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PoliticsRe: Ribadu Visits Akande, May Defect To APC by Ghandi12: 10:18am On Dec 29, 2015
Sibrah:
Ribadu, a man with no Ideology but a with a huge ambition.
Could you prove your assertion with convincing evidences.
PoliticsRe: Conversation On The CBN Naira Card Limit by Ghandi12: 10:10am On Dec 29, 2015
Nigerian students studying abroad should realize that this new government policy is also adversely affecting traders, manufacturers, travelers, expatriates, and students.

Unfortunately, in-spite of persistent public outcry the government has vowed not to reverse the policy. The government has also not provided any working alternatives for easy transactions. Small businesses are closing down while big ones are shedding their activities in the country.

My humble advice for current and new students is to be proactive and creative during these holidays. This government are not prioritizing this issue - but your school calender, deadlines and activities wont change because of you. Forget the Nigerian government!

& Contact your parent, family members and friends - borrow or buy as much FX you need/can afford to have a smooth academic session when schools reopen January

& Be extremely frugal with what you have now - your parents and family members will be going through tougher time 2016.

& Stop spending on those trivial things until your people start showing you signs of economic recovery

& If you foresee you are going to run into financial mess in coming months pre-inform your school - let them know of Nigeria situation before hands.

& Stop putting your hopes in Nigeria government - Nigerians scholars are being removed from Universities across the world and nobody has done anything for months

& Take your destiny in your hands starting from now
PoliticsRe: Ribadu Visits Akande, May Defect To APC by Ghandi12: 9:13am On Dec 29, 2015
princemillla:
These names u mentioned were never part of Apc/acn
Ribadu was in acn before he defected. Same with Atiku who came to Apc all cuz he couldn't achieved his dirty ambition in PDP.
Amaechi was known to pdp, same with kwankwanso.
The all crossed over? Yes? And they all can still cross back and forth (especially considering the prevailing political atmosphere in APC). Amaechi (has crossed once) , Atiku (has crossed trice), Kwakwanso (has crossed twice) so why hanging Ribadu for crossing.

princemillla:
...Same with Atiku who came to Apc all cuz he couldn't achieved his dirty ambition in PDP.
Amaechi was known to pdp, same with kwankwanso.
I am not an Atiku fan but I still acknowledge his right to pursue his ambition anywhere he feels right as long as he is not breaking any law of the land.
PoliticsRe: Ribadu Visits Akande, May Defect To APC by Ghandi12: 8:37am On Dec 29, 2015
princemillla:
Political prostitute
Amaechi, Saraki, Dogara, Kwakwanso and host of others left PDP for APC to achieve their dreams. I guess they are successful political prostitutes?

egbaguy:
Ribadu.....used to like this man before,but now,I dislike hime like shiit!!! U re finished politics-wise and u knw it. Good riddance to bad rubbish
What value did you admire in him before? Has that value left him because he contested under PDP? Is everyone in APC perfect? If he had won the Governorship election with PDP would he have remained your Saint?

JingoOAU:
Patience is the best virtue in life
If this is [b]how Tinubu [/b]was jumping from one party to another, are we gonna be here talking of Buhari or APC today?
Tinubu destiny is different from others'. Not everyone must copy Tinubu or Buhari to achieve their dream of serving the Nation. Neither Tinubu nor Buhari has ever claimed to be perfect in all their actions.
PoliticsRe: People Are Running From PDP Because We Refused To Insult Buhari – Metuh by Ghandi12: 11:40am On Dec 28, 2015
When a hitherto strong edifice crumbles - you cannot just rebuild nebulously.

% First you need to accept the reality that the once-admirable structure is gone and may not be reinvented soon
% As a norm the old guards must accept failure and take back-seat for the new, popular and acceptable chaps
% The new chaps should tarry in executing the tasks ;
% Why did the structure collapse?
% What could the managers have done differently?
% Given the prevailing conditions every task must be approached with 100% success guarantee
% Take quality time to do pre-job analysis for every task - issues, people, reactions, effects, finance
% Carefully remove the rubles with less noise
% Be honest and thorough
% Prepare a realistic rebuilding plan (new generation voters are only loyal to their welfare)
% Move to site and start re-building and see if many will not join-up
PoliticsRe: International Airlines To Reduce Flights To Nigeria Next Year: THISDAY by Ghandi12: 11:15am On Dec 28, 2015
$ First we shut down family businesses that sustain on few 1000s of $$
$ We threw students and parents into confusion of desired education
$ Now we are sending the remaining healthy businesses parking - Chai!

How do these people go to bed in the night? Do they really realize the implications of running down legitimate private economic activities?

This is very simple for honest and efficient managers - If I'm going to take away means of livelihood of 1000s of my subject I will first improvise a tested and working palliative/alternatives.

The President foreign trips (on public fund) have been alleged to gulp 1000s of $$, the Senate President has been fingered by DSS in bribing with 1000s of $$ (of course from public fund) but common man is looking for $65 to pay his exam fee - his private investment in his future but the public leaders are killing his dream.

It is obvious the President's, Governors' and Senators' children schooling abroad are not lacking the needed hard currency (of course on public fund).
PoliticsRe: 20 Prophetic Utterances For 2015 That Did Not Come To Pass by Ghandi12: 10:25am On Dec 28, 2015
Sunnycliff:
Fake Prophecies and predictions everywhere. Just mere psychology and human instincts,!!
wachakuta:
And some Useless people still follow follow follow called men of gods... all na wash
LaurelP:
I pity their followers
LaurelP:
I pity their followers
Divinity and Divination are not science - they are mystical. These forces often manifest their powers and existence in incredible ways using unexpected vessels.

Have you ever had a dream coming to pass exactly or with strange similitude? Start making conscious recall of your dreams, try keeping them in mind in your daily activities.

Many clerics have agreed divine forces have soft spots for pious and ascetic people.
BusinessRe: CBN Insists It Won’t Reverse Restriction On Naira ATM Card Abroad by Ghandi12: 9:49am On Dec 28, 2015
Rolings:
Banks and registered BDCs
Could you please give us a bank name and address where dollars for essential services (that are only possible in $) can be sourced.

The true reality on the streets is that there has not been $ for common-man in any banks in the last couple of months. Your information on its availability will be appreciated by thousands out there.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria's Budget Without Oil Realisable - Fayemi by Ghandi12: 9:39am On Dec 28, 2015
250,000,000,000/127600 = 1,959,247.65

Which is approximately N2 million/kilometer.
BusinessRe: CBN Insists It Won’t Reverse Restriction On Naira ATM Card Abroad by Ghandi12: 9:13am On Dec 28, 2015
Rolings:
Let's see where the policy will lead before condemning it. No one say you cannot pay $1500 for your professional exam just source the dollars through the proper channel .
Could you please advise him and thousands of other victims (from the CBN response above) what the proper channel of sourcing $ is.
HealthBrazil Declares Emergency-2400 Babies Born With Brain Damage From Mosquito Bite by Ghandi12(op): 11:21pm On Dec 23, 2015
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brazil-declares-emergency-after-2400-babies-are-born-with-brain-damage-possibly-due-to-mosquito-borne-virus/ar-BBnR8pk?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SK2DDHP

Brazilian health authorities are sounding the alarm about a mosquito-borne virus that they believe may be the cause of thousands of infants being born with damaged brains.

The pathogen, known as Zika and first discovered in forest monkeys in Africa over 70 years ago, is the new West Nile -- a virus that causes mild symptoms in most but can lead to serious neurological complications or even death in others. Brazil's health ministry said on Nov. 28 that it had found the Zika virus in a baby with microcephaly — a rare condition in which infants are born with shrunken skulls — during an autopsy after the child died. The virus was also found in the amniotic fluid of two mothers whose babies had the condition.

"This is an unprecedented situation, unprecedented in world scientific research," the ministry said in a statement on its website, according to CNN.

Brazil is investigating more than more than 2,400 suspected cases of microcephaly and 29 deaths of infants that occurred this year. Last year the country saw only 147 cases of microcephaly.

The situation in Brazil is so overwhelming that Angela Rocha, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist in Pernambuco, one of the hardest hit states, said in an interview with CNN that women may want to hold off on getting pregnant.

"These are newborns who will require special attention their entire lives. It's an emotional stress that just can't be imagined...," Rocha said. "We're talking about a generation of babies that's going to be affected."

[Zika virus: What you need to know]
© Provided by Washington Post


Until a few years ago, human infections with the virus were almost unheard of. Then, for reasons scientists can't explain but think may have to do with the complicated effects of climate change, it began to pop up in far-flung parts of the world. In 2007, it infected nearly three-quarters of Yap Island's 11,000 residents. In 2013, Zika showed up in Tahiti and other parts of French Polynesia and was responsible for making an estimated 28,000 people so ill they sought medical care. It arrived in Brazil in May, where tens of thousands have fallen ill.

The World Health Organization, which has been monitoring the spread of the virus closely and issued an alert about the situation in Brazil, reported this month that it had popped up for the first time in the West African nation of Cape Verde and that it had led to additional illnesses in Panama and Honduras.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found the virus in a few travelers returning from overseas, but says there have not come across any cases of people being infected by mosquitoes in the country.

Brazil has been struggling to contain the virus for months through both public education campaigns --which urge residents to use insect repelant and limit their time outdoors -- as well as by sending mosquito eradication teams house to house to treat places where aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the virus might breed. The health ministry said it was sending truckloads of larvicide -- enough to treat 3,560 Olympic-sized swimming pools -- to northeastern and southeastern states that have been most affected and that it would add 266,000 new community health agents to make the house calls.
Nairaland GeneralRe: If Nigeria Continues Like This, I May Have To Start Stealing by Ghandi12: 10:16pm On Dec 21, 2015
I am actually ashamed of this thread.
Nothing to be ashamed of Brother. You are a brave one out of suffering millions. You demonstrated uncommon courage to have opened-up your heart but many of us are suffering in silence. Like you, we are all going through hardship - many of which we discuss on this forum hoping people with mandates will do something about.

You actually think you have failed at 30? Is it because the forum is a faceless one? If you are placed side-by-side many forumites here (in real life) you will realize how many people you are better-off.

Do you know people now fast and pray not because there is any particular need for fasting but for survival.
PoliticsRe: Somebody Please Educate Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Ghandi12: 9:41pm On Dec 21, 2015
magicminister:
Why does the CBN sell forex to the parallel market but refuse to sell to banks?
Why is subsidy payments made in dollar - Which runs in Billions, estacode paid in dollars and government travels/itinerary made in dollars but a Nigerian student schooling abroad cannot access dollars for their use?
....
My business has suffered greatly in ways you can't imagine!
Brother many people are already depressed on this particular issue. It has been discussed here several times and it is obvious the government does not care.

You are not alone.There are thousands of families that worked hard to enthrone this government but have had their means of livelihood and their wards' dreams thwarted by this illogical policy.

It is more painful when one realizes they (the political office holders) have access to and use the same dollars in millions.
PoliticsRe: Kemi Adeosun Left Ogun State As A Top 5 Most Indebted State In Nigeria by Ghandi12: 6:15am On Dec 19, 2015
Ofodirinwa:
After Kemi's Begging Bowl Economics, Lets at Ogun State's ranking in Nigeria's Financial Sustainability List
https://i2.wp.com/s10.postimg.org/mqu2tmgux/IMG_20151109_200416.jpg?w=618
No doubt, there are valuable points in questions being raised by those who have reservations for the approach the current government is using in tackling the economy. Nonetheless the economic buoyancy of a state is not necessarily tied to its debt portfolio. Similarly people success in corporate assignment may not be accurately predicted using their core discipline. Akpabio and Fashola are lawyers, by Nigeria standard they remain the most successful Govs in recent time. You have given us debt accrued by Ogun State under the economic direction of Mrs. Adeosun. You know state debt is just one of many economic indices required to analyze economic buoyancy. America remains the world highest borrower yet the world most-powerful nation.

# Could you also post what was the IGR of the state before and after Mrs. Adeosun service?
# Could you also compare this to other states?
# What was her impact on direct investment into the state during her service?
# What was the overall infrastructural changes in Ogun state under Mrs. Adeosun's direction?
# The state's GDP under Adeosun? Compared to other states?
PoliticsRe: Kemi Adeosun Left Ogun State As A Top 5 Most Indebted State In Nigeria by Ghandi12:
DerideGull:
Per the bolded, she was just "accounting assistant" not even associate accountant and a year later, she was made "Manager of Internal Audit". This is the height of corruption known as cronyism. In fact, bottom power is not far behind in this case. Nigeria is a practical joke.
She achieved that feat in United kingdom not Nigeria. Bottom power does not work for 21 years in such nation.
PoliticsRe: Oil Headed To $20 ; Goldman Sachs - How Prepared Is Nigeria For 2016 Recession? by Ghandi12(op): 6:19pm On Dec 18, 2015
How to Survive a Recession

http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Recession

The economy always has and always will have its ups and downs. It's easy to coast through the good times, but how do you come out of the tough times unscathed?

1. Talk it over. Sit down with every member of your household and go over your finances.

How you resolve and differences in your approach to money will have a profound effect on your relationship's chances of succeeding: Take a Healthy Approach to Finances in Your Relationship
Now is the perfect time to set an example of your children, and show them how a family can pull together during tough times and everyone can chip in: Teach Your Child About Budgeting and Get Adult Kids to Pay Their Share


2. Set financial goals. Focus on paying off debt and saving an emergency fund. If you don't already have you an adequate emergency fund set aside, specify a goal for how much money you want to add to it every month, and put an equal amount towards paying off your highest interest debt. Pay yourself first.

While normally, it's recommended that a two-income couple keep three months' worth of expenses in an emergency fund, during a downturn the recommended time is six months instead, especially if you're in an industry that gets hit hard by a recession (construction, financial services, food) and if you're a one-income family. If you're self-employed, you should set aside up to a year's worth of expenses.


3. Cut costs. There are a number of ways to reduce expenses.

Cut discretionary spending. Buy nothing. Resist sales pitches. Don't even think about using that new credit card offer in the mail, even if it does have a low APR and no payments for two years--evaluate it carefully. When you do need to buy things, haggle. But this is a good time, overall, to determine the difference between what you want and what you need, and reconsider your values - is your current standard of living really worth hanging onto?
Transportation - Carpool as much as you can. Consider commuting by bicycle or even living without a car. But if that's not practical, look for ways to save money on gas, even if it means hypermiling.
Housing - Get a roommate or consider relocating to an area with a lower cost of living. Maybe you can move in with family members until the economic downturn blows over. Keeping the peace in a multigenerational household isn't always easy, but it has its own rewards.
Food - Stop going out to eat; instead, try to cook at home from scratch more often. Consider the benefits of the slow food movement. If you don't have enough time to cook, try doing it just once a month. Find good deals at a local farmers' market.


4. Keep the money flowing in.

If you have a job, be an amazing employee. Now is not the time to slack. Show up early, stay late, and volunteer for projects. Pick up the slack for other workers; it's what will happen when people get laid off, anyway, so now is the time to prove yourself. Look for ways to save your employer money, especially if you see your employer doing little things to that effect, like encouraging employees to turn of their computers. Try to quantify your efforts in terms of how you've raised profits and cut costs. Start networking so that in case you still get laid off, you have a safety net of contacts who might be able to help.
If you own a business, develop a risk management plan if you haven't already. Find ways to reduce expenses, e.g. Virtualize Your Workforce. Improve Service Quality at Your Business so that budget-strapped customers will want to use your products or services through tough times.
If you don't have a job, find other ways to make money fast. Focus on cutting your expenses, as described in the previous step, and consider volunteering; if you've got the spare time, there are organizations that will need your help, and you could establish good karma in your community.


5. Enjoy life.
In order to avoid recession depression, don't let fear control you; an intense feeling of paranoia can make you an inflexible employee and also strain your relationships. Be thankful for what you have, and make sure to have fun. Instead of not taking a family vacation, for example, take a Staycation or Exchange Your Home for Free Vacation Accommodation instead; invite your family to think of creative ways to save money without skimping on happiness. Accept difficult times as a challenge for your fortitude and adaptability.
PoliticsRe: Oil Headed To $20 ; Goldman Sachs - How Prepared Is Nigeria For 2016 Recession? by Ghandi12(op): 6:13pm On Dec 18, 2015
PoliticsRe: ARMS DEAL: Jonathan And Buhari Set To Hold Private Meeting by Ghandi12: 5:38pm On Dec 18, 2015
Private!? Jokes.

Ex-President Jonathan government contributed immensely in leaving behind a carcass economy for the Buhari government to bring back to life. We the people will start blaming Buhari 2016 for our predicaments and Mr. Jonathan really expect Mr. Buhari to shoulder the blame alone.

They should have as many private meetings as they like the harsh economic reality of 2016 will force the Buhari government to tell us more of how destructive 16 years of PDP rule was.
PoliticsRe: Oil Headed To $20 ; Goldman Sachs - How Prepared Is Nigeria For 2016 Recession? by Ghandi12(op): 4:56pm On Dec 18, 2015
Everything continues pointing to a torrid 2016. In the words of the Finance Minister we should brace-up for a tough time.

What are we doing to survive this inevitable recession in 2016?

# Do we still need N120 billion/year maintained 469-membered NASS? These people add no meaningful value to quality of our lives.
# Are we really helpless against the monster of corruption and waste the NASS has been turned into?
# Do we still need Governors having security votes running into billions of naira? Police and Army provide security so why give billions to Governors?
# Do we really need big government as we have now? We should stop pretending to be America.
# Shouldn’t BSc/HND graduates be encouraged to continue their education to MSc/MBA/PhD during recession?
# Shouldn't young adults be encouraged/empowered to team-up and embrace entrepreneurship?
# Are we still pondering on cutting down foreign missions with little or no benefits?
# Must we host those expensive global events when we can barely feed our people?
# Do we still need lavish family celebrations of public office holders
# What is the blue-print for the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Solid minerals (on economic diversification)?
# Shouldn’t government focus more on wealth creation among citizens than increasing internally generated revenue?
# Do we really need to drive around when there is a cheaper public transport?
# How mentally prepared are security operatives to handle temper, violence and frictions which are natural corollary of recession?
PoliticsOil Headed To $20 ; Goldman Sachs - How Prepared Is Nigeria For 2016 Recession? by Ghandi12(op): 4:12pm On Dec 18, 2015
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/this-is-why-goldman-thinks-oil-is-headed-to-dollar20/ar-BBnGHUU?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SK2DDHP

The investment bank is standing by its prediction of $20 a barrel bottom—the breakeven cash cost for highly levered high-cost US shale producers. If oil prices fall below that level, companies will have to make output cuts in order to avert losses.

Even though global oil stock will remain below storage capacity, Goldman said the rebalancing is "far from achieved" as U.S. rig count and exploration and production guidance are "too high" to achieve the required supply decline.

OPEC is also likely to pump aggressively toward the high-end of Goldman's 32-million-barrel a day forecast as Iran resumes productions after U.S. sanctions are lifted over the next few months.

Oil storage also runs the risk of hitting constraints by next spring.

Oil prices have fallen over 50 percent in the last 18 months due to burgeoning energy supply and slowing demand.

"The post-OPEC oil price decline accelerated as the discord between members became more apparent and the lack of a supply response more certain. The meeting confirmed our view that it is not in OPEC's interest to balance the market in the face of still growing higher-cost production," Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a report Thursday.

OPEC's resolve was strengthened after U.S. production picked up once prices neared $60 a barrel this summer, they added.

The group of 13 oil-producing countries has kept its production ceiling around 30 million barrels a day for years, with kingpin Saudi Arabia standing firm against an output cut in order to maintain market share and drive higher cost producers out.

"Despite the fiscal challenges that low oil prices create now, the alternative of cutting production reduces long-term revenues instead," said the Goldman Sachs analysts.

Oil prices are now near seven-year-lows with U.S. WTI crude prices are around $35 a barrel—below Goldman's three-month $38 a barrel forecast—while Brent crude is now around $37 a barrel.

OPEC said in its latest monthly report that the supply of oil from countries outside of the cartel will contract next year.

Some market watchers who see OPEC's strategy working eye a rebound in prices by late 2016.

Analysts at Societe Generale said in a note Friday that they expect Brent oil to rebound to $60 a barrel in the fourth quarter of next year due to a drop in stockbuild growth in the second half of the year.

"Saudi Arabia's policy change in November 2014, when it decided to stop defending prices and pursue a market-share strategy by maximizing production of its low-cost crude is beginning to bear fruit: US shale oil production has started to drop," the SocGen analysts wrote .
PoliticsRe: Iran Military Facebook Page Post Veiled Threat To Nigeria Over Zaria Killings by Ghandi12: 5:54am On Dec 16, 2015
Are we no more an independent state with full right of sovereignty?
PoliticsRe: N31b Loot: Jonathan’s Camp To Seek Talks With Buhari- The Nation by Ghandi12: 5:53am On Dec 16, 2015
handie:
This man must be high on weed. 600 million out of over 1 Billion? Nah! Thanks we don't want such recovery. Return the entire 1 Billion.... With interest, forfeit all of your assets and we might just reduce ya sentence. There should be no political solution to this issue. To hell with northern elders and anyone who'll not want justice to be served to it's fullest. Those guys stole and nothing will satisfy me more than seizure of all their assets and a huge jail term. Infact I'll lose hope in d country if the sentences given to them is not @ par to those given to the common man. We don't just want funds returns.... While it was with them, those funds brought in more money(interest, profits etc). They should be made to vomit em all and woe betide any man who tries to defend these people who should be regarded as dregs of the Nigerian nation
My brother many people feel as you do but reality is difficult to change. Not all accused of corruption will escape jail - some of them who are destined to go to jail for corruption will sooner or later work-their-way to jail.

One of sad reality of our nation today is that it is difficult to jail a "big man" and maintain him in a Nigerian prison. Dokpesi was just one day in prison and the whole prison was unsettled. Imagine what will happen if all accused of corruption are sent to jails. The will just form another republic in jail and probably come for us later.
PoliticsRe: In All Honesty,what Have U Benefited From Buhari Administration by Ghandi12: 5:40am On Dec 16, 2015
People now have the opportunity to ask questions and the government appears to be concerned about many points being raised. This is a vital starting point to law, order and meaningful development. Buhari's regime has not lived up to many of our high expectations but when one considers where we were before we just thank God for this opportunity to start again.

The immediate regime "did not give a damn" hence its utter failure in many respects.
PoliticsRe: Entitlements Of Former Heads Of State And Presidents by Ghandi12: 5:30am On Dec 16, 2015
enitiObanke:
The mistake some gullible folks are making here is equating Buhari collecting 2 SUV (as a former President/ie in his capacity as a former Head of State) from Dasuki/FGN to Dokpesi et al collecting slush funds for Dasuki/FGN (for purposes strictly PDP-related).
The error in judgement of Dokpesi et al is it's wrong in every ramifications for them to have collected payment for PDP-related issues from the NSA. Even if those payments had been made by the Minister of Finance, or the CBN Governor, or any any agent of Federal/State Government, it would have been blatantly wrong, and Dokpesi and Co would have still been in this same mess today.
PDP and PDP only should have paid Dokpesi and his goons. The least GEJ and his thieving goons should have done was wire those monies into PDP's accounts, and paid their campaign contractors and election manipulators (read Dalhatu Bafarawa, Odili, Bode George, Ayumi et al) straight out of PDP account. The narration today could have been less messy.
Here is a poser for Wailers; if Dokpesi and his goons (but Raymond Dokpesi in particular) knew before the March General elections that Buhari was gonna win it,......would a Dokpesi have collected payment for those dirty campaign ADVERTORIALS (or any PDP campaign adverts for that matter) which aired on AIT from the NSA?
When it comes to disputes in financial transactions only courts of law can determine the appropriateness of elements involved in the transactions. While you believe AIT or Dokpesi being paid by Minister of Finance is wrong the court might not see this an enough reason for punishment.

It now depends on the questions the state prosecutors are asking Dopkesi and the Court. From my angle here Dokpesi being a private businessman stands a good chance of answering all prosecutors questions effectively to escape punishment. To convince the Judge that Dokpesi deserves to go to jail; the prosecutors have to establish Dokpesi has broken a particular law of the land.

Dokpesi's case is however not the same with Dasuki's and others (who were public officers at the time of these transactions). Public officers are answerable to many public codes. Its easier to establish a jailable case against them.

This is one reason some people have been advocating the government should prosecute these cases with the ultimate aim of recovering looted fund - its difficult and expensive to get "big people" legally jailed, especially,for a nation that has not known much order since independence.
PoliticsRe: CJN Accuses NASS Of Starving Judiciary Of Funds by Ghandi12: 8:45pm On Dec 15, 2015
Is Judiciary budget not a first-line charge?
PoliticsRe: Entitlements Of Former Heads Of State And Presidents by Ghandi12:
At this perilous time this needs urgent review from the national assembly. I doubt if the beneficiaries are not ashamed of benefiting luxuries like these in the midst of starving millions.

This reminds one of Shakespearing courts - always running with lavish food and wine while the masses lack.
PoliticsRe: Why Linda Ikeji may end up in jail by Ghandi12: 5:56pm On Dec 15, 2015
If we start sending people to jail for doing legitimate business then how are we going to survive?

I for one remember Linda Ikeji coming public pre-election seeking public advice if she should take political adverts or not. According to her then she was under intensive pressure and obviously she was reluctant to get enmeshed in partisan tussles.

Every citizen has the liberty to involve in buying and selling of licit goods and services.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria At 56 - The Real Problem With Nigeria Is Not Corruption, Stupidity Is. by Ghandi12: 7:24am On Dec 15, 2015
CPriest:
[b]I will use two examples to illustrate this. Kenya and Russia.[/b]
Transparency International commonly bandied around in Nigerian media to say just how corrupt we are. But I was awakened to a rude reality today which got me shaking as I made the assertion that the problem with Nigeria is NOT corruption but stupidity.
The same TI which most of us know and we use to call ourselves the most corrupt nation (a wrong fact, we are not even in the 10 most corrupt league) ...
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/expenditure-education-public-gdp
To cap, the Human Development Index (higher is better)
Kenya 0.535
Nigeria 0.504
....
Human capital is an important factor for the wealth of a nation due to its influence on the overall production of the country. Technological progress can provide more efficient production-methods like machines and computers, but skilled labor is necessary to manage and develop them as well as to improve the quality and productivity of the existing labor. The formation of Nigeria's human capital is therefore of great importance in the coming years if Nigeria wants to be competitive in the future. However, Nigeria is having a problem with its human capital.
The Human Development Index (HDI) provides a measure of human capital development in three dimensions: income, health, and education. The latest values of HDI shows that Nigeria is ranked 156 with the value of 0.459 among 187 countries. The value places Nigeria in the bottom, meaning that Nigeria is considered to have low level of human development.
Good logic and conclusion at the end but...


I do not know about stupidity but I know of endemic and institutionalized corruption.

How stupid is a poor boy born in a war-ravaged Maiduguri - he sleeps in tents, eats from buckets, and sometimes goes around without food. His possibility of having any meaningful childhood remains in doubt. He was put in this condition not by someone's stupidity but by someone's deliberate action or inaction.

How stupid are traders and peasants that know their children deserve good education but could barely feed them.

What about graduates yearning for employment but were asked by the then Immigration heads to pay huge some of money - Many got killed in stampede not because they were stupid but because of someone's wickedness.

All together our leaders are less than 0.1 % of the nation's population. The current structure of the nation means we will continue looking-up to them for direction, even survival for a long time to come. I posit our wellbeing as a people is a reflection of our leaders honesty or otherwise, resourcefulness or otherwise, knowledge or otherwise.
For instance it is not our fault the previous governments refused to save when we were having bountiful harvest but we are all facing the brunt of resulting economic hardship now - we did not have any power, we are not stupid.

I agree with your conclusion but it is worrisome that:
# Our leaders know about these indices - not today.
# Many of them attended Ivy-league schools where finding solutions to problems is the hallmark.
# Nigerian leaders are usually rich, they hardly lack anything.
# Well-educated citizens hitherto known for demotic stands on media get into position of authority and start helping themselves.

While our problems are known and solutions fairly known, in reality, we need competent and selfless leaders for coordination.
SportsRe: Nigeria's U-23 Team Land In Lagos Following AFCON Victory (Photos) by Ghandi12: 6:22am On Dec 15, 2015
Congratulations boys. Celebrate your victory as personal achievement. Please do not expect anything from the government or you have yourself to blame.

Do not honor those rogues at the National Assembly. While you might end up with N20,000 for bringing glory to our fatherland they are buying N4.7 billion naira worth of cars for bringing shame to us everyday.
PoliticsRe: Why We Are Buying N4.7billion Worth Of Cars- Nigeria Senate. by Ghandi12: 5:37am On Dec 14, 2015
PoliticsRe: Why We Are Buying N4.7billion Worth Of Cars- Nigeria Senate. by Ghandi12: 5:33am On Dec 14, 2015
PoliticsRe: Why We Are Buying N4.7billion Worth Of Cars- Nigeria Senate. by Ghandi12: 5:21am On Dec 14, 2015
2. Meanwhile in the same nation where these beasts are leaders

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