₦airaland Forum

Quakertellicus1:
The mistake you people make when you read my comments .....is that you think I am defending pmb.

I am not....I am merely stating that he has a hefty job to do......and he is not doing it right.

Only way for Nigeria's economy to improve is to get rid of our reliance on oil....and go industrial...which guarantees self sufficiency and more revenue for our economy than oil can provide. And jobs galore.



Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia are all affected.

Russia is losing jobs, Saudi Arabia is in panic mode....they are already raising taxes....and of course...Venezuela is in dire stratis.

And in the oil producing parts of the UK and US....jobs are being lost. and economy is being depressed.



So you do admit our economy is oil dependent! Hey!

But that $50 is not what we need. Nigeria needs oil at $123, Russia at $99 and Saudi Arabia at $70. That $50 won't earn us much money at all.

That is why.....if you read me clearly....I am saying Nigeria's problem ultimately is our dependence on exporting resources whose prices we do not control. Like oil!

Here is a good article explaining how it works. Written in 2004 by the way!

i will start with the later, why do you need oil to survive when you have multiple options in terms of natural and human resources.

Why do you need oil at what so ever price when you have people ready to invest in converting raw materials to finished goods but Can't afford your interest rates or the cost of running business due to your policies and multiple taxation.

Why do you need oil to survive, when they are other countries doing well without oil reserves?

zegbeye:
I am loving my state:

Obong Victor Attah = in his tenure fought for an increase in revenue and got 13% derivation and also prepare the ground for infrastructure take off

Obong Godswill Akpabio= implemented massive infrastructures and create the foundation for an industrial take off in the state.

Emmanuel Udom: an astute banker is already implementing the industrialization of the state with inner roads in many local government and villages.

Kudos and congrats to all AkwaIbomites in particular and Nigeria in general that will work there and eat the said rice

We rock … only time will tell...

If only Tribalism and politics will allow us get seaport...

Dropshot kindly antagonize this claim with valid points

He likes cartoons,

no wonder he doesn't care about the affairs of the nation

Femi and Shehu continue …

One of the toughest task the president's media aides will face is defending Buhari - Tinubu, 2015

So They killed his dog and no one has been jailed.

One Nigeria my asssss

Quakertellicus1:
And if oil prices went up tomorrow...you folks would be praising Buhari as a miracle worker.

While I would still be talking the same way I am.....

Fact is....most Nigerian governments since independence have had the same policy.....export as much raw materiel as possible and share the money earned in a nice and kind way.

Real policy for me would be increased spending on what we need to become self sufficient...and keep as much oforex as possible at home...and the only way we can do that is via industries.

see your problem, they have made you believe that the issue is price of oil, hiding their cluesslessness,

I won't go further except you explain to us if Nigeria is the only one affected by fail in price,

Mind you our benchmark is below $50 so From the current oil prices simple mathematics should have made you understood that we have excess funds also add the trillions that they have recovered from looted funds as alleged

Quakertellicus1:
The mess was already happening long before he came in....when oil prices began falling by 2014....and Mrs Okonjo-Iweala was saying that things would get bad...regardless of whoever wins.

We were a big economy because we were buffered by the immense revenue comming from high oil prices above $100 per barrel.Now...the oil has fallen to below $50. Of course....we have less spending money....and thus we are poor.

We could blame GEJ for not saving , BUT......even if he saved....we would have had enough to hold things off till 2017.....and then things go bad.

The real enemy here is Nigeria's resource dependency. Let us stop relying on revenue from selling oil and agric...whose prices we do not control...and using the income to import things we should be making.That is why we have a bad economy....and why the economy was band even when GEJ was in charge.

Businesses are not failing because of Gej even if Amaechi and co Allowed him to save.

Businesses are failing because APC government is hopelessly clueless, they were only desparate about getting power.

No policy direction, every recent policies have been changed more than 3 times within a quarter, what does that tell you, they are clueless folks practising trial and error and all they care about is generating revenue to feed political class not minding the impacting of those sources on the masses.

By 2019, only fashola will have something to show as a minister, the rest are political jobbers

Congratulation ngeneukwenu, dropshot, passingshot, gbawe, myndd44, jarus, jarushub

I have made up my mind just like chief Pat Utomi "i have stop advising people because they don't listen" - Utomi, 2016


Information reaching me says FG is planning to increase fuel price to 200/litre.

One thing is sure, i won't buy it alone, you will also buy, if things gets worse, relocating to another country is very easy …

Good morning …

Biafman:
That woman is a proper Dumbo. Imagine this quote by this same ficticious parents organisation.
This simply implies that the Dumb ugly woman Obiageri's BBOG is against APC and Islam. Read in-between the lines to understand. Yet this accusation will not stop the useful idiot madam Obiageri from staging another of her useless BBOG protests.

When oby was campaigning under gej, does that mean that oby was against pdp and christianity??

just asking?

searchiing4love:
What these people fail to realize is the shame and ridicule the biafra movement has become ever since Nnamdi kanu was discovered to be a fraud and arrested by the Nigerian government. Right to self determination is a treasonable offense against the Nigerian state because it's not captured in our Constitution. It is totally illegal for any region or group of people to demand seccession from Nigeria. The penalty would have been death if we were in a military regime. The Indian government recently opened fire on secessionist in the Kashmir region of India just to serve as a deterrent to future agitators. Despite having a referendum, Scotland chose to remain in the UK cos they for-saw their impending doom if they decide to leave. The Spanish government have disregarded several calls for catalonia to break away from spain. Russia recently annexed crimea from Ukraine after the crimeans got tired of life outside the soviet Union. The people of South Sudan are regretting their decision to leave Sudan till today and yet the Igbo's are hell bent on having biafra despite all the glaring indices of an impending failure if biafra is ever achieved. No country in the world wants a break away of its territory. Even the United States that preaches freedom disregarded Texas's call for seccession. The reason for seccession of the Igbo's has not been clearly defined. The fruitless agitations is fuelled by hate and jealousy of other region's political stability and doggedness. Their political miscalculations in the last elections gave birth to the recent biafra calls headed by the disgruntled element called Nnamdi kanu who was feeding fat on the Biafran sentiment before been apprehended. The British saw a potential in our diversity before merging us together as a united Nigeria and every sane mind believes the future of the Igbo's lie in nigeria. What we need is a united south and we will wrestle political power away from Northern monopoly who sees power as their birth right. Will the Igbo's ever work with bourdillon to achieve a united south? Time will tell. Say no to biafra, God bless Nigeria

indeed, when they want to keep you as their slaves, they write articles like this … you can't brainwash everyone …

Lord butter my bread with a beautiful wifey na?m


Wifey you self come joor,


Pm Me fast fast

alright, please gimme till closing hours of the day to respond, many thanks

Eddodoh:
Thanks.

Sent you some documents for review.

Mail replied

Eddodoh:
You haven't. It was sent on the 11th of August with the subject; Career Advice.

Hello Dear, my apologies, i have been checking the wrong mail, your email was sent too the foundation account, i will reeply right away. Thank you for your patience

Eddodoh:
You haven't. It was sent on the 11th of August with the subject; Career Advice.

And to many others still waiting for my response, I will be replying 5 mails each day, hopefully I should be able to catch up, else I will increase the number , Thanks your understanding. - Ideologies Foundation

Omooba77:
These are not be the best of times for manufacturers in Nigeria as they face high operating costs, scarcity of foreign exchange, low capacity utilisation and a drastic drop in profit margins. Latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics at the manufacturing sector was feeling the negative impact of high operating costs as it recorded 2.98 per cent (year-on-year) in nominal Gross
Domestic Product growth rate in the first quarter of 2016. This was 4.23 percentage points lower than the growth recorded in the Q1 2015 and 9.91 percentage points lower than the growth in the fourth quarter of 2015 as a result of slower growth in 10 of 13 subsections of the manufacturing sector.

On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the sector slowed by 11.92 per cent. The contribution of manufacturing to nominal GDP was 9.33 per cent in the Q1 2016, lower than the 10.17 per cent recorded in the corresponding period of 2015, yet marginally 9.09 per cent in the Q4 2015. In the Q1 2016, the real GDP growth of the manufacturing sector slowed by seven per cent, 6.30 percentage points lower than the growth recorded in the Q1 2015 with oil refining, cement, food, beverage and tobacco and electricity activities weighing on growth.

Only recently, the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the inability of manufacturers to secure foreign exchange for the importation of basic raw
materials for production had led to loss of job by over 50,000 workers. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria also said about 10 manufacturing companies had written to the association indicating their plans to shut down. It said if they shut down operations, at least 2,000 people working in the companies would be thrown into the already overcrowded labour market. Experts said the infrastructural decadence affecting manufacturing activities over the years was compounded by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive excluding 41 items from accessing official foreign
exchange in Nigeria. Analysts said there was a need for the government and stakeholders in the sector to come up with innovative ways to enable industrialists to remain in business.

The President, MAN, Dr. Frank Jacobs, for instance, called on the Federal Government to consider what he described as “resource-based industrialisation” to boost
the utilisation of local raw materials for production. The resource-based industrialisation, according to him, involves the utilisation of the abundant natural resources in producing the products that the country
needs. This, he noted, was a more sustainable and lasting form of industrialisation when compared with the current import-dependent industrialisation. He said, “We are all aware that one of the greatest challenges manufacturers are facing currently is scarcity of raw materials for production, as a result of the prevailing
forex scarcity. “The resource-based industrialisation
policy involves the utilisation of the abundant natural resources in producing.

The changes we are canvassing will, no doubt, be at a huge cost as manufacturers may have to retool existing technologies and production processes. “Government, therefore, has a lot to do to make this new orientation of resource-based industrialisation successful. Government should create attractive incentives for investors who will engage in the processing of the abundant agricultural and minerals resources from
primary produce to secondary or intermediate products.
“This will go a long way in attracting potential and current manufacturers into the use of local raw material inputs, which will then be readily available locally.”

While admitting that the sector was faced with scarcity of foreign exchange, Jacobs said the association had had regular meetings with the Presidency and the CBN
leadership on the need to make forex more accessible to industrialists. He said the association would continue to press for the exclusion of some of the items that restriction was placed on for foreign exchange. He said with economic recession facing the sector, there was a need for the association to review its strategies and
face the challenges in order to survive. He said, “It is no time to be despondent. We will bond together and face the challenge with our time-tested skills and resolve. We need to review our processes and re-strategise to weather the storm, knowing that after the storm, comes
sunshine.”

Also speaking, the Officer in Charge, United Nation Industrial Development Organisation, Dr. Chuma Ezedinma, said while the country had enough potential to industrialise, there was a need to address the structural challenges militating against the progress of manufacturers.

http://punchng.com/manufacturers-worry-profit-margin-shrinks/

i don shout tire, people think i hate the government, but the truth is glaring they have not gotten it right, yet they keep making the situation worse with trial and error fiscal policies

AllTheWayUp:
Gas pipeline from Akwa Ibom to Lagos



Hope the boys wouldn't below up the pipeline before the gas gets to lagos

why dont you also ask why, they would prefer to spend billions to construct a pipeline for several miles instead is constructing the refinery close to the raw material, is that not we learnt in economics 101?

investnow2013:
Negodu!!!

obiano remains the most performing governor in Nigeria special kudos to Peter Obi, who left billions in govt coffers, unlike Amaechi and co …

ireneony:
Why not invest in Nigeria sport instead.
i call this SHOW OFF

that may be an ad, he has invested already, his football club is one of the best in Nigeria

easy86:
My name is yusuf an environmentalist from college of health technology and at the same time a master baker. I have more than 5years teaching experience both at primary school and secondary school. I'm writing to inform the well wisher,philanthropist, employer of labour and business oriented people to assist me in one way or the other to either employ me or give business idea, set up a business for me, business partner or give any information that can bring solution to my joblessness... [b]i can work under stress [/b]please kindly help me or refer me to people who you think can render help...May God assist you all. My contact...08163621897, 08120615105..i reside in iwo, osun state....distance not a barrier.

please remove that phrase, @emboldened. no matter your condition dont devalue yourself, except you meant you can work under pressure.

Olulinks:
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All you have to do is give me the topic and I'd drop you the article. I will write it for you for free to be precised. Mail me if you are interested and i will tell out it works.

Thanks.


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oweniwe:
Where do I even start from....

Please refer to my memoir posted on nairaland here...

https://www.nairaland.com/2981751/memoirs-job-hunter

The little data entry work I have been managing... The office has been closed due to Buharinomics.... The company had been out of contract since after the elections.... They finally succumbed to the times and ordered the branch closed.

So since June, I've been home firing applications here and there....ended the same way as the other ones.... "Its marketing job/well call you later"... Hmmm

I tried taking on writing jobs but it's complicated... Though the jobs are available, power situation in town is very erratic...BEDC domian.... And after using my money to run gen/buy data to source articles/PDFs online, when it's time to get paid, it's one story after the other of they send N200 card pin for a 1,500 word article that cost me about N500 (fuel/data) to produce...

I can't try foreign writing sites... Upwork, fiverr cos of power issues ....

Then my laptop fell and screen broke last Saturday...!!!... :O

Wetin man go do now? If I get another screen @ N15,000 ... I surely wouldn't have money to run writing jobs anymore... How can one be spending N500 on top of N200-N300 articles?

So I have decided to park bus and find something concrete to keep me busy for meantime... I hate being idle...

About me: I am a graduate of Intelligence & Security Studies... If you wonder why I haven't joined the armed forces, it's cos I have some heading loss & foot drop... same reason why I get turned away even after scaling tests and interviews.

Skill wise, I'm good with Microsoft office, excellent in online research and very good at writing. If you'll like to see my works, they're on my blog : stephenoweniwe.wordpress.

Location wise, I often shuttle between Lagos, Delta and Enugu to run my hustles.

So dear nairalanders, if you can help a brother with a job, I'll be happy. I can be reached through my mobile number on WhatsApp 08104447220, by SMS, or PM me... My Cv is available on request

Cheers

what exactly do you want? also professionally never write a 500 words article for less than a thousand naira.

****Modified***

I just visited your blog, and if you wrote all those content by yourself, and you are still looking for jobs then you deserved to be punished, as 24 strokes

You need self-branding, you can be your own boss.

If you want to still work for , then you will need few extra skills and information

Kindly send me pm

Beremx:
only in this administration are appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari are bold to tell Nigerians they are clueless and incompetent, yet the President cannot sack them.

Make 2019, come quick sef!!


mtscheeew!

oh see a soul, welcome to the light, where we think through every thought and be rational despite the tribalistic nation that we belong

Welcome to the light

MadamExcellency:
What does this old man want when his mates have resigned from politics.

Edwin Clarke
Obong Victor Attah
Obsanjo
Tukur

that man called bode George Is working for tinubu, quote anywhere.

Does it matter the age of A man calling for meetings?

Bode George Is the reason PDP may never win LAGOS

Politicalidiot:
Today after almost a week of testing, I have finally gotten tired of Glo. Now, it is necessary to note at this junction that I am a heavy user of all the networks - MTN (2 Sims), Airtel (2 Sims), Etisalat (1 sim) and Glo (1 recent sim). Like everyone within the past 2 months, I had been inundated with the recent Glo data offers (#1000 for a Bazillion gb). So exactly on monday this week, I decided to take the bite and try out Glo again (after an almost 3yr hiatus).
Its been 4days now, and even though I hardly write, I had to sit down and pen these cogent reasons on why Glo will be the loser of the data Wars.

1. Super Poor Network Connection: Yes. As everyone knows, Glo and poor network are 5 & 6 and its only someone working in Glo office that will tell you otherwise. Get used to super slow network the likes you probably haven't seen since the late 2000s. I could wager my money that even the Airtel 2g is faster that Glo 3g at times. Proof? A simple Google or Nairaland search will convince you (check the post date.)

2. Frequent Disconnection: During my few days of Data hell, it was as if Glo owned my phone. What with the frequent data disconnections and network vanishing at intervals. I had never experienced such sorcery prior to Glo. This may have been the end of my sorrows until....

3. GPS: Remember when I said it was as if Glo owned my phone? Yea right. They had to one up themselves didn't they? Any time I put on my data connection, so would My GPS be unceremoniously turned on. I suspected foul play on Glo 's part and a simple Google search brought me to this page on NL - https://www.nairaland.com/2899604/gps-keeps-turning-automatically-after/1 confirming my suspicion. Glo was the culprit!!! Did anyone inform Glo I played Pokemon Go? Wetin person dey use GPS do for naija? I tire.

Glo seriously just had to know where I was. . Even if you turn it off, within a minute it was back again. And God help you if you sleep off without putting off your data. Just kiss your fully charged battery Goodbye. Especially in this era that Nepa doesn't have joy


This was the last straw. I couldn't take it again (I probably will until my subscription expires Sunday. So, yes. I posted this with Glo). A bad User experience coupled with poor network? Glo is silently but surely heading for the data Gallows.

2 weeks ago, i made similar post

https://www.nairaland.com/3274335/globacom-aware-open-letter-globacom

I try to paint it and gave them good look, yet it seems that they don't know the power of internet.

Its a matter of time, they will lose the most loyal customers

Jackrich:
Making excuses for unrepentant looters will make you more stupid and you're likely going to end up making more stupid kids that can never think straight even if the truth sticks out a hand and smack them in the face and that was how our society ended up like this.

All our politicians are thieves - now you can take that to the bank.

what is this one saying? the person i quoted got my point and how does your gibberish relate to my question?

And did you comment make you feel better

All political class are thieves, including saint Buhari and his mere ministers

Eddodoh:
You haven't. It was sent on the 11th of August with the subject; Career Advice.

i will check again, but Kindly check your spam, because I can remember i replied a mail. Did you send me pm?

Oildichotomy:
The problem with Nigeria is beyond redemption.

What silly excuse is this for pete's sake ?

you might also want to ask why dream team is annoyed with Dalong instead of NFF? don't you think so?

Nigeria, we don wake up again with embarrassing news/headlines every day


Relocating to a neighboring African Country will not be a bad idea, i think …

Nigeria has never been so fractured like in recent times … - OBJ, August 2016

The same set of people accused GEJ of initiating divisive attributes

What a man sows, a man reaps …
Harvest time is here … #NightWatch #GameOfThrones #WarsToCome

CosmicJames:
Wait. Was GEJ FG? He asked what ll cost FG to restructure Nigeria and you are asking him ''what stopped GEJ from doing it?'' Do you have a personal beef with GEJ? Did GEJ take your girlfriend?

ask him what was confab about? Leave these fools, who always think that they are smarter than others

Omololu007:
what stopped GEJ from restructuring the country,when he was the president?

What was confab about

these yorubas self

TonyeBarcanista:
Seriously, are they saying that Yekini didn't make enough money or he mismanaged his money? This was a guy that played in foreign countries and clubs including Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, and Saudi Arabia, and earned good stipends from Nigeria government during his playing days.

yekini played in

how much was football worth in his days?

and right before your eyes didn't u see Amokachi go broke despite playing in Europe?

engrjacuzzi:
stolen and looted funds that they use to travel out for vacation, medicals.

see painment, mind your business you no gree, see how full of bitterness you have become