₦airaland Forum

buzugee: modern standards are dictated by whomsoever is in charge of the world. currently, the world is in control of the gentiles, more specifically the wicked, more specifically the edomites. job 9 vs 24 - the earth is handed to the wicked to rule because the righteous have fallen (romans 11 vs 11). so you will have to change your point to 'he was not a wise man by wicked standards'. was the world dumber then ? lets see, no pollution, no starvation, no hunger, all organic food, no diseases, no wars started for resources, no people dropping bombs on each other just to steal their oil, subsistent living, every man owned hiw own land and vineyards. yeah you are right, they were way dumber
was he a wise man ? you only have to read the books of proverbs, ecclesiastes, and wisdom of solomon to surmise that he was a very wise man. now was he wise enough not to trip over his own ego ? no, but then who is ?

Not to trump your argument but the part bolded is just plain wrong. Anyone with facts could rightly argue that there's less hunger, less starvation, less wars and less unnecessary killings in this generation than @ any other point in history.

We produce more food, have developed medicine so people no longer die from meagre infections like small pox or malaria and then nobody goes to war anyhow again.

4everGod: @Beachwood: Well, I have 2 business offers for you;

1) You could invest your $50k into an oil and gas production in USA which is currently producing 500 barrels of oil per day and share profit with owner daily or weekly as the case may be. You stand to make as much as $10,000 2 days from proceeds.

2) I have just gotten the right to open a post office in my zone to serve over 200,000 people and with each person paying a yearly subscription of 3000-5000 naira, you stand to make a minimum of 100mil yearly (about 8mil monthly) from partnering with me.

Both business offers are legit and totally profit oriented. Let me know if you want to go further.

samuel_ekwueme@yahoo.co.uk

Bloody Scammer you are. Post Office ko, Oil Block ni, EFCC will soon come and pick u up.

The language of this FOI request is unprofessional and just wrong. Calling a serving governor a possible lunatic and then giving the recipient a 7 day ultimatum to deliver the records otherwise? Otherwise what? These guys are a bunch of quacks

[quote author=ekt_bear]Dudu_Negro: I am not sure of the significance of most of your post...it isn't an issue of Delta or whatever to me.

Long story short, coastal states own whatever is in their waters.

Any argument one wants to use for why derivation should apply to LAND should also apply to the water attached to that land.[/quote]Coastal states actually don't own any portion of the waters in Nigeria. According to our laws they don't. The Northerners have a point but Bleep it, they've been cheating us for a long time too so I guess they can leave with it.

Long story short, GEJ can offer states 50% derivation for onshore oils, 15% for those within 10-50miles and 5% for beyond. All the 36 states can be party to the 5% since its on FG property deep sea.

[quote author=Okija_juju]And the House of Reps just increased their salaries barely 1 week ago!!

Like I said, OCCUPY NIGERIA protest targetted the wrongest of issues!![/quote]Well, the full gist is that it was 42M during the 6th Nass. The 7th NASS reduced their quarterly allowances from 42m earned by the previous set to 15m. They just only increased it to 27m recently.

They still earn tons of money but in the grand scheme of things, I think it's better for our democracy if we had lawmakers who could stand on their own and be less prone to collecting bribes in the discharge of their duties. That's the theory sha. Remains practical.

werepeLeri: In your yeye eye - 1100 = 1600? Dey get imported in bashes mister frog.

Those buses look very identical to Innoson buses I know. If that's the case then they weren't imported but built locally. In case even if there's only 1000 presently working where have they been stationed and on what routes? I personally haven't seen any plying the Lagos roads with passsengers.

Fhemmmy: Nigeria is yet to really have a produce even a single president that was elected by the people . . . By the time that happens, the nation will be better

Who do you think voted for GEJ? animals?

[quote author=life_style]meaning ? [/quote]Meaning its like your uncle or aunty giving you additional capital to expand/commence business.

This is how businesses grow, this is how Dangote started and so many others.

chucky234: Court sitting and probe panels in Nigeria are nothing more than a family meeting,no sane man will expect anything to come from this because its business as usual.
By the way any news on subsidy removal probe? Guess already swept under the rug,lolz

The subsidy probe committee is presently compiling its report. When that comes out we'd knw what's next.

This man was kidnapped since January and we are just getting to know Why does that sound strange?

LeoMax: Why is 90% of the world's terrorists readers of Kuran ?

For many reasons that I've come to realise.

1. Many passages in the Quran are prone to mis-interpretation.

2. An Imam/Cleric holds a lot of powers towards interpreting the Quran to his followers. You only need to convince the Imam to become a radicalist and from there, you'd be bound to have a lot more radicals.

Don't forget that the Quran is mostly distributed in Arabic, meaning most muslims have to learn to read the Quaran from sumone/somewhere. It is during this process that radicalization can take place.

Islam is unlike Christianity where anyone can pick up the Bible and read it to his own understanding.

That's my own 2 cents. Doesn't mean any one religion is greater though.

icon aus: Boko makes some of us to beleive that Islam is evil.If the get the idealogy from Quaran then Quaran is satanic too.

Islam isn't evil. The conc combination of illitracy, ignorance, and vast unemployment is what's EVIL.

djustice: Just imagine the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US hosting potential Chinese investors at McDonalds.....YOU, sir, are evidently overdosed and high as a kite on kunu! What on earth are you on about? "Govt money is free money"? Which dirty hamlet did you just crawl out of? Just crawl back there and go an regale them with tales of your escapades at Mama Cass, Sweet Sensation and others. Bush man!

Hi bro,

Are you aware that guests flying on the POTUS's Air Force One are sent a bill one - two weeks later should they decide to have a meal or drink in-flight?

Put this in focus and then it becomes clear that there should be stringent rules surrounding the ability of govt representatives spending tax payer's money anyhow they wish.

I don't think the Chairman of the US Fed Reserves would take his friends to lunch and have the bills placed on American tax payers. He'll probably pay out of his pockets.

Truth is if it were to be an SEC organized dinner then that wuda bin a different case but this Otteh's matter appears to be a case of dinner with friends/family billed to the sec and invariably we Nigerians.

doctokwus: I doubt dis story o! To make it evn more superflous& unblivable,d op sed d camp commandant apologised.Uhn,what a tale

He said the state Coordinator apologised. Ot the commandant. This story is possible given the inexperienceof the lt. Camp commandant. He hasn't stayed too long in the army so he's blood is probably still hot.

Lagos and Rivers States have a lot to do to meert demand. A state like Niger or say Ekiti could have uninterrupted power with a single 100MW power plant but this isn't the case for the more populated states. Lagos on its own requires atleast 5kMW.

J12: Trash! My goat is also left handed

Meaning

Beaf: ^
Thanks bruv.



I don't see how GEJ has any part to play in the development of the states and LG's. Those things should be purely the business of the state governors and LG chairmen. It is not as if they have been tied down with marine rope; so why can't they be dynamic?

As for power, GEJ has already okayed it for states, LG's and even individual businesses to own power stations.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that GEJ as President has no part to play in the direction the country goes. No, I am asking a deeper question, which is: do we really understand the duties of governance that our state governors and LG bosses owe us? The thrust of the question is that, if a person does not understand how a machine should operate, then it doesn't make sense to give them a better version of that machine. In other words, for Nigeria to develop, we each need to understand the part every tier of govt plays from LG to FG and we need to vigorously demand our due from each of them. It is not ok to have two tiers of govt (state and LG) loafing about with the full permission of the citizenry.

I really like your pointing out that the LG should be the engine of development from the grassroots. Nothing could be truer, however we have the unfortunate situtaion where LG bosses are the equivalent of houseboys to the governors. This is because they collect allocations on behalf of the LG's and disburse them as they wish. The governors kicked very hard when GEJ got the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to work on disconnecting LG and state accounts, so that LG's can get their allocations directly and be truly independent. The problems we have are many and we only become more enslaved when we allow our states and LG's to operate like they have no civil, legal and moral responsibilities.

As for governors holding an SNC with GEJ, that will not happen. Most governors want Nigeria to continue just the way it is; they don't need to lift a finger because free money flows in from Abuja which they can divert into their personal accounts, because the peoples eyes are on Abuja instead of nearer home. The governors extreme aversion to an SNC is evident in the Northern governors seemingly ridiculous demands for 13% derivation; those demands stop being ridiculous as soon as you conclude that they are making an open threat to scuttle the SNC with impossible demands even before it takes off.

I hope you can see some of the reasons why we need to place more pressure on our governors and LG bosses.

The thing is that most states can do only little in the present state. The FG holds too much powers and because the constitution has done nothing to define the roles of citizens as residents and indigenes, this leaves the average person not caring about what's happening @ the State and LG levels.

Realistically I dare say that LGs in the North are much closer to the people than in the South (even if its only for sharing money purposes)cause Northerners dnt move around as much as the Southerners do.

The OccupyNigeria protests were a huge reminder that besides the FG, there's really no other level of Govt that the people are ready to hold accountable. Nobody asked questions on what the states and LGs wud do wiv their monies even tho they were collectively getting a larger share than the FG.

I for example don't knw the name of the LG chairman of my place of residence. I've never known this cause its not relevant to me.

What I'm saying is that we reaLly need to define the roles of residents and owners of the lands in the community. Once everyone begins to feel a sense of ownership in the states where they reside, you'd have people place more pressure on the States and LG.

The sad truth is that the elite will continue using ethnicity and tribal shinaginans to divide the average populace. The fact that your IGBO living in the SW for sometime should give u a sense of ownership in the SW, but that isn't the case today.

scriptwizz: YOU ARE A FOOL, INTELLIGENT BEINGS LIKE ME KNOW THE STRATEGY USED BY THE BOKOHARAM THESE DAYS, IT IS WHAT WE CALL LEAVE NO TRACE. USING CHRISTIANS TO CAMOUFLAGE SO THAT THEY CAN CARRY OUT THEIR AGENDA UNHINDERED. WE KNOW AL THESE THINGS. THE REASON IS THAT ANYBODY THAT LOOKS ISLAMIC FROM THE NORTHERN REGION IS SUSPECTED TO BE A TERRORIST IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, YOUR PEOPLE CANNOT BE TRUSTED. SO NOW SINCE THEY (BOKO HARAM)KNOW THIS, THEY NOW PREFER USING CHRISTIANS WHO THEY KNOW CANNOT BE SUSPECTED TO CARRY OUT THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTS. ABOKI SUYA, YOU UNDERSTAND?

What you're saying isn't very much different from what he said...

Very sad development indeed.

Does anyone have GDP estimates for the 36 states?

Beaf: My guy, this is escapist na.
What sort of thing does the FG need to do to make a state governor or LG boss create industries in their domain?

We cry a lot about true federalism, and it is a legitimate cry. However, what is there to make a state that is unproductive suddenly become productive with the advent of true federalism? I don't see anything; what is required is wholesale cultural reorientation to enable people realise that they can actually generate much more wealth locally than the FG ever can. When we acheive that then states would actually be self sufficient and in a position to reject any FG money as belittling beggars money (as happens in the US).

The sad truth is that Nigeria has been overtaken by a culture of indolence. Check out the number of cities that make more money than Nigeria and tell me the fault is not Nigerian culture.

Well, GEJ could start by allowing the diFferent states pay whatever minimum wage they feel like, fixing power supply so the states would find different ways to take advantage through manufacturing, mechanized farming incentives etc. (The states should be encouraged to create their own power stations too or atleast come together in groups for this purpose).

He could also influence the NASS for constitutional reforms unchaining the LG chairmen from being mere puppet heads to the leaders of change @ the grassroots that they should be.

Lastly, he should sit down with the Governors Forum and they can have an SNC right there. Let them discuss what each state wants and how the Federal Govtment can come in. They can decide on developmental metrics (like the MDGs) to encourage GDP growth @ state level with incentives available for those who perform.

Ensure corruptiont cases are completed in 6- 8 months. Sing praises of the Fasholas, Lamido's and Akpabio's, let the rest lazy governors see how governance should be.

Allow states keep a larger portion of their IGR. Also let them develop their own solid minerals industries as a test run to finally allowing the SS control over the bureacracy of oil exploration and mining etc.

If he can do all these, then the vast majority of Nigerians would have little to complain about.

Ournaija: Thanks man, I have seen something that interest me. Let me have a closer look.

Ur welcome bro. There's indeed a lot to look @.

Ournaija: Can we have a break down of the budget?

Here you go:


http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/revised_2012_budget_proposal.html

If Dbanj and Don Jazzy both own 30,000 shares, who owns the rest 40k?

afam4eva: See how innocent looking they are. Some of them are even babies kids.

They may look innocent but they're probably not 100% innocent. Either the killers themselves or their accomplices.

He's also implemented a stronger foreign policy sort of. No country can do anyhow without expecting some repercussion.

Then as for Electricity, they've been able to build power stations up to 9000MW bur unfortunately there's no gas supply to power the plants optimally. We just have to wait till the gas projects come alive - that is, if they ever do.

Besides the vastly improved elections he helped organise, He's probably not done much in tangible things that the eyes can see. I'm hopeful that he's working hard behind the scenes and that Nigerians wud soon start reaping the benefits.

Yes then we have the revamped Nigerian Rail Corporation and then the Lagos - Ore - Benin road.

@OP,

There is no official exemption for Fatness. You'd still have to go and serve but my guess is that based on the person's fitness and overall ability to withstand strenious activities in camp, such an individual may have to be a bench warmer. You'd just do a little bit of marching here and there, but not much of the serious stuff.

That's assuming the soldiers are compassionate, and I feel many of them are in such cases.

God2man: My friend, no Pastor has the right to decide for you who to marry, but as the shepherd of the sheep given with the responsibilty of taking care and guiding the sheep, he will in his own wisdom tell you to go and pray again, that means he wants you to find out yourself why you should not marry the person or to go ahead.
My friend, it is your life, but it is better to listen to the cousel of those Pastors that are enjoying a peaceful and Joyful marriage.
No Pastor wants his sheep to make mistake when it comes to the issue of choosing life partner, expect the Pastor is a devil incarnate who is interested in your would be husband or wife.
It is better not to marry at all than to marry the wrong person that will destroy your life.
Let me ask you; is the person in question a christian? Is he or she on the Lord's side? Has she been washed in the precious blood of the lamb?
If you cannot answer these questions correctly, it is doubtful that your marriage will be blissful.
God bless you. God2man.

You must be a pastor. Btw, not all pastors enjoy blissful marriages. Some are blinded by their own selfish interests or perhaps use their human experience in giving you advice, and not any God given divine direction.

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