₦airaland Forum

Raydos:
I've been to 15 states in Nigeria my whole life, and one thing I always notice is, Untarred roads, Lack of drainage system, Lack of proper planning e.t.c

Which always make me curious, Why does everywhere in Nigeria look like it got hit by a nuclear bomb? Why? Why don't we have modern streets and cities!!

Since the inception of Nigeria, I Don't think we have built any city, And please don't even mention Banana island, It's a piece of crap!!

It's sad that only about 3% of Nigeria is actually developed and the other 97% is just straight up piece of trash!!

It’s a sign of poverty and corruption.
For the fact that we do anything on pay-as-you-go basis (prepaid), instead of on credit basis (post-paid), Nigerians cannot afford latest things or modern or recent things.

Doing everything with every cash we have is making us not to be able to afford better things.

The modern society you see abroad is a credit-driven society. That’s why their things are new, neat, and recent. That’s why they are less corrupt.

You can buy (e.g.) latest Toyota RAV4 2024, a better house, etc once you have a credible source of income, abroad.

That’s why they are less corrupt because what they may want to steal public money to buy is easy for them to get in shops on credit.

Once you are not corrupt because you can afford better life, you will do better infrastructure for your people anytime you are a civil servant or a public office holder.

seunny4lif:
They need to clean up the immigration offices.
The people are too corrupt, but people don’t even know.

Imagine paying even more than the passport fees and then begging them to release your passport untop your own money oooh

You are 100% correct.

Make a lot of their ogas and zonal heads scapegoats firstly.

Bug all of them with hidden mics and cameras, marked money and transfer evidences etc.

Carry out discreet investigation and sack at least 15 most corrupt officers in addition to their ogas. Outright sack ni o. Without parole.
They will sit up.

After 6 months, sack another round of 20 from each passport office upon completion of anothe investigation.

Dem go all fall in line.

8 months after, sack another round of 20 each from each command.

By that time, new recruits would have learned the ropes.

Dem go know say khakis no be leather.

Awon wherhey gbogbo. Dem turn monster because of ordinary passport.

May be in another world.

These are even small. Go to The Netherlands 🇳🇱 or US and see farms.

Fujiyama:
^^^
I need a full list of these standards across the board. The few I have are scattered and all over the place.



^^^
Your trust in CWAY may be misplaced. I called them years ago to ask if and how they sterilize their large jugs/canisters retrieved from customers - before refilling. The answers I got were not convincing - which was very alarming. If only people knew what other people get up to with those empty jugs.

Once I am able to lay my hands on any of those codes/standards, I do hope to share them with you. I have come across them at one point like that.

For the CWAY, I only used it as an example Yiunmay check with CASCADE, RAGOLIS etc.

Typhoid. That’s why lots of Lagosians treat typhoid more than other states in Nigeria.

This is more common in Lagos because of scarcity of land.
Where your toilet soak away is, in your compound, is next to someone’s borehole, in another compound.

According to WHO, distance between a toilet and a borehole has to be a minimum of 100 meters. (that’s like one end of a goalpost to another end of a goalpost of a standard football field).

That’s why lots of houses don’t have soak away abroad. They rather have pipes that carry these wastes to central area where the wastes are treated properly.

Best is to be drinking water like CWAY etc in big dispensable water bucket, to safe cost of buying in pieces of bottled waters.

Just be using the borehole water to bath (add disinfectant) and wash and cook (boil thoroughly). That’s how you can be free from visit g hospitals and clinics.

Wheyrhey don stea.l Nigeria bend.

Go and face your lord and creator in the grave.

EleventhWeirdo:
I beg to disagree! I've been an audit associate with a big4 for 2 years now. I have former colleagues who got jobs in other big4s in Australia, UK, Canada, USA, and so on with just their ACA. Some even got jobs in industry. Why denigrate our noble institute, ICAN, this much with falsehood?

That’s like internal transfer at the Big 4. The chances of others ICAN holders getting such job across other companies of no direct link is less than 1%.

Add this to it: I was holding ICAN before. I dumped it at them and renounced my membership.

slivertongue:
anchor borrower scheme was a scam

Great s.cam. I served in CBN when things were still 1% ok with Nigeria, closed to 30 years ago and I saw, ‘first-handely’ how the AGRIC DEPARTMENT of CBN branches nationwide massacre all agric-intervention funds.

They even used youth corp members names and accounts as front to get monies meant for farmers.
They connived (and still connive) with a lot genuine farmers out there and take the moneys out, giving those farmers peanuts.

I know after 30 years, things would have gone south in CBN.

Tinubu, so pe o ti lo.

Usefulsense:
Currently studying day and night for Australian CPA examination.

Thank you so much sir. I'm motivated by your kind words.

It’s normal to develop cold feet when you are changing environment because of the fear of the unknown and fear of leaving your comfort zone, couple with those thing you would miss seeing or doing, your freedom etc. those shenks 😁😁. That’s if you do sha because you are going into a society where you are not as free as you are in an unregulated Nigeria.

Even relocating from Lagos to Kano can make you develop cold feet let alone relocating abroad.

With your wife over there, you would quickly settle in, no doubt that.

But you could have used your ICAN to take exemptions from some ACCA papers, long ago, and have started writing ACCA, the moment your wife entered Australia since you know you would be relocating.
By now, you would have passed ACCA and be ready to use it for conversion to CPA Australia.

The kind of private company you work(ed) for in Nigeria matters. If it’s a known multinational company that you worked for and you worked in greater decision-making roles and interact with C-band level executives in your organization, you may be able to have transferable skills that can position you well to get good job quickly.

No country recognizes ICAN abroad o. That’s the bitter truth.

While learning forklift driving, ask your wife about two most popular ERP software that companies use in Australia and add it to lists of what you will learn. You have to continue learning even when you get there.

I may be able to point you in the right direction of some free and paid materials on quality ERP learnings.

Also, don’t forget to have knowledge of one two other data analysis skills or software.

If after some years, you still don’t like or enjoy the country, wait and get the PR while you save to set up something back home.
You can then go home and be visiting Australia as you like.

Let me be frank with you: going abroad as an accountant at that age is not good. I am a qualified accountant with ACCA and CPA and I know what it takes to get a great job abroad.

Accountant work is not the problem they have abroad. They have automated a lot of things that have to do with accounting, financing, reporting, controlling (including internal control), business analysis etc

Assuming you are an IT guy or medical personnel, you can já at any time or at any age and entertain less worries.

Be ready to start from lowly-rated job (whether white or blue collar) and start picking the easiest points.

nedekid:
Thank you for the detailed explanation.

You are welcome, my brother.

nedekid:
Yeah, that is what is unfortunately called big for nothing.
Look at it rather in terms of gdp per capita.
Gabon $10,000 (Third highest in Africa)
Nigeria $2,100
Even Zimbabwe despite all sanctions has a higher gdp per capita than "giant of Africa . No be juju be that?

GDP is not a good measure of how good or better a country is.

Once you have high population than another country, your GDP tend to be low.

The formula being used in calculating GDP, Gross Dometic Product, which is the total value of goods and services produced locally in a country is:

Total value of those goods/services produced locally DIVIDED BY total population of that country.

For example, if Gabon’s GDP is $5,000,000 and it’s population is 2million, its GDP per capita will be $5,000,000 DIVIDED BY 2million people of Gabon.
You will then get $2.5 GDP per capita.

In the case of Nigeria: if Nigeria’s GDP is $5,000,000 and her population is 200,000,000, her GDP per capita income will be $0.025.

You now see how population plays a role in calculating GDP.

One of the problems GDP has is that: it is difficult to capture or value some other people’s output in an economy.

For instance, how do you value or calculate the output of a roadside vulcanizer or a palm wine tapper and add it to total value of goods/services produced in an economy in a given year?

A lot of things escape being added to values of GDP figures uk you see out there.

Likewise, as conscious efforts are being made to avoid double-counting (a value already created twice), many values created are still double-counted.

Even if economists give (or leave) margin of error in their calculations of GDP, it can never be up to 85% accurate.

Abi if your roof is leaking and you bought aluminum zinc and fix it by yourself without calling a carpenter, how can the value of work you did be quantified AND be added to GDP of Nigeria?
You can only quantify it by knowing what a carpenter man would have collected from you for fixing the leaking roof BUT nobody in CBN or in our economic council is able to add this value to our GDP.

You can now imagine how many values go un-captured in any GDP figure you see out there.

The little GDP figure you see being reported are either from official portal of trades and businesses documented with government and many truckloads of guesswork.

There are a lot to say about GDP and GNP (Gross National Product) but I leave you to search or read further on those terminologies.

Coiner:
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I appreciate.

You are welcome, bro.

Ttipsy:
sorry like how much does it cost for the Greece visit visa

And Australia or Estonia study visa ?

Greece = N8.5m, multiple entries.

Estonia depends on your course, but with N7m you should get it done up to 90% completion. Don’t forget that Estonia doesn’t have embassy in Nigeria. You would need to travel to either Egypt or Turkey or Abu Dhabi or Israel, whichever is easy for you to get their visa or closer to you.

For Austria (I guess that’s what you mean), N5m should finish everything if you are attending government university.

FEGEITOK:
Please drop your email.

You spoke like someone who knows the woodworking trade inside out.

I could not help myself as I read some words up there.

Amongst other things I had imported a Mibro dado blade set just last month.

Will be purchasing even more tools to complete my wood working workshop and your contact would be immensely valuable

Thanks bro, for reaching out.

I can be contacted at: admin@shanandev.com

Mod: waiting to read from you.
Be rest assured: the email address doesn’t mean I won’t give you my personal one. I would read this one as well and don’t be afraid of price 😁 because of how the email looks.

Coiner:
Good morning everyone.

@Dennis, @Sonnie10

Please I need your suggestions.

I bought some of these supposed turkey wooden doors at 150k each. Needed two extra for kitchen and sitting room. My furnituremaker then suggested he could make the same door quality and design for lower price.

Sitting room door: 120k
Kitchen door: 80k.

Picture 1: The turkey wooden.
Picture 2: Furnituremaker's proposed -material pre-finishing.

Can you tell the quality of the furnituremakers wood in the second image? Also, is the price fair for the quality?

I doubt if the first pix is an HDF door. It looks more like MDF. Check the purported Turkey door well. Does it have fine particles like compressed saw dust at its edges? If yes, it means it is an MDF.

The second pix looks like plywood or HDF. Check well; if the edges of the wood show layers of flat wood, that means it’s plywood he bought. He might need to use an edge binder to cover the layers from showing, after finishing.

Where the edges of the second pix show no layers of stacked wood, it may be a HDF wood.

He needs powerful router to create dado (the deep lines as shown on the Turkey door) on the woods in pix 2 with a matching diameter (and at the same depth) of bit used in creating the lines in the first pix (Turkey door) has to be used by the furniture guy for me to be able to get something closer to the one made with router table in factory.

If he attempts to chisel out the esthetic lines manually, he may not get the design (dados) well.

Hope he has a better plunge router like Festool or Mafell. Those are the best routers that can do the job well, including the door holes and hinges. He can use a couple of other door engine installation kits and hole saw, where he can’t use plunger to drill the hole.

A Trion, Makita, Dewalt, Milwaukee or Bosch plunge router too could be useful, if he knows how to use any of it and has or could get one.

Where he couldn’t get a plunge router, he can use trusted trim routers will rail guide, for the dados and the door holes.

Let him also look for quality white paint for the finishing.

If I am to make such door with my tools here, it cannot cost more than N40k, without adding my profit and cost of shipment ni o.

Tell him to reduce the price for you. The charges are too closer to that of factory-made door and he hasn’t made any of such doors for you before for you to know if he would get it as closed as to the Turkey door.

Don’t pay upfront for everything. Let him make one and show it to you. If you are ok with it, he can then go ahead with others, to avoid a case of WHAT I ORDERED VS WHAT I GOT.

Modified:

Estimated cost of making one door using plywood.

1 piece of full length of plywood = 14k, max.
2. Door engine (the type that he would use for you)= 10k , max.
3. Door hinges = 3k, max
4. Lacquer and final painting = 10k, max.
5. Screws and others = 1k, max.

For using HDF, the only difference is going to be the cost of the wood is is being sold around N16k to 21k per piece, depending on where you are buying it.

You can then add his labour. I assume you already have your door frames installed.

Hope I am back soon to come and crash price for people making life difficult for Nigerians, in my own little way.

We exploit ourselves too much.


By the way, I sell and ship quality power tools and accessories for woodwork and furniture making, directly from Europe and the US. These are not China Made for Nigeria tools o.
Tokunbo dey, Brand new dey.

endsarrrs:
That rechargeable radio cassette lamp is the bomb


Indomie generation, stay far away!

The lamp no go make heaven. Na one of non-living things that would go to hel.l fire be that. So many area girls were deflowered because of that tape and other double cassette recorders.

GeneralPula:
How?

99% of those county leaders have their savings kept in USD

Una no know USA sha..

Yes. He is right. The G7 (including America) is loosing it. Check how The BRIC has been closing the gap on G7 from 1990s till date.

China alone handles more than half of global manufacturing, with over 20% coming from the US alone.

See this for yourself: https://www.statista.com/chart/30638/brics-and-g7-share-of-global-gdp/?utm_source=Statista+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1f035adb0f-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_AM_KW31_2023_Fr_COPY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-1f035adb0f-335281922

GetSenseNow:
If we leave tribalism aside, we know the kinda people who would do a good job of leading this shithole forward.
If you guys can't support an Igbo man, you should've supported osibanjo. Most of my fellow Igbos are ok with either osibanjo or Obi. I don't understand why Nigerians like voting career politicians to lead them. You guys are a weird bunch

There’s nothing those two mumus you mentioned will do. They ain’t got no magic wands.
Nigeria is long gone into the drain before dem born Osinbanjo and Obi.

We need collective efforts to revive Nigeria. It’s not leadership problem that we solely have.
We followers cause more than 70% of Nigeria’s problems.
Check yourself everyday on all your dealings towards the state or towards people.

ShortBiscuit:
Why is it that a currency ($) that Nigeria doesn't own nor print keeps having such an insane influence on our local economy??

It’s because we are import-dependent.

Anytime we import, we have to pay with foreign currency since they don’t spend Naira in the country where we import and US dollar is what a lot of countries (not all countries) are using to store value of their money because USD’s value doesn’t fluctuate, significantly, due to the country being an economic world power.
That’s why China and some other countries are trying to form alliance (it started with BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India & China) and setting up new currency that can be used for payment settlement, rather than the USD, among trading nations in that alliance.

Rederede.

Mediocrity.

This is what they are building with our millions, if not billions, in 21st century.

Dem don see us finish.

6 years pere?

Ha. It ‘hav’ finish.

capnies:
THE SAME DEVELOPED COUNTRIES THAT YOU CAN'T TELL WHO'S A MALE OR FEMALE ON THE STREETS, ABEG SPARE US THAT NEOCOLONIAL THINKING. DO YOU KNOW THAT IN AMERICA ABOUT FIFTY WOMEN ARE SHOT AND KILLED MONTHLY BY THEIR HUSBANDS, BECAUSE OF THE STUPID LAWS THAT HAS MADE THEM HEADY.

Leave the wheyrhey alone. Like say no be the abroad we dey. Lots of them live on child support. Men have run away from them. Come and see Nigerian women with no husbands. Dem ya pa. A woman of 58 yes traveled all the way from the UK to com fck a boy of 27 years here in Austria.

How is Nigeria’s culture like Western culture? Didirin, comparing apples with walnuts.

By the way, you would discover that the woman, deliberately, skipped that part (that) she didn’t leave food for her husband just to spike him. She thinks it’s easy to loose job and be alright. I prayed she doesn’t loose her N250k to N450k job that is ‘shacking’ her.

There are one million and one ways of better directions she could, positively, point her man to.

Giving him her surest assurances alone and making sure families rally round him would have been a better way to handle this. How could you be feeding a goat and still be beating such goat? Do you think such goat would be interested in food again? Someone she should have helped managed his mental health at that trying period. I am certain she was tormenting the man. This is a man that wasn’t drinking before.

It’s good she starts dating the DPO or the police officers whose influences she used in ‘jailing’ a man she said for-better-for-worse with under a vow with her holy book in the presence of everybody.

A man says a job was too low for him. You should understand that because you won’t work the job for him.

For those two years her man has lost her job, can she swear boldly out here that she hasn’t thought or had feeling or craving for another man or considered another man’s advances or even given in to another man? Has she remained faithful 100%?

Most women only know when things are sweet. If you want to test a woman to know if she truly loves you or not , pretend to be broke or that you loose your job or your business is crumbling.
Only the uneducated woman can wait beyond a man’s expectations in that regard. But you see all these our women with inactivated igboro and wannabe vibes, max they can stay is 5 years before filling for divorce. They will frustrate the hell out a man.

The best among them (especially the educated and working class) can only cope for a maximum of 2 years before starting to cause trouble in the house and showing their true colors.

In contrast, this is a cross a man in our clime was born to carry for life.

Nazgul:
All these policies keeps suffocating the naira. During Jonathon's era, naira to Dollar equivalent was less than N200, yet BDCs were operating freely, people with dorm accounts weren't waking up to meet new policy emails, getting dollar was as easy as walking to an ATM to withdraw naira.

If corruption continues, all these policies would still yield no result.

It’s because we were lucky then. Our oil was selling above $100 per barrel when our oil revenue budget was set at around $36 per barrel.

You would see we were making like 300% more than we budgeted for due to the unrest in the MiddleEast and Libya.

That’s why there were more dollar supply than demand and this helped to keep dollar rate in check.

Instead of Jonathan and our state governors to have utilized the funds well, they were all busy sharing and secretly withdrawing from the reserves.
Nearly all, if not all meant for development were stolen. Lots of billions were wasted on his re-election campaign.

I am certain; Nigeria can never be better.

That’s the12th Wonder of The World.

Miracle no dey tire God. 😁😁. Abi dem be online students ni?

Very rotten a country called Nigeria.

Jewessgratitud3:
Now I know where the problem is coming from. Parents!!!!!... Allow us breath!!!!

You claim summer lessons are not important or beneficial now but tomorrow you'll go and start complaining to the schools that your wards are not doing well in their studies and threaten to withdraw them meanwhile you're here discouraging what will help the school to help your wards excel academically

If a child cannot read and understand basic English, how will he thrive in other extra curricular activities?
If he can't solve maths, how will he be able to do quick mental calculations during the so called activities? I don't get it!

Little wonder why we teach from morning till noon still nothing sticks and they can't retain much in their memory because all you parents do is let them play throughout after school and on weekends and they come the following day/week with empty brains. Please!!!


Your wards need this lessons so they don't become mentally lazy and forget the little they were able to gain before they vacated so all the money you spent the previous term doesn't go to waste. Now, you coming here to discourage this simply means you don't care about their academics which is the leverage and foundation any child needs to climb the ladder of success in a system that works.

I'm shocked to say the least. To think this is coming from 21century parents who know very well that the moral standards of the society has dropped so badly that children no longer have interest in going to school and all they want to do is play and do social media. Na wa o.

You can use weekends to send them for creative activities not this long summer Biko. Before one pikin go come dey tell me, Miss, I'm in number A.

Then it means teachers were not dedicated enough towards their work to ensure the students weee impacted well. Private schools made a mess of our education system right from late 1990s.

Na private school owners start or blew out the s.ca.m called holiday lessons.

It’s just to milk mumu parents.

UncannyGenius:
This is a financial crime. NDLEA's Jurisdiction is Drugs. This case ought to be handled by EFCC.

Probably NDLEA was looking for d.rugs and found the cash. All the same, news reporter must still carry it. For sure, the driver would be handed over to appropriate authorities.

favor914:
Wow, So Labor party to dey intimidate the judiciary?

😁😁 All eyes on judiciary in Abia State. I don’t know why Obidients and IPods are not shouting this.

CBN needs to appease our commercial banks. They are number 1 accomplice in this forex.

Disgruntled commercial bankers can give more ‘expos’ to CBN on how to deal with this menace because they aid and abet forex irregularities and help make lists of money too from their services to Abokis and forex speculators.
Many of commercial bank staff ( managers and those who work in FX departments have their own forex arbitrage firms outside normal banking work.

They have staff who work for them in selling foreign currencies made this round-tripping.

This new dimension by CBN may not be, 100%, fool-proof but it would, first of all, destabilize forex speculators and the Abokis and bring down dollar a bit because foreign vendors have to register with CBN.

While they are at this, CBN should think of another hard knock that would hit the ose saboteurs again and knock them of their feet.

It would be good if all diaspora remittances can only be collected in Naira at ruling official rate at the time a receiver is collecting such remittances.

Anybody who needs foreign currencies for importation should either face the CBN or black market.

Government should put lots of incentives in place that would encourage local production and exportation of goods and services from Nigeria. This will deal a permanent blow or forex speculators.

Larryndelaw:
Every citizen should hold his or her own state governor. Attention should shift to governors.

They are evi.l.

Steal.ing galore for our state executives and politicians.

They should go and sit down jor. No be religion matter. So far those he appointed can deliver, exceedingly, I don’t care.