₦airaland Forum

latonione:
But who balkanized the great Benin kingdom; the brother or the government?

so paying money to the ENIGIES - moneys meant for the ENIGIE's - a law that was created by Bendel State Government - since 1979

- now applicable to Edo and Delta States - a law created when Obaseki was doing his NYSC is now Obaseki's fault for upholding it as Governor?

Are you alright ? you use words anyhow ? do you know what balkanization is ? you wake up reading trash on social media and you pick a fancy

word and you start using that "fancy word" to start propagating nonsense on the cyber space.

God1000:
irrelevant senator for saying the truth

what is the truth ? IF your family members were the ones massacred, abducted and raped by Hamas Militia - and you have even a quarter

of Isreali military might, you will do worse - I see why most of you here love the Sanders comment because your very lives are cheap in

Nigeria - you are so used to abnormalities that you just think it's ok - some countries value their citizens so, IF NIGERIA does not value your

life, how is that Israel's fault -? 911 Claimed 3,000 American lives - 300,000 Afghans paid with their lives for sheltering Bin Laden, 1.5 Million

Iraqis paid with their lives when Saddam was dumb to be making reckless statements that period when tension was still high

So - nothing Israel did and still doing is out of the ordinary - Arabs and Israelis know themselves more than the global media will define

them for you - Just like a white man living in America who never been to Nigeria can never understand the feud between Igbos and Yorubas

by reading blogs - They are all Abraham's children so na family fight, when them tire - them go rest - meanwhile somewhere in NIGERIA--

emkz:
Okay.

Congratulations Mr Knowledge.

I only summarized what was in the article. You wouldn't know this because you didn't even read it.

You are not on ground in Benin - all this one you see are nothing but grammar - the real koko na wetin carry Prof and Baba go court

Its just like you believing AMBODE didnt get a second term becos there was not Baba so pe - when the real koko be say Tinubu want him gone

Dogalmighty17:
No one is interested on what Atiku has to offer.

Atiku is just another thief feeling entitled like Olodo Emilokan - nothing positive to offer but just to bear the name PRESIDENT of NIGERIA

Atiku is waiting for his turn at the expense of 200 million Nigerians - our lives is not Ludo - we need progress not massaging anyone's ego!!!

emkz:
My reading is that Obaseki acceded to the request of some Enigies to balkanize the Benin Kingdom despite opposition from the palace. The same Obaseki now tries to use the palace for cheap political gains as did Olumide Akpata.l by requesting to resolve a crisis between the Enigies and BTC.

Obaseki was trying to be manipulative. Did he not realize the crisis had been there since?

Good thing the palace censured him. Politicians must not use our traditional institutions for politics.

you know nothing about the Benin Kingdom - so shorrop your mouth - the question you should be asking is - WHY IS THE UNCLE OF THE OBA OF BENIN (the immediate younger brother to the Late OBA EREDIAUWA) PROF. PRINCE GODFREY AKENZUA taking the OBA / EDO STATE GOVERNMENT TO COURT -- please do your due diligence before talking like a beer parlor analyst on nairaland

ogolemati:
what a country.where politicians steals in billions and they get higher office of pardon but someone that stole Maggi will be sentence to death

You are right, politicians get a slap on the wrist and the poor must be hanged BUT have you noticed that NO FULANI herdsman has ever been convicted to die by hanging for the kidnappings, robbery on the highway, trains, the mass rapes and abductions and all the massacres they have commited all over the country for almost 10 years now and counting

The 2 names here are southern christian names - my little question is WHEN WILL A FULANI HERDSMAN BE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND KIDNAPPING?

dominique:
If only the super eagles had won AFCON gold, Lookman would have easily been a strong contender CAF player of the year.

He is the best contender for APOY 2024 --- He scored great goals leading to the finals of AFCON -- He played in the AFCON finals --- He won 2 player of the match awards in AFCON -- Now he won the EUROPA CUP BREAKING HATTRICK RECORDS --- Who is better than him in Africa right now ?

Emma1Oj:
Something of since yesterday??

That's how Nigerian journalist and blogger will over hype this guy now till he unexpectedly lose form due to pressure to impress.

Shorrop there - you think Lookman is your typical Nigerian player born in Nigeria who cannot control his emotions or allow things get to his head ? Dude, Ademola was born in Britain and he stayed there all his life and he is a British man in Black skin who is emotionally intelligent so stop the hate - He is not overhyped - he deserves all the accolades - Argentines worship Messi, the English idolize Harry Kane, THIS IS OUR OWN LOOKMAN - We will praise him no ending - and if it makes you feel like a loser in life - so be it -- yeye fawo

triplechoice:
You're projecting yourself. You're the shallow minded person who can't understand what's explained for you in simple English language.
I already answered the question you're asking me again. Minimum wage in Nigeria is not for every employer of labour in Nigeria to pay.Some people are exempted and can negotiate what they capable of paying their employees. Na wah o. You nor they read

Minimum wage is law in Nigeria. You must obey the laws of the land once you're not exempted from minimum wage. 25 staff is what's required under the law.If you can't pay then it means your business is not profitable. Then close shop and look for something else to do instead of employing people to pay them slave salary. Slavery as been abolished long ago

I'm not the government who came up with the law. Direct your anger to the right people and not me

how many of your states in Nigeria could pay the minimum wage of N30K since the law was passed ? ozuor una never fi t pay N30k na N600k ona won pay --- dey play in the circus called Nigeria


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLWnxCSrJQ

triplechoice:
Hehehe

You're the one working with emotions here because you're ignorant of the fact that minimum wage is law in Nigeria like everywhere else in the world.

It's not what you as a private business man has decided to pay your lowest paid staff based on what you make from your business.

If your profit as a business man after tax is not enough to enable you pay minimum wage, living wage, to the lowest paid staff in your organization,then don't employ those people .Do the work yourself until you can afford a cleaner, gardener, gateman etc. That's what the law says in Nigeria. But Nigerians don't like obeying the laws of their country.

Moreover, in Nigeria, it's only those in the private sector with a staff strength of above 25 workers in their payroll that are mandated by law to pay minimum wage. Less than that figure don't pay. In the public sector everyone is captured. No exemption. You just learnt something from me today and should be thanking me instead of trying to mock me.

Please Google the minimum wage act signed into law by Buhari in March 2019, read all of it to confirm what
I just explained ,and come back, thank me and then let's continue the discussion. .

Thank you ? What a sense of senile entitlement

I may have made a hypothetical scenario, (for explanation reasons only) that was not the main focus of my analysis

Thats what shallow minds like you do, you amplify the inconsequential to drown the most important part of an argument which is “How do you pay people N600k ? the business - wether 100 or 200 workers.. IF the services rendered is not enough to generate the profit to pay people that amount of money, where will that money come from?

America here for instance has $7.25 as minimum wage. A fast food restaurant can pay even $9.50
an hour to their workers becase based on their sales on a given 8 hour shift, that worker makes a profit for the business worth $50 from the fries he cooks, burgers he prepares, packing of the food, delivery at the drive through- all that - so the fast food company has no problem paying even $10 an hour to that employee- which is even more than the minimum wage.


But in Nigeria, What value is your gate man, your driver, your messenger- your cleaner providing to warrant that amount of money - N600k a month? You cant tell me—-/ instead you are whipping up sentiments of applications for thank you mesaages on nairaland when you cant even answer a basic question.


For instance, If my company driver who claims he deserves N600k minimum wage fails to come to work for a month, will my business suffer a loss of N600k? heck No


I will drive myself to work, or probably catch a uber to work - pay N2,500 to go to work, N2,500 back which is N5k - X 20 work days a month = N100k … and then I dont even have to buy fuel because the uber ride is not my car


so what justifies that N600k pay for that company driver ? Even if there are 200 workers in that company- Business organizations are not charity- earnings are justified and if the cost/ benefit doesnt tally, it wont work - that position will be eliminated, the driver loses his job. Would you rather he is employed and earns N75,000 or is unemployed and looking for N600k (minimum wage work) without access to shi shi at the end of the month?


A person who makes $7.25 minimum wage in America can only do what someone who earns N60k to N75k can do in Nigeria - do you know how much is monthly rent in the USA ? No apartment is less than $500 a month in rents, and that must be some ghetto apartment with lots of crime, poor sanitation and general terrible neighbors. So a person making $7.25 and works 160 hours a month, which is (40 hours a week) Thats $1,160 a month before Taxes- Take away 10% Federal Income tax, ($116) take away $80 for Social Security and Medicare, whats left ? $964

He or she pays $500 for an apartment- pays light $75, pays water $50 - buys monthly bus card to go and come back from work $50 - Feed himself for the month $250 (thats the least he can get to pay for food to last him a month) then he pays cell phone - some cheap cricket phone $39—- what is left ? $0

He cant buy beer, he cant buy a shirt, he cant even take a lady out on a date - No savinsg - so is this minimum wage of $7.25 a living wage in “Almighty America” ? Heck No


The rent took more than 50% of the earnings BUt you have people in Edo State, Nigeria who make minimum wage of N70,000 and their monthly rent in a comfortable apartment is N10,000 to N15,000 a month


So this “LIVING” minimum wage of N600k brouhaha going on in Nigeria is dead on arrival -

Atiku will not be available for 2027 elections

I eill leave it there …. 😎

triplechoice:
The bolded shows you don't understand what minimum wage is at all. You have a layman understanding of it.

Minimum wage is synonymous with living wage which is the least amount of salary that can afford an average worker the basic necessities of life for himself and his other family members. If 100k is what can make that happen,then that's the minimum wage and should be paid to him. If it's 600k then also pay him that if not you're enslaving the person.

So, do your honest calculations and tell us what can afford a cleaner with a family of 3 in the present day Nigeria the basic necessities of life.
Modified. You said you have an MBA and yet you don't understand the concept of minimum wage. It's a shame you're using what's obtainable in Nigeria alone where businesses are notorious for underpaying their staff to interpret what's minimum wage.

Dude - you are the bricklayer here talking with emotions - Every system or country has more private sector jobs than public sector jobs --- If government jobs in any country is 20,000 for instance - know that the private sector (private owned companies) have 2 million openings or positions - so let me ask you, for instance ----- you want to provide a living wage for your gateman who is a hard worker and you have 10 employees in your company and that your company makes N3 Million profits a month -- IF YOU AND YOUR 10 EMPLOYEES EARN THE SO-CALLED MINIMUM WAGE OF N600K MONTHLY -- THAT WILL BE N6.6Million in salaries only ---- where will you get the remaining N3.6 Million to pay yourselves the "LIVING WAGE"? ---------------> This is even considering your company ONLY exist to pay minimum wage NOT to make profits or progress

magoo10:
firstly in my write up i proposed 100k and not 600k which is very reasonable considering the cost of things abi will someone work for you pay transport,feed ,clothe then at tue end of month you tell him thank you.
Secondly you are not even in Nigeria to understand my point so there is no need for the argument.

I may not be physically in Nigeria - but I have lots of family members and friends who communicate with me everyday through social media - I am ways here on Nairaland at my down times from work or bed time to scan the news and happenings in Nigeria - when in traffic going to work or coming from work - I have my Bluetooth headset on and listen to Nigerian news from Arise TV, Channels and sometimes even TVC - I visit Nigeria at least once a year and spend at least 1 month since the last 15 years (only missed 2020 due to covid) - so what are you talking about like I do not know what is happening in Nigeria ? even street interviews at market places "Bystanders" I watch them on weekends - I listen to Paranran Mock News - Ned Media and many more outlets - so I am on top of whats going on in Nigeria - maybe I know more than you do


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NmhHCnU8w&t=229s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2syAa9I4Qk4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYmD5Yi8q8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PKjj-K0tQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVza60qYak4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xodpzxSVcKk

just to let you know - SO MAKE YOUR CASE ON FACTS - WHY DO THESE WORKERS DESERVE MORE MONEY than their services are worth?

magoo10:
i am not proposing for employees that sit that to gossip like you said i am talking of workers in real sectors yes there are productive organisations than the one you belong.besides what is 100k a month in this economy.
Is it transport? Is it feeding? Is it clothing? What will 100k really do for a below average Nigerian let alone an average Nigerian?
Me i spend over 240k on fuel alone for my cars and generator and i dont even know where to classify myself whether average Nigerian or below average Nigerian.

I understand your point but you are not answering my question about is it worth to someone at the minimum level such minimum wage - do yoi mnow what minimum wage is? its not for company executives or skilled managers- its for the lowest level employees and I gave you am example of a messenger- so please remove emotions and justify in terms of productivity- why a messenger deserves N600k salary

Whatever his services are, will you pay him N600k if he were your employee? does his absence from work in a month cost the organization or company he works for profits or revenue worth N600k ? These are my arguments


I am sorry I may appear mean or insensitive to you because of my hard stance on this issue - but I have an MBA degree here at UCLA and this is how I was trained to evaluate wages and compensation - objective analysis, not raw emotions - This is why a soccer player can earn $500,000 a week for playing just 2 matches - of 90 minutes each and probably another 90 minutes trainingthat week - so for 270 minutes a football player made $500k while someone works for 40 years and will never make up to $500k in total earnings —/ you know why? The Value of service provided, the market for such services, revenue accrued for that service, demand amd supply forces, quality, all determines wages of every worker!

magoo10:
A government that has the people in mind shouldn't pay less than 100k as minimum wage.

What are the workers producing that is of N100k value per month ? wages are a reflection of the value am employee’s task add to an organization’s profit margin or the government’s revenue drive - so because one is a staff of a government office, maybe a messenger for instance - and he or she sits down all day gossiping - (for the ladies, playing with their phone and doing make up and slaying on IG all day and when no one is watching, they just go home and they are done for the day, and the men form groups to propage lousy inclinations; talk about football all day and their side chics, then month ends, they want the government to pay them at least N600k ?


hmmm this joke is getting distasteful

For any employer - be it the government or private sector to pay anyone N600k a month, such employee must be bringing a value of at least N650k to the table.. If not, are they trying to to scam the government by demanding such outrageous minimum wage when actually they are redundant with no value or quality ? I am not understanding

I am talking as a Nigerian _American

9JAMac10:
hahaha . The guy has no levels they will not dish out the same treatment to a Mikel obi

people like you are the problem with Nigeria

so if someone is not Mikel Obi, he must be

humiliated? The average Nigerian is a damaged

being, we are just an eyesore to world!

fa4dmike:
There should be strict laws concerning the number of foreigners and their mental health thats coming into Nigeria. the guy should be handled here in nigeria, if possible given to the girls family to handle themselves in the local way

And some Nigerians want citizenship to be conferred on any light skin person who shows up in Nigeris demanding for it, If we ever do, we are finished as a nation, it will be apartheid all over again, this time nit in South Africa, but Nigeria

DonroxyII:
Nigeria is a Money Oriented Society...

No blame our Women for Liking Monies ... Na Money be fine Girl in Nigeria if not ... she go worwor & her market no go Move ....

i understand your point but in the late 80’s and 90’S when Nigerian women were not so crazy about about money, where they not beautiful?

Its just a terrible mindset that we will have to subsidize the misbehavior of these girls, who are busy selling their bodies and creating an industry from being ladies of easy virtue

Even closeby Ghana here, see their pretty girls with expansive booty and crazy shape all in Mokola Market selling their goods under the sun and earning a decent living - (please check that on youtube, you will be amazed)

I wonder if the average naija babe had such booty and great shape, they will also be whoring on instagram and doing hookup - our men who end up marrying them are to blame for real, because by marrying these bi t cc hes, they endorse their lifestyle that whatever they did with their body while single doesnt matter

please and please - naija guys - save up some cash and go to Kenya, Uganda or Tanzania (KUT)

Please spend just 3 months there, you will be amazed what you will find - you will never speak to any naija babe who is whoring with bad behavior again regarding dating or marriage

Please try it and prove me wrong!!!!

hammer567:
FULANI, U SEE HOW U TAKE INEC CHAIRMAN OFFICE DESTROY NIGERIA


Y DO U HATE THIS COUNTRY?

APC and Tinubu thinks the world did not see what they did on February 25, 2023, how they stole, snatched, grabbed and ran away with the election… yes they saw it and they know a tout without shame, with zero integrity runs the mafia like government in Nigeria

doggedfighter:
Ogbonti, where's this anger coming from?

No anger - just appalling how we think about women and work in Nigeria- no wonder some cultures still believe when a man has 10 daughters - he is yet to gave a child - because such culture sees girls as handicaps - who will not lift a finger to be productive but be dependents

Anunakeeh:
Exactly you got it 100 percent.

I explained this same stuff to someone here few days ago and he grabbed too. Most Nigerian men are the most mentally laziest beings in the world, should i add uncreative as well. Yet you will find a lot of this caliber of men at the corridors of power. Men who can't build a good functioning society for their citizens. Men who waste the nations resources on misplaced priorities.

Why won't their women turn to handicap and their men turn to swindlers.

That's the society they have built for themselves!

Fact --- you have said it all

Anunakeeh:
Men don too mumu themselves too much for aeons!

We - Nigerian men created this olosho culture that our girls have embraced in Nigeria

I changed my oil last week at "Take 5" - here in California where you do not have to come down from your car - guess who did my oil change?

A very pretty girl who should not be more than 21 - she is a University student and she works to take care of her bills herself

Since the average Nigerian girl is now a handicap - then we men must take responsibility for their misbehavior - nansense!!!!

ignis:
Nigeria don't deserve this man as president.

a swear - If OBI was South African, Ghanaian, Algerian or Kenyan - he will be president already in those countries!!!!

Starships4u:
Someone is sponsoring these people I swear

before nko? have you not heard kidnapped victims recount their tales when under captivity that these herdsmen have medical doctors that treat them from illness and bullet wounds? how helicopter delivers cash and other goods and items for their survival in their remote hiding place ? When we say Nigeria is a criminal enterprise - we know exactly what we are saying

Ransoms are paid - yet you cant track the recipients of the ransom? IF the government were to be serious about fighting kidnapping - why cantt he CBN print special currency notes that are meant to track ransom payments - so that whenever someone spends that money - like deposit it in the bank - it will flad the person for immediate arrest ? Ransoms are paid to bank accounts and yet the account holders are spirits, right?

No wahala - e go reach everybody turn - na time e go take

Cromagnon:
Yet mtn invested
Dstv invested
Dangote is investing
Bua is investing
Is it private money that Betta stole
You know what
Continue burying your head in the sand
Less competition for us
Continue making excuses
Real men will continue making money

where were you when Dangote said he lost billions of naira due to the bulabanomics of your lord and savior sniffer ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GscLf_BWNI0

jazzman7711:
You know them well.

That's exactly how their women are.

yes oo I would have married that girl then if not the discouragement i got from my Uncle who took me to America telling me nonsense like - Uganda is not Nigeria bla bla bla if you travel to Africa and go to Nigeria - you will still have to go to Uganda to see her people - thats too much, bla bla bla - its like you are everywhere and nowhere with her people, bla bla bla - na kpali she dey look for from you bla bla bla - what if she has someone from her home country she truly loves and ahe is about to use you to bring him bla bla bla -

this man fooled me then because i believed in him so much because he brought me to America - but looking back today, I will humbly confess here that I understood this Ugandan girl from Gulu, Uganda more than any female in the world - and she felt so strong too about me.

She was the perfect person for me than even the woman I later married- am not saying my wife is not ok in her own right, she is very cool but IF I have to do it all over again, the Ugandan girl will be my wife today

So naija guys- my little advise for you - instead of running to the western world to get a degree, please visit Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia - go to school there and you will discover what will cure yourself from the Olosho and disrespectful behavior of naija girls- I can assure you that, and thank me later 😎

vengertime:
Nigerian girls ntoor

Ugandan girls we love you ladies too

and they are very humble with big booty extra ordinary -- dem no sabi bill man or make yanga - i love their accent - calling bus - bass

i dated one her e in California - she was pure gold - very intelligent and humble - and very pretty - always calm, considerate- never angry - i almost thought she was not human because with all that yansh and shape she has - if na naija babe she be - i will pay through my nose to even have a date with her

KingLennon:
The real person crying is the guy because he is bleeding on the inside

sorry dude - you are wicked - u will never marry

Matheusmartin:
..
Oyino loot us nor be small.
In the past,it used to be our artifacts, but now, our best brains..

Do you know Benin Artefacts are also in the West Indies ? A friend of mine once told me he saw Benin stolen arts in far away Trinidad & Tobago museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad … hmm

Finquas:
I sight you my brother..

I hail oooo 😎

maestro299:
Biden's a liar and he knows it. Trump was one U.S. president that fought China and Xi Jinping economically to the point that even the Democrats tried to put a negative spin on it. What was MAGA all about? Repatriating jobs and labor that were going to China and Central America back to the U.S!

Tarrif coming at the time Biden is down rock bottom at the presidential polls? Biden is a typical politician- hoping the people have short memory - and once election is over - he removes the tarrifs amd reopen the border wide - again

Trump will win in November- nothing is stopping him. Even CNN is already sounding the alarm bells - No US President in history even won re-election when he is under 50% approval by July 4 in an election year - Only Obama won re-election at 49% approval

Biden is 38% currently and he knows its almost over for his re-election campaign!

Trump is up in almost all but 1 swing states with massive gap in Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan … Biden is only ahead in Wisconsin- This is Trump’s election to lose


The only way Trump loses this election is IF he comes out openly to insult the American people and decides to drop out of the race


No other thing can stop him from winning - you can take that to the bank!

Americans now decide if to buy food or pay bills
thats crazy and Biden brought us here with high energy cost due to his war on American oil and drilling - with his executive orders on the keystone excel pipeline project, Climate change funding etc —— Just look at the chaos in the world today, under Trump, there was nothing like that - na Corona Virus and the propaganda that fowwed it cause all that wahala

Except they create another pandemic that makes Biden an overnight hero of the world, and creating instant prosperity for Americans with the US borders locked, and all illegals deported- and him becoming 15 years younger - Biden will lose!

Finquas:
Wike is finished.. the spirit of the innocent murdered obi Igbo patriots are back to serve justice in baterian style

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