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i'm guessing the north east has seceded then?
you better not trusdt this guy that had no shoes, cos he has no truth in him!

the same reason for the old one is what they are giving us for the new. and they are not putting anything in any database. at least not yet. cos i paid twice for a single plate (the new one) and their machine couldnt detect that i had already been registered.
what they should do is
when next any car comees to renew their papers, obtain the data of the owners. simple!!!

Standing5:
[size=14pt]A grad shld earn what he or she deserves. The thread itself lacks direction, we are talking of a market/economy where companies have a wide range of salary structure, every grad shld earn according to what he or she bring to the table.
Thank you. [/size]

and how do you decide what a graduate deserves? ehn, his certificate? his IQ? should a person using glasses earn the same with someone with clear vision? should a person with a bad leg earn the same with someone who can move much faster?
I'm sure you have sometime come across the word 'average' or 'expected'. thats what we are dealing with here and to say this thread has no direction is downright impolite, not to add that commenting on the topic is a self indictment.

as i said earlier, the cost of producing a litre of oil cannot be over N65; maybe the cost of processing one barrel may be though, which cost is respectively shared by DPK, diesel et al.
if you are arguing for subsidy for venezuela where petrol sells for about N3.68 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_pricing#Typical_gasoline_prices_around_the_world), as against about N150. means the govt is paying 146 bucks as subsidy per litre.(that almost cancels out our own subsidy) that for me is impossible to believe!!!!

Ovamboland:
The cost of production of crude oil in Nigeria hovers btw $15 - $40 depending on location onshore or offshore never the $65 you quoted. Some analysts even quote as low as $5 per barrel as cost when you consider that it is 'sweet' crude we have

www.ogbus.ru/eng/authors/Odularo/Odularo_1.pdf

i ddnt quote it. i simply lifted it from another person's post here.

fork adict:
Yes. That is what i am saying. Go figure!

Also note that many of those countries that subsidise do not have a population as large as ours. As Kjhova has rightly pointed out, population is a factor to reckon with when discussing issues like these.

sorry to sort of derail, but i watched a movie like 20yrs back (hollywood of course) about a school whose princi was faking the results and selling their original grades and those students were frustrated until one white guy came to teach them , anyone seen it? been trying to remember the title for years!!!

TEN ALL TIME BEST
1. MEN OF HONOR
2. SARAFINA
3. LION KING
4. PRINCE OF EGYPT
5. PIRATES OF THE CARRIBBEAN-CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
6. LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE- not very popular but mehn you gotta see this movie
7. THE MASK
8. LEAN ON ME
9. MAN UNITED-ARSENAL 8:2
10 MAN CITY MAN UNITED 6:2

well, do you feel bad after 'not getting mad'?
cos you might be suppressing your anger which is by far more dangerous

yep. 40k for the camry. registered a bus for around 46k

drekid:
@kNIGHT1 40k for the new plates?

I DON'T LIKE SYLVA AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL BUT I SUPPORT THIS MOVE. WHAT RUBBISH IS SCREENING?
IN A DEMOCRATIC SETTING? HE IS MADE ELIGIBLE TO CONTEST ELECTION BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND NOT THAT OF PDP!!!
HE WAS ELIGIBLE WHEN HE PAID FOR THE TICKET, NOW HE'S DISQUALIFIED? WHAT ABSOLUTE RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!

No i won't. first because of the general reason achebe and gbaja have refused it; it's not worth any thing these days. no standards. imagine, there was even shortage of medals yesterday
second. i'll refuse it to 'gba star'- means to shine!!

well, I'm aware that when the agitation for minimum wage began, during the initial negotiation NLC calculated a proper living wage to be around N52,500. per month. Assuming that figure was arrived at after diligently calculating all the relevant indices e.g rent, tp, building of family etc, a person who has gone to school (i mean univ) to acquire special skills should recieve about N100,000 AT LEAST

coveted? pls don't insult that word!

why not? isn't that what qualifies Andy Uba to be a senator of the federal Republic?

ode remo:
Jesus wept.

looooooooool

JUST SAW THIS ONLINE AND THOUGHT IT COULD MAKE ALOT OF SENSE HERE

The Federal Government budgeted 1500 a day to feed the inmates, at N500 per meal as their Feeding allowance. But EFCC officials pay the Private contractor that feeds these inmates N100 per meal, or 300 a day! In this Lagos cell alone, EFCC Officials corruptly enrich themselves to the tune of N62, 400 every day.

Corruption Incorporated: A peep Inside Farida Waziri’s EFCC (1) Written by Daniel Elombah

The Okotie-Eboh Detention centre of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Ikoyi Lagos contains 52 people as at August 2011. The Federal Government budgeted 1500 a day to feed the inmates, at N500 per meal as their Feeding allowance. (Meanwhile the Feeding allowance for regular prisoners
in other prisons in Nigeria is N200 per meal) But guess how much EFCC officials pay to the Private contractor that feeds these inmates? N100 per meal, or 300 a day!
Do you now see why EFCC will happily go about detaining suspects without trial for as long as they could?
In this Lagos cell alone, EFCC Officials corruptly enrich themselves to the tune of N62, 400 every day.
Now multiply this by the number of detainees in EFCC cells scattered around the country! Yes, do the maths and tell me how much Farida Waziri and her officers make in illegal skimming daily!

That is why the EFCC will arrest you, detain you for as long as they could, offer you an administrative bail with impossible terms. They will finally arraign you with piecemeal charges, only to re-arrest and detain you again.

Another way the EFCC make money is by generating anonymous petitions. So Nigerians will not be surprised that one of the amendments in the EFCC law moved and currently being debated in the National Assembly is the abolition of anonymous whistle blowers.
The EFCC often uses anonymous petitions to arrest and detain suspects, often without charge. EFCC shake down detainees and collect bribes before their victims are released.
There is a pathetic story of how EFCC arrested three Nigerians in 2005, on allegation of fraud. The men were accused of duping a fellow Nigerian of some millions of Naira and so were in detention for five years. The men insists they were innocent. While hearing their initial bail application, the judge refused bail but promised accelerated hearing of six months, and remanded them in Kirikiri prisons.
But the “accelerated hearing” eventually dragged on for five years.
During this period, one of the men, Joseph, a father of six, lost his father. Eventually his mother also died. To end his suffering he went to the court and pleaded guilty and a judge sentenced him to three years in prison. But since he has already spent five years in jail, he was released.
Yet the EFCC still kept him in jail “to fulfil the release formalities”. But before the end of the formalities, the man also died!

The other partner, Jimoh, is still in detention, 8 months after because the EFCC asked him to pay back the money in the suit, yet the Judge in his ruling made no mention of paying back the money, but simply jailed them for three years.

The EFCC is now in a dilemma. They cannot file additional charges, they cannot go back to court, and so Jimoh remains in detention!

The worst degeneration in the EFCC is that they are now professional debt collectors – debt Collection agency. People hire EFCC to help collect debt and the EFCC take 10% for whatever they collect. That is why EFCC goes around pressurising people to write petitions against their debtors.

In the current Emeka Ugwuonye case, Umar farouk, the EFCC Investigating Police Officer was said to be eyeing $10,000 they will make from the $94,000 he has promised he will collect for Sola Adeeyo.

EFCC operatives use their power for vendetta purposes. There is this case of a cloth launderer (washman) His name is Efe. An EFCC operative gave him a stained cloth with the understanding that he will remove the stain.
After laundering the cloth, the stain is there, and so the EFCC operative arrested Efe for a breach of contract and detained him for two weeks.

There is another case of three boys in their early twenties, who were arrested, detained for over a month and are now being tried for impersonation by the EFCC.
The facts of their cases reveal that these boys might have been involved in a practical joke with one of their friends in a matter that involved only 7,500 Naira. Not only has the EFCC spent over 2 Million Naira pursuing the case, I was told the EFCC officials have pursued their prosecution just because the officials want to get travel allowances for travelling to prosecute the cases and that is the reason for the escalating imbalance between the amount in issue and the amount the state is spending to prosecute.

In EFCC, they have a syndicate that go about encouraging wronged Nigerians to make complaints to the EFCC. EFCC extorts money from complainants who are genuinely offended.
As a complainant, you can pay money for a suspect to be arrested and detained. You can also increase the amount of money you pay and then determine how long you want your enemy to remain in detention.
Thus EFCC arrests you, file charges and arraign you in court.
They will do all they could to frustrate your bail applications. And when the court finally gives you bail, EFCC procures another charge and re-arrests you.
EFCC takes money from suspect, from complainant, and even from visitors to the EFCC cells.

When a court grants you bail, and you have met the bail conditions, that is not the end of your story. Unless you are a politically high profile prisoner, EFCC will keep you in their cell until you pay a stipulated amount.
EFCC have their favourite judges where they obtain all manner of secret ex parte orders. Their favourite courts are in Lagos. they use these illegal orders to keep suspects in detention without their knowledge. So they could argue that you are henceforth technically being detained at the order of the court.

Under Mrs. Waziri’s leadership, the EFCC has manipulated evidence against certain people. Under her leadership, the EFCC has allowed corruption to attain heightened levels within the EFCC. Under Mrs. Waziri’s leadership, the EFCC has shown extraordinary lack of competency and commitment in all aspects of law enforcement.
Under her leadership, the Nigerian courts and judges have been relentlessly blackmailed and intimidated in every manner including, but not limited to, her reckless allegations and innuendoes that the Nigerian judges were responsible for aiding criminals by allowing objections and injunctions in the proceedings before them, even though it is clear that what the judges have done most of the time has been to seek to uphold the due process standards embedded in the constitution.
Under Mrs. Waziri’s leadership, the EFCC has blocked and resisted the effort of the Attorney General of Nigeria to exercise his statutory duties to regulate the activities of the EFCC board. Under Mrs. Waziri’s leadership, the EFCC board does not meet to direct the activities of the EFCC as mandated by law. As a result, Mrs. Waziri usurped personally the statutory powers of the EFCC and has used such power to favor her friends and family members, while tormenting her enemies.

The list of Mrs. Waziri’s shortcomings and failures is as long an average railway track. It includes the fact, acknowledged by the Attorney General during his confirmation hearing, that the EFCC knowingly filed cases in courts without probably cause.
Also, the EFCC has chosen to dramatize cases under investigation in manners calculated to destroy suspects’ reputation and means of livelihood regardless of the absence of merits behind the underlying investigation.
Under Mrs. Waziri, the EFCC secretly obtained funds from certain unknown sources and has not adequately accounted for those funds to the Nigerian authorities. She has never rendered audited accounts to the Office of the Auditor-Genral as stipulated by law.
Essentially, Mrs. Waziri has run the EFCC as if it were not part of the Nigerian Government or under the Constitution of Nigeria.
She has tried to purchase all media outlets in order to suppress adverse, but true, information about her leadership and the activities of the EFCC on her watch. However, the tiny portion of the media she could not suppress has reported that she has lived a life of splendour, marked by a fleet of armoured vehicles, excessive personal expenditures, allocation of state resources to her immediate family members, receipt of cash and non-cash gifts from legally exposed individuals.

Mrs. Waziri’s EFCC, has been turned into a dangerous organization that had no regard for the Nigerian Constitution. Their members operate just like any criminal gang anywhere else. They beat up witnesses. They coerce evidence. They disobey court orders. It was a mad house in every respect.

Under Farida Waziri, EFCC has been transformed into a corrupt incompetent organisation that simply arrests people for propaganda purposes, and to simply re-assure foreign donors that "we are working".
It is sad that Nigeria’s primary anti-corruption agency has been turned into a debt collection agency and become a willing tool for the powerful to oppress the weak in the Nigeria society and a tool for whichever government in power to muzzle the opposition.

To be continued
http://elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8746:corruption-incorporated-a-peep-inside-farida-waziris-efcc-1&catid=52:daniel-elombah&Itemid=73

kuli kuli is superb
i schooled in minna and for me that was one of the few good things that came out of that annoying town

i disagree.
IN terms of IQ, i have found last borns to be higher, using that IQ properly is another issue any way. in fact from what i have personally seen, IQ seems to increase as you go down. now to the issue of choosing career, most firstborns just take after their parents which make it look like they are decisive, middle are the ones confronted with the real challenge of doing what they want or what their parents want
and the last borns, typically, we all expect to get richer as the marriage progresses i.e when you have your firstborn, you likel sweep with the good old broom and grind with stone , by the middle you acquire vacuum cleaner and blender, by the time the lastborn arrives, there are all sorts of gadgets available to reduce stress
and that's why we lastborns APPEAR spoilt . but we aren't! trust me

plappville:
Even when the Juju eople do thier festival, u are to honour thier invitation and eat everything?
Like the BENIN'S IGWE FESTIVAL WHERE THEY DO ALOT OF SACRIFIES TO THEIR GODS AND AT THE END THEY COOK DIFFERENTS KIND OF FOOD, WILL THIS BIBLIC VERSE BE VALID??

dOEs there ever arise an occasion or come a time when a bible verse becomes invalid?
i think this issue has been addresses very very extensively in scripture for it to still be a matter of debate in this present time.
Sanctify it and give thanks and Eat!!!!
HOwever if you are not persuaded in your mind, don't eat. only don't make it a law for other people not to!

well, on a lighter note
i have heard (not sure if it's true) that catholic churches have arsenals
plus considering that they have rev fathers and other agile men in church 24/7,
a starved almajiri may want to reconsider facing such formidable adversaries

@OP
First off. i think your 'spit' was entirely out of place.
secondly, i do believe your answer is within the post now supposedly covered in your spittle
finally, Abraham looked to Sodom and Gomorah arguably because of Lot-a human being
i believe Lot's wife looked behind (in disobedience to a direct command) to the possessions left behind. her mind clearly had not left!!!

tEsLim:
1. Take her to the nearest psychiatrist I'll recommend a public hospital where the bills will be cheap and near because of transportation and all. Plead with her to understand with you she needs counseling. Don't really tell her its a psychiatrist because she might start telling you she is not "crazy" and why would she need such service.

2. Make sure you stay at your job and try to keep your job so you can have continuous inflow of cash no matter how small it is. What part of the country are you? Lagos?

3. Remove your picture from this post

Send me an email majormediainc at gmail dot com there are something I would like to discuss with you privately. And by the way I'm atheist. I apply logic to solving my problems or any problems I encounter. So live good and spiritualism out of this. In life some people are just better positioned or opportuned by combination of multiple decisions taken in their lives. Better to start than never.

or a MOD should please do that!!!!

what he means to say is that
recently we were told how much civil servants got in bribes et al, he claims to have made this point when he was in office (mount olympus) that civil servants are just as corrupt as the political class therefore a cleansing of corruption will cut throughout all the classes; working class; political class

SO HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION?
THAT'S WHY WE HAVEN'T PROGRESSED AS A NATION.
WE DO NOT PUNISH CRIMINALS!!!

_{that is if it's true sef}

paid 40k for a camry yesterday but they could issue it cos there are still misunderstandings between FRSC AND VIO.
IN ABUJA.

Very nice stuff. OP please modify your post to bolden the sub-topics to make for an easier read!!!
very very nice stuff

ifyalways:
@OP,How did you get the 1.3M btw?

@Topic,If you could discipline yourself and set aside 1.3M,I really expect you to make better choices.Go to the property section of NLD and see what wonders your mustard seed(1.3) would do.

Don't open a current account with your dad If you feel he's gonna spend your money.Tell him gently that you've invested the money or you've stashed it in a fixed deposit.

finally someone asks the golden question. i am also curious as to how OP got money that his parent is interested in 'managing'.
plus funny the guy is asking what lie he can tell his popman

The presidential candidate of the Congress for Pro-gressive Change (CPC) in the April 16 election, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday said the dismissal of the party's petition that challenged the presidential election result did not come as a surprise.

Speaking in the same vein, the National Publicity Secretary of CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, described the judgment as a “miscarriage of justice”.

Buhari, who spoke through his spokesperson, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said anyone who followed the judicial process that led to the tribunal's judgment would not be surprised that the outcome was against the CPC.

“The judgment did not come to us as a surprise.  Anyone who followed the judicial process with regard to the handling of the presidential petition would not be surprised at the final outcome.  First, it was the removal of the Appeal Court President, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, who was replaced by an Acting President, Justice Dalhatu Adamu, under controversial circumstances and then came the re-shuffling of the tribunal panel,” he said.

Odumakin said CPC practically lost hope in the entire process when the tribunal could not guarantee the party access to critical electoral materials, let alone compelling the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Atahiru Jega, to appear before it.

He regretted that the refusal to allow CPC's legal team to conduct forensic investigation into the documents used to declare the presidential election result had caused a colossal damage to the case.

He further lamented the futile efforts made by CPC to try to get Jega into the dock so as to enable the tribunal extract needed evidence to prove the rigging allegation.

According to Odumakin, as far as the former Head of State is concerned, it was obvious that the odds were against CPC and there is no way it would have surmounted it under the circumstance.

Fashakin said the party had decided to appeal against the tribunal's judgment.

“Today's judgment was a miscarriage of justice; we shall appeal.  We believe that there was evidence that INEC did not conduct election in South-east and the South-south.  INEC could not tender the election materials used in conducting the election.  The commission abandoned its pleadings by not being able to support its pleadings with evidence,” he said.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/buhari-not-surprised-at-miscarriage-of-justice/101868/

i thought the man went to the court recently to assure of his confidence in them. now that they ruled against him, he has lost confidence?

Seun:
Those countries have lower populations than Nigeria.

lower population? how does that factor into this?
[b]
Current price of crude oil per barrel= $90 USD. Let us assume that as a producing nation, we buy at $65 per barrel. A barrel equals 159 litres. This means that our cost of crude oil per litre in naira =(65X160)/159= N65 per litre (assuming that $1 USD = N160)

So our cost of raw material alone is already N65 per liter. Which also douubles as the cost of finished goods. Speaking reallistically by the time we add the cost of energy to refine, cost of remuneration of the workers, distribution and marketing cost, tax and profit, we will have as our cost of finished goods which is petrol, a price that should be way higher than N65/litre.

So the solution is not just to build more refineries as this analysis has shown. If the government builds more refineries, they will still continue to subsidise the cost of refinning. The only difference is that we may not be importing then. The ultimate solution therfore is to first eliminate corruption in the system and we all know that this is a near impossible feat. Second, we can deregulate fully. If we deregulate fully, private investors will come and build refineries themselves and refine crude for our consumption but then the pump price of petrol will be more than N65/litre. It will hover between N120-N150 naira/litre[/b]

i don't buy into addict's calculation
REASON: according to the indices he used in arriving at those figures, all countries in the world should sell at above N65 or it's equivalent because those indices are common to all the countries.
yet fuel is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar less than N65 or it's equivalent in countries such as venezuela et al. are you saying those countries are also subsidising that much?

any where my eyes can have clear access to the tv (if i want to watch tv) or anyplace big enough to hold my plate and a novel/newspaper.
Eating just seems like something unimportant enough to do on it's own (that's prolly a wrong line of thinking) but i hardly eat without doing anything by the side. as i said, location is really of little or no importance to me.

That is absolutely fraud and double taxation.
FERMA is normally supposed to be entitle to about N1 per litre of petrol bought in Nigeria for road maintenance, what have they done with that money? have they complained that it is insufficient?
giving a govt agency whose fundamental framework generates corruption more money is just beyond me
FERMA BUILDS ROADS,FERMA AFTER A WHILE CONSIDER THE ROAD DUE FOR MAINTENANCE, FERMA DOES THE ESTIMATION OF THE COST, FERMA AWARDS THE CONTRACT FOR THE ROAD, FERMA SUPERVISES THE CONTRACT, FERMA ADJUDGES THE CONTRACT WELL DONE.
how on earth can anything happen good come out of them? ehn?

It is becoming clear that there is an annointed candidate in the person of Dickson in this bayelsa 2010. first Alaibe was refused a waiver, now (i'm actually happy about this) Sylva has been disqualified.

i would have expected Jonathan to treat ALaibe better anyway. the man has made some good sacrifices for his benefit e.g stepping down for him in 2007 until he was picked as VP candidate, resigning his SA position to threaten sylva.etc
Well that's naija politics!

isn't there a regulatory body for journalists ? especially columnists?
some just spew out suck-up rubbish in the name of articles