₦airaland Forum

LeoMax:
36 States into 6 Regions with 6 States Each.

Each of the 6 Regions have 3 Companies.

1 for Electricity generation
1 for Electricity Distribution
1 for Marketing

So therefore, we have 6  Electricity generation companies; 6  Electricity distribution companies and 6  Electricity marketing companies. Total 18 companies ,

That is not the present situation. . . so it is your proposal, I guess?

How does it help?

Like I keep saying, no amount of reshuffling, paper pushing, renaming is going to help.

You have to attract investment in the electricity sector. Which requires privatization and some regulatory changes. . .

I mean, how does this differ really from when NEPA was scrapped and renamed PHCN?

Change that you do on paper or that boils down to renaming/reshuffling things isn't going to help.

[quote author=musiwa,,. link=topic=839951.msg9917473#msg9917473 date=1325987373]if you leave the state to collect taxes, how does that affect oil derivation.  it does not affect it. Even some of this state been paid oil derivation dont have oil but they are collecting oil derivation which they dont have.[/quote]Oil derivation can be viewed as a 87% federal tax on oil (at least if I understand things correctly).

So if you want states to collect all taxes themselves. . .

Lol. I may or may not be a supremacist, but nobody has taken me to the cleaner's in this thread.

If anything the opposite.

Then again, we cannot expect much sense from ACM10. . . was this not the same guy crying about Kats?

blacksta:
Just what i stated earlier - Many here behave like they lack formal education.  

what is the name of the transition company  - where is their struture.

I guess  it is another one of those "  23 licences given to refinery operators"

Yeah it is pretty much useless.

Call me when the companies get privatized.

This doesn't matter

Well said, pope.

Uncrowned King of Yorubaland, we hail thee

Northerners are also being attacked in NC, NW and NE

How can 15% increase be compare to ~100% increase?

Situations are not comparable, are they?

Not really a meaningful move until the PHCN successor companies are privatized.

Doesn't make a difference if they are all directly employees of PHCN or now employees of the successor companies; in the end still government employees.

Much ado about nothing, I think.

Has anyone tried this bread?

How does it taste?

40% cassava sounds high to me. . . I'm wondering about the flavor.

How does the price compare to pure wheat bread?

By Rita Ohai 08/01/2012 00:00:00
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• Jonathan at the Federal Executive Council meeting promoting cassava bread
President Goodluck Jonathan in a public gesture tasted some samples of cassava bread at the Federal Executive Council meeting recently, indicating that the government was in support of this innovation. However, given Nigerians penchant for foreign goods, will they patronise cassava made bread? Asks Rita Ohai
Eager to promote self-sufficiency as well as curb the chronic dependence on foreign foods the Federal Government has begun to take strong measures aimed at clamping down on the importation of rice and wheat while promoting the use of local cassava as a main source of flour.
This is coming on the heels of the gesture made by President Goodluck Jonathan last month at the Federal Executive Council meeting where he ate from a loaf of bread made of 40 percent cassava and 60 percent wheat contents. It was baked by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan.
Offering a slice of the bread to the Vice President, the president said: “When the Agriculture Minister brought some samples to me about a week ago, that is the only bread I have been eating. I think it is proper for us in Council to formally present this bread to Nigerians. I have been eating this bread for the past one week and I will continue to eat only this bread until I leave State House. We must encourage what we have. Other countries that became great did not wake up one day and become great. For us to move forward, we must also tame our exotic taste. Some of the things we bring from outside are not as good as what we have within our country.”
In spite of the President’s verbal commitment to this home-grown staple, the acceptability of the bread, when it is made available on the shelves by Nigerians, would depend on a lot of factors including quality and affordability.
This is reflected in the response given by Mrs. Mercy Obikanyi, a trader and mother of five, when asked if she would willingly swap her white bread for that of the cassava breed: “The kind of bread I regularly buy is the normal sliced one we have around. I have not tasted the cassava bread before but if they are really going to ban the importation of flour then they should just make the cassava option they are giving us to be palatable either by putting some form of sweetner inside or refining the cassava very well so that that fu-fu taste will not be there. If they can do this, I believe it will be very edible.”
Known for its high carbohydrate content, cassava is invariably one of the highest consumed staple in the developing countries, with over 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa relying on the crop for over half of their daily food energy.
This macro-dependency rate spurred the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike to develop three new varieties of vitamin A cassava that could improve the livelihoods of millions of farmers in Africa and help put an end to malnutrition due to vitamin A deficiency.
Besides, IITA and NRCRI, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO), has also been involved in the processing of cassava bread.
The agencies which made samples of cassava bread have been organising sample-tasting workshops, as part of efforts to sensitise Nigerians on the propriety of eating cassava made bread.
In Nigeria where the average consumption of cassava is 600 grams per capita per day, the consumption of bio-fortified cassava bread with pro-vitamin A provides a cost-effective way of combating vitamin A deficiency in the region where millions are malnourished and about 20% of pregnant women and about 30% of children under five suffer from vitamin A deficiency. The resultant health implications of this deficiency include low immunity and impaired vision, which often lead to blindness and even death.
Although Nigeria was renowned as a net food exporter, poor infrastructure, lack of finance and misguided policies have led to the decline in agricultural activities. This downward spiral on the productivity level of an agricultural region once seen as the foodbasket of the continent appears to have taken its toll on the small and medium scale farmers.
Julius Etete, a farmer who deals in cash-crop posits, “In this country, it’s very difficult to survive on farming alone because the environment just makes things very difficult for us. In other places, they always have the support of their government but here, you will provide your own generator because there is no proper power supply which you need to pump water or power your machines. We do not have good roads to help us transport our goods to town and the banks continue to refuse to give us loans to support our business even though they claim to be micro-finance banks. There is a fuel shortage. There is fertilizer shortage. There is land shortage and so on. The problems are endless and that is why you find most farmers selling their lands and running away to chase white collar jobs.”
In a recent meeting with representatives of bread producers, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr.AkinwunmiAdesina, declared that “producers of quality cassava bread will from this year enjoy a 12 per cent tax rebate and be given 18 months with effect from March 31, 2012, to move to the 40 per cent substitution of wheat flour with high quality cassava flour.”
Continuing he said, “From the 2012 fiscal year, the Federal Government would raise tariff on imported wheat and all equipment and machinery for processing high quality cassava flour as well as composite flours would attract zero taxes.’’
The minister further noted that the move was aimed at encouraging the consumption of cassava bread by Nigerians and the substitution of wheat flour with high quality cassava flour for bread production.
In a bid to reduce the sky-rocketing poverty rate caused by the importation of wheat and provide small-scale farmers with the technology to efficiently produce this food staple , Adesina stated:”We will save Nigeria N250 billion used for wheat imports, currently going to farmers of other countries, while putting this money into the hands of Nigerian farmers, which is why we are already working with the private sector to establish 12 high quality cassava processing plants with an installed capacity of 240 tonnes per day, which will allow us fully meet the needed supply of the flour.’’

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/business/32442-will-nigerians-patronise-jonathan%E2%80%99s-cassava-bread%3F.html

I hope that Ogun or Ondo State can look into obtaining a refinery also.

If you want to do this scientifically. . .

you could probably start from typing the term "drug nigerian asia" into Google News (and variants thereof.) This will give you access to news articles for the past many years.

You can then count how many incidents involving Yoruba names appear, and same for Igbo.

And of course do this exercise for the US, UK, Canada, etc.

I think that the end result of this would be:

Asia => Igbo criminals predominate
UK => Yoruba criminals
East Coast, US => Yoruba criminals
Southern US => Igbo
West Coast => Igbo

Actually, I suppose rather than counting manually you could write a script to do this for you.

If anyone has the time and interest, please write this script, run it, and report your findings.

Most may be decent. But this is probably true of any group in the world, and doesn't detract from the main point.

I highly doubt that to be true in the US. Do you have any data to back it up?

In areas where Yoruba pre-dominate, yes, you'll hear of more incidents involving them.

But in areas where Igbos pre-dominate, you'll hear of incidents. And given that the population of the latter is higher than that of the former in the US. . .

In Asia, 90% of the time when you hear of a Nigerian being executed or jailed it will be an Igbo (least, this is my impression based on any crime-related articles I hear about from there)

Nchara:
From what I know it is safe to conclude that

majority of Nigerians in prison in the UK and USA are Yorubas (awon credit card and visa scam boys)

UK yes. Parts of the US where Yoruba are more, yes. But California and Texas, mostly Igbos

They agree with his words, but don't want their names associated with it.

Nobody wants a burden. Alas, when they are deported from Ghana they'll probably find their way to the SW to beg

Andre Uweh:
All the states.

This is false. Maryland, Virginia, New York, there are more Yoruba than Igbo. Like, a lot more. Yoruba are probably the largest sub-saharan African ethnic group in Maryland, period.

Texas and California, more Igbo that Yoruba.

Overall probably more Igbo than Yoruba in the US.

hmm.

In a nutshell, yoruba rawwwwkk

I condemn it. Not for the reason you state, but because it is the right thing to do.

Hausa is more influential within Africa.

Outside of the continent of Africa, yes, I think Yoruba is arguably the most influential language in Nigeria.

At least if you judge by say universities which offer courses in it, things like that.

[quote author=Na-Me link=topic=840779.msg9912828#msg9912828 date=1325930816]^^^ Did you read that article?[/quote]Nope. Not really interested in this whole "black panther" shtick.

Just wanted to comment on inbreeding.

He is Igala, if I remember correctly.

BlackPikiN:
that diversity is the greatest source of our strength.

I no gree

Be careful what you ask for. If states collect all taxes in Nigeria, then this means no more oil derivation. . . which for many states is a significant portion of their government revenue.

With that said, I'm not necessarily opposed to this, if it is implemented gradually over time.

Inbreeding isn't necessarily bad.

You won't your have purebred german shepherd breeding with some random mutt for example. You'll breed it with another purebred german shepherd that might actually be a relative of the one you own.

There are tradeoffs. . . it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If your goal is to enhance certain traits, then inbreeding is the way to go.

The only time I have heard mourners being attacked by terrorists like this is in the middle east.

They don't gain or lose anything, do they?

Whether the fuel subsidy exists or not, Nigeria will continue to import refined petroleum products.

Even if Nigeria builds its own refineries, they don't really lose. After all, there is always a market for what they are selling. . .

wow. all I can say right now.