₦airaland Forum

This is a very interesting one!

The very first question should be why don't Africans go on holiday- they go mainly for shopping, and family visit in other countries.

Another thing is tourism is not developed in most African countries, quick access to information is very important; you can book a European holiday from your room- flight, insurance, hotel even Cabs and other things online, whilst in some parts of Africa you struggle to get information or even routes to destinations, if you notice on this board many travelling agent offering visas/tickets for European or Asian countries but ask anyone of them the price of hotels in Calabar and tickets you don't get a response.

Some Africans are mistreated even by other africans at airports, e.g Kenya and south Africa, you really don't want to get that hassle

honeric01:
I thought you mentioned North or why did north come up in your post about 10 spectators, cheerleaders and belly dancers?

Sunshine dey try small small sha, anyways, we all know pillars is a very strong team in our league and i can't wait to see them play live.

yes in the spirit of fairness and equity like the northerners will say = quota system!

Cheerleaders for the Southerners and Egypting/Turkish Belly dancers for the Northerners

Mai Suya:
I would like to know the station and how long the program was.

SPOT ON!

Were he a Southerner, the media most would likely be screaming themselves hoarse about his achievements. . . yeye!

Bravo Aliyu!!

_{Ive seen it several times on NTA and Ait too and its was on the auto section about one or two years ago}

12. The latest assessment shows that while the overall health of the Nigerian banking system could be described as generally satisfactory, the state of some banks is less cheering. Specifically, as at end-March, 2004, the CBN’s ratings of all the banks, classified 62 as sound/satisfactory, 14 as marginal and 11 as unsound, while 2 of the banks did not render any returns during the period. The weaknesses of some of the ailing banks are manifested by [color=#990000]their overdrawn positions with the CBN, high incidence of non-performing loans, capital deficiencies, weak management and poor corporate governance. These shortcomings have, in recent years, led to the revocation of the licenses of two banks and the suspension of three others from clearing house activities, prior to the commencement of the new settlement system. [/color]
13. A further analysis of the returns of the marginal and unsound banks reveals that they account for 19.2 percent of total assets of the banking system, 17.2 percent of total deposit liabilities while the industry non performing assets account for 19.5 percent. Although these ratios, except that for deposits, were below the trigger points for declaring the system as distressed, they are nevertheless of major supervisory concern.

14. The fundamental problems of the banks, particularly those classified as unsound, have been identified to include: persistent illiquidity, poor assets quality and unprofitable operations.

For clarity, we can summarize the major problems of many Nigerian banks as follows:
a) weak corporate governance, evidenced by high turnover in the Board and management staff, inaccurate reporting and non-compliance with regulatory requirements, falling ethics and de-marketing of other banks in the industry;
b) late or non-publication of annual accounts that obviates the impact of market discipline in ensuring banking soundness;
c) gross insider abuses, resulting in huge non-performing insider related credits;
d) insolvency, as evidenced by negative capital adequacy ratios and shareholders’ funds that had been completely eroded by operating losses;

God bles you Binna!!

And several years later we are still grappling with the same issue only on a bigger scale!!

No im not talking about pillars, im talking about sunshine, gateway and the rest who cant get anybody to pay for the matches!!! pillars have the best following in the league! i remember when i lived in kano every matched day
there's traffic for the whole afternoon and God help you if they lose!!

I the the premier league should introduce cheerleaders to entertain the fans maybe they will get more fans coming to the games, i watced a game last week and just about 10 spectators were there!!

Cheerleaders and Belly Dancers for the team from up north!!

_{i know VIP honeric will suport this move, infact he will buy a season ticket!!}

When better Clubs like the Afonja Warriors with progressive structure dey there
which educated bank manager will associate themselves with a sinking club
Infact i will report the bank to Sanusi for another stress test!!

edwin101:
pls help me tell people u know dat dey shd not buy drinks or apples/fruits from Hausa/ Muslims hawkers. Dey considered in their meeting to poison drink & sell @ churches areas and town to kill christians from 2morrow! pls spread de good news. I also heard that they intend to poision suya as well. Pls lets hold our troat oh

No you idiot it is from Friday just after the afternoon prayers!!!
You are still allowed to eat till then

gullible people, you better dont starve till friday ooo

Is there any particular reason why most of the our so called brilliant coaches cant find a job outside the country?
If he is sooooo good why hasnt any other team called him up?

Whats the big deal losing 1-0 away on the continent its not the end of the world


all these newspapers shoul spare us their over sensationalised headlines, which bank want to advertise with warri wolves, abi na microfinace bank

Onlyy in naija!!
you compare someone that is there for 6months with someone that was there for 4years*
people are here asking what sanusi has achieved since he got there?? like duhhh its only some few months
When soludo got there no one even bothered asking for his achievement within a year na crime make person
come from north? abi na crime make person no go normal western universities?

read some people saying sanusi should have done all this quietly?!?! how do you remove 5-6 CEO quietly in Nigeria
the thing is Nigerians only follow instructions when there is a cane in hand! that's what these corporate agberos understand!!
compare OBJ you must obey government to yaraduas 'rule of law' government- you get things done quicker with one and the other na court you go sleep
everyday! this is what we need now let everything be done now and fast! instead of all this paddy paddy style

manp0:
It's not a crime either to be discrete with information. But any how, its 155k.

so what's the point in having public forum then?

ahhh

skymax:
if you want more info on DOPC service rate, equipment cost e.t.c send mail to skymaxnig@yahoo.com. i'll be glad to respond to requests.

is it against the law to give others information openly?

nah u biko @ manmustwac

Spaghetti bolognese!! going thru pizza hut website now!!

aysometin:
My friend travelled to the US from Naija in November and delivered about 2 weeks ago.
I know another one leaving for the US in April to have her baby.
UK is a waste of time and resources.

why? because they don't sell their citizenship

dominique:
more like an advice
she has made more ememies for herself than Ghadaffi

How going by what she actually says or by what the media write about her?

Besides he has a gud youth programe which he demonstrates with his spells at england(takin one teenager to worldcup i.e micheal owen,walcot),mexico and man city.

dem don falsify age for eng-er-land too?

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=395250.msg5494930#msg5494930 date=1265898498]i understand where u are coming from. . me like u too am taking a siddon look approach. . .

if it were up to me i would choose chukwuma soludo over sanusi
but its not up to me,at least not now. . .

Soludos achievements cannot be rubbished or washed away no matter what sanusi does

also something that bothers me about sanusi is his recent hint at lowering capital requirements for new banks

and raising it for others
i think the cap requirement should be left at N25billion and if anything should be raised to N150bln ($1bln dollars)
Nigerian banks should have the ability to fund big ticket items like power and infrastructure[/quote]I think you should read the news report properly, i know nigerian journalists can be half baked sometimes,
but i read some where about different capital base for different categories instead of having one flat rate for banks
like a mortgage bank should have a different capital base to an investment bank or agricultural bank, they are all doing the same thing at the moment

"The question we are asking ourselves is must every bank compete in the same space, must every bank be an international bank. Can we not have regional banks, can we not have specialised banks," Sanusi told a banking conference in Lagos.

"What we are doing now is categorising banks and we will come out with different capital requirements for the banks."

234next

Bradford and bigley should have a different capital base and focus to say halifax

When that heat hits your face once u step out of baggage claim
there are touts or tout-looking people evrywhere
people are staring at you like u're a different colour
and everyone other than those you step out of the plane with seem darker than usual
random people are cursing each other
something like:
madam, respect yourself oo ,
and madam goes: abeg go and sit down, do u know who i am?
am still trying to get through immigration and blurt out welcum to Nigeria
and fellow travellers double up in laughter?

Tout looking people lmao its called 'strong face', you need to put one on when you neter lagos!

And the car horn

frankzone:
I think i've to send my new g/f to serve as 1st lady, since yaradua's wife is not in the country.Her name is turai too! What y'all think?

Brilliant idea!! but who will have a go frist? Tanimu, Aliero or Babangida seeing as his own just left the building
I'm not too sure Jonathan goes for anything under size 16

Not really, but atleast nigerian will feel better having someone they can call president and he is southerner too just how mekus like them

PapaBrowne:
MrCrackles, watch as it unfolds.
First, [/b]Waziri goes.
[b]Second, the courts would be allowed to judge fairly on the suits brought by the shareholders, CEO's etc against the CBN and vice versa.
Third, the shareholders/CEOs win their cases and CBN has to comply with the court decision. The CEO's however won't be allowed to return 2 the banks, which I think is fair.
Fourth, [/b]Sanusi is angry and frustrated because he can't go further with his plans.All his plans are questioned by the new executive.
[b]Fifth, He is fed up and resigns.
Watch as the next two quarters play themselves out.
Check out the profile of the new AGF and you will get the message.

cAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS? not found anything beefy yet?

Are you really sure this your friend concentrated well in his BUSINESS MANAGEMENT degree?
this is what they called jamb question!

He should go to nigeria, they are paying big boy money there, you can buy a house in Lekki within six months with no bills unlike UK and you get to answer to Oga Sir everywhere you go

do you know of any prominent  black person who got to where they are in western society on their own terms without sacrificing their integrity, dignity and in many cases humanity?

I'm not too sure what you mean by prominent but just for the sake of it Tidjane Thiam

deor03:
Turai ? Who is that?

So far it's not Patience that want to deal with Dora

Patience too no get mouth, she has bigger skeletons

I ready wonder where they get these news about Turai, all this she say them say,

How possible is this?Is the office of the wife of the president that powerful?

obviously not possible, theres no 'office of the wife of the president'

No Wee:
My people, I want to visit Nigeria in some month’s time and I have applied for the new Nigerian ePassport because my current one has expired. I also paid $65 online for the ePassport and my interview is on 23 February 2010. This means that I will travel from Glasgow to London. As a student, I don’t want to spend money and time to go that far and return without achieving my aim. Therefore, I implore anybody who has recently obtained the ePassport over there to let me know the items I need to bring along with me. At present, I only know that I must come with my expired passport and a £20 processing fee in postal order. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Another issue is that I can't find my way around London. Please which airport is closer to the embassy and what is the best way to get to the embassy from the airport?

Just read the requirements online and bring extra cash and documents just in case and dont bother arguing with them, just tick off as much as possible from the required list, go early

From Gatwick you can get easybus (book online) to central then get a train to Charing Cross
From Heathrow get the piccadilly line to Piccadily Circus then a Bakerloo line to Charing Cross

@ annekix

I was enjoying your story until

*i also have a friend here who always loved basketball in 9ja, he came to uk for a uni course and masters joined a basket ball team in school, na so the guy turn the school kobe bryant( there were only 2 black guys on the team and he was the best), this nigga has like 900 pictures (i'm not joking) of him with white people havi[/b]ng fun clubbing, partying, having fun graduating and one with neyo on stage, yes, Neyo, he organized a school event with his team mates and invited neyo , the school fell in love with him.

my guy performed with neyo on stage sha! ( this na pesin wey we dey chop olaiya amala for surulere!, lol)
you need to see this guys facebook page, i was inspired.
[b]oh and he has over a thousand friends 70% white

like W, T, F?

Yes Yes

I'm with Shoot2kill on this one! nailed it!! we attach to much importance to ourselves sometimes,
even on an individual level!!!

I keep seeing this name emeka anyaoku, that is the the former secretary to the commonwealth, right?
dont really see anything big in that role anymore

that guy would have been a great asset if they made him a foreign minister or something his talent is going to waste really