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10) Pipeline Vandalism; to cart away crude oil to make quick cash.
11) Yahoo yahoo; if the person wey u scam put prayer or jars for you, your case na die.
12) If dansuki puts your name among the yam eaters, be rest assured that EFFC will give u high blood pressure especially if don't belong to the ruling party.

lasisi69:
boss

lols. i dey always feel ur end time comments. everyone has caught the end time fever

lasisi69:
I blame myself for booking this space

end time prophet

very apt

mcmbonu:
1. HARD ANALYSIS:

Divide your SALARY by 30 days and see what you get (i.e. the number of days in a month and see the funny thing about your salary plan).

For example,
(1) An average level-12 worker in the state government civil service earns NGN 60,000.
**** And this translates to NGN 60,000÷30= NGN 2,000 every day. This is LESS THAN the amount made daily by an AVERAGE HAWKER in the city.

(2) A freshly EMPLOYED GRADUATE BANKER in most NIGERIAN BANKS earns an average of NGN120,000 monthly.
***So everyday, you get NGN120,000÷30= NGN4,000 as the daily value for your work-life. By implication, this is LESS THAN the amount earned DAILY by an AVERAGE DRIVER in d city and in some villages.....

(3) If you are a FRESH GRADUATE EMPLOYEE in some oil companies, you earn an average of NGN300,000 monthly. So in a day your WORK-VALUE is NGN300,000 ÷ 30= NGN10,000
**** This is LESS THAN the daily amount earned by an IRRIGATION FARMER supplying vegetables to Lagos MARKETS, a TIPPER CAR DRIVER supplying sand for three BLOCK INDUSTRIES and CONSTRUCTION SITES just 3 times a day and DRIVERS of DANGOTE TRUCKS who have bought off the trucks at scrap value and are using them to convey products between villages and the cities for just five business owners.

--------->>>HOPE BY NOW, IT IS SINKING IN, RIGHT?

And when there is an ISSUE in the FAMILY that requires FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, the DRIVERS, HAWKERS and the rest are looking up to you with a WHITE COLLAR JOB.

(4) If you are an NYSC MEMBER, you DON'T need to be told that:
*****NGN19,800÷30 = NGN 660 is your worth on a daily basis.
I hope you know that PURE WATER SELLERS who own a shop, a pepper soup joint and a small TOYOTA COROLLA car to distribute pure water to five restaurants earn MORE THAN you & WHEEL-BARROW PUSHERS working on contract for three warehouses probably make MORE MONEY than you EACH DAY

............
We shouldn't end at satisfactions from these earnings. We should be more proactive, create room for more income and strive to diversify our streams of income.

The earlier you wake up and smell the coffee, the better for you......

I know of someone right now who will say this is too ideal to be true but take your time and do this analysis over and over again, and you will grasp the crux!!!

STOP waiting for the Government to feed you, feed yourself and help the Government feed others. That is where we are in this age.

Have a great day ahead!!!

if i were the president i will push for
1) The restructuring and the adoption of true federalism and regionalism
2) The re-writing of the constitution to support federalism and regionalism
3) The development and adoption of a system of governance model that will ensure good governance is delivered irrespective of who becomes the president. it is the system that will deliver the good governance and not necessarily the person at the helms of affairs.

While it is not rocket science to perform the role of the president of a country, our past leaders have made it look as if the role is more difficult than rocket science with their “The more you look the less you See” approach to governance.
So I’m putting it across to my fellow visionary nairalanders, what will you do for this country if you were the president.
Pls mods push this to front page to get the views of Nigerians, who knows, one of the commenters may one day turn out to be the president of this great nation.

Oliviaarims:
There's a difference between not caring at all about all her male buddies.. And expressing a lil concern.

i don't like showing signs of vulnerabilities in a relationship. it makes you appear weak and insecure. when you start showing concerns about who she hangs out with, you're revealing your vulnerabilities to her, and she may capitalize on it.
Without my showing concern for who she hangs out with, she should understand the unstated rule of dating, which is no cheating. if you are caught thats the end. Thats how i roll, i respect my boundaries as a boyfriend without poke nosing into your affairs, i give you much freedom because i know, with much freedom comes a huge responsibility as well. But if you take my freedom for granted and then you cheat, i simply walk away with no qualms, without ruffling a feather or causing a scene

MALLAM Audu used to have a kiosk as you crossed from Moremi Hall to Awolowo Hall in Ife in those days. We bought little items from from the wares he displayed close to the health centre. After payment was made, Audu was usually not so quick with giving out the change, so, we would yell at him in our smattering knowledge of the Hausa Language: “Mallam,bani Changi!

For all those persuaded that all we needed to bring about CHANGE in Nigeria is one man of integrity while keeping the crooked structure that survives only on the oxygen of corruption must be screaming “Bani changi!” after going through the 2016 budget proposals laid before the joint session of the National Assembly recently.

President Buhari himself betrayed the limitations of what one man’s moral can do in a totally depraved system when he revealed during his maiden media chat that he refused the sum of N400m appropriated to buy cars for him but that his officials persuaded him to accept, that cars be purchased for use of visiting heads of state and all that when the dire straits we are in compels that we rely on hired taxis to receive such people so they would know that we are not in party mood. By the time they were done, the Presidency whose head felt buying cars should not be our priority now is to spend N3.6b on Salon cars.

Presidency’s mockery of the times

There are many other expenditure items in the presidency that are scandalous and mock the times that we are in. There is the N189.1m voted for tyres for various vehicles, including the bulletproof and plain Mercedes Benz cars being used in the Presidency. The budget for the Presidency has been raised to N39b from N24.4b in the 2015 budget with N1,415,706,197 devoted to both local and international travels as against N944m spent in 2015. We should be spending more time to find home-grown solutions to our problem given the global economic turmoil that we are witnessing.
At a time when we are not sure if human beings would be able to feed, the N24m budgeted for the purchase of exotic animals in 2015 has been increased to N326m in 2016.

A further breakdown of the 2016 budget for the Presidency includes other ridiculous headings such as : general renovation of the Guest House (N387m); complete furnishing of the Guest House (N45m); purchase of computers (N27.5m) and construction and provision of recreational facilities at N764m.

Other insensitive expenditures on the Presidency’s vehicles include N39.8m for the purchase of an unspecified number of 200 amps, 100 amps and 60 amps Mercedes Benz batteries for bulletproof vehicles while N30m is to be expended on the purchase of tool boxes, car jacks, and diagnostic machines for bulletproof cars. The purchase of C-Caution triangles, fire-extinguishers and cables is to cost N27m.

The uproar generated nationally in 2015 over the N1billion budget for food in the villa did not stop the almost 100% increase on the same heading to N1.75billion in 2016 at a time “fellow Nigerians” are being summoned to tighten their belts!
In the same vein, the acquisition of presidential canteen materials and kitchen equipment increased from N83.1m in 2015 to N89m in 2016. Where are those purchased last year? We have not been told yet that the last occupiers of Aso Rock went away with kitchen equipment and as such it is sheer waste to make such an item a recurrent expenditure.

A whopping sum N114.4m is to be expended on the upgrade of internet infrastructure in the State House with another N22.5 to be spent on purchasing internet servers.

In what appears as cooking up items to justify frittering of resource, a nebulous “Active Devices for State House Network” is to cost N100m and N35m is to be expended on the purchase of security appliances and licences, including computer anti-virus software. God have mercy!
The binge continues, the Office of the National Security Adviser where out of the N90.3 billion budget for 2016, N8.7 billion is to be expended to develop the ONSA’s “All-Eye” surveillance project and N9 billion to construct a salacious b “Stravinsky Project”.

Securing the nation

The ONSA’s security vote, including funds for operations, is put at N576m.

The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has N2.2 billion for its 2016 security vote. The Presidential Air Fleet is to spend N262.4m on Air Navigation equipment.

Other wasteful items under the Presidency’s 2016 budget include: N55,670,000 for installation or budget planning software; N272,646,891 for Upgrading of mechanical and electrical power line (underground) supplies to the State House; N322,421,971 for linking of cable to drivers’ rest room at Villa Admin and N213,873,953 for linking of cable from House No 9 Generator House to the gate.

The craze continues with N618,604,265 for installation of electrical lightings and fittings; N191,592,132 for electrical installation of distribution boards and other cables; N22,861,449 for provision of stage curtains and electrical drive; N10,416,146 for installations of electrical materials and luminaries.

There have been a lot of rhetorics about “diversification ” of the economy to the point that people were expecting that the 2016 budget would pay serious attention to non-oil sources especially the solid mineral sector. Alas, only a paltry N9b was voted for solid mineral, just a quarter of the N40b that has been earmarked to search for oil in the Lake chad at a time when IMF has projected that oil may fall to $20 a barrel as against our $38 projection. Peradventure oil is found in the North East, who is going to invest in the place given the security situation in that area? This is at best a sentimental voyage!

The President was right when he said that there is the need to secure Nigeria and then manage it. But we also need to manage what resources we devote to securing the country. We have N294.5 billion budgeted for the Ministry of Defence,the Ministry of Interior has a budget of N145.2b, Nigerian Police Formation and Command has N283.09 billion.

There is another N10b voted for Operation Lafiya Dole. If the four items are added with the N57.7 billion voted for the office of the National Security Adviser we have N799.04 billion devoted to security out of a N6.08 trillion!

Neglect of Agriculture

There is no rationale for the N39 billion voted for the Ministry of Information in the 2016 budget as against the N9 billion allocated to the same Ministry in 2015. Are we to consume more propaganda in this appropriation year? It boggles the mind further when it is realised that the N39.1billion allocated to the Information is more than the combined budgets of Ministry of Transportation N13.7 billion, Ministry of Water Resources N7.2 billion and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment N10.5 billion. The Information Ministry also has a higher vote than the Ministry of Agriculture N29 billion and Solid Mineral N9 billion. Yet, these are two key ministries crucial to diversification of our economy to meet the challenges of our reality.

It is doubtful if our policy makers came across Rick Rowden’s article titled “Africa’s Boom Is Over” where he opined as follows:
Today, I’m sorry to say, it looks like the skeptics were right. Oil and commodity prices are plunging, China’s purchases are slowing, and GDP growth rates across the continent are in steep decline. Reflecting these trends, the IMF has cut its 2015 projection for growth in sub-Saharan Africa from 4.5 to 3.75 percent, concluding that the decade-long commodity cycle that had raised African export revenues “seems to have come to an end.” With a population boom on the horizon, experts now worry about how the continent will produce enough jobs for its people.

Africa and arrested development

Africa’s plight is reflected by developments in its two leading economies, Nigeria and South Africa, which together account for 55 percent of the 48 sub-Saharan African nations’ GDP, and which have both been particularly hard hit by falling mineral and oil prices. Nigeria’s growth rate has slumped to 2.4 percent in the second quarter, the slowest pace in at least five years, while South Africa’s economy contracted by an annualised 1.3 percent as power shortages curbed output.

The fall in commodities prices has hit other oil producers, too, such as Angola and Ghana, while Zambia, the continent’s second-biggest copper producer, has suffered as copper prices have plunged to a six-year low.”

Nigeria has to smell the coffee. We must come to terms with the fact that the 2016 budget proposals is a great goof that betrays lack of appreciation of the need to CHANGE our ways. A return to the drawing board is necessary.

We must urgently disperse powers to the federating units so they can start in earnest the exploration of non-oil minerals under their soil and create new corridors of prosperity.

There is too much resources in Abuja with little responsibility which is the reason scandalous spendings would continue to be its lot. To continue to do what brought us to where we are and call it CHANGE is sheer deception. Give us the real change now!
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/2016-budget-bani-changi/

@ Oliverarims no 2 point of "putting up an i don't care attitude towards guys around". Seriously i don't give a damn about who she hangs out with, thats her damn business not mine. But if i eventually catch you cheating thats the end of the relationship.
When start poke nosing to know who she hangs out with, she will term you a jealous controlling freak.

zeefa:
CCTV without the data of Lagos residence is a trash.

Exactly. what is the function of a CCTV without a functional data base. is just another white elephant project to loot our common wealth.

babafirst:
Hmmmmm,my guy my ex wife exhibited some of this too hooo.Even saved men's name as women names.Foolish me,any time she is upstairs and her phone is down and she gets a call I will call 'baby you have a call from Joy/Bridget' .Sometimes I will even dash to go and give her the phone if she is busy.Hmmmmm,the day I 'coincidentally' (because I never checked her phone )found out Joy and Bridget were coded names for men fear catch me.Then all the other evidences just piled up like ops own and previous puzzles just got into place.With 2 kids,I sent her packing even left every thing for her ,cars,properties,I let her go.Initially she even tried to show a brave face by snapping chilling pics on Facebook with guys after the divorce but I no send .She tried to remarry but her fiancee caught her being unfaithful with even lesser evidence than I had and cancelled the wedding.I thank God I woke up from my slumber.

hmmmm. thats really shocking. You indeed acted as the man of the house. take heart bro and take good care of your kids.

reading this right now, all i'm saying is thank God i broke up with my ex before it ever got serious she was exhibiting some of this. i told myself guy wake up from your slumber, don't be blinded by love, or else you'll have heart attack in marriage, cos she will turn you into an overnight detective due to her unscrupulous ways. i beg o i no ready to become detective or CIA agent overnight becos of marriage o

I don laugh tire especially the cement off loaders, wey be like say dem get shock absorber for neck.

valdes00:
Bro.... u mean ( Automated Teller Mumu )

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha. nairaland una bad die. chei!

[quote author=jonnieoneng post=41525946][/quote]lols. can't the excutive arm of govt sponsor and canvas for reforms in laws?. I absolutely believe it can be done if the executive is willing. after all they were willing to convene a national conference, why can't same be done for corruption. when they even canvas for support, the masses will be ones campaigning and putting pressure on the national assembly to adopt such. until then, I will not support illegality no matter how it is rationalize.

you can't fight corruption by outright and deliberate violation of the rule of law most especially as the number one citizen of this country. it's totally illegal, illogical and even corrupt to do that. you don't need to become a monster in the process of trying to fight a monster. if you feel the system is permitting corrupt elements to go scot free for their corrupt deeds, the best option is to sponsor a reform in our laws to block those loop holes so that it will no longer be exploited and in the process all corrupt element will be brought to book through the rule of law. By so doing you've succeeded in creating a system that checks future corruption. Even the lawfully convicted still have human rights that should not be abused. that's why no matter what, I will always respect the whites, call it inferiority or whatsoever I don't care, I appreciate anything that is good. The whites respect the rule of law to the later no matter whose ox is gored. they are crazy about building systems that ensure checks and balances rather than a single individual abrogating that role to himself. They are always futuristic in their plans that's why they put in place systems to ensure result reproducibility irrespective of who is at the helm of affairs.until the black man change, transform or reform his thinking he can never be equal with the white man talk less of even dominating him. that's the bitter truth whether we like it or not.

drss:
true talk. Buari is assuming a prosecutor n a judge in his own case. See how he absolved his ministers from corruption n sentence others as corrupt. Like say him be court. D man is an unrepentant dictator.

it is quite dissapointing coming from our number one citizen. issues like this have forced some govt officials in advance countries to resign from public office. even bush that tried frantically in curtailing the activities of al que da was condemned by his people becos most his deed contravened human rights.
all I'm saying is for Mr president to sponsor reforms in our laws to adequately deal with corrupt people, he should not try to hijack the judiciary, becos he will not be the president forever, and when he leaves, we will be back to square with no laws to protect our commonwealth from looters.
it's a total aberration.

shaking my head at some of the comments here. cos I noticed so many fallacies committed by many people here known as argumentum ad hominem and the red herring fallacy. instead of tackling the issues raised, they start attacking the messenger, wiping up sentiments to distract us from the main issue.
I don't belong to any political party, but the truth is, you can't fight corruption by outright and deliberate violation of the rule of law most especially as the number one citizen of this country. it's totally illegal, illogical and even corrupt to do that. you don't need to become a monster in the process of trying to fight a monster.
if you feel the system is permitting corrupt elements to go scot free for their corrupt deeds, the best option is to sponsor a reform in our laws to block those loop holes so that it will no longer be exploited and in the process all corrupt element will be brought to book through the rule. By so doing you've succeeded in creating a system that checks future corruption. Even the lawfully convicted still have human rights should not be abused.
that's why no matter what, I will always respect the whites, call it inferiority or whatsoever I don't care, I appreciate anything that is good. The whites respect the rule of law to the later no matter whose ox is gored. they are crazy about building systems that ensure checks and balances rather than a single individual abrogating that role to himself. They are always futuristic in their plans that's why they put in place systems to ensure result reproducibility irrespective of who is at the helm of affairs.
until the black man change, transform or reform his thinking he can never be equal with the white man talk less of even dominating him.
that's the bitter truth whether we like it or not.

good one for democracy. honestly I don't care who wins as long as there is respect for the rule of law.

it will be a huge political mistake if Nuhu decamps to APC. because he is in line to become PDP presidential aspirant for 2019. he alone has the pedegree to bring back the presidency to PDP especially with his running coming southeast, be rest assured he has our massive vote from south south and south east, splitting the vote in North with buhari, as well as winning just a fraction of the west..

it will be a huge political mistake if Nuhu decamps to APC. because he is in line to become PDP presidential aspirant for 2019. he alone has the pedegree to bring back the presidency to PDP especially with his running coming southeast, be rest assured he has our massive vote from south south and south east, splitting the vote in North with buhari, as well as winning just a fraction of the west.

na wa o. dis guy want fall guys hands with him six packs body.
abeg make him no use body collect my e-babe o

Mikollon1:
Nice one pal.

Tanks.

Mikollon1:
So what are you doing to make the country better?

developing my capacity everyday to be a better leader, so that when I'm saddled with leadership responsibility, I'll perform well since I know what it takes and what is expected of a leader. Because the truth is, what you don't know you can't control talk less of owning it.

Mikollon1:
What do you mean by "better country"?

common u already what a better country means.
in the sixties and seventies countries like south korea, Indonesia, singapore, Brazil, south Africa and even China could not be compared to Nigeria talk less of Ghana or Kenya. But today, same can't be said. which is to show that bad leadership is the worst thing that can happen to any country, to me I consider bad leadership worst than conflict. becos it's effect is pernicious.
a country with issues of conflict but has good leaders will develop faster than a country with no issues of conflict but with rotten leaders, if in doubt check out Israel.

Chubhie:
it must be bloody and with logical precision to obliterate the elites.

True if need be. Most good or great tins don't come cheap. a times it can be very expensive.
but the question is; are Nigerians willing to pay the price even if it means blood to have a better country for posterity. until we develop that iron clad will and determination, our politician will keep taking us for a ride.

Aystarz:
Lwkmd4h

now we dey beg for point to avoid relegation o. so anybody we fit dash us, we go happily collect am even if na Man U.

the writer of this article has re-echoed some of my thoughts. nothing will change in this country unless we the citizens decide to take our destinies in our hands, damning consequences and forcefully revolt with this useless politician for our rights.
until then nothing changes, the status quo will still remain.

Aystarz:
Yeye... u never take care of Watford first, u dey talk about United. By the time those ones Ighalize and deeneylize u this afternoon, una go know whassup.

lols. na it mak I say make van Gaal still dey naw. so dat I fit follow collect awoof naw. since Watford no go gree give us awoof

now this is becoming boring. na by force if I no dey in d mood.

abeg make dem never sack van Gaal yet o, until Chelsea follow collect their 3 points.