*BUT HERE ARE THE MAJOR REASONS AS CAPTURED BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER.*
*We shouldn't be surprised.*
*We were far more productive in 1980 than we are today*
*In 1980 the key reasons for economic growth were as follows:*
*1) We were a net exporter of refined petroleum products. Today we import all our refined petroleum products.*
*2) We rode in locally assembled cars, buses and trucks. Peugeot cars in Kaduna and Volkswagen cars in Lagos.*
*Leyland in Ibadan and ANAMCO in Enugu produced our buses and trucks.*
*Steyr at Bauchi producing our Agricultural tractors.*
*And it was not just Assembly, we were producing many of the components.*
*Vono products in Lagos producing the seats.*
*Exide in Ibadan producing the batteries, not just for Nigeria but for the entire West Africa.*
*Isoglass and TSG in Ibadan producing the windshields.*
*Ferodo in Ibadan producing the brake pads and discs*
*Tyres produced by Dunlop in Lagos and Mitchelin in Portharcourt.*
*And I mean tyres produced from rubber plantations located in Ogun and Rivers State.*
*3) We were listening to Radio and watching television sets assembled in Ibadan by Sanyo.*
*4) We were using refrigerators, freezers and Airconditioners produced by Thermocool and Debo.*
*5) We were putting on clothes produced from the UNTL textile mills in Kaduna and Chellarams in Lagos.*
*Not from imported cotton but from cotton grown in Nigeria.*
*6) Our water was running through pipes produced by Kwalipipe in Kano and Duraplast in Lagos .*
*7) Our toilets were fitted with WC produced at Kano and Abeokuta.*
*� We were cooking with LPG gas stored inside gas cylinders produced at the NGC factory in Ibadan.*
*9) Our electricity was flowing through cables produced by the Nigerian wire and Cable, Ibadan and Kablemetal in Lagos and Portharcourt.*
*10) We had Bata and Lennards producing the shoes we were putting on* *Not from imported leather but from locally tanned leather at Kaduna.*
*11) We were mainly flying our airways, the Nigeria Airways, to most places in the world.* *The Airways was about the biggest in Africa at that time.*
*12) Most of the food we ate were being grown or produced in Nigeria*.
*We were producing all of the above and more in 1980*
*Today, we import almost everything.*
*There lies the source of the terrible exchange rate we are experiencing today and everybody reading this has a critical role to play in reversing this very UGLY trend.*
*It is not enough for us to complain about the exchange rate or point out what others are not doing or are failing to do, the key question is what are we producing or what are we planning to produce?*
*Going forward, it's time to ponder and think of the way forward progressivesly before it's TOO LATE.*
*Credit goes to the Unknown writer for this beautiful reminder.*
We have been talking about these problems and more for ages...
Explorers: Earl Simmons, the gruff, evocative rapper from Yonkers, N.Y., better known as DMX, died on Friday at 50. He spent his final days on life support at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County after suffering a heart attack on April 2.
DMX was one of the most recognizable M.C.s in the late 1990s and early 2000s, years when hardcore New York rap could still stake a claim as hip-hop’s central concern.
AsherAmari: Cost of living abroad is high and if you don't have a good job to meet up, you're doomed. So whats the difference between there and here = T for tax
ebosie11: Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, on Friday revealed that the late tele-evangelist, Archbishop Benson Idahosa, got his father converted to a born again at a crusade in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1980 and that his father later sowed the family's only car to propagate evangelism.
Speaking in Benin while delivering the convocation lecture of the Benson Idahosa University (BIU), Fayose said the decision of his father to give out the family's only Peugeot salon car drew the anger of his six wives and 27 children who felt bad about the decision.
"Archbishop Benson Idahosa came to Ibadan in 1980 for a crusade and my father attended and he was converted and after Idahosa had finished preaching he said they should donate something for God's work and since my father was converted and deeply touched, he gave out the family's only Peugeot car.
"He changed the car's ownership and particulars and brought it to Idahosa that he was donating it to support evangelism. Though the entire family was against it because we thought it would affect the family's movement, the seed of faith paid off in the end. Those who donated were prayed for by the Bishop.
"I was so pained that I blocked the gate and insisted that the 504 station wagon will not be taken out of the compound, my father called the police that I was preventing Ben Idahosa's car from leaving our compound, my father had indeed changed the vehicle particulars so I had to succumb to the police.
"But today, God has prospered the family. It's good to give to the Lord and when you do that you are sowing a seed that will germinate for the children and that is working for us now," he said.
Fayose said what he wanted to bring out was the importance of giving to the Lord cheerfully. He charged the management of the institution that the vision of the late Idahosa must not be allowed to die but upheld.
While fielding questions after delivering the lecture entitled "Education and actualization" , Fayose said handlers of the sector must live their words and put those concerned on the driver's seat.
"I withdrew my sons from Olashore International School in Osun State and put them in SUBEB Schools in Ado-Ekiti. My sons attended institutions in Nigeria. Many people in the country say something and do other things," he added.
He also advised youths not to inherit the enemies of their political leaders they know nothing about.
He charged Nigerians to critically examine their leaders before voting them into office. On how he would actualise his dream of leading the country, Fayose said he would only align himself with God's power, saying with God nothing is impossible.
TruthHurts1: I would have called on Daddy Freeze to comment on this story but I realised he is busy trying to hustle and raise N 5 million to pay the guy whose wife he slept with It seems 2021 is the year of transformation for Daddy Freeze...
jesusjnr2020: 7 Reasons Why A Christian Should Not Take Alcohol
1. It is misleading and deceptive.
It has the tendency to make people become vulnerable to sin and to fall into temptations.
Proverbs 20:1 (KJV)
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2. It is addictive.
It's easy to say "take a little", but many who have become addicted to alcohol today didn't start by taking much. And once one becomes addicted to it, it's hard to come out of it. That's how many found themselves trapped today. So don't start what you can't finish.
Isaiah 5:22 (KJV)
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
3. It impairs people's judgment.
Isaiah 28:7 (KJV)
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Proverbs 31:4-5 (KJV)
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
4. It's not meant for the consecrated.
In the church or the House of God in the old testament, it was prohibited for the consecrated.
Leviticus 10:8-10 (KJV)
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Ezekiel 44:20-21 (KJV)
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
If that's anything to go by, then every individual in the church or House of God of the new testament is not supposed to take alcohol, since the church ought to be a gathering of priests.
5. It does more harm than good.
Whatever benefits there were of taking alcohol, health experts advise that it's best to avoid taking alcohol at all, because it does more harm than good to one's health. It's not even a necessity to begin with, which makes it even more avoidable.
6. It's a counterfeit intoxicating spirit to the original which is the Spirit of God.
Luke 1:15 (KJV)
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Ephesians 5:18 (KJV)
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
The above sayings show that they both have a similar function in the respect of intoxication, however alcohol is the counterfeit while the Holy Spirit is the Original. It's actually the lack of the original that makes people go for the counterfeit which is alcohol, but if e no be the Spirit of God, e no fit be like the Spirit of God. Hence the garbage that comes with taking alcohol, because it's the counterfeit and hence of inferior quality when compared to the Original which is the Holy Spirit. That's why the difference was clearly distinguished in those sayings, and the advise not to be drunk with alcohol but with the Spirit of God, because the difference is very clear. Hence every Christian ought to be filled with the Spirit of God and not alcohol. And when one has the Spirit of God, he wouldn't need alcohol for anything, because any good thing alcohol could give to him, the Spirit of God would give him more of it, and even those good things alcohol lacks and cannot give, like the power to heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead, cure the lepers etc. So why would a Spirit-filled Christian want to get high on the counterfeit, when he's already got the Original in the person of the Holy Spirit?
7. It causes spiritual drowsiness.
It makes people to fall asleep and not watch as Jesus had commanded us to do, and that would be one of the reasons many would not be prepared and miss the rapture or His second coming.
Luke 21:34 (KJV)
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Matthew 24:48-51 (KJV)
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
sreamsense: The problem with contemporary young generation is that many of you were born into your families when morality vacated your family homes. Being strict is different from being wicked, he is discipling you as his own children so your future can be better, you are here ranting he is wicked.
Many of you just like places you will not be tamed so that you can do whatever you want like forming cult groups on campus, turning campus to Olosho house. If he is not strict and people still allow to do whatever they like, these spoilt rats will still come back here to complain and cast aspersions if any bad thing goes wrong with the school. Go to Catholic schools and see descipline, you these spoilt rats.
Your fathers get money, but lack morality, so when your fathers finally dumb you into CU as correctional center, you begin to misunderstand 'strictness' to ' wickedness' because your fathers failed to even show you '101' of moralities before you left for school because your families lack moralities in the first place. If you like to become wayward and hates descipline, no need of going there, go to federal and state universities and do what you like. Judas Iscariots!
Somebody is sweating to make you great, you call it wickedness! Spoilt rats! Go to volatile areas in North and ask for the meaning of wickedness!
In as much as I understand your frustration due to years of neglect and pure deceit on the part of our politicians I still feel your view and submissions on Dr. MADUKA was rather too harsh my brother... it Is well though. Udo Chia
NNEWIsuper: Says an imported clown from abroad unaware of the reality on ground.. He has lossed before he even contested.. Such a disgraceful cursed worthless native doctor from the cursed backward erosion ravaged shithole Anambra Steeti
Mgbadike80: *Who is afraid of the Nigerian Youths Revolution?*
Last night the Federal Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was on the National Television, the NTA, ostensibly to educate Nigerians on what the Buhari government has done to pacify the EndSars Nigerian Youths protesters.
Maybe due to the weight of the subject or the scare most the government people have received since the protests started, Mr. Lai Mohammed, looked pale and sickly. He was beside himself without his usual gift of sophistry. And he, of course, laboured hard to do justice to the topic.
I was not convinced in the least. I do not know about you.
During the course of the programme, Alhaji Lai kept repeating the fact that the government had granted all the requests of the protesters and yet they have refused to leave the streets and allow for a free flow of human and vehicular traffic.
He even went as far using the unfortunate incident at Osun State involving Governor Gboyega Oyetola as a case study that the protests have been hijacked by what he called, " the enemies of the country". And he, like other highly placed Nigerians and the beneficiaries of the lopsided system Nigeria operates, is frantically looking for the the sponsors of the EndSars Movement.
In a note of resignation, Lai Mohammed who eventually occupied a major portion of today's Radio Nigerian news with his preachment on the futility of continuing with the protests, asked, "What do the protesters want?"
I will answer him right away.
Mr. Lai Mohammed, Nigerian Youths are tired of the system that has made Nigerians fugitives, refugees, and victims of government insensitivity, in their own country. And there are thousands of reasons for such a protest to go on and on.
While the problem did not start with the Buhari government but an objective analysis of his administration will reveal a sinister plot of the gradual *Northernization* of the Nigerian Federation.
Never in the history of this country has a President been this insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. Nor is there any comparison in our history of the kind of ethnic agenda the Buhari government is a champion of.
Follow me through the list:
1 Muhammadu Buhari, President and Minister of Petroleum *North*
2 Ahmed Lawan, Senate President *North*
3 Tanko Mohammed, Chief Justice of the Federation *North*
4 Monica Dongban-Mensem, President of the Court of Appeal *North*
5 Ahmed Idris Wase, Deputy Speaker Federal House of Representatives *North*
6 Babagana Monguno, National Security Adviser *North*
7 Boss Mustapha, Secretary to Government of the Federation *North*
8 Lt. General Yusuf Buratai, Chief of Army Staff *North*
9 Air Marshall Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff *North*
10 Muhammed Adamu, Inspector General of Police *North*
11 Hameed Ali, Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service *North*
12 Ja'afaru Ahmed, Comptroller General, Nigerian Correctional Service *North*
13 Mohammed Babandede, Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service *North*
14 Abdullahi Gana Mohammed, Commandant General, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps *North*
15 Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, Chairman, DSS *North*
16 AVM Muhammed Usman, Chief of Defence Intelligence *North*
17 Muhammed Mustapha Abdallah, Chairman/CEO, NDLEA *North*
18 Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, DG NYSC *North*
19 Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, DG, National Intelligence Agency *North*
20 Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance *North*
21 Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy *North*
22 Sabo Nanono, Minister of Agriculture *North*
23 Suleiman Adamu, Minister of Water Resources, *North*
24 Mohammed Bello, FCT Minister *North*
25 Ramatu Tijjani, FCT Minister of State *North*
26 Abubakar Malami, Attorney General and Minister for Justice *North*
27 Ahmed Idris, Accountant General *North*
28 Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, NNPC *North*
29 Garba Abari, DG National Orientation Agency *North*
77 Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, MD/CEO, Rural Electrification Agency *North*
78 Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, acting MD, Transmission Company of Nigeria *North*
79 Saliu Buntu, MD, Federal Housing Authority *North*
80 Muhammed Umar, Director, DPP *North*
81 Saidu Malama, Chairman, Solid Mineral Fund *North*
82 Abdulkadir Saidu, Ex-Sec, PPPRA *North*
83 Dasuki Arabi, DG, Bureau of Public Service Reforms *North*
84 Prof. Adam Okene Ahmed, acting Provost, Nigerian Defence Academy *North*
85 Prof. Baba Muhammadu Aliyu, Ex-Sec, Federal Commission for Colleges of Education *North*
86 Prof. Ahmed Tijani Mora, Chairman, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria *North*
87 Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, Ex-Sec, Center for Crisis Communication *North*
88 Muheeda Farida Dankaka, Chairman, Federal Character Commission *North*
89 Fatima Shinkafi, Ex-Sec, Solid Mineral Fund *North*
90 Sen. Basheer Mohammed, Chairman, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs *North*
91 Prof. Muhammed Taofiq Ladan, DG, Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) *North*
92 Bala Yabani Mohammed, acting Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly *North*
93 Dauda Ibrahim El-ladan, acting Clerk of the Senate *North*
94 John Tsoho, Chief Judge of the Federal High Court *North*
95 Major General Sarham Jamilu, Commandant, Nigerian Defence Academy *North*
*Waooooooooh*
This is in conjunction with numerous Permanent Secretary and Director positions in the Civil Service. Not to talk of choice ambassadorial postings
Are you aware that both the Chairmen of the Senate and Reps committee on the Army and the Airforce are from the *North?*
We are not done yet. Look at that list again and you get the worst shock of your life.
I will help you out again.
If you look at the list once more, you will see that:
(A) Revenue Agencies NNPC, NPA, Customs, FIRS, CAC, TCN, NCAA, FAAN, NIMASA, National Parks, Solid Mineral Fund and Immigration.
(B)ICT NOA, NCC, FRCN, NITDA, NTA, NBC
(C) Security, Intelligence and Paramilitary COAS, CAS, Customs, Immigration, IGP, DSS, NDLEA, NSCDC, NDA, NIA, NYSC, Correctional Service and Defence Intelligence.
(D)Education NUC, Tetfund, Law School, NDA, NIALS, NILDS, Agric Research Council and Technology Incubation.
(E) All the Federal Govt Banks and other Financial Agency NIRSAL, NDIC, NEXIM, AMCON, FMBN and BOA.
( F ) Interventionist Agencies FERMA, SMEDAN, NDE, NEMA, PPPRA, NESREA, CSDP, EFCC, and REA
( H ) Judiciary Supreme Court, Court of Apeal and Federal High Court
*are all headed by the people from the North*
Buhari has *captured* Nigeria for his people.
What Othman Danfodio could not do with his sword. What Ahmadu Bello failed to achieve despite his aristocratic posturing. What IBB never contemplated even with his guile. What Abacha never thought of with his brashness and devil may care attitude.
*But Buhari has done it.*
And will someone inform Mr. Lai Mohammed that none of the federations that were structured the way Nigeria is now ever lived to tell their stories?
Nigerian Youths want besides a holistic *Police Reform*,
*Judicial Reform* *A People's Constitution* *Electoral Reform* *Civil Service Reform* *Access to opportunities* *End to Quota System* *Reduction in the Cost of Governance* *Health Sector Reform* *Education Sector Reform* *End to the State of Origin Requirement* *Transparency in Government business,* among others.
If President Buhari cannot guarantee the fulfilment of these demands in record time, then let him resign and go home.
In the meantime, *Let the Protests go on. Nigeria belongs to the Youths!*
In as much as the guy you are responding to is wrong into thinking You must live within your means to avoid debts, I stil want to point out a fact that a man that cant raise 90k in nine months have no business getting a woman pregnant!. Even the bible says he who wants to build a house should count the cost.
Most young men rush into marriages due to peer and societal pressure and end up complicating their lives!
Even the rich too go through financial burdens too but Marriage is a serious business that needs good planning.
Mokason28: I wonder who gave you a phone? What do you mean by live within your means? Do you think anyone anticipates for Caesarean section before it is carried out on you?
You are a foooool because you don’t know if what she has was just money for normal delivery which doesn’t cost much And health and other reasons made doctors go for C/S you are happy talking nansense because it’s not your sister or family member? Stupid kid
These kind of beasts do not deserve to be shot or hung but rather a bomb should be used to disseminate their bodies! Aah! May her gentle soul rest in perfect peace and I pray God grants her family the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss..
It is true, He burnt the notes because there was no firewood to heat the house after they realised that the safe house he took his family to avoid arrest had no electricity and firewood remaining .. That night was very cold...you need to watch that movie my brother so touching, He lost everything.
chukslawrence: Burnt $2 million to save his daughter? False.
So painful as of this morning the guy that's does exchange for me told me it is now 1 euro to 500naira! Thank God I left Nigeria. Buhari really failed us big time.May God in his infinite mercies make a way for my dear country.
Openbusiness: Not bad, but I love this type and design better. Will be in the market by 2025. The world's first flying car. A car that can drive on land and transform to fly in the air and land and change back to a normal car to drive on the road. The world has left Africa behind in the dustbin.
I am so glad i left this country.. A country so insensitive to the plight of it citizens. 20,000naira that is even more than what some people earn in a month over there in Naija to collect a useless certificate.. Just imagine here in Europe you are earning for instance a 1000euros a month and you are asked to pay 800euros for your certificate, It is impossible �.
A country where a lecturer will attend lectures just 3 times in a semester and set an exam that even Isaac Newton can not pass, A country where university keep churning out fresh graduates every year with no provision for employment opportunities.
We were deceived back in those days that education was the key, but now the reverse has become the case, The padlock has no space for key sef.. Really pray and hope things will change in my dear country some day.
Business › Re: Ganduje, Others Reconcile Dangote, BUA Over Sugar Plant by Mekas2016(m): 7:33am On Apr 16, 2021
All this oyinbo ehn....try smelling an Aba girl's fart, You will know that there is only one God