₦airaland Forum

DMerciful:
It is what it is!

You know Obi will fix Nigeria but you'd prefer to cut your nose to spite your face. Enjoy your Amoda

How fixed is Anambra?
I don't have time for stupid talk about candidates and political partties. Stop sounding idiotic and too assuming who loves or hates peterObi.

DMerciful:
Yes by Obi you love to hate!

idiotic talk.

A huge lie.

Hmmm. Can this country be redeemed?

No big deal.

donbrowser:
How much has Obi's beer factory generated?

go and ask those promoting Obi. I dont promote candidates or parties. I promote policies and focus on governance in case you havent noticed.

How much has the airport generated ?

Mobology - the art of mob by mobs for mobs.

Gerrard59:
NIPOST was considerably cheaper than DHL (according to their rating book). FedEx was about 22K (I sent documents to Norway), while UPS was 20, 100 naira to send to Japan. However, I have never sent documents via NIPOST as I dread anything publicly managed. That is, I don't like patronising the services of a governmental agency or organisation unless it is the only option. Where there is a private alternative, I use it no matter the costs.

But costs have nothing to do with competency as DHL Japan is more expensive than Japan Post, yet the latter delivers although a few days slower than the former.

i wonder why japanese will ever choose DHL over a equally performing Japan Post.

Nigerians are too crooked. Thats the main reason. The minor reasons are deepseated mumu, greed.

Gerrard59:
NIPOST is very incompetent and thoroughly slow when patronised compared to DHL, FedEx or UPS. I say this as someone who was forced to utilise its service when I was expecting the Certificate of Eligibility by the Japanese immigration bureau. The policy by the immigration bureau states that the COE would be delivered by the public postal service of Nigeria since the dispatching party in Japan was by the Japan Post (a publicly owned service). JP did her part, but it took more than one month for NIPOST to acknowledge that it received a package from Japan Post. Eventually, after one month and two weeks, I got notified that the COE had arrived. Upon collection, the officials asked for egunje aka bribe, which I declined as I told them in clear terms I no go get money as I was planning a trip. At that time, it was useless as Japan locked its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, I never had an issue sending documents to Japan because I utilised DHL all along. One week, and my documents arrived at the university.

When I re-applied to the same university and went through the same process of receiving the COE, I specifically told the school to inform the immigration bureau that NIPOST's workers were on strike and the COE should not be sent via it, but through DHL or UPS or FedEx. Expectedly, the COE arrived in less than two weeks via UPS. In fact, my instincts told me to call the office in my Nigerian city on the day of arrival to check whether the package had arrived (the school informed me that UPS would be used), and I was told the package was arriving that afternoon. I got to the office and got it. UPS workers never asked for a bribe, and the process was fast!

I explained it in the Japan immigration thread that no one should use NIPOST. Those who used NIPOST regretted it, and those who heeded to my warnings got their packages delivered swiftly via DHL.





Publicly run services, especially in less homogenous countries, tend to be incompetent, slow and inefficient. Japan Post works swiftly largely because the Japanese are competent and the country is homogenous. No one asks for bribe because na dem dem. Due to the frequency of earthquakes, they understand the importance of swift deliveries of packages.

I regretted the day I used NIPOST, just I regretted using the public bus company owned by the state government. When I changed to God is Good Motors, I never encountered any problem of any sort.

Everything should be privatised. Publicly run services, especially in demographically heterogeneous countries, are inefficient, incompetent and corrupt. Privatise everything! Entrench the free market!

cc: IbeOkehie

What is the cost of nipost versus the others like DHL Fedex?

FatherOfJesus:
Really, 1% of Nigerians are pastors in RCCG?

Lol 😂

The fact that only RCCG has 200k pastors, if we add other churches plus the members, this country is suppose to be free of criminality and corruption but we all know that all of them are frauds and hypocrites.

I no fit ever go back to religion, it has no collective benefit

0.1%

christejames:
But during the election you were writing articles upon articles subtly in support of the candidature of Tinubu so why are you dissipating wailing 😩?

pain can twist brain.

kettykin:
South korea and Singapore don't have upto 2000 pastors combined , yet God has blessed them so much with human, resource and abundance. Nigeria that has time 100 don't enjoy anything.

pastors are not engineers.

Lol. Even with no subsidy, ours still looks subsidized besides others. Nigerians have it easy in some aspect.

Nobody seem to be talking about the hostages as much as those mistakenly killed by IDF.

I supported petrol and education subsidy to remain but endorse power subsidy to go. Immediately petrol subsidy made way May 2023, power subsidy miraculously started to pick up, not neccessarily due to improved supply but overestimation of usage by DISCOs. Lets power be used used for the most pressing needs like water pumping, press ironing, lighting, and maybe few other neccessary uses. Cheap electricity should be for productive uses and not for staying on tv allday watching african magic or bypassing it to run printing press.

IbeOkehie:
Now that government is in complete control of electricity and even subsidizing the price, how much electricity supply are Nigerians getting?

When government owned the telecoms sector, how many Nigerians owned a phone?

When is the last time you used your local NIPOST office?

How come petrol and cement subsidy created so much scarcity of both commodities? Hmmm? I[b] thought Dangote Cement and Arik Air and MTN were also monopolies, because many Nigerians angrily made that claim at the time, I remember it as clear as yesterday.[/b]

I understand your worry about monopoly. It won't be worse than the current situation.

One way to blunt the impact of monopoly is to make sure that as many Nigerians as possible own SHARES in electricity companies. So the populace will get profits & dividends from their investments.

TCN can be floated on the stock exchange and every family given one share. That's one idea, I'm no expert, there are other ways I don't know about.



Minimum Wage should be abolished. Some of the most prosperous countries in the world don't regulate wages...Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Switzerland only allowed STATES to introduce minimum wage about 5 years ago.

Scrapping all the State and Federal Ministries of Labor would reduce the cost of government too, Nigerian government is too expensive.

National Minimum Wage Laws destroy jobs.

Good Luck to Nigeria

Nipost is active and fuctuonal un case you are not aware. I still use them.

NCC regulates what telcos charge so calm down and stop bringing facts that contradixt your arguments.

Lol. They call it deve.

What is the point fighting over cost of something thats barely available? It sounds like misplaced priority.
They should be pushing for cheap power for industries and a fair profit level by discos and gencos.

socialmediaman:
For context: using N1,300 = $1

This N225 naira per KPH is about 17 cents per kilowatt hour. The minimum wage in Nigeria is N30,000 monthly

North Dakota pays about 10 cents per kilowatt hour. Minimum wage in North Dakota is $7.25 per hour (N1.3 million naira monthly).

Texas pays about 15 cents per kilowatt hour. Minimum wage in Texas is $7.25 per hour (N1.3 million naira monthly).

While minimum wage is a good reference point to guage earning power of the lower class. It can be misleading sometimes too. How many private businesses pay that N30k, even with inflation?

omohayek:
My thoughts exactly. Nigerians suffer from a strange mental block when it comes to understanding that the highly subsidized living they feel entitled to is at the root of the rampant corruption and slow growth they constantly wail about. The more government interferance in the economy, the bigger the scope for corruption.

stop talking like a capitalist bot.
Subsidies can never be the root cause of of cirruption.

IbeOkehie:


Greed and selfishness are common human failings that can only be acted on when there's OPPORTUNITY to do so.

The major cause of corruption in Nigeria is

government ownership of economic resources & commercial companies,
government payment of subsidies and
government regulation of prices.

That's it. Once all that government involvement is abolished, there will be very little opportunity for anyone to act upon their natural tendency to be greedy, wicked and selfish. I've never heard of anyone consenting for sex as a condition to admission to Covenant or Igbinideon Universities, but it's rampant at Unilag.

Evidence in Nigeria - telecoms, cement and broadcasting companies. Very little complaints of corruption in those industries because government has very little involvement in their operations.

Simple stuff, but somehow very hard for Nigerians to comprehend.

Have a good day.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

I am afraid you do not know the full implication of what you are talking about.
Take electricity for example, after govt hands off, how will the masses survive monopoly from few discos owners who are after profit and can easily inflate prices without anyone bulging?

nedu666:
From 68 naira to 200 naira per kwh. Despite that phcn will still supply darkness at exorbitant rate

Above all, no prepaid metre to measure what is being used. Even crude oil isn't being metred.

What the wuruwuru govt should have done since and retained it for only productive uses to attract industry and development.

Let all MDA building have prepaid for a start.

All in his bid to show those bloody Christians pepper.
The very excuse they used to institutionalize wickedness and corruption in the north and in Nigeria at large.

Now even the payment of salaries of his beloved brethren is severely threatened.

Evil children everywhere.

Obstaculated sauce.

A responsible govt and not another that will kidnap you and hold you for weeks under inhuman conditions.

haybhi1:
It shall never be well with anyone who disrespect prof Wole Soyinka. I don't care what you do to others, I care less, but Soyinka? It shall never be well with anyone who discredits him openly. Is it a must he supports Obi ni to be accorded his due respect ni?
Haha, person go jail 20 months for Igbo, collect NB for us, fought military and Abacha to teeth, don our culture, and yet all these are insufficient to give him the honour he deserves because he doesn't support Obi. He's done what no other Nigerian has done for Nigeria in his lifetime and he's the black sheep because of the loud mouth of some uncouth, ungrateful idiots. Emulable life but his main crime is criticism, calling it as it is.

Damn, you have to even think twice to be kind to a fellow black man.

I'm a successful and ambitious and right thinking youth and I do fully support and hope to live like Soyinka and they're many like me. Anyone who have failed to contribute ~10% Soyinka's achievement to Nigeria, it shall never be well with them, never!

idiotic thing.