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micgray100:
IS NOT SUITABLE.. LLC REMIT TAX TO GOVT, NGO DONT..

CHURCH IS ALWAYS REGISTERED UNDER NGO or TRUSTEE..

I will get across to you soonest sir. Thanks for your swift response.

I almost wept when I purchased one small Asus laptop battery for 6k at Dugbe yesterday...

In November, it was sold for 3,500.

Hello Micgray100, is it suitable for a church to come under LLC or...?

Zetra:
Went through a "state list".
An error occurred or maybe not, but I feel if intentional then it's so wrong because someone else is deprived of it.

Don't want to say State before someone from ministry review it, then the owner of the name will call me bad belle.

could you please say it again? But this time in English?

It is quiet because there is nothing new. Or would you prefer unreliable speculations?

Solid waste presents a significant challenge to Ibadan's capacity to manage its high exposure to flooding and further contributes to outbreaks of infectious diseases by human contact with improperly disposed and untreated waste. Photo credit: Farouk Banna
In a rapidly urbanizing world, our incautious thirst for plastics and non-degradable products continues to adversely affect local environments and air quality, and contributes to climate change. The need to rethink how to collect and dispose of solid waste is urgent. Whilst many countries and cities have put forth encouraging efforts to recycle and reduce waste, the levels of consumption and the production of waste continue to increase.

Many of the current infrastructure systems and services of cities are already stretched to capacity and effectively act as the backbone to ensure cities are able to function. Services such as solid waste collection and disposal require significant investments.

Traditionally, solid waste management falls within the responsibility of local governments. However, with limited budgets and increasing demand, many state governments have understood the tremendous benefits of partnering with the private sector.


Discarded waste pollutes Ibadan’s rivers and contributes to flood risk. Photo credit: Farouk Banna
Supported by the Public-Private Infrastructure Facility (PPIAF), the World Bank undertook a series of stakeholder workshops, policy reviews, and desktop studies to explore the current conditions of the solid waste management sector in Ibadan, Nigeria. These activities have supported the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, which aims to improve the city’s resilience to future flood scenarios in response to the floods of 2011 that caused more than 120 deaths and serious damage to key infrastructure.

Although flood risk and solid waste management may not be directly connected, the project team in Ibadan has witnessed a lack of appropriate facilities and services and the buildup of discarded waste polluting the city’s streets, roadways, and rivers. During the rainy season, the discarded waste blocks drainage systems and exacerbates the city’s ability to manage flood scenarios. The waste also gets washed into the river systems, harming local biodiversity as well as damaging—or even destroying—bridges, culverts, and other infrastructure.



Solid waste is often burnt on dumpsites releasing harmful toxic gases. Photo credit: Ernst & Young

A new report entitled “Private Sector Participation of Solid Waste Management Activities in Ibadan”—authored by the World Bank with support from Ernst & Young and Egipe SAR—provides the Oyo State Government with recommendations to improve the technical, legal, and institutional environment for the immediate, medium and the long-term interventions for greater private sector participation in solid waste management. These recommendations will help reinforce the State’s commitment and efforts to improve solid waste management. Although the study focuses on Ibadan, many of the obstacles and especially many of the lessons learnt will be applicable to other cities in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Creating an efficient waste management system in Ibadan requires many improvements and interventions across the value chain. The study finds that whilst private sector operators have been involved in the collection of waste, there are many obstacles to obtaining permits/contracts, including the duration of permits only lasting for one year. This limits the prospect for long-term investments and discourages the improvement of efficiency in service delivery. It is therefore recommended that longer-term, performance-based contracts be established for waste collection and waste processing, which will also need to include the appropriate enforcement of regulations and non-compliance.


A lack of proper enforcement for solid waste disposal leads to pollution and further decay of Ibadan’s roadways. Photo credit: Ivan Bruce


Solid waste management has been a compounding issue for several decades in Ibadan, leading to communities being unwilling to pay for waste collection. This is impeding the private operators’ potential viability to provide services, as well as polluting the cities’ rivers and roadways thereby significantly increasing health risks.

Therefore, there is a need to develop strategies to engage with community leaders to raise awareness of the need for paid waste removal and management services and to increase transparency on how the fees are being used. It is crucial to develop education tools for communities to better understand the relationship between solid waste and increased flood, health, and environmental risks.

Improving private sector participation is a comprehensive process that requires extensive interventions, consultations, and strong regulation of both the waste producers and private operators in the waste management value chain. It requires reliable collection of waste management data to inform performance-based decision-making. It also requires significant investment in infrastructure and human capacity to improve productivity and create a viable and sustainable waste management system. Implemented correctly, such a system will help increase the transfer of costs to waste producers and reduce the level of required public investment over time, as the private sector demonstrates viability and delivers better services.SOURCE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Scholars have long thought about how our jobs shape our identities both in an out of the workplace. But a new paper shows the extent to which one’s job—or lack thereof—also impacts the roles we assume within our family life. The research, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s David Autor, University of Zurich’s David Dorn, and University of California-San Diego’s Gordon Hanson looks at what happens to families in the United States when work disappears, specifically in areas with a high concentration of manufacturing that are hard-hit by trade.

Men and women have both paid the cost economically speaking, but they have reacted differently to their changing fortunes. Whether an affected industry is male-intensive versus female-intensive has a profound effect on local marriage and fertility trends. Traditional marriage patterns are more common in areas where men’s economic status remains superior to women’s, but less so where men’s jobs have taken the largest hit.

Manufacturing has historically been a “good job” in the sense that it was steady and well-paying for someone without a college degree. Men have always been more likely to hold these jobs, partially due to the perception that “it’s still dirty and dark and dangerous.” Women who do work in manufacturing tend to be concentrated in certain industries, such as textiles, apparels, and leather. In the 1990s, the share of female manufacturing workers peaked at 32 percent and has since fallen, as women-dominant sectors were hit especially hard during the Great Recession.

The gender gap in manufacturing matters because manufacturing jobs tend to pay more—17 percent on average—than non-manufacturing jobs, which contributes to a gender gap in pay. In fact, the male-female gap in annual earnings is much larger in areas in which a large share of adults (men and women) working in manufacturing. In these areas men take home, on average, a much bigger paycheck than their female counterparts.

But over the past few decades, manufacturing has been on the decline due to increased competition and trade, leaving many men—and women—out of a job or earning less. But with all the anxiety that’s accompanied this shift, it’s easy to overlook another key trend—growth in the service sector has added more jobs than were lost in manufacturing. These jobs tend to be low-paying, however, which is one reason many men are reluctant to take them, along with the perception that they are too feminine. Whatever the reason, one thing is clear: Manufacturing’s decline has diminished many men’s economic status in comparison to women, especially men in the bottom quarter of the income spectrum.

The story of what happens next is familiar. Families struggling to make ends meet. Men dropping out of the labor force all together. An explosion of drug and alcohol use, and, for some, premature death, alongside the rise of incarceration during the same time period. The authors of the paper found that all these phenomena were more prevalent among men in areas where manufacturing declined.

It’s no surprise, then, that entire families would be affected, especially considering that these demographic and social shifts resulted in fewer men overall in these hard-hit regions of the country. Areas that were economically affected most by trade saw a reduction in the number of young adults who are married. These regions also experienced a declining birth rate and a higher rate of babies born to single mothers (and because of that, more child poverty). The authors find that these trends are pervasive across all racial and ethnic groups.

It could be that women are unwilling to legally bind themselves to men who are facing financial, legal, or health problems—or that there are fewer men to marry. Autor and his coauthors believe that these are all valid reasons for the decline in marriage, but also point to research by Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica of University of Chicago, and Jessica Pan of the National University of Singapore. In their paper, they find that marriage becomes less likely between men and women if a women’s income is likely to exceed that of her future husband. The three scholars find that “standard economic models […] cannot account for this pattern. Instead, we argue that gender identity norms play an important role in marriage.”

This hypothesis is further born out by looking at regions that only saw a decline in female-intensive industries, which are fewer in number but have faced enormous upheaval, especially during the Great Recession. Not only did marriages in these areas not decline, but instead marriage rates went up while reducing the number of children who live in single-headed households.

Of course, the overall declines in marriage and single-headed households aren’t driven exclusively by the decline in manufacturing. But this research does speak to how much workers’ identities are tied up with presumed work roles in life, whether that’s one’s job, economic status, or gender. What is clear is that these norms are increasingly costly in the face of a changing economy. The inability of policymakers to help workers adapt is creating a crisis that has a ripple effects for the entire U.S. economy, political system, and prosperity of future generations.

SOURCE:http://www.heroslodge.com/87/this-is-the-impact-of-economic-decline-on-marriage-and-ferti

No wonder we have a high crime rate in overpopulated places.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE


Cinema Manager

Job Level: Manager (Staff Supervisor/Head of Department)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time
Minimum Qualification: Degree
Preferred Years of Experience:
Application Deadline: 2017-02- 16

Description
Filmhouse Limited is a dynamic film exhibition company. Our expertise is in the area of: Cinema operations: we Manage sites; Own sites Consultancy for cinema development: Design; Fit-out; Cinema project management

Responsibilities:
Analyzing business data to increase market share and profitability, budgetary management, overseeing operational standards, succession Planning, setting goals for your teams in line with the operational strategy, enhancing the customer experience and ensuring the highest levels of cleanliness are achieved.

Requirements
-- Minimum of a Degree in a relevant field
-- 3 - 5 years relevant experience
-- Must have Retail outlet experience
-- Candidate for this position must have vision, dedication and initiative. You will be results driven, passionate about both your customers and staff and have the ability to motivate your team in achieving success.
-- This challenging yet rewarding role will effectively manage the cinema to meet business objectives.
-- Working in a diverse and fast-paced environment, you will provide effective ongoing leadership and management to your team ensuring that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
-- If you have a passion for customer service, the ability to motivate a team, the flexibility and adaptability to cope in an ever-changing environment, and have the experience to excel in this role we would love to hear from you.
-- Managing all the operational aspects of the cinema, you'll motivate and coach your team to deliver the highest standards possible to our guests. Teamwork is a vital part of Filmhouse so on a daily basis, you will manage the team to work effectively together to maximise their performance and drive retail profits as well as the guest experience.
-- Marketing and Accounting experience will be an added advantage.
-- You'll also support the Area Manager in planning, implementing and delivering their business plans, and stay focused on making the cinema profitable through retail, ticket sales and by minimising stock loss.
Overall, you'll need operational management or supervisory experience from a guest facing environment. You're great at developing people and have the motivational skills to bring the best out in your team, as well as drive commercial success.



Stock Controller

Job Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time
Minimum Qualification: OND
Preferred Years of Experience:
Application Deadline: 2017-02-16

Description
The Stock Controller is responsible for store inventory and forecasting activities in assigned Cinema site associated with customers and products.

Extremely organised and task-focused, you'll bring experience from the retail, warehousing or logistic environment. Level-headed problem solver with full responsibility for daily operations with the ability to communicate confidently at every level

Responsibilities
-- Maintaining the required stock levels of everyday products.
-- Monitoring and analysing stock levels.
-- Liaising with managers to ensure special offer products are available.
-- Ensuring stock availability at all times.
-- Forecasting stock replenishment.
-- Forecasting stock requirements covering seasonal and promotional periods.
-- Receiving deliveries and taking proper inventory of stock.
-- Accurate record keeping of outgoing stock for sale (issued to team members)
-- Damage and shrinkage control and reporting
-- Consistent food temperature measurements (Using temperature probe)
-- Monthly order request through Filmshop
-- Working closely with sites accountants for detail checking supplier invoices, waybills, signing off and maintaining filing process.
-- Communicate regularly with logistic team on movement and storage of stock.
-- Working closely with the supplier base when necessary to ensure that stock is shipped within the agreed timetables.
-- Reconciling weekly, monthly and quarterly stock takes and prepares stock report respectively.
-- Working closely with retail management in developing new processes to ensure optimal stock control and great product availability.
-- Communicate all availability issues and providing appropriate solutions.

Key Relationships:
-- Retail and Logistics Managers
-- Branch Managers
-- Cinema Mangers
-- Site Accountant.

Requirements:
Some resources to succeed in this role incorporate the following:
-- Organised individual with structured approach, Self-motivated, able to respond under pressure and be pro active.
-- Excellent working knowledge of spreadsheets
-- Warehouse stock management and supply chain knowledge
-- Numerical and analytical skills
-- Excellent communication skills, able to interpret and communicate problems succinctly.


Graphic/Web Designer

Job Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time
Minimum Qualification: BSC/HND
Preferred Years of Experience:
Application Deadline: 2017-02-16

Job Functions
Create new design concepts using brand assets and guidelines for the company
---- Promotions
---- Signage
---- Movie Vouchers
---- Website graphics
---- Print advertisements
-- Digital and social banners
-- Support overall website design and maintenance.
-- Email broadcasting
-- Develop graphic and image assets for both content marketing and digital marketing.
---- Brochures
---- Weekly Fliers
---- Magazine
---- T-shirts branding
---- Hat branding
---- Popcorn packs
-- Ensure accuracy of website content and proactively initiate improvements.
---- Weekly website updates
---- Website update from Monday to Sunday (On Request)
-- Passionate about creating an engaging online experience through design that is brand-oriented
-- Has a strong grasp on emerging design best practices (colors, fonts, layout, etc.) for both web and print - IMPORTANT
-- Liaison with marketing and retail teams to interpret projects while conveying marketing objectives, brand standards, and consistency across all designs
-- Ability to receive constructive feedback from teams and modify work to accomplish marketing goals

Job Requirements
-- One to two years professional and detailed graphic design and/or web design experience
-- Proficient in HTML, CSS, and Corel Draw, Adobe Creative Suite, including but not limited to, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
-- Proven experience in collaboration with web development teams
-- Effective communication skills with the ability to actively listen to clarify project goals, requirements and deadlines
-- Knowledge of digital photography preferred.



Qualified candidate should go to the SOURCE;;;
http://www.heroslodge.com/62/recent-job-openings-at-film-house-cinemas for more information on how to apply.

(Moderators: Lalasticlala, davide470 and uboma please push this one)

Very few people are aware of the vacancies at Film House cinemas. for more details, click on this link http://www.heroslodge.com/62/recent-job-openings-at-film-house-cinemas

Lunagirl:
You see my NYSC boot, I will not throw it away. I will dye it and continue wearing it.

You see my crested vest, I will give it to my grandma to continue wearing.

You see my white shorts, I will still dye it and continue to wear it.

You see my white tees, I will wear and give some to my brothers.

You see my khaki trousers, I will use it as rag

You see my jacket, I will give it out just because it's cute.

I won't waste one item from it. Not even one

I don't know who you are but it seems like we think alike. I checked your photo and saw my Moana. Can I meet you?

Do you know anyone preparing for 2017 JAMB UTME?
Then this software is definitely going to come in handy as preparation continues.

You can download the offline software and get activation code by clicking on the link attached >> ngschoolz.com/jamb-utme-cbt-practice-software/
this is a simulation of what the actual CBT interface looks like. Please share till it gets to someone who may need it.
Thank you.

The U.S Ambassador is right. . . Here is what he said >> www.heroslodge.com/54/ u-s-ambassador- promotes-agricultural- entrepreneurship

The U.S Ambassador is right. . . Here is what he said >> www.heroslodge.com/54/u-s-ambassador-promotes-agricultural-entrepreneurship

Oh no... He left us too early.

Explorers:
3 young royal heirs around the world, Denmark, Marocco and Japan.

I love the Japanese.

ikp120:
Babe I don't think that is Explorer o. He just said "A Nairalander".

na him.

So we still have Brave Hearts in this Country?!

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as for those saying governor Fayose should not support or join in the protest I wonder how you think?

Some weeks ago, a video went viral on social media after the LAUTECH students staged a peaceful protest to the Oyo State governor's office. I believe most of us have not forgotten that?

That scenerio was compared to another video of a similar protest against the US government, which Barrack Obama had to respond to. He said something about how he would have "JOINED IN THE PROTEST IF HE COULD" because he understands that it was for a good reason.

I can't upload the video here, but I know some Nairalanders saw it as well.

I believe that even members of the body can fight for a just cause if the head is being negligent of it's duties.

Iraq is very relevant to the US.
I just wonder how this whole scheme would play out.

THEY ARE BOTH TALL..... Reminds me of my own time at Yikpata many years ago, check this out http://www.mylifeinspiration.com/2017/01/dont-be-lazy/

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could that be due to laziness?
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you see why you shouldn't be lazy? http://www.mylifeinspiration.com/2017/01/dont-be-lazy/