₦airaland Forum

seunmsg: I hope those calling for the break-up of Nigeria can learn from this scottish referendum. Scotland is far more developed than most of the geo political zones clamouring for independence in Nigeria and still, they voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. If we put our acts together as a country, we are far better off as one big united country. Nigeria must remain a big, united and indivisible union. All we need to make it work is to vote for good leaders based on merit and not tribal/ religious sentiment.

Nigeria was never meant to be. It was created by foreigners. The minor and major tribes in Nigeria didn't hold a meeting of unity. Nigeria was imposed on the tribes.

redcliff: That is the big difference between humans and monkeys, Between developed and under* developed. Thats the difference between true democracy and hypocrisy.

U have a mental problem u don't just know about it.

This is daylight robbery been robbed in the faces of Nigerian youths.

A lot of Nigerians are waiting for the day the youths will revolt.

ritux: Well for me, there is no way I will buy a car worth 24M without first owning my own house. I keep trying to figure out why some people (not Linda) drive big cars and leave in rented apartment.
The other day, I went to visit a friend in some compound with a 3 blocks of one story building consisting of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom flats. On the parking lot, I saw so many exotic cars, range rovers, jaguar, g-wagon etc parked. What came to my mind first was, why won't one drive these expensive cars and still live in a rented flat.

Finally, I concluded that maybe I am wrong...they might have built some houses somewhere in other parts of the country.

Some might have built houses in other parts of the country.

Some want to live a false life.

Some want to package themselves as been wealthy.

Some are living on loan.

e.t.c

mecussey: I thought it's pronounced AOUSE keeping the H silent. So our so called great English teacher has been deceiving us since 1980.

2) I read where she wrote that her next project will include buying " a house " for herself, did you read that?

I read that she built a house in her home town.

baslone: You obviously dont!

U are not the one I quoted

But

That's none of my business

killercute16: Dont mind d boy....nairaland is not even among the top 10

Nairaland is in top 1000 globally while linda ikeji is not.

ROSYL: "How I wish Nigerian ladies can be this independent and stop relying on men" hahaha by this statement you shall know them! Broke ass ni**as!

By this comment you shall know them!!! Professionals skanks.

Mintayo: I hope all those "pastor bashing" guys are seeing this? When a pastor buys similar car with similar or more money,nobody should cry foul or the masses are suffering.
Btw the child of a friend's friend need 10m for sugery in America,this 1month old girl has a whole in her heart;and someone is buying a car for 24m?
Okay.

Point of correction, pastors do not work for their money..

poiZon: 24million would've bought her a good husband that will last more than this atmost 6yrs lifespan toy that wont add prestige or honour to her.
in women SUCCESS comes when the MISS in your name is change suddenly to MRS.

ANyways enjoy ya rangie, my perfect colour.

That's Nigerian mentality for most women. Been successful as a woman has nothing to do with marriage.

stop with the poor mentality.

Seun: I can't afford to spend that much on a car. The things I covet - like the iPhone 6 and HTC One M8 and iPad Mini Retina 3 - are much cheaper.

Issorai

mecussey: Well, if this is not coming to a business point soon, this is a great miss. She does not even have an house hopefully, the husband will do that. By this time next yr, this same car would look like sh*t. Recently, I am just hating on expensive liabilities with passion

Firstly, It is "a house".

Secondly, she owns at least one house.

Kirinwa: Wrong priority: With 2 million you can buy a brand new car, 2 million get married, 10 million buy a land and build duplex.
Remaining 10 million change.

You can invest 7 million, give 1 million to charity and leave 2 million in bank.

After blowing up her money now, you guys will ask us to donate for her like OJB Jezreel or Ngozi- not that I wish her ill o.

Once that car leaves that car mart it is second hand and would rarely go beyond 10 million. Car is a liability not an asset.

She makes at least N3million monthly... She'll make the N24million back in less than 8 months.

Stop behaving like u won't do more than her if u more than enough money.

Besides she already owns at least one house.

abhosts: Linda Ikeji is not only a good Blogger, she is also an astute entrepreneur(Something Seun is not). She is able to make so much money because of her ability to liaise directly with Corporate Bodies that pay her big money to advertise on her blog.

U know nothing about earning online

4congo: You are just trying to bring unnecessary argument. Define the term "god"

I cannot define that which is beyond human comprehension or doesn't exist.

Once a blog gets a lot of unique visitors the owner monetizes the blog.

adexsimply: Okay..But,

<?php
$str = "111122223333666 ";

foreach (count_chars($str, 1) as $i => $count) {
   echo "There are $count occurence(s) of \"".chr($i)."\"in the string<br/>";
}
?>

U copied that code from the manual...

www.php.net/manual/en/function.count-chars.php

BlackTechnology: I understand asset in terms of basic accounting/economics

But note

Some definitions were defined years ago with little subjection to real life economic challenges

That is why we update our definitions with time when we see their incompleteness.

Is like you saying your TV is an asset

If banks do accept assets as collateral

Will any bank accept your TV as a collateral.? No

The only reason banks will accept your house as an asset that can be used as collateral is because it is assumed that the land beneath it will always appreciate in value with time.


Now to the topic

Akwa Ibom spent xbillion naira to build a stadium
The questions the governor should have asked himself are

, How much will the stadium generate.?
Will the profit be sufficient to maintain it.?
Will it have a much desired socio-financial impact on at least 50% of indigenes.?



If the answer is no,

what he would have done if he still wants to build the stadium for beautification of Uyo is to acquire assets whose cash flows are sufficient to maintain the stadium

Why

Because the stadium will need maintenance and the next set of governments might not be stadium conscious.

Or

He focuses on other projects that will lift the ordinary indigenes out of poverty since it is well known that a large number Akwa Ibom people are house helps etc

What are those projects

Education but he failed in ensuring that teachers salaries are paid constant

Microcredit facilities but the commissioner did not mentioned it

Others which he never mentioned.

this your opinion is long....

it depends on the type of tv, so banks will still accept it depending on the value of the tv but it is wiser to use... but in cases of economic meltdown where the value of houses reduce... banks will not accept it that's what led to the fall of banks worldwide which also led to a global economic meltdown in 2008/2009.

back to the topic:
all the govt needs is to generate income from different means...

anonymoux: Above is a more understandable version of what I actually wanted.
in this above example. $totalMaches will come out as:
Array ( [a] => 2 [p] => 2 [l] => 3 [e] => 1 [b] => 1 )

which means letter a appears twice
letter p appears twice
letter l appears thrice
and so on....

counting duplicates and even non duplicates...

that's not what you explained OOOoooo.

but this is similar to what you explained

<?php

$data = '1111222233333444455555';

$work = array_unique(str_split($data));

echo count($work);
?>

BlackTechnology: If it puts money into your pocket it is an asset
But if it takes money out of your pocket it is a liability

The only other time when a liability house becomes an asset house is when it is sold.


Pls read

Rich dad poor dad
By

Robert Kiyosaki

It will improve your socio-financial knowledge

The law of basic accounting/economics cannot be erased by a motivational speaker.

Anything can lose value.

BlackTechnology:
His words: “When you are talking about allocation of N135.84 billion, it sounds big to you, but it is not a lot of money when you are doing key projects. When you look at projects like the new international stadium, these are not bread and butter projects. These are quality projects that cost money.

“You don’t build flyovers with N1 or N2. You don’t build underground tunnels with N2; you don’t dualize federal roads with N2; you build them with billions, so you put these monies into big projects. So, the states you are mentioning, are they able to do these types of projects?”

Every good state government desire to transform their states into a mini America.
This causing them to build beautiful infrastructure as fulfilment of their dream

But one challenge we face is in balancing infrastructural development and financial empowerment of indigenes with limited resources.

SOLUTION TO THIS DILEMMA

1) Invest in profitable ventures and infrastructures first then

2) Use the profits and low taxes to obtain and clear loans for infrastructures that generate little or no income. Eg Schools Hospitals Stadiums Roads Bridges etc.

" Prepare your fields(assets) first after that build your house(liability) "
PROVERBS 24: 27

Asset which is what puts money into your pocket should come first before liability which is what takes away money from your pocket

For every liability built, they should be assets whose incomes can sustain it

The Stadium which profitable ventures are sustaining its maintenance and loan if it was built with borrowed money

Likewise other infrastructures


Akwa Ibom govt you failed in this aspect.

Pls don't teach people nonsense.

A house is an asset.

How does that put food on my table.

anonymoux: Please guys, I am working on my site.
But have this little problem with my php script.
I need to check if string have less than 4 characters.

$str = "33322222EEEEE";
if(!preg_match(??, $str)) {
msg = str." has less than 4 numbers/characters"
}

you can use the strlen() or mb_strlen() function but there are other functions.

change your if statement to:

echo strlen($str);

pls read the php manual for your sake.

pacodas: Am just curious not worried. Point of correction you are not God don't use "I"

I am God... Everything the creator created has some god-like features. Humans are Gods for the person u call God is known as the creator not God.

Ontarget: Why you guys bothering yourselves entrepreneur ko entrepreneur ni? Just find a way and put food on table and survive. Simple.

Your definition of "Surviving" is for broke people...

Jarus: I shared same sentiments in an article I wrote last year, titled: Excuse me, Mr Self Employment Advocate. http://www.jarushub.com/excuse-me-mr-self-employment-advocate/

Some people make it seem as if being in salaried job is a crime. I don't believe that trash. We are called names such as "slaves", only that some of these "entrepreneurs" will come back to beg you doing "slavery jobs" for money at the end of the month.

I don't have any problem with self-employment, entrepreneurship or whatever it is called, but the advocates overdo it. Not everyone is cut out for self-employment. There will always be people doing salaried jobs.

you are wrong... because of your naija mentality cos in naija when the term entrepreneur is brought up only "one person" comes to mind.

You should know that most companies are started by a group of people with "one person" as the public and media figure.

Get your facts right...

INDESTRUCTABLEX: And to those calling me dumb, you are entitled to your opinion.

I never said being Bill Gates makes you an entrepreneur. But you will agree that these men are risk takers and innovative.

Go to universities, you will lose count of the number of "be your own boss seminars". While these may motivate you to act, the truth is that not everybody will act. The number of those that act and quit afterwards because things don't come easy is relatively high. Does this make you an entrepreneur?

IMO sitting down and doing nothing doesn't make you an entrepreneur, neither does being skeptical and sitting on defence make you one.

And like one of the comments, the definition is subject to personal interpretation.

You are very dull... U're probably a teenager cos your mind set is messed up.

Steve Jobs was someone who only sat down and brought ideas. He never created anything. People brought his ideas to life for him but as long as it was his idea he took all the praises.

INDESTRUCTABLEX: Not everybody is meant to be an entrepreneur. And a lot of people that call themselves entrepreneurs are sellers and hustlers. The title is so being misused, that's my point.

The more entrepreneurs in a country the lower the rate of un-employment.

There are
low-income entrepreneurs
Medium-income entrepreneurs
High-income entrepreneurs

The term is not been misused... Its your level of understanding that's affecting your reasoning.

2cato: the op is right doing business in a country like nigeria is realy killing.

That's your opinion...

francleanflexy: some Nigerians are so dumb right ?
There are millions n millions of jobs opportunities in nigeria which are just waiting to be filled n yet someppl want to stress themselves by being Entrepreneurs.
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#sarcasm

You have a dull mindset... Been an entrepreneur gives u control of your time and life.

At least he knew the girl... What of people that are admirers but can't even greet each other

Craigston: I just started learning javascript and it's my first programming language. But my challenge is 'I don't have a pc' so I can't test codes easily as I study. Is there any way to get around this? Reading straight without testing and practising is not giving me what I desire.

No one can learn programming without a practical approach.