₦airaland Forum

Ezechinwa:
Poor standard of education

Poor standard of education? is that you rationalizing 1.6m candidate are poised to write JAMB this year?

Hmn! looks like poor standard of comprehension on your part

Chukazu:
And there are less than 500 thousand space in the universities?

JAMB just using these ones for revenue mobilization, when you hear "JAMB remittance has increased...these ones have simply been scammed

.....I was waiting for you to propose a solution to this....or you just want to complain?

dedons:
story!

whosoever stage a protest against the president's stand on the peace Corp bill should be "shot at sight"

I agree

Atouke:
Because your Gov. took loans for projects he didnt execute does not mean all govs. are like that. Ogbeni Rauf, with all due respect is a confirmed looter.
gov. Udom is yet to show such tendency. Remember the Secretary to the Federal Govt, Boss Mustafar of APC, gave Gov. Udom a PDP governor the most transperent Gov. Award just last week.

For an opposition governor to get such honor is a test of the mans character.

I will advise that you try to stay away from submissions way above your level of comprehension,.....also use google to fact-check before making ridiculous submissions. You've been making ridiculous submission trying to defend the ridiculous excuse for this building.

PS: it was Gov Oyinlola that tried to build 6 stadia not Aregbesola. Next time try use google b4 you make ridiculous accertion

nex:
This is what I would like to refer to as a very proper idiot! The office in which Exxon Mobile is located right now, was it built for them by Lagos State Government?

Does Udom Emmanuel know all the safety measures taken in building a 21-storey building to be used by Mobil, before even adding more stupidity by saying it will be increased to about 30 storeys?

Is Mobil going to buy or rent the building? Have they promised to buy or rent the building after the Government builds it?

Where has the Akwa Ibom State Government heard that an International Oil Company moved its headquarters simply because a Government built a headquarters for it.

This man is about to make quick bucks in preparation for the 2019 elections, and his state's citizens, residents, and taxpayers are looking on like Zombies.


I'm getting very angry at this sort of thinking.

I so like it when smart people see through the schemes and deceptions of politicians. Udom was Executive Director @ Zenith Bank, he will not just make dumb moves. He's probably sending out a narrative to distract from his true intention. Was it not a former Gov. in my Osun State that proposed to build 6 Stadia and took a loan for it?

LaudableXX:

manny4life: Whether Houston is the Energy Capital or not is certainly not the question. Please say what you know and what you can defend. Exxon pays all their taxes to different jurisdiction where their operations are. For instance, local property taxes for which they file annual rendition forms is paid to the Country Appraisal District where the property located. Their oil wells in West Texas say the Midlands would be paid to the CAD over there NOT Houston. Same applies to gasoline taxes as well Payroll taxes. Yes Houston gets a huge portion of the franchise/sales tax, but all jurisdictions get all their taxes.

Isn't that the same thing here, too? Mobil pays its corporate tax to the federal govt, and not to Lagos state. Any property taxes on its buildings in Lagos, are captured under Land Use Charges and paid to the state. Their operational base & housing estate in Eket in Akwa Ibom covers several acres, which is far more than the size of the plot their head office occupies in Lagos. So property taxes on their operational base in Eket, would go to the Akwa Ibom govt and not to Lagos.

Gasoline taxes are captured by federal govt, and not by any of the state govts. Revenue from crude as well as oil and gas exploration activities, are also captured into fed govt coffers, not state govt.

@LaudableXX,

At times I applaud people like you with so much patience to explain something so basic........

Blue3k:

pazienza: :
The level of demonic tendencies Nigerians exhibit eh, nah die.

How can a supposedly self acclaimed Akwa ibomite be crying over AKWA IBOM move to bring Mobil to Akwa Ibom from Lagos?
What's sort of deception and treachery is this? How can a Yoruba man be claiming to be an Akwaibomite just to score cheap points on a faceless forum?
In what planet would a genuine Akwa Ibomite be at the forefront of the opposition to this move?

Stop acting dumb and think about this logically if not against your religion. Your building a structure nobody asked for expecting them to come. Did Exxon Mobil say they would move to Akwa Ibom because they building skyscraper? Getting multi billion dollar company to move HQ isn't as simple as a new office space. Look at Amazon right now. Tax incentives, saftey guarantees and OGFZ could sway their opinion.

You people are too emotional for your own good.

Bros,

Don't you know that a classic way to build "dumb follower-ship" is to appeal to emotions and not logic?

Atouke:
Lame, Nigeria has recklessly abused oil funds since 1957. the Niger delta on the contrary started enjoying oil proceeds only recently.
How be it, comparatively the ND has used oil resources more judiciously than Nigeria as a country has. I can write a paper on that.

What is stopping you?

Atouke:
How has Nigeria, Used the oil money since 1957? what has the country used the money accruing from oil for?

when you reflect and answer that question then we will move to the niger delta question of utilization of funds.

Spin it the way you want. I am not even going on a needless debate. The lame excuse that your youths are restive and resort to arms because Oil coys don't develop their communities is not true........and cannot be anyways stated otherwise

Blue3k:

omololu2020: :
grin

Bro forget all this,Mobil won't relocate, they can't even be force to relocate by the federal government not to talk of a state government.

GEJ should have fought for resource control when he was the president, if he did that,then ExxonMobil might relocate to akwa ibom

It's not impossible with right deal. Tax incentives, saftey and OGFZ could sway their opinion. Building stuff nobody asked for is just dumb. Only Nairaland clowns and Akwa Ibom state governor try to bully people with non existent directives.

My first.....and repeated impression each time I read the piece. It seems dumb people just emerge in govts these days. Instead of the guy to address the building as a state's govt investment in real estate business, he simply showed his naivity thinking a 21 story building will be an incentive to Mobil.

FYI, many of these Oil majors did relocated their HQ to ND but beat a hasty retreat, due to insecurity (kidnappings and killings). Think about it, what it costs Mobil to engage Bristol Helicopters to fly their engineers from Lagos straight to oil platforms and back is nothing compared to losses incurred to insecurity

manny4life:

deomelllo: :

Oil companies left because of lack of safety and security, violence and kidnappings.

You can not guarantee their safety and security with office building..

Maybe if they receive the Billions of Naira that Lagos receives, perhaps they would be able to combat homegrown violence and kidnappings and integrate the youths into meaningful enterprise.

Bros,

You speak too ignorantly on this matter. You are better off finding out what Oil states have done with the billions they've received over the years from the Oil companies, also find out how these "youths" had opted cashed out instead to infrastructural development in their localities.

manny4life:

Blue3k: :


Are request laws? If they didn't pass a law then their request means nothing. There's no ground to sue them on or tax penalty for non compliance. Think about this for a second of there a law in place why would state bother building them a building?

How exactly can they tell any firm where to locate their HQ. Should they have right to tell you were to locatate your business HQ?

It's the most appropriate thing to do... Almost all Oil Drilling Companies are located in TX or Louisiana, not Washington DC or NY. You cannot drill resources from State A and then pay taxes in State B. It's just not right.

......and they told you Mobil (or any oil producing company for that matter) is not paying tax to Akwa Ibom State (or state where oil is extracted)?

Ayodejioak:
Lagos is doing awesome

Outside the shores of Nigeria, Its interesting to know every one recons with only 4 states in Nigeria

Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Abuja in this order of priority

Its like the rest 32 states or so don't exist outside Nigeria

Bros,

It is advisable to back statements up with facts and not just figments of your imagination. Ok. Pls save those of us who do not know "outside the shores of Nigeria" by showing us evidence that attests to this statement

pinnket:




Men will always be different from boys because, Men do class (investments) while Boys do swagg (acquisition of liabilities and showoffs)




I remember when my padi bought ordinary EOD when him hit, I no hear word again for hostel... Him nearly toast my mama sister sef. Thank God say the engine of the car knock last last..!!




Which car Seun dey use sef?

I once propounded a hypothesis to my wife. Why is it that those that hardly have are the ones you see with bling-blings, eye-catching dresses, regularly summer holidays, high-rate rents in high-brow areas, exortic cars (bought with hard-earned money which could do better with investment), expensive shoes and bags(mostly ladies), expensive gadgets etc?

I think the answer lies in many of us with our minds "untrained", "not well developed", fickle and suffering from inferiority complex. As we grow, we need to train our minds. Our generation don't understand the spirit of being a solution provider as source of power. We want to gratify and satiate our desires even when it is glaring it is useless.

greatface:
Man should go for what makes him happy rather than spending lavishly on vains in order to show off or create unnecessary class.

Many of these world billionaires ends up giving their wealth to worthy causes like research, eradication of diseases, development projects in 3rd world countries.

HOLYDICK:
Their own choice bro.....
They can drive keke napep e no concern us
As for me am a man of sleeky styles
As long as u can afford it its not a crime


Team benzino or beema or chevy.!

Bros,

Wonder that despite the fact that these people not only can afford it, they can buy the car makers and throw all of them with their business into the bin and it won't scratch them a bit, yet they've chosen a "modest path". That is intruiging.....the difference, I guess, is that they live on "another world", wherein such things (fancy cars), are not even in their reckoning. They are more concerned with conquering more spaces, creating world breaking solutions, gaining more powers, making mega zillions and owning the world.

The question will be, can you comprehend their minds? Can you think the way they think (even if you've not made a million)

obailala:

Blue3k: :
This is self destructive behavior the community is engaging him. Anyway if they can't get extra route now later (distant future). 90% of something is better than 10% of nothing. Then what do they mean by carrired along?

Lol... question for the gods . Seems like you dont know how things work in that part of the world. Before any developmental pproject can be executed, be it by govt, corporate bodies or individuals, the youths and elders have to be 'carried along'.

This is a taste of what the oil companies face, even when they want to do CSR projects. At times I ask myself, what do the Niger-Deltan's want. They want projects.....No, they don't want projects.........They want oney,......No they will fight over that......They want to be "carried along"........No, not all factions are carried along..........

6UEE:
Gotcha! GEJ is not even my man. haha

#Yimmu

Youngherry:
you make no point here

Really!!!!

Sprumbabafather:

EternalTruths: :
Ihejirika the General who dealt with Boko Haram to the point that Buhari was shedding tears in horror.

That man is a real Mgbadike!

If Nigeria is a sane country this man will make a Field Marshall.

I know you two bigots like to delude yourselves but pray tell, how do you explain the following accusations? I somewhat agree he should be given field marshal of corruption

Arms Procurement Scandal: Why Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Is After Former Chief of Army Staff Ihejirika

Nigeria's anti graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday grilled former Chief of Army Staff, Mr. Azubuika Ihejirika, over his role in the $2.1 billion arms procurement scandal under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The retired military chief was questioned over the roles he played in the procurement of arms and ammunition as Chief of Army Staff.

He was one of the 18 retired army officials investigated for Defence Equipment Procurement fraud by a committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari on assumption of office.

The work of the Committee covered the period 2007 to 2015.

The special committee had in its report indicted 18 top military personnel, 12 government officials and 24 heads of Companies for fraudulent dealings in the arms procurement contracts.


Former Chief of Army Staff, Mr. Azubuika Ihejirika
The committee led by AVM Jon Ode (Rtd) found that: “3 contracts with a total value of N5,940,000,000.00 were awarded to DYI Global Services Ltd and Doiyatec Comms Nig. Ltd (owned by the same individuals) for the procurement of military hardware including 20 units of KM-38 Twin Hull Boats and 6 Units of 4X4 Ambulances fitted with radios. The committee found that the 2 companies collected N5,103,500,000.00, representing 86% of the total value of the 3 contracts worth N5,940,000,000.00, but only performed to the tune of N2,992,183,705.31.


“In this regard, a review of the procurement carried out by Chok Ventures Ltd and Integrated Equipment Services Ltd established that between March 2011 and December 2013, the 2 companies exclusively procured various types of Toyota and Mitsubishi vehicles worth over N3,000,000,000.0 for the Nigerian Army without any competitive bidding.

“Though the committee found no credible evidence of delivery of the vehicles, the vendors were fully paid based on job completion certificate authenticated by the then Chief of Logistics.

The Committee added in the report that analysis of the various bank accounts of the two companies involved in the arms purchse contracts showed transfers to individuals related to Ihejirika, who was then the Chief of Army Staff.

According to The Nation newspaper, Gen. Ihejirika was asked by EFCC interrogators to account for the transfer of N115m, $132,000, €16,000 and £44,0000 to his relatives who allegedly did no job.

The five beneficiaries are Raymond Ihejirika, Nkechi Ihejirika, Ndubuisi Ihejirika, Orji Ihejirika and Kingsley Ihejirika.

He was also questioned for allegedly awarding N3, 658,293’846.94 contracts to two companies owned by his brother-in-law, Chinedu Onyekwere.

Another query raised for Gen. Ihejirika was seeking his explanation in respect of suspicious transactions to the tune of N845,600,000 and $3,450,619 made from Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria’s (DICON’s) domiciliary and Naira accounts.

The former Army Chief is expected to account for the suspicious transactions alongside a former DG of DICON, Maj.-Gen. E.R, Chioba (retd) among others.

EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwajuren who confirmed the development last night said Ihejirika requested to go back and gather more information and documents to defend himself against allegations by investigators.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/22/arms-procurement-scandal-why-economic-and-financial-crimes-commission-after-former-chief

6UEE:
Staged. Both the kidnap and rescue missions were staged operations strategically designed to bolster babas approval ratings ahead of the 2019 elections. Expect more of these shows in the future.

....let's assume your ill-logic is true, did somebody stop your GEJ from "staging" his own creativity?

Obaao1:
Good news to hear or else it would have been another Chibok mystery....

.........when we're not led by the clueless GEJ

dfrost:
My colleague in arms, chop knuckle jare as we say in Nigeria (actually fist bump). I joined NCS in my second year and CPN after service. So many ignorant folks on these forum (and in Nigeria), yet too proud to admit their ignorance.

Imagine FMBN pricing my application for peanuts because it's local content? Same FMBN dolled out millions to acquire their present solution for contribution. It's so painful.

I'm actually working towards becoming chartered with BCS.

Bros,

I am ashamed to say this, I should have been a FELLOW of both bodies by now, but my organisation moved me away from IT in 2010 to Corporate Strategy. I did not follow-up so much on activities, especially conferences.

The good news is that I am co-founder of a Tech startup(we're coming to market soon) and I will "put my leg back in" both NCS & CPN.

FYI

1. This law or executive order was sponsored by the professional body (CPN/NCS) as white paper recommendation to the FG since mid 2000.

2. This law serves to protect local software developers, allow them to grow and actively compete especially when it comes to govt contracts. I remember once playing golf with Alh. Ogunneye, who told me of how NCS/CPN had written to FG back then that there local comp with capabilities and financial muscle to handle the national ID card project, yet FG awarded the contract to Mastercard

3. How do you expect a local content providers to grow on a national scale when banks, Telcom, Oil and Gas Coys buy as little as HR & Pay-Roll solutions from foreign suppliers? How can local developers grow like the Indian coy Infosys that is probably the biggest exporter of banking solutions and software consulting/offshoring in the world? Did you know that Infosys was just a simple software company in a dingy house in India in the mid 80s?

4. Many of you lot are so ignorant and embarrassingly so. A simple request to be educated on issues you are alien to would have been a honorable option but no, you would rather demonstrate crude ignorance.

mekaboy:
So you pay every year, whether you get job or not. How does government support IT people? Do they give grants?

I am sure Bill gates and others got some funding from their government. All our government thinks about is how to take.

So I take it that you just simply want to comment..... you don't know "Jack" about it, neither do you understand the new law

sunbilor:
The law, not the body, is what is being contested here.

.... and what exactly is wrong with the law? Can you explain?

dfrost:


This body has been existing for a long time now. I'm surprised at Nigerians.

I've been a member since my days in school. We also have NCS.

Both are the equivalent of BCS and ACS.

They exist to protect exploitation of IT people from crooked employers.

Bros,

This is why many of our "yoots" are either badly educated, have comprehension deficit, lacking in imagination or perennially daft. A simple reading through the publication gives all the necessary clarifications needed. I will imagine that "local content" should either be the key word or what they need to get the understanding...... but know, it takes a misguided person to start and lead other foolish ones who willing submit themselves to be led astray.

Meanwhile, I am member of both NCS and this body

Youngherry:
anyhow you call it, before he was in power jamb registration was done by cafe and all computer centres with strong internet facilities but after he came only cbt centres can register, why? (fraud started) then why do we have to pay several fees from the jamb portal to make any changes or print admission letter all sorts of? (fraud here too), my point here is, he is one of them (liars as you corrected and thief) before our current years of jamb stuffs, i think it has been peaceful then than now.

.... and you registered and wrote JAMB for how many years to come to this conclusion?

If I assume comprehension deficit as default for you, should I also assume that you will rather have the old system that produced the massive fraud that brought cases like ridiculous mysterious snake swallowing N36m? This is even my mysterious

BetaThings:

Brandd19: :
This man is a joke. What do you want Nigerians to do? Teach you your job? What's 36m doing in the jamb office at first. You should be submitting your resignation letter sef...

FarahAideed: :
Do this people realise that Nigerians are tired already

Mrchippychappy: :
Oloyede? una too don dey reason like cows?

Have you read the story?
The incident happened before he got there
The incident happened because they were using scratch cards which was prone to theft. He stopped it
They were saying scratch cards were stolen but some students were somehow able to use them!

To ensure that people don't exploit candidates for change of name he introduced the use of self registration of name by candidates directly with JAMB
If you want to write mock, the CBT should ask you to so indicate at the point of completing the form, but some will not. You would have to pay them over N1,000 to make that correction
They deliberately make those errors so that students will come back to pay to correct such errors

Can't you see some people are irredeemably lost? You need not tell them. They have decided to be perennially bereft of sound reasoning, even if FACTS are shoved in their behind, they will still deny it

Youngherry:
and you expect us to believe the story of 2-3years ago? and you really think his words were true? stop believing all these people, they are all liers, he said he has never collected bribe but he did some kind of fraud while at unilo, i don't believe him, never will i

1. I for one do not expect you to believe something that is backed by FACTS. I mean, don't you think it must take some measure of rocket-science to do that?
2. It's LIARS and not "Liers"

deepwater:
She is innocent until proven guilty.
You have meddled so much with uninformed people and same has taken a huge toll on your rationale thoughts.

Get exposed, stay safe son

Inno... what? Haba! Madam? And you would think you made sense