rest of Nigeria sees the Igbo man doing that, they form an opinion of him naturally.

The Calabar man will know naturally that if the capital of Nigeria had remained calabar the Igbos would probably be calling Calabar "no man's land" by now.

Igbos cannot misbehave again and again and when resented on account of that, complain in self glorifying self pity that they are hated because everyone else is envious of them.

Most of these misdemeanours actually amount to diplomatic self-amputation on the part of Igbos because it takes away from their collective diplomatic equity. Point this out to them and they turn on you. Proverbs 9:7

Their fathers made a grievous mistake by not talking to the ancient dynasties of the south-south before assuming their sons and daughters would go and die for them in a war they knew nothing about. At a time when they should be repairing these old errors it was surprising to hear Igbos further complete the diplomatic self-harm by declaring:

1) That Ijaws were Igbos

2) That our ancient dynasties to whom the white man paid taxes on arriving our shores are a part of Ojukwus 1965 attempted contraption, Biafra.

How can a people's political fortunes improve, when they engage in a permanent process of eroding all diplomatic goodwill?[/size]

martineverest:
the 'ndigbos' added igbankes,ikas,ikweres,aniomas etc to their team do as to reinforce themselves. But they don't claim igbo. Have u ever asked yourself y they never took part in biafran protests? Have u ever seen the reactions of aniomas/ikwerres when they are called igbos?. Delta igbo will prefer to call themselves 'aniomas' and 'ika' so as to differentiate themselves from I igbos and they quickly correct you whenever they are called igbos. The ikwerres will always tell you that their origin is bini..