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Kgdavid:
So graduates collecting 30 k should take to armed robbery too? As far as i'm concerned these are decent wages and if they are not satisfied they are free to open a business on the side just like any other citizen.

Most people get the reasoning upside down. People steal and collect bribes and extort PRIMARILY because they are greedy and not because of meagre salaries.

Senators collect huge pay, why do they steal? Greed. Do you know how much Generals in the army earn, yet some of them stole money for arms purchase. The list goes on and on.

If I am in the police or any employment for that matter, if my pay is too small for me I'll quit. You may ask what will my family eat? Of course we will eat something else! Even in that telecoms firm, if you are sacked, what will you eat? material resources for life do not come only through one channel. But a person who prefers money to a good name won't see other opportunities and he will continue in sharp practices (until EFCC nab am!).

freeze001:
Recovering loot that Nigerians are not allowed to be privy to huh? Where is the $200 billion that is supposed to be on its way from Dubai?

Please, it's better not to start what one cannot finish. GMB would have fared better creating/strengthening our institutional n legal framework first to forestall further losses. Though income has reduced, we are not totally without income. It would have been better to set the machinery rolling for forward development so that Nigerians are not left in worse situations than they were before him.

While focusing on the critical sectors, he would have succeeded in lulling looters into a false sense of security and then, when the legal fishing net is better fixed and with diligent investigation conducted and incontrovertible evidence of crime gathered, d security agencies van swing into action knowing that the holes in the net have been reduced and d net itself stronger.
It will then catch n hold criminals easily while development is still felt in other sectors.

At the end, corruption is really exposed n dealt with and the people can truly appreciate the change. As it has now, it all looks like a Houdini act n a game of smoke and mirrors.

My friend talk is cheap! By time he has 'strengthened' the institutions it would be Jan 2018, and some wailers ll campaign against him that he did not prosecute looters.

I think PMB is starting to do something despite the terrible terrain. Do you how much obstacles the govt is facing from the very kwarupt senate? Has the govt not sent a new anti money laundering bill? What has the NASS done about it. How does one strengthen institutions? is it not through laws? Or do you suppose it is by executive fiat?

What about the bribe taking judges? Will he kill them? The road to a less corrupt Nigeria is very difficult but this admin is making some inroads.

There is something called moral authority and Aribosala has little of it on the matter at hand. While Sagay and Oby didn't handle the issues well and made improper comments about the students, Aribisala made it looks as if the govt is not fighting corruption. But he is trying to deceive!

CBN recruitment saga is bad. Taken. But this government has achieved many plus.

* continuous decimation of BH
*process of recovery of looted funds abroad
*prosecution of Arms loot, Dasuki, Badeh, etc
* improving Nigeria international image
* investigating the manslaughter during Immigration recruitment
* There is a sense of State sovereignty now, unlike when anybody can make reckless claims and get away with it.(Tompolo , Dokubo, Shiite leader, Nnamdi KANU, etc)

Things the govt must do urgently:
*Address fuel scarcity
*Fight corruption in Police
* Unemployment reduction
* Fulani murders in Benue

If there were an election between PMB and GEJ today, who do you think would win?

The answer is clear: P**.

omohayek:
By forcing the discos to only charge for what they actually deliver. This will provide a much stronger incentive for them to upgrade their distribution infrastructure, whereas they could just sit back and collect flat-rate fees without the meters.

Your comment is extremely intelligent!

Chanchit:
I remember the first job I did after leaving secondary school, I was so bored, immediately collected my salary, I just went outside, they thought I wanted to go and buy something, na house get me direct I spent 14days on the job.

You see, you did that because you were a child. Hope you've grown up now- now offense intended.

linearity:
Nigeria which way? Ban the importation of rice, which is a stable food for millions of Nigerians and advocating the importation of grass, the stable food for animals.

Is it really this bad and backward in my beloved Country? Have our leaders lost their sense of direction and priority? What about empathy and humanity, is that also lost? Shouldn't we make sure humans have food on the table, before thinking of animals?

By the way, why is the government going into the business of importing grasses for cow? If the cattle owners needs better nutrition for their animals, shouldn't they be the ones doing this import? Is the government going to send some of those nutritional grasses to the south to feed our goats? What about the sheeps? Poultry farmers also need government help in importation of chicken feeds and medicinal supplies to increase their yield, is the government going to do that also?

Probably GEJ thought like you are thinking, and that is why we voted him out. Now we have a president and a FEC who think strategically.

The wiser among a people should lead. Gbam!

BUTCHCASSIDY:
I want to use this medium to beg any young person who is still in school/about to graduate...(on 2 knees) please ignore this NYSC crap. Take your chances in something else please. No one can guarantee your safety. The government doesnt give a shìt about you. God knows if I was graduating at this time I wont.

Not everyone will keep their heads in one small corner and play it safe and low. That your begging won't work for most people. It is unfortunate that he/she died but life is a risk.

Bede2u:
Take some time and go thru my old posts to know if I voted Buhari or not. The truth is that Buhari has lost a lot of his old supporters due to the way he started and due to blind fellowership from hardcore supporters. As for CBN scam Buhari's silence is complicity. I voted Buhari and not GEJ so I will nolonger talk about GEJ's failures but Buhari's actions and reactions. His nephew was favoured in the scam remember?

I think so many of us are hypocrites. So because PMB becomes president all his relations must be unemployed and sacked from all govt jobs? Bringing in PMB's nephew into this argument is cheap mischief. We are sure PMB had no hand in the recruitment because his arch political enemies where in govt then. If the president is to wade into the matter , which I think is proper, it should never be because his nephew is affected but based on principle.

Thanks Op. What if I want to extract a 10min audio in the the middle of the video. How do I do that?

Haaa! The post is long but very well written. You definitely have some views that are valid. We cannot or should not be content with graduates making Chin chin, etc(You must have studied engineering; so many reference to engineering). Value creation must move to another level!

But entrepreneurship is not only producing goods. I know you didn't say outrightly it is only about manufacturing goods but you seem to deemphasize the other areas of entrepreneurship. Look at our music industry. Those guys are doing extraordinary well. They are creating economic value(unfortunately not moral value!)

Look my point is that no matter how behind in economic / technological development the realities of living expenses is remorseless. Now that we as a nation refused to invest well in education people cannot wait till investment in technology and engineering to start making a living. Your foresight is superb. That is what we should be aiming towards. Your write up is calling us to that destination but we have to get something doing before then.

It is like someone who wants to increase his agric output so much that he planted ALL the seeds he has. He is now left hungry and destitute with nothing to eat. Yes his huge harvest is 5 months' time but if he is not careful he may die of hunger before the harvest comes.

.....Innovative.

abumeinben:


Plain English pls, not parable.

I'll like to know the interpolation and therefore the extrapolation between MTN sims and the core indigenes of Maiduguri, who might not have seen a mast before

If you didn't jump into conclusion without reading the report through, you would have understood the connexion.

But just to answer you. Terrorists use unregistered sims to communicate. And MTN reluctance to enforce registration help the communication of terror.

kilode100:
Aisha Buhari is 44yrs, her first child is 28yrs, do the math..


Na their way...

Change is here o..

I was curious of the claim so I checked. You are wrong. She was born 1971(45yrs) and married 1989. 1989-1971 is 18yrs. So she was 18 when she wedded PMB.

Unless you are insinuating that Baba impregnated her before marriage. Please let us check facts before we tarnish people's image.

God save you say no be 1984 of Decree 4 we dey. You for don hear am. Lol!

Simply Excellent!

Walexz02:
Nonsense! No more dignity and self worth among our people again! everyone worship money and that's why our society is deteriorating

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A very wise contribution! People don't understand that a person is more important than money. Most comments are of the view that as far money is gotten to hell with dignity and self worth. Imagine a person even asked to save as much as he can while there SO THAT he can start dishing out the insults when he owns his own business.

My dear, I have a few questions to ask you:

1. Does this boss insult every other person in your grade level?
2. If No, have sat down to identify the reason(s) for the insults?
3. Have you tried to tell him/her that the way she talks to you is not palatable to you?

Even if there is a weakness or incompetence on your part,resorting to insults is SO SO WRONG. It just shows his/her lack of leadership capacity. You may need guidance or even proper sanctions not insults.

If you are matured enough(note that we are all maturing) you may even feel sorry for the boss. He might have been regularly abused by his former bosses or even parents. So she feels that is the normal way to interact.

My advise? stay there until you feel you can't take it anymore or endure it until you move to another dept or so. Bottom line: If you decide to leave because you can't take the insult anymore, it is not necessarily a wrong step.

Jamean:
Now, what is fornication?
Sexual intercourse between a man and woman who are not married to each other.

Are the couple above married? Yes they are, in fact very married by the virtue of their traditional wedding 2 months ago.

What is right and what is wrong?

Church wedding is not written anywhere in the Bible, it's only a western culture that is fastly becoming Christian doctrine and binding people in extremism.

The wedding at Cana in the Bible was a traditional wedding, that of Jacob to Leah and later Rebecca were also traditional weddings et al. What is the aim? to honor the family of the bride as she is not Oduduwa that came from the sky neither did the Pastor or Priest give birth to her.

You can go inquire from the holy spirit, the moment a man pays a woman's dowry and fulfill all other requirements as stated by tradition or family the law against fornication is suspended in the spiritual realm for them.

As much as I am a Christian and believer, I frown at the fact that the church still considers a couple who has done only traditional marriage as not befitting to have sex. I have seen a couple wait for 5years after traditional wedding and leaving apart because they couldn't afford church wedding yet. I beg to differ; aren't they married.

I don't believe there's any negative consequence of not doing church wedding as I believe it's only to honor religion and for proper Christian home building counseling prior to the wedding. It's worse that these days they now add Sunday for thanksgiving.

1 Cor 10:23 All things are lawful [that is, morally legitimate, permissible], but not all things are beneficial or
advantageous. What is the benefit of Church wedding as you can still be counseled without ceremony?

People will justify this act by saying they werenot forced to do church wedding. Let's learn to deal with things from the root and not surface level.

The church is going too extreme, and the moment a thin line isn't drawn we move from reverence to Idolatry.

Believers should add knowledge to their zeal.

I agree with you on many things you wrote about. However as many people have said if she knew she couldn't fulfil the rules by the church she wanted to get married in she should not have gone their.

Traditional marriage qualifies them for sexual relationship but gives them little legal standing. So in order to get govt marriage certificate, it is either Church wedding or registry wedding.

In our society, church weddings have more honour than registry wedding. So if she wanted the honour of Church wedding she needed to be without child.

Most married men have such experiences. The woman's brain seems not to readily pick some kinds of knowledge or learning. But that's why you are her hubby. Calmly(even though may be hard) explain what she didn't know.

You will be surprised how much she will appreciate you for telling her! You would think it's one great knowledge.

May be all these guys saying your wife is illiterate have been hard on their wives in the past for asking a 'silly question' so the poor ladies don't ask them questions that may be silly. They may ask Mr Deji-a coworker.

totorimi:
I don't just get it, Agege bread seller. I was watching one interview on telly and she was just speaking nigbati gbati bullshit

My question is so all that TY Bello is interested in istl to use her God given face and shape to make more money. Couldn't they just help her by sending her to school instead of all this picture snapping. Anyway I am waiting for that picture when they will tell her yo pose with bikini, which will surely happen soon the way they care going.

So unless she speaks good English the clothes won't fit her or what. And who says she has not started learning how to communicate well in English.

Think outside the box. one can make progress without necessarily speaking Queen's English. No offence. But your post has errors in it too!

ugotex85:
8 challenges cha? Was that why my friend defined marriage as public toilet, while those outside are in a haste to rush in, those inside are in a hurry to rush out? Hmmm, God help us o..

No. That definition is wrong. This because a marriage is what you make out of it. Some marriages are indeed like the public toilet but some are really working beautifully.

Whatever becomes of your marriage depends first on you, then secondly your spouse. Not the other way round. If you are a man, are matured enough in mind to be that lady's husband? Will she find in you a support that her parents used to be to her? Or you will be her problem?

If you are a woman, are you ready to support and help that man? If for whatever reason you can't respect him DON'T marry him.

Mine is working so beautifully despite the challenges we have faced and the ones that lie ahead.

youmour:
how come when they were looting naija the country was doing okay and the naira was strong but now that we are fighting corruption things are getting out of hand.

Don't you know about the fall in oil price? Meanwhile let me give you an analogy:

Let us say you stay with your big brother who has been given all the funds for your university education. He has a job but things start to get tough financially. Rather than work harder or look for money elsewhere, he starts to take from the education trust. You don't know where money is coming from but all you can see is that he gives you money for clothes and gadgets and all.

Sometime later you moved to another big brother. All the remaining education funds have been transferred to the new brother. He sees that as things stand the money left won't be enough for your university education. He doesn't give you all the stuff the other brother used to give you. Rather he insists that you manage. You begin to wish you were with the former brother.

So among the two, who really has your interest at heart?

That is my answer to your question.

playdude:
Hello, what's your problem, by behaving like a graduate, I should see anomalies and keep quiet, is that what you were taught in your mushroom school. I was taught to be logical, rational, factual in my perspective to issues. T.A Orji must have graduated from ABSU alongside one of those secondary schools.. You guys are pathetic.. Rubbish

Without any prejudice, T.A Orji studied in UI.

Olusola Aladejebi wrote:

How pathetic, how disastrous if having walked 8km into the Sahara, I find out that the bottles in my backpack contain oil rather than water! I’ll most certainly be filled with despair. I have reflected deeply the role of higher education (especially in Nigeria). I have also read views of profound thinkers across the globe on the role of the universities. I therefore conclude that many are pursuing an education of illusion. The picture of my hypothetical foray into the desert is an apt metaphor for the reality ahead of some people.

Education, be it basic, secondary or tertiary, is aimed at learning. Impartation of relevant knowledge is, or ought to be, the most fundamental objective of any school system. To the degree it deviates from this objective, it is to that degree that the school system loses relevance. A test for any educational system is: if all students and parents are made to understand that no certificates will be given at the expiration of the course of study, how many students will remain? I dare say less than 20%.

There is clearly an undue value placed on higher education, especially postgraduate study, at the expense of acquiring useful, creative knowledge. ‘Will you do masters’ has now been replaced by ‘when will you go for your masters?’ Such talk only fuels the rabid desire for an unthinking master’s degree. There exists this spurious idea that with a master’s in hand the gates of success will open to you more quickly than when you hadn’t. Holders of such idea do not yet know that the gates of success open to the man or woman with relevant knowledge and skill regardless of where he got them or where he did not. It is noteworthy that one of the most important ‘exports’ of U. K to Nigeria is now the Master’s Degree. All over the web space you find advertisements for university upon university. They seem to understand that we place an inordinate value on a 2nd Degree. In a declining European economy they cash in quickly on our thinking handicap.

Time published in 2010 the list of the most successful college drop outs. Some on the list include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zukerberg, Frank Lloyd Wright and James Cameron. Dropping out of college to pursue a passion and create value is not a recent phenomenon. Frank Lloyd Wright for instance dropped out of University of Wisconsin—Madison in 1886! to become America’s most celebrated Architect.

Gone are the days when the universities held the only key to knowledge. The information revolution has now provided access to knowledge on anything through the internet.

My point is not whether people drop out of university or whether they continue to post graduate study. Any idiot can drop out of school as well as any idiot can finish school. If your unique contribution will be realized by an extended stay in the university, please stay on. But never just continue to gather certificates as if they are ends in themselves. Delete the mind-set: now that I have this certificate, I can now be successful. Rather the mind-set should be: now that I have detected the unique contribution I will make in this life, I will seek relevant knowledge that will help in this quest.

In closing, Peter Thiel, an entrepreneur and billionaire, expressed the view that, ‘although higher education is definitely useful for some career paths (medicine, engineering, etc.) and people learn very valuable things in the university, there are many career paths, such as entrepreneurship, for which higher education is not useful and simply leads them to waste years they may have been doing something more productive’. I am convinced that the most creative among us will never be the ideal university student. They will find school uncomfortable for their ideas. They may find lecturers speaking a different language from the one in their hearts. Three things may happen to these most gifted ones. Some may try hard to finish schooling while keeping the fire of their new creative ideas burning. Some may detect that their continued stay in the university will drown that pure, fresh creativity growing in the hearts and hence escape for their lives! (Those on the TIME’s list above obviously thought so)Some others unfortunately because they didn’t develop the courage to step out allowed the old stuff to kill their unique creativity. Sometimes to think outside the box, you have to step outside the box (university).

Even if you are not one of the most gifted among us, you should not have the illusion that unless the university certifies you, there can be no excellence for you!

It seems razor blade is not on the list. Tiger (made in Czech). Nigerians must have imported 100 billion units of the blade since they began production!

Obinna Chima

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday
officially stopped the sale of dollars for a list of 40
items as it seeks to reduce pressure on the naira
as well as preserve the country’s external
reserves.

These items include rice, cement, margarine, palm
kernel/palm oil products/vegetable oil, meat and
processed meat products, vegetable and
processed vegetable products, poultry –chicken,
eggs, turkey - private airplanes/jet, Indian
Incense, tinned fish in sauce - Geisha/Sardines,
cold roiled steel sheet and galvanised steel
sheets.

Others are roofing sheets, wheel barrows, head
pans, metal boxes and containers, enamelware,
steel drums, steel pipes, wires, rods, wire mesh,
steel nails, security and razor wire, wood particles
boards and panels, wood fiber board and panels,
plywood boards and wooden doors.

In addition, sourcing of forex for the importation of
toothpicks, glass and glassware, kitchen utensils,
tables, textiles, woven fabrics, clothes, plastic and
rubber products, soap and cosmetic, tomatoes/
tomato paste and Eurobond/foreign currency
bond/share purchase.

The central bank disclosed this in a circular
signed by its Director, Trade and Exchange
Department, Mr. Olakanmi Gbadamosi, which was
posted on its website last night.

It explained that: ”These items are not banned,
thus importers desirous of importing these items
shall do so using their own funds without any
recourse to the Nigerian forex market.”
It advised all authorised dealers to ensure strict
compliance with the directive.

“In the continuing effort to sustain the stability of
the forex market and ensure the efficient utilisation
of forex and the derivation of optimum benefits
from goods and service imported into the country,
it has become imperative to exclude importers of
some goods and services from accessing foreign
exchange at the Nigerian foreign exchange market
to encourage local production.

“The implementation of the policy will help
conserve forex reserves as well as facilitate the
resuscitation of domestic industries and improve
employment generation,” it added.

"Ferdral government has said it will
spend zero amounts in petroleum subsidy in 2016
and would not remove the subsidy while in
periods of high oil prices, ....."

I don't understand this. It seems contradictory. The reporter didn't do a good job.

jpphilips:
You made sense with the first article though it is nothing new, only the ignorant minds who refuse to grow up still think buhari is the cause of their economic woes, while I absolve buhari completely in this economic mess, I would blame Jonathan in 2015 but I think it is irresponsible to blame Jonathan in 2016 and beyond. let me tell you why;

No matter how much you save, it is only a matter of time before the balance of trade will tilt that is a fact, The rubbles went on a free fall recently according to your article, it has devalued by 100% against the dollar, so I can assume that by your analysis the Russian Economy is in trouble right?
Are you aware that this troubled Russian economy saved over $400b when the going was good? so why are their savings not saving them?
The answer lies with the fact that savings only buy time but will never change the inevitable.

You may have a valid argument by citing western sanctions but does it change the fact that Russia is the highest exporter of Natural gas in Europe? Europe is in winter and you have no idea how much Russia is making from Gas sales alone. Does it change the fact that russia has signed arms deal with china to the tune of Billions of dollars recently? or that president Assad has recently purchased an unspecified number of sophisticated air defence systems from Russia or that Iran recently placed orders for unspecified number of Su-30 fighter jets from Russia.

The idea of saving became a government policy in Nigeria during the era of OBJ and Soludo when the ECA was created, from there we paid off our debts which was a big sack on our annual budgets, we launched the NIPP, we paid subsidy, during the meltdown that saw most western economies in recession, the Nigerian economy was "immuned" according to Soludo, thanks to that savings made by Obasanjo.

The interesting part of the puzzle is that despite all the good things that savings did for our economy at the time, towards the end of Obj's administration, Naira was devalued to 155 against the dollar. To save is the right thing and it has saved us a lot of wahala in the past no doubt about it but if crude prices remain low for a longer time (OBJ/SOludo were just lucky that it peaked eventually), soludo with his savings would have devalued further.

So you see, there must be balance of trade whether or not you saved. It is irresponsible if buhari's media team continue to blame Jonathan beyond 2016, how much will Jonathan save that will stop the inevitable? I blamed jonathan in 2015, I voted him out in 2015 because I believe it was too early to have dipped into recession, but the present government needs to take hold of the wheels, this is no longer2015 and we voted them for a reason.

Very solid analysis

Topeakintola:
Good analysis, however, after you have identified the trend/problem, it will be nice for you to proffer solutions as well.

I think Nigeria's problem is based on the size of government which leads to high recurrent expenditure. (im not sure, I think it forms over half of total expenditure)= unsustainable

If these successive administrations streamlined size of the government, then maybe it would have freed more funds for capital projects . This would have been more beneficial in the long run

As much as I am a fan of lean government and hence reduced overhead the huge government means more employment to people. I know that is not the best we can come up with, it has some benefits at least! Lol.

SmartMugu:
So the free food they promised na biscuit? Tell me if eating biscuit from Monday to Friday won't make the pupils malnourished.
Even if pupils must eat biscuit by force by fire, why only NASCO? Soon we will hear about cases of kwashiokor from pupils eating the same biscuit everyday.
How was NASCO selected? Were the other indigenous companies given an opportunity to place a bid?

We don enter one chance.

Must you comment without reading? Habaa!

All nairalanders do not qualify. You are not too poor. You have a smart phone and data.

airsaylongcon:
1984 all over. When my parents had to queue for essenco. While I do not support devaluation, I think the govt should let the Naira devalue to N250 then defend that value to the death. Buhari means well on this (and I am anti buhari) but seizing reins at d CBN is not the way. During the campaigns Obasanjo said Buhari will be top notch on corruption but clueless about economics. Hate him or love him ebora owu was right

What is special about N250 to $1? 250 a magic number? If you want naira to fall, then let it fall. If you want its value maintained forcedly, let it be.

DivineAgatha121:
it wsnt free u have to update afta every two month

So make whatsapp con dey update am for you abi? Naija people. Dem give una free app, you still want them to 'buy' data for you!

DivineAgatha121:
it wsnt free u have to update afta every two month

So make whatsapp con dey update am for you abi? Naija people. Dem give una free app, you still want them to 'buy' data for you!