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tony0806:
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2,000,000 monthly

As at 2019, Nigeria had about 11,877 professors (though this include both those on private and public higher institutions).

That means; monthly, the government will pay 2,000,000 x 11,877 = 23,754,000,000. That's over twenty three billion naira monthly.

As at today, Nigeria produces about 1.2m BPD of crude oil (Our main source of income, excluding mineral resources from the north which I don't know why they don't mention it. Only God knows where that money is going to). Using the official exchange rate of about 414 naira/dollar,
If 1 barrel is about 93 dollars, this becomes 1,200,000 x 93$ = 111,600,000 per day



that's a total income of 111,600,000 x 414 = 46,202,400,000 (Nigeria's income from crude oil).

THEN; 46,202,400,000 x 30 days = 1,386,072,000,000. This is over 1.3 Trillion naira monthly.

Boy o boy, This country is making money.

SUMMARILY, THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY ASUU COMFORTABLY.

So there is no cost to the production of crude? And the oil companies that are producing it are good samaritans that produce every barrel and hand it over to Nigeria? Don't comment on what you don't know for likes. Nigeria cannot afford to triple the salary of ASUU members which is what is being recommended.

That's too much.

It's because Nigerian politicians earn so much, that's why everyone is demanding higher wages. The country cannot afford to pay all professors this amount considering the position of professor in Nigeria is a permanent one till the age of 70. Also, an increase of professor's salary to 24 million a year will mean increase for other categories of lecturers too. That's too much expenditure at this time.

einsteine:
Some Obi supporters are actually brainless. The Edo state they are talking about, we shall see next year whether that's a Peter Obi stronghold, like they are deluding themselves. That a vocal minority of people online are supporting a candidate does not mean that the market women association in Ogbese, Ovia Southwest won't vote PDP or the people of Uneme in Akoko Edo won't vote APC. Obi supporters lack a sense of scale and an understanding of what actually happens during elections.

By the way, both Obi and Kwankwaso are having the same effect: helping to increase the fortunes of the APC.

It's simple math. The electorate is divided into people who like Tinubu and those who don't. Assuming no Obi or Kwankwaso, most of those who don't will vote Atiku. Obi's presence helps reduce the vote of the strongest contender, Atiku.

And yes, Atiku is the strongest contender so he is the one who is losing votes.

In summary, in a first past the post voting system like the one used in Nigeria, all votes for anybody other than the person who came second are effectively votes for the winner.

A better voting system for Nigerian presidential elections would be as follows:

All candidates contest in a first round election and the top 5 candidates are selected. A second round election is then done and this time voters are not voting for one person but ranking the candidates from best to 5th best. Allocate 5 for the best down to 1 for the 5th best (just like the Balon door voting). The person with most points win.

The advantage of this system is that extreme candidates like Buhari or Tinubu will not be able to win elections. The person who wins will be the most accepted by the widest range of people.

Also, candidates "without structure" and third party candidates in general have better chances of winning.

Some Obi supporters are actually brainless. The Edo state they are talking about, we shall see next year whether that's a Peter Obi stronghold, like they are deluding themselves. That a vocal minority of people online are supporting a candidate does not mean that the market women association in Ogbese, Ovia Southwest won't vote PDP or the people of Uneme in Akoko Edo won't vote APC. Obi supporters lack a sense of scale and an understanding of what actually happens during elections.

Na this kind thing Mbappe for like.

Money over achievements

This guy and his extremely annoying voice over. Paused immediately. No views for you, no subscription

Crying more than the bereaved

CSTRR:
I wonder how much Devakumar Edwin that Indian expat, earns.?

He is the Group Executive Director of Dangote industries and yet he is not listed here.

Dangote Industries is not publicly quoted

Arelyn:
The figures may not be accurate but approximately they couldn't be far from the truth.....A good friend of mine left work with one of the topmost cybersecurity companies in the world for a digital forensics role in a bank in Nigeria...Initially thought he was crazy but after I saw his contract of employment, made tax deductions and cost of living adjustments then I realized he made a good choice..

The figures are accurate as they are publicly disclosed to the regulator, SEC.

2loadedguy:
So we should vote for Atiku, abi what's this mumu saying? Atiku can never be president in this country by God's grace. Nonsense mumu talk.

You are an idiot.

Vote for whomever you want. It would not change your cretinous behaviour. Embarrassing dotard like you.

Better run along to ask your mother why none of your many possible fathers is your actual father.

tony0806:
Yes, the Faith of our leader is important. Ask your myopic self, will you vote for a Christian -Christian ticket if you are a Muslim? What level of insensitivity is this?

Awolowo came 2nd with a Christian-Christian and all southern ticket beating Nnamdi Azikwe who had a Christian-Muslim southern-Northern ticket

By the way, would you have voted for Tinubu if he picked Boss Mustapha or Solomon Lalong?

Most likely not. Tinubu has taken the best decision to maximise his votes.

fnep2smooth:
Another reason to vote for Peter Obi and Datti.

Naija no need this kind combination.


I build and teach website design

A vote for Peter Obi is indirectly a vote for Tinubu.

Neither Obi or Kwankwanso is winning. The only thing they would be doing is taking votes away from the challenger, Atiku.

Olaoluwa122:
You will use Machine guns for hundred of thousand of your own citizen..??

Don't be naive. If protesters storm Aso Rock, Brigades of Guards would use them for Suya.

Olaoluwa122:
Why is it not waiting for them in Sri Lanka?.....Police can not stop hundred of thousands of protestant at the same time

That's cause they are using water cannons rather than AKs and sub machine guns.

femicyrus:
Reno practically live and survive on social media.
He should be banned from any social media engagement for ever.
The dude once blocked me on Twitter for pointing out his error.
Imagine if he own Twitter itself

So he can't block you again? Why did Twitter put the feature? You are allowed to block someone you don't like.

The man that operates a diploma mill issuing certificates for a fee whether or not the students attended classes.

Dino Melaye says thank you for the law degree Baba Ahmed awarded him after just one year of enrollment

sonnie10:
Why do Nigerians abroad where there is no tsetse fly still develop kidney disease?

There are many pathways by which kidney disease could develop.
Apart from genetics, toxins, immunological factor, trauma could damage the Podocyte.

Your first sentence shows you did not read.

Nigerians abroad and Nigerians in Nigeria, do they have different genes?

It's like asking while do we have sickle cell among blacks in the US when there is no malaria. Yet Sickle cell trait is an adaptation to high incidence of Malaria.

thesicilian:
President Buhari will easily go down as the worst ever president in the history or Nigeria, closely followed by his own administration as military military head of state

Easy to think so but Nigeria is a kakistocracy. A few years down the line, Nigerians may look back to the Buhari years with fondness and nostalgia.

barragan:
Let them try it first. It might take decades before most guns will be mopped but it will surely, surely reduce all these mindless gun violence.

It won't.

The people who do these mass shootings would still find ways to get weapons. Already anyone with access to a 3D printer can make their own guns.

From the affidavit, Mr Onyeama sent amnesty funds to the United States through NGOs and on getting to the US used those funds to purchase aircraft. This is classic money laundering, disguising the source of the funds and transforming them into a "cleaner" asset.

Onyeama set up several NGOs that were awarded contracts in 2012-2013 to rehabilitate Niger Delta militants. He is a friend to Kingsley Kuku who was the amnesty chairman.

So for those who want a deeper insight into the allegations, you best read the indictment from the US Justice department rather than rely on Premium Times summary.

Also, due to the fact that there might be strong political fallouts if Allen O is arrested (there are rumors that he is linked to the former first lady), Buhari was never going to approve an extradition.

The days of Onyeama visiting Atlanta regularly are over.

Vulturereloaded:
What exactly is the offense? This is just like using BTA forex meant for traveling to do business. Its still your money.

Worst case scenario, they seize the money in the company account.

No, it's not like it, even though what you state is currently a criminal offence in Nigeria.

Go and download the FBI affidavit and you would understand why Onyeama is at risk of a maximum of 20 years imprisonment.

If it was as light a matter as you make this, Mr Onyeama would have since visited the US as he has a valid visa. In fact, he has been permanently in Nigeria since the FBI released the complaint and indictment

Actually it's funny how Peter Obi claims to be a capitalist and instead grabs onto a ticket from Labour Party. Shows the total lack of ideology in Nigerian politics with people seeing political parties as mere vehicles for clout and power.

Karlosorji:
How can you be talking of unity and still be routing for Atiku after Buhari? Unity is when there is equity, fairness and justice. You guys are just deceiving yourselves

The south has ruled for more years than the North since 1999. So either the South or the North can go. Moreover, there are no special benefits for being from the same region as the president.

Dangote will never do an open endorsement. What if Tinubu doesn't win?

Skillgate:
You have once again blindfolded these enslaved northern poor population to vote wrongly this 2023 just the way you did in the last election. But I strongly believe that Kwakwanso is not yet properly informed about this Obidient movement. I think he should wait and see when the real campaign starts, the northern youths who have been frustrated into banditry, kidnapping and boko haram instruments of destruction will be enlightened and they have a choice to make. If they're not tired of poverty and begging, they should go ahead and repeat what they did in 2015. I think it's time you drop your ego and partner with Peter Obi to liberate Nigeria or Labour party should go for Sanusi, the former CBN governor. He's even a better choice.

If Labour Party could even get an ordinary northerner as VP candidate, they would have used that person as placeholder instead of Doyin okupe. The average Northern Muslim is going to be unwilling to be a Vice to Obi because he is Igbo. A sad fact that Obi supporters don't want to hear. That includes even the Sanusi you talk about. For a typical Northern Muslim politician, to accept that running mate role would be to destroy your future in the eyes of the Northern Muslim people.

mrvitalis:
If northerners can't vote obi- Kwankwaso now how are we sure they would in 8 years time , how are we sure another northerner won't say same thing ?

I rather obi contest and loeses than be vice to anyone

There will be no time, forever and ever, where the North will vote an Igbo man. If it ever happens, it would be an Igbo from Delta or Rivers state who will have to downplay his "Igboness".

Eddygourdo:
What majority of these people don't realize is that Peter Obi's Candidacy is a statement from the youths. We are ready to lose the election. We don't mind if an Igbo man is never the president of Nigeria. at least we cant be accused of being part of the destruction of Nigeria , or the pain that will come from 2023. Other tribes who have ruled and are going to rule can take the blame for that. We will vote Peter Obi, even if he runs with a goat or sheep as VP. With the constant mention of peter obi, one would have to start wondering if the likes of Al- mustapha, Dumebi Kachikwu , Sowore are not in this election. Kindly focus on your candidates please and Leave our Obi for us. We want to waste our votes. Allow us waste our Igbo votes.

Who are these youths you talk about? So in your opinion, all youths are planning to vote for Obi who by the way is in his 60s?

It is attitude like this that made the democrats look to Trump. They just assumed that nobody in his right mind would vote for Trump. When this was combined with the bullying of Trump supporters to stay mute, they were shocked with the result.


That's the same thing you Obi supporters are saying when you say youths this, youths that. You are assuming that every youth or even a majority of youths are supporting Obi. Tunnel vision. You are choosing to see only what you want to see.

wiseoneking:
Who is a Northerner he's talking about? Benue man or Taraba, kogi, southern KADUNA, plateau southern Gombe and southern Bauchi, FCT, southern Boronu, Nasarawa or where? The early he comes to terms that these afore mentioned places are not core or Islamic Fulani Hausa North, the better his brain is set from the right. Let everyone get this truth, northern Christian population still stands to almost 40% of her population with Benue and plateau having the highest.

Moreover, nobody even knows kwankwoso in the whole of the south. I laugh at his ignorance

You guys suffer from tunnel vision.

No one knows Kwankwanso in the south but you believe people will vote for Peter Obi in the North? Kwankwanso is known more in the south than Obi is known in the North.

You are banking on Northern Christians to vote an Igbo man. Don't worry when the elections get near, that's when Peter Obi's ethnicity would become front and center. Just so you know, a large percentage of the soldiers that fought the civil war were from the middle belt, the so called Christian area that you think will vote Peter Obi on default. They may not like the Fulani but they sure as hell don't like Igbos either.

Jonathan, a sitting president, lost in Benue, Kwara, Kogi, Niger and benue while narrowly winning Plateau and Taraba and somehow you guys think Peter Obi would do better. Peter Obi as president would not protect Christians from attack in the same way that Buhari has not protected Muslims from attack. The same clamor for messiah is how the country elected a man with no plan other than him being austere, different and non-corrupt. The same music is being sung from Obi who has not released any policy document or even said anything concrete as to how he is going to do anything.

i am willing to bet that Kwankwanso will do better than Peter Obi in the coming election. Neither of them will win though and both of them are only going to hurt Atiku and help Tinubu.

duduade:
Are you minding the eedioot since he resigned and then lost the primaries he has been a nuisance.... Now he is even worse... Sleeping and waking up on Twitter

Bashir El Rufai and Bashir Ahmad are two different people

Subsidywise20:
So also supporting tinubu and atiku.

Aren't you guys tired of these old men, whatever the party?

Obi is above 60.

Kingpele:
Well with or without him power most ret9urn to South, I prefer Tinubu to any northerner .I don't know why a northerner even a fulani like Atiku will hope to replace another fulani after eight years, it is morally wrong and injustice to the south that supported power to return to north even against a fellow southerner like GEJ ,I voted buharia (though I regret it now because he turn out a huge failure) because I believed it was turn of the North in 2015 ...but Thunder will definitely fire any southerner that will support a northern in 2023....i see huge problem in 2023 if power fails to return to south, vote Peter obi for president 2023

Just say you support Tinubu instead of this trash. By your reasoning, Tinubu should not be contesting either as the south west has occupied two of the four highest offices in the land for 8 years and before that, Obasanjo did 8 years. You guys are hiding under the banner of South to support Tinubu who is the worst candidate in the race. Better for even Ganduje to be president than Tinubu.