₦airaland Forum

Hmmm, somebody has a Masters in abbreviations.

Land unlocked? That is another mumu term I am learning on Nairaland. Well, I wish you luck in finding the key that will land unlock the UHE.

What I've done for Nigeria, and keep doing for Nigeria is that I spend time and effort telling people about the true state of Nigeria. Both bad and good.

There was a time Nigerians believed Nigeria was very rich, just that the country didn't want to spend the money to change things. I spent time speaking to people in rural areas, molues and classes telling them the true state of the nation's bank balance and foreign reserves. Through emails and internet groups too.

I teach Nigerians about the constitution and their rights and I believe as I get more empowered, I'll do a lot more.

What else? I search for government officials' email address and phone numbers and I send them mails and texts messages on mistakes the public perceives they are making.

I no get money, but I still dey try on my own level.

The MEND will soon find themselves in a very ugly situation. They have outlived their usefulness to the foreign government that uses them. No more M16s, no more shipments of RPGs and no M60s. So lets see what they are really made of pitted against some of the best guerillas in the world. Abeg government self should withdraw $1billion from our foreign abounts and buy some of those M134 electric powered, six barrelled machine guns. What are they waiting for? Shebi 1 copy is just $70,000. That means 10,000 units will be $700,000. The rest change of $300,000 can be used to buy bulletproof vests and night vision goggles.

Na then MEND go know say dem no go fit mend the gbege wey dem price.

Blessings of Allah be on King George Bush. He use his Jihad, bring us peace, bring us hope, bring us happiness. May Allah give him the courage to do in other country.

This Dokubo guy should beware of the MEND if he wants to live long. Those boys don't know him, they don't have time for him, and they are not ready to give up millions of dollars in kidnap and bunkering money just because one Joseph Boro wannabe just got out of detention.

generally, no comment.

@initiator

it is strange that you would say the information is wrong and at the same time say you do not know what happened. If you can't remember what happened, how can you say the information is wrong?


The first link shows the increase of NITEL call costs just 3 months before the GSM companies started operating. Honestly the first link took me hours to find. You know how information erodes away in Nigeria. And the fact that you're saying you didn't know when this happened, it goes to show how true it is that the only reason why NLC didn't go on a strike that would have crushed the future of the GSM companies, is simply that they were oblivious to the price changes.

The second link shows a more recent price like, but still no NLC strike against telephony price changes.

From as low as N1.90 in 2001, to as high as N16. More than 700% increase yet we're enjoying the benefits.


www.mediarightsagenda.org/mrm/jun01/jun01_front2.htm


www.dailytimes-nigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=9&ltemid=12

You people better come and face Nigerian issues that are soon going to be no different from what obtains in the middle east if care is not taken.

I love George Bush. He bring peace and democracy to Iraq. Allahu Akbar!

By the way, why is the topic reading N21.6m Scam? It was not a scam, it was theft. Robbery without the use of force. That word scam is glorifying the crime a bit. That is how Nigerian millionaires and government officials steal money and next thing we hear on the news is that they "laundered" the money. Abeg lets maintain a clear distance between scam, theft and money laundering. Obaniyi was a thief not a con artist or a money launderer. The man's occupation was stealing; theft; advanced pilfery.

I think people like Earnest Ndukwe, and Chukwuemeka Chikelu, Dora Akunyili should be brought in as Ministers in their areas of specialization. Soludo for sure. What about that Haz Iwendi guy for police IG? The guy has good PR skills. Then of course Ribadu and El Rufai.

If we can get hold of Phillip Emeagwali, in any of our technologically driven ministries then Naija is on fast forward.

Generally, more Ibos in the Ministries.

I said I am totally ignorant of this matter and I am not ashamed to say it. Abeg person wey know wetin Tinubu use our N4billion invested in ECONET do should let me know.

@kitaun

you leave my front so that people that have something relevant to teach me will come forward. Why are you using your own ignorance to smear mine. Yours is a case of leper trying to heal a leper.

@all

please if there's anyone with relevant information on what happened to the money the Lagos State Governor invested in ECONET, do kindly get me up to speed.

@milky

thank God there are still a few like you that understand what is really happening. When the white supremacist colonialists were leaving this country, they put us in a state of total subsidy. Education, Air Transportation, Power, Telecommunication, Water, Fuel, all subsidized. When they know that that system would never work. Why do they not practice that kind of rubbish in their own country? They want our country to spend all it makes on subsidizing life for the people so that we will continue in limbo forever.

See Russia that has spent all her money during her Socialist days. Where did it take Russia. Is it not now that they've embraced the open market that their economy is getting to where it should be? Then talk about China throughout the Communist era. Have the Chinese not always been hard working people? Why is it that since 1940 to 1990 they did not record any significant progress? Why is it that there is the sudden economic growth in China in the past 10 years? Has it nothing to do with their earnest pursuit of a free market?

Haba Nigerians, why do we always want to use short term benefits to truncate our future?

Look at the telecoms industry. When the GSM companies came, they asked the government to increase Nitel tariffs before they could be able to compete favourably. A local call that used to go for less than N2/minute on Nitel was increased to about N10. But we didn't complain because we didn't even know how our phone calls were billed back then. Am sure if we had known, we would have fought against it, the GSM companies wouldn't have been able to recoup investments and they would have packed up. Because what is the use of me making a call for N35 on GSM when on NITEL it was N2? Are we not benefitting from that price hike in cost of calls now?

Look at electricity, most of us don't know how to read our meters we don't even know that PHCN has increased cost of power from about N2/ kWH in 1999 to N4/kWH, now we are paying N6/kWH. Finally when the IPP become fully functional, they are planning to take it to about N12/kWH ($0.9) which is the international market price. But are Nigerians complaining? Is NLC striking because of the large increases in the cost of power? And why are they not? Because of total ignorance. At the end of the day, with the large profits that can be made in the power sector, a lot of companies will want to come to Nigeria and make that huge profit, and that is what will solve the power problem.

Well, if Nigerians want to keep stalling their own progress, let them continue. I know for certain that with the inherent ignorance in this society, if God himself should come down to rule Nigeria, he will regret.

NLC that is meant to be the nation's workforce, if they do not know Nigeria is selling petroleum products N25 below the cost price per litre, then they should all be sacked for incompetence. And if they are aware, then they should all be sacked for misleading the public, unjustified leave and economic sabotage.

Finally, I really do not know the people in government who are supposed to be in charge of these kinds of affairs. For one, Livi Ajuonuma should just shut up! Then the NTA and Ministry of Information, what are they doing? If it is to spend millions of dollars and airtime advertising Solar Eclipse, that is where you will see their efficiency. If it is to deploy facilities to cover PDP presidential campaign train, they will not be found wanting. Why have they not spent months educating people on the need for this removal of subsidy? I am not talking about those Zebrudaya adverts that do not send any logical message. I'm talking about documentaries on the process and cost of crude oil production, refining and marketing.

Then of course, there is the issue of change managers working in the parastatals. Do they really believe this is how change should be managed? Do they subscribe to this radical method of wake-up-in-the-morning type of effecting needed change?

I keep saying it, I am tired of Nigerians. I'm absolutely exhausted. I can't keep on living this type of day to day fear of what they're going to do next. After the strike, MEND and MASSOB will start, then maybe after that, one or two airplanes will crash, perhaps after that, the military will take over government, possibly one early morning the Third Mainland Bridge will collapse. That is how I live everyday. Expecting the next calamity. Nigeria is a good place, honestly, it is. But the people in it are hopeless. From the Government officials, to the workers, the masses, the military and even those in diaspora, 90% are just best done away with!

@estateng

the job of the government is not to cause jubilation and mass hysteria. It is to find practical ways of making this country among the top 20 economies before the year 2020.

I believe that second only to the success of telecommunications via GSM, the next best thing OBJ did was to bring in the IPPs. To me it really doesn't matter if it yielded fruit during his administration or not. As long as between the end of this year and 2010, the power problem is solved and we provide excess power within Nigeria that we can even export and make some extra non-oil foreign exchange too.

@kitaun

I undertand that the network is poor, but that is not enough for that fellow to tell me that the US does not produce crude oil.

Unsteady network does not excuse somebody to come in here and disprove figures that thousands of economic experts in the WTO have certified.

I'm very sorry for not sounding very happy while addressing this issue, but it pains me to see how far people would go to miseducate the masses.

Imagine some days back, one analyst with the NLC was cooking up figures to show that the cost of finished fuel is N7. How is this possible when a barrel of crude oil itself is $70 as of today. For those of you who do not know, 1 barrel of oil is 159 litres of crude. So divide that and you will see that a litre of crude has moved up to N56. Yesterday it was about N50.

So if the price of ordinary crude oil per litre is N56 worldwide, how can an NLC worker turn this into refined Petrol and sell it for N7? Is he God? Does he think refining crude oil is some kind of wine-to-water Jesus thing?

See the truth is I'm tired. I'm tired of the Nigerian government that will not enlighten the people, I'm tired of the Nigerian people that will not enlighten themselves. I'm just tired.

Why can't the NLC move for wage increase constitutionally? Why is everybody so adamant to read, understand and use the constitution? Why have we not seen that with the constitution, we can do anything. With the constitution Atiku was staring OBJ in the face. With the constitution Obi kicked Uba out of the state house.

With the constitution workers can increase their wages to infinity. With the constitution fuel can be distributed free at fuel stations.

The Umaru sef, what is wrong with him? Is there no sense at all in his skull. Is he not a politician?

Why can he not negotiate with the citizens total removal of all VAT rates in exchange for totally removal of all fuel subsidies.

Prices of all goods, I mean all goods and services from GSM call, to exercisebooks to Mercedes Benz go down by 5%, then go on to remove all subsidy from fuel prices.

Value Added Tax has never worked in Nigeria except in causing inflation. Shebi there are other taxes that goverment collects: income tax, import tax, all sorts of tax.

In fact I no fit talk again. I'm just tired. Sick and tired of this whole system of ignorance. See the way they were showing Lagos on CNN yesterday like one Mubutu country.

@angel101

first off, I'm not your brother. I think I'd remember you if I were! lol. Just pulling ya leg.

Anyway, truth be told, I have never witnessed power outage for 2 weeks, and till you mentioned that you had, I thought it was only Tarzan that had that kind of experience.

What am saying is, let everybody bring the country to a standstill. Not even groundnut sellers should work. By the war, NLC is not even striking per se, because they will still demand that the government pays them salaries for the period of the strike or else they strike again. So this actually is just holiday.

In the real world, when workers strike, they forfeit their salaries for the number of days they strike.

Anyway, I rest my case.

Of course that is my frustration. What do you think this thread is about? It says "how is the strike affecting you?" it didn't say "please lets have a neverending discussion".

I think you're the one who should be ignored because youre in the wrong place.

I say lets discuss best shoe size for Nigeria. What should the shoe size of the person that would rule Nigeria be?

Should it be big or small. Please give your reasons as I believe this discussion is very relevant to nation building.

@naijaking1

talking about law and order in Nigeria, do you know that I was once arrested by the SSS in a bank in Benin City just for being orderly.

After they cleared me for any wrong doing, they apologised and said it just seemed suspicious the way I entered the bank and instead of pushing people on the line and trying to find someone among the staff whom I knew, I just went to sit down and didn't even bother that people who came after me were being served before me. They said it was unNigerian, and that's why that arrested me.

That was one of the craziest days of my life. Arrested for being nice and orderly.


Well, as for Bakassi, I think it was something that had to be done once and for all. We couldn't keep harbouring enemies in our backyards.

Em, bros, na the guy first yab all nairalanders na him even say e get gun.
I don say I no like freestyle before.
But I no like as that boy come dey mis-talk.

Now we have to stoop to the "THEM"/"THEY" ideology. They should put food on the table, they should give us water, they should put money in our pockets. Goodluck to you and THEM.

It's cool. But I just checked out your last rhyme on the freestyle thread and ya punchlines were off the chain.
"on the web again like I'm spiderman"
bro that is so hot. It's incredible. I dropped a lil' something for some cat that goes by the name youngdices. Check it out.

While niggas be cutting keys and making mad cheese
these dudes hang on the streets and roll their dices
no wonder you so broke with jewellery iceless
Can't afford to pay for Jacob's pricelist.
Fool, don't come in here and try to test me
There be some blood hungry nairalanders out to slice thee.
Your whole rhyme pattern weak
dudu, huhu, fufu, what kinda shit is this?
Before you come in here and diss, go learn you tenses.
Bloody nursery kid; Eedris wannabe.

@Po Deep

to a large extent, I can understand freestyle through IM. But on a forum or via email? Definitely not.

You do not know the extent to which people would go to fraud people into believing they are artistically gifted.

There's a guy who posts I saw in the Poetry section of this forum. His ID was GREATPETER.

So I don't trust anybody displaying lyrical prowess. I think you're good though.

They are just picking up where CNN left off.

You know that Britain has now verified that it is the "boy" of the US.
I think the BBC is just following ensuite to show that they remain loyal to CNN.

@laudate

well said jare. A lot of people do not know how badly the GSM project could have gone.

Yes I claim total ignorance about the whereabouts of this money. I was minding my own ignorance, asking around when you came with your ignorance on a collision course. I'm done tolerating buffoons like you. Please move aside maybe somebody that has adequate knowledge can come forward with useful information.

I think the federal government should retract it's concessions since there's no deal. That's the only way I can see the strike justified