babaearly: I have access to very large data on great money making products that will be helpful to nigerians, but i'm confused on where to sell them online. is there any busy site like ebay for nigerians where i can sell them?

GenBuhari: [b][size=18pt]It is always nice to see projects under construction.

But a country the size of Nigeria should have 20 time this amount of projects.

how many of these projects are abandoned?

[b]How does building of malls in Nigeria impact the life of your hungry relatives in your village?

What is use of building malls ( which are often built by individuals who have looted our treasury)when the basics amenities are not in place:

Substandard electricity
substandard water
substandard transport system
substandard roads
substandard security
substandard education
substandard health service[/b]




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Omo_Tier1:
Pure ignorance! The fact that an airliner crash one of its aircraft is no reason for them to stop flying. Just like FG, we let reasoning be abandoned and act on sentiments.

As far as I know, dana air is yet to be indicted for gross negligence in her duty in keeping her fleet airworthy hence I see no reason why they should not be allowed to fly.

In 2009 or so, air france from sao palo, Brazil crashed into the atlantic due to a pressure alttitude probe failure that led to other human errors by the pilot. EASA and the French authorities did not ground air france. Loud mouthed Nigerians didnot stop flying with Air france. No body called air france a flying coffin! Same goes with BA B777 crash in Heathrow in 2007. BA we know has an A320 that is well over 23years old flying! That said, Airframes are designed for to last as long as 35years so 23years is still some 15years away from retirement.

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I wish people can read this and reason rationally

Please lets channel our energyon doing the right thing which in this case getting the FG to fund the NCAA and get the right people in the right places so that our aviation sector can be corruption free and kept safe.

The last time I checked MD80 still has one of the best safety records put there amongst other aircraft and Dana to my knowledge is yet to be indicted on gross incompetence in her discharge as an airline operator.

yorke1: Using spouse or sibling as reference: Just because you want someone to put you in the best light possible, using your spouse or sibling as a reference is a far cry from professionalism. A preferred reference would be your former employer, your mentor, head(s) of department in the school(s) you attended


I totally disagree with you on the point you raised. what if your spouse or siblings are people of integrity in the society...highly respected who have created niche for themselves in their chosen career...as in highly known! Are you saying that person chances is slim as well?

olumidazz: Pls where is the alternate road I just drove past this place 2 minutes ago, there was no indication or sign of any alternate road.

basher:

You are wrong here. The guy is probably ASIAN. Asians control the African food Market business in London. They have massive stores in all the areas dominated by Africans such as - Peckham, barking, tottenham, thamesmead, woolwich - you get my drift. They also control the sale of African hair and beauty products.

alishachris':
The guy must be an ibo man

dreday: SLS can speak sense? I'm amazed. If only he could be so honest on the fuel subsidy debacle. Federal character is crap

A RESPONSE TO SOME READERS OF MY OP-ED: GOD’S PRIVATE JETS AND LIMOUSINES

As a principle, I try not to get into a back-and-forth with my readers, believing that after having my say in a full-length article, readers should be free to agree or disagree with me. After all, they take the precious time to read, and what is more, send word back. I would be content to learn from them or to simply know their mind on the issue at stake. In this as in a few other instances, however, I have been unable to follow my own counsel due to the all-important role that a tawdry, self-serving prosperity-and-miracle-driven Pentecostalism—not to be confused with Christianity in general or any attempt at a spiritually uplifting existence in the search for the ineffable—plays in the mass lobotomy, the near-total brainwashing of our people.

As Shakespeare famously pointed out in The Merchant of Venice, "the devil can cite Scripture for his purposes." So I have had scripture cited to justify plain robbery by pastors in priest's clothing. Making me wish to ask my interlocutors what Philip asked the Ethiopian he saw reading the book of Isaiah: “Understandeth thou what thou readest?” It seems to me that my interlocutors do not care for that warning that the letter killeth. Thus, they stick with the literal interpretation of the Bible as their ill-trained, really illiterate, pastors who hide under the promise of miracles and prosperity to avoid grappling with the difficult questions of theology and doctrine, of the nature of Godhead and the eschatology of life after death. Thus, they conveniently ignore the fact that Christ rode triumphantly into Jerusalem on a donkey, not atop a golden chariot. Christ, which is God made man—if my interlocutors believe their own Bible—chose to be born in a manger and not in a palace, and to a carpenter and not to a king. Yet he was the king of kings, meaning that for him prosperity wasn't a matter of the flesh but of the soul.

One of my interlocutors so mistakes this simple message that he misquotes the Bible and claims that Christ came so that the poor may be rich! He should have added, so that they may all own Mercedes Benz cars and private jets! Here is what Jesus said: I came so that you may have life and that more abundantly. In other words, eternal life; not countless material possessions. And didn't he warn his followers not to worry about what they would eat or drink, or what they would wear, just as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field do not worry? And why did he choose that ultimate test of sacrifice, poverty and charity for the rich man in Matthew 19? Why did he insist on good deeds for the poor—“the least of my brethren”—as the test of the truly deserving of heaven—for those who believe in heaven and hell—if not because the things of Mammon are not what he means by prosperity?

And somehow, my interlocutors seem to think that only those pastors that either own or aspire to private jets are men-of-God; the only ones who are winning souls in near and far places. Meaning that the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church worldwide, and the Pope, are not men-of-God since they do not own private jets. And, of course, it goes without saying that Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare, are definitely not men-of-God since they deplore such craven materialism as the Oritsejafors and Adeboyes and Okonkwos, etc. mistake for proof that their God is not a poor God. And so they justify private jets as if all of a sudden time is so much of the essence that Nigerian pastors, the only true apostles left on earth, must be able to fly anywhere at a moment's notice to secure death-hour conversions of the heathens before Christ's second coming! As if even then they would not have to use the same airports as commercial aircraft. As if Nigeria's private jet-loving pastors could fly their planes and land them on the very roofs of the homes of the souls needing such death-hour salvation! I could go on and on to show the dubiousness of those claiming that just by anyone's self-proclamation as a man (or woman) of God, he or she becomes the Lord’s anointed. And that then, he or she can do no wrong. What is it that Jesus says in Matthew 7 of those who supposedly preached the word with signs and wonders, but who really were false prophets? That on the last day, many shall come to him saying, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And he shall say unto them, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

For really, the matter is very simple. Sin is a matter of morality, not of law, even if law and morality may occasionally be coincident. It is a matter, as Peter has it, of knowing what is good and failing to do it. The moment we cannot tell the man of God apart from the man of the world, then both are IN the world and OF it. Is that the definition of Christianity—a Christ-like living—that my born-again interlocutors enjoin on themselves and would also enjoin on the rest of us? I should like to think not!

GenBuhari: I started losing respect for Mandela when he divorced his wife within months of his release from prison. A woman who waited 27 years for him.

secondly when I realised his personal assisstant was white

Lexusgs430:

Depending on how complex your case is, £80 - £200 for initial half an hour consultation, and the cost begins to rise. £50 - £140 for each letter written etc etc etc

ITbomb: Who knows how much a lawyer is hired in UK.
I need to take my landlord case to uk.

take dat: These states have invested largely in power generation and transmission unlike Vigeo who is an untested new entrant. I believe that the state government joint consortium would have been better. I simply don't trust some of these investors

fapcrook: good point they shd die slowly in prison and then executed in public

Ricky_Ross:

So in essence you are doubting the possibility of a scammer making 17 million USD from a single victim? Are you aware that Nwude and co made over 350 Million USD from a Brazilian mugu? And that was ages ago when they send scam letters by post office. What about now that a scammer have new technologies and software's to send millions of emails in one day?

Before I returned from Ghana, there was this news about a 19 years old Ghana scammer who just made 5 million Euros from a Holland mugu. The scam became public knowledge when the financial authorities in Ghana blocked the fund in Ghana and invited the sender to come personally to Ghana. The lady got to Ghana and was insulting all the police officers, telling them the small boy is her husband and the money is for factory project and if anyone harass her husband in Ghana she would sue them to court.

I dont blame scammers alone, I blame their victims for being too dumb and too greedy. Only a greedy fool will fall victim.

get2abbey:

its possible if the firmware is below 3.55

i friend just got a new old stock that comes fw 2.72

look for the old stock and you might get one

Kobojunkie: Lagos and Ibadan alone go cost this much? 1000 per trip? Sigh!!!

Fingers are crossed. . . . please no more 1970's locomotives . . . . for that mount, we ought to get high speed and nothing less especially since the distance from lagos to ibadan is about 200 miles. And the 2050 date is out of this world.

Tony Spike:

At least, we all agree that the Nigerian situation of high currency exchange rate is a largely product of bad leadership. Although, I think the low standard of living in Nigeria makes it a little complicated. The rejection of 5000 NGN and the 'coinification' of lower denominations in Nigeria is mostly tied around societal acceptance and social behaviour.

Gbawe: This is really a very simple issue. Decimal places in a currency is not the indicator of the strength of currency. They are merely numerical expressions. Ghana deliberately redenominated it currency via rounding it down several decimal places to make it more 'wieldy'. What was 10,000 cedis now became 1 cedi. 100,000.00 now became 10 cedis and 1 million cedis now became 100 cedis.

Today at current exchange rate, and If Ghana had not redenominated, £1 = N250 = 31,000.00 cedis i.e 3.1 cedis today.

When Ghana redenominated in 2007 , and rounded down decimal places, the exchange rate became 2 cedis to £1 and approximately $1 to 1 cedi. Back then, and as has been the case for a while, Naira hovered around N255 to £1. Meaning N255 bought 2cedis. Today, as we speak Naira is still around £255.00 to £1 whereas it is £1 to 3.1 cedis. Today N255 now buys 3.1 cedis when it only bought 2cedis in 2007. This is why like-for-like comparison is always best to make issues crystal clear. Is it not now obvious which currency is stronger and has greater purchasing power?

Also, it is a measure of Ghana's fiscal mismanagement, even if they are getting it right in many other areas, that their currency has depreciated and lost a whole 1.1 cedis again the sterling pound in 5 years. This would be the equivalent of the Naira depreciating by 91 Naira against the sterling pound to become £1 to N345.00. We all know we have not seen such depreciation in the past 5 years and it is obvious the Ghanaian cedis has lost value quite badly to become less strong in comparison to the Naira as an economic fact.

I have Ghanaian enterpreneur friends who are incredibly annoyed currently with the situation because import cost them significantly more since they now need more cedis to purchase the pounds and dollars to buy their goods abroad. This is impacting horribly on their profit.

Ikengawo: ghana took several zeros off of the cedi years ago, so the figure you're seeing isn't the real value of the cedi.

BeraBera: @OP & His Supporter:
And so? What the hell is the point you're trying to make? Why don't u bring up suggestions on how to improve the strength of our Naira, or better still, go and live in Ghana and be spending your cedis.

ghettodreamz: I don't know how easy that would be, that's the decision of the Fed. Gov't & CBN to make, precisely it's the agenda of the CBN in monetary stability and creating a sound financial environment, and to act as a banker of last resort and financial adviser to the federal government. But I believe there are many other factors to be considered in Monetary and Fiscal Policies of a country, so I would leave them to doing that. Like I said, there are several other reasons as to why our currency is the worst among the list, even Sudanese currency beats ours badly 1.00 SDG (Sudanese Pound) = 35.7054 NGN (Nigerian Naira), so you can see how bad our currency is, nevertheless I would leave this issue for the financial experts to contribute their own quota on this, but it would do us proud if the government would look into making our currency strong among it's counterparts instead of introducing the new 5k note.