simply remove the memory card. insert in another phone- format it and its as good as new. best of luck. I Google tire. I just tried this on my own. it work like a free air.

and no sex until wedding day makes no difference .

hate this or love it, salients question is been asked and its good to respond to them

and when they tarred a one kilometer road, it will be a commission galore with one million camera from the underpaid journalists.

Many Nigerians can understand Tunde’s story. The state of infrastructure in the country has made it increasingly difficult for businesses to thrive, especially in sectors which rely heavily on such amenities as power and transportation. What that means is that the additional cost incurred in improvising in order to remain in business is passed on to the reluctant consumers, thus limiting consumption of those goods or services.



This sorry state of the economy was brought to sharp relief by the recent disclosure by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi of the high cost of maintaining government, which he said has made it increasingly difficult to invest in the critical sectors of the economy. The cost of doing business is high and this has pushed up interest and inflation rates. A recent World Bank report doing business in Nigeria showed that there are several constraints which impede the survival of small to medium-size domestic firms, one of which is the poor state of infrastructure.



A fortnight ago, Mr Sanusi stated that if the country continues to spend on areas that add no real value to the economy, it will be difficult for the nation to achieve any meaningful development. Relying on figures from the budget office, he said out of the over N500 billion total federal government overhead, the overhead of the National Assembly was N136.2 or 25.1 per cent. He said this huge cost of maintaining government was harmful in view of the numerous challenges facing the nation.



According to him, the lopsided structure of the country’s budget in favour of wasteful spending was fuelling inflation and making it difficult to service other sectors. He said, “Ninety percent of tomatoes produced get wasted between the farm and the market. We produce cassava than any other nation, but we have no (finished) cassava products. We produce crude oil, but we rely on imported fuel.”



Budget Figures

In the 2010 budget proposal sent to the National Assembly in November 2009, out of the N4.079 trillion proposed expenditure, N1.37 trillion was earmarked for capital (infrastructural and developmental) expenditure; N2.011 trillion for recurrent (salaries, allowances and servicing government) expenditure. The rest was for debt servicing and statutory transfers. Out of the statutory figures, the National Assembly was allocated N127.7 billion, health got N161.84 while education was allocated N249.08 billion.



However, by the time the budget was eventually passed by the lawmakers, the total budget figure had jumped to N4.6 trillion, with N1.8 trillion earmarked for capital projects and N2.027 trillion for recurrent expenditure, while the allocation for the national Assembly was jerked up to over N136 billion. There are fears that the total budget figure may rise to N4.85trillion by the end of this fiscal year.



Director general in the budget office, Bright Okogu said in an environment where various parties always have to restructure and reconcile the difference in figures between what the executive proposed in the Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly and what comes out as the final figure included in the Act, “It is inevitable that one would have the challenge of expansionary numbers.”



Mr. Sanusi said he harped on the overhead cost of government because they are the greatest inflationary item in the budget. “The issue of overheads was selected (in my lecture) because they are the most inflationary elements.” He added that the nation’s overhead cost have been on the rise since 2009 and have been a great challenge in the management of the economic indices of the nation.



Ali Ndume, the House of Representatives’ minority leader who took on the CBN governor when he appeared before the House of representatives to defend his statement said while the percentage of the lawmakers overhead relative to the budget is still debatable, that is not the only contributor to the poor economy. “What happens to the remaining 75 per cent, where do they go?” the lawmakers asked.



Perhaps it was a rhetorical question designed to draw the attention of the public to the fact that legislators are not the only wanton spenders in government. And as if to confirm this, two days later, the Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga said he would be cutting down recurrent expenditure. “As of today, the recurrent expenditure is too large and therefore we don’t have enough for capital project, so that was one thing we needed to change and I have a committee working on that and we are changing that structure, to review the level of recurrent expenditure. It is too high, ” the minister said. He cited the instance where personnel cost went from N985 billion in 2009 to N1.5 trillion, “this is before we made adjustments for minimum wage.” Mr. Aganga who also recently admitted that the country has recorded growth without job creation and employment, said there was need to cut down on the recurrent expenditure and increase capital spending.



Slimming the Federal Establishment

A financial analyst who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the high recurrent over capital allocation has always been the norm in the country’s budgeting system. According to him the difference now is that the high cost of maintaining government was no longer sustainable. “The recurrent budget itself was never sustainable. What are its components? If salaries, then we should be slimming the federal establishment. There is a strong case for this, for as the public sector moves from being a service provider to providing regulation for designated sectors, we would need fewer numbers, and more skills. But where is the political will to take on a (possibly) bloated civil service?” He said government may however be reluctant to contemplate reducing the workforce. “Unemployment is a major problem already. We cannot think of adding to it without first implementing a poverty reduction strategy that is strong on the creation of new jobs.



“An overly large recurrent budget could be because we can easily hide rent-seeking behaviour in salaries and overheads, as opposed to the capital budget. In this case, we should be looking to a stronger public expenditure management framework to deal with this,” he said. Over the years, the country has always allocated an average of 70 per cent of budgetary allocations to servicing government.



Lagos based lawyer, Bamidele Aturu said the lawmakers and members of the executive are behaving like vampires ready to suck the blood out of the nation. “They imagine that the country belongs to them. That explains their greed and profligacy. We have been tolerating them for too long.” He said the CBN governor was right to have raised the alarm, but also advised him to look within. “He should also know that even in the CBN there is wastage. I think it is an elite problem.” According to him, the economy was worse off as a result of this lopsided budget structure. “When you spend so much on allowance of people who are not adding real value, the result is what we see in the poor state of the economy. The roads are not there, transportation is a problem so goods and services will be expensive. We don’t even have good waterway transport system.



The economy is crippled.” He said the business of law making should be made part time in order to cut down on the cost of maintaining their stay as a full time function. Felix Oboagwina, spokesperson of the Democratic People’s Alliance said the presidential system of government was becoming too expensive to maintain. “Or we must find a way to tame the cost of government. The general feeling now is that we have lost control of self serving legislators which is tyrannical and incorrigible.”



Lots of Noise, Little Will

Despite this outcry, it is not clear how much lessons the government has learnt. Figures from the 2011 budget which would soon be presented to the National Assembly indicate that it is still business as usual. The N4.5 trillion 2011 budget estimate will have an increased non-debt recurrent expenditure compared to the 2010 budget. The recurrent non-debt expenditure increased by 6.77 per cent to N2.849 trillion with major increase in personnel cost and lower overheads.

Quite surprisingly, funds allocated for revamping the economy (capital expenditure) decreased by 20.9 per cent to N1.083 trillion, a far cry from the N1.37 trillion for 2010.



Despite the many statement by government officials suggesting this is a problem that has been recognised and will be tackled, a preview of the 2011 budget which is due to be presented to the Assembly on Tuesday shows that some bad habits are set to be repeated. For example, as revealed in our exclusive story last week, the president has given permission for the sale of official residences to principal officers of the assembly. The Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Speaker have all been given leave to purchase their current living quarters. Provision has already been made in next year’s budget for the construction of replacements at the cost of N1.5 billion.



With additional reporting by Emmanuel Ogala



By Stanley Oronsaye

Culled from 234next.

Tunde Balogun owned a barbershop from which he used to make a living. As a struggling young man living in Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, he could not afford to rent an apartment and had to sleep in his shop. With the little income from his trade, he had hoped that he would be able to pay his bills and afford the little luxuries of life possible even for someone like him. His major challenge however was power supply. With a little generator usually known as “I better pass my neighbour”, he hoped to be able to remain in business. When he discovered that he was making little or no progress in this line of business, he had change his means of livelihood.



“Usually, my major problem was power and when I consider that I was not making good profit after removing cost of fuel and servicing the generator, I had to pack up.” He is now a commercial motorcycle operator popularly called Okada. “At least with this one, all I have to do is maintain the machine and afford fuel” he said.



With an ordinary diploma in business administration, he said his attempt to get a job before going for higher education was unsuccessful. “It was the little funds I saved while working as a casual worker at a Chinese-owned factory that I was able to set up the barbershop. I had to quit that job because of the inhuman working condition at the factory. My brother, suffer dey this country,” he said.

where are the so call progressives? where are the Save Nigeria Group? where are the ACN to tell us why the innocents deserves to die like fowls.

those who think their thoughts is the only option have never learn anything.

mens dept:

Abi


Some politicians just want attention

phantom:

these idiots complaining have not even offered any solution at all

we can offer solution if they cant- Human resources should be given adequate attention same way the Governor is given attention to plant flowers, same way those flowers are watered (even when we have none at home). Human resources is the most sensitive and rational factor of the all other factor of productions- Those buses will not last even if they purchase new one every year , if the human resources are not taken care of. Dem they fat the rest dey hungry. (apology to Fela.) Students are home due to Lecturers strike , people are dying due to Doctors Strike , all these is as a result of neglect on human resources. 18billion revenue should be spread evenly to all sectors .

lajjy:

Who cares whether it is semantics or not, who is bothered about who was imposed or deposed, who is fussing about political dogfather or godfather, what we want is someone that can give us results and to a great extent Fashola is best amongst his compatriots. Maybe you are not seeing the transformation in Lagos then you need a goggle. I think we need to understand that the Nigerian polity is systematically different from what you have in other parts of the world and it is still at its nascent stage. If not for those who understand the unique political terrain of Lagos state, it would have been lost to spoilers and opportunists who are determined  to see Lagos as a failed state. Prove me wrong if you can mention any credible candidate that would have done better than fashola in the last 3 years. Am waiting??

TRANSFORMATION !

Its appreciated that transformation is on, but a reminder that its not a privilege but our right and with the 17billion naira monthly IGR Lagos deserves more . The Human resources is gradually suffering and no "structure " can be sustained where the human resources are neglected. The Doctors strikes,The Lecturers , and to say no one can do it better is like a curse ! If BRF is not tested how will you be a to proof he is "performing".

TORDOO:

Come to niger state,from primary to tertiary,is free,am a living witness,talba twice!!

That should be a plus to the Nation if you are not been sarcastic.

My HP is not charging, the #2 Battery is blank - showing not present. I know little about repair. The removable battery is new. but the #1 is showing charging and 100%. please your assistance will be appreciated

picking innocent hawkers on with black maria without an alternative job, demolishing houses at ayobo ipaja and re-sell to top Govt officials, so many lives were lost during this Doctors strike, they care not. Its Eko oni Baje ! but people can die, I don't know how any responsible group or body will neglect Human Resources in 2010 and expect miracle. multiple taxation in Lagos ! The question then becomes, what is happening to the much vaunted IGR?? Where is the N18 billion per month going into?? N50 billion for the addition of 2 lanes to just 6 kms of an existing Lekki - Epe dual carriage expressway?, what rubbish ? how can anyone stop a group through court if truly he is upright.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………




I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.


So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.


I produce rice, but don’t eat it. I have millions of cows but no milk.


I am 50, please celebrate me.








I drive the best cars in the world but have no roads,


so I crush my best brains in the caverns,


craters and crevasses they crash into daily.


I am in unending mourning,


please celebrate me.








My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof.


I take lectures through windows and live with 15 others in one room.


All my professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas.


I am a university graduate, but I am illiterate. I want a future,


please celebrate me.








Preventable diseases send me to hospitals without doctors, medicines or power.


All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also.


I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world;


and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless,


please celebrate me.








For democracy’s sake I stood all day on Election Day.


But before I could ink my thumb, results had been broadcast.


When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets.


My leaders are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors.


I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy.


I have no verve, no vote, no voice,


please celebrate me.








My youth have no past, present nor future.


So my sons in the North have become street urchins;


and his brothers in the South have become kidnappers.


My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the Mediterranean.


My daughters walk the streets of Lagos , Abuja and Port Harcourt;


while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam .


I am grief-stricken,


please celebrate me.








Pen-wielding bandits have raided everything in my vaults.


They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private planes


They have looted the future of generations unborn;


and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes,


but their brothers die of starvation. I want a kit of kindness,


please celebrate me.








I can produce anything, but import everything.


So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa;


my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland;


my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy;


my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia*** my biscuit is made in Indonesia;


my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France.


My taste is far-flung and foreign,


please celebrate me.


*** To think that Malaysia came to NIFOR in Edo State in the 70's to acquire the Palm Oil Technology


My land is dead because all the trees have been cut down;


flooding kills thousands yearly because the drainages are clogged;


my fishes are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers;


my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done.


My very existence is uncertain and I am in the deepest depths of despondence,


please celebrate me.








I have genuine leather but choose to eat it.


So I spend billions of dollars to import fake leather.


I have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel,


so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country,


but send troops to keep peace in another man’s land.


I have hundreds of dams, but no water.


So I drink ‘pure’ water that roils my innards.


I need a vision,


please celebrate me.








I have a million candidates craving to enter universities,


but my dungeons can only accommodate a tenth.


I have no power, but choose to flare gas,


so my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of unclothed flares.


I am shrouded by darkness,


please celebrate me.








For my golden jubilee,


I shall spend 16 billion naira to bash around the bonfires of the banal.


So what if the majority gaze at my possessed, frenzied dance;


drenched in silent tears, as probity is enslaved in democracy’s empty cellars?


I am profligacy personified,


please celebrate me.








Why can I not simply reflect and ponder?


Does my complexion cloud the colour of my character?


Does my location limit the lengths my liberty?


Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul


Does my mien maim the mine of my mind?


And is failure worth celebrating?


I AM NIGERIAN, PLEASE CELEBRATE ME


AND ITS ALL ABOUT THE FOLLOWERS ?

the hawkers that are picked into black maria without alternative job , the Doctors strike is two months old, only those who have lost relatives and close one can tell more. quality of any good tax is affordability, asking a barber to register with 8,500 before paying for stipulated amount for advert is no good tax. I don't why Nigerians will praise any politician for performing what they are voted for. have we all turn our rights to privilege ? water for flowers ,none for human being.

“We know the persons behind the terrorist attacks on the nation. We know they used an organization that operates in the Niger Delta called MEND as a front, but we are aware that MEND is not a terrorist organization.”

JONATHAN'S RESPONSE TO THE BOMB ATTACK


I am leaving the rest to any intellectuals to decode.

got a call from one of the staff now. Thank God she is home now.

yeswecan:

It is easy but takes time . .  we do not have that patient in Nigeria and Africa at large . .

After independence most Africa countries wrote a short term developmental plan which was around 5 to 10 years. Tell me how is it possible to develop from scratch to heights with just 10 years - It is just not possible- Change takes time. We actually made a lot of progress during the first stage of our independence but it was nothing because the expectations were too high.

Also our model is flawed - up to this moment we do not have a realistic economic model- what we have is the western reproduction failing to note that the west only reacted to their environment in creation of an economic model. When we disregard our context and seek to come up with a plan, such plan might work out in a different place and time , but as long as its not a response to the things on ground  we will keep dreaming of the promise land.

If we fail to move forward, it is sensible that we go back to start all over again based on what we have on ground. I know of two countries (Japan and South Korea) who Sketched out a model that suits them . . we can do the same instead of trying to copy America and Europe who are only responding to what their environment puts out.

I concur with your conclusion, because if all the economic theories in this world is to be applicable to Nigeria, forget it we should be one of the poorest country now. But your posit that we do not have patient I beg to disagree. how do you think we should wait, with the billions been siphoned everyday. We are not patient, legislators are earning more than American president and Govt find it hard to pay Doctors,teachers, we are no patient, we have mushrooms as schools and the leaders send their children to havard, we are not patient , 12 people were killed on friday and the celebration continues,

I don't know if its time to go back to King Wasiu Ayinde Arabambi for Senator, so that we can learn more from one another. Alhaji Ayinde Omogbolahan Arabambi Oluaye of Fuji ! I learnt he once refuted this publicity about his involvement in politics. So how authentic is this new source and when last was the page  updated ? Maybe Bayowa opened the account for K1, HIS MOTIVE I don't know, I can't figure out the reason. the profile picture is showing bayowa and K1 and if you view bayowa page past one month its Wasiu/Bayowa and the much publicized funeral of the latter father.

~Bluetooth:

Until politics is taken as a career,then we can begin to see changes in our present democracy.It's just like saying bankers or medical doctors are not supposed to be educated.Make it a profession,let people study what governance is all about in a formal and refined way and you will see the result we always wanted.
this approach of let everyone contest even when they have nothing to offer is what is killing us.

Governance transcend beyond having a career in Politics, is just like saying no  Chartered Accountants  will perpetrate fraud, or those Chartered bankers (Erastus and co ) will bring about the changes you talk about. Essence of  Governance is to attain the highest level of transparency, accountability and integrity. All these  I believe will be in that "University of Good Governance"  Now the outcome: the Human Resources to implement that knowledge acquired. How do you think they will govern like a professional, they do attend seminars,workshops  , they have blueprints,"white prints" , so many proposals. But this is a Charly boy show. (anything can happen here Bluetooth) I believe Nigeria is probably one of the easiest countries to govern on earth,reason being that Nigerians have this can do spirit that is quite rare in several other countries and they are very intelligent, highly innovative, hard working people.What is needed is a leadership with direction,that's what we lack,I am not a democratic romanticist , but what I do know is that it is a lot harder today to develop any country than it was say 50 years ago,and the more we wait,the harder it becomes.

~Bluetooth:

And what makes you think the people you mentioned would have performed better if they are stark illiterate ?

so no one can do it better

dayokanu:

Dimeji Bankole has all the certificates and speaks impeccable English but what difference has he made for his people?

I heard that in the Western Region House of the first republic Many of the reps are illiterates and debate in Yoruba, Its on record that is one of the best time Politically for this country.

Has Obahiagbon with all his English made any difference in the life of Nigeria?

Goodluck is a PhD holder, what difference has it made?

All the Professors that were made ministers what difference did it make? Is Aborisade not a Prof? Is Maurice Iwu not a Prof?

Now can someone tell me the what correlation English speaking has with good governance using examples?

Believe me there is no correlation with certification and administration especially in a Charly boy show country (where anything can happen.) If the firewood seller is prudent enough to save and have a graduate as his son. And most Nigerian professors are "wise" enough to make the educational sectors an "enviable " one.

slap1:

The story's probably held by kidnappers. Be patient.

I am rolling here

~Bluetooth:

Constitutionally he has a right to contest so is the madman and touts around even these days,we hear of ex-militants coming to contest in 2011 and you wonder what people of this calibre have to offer.What does Wasiu want ? What does he stand for  ? What political experience does he have ? What are is his credentials ? Please,I need answers

believe me I am not his campaign manager. I only want to know if he is qualified like the Alao Akala, the Theodore A. Orji and Co. Thank you for your response. God bless and Change Nigeria

~Bluetooth:

ROTFL. . .i can't imagine a restless person like him as my president,so unpresentable anyways the name of my councillor is my business and not yours.

good to know that bluetooth, so what disqualify Wasiu from contesting ?

so whatz wrong if terry g is contesting for the president ! when last did your vote counts ? WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR COUNCILOR ?

them go give a man with low mentality one million naira job - apology to fela.

presidential permutation . so he know the actors. he should arrest them and stop talking

they are either busy carrying bag of rice or hailing one money missed road. Rubbish.

~Bluetooth:

I appreciate his comment but the mentality of translating any small thing to revolution is too unbecoming.Even when we have reasonable evidences of corruption against all these politicians,we do nothing but siddon look as usual.

like what are you suggesting?

Mahatma Ghandi ! non violent protest style .kill no man , haunt them with your intellectual revolution. I believe in change, I believe in the power of possibility. God bless and change Nigeria.

lazy style of Governance. May the soul of the dead rest in peace. So how many of the politician has been arrested now . Pshhhh