₦airaland Forum

budaatum:
The first comment on the video was about oil money, though it mentioned only northerners and not all Nigerians.When oil boomed in the 70s, it became much cheaper to import than to produce at home, and that just about killed any innovation that would have kept our industries growing. The subsequent bust was the death kneel.
....Corpers is like the scheme we are condemning here. It gives money to people in guise of empowering them when it really doesn't. And worst is that it suppresses employment and wages and training, since they can be turned over every year. Up to me, I'd want it scrapped or made more fit for purpose.

OMGOSh! You watched an entirely different video altogether.

I meant the video posted by Bashir Ahmed on X

razzydoo:
Why are you talking like this? Wage award is still being paid even as at last month, July.

Ok. my mistake! It was originally meant to expire when the old minimum wage did in May 2024, which was also when a new minimum wage was supposed to have kicked in. I just read that in June, the minister of labor announced it was to continue after the initial 6 months indicated until a new minimum wage is in place.
https://www.channelstv.com/2024/06/03/n35000-wage-award-to-continue-until-minimum-wage-is-settled-labour-minister/

dre11:
■ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2024/08/wage-award-not-part-of-n70000-minimum-wage-nlc-lagos/amp/

The wage award of a thing expired back in May,2024. So why the mistake? Na regret dey do the people at this point say the new minimum wage is even Naira 5000 short of what the wage award once offered them. Una don enter una own. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

budaatum:
↪Skills that can't properly be learnt in 8 months, lol. I'd have prefered if this money went into apprenticeships. Like pay half of it to a mechanic etc to take on an apprentice who is paid the other half. But when I thought of the need to monitor progress, which I doubt would be done, I just sighed. Better might be to invest it in our education system so corpers are not teachers.

Please watch the following video and then come back and try to attack this problem again. https://www.legit.ng/nigeria/1608774-watching-video-incredibly-emotional-clip-nigerias-rich-economic-history-surfaces/

Nigerians corpers themselves need significant amounts of training to measure up to the standard that is the world today.

budaatum:
↪I thought "vote buying" when I read it, If I pay people 10k a month they'll likely sell me their pvc even if they don't learn any skill. They sure will be empowering me to remain in office to enrich myself.

It is also that too.

↪Explaining how the scheme works, the Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr. Patrick Aghamba, said the training has various phases and would last for eight months, adding that the trainees would be entitled to monthly stipends from the government within the pendency of the training, while also being empowered with start-up capital after the training.
He said: “The age range of the trainees is from 18 to 45 years. It does not matter if you are from Anambra or not, so long as you reside here in Anambra.“The idea is that even if you’re not from Anambra but you reside here, if we take you out of the street and empower you with skills, the tendency is that you will not be a problem to society, and the rate of crime in the state will reduce.
“We want to use this to reduce the crime rate in the state. The training will commence soon. It is called the One Youth Two Skills programme.“Phase A is for courses that will take four months and phase B is for courses that will take six months. It is a vocational training and the last phase is entrepreneurship, which is for one month. We will also use one month to do capturing. So the project timeline is eight months.”Speaking on some of the skills that would be learnt, Aghamba listed; furniture, metal fabrication, aluminum fabrication, CCTV installation, confectionary, leather works as part of the skills.
The coordinator of Anambra Keke Drivers Union, Osita Obi, while commenting on the initiative said: “The programme is a wonderful one. It will help to empower our youths and keep them busy. The government cannot give white-collar jobs to everyone, but the best they can do is to train people and give them the enabling environment to thrive.
“For me, I do not think that this initiative can solve crime, but it can contribute a little quota. Every society has deviants, and such deviants, whether there is a job or not, still engage in crime. But on the whole, what the governor is doing is commendable and should be emulated by all.”

Just take a look at the skills they intend to spend billions of dollars in the year 2024, as part of their so-called empowerment schemes and you can immediately tell that these people are simply looking to create an army of those who are in poverty.

SoNature:
With perennial insecurity and youth restiveness in the south-east which has seen many youths join the struggle for secession, there seems to be a deliberate policy by governors of the region to empower youths with skills and take them off the streets.
From Anambra, Imo, Enugu and Abia States, the governors have respectively unfolded youth empowerment initiatives as well as programmes to support operators of micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) in the regionIn Anambra State, the Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, few days ago launched what he called the 1youth2skills programme.The programme which is in its second phase, witnessed about 8,620 participants that qualified for the second batch. It is expected to serve as a bridge to the future for youths to move away from joblessness as his administration prioritises human capital development.
“Today, we are beginning phase two of that big journey to ensure that our youths are empowered on a sustainable basis, to teach them how to fish and eliminate hunger. Phase one of the programme had 5,000 youths, trained in a peculiar way of ‘igba boy,’ mentorship, etc.“Most of them have been empowered, and several of them are now employers of labour. In this second batch, 183,000 applications were received, and over 8,000 people were selected because of limited spaces,” he added

Anyone who lives in Nigeria should have figured out by now that these empowerment schemes are nothing short of fraud perpetrated against the Nigerian people. They are weapons used to ensure they remain poor while shifting blame for their predicament from the government that continues to fail them to the people who go away feeling they failed themselves instead.

budaatum:
↪ They should have done research to find out how similar ideas have fared in the past. But of course we wouldn't!

Empowerment in Nigeria na highway to fraud abeg! Some individuals in Government, that Kalu senator in particular is about to make a killing from this scheme.

SporaD8:
↪ Oya sope - #Portable 4 gomina Ogun!!!😁

No be so the current criminal wey be governor take hoodwink people for Ogun state too? Go check all of your many politicians for Nigeria, na the default formulae wey dem dey use be that.

givedemwotowoto:
When they finish building the coastal highway of fraud they'll start that one

🤣🤣🤣🤣

RuggedBiafran:
↪Portable is even better than Dapo Abiodun.
A musician is doing the work for a useless GOVERNOR that embarrassed sophisticated people.
All the IGR noise of OGUN STATE, goes where?

Be careful oo! This might be an attempt to clean up his image a bit so he can enter into politics next.

Wainey:
let me make it clear. CBN can make policies on its own without the interference of the federal govt. It may work directly with the federal govt but it is not depending on federal govt

You are attempting to argue that a bank that is 100% state-owned should not be required to reveal records of its transactions to the public. That just shows that you are not... Anyways, stop distracting from the main issue abeg!

Bestbrain123:
i believe he might take luke22;36 as idiomatic expression.

Never pull a verse out of context to apply a meaning different from that intended by the author is what I will say of that and every other verse in Scripture. https://www.nairaland.com/7110397/gospel-minddump/2#117849492

Wainey:
↪when I say central bank is independent, I am not talking about name and founders. Inec is also independent

You are not making sense of any kind with these pronouncements of yours.

Wainey:
↪the central bank is independent, the money in the bank is not ur money. The govt will put in some cash so in times of crisis, it can help the govt but the CBN operates independently to some degree

Now, I am particularly curious to know what it is you hope to gain from aggressively arguing from a point of ignorance.

ijustdey:
Sowore Accuses Nigerian Government Of Staging Presidential Aircraft Seizure To Tactically Launch Tinubu’s N150Billion New Jet https://saharareporters.com/2024/08/16/sowore-accuses-nigerian-government-staging-presidential-aircraft-seizure-tactically#google_vignette

The company chose to release the plane that was said to be worth about $100 million? I don't understand. Isn't this an attempt to collect a debt of about 74 million Euros again where $100 million is approximately Euros 90,625,000.00?

Bestbrain123:
idiomatic expression my foot! Those bible passages quoting about tithe and offerings.. Isn't part of your idiomatic expression abi. Is only a clear picture of misguided law of division tatoo'd in your mindset.

There was nothing idiomatic about what Jesus Christ said to the Israelites — those who were(and are even today) of the bloodline of Jacob —there in Matthew 10, or any parts of the Gospel for that matter. His coming was to herald the end of the period of the Old Covenant — the Last days of God's Judgment against Israel(God's Sword against His people)—, and the beginning of the time of the harvest, the end time— the time of the Kingdom of God in which the Lost of Sheep of Israel are gathered by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ spoke extensively of the destruction to befall those in the land at the time to mark the Last Days, particularly in Matthew 24, Luke 18 & 21, and Mark 13.

SaidaBoj3:
Who is a righteous man?

Abandon all that religious nonsense(Religion included) and you are more likely to find peace of mind.

Afonjeezy:
What do you think would have happened by now?

Moderators, please move the thread to Ethnic, Racial, Or Sectarian Politics where it belongs abeg!

illicit:
↪ Diplomacy?

Did you watch the video and at least read the OP?

Psoul:
↪ You are very correct. These ppl do not know how to make assessment. How can they asses with only one thing, when they are unaware or other hundreds. Just like sometime in 2021, I fell in love with Sienna van cos of it's space. I just tol my colleague that I like Sienna Van and will like to buy it once I have enough cash for it. As if God had already planned it for me, the insurance company I made investment with paid me N5,080,000. I bought that car with part of that money. Clean one. Some of my colleagues were looking at me somehow as if I am doing some deal in the company. They were just judging me based on our salary and also based on how much they could do with the same salary.
They didn't know that I have good financial disciple and invest my money in different areas that keep bringing extra money to me.

Please use your head in these things for once abeg! You claim you received a payout from an insurance company for about Naira 5,080,000 which you then used in purchasing your dream van, right? If asked to provide proof, you would be able to hand in the documents showing these transactions and your history of yours, right? Guess what? Public servants are required to disclose — not spin tales — their financial income before even entering into office. Their accounts are meant to be audited and verified to ensure we are all aware of what they had, where they came from, and so on.

2. People in Nigeria, and everywhere else, have a right to be suspicious of people's source of wealth. It is common sense given that there are a tremendous amount of thieves and fraudsters out there, particularly in Nigeria. Even your religious leaders are front and center when it comes to fraud, so yes, it is right to question it all.

Biodun556:
↪ Is there any Nigerian asset in China that could be siezed ?

Your question makes no sense.

Biodun556:
↪ Bola Ahmed Tinubu was recently invited by Chinese president on a state visit. Buhari government romanced the Chinese, took loans and awarded big contracts to their firms. All Chinese firms are indirectly controlled by Chinese government. So then firm couldn't have acted alone. A Chinese business man was arrested by the Nigerian police and rough handled .

Bullsheet! If China was enraged, why then did the company seek justice in British, French, and U.S. courts?

Biodun556:

It's been 25 years and about 100 billion dollars down the drain at this point and Nigerians are still without the following basic amenities. The legacy of the Saraki family is such that to this day, Kwara state and every community within still lacks pretty much all of the following.

■ Electricity
■ Clean Water Supply
■ Sewage
■ Good Roads(roads built by the ancient Romans thousands of years ago are still very much available to this day)
■ Passenger Rail
■ Security
■ Reliable internet and mobile services
■ Waste Management
■ Strong healthcare system
■sturdy educational & training System
■a Welfare/Social system...

Bukola Saraki, both as the first democratic governor of Kwara State and as the Senate representative of the same people, is one of the many colossal failures of the last 25 years. Let's stop recycling obvious kakistocrats!

haphizz57:
I bought #950/per litre dis morning. And i spent like 45mins b4 it got to my turn.

Pictures, please! We live in a digital age now and it would be cool if people would provide digital proof for claims made.

Bizibi:
I don't believe this report,aa rano is 700 while nnpc is 600 in Abuja. So Who is selling at 1000 per litre in abj

Can you please take and post pictures of any of those you listed so we can all see this for ourselves?

CodeTemplar:
Subsidy is finally going away.

Going where? Nigerians are still paying for it.

tellwisdom:
↪ He has Macdonald franchise. Na Wetin he talk o!

How person go talk say him get something and you no body ask am at least where? You know say McDonalds dey Africa sef. So you need to at least get a location where the McDonalds wey him get dey. Do you merely believe anything anybody says? Come on people!

DaddyCoool:
While senators get 22 million a month, and RMAFC lying about it! See below

Isn't it the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission (NSIWC) that pays out these monies to the senators and representatives? Why not directly demand answers from the particular commission in charge of these remunerations to all federal employees?

NaijaphiliaBlog:
78% of people who work in Lagos make less than ₦100,000 or $63 per month.
This is according to the State of the Employed report which was released by PaidHR, a Nigerian startup that helps businesses manage their HR functions.
The company interviewed more than 1,600 employees (half of them aged 19 to 35) and employers in Lagos.
The report also shows that 51.2% of working Lagosians spend more than they earn monthly, and are consequently forced to seek additional income to augment their earnings.
Of all spendings by Lagosians, food is the most significant, with workers shelling out ₦54,000 averagely on food monthly (used to be ₦38,000 in 2023).

Why Naira 100,000 and not Naira 70,000 as the measure though? How many people who work in Lagos make Naira 70,000 a month?

DaddyCoool:
↪ Who is not a star and pretending about Nigeria? Confusing

I was referring to the other commenter who claims to not know that there are many homeless in Nigeria.

CyrusVI:
↪ All that led to this was a space hosted on that app where they made mockery of the Oba of Benin
It shows you dont even know what led to this and you're here dishing out your usual deformed logic. If u dont give a damn about the tiktok session, then you arent supposed to say anything about this cause every single thing about this saga stems from and abounds there

Your first problem is you don't read to comprehend. Your first instinct is to attack first and engage brain later. Read what you typed above and read my earlier post, then tell me how any of your rattling has to do with my actual post.

Kobojunkiee: There are plenty of them here on Nairaland as well. Many of those who raise threads on Biafra pretending to promote Biafran causes are likely not even of South Eastern origins.

How could any reasonable person think to connect my earlier response to what you posted as a rebuttal for Pete's sake? Please stop wh0ring for my attention abeg!