₦airaland Forum

All na greed and lack of contentment. So many of our campus chicks are prostitutes these days, cos they are too eager to compete with dressing and BB. In order to make themselves feel good, it is now called "runs", but it's prostitution in another name. It is all over the place now. State university girls are particularly notorious for this.

stormm:
I'm sure you are aware that privatisation is not just concessioning, The main problem here is OGD used concessioning to perpetuate fraud. So get that and stop whinning rubbish. If the bolded are your opinion, then shouldn't the incumbent look into the issues and right all wrongs.

Is it proven that the concessions were used to perpetuate fraud or you believe that just because Amosun says so.!! I am not a supporter of one over the other, but OGD is innocent until proven guilty. I have learnt long ago that the press is often a tool used to malign people in this country. If 3 major newspapers say something negative about someone consistently for a few days, a few other newspapers will pick up on that story and before you know it, wrong stories are considered as fact. If you think about it, OGD's negative publicity started when he began to have serious problems with Obasanjo and the Alake of Egbaland, all of a suden OGD, who most people feel performed well in first term is now super corrupt!! There is always more to these things than meets the eye. Who know's, it's probably because OGD didn't support Obasanjo's 3rd term bid.

I believe Amosun is playing more of a political game than anything else. If he's looking for more funds, he can start by reducing the size and cost of his government, reduce wasteful spending and improve revenue collection.

There is nothing wrong with concessioning Olumo rock. What has the government done with it all these years. Did the money from it ever reach govt in those years? I am not saying the terms in all these OGD deals are correct, but then the value of something is the price people are willing to pay for it. If you like, value NITEL at $2bln, but if the all the bids revolve around $600mln, then $600mln is the value. Simple.

I think Amosun is talking too much. I have been to Gateway hotel Abeokuta around 15years ago and it was an embarrassment then, so where is he getting grandoise valuations from. There is nothing wrong with privatising these things. If Amosun thinks he can actually run all these companies he will discover that the cost of running them exceeds the revenue they bring in.

She's pretty, but not in a miss world way,

I'd love to go on a cruise one of these days. Not necessarily this ship though, cos it'll be quite expensive. I'm sure there are cruises one can go for at a quarter of the price of this one.

Is there ANYTHING in Nigeria that is inspiring

It's not impossible, but I just doubt it. In Africa, we use way too much block, cement and concrete! Lots of American houses are made from 70% wood. I have seen documentaries on Discovery channel of low cost 2 bed (or was it 1 bed) housing in Soweto with toilet and shower and kitchen that were being put up in 2 weeks or so.

Asides from the main support pillars, why must all the internal walls be partitioned with blocks? Why not some sort of cheap, but durable material. There are materials that are as light as cardboard that can take more stress than blocks. Saw a documentary of a material that it so strong, it can stop a bullet and yet you can sew it into a suit and wear it. In the documentary, it was speculated that Obama wore a suit from that material on his inauguration day.

The technology out there is amazing, but being Nigeria, we don't look into such stuff. By now our universities should be researching ways to build lower cost houses with lighter, more durable materials and developing a process f road construction that will be more suited for our hot,wet,humid climate! But instead our civil engineering professors are teaching based on notes of the 1970's, so what do we expect??

By the way what do you guys think? It seems that generally, the set of Governors from 2007-2011 performed better than 1999-2007.

Amaechi is like 100 times better than Odili
Daniel was better than Osoba (at least in OGD's first term)
Fashola is better than Tinubu
Oshiomole is far better than Lucky Igbinedion
Chime is better than Nnamani
Akpabio also seems to be doing more than his predecessor

Chime, Amaechi and Goje should be on this list. I have heard from many sources that Chime and Goje have done pretty well. I stay in PH and I KNOW that Amaechi has done well

I hope that his massive church in Lekki has enough parking space?? Not the one that they end up parking along all adjoining streets and causing a nuisance to everyone. It's pity we have no functioning town planning authorities. Church buildings in residential areas, with no control is a definate no, no!! You never see catholic, anglican churches without large grounds that can be used for parking. The government should stop the use of converted residential plots and buildings for churches.

Such a ministery is unnecessary!!!

Not to sound pessimistic, but going by government antecedent across Nigeria, it remains to be seen if it will likely be built. It's more likely than not that this project will never see the light of day. Having said that coal still produces about 51% of WORLD electricty!!!!!

Yeah, I think student hostels can be profitable. I have considered the idea in the past, but never put the plan into action.

Accomodation on campus is a big issue. Many new universities, especially the state ones take off without hostel accomodation to reduce cost of initial start up, so many students stay in pretty poor rooms the villagers build, scattered everywhere and often requiring students to pass bush paths etc. i.e nothing very structured. OSU/OOU is a case in point, cos that's my alma mata.

This is another case of a knee jerk reaction by the Nigerian government. I have never seen a government as diconnected from its people as the Nigerian government!!! Once the enter Abuja, they totally forget whats going on every where else!!!

I think I'd give it to Abdulsalam. If the man had decided to hold on to power, he would have done so and nothing would have changed.

greedy and incompetent leaders.

When will NTA learn how to cover matches properly like Super Sport did yesterday!!? The picture was clear, the camera angles were very good, slow motion was available, the touch line interviews were well carried out etc. There was a super eagles match NTA covered a few months ago and I was thoroughly embarrassed for Nigeria. Often times the camera lost sight of the ball, the angles were horrible, the picture was very poor etc. I thought they said the bought/refurbished NTA's equipment to High Definition for the U-17 world cup!!??

This is one of the problems we have in Nigeria. We love to tell ourselves lies and believe it is the truth. NTA is supposed to be the "biggest network in Africa" and we still believe that aftyer 20 years of stagnation. Same way we call ourselves "Giant of Africa", when that title obviously belong to SA.

The minister of Information should immediately address the lapses with NTA.

Its amazing how little information government websites provide. Not to talk of how poorly designed they are. I visited NTA's website a few months back for the first time in my life and I was surprised to see that they had news older than 2 months still on the site.

Personally, I think all these announcements of free education and healthcare are more political than well thought out. I won't be surprised if 6 months into the free education thing, we start to hear that the state cannot pay minimum wage or is owing salaries. if that happens, then what is the point of free this and free that?

It's not as though free education is really impossible, but I just worry whether the scheme has been well thought through and whether the states finances can support it.

If we really have a cost consious govt, those cars can still be retained for another 2 years for the committees. Those of us who are fortunate to work and have pool/departmental cars have been using them for 5 years in some cases. And besides the roads in Abuja are good and i would expect they are properly maintained. So why must they be sold.

It should be scrapped. What does it do that the FEC cannot do? if GEJ needs advice from any past leader (perhaps on the circumstances of Nigeria supporting the ECOMOG initiative etc), then he should simply call the relevant past leader to Abuja for discussions.

As an aside, we also have too many agencies and commissions that are just paying salaries and adding no value to the common man. many of these should be scrapped too.

Abuja is where all the heavy chicks are at. It occured to me sometime ago that when at the domestic airport, when ever you see lots of heavy looking chicks in the departure lounge, most of them get up to board flights when they call Abuja flights. I check this out every time i travel and discovered that I was spot on. In fact, I mentioned it to a friend and he said he had observed it as well.

I have often wonderd why no single Nigerian tv station has taken the time, resources etc to learn how to do animation properly. A simple concept would be to animate all the old Tales by Moonlight stories, with local centric animation and sell the rights/content to other African tv,sattelite stations, etc.

But given the Nigerian way of doing things, the animation will be poorly done, using the worst instead of the best equipment etc.

I recall watching a super eagles match that NTA covered recently and I almost threw up. The picture quality was poor (despite being shown on DSTV, AIT though), the camera angles were horrible - non for offside calls, the commentary was crap and often times the camera lost sight of the ball!! All this in 2011!!!? This is how NTA has been for the last 20years, in fact NTA of 20 years ago telivised matches better than that!!!

Majority of Nigerians have a poor work ethic, are incompetent, are unprofessional and cannot be bothered to do the right thing!!

playmode:
You are right about that,here we pay for Tv license every year just like we pay for vehicle license.I was shocked the first time i wanted to buy a Tv in store and they told me that they can only sell a TV to me if i also purchase a TV license.The only people here who sell Tvs without requesting for Tv license are the Pakistanis and the Chinese.

I do believe a group of rich seasoned Journalist like Tony momoh and co could join hands together to start a new channel like Aljazeera.

The problem with Nigeria is our "manage mange" mentality and our terrible maintenance culture.

Take nollywood for example,up till now they are still using camcorders to shoot most of their movies instead of using hollywood standard 8mm camera which bring out studio quality pictures.Is it that chico ejiro and co cannot afford these cameras? No ,but they like to make maximum profit while delivering half baked goods.It is the typical Nigerian way of doing business.

It is the reason why nollywood has been declining in recent years ,it is the reason Nigerian Airways collapsed,it the reason why most things don't work in Nigeria.I mean check out our Federal Government's website : http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/

As a web designer myself ,it is an eyesore.I wonder how many millions of naira was awarded for that kindergarten looking website.I can do a better job than that for less than $5000 by just using drupal or CMS flash.

Valid point! If you want to see a worse website, go and check out NTA's website. The first and last time I was on that site( a few months ago), they had news items that were months old still on the website, and that is a website runs by a NEWS organisation. Amazing!!!!

He might as well decree 24hrs electricity supply in 90 days!!!! Don't our leaders go to school at all!!!!! WHy not just analyse the issues and address those, instead he's "decreeing" prices downwards!!! The guy is really daft!!

Very cheap indeed!!!

Good question. There are suddenly lots of "buy in UK/US from Nigeria" type sites these days and knowing Nigerian's, the truth is that most of them will be fake. However, there are anumber of freight forwarding companies existing already 9before all this became a fad online) that many people youe. I don't know of any personally, but I have friends who use many of them. You just need to find someone who has used a particular one consistently enough and can vouch for them. Referrals from someone you know personally is key for this business.

I have heard 2 confirmed cases of ballot stuffing and thumb printing of empty ballot papers in Rivers and Bayelsa. The results were obviously rigged in the SE and SS. The percenages of registered voters that "voted" were too high relative to the rest of the country (have the SE and SS suddenly become so much more politically aware than everyone else?). And of those who voted, the % for PDP was also too high relative to the opposition. As a Professor of Political Science said on NTA yesterday, in the best of cases, a popular candidate will get maybe 60%-70%, but certainly not 95%-97% as we had in SS and SE.

I am sure most of us have seen the video of a woman thumbprinting empty ballot papers in River state. That is additional proof of what went on the the SE and SS.

ogbori:
If some oil companies (making more money) can sell off their jet, and have contracts with Airlines, I wonder what the churches are trying to pprove with this waste.

WORD!!!!!

shakers:
i am very happy to hear the MOG added another jet to his fleet,
let me tell you guys, besides church, the man has one of the best universities in Nigeria, he is also a business man,
i am happy for him and his church and pray to be like him someday, i see nothing wrong in what he did

Are you suggesting that the returns from Covenant university are sufficient to purchase a N4.5bln aircraft!!? You gotta be kidding me. besides, it's about time we got a full expose on what business interests Oyedepo is involved in.