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There is nothing to celebrate in this useless country.

PAINGAIN: The question they r asking naija youths is this " what'cha gonna do about us and our likes?" Naija youths oya answer.

Nigerian youths are watching nollywood and are in churches and mosques donating money for another private jet and hoping God will come down and do what they're supposed to do themselves.

Nigeria was dead a long time ago. We live in an artificial hopeless state with hopeless leaders who only care about themselves.

The Nigerian mentality is to beat a bread thief to death and worship a pot bellied 4cktard that has stolen billions.


Most Nigerians are equally as bad and corrupt as their leaders and if they had the chance will loot money just like them.

God is good to all these pastors after all, just don't forget all your tithes and offerings and also all your first fruit this Sunday.

United Africa will never be possible. Nigerians and Ghanaians can hardly get on well together not to talk about uniting with countries like Morocco, Zimbabwe, SA etc....... For some weird reason, we Africans hate ourselves.

What annoys me the most is the fact they get hardship allowance on top of the fat salary and loots. This is in a country that has no welfare for its citizens, no investment in worldclass education and health care. I hope they all choke and die in their greed. Thieving basta!ds!

Nigerian federal legislators receive much higher salaries than their counterparts in wealthier countries and key developing nations, according to an analysis published by the Economist magazine.

A Nigerian legislator receives an annual salary of about $189,000, equivalent of N30 million, which is 116 times the country's gross domestic product (GDP) per person, says the publication which was posted on the magazine's website on Friday.

The figures put salaries collected by Nigerian senators and members of the House of Representatives way ahead of those received by fellow parliamentarians in the 29 countries whose data was analysed by the Economist.

In terms of volume of cash earnings, the Nigerian legislators beat their counterparts in Britain who take $105,400 yearly, as well as those in the United States ($174,000), France ($85,900), South Africa ($104,000), Kenya ($74,500), Saudi Arabia ($64,000) and Brazil ($157,600).

In terms of lawmakers' salaries as a ratio of GDP per capita, the gap is even much wider. While the salary of a Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country's GDP per person, that of a British member of parliament is just 2.7 times. What the hell are they doing to deserve that much money??

The report said Britain's legislators pay is "relatively parsimonious" when compared with that of their counterparts in poorer countries, including Nigeria, who "enjoy the heftiest salaries by this measure."

According to the data, only Australian lawmakers, with $201,200 annual salary, receive higher amounts compared to Nigerian legislators, but their salaries are only 3 times their country's GDP per person.

Other yearly salary details published by the Economist are those of lawmakers in Ghana ($46,500), Indonesia ($65,800), Thailand ($43,800), India ($11,200), Italy ($182,000), Bangladesh ($4,000), Israel ($114,800), Hong Kong ($130,700), Japan ($149,700), Singapore ($154,000), Canada ($154,000), New Zealand ($112,500), Germany ($119,500), Ireland ($120,400), Pakistan ($3,500), Malaysia ($25,300), Sweden ($99,300), Sri Lanka ($5,100), Spain ($43,900) and Norway ($138,000).

Secretive

The National Assembly has been secretive with the specific amounts members collect in salaries and allowances, refusing to provide information to journalists and activists even when requests are made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

A total of N150 billion was voted for the National Assembly in the 2013 national budget but there is no breakdown, which should have shown at least a summary of the legislators' earnings.

Months ago, Daily Trust wrote a letter under FOIA requesting for the National Assembly's budget breakdown but this was refused.

However, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) documents in possession of Daily Trust show that a senator is entitled to N35 million and member of the House of Representatives N29.28 million in the first year of each legislative session when they receive allowances that are payable once in four years--accommodation, furniture and car allowances.

The annual salaries are supposed to be lower for the next three years of a parliamentary session.

But given the secretive nature of the parliament's finances, there have been claims, including by RMAFC leadership, that the lawmakers receive much more than this amount in padded allowances.

Based on the RMAFC documents dated February 2007, which are the subsisting approved packages for National Assembly members, the lawmakers' allowances include accommodation (Senator N4m, Rep N3.97m), vehicle loan (Senator N8m, Rep N6.948m), furniture (Senator N6m, Rep N5.956m) and severance gratuity (Senator N6m, Rep N5.956m), which are due once in four years.

Other allowances, which are payable every year, are car maintenance (Senator N1.52m, Rep N595,563), constituency (Senator N5m, Rep N1.687m), domestic staff (Senator N1.5m, Rep N1.488m), personal assistant (Senator N506,600; Rep N496,303), entertainment (Senator N202,640, Rep N198,521), recess (Senator N202,640; Rep N198,521), utilities (Senator N607,920; Rep N397,042), newspaper/periodicals (Senator N303,960; Rep N297,781), house maintenance (Senator N101,320; Rep N99,260) and ward robe (Senator N405,280; Rep N397,402)

There are also estacode (Senator $600, Rep $550) and duty tour allowance (Senator N23,000; Rep N21,000) payable per day when a lawmaker is on official trip.

"Untenable"

In February 2009, then-President Umaru Yar'Adua initiated a process of reducing the pay packages of public office holders on the ground that the amounts were untenable in view of government's finances.

Months later, then-chairman of RMAFC Engr. Hamman Tukur presented a report to Yar'Adua, containing reviewed pay packages for federal, state and local government political, public and judicial office holders.

In the report, Tukur said the affected government organs were flouting the remuneration provisions made by the commission through frivolous foreign trips, arbitrary appointment of aides and use of excessively large motorcades. He warned that this must stop.

Based on the constitution, RMAFC has the final say on the remuneration package of National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly members, while a law needs to be enacted based on the commission's proposals regarding the pay packages of executive and judicial office holders.

But Daily Trust understands that the National Assembly and other arms of government have refused to implement the reduced packages on the grounds that the constitution says earnings of political officers should not be reviewed to their disadvantage.

BlackTechnology: The luck in Jonathan's name is working for him

He's only acting now because of the elections.

yinkusse: Thank God for hitler

You know hitler loathed Africans as well. His plan for Africa if he succeeded in the war was to turn it to a game reserve. Maybe oyinbo people will be driving around Africa in their jeeps and taking pictures of a brother hustling around for food.

These guys are just like cancers. Bokoharam will never be defeated until their sponsors which includes northern politicians and brainless elders are taken out.

Nogen: Man U didn't play, why?

Z!

This is what happens in a country where the politicians are not held accountable for anything. All those leaders should all bury their ugly faces in shame. When they travel abroad with their loot , don't they like how nice and organised the infrastructures in those countries are? Hopeless cretins.

Look at the little ape that has been terrorising the country. They should chop off his joystick as well so he will be useless with his 72virgins in his after life.

Very good news. That site is full of self obsessed 4cktards.

That's what happens when we have the dumbest pot bellied leaders that lack charisma in every aspect. I watched the UK opposition leader give a speech yesterday for over an hour without notes or auto scroll, I'm sure the youths in his party will aspire to be like that unlike our dull dumb leaders that will read everything from a paper and still can't deliver properly.

Our education system has really let us down which is why most of our youths are here on nairaland posting trash on a daily basis.

I think it's hin. The nose looks similar.

Is it a coincidence that bokoharam are being dealt with properly now that the election is around the corner.

Bear Grylls can eat anything alive.

lirusehn: [b]


It' funny and Alarming how black-brained Nigerians have turned all of a blink!

Look at the poster above me ranting about m.asturbation when he didn't even hear the explanation the man of God gave.

The funniest thing is how foolishly y'all back up ur claims with verses from the bible. MY People perish cuz they are foolish. I think this is to show us the Devil knows the bible more than itself.



What do you want me to knw from this post of yours?

God gave you the right to judge others?
Not even like you are trying to correct him.
I can see ur life defines perfection if not you won't be out here sharing errors of others.

Peter denied God and yet it was neva written against him. That's y i tell people i serve God and not religion.

You eat up ur fellow man just to gain cheap popularity while you later on go to church to showcase ur make-up.


Smh for the future of planet earth.

The Lord is your strength Pastor Chris. [/b]

Plonkers like you are the reason why Nigeria will continue to end up with dumb leaders. You did not read the article, you are just posting the usual trash. Just carry on defending and donating money to your pastors and keep dreaming of a mansion in heaven when your pastors are living in mansions here on earth and enjoying their lives to the fullest.

Of all the countries Nigeria can visit visa free, only Cape Verde and Barbados is worth visiting. The others are on level Oh God!!

kgr28: Then who gives a 4ck??

You're trolling on a Nigerian website, so you give a 4ck. I have never been on Ghanaian forum if you 4cktards have one.

kgr28: Whats the use of having 10 000 richest individuals when 150 mill people are broke!!??!!

You nigerians like to celebrate nonsense!!!

That's not true, Nigeria is a middle income country according to Wikipedia. It has the fastest growing number of middle class families in Africa, it has the biggest economy in Africa and it's GDP will hit a trillion dollars by 2025 if it continues to grow at its current rate inspite of all our problems. You ghanians can carry on hating on us. We don't give a 4ck!!!

Norajones: You can't shoot a ghanian in d dark cos d bullet will come back to u asking 4 torch lit,,,black minded
ppl..but i love africa even ghana

I guess most of the foreign traders in Ghana are selling skin lightening creams cause they all look like an Egyptian Mongoose.

OXYGENO1: Leave heaven (Ghana) to a zoo( nigeria )?.They know how useless their own country is.If we even kill them they will never return to that useless country.They've acquired a lil sense to differentiate between a useless country ( nigeria ) and a civilized country( Ghana ).

Try googling the richest black man and woman in the world and you will see they are Nigerians. These are people that have made it in your so called zoo against all odds. There's not even one single ghanian 4cktard in the top 20 richest people in Africa. So what ghanian heaven are you talking about??
Maybe if you guys don't waste your whole lives hating on Nigerians your country would be a better place.

OXYGENO1: What's xenophobic about this? Every country has its rules and regulations so why will you people choose to do what u think pleases you in a foreign country? Comply with the rules and regulations and that has become a problem. You think Ghana is as useless as nigeria.Mumu.

You are the mumu, can you imagine a country like USA or UK asking non citizens that are trading to leave, it's black 4cktards like you that will be shouting racism. You ghanians should be careful what you wish for. Remember what goes around will always come around.

egift: Nonsense talk. Even China will not blink before slap his face. Russia will be seating in the cold if it tries any drastic nonsense.

China is an ally of Russia and Europe and America will not provoke Russia into a world war because they have the biggest atomic bomb ever(Tsar bomb) with a 100 megatons yield. This can obliterate a city the size of New York and London in seconds.

At least, he died happy with a hard on! Can you imagine him explaining to the Angels in heaven what brought him there.

texazzpete: In 2010, Android fanboys insisted they would buy Android phones because Android = Choice and Choice was "good for the consumer"

In 2014, Android fanboys are still happy with choice...as long as you choose only Android

As with most of these kind of write-up, this is childish analysis.

Not only have the iPhone flagships held the performance edge over many Android flagships in the first few years, it also tries to insinuate that Apple described any of these so called 'features' mentioned here as 'magical'

Here's the key difference I see here

1. Android fanboys obsess over specs by looking at paper numbers. iPhones deliver the performance advantages with more efficient chipsets. Which is why the 1.2Ghz iPhone 5S trounced every single Android phone of 2013, including those sporting 1.9Ghz Snapdragon 800 chipsets.

2. There's a lot of talk about "technology seen since 2012" when referring to NFC. But that's been a largely useless radio for most Android users. Apple's never claimed the inclusion of NFC in the iPhone 6 was 'magical'. The user experience is what Apple says is magical. In one fell swoop, Apple's rolling out a service with the buy-in of every major bank in America and over 200,000 businesses. And in all cases, Apple Pay is MUCH simpler and faster in execution that Google Wallet.

naturally, the article fails to mention the ways android is playing catch up. For example, The smoothness iOS users have taken for granted for years, Google's still trying to address this. OEMs have had to tackle this by loading up on RAM but Google is still trying to handle this in code. We had Project Butter, then the lower memory requirement of Kitkat, and now a comprehensive rewrite/reskin with the upcoming Android L

You also see significant efforts being made to ensure OEMs can provide updates for customers. The vast majority of Tecno users in Nigeria will NEVER be able to use Android Wear smartwatches because they require Android 4.3. Most are stuck on 4.1 or 4.2. HTC's One X and One X+ from 2012 for example will not receive Android 4.3. Not only is Google playing catch up here, updates tend to trickle out very slowly to the OEMs.
in contrast, every iOS owner since 2011 (4S and above) is able to upgrade to iOS8, irrespective of carrier.

Other areas are numerous. Google still remain behind in closing the app gap among the hot new apps, GPU performance on most Android flagships lag behind, Camera performance on most Android flagships are an inferior experience, fingerprint reader tech and ease of use is miles behind. Security wise, Android is miles behind. play Store usually has a much bigger malware problem than the App Store and the slow update rollout means some vulnerabilities take ages to be patched out in most phones.

Both sides have their pros and cons. Both have unmissable features. So i did the best thing and got a Galaxy S5 and an iPhone 5S. Best of both worlds

I don't know what planet you are living, but every tech review I have seen online since the smartphone battle has always put an Android phone as number one.

wreckingball: Sure, other android phones have got all these features but how many have got them all in one package? That's what makes Apple stand out!

HTC One M8, LG g range, Samsung galaxy phones etc.... beats Apple hands down spec for spec. Just read all the tech reviews. It seems you apple fans are paying just for the apple logo on an outdated plastic crap.