₦airaland Forum

Firefire:
Time for all well meaning Nigerians to speak up and call this government to order.

Nigerians are suffering and some people are stylishly inflating the budget for their personal gains.

You remember my usual slogan ?
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APC, Party of professional liars and career fraudsters. [/size]

BluStreak:
It's just a little shy of 200% increase. Say like 198%.

noblezone:
If care is not taken, the old man will ground Nigeria before December. And Oshimole will blame Jonathan.

I have accepted that Jonathan was clueless. The problem now is, what is the adjective for someone who doubles domestic spending when income has fallen to one-third.

Bros, any ideas.

noblezone:
Remain the same? How?

Domestic Budget for Aso Villa has Changed from 580 M to 1.7 B. That's about 100% change.

7Anf they are blaming the past administration for looting the treasury dry. Now, there is no money to implement, the budget of "CHANGE".

Greetings Comrade.

damilove:
Haa! You no dey fear? I no dey o!!!

obailala:
Well, from pictures I could google, Lamido and sons were not in cuffs when they were escorted by prison officials. Though I stumbled into pictures of Tafa Balogun and the late Abubakar Audu in handcuffs so this isn't a really new development.

obailala:
Well some have just pointed out that when Nigerian Prison Service brings suspects to court, they use handcuffs (as is the case presently). But when EFCC or DSS brings suspects from their custody to court, they don't put them on cuffs. Could this be a reasonable explanation for this?... I hope to find out before the day ends.

obailala:
Hmmm... This is an interestingly strange development. With the amount of yams he has consumed, I doubt he would be physically fit enough to run away; why did they have to handcuff him?... Even the NIMASA guy who visibly resisted arrest and was bundled into the EFCC danfo bus, he wasn't handcuffed in his last appearance in court. What could be the explanation for this?

olapluto:
Someone who steals money meant for weapons is very violent and dangerous criminal. Anyone who supports corruption is violent and dangerous criminal.

Freiden:
Lwkmdo...orichirichi

DaBullIT:
Those are several men


Not a man


What if he pushes one of them?

abduljabbar4:
3 of his children were killed without any charges by the army under gej and I didn't see any comment like this from you

AdeniyiA:
if those being granted bail have committed heinous crime against the state and the rule of law without recourse ,tell me, what precedence did they set??

AdeniyiA:
I tell you, the way these people destroy evidences and make mockery of our judiciary because of their ill-gotten wealth is disturbing, they need iron hand with strong institution to fight them. Believe me, these people have turned our laws to cobwebs that catch small flies but unable to stop elephants(them).
Remember JAMES IBORI ??
Our judiciary has, to a large extent, turned toothless. the bar and the bench have been infiltrated by money bags...
I am very worried about the future of the youths by the way these criminals loot our commonwealths, do you know how many people have died due to inadequate provision of infrastructures because the money meant for such has been embezzled? I personally wish that death sentence should be passed on looters, but is that in our constitution?...
I am seriously enraged with our looting leaders cheaters
, they don't simply care about us

AdeniyiA:
if those being granted bail have committed heinous crime against the state and the rule of law without recourse ,tell me, what precedence did they set??

mrmetoo1:
Please what have you said here?? Please go see what I was responding to. I was responding to the OP that said I can build such website for N2m and I asked what "such" website meant. The argument was as if it wasn't possible for a website to cost that much. All I did was to point to a website that cost 600x the controversial amount. So even when you insinuate that I'm comparing, I don't see how 600x is comparing. Then if you also take time to read what I wrote, I expressed skepticism over that amount not because a website can't cost that but because I didn't think that amount would actually be spent on it. Calm down and read sometimes, no where did I try to justify the ministry. Only argument here is that a website could cost that much... that's all!!

Obama Care too was a ministry's website, not even the entire ministry just a part of it

mrmetoo1:
Obama Care too was a ministry's website, not even the entire ministry just a part of it. I'm not defending this website, if you read the post I was responding to you'll realize I was responding to someone saying it's not possible to build a website for that amount. I'm not sure where you reside has to do with anything. I'll keep saying it, unless you know exactly what the "website" is about, you can't say how much it'll cost. Websites are not only about "home" "contact us" "gallery" and "about us".

For my small start up, there was a time we were paying about $1500/mo on servers and storage. That's $18,000 per year, please calculate that. We've found a way better deal now but we were paying that at some point. We had tools we also paid for, for backend operations. One of the biggest ways we saved money is because the CEO is almost like a genius programmer, if we had to add that expense God knows how much that'll have gone up to.

I'll end this by saying I don't agree with the amount in the budget only because I don't believe that amount is going to be spent on a website knowing this is Nigeria

Harbb:
We are talking about the same Ministry here. Ministry of Solid Minerals.

Harbb:
My brother don't mind these folks. Do you know that a whooping N926,893,275 have been earmarked for the acquisition of computers? This is besides the sum (N2,258,000) earmarked for software acquisition. Using my knowledge of arithmetic, if each computer will cost One million Naira, 926 computers will be acquired. Where are they going to keep these computers? This change get as e be o.

Laid2001:
It all depends on the type of platform and software to be used.

For example, it will cost millions of dollars for any conglomerate to develop SAP Enterprise system. Yet, most IOCs and conglomerate had to do it because it helps to save money eventually. As it helps in integrating all arms of a company together.

We are not talking of your day to day blog site here. I am even amazed by many ignoramuses online here shouting they are in ICT sector and saying they can do it for so and so amount. How can you say so when you don't even know the content and scope of what is required.

Another scenario is if the ministry wants to really go computerized and had to buy stand alone software for each staff or have to pay for software licenses par users. Some software licenses can cost up to $1k per user. With up to 2 thousand user in the ministry that is already $2 million (N400 million) and that is only one software.

Where I work, Software licenses alone cost millions of dollars annually. Yet we make our money back from our product!

bettercreature:
It will surely sort it,most BDC will now source their dollar from Travelex