₦airaland Forum

awodman: The target year on achieving self sufficiency on rice production is 2015...and so far alot has been done..alot of Rice mills have springed up and even dry season Farming has been boosted in many parts of the north...alot of peeps whr gainfully engaged during this period..Most of this jobs on farming are not permanent but seasonal

The problem with folks like you is that you are either short of Info or sees it and deliberately turn the other way

Thank you very much for that insight. From December, 2012 till date, I haven't bought any of those foreign long grained thai rice. I usually buy well processed and packaged local rice from either Ebonyi (Ebony Rice) or Benue (they are varied, so I can't categorically remember the name of any of the brands). They are so white, tasty and have very sweet aroma that makes one hungry when the rice is being cooked. Its been a while I've seen rice weevils since I started buying local.

Yet people that don't know the very basis of national economics are saying they don't want poor people to buy cars. These things are done to allow us (you & me) get avenues and opportunities to develop our entrepreneural spirit in order to be able to produce goods and services to fill in the vacuum that may be purposely created.

Aigbofa: Isn't that what they said about the textiles, rice, vegetable oil, leather and shoes? And numerous other products?
By the way, don't you need stable electricity to run any type of manufacturing plants?
Don't you need good roads to move your goods? Put all these things in place and investors will come. You don't need to strangulate the poor in your society in a futile hope that they will just start buying new cars.
If they could afford new cars, there wouldn't be a market for used cars in the first place.

There is nowhere in the world where the poor buy cars. Not even in countries where their GDP is greater than the entire Nigerian annual budget. Poor people are not after cars, they call it luxury. Poor people are not after cars, they are after food. So stop crying wolf, where there is none.

Economically speaking, this is the best policy to have come out from any Nigerian Government since the invention of sliced bread. The problem is that our poverty-ridden minds and 'poor man' mentality will always make us say stuffs like 'it is not the right time', 'it is ill-timed', 'what are the palliatives FG is putting in place', etc.

The benefits of these policies in my opinion may result in the following:
1. Technology transfer to improve local content
2. Employment generation for the teeming youths
3. Development of allied industries that would provide for the new auto industry would also bring about even more employment.
4. Development of new business types and models
5. Improve and increase local research
6. Increase in IGR of areas with auto production/assembly activities
7. Easy access to authentic/original spare parts
8. etc

asco15: So wats ur advice 2 dis man?

Tell him to get serious. Stop doing street shows to gain sympathy as that would only take him nowhere, except to fetch him rants, rantings and rattles from passersby like U. If U are educated, U should understand that there are a lot of research journals and funds floating around searching for innovators. Its only fools that will usually say na only man know man dey work for naija.

Buoyantic: if i hear

If in doubt, ask her point blank...

Buoyantic: My Fiancee and I....who cares

I swear, I don fire that babe like 10 times. Fiance indeed...

datola: Fola did not pass on to anywhere o. He's still alive. It's Uncle Tayo that has transited- a fine gentle man. He really tried. The current MD I heard is a bully.

Okay. I effd up. 'Tayo and not 'Fola. Whatever! The guy that died in GTBank is whom I am reffering to...

adusco: ooohhh, so FOLA use to visit all d Gtbanks wen he was alive.
V bn using gtb and i can categorically tell dt nothing has changed.

Yeah! Thats the problem. Nothing has changed in GTBank, while other banks have moved on to deplore advanced technologies, explore more productive channels and improved on their services. GTBank has remained stagnant where Fola left it off. Is that not a shame?

As per Fola being everywhere? Why blame everything that goes on in Nigeria now on Jonathan? Can he also be everywhere? He (Fola), brought innovations to the bank and ensured that they were carried through in all branches, no matter how remotely these branches may be located.

I hope U got my drift?

GTB is not in anyway among the best banks in Nigeria.

I have had dealings with Intercontinental Bank, they used to be good up north, but down south, they were just another hag until they metamorphosed into Access. That Bank is crappy.

I moved on to GTB because of the hype in 2008. It was cool then. Good courteous staff with great CRS and prompt services. But after Fola passed on, the Bank passed on with him. May his soul rest in peace. Amen. I walked into a GTB to do some funds transfer while I was in transit, and the teller/cashier was like I should go home and set up my internet service to do internet banking, for chrissakes, WTF? I should leave the bank and go hme first before I can transfer funds. Haba! Ja ma ha!!!

I then moved on to FBN in 2010, and noticed that the bank has changed so much since 1998 when I opened my first account with the bank. Services were great and off the hook. No matter the crowds at the ATMs or inside the bank, you still got served and served well. They were the first to make mobile banking a pocket thing. They simplified internet banking without a token and made money transfer as cheap and easy as buying groundnuts at the street corners. No matter the size of their customer base, the staff are always courteous and helpful. FBN made me loved using bank services all over again...

At fidelity, the bankers were okay. Services weren't that bad either. But, technology wise, they were still in the 1960s. Do you believe that even as at now, the bank is yet to have a good mobile money service? Its just undiscernible in these times and age.

At Stanbic IBTC, they lean towards better corporate services than personal/individual banking. They have good well trained, courteous staff all over the country. But are still lacking in mobile banking services.

#My battery is running low. I'll continue after recharging the batteries#

1. Atiku and his cohorts in the so-called G7 are spent forces. Ask yourself why is it that its only Governors whose second tenures are coming to an end that are in the G7? Simply because they have nothing to loose or so they think if the PDP crashes. So they want to muddle up the water after drinking such that no one can drink from the same source they got refreshed from. Isn't that wicked, heartless and selfish?

2. They (Atiku and co) know very well that any mistake they make would condemn them to political oblivion, which they are all scared of. And as such are only doing area boy (agbero) politics to see if they can still hold on to anything after 2015.

3. How can Atiku and his ilks insult our collective sensibilities that they are trying to rescue Nigeria by fighting the government of the day. In the first place, who spoilt Nigeria? Is there anyone among them (Atiku and co) that we do not know? These guys are after their pockets and don't care a farthing whose ox is gored.

It is only a shame and a pity that the kind of politics we play in Nigeria give the likes of Atiku et al the grand standing to come back and insult us to our face after rayping us blind the first time. If and only if posterity can come quick and do her job now...

2.17pm.
That was when we witness d bright light of the eclipse in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Funmi Iyanda and co can go to hell and screw themselves to bits.
Nigeria is an anti-gay society and has been so since time immemorial.
She can take her sh¡t to the US of A and make sure she leaves it there, she's lucky she was not attacked after that show. Fück off!

pharmow: I don't comment on this kinna topic cos they don't add value to my life or anyone else

Thanks for commenting anyways. Mu he he! Mu he he!!

Naomixy: If a guy really loves a girl, there should be nothing he can't do for her. And a girl should be able to adjust to make d guy happy. He can't be the only one making sacrifices. Shikena

If you were a guy, you would agree that the OP is correct.
But, my bad, U are not and as such may never understand what the OP meant.

The OP did not mean ur guy can't change for U. It simply shows there are certain things ur guy would never change no matter the quantum of love he has for U and as such its better U begin to find a way of trying to enjoy those things with him in order to make him happy and be happy urself in the relationship.

Her bride price should cost -N10,000.00. That is she go suppose pay the proposed husband N10,000.00 na? Mu he he! Mu he he!!

The 1999 - 2003/4 Nissan Pathfinder should be a smart buy for U guys. If U want something more upscale, the Infiniti version of the Pathy of same period would get U smiling. I hope this helps my bro?

It's called TMA

Toto
Maintenance
Allowance

Please, where is the vehicle?

10: Please, No Bear Wrestling in Alabama
Laws don't write themselves. A dedicated legislator has to recognize a pressing need for a law, write the law up in the form of a bill, submit the bill to various committees and debates where it's scrutinized and massaged, and finally put the bill to a vote. If legislators pass the bill, it can finally be signed into law. So, creating a law is a long, difficult process -- which means bear wrestling must have been a really big problem in Alabama. In fact, that's how "Bear" Bryant, a man who would become the legendary University of Alabama football coach, earned his nickname.

Now you might be thinking bear wrestling is outlawed by extension of another law, maybe one barring cruelty to animals or animal fighting of any kind -- be it dog, rooster or bear -- but no. Alabama devotes an entire section of its legal code to bear wrestling-related offenses, which make everything from training a bear to wrestle to charging admission to a bear wrestling match a class B felony.

9: Don't Run Out of Gas on the Autobahn
OK, let's say bear wrestling never tempted you. The autobahn, the most revered of all highways, may have. The word alone brings visions of finely tuned supercars screaming along ribbons of highway without a policeman in sight. The reality, of course, couldn't be further from the truth. Sure, there are a few stretches of the autobahn that don't have a posted speed limit, but the autobahn is anything but lawless.

Following too closely? That's a fine. Eating while driving? That's a fine, too. And you might want to keep a close eye on the fuel gauge as well, because running out of gas is no excuse for using the emergency lane. After all, you should have seen your predicament coming, right?

Speaking of predicaments, we'll cover chick-related problems next.

8: Watch Your Step with Chicks in Kentucky
If you ever look closely at the labels on certain packaged foods or other products, you'll sometimes see a disclaimer stating that the item is "not to be sold separately." That disclaimer doesn't only apply to food. In Kentucky, you really don't want to mess with selling or trading baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits under two months of age in any quantity less than six. Got that? Six chicks? Good. One chick? Not so much. It gives strange new meaning to the phrase "picking up a six-pack."

Assuming you decide to go and pick up some chicks, you'll also want to note that it's illegal to dye or color baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits. Aimed squarely at a tradition of coloring animals for Easter, the same law is found in several other states in the United States. Kentucky also outlaws displaying, selling or trading dyed chicks, ducklings and rabbits, any of which can incur a fine of up to $500. That's not cheep.

We'll discuss another barnyard buddy next.

7: Don't Raise Pigs in Israel Except...
It's no surprise that a country's laws often reflect its citizens' values and traditions and, by extension, their religion. For instance, many Hindus revere the cow as a sacred animal, and as a result, it's against the law to butcher cattle in many parts of India. It's no surprise, then, that Israeli law prohibits pig farming as a nod to the country's predominantly Jewish population. The strange part is that the law has a giant loophole that a few entrepreneurial pig farmers have stepped right through.

According to Israeli law, pig farming is legal as long as the pigs are used for medical research. Sounds reasonable enough; pigs have proven extremely valuable to medical research throughout the world. But what happens if the farmers overestimate the number of pigs needed for research? The law says that, in that special circumstance, the extra pigs can be sold for food. That might explain why Kibbutz Lahav, Israel's only legal pig farm, tends to produce thousands more pigs than they end up using for research.

Next: Some advice about dying (and where not to do it).