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[quote author=Enugu_Ukwu link=topic=631740.msg7988652#msg7988652 date=1301115767]do you need some poison? you need to eat poison because of Nigeria. you compare Nigeria to Japan, you need to examine the state of your mind.[/quote]counter his argument intellectually dont trade insults.

lol. like your honesty but realise your site would have the gift of familiarity (minus the spam bot though). lets see how far it goes.

(though i think your choice of focus may be a bit too narrow)

Idea: we could turn this into a wiki and refine it as we go along. people coming in to refine the ideas that they see there or add theirs. well lets see how this turns out.

buzugee:
1, privatize all schools (except universities). this way i can concentrate on rebuilding and upgrading all the universities to world class standard. also privatize public transportation, privatize farming (anyone who gets into these business will pay zero tax).

2, disband the army, the immigration, customs, all foreign embassies, the court system

3, hire SUPER-COPS. with an annual salary of $100,000 each. these supercops will double up as crime deterrents, they will double up as custom agents, they will double up as agents in all the ports collecting import duties, they will double up as immigration agents (they will have a sector where nigerian passports and visas are issued), they will be in charge of issuing titles for property sold and also all other legal documents. they will be heavily computerized and have up to date cars painted green white green with sirens. each city will have 300 cops. this will be the backbone of my govt. the supercops.

4, found an arm of the govt called the 'street crew'. they get paid $50,000 each. they are in charge of making sure every street in the country is tarred. their number will be by the side of their truck. if you see a pothole ? call this number. there will be 50 in every city. they will also double up as street cleaners on friday.

5, the water dept, will make sure every home in the country has free drinking water.

6, energy dept, will ensure through proliferation of all kinds of energy (headed by the best engineeers in nigeria ) from solar to wind to water, that every nigerian gets free electricity.

7, a watchdog agency,  to connect all the agencys mentioned above. the watchdog agency has direct access to the supercops. if any of the above dept is slacking, you call the watchdog agency to report if a road has not been tarred after 1 day of being reported. the watchdog agency will contact the police and the police will let the 'street crew' have it. someone is losing their $50,000 job for that mishap.

8, the other backbone of the govt, the IRS. this is how we will get our revenue to provide free water, electricity, beautiful universities, pay the supercops, the university staff including the 10 landscapers per university, the street crew. the irs will be headed by the best and brightest MBAs. they will ensure that every company operating in nigeria is registered in their computer. every business pays 40 percent flat tax. PAYE tax will be eradicated. we get all our money off the top from the companys. so we get our money from taxing, oil, the supercops (money from the ports via import duties, passport fees, visa fees, issuing deeds and titles and legal documents )

9, post office will be semi-privatized. i will contract a business man to run the post offices on behalf of the govt. all profit is his.

and there we have it. small govt, good unis, good roads, water, electricity, effective taxation, good policing and the citizens get to fill in the gap via privatization

love your idea but it could easily get derailed and opposed. Legislators would claim you are creating a private army. besides how do you pick them? but I like the idea of having supercops. for now lets make it a ministry (The Ministry of the Interior).

Privatising the Post: Wish there was a button for points so I could award you +10000000000. Trust me this is only a matter of time. We just have to kick out those people.

the street crew idea may not really work. its the job of the interior ministry too (  see how I am defending the idea.)

Pray tell me why you want to disband the courts      (so we cant unseat the Great Leader abi. we wont agree on that sir)

I would also privatise water too. its like electricity and if we are privatising that, why not water too. they are both utilities. No one's complaining because everything else is crap but once things start to improve, this will be an issue.


For number one, i will not make it completely no-tax. i would rather have a ramp-up phase of 8 years (I dont have to be there 8 years for this to happen) when there will be a tax-holiday after which they will be inducted (dragged is more like it) into the now functional tax system.

sisqology:
@number1, i am already into web designin, but i am bein thot ascal in skul and i am in 200lvl, lautech,, so i decided to explore more on it and i have gone far in it befor seein this topic that its outdated, i am perfect in html, css, Gud in jscript, but i stopped cos i ddnt have much tym again, so, i will revise and start with php now. Then go to c++ and java later, thanks bro.

Then, another question; which editor is the best, when it comes to web or which is advisable, i saw a frnd using dreamwever(i hate that), i use notepad, and textpad for js, but if i could get something better for all?

please dont be decieved a friend of mine wrote a complete game in pascal and progressed to delphi which is quite similar. He's making huge sums now from freelancing.

dont make your IT decisions entirely based on Nairaland. Confirm from other sites like www.stackoverflow.com before you make a final decision.

However if you want to take the path of least resistance to mastery, pick python, master it in one year. It will do you a world of good.
(do not allow yourself to be distracted by any comments or otherwise. its very easy to spend 5 years learning 5 languages. I lost time too to people making comments. dont fall into that trap. I am only now mastering PHP in detail though I can still converse in other languages fluently(certified in java and I can write an app in .NET if my life was on the line.)
)

PHP can be picked up anytime. Its one of the easiest languages and you can almost second-guess the names of default functions once you are experienced in it. its that easy.

[quote author=Enugu_Ukwu link=topic=630064.msg7986684#msg7986684 date=1301082534]some people are simply too daft to read.

7.5 hours because it made a show at every stop.

If you want to make a point- go and ride on it and let us know, instead of finding it difficiult to say anything good.

Even when Nigeria sent satellite to space you all complained we dont need it, now they re organised train services, you say its too old, i bet if they were bullet trains, you will say we dont need it.

If you hate Nigeria, jump into the sea and we will forget about u. LOL.[/quote]Pray tell us what we gained at the end of all that BS. Besides I believe the chinese are still looking for it (correct me if I am wrong).

We will wait to assess the true effect.

However, dont you think it would have made more sense to make speedier trips to a few of those locations every few days than to drag your feet everywhere to make a point.

Well I dont know how people think though.

Lwandle:
Cap28 its always a joy to know that there are africans out there who use their brains and intellect!

Your above statement says it all especially as regards how the WEST is trying so hard to make our Zimbabwean revolution suffer a STILL BIRTH!

The shakels are almost off its the mines we are now dealing with!

psychophant

blink182:
Please expound

doing what you suggest requires that you sack workers and they will simply call on labour to oppose you. thats why the militant incompetents in NEPA,NITEL and NIPOST are still fighting.

PupetMasta:
Facilitate the passing of the FOI bill into law, implement the UWAIS report and shrink the size of the government

blink182:
very correct, the government is too effing large

Guess you people will be heading straight into a clash with the NLC. war from day one.

Guy, please add this to the end of that list:

Gift cards for Amazon, Wallmart, BestBuy for each male family member.

The above + Gift cards for victoria secrets for each female family member.

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=631002.msg7982647#msg7982647 date=1301045175]How will you determine that?. [/quote]mon frere, there are ways. Bleep(I wrote that not the crazy bot) a few and sample ze reactions. lol

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Hope that helps

personally I would get pissed and start planning a replacement with a less expectant individual.

Tackle the last tier of government(The local governments) or wipe it out. The first three months of my administration would be to either reform the structure of this particularly corrupt area of nigerian government (unlike the top tiers where there is still pretence, the local governments simply share money. It is straight looting) or move for a constitutional amendment for a totally different kind of structure.

One less corrupt layer of government would do a whole lot of good.

Thats only the first thing I will do.

Concept:
I see the intervention of the Western world in Libya war as personal, unbalanced and unjustified.

I have a question. Assumming that during Nigeria Civil war, The allied supported Biafran and started dropping bombs on Lagos and other Nigeria sided states. How will you feel? What will be your reaction?

Key Difference: No ruler leading for 41 years. Civil war about secession not regime change. Cold war in progress.

PapaBrowne:
Buhari ruled Nigeria from January 1st 1984 to August 27th 1985. The inflation for 1984, the only complete year Buhari spent in power was the about the highest the nation had ever seen throughout its existence at 39%. That 1985 experienced dramatic reduction in inflation can be attributed to Babangida for all I care as he took over power and initiated new policies that were pretty favorable until 1988 when the SAP effect began to hit!! You can't give Buhari sole credit for 1985 when he spent just about half the year as president. He should take full responsibility for 1984.


The diagram below shows how the PDP government we loathe so much grew our economy astronomically since 1999. Nigeria's GDP shrunk under the Buhari Government and you can see it also from the diagram.

PapaBrowne, My own interpretation is a bit different.
I see the effect of war on GDP at the beginning.

I can see a country in hiatus under babangida oscillating about its lowest mean since 1980.

I can see the net effect of Democracy on GDP.

And finally, at the tail end,  I can see the effect of the Yaradua-Jonathan presidency.

Correct me if I am wrong

You omitted some bro.

Yoweri Museveni ==========Uganda

Laurent Gbagbo =========Ivory Coast

Meles Zenawi============Ethiopia

Isaias Afwerki ============Eritrea

Omar Al-Bashir ============Sudan

Idriss Deby ===============Chad

Yahya Jammeh==============Gambia

Paul Kagame ===============Rwanda

Blaise Compraore ============Burkina Faso

Pharoh:
Why don't we praise the person who built original tracks before yar adua came in?. We should also praise jakande for the work fashola wants to do with the mono rail project in lagos. OBJ is credited with the gsm revolution in nigeria but why are we not praising IBB for doing the initial ground work. This is not about commissioning a project but he made it to come into fruition. Yar adua also built on the work of OBJ so why are we not praising him as well?. Please give commendation to who deserves it. Fashola is receiving praises in lagos state but some of those works were built on tinubu's initial effort as well.

Unilag will take full credit for producing a first class graduate but why are we not praising the efforts placed on that candidate initially at the primary and secondary school level?.

while I am still against GEJ trumpeting this project (because I believe we have gotten nowhere yet as far as rail is concerned), your comment above is really great logic.

I already diagnosed you.

You need help. no further argument from me.

Let me focus on other interesting posts for once.

better that than to argue with a poorly educated depressed nigerian who cant even recognize/understand an insult. Its like pouring water through a sieve.


One other thing: I allowed you make that comment about the grammatical error to see if you would recognize a trap. It was perfectly correct.

using its is totally correct.

of course the pathetic numbskull that you are doesn't even know that exists.

Beaf:
Firstly, no destroyed road anywhere can be rebuilt in three days.

The problem with the Lagos-Benin road is the usual Nigerian problem, the initial contract was executed on substandard road foundations and with substandard materials.
The only way to permanently fix that road will be to start again from scratch, re-surveying and digging up every last bit of tarmac.

Another thing to do would be to develop the water ways along the route, so that logging and other heavy duty trucks can have their cargoes hauled by barges on water instead; this is not only cheaper, but will go a long way to save the road from unnecessary and destructive loads.
The railways are being reborn, but there does not seem to be any policy to use them to lift pressure off main arteries like the Lagos-Benin road.

why dont you visit the lnk before commenting.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-nexco.co.jp%2Fpressroom%2Fpress_release%2Fkanto%2Fh23%2F0316f%2F

Read somewhere that a typical japanese person will not pick money left lying on the ground because they didnt work for it. They even return briefcases full of yakuza money. (Try that in Lagos. It will not even land on the ground talkless lying).

Japan is one of the few countries where you lose an umbrella on the street and go to the nearest police station to that location to claim it.

it is also one of the few countries where crime gangs like the yakuza go on national recruitment drives with posters.

In fact the yakuza set up shop doling out aid to rescued citizens.

Queer country i tell you.

will call you. In PH.

Nice work jonathan, trot out the old locomotives in time for the elections.

Speed Locos, 7hrs for a 3hr journey.

Real speedy and real progress.

RuuDie:
@ 1025,

U too like wahala sef. . . . . .if the guy like make get money pass the top-10 billionaires for dis world, im no dey behave well - na we own concern be dat - 'kpom!

thank you.

many of us are black sheeps of their families.

I am not one of them. In fact no one related to me by blood can feel any sense of shame about me. My success reassures them that somewhere in their DNA is a spark of greatness.

u said ppl are entitle to their opinion here on nairaland, why is mine causing you sleepless nights? am i supposed to join u in calling another one useless when he is more useful than u and your group? if uselessness has brought him this far, i mean, he is super star in what he is doing then let me become a useless man. playing for inter-milan and man city no be moi-moi.u wey no useless, have u gone beyond your village.

au contraire my dear numbskull, I have. I am a star as far as my profession is concerned. I am one of the highest paid practitioners of that art in nigeria and I am damn good. As for world domination, wait awhile. Your sad grammar leads me to believe you haven't and would rather tar us with the same brush.

ibrahimovic is saying he is the best player in the world, do u believe him? is it his duty to say wwho the best player is? u are just managing urself at your level in english maybe as bus driver so that does not make u the best english scolar of our time.

its scholar, einstein.

if you must criticize others, u must do so constructively.

I see. And I guess thats what you are doing. Have you countered our arguments in any of the posts you have made? you have spent the last few days fighting instead of arguing. let me quote one of my comments so it can sink into your thick skull. Seems rote learning is the best style for a dumb one like you.

Final Advice about intellectual discussions: Ignore Insults and respond to comments. I made points about him down there. Disprove them or shut up.

in times like this, i expect you to go back to this thread and follow things up for you to know where both of us met.on joining this thread, i made my contributions like everyother contributor. i never attacked your person nor your comments. u are the one that picked on me. pls revisit the posts here and see it urself. if there was anyone i attacked, it was the original poster.you only wanted to prove that you are grammatically well positioned to speak and write english.

and if you want to claim you did not attack me, then why this comment in your first post:

even inside our churches and mosques, some pastors and imams do not laugh. among the high way robbers and dare devil criminals some laugh even at the crime scene.

As for the apostrophe, well you must have searched long and hard for it. bravo, at least we have proof you finished your school leaving certificate. If only you had progressed beyond that.

it is one thing for people to do well and another for them to let others to judge them. if u are doing well grammatically as u claim, are u among the chinue achebes, the soyinkas or the ojukwus?

you wrote this; If you are smoking, I advise you stop. Its interfering with your spelling:
uncle, something is missing here.it is not writen like this; Its interfering with your spelling: if we are writing english, we write this way; it is interfering with your spelling or it's interfering with your spelling.
the word its serves in the same power as his, her eg - his house, her house, its house.
another exaample of where its can be used in a sentence is; i caught the rat by its tail.
this is a way of telling u that u are not what u claim but u can go ahead blowing your own trumpet.

Jen33:
^^^ Mugabe is an African HERO. He refused to sell his country out to the west, suffered economic sanctions as a result, but has now broken the sanctions and the country is back on track, WITH THE LAND NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS.

lets not argue. take the following for reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_Fifth_Brigade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe

He was never a good guy contrary to popular misconception:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=89244&sn=Detail&pid=71656

For a comprehensive description of his destruction of his country:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-kill-a-country/2845/#

just a preview

Gukurahundi refers to the seasonal Zimbabwean rains that wipe out the debris of the previous year's crop. It signifies a purging of the old, a purification. In January of 1983 Robert Mugabe, a member of the ethnic Shona majority, ordered his North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to carry out what he called a gukurahundi against the Ndebele people. The Ndebele account for about a fourth of the country's population, and Mugabe felt that they threatened him because his chief political rival at the time, Joshua Nkomo, was a Ndebele. The Nazis gave us the Final Solution; the Serbs gave us "ethnic cleansing"; the Zimbabweans have given us "wiping away."

Public discussion of the gukurahundi is forbidden in Zimbabwe. But George Mkwananzi, thirty-three, is the self-anointed keeper of Ndebele memory. Wearing thick spectacles that keep sliding down his nose, he doesn't fit the image of a would-be rebel leader. But that is what he says he and others will become if Mugabe is not punished for the murder of the Ndebele. "In the whole history of this country nobody ever caused such a loss of life, not even Cecil John Rhodes," Mkwananzi says. Rhodes's conquest left some 5,000 Ndebele dead. Mugabe's forces are thought to have killed 25,000. "When liberation was achieved, we never experienced it as a region," Mkwananzi says. "We were merely transferred from British colonialism to Shona colonialism. If Mugabe and his henchmen are not prosecuted, we will break away and create our own country, and we will find a way to make revenge against Mugabe. It will happen. It may sound like a dream, but ours is a brutalized past that has to be revisited. Five or ten years from now they will say, 'What that man was saying was true.'"

In an era of international justice, dictators with blood on their hands are afraid that if they relinquish power, they will end up prosecuted, like Slobodan Milosevic, or humiliated, like Augusto Pinochet. Mugabe knows that his massacres have been carefully documented by survivors and human-rights investigators, and he is right to be nervous. Tsvangirai, for his part, might be willing to accept a deal in which Mugabe was given a golden parachute to Nigeria (as Charles Taylor, of Liberia, was), but he knows that if he does so, his many Ndebele supporters may revolt. "I cannot stand up now and say, 'We will forgive Mugabe,' because I will be dead," Tsvangirai told me. "But neither can I say, 'We are going to send you to the Hague,' because he will say, 'Let me burn down the building.'"

what posts are allowed for nigerians under the age of 30? Reps? Governor? Chairman? Councillor? Party thug?

Seun:
I also have a dream of an ecommerce site in form of a clone of Craigslist and Gumtree, but I can't run it myself.

guess this was the genesis of nairalist.