₦airaland Forum

egbusi1:
This list is better ignored as being unauthentic because no Nigerian state has a poverty rate of less than 50%. even the so called LAGOS has more poor people among it's population.

.....and your source to authenticate this assertion is from where? you think people just manufacture stats from wishful thinking?

nzeobi:
Northerners have spent more time in power yet they are still very poor
Please what's osun doing up there

It "suprise" you? Well goes to show that when a state commits to truly building veritable structures, institutions and strategies that is geared toward increasing the well being of the people, results will follow. While trying to rationalise this, think of Aregbesola's programmes and the long lasting impact on the people.........then you would understand how he got up there

If Ambode does not significantly progress the Lekki FTZ project, especially the airport, then he'll be a small time to me.

three:
Some people's sole reason for voting APC/Ambode was so that 'Federal and State' would finally align by having same party at both ends.

I wonder how that's working out?

Precisely well

admax:
Forget sentiments etc Tinubu has good brains around him, despite all he stole, Lagos is better under his tutelage.

Imagine what Bode George would have done if PDP had taken over control of Lagos.

Lagos would have been worse than Ekiti

TonyeBarcanista:
Deji Adeyanju is NOT a PDP member...

When did he leave..........He's actually a very good poster-boy giving a classic image of the generation of youths PDP is raising........

sameehunter11:
Dude, i hope you collecting the 2000 Euros is a joke, 'cause what your boss has done is not a criminal offence, worst case he'd get fired for professional conduct violations. What you have done in collecting that cash is blackmail. do you know how dangerous that is? when they tender evidence...you have evidence he had sex in the office and they have evidence you collected money to keep quiet. if she says the payment was under duress of exposure how do you explain yourself?!

They both will not get more than a warning letter.........fired?..Hell no.... I remember the classic case at IBM office in the US (a common business case in Havard Business Review), where a lady came into the office at night, way past closing time and found her boss fvcking his wife on his office desk. The woman let out the cat on what she saw......long story short........she suffered persecution and lost her job. She sued and lost the case as well

Justuceleague2:
What do you want to do, where's the evidence?

Having read the story twice I am forced to conclude the following


First of all you are not human

Secondly your heart is full of evil

Thirdly you are overambitious

Finally this will bite you in the arse for sure

Might I also add that " You have dabbled into what is not your business. If they like let them fvck to the high heavens, it's not business of yours". Go to HR and get yourself into trouble. Meanwhile, you innate blackmailing tendency can only fetch you a bullet on the head or multiple stabbings on the chest.......

Olasco93:
I just love Fashola and Fayose's personalities.

It is travesty to mention Fashola and Fayose in the same sentence......puulllleeeeezzzzzzeeee!!!

lonelydora:
No. It cannot be done that way. It's a new ball game when they want to build new ones. Costs millions of dollars.

I forgot to mention the newly built Indorama fertilizer plant in Eleme, Rivers State.

ha! we have more work to do then.......

signz:
We'll lose more if they join ECOWAS. Their economy is more advanced than ours.

As we're still trying to develop our manufacturing sector, power and transport so as to compete in the international market especially ECOWAS, Morocco will flood west Africa with its products before Nigeria even gets off the bed. I can assure you that Igbo traders will flood Nigeria with made in morocco goods that'll be cheaper than made in Naija.

Now i read yesterday that Tunisia wants to join Ecowas too.

Next maybe Algeria or Egypt.

These guys are looking for market.

We stand to gain nothing from western sahara but we will lose more if we allow Moors (& Tunisia) join ecowas that i can guarantee.

The only upside is that we'll be able to go to a beautiful country without visa

This your submission is flawed on all fronts.
1. Which country is independent? Even the US and China of this world needs the underdeveloped for at least something. (Raw materials for starters)
2. How do we develop our manufacturing sector on "our own"? You need people with greater knowledge, skill , exposure and experience to help develop ours. Fashola partnered with Egypt and today, transformers are produced/assembled in Badagry rather than imported 100%
3. You need to broaden your thinking. Continents are making alignments in trade and commerce, security, governance, health etc. We must prepare for a future where AU is as strong as UN, AU military force is as potent as NATO military force, Food in Africa is cheaper than the West. That is when we will not all be chasing the dollar like flies after feaces.
4. Yes, they are looking for market, so are we. We are almost starting to produce rice in excess of our demand capacity. Is it not wise at this stage to open alliances so that we have market to export our excess (and with many other potential export).
5. Meanwhile, the only way "Igbo traders" will flood the market with cheaper imports from Morocco than local production is if, we do not develop our industries and we allow smuggling.

Mynd44:
It is not as if I like Morocco but foreign policy is about selfishness

.....absolutely true for me too.

lonelydora:
The only fertilizer plant in Nigeria is Notore (former NAFCON). Other plants are called Blending plants

Thanks for the clarification. I guess hopefully all blending plants can be upgraded to fertilizer plants in the future

seunmsg:
I can say without any fear of contradiction that APC will take over the entire south east in 2019.

Just before the 2015 presidential election, APC was amala and ewudu plus islamisation party. Now, it is a better party with vision for Nigeria

komodapson:
pls what do we, Nigeria stand to gain from western Saharan, afterall is a desert and what do Morocco stand to benefit also or are benefitting from western sahara. thanks

1. Nigeria stand to gain little or nothing as they are annexed by Morroco and they are too small, too far away, not yet organised to meet Nigeria's requirement
2. Morroco? check the quotes

Thus, Morocco has continued to occupy the largest part of the territory including the major towns and rich natural resources mainly phosphates, agriculture and fishery products. A smaller part of the territory is however controlled by the Polisario Front whose legitimacy has been recognised by the United Nations and the African Union. The mineral resources of the territory which are illegally exploited by Morocco are exported to the United States and the European Union member states. In 2000, Morocco and the EU entered into a trade agreement which was reviewed and consolidated by the 2012 Morocco-EU Liberalisation Agreement to facilitate the exploitation of agricultural products, processed agricultural products as well as fish and fishery products

http://www.lawyard.ng/judicial-recognition-of-western-sahara-by-femi-falana/

Horus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkA1S5hICT4

Nigeria Will Get Out Of Recession In 2018": Tunji Andrews

Bros,

Not to run Tunji Andrews down, Tunji is not an authority, he's just an upcoming "broad-street" guy with a lot of media attention.

grandstar:

Emjay1310: :
What the developed countries is doing to developing countries is not good. I don't care what the world bank says about our present state as an economy. what i am interested in is to see that we begin to grow our own products locally so that we don't have to depend on any country for the basic necessities of life. That is what is affecting us in this part of the world

Unfortunately, you are part of the problem.

Countries do not grow rich by being self sufficient. They grow rich by focusing resources on where they have comparative advantage i.e. where they excel, where they are good at. You don't prosper at producing just anything because you want to be self sufficient.

Look at tiny Switzerland with a population of just 8million, its exports of watches brings in about $20b, which is about half the sum Nigeria of 180m will earn from crude oil exports this year. Note that watches are Switzerland's 4th largest exports. Its not even the largest export leader.

India which went the self sufficiency route remains poor even though it started liberalising late.

Look at Nigeria, it is the export of crude oil that made the country rich. Imagine if the country had fully developed the petroleum sector. Let's say Nigeria was producing refining 3million barrels of crude daily, had like 4 bonny gas export terminals, was Africa's largest producer of petrochemicals and fertilisers, was producing 80,000mw of power from gas and had a few leading companies in oil servicing, just imagine where the country would be today? That is the power of comparative advantage.

I disagree with you. Your perspective has simply put the cart before the horse
1. Self sufficiency as a pre-condition to wealth for the nations is about defending your turf first, which gives you the leverage to compete, trade and collaborate with others
2. Self sufficiency is contextual. It doesn't necessarily say you do everything. I addresses the area where you do not have disadvantage, yet you fail to do. For example, what business does Nigeria have importing rice, palm oil.....not to talk of crude oil. Malaysia and Singapore came to Nigeria in the 70s to buy palm-oil seedlings and learn the art of palm oil. Today they are one of the largest exporters and we buy a huge chunk from them. Does that make economic sense?
3. Yes you go into an exchange of trade in areas where you have higher competence, but it does not necessarily mean you do not focus on other areas, at least not to loose out in those areas. Why do you think our exchange rate keeps going up? We hardly have anything to defend with, as such we over-labour our dollar.
4. You got it wrong on India. Is India not reputed as one of the fastest developing emerging market economies? Yes India makes more from software export, what we make from oil. They also make so much in terms of food export (you wonder how Gari from India made it to a supermarket shelf in Lagos), they make so much from medical tourism, exports of drugs, construction, machines, etc
5. Finally, one of the reason why countries drift towards self sufficiency is to increase their trade options. When you negotiate with another country for bilateral relationships, the more you bring to the table gives you more advantage over others.....and like chess game you want to push your "pawns" (e.g. cash & food crops and products ) before you play your "Knights", "Bishops" and "Queen" (natural resources)

Malakh:
yeah right only if the nations knew that its the imf,world bank,bank of settlement that will impoverish the nations to make way for the mark of the beast where no one can buy or sell without it, in other words fiat currency will be worthless n extinct

Bros,

I am a christian.......this "mark of the beast" angle that a lot of you put into things end up making us christian largely ignorant

Emjay1310:
What the developed countries is doing to developing countries is not good. I don't care what the world bank says about our present state as an economy. what i am interested in is to see that we begin to grow our own products locally so that we don't have to depend on any country for the basic necessities of life. That is what is affecting us in this part of the world

Two sides to it Bro;

1. We need to take the lessons learnt from this recession, pass it on to future generation and make sure we plan for it. Recession on the average takes a 25-30yr cycle and 25-30yrs from now if we don't have value system that address a savings culture, we will fritter away our tomorrow as well. We need to begin to save for the next period of recession from this year. This leads me to the second point which aligns with your point
2. Yes we need to begin to grow our OWN products. We are on the wrong side on balance of trade and we loose so much even on oil. Any item we export in raw form is value being lost. BRIC countries, Brazil especially have evolved an integral member of a production value chain....and that is the home workers. Imagine if we have 3 million registered Garri processors who do so in their backyard, bag and package them in various sizes and weight, and a bulk buyer comes to pick them up every day. Imagine we replicate same model for almost every consumables, including stuffs like biscuits,cakes, shirts and T-shirts, slippers, toothpicks, torch lights, shoes..........

Finally, one area we need to attack that is killing the dollar is university education. Nigerians spend over $3billion last year for overseas university education. This includes Universities in countries like Ghana, Kenya etc. Imagine if we channel half of that to address university education (even support private universities) for the next 5 years. I recommend that all Federal Universities be privatised (let states who choose to, operate govt universities). Let Govt pilot with 15 top FG universities, let them receive a Huge grant of $500m a year grant/loan for 7 years and a 3year-moratorium from the FG...beyond that point all Universities should be on its own. I believe you will see creativity at its peak. First off Unis will be driven to be self-sustaining, then they will realise that RESEARCH is one area they can actually make huge revenue, especially collaboration with private sector.

Gogetta:

Seun360: :


You daft gan sha, how can a north african state join Ecowas?

No need for insults. If you've been abreast of the happenings, you'd know that Morocco is lobbying hard to join ECOWAS( they just joined the AU). And no, being a North Africa state is no barrier.

@Gogetta,

You are a man of peace o!. @Seun360, slow down, learn first before banters

Rossikk:
This man is kissing ass badly. The Moroccans have finally seen the folly in isolating themselves from the major centers of commerce and geo-politics on the African continent. Now they are trying to do what they should have done ages ago. Good luck to them.

Yep. There is a sentimental side to it tho. Nigeria had to sacrifice Sahrawi Republic, a juicy island who controlled by Morocco which should be an independent country on its own. At the last AU summit, that should have been a precondition to absorb Morroco back as championed by South Africa and some other countries. Morroco relied on Nigeria's muscle to swing things in their favour. Nigeria needed Morroco badly to address our trade options, especially in the area of Agribusiness. So more like Nigeria said "FVCK Sahrawi"

lonelydora:
Morocco should do and start the fertilizer(NPK plant precisely) plant they are about to build with Dangote

The bilateral trade is running already. Import of phosphate from Morroco has helped the FG to rejig the 11 dormant fertilizer plant and they have added a 12th. I understand FG has even ordered for an additional 10 more......

nurey:
I doubt if this will work, its illegal, i am waiting for the lawyers in the house to take the case to court, let the case be pending in court till jesus comes

Radio License fee is legal. It is even supposed to be collected by Local Govt

SmartMugu:
Would everything be easier could kindly start a thread explaining who "Charles Nivia" is and his relationship with Majek?
Thanks.

Google is your friend but........ this is the story

1. Charles Novia is the popular movie producer and director, that delved into music production
2. He became Majek's promoter after about the time Majek completed his first rehab. He believes he helped Majek with rehab then, but it's all about business
3. Majek release (to the best of my knowledge) one album under him - Little Patience
4. They parted ways over some differences over 5years ago
5. Majek released send down the rain in the 1989 under Tanbasi record label.

My question are these
1. Did Majek sign the rights of his propietry to Novia?
2. If Timi was going to speak with anybody, why Novia and not Tanbasi?
3. Why was Majek not part of the discusion in person?

SmartMugu:
Didn't you read the piece of my statement where I said I saw Timi's proof that he paid to use Majek's song? What then did he do wrong if he paid before any actions on the song? Majek should be dealing with his manager, not Timi.
You just started ranting for no reason.

You don't get it do you? Is Charles Novia (whom Timi claimed he paid to) Majek's current manager?

Chukazu:
wish I had your time

You have a whole life time.....

Chukazu:
enough of this From Majek..

as much as the law requires one to obtain a copy right before doing a "sample" of an original song, which Timi was believed to have done, it also important we focus more on the benefits of such because at the end its a "win win "situation.
Majek stands to gain more from such work because it increases the popularity of the "original copy"

Crap.

1. Was the requirement of the law fulfilled? Was Timi supposed to have had a contract with an ex-label?
2. Your "popularity" argument is crap. Did Majek beg Timi to help him increase his popularity?

SmartMugu:
He's not right in any sense at all. I have watched a YouTube video of him performing same song with Timi Dakolo. I have seen Timi's proof that he paid to remix the song. What else does Majek want?
I just see a drowning man capitalizing on his past glory. Rather than motivate newer and younger singers who saw same visions and chose to deliver them same way he did, he's hell bent on bringing them down with him.
That dude is sick.

Some of you just talk without decorum or sense. You saw on you tube Majek performing same song with Timi automatically translate to Majek giving Timi the right to make commercial gains on it? You see a drowning man capitalising on past glory ......... Bros, where is your sense of reasoning? So to you, Majek should motivate "young ones" by allowing them to do the wrong thing? My question is, Timi knew Majek was alive and in Rehab, why was Majek not included in the said discussion with Charles Novia? Why was Majek not sought....even in the rehab?

campusflavour:
Mr majek did u not steal redemption song, I remember the video u were at a river bank with guitar? Did u write that one too?

Did Bob Marley family tell you he stole it? If he had done that, he would have been sued...I remember Bob Marley family lawyers sued Tina Onwudiwe for "Turn your lite down low"

ekems2017:
I thought Timi showed all the documents pertaining this particular song. Hope someone is not misleading you or you have not gone back to weed.

He showed evidence of payment to Charles Novia (November Records). Is Charles Novia still representing Majek? Was "Send Down the Rain" released under November Records?

Neddstark:
Timi was scammed. How can he buy such a great song for just 500k? By the way, the boy should try and write some of his songs.

It does not make sense. Apart from the misrable 500k, How can Timi not insist of seeing Majek? My take is that he was trying to get the easy way out.

Timi should have approached it this way. He should have bought the song with a provisor that Majek must feature in the song and video....like Whiz Kid did to Femi