₦airaland Forum

vorosmartm:
Its not special enough to be shown on discovery-I mean ground breaking-has-never-been-done-in-the-world-before.

My Father in heaven I still pray you give delta state a man that is half as competent as Fashola not the demon whose three point agenda is himself, wife and daughter.

AjanleKoko:
Is this bridge going to be tolled?
I see a bust-up very soon.

Onlytruth:
Let us assume for a second that Dora AKunyili defected to ACN instead of APGA, I can assure you that 95% of her critics here would be singing her praises to high heavens. 

Her only crime is that she chose to return to her true political base, the only base that can support her and allow her to speak her mind when she gets to the national assembly.
She is the brave type and I can imagine how difficult it must have been for her to not speak her mind all these while. Senate is the perfect ground for her to show her true mettle and learn practical politics in preparation for one day when she runs for an executive office -Governor or President.

Teedol:
Recently a 75 and 67 yr old couple where jailed in UK for visa runs, my question is what else are these old pple still looking for abroad?
Guys the earlier you retire home the better,once you have a reasonable capital move back home and start something however small it seems.

We all know whats obtainable abroad unless we do not want to be sincere with ourselves.

Am a certified Project manager by the P.M.I Institute USA and trust me i cant be bored

Cavad4real:
@all i just recieved an offer letter from a school and i want to start up with my travelling document as soon as possible.i need to know d necessary document for my application.thanks

worry246:
WHY
Everyone on here says MMA dirty dangerous & crouded with corrupt people
Then when BBC show Lagos airport TV program
everyon go Waa Waa Waa Waa saying BBC is bad telling lies about great Nigeria.
Two face people.

stereotype:
I didnt see ETB here. When I left in 2008, entry level was 3,000,000 naira per annum and I am sure there was no salary cut for their staff like some other banks so why are they not on the list?

My Wife works in ETB and this is her 3rd year there. She does not earn up to N3M. So it's either she's lying to me or your assertion is false.

na trouble u wan start so. . .

it hurts to say that every month 7.5% of staff pension is debited from staff salary without remittance to the appropriate pension managers, i dont care if the organization refuses to remit their contractual 7.5% that sums up 15% pension fund but i do know that it is a financial crime which must be put to a stop

When i got here i always wanted to give a smile or a wave(courtesy) but on my campus every black dude they form 'bigger than thou'.I really don't know whats wrong. went to the Gym and the black dude there instead of attending to his own, just ignored himsef till a white guy came and gave me my kit. Am so very disappointed, seriously.
Some may say i didnt come to make friend but if this place is gonna be my home, the people b4 me should try to make friendship easy we are all 'immigrants' ooo there is no class the last time i checked,

Abagworo:
@bolded.I wonder where you got that wrong information.

9ijaprince:
i live and work in bayelsa. Dont worry i will post pictures later.

alj harem:
now i see what bk/babe(latino) was saying about my igbo brother.

Jarus:
AJK, I agree with what wrote up there about  JO, TE and FA,, but I will not agree Mike is a outright proxy.
I agree IBB has interest in his Business but we must not forget that before the man knew IBB during the oil bloc largesse of early 90's, he was already a successful businessman. And he was in his 30's then. The fact is if you're rich to a certain extent, you ignore presidential cooperation to your peril - that is political economy, anyway.

On Tony, I think the guy deserves great respect. He became CEO of a fast-growing bank, STB, in his early 30's. This is a great record if we recall that he is not the child of any Subomi Balogun or Mike Adenuga or Yinka Folawiyo. He rose to CEOship(founded the bank, actually) purely on his own.

Same for FA when he co-founded GTB in 1990 in his thirties too.

These guys are no doubt corporate gurus that never rode on the crest of any family to achieve what tehy achieved. This is not to entirely say those that had silver-spoon background but made it are less genius(Wale Tinubu and co). It takes more than lineage to succeed in Business. You can ask Abiola's children.

Even though the community we visited is a four-minute boat ride from Yenagoa, there was no sign of infrastructure in it. The boats we rode on were very old and shaky while the stinking river also served as a refuse dump. Community members had no access to pipe borne water and so most of them depended entirely on the brownish and heavily polluted water from the river with the unbearable stench coming from it. I saw them bath with it, drink from it, brush their teeth with it and take some home for cooking.

This is the reality in a community exactly fifteen minutes from Creek Haven, the seat of power in oil-rich Bayelsa State. Yenagoa mainland, the state capital, has literally become a theatre of abandoned projects. What a tragedy!

For those who do not know, Bayelsa is one of the beneficiaries of the thirteen percent derivation from oil revenue allocation at source from the federal government. Indeed some months ago, the Governor of the state, Timipre Sylva, admitted to the CNN that the state receives at least thirty million dollars (about 4.5 billion naira) every month. This excludes any internally generated revenue.

Lately, the state government has been accused of financial recklessness and mindless profligacy. Several petitions have been written by citizens of the state to anti-corruption agencies alleging forms of petty and grand corruption. Individuals believed to be close to the governor including his former commissioner of finance, Sylva Opuola Charles (now at large), have been charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for laundering more than 6 billion naira worth of public resources.

Paradoxically, Bayelsa State is the only state in Nigeria that is implementing the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) at the state level. The Bayelsa Expenditure and Income Transparency Initiative (BEITI), is a multi -stakeholder initiative inaugurated by the Sylva government and supported by the US based Revenue Watch Institute (RWI). Sources in Yenagoa and even within the BEITI secretariat confirm that it is a failed public relations project.

In terms of human population, Bayelsa State is the smallest of the 36 states in Nigeria (population of 1.7 million in 2006). In the 2008 boom year Bayelsa State received about N116 billion, roughly three times the national average, from the centre. The state depends entirely on oil revenue and has a paltry 2 percent of internally generated revenue. Per capita allocations were over 10 times higher than those in Kano State. One will naturally think that a combination of low population and high revenue will produce development.

The last Nigerian Living Standards Survey shows that more than 90 percent of Bayelsans are still poor. The World Bank Doing business report 2010 indicates that Bayelsa is the most difficult place to start business in Nigeria due mainly to bureaucratic harassment, insecurity and other issues.

Until recently, 11,132 unidentified persons drew salaries from government coffers showing that corruption might have been elevated to state policy.