₦airaland Forum

Where is this useless OPC, btw?

I don't see how Ijaw can get away with this stuff in Delta State w/o being punished heavily for it in Yorubaland.

Bleh

Yorubaland needs a strong militia that will not hesitate to shed blood if necessary. If OPC is not fit for the task, maybe something else will need to be created

This is probably one of the worst threads in NL history.

lol

http://twitter.com/#!/davecameroon

Obviously not the real guy.

Seems to me that whatever buildings they are building need to be destroyed. And the land needs to be resettled again.

At a minimum. And you'll need to call on any allies that'll be able to help. Man we should have settled in large #s in that area, then there would be no numerical disadvantage. . .

I wonder to what extent we can help, if at all.

^-- My heart goes out to you dude. It must be frustrating as hell. Not clear what the answer is either

That part made no damn sense.

Fine, prostitution is illegal. But a brewery? So his Islamic bank won't provide loan for brewery?

Nor indecency or casinos? The latter is not illegal in Nigeria to my knowledge.

Also no loans for pork?

This is why it pains me that the reps were not allowed to question him

Also annoying how he tries to make it out as if non-interest banking and islamic banking are the exact same thing. Bleh

hrmmm

Lol, I'm just a layman. I read a lot, but definitely no expert. Katsumoto, manny4life and Ibime seem to do this sort of stuff for a living, though.

@OP, the sovereign wealth fund recently started by Aganga is a good example of saving for future generations. I don't know the details of how much exactly of the oil wealth is saved into it, though.

hehe

Kudos to this ACN rep. He at least did his job.

As for Ihedioha? Well, I guess I was foolish to expect anything better from him

Sun of god:
Alj Harem - Please accept my apologies for 'Ekt Bears' utterances.
I will in due course sort that fool out.

Heh. As if that is within your capabilities. I'd like to see you try, though. I'll be here waiting.

Alj Harem, I would suggest that you not pay this guy any mind lest he teach you nonsense. He says some of the dumbest things I've seen before on this forum, ever.

It is better to be a simple kanuri man than an educated illiterate, heh. At least the simple kanuri knows what is obvious.

Sanusi supposedly just printed more money for the bank bailout from a few years ago.

So I dunno if there are actually limits.

Seems plausible. Africa is the poorest and most mismanaged continent, so should grow the fastest with some competent hands on deck.

Somewhat OT, but a very cool buy vs. rent calculator I found:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html

Going to find this handy in about a year's time when I need to find somewhere more permanent to live

To be quite honest, I've never had to handle this myself. When I lived with my parents I never paid attention to it, and now that I'm on my own I also don't pay any attention to it. . . I guess my landlord handles the payment. I could probably look up how it is done in my city in a few minutes though, if I wanted to.

But you end up paying one way or another, nothing truly comes for free.

Anyway, it wasn't really central to the points being made.

Btw, if you live in a low-income or poor neighborhood where your property taxes are low, generally this means your local public schools will be terrible. There is really nothing free in life, you kind of get what you pay for. But in America, you get a helluva lot more value for your money than in Nigeria. Nigeria is too expensive for my own tastes.

trueword:
Everyone does not pay property tax. That is for those who live in a home they bought and not those that live in apartments,etc.  Public education from K-12th grade is free in most or all places whether you pay taxes or not b/c some people who are very low income don't make enough to pay taxes but they kids can still attend public grade school.

You pay property taxes explicitly if you own your own home, and implicitly even if you rent. Your landlord will tack on the tax into your rent.

So you really have a garbage truck that comes to your house and picks up garbage for free? I find that hard to believe, unless you don't own your own home.

I guess nothing is really "free", again you pay for it through some tax/fee of some sort. But yeah, you just put the trash in your bins then haul it out in front of your house on trash day.

God bless GEJ if he does this. The weaker the FG, the better.

I would suggest boosting the LGA share though. I think this 3rd tier of our democracy has been neglected for too long.

This complaining about homes in the US is a bit dumb. As @oyb points out, when you buy a home in Nigeria, you become your own LGA. You must provide your own power, security, buy education for your kids, etc.

When you buy a house in the US, you don't have to hire your own security, supply your own power, etc. If you keep up with your property taxes, you can also send your kids to the local schools for free.

Trash taken away for free.

That home I linked to earlier, property taxes are $6500 annually. So if you have 4 kids, you can send them all to the public schools there for free (assuming you've kept up with your taxes).

How much do you think your average wealthy Nigerian spends annually on educating his children? Probably $5k+/kid.

Nigeria is an extremely expensive place, man

Garth, New York City is one of the most expensive markets in the US. You cannot use it as a typical example.

What about the suburbs of DC, where you can buy a nice home for not very much money? Same for Atlanta, Houston, and most of the major cities in the south and midwest, etc.

One think to keep in mind is that America is huge, underpopulated, and has excellent roads and transportation networks. So you can afford to do the equivalent of living in Abeokuta and commute to Lagos in 30 minutes.

This helps keeps down cost of living.

You can get a 4 bedroom home out in the 'burbs in many places for 200-300k.

See this for example: http://www.weichert.com/36927139/?countyid=34716&minpr=200&maxpr=250&dir=ASC

I don't know what the neighborhood is like, what the public schools are like in Clinton specifically.

But you get the idea.