tollyboy5: they told you they were jobless before ? its very simple since the quarantine is for their own good. and they cant sit at home to die of hunger then let them die of corona virus! simple if it wont touch every family
Nobody is begging them not to sit at home. If they want they can go to parties and clubs and spread the disease. It is we the masses that will suffer together.
What I'm saying is that you people are not protesting where you should protest. The food is not your right. We are not in a socialist economy. The person that even shared the food shared from his perceived personal money (even though they steal a lot) and not from the state coffers or something like that.
NaijaRoyalty: Then paying tax too is not compulsory , the people paying it are also doing it out of goodwill.
Taxes are for building roads and infrastructure. Assuming they told them to protest against bad governance now, nobody will show up. The only reason they came out is because this is about food and survival.
You Nigerians only come out only when it involves your stomach.
That said, those street urchins blowing Yoruba in that video up there obviously haven't paid any income or corporate tax in their lives.
auhanson: Those guys are expert like Dominic Toretto of FAST N FURIOUS...Probably he may have been warned not to try that with the Lexus(as such donut oversteer put a lot of strain on the cars chassis and drive train, perhaps the Lexus may not have survived it like others who were build for that. Remember she is just a Toyota mimicking the kings with built for luxury and manageable performances to get into the leak, so she better watch the kings do their thing.
You are talking in nonsense. I will understand a baby's blabbing much better than the gibberish you wrote up there.
Toyota cars are for work, comfort and rock-solid reliability. When they want to build cars for speed (Supra and Lexus LFA), hardly any cars catch up with them.
edoairways: It is the right time because immediately this plague ends, most of senators would go back to default setting. The executive would turn deaf and dumb to the plight of health worker.
kikero: Speaking as a doctor , you make a lot of sense, OP. And to be frank we do pay our senators too much
However
1. If we were to pay me $146,222 dollars a year....you would also have to pay high hospital bills. A Caesarean in the USA costs $50000 US.($27876 paid by your insurance) for example. A CS in Nigeria can cost as low as $10000...sometimes even much lower. A normal delivery in the US costs $30000.
2.If you were to pay a policeman in Nigeria $78,570....maybe you would have to pay far more in taxes . Tax rates in the US are anything between 10-37% for federal taxes. THEN there are state and other taxes. Note that the budget for the NYPD (New York State Police) is five times the budget for the Nigeria police.
3.My colleague in the US is earning a fat salary...and every month, a large chunk of that salary goes to paying off his or her or they college debt(for a US doctor, that's the debt accrued in 4 years of normal college plus 4 years of medical school). Then they have to pay something called malpractice insurance (necessary because the US is a sue sue economy). Then there is taxes, and if he or she or they are running a paractice, the costs of the practice, then mortgage costs....there may not be much left over.
4.Lawmakers in the US earn a lot of money via other means than their salary by the way.
That means we should bring down the salaries of these damn fucking senators who do nothing. To see how useless their positions are, they have gone on holiday because of corona but it's the doctors who work day and night.
How come? - Hazard allowance for a doctor in Nigeria is 5k.
- Newspaper allowance of a Nigerian senator (paid monthly) is close to 1m.
- If a doctor is treating a HIV or Coro patient and accidentally pinches himself with a needle used on the patient and dies of the disease, his family gets a one-time credit alert of 5,000 naira.
- Policemen working day and night to enrue peace during this Coronavirus pandemic, effecting state border closure and arresting infected people who refused to be quarantined, putting themselves at great risk of getting infected, get zero naira for extra work or risk allowance - In this same period of Corobaby, our House of Reps are getting themselves 2020 Toyota Camry and Landcruiser Prado SUVs for doing nothing.
How come the people who should be earning much more are being paid in scraps while the people who do nothing all day receive the highest, blown-out-of-proportion pay?
According to Wikipedia, the average annual salary for a doctor is $146,222 in New York City, USA; Police officers earn an average yearly salary of $78,750 while Federal lawmakers (Senators and House Representatives) earn $174,000 annually.
Unfortunately in Nigeria, a doctor in a Federal Hospital gets about 400 to 600k monthly ($20,000 annually), an average Police inspector gets about 120k monthly (a measly $4,000 annually) while a senator, the defender of the universe and savior of the world gets 13.5m monthly ($450,000) for doing absolutly nothing.
A Nigerian senator's salary dwarfs the salary of a United States senator by more than 100%; How come a Nigerian policeman earns 195 times less than a policeman in the US?
Technology writer/blogger Somtoo Okoye angrily questions the decision of the House of Representatives for members to buy 360 units of Toyota Camry during a time masses are going through hardship and Coronavirus wahala.
Earlier this week, members of the House of Reps (about 360 of them) got a brand new Toyota Camry 2020 each.
A car dealer told me that the retail price and landing cost (trucking, shipping cost and customs duty which is about 100% value of the car itself) of that vehicle is not anything less than 30 million naira total (roughly $80k).
Dear "Representative", how many people in your constituency can afford a car brand new? In fact how many people in Nigeria can have money and mind to buy a brand new car with zero mileage (I don't mean the abroad-rejected, battered, repainted, accidented, sometimes flooded and totaled Tokunbo cars Americans threw away from their continent through Copart auctions and we buy them here and celebrate like we won the lottery)?
How many of the people you represent have seen a complete 5m naira in their account and you're buying 30m naira Camry? Coronavirus kpurukwa unu ncha.
Are you representing your people or your pocket? If the people you claim to represent cannot afford a brand new car (not Tokunbo), how then could a group of people idling away in Abuja wake up one morning and decide to buy brand new cars on a probably inflated budget for themselves for doing nothing? To make matters worse, some of them received these cars during this Coronavirus debacle, as if they are mocking us the masses.
Hon. Otunba Akin Alabi even you, you closed your mouth as you and your colleagues in that Abuja secret cult you call House of Reps chop and clean mouth.
Nobody is a saint but only God will judge Nigerian "leaders".
aguele: The Centre for Democracy and Developmental Research (CDCR) has rubbished a US report which alleged voter intimidation by security agents during last year's general elections.
According to CDCR, the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria released by the US Department of State was fabricated and full of lies.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, President African Affairs, Dr. Johnson Bewaji wondered how the US Department of State arrived at this conclusion, especially after the polls was adjudged as one of the most transparent by international observers that traversed the length and breadth of the country.
The Centre recalled the patriotic role played by the Nigerian Army, Department of State Service and other security agencies during the exercise; how it maintained sanity and integrity during the entire process.
CDCR, though, believes that this may be another grand plot by the opposition to discredit the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
After a careful analysis of the issues raised, the centre, however, the Centre concluded that the Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria is absolute falsehood and a figment of the author’s imagination.
The Centre for Democracy and Developmental Research, therefore, advised Nigerians to ignore the report and others in this same direction aimed to paint the current government in bad light.
Read full statement below:
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research is holding this press conference to put issues in proper perspective with regards to the allegations against the Nigeria Security Agencies by the US Department of State in its 2019 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria.
The report, amongst other things, alleged that there were high incidences of voters' intimidation by Nigerian security agents, including the Department of State Services and the Nigerian Army, during the 2019 general elections. The report also alleged that these supposed acts fuelled the impression that the Nigerian Army worked for the success of the ruling All Progressives Congress during the general elections.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research as a result of this wish to state that both local and international observers closely monitored the 2019 general elections in Nigeria and the Centre for Democracy and Development Research was amongst the accredited international observer groups that traversed the length and breadth of the country during and after the elections.
It is succinct to state that during the elections, the role of the Nigerian Army was invaluable in the sense that it was able to maintain sanity and integrity during the entire election period by ensuring that the activities of political thugs and others do not hamper the credibility of the elections in any way.
We also wish to state that the officers and men of the Nigerian Army indeed saved the day in the areas that were prone to violence. This undeniable fact was highlighted in our interim report after the elections, and we are consequently bewildered as to the source of the information of the US Department of State in its 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria.
The content of the report is indeed questionable and calls for concerns from all critical stakeholders because it is highly misleading and not an accurate representation of the facts on the ground with regards to the credibility of the 2019 general elections in Nigeria.
The Centre for Democracy and Developmental Research sees this attempt as futile and a deliberate attempt to question the authenticity of the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2019 general elections.
It is indeed worrisome to state that the content of the US Department of State 2019 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria strategically shares semblance with the narrative pushed forward by the opposition party that lost out at the elections.
This statement of fact can be further buttressed when the issues canvassed in the 2019 Country Report are put side by side with the plot by the opposition party to discredit the outcome of the elections before the international community.
We are therefore constrained to believe that the possibility of the US Department of State acting out the script of the opposition in Nigeria is very high and of reasonable suspicion, because its content and arguments are directed at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research wishes to state that there was never a time it observed during the elections incidences of voters intimidation by the security agencies. There is also no basis for the unsubstantiated assumption that the Nigerian Army worked for the success of the ruling All Progressive Party at the elections.
We indeed wish to state that the reverse was the case as it still appears some foreign interests are still angry that the military and other security agencies stood against the underground plot by Nigeria's opposition and their external collaborators to destabilize Nigeria.
This is on the heels that the underground plot was to ensure that war broke out after the exercise in their attempt to seize power through the back door.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research after a careful analysis of the issues raised and the elections it observed wishes to state that the 2019 Report on Human Rights Practices in Nigeria is absolute falsehood and, at best, a figment of the imagination of the authors.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research wishes to inform members of the general public that indeed the plot to discredit the electoral victory of President Muhammadu Buhari is still rife and taken the international dimension with the 2019 Human Rights Practices Report in Nigeria as that example of that international dimension.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research wishes to advise members of the unsuspecting general public to form the habit of disregarding reports of such nature as their motives are not always in the interest of Nigeria, but that of those that have elected to ensure that Nigeria disintegrates.
The Centre for Democracy and Development Research thanks all present and wishes to state that it shall be making public the outcome of its observations of the 2019 general elections for the consumption of the generality of the public.
Thank you for your time.
[/s] All Fraudgerians are liers and thieves like their politicians.
I rather believe a talking dog in the USA than agree with the most truthful person in the most corrupt, underdeveloped, retrogressing, terrorized God-forsaken shithole
Joe4lv: While Mercedes Benz shows class and give shivers to onlookers and other car brand lovers, their last decade products are devoid of reliability and trust. None of my friends who got one gave a good mark to reliability.
Maybe they change and improve or die off the market.
The world has improved so much that people read reviews of products before going for it.
Smartchoiice HeavenlyBang logobenz nwanneni shotput or is it shotgun they said your Benzedes shitbox is like adamma masquerade : beauty with no single brain
Zane2point4: Lmao,suprisensly a friend of mine uses this same vehicle,he is in pains now. The cost of fixing the car is putting a large hole in his pockets he finally listed it in jiji for sale recently.
I asked him why ,he said he didnt know that cost of fixing Mercedes is not a penny.
Mind the word: cost of fixing. He didn't say cost of maintenance.
First and second picture: Ekiti state governor Fayose escapes as he loses two unreliable Benzedes shitboxes in the space of one year: the first flying carton quilox box suddenly caught fire while on the road while the second developed k-leg and started dancing kerewa while in motion.
Other pictures: Realising that the Landcruiser is the ultimate executive machine, Fayose had no other option than to acquire the finest Landcruiser with the fullest luxury made by Toyota under the Lexus brand aka LX570.
Now when someone sees him on the road, he'll appear much like a governor not like a Malaysia returnee yahoo boy. Look at how much the crowd is respecting and hailing him in the Lexus Lx570
Pic: a governor walks out graciously from his abundantly-equipped Landcruiser which is popularly known as the "King of Road" or the "Ultimate SUV" around the WORLD .
Pic: an unreliable flying Benzedes shitbox fails another moose/stability test, leading to media backlash and recall of the entire model from the MARKET (1997).
blessingchinny: I recently got into a relationship with a guy i met on facebook. We've been chatting for long till we decided to meet. Fortunately, we stay in same town. When we finally decided to meey, we got satisfied in what we saw in each other and thats how we decided to take the friendship to the next level. Now the issue is this i told him am a virgin which i am truly. That i dont want sex till marriage. He frowned at it first, but later accepted on the conditions that we would be having MouthAction. But honestly, i still can't fo that. When i said i dont want sex, i just dont mean penetration, but not allowing a man to see my nude till marriage. I told him we can kiss and caress but not anything involving sex. Out of pressure i allowed him get to my nipples.
But that's the limit i can go honestly. He still insisting that if he cant have me, that he would move on. He said he is planning to get married this year, but can't marry a woman that restricts him like that.
I have tried to be supportive to him even though we just met just to prove to him that i sincerely love him, but he is still adamant. Right now he is not even replying to my chats or picking my calls. What do i do?
Chinny I was surprised to see you at that guy's protest. See my smallie of yesterday. You don go far o.
Politics › Re: Lockdown: The Rice Given To Alimosho LGA Residents To Stay At Home (Video) by conductor260: 3:11am On Apr 06, 2020
