₦airaland Forum

Sagamite:
Then you will have to think carefully if the legislators would be able to carry out their functions with what you give to them.

For example, they need personal assistants to orgaise their day and paperwork. Even to help conduct research on laws and formulating bills.

The currently have N55K per month to pay anyone for this job.

How many smart people would be willing to work for that as their salary in Abuja?

And if you cut it further, how will that impact the quality?

So you will have to think carefully about what you cut and does it make sense.

yea, I do agree with you but I think we have to look at just what is necessary here to get the Job done. My brother with the number of people roaming the streets today, and more people joining the poverty list, its hard to comprehend the reality in all this. I wish the legislators worked harder to improve the lives of people and develop our society, Nigerians would give it all to them, we have a good society, patient and hopeful people, but time has run out for many who have waited for change for so long. This is the truth.

Naughtysite:
Most people just shout capital and I laugh. We started big and later started operating small.

It is always better to start small. I started with one business but in a big way with two warehouses and when it went bad, i closed shop completely and veered into another business. After sometime, I went back to the first business but in a small and more profitable arrangement(with experience).

Now I do like 3 or more businesses with 2 being profitable supporting the later two to break even. Business is a very tough process.

You are right bro. You can never tell anyone who wants to do the same thing you are doing just how to go about it all. Experience is the best teacher.

valarinz:
REASON WHY NIGERIA IS STILL WHERE WE ARE:

Look at a thread like this, despite being on the front page for a while now, haven't gone past the second page, despite Nairaland users consisting of at least 80% youths

Now compare this with threads that have to do with celebrity gossip or tribal/bigotry rants and we would be at the tenth page in the least now

Zero interest on matters that have to do with hard work and entrepreneurship, but we all want good things to come our way and we'll live like kings, and if GEJ can't make us rich men overnight we 'vote' him out and bring in GMB(messiah/miracle worker), and quote me on this: in four years time when its apparent GMB isn't going to make them rich men overnight, they'll 'vote' him out and bring in another Messiah/miracle worker

Its so embarrassing to the point of excruciating pain, how lazy and unenterprising Nigerian youths are and yet we hope to be a better country in the future?

You find this attitude on business, technology and other positive/ educational threads. Then they become full of abusive wreck-less comments that don't further the discussion.

WHO SHOULD TAKE CARE OF YOUR BUSINESS?

Most Nigerian businesses suffer because their owners don’t spend enough time to learn about their business and what the business really needs. Therefore they are not capable of giving the care the business needs.
So they either employ someone who isn’t committed or someone who is, but will eventually leave someday for something else.
Some entrepreneurs are so scared of staffing but not from their experiences but from experiences of others so they get their relatives from home to come and keep watch over their retail store or restaurant or even bigger businesses. This works sometimes if you have a relative who is hard working, enterprising and of course loyal which you can say is having a sense of ownership. Some relatives still do worse than strangers at the end of the day.

The big issues like Wilsonl has mentioned are Accounting, management, marketing, financing etc.
Management embodies so many things. You have to be able to visualize every business daily activity to be sure you are on track. For some businesses this is very obvious but for some you have to deal with daily data collection and analysis in order to decide the specific activity for every new day.

Employee Activity is very important. While working in the oil field for many years with a multinational, I realized that my company focused on ensuring that their employees were actually interested in their work or at least had to be interested. So you attend training courses, do regular assessments and you had something your employer looks at to measure commitment. As much as possible you have to be able to assess the business and the staff.

People lack the ability to measure the work done in the business by employees, no matter how small the business, I have found out that ensuring that your employee works in the business is important as opening for business daily. I mean being able to evaluate your staff’s daily contribution to the business. This means that if you do not engage your employee with duty in the business you will never have something to assess him or her on. To tell whether they did their best that day or not.

Our young people today and many Nigerians are not willing to work, think or apply themselves positively. Mental challenges are killing, people don’t want to read job descriptions, work guidelines, understand pricelists or put down work reports in most cases because they want to come to work sit and just earn a salary at month end. I tell you some graduates also behave and think this way.

You have to set a standard for your employees at every level and ensure that they consider themselves relevant first in the workplace by allowing them take responsibility and make a report of their work, ensuring that they are accountable every little inch. I have seen employees quit because they felt their job would require them handling cash not records which it turned out to be.

One of the things to clear is what most Nigerian entrepreneurs consider to be a business.

Most Nigerians imagine a business to be a venture where you put money in and get more out of it. Well, the answer to this is YES and NO.
I would say a good business is that venture you put money in when it has a potential to yeild more.

When I started my hospitality business about 2009, I was already into interactive video gaming, Poultry, barbing and hairdressing, retail selling including drinks and foods from 2005 or thereabout.

In all of this, Video gaming wasn't very profitable but I did it with a passion that people admired but I couldn’t grow it into having mature customers over about 15% so the power to improve on pricing was very low. Again this business was very power (electricity) intensive.

I stopped investing in the poultry business because I did not have the time to source for the market for it at the time and suffered some setback in 2005 due to the bird flu scare at the time.

Barbing and hair dressing had to go because what the barbers of hairdressers wanted in order to be dedicated was like a pound of flesh and they were never satisfied. I realized here that businesses that require skilled personnel require a bit of knowledge and just being an investor wasn't enough to sustain the business. You have to be ready to do some hands on and show some know-how.
I set everything down to just a bar and the interactive game business. But still had to put in some money to meet up overheads and it still needed a lot of my own personal skills to solve some real technical issues.

After spending some years working in the oilfield I thought it was time to push things up a bit see if the income could cross over the expenditure line, of course by investing further and giving it more of my time like over 25 times more.

Now its mixed stories, sometimes its good sometimes I just wish I never started in the first place.

With 3 bars, a 24hour kitchen and an 11 room Guest house in a very bad electricity zone, my story as a business man depends on how I want to view it.

When I started, a friend rented a space from me and set up a cyber cafe, he stopped within the first year because of cost and the fact that he wanted the business to make money while he had to mind something else. This is always where most of the concern comes in.
WHO SHOULD TAKE CARE OF YOUR BUSINESS?

Sagamite:
To be frank this is utter rubbish by the author.

If you are going to make a protest against something, at least understand it and/or don't lie about it.

It is quite completely idiotic for anyone to put "severance gratuity" as part of the legislator's "salary". Grammar is obviously that person's problems.

Severance gratuity is paid only when the legislator is voted out, not while he or she is a serving legislator.

Secondly, many of the so-called "salary" there are expenses being monetised. How can "Car allowance" be termed as salary?

Are you saying legislators from Biu or Sapele should be funding his cost of movement and accommodation in Abuja from his own pocket?

How can anyone include such as part of "salary"? Very idiotic.

The car allowance is only paid once every 4 years.

If you are going to compare, then compare like-for-like to get an objective assessment to criticise.

While the average cost of personnel given to a Nigeria senator is about N1.5m (Less than $10,000), the award for personnel to a US Senator is $977,671.

https://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid=%270E%2C*PL[%3D%23P%20%20%0A

The average annual allowance paid to or claimed by a US Senator is $1.2m, so how can anyone be so stupid to be comparing the $174K salary of a US Senator to the salary and ENTIRE allowance of a Nigerian Senator.

If you want to compare LfL with US Senator, then you will be comparing with $1.3m salary plus allowance of a US Senator.

In the UK, allowances that can be claimed for Personnel is £137,000 (about $220,000) per year. The average overall expenses claimed per year by a UK MP will be about £150,000 (about $240,000).

All these exclude the UK and US severance gratuity and pensions. I don't know if Nigerian Senators get a pension.

Cutting through all this bullshyt and junk by the incompetent and moronic author. The only payments I can attribute to a Nigerian Senator as salary (and hidden salary) are:

* Basic Salary (B.S) - N2,484,245.50
* Hardship Allowance (50% of B.S) - N1,242,122.70
* Newspapers Allowance (50% of B.S) - N1,242,122.70
* Wardrobe Allowance (25% of B.S) - N621,061.37
* Recess Allowance (10% of B.S) - N248,424.55
* Entertainment (30% of B.S) - N828,081.83
* Leave Allowance (10% of B.S) - N248,424.55

Depending on the number of recesses that the Nigerian Senate has, it appears their annual pay would be less than $50,000 per year.

That is the basis of the argument about salary. That is where we argue "is that right"?

Secondly is to assess whether the allowance (of about $41K per annum) being paid is excessive.

I don't know how the fuuktard author decided to calculate "annual pay and allowances" as "monthly salary".

I would rather we give more money to doctors, teachers or policemen when we cut all this down.

Can someone explain to me why any senator should earn above N2m a month?
I have no issues with allowances and loans anyway. But if someone talks about monetization of expense, I know every senator ensures they claim such money when due therefore its paid.

We need to reverse this trend and develop our society and country first. N200m or N300m per senator in Nigeria X total number of senators is just an over-key.
From presidency to Councillor, this should all drop. I will go in and serve my people with nothing if anyone thinks the money is not ok for them. Lets see who will drop their mandate because of money. Nigerians have dropped their lives waiting for electricity, water, security, jobs etc for years and people will want to be rich out of political office.

This call s for CHANGE!!!!

One of the things to clear is what most Nigerian entrepreneurs consider to be a business.

Most Nigerians imagine a business to be a venture where you put money in and get more out of it. Well, the answer to this is YES and NO.
I would say a good business is that venture you put money in when it has a potential to yeild more.

When I started my hospitality business about 2009, I was already into interactive video gaming, Poultry, barbing and hairdressing, retail selling including drinks and foods from 2005 or thereabout.

In all of this, Video gaming wasn't very profitable but I did it with a passion that people admired but I couldn’t grow it into having mature customers over about 15% so the power to improve on pricing was very low. Again this business was very power (electricity) intensive.

I stopped investing in the poultry business because I did not have the time to source for the market for it at the time and suffered some setback in 2005 due to the bird flu scare at the time.

Barbing and hair dressing had to go because what the barbers or hairdressers wanted in order to be dedicated was like a pound of flesh and they were never satisfied. I realized here that businesses that require skilled personnel require a bit of knowledge and just being an investor wasn't enough to sustain the business. You have to be ready to do some hands on and show some know-how.
I set everything down to just a bar and the interactive game business. But still had to put in some money to meet up overheads and it still needed a lot of my own personal skills to solve some real technical issues.

After spending some years working in the oilfield I thought it was time to push things up a bit see if the income could cross over the expenditure line, of course by investing further and giving it more of my time like over 25 times more.

Now its mixed stories, sometimes its good sometimes I just wish I never started in the first place.

With 3 bars, a 24hour kitchen and an 11 room Guest house in a very bad electricity zone, my story as a business man depends on how I want to view it.

When I started, a friend rented a space from me and set up a cyber cafe, he stopped within the first year because of cost and the fact that he wanted the business to make money while he had to mind something else. This is always where most of the concern comes in.

WHO SHOULD TAKE CARE OF YOUR BUSINESS?

perhaps the husband is responsible for the pregnancy.

Luukasz:
[url][/url] I date underage girls because there are lots of pure chicks among them than the so called adult girls & besides i love to experiment with virgins

Ilekeh:
I doubt it because my akwa-ibom people still live in darkness. But nothing is impossible.

Can you be more specific?

pole call

Things you cant just flush down the toilet when they are broken or you just upgraded along with technology.

nurey:
You don't even know me, yet u have judged me. I don't give out problematic phones to people if I gave u a java nokia u coming from android and bb no be say u go stone me with the phone.

It would be nice if there could just be a healthy discussion. What will one say to someone who keeps his old used books, shoes or watches?

Pain:
Must be very stingy. The inability to give out your stuff is not good

I dont agree, sometimes you just dont find someone who needs your old stuff or someone who knows how to use it.

..got me thinking of what I did with my old phones.
however I have quite a collection of old gadgets that still hang around my closets.

Sony Mini disc walkman recorder/ players (2)
Goodman mini disc recorder/ player
compaq ipaq pocket PC - needs battery
Sony discman
Sanyo stereo cassette player walkman
canon mini DV camcorder (would not come on)
JVC mini DV cam corder (would not come on needs battery)
Archos mini digital recorder
Archos 16G digital recorder with docking station

etc

missrosey:
This "ordinary" thing PGEJ did is what his predecessors couldn't.

He put power in the hands of the people. He set the pace. Going forward, we decide who leads us.

Compare this with the records of all others who have led before him and you'll see that he's a far better man than they all. He deserves respect for this.

If he's got a case to answer, then he will answer, but for this, he deserves respect.

No one is perfect. Even when an evil man does good, his good deed is commended.

#beWise

I agree here.

I feel so sorry for the goats. Very graphic images. I can see people helping out, taking the goats to bury them before an environmental problem begins.

RevDesmondJuju:
Ole long throat oyel thief

Is it your land? What concerns you if they pollute their land with their oil?

For over 50yrs did you care of their enviroment?

Now you are beating your bonga fish dry foul chest and opening that your gbegiri slurping amala popping dirty smelly agbo mouth threatning war.

Is it Buhari's lunatics led by shekau you want to draft to the ND or Baba Biodun of the OPC osogbo division to pillage ND so you can have oyel money?

ND promised you a renewal to hostilities and if you think it will just blowing pipelines then you are highly deluded. The innocent people and communities in the NE pillaged by your muslim filth cowards is what you are using as an example to threatning the ND? This is confirmation that you owambe concieved bastards from the Southwest never gave a fark. Of the innocent killed but rather celebrated the anarchy for your political gain.
We will take the fight to your region. We will blow up all assests that was built with our wealth.think again. Imagine all fuel depots in lagos blown up and all connecting bridges from lagos to jeba blown up. Or how about piping freshly milked ebola blood gotten from liberia into your water works?

We will halt any oil revenue to the FG by bringing production down to zero. We will then cripple your ports, fuel infrastructure, power lines and critical infrastructure.

Let me see how you boko commander will manage a war with zero revenue and crippled economy and infrastructure

Bastard tajudeen

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Nigerians especially youths who never saw the civil war need to look for possible ways to make peace not war. Talks of large scale terrorism and destruction in our time are taken seriously though not in our country where terrorist activities are just another story.
It is in the hands of youths to take their destiny into their hands wisely, and remember that our environment is what we must build on not destroy for our future sake.
It is more than time for Nigerians to think again of what we really want. Youths should be able to wisely say NO! to politicians who don't rightfully represent our desires by words and by action, without turning to short term gains.
If our elders have messed up the country for us and the only thing we can do is to destroy all that is left, it will be all failure and shame to our generation who will have nothing or very little to leave for our children.

I don't get it. If the online lovers are in disagreement over their plans to be together, how is it an EFCC matter? There are several relationships with broken promises, and some financial commitment on one part. Is this fraud? or the guy just hasn't quite made up his mind.

hahahahaha...wheeewww! very funny!

Averagely, Fair but not totally fair because there were cases of malpractices and some molestation. But free because I think that the results reflect the will of the people, the majority. This will encourage Nigerians next time to go out and vote realizing the power in their vote than selling their conscience.

adenine02:
And they say d north will burn
Mean while see our PDthief

The suspect and the policeman look alike ooo, are they related?

na so na so na so na so

Natural beauty at one shot.

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Why did all these moves have to take this long? Nigeria needs to learn a lesson from all this. It's easier and safer to act on time to prevent, than to uproot all the dangerous stuff when they are already planted. My prayer goes to all who have lost their lives in the unfortunate criminality of boko haram. I hope the group will not simply go underground.

Why do nairalanders end up cursing, abusing, insulting each other on every post. Isn't there a better healthier way to have a conversation, argument? whatever?

haibe:
The only explanation I have for your sentiments is because you have been influenced by superstitions from your tribe or religion.

Taking picture of the dead is not wrong. All you are saying doesn't make sense honestly. What has taking picture got to do with respect of human. If I can take the picture of the living, why can't I take the picture of the dead. Please keep your doctrines to yourself, not everyone will be foolish to buy into them. And please try to be a free thinker as the rate of your emotions in thinking is alarming. Think like someone who has a brain, not like someone who has been taught to think in one way

I think he (mmsen) meant "uploading" not "taking" the picture. I don't think the "xswitch guy" took the pictures himself anyway. Its how he used it that's drawing all the controversy.

Happy sitting.

Exactly what I see all the time, messing up my inbox. Makes me want to ditch yahoomail.