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Hi Favour.

The DVDs are not out yet- call Mr. Deji Alabi on 0805 579 4269

Two months running - there was constant electricity in my area in Abuja. Very constant, if it goes off- within the minute, it will be restored, and I guessed so many other parts of Nigeria experienced same. When this was happening, none of the people here came forward to start a thread praising GEJ or PHCN, but suddenly, there is a techinal fault and people begin to write heavy English and crying how their money had been stolen. Na wa for Naija people. Abeg, chop chill pill and let things work out. People are not sleeping as you want everyone here to believe.

I still wonder why these foreigners put mouth in matters concerning Nigeria. Eager to talk on anything negative about Nigeria. Why do you bother? LOL.

A man with no political pedigree suddenly wants to rule a country like Nigeria? This can only happen in Nigeria- in Nigeria, no lesson is learnt as per rising to the top, but, just shout your way to the top and think you can become President just like that. Abeg, go and start as a local government chairman first.

your thinking is faulted, bro.

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My father (Ojukwu) is responding to treatment - Son, Death rumour is not true - Anambra govt | Talk of Naija

http://www.talkofnaija.com/news/my-father-ojukwu-responding-treatment-son-death-rumour-not-true-anambra-govt

i emailed you- please let me know details.

Bros-

I need two things from you, if you can help.

I have a 2006 cls 500.

I need replacement parts- two of them.

1. The front right shock (baloon) is blown - can you help get a replacement?

2. The music system is faulty- I think the in built amp system is blown as well. Can you help source these items?

Only lazy people question the source of wealth of others. While you moan and cry, they are working hard making more money while you cry more until you can cry no more.

and this made it to the front page of NairaLand.

Black people and their mind - what is wrong with three kids from three fathers? How many women had abortion for you as a man? If all of them had the kids, how many women would have had children for you?

IBEXY:
So What
I lived and worked in the Niger delta area (dont want to mention names) around 6 yrs ago before I came to UK. The locals treated us like second class citizens simply because we were from another part of Nigeria. The tribalism was too much. Some of us employed as well were being threatened daily. I still remember one or two people who were beaten up and ordered out of the community simply because a local guy wanted their job. This is real first hand experience. So where is the difference? Tribalism and favouritism at home or racism abroad?

Wherever you find people want your skills, provide it there. Be confident no matter any form of intimidation.

Right now in the UK, unless you dont know the law or you are "illegal", you can challenge any form of racism or bullying at the work place and even get paid compensation. All those racists do it in the closet these days.

Like I said, unless you dont know your right or you lack self confidence to face up to a bully, its best you go back to Africa.

really?

how is that repatriation?

Thanks Siena. I will be at the garage promptly.

why will you sit down and watch a movie that has no meaning up to the end? What are the trailers for?

@dan.

I think you are right. The error came up first time when I took the car to some rough roads and it the engine cover pulled out and i had it fixed to position at the garage. Maybe one sensor is out of place during the mishap. Anyway, i found a reliable garage with auto diagnostic tools - will be taking car in there.

I will rather say you are mad instead.

The strut is not broken because the car still moves, but when the car rises up, after parking it for a time, the right front wheel is too close to the front fender, and it doesnt get to the required height anymore- it does display "stop, car too low" - any ideas?

The airmatic seems faulty, but not sure what exactly is wrong.

on NairaLand?

Most people on NairaLand dont believe in Nigeria and the leaders, so how come you want them to do a poll on the best?

Poster.

Please what has land area got to do with population?

Another round of gibberish: Since 2007, this question has been on discourse and una never find the answer? After all the topics on Nairaland part of which are listed below?


Is Nigeria Gradually Becoming A Failed State ?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-376424.0.html


Wole Soyinka: Nigeria, Failed State, Close To Break Up

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-413913.0.html

( Shocking Video ) Is Nigeria A Failed State?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-87345.0.html


Nigeria Is A Failed State! Rolfmao


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-377434.0.html


Is Nigeria A Failed State?


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-35713.0.html


Nigeria: A Failed State?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-174816.0.html


Nigeria Failed State Number 14! Foreign Policy Magazine

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-475995.0.html


Again A Failed State

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-477091.0.html

^^^^

My humble conclusion is that you need psychiatric examination.

^

Sometimes, or most times, nothing makes sense here on NL.

Analysis

Obviously factoring various positions into the making of the 2011 appropriation, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday presented to the National Assembly a budget with aggregate expenditure at N4.226 trillion, which represents 18.1 per cent reduction from the N5.159 trillion appropriated by the 2010 amendment and supplementary budgets.
A potential problem solver is the plan by the Federal Government to embark on massive public works, thereby confronting the unemployment challenge.

A Public Works Programme is to commence across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory and will involve the engagement of private sector contractors to implement simple, labour-intensive public works in areas such as the renovation and maintenance of buildings such as schools, hospitals and primary healthcare centres; roads rehabilitation and maintenance works; urban sanitation and solid waste disposal; erosion control; and community works projects.
The stated objective of massive job creation, to be kick-started with seed funding of N50 billion, has been long awaited as this is capable of creating thousands of new jobs in urban and rural communities.

But there are always fears that the programme may be politicised and turned into a partisan project thereby
negating the purpose of addressing the unemployment menace in the country. This is a potential drawback if not well handled.
The budget also seeks to cut aggregate expenditure while stimulating growth in various sectors, notably with the provision of concessionary funds small and medium scale businesses. There is also an attempt to be more conservative with the budget benchmark, with a projection of $65 per barrel compared to $67 last year. Does this mean there would now be fresh savings in Excess Crude Account as well as funding for the proposed Sovereign Wealth Fund?
Analysing the budget yesterday, Managing Director, Financial Derivatives, Mr. Bismark Riwane, described the expenditure reduction in the 20101 budget as a welcome development.

He, however, told THISDAY: “It is not enough to peg spending. Other challenges such as the nature and assumptions of the budget and the quality of spending should be looked into.”
He insisted that the quantity of spending was not the issue but the quality.
Specifically, he said what a country in recession like Nigeria needs is a strategic investment that has the greatest multiplier effect.
"Government needs to engage in very aggressive spending in targeted areas but not on consumption. Personally, I think quantity of spending is not the issue but the quality of spending. You can spend small amount wisely or large amount foolishly.

"Austerity is not the road to prosperity. You can spend your way wisely out of a recession,” he said.
Rewane had in a recent preview of the 2011 fiscal year expressed reservations about budgeting in the country.
He wrote in his Monthly Economic Review: “Since the beginning of budgeting in Nigeria, the country has adopted what experts call a single budget scenario, a crude, short-sighted, inefficient and unrealistic method of planning, whether at the individual, corporate or national level. It is simply a budget without a contingency plan.”

“But what if revenue assumptions fall short of expectations due to oil price or production shocks? How will spending and deficits be managed? The idea of multiple scenario budgets is not new in the policy sphere. The problem has been the lack of political will to implement such a decisive plan for spending.
"Effective fiscal management will also continue to face head winds if issues relating to transparency and accountability are not addressed.”

An Analyst with Standard Chartered, Razia Khan, said the combined benchmark oil price and output assumption – at 65/bbl and 2.3mn bpd – still make for uncomfortable reading.
Khan wrote: “Although oil prices are currently higher, and production should exceed these levels, the run-down of Nigeria’s buffer post-crisis, in the form of depletion of the excess crude account, means that there may be few alternatives to more borrowing, if – for any reason – oil output should disappoint. A USD-NGN FX rate of 150 is assumed, but given budget assumptions, and the suggestion that the replenishing of FX reserves will at best be a slow process, a further tightening of monetary policy may well be required to ensure continued FX rate stability. Given 2011 spending plans, FX reserves may remain under pressure, and offsetting policy will require from the authorities to ensure price stability.

“With only N1trillion of the budget set aside for capital spending, this is now confirmed. Total spending may be set to fall by 18 per cent y/y [year-on-year] (after rising over 50 per cent y/y in FY 10 – so context is everything), but the share of recurrent expenditure in overall spending will increase. Given the ongoing dependence on the oil sector for much of Nigeria’s fiscal revenue, this is a concern. Despite a promising start with the unveiling of power sector reforms, there are still too few signs of meaningful structural change. 2011 growth will be boosted by the level of spending – that already seen in 2010, as well as what is yet to come, but investors seeking reassurance that there is more long term thinking to underscore policy, are likely to be disappointed, with any meaningful fiscal consolidation delayed until 2012.

“While the deficit numbers are not, in and of themselves, a great concern, and while Nigeria appears to have got through its banking sector crisis with relatively little fiscal impact, it is what’s missing from the picture that is more worrying. Oil is not a renewable resource, and the use of oil revenue to finance mainly recurrent expenditure, with little done to boost longer term savings, and the longer-term productive potential of the economy, is the more important issue.”
Emerging-markets strategist at London-based Standard Bank Plc, Samir Gadio, told Bloomberg news in an e-mailed note yesterday: "The proposal suggests that this year’s loose fiscal stance will gradually be reversed as the electoral cycle comes to an end in the second quarter of next year.

“This is positive news since the current fiscal path would have been unsustainable in the long run.”
Senate President David Mark had in response to the budget presentation indicated that the National Assembly would lead a crusade to cut spending on recurrent expenditure by all tiers of government.
It is a clear endorsement of the stand of the Finance Minister, Dr. Olusegun Aganaga, and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi on the need to cut recurrent expenditure.

The decision of the government to focus on capital expenditure is also a positive response to the clamour for a reversal of the lopsided ratio between recurrent and capital expenditure as canvassed by experts including the Sanusi.
Analysts maintained that there is need to block leakages in the budgetary process but harped on total implementation of the appropriation especially capital provisions such that public revenue and spending can impact positively on the lives of the people.
The fallout of the 2010 budget raised concern for the 2011 fiscal year. The economic team of the current administration, led by top officials at the Federal Ministry of Finance, National Planning Commission and the CBN had in the past months given clues to the thinking of technocrats in government circles concerning the 2011 fiscal appropriation.

Issues of public expenditure, the quality of spending, sectoral allocation of the budget, macroeconomic assumptions, budget implementation and fiscal deficits among others had come on the front burner vis a vis the need to reduce distortions to micro and macroeconomic indicators in the coming year.

As the global economic crisis recedes, posing fresh challenges to repositioning the economy, analysts have called for a budget that would accelerate infrastructure development and jump-start the real sector.
The threat of inflation in an election year, exacerbated by increase in wages of public servants, was of major concern to the formulators of monetary policy, who felt the 2011 budget should recognise the threat of bloated public expenditure to the price system.


http://www.thisdayonline.com/

Now that she has resigned, will you now speak less about her? Poster?

allycat:
6000 data capture machines, stolen just like that  . That means the theif came in with a trailer to carry them cos these things in their individual boxes and packaging are not small things. 6000 would fill a small wharehouse. I believe someone is not being truthfull somewhere. But fortunately for them in Nigeria our press dont do any investigative journalism and the public swallows any story hook, line and sinker.
If it were any sensible nation by now heads would have rolled and explanations would have been given as to how a trailer loads of stuff just got up and walked out of the Ports. who knows maybe  they were never actually imported in the first place.

Mr Towncrier - 6000?

Its 20 out of which 16 has been recovered.

Judeylive:
The way things are right now, next year election has been compromised. I, for one, who believes 100% in Jonathan gross incompetence, is sure the most proclaimed 'credible election' is at the depth of an ocean!

Because he ordered the machines stolen?

They will soon tell you he is telling lies.

so?