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If asked to place a price on the contacts in your phone, how much do you think yours is worth?

Be realistic with the estimate.

BTW, thanks to Kokoye.

So my people what exactly decides where one belong in this country?

As a Nigerian citizen, how do you decide where you are from?

Is it where you were born?

Is it where you have a house, live and invested in?

Is it where you have lived for a certain number of years?

Is it where you father or mother is from?

Is it where your grandparents are from?

And how do you decide where your grandparents are from. Is it where they were born or lived in?

Beaf:
Some people are a waste.

Sure. BTW Beaf, am sure you have no problem with the wage, since your handouts come directly

werepeLeri:
You are glorifying these boko sh it people too much.

Sad. But the Government of the day only listen to violent people.

Here is the problem with the new salary law.
- Apart from the level one category (the minimum class) that should not be paid less than N18,000 no other level have a specific amount that should be paid.
- The law does not specify the amount or percentage of increase from level 2 and above.
- Does such increase apply to Local, State and Federal Staff.

Therefore with the state of things, Labour Unions now have to negotiate individual packages for workers in different States and what they get depend now on the generosity of the Governors.

What will be your opinion on Boko Haram, if they should threaten to go after the interest of National Assembly unless the Minimum Wage is fully implemented and pay in all States of the Federation within the month of October.

That National Assembly should:
- Be specific on what percentage of increase is applicable for all levels of workers.
- Make it a criminal offence not to pay the full wage and any outstanding arrears.

ELSE   

With all that have happened, the events at hand and other immediate expectations, do you seriously believe there need for celebration on Nigeria's 51st Independence?

When is he going to start? Is it after securing additional 6yrs tenue? I hate people who lie through their teeth.

Thanks to eGuerrilla. I think this fits perfectly.

When will Mr President start solving Nigeria's problems?

If you say GEJ is not part of those stealing Nigeria blind, then you are lying through your teeth. Nigeria is doomed seriously.

[size=13pt]How Govt Wastes Nigeria’s Wealth - El Rufai[/size]


Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday decried growing and outrageous cost of governance without meaningful impact on development and empowerment of the populace.

He solicited the assistance of the media in the delivery of dividends of democracy. The former boss of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) gave the charge at the opening of the seventh biennial conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), in Benin, Edo State capital.

He noted that the ‘entire oil earnings for the year cannot pay the salaries and allowances of politicians and public sector workers and their overheads such as tea, coffee, travel and estacode’.
The former minister, who was arrested and detained in July, this year for alleged inflammatory talks, gave detailed insight into how government at all tiers squandered collective wealth of the people on few elected and public officials.

While indicting the three arms of government of sheer profligacy, el-Rufai hit the present administration for its wastage and growing budgetary expenditure without commensurate development.
In his paper entitled; ‘Perspectives on the cost of governance in a democracy’, El-Rufai stated that Nigeria remains the only developing country where annual expenditure on general administration ranges from 55 per cent to as much as 75 per cent of the budget.

“The rich countries spend an average of 10 per cent of their budgets and/or GDP on the general administration of their countries. China and India have the largest bureaucracies in the world. But their average annual expenditure on general administration is only about 12 per cent of GDP, and that is considered high, but at least the results are showing - these are the fastest growing economies in the world that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last decade.

Giving a sectoral analysis of how Nigeria’s wealth is cornered by its officials and cronies, the former minister disclosed that a whopping N49.9 billion will be used to run each of the 49 line Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) outlined in the 2011 Appropriation Act; N150 billion to fund the 469 members of the federal legislature and their support staff for the year while upkeep of judges along with their support staff comes to about N73 million on yearly basis.

“Each ministry has at least one minister -some have two or three, with a permanent secretary, and on average eight directors. The ministers and permanent secretaries have personal assistants, special assistants and special advisers. Each of these expects to drive a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) or two to work, complete with police orderlies and other file carriers. Then, they will need houses, furniture and running costs of the vehicles and utilities. The costs of all these somehow find their way into the overheads budget of the ministries, and makes a complete nonsense of the monetization policy we implemented in 2004.

“Up until December 2006, there were 31 cabinet-level ministries including the FCT Administration and about 42 ministers. The reforms of 2006 led to the merger of the ministries of Petroleum and Power into a single Energy Ministry, Water Resources and Agriculture into a single Agriculture Ministry, commerce with industry, the addition to steel development to the mandate of the Solid Minerals Ministry, the abolition of the ministries of Police Affairs, Communication, and Co-operation and Integration in Africa into larger ministries, works into transportation, and so on.

“This reduced the number of cabinet level MDAs to 21, but without a significant reduction in the number of ministers. The Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations reversed these reforms, and now, we have some 30 ministries housing between 42 and 48 ministers.

“We elect a total of 360 members to the House of Representatives and 109 Senators to make laws and enhance good governance by checking and balancing the excesses of the executive arm of government. For this privilege, the 469 members of the federal legislature and their support staff at the National Assembly (NASS) will spend N150 billion this year. From the NASS website, it is evident that they only passed eight bills as at the end of May 2011, and have been on recess for 43 days out of the first 100 days of this administration.

“So, assuming that they manage to pass another seven bills before the end of this year, it would cost the Nigerian citizen an average of about 10 billion naira to pass a single bill. This implies that to pass the 2011 budget (which allocated N150 billion to NASS), we paid 10 billion naira. An even more interesting statistics is the cost of maintaining every legislator every year. It works out to a princely N320 million per legislator per annum. At this rate, every four-year stint at NASS works out at N1.28 billion per legislator.

“The judiciary seems equally determined not to be outdone. In this year’s budget, apart from the nearly 20 billion naira allocated to the Federal Ministry of Justice, the National Judicial Council will receive 95 billion naira. If we compute that the Supreme Court has 22 Judges; Court of Appeal 67; Federal High Court 58; FCT High Court 38 and the National Industrial Court 13, an average of 30 High Court judges per state gives a total of about 1,300 puisne judges nationwide. Following the same statistical analysis, the upkeep of these judges along with their support staff every year comes to a about N73 million per annum per judge”, El-Rufai stated.

He also picked hole in the budgetary allocation of government, which he said was not in tandem with the needs and aspirations of Nigerians. “Another interesting observation is the fact that government says the problem of power shortage will be a priority, yet the Ministry of Power only got N91 billion as total appropriation, while the security sector (Military, Police, Internal Affairs, National Security Agency, Amnesty, Pensions, Police Reform, etc.) got a mind-boggling N1,592 billion.

“This amount is over 35 per cent of the entire budget. In other words, though Nigerians have never felt so insecure, the NSA, Internal Affairs, Police and Defence combined will be spending N4.36 billion per day on our behalf! This does not include the security votes in ministries, and the 36 states. Even local government chairmen now have security votes”, he added.

The former minister, therefore urged the media to wake up to its traditional role by sensitizing the populace on their rights, saying the people have not found their voice but rather ‘polarised on primordial ethno-religious sentiments’.
“We should hold accountable those who hold political offices on our behalf, nonetheless the inadequacies in our electoral system. They should be our servants rather than being our ‘Lords’ as they currently arrogate to themselves and flagrantly display at all available fora. Until the people muster the courage to manifestly use the power, which the tenets of democracy vest in them, it is doubtful if the continually rising cost of governance would impact positively on the wellbeing of the populace.

“Those that impose the outrageous system of governance wherein the spiraling costs translate into less investment, poor services and abject poverty for the majority of the people are drawn across the 774 local governments. This, in my candid opinion, is where the media’s role in educating and mobilizing the people to action appropriately lies. But do we have a mass media that is neither cowed nor bought over? That is a question that you, ladies and gentlemen can answer honestly.”, el-Rufai said.


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/sept/23/newsbreak-23-09-2011-001.html

Here in Enugu, the governor directed that N10,000 be added to workers from level 1-6 and N5,000 for workers from level 7 and above. Meaning that level 1 earn N19,500.

Labour says NO. Government have gone to court in Abuja seek among other things that Labour should suspend the Strike.

Some states are on strike, others are not. Is their any state fully implementing the new N18,000 minimum wage?

Can you we have the situation report from your current location? Cheers!

Just as President Jonathan's Nairaland username is BEAF.

I believe Nigeria need just the best hands irrespective of where he/she came from.

But in consideration of our diversities as a nation, which zone do you think deserve producing the President in 2015 irrespective of party affilliation?

And I keep wondering how powerful the family members are to be commanding this much respect. If it was me, the FG will make me disappear without a trace and none of you will be bothered with the details.

Do anyone know the personalities in this family?

With the development last week on OBJ's visit to the Yusuf’s family over his killing in July 2009 and the bombing in some parts of the country, one is poised to ask who exactly is behind the bombs.

Is it the aggrieved family or some of the top Northern Politicians (as the current government will want us to hate their opponents)?

According to Beaf, OBJ must have had the blessing of GEJ before going - so we can say Oga Presido is the one actually begging

Even OBJ too the beg

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday waded into the Boko Haram crisis, pleading with the family of its leader, Yusuf Mohammed, who was killed by security agents in 2009, to forgive and forget the past.

Obasanjo who arrived Maiduguri, Borno State yesterday morning met the Boko Haram leader’s relations at the family house in Bayan Quarters.

He said the visit was a personal initiative. The former president also visited the home of Baba Fugu Mohammed, Yusuf’s father in-law, who was also killed after reporting to the police during the Islamist sect’s crisis in 2009.

Obasanjo was met by the late Fugu Mohammed eldest son, Baba Kura Fugu. Sources at the meeting quoted Fugu as saying that it was the first time a high profile personality would be meeting with the family after the 2009 extra judicial killings.

Chief Obasanjo asked to be given an opportunity to mediate in the crisis, adding that if granted, he would ensure they were treated fairly and justly by the government.

He appealed to the families to forget the past and allow peace to reign again in Borno State and the nation.
The former president was received on arrival in Maiduguri by the Borno Deputy Governor, Zanna Mustapha.

Am sure he will not like to act like Oga IG and get narrow escape later Nigeria is becoming hopeless daily. Soon MASSOP and OPC or some other useless group will show up.

Two things that seems to work all the time in Nigeria are:
1. If you want to steal - Steal so big (Billions), so that anyone that hear it will just laugh, hail, respect and even be short of words, because he can't imagine what you want to do with all that.

2. If you want attention from government, blow up things - Ask MEND and Boko Boys

Beaf:
Your analysis is on the naive side. It is not possible for Obj to visit members of boko haram without the express go ahead from GEJ. Ok? Anybody that does that will be arrested. Simple as ABC.

@ Beaf:
So you mean to say authoritatively that President Jonathan is directly begging Boko Haram member? - Now I know you always get the Presidential Memo.

Tell us who is the boss

GEJ is doing all he can to be "Igbo man" and a "South-East", so how is it going to be possible to have any Nigerian of Igbo extration as President anytime soon.

Please advice him to remain an "Ijaw man" from "South-South"

Onlytruth:
^^
Actually he did. He threatened that Nigeria would be ungovernable if anyone rigged elections.
Well, that translated to if he loses.
And here we are.

Where is the link? Or you want to keep lying through your teeth?

[quote author=okada_man link=topic=757312.msg9127158#msg9127158 date=1315789463]I thought it was Atiku Abubakar that made threats before the elections.

Or are we talking about another threat?

"Those who make peaceful change impossible, will make violent change inevitable"

^ Atiku said that right?


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-568997.0.html[/quote]Thank you my brother.

For those PDP appologists like Ukpabio, they wish just by witchcraft magic - all the problems of Nigeria Jonathan is confused in address can be blamed on someone else.

Sadly, these PDP apologists are never bold enough to demand apologies from their party members and the like of Atiku, who promised hell if the party do not follow the zoning they all agreed on.

Now every chicken-feed will open up to demonize the name and person of Buhari just because of "he lost election to my brother".

Helen, on what ground are you asking for apologies - Is that you have evidence Buhari is the head of Boko Haram or because Jonathan is your brother?

COLONEL Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha sparked fury by giving birth to a baby girl in Algeria yesterday — a day after fleeing there with her family.
The news was confirmed by local officials after the 35-year-old lawyer arrived with the Mad Dog’s wife Safiya and two of his sons.

Libyan rebels are furious at Algeria for sheltering them and demanded the family be sent back.

Meanwhile, anti-Gaddafi forces surrounding his home town Sirte gave loyalists holed up there a deadline of Saturday to quit — or face a military onslaught. Gaddafi, 69, was said yesterday to be hiding in his Saharan desert stronghold of Sabha, 480 miles south of the capital Tripoli.

The claim was made by his son Khamis’ captured bodyguard, who says he saw the despot flee in a 4X4 on Friday. Khamis is said to have been killed by a missile.

Read details here

When it comes to President Goodluck Jonathan, the bar for determining success have been lowered to the pits - He can not do anything because he is not God.

It seems other Nations are governed by God and "Supernaturals". You guys should be ashamed for once.

If GEJ can not fulfil his duty as President of Nigeria, let resign as soon as now!

Beaf:
You are not making any sense. Are you saying Buhari is connected to boko haram? Or whats your point with the above.
Is this thread all about bitterness at losing the elections? Abeg let keep it clean.

By the way, as far as Nigerians can see, the problem is 100% Northern and 100% sponsored extremist Islam.

By twisting words to drive home you one-sided points will not help either. In you first post, you made it look like "educating Northerners" was the only way to solve the problem.

And what has "bitterness" got to do with the issue at hand? Jonathan is the President, he should act like one and stop sleeping on duty - reacting only when the deed is done.

The government should more importantly provide good governance. Also out-law all organization that pick up arms against Nigeria and have the same policy towards them (including MEND).

The problem is when the government is very partial in its programmes, policies and matters affecting Nigerians.

Beaf:
By educating Northerners and saving the almajiri's on the one hand, and replacing the top echelon of the army and police on the other; it is well known that these important parts of the nations security are sponsors of boko haram.
This is a clear 4 - 10 year plan.

Anything else is rubbish.

Am sure you will agree its not in the North alone that we have violence in Nigeria. Any time plan are drawn and implemented for a certain section of the country alone then you have more problem than solution.

Beaf, as I told you before - if Buhari had won there will definitely be protest in some other quarters too (at what degree remains to be determined).

If the government have run out of ideas or have no clue, am sure are not lacking too. I believe most Nigerians are creative and can defeat any challenge if he tries.

And before the nay-sayers start telling us otherwise, I want to state that the is Terrorism in Nigeria (may not be like those in certain countries, but its here).

So how best can terrorism be defeated completely in Nigeria? Any suggestion is welcome - do be realistic