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MayComputers:
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Good day Mr MayComputers, I like to enquire about printing generally.
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I desire something very close to foreign quality printing like those of Lipton tea, Bournvita or Kelloggs cornflakes cardboard packages.

Please advice if you don't offer such.

Saraki and co are just being political as politician should be . . . Buhari too was when he was trying to enter Aso Rock in Agbada.

Buhari likes the northern domination so much and wouldn't mind selling it to a honest northern Muslim that can run it transparently.

Dami12345:
Lol, no one is.

If rape is so serious with the comments I see on nairaland like cut off the guys preek and kill all rapist.

I wonder how exactly is rape serious.
Is it not the same sex that girls always have?
Is it not the same cheating on their husbands with gatemen and someone sha that they regularly do?

So why should anyone die for it?
Don't make sense. There are more serious matters.

Your comments are based on a stupid assumptions that girls will always want sex.
It also doesn't consider the right of girls to choose who to have it with and where and even how.

Now if she gets pregnant how will she locate the man responsible for the pregnancy?

In addition to all these, it was stated clearly that she was brutally raped.

If girls always enjoy sex and she actually enjoyed it why commit suicide?

Using an analogy, if a secret admirer of yours sends you a huge amount of money without your consent and you enjoyed the money getting and spending experience, can that possibly lead to depression and suicide on your own part?

You are clearly a ret@rded attention seeking personality.

If you are a rapist, better ask God for forgiveness and healing of the psychological wounds to your victims because hell fire is real.

Why should government continue to be the main employer of labour ? It is a call that helps people but draws back the country's development and stability in much greater way.

Look at the Dangote refinery very well. It was built to run on few hands and that spells lost employment opportunity for the nation. Why invest so much forex on such when the government could have at least built a bigger and less technology driven one that employs people more and pay them far above the 30,000 N-Power is offering?

To me N-power is a scheme designed to enslave us further in the long run. It is unsustainable and was designed to end just when election are drawing near so people can vote buhari.
It mirrors our many other sharing schemes that has enslaved us to corruption.

Govt can do better than promoting sectional interest.


Even the agric section of the N-Power isn't well mechanized to merit any accolade of a 2017 scheme, it is largely info based or a mentoring scheme with little input. The earlier we see far enough to realize what we are doing won't solve Nigeria's problems in the long run the better. We need more . . .

justtoodark:
foolishness...do you people even know what a barrel of oil is...??...

crude oil is a raw material...you cant use crude oil directly...you have to extract what you need from it....

demand may reduce...but that it will finsh...??

not realy....

and even sef...it doesnt matter...then we go back to agriculture by force....

I can see why your moniker is a Just-Too-Dark. Your mind is so dark. So crude is a infinite resource to your dark mind right?

Will Kano still build mosques and fund Ramadan? Will Akwa Ibom still build huge roundabouts or churches? Mynd44.

gypsey:
so what are you doing here in the ring? you are supposed to ignore me like your crooked pastor said. you are worst than a hypocrite!

I am not in the ring with you. I am just an onlooker.

gypsey:
He is still a crooked pastor! yes, he was busy stealing from his gullible and foolish church members


Thieving pastor!

One man in the ring contest.

• Development Makes Monitoring Of Allocation, Output Arduous-Official
• Failure To Utilise Borrowed Funds While Interest Accrues Irresponsible
• Retards Economic Growth • Finance Minister, AGF Maintain Sealed Lips



With a list of abandoned and delayed projects scattered all over the country, last month’s return of N118b to the Treasury of the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government by some of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), has further questioned the Federal Government’s transparency quotient.
This is heightened by the fact that the return only came to light after strident, repeated demands for explanation of capital vote expenditure for 2017 (which is still not ready), and only after the Auditor General of the Federation gave his verdict that poor bookkeeping, profligacy and gross abuse of extant financial regulations still characterised expenditure pattern in fiscal year 2016,
However, a director in the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, who prefers anonymity said the return of the huge sum is the direct outcome of the return to the envelope system of allocation to MDAs, (bulk allocation to MDAs, instead of project-specific releases adopted in the first two years of the current administration.)
On their part, fiscal governance experts are blaming alleged flagrant display of incompetence, indolence and unending tardiness causing late budget preparation and passage, as well as, unnecessary length of procurement processes, hence the return of N118b.
Besides, experts insist that it is a gross display of irresponsibility for the country to borrow huge funds in the name of capital expenditure items, with associated interest rates, only for the government to keep the fund idle, while the country groans under the burden of parlous infrastructure.
A breakdown of the unspent capital votes indicated that the largest chunk of N66.9b was returned by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing; the sum of N22.8b from the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry; N6.1b from the Office of the National Security Adviser, and the sum of N3.5b from the Federal Ministry of Health.
Also returned was the sum of N4.3b from the Federal Ministry of Finance; N3.5b from the Federal Ministry of Health; N1.8b from the Education Ministry; N1b from Water Resources Ministry and N3.5b from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF); among other agencies.
The director, in a chat with The Guardian declared that much of the unutilised funds represent allocations for the padded projects smuggled into the budget by members of the National Assembly without basic budgetary ingredients, such as feasibility studies, engineering designs and procurement requirements, which made execution impossible, but because of the envelope system of allocation, the releases were made to the MDAs.
At inception, following dwindling oil mineral revenue, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning abandoned the regular practice of bulk capital release allocation, which was done on a quarterly basis and adopted a prioritisation of project-specific releases to guard against spreading even and achieving less results.
Accordingly, the Cash Management Committee consisting of representatives of agencies in the two ministries were meeting at irregular intervals once funds accrued to the Federal Government CRF to decide on, which projects to fund.But all that is now in the past following rising oil prices leading to elevated revenue to the Federal Government, which has equally returned to bulk allocation to MDAs, including funds for projects not properly prepared for execution.
Said the official: “We have returned to this syndrome of huge unspent capital votes to the treasury because we have returned to the envelope system, where funds are released to the MDAs in bulk and no longer to specific projects. The development is also making it difficult for us to monitor allocation and output because the funds are no longer projects-specific. They can now settle for expenditure that they have evidence to easily retire since releases to them were not for specific projects.
“But what I suspect that resulted to the huge figure, particularly in the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, as well as, in the ministries of water resources, health and education is the inability of these ministries to carry out the implementation of the smuggled projects, which did not follow due diligence by the executive, taking into account, basic conditions like feasibility studies, right of way, engineering designs and the likes. It’s in the two ministries that these constituency projects are situated. Definitely, it would be impossible to execute because there’s no way you can even progress to procurement when these basic conditions have not been fulfilled. But you can get details from the concerned MDAs, the Ministry of Finance and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. They are the right people to give you details. We even depend on the information they provide us before we go to the field for monitoring and evaluation,” the official further said.
Calls made to the mobile telephone lines of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and the Accountant General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, for their comments on the development were not answered. Commenting on the return of unspent funds, Prof. of Finance and Capital Markets and Chair, Banking and Finance Department, Nasarawa State University Keffi, Uche Joe Uwaleke, said it was ridiculous that a problem of this nature is not usually associated with recurrent spending, as agencies strive to exhaust whatever is allocated to them.
“Unspent funds from capital projects retard economic growth and make government’s accounting less transparent since the funds are not originally captured in the following year’s budget. There is no guarantee that MDAs that return money to the coffers of the government are entitled to receive the same amount of money the following year, in addition to what was budgeted for that particular agency,” he said.
He deplored the lengthy procurement process that takes up to six months in some cases before a contract can be awarded, saying if the government is serious, this has to be looked into to reduce chances of having unspent funds by critical agencies of government that require them.
He also warned that the late release of funds for implementation of capital projects, although sometimes, caused by shortfall in expected revenue and delays in the government’s borrowing programme, would continue to hold the economy down.
“The way forward requires the amendment of the procurement Act, timely passage of appropriation bill and release of funds. This also stresses the need to diversify the revenue base of the government, especially ramping up tax revenue,” he added.
For the Executive Director of Abuja-based OJA Development Consult, Jide Ojo, it is ironical that the little money earmarked for capital projects is not expended in a 12-month budget cycle, necessitating the ugly scenario where money, which in the first place, is inadequate to fix infrastructure, is returned to the treasury as unspent funds.
“This smacks of incompetence, indolence and incapacity. Imagine the Ministry of Works, Power and Housing returning a whopping N66b when there is yawning infrastructural needs. In fact, many contractors are being owed huge sums of money. This is incredulous,” he said.
He called for a reduction of the “undue bureaucratic bottlenecks” in the country’s procurement process, so that getting the Bureau of Public Procurement certification will cease to be like a ‘camel passing through the eye of a needle.’“More professionals also need to be hired by the MDAs if they admit lacking some, to enable them fast-track the tendering, approval and award of contracts for capital projects,” he stated.
A lawyer and fiscal governance campaigner, Eze Onyekpere, is most concerned about whether such money was actually returned, as return of unspent fund would actually follow a proper channel, which is an official quarterly or yearly budget implementation reports.He said this administration’s challenge is not only about implementation or non-implementation of budgets, but non-transparency, as the last report on budget implementation came in the third quarter of 2017.
“The fact that money was available, but had to be returned, tells a lot of story about capacity and management issues. Coming at a time that the government is complaining of lack of resources to implement the budget, it is an unfortunate development, which needs to be investigated, especially to confirm reason(s) for the return of the monies.“I agree that money must not be spent simply because it was budgeted; I also agree that procurement challenges may hamper financial expenditure, particularly if the background technical studies and assessments have not been done before appropriation, but these happen when there are fundamental challenges with the budgeting process,” he said.



https://m.guardian.ng/news/unspent-n118b-2017-capital-vote-consequence-of-bad-fiscal-governance-experts/

Mr lalasticlala.

FBIL:
That university could have been the best in Africa but you know Yorubas and their way with maintenance culture. The entire magnificent structures have been abandoned to rot, with every empty land overtaken by thick forests that sometimes pop out lions and crocodiles. All they do is appropriate moneys for personal use. Nigeria has no university, sorry. Terrible country!

So who mismanaged UNN and the hostels?

candy:
The 'looting' by the university management and academics has been reduced by the implementation of TSA, but the fund is now being looted by people who are not stakeholders; on a bigger scale. Either way, education is in trouble here.

So true but u guys don't appreciate looting-free private universities. Our education sector is not mature enough for self reliance.

onyxo76:
i wonder how dentistry and med rehab lost theirs, those 2 departments produce very sound graduates with whom i have worked with..

Stop challenging people who are harmed with facts, more knowledgeable and competent than you with your perception. Competence of grads you saw can be a result of extra personal input.

Topmaike007:
all our Uni are sepreme,now I know why Covenant uni is [b]hyped/[b]..

fixed.

With holiness in place romance is straight forward. If the spouse is already your by mutual agreement then you can view the person as a trespasser or ask you spouse to choose straight away.
God made it so simple.

11. When you seek short cut to get things done.
12. You don't see anything wrong in gambling, prostituting, dealing and other activities that don't help provide human needs but wants.
13. When you ask God to bless you with wealth but don't seek for wisdom to help solve problem of human needs or get noble things done.
14. when you start blowing more than 10% of your earnings on wants like women, flashy jewelry, drinks and show offs but debate 10% tithe with God.
15. When you start prioritizing things of money more than things of God.

Ok

can python scale well like java? can it go into candy phones? Just asking oh . . .

HigherEd:
A CALL FOR SPECIAL FUNDING FOR NIGERIA'S FLAGSHIP UNIVERSITIES


The Times higher top 1000 ranking is no small feat as It would literally cost most Nigerian universities billions of naira to make such list.

This means with far more funding, the university of ibadan might be able to do more than it does currently. A well funded UI would also feed virtually all universities in Nigeria with quality Phd holders and would easily rub off on other institutions.

It is therefore recommended that the Nigerian government selects a total of six federal universities across the Nation. Each representing the best from their geopolitical zones and they should be given special funding to stand as Nigeria's flagship universities.

We need to realise Nigeria can't fund all its universities to World Class. We need to pick 6(one from each region) flagship universities like the ivy leagues or C9 of China and fund it excessively like Ghana funds the university of Ghana, so that those universities can in turn help to solve some of our top most national problems.
Those universities would be
1) Mandated to reduce their various enrollment sizes to NUC recommended capacities.

2) Encouraged to put more emphasis on postgraduate/research education.

3) Allowed to determine its fees in line with an agreed aggregate with FG(Not expensive but not outrageously low)

4) Encouraged to do away with Catchment policies and Elds consideration for undergraduate enrollment and staff recruitment.

5) Encouraged to remain comprehensive universities but with a degree of speciality in certain disciplines e.g UI for Medicine/Surgery, ABU for Military research, UNN for renewable energy.

6) Mandated to do away with ASUU

7) Encouraged to tap into industry partnership for more income.

cool Encouraged to create an important metric that assess researchers relevance in Scopus and Thompson Reuters web of science and base staff promotion on it.

9) Excessively funded by govt. Recommendation would be to allocate additional funds of 25 billion per university.

10) Mandated to publish annual independent financial audit report by either PwC or KPMG which would be posted on the University website as done by many world class university.

11) Encouraged to have a strong and updated internet presence to boost visibility of the universities. UI and UNN websites looks like junk.

12) Encourage collaboration with research universities in developing nations and developed countries(dealing with issues pertaining to developing nations). This would also increase the chances of getting millions of dollars in grant from foreign organisations.

13) Individual FG ministeries should recommend research work to the university of choice as they deem fit. E.g Rice production in Nigeria with genetic modification(to carry b-carotene for vit A production) aimed at eradicating commonplace blindness in Northern Nigeria. In the event the project is too costly for govt or the university, the university having requisite facility, infrastructure, processes and international collaborations would be able to attract billions of dollars from generous foreign organisations. Case study; Oxford currently has a 5 bill USD grant from Gates foundation to develop C4 rice.

13) Govt set up an apolitical technical committee and assess the performance of these universities across their core mandate, research relevance, international outlook and rankings(especially Times and ARWU)



So that would be 150 billion more for our flagship universities. Considering the fact that the Nigerian senate takes just about that amount as its annual budget then that shouldn't be too hard for Nigeria to afford.

While I support your arguments generally, there are other areas that can jeopardize those beautiful points of yours:
1. The need to block leakages. Funding an inefficient system further is akin to proportionately increasing the problems of that system associated to available funds ( theft, mismanagement) .
2. What happens to the graduates of those 'great' schools after they end up being the main beneficiary of these huge funding? Do they just walk out and decide they don't want to practice their highly subsidized skills or must they repay the input in their training process by not only working but practicing what they studied.
3. how should the selection process for prospective subsidy beneficiaries in the above bullet be structured? Should we keep allowing people with just certificates in mind to 'sort' their way into such system or we should maintain a strict merit based admission process that doesn't force less attractive courses on people?


These are some points I think we must consider in the long run. We can't just keep promoting the mob mentality and ignore the effect of education on the system funding that education.

Basic123:
At least,the OP back up his claim with relevant data.
You, you just talk out of hate, jealousy and bigotry simple!

u r d 1 talking out of bigotry, hate n jealousy. For all the effort of 60 years UI can only marginally beat a sch of less than 15 years. That's not due to qualitiy but the long years of accumulating papers at snail speed.
The OP fact even supports my points.

UI is toping the Nigerians list due to the age advantage and not in the quality aspect.

Territorial advancement it is.
Roads are public properties that are meant for tax-paying believers and nonbelievers.
It is sad that illiteracy is a good virtue for some.

Okoroawusa:
Buhari is building the Nigeria of our dreams

says who? It is Propaganda to me until i see it.

ORIENTATION101:
Pdp die by fire . we re not ready to go back to egypt by eating our future and be smilling.instead
We would rather suffer and secure the future of our unborn generations.

Those idiots supporting pdp can the liken to the section of isrealites that was cursing God and abusing moses for taking them out of egypt because they priotise the little crumbs from their slave masters in egypt than suffering to get to promise land and have their future secured.

If apc cannot solve nigeria problem there is no point in going back to pdp the instigator of the problem

why did it take apc 3 yrs? It may just be the usual propaganda.

Blue3k:
this is pathetic. Oh well its good the current administration got the equipment. They ordered hundred of containers and didnt think about tarriffs or somehow just giving themselves exemptions.

Front page: Lalasticlala

I doubt anything was recovered. Just the normal 2019 propaganda stunts. Until I see it i cant believe it.

mknigeriagreat:
What a pity. If someone like Ronaldo with all his achievements could even avoid China, USA or PSG(mega money moves) for a very competitive and dangerous league like Italian Serie A then Players like Musa should hide their faces. Africans will always be Africans. Nothing motivates us outside more than money. I wish him the best sha. You could see the efficacy of going for money in China from Mikel Obi and Ighalo's performances at the world cup. Very shameful. Carasco of Athletico Madrid left for china, see the way he was playing like a chicken for Belgium, he was a shadow of his former self. Money is not everything.

WHO PLAYED BETTER THAN MIKEL IN RUSSIA ?

kaen1317:
Dangote, I pray you come into politics and apply the same passion and sincerity you use in your business then Nigeria will surely be better for it. Not all this chop and clean mouth politics

Politics? I laugh.

What happens to your state if oil dries up today?

Fellow Nairalander, Lets brag in our effort and stop celebrating allocation crumbs as development.

Debt is killing Nigerian states in the midst of huge allocation the FG doesn't even owe these states.