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Salam, please in calculating total net worth for zakat purposes, do we include balance of our retirement savings account with a pension fund administrator

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francis5051:
As far as am concern northern leaders don't know anytin leadership, so as long as they remain our leaders no progress in Nigeria, forget insult, jokes apart dis people are d main reason why Nigeria is backward..

And in the 14 years of the past 20 of our current democratic rule that Southerners have lead (Obasanjo/GEJ), I guess Nigeria became Eldorado?

abdulwastecx:
Good evening room.
it has been quite an age, I took some times off to focus on some other issues but I am back for good now.

Welcome back

woodcook:
I would think that Brugge's argument is in order. Just like I asked someone few minutes ago "If we keep handling the north's violent tendencies with levity at what point will the north turn around?"

I strongly believe in having this discussion no matter how uncomfortable it may seem. As long as we keep shying away from having this conversation we will keep having problem as a nation: problem in which a section of the country thinks that they are above the law, while the other half thinks it is their responsibility to bend backwards to please the other half.

I am not saying that the north's violent tendencies should be condoned, but the needless provocation and puting the lives of your breathren at risk is not a path to tow. Is chest beating or egocentric enough price to pay for the lives of millions of igbos scattered across the north and other part of the country. The sad part of this is that most of the people making this provocative statement are those that have not set foot outside the East and those outside the country in europe and asia making wrong use of the internet. If the igbos want a country of their own it is so easy to achieve without insulting anybody. They have 15 senators and over 50 members of the house of assembly, let them stage a walk out from the house and see if other nigerians won't take them serious, at town meetings they should tell every igbo man to relocate back home and start their country from the core igbo land without wanting to include people from the SS and NC, if the they run a succesful country I am sure the so called Igboid people in those zones will opt for their motherland

Brugge:
I have said it and I will say it again, no one should be revered.Why is Buhari being revered?
Did he find cure for HIV/AIDS or a permanent solution to malaria that is raving Africa?
On what ground should he be revered; for throwing our economic into recession twice?
You should stop promoting stupidity. I will not sit back and watch you encourage the north to ride on in their cycle of stupidity. If not today but someday this stupidity you are promoting will come back to bite you in the ass or your generation that will come after you.

The OP is a realist and you are probably far away in europe or asia spewing this fantasy. The same mistakes your parents/grandparent made in 1966 when Sardauna was mudered and they made fun of it which led to the progrom in the north is the part some Igbos are towing again and its better some sensible ones come up to condemn it. If you have been to the north and see the level of igbo population and their establishment you won't want to put their lives in danger for some silly ego trip. A word they say is enough for the wise

ztapi:
hence the call for true federalism,the need to bring power closer to the people so they can effectively hold their leaders accountable, how can 1 person steal $3M like its nothing, and if not for EFCC no one would notice, but nay, the enemies of progress aka northern power house as usual are against change because they are the ultimate benefactors of the corrupt system we practice, quota system, unitary style where they receive undue allocation from the resources of other regions based on phantom population and land mass, and what are our reps doing about it?nothing...

Must you blame the north for all your life's problems? A governor steals the money meant for his state instead you are here blaming the northern power house, if you can't hold your governor accountable now is it when you have your so called true federalism that you will? You better emanticipate your self from mental slavery and stop listening to your corrupt and incompetent local leaders who blame all the failures on northerners. Is northerners that have refused to pay teachers salary in bayelsa state? Is PEJ a northerner that chose to build a hotel and. Kept 50 million dollars in her accounts instead of using the money to build a modular refinery in her state. It high time that youths in the south realise that only they can make their region great and stop the hogwash mentality that the so called north is holding them now

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Anger at development coming your way. If they will not allow the construction, let the NRC divert the funds and manpower to the Kaduna - Kano route where they get maximum support of the community without hindrance

anaton:
So in your opinion making the helmsman of an operator in the industry the DG of the industry's regulatory body is a fair practice??

He is not currently a helmsman but once was. I made reference to that to buttress his pension industry experience to the OP who claimed he lacks experience. And as you can see from the article above, she was once a beneficiary of nepotism and should not cry when she is been served

All those making comments for the sacked DG ought to go back to the controversies sorrounding her appointment during GEJ. She was practically forced on Pencom by the then SGF Pius Anyim, because she had served 8 years with the former board and ought to have gone with them coupled with the fact that she does not have any requiste qualifications nor experience as she was appointed as secretary to the former board straight from school out of nepotism during OBJ. You need to read the CV of the new DG to know that he is round peg in a round hole, an astute banker and pioneer MD/Chairman of premium pension

Teewhy2:
Well I have not used it for soak away before and can't advice on it for now,as the joint might not be totally seal, but the material itself will not allow water to come in between, that is why it can be used for cooler boxes. And on the issue of collapse or giving way it has been proven that after use in a road construction, it retains its shape only about 5% compression in the ground after 30 years.
Maybe what I can do is to send a mail to the manufacturers and if they have used it they should send me pictures of it, which I will upload here

Can you please show more picture of where it is used for paraphet and its cost comparison with concrete. Also do you do the fixing or only sales. Can any mason fix it

abdulwastecx:
Thank you o bross. I think polystyrene is a very good material, it is a matter of time before people start using it in large quantities.

I have an ongoing job that I am the consultant and I proposed the use of the polystyrene for the slab (waffle slab) because of its light weight and cost effectiveness.

I am also working on a large scale low cost housing scheme where polystyrene will be sue for the flat roof and some interior designs at these stage we are still looking for investors to key into this initiative.

I am ready to go into detail discussion with whoever wants to use polystyrene for any type of work.

Please can you do a cost comparison for say a standard 4 bedroom bungalow paraphet using concrete and using polystyrene

Super clean ride. Please where is your location and what is the asking price

Arielle:
With the vitriol i've just read i fear for this country. I'm starting to doubt that Nigeria has a future. We hate each other too much.

It has remained a vitriol because of Nigeria's existence. The day Nigeria disintegrate, it will be an all out war amongst the various ethnic group whose elite have mentally enslaved, that their lack of development was caused by another ethnic group. What good has ruling Kogi state brought to an average Igala man, and what good will it bring to an average igbira or okun man if an incompetent tribesman rule the state. And this goes round the sorry continent of Africa,

charix:
Charlie Hebdo mocks everything. If you're the type to get displeased viewing their art then you're also the type to believe everything you read online.

The world is not that serious, you'd save a few headaches going offline and making real friends.

Can they mock the holocaust? Can they do a cartoon of Hitler murdering Jews? The world choose not to be serious when it best suits the west and their brainwashed followers

josephola2:
you need to go back to school, you don't understand buying of bond? it is simply investing for people to borrow and make interest so that the liquid is not stagnant, the money is invested, that is how world trade center,Texas and many big investment are funded all offer the world, pension money is a long time investment and with low interest rate.

My dear it is you who needs the education the most

WhoBeThisMan:
So the government didn't withdraw the money, they only borrowed it to the federal governt by buying t-bills and bonds. All the same the government collected it and used it for recurrent expenditure. is it not thesame thing

The only sensible and enlightened post so far. Pension funds have been invested in Tbills and FGN bonds issued by an administration that have spent over 80% of funds generated and borrowed on recurrent expenditure and yet the so called youths are blabbing about oshiomole's wife and personality

garsul:
Anybody that complains of the CBN policy on forex is definitely not a local manufacturer, but rather an agent and distributor of foreign produced goods. The 41 items banned from accessing official FX are goods that Nigeria have comparative advantages in producing and require little or non imported raw material

The banned items are

Anybody that complains of the CBN policy on forex is definitely not a local manufacturer, but rather an agent and distributor of foreign produced goods. The 41 items banned from accessing official FX are goods that Nigeria have comparative advantages in producing and require little or non imported raw material

ARKdiscloser7:
No Igbo name?
Out of 33 citizens of a country they make us believe we are one?

It is obvious and loud as that, that Buhari's govt is a clear war against the Igbos as earlier feared.

Why wont they allow the Igbos to leave then? Why!

And who is stopping you. You can start by asking your brothers and sisters to voluntarily vacate all non igbo land and returm home. The last time I checked, the ratio of igbos to non igbos living and making their livelyhood in places outside their locality is about 8:2. You guys instead of thinking about how to put food on your table, you get carried away in the frenzy of ethnic and religious bigotry created by politicians, as if the president decides to pick an igbo man for the trip it will be u or any from your immediate or extended family if you are not one of the oppresive political class

I think the salary and allowances of N24M per annum is fair enough as that is the average salary of a senior manager in a bank and some of the multi national companies. The main problem is the payments being made to these legislators on a quaterly basis. A senator gets credited with about N50M every three months and these payment are not defined and I doubt if it is constitutional. If we make so much noise about this salary and allowance, they can just reduce it by 50% just like some governors are hypocritically doing, but still retain the N50M quaterly payments which are not known to most nigerians

I don't think he is the No 1 enemy, I think it is one Jakumo or so on nairaland. I just wonder how Jakumo will feel after may 29, because the guy hates Buhari with so much venom and have used the most unsavoury words possible. Such is life

It better not be about that interim government nonsense

I pray that the alternative political parties media team can access this very information and package a very good TV & Radio commercial to counter the insultive TAN media lies where the president is being compared to world legends. The masses of this country need to have this facts to help to save Nigeria from collapse

Meaningless post. Is yoruba restricted to only SW nigeria? What do you call native yorubas in benin republic, togo & ghana?

Generalkorex:
a san for that matter. He be like say na aboki

Why can't you just make your comment without being an ethnic bigot. Is our Phd holder president a northerner before being scammed of 1Bn dollars by the illiterate modu sherif and chadian president on the purported BH ceasefire?

OgologoDimkpa:
Posting a picture of 1984 in 2014, error!
Buhari is an extremist and even his fellow Hausa's knows this.
No amount of painting will erase this fact.

He can never and will never rule Nigeria.
He is out to Islamise Nigeria but God forbid!

Yes he is an extremist in dealing with corrupt and morally bankrupt people and no one can erase this fact. Ur beloved president GEJ is the one who is out to islamise Nigeria by attending OIC meetings and ceeding NIgeria's territory to islamic exremist, you can confirm that from christians in the northeast and if he continues beyond 2015 many more territories bordering cameroun will be lost including SS/SE

Very sad, this can only happen in Nigeria. And this same Ifeanyi Ubah's TAN bought the nomination form for GEJ

vanunu:
IT is on record that you Northerners frustrated the declaration of state of emergency, thereby allowed BOKO Haram to buy time and get stronger.

It is on record that a state of emergency has been declared for nearly one year and the situation has been going from bad to worst

. His Enemies Vowed to Make Nigeria Ungovernable:



This is the one that annoys and scare me the most. If some people vow to make the country ungoverbable for him if he wins in 2015, it means we will live under security siege and bombing for another 4 years until BH takes over the whole country

Do you have a relationship with a car dealership in Abuja so as to allow inspection there