₦airaland Forum

DerideGull:
These corpses do not look like being killed in a gun fight. This is a disturbing evidence suggesting they were killed execution style.

I even fear they may not armed robbers as claimed.

TheHistorian:
In summary;;

Kiss Daniel was exploited,jilted,cheated,duped and defrauded.

He defrauded himself. How can a sane human being sign such a contract?

felixomor:
Foolishness personified!

May God not allow your genes to be transferred to your children.
Amen

From personal experience, the most active and obnoxious Nairalanders are physically deformed and being on nairaland gives them sexual release and a feeling of belonging.

Aragon:
That's why you have to join the Teligram Group and see how far we have gone because this Cooperative has already been registered with the government so it is now official..

Click the OP signature and join and see how far we have gone. Members are scattered across the world you might also have some good ideas to contribute to this, so we are expecting you

Joining a telegram group does not answer my question and are you the same person as the OP?

tuege:
Good morning and welcome to our co-op society - Billion Naira Project.
See my signature to click on link to join Us.

What previous experience do you have as a 10 figure fund manager and what guarantee is in place that you will not disappear with people's money?

4soft:
Pitch the idea and let's see if we can fund you! Let's start 2018 in a good note... Mail me onyibemark@gmail.com

If you decide to give money out, make sure there is a legal binding document or MOU signed between you and meet him in person because most of these people are petty criminals. If the business is something you must hand over money 100% to the OP, just back out because you will lose your money and recovering it through the police will be too expensive since the money is not a lot to start with in the first place.

oluwaseunla:
Actually, I know a bit about how the system works. I was involved in another departmental accreditation just this last week in a private university, and that will make it the third one I've been involved in.

The accreditation team to each department this year consisted of three lecturers from different Universities and an NUC staff. It is extremely difficult for a school to lie to the team about the employment status of any teaching staff because all letters relating to employment and promotions must be sighted and the dates referenced. Each staff must have a file in the departmental office and they will be checked and rechecked. Trust me when I say it is extremely difficult to try to mislead the accreditation team, not to talk of the grave consequence that follows if you are caught. It's simply not worth it, and I doubt if any lecturer or school will take that kind of a risk. Part time staffing is allowed but there is a maximum percentage they can take in the total number of staff in the faculty, and they can only be in addition to the full time staff the department already have.

The problem of wages, especially for teaching staff comes from the fact that NUC regulations insist for example that each department must have a full time professor on ground, then you now have teaching staff in most of the cadres before your department gets accredited. So it does not matter the number of students in that department, the department must have a full complement of teaching staff on ground. This shoots up the wage bill badly. Imagine a department with less than 20 students in all, having a full complement of Assistant Lecturers to Professors. Definitely the school fees of those students cannot even pay salaries of their own department.

Yes, there are junior lecturers that have only masters, but generally, Universities insist you must show evidence of running a PhD programme before they employ you. Difficult to circumvent, again because of NUC rules. They may have some on part time, but part timers must only be additions to the full timers the department has on ground, or else there will be no accreditation for that department.

The issue of power generation is a general problem in Nigeria. Most times, PHCN bills alone will run into millions in a month, before you start talking of self generation. Going off the power grid is even much more expensive. I've spoke to schools before that spend as high as 20 million per month on power generation alone.

Admittedly, all the data I have are strictly from the North and West. I don't have any from the Eastern parts. But knowing NUC for what it is today, it is really difficult to cut costs in the proportions that you are suggesting if that University wants to be accredited. That is why a few private university had to close down when they couldn't cope.

Ok

oluwaseunla:
OK. Permit me to poke a few holes in your submissions.

If you make majority of your faculty part time, from what I know you will not get accredited by NUC. They have a minimum percentage of full time staff you must have in your faculty. If you pay ridiculously low salaries, you will keep losing experienced hands, which will invariably affect growth too, bad move. The smallest of Nigerian universities spend minimum of 4 million naira monthly on power generation related bills, that translates to about 48 million per annum.

NUC accreditation is done on a departmental basis. Hence, any department within a faculty that is not accredited will not be able to graduate students, even if they manage to admit them. It doesn't matter if other departments within the faculty are accredited.

By the way the largest expense incurred by most Universities is their wage bills. A small university may have as much as 60 million per month in salaries, while for the bigger universities, it can run into hundreds of millions of naira monthly.

You posed an interesting question though. Will proprietors run at a loss? Me thinks gains may not necessarily be monetary. You make monetary losses, you gain points in other areas, Political or PR points for example.

You really need to leave the theoritical part of running a university and see the practical.

Are you going to tell NUC that your faculty is part time or do you think the officials NUC will be sending for the accreditation will be able to recognise a particular lecturer is from another school or a government employee as they mostly are? I can authoritatively tell you that there are private universities who do not spend N4m annually on electricity in this country. You really need to go around and see some of these schools for yourself.

We are saying the same thing here, the rules might have changed but I doubt. Faculty or department accreditation, the process is the same. If your faculty of agriculture only has department of Fishery accredited and there are 8 other departments in that faculty, everyone graduates with a degree in Fishery because their certificates can't bear their actual degree since it is not accredited.

Wage is a constituent of overhead, when I say overhead I mean salaries, bonuses, allowances, recurring bills that could shut the school down if they are not paid. Do you think N60m is a small money to spend on salaries alone? How much do you even think lecturers are paid? Most lecturers only have a masters degree especially those in private universities. Tell me a person in Nigeria today that will not accept N80k as salary for a part time job. There are even people who would accept it to be full time staff. Let me even make the amount N150k which is outrageous. Let's use it as the average, it will result in 400 staff. What does a private university need 400 staff for if it does not have at least 20,000 students?

Gains are primarily monetary and the others are just perks.

You really need to rethink your stand on the sustainability of private universities.

Desyner:
Ooops . . . . The monthly was a heavy typo sir. It was suppose to be yearly. I totally missed it.

OK.

Desyner:
Winners (CU & Landmark) are exception regarding the bold. The Church is still subsidizing those unis heavily. The subsidy (about N4B-N5B/month) is a pure function of what the students are enjoying.

I know the naira has little value but please do not say this about our currency. N4bn is a lot of money to spend monthly and until I see receipts for this figure I will never accept it. You are talking of over N50bn on subsidies annually. Where is the money coming from? And knowing David Oyedepo for the businessman he is, he will never do such even if he has that kind of money to throw away.

oluwaseunla:
Do you have data to back up the bolded statement, or it was a statement based on assumptions? I'm not a big fan of Winner's Chapel, but we once carried out a research, and by that data, I don't think there is any University, private or public, at least in Nigeria, which was within our scope, that doesn't have to rely on some form of subvention to break even.

I seriously doubt if it is possible to establish a University and use it as a profit generating organisation.

It is very possible, Covenant University is quite unique. Let's take other universities like Igbinedion, Novena, Caritas, Madonna and others. You really think philanthropy was the reason for establishing those schools or EK Clarke decided to open a university to make a loss?

What exactly is the major cost of a university? Overhead.
How do you cut overhead and run a lean university? You make your faculty(lecturers) part time, ban labour unions and pay non academic staff the lowest you possibly can. Your faculty simply takes their scheme of work from their primary faculty and reimplement it in your school. Power generation and every other amenity that adds to your cost is not your business. You build the barest minimum hostel you can afford to meet regulatory requirements.

Your major cost is accreditation and infrastructure development. For every faculty you have, you need just one course to be accredited then you can admit students for other unaccredited courses. That's the reason Madonna produces Electrical Engineering graduates who know nothing about electricity, that's because they probably enrolled and satisfied some other engineering course.

Once you build Classrooms and admin block containing your senate and probably library, you are done with a major cost that won't repeat in future.

Run your PR (not bribe, NUC is quite strict with accreditation) properly with NUC and you are good to go.

From the analysis above, now tell me I can not run a very profitable university in Nigeria.

I look at university proprietors and I laugh, they have brought cost down but they can not come down to the level where the major market is and remain profitable. This country has over 1 million deficit university admissions government can not cater for and they are there looking.

JON01:
But honestly this type of prayers make me doubt some pastors... I respect this baba GAN not until recently Haba daddy why can't you pray that those Looters up there should Die eh since they are the Major drawback blocking our way In this Zoo

Who told you politicians are the problem of this country? You need to look deeper, they are just a symptom of the problem.

Statsocial:
Self Sustaining
There should be no such thing as a Self Sustaining University.

Do you mean it is wrong for a self sustaining university to exist or are you trying to say there is no self sustaining university currently?

Most if not all private universities in Nigeria were opened to enrich their Chancellors and they have been sustaining themselves since inception.

The Ivy League schools you mentioned can definitely sustain themselves for a while from their endowments and if the endowments keep flowing in constantly then the school can definitely become self sustaining.

I do not know who granted you access to the books of a private university but I doubt you did proper scrutiny.

ba7man:
I turn all sorts of uninhabitable locations into some of the nicest places you'll see.

What have you created?

Talking as if when you're given iron, a smelter and an engine, you can create a plane.

Replying you will result to what I see as bragging. Change or keep your ways, it is really non of my business. Sorry I quoted you.

spyder880:
I will send more later as they are just starting by the time I took these.

OK great, I'm following.

spyder880:
The array of colour variation we can add to the paint format is endless. The client gets to choose all final colour for everything.

Please can I see inside this house?

spyder880:
Yes Sir, while my entire team will be waiting behind family, friends and the clergy for the chilled wines and the rice and inevitable chicken as the house is declared open!

Lol, I'm not a party person and dislike being in the spotlight. There was no wine self for my property I showed you, just quietly moved in.

spyder880:
As to the cost of construction for this building. The total cost for the construction of this building from foundation works till the building is roofed with high quality stone coated roofing tiles will be about N12.5 m for every material and labour/workmanship and supervision/site management involved in this building.

The finish is a little tricky because of the different variations that can come in when choices of the different finish items are all spelt out. But with moderate materials and good quality components that you see me fit in this house from windows till doors and POP ceiling till tiles and screed/painting, a total of N12.5 m should also be budgeted for the finish stage.

Thank you all.

So N25m will complete this house from start to turnkey?

ba7man:
But true true, oyinbo dey craze ooo......

How you go look plane, wey big pass house, talk say na fly e go dey fly?

It is this kind of reasoning that has made us so backward and unable to develop without intervention from the white man.

spyder880:
As my Oga rightly said, the N17 m is only for the carcass as finishing alone till the level in the image up there may go above the stated amount.

When I saw the quoted amount, I went to our private chat to check your quotation for a finished 4 bedroom duplex. After seeing it, I just concluded this has to be carcass alone.

NwaChibuzor32:
Ignorance or not, SARS is not going anywhere.

You be SARS police? You sound like a man about to lose his job. SARS will definitely go no where but a major restructuring needs to go on and even if SARS is disbanded, the officers will still remain police officers, no job lost.

If you were paid for this PR, you did a horrible job.

AntiWailer:
Lol.

Like seriously you want Govt to proscribe Special Anti Robbery Squad ?

I hope Armed robbers will not join the protests and your boy friends are not Armed Robbers too.

Govt need to be clear about their mandate and rules of engagement.

We all need to know it so when they stop me, I know what they can check and what they can not.

I dnt have problem if you stop my car for search but dnt ask me stupid things that does not concern you.

Like SARS or high way patrol asking for insurance papers , tint permit etc.

They should be bothered about more serious stuffs.

Obviously, they haven't stopped you to seize your phone and go through it. One foreign contact in there and be ready to pay N150k. Also seizing you and detaining you with false allegation. Do not pray to meet evil.

donnie:
He can give it where ever he wants. After all, he didn't need your advice to do all the giving he has been doing all these years.

E.g..
1.Giving 1billion.naira to Benson Idahosa University.

2. Building state of the art lecture theater at his alma mater AAU and provision of street lights and reading lamps for all hostel students.

3. Yearly promoting leadership among African youth through the Future Africa Laders Awards (FALA) which comes with a minimum of $10,000 dollars per awardee (which number up to 16) plus support and mentorship.

And many more too numerous to mention. So please rebuke that spirit of freeze from your life... It is a spirit of poverty and destruction.

You ruined your beautiful write up by bringing freeze into it. If you genuinely attend BLW and have gone through foundation school then correct yourself.

Ebios:
Just wait for 2-3 weeks or a month...

You underestimate his followers, the money is probably correct as I write.

Threebear:
Reputation is everything, guide it with your life...... Robert Greene, 48 laws of power .

Abeg shut up.

EFOLK5:
What took you so long?
I've been expecting you here ever since,
Keep displaying your stupidity, until your sanity returns, I'll be waiting for you to do your worst.
Meanwhile, consider this to be the very response from me, coz I'll not dignify your stupidity with any further attention.

BUSY!!!

You have nothing to actually reply with, you have won, enjoy your N60k while it lasts. That's if you haven't exhausted it already.

If you had any common sense in you, you would provide the app raw files and prove me wrong. While you think this is just between us, you are ruining the chances of other genuine app developers here. Lest I forget, you are not even qualified to be called an app developer, you don't even know anything about programming in the first place.

You should really sit down and examine your life. Ask yourself how far you can go living the way you are right now.

Conner44:
Modified : Okay, op has finally started. Following

He is doing it to scam those who will give him app job to do. I just lost N60k to him. Charged me for a project he knew he had no way of delivering. If I didn't smell a dead rat I would have lost more money to the thief.

This is a warning too to all those who plan on giving him work to do, he will eat your deposit and make all sorts of excuses for not delivering your project until you realise it was all a con.

mikejj:
some people stil thinks its by certificate or degree.if God don sign your forehead bro it is finish

God has signed everyone's forehead, people are just too scared to act. They want office job and to climb corporate ladder.

generaliy:
Gullible sheep?

You need to calm down and seek God yourself, I won't argue with you.

Who paid you to write that rubbish up there. People like you better be careful how you handle daddyfreeze because you will create hate towards the church and God. How do you know Daddy Freeze is backsliding? Enlightenment has come and I advise you step aside rather than try to oppose. If those appointed to do the work have failed, God will pick whoever He pleases to get things right.

You guys are always quick to judge the man because he has a failed marriage. David and Solomon did far worse than daddyfreeze but David is the man after God's heart. If David and Solomon lived today, people like you will still oppose and judge them.

hardasan:
I just refuse to keep quiet while Christians are brainwashed by anybody.

You are actually the brainwashed one. What exactly will happen if I don't pay my tithe? I won't prosper or I won't make heaven? I need you to give me direct answers and not start a sentimental writeup.

Because presently I don't tithe and I'm more prosperous than 90% of tithers. You need to leave the blackmail of your pastor behind and start using the brain God has given you. People like you are making the crucifixion seem like a wasted effort.

God is love and your prosperity is not tied to tithing neither your candidacy for heaven.

Look at the 100 most prosperous people on earth and mention one tither amongst them. God has given freely to all without condition. Even to unbelievers He has given freely. #freethesheeple.

yanabasee:
Jeez.....Must be located somewhere at the central area...

It's across the road from Transcorp hotel

Whatsapp is so behind telegram.