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Are they all Muslims in that house of assembly? Every time that place is mentioned all I hear is moshood, Ramon, Abdul, isiaka etc |
DexterousOne:And what exactly is the twerker selling? Her body? Our parents didn't really lie to us. That was the way then, even in the western world. Its the proliferation of smart phones and Internet in the last 10 years or so that has turned things on its head. Just seems weird to me that people who aren't adding to the body of knowledge or contributing anything of real value to the world are the new celebrities. |
Professorcplus:Very good point and very well said. How many people in the entire Nairaland wouldn't do a deal in their office if it would bring them N10mln, with chances of being caught being very low. Everyday in Nigeria, we are all being corrupt,either financially or morally, from lecturers sleeping with students, bankers doing forex deals or conniving with customers to shortchange their own banks for gratification, oil workers supporting bunkerers with info, civil servants frustrating citizens and forcing them to part with their money, police, immigration, customs, brothers swindling family members abroad on pretext of building house for them etc. How many more can I mention!? There are doxens more examples that highlight just how corrupt WE ALL are. Including many who make noise here. The true test of all our integrity is if we are offered a N1bln deal and we reject it and inform EFFC and continue with our normal salary lifes. |
Houses in Ibadan that don't have value!! Maybe they should turn it into a hotel. I grew up in Ibadan in Bodija area. Most of my friends houses in old and new Bodija, Ashi area, Akobo, Ikolaba etc....big, big houses are all empty, with kids either abroad or outside Ibadan. When parents die, the house becomes too big to rent. In some cases the houses are empty. The few ones on busy streets become hotels or lounges. The huge Tewogbade house in New Bodija on Ladoke Akintola had been turned into a bar/lounge as far back as 2009 or so. Only God knows the status of the property now. This was a house we used to marvel at in the late 80's and 90's, with plenty of modern cars in there. I am sure the same fate has befallen Arisekola Alao huge house in Ikolaba |
TheKingIsHere:Are you minding that one? |
Seems that's the new way of making money now...by actually doing nothing really, but finding a way to become popular (or notorious) online and using that popularity to start influencing or marketing for products. It really amazes me that people go to school to become doctors, lawyers, engineers etc, then someone just twerks on Instagram all day and starts endorsing products and selling stuff and bam........she's richer than a doctor, lawyer and engineer combined!! Yet during COVID 19, doctors and nurses are now appreciated globally, yet the twerker can't solve any medical problem. If a murder charge were falsely labelled against anyone here, a lawyer would be vital, but what would be the value of the twerker? If 3rd mainland bridge were to collapse, engineers would be required for the re-design and re-build. What value would a twerker add to that? Yet, she's possibly richer than them all. Just seems like a travesty of what is really valuable to maintaining/enhancing our quality of life and what our priorities are in this new generation. |
Sodiquinone:Before n ko. No be student visa you take go? Study abroad does not equate to relocate abroad. |
How come he has been living in Dubai all this while?? |
Good riddance in my view. Not much respect for politicians that failed to do the right things. Perhaps if health care in Nigeria were better, he and kyari would have made it. And these are the same politicians who would refuse to allocate money to healthcare. If wouldn't mind if COVID paid bubu a visit. Let's have a proper president for a change. |
chigodo:What's this V4 I'm seeing everywhere now. If you are referring to engine, there is no major auto manufacturer that uses aV4 engine configuration. Any 4 cylinder car is 99% going to be an in line 4. Even V6 is going out of fashion, and being replaced by turbo boosted in line 4 for more fuel efficiency. Stop trying to make the car sound more fancy than it is. |
I hope the FG will move forward swiflty and transparently to conclude this concession in the shortest possible time. This is what we need in Nigeria. Pass on a lot more responsibility to the private sector and let things flourish. MM2 is a good example. If the airport had been in govt control, it would have fallen apart by now. Instead, it's still operating almost same way it was when it was built. The facilities have even improved a bit from that time. When the escalator was old and faulty, it didn't take long to replace it with a new one. If it had been govt owned, that escalator would have stopped for years. We need the same thing for some key roads and other government infrastructure and assets. I don't know whey we waste money on NTA, when channels and TVC exist. NTA should be self operating I. E it should be able to sustain itself from its own revenues, otherwise it should be sold off. |
tobechi74:Since when did maiduguri have international airport?? |
janedonez:Perhaps because Enugu airport has not operated sufficiently as an international airport to be bankable, compared to the other 4 that have had international status for over 30+ years. However, having said that I would expect that if Enugu airport is further developed and also turned into a cargo hub for the Eastern market, the then it could be bankable for concession. |
FuckTheWorld:See you!! Ghana is doing far better as a country than Nigeria. If anyone will starve first, then it is us, with our uncontrolled population growth. |
iheame1:Not sure farming really puts any country on the most developed index. Even worse if you export cash crop and import finished product of same crop. What advances countries rapidly are industry, manufacturing, services and technology amongst others, all fed by high quality human capital. Unfortunately, human capital in Nigeria is very poor. |
COMPAQ:https://www.legit.ng/1287069-nigeria-lose-niger-republics-665million-annual-energy-cash.html |
Ilaumoh:Unfortunately I'm not a journalist. But truth be told it might be a good idea to create quality content for YouTube about Nigeria and make money that way. |
odomanis:Is this correct? I googled this and nowhere does it say Ghana purchases electricity from us. What they buy from us is gas via the WAGP (West Africa Gas Pipeline), which they use to generate electricity. |
Ilaumoh:I am not sure there has been any report showing state of progress on these ports. I'm sure if you go there, the site is mostly empty. Having said that journalists in Nigeria are the laziest in the world. Both print, radio and TV. All they do is follow politician up and down and quote verbatim with little or no independent analysis like Newsweek, Time, Economist, Wall Street Journal etc. So no newspaper or TV station can do a report on these projects and take a drone to take ariel clips as part of their report? Meanwhile YouTube is full of project reports of so many foreign projects - airports, dams, bullet trains, nuclear fusion facilities, and etc. |
hisexcellency34:Does Buhari do any work in the Nigeria before. The guy has no clue what's going on? Nigeria needs a crazy hands on President, not what we have at the moment that seems to be asleep all day! |
JasonScoolari:There is something in that Abuja that makes everyone there forget how poverty stricken the rest of the country is. Seems for the time they are there, they think the rest of the country is like Abuja. Abuja as a city sef is taking up too much of our resources. They found it easy to build Abuja airport road, but difficult to build Lagos Ibadan or PH Enugu, because that one is for their own benefit. The money spent on buildings and roads development in Abuja is not fair to the rest of us. |
I hope the road will be used and maintained. If all our infrastructure were well maintained, money would be spent on something else now instead of rebuilding what we did 10 years ago. There is a road about 10mins after Shagamu interchange on lagos ibadan expressway that goes to Olabisi Onabanjo University. That road is obviously so infrequently used that vegetation has grown to cover half the road in many parts. On my while drive of about 40mins on that road sometimes I don't meet up to 10 cars. |
pyrex23:€500 ke? |
24SEVEN:Not necessarily! If the state is planning properly, these infrastructure could be a selling point for investment in factories because of the good layout of the city, which then in turn creates jobs. The thing though is that the infrastructure should not be for its sake. It should be backed up with a good investment drive. If the state were able to go further and design well planned and spacious industrial layouts and get the deep sea port sorted, it could become a hub to supply the South East. Point is it has to be supported by quality medium /long term planning. Unfortunately that's what we lack in Nigeria. The next government will come in and go in a totally different direction. |
Is this Buhari in charge of anything at all!? We need a hands on President walahi. While people do need to take responsibility for their jobs, but Nigeria situation now is that President must be on top of these things. If I were President I would expect monthly report of recovered funds, and which accounts they have been placed in CBN and get verification from CBN governor. |
nairavsdollars:Really!! You try! |
If na Nigeria, by now Nairaland would be full of insults for Buhari. |
Joyce95:High level economic plan with no real substance, or implementation strategy beneath it. After a while it will fade away into distant memory. EGRP was more detailed and better written than this, but where is it today. Nigeria is really on the edge. Politicians continue to bleed this country and revenue is fast disappearing. The country should be diversifying but NNPC is busy looking for more oil in Kogi and Benue. Government should be taking drastic decisions on wastage and spending, but for them nothing has changed. Its business as usual. Security is non existent Hospitals are a mess Educational standards are rubbish Everywhere is an environmental mess Roads are death traps We can't even clean our gutters consistently or effect road repairs with any urgency CIA that said Nigeria might be a failed state by 2015 May have missed the year, but it looks like its a certainty at some point rather than a possibility. That's why almost everyone is escaping to Canada. |
Cantonese:Oga, there are many privatization success stories. It seems sometimes we focus only on the bad and refuse to see the good. Let me give you a few examples of former government enterprises and their privatized versions and see if the government version made as much impact as the privatized one: Nitel vs MTN/Glo/Airtel/9 Mobile Nicon Insurance (when it was govt) vs AXA Mansard, GT Assurance, Old Mutual ACB bank vs GTB/Zenith/Access/ Stanbic NTA vs Channels/TCV NNPC vs Shell/Exxon/Chervron Nigeria Airways vs Aero/Air Peace/Arik Radio Nigeria vs Cool FM/Classic FM Old Nicon Noga vs Transcorp Hilton Fertilizer company of Nigeria vs Notore Eleme petrochemical vs Indorama Unilag vs Covenant University The private companies here have added far more value to nigeria in terms of employment, improves services, introduction of technology, payment of taxes etc |
quentin06:That is totally not true. It's amazing how so much gist goes on in this country based on whatsapp posts and beer parlour gist. And people just believe it as fact. It's important you put the information out there in the proper context. When the privatization was done, to ensure liquidity in the system there were a number of guarantees put in place to ensure that discos/genco's get cash for energy supplied. If at all CBN paid money to DISCOS, it was probably one of 3 things: 1. Remember FG still holds shares in the DISCO's. If I recall FG didn't divest 100%. So therefore, if the DISCO is increasing capital base for eg, FG is obligated to pay it's share. 2. During the privatization, there were a number of guarantees put in place for GENCO's and DISCO's to ensure that they got their cash for energy supplied. CBN could very well have been effecting those guarantees and paying bulk for electricity supplied. 3. Govt agencies and parastatals as you should know are the biggest electricity debtors in this country. it could very well be that CBN was paying outstanding debt to DISCO's on behalf of govt. None of these 3 amount to FG still contributing to run DISCO's as you have put it. Often times the newspapers and social media doesn't get headlines right. What most people will see is the headline - "CBN pays N50bln to EKEDC". However, most people don't read the details of the story to understand the context. Besides what you typically still hear Fasola talking about when he was Minister of Power was installation of substations and injection stations, which are all still part of TRANSMISSION. Let's learn to really understand the subject matter before making posts based on assumed headlines. |
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