₦airaland Forum

mikolo80:
where will chocolate be without the cocoa or puree without tomatoes.
Control the raw material (quick win) and you can always add value to it.

Agric counts for 1% of USA GDP and employment
But supports 16% ancillary industries
Take away that 1%,the 16 come crumbling down
Besides look at our import bill
Clearly we cant feed ourselves
1 trillion worth of rice wheat sugar and fish
Staples fa, I won't Evey talk tin tomatoes
What with rising food costs
Yes manufacturing should be the focus but still without raw materials e go hard you o

That's the reason the writer said "agriculture alone" please the way our excellencies are going about it can you say they have any blueprint, strategy or plan?

Justiyke4u:
try to reason with the op. For instance if farming can employ 1,000 people to produce the raw materials or the farm produce and make N1,000 but processing the raw materials or the farm produce will employ 10,000 people which make N10,000 then which one will you prefer? The point is that the former cannot stand alone it must be complemented by the later

Abeg help me tell am o, I really doubt if he read and understood the article before commenting.

9jii:
You don't no Farming that's why this rubbish interested you.
The existence of every single being depend on the hard work of those peasants and super farmers you mock.

Any sane person will not ask who Farming help
Because the answer is.when last did you Eat?

You really have serious problem reading and comprehending English.

seyewest:
Chai $328 on a bus.... I will never do that ooo .... take a plane from LGA for less than $180 and you will be in Miami in less than 4 hours.

328usd is for 2 passengers new york-orlando return o and not one way.

LadyGuinivere:
Greyhound is amazing. I just love it. With wifi and a plug for your phone, even if its a 20 hour journey no kain mehn!

Thanks Lady g because was about to ask if anybody have used it for long travel. So with your testimony now person mind Don strong be that.

OmoBendel24:
What's the cost of flying local from New York to Chicago (return ticket maybe) in this regard? This may be the best solution available to the cutting of cost thing without necessarily inconveniencing one's self much or even exposing self to unnecessarily palaver at JFK/EWR POE. You could also go the multi-city booking route, e.g entering from New York and exiting from Chicago and vice versa. In all of these, always consider the baggage allowance and what lbs (kg) you may be carrying around to and fro your various destinations oh, very key too, because what you gained on your flight plan can be lost on extra luggage payments. 700k saved in the example given above may better be put to use partly in this scheme and you will still have lots saved and left over of that sum particularly if you plan out your trip ahead of time (December in this case). Such makes sense. Just play with various options

Men na greyhound sure pass o and it's about 328usd Dat is about 132k with d dollar at 400. Men for flight jetblue is about 1k usd as least for now. But I think the greyhound is what I would advised them to do afterall the road trip is all part of the fun and it would give them the opportunity to see America. So on a worst case scenario 700k minus 150k one still have like 550k being saved.

This commentary is culled from someone post on facebook and I think its makes a whole lot of sense.

Anytime I hear Nigerian presidents, ministers,
governors, economists, analysts and
commentators declare that agriculture is the
alternative to oil, and that the solution to
Nigeria’s economic woes is to return to the
farm, I am tempted to jump up and ask at full
volume: “Who agriculture alone don epp?”
Some states have hilariously declared work-
free days for civil servants to go to the farm.
It would be nice to see those farms and how
well the emergency farmers are doing. We’ve
been told again and again that agriculture, as
Nigeria’s biggest employer of labour, is the
magic solution to unemployment, that we will
export agricultural produce and earn plenty
forex. Well done.
I’ve been hearing this fairy-tale all my life.
When I was a primary school kid, Lt. Gen.
Olusegun Obasanjo, then head of state, asked
Nigerians to tighten their belts because the oil
boom would not last forever. He added drama
by tightening his military belt on TV. He
launched Operation Feed the Nation. President Shehu Shagari did
Green Revolution. The structural adjustment
programme (SAP) of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida
was basically about diversifying into
agriculture. My dad then a manager in A.T. & P alongside
other management staff embraced farming in the mid and late 80s.
In different shapes, forms, sizes
and packaging, we have been talking about
agriculture, agriculture and agriculture forever.
Since we love glamorising our exploits in the
export of cocoa, coffee, palm oil and
groundnuts before the oil boom doom, I will
pick on just cocoa to dispel this ill-conceived
notion and never-ending campaign that
agriculture is the magic wand.
We used to be the biggest producers of cocoa
in the world. Chief Obafemi Awolowo utilised
cocoa revenue to develop the south-west
when he was premier of the region in the
1950s. But we dropped the ball along the line
and Cote d’Ivoire overtook us. And now we
are lamenting that we are nowhere to be
found. The solution, therefore, is for the south-
west to revive the cocoa farms. Oh, the good
old days!
Okay, let us talk about Cote d’Ivoire’s fabled
cocoa wealth. Cote d’Ivoire produces 33% of
world cocoa and exports to manufacturers
such as Hershey’s, Mars Inc. (both in the US)
and Nestlé (Switzerland). You know what Cote
d’Ivoire earns yearly from exporting raw
cocoa? A whopping $2.5bn. I repeat: a
whopping $2.5bn!
So Mars buys Ivorien cocoa and makes
several products from it: Bounty, M&M, Mars
and Milky Way, to name a few. You know
Mars’ net income from chocolate products
alone in 2015?
According to the International Cocoa
Organisation (ICCO), Mars made a pathetic
$18bn, compared to Cote d’Ivoire’s whopping
$2.5bn. Agriculture, indeed.
If you are wondering how just one company,
which manufactures chocolate, can earn
seven times more than a whole country, which
farms and exports the cocoa input, then you
are asking the same question with me: Who
agriculture alone don epp?
On ICCO’s list of the world’s top 10
companies in net revenue from chocolate, you
have three from America, two from Japan,
two from Switzerland, and one each from
Luxemburg/Italy, Argentina and Turkey. None
from Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia — the
world’s three biggest producers of raw cocoa.
There must be something that Hershey’s,
Mars and Nestlé know that we don’t know as
we keep planting cocoa.
To be fair, Cote d’Ivoire is waking up. In 2015,
French chocolatier Cémoi opened a plant in
Abidjan, the economic capital, to produce
chocolate. President Alassane Ouattara, on
touring the plant, said: “We want to be able to
make chocolate for Ivoriens, for Africans and
especially West Africans.” Ouattara
(pronounced Wa-ta-ra) understands what we
still don’t understand here: that agriculture
without industry is dead, being alone.
How could I buy cocoa worth $1m from you
and make chocolate worth $10 million from it
— and you think you are smart? If you are
smart, you will start making the chocolate
yourself and stop romanticising about the
“good old days”.
There was a video that went viral sometime
ago. CNN’s Richard Quest visited a cocoa
farm in Cote d’Ivoire. Come and see poverty
written all over the faces of the farmers, who
have been told for decades that agriculture is
the magic solution to their problems. Quest
gave the farmers bars of chocolate. They were
eating the sweet stuff for the first time in their
lives!
Compare their lives to those of the executives
of Mars Inc., who buy the cocoa beans from
Cote d’Ivoire. They are flying private jets and
holidaying in the moon, while the Ivorien
farmers are fighting off flies and bees in the
bushes of Koffikro. For your information, Mars
Inc. has no cocoa farms!
Don’t get me wrong please. If I have created
the impression that agriculture is useless, I do
apologise. That is not my intention. After all,
agriculture is our culture. Millions of Nigerians
are farming rice, beans, cassava and corn.
That is huge employment. Also, we certainly
can produce many food items that we are
importing and burning precious forex on. But
is that why governors are declaring work-free
days for civil servants to go and plant melon
and maize to solve Nigeria’s economic
problem and stop the dependency on oil? If
only these governors knew that Switzerland
does not grow one tree of cocoa, yet makes
the world’s most elegant chocolates!
Let us break this whole agric logic into pieces.
If we really want to diversify from oil and
create proper value, agriculture must give
birth to industry. If agriculture currently
employs, say, 5 million Nigerians, agro-allied
industry can employ 15 million in the value
chain. So why do we spend so much time
discussing farming and not industry? For
example, how many graduates can a tomato
farm employ compared to a factory making
tomato purée? The factory will employ or
engage the services of engineers, technicians,
chemists, marketers, accountants,
communicators, lawyers, administrators,
drivers, and so on. It may even have a sick
bay and employ doctors and nurses.
I’m not done. A basket of tomatoes sells for
N800 in Kaduna. A 400g tin of purée sells for
N300. Look at how many bottles of purée you
can get from a basket, and how much value
you will be getting. Who, then, is making the
real money? The factory will pay company tax,
its employees will pay PAYE and the
consumers will pay VAT. That is how
government will boost its revenue.
The purée bottle makers offer a different
business altogether that employs workers and
pays all kinds of taxes too. And if we are good
enough, we can begin to export purée to other
countries, and earn forex. This is just purée.
Think of a thousand agro-allied factories.
Think of our huge population.
Sure, agriculture is very important in a
primitive economy like ours. But we always
miss the bigger picture. One, we need full
optimisation of the sector to enhance
productivity. A country like the US knows this
much better: the percentage of the population
engaged in farming is insignificant, but it is so
optimised that the output is out of this world.
For instance, the US produces enough rice for
local consumption, for export, for aid and to
dump in the sea to “stabilise” market prices.
Two, processing is where you find the
massive job opportunities. The agro-industry
will yield far more output, more jobs and more
economic value than Benue Friday Farming.
These things look so simple and doable, but
commonsense is not common. Our
agricultural output can be far better in quantity
and quality than currently obtains. We can do
with better technology, storage, conditioning,
packaging and transportation. Most
importantly, our brains should focus on how
industry can bring out the real value of
agriculture and spark off a chain of economic
activities that will create millions of good jobs
and generate billions of dollars in revenue to
investors, employees and government. But we
seem excited only about preaching and
promoting the export of raw produce, and we
feel so smart we think this is the way out of
our oil dependency!
But how can we add value when, despite the
billions of dollars we have made from oil
since 1999, we don’t have the basic
infrastructure to inspire an agro-based
industrial explosion? Where are the roads?
Where are the rails? Where is the electricity?
Where is the security? Where is the finance?
Yet I can point to uncountable private jets,
mansions and customised cars that politicians
and their friends have acquired since 1999
with proceeds from the oil boom , while they
keep preaching stone-age agriculture to
Nigerians.
So if your governor joins this craze of
declaring work-free days for primitive farming,
just ask him politely:Your Excellency, who
agriculture alone don epp?

DiBoss:
Train to florida from new york? Omo that is a very long journey. I bet you, the officer at POE is gonna question that. Do you know how many miles that trip is? You might end more spending more on train tickets.

Would the POE official question that? But I think explanation can suffice to douse any suspicions sha. take for for instance a ticket for 2 via New York POE in December is 565k while direct to Orlando is 1.3m with a difference of 700k. It would make economic sense to fly through New York see new York and also save about 700k than flying direct to Orlando. Moreover the distance between New York and Orlando is like from kano to Lagos and people do night travel all the time at least here in Nigeria. I have some peeps that are using that route in December and this is the ready answer they intend presenting to the POE officials.

Izzystevens:
@ Chealsefan1 and laeksyde; i'm sorry it ended in refusals, if care is not taken, it can be upsetting kind of.

Pls "study" this thread like one writing an exam on it and you will see where you got it wrong and why you got refused.

VOs do not have all the time in the world to attend to an applicant, your DS160 does the job, your presence is to "defend" what you filled therein.

***my little contribution as an ardent student of this thread since Part1***

My wife was also amongst the Monday applicants and she was given and just about 4 questions were asked. Meanwhile before now we studied the transcript posted here like it was final MBBS EXAMS. We did role plays over and over and over again.

nefertitiram:
Let's call a spade a spade. There r 5 things you need to overcome to 'qualify' for US visa.

Purpose of trip: why are you going to US? It needs to be a solid reason. If you are going for vacation, you should have visited a couple of other countries on holiday before. For business or conference it should be related to your profession. For medical, there's a checklist.
Where in US you are going to: Believe it or not, where you are going to matters. Going to Alabama as a tourist is strange. Going to Alaska in winter is also strange. Going to disneyland as an adult with no kids is strange. Going to Las Vegas with kids is strange. So yhis needs to be also tight.

Financial status: can you afford the trip? This is where your job or sponsors strength comes in. As an adult over 21yrs or a graduate going on holiday you shouldn't use a sponsor. It's expected you should be financially stable as an adult.

Travel History: US VOs have limited time to question you. They will be glad to rely on UK Europe Canada Australia etcs decisions to come to theirs. Let's put it that those places have done the work for them. Also, if you frequent other not so strong countries that have sticker visas (not just stamps) they will also help as a tourist.

Social status: marriage, kids, makes them more comfortable because you are most likely not going to abandon them and marry akatarian for papers, and even if you do, it's a long painful journey.

These will only help you judge yourself before paying the 53k and not a yardstick for visa issuance. That is strictly left for the VO.

If you have no travel history and you apply for tourism, you are doing try your luck. Weddings are also seen as tourist visits. When I had no travel history, nothing took me to US embassy cos I felt I didn't qualify. I jejeje faced Dubai, Qatar, Kenya, Ethiopia, then graduated to UK before approaching US. I also waited till I was married, even though I had a good job where I earned over 200k since when I was 20yrs old. I got the visa on the 1st try.

This one that visa is now 53k. Please judge unaself first before paying.

The enitre write up is my opinion and is open to criticism.

Gbam I couldn't have agreed with you any less. anything less than this is try your luck as it can swing to your favour or it might not.

Some people in this nairaland are just so pathetic and un-redeemable. Talking trash about some bodies father like they are of the same age group. What Pastor Adeboye said would make sense to any sensible human being. Is it possible for a father to talk the same way he talks to his kids to the neighbours kids? Mentorship is not by force, the first rule is to be submissive.

At times I wonder how we have so many 'wise' people on nairaland that can't be deceived by these pastors and so many 'foolish and gullible' ones that have decided to follow the teachings of some of these Men of God.

Hebunn:
Good day house... I'll be applying for a B1/B2 visa for my family of 3 (me, wife, and 18months son). I run a media company and I earn an average of 300k to 400k per month. I have saved for this trip though, but an agent said it might not fly, hence the need to get some docs for me. Skeptical though, but I'm a bit confused, what do u guys think? I'm I good to go with my true state or

D agent Fada, he dey work for embassy ni? The chap want to scam you especially in this Era of hard Changi Sai Baba. If you try carry fake document you only want to complicate your life. Keep an open mind, go for the interview it might happen and it might not. Except you are planning on taking off (that is you have sold all your property and you wan run leave naija). If you get it fine if you don't you have next time to try your luck again. But one thing that can count is have you travelled before as a family?

Post like this makes one wonder the state of mental health of some folks. How do you compare a General with a bloody civilian in terms of the uniform. The Deji guys shud get a life, PMB wore the uniform all through his life and GEJ only wore it cereminially. So who is really imitating whom?

dondaud:
if fayose continue harrasing buhari in this way ' i think he will be the second priority for buhari to deal with dastardly

Exactly my thought too, Fayose should take a chill pill or else when PMB start personally with him it won't be easy o. Chap is just running his mouth right,left and center. Ekiti state does not have oil for millitant to start blowing them up to cripple the economy if Bubu start to do am strong thing. I keep getting the feeling that e go soon set for Fayose immunity or no immunity.

TGM2015:
Are you saying the drying of the river happens less than 24hrs?

Less than 18hours, it was there this morning and I was there around 4pm this eveing. That site is a mecca of sort now, the crowd there this evening is growing large and large by the second.

unitysheart:
This is a pure lie. See the ground level and the level the houses around the supposed river land are?:are those houses under water before?

Guy this is no lie at all at all.Are you in lagos then take a trip there before you start accusing the op of falsehood.

If I didn't go there myself I would have thought it's a falacy. The amazing thing is that according to those living there, the river was there just this morning. Since channels tv have reported the story am patiently waiting for any scientific explanation or else this would be one of the strangest thing I have seen this year.

Babalejnr:
Until earlier today, the people of Nigeria’s Rivers State were waiting to receive President Muhammadu Buhari whose office had announced would be in Ogoni land to flag off the clean-up of the polluted oil-rich community in the country’s Niger Delta region. But they got a shocking news; the president would not be coming anymore, for reasons that were not disclosed. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would be coming in his stead...
click to read more.
http://thenerveafrica.com/6595/nigerian-president-buharis-no-show-troubled-region-emboldens-new-crop-militants/

I don't know how old are you and am so sorry to even quote you, but guy u reason like a child. Let's for example assume that the NDA could assassinate PMB in ogoni. Can you sit down and farthon the hundreds of thousands of southerners that would be massacred in the north?

PMB lost elections and souls were lost, so you think if he was assassinated dem go Sidon dey look? Please you guys should stop reasoning with your anus and start paying attention to your brains. You are a very selfish person because you are safe somewhere in the south and you choose to forget those that are in the north whom are from even your village.

Any right thinking person should even pray for PMB to cancel his trip to ogoni whether NDA are serious or joking about the assassination stuff.

Lastly let me educate you about an average fulani man, they are not pussy ass like we southerners that are always scared to die. A fulani man or an average hausa can jump from a seven story building and believes that if God destined him to die that's when he would die if not den he won't die. So my take about Ogoni matter was that PMB planned sending the Vp even before the threat was made or he was "forced" by his handlers not to honour the invitation to do.

horlus:
The kind of rugged and smart person I know fayose to be if the meeting was to reconcile he would have recorded voice or video as a collateral and weapon to use for propaganda in case things happen the way it just did. To think that the governor didn't trust aluko is the more reason why I feel he would have had records of that meeting. So if he didn't have alukos voice on tape or pictures of him postrating then it never happened. The government has him on tape in ekiti gate scandal yet he asked us to dissmiss the allegations how much more this coming from them. Sorry I don't believe but still this aluko be smart nau.

Thanks Jare, the Fayose we all know that embarked on a journey from ekiti to abuja nicon just to tell us PMB did an interview in the hotel would definitely video Aluko prostrating if it really happened. So if I don't see that video out going viral than Fayose and the other PDP na baaaaad liars. But anyways e no concern me sha, sorry to Ekiti people the fountain of jaguda sorry knowledge.

Excuzeme:
God bless you!

I read the "American manufactured" Report and l was like, A whole American General can never be this D@ft to make an allegation without even attempting to substantiate it with on single FACT?

How difficutlt is it really, to say "our intelligence shows that A, B, C local Govts are still controlled by B/Haram"? Less than TEN WORDS...yet he was wobbling, rambling and fumbling!


And this brings us to reality: You cannot trust everything America says!
When questioned, please read where he did not talk about the dangers posed by Boko Haram to Nigeria..... but as usual, in their "We are god" syndrome, all he was concerned was "How Boko haram posed some danger to American citizens.........meanwhile they are within Nigeria!

It appears that these American Generals are just interested in spreading these Wars all over Africa, destabilize Africa, stunt our Growth and make us backwards even more.....so we can keep running to them and look at them in awe.

Nigerians and Africans must learn from places like Libya and what happened to Libyans: most are them who banded together with America to kill Ghadafi and burn their own country, are stranded in Greece and Turkey right now, in the "open cold".... as Refugees!
This was the same Libya that "Refugees run to" and Libyans that live like Kings within Africa!

Its said you dont value what you have (Peace especially!) , until you lose it.
Iraqis thought Saddam was the worst thing to happen to them, after God created devil. I bet they are all wishing and praying that the "days of Saddam" can return, right now.

Look at Syria too! [/b]Which is better? To be ruled by Assad........... or to be ruled by ISIS and constantly bombed with Chemical weapons!
tens of thousands of them have died in open sea since then, hoping to just reach Europe and have some rest.

[b]Closer home in South Sudan nko? Some of them have actually relocated back to the same "Sudan republic" they fought to run away from.

I know a lot of people cant learn from history, an even bigger number cant see "the Big Picture" of events but even if you show them, they cant comprehend it.

If this Govt fails, Nigeria may become a failed state, just like all those countries l have mentioned (the same words they were told in those countries, before they started fighting themselves, with America help!).

If Nigeria fails, those of you still enjoying some form of limited freedom, limited "economic activity, limited prosperity, limited dignity and other "limited" potentials, ...........will even lose those "limited potentials" and becoem refugees! And l can bet you that no one in the world likes "black refugees" so it will be worse for you than what those Middle Eastern (light skinned though) folks are suffering now.

Sit Back and Reflect...... juts open your mind and IMAGINE..

God bless you my brother. Too many idiots running amock here. The simple anwer to the idiotic statement made these Americans who main mission is to destabalise the whole world, why has Bro Shekau suddenly stopped airing videos? Abi him data don finish. Or MTN finnaly barred his line after the fine.

Whether we like it or not this new goverment have really made tremendous success in the fight against BH, or else the whole Maiduguri would have been over run by now. After Maiduguri all the way to Kano would have also being annexed had the former goverment was still in power and what I just said is FACT. Find anybody living in Maiduguri and ask.

The truth of the matter is that the NA have really decimated BH and it is impossible for them to make any co-ordinated attacks. On the issue whether BH are controlling any territories, they are not but because of sporadic attacks hence people are afraid to go back to their homes in the villages because the NA can't be everywhere and most times the deed is already done before their arrival.

Most people here make insinuations that they know liitle about, just came back from Maiduguri and the town is gradually coming back. But one thing that amazes me is the number of white people in Maiduguri (to me they are all spies hiding under the guise of red Cross, Danish refugee council NGO etc) Even the numbers of ibos in Maiduguri is still much, in the thick of those bombings many people didn't leave. One of such is those Ostrich bakery Chinese owners. Call me paranoid all of them are spies in my own opinion.

If you put all these together then you would know there is a big conspiracy in the North east, only God knows what is under the soil in that area.

aresa:
So, Nigerian youths by supporting common football clubs are responsible for our bastardized country by the senseless, no common sense ode and opportunistic, lazy and incompetent twitter who benefited all his life from the same crooked, bankrupt and corrupt system.

Nigerian youths supporting common football clubs are responsible for the 16 years of wholesale looting and stealing the useless twitter clown and his corrupt PDP looting gang wrecked Nigeria with.

Nigerian youths are responsible for wrecking our once glorious sports clubs, crumbling sporting facilities across the country..


Jobless Nigerian youths supporting common football clubs are responsible for for their own deaths when they were scammed and killed by this twitter nuisance, Jona and his PDP clown, they were even responsible for zero justice on their behalf and their money returned to their grieving families..


This after this twitter based clown ranted and fought little children over common biscuit, now is war against Nigerian youths over the sorry and destructive situation he and his PDP looters and 16 years of looting orgy created..


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His own silver spoon youth and son who received the best education money can by in California, USA (Instead of Nigerian schools/Universities) all paid for by this thoughtless and mean spirited twitter nuisance and disgrace is obviously not one of the youths responsible for the down fall of Nigeria



Yesterday it was PMB not appointing Nigerian youths as top government officials even thought the 60 year old granpa and hypocrite refused to step down for Youths in Bayelsa to represent Bayelsa in Abuja instead of this useless clown who is wasting their mandate spewing unintelligent and incoherent rubbish on twitter, today he's attributing to and blaming the same youths and young Nigerians the rot and decay he participated in for 16 years...


The question for the dumb, senseless, thoughtless and corrupt twitter constituency hypocrite and mentally inconsistency clown is, how do you in one breath want Nigerian youths to be made ministers and top government officials to rule and represent Nigerians while at the same time relegate and discount them as bad people who are responsible for wrecking Nigeria, the same Nigeria you helped wrecked.?

Yesterday, Nigerians youths should be allowed to rule Nigeria and PMB was wrong for not appointing Nigerian youths, but according to the same senseless twitter clown, Nigerian youths are bad and are the reason why Nigeria is a mess today..

Where is the sense in this zero common sense inconsistency low intellect clowns..?


How foolish, senseless and idiotic can this clown be...

God bless you brother at times Ben talks like someone under the influence of hard and banned drugs.

stevecantrell:
Ben 1

Nigerian Youth 0

It's Nigeria youth 2: Ben Bruce 0.

How many times has he watched bayelsa united.
He should stop showing Hollywood movies in his cinemas and show only Nigerian movies.

At times he talks commonsense like stoping the patronage of foreign product with very good substitute like rice,corn flakes, innoson cars etc but most times he tweets are plain mischievous.

Dandeson1:
The problem with this country is not bad leaders, no no no... its is the stuppid blind followers like the op and all of us supporting PDP or APC .... what is the use of the topic, obasanjo failed with Niger delta militants, Goodluck failed with BokoHaram, They are both Kings of thieves that's y we haven't achieved anything prudent since 1999... and you way never chop belleful dey here dey fool yourself, I pity your generation animal.

God bless you jare. I have always said we should stop looking at the leadership in nigeria and start taking a critical look at the followership because therein lies the real problem. If people or youth could be arguing over issues that are non issue like this, then am afraid it would take a while for Nigeria to come out of the doldrums.

Well on the brighter side I guess it's joblessness that's the cause, maybe when jobs are created people would be too tired after work to come spew thrash.

But seriously are banks really banks in Nigeria. Apart from running after government money easy deposit what else do they do? How many banks in Nigeria really support entrepreneurs.

Some ode would come here and blame PMB for this failed banking system, like it was pmb that owned and run these banks.

Lair!

Which 1000/liter? You can lie in kano it's easier to get fuel than anywhere in nigeria. You might not see fuel in any station but those aboki in every corner has the product.

Fuel is 700 per gallon in fuel, how did I know cos I bought today,

arresa:
For 4 out of 5 years of Jona's presidency, Oil was selling for $100+ and his budget was pegged on $70, this is massive amount of income for 4 years and on top of that, the PDP ruled for 16 years so, do you mind explaining to us exactly what Nigerians gained with that massive incom and 16 years of PDP rule?

Was our road and bridges take care of?

Are we no longer in darkness?

Is our healthcare system up to par?

Are our schools worthy to be called schools or higher institution?

Are our public institutions competent, productive and corruption free?

Exactly what did Nigerians get for 16 years of PDP rule?

What development are you willing to show us apart from massive looting and daily revelations of looting, stealing and day light robbery?


....you have nothing to say and you don't even care about the precarious situation the PDP as the most worthless and the most corrupt and incompetent political party and government on the surface of the earth put us in, but you are here crying and yelling over a 6 months old government. Shows how crooked and corrupt many of you people are with your warped and absurd mentality.

You don't even have to worry about programs and policies that you can not see, we can see it and even the works minister just came out the other day with his plans and policies including how he's going to build the 2 NB your PDP masters couldn't build with their 6 years in office and huge resources and also the thousands of abandoned projects they left behind while looting left and right..

Who are you people fooling anyway? You care less about Nigeria and you wish the same looters, plunderers and destructive elements Nigerians kicked out of office are still running the show...

God bless you and seeing so many negative comments at times I weep for the citizens of this great country. To even think that majority are the supposedly youths whom are touted to be the leaders of tomorrow is even pathetic.

Any reasonable human beings irrespective of party affiliations should know there are 2 forces at play in Nigeria, those trying to fix Nigeria and those fighting to ensure the status quo. The level of recklessness and inpunity is unimaginable and there is no way the country can be reset if things are not turned upside down and shaken in-side out.

My fear for Nigerians is that we are not even ready for real change because just 7months we are already crying. Little wonder we always get the kind of leaders that would rape, abuse,plunder and destroy us because we are so used to quick fix and short term pleasures. Nobody want to sacrifice for the greater good but all these years we have been sacrificing for a much worse and lesser cause.

God help us in this country because we really deserve the type of leaders we get and indeed the bible is right about that.

jojoki:
I once saw the group on my way driving from Kano to Abuja the faithful day a suicide bomber detonated bomb killing series of them. They took over the other lane of road (Zaria /kano) they are up to 30,000 trekking from kano to Zaria including little children and pregnant women. This caused delay in our journey because we were left to manage a single lane why they blocked the other lane for themselves. On my way coming back again to Kano after 3 days I still met them this time matching with dangerous weapons like swords of different types. They looked scary in their all black attire. I heard rumours that they do exchange their women to fucking even in their camps, Guys will really like awuff of such. If their activities are not properly checked they may be another tym bomb for Nigeria.

I saw them too during their long trek and I said in another thread they are so so scary. But the army should really be careful with these people because I heard they might be worse than we already know.

The army is complaining about being over stretched in this insugency war in the north east yet they want to start another one in zAria. Na whom Wan help them fight the war if the thing start? Our security agencies should use their intelligence more often than their muscles.

Good sign and goodluck for PMB in just 7 months two major victories U17 and U23, more victories. Congratulations Nigerians.

redsconsult:
convoy involving COAS... there is no more respect for the ARMY again...imagine

If you see the procession of shites you go fear fear. Me I fear dem shite than even the COAS convoy o.

Good people of the house,

Renewal of uk visa for 2years, is it the process like the same as applying online for the 6months or there is a special drop box renewal method?

Would appreciate response.

Thanks.

Cc:Justwise.

Oops sorry wrong section.

So happy to give back to the forum after my first rejection sometimes in september last year, finally got my visa approved with my 2 kids at the VI embassy yesterday.

Total time spent not more than 5mins and no single documents checked and no questions about salary asked. The Visa process in the US embassy never cease to amaze me, it is the easiest to get but also the hardest.

Transcript.
Where are you going .....,,Orlando florida
Why are you going..........Xmas vacation with my kids
You are traveling with your kids.........,,yes
Why is your wife not going with you..... She is usually very busy at work in December-
Where is she working
Where are you working
What do you intend to do in the Us
Have you travelled with your kids
Have you traveled out of the country.
Pick you visa.

Glory to God.