₦airaland Forum

Easy wins.

1. Roads. There are key roads in every state that have never been done or have been ignored. Get them done fast.

2. Waste Management. Update the waste management regime in your state. That affects health and will actually set a tone for anything else you will do in your state. Special Focus: Markets, Hospitals, Schools.

3. Automate: Please reduce the paper work and time wasted in the ministries in your state. The lesser the amount of time needed to get things done, the better for your administration.

4. Reduce Recurrent Expenditure: Find ways to shift unproductive ministry staff away from the ministries to smaller parastatals that can be privatised in your Second term.

5. High Density Low Cost Housing near Town Centers: This is highly necessary in most nigerian cities. It will go a long way in solving transport issues among many things. Houses for the poor are better placed near the town center where they work than at the outskirts where the cost of living & commuting would be even higher.

6. Privatise your Radio and TV stations: If you can, you could be the first governor to cross this divide. Have the integrity to give up a valuable tool of propaganda (fingers crossed) and get out of the media business.

7 Identify The No 1 Tourist Destination in your state  and Upgrade it: Create a Private/Public Company charged with marketing and suggesting ways of marketing this major tourist destination/event. It must be tasked with becoming a profit-making venture and failure must be rewarded by disbanding it.

8 Identify the Key industry in your state: be it yams, cassava, spices, gold or sharp sand, Identify the biggest money spinner AND SIT ON IT. The government must organise and make money from it.

9 Identify the Most valuable Piece of Real Estate : Do that. Clear up any pending legal issues involving the state in that area and Develop it to the max. The most valuable varies from state to state. For some states, its the area closest to lagos, aba or ABJ, For some, its the area closest to the biggest company in the state or to the biggest tourist destination. Whichever it is, develop it and sell the estates to people who can buy.

10 Invest In solar streetlights

11 If you are a governor from the southwest, anything you can do to diminish the power of NURTW will be appreciated.

let's be peacemakers for once. Give the husband some punching gloves and put the miscreant in the same jail with him BLINDFOLDED AND TIED TO THE BED. They are gentlemen and one night's vigorous discussion will settle it, PERMANENTLY.

but why?,

my slow brain loves Codeigniter.

Love the fact that its like a skeleton and I can hook and filter to my hearts content.

When more firepower is needed,
we drag in some Zend Cannons to blast away ze problem. (Thanks Zend Lucene etc).

In my more lazier days I tried Prado but felt it was too much like Java. Objects everywia.

Yii and the rest nope.

Dont know if you have heard about the Green Framework (PHP) but I actually stole the Observer library there. so so cool.

Sore loser.  mscheew

If only wisdom was a part of our foreign policy?

If only we would desist from throwing our agbada all over the world while leaving the roof leaking and the crawling baby near the fire?

If only nigerian alignments were made in our best interest NOT the best interest of the C-in-C?

if only nigerians would leave this fascination with our population and focus more on our standard of living?

If only nigerians would fight the enemies we can see (our politicians) and worry less about supposed enemies (The West, The East, Illuminati, G8, Axis of Evil, Dracula, etc )?

If only nigerians would stop trying to build facebook and ensure that I can successfully buy my slippers online with a card of my choice at a sustainable profit to them?

If only nigerians would give up living in the past/ the future and focus on making the present worthwhile?

If only nigerians would Stop making Vision 20XX plans and gather into emergency teams to tackle the burning emergencies of the day?

If only nigerians would aim to be the best engineers instead of a generation of musicians ,motivational speakers and soccer players?

if only,

of course you would participate in that uprising FROM TEXAS.

@Paulo1980 I guess they are only good in theory which is why innovations like

M PESA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

Open Data: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/Kenya+allows+public+online+access+to+govt+data/-/2560/1197916/-/hh4v0e/-/

Ushahidi: http://www.ushahidi.com/

are all coming from KENYA.

here's a list of 20 more hot kenyan startups. http://memeburn.com/2010/08/20-kenyan-start-ups-worth-watching/

Just say you are another frustrated dude like some of my compatriots here. Your case is even worse than the people insulting Nigerian engineers.

A lie oft repeated becomes the truth.

Its amazing watching rumour snowball into truth/news.

Somehow you have managed to create the idea that he collected money and by repeatedly saying it, make it seem true.

Every one reading this clearly knows that is a big lie.

A site this big would make enough to pay him the 5m at least once or twice a year. I dont have any proof but while he may be Pro-GEJ FOR PERSONAL REASONS, I believe he couldnt have collected any money to do such a thing. He loves this site too much to spoil it.

This is the same guy I knew way back who refused to become a freelance programmer not because he wasnt good enough but because he did not want to program FOR JUST MONEY alone. He wants a life of meaning.

@Dayokanu paint him black because you feel you might never hit such heights in your lifetime, but your conscience will be the silent witness.

Only in nigeria will you see oil companies providing power.


That is not their core competence. They are to extract oil. c'est fini.

Idiots know that their kinsman IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA and not A SINGLE BRA[/b]IN can think of contacting [b]THEIR KINSMAN to come and POWER HIS OWN VILLAGE.

And Nigerians also think it is perfectly logical to place stress on companies like Shell so they can cry to the government. That is so stupid that I cant even think of a proper reply.

CSR is not governance. Shell do not rule you. Their CEOs were not elected by you and they are 1st and foremost accountable to their shareholdrs.

The ones who are accountable to you, should take the lead. Where are their LG chairmen, Reps and Senators? Where's their governor?

**uncorks laser, drops rifle, shakes head at how close some1 came close to being smoked***

buzugee:
ol lying azz. stop telling tall tales. none of your friends are oil rig managers in kazakhstan. heck if it wasnt for ali G, you wouldnt even know that kazakhstan existed. lying azz negro. look the fact is what it is. accept it. only then can you remedy it.

In English?

Sorry but some of us had libraries @ home and did not have to run out of the country for sustenance/adult education.

A few of us had the brains and the favour to be able to make it IN nigeria.

And a few of us have it REAL GOOD HERE IN NIGERIA.

@Enkidu. There's another view point you did not consider.

What if SHE seduced him because she needed someone and HE had to move away to protect his marriage?

I know how you feel.

Never been married but I have had betrayals too (any1 above the age of 16 who has started dating must have seen or experienced such) and at first all you want to do is strike out.

Trust me, it will pass. In my own case, i was not hitched to the guilty party for life but I still believe the same holds.

Dont kill anyone. You have a lot more to live for.


Besides, Looking back at this in 30 years time, it will definitely be inconsequential.

Take heart and for now, Focus on showing love to your kid and make sure he/she suceeds, because at the end of the day, he/she is now the most important product of your marriage and you would be a failure if you fail him/her.

buzugee:
whatever. i know people who work in oil rigs. they give all the menial jobs to the nigerians while the white people do all the cushy and brain inducing work.

You operate on rumours. Unless your friends work for oil servicing firms, the Oil majors employ nigerians who are called "company men". They have the power to kick any (i repeat any) one off the rig, white, black, phillipino etc. They are equals and in many cases superior to those white people.


Even the oil servicing companies recruit nigerians for important jobs. I have friends who have been rig managers for Slumberger, Halliburton etc in places as far as kazakhstan, Kashagan, moscow and even gulf of mexico. Nigerians. Graduates of FUTO and UNIBEN. Exceptionally Great Engineers.

You have never been to a rig and frustrated friends are telling you stories.

Try and comment on stuff you know about.

olas2u:
Grammar everytime,look we have a real problem in the oil and gas,aviation,construction ,manufacturing etc.The shipping industry is big business and carries the flag of your country and allows for international trade,its also allows for reduced capital flight out of Nigeria,Go near APapa ,90% percent of the ships are foreign ,in a country of 150 million population.What about the Auto industry,the same year mercedes went to india,that was also the same year After the shagari elections,peauguot of France came to Nigeria,the indians have produced Tata powered by mercedes benz engines and have gone on the produced the cheapest car in the world .What about military,the brazilan military were at par before ,what about now ,just in 27 to 28years ,they now produce military hardware,Nigeria military produce Table and chair.continue grammar

its only grammar if you dont understand it.

All those things you mentioned, succeeded because the policies aided them not because they had better engineers.

What is the connection between engineering competence and shipping policies?

What is the connection between that and deliberately derelict military equipment (when certain people profit from stealing and reselling the same arms to us or worse, selling it to criminals and militants).

Example; Local govt, state and federal govt tax a factory business to death, and you think the next logical thing is to blame the engineers. what is the logical connection between those?

has it occured to you that some of those conditions were deliberately created by some crooked policymakers in spite of the actions of the engineers?

Just be logical. simple.

olas2u:
You are really dumb.Black man.what do you expect .You import refined products,they do exploration for you,they ship the crude for you,but you are still not making sense.

Anyone would assume he knew about the industry. Exploration is done by nigerian geologists in ALL companies concerned. That is a fact.

Shipping is not something to be patriotic about. Who cares who ships it as long as they buy what we produce.
I dont care if they carry their tomatoes on their head as long as they leave my shop with it and leave their money behind.

@Rossikk we sometimes need to try and educate the brethren. A little might sip in.

I believe Berger is in Ogun State so this law doesnt apply. it only affects lekki ,ikeja and surulere based dealers.

coming from someone who did not finish school, you are forgiven.

The problem is not competent engineers, its corrupt policymakers. Your engineers are capable of building anything (but only what they are permitted to build).

If the government decides to deliberately ignore calls for maintenance funds and refuses to monitor compliance, it is not the poor engineer's fault.

Same goes for doctors who are forced to do surgery with no light.

Civil engineers who are forced to build roads with improper materials thanks to corrupt contractors.

Teachers forced to teach wherever the students can find a seat.




Give a nigerian proper conditions and see them excel. Stop insulting what you dont understand.

You don't actually need a degree to see this problem, all you have to do is look around.

Please my dear populist friend, dont omit the fact that Turkey just pledged $200million to the opposition.

I guess if we find the truth inflammatory, we should not publish it then. Even if the figures are wrong, How can so many legislators pass only 8 bills. that is pure uselessness.

Some respondents on this thread are simply using the opportunity to express their envy. @abacus @debrief08 @macjive01

The fact is that Sahara reporters had no right to post his fb profile alongside someone under questioning. I am happy they are being filtered now. about time they stopped getting free traffic from here too (yes, free traffic.

Sahara has more to gain from NL than vice versa. Even if posts from there did not get any credence here, other interesting posts would still grace the main page).

Enough said.

Has anyone heard of Ingvar Kamprad? Or maybe his company Ikea? one-time richest guy in the world? A carpenter for more than 40+ years. Its not what cards life gives you, but what you play with the cards.

We can all read I assume. She graduated at 27 and returned in 1993 when she was already 33. The crime is that she supposedly did not get an exemption. Fact is that she was no longer eligible as at the time she returned.

Document forgery doesnt apply. She may have been employed as expatriate nigerian. You do not know the terms of her contract and as such cannot comment on such.

Fact is that she would most likely pay a fine and thats the end of it.

@Mobinga, I learnt on my own but I would have progressed faster if I had someone to mentor me. Went in a lot of useless directions before fully realizing WHY i wanted to program and WHAT kinds of applications I was interested in building.

You dont need books right now, You need a mentor.

Someone who's actually making money/ building great stuff with programming languages.

That will be more useful to you than trying to learn it in one week (next thing you know you'll be trying to build facebook the next week. All things must go thru a process of refinement).

Get someone who will not only teach you but show you how to enjoy it.

Sweden.

A high number of schools there are private but the government subsidizes all and monitors all. So there's no essential difference between public and private or Secular/religious schools. They will only have slight differences in some practices but the standard is usually the same. People run them profitably.

Japan.
Not only do people go to private schools for learning, they are also enrolled into high tension "cram schools", where they work afterhours and the training is highly intensive.

Finishing schools for the rich in switzerland are profit-making institutions and they have very high standards.

Same in the US. even though people attend public schools but the private schools still have the highest standards. (At university level , the Ivy League schools are private entities, not public. Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Stanford are private corporations. Verify).

Very many school-millionaires exist. Some even go as far as franchising successful schools. Search for secondary school franchise online and see how many you will find.

Those are your facts.

The UK however is a poor example. You can do better than to give us a Nanny State as an example. They even go as far as paying the jobless to stay jobless and even the rich to live in council houses. So thats not an excuse.

The government can still invest in education EVEN if it owned no schools.

Parents should be allowed to pay for better education if they feel their wards need.

BY THE WAY: The US Government owns no schools except Military Academies. Same goes for the states. The universities are usually owned by the cities in which they are based and are run as publicly owned private entities. The state only funds residents by giving them resident scholarships.

thats idealistic.

In the real world, schools can be set up as businesses as long as they are accountable to the parents. thats the whole point of having a good educational system. Good schools are supposed to survive while the state and the free market are to collude to kill off the poor ones.

Starting a school as a business is not a crime. In many cases, its even a blessing.

Properly run, people would attend public schools. no one would go to a private school. But we have to live with the situation we have now.

Besides, I am in favor of governments getting out of education and other parastatals totally. Subsidize if necessary and administer all of them on an equal basis.

Private Education is not the problem. c'est fini.

Databases exist. That is not the problem.


I am an IT person but I'll tell you that backwardness in IT is not the issue.


It is a 'people' problem. A corruptly-led government run by 'ghost ' workers, awarding inflated contracts with nebulous monitoring arrangements and deliberately negligent record keeping will defeat any MySQL/Oracle installation you come up with.

Jacuzzi toh behdddd!!!!!!!

Ping me with that Nokia!!!!!

lol

Its a global land grab. Search online for it. Many investors are racing after Africa's fertile lands among other places. Food will progressively become more important as world population grows and Africa, Ukraine/central eastern countries (they have a very fertile black soil type called a chernozerm) are becoming targets of landgrabbers.

Even schools like MIT and Harvard are investing in the landgrab through proxies.

Ghadaffi already did a test run in Mali where he bought up farmland. Same is happening in Kenya where refugees are being chased away from 20-year old camps to make way for european investors.


Its not a blessing. Its a steady recolonisation.


Mark my words.

Interestingly, we thrive on opposition and that may be just what we need to power ahead, while PDP steals the other regions blind.