₦airaland Forum

dre11:
https://punchng.com/nigeria-niger-mega-rail-project-threatened-over-1000-trucks-trapped/?amp

The contract should be re-ordered to complete the rail link between Ibadan and Abuja!!

How can we have a Lagos - Ibadan rail, Abuja-Kaduna and Kaduna - Kano/maradi.......HOW ABOUT IBADAN - ABUJA!!?

Are load supposed to comedown from the trains in Ibadan and enter truck again to Abuja?? How stupid can we be in this country!

favor914:
You say your leaders, the people ruling you are morons, you that is an incoherent subject, with all due respect, what should we regard you as?

I didn't put myself up for election, so my status doesn't count

taylor88:
And you’re old and losing it

Abi you no reach make EBOLA give you one portfolio

Or you’re okay with your Nairaland pay per post

So you are one of those who think they have no future kn life unless they enter government, do dels ND make money abi.
Truely Nigeria has no hope because 99%of those who condemn corruption will do the same if they get a chance to be there.

All na audio condemning of corruption.

Think9ja:


I don't like this type of apology.
Don't apologize because you're caught, apologize because you're remorseful and truly sorry.

If he wasn't nominated, would he have apologized?

Definitely not!

Fact remains that the senate are largely morons. He apologized just to pass this stage, but it doesn't detract from what we all know.

Nigerians should sy their mind. How cn those in government who have ruined this country not be.morons?

I make bold to say that former president Buhari is one of the greatest morons that Nigeria has ever produced be use he was Nigeria's worst ever President!!

timiade446:
Sending them out despite how hard the economy is 🥴

Most of them in their entire life hasn’t earned what a senator has earned in 2 months

You'll be surprised! Politicians can't steal without help from civil servants. As politicians are stealing, they are doing their own in the side

Until they kidnap you all finish. Imagine traveling to Benin with someone you know nothing about and they stop in the middle of nowhere

OMBIIGA:
Good!! However, I needed clarification, is it foundation laying for Phase 1 or commissioning of Phase 1?
If it's commissioning, how do they intend sourcing the feedstock for the plant?

It's ground breaking.

Basically they are just starting construction.

Zionmdde:
Igbos rather start asking for their own PowerPlant

SS should start asking for their own

Because that's where the gas will be coming from. They will use gas from SS and SE to industrialize the north while the owners of the gas will just be admiring the pipelines

There are several gas powered power plants in the South-East and south-south already. You might want to do a Google search of all the NIPP projects. There are also several state power plants, mainly by Rivers and Akwa Ibom

jonapeters:
I pray he doesn't disappoint like ex senator Bankole, the youngest ever speaker of house of rep till date. The system is so corrupt that there's no room for the young minds to put their talents to use.

That's my worry also. The way smart people enter government and suddenly become stupid baffles me!!

jumper524:
it gives some sense of political worth. See take it or leave it, politics is local, and once you don't show your relevance, it becomes more difficult for the younger folks from your clan who have political aspiration in the future. Even the worst politician has some beneficiaries among its clan who can be better in the future.
Too bad the woke guys like you are the fewest in electoral ground on the day of voting.

Shallow response. What electricity did he provide, what roads did he do, what schools did he build, which healthcare centers did he build?

That's what matters, not him becoming a godfather for people from his clan with future political ambitions.

Do you even know what the term woke means? Una go just dey throw around terms you watch on American shows on DSTV up and down.

See your so called labor leaders smiling broadly!! NLC have nothing to say about cost of governance, incompetence in ministries agencies and parastatals!! All they talk and protest about is price of petrol!!

I will be happy when the petrol is deregulated properly sef to make NLC and TUC totally irrelevant, since petrol price is all they care about.

It was said in a forum I belong to that this video clip is from the election campaign period!

jumper524:
My brother I'm the happiest man on earth right now.
Since 1999 somebody finally recognised my people.
Labour Party took us out of limelight through the only office we rep ourselves in the senate. Thank God for a sensible leader like Asiwaju who finally acknowledged our people.
May Almighty Allah bless his administration.

What does it profit you they the guy is from your place? Nepotism runs deep in this country sha.

johncrested:
Wike did well for Rivers and left the state far better than he met it.

I disagree Sir. The only thing that can be attributed to Wike is about 10flyovers. These are good, but surely a Governor should be known for more than flyovers!!

Amaechi dualized at least 12 major roads that i can remember:

Stadium Road
Ikwere Road
Old Aba Road
Rumuola Road
Rumuomasi Road
Tank to AbC road
Eliozu/Airport Road
NTA Mbuogba Road
Trans Amadi Road
Peter Odili Road
I'm missing a few others

He also constructed many very good quality primary and secondary schools, along with health centers.

post=124783880:
No matter the list Our LEADER, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu release,
Wailers will always wail, it's their way, it's in their DNAs.
They only look and comment about the negatives,
No positivity in their frustrated and losing lives at all.

Anyways,
There are some silver linings.
The list reflects Nigeria’s diversities.
At 38, Okotete is a refreshing departure from the creeping gerontocracy of the major parties;
Hanatu Musawa, 43,
Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, 41,
and Betta Edu, 36, are also relatively young.
They are all welcome on board to move our Darling country to the nation of our dreams,
To a land flowing with milk and honey.
Nigeria will be great in our lifetime.

From all of us @MANNA,
God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬


Addendum :
Spotlight on one of us @MANNA:

DR BETTA.
OMO BETTER,
One of us @MANNA.



Dr. Betta Edu

Dr. Edu, born on 27th of October 1986, hails from Ibalebo village in Abi local government Area, Cross River State.

Betta completed her secondary education at Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, she is a graduate of medicine and surgery from the University of Calabar.

She is a Harvard certified, Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, United Kingdom, and untill recently, the Cross River State Commissioner for Health and National Chairman of Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum.

In 2022, she emerged as the youngest female to become the National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress.

Welcome on board to a progressive Naija Dr Betta..........
Wailers can wail as long as they want........

This one wey be like person wey boys go still dey chop wella!!

FreeStuffsNG:
it should be both Time and performance based. It is easy to suggest when you are outside the system but when you enter, you will understand.

Civil service has a completely different system of appraisal. What you call performance can be you just being posted to an interior village to help collate data and gather intels , likely incognito, for the next 5 years, you may not get info for the next 2 years yet you must remain incognito or in a posting less than your qualifications. Nobody will ever accept that kind of thing in private.

Civil service is a non-personal system unlike private, time is also an asset as you build institutional memory, data and learning curve in a secured-employment well motivated team. Their form of appraisal is completely different from private where profit is the bottomline. It is different o.

Ok, i agree with you to some extent. But never the less, the reward system in the civil service needs to change. There needs to be a sense of needing to actually deliver measurable results and outcomes that impact on the citizenry. How can public services across all ministries not be working and yet civil servants are getting promoted.

How can passport booklets not be available for months, yet immigration folks feel they deserve to be promoted?

How can drivers license take forever to process, no cards available, cameras are bad, you cant snap, yet the FRSC guys feel they deserve promotion on time basis. Makes no sense to me.

How can roads in Nigeria be in atrocious state, yet somebody in FERMA whose job description is supposed to be Supervisor for maintenance thinks he deserves promotion to Director because he's been supervisor for 10years.

Nigeria needs a reset in almost all areas, including the reward system and employee value proposition in the public sector.

FreeStuffsNG:
FG mulls single salary scale for MDAs
Deborah Tolu-Kolawole



https://punchng.com/fg-mulls-single-salary-scale-for-mdas/

Promotion in civil service needs to be performance based, not time based!!

The statement " I am due for promotion" I hear in the civil service always makes me laugh.

Come and try telling your bosses that in the private sector where you are not meeting targets, not creating new ways of working, have poor work attitude etc and see what you get.

Civil servants need to work for their promotion. They are ll hardly working in my view. Just pushing paper up and down for oga to sign. No value adding work.

OboOlora:
They have destroyed Nigeria so much that the citizens are paying 10M for sponsorship to a 3rd world country like UK. A place saturated with war-destroyed asylum seekers and desperate Asians, omashey o

Nigerians only see the exchange rate, they don’t know the real deal till they arrive in UK.

And as per cheating, if u have money u go still cheat for UK o. The hose Naija students de suffer die, boiz de even nack dem with 25quids and steak bake from Greggs🤣

Lol. Have some of our runs girls found their way to UK schools and have they continued their nonsense there!

headboyprince:
close your mouth my friend.. a $2400 per month 4 bedroom duplex in Houston

comes with washing machine, refrigerator and parking space, wifi, gas burner and the likes..

a house that comes with such is what you're comapring to a 700k bungalow in ibadan or 5M in lekki youre brain is doing overheating..

this house below in Nigeria will go for nothing less than 20 million in Nigeria and only available in the super rich evirons like banana island, GRA, lekki, and the likes... na only the ignorant and uneducated you guys can decieve

Guy calm down. Why this fixation on washing machine, fridge, microwave, wifi, gas burner etc. Almost any house in a serviced estate in Lagos comes with that. My personal house in Agungi in an estate came with all that. And rent there is currently N4mln. The only difference is that the one in your picture has space and garden which you don't get in Lagos because land is a premium, unlike Houston. Go to places where land is a premium like NY, Boston, San Fransisco etc and a house with that much space is much less attainable..

otipoju:
I have way more than enough.

All my expenses are about 4,000 dollars a month. Utilities, Insurance, Mortgage and Groceries. I have way more than that as extra monthly.

....from one job oo. Side hustle never dey oo.

When you get to a system and country that works...reduce yourself and gain in demand skills and certifications and earn good.

Like I said stop lying to yourself.

If that's true, then you are an outlier in America and not average at all. Probably in the top 10%. If $4k is your bills and you say you have way more than that in extra income, so if i assume your net pay is $8k, then that means your gross is like $12k per month after deducting taxes, medical insurance, Social security taxes etc. $12k gross is like $150k per annum. Not unattainable, but also not average. if a doctor or working with Amazon, Google etc in the tech space then I can understand. But truth be told, a lot of Americans don't earn near that amount. You are equating yourself with some one working in Shell,Chevron in Nigeria. How many Nigerias earn that type of income in Nigeria? So your situation is probably not representative

headboyprince:
ah you aren't even done.... The house comes furnished with appliances like heater, dish washers, refriegerator and the likes.. Bed, dinning chairs... To get such quality of house in Nigeria you'll pay not less than 20 million a year or around $2000 per month so how is it cheap in Nigeria ...

Na only mum these guys fit decieve...

Guy calm down now. Rent in my estate in lagos is N4mln and it has washer, dryer, air con per room, water heaters. Renter will have to bring his fridge sha. Dish washers arent a thing in Nigeria. It's not really the issue of the topic, but I just felt the need to debunk your statement

wallex1983:
If this is the much awaited list, then it should have come since May 30th.

Nothing intriguing to me.

Totally agree!! Complete waste of our time.

Minjim:
Fuel should be cheaper in Nigeria and our minimum wage should be more than Ghana's because we are more populated, we have crude oil and we are richer than Ghana

Are you sure we are richer than Ghana?

iluvdonjazzy:
I don't even know what to compare this man with, is Ghana having crude? We have crude oil we shouldn't be suffering about fuel.

FYI Ghana does have crude oil. Ghana does 180 thousand barrels a day. Nigeria does about 1.4million barrels a day. So we do about 8times as much as them. And we are about 7times their population. So comparatively we are on the same level.

Funny enough, despite all the plenty talk about the minimum wage, I still wonder who exactly makes N30k per month. No doubt there are, but my point is that many people also make far more than that per month - people you might not expect make that much.

I very much doubt that a danfo driver in Lagos, bolt or Uber driver is not making more than N30k a month.
Most private drivers in lagos are making more than N30k a month. As at 2019, I was paying my driver N40k a month and if i still had him now, i'd be paying him at least N60k, if not more.
I doubt any mechanic with customers is not making more than N30 a month
I doubt any spare parts dealer in idumota, electronics seller in ASPAMDA etc is not making more than N30k a month.

Maybe I'm skewed by being in Lagos sha. I guess the real issue is in towns like Ijebu, Shagamu, Ago Iwoyi, Oshogbo, etc where there isn't a lot of activity like Lagos.

Landmine1:
minimum wage in the USA is $15 per hour, they work 12 hours daily, 7 to 6. 15x12 equal $180. 180x5 working days equal $900 weekly. $900 x 4 weeks in a month equal $3,600. House renth in the USA range in $1000 or $1500 monthly depending on the state. Now minus $1500 from $3,600 equal $2,100 to spare. At the rate of 800 naira per dollar 2,100 equal 1.6 million Nigerian naira. This is for the minimum of minimum wages in the USA.

I've always said the problem in Nigeria is not the cost of electricity, petrol, housing etc. The main problem is the wage level that's senselessly low and that is what should be the debate by NLC and civil society. All this trying to suspend electricity review that NASS is trying to do is just nonsense. There are more intelligent ways to help the poor that doesn't keep the price below the cost price. keeping prices of these thing below their cost just breeds inefficiency and corruption as we have seen in electricity and petrol.

Left to me, minimum wage should be around N120k per month. Unfortunately not everyone in the economy will benefit from that. And to some extent i blame those people for refusing to go to school. Too many people are poor because they refused to go to school when they had opportunity to and many just went to mark time.

An intelligent well educated carpenter will do far better than a local carpenter that's still using his leg to hold wood while sawing manually. How straight can that be. Whereas an educated carpenter knows that the best way to enhance his productivity is to get electric tools that make work easier and significantly enhance the quality. Just check out carpenters and tilers on YouTube from the abroad and see the sense, skill and level of technology used. The local carpenter may never rise beyond a certain level, while the educated carpenter will be doing furniture for big boys in Lekki and making good money.

1daboi:
read the non sense wey you write again to understand how stupid you sound. Who compares 900k+ to 30k? You be slowpoke

Shebi they have said they are increasing the minimum wage. Why jumping the gun. Wait for the new rate.

otipoju:
Are you saying that house rent in Nigeria is cheap? Please stop that nonsense.

30K minimum wage whereas 3 bedroom flat on average is 1 million naira per annum.

The impact of housing is majorly felt in the big cities with a lot of out of state residents. Other wise most people across Nigeria live in their own or family houses.

Roughly all taxes and bills are like half of your income. You still have a very good half to save flex and invest.

You people should stop being wicked.

Why is there subsidy for import in the first place...because we have no working refineries.

The amount spent on subsidies per month is more than enough to build refineries.

You can lie to yourself and the people but the truth is already catching up with you and you and your masters will have no place to hid when the country grinds to a full halt soon.

That time there will be no where to run to as the people will start looking for politicians to physically deal with.

Make una continue.

Yes rent in Nigeria is actually cheap, especially outside Lagos, Abuja and maybe PH. My parents standard 3 bedroom bungalow in Ibadan is going for N700k in Ashi-Bodija area. To find people sef na war. Ibadan has no middle class. Only UI lecturers, UCH doctors/nurses and civil servants in that town.

If I uprooted that house to Gbadaga in Lagos, it'd be like N2.5mln

But even a N5mln per annum duplex in Lekki is just $6,250 equivalent.

My 4 bedroom duplex in Houston goes for $2,500 PER MONTH. That's equivalent of N24mln per annum.

castro2468:
We cannot survive on statistics alone; the streets of Nigeria are grappling with hunger and poverty, while food prices continue to rise.

There is no magic to economic stability and growth. It takes time and consistency and that's assuming your are adopting the right policies. I do belive the policy is right, but it's too soon to expect miracles from foreign investment.

Foreigners are still waiting to see the Ministers, judge economic policy direction in other areas, see that's it's being followed faithfully before they get the comfort to bring in their dollars.

kellyjc:

Gambling is not for the faint hearted. That was how my guy was crying yesterday night after losing 20k to virtual and man u stopped him from winning 6k on his last ticket because they couldn't score 1 more goal despite all his plea.
Meanwhile Thanks to Tinubu for finally coming up with a master plan to stop the traffic gridlock in lagos.

The low traffic is more to schools on long holiday than petrol price o! I’d say 70% school and 30% petrol

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/marketers-push-for-petrol-price-hike-amid-deregulation/?amp

This looks like old news to me. I recall reading almost the same right up a few months back. Somebody just dug up old news and put it on punch's website again.

If diesel has been fully deregulated and at current crude prices and exchange rate is currently N640, why would petrol be N700. In most places I've been to abroad, diesel is about 10% - 15%
higher than petrol