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Good to know, please continue taking your medication

Modey dearie, how have you been, missed you.[quote author=Maria-Goretti]@Dont8, am preety well now. Just taking rest.
@ItsModella, you are welcome...wey bread?[/quote]

I've been following your conversations with Caseless, how is your health now?[quote author=Maria-Goretti]yea, what did I miss?[/quote]

This mentality of majority of Benin people that if you don't travel abroad you won't make it has to stop
immediately, God help them.

You can imagine the danger this would have caused the people on-board and their family members.

God have mercy, man inhumanity to man.

She will be like, mogbe o

joeydozzy: I wonder wetin dey run for that doctor mind now when she kiss am

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Is there any evidence to prove this @op?

Ajanlekoko has said it all, just provide social amenities like health-care facilities, good road and power, etc (those are the level playing ground I think he's talking about) and see if brain drain will not stop and African youths will surely build their respective nations.

Bawss1: I understand your point. But when you mentioned a level playing field I was thinking that both the developing country(which has the skilled hands) and the developed country(which requires those skills) stood to benefit through some measure.

Nice comment as usual, to add to your list of what we can do as a developing nation is simple, we have fallow lands
everywhere in this country, why don't we make farming attractive to our teeming youths to make a living, instead of
looking for a white collar jobs that are scarcely available.

AjanleKoko: What we should look at is why rich countries are rich. And the answer is twofold, in simple layman terms:

1. Rich countries produce goods/services and sell to poor countries. Virtually every single product we use in Africa daily is imported from somewhere. We spend our oil earnings importing everything, from staples, to food, to clothing, medicines, even refined fuel.

2. Also rich countries hold the savings for the rest of the world. The dollar is the reserve currency of the rest of the world. Especially the developed world. All monies earned in Africa is saved in the developed world, in their banks, which gives them the opportunity to utilize our funds to subsidize their comfortable lifestyle and provide infrastructure for their people at minimum cost.

You can make it up to me by apologising knowing that Chillisauce has every right to disagree
with the write-up, because as a human, we will always differ with an opinion.

ayobase: Hop alomg?
with a low life?

and who be ur mate?

I am out of here......Don8, I am very sorry for derailing.....how can I make it up to u?

He was lucky then, to the NPF, beware of candid cameras and do the right thing. This people are paid
with tax payer's money for christ sake.

Yomieluv: power of the media,shame on her.there was a day i saw a policeman urinating publicly facing the passers-by in Lagos island,i was surprised,i wasnt with my phone.

We're tired of their lame excuses and excesses, there is no justification for their bogus pay. The other
day, one of the Reps member was quoted as saying that his constituents are always demanding for help whenever
they want to get married and so on, what an excuse!

ayobase: We won't be bothered about what they receive if they are INDEED doing their work!

Some wouldn't even talk for 4 years, then why are you there?

Do something, live up to expectation!

We dey complain cos it seems to us that we are JUST wasting money on you for doing NATHING!

You can imagine, where the minimum wage is #18,000, God help us.

drnoel: Still there pay should be cut to fit the country's present situation. One group can't be living like kings and other groups eating sand and garri

Thanks to technology, with a spy-camera pen, no one will know they are being filmed. This is really good, hope
we can extend same to our other public workers that are always asking for bribe before they can sign simple papers
being presented to them.

Nkanuzu: Good developement in Nigeria, thanks to advance tech! Since our journalists have failed us in exposing corrupt officials, the youths have taken it upon themselves. Shame to all Nigerian journalists who have abandoned the tenets of their profession in pursuit of partisan politics! My advice is that this sting operation revolution should go beyond police officers and extend to all public officials. Secondly, people should be smart and discrete in recording law enforcement agents because if u are caught your offence may be "doubled" or u may be attacked! Nigerian youths, good people good patriots!

Yes, we shall surely take our destiny into our own hands, God will not come down to do it for us.

pDude: This is how we will collect our country back from every bastard that has usurped it.

Fvcking police officers. They think in this day and age of advancement, they can continue to act like animals and get away? Rubbish and nonsense. They act shamelessly and without caution just because they think nobody can do anything about it. Well, business has changed. We will take our shyt back by force.

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Members during plenary at the floor of the Nigeria House of Representatives


The House of Representatives said on Wednesday that complaints about the jumbo pay of Senators and members of the House should be referred to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, which fixed the salaries and allowances of lawmakers.

The House noted that the lawmakers’ wage was computed by RMAFC after it considered several factors and took a decision on what should be the pay package, based on the powers conferred on it by law.

Deputy House Majority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, who spoke on the controversial huge pay of federal legislators said members were always amazed whenever critics attacked lawmakers over the pay package as if they fixed their own wage.

“We are tired of responding to the same issue every time; our explanations seem to be falling on deaf ears.

“We didn’t fix our salaries and allowances; that is the role of RMAFC. If you think that our salaries and allowances are too much, ask the agency to slash what they recommended,” Ogor said.

The pay of lawmakers generated public discourse again following Monday’s statement by a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, who said that the country had spent over N1.1tn on their upkeep since 2005.

Only recently, an analysis by The Economist rated Nigerian legislators the highest paid in the world, dwarfing countries like Japan, USA, Britain, Kenya and Ghana.

For example, a member of the House takes a monthly salary of between N900, 000 and N1.1m, besides a quarterly allowance of between N27.9m and N33m.

In addition, legislators receive car and furniture replacement loans and allowances every four years.

Ezekwesili had spoken at a one-day dialogue on the “cost of governance in Nigeria.”

As a way of cutting cost, many Nigerians have called for a part-time legislature, as against the current practice whereby the 360 members of the House and 109 senators sit full time.

They are paid on a monthly basis, whether they work or not.

But Ogor said that attacking the legislature “all the time” was an attempt to cripple democracy, adding that a part-time legislature would not work in the presidential system practiced by Nigeria.

According to him, a part-time legislature will promote dictatorship and allow the executive arm of government to operate without “proper checks.”

He said, “It is either we want to practice democracy or we do not. There is no presidential system of government anywhere where you reduce the legislature to part-time and expect to get results.

“The idea of the legislature is to enhance checks and balances, which is not possible when the legislature is not fully functional.

“We are there to act as a check on the excesses of the executive on a regular basis; that is the meaning of oversight as a legislative duty.”

The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, also opposed part-time legislature as a solution to the high cost of governance.

He observed that since 2011, the National Assembly’s budget had remained at N150bn to run the bureaucracy, maintain the lawmakers and service the National Assembly Commission.

Mohammed pointed to the executive where he said the lion’s share of public budget was spent annually but to which “people turn a blind eye.”

He said, “Part-time legislature does not address the cost of governance. People should appreciate what the legislature represents as an institution of democracy, not just salaries and allowances.

“Even in America, where we borrowed our presidential model, they don’t practise part-time legislature there.

“When the legislature is not fully functional, what you are asking for is dictatorship.”

However, the Minority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, told The PUNCH that he would support part-time legislature if it was the only solution to Nigeria’s problems.

“If part-time legislature is the panacea or antidote and solution to our many problems in this country I am all for it,” he said.

But, he faulted Ezekwesili on her position that government was spending too much money on the legislature.

He said, “I think we should be objective and not being dramatic about this obviously sensitive matter.

“From my simple mathematics, if you divide 1tn over an 8-year period, you get an average of a little over 100bn per year.

“Now, this is for a whole and distinct arm of government and covers salaries, other recurrent and overheads for both Houses, the National Assembly Commission, staff, capital projects and overheads.”

Gbajabiamila’s comment was contained in an email he sent to our correspondent on Wednesday.


http://www.punchng.com/news/ask-rmafc-to-slash-our-wages-reps/

The man is saying the truth, a yoruba adage says ''One rich man among his poor bethren is also a poor man''.

Chillisauce: Rubbish Article.

I wonder when this old man will retire.

Trying to tell us about how poor we are, that's why we tend to strive to get irrelevant things.

Mtcheeeew

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Lant Pritchett speaks at the Sept. 24, 2010, conference organized by Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).

Darren Boyd, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific




Before Lant Pritchett even took the podium at the Wheatley International Affairs Conference in Sundance, Utah, observers might have sensed that the former World Bank economist and Harvard professor wasn’t going to give a conventional speech on global poverty. A pair of blazing yellow socks signalled to the crowd that Pritchett is a man who marches to the beat of his own drum.

Over the course of the next 40 minutes, he made the case to a crowd of international development academics and students from around the country that everything they knew about poverty was wrong.

Pritchett joined the World Bank in 1988 after completing a Ph.D. in development economics at MIT. Development economics is the branch of economics that focuses on how to improve the economic and political institutions in Third World countries. Pritchett quickly became notorious for challenging truisms about poverty and international development.

“Before you get into a discussion about development, there are some things you need to know," he said at the conference.The things Pritchett thinks people should know about poverty are as unexpected, and interesting, as his yellow socks.

Rich people in poor countries are poor

When we think of rich people in poor countries, we tend to imagine billionaires living in opulent palaces, Pritchett said. In fact, the number of truly wealthy people in poor countries is statistically insignificant. “The truth is, rich people in developing countries are much poorer than the poor in rich countries,” said Pritchett.

While comparing wealth across borders is not easy, one method is to look at food spending. Historically, there has been a consistent negative correlation between a person’s wealth and the percent of their income spent on food. In other words, if you must spend almost all of your money on food, you probably aren’t doing that well.

The bottom 10 percent of Americans spend about 17 percent of their income on food, according to Pritchett. By contrast, the top 10 percent in India spend almost 40 percent of their income on food, Pritchett said. Even poor Americans haven’t spent this much on food since the 19th century — before the widespread adoption of cars, electricity and indoor plumbing.

People are poor because of where they live, not because of who they are

The typical unskilled laborer in Haiti makes about 80 cents an hour. If that same person moves to the United States, studies show they will earn about $8.50 an hour. So why are Haitians poor? It is not because they are lazy or uneducated, Pritchett said. Haitians are poor because they live in a society that cannot make productive use of their labor.

Pritchett outlined four aspects of society that are different in developed countries. These well-off countries have a productive economy, a government that is responsive to the citizens, a capable bureaucracy, and the rule of law. Digging wells in Haiti might provide a bit of relief to that country's poor, but it isn’t going to change any of these four things, Pritchett said. In fact, many kinds of humanitarian aid may short-circuit the development, he said. Until a country develops institutions that make productive work possible, its people will remain poor, he added.

Education and technology aren’t the answer

One common belief among people working in international development is that a poor country can be changed by improving its education system, but Pritchett’s research suggests otherwise. The problem in poor countries is that they cannot make effective use of their people’s skills, Pritchett said, so giving them more skills does lead to development. Counter-intuitively, his research has shown that countries whose education system improves actually grow slower on average. He suggests that one reason for this may be that putting more educated people into a corrupt bureaucracy may result in more sophisticated corruption.

Many technological developments are also counterproductive for countries trying to escape poverty, he said. Since unskilled labor is relatively expensive in countries like the United States, a lot of money has been spent on developing things like ATMs and self-checkout lanes in grocery stores to reduce the need for unskilled labor, he said.

After these technologies are perfected in the developed world, they often become cheap enough to be used in countries with a huge supply of unemployed, unskilled laborers, Pritchett said. This further reduces the demand for their labor and makes it much more difficult for them to escape poverty.

The best way to help the poor is to let them work in industrialized nations

So what can we do to help the poor in Haiti or India or Bangladesh? Pritchett advocates letting them come to developed economies as temporary workers. Whether a person lives in poverty is determined almost exclusively by the country they are born in, and the policies of rich countries exacerbate the problem, he said.

“The principal way rich countries disadvantage the poor world is not through unfair trade, or through intrusive and ineffective aid, or by forcing repayment of debts,” Pritchett wrote in his 2007 book, "Let Their People Come." “The primary policy pursued by every rich country is to prevent unskilled labor from moving into their countries. And because unskilled labor is the primary asset of the poor world, it is hard to even imagine a policy more directly inimical to a poverty reduction agenda or to 'pro-poor growth' than one limiting the demand for unskilled labor.”

Allowing for labor mobility won't solve problems in developing countries, but it is a way to help the people who live there, he said. Working temporarily, Prichett suggests, three-year visas would give the poor an opportunity to earn a substantial amount of money, money that could change the trajectory of their lives when they returned home.

Pritchett insists on the temporary nature of the visas. In part it would be essential because it would give more people an opportunity to work. But family responsibilities are also a consideration. He doesn't believe it is good for families to be split up for 20 years while the husband works in one country and the wife in another.
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They should not interfere with Keshi's list, because at the end if we dont qualify (God forbid), he's going to blame them for interference.

No, you didn't post on 1000th page, go check.

ayobase: I have o...I can still remember wella!

Mr. Cork is cracy...

caseless: i'm awake!

NO, you had no plot in that page.

ayobase: Yeah.....I bought some plots of land on that page also.....LOL!

Who wanna buy?

Thanks for sharing, so inspiring.

Lovely, I'll replicate this with my children

Channels TV were doing there job (a perfect one at that), next time know everything about your organization before coming to the public to display your ignorance, datz all.

Nice work-out.

Wake up from your dream jor

caseless: popsi ko? Pepsi ni. D gal de fall 4 me die. Dey dere make fan de blow u.

Commenting on 1000th page was great https://www.nairaland.com/967122/romance-sections-off-topic-chat/1000

A lot of peeps missed out of the 1000th page, at a point Sexkillz has to 'sell' his booked space to Itsmodella

I have a space to sell if anyone is interested in buying

Let her popsi catch you, you'll think you in a war front in Egypt

caseless: i dey vanneni house. Married- man, stay out of this...no near her , or i cal ur wife to tel her wat u'v bn doin here.

You'll surely get the best by God's grace, stay blessed.

ayobase: I dey o...hoping for the best!