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sgtponzihater1:
I worked for one of the top 20 universities in the world. A section of workers went on strike and were not paid for the days they were off work.

Strike is still common in advanced Countries but not the Osadeke's entitled strategy of going off work for months and demanding to be paid for the time off work

One day Nigerians will have sense and know that lecturers in advanced climes are not paid humongous wages like ASUU is making Nigerians believe.

Shame on ASUU. You delay and sabotage children's future and put parents in debt and want to be paid fully for your evil.

If you ever get paid, may the underserved wages speak against you.

PonziHater

ASUU members won’t see reason in what you’re saying. But if we called a spade a spade, a striking worker doesn’t deserve to be paid for a striking period. It speaks of unfairness in every ramification and lecturers are no different.

In fact we could also argue Students have paid for a service that isn’t rendered in a timely manner and so are due compensation from the universities. But alas no one is pushing that argument in the media.

We want to become a developed nation but don’t want to do the things that developed nations do. Paying striking workers has incentivized long strikes over the years. A strike becomes a paid vacation. Who wants to work when they can stay home for 8 months and receive accumulated salaries at the end. There is a valid reason strikes in the western world don’t last months like we’ve had with ASUU, the impact will be significant on the members on strike.

There is also a different angle to look at this from. If ASUU members are so against the present working conditions why not resign? Resigning en-mass is perhaps a stronger way to show the government there is a problem and their skills are in demand. ASUU should do their jobs or resign, rather than pretend to be freedom fighters and activists.

Doing this in the midst of political season is a smart move and commendable. No more bringing cash out from soak aways to buy votes. It will also impact kidnappers and terrorists who collect cash for ransom. Hopefully the CBN to begin to mandate banks to ask questions on suspicious deposits as well.

santos247:
Hello guys,
I just registered with Mashmallow insurance with my Nigerian Drivers license. I indicated that I have driven for 4 years and no claims before coming to the UK. Now the vehicle insurance is requesting for a "Proof of your No claims discount". How do I go about this?
Your kind advice is needed. Thanks

Did you own a car in Nigeria with genuine insurance? If yes reach out to your contact and get them to issue you a letter stating you had no claims. I did this with Marshmallow and had no issues claiming NCD. My insurance broker facilitated the letter. It’s also not true they don’t recognize proof of NCD from Nigeria.

If you can’t provide this, they will revert your insurance pricing to what it should have been without NCD which is most likely higher by some margin.

ugoonuoha:
Hi House,

For someone who's working in central London (Zone 1). What's the most cost-effective place to live currently?
I know there's a lot of options but here are some factors to consider:
- 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
- Safe family oriented area
- 2 bedroom / 2 bathroom ideally (new build preferably)
- willingness to travel approx. 1hr to work. (2hrs to/fro)

Some areas being considered;
- Reading (benefiting from new Elizabeth line)
- Maidenhead
- St Neots
- Luton
- Watford etc.

I have already done some research but looking for more "qualitative" inputs based on personal experience.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

You didn’t mention your budget. In addition to other suggestions, you might also want to consider East London and Essex towns on the C2C line. Barking, Dagenham, Rainham, Purfleet, Grays Tilbury, South Ockendon, Chafford hundred, Aveley, Basildon etc. You should get an apartment to your spec for £1.1 to £1.3 per month in some of these areas. Travel time to central London is 35 mins on this line from Grays of course excluding. time from your house to the train station.

Thamesmead, Erith, Dartford, Gravesend, Greenhithe, SevenOaks are also very good options in Kent with good transport links into central London.

Lastly, if you have kids you’ll want to also consider an area with good schools more strongly than your transit time.

Reference:
Exactly what I have been saying for years and shouting from the roof tops when we they were flying Mr. Buhari's anti corruption toga like a kite. We told them that corruption was not the problem of Nigeria but STRUCTURE, one not attuned to productivity.

Can you remember the infamous Obi's debate with Mr. Osinbajo and the tale of the rats in the shop....
I bet Mr. VP will be gobsmacked at what has befallen Nigeria after their anti-corruption crusade and the 'wealth' it has brought Nigeria....

And where will revenue come from if not productivity, the productivity primarily anchored in the roots of industrialization from which all other branches of the economy spring forth.

And where will industrialization come from, what will trigger it, yes, big budget infrastructural expenditure and here lies the twin follies of poverty that has crashed our economy today.

Our industrialization drive and infrastructural spending failed to meet our biggest wasteful expenditure, we did not invest in petroleum refining insisting on railways instead and after borrowing heavily for that, we gave everything over to the chinese to build robbing us of the industrial trigger required to build a productive economy.

This is where intelligent, visionary leadership is critical. Leaders who know INDEED how to create wealth, how to build economies from scratch, how to wean this country from consumerism, rent-seeking and round tripping....

100% agree. One aspect of our problem stems from a lack of identity. Are we a socialist economy or a capitalist one? On one hand we seem to want to run things from a socialist perspective, for example, keeping refineries that haven’t generated income in decades, or operating our health and education system strictly on Government funding, petrol subsidies and the likes. Challenge is we don’t have revenues to support these things at a decent level and it further discourages productivity as you’ve rightly said.

Also, the citizens themselves seem to want intellectual leaders but we don’t end up voting for any. Without becoming political, we’ve never had a truly intellectual President in my opinion. This is a problem as politicians will only make decisions that serve their interests even if it is against the greater good. Putting in a productivity based structure means vested interests can no longer induce votes with money, garri and rice. It makes power/elective positions less attractive to individuals who want to enjoy the largesse of power, rather than work for the good of the nation.

We need to wake up as a people and begin to make the tough decisions needed to move forward.

NOwazobia:
Then first eradicate corruption before talking of taxes.

Well yes. The lower corruption there is the more confidence citizens have towards taxes. However, it’s a bit of a chicken and egg as eradicating corruption will always be an ongoing activity.

The government needs to be very very intentional around both and do them simultaneously.

mrvitalis:
Nigeria makes less than 25 billion dollars a year from oil .......for a country of 150 million that's nothing ...that should be Lagos revenue

Until every Nigerian pay average of 150,000 naira in tax its impossible to develop this country

You’ve hit the nail in the head. We are too many for the revenue being generated by the government. I do think the fallacy of oil money means the average Nigerian think we are rich.

Even if we eradicate corruption 100%, Nigeria will not turn to Dubai until the government increases revenues significantly.

Zonefree:
The complete table shows 9ja no try at all. A country of over 200 million people struggling with just 35 medals. Scotland with just 5 million people got 49 medals.

What of India with over 1 billion people?

Good suggestions all round. Sadly we have a dead FG led by a disinterested president. These Governors must have gotten a consultant to come up with these ideas. No way those men thought of all these ideas on their own.

Leads to regrets 99.99% of the time.

Here’s an old nairaland post with evidence they are long time business partners in Intel. They are actually good friends in real life (or atleast they used to be).

https://www.nairaland.com/4797308/atiku-sold-part-intel-tinubu

samint1:
Una good morning o. For those that have booked and written the Provisional Driving Licence test how did you get a closer or desired date for the test?
Provisional just arrived within a week of posting the form back and I have been trying to get test date but no available slots months away.
I need guidance pls �

What I did was to Download an app - Driving Test Cancellations Now. There’s many apps but this has a red icon. The app will try to find a cancellation appointment for you and book it automatically.

It is more effective outside London in my experience as there’s less struggle for dates / less people using these sort of apps. Also, the app can help book in a different test center so you can choose up to 3 test centers for it to search for cancellation test appointments. For example, you book in a far location for a far away date (if no closer test center is available on DVSA website when making the original booking) and the app moves it to a closer test center and date for you based on your preference.

Lastly, the app is not free. Good luck !

Famoustemmy:
From what I heard from people that has been to that country called morocco, he said, Moroccan doesn't like other Africa country, they wished they are not in Africa at all.

Strange cause Morocco has been trying to join ECOWAS for years unsuccessfully.

https://mipa.institute/7323

INEC can’t register fictitious names as each registration is tied to a biometric id.

The north takes elections very seriously. Even more than the WAEC some of us are quoting. They will gladly mobilize their people to come out enmass to vote, whilst the southerners continue to think votes don’t count.

Lots of Eastern European countries are worse off in my view: Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Northern Cyprus

Nice analysis OP.

I do think the political parties are raising these fees because a grass root based fund raising mechanism for parties in Nigeria is non-existent so parties can only rely on sales of forms for revenue generation.

In the states most people who belong to a party will make contributions as little as $1 towards their preferred candidates and this adds up when millions are genuinely donating for the campaign of their preferred candidate.

The parties need to be innovative. Once they can crack fund raising at scale, then our politics will be unshackled from Godfatherism and money bags who sponsor candidates in expectation of favors to a large extent.

Someone claiming to be a forensics expert should be wise enough to provide facts backing up her 75% claim. Sad tale of pot calling kettle black in this country. People who don’t know anything just open their mouths and are given audience by journalists.

kode12:
House, people with all electric houses, how is your billing like? I'm looking at a property that uses electricity for heating with a storage heater. EPC rating is C, with no reasonable options to upgrade it.

Averaging £120-£160 per month. All electric 2bedroom, prepaid meter on economy 7 with storage heaters - Though those don’t work anymore and landlord switched to panel heaters etc.

aragbaboy:
I am about insuring my car in the UK. Please which UK insurance company accept a No Claims Discount from an insurance company in Nigeria?

Marshmallow does.

ibk5891:
Thank you for this info bro. i will surely apply asap then.

can i get more coroboration on this? Is it true i can apply right away without waiting for the 183 days?

i no won waste money oh!

You can apply right away. The DVLA has a huge backlog at the moment so do it online and it’ll come with a few weeks, much faster than paper applications.

The USA can do some annoying things.

Will the UK or a European country create such a website in the USA? The USA has enough problems of their own that they haven’t resolved. Institutional racism, police brutality, corruption (though theirs is very very coded).

We should be mature enough to be left to resolve our problems rather than this condescending approach. How does the US plan to act on the reports? Seeing as they have no jurisdiction to try anybody or any crime in Nigeria.

They should rather support our security agencies than these gimmicks. But no, they will cry human rights abuses and all what not.

babranancy:
Hi everyone, please I am looking for an accommodation that is close to central London. Probably 1 hour drive to central London, please it’s urgent as I will be moving out of the hospital provided accommodation next month, thanks.

Check Rightmove, Zoopla or OpenRent. Your budget and family size will determine the areas in greater London you should go for, but check for Zone 6 or places just outside of zone 6.

It's basically that being polite increases your chances of getting your request to a complete stranger granted. In English one will say something like the following to a stranger:

- If you don't mind, could you please point me in the direction of the nearest bus stop"?

Nigeria’s problems runs deep. The comments from some of us here is no different to Sheik Gumi asking FG to grant amnesty to bandits.

Nigerians tend to celebrate criminality and offer forgiveness to them once they are from the same tribe and the impact of their actions don’t affect us directly.

Uzonma:
Hello house
Can I spend dollars or exchange it to pounds in the UK?
Looks like banks hardly give pounds for PTA

Fidelity Bank does Pounds. The HQ branch at Kofo Abayomi.

Conrod:
I want you to start thinking seriously about it cus it will happen,....must happen.

The river Niger is already being dredged by the FG to accommodate current and future planned ships going to the ports along its banks. The Onitsha Port and Baro Port in Minna are along the river Niger. The problem as someone as explained earlier on is dredging a river downstream has to be a continuous exercise otherwise it gets back to its original state with sentiments washed from the upstream after some years.

The only benefits of dredging that I’m aware of are to make the river deeper in other to allow larger sized ships pass through. This means ships can more easily get to Onitsha and Baro ports respectively, so in this case it actually also benefits the north to dredge the river Niger.

SEGLIZ:
forgive my ignorance, does Nigeria export frozen food?
I know we do import them but exporting I don't.

We export frozen shrimps and prawns and import most of our frozen fish.

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The senseless and tactless way this government has gone about banning Twitter is ridiculous, even if there is a slight (1 in a billion) that it had good intentions with the ban. A ban should be the last option. They could have written to Twitter, taken them to court for non-compliance etc.

Thinking about it deeply the reaction of the west though. I often wonder if the west uses human rights as a means to exert indirect control over developing countries. The west gets away when they do the very same things in which they will castigate a developing nation.

Sadly, Nigeria hasn’t gotten to a point where it’s government or citizens can read between the lines of the politics going on.

There’s the valid example of Tik Tok being banned in the USA due to national security interests. There’s Australia implementing new laws to make Google and Facebook pay content creators, which they are vehemently fighting against. I could imagine such a law being enacted in Nigeria will attract all sorts of freedom of … allegations the west can bring up to make us cow to their social media companies.

The simplest way I will put it is We are not a nation. We don’t have a common vision for what we want to be and where we want to go as a people.

To help answer your question, what we have in Nigeria is termed Geo-political zones as against strictly geographical zones.

For example, Kwara is geographically south west but geo-politically North central. Cross rivers should be south east geographical but is termed part of the South South. All the South Eastern states are geographically South Central or South South.