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Who are these "all and sundry" ?

In the absence of a well conducted research I can as well argue that majority welcome NL2, so don't be surprised if you find yourself doing the boycotting alone.

oh ok.

@tpia@

Interest statistics worth studying, but has nothing to do with the emergence of NL2.

The OP concern is that the introduction of NL2 might have caused a reduction in traffic, but Seun just confirmed my suspicion that the traffic is growing in the contrary.

[quote author=Kilode?!]I apologize for my ignorance. my transistor radio broke.

Have we divide the country??[/quote]I missed the news too.

Interesting! Unfortunately we will not be able to confirm at least not in the nearest future.

Very good of her. May God bless her and shame on those selfish leaders that could have helped but refused.

. . . and she might just get it. I wish her the best of luck.

Anything from Mitsubishi and Mazda is a no go area for me.

Noise.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Your promptness is appreciated, it is one of the reasons why this section is one of the best here.

P.S. I saw a Governor posting in this section resently. I did not tell him he was responding to my post. [/quote]You are welcome. Please lemme know if he repeats it.

Care to tell me in private the Governor's name and his id? Just want to give him some "moderatorship respect"

Fingers crossed. When is the election or selection taking place?

peckhamboi: Moderators, why did you ban "RICH-BOI" .

RICH-BOI is not banned.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]My post here was quoted by a character with username Johndoe100. He then modified the post and replaced my words with vile, hateful, and wicked ones, thereby bastardizing the forum. Here is the bastardized post

Please do the needful. Thx.[/quote]Fixed.

Do you seriously expect an answer to such question from Seun?


Well lemme give you an idea, the average number of people online from the home page is about the same with both NL1 and NL2. So the traffic is about the same.

NL1 is history now, NL2 can only get better. Get used to it.

ifyalways: ^just to add, if interested, you can signify here or send a mail to nairalandcharity@gmail.com.


Handsome, strong, energetic males only. Joking. . .

hehehehe

I think R231 and I also need a very intelligent pretty lady PA too. . . joking


Now Seriously,

We also would like to constitute a board of stakeholders.

- These board will serve as advisers when we have issues to discuss and the 1st in the know when we have a new project.

This is open to as many who are passionate about the work of this organization and will want to support the organization continuously in cash and/or in kind. Please indicate your interest here or send us an email at nairalandcharity@gmail.com

Thanks.

Yes I remember one of the earlier requests: https://www.nairaland.com/716782/science-section-we-need-one

Very Interesting read and a sad reality.

We have a very long way to go.

How Lawmakers Underdevelop Nigeria - Simon Kolawole

https://serving.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/0101%20SK-backpagex.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540

In any given democracy, the legislature performs three functions: lawmaking, appropriation and oversight of the executive. I bear the Nigerian legislature witness that they actually make laws, especially the ones that would not upset the applecart. They do a lot of appropriation—and carefully jack up the budget to accommodate their own interests. Oversight function? Of course, they do perform it excellently, as long as the agency or ministry or parastatal they are overseeing would “support” public hearings and give committee members tickets and bundles of dollars to fly to some unknown republic to attend “capacity-building” conferences. And so it goes.

The legislature, I want to declare today, has contributed immensely to the underdevelopment of Nigeria. We often look at the clueless executive branch of government as the source of our woes. I suppose we are correct to a large extent. After all, the executive is responsible for policies and the implementation of law and order in the society. The executive runs the machinery of government day to day. But there is the principle of separation of powers and checks and balances. The judiciary serves as a check. While it has not been perfect in any way, the judiciary has certainly helped stabilise this democracy with timely interventions that have checkmated anarchy and diluted dictatorship.

But to effectively put the executive in check, however, we need a very active and proactive legislature. We need a legislature that puts the executive on its toes through oversight functions. I am going to use the current House/Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) scandal to illustrate my point on the diabolical legislature today. The House Committee on Capital Market recently decided to probe the fatal crash of our stock market, once regarded as yielding the most profitable returns globally. I am usually sceptical when our lawmakers suddenly want to investigate something for public good. I am very, very sceptical.

I am sorry to be so cynical, but since when did the lawmakers love Nigeria so much that they want to do something for our progress? Since 1999, they have been investigating and probing all kinds of things and we never got any result. There was so much noise over the probe of power projects in 2008—excuse me, what was the outcome again? I seem to have forgotten. Recently, there has been a lot of noise and public posturing over the probe of petroleum subsidy management. Discerning Nigerians know very well that nothing would ever come out of it, if our past experiences could serve as a guide. I can list a thousand probes and a thousand no-outcomes. So, pardon my scepticism.

And so the House Committee on Capital Market decided to probe the stock market crisis. The crash has led to the erosion of the wealth of millions of Nigerians. It has led to the death of banks and stockbroking firms. Many investors have developed incurable health problems as a result. Some have died from high blood pressure and stroke. Thousands of jobs have been wiped out. Probing the immediate and remote causes would ordinarily be to the benefit of Nigeria and Nigerians and perhaps help us come up with policies to be better prepared for future volatilities. From every indication, this should be an excellent exercise.

The Hon. Herman Hembe-led committee then wrote to the market regulators, SEC, inviting them to the public hearing. But what happened next? The committee attached to the same letter a list of its expenditure, totalling N39,844,490. The list includes snacks and drinks, as well as “official reporters” and “computer consumables”. Even without uttering a word, the motive of the committee was clear: bring some coins to the table to “support” the public hearing. I won’t be surprised if the same letter containing the “requirements” was also sent to other invitees to the public hearing. You can have N39 million from as many willing sponsors as possible. And don’t forget that the House has a monumental budget for public hearings. If you doubt me, please go through the budget of the National Assembly. So we are faced with a situation where the lawmakers eat the same cake two, three times. Who says you can’t eat your cake and have it? That’s an outdated proverb.

What happened next? SEC chose to play ball. The decision makers at SEC decided that the probe would be good for the market and opted to support the committee with “not more than N30 million only”. Look at it again. SEC could be culpable in the crash of the market. In fact, a thorough probe could reveal that the body shirked its responsibilities and was mainly responsible for the crash that nearly ruined the economy. So by the time SEC decides to “support” the probe with N30 million—in addition to an early favour done to Hembe to fly to Dominican Republic—what would be the outcome of the probe? Let me guess: a clean bill of health for SEC! And so, we keep destroying Nigeria in the name of probes and public hearings.

Of course, the “sponsorship” deal went awry along the line. SEC insiders claim that the money was to be paid directly, electronically, into the committee’s account but Hembe requested, through an intermediary, that N5 million should be paid to him personally (Hembe has denied this allegation). SEC pulled the plug on the deal. The hearing started the following day. Hembe let all hell loose, questioning the SEC DG, Ms Arunma Oteh, in the most condescending way possible. The woman, in failing to respond to the questions satisfactorily, quickly adopted the well-tested strategy of hunting the hunter: she alleged that it was because she failed to pay bribes totalling N44 million that Hembe was harassing her (can I add that she only agreed to part with N30 million?).

Fellow Nigerians, we would never have heard of these shady dealings if the monies had been released and collected. All we would hear is that the House Committee on Capital Market had probed the stock market crash and absolved SEC of all blame and declared that the collapse was caused by the global economic crisis which—in this age of globalisation—no economy is insulated. That would be the end of the matter until the committee members are broke again and decide to probe the sale of one listed company or the other. And then a letter would be written to SEC summoning them to the public hearing. And the list of “requirements” would be attached. And so it goes.

The latest scandal is perhaps one of the smallest. It is common knowledge that committees of the National Assembly engage in this unholy act on a regular basis. It starts with appropriation. A ministry would say it wants to spend N100 billion in 2013; the committee would call the minister aside and promise to help him jack up the budget in exchange for a few billions. A deal is struck. Professor Fabian Osuji would forever regret agreeing to serve this country. In 2004, some members of the National Assembly allegedly told him to bring N50 million so that his ministry’s budget could be passed. The deal went bad and the man was publicly humiliated. Also, I was told that when the House committee started probing power projects, a member called one of the contractors and asked that if they would raise some amount of money to be distributed to committee members, the panel would turn out a favourable report.

These evils are perpetrated not only at the federal level but also in the states. It is an open secret that in many states, members of the House of Assembly are put on special monthly allowances by the governors. Some monies are not to be accounted for at all. We would not have the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) running after governors today if the state lawmakers were alive to their oversight responsibilities. The laws of the land empower only the House of Assembly to probe a governor and remove him or her from office if found guilty. But this is just on paper. They’ve gladly surrendered their independence to the executive.

In more ways than one, the legislature is contributing its own quota to the underdevelopment of Nigeria. How can the lawmakers be accepting flight tickets and bales of dollars from the same people they are expected to put in check? How can they be colluding to jack up the budget in exchange for contracts and kick-backs? How can they be sending a list of “requirements” to the same body they want to probe? What are we turning this country into? Is there a way out of this conspiracy to keep Nigeria perpetually down through abject greed, crass incompetence and crude selfishness?

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-lawmakers-underdevelop-nigeria/112215/

Long overdue.

Thanks.

Mummy's boy, give them some credit now, they've been remembering till you turned 21, if they forgot your 22nd, forgive them and move on.

Happy birthday in arrears.

^ You are asking becomerich aka musiwa aka Uche2005 for evidence?

Are you looking for google maps

lol

good one.

No, it's not normal.

fury: Our deliverance is still far ahead.

I agree with you.

^Nobody is getting email notification of replies for now. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

ochukoccna: Emmm...
Emmmm..
Be carefl what you wish him O!
Recall that was what brought all the scandals before o!
I bet Tiger groupie squad are recruiting again in large numbers O!

lol there cant be any scandal again, he is no longer married, so now he can hit as many holes as he want

Good one! Congrats! Wish you more success too.

The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.

Kobojunkie: Nigeria has a "Big Brother Africa Policy"? Nigeria has an "Africa first" policy? ROFLMAO!!! The kind thing wey person no go read for these kind threads, na wa ooo!!!

Its those policies that makes Nigeria gives billions in aids, free/credit oil/gas to other African countries that always come back to spite her, also spend billions and lost many of her soldiers on peace keeping missions.


You people should not get me wrong, am not particular about NOI candidacy, am only looking at the effect of this action on both country foreign policies, who stands to gain or lose in the long run.

alj harem: OAM4J, they are clever, give it to them. All this Big brother fallacy Nigeria does should really stop

Time will tell my brother if they have truly have made a clever decision.

Ironi: OAM4J:
What 'Big Brother Africa'?

That is the problem Nigeria has. Always talking about things you are not really up to.

Stop talking about this big brother thing, it's just a bloated fantasy.

It gives a false sense of importance.

Nigeria should be a big brother to itself.

Nigeria is NOT a big brother to anybody, not even the poorest country in Africa.

I agree with you, about time Nigeria do away with the "Big brother Africa" policy. Become more like US.. only give/support where you stand to get some returns/benefits.

[quote author=edo.girl]Ghana has to play this in line with its national interest. From a Western, and possibly global perspective, Ghana is seen currently as the social, political, and yes, economic flag bearer in West Africa - size isn't everything they say! Ghana may well calculate that supporting an American as opposed to an African will portray it in the international community as a modern, open country that is willing to look beyond a parochial/default 'African first' policy. The Obama white house which appears to be in a perpetual love-in with Ghana will certainly notice that. Our folks in Ogbomosho, Abakaliki , or Zaria might struggle to understand Ghana's position, but something tells me Ghanaians are smarter than we give them credit for. They take our money when in distress, but cleverly outwit us when we need them. Clever![/quote]Smart? Clever? As they say, time will tell.

With that choice, Ghana has done away the benefits that it also get from the parochial 'African first' policy. Am sure Nigeria will also review its "Big brother Africa" policy especially towards Ghana and other African countries are watching too. The question is who loses more in the long run? Does America really give free lunch like the parochial 'African first' policy gives? Time will tell.

ROTFLMAO

Youth leader indeed!

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