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What about Sorghum?

I have an interest in it, but would rather be a silent investor, than be involved in day-to-day running. Show me a viable Business plan, outlining your buyer, operations, expected and projected 5-year growth (solid numbers), fallback plan, let me weigh the pros and cons, get 2 lawyers to represent us and a bank through which we conduct the transaction legally and I get surety on my investment (should you decide to abscond or swindle me of my investment), well you can add me to your pool of investors. I've seen some proposals, but I always get the feeling it's a one-man show and I will hear all sorts of stories, so I back away.

Some of us would rather invest in the business as shareholders than run the day-to-day company. But you need to do your math and be open and honest, and for goodness sake, don't appeal to me on the basis of religion or tribe. I will never invest with those sentimental parameters.

Why not wait for the OP to come and clarify whether or not he has feelings for his Office assistant he had an affair with?

Because if he does, then that changes everything, he should man up, admit it to his wife and let her decide what she wants to do. If he doesn't love his office assistant, well, a part of me wants you to confess to your wife (dude, I've seen this situation, even if your woman stays, just keep your head down forever and remain humble and over-faithful. And make lots of money and leave most of it to your wife and kids).

Another part of me is really worried, sometimes it's better you don't know everything. Sometimes confessing something may make you feel good, but make the receiver of the bad news suffer all sorts of anguish and pain.

And worse, she may discover it somehow (because I know one mistress, who calmly went with her child and her father and brothers to confront the cheating husband and his innocent wife one night at home, that was how the wife found out. They demanded money from him to set up their daughter in her own home and were trying to force a Polygamous situation, they didn't want to agree to let the husband settle the child).

Please hand the image to graphic designers, they can enhance the images clearly to get her picture. Since she used OLX to hire the maid, OLX can release records of IP address for internet connection used, this should be through the company that hosts their website for them and monitors incoming traffic. Let the parents pull up the original ad (date and timestamp can be located, so OLX can narrow their search) (a cybercafe can be monitored for some days, her picture circulated amongst patrons). 5 days means this was a pre-planned job (a group sets maids up with families that are well-to-do and hits at first opportunity). There's definitely a group behind this kidnapping.

@Blink182, please see above. Can you/people on ground contact OLX?

blink182:
The maid is a new domestic staff and her interview was conducted at my sister's work place. we are trying to get her picture taken by security cameras.

Please contact the police. Her line (if still active) can be traced by the telecomms company managing it to the nearest tower signal is broadcasting from. You will need a court/police injunction for them to trace it. Also, someone on ground should question people around: was the new maid seen speaking to anyone who wasn't in the neighbourhood? And the people who brought should be questioned immediately (for her to disappear, she must have contacts in Lagos, so don't accept "I don't know" as an answer). Above all, stay calm, charge your phones and get ready. Anyone who calls you must identify some article of clothing the children are wearing to confirm they have the child in their custody. There is a lot the SSS can trace in this country (trust me, it's harder to collect a ransom and escape in Nigeria unless the kidnappers are very, very connected, if EFCC, SSS and police want to locate you and are serious, it can take less than 72 hours). So get ready to call on everyone you have till this case can get to the SSS and treated as urgent.

Sophyrocks:
Why can't they just leave nigerian single ladies alone to live their life? Is marriage a ticket to the kingdom of God? Are you people going to pay her 1million naira for getting married? If she is not independent making her own money, these same people will call her gold digger.

Wait, you didn't get the memo??

Marriage is the ONLY WAY that a woman can get to Heaven, apparently.

You can either be a rich, overbearing, old stale goods who has spoilt her womb with countless abortions, who sleeps around for money and is hopeless and irresponsible, cannot be lived with or "managed" by any decent man, is bitter and wicked, husband-snatching vitriolic nasty, doesn't-know-to-cook floozy.....

or

You are a Married Woman ^(tm)

Whew, good thing I told you on time!

prettyboi1:
We,as a people can be so foolish. I really don't understand why foolish people won't mind their businesses and stay out of other people's businesses. Is it by force for everyone to get married? You guys'd be acting like marriage is the ultimate goal in life.

I strongly support Kemi Adetiba on all her posts. She has worked as a strong woman and has achieved a lot that many of you "easily-satisfied" people including several of you men will NEVER EVER achieve in life. Instead of you people to be thinking of how to better humanity in whatever way,you guys' ultimate goal is 'marriage'.
I'm not against marriage,but I hate it when people think so crudely like marriage is the reason why everyone was/is born.

YOU GUYS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND NI!!!

See eh, Marriage is a blessing. A special, unique blessing which that ring on your finger confers. Mind you, that blessing is only applicable to Africans (with the most backward continent), not to Caucasians (who have advanced their society in ways the average African is still scratching his head about).

Yes, ladies, that ring, THAT POWERFUL RING!! Once you wear it, the very next day, pink fairies will wake you up with sweet kisses against your eyelids whilst a Unicorn prances around your bedroom. Your husband will suddenly be transformed into Prince Charming (nevermind that he looks and acts like an Ogre. Don't spoil this fantasy). As you go about your day, you will get an alert from the bank crediting you with N1 million (it changes to N2 million once you're pregnant and N2.5 million if you have a boy child). You will suddenly find yourself promoted at work, for absolutely no reason other than you have become a "Mrs.". People will be respectful of you and you will be conferred automatic wisdom in all you do. That unicorn will follow you around all day, nuzzling your hand and making you know you are superior to your single friends. You will know all, see all, be all.

And you thought it was just a wedding ring

To quote the funniest comment on this matter from Twitter:

"Femi Fani-Kayode and Obanikoro have front seats in a church? The God of Ananias and Sapphira has calmed down sha"

pjthatcher:
you should not take more than one egg per day though

I'm on one boiled egg maybe 3 times a week. I'm trying to avoid red meat though, started doing since before.

PapiWata:
To the medical professionals who object to the less than flattering depiction of the Nigerian health care system submitted here by NaijaSingle Girl, let me just mention, to those who may choose to forget, that medical malpractice is RARELY prosecuted in Nigerian courts of law, and as such, Nigeria is a HEAVEN for incompetent, reckless, greedy and downright bogus doctors operating with forged qualifications framed on the walls of their trial-and-error medical practices.

Governor Fashola's creation of a szex offenders register in Lagos state should be replicated across the ENTIRE nation of Nigeria, so that doctors who regularly use medical checkups as pretexts to disrobe and probe women, and indeed children, can be BARRED FOR LIFE from practicing medicine, and even JAILED, in all instances where such serial offenders are found to be operating without genuine medical credentials, or to have victimized children below the legal age of consent.

I personally know of a "doctor" STILL operating in Nigeria, who has a special "examination room" where nurses are BARRED from being present, in clear and open violation of the laws applicable to the physical inspection of females by male doctors. Behind the locked doors of that illegal "examination room" the predatory "doctor" undresses ALL female patients, regardless of age or marital status, and then proceeds to poke around with his hands in their wombs, as he fumbles to whip out his hungry little lizard.

The next step of his routine involves interrupting his exploratory grope session to offer "discounted" medical bills to all women and children intimidated or cash-poor enough to accommodate his lustful intentions, with a list of victims that includes those that are heavily pregnant, as well as children as young as 12 years old, meaning that criminal jail-worthy offences occur routinely in that quack doctor's "hospital", which is also known for recording unusually high numbers of patient deaths over the years the place has been in operation.

Speaking from personal experience I recall a gorgeous British girlfriend that once accompanied me to Nigeria, during which time she suffered a mild case of malaria, and insisted on seeing a doctor just to be on the safe side. I took her to a doctor who was a respected acquaintance, and it was only later that my girlfriend expressed bafflement as to why she had to completely disrobe for the doctor who then took his sweet time probing around up inside her, before concluding that she did indeed have malaria, and would therefore recover with the medication I had already given her. I learned there was a hidden side to the good doctor on that day, and lost most of my respect accordingly.

Anyway, to cut a long rant short, medical malpractice and misrepresentation are RAMPANT in Nigeria, and are RARELY prosecuted, so the OP is NOT to be castigated for describing her own experience with medical care in Nigeria, which could have turned out far worse than it did in the end.

Very true. There's a doctor in a hospital in Festac who would have done the same to me. I had pains in my pelvis, and he did a physical exam with my clothes on and prescribed all sorts of anti-biotics and ran tests and quack labs. I promptly went home and showed it to my doctor siblings (consultants) who immediately knew he had no idea what to treat me for and sent me off to a consultant OBGYN (female who did the right test).

When I ran into the male doctor and told him, I asked him why he didn't perform the test. He leeringly said "because I would have to put my fingers inside you" and wriggled his two fingers at me, stimulating some sort of se.xual act. Married Father of 2. I was safe because my half my siblings are his seniors in the medical field and the other half have hot, uncontrollable tempers, which he is very aware of. Same hospital told me I had Cerebral malaria, same hospital prescribed Cimetidene at a dosage meant for children when I was in my mid-20s.

What about nurses who constantly act like it was God's punishment on their lives to study Nursing? Once they were doing so to my sister-in-law (admitted for fibriod surgery), she immediately informed them her hubby was a doctor who knew all of them. Their behaviour and demeanor changed and they became awfully polite. Even my bro got admitted for malaria, the nurse was squeezing her face to insert an IV needle and started complaining "ooh see I can't find a vein" as if it was his fault and hissing under her breathe. He told her to get out of his room and threatened to slap any other nurse who came in. He set his own IV himself. Their Head Matron had to come in and profusely apologise, after telling the other nurses that he was actually a consultant. A lot of doctors and Matrons really dislike the modern type of nurses being graduated out of School of Nursing.

And you would not believe the amount of malpractise cases settled out of court for so many of your popular private hospitals, especially those on the island. If they publicised it, women would stop getting pregnant out of fear. Imagine doing CS without switching on oxygen, the patient died on the table. Or all the numerous tests they call for, to inflate your bill, when they already have the diagnosis. Imagine diagnosing Constipation as Appendicitis and taking out a perfectly healthy appendix, just so you can charge an enormous bill. Or telling women in labour that you're not sure how things are progressing, it's best to do CS (bill goes up by N300,000) meanwhile, doctors reviewed her chart after and kept demanding to know why that CS was called, when Mother and Child had no complications and she was dilating properly.

Or how lovely LUTH and GH are, that CAT scan machine catches fire when patient is inside or they take light. Or you are made to buy N5,000 worth of drugs and toiletries before you get proper treatment. Or being refused treatment because you're HIV+

It's a nightmare.

I'm not blaming doctors, but half of the problems with the healthcare society of Nigeria lies with Government, we the people and Doctors.

People don't trust their doctors there. I have doctors I trust now, I had pains, they suspected appendicitis, he immediately went to speak to a Consultant surgeon and a consultant OBGYN who had seen me the day before and recommended antibiotics. I too read online and saw that I could have performed the necessary surgery but not in Nigeria. All my medical siblings insist I go to the hospital fully armed with knowledge about what I'm being treated for and why, rather than swallowing pills. They have worked and taught in LUTH, LASPOTECH, UBTH, GH an several other hospitals, and they have so many concerns about modern medical practitioners. I remember my brother cracking up because PCR tests, no-one taught medical students in UNIBEN yet we had Lassa and Ebola.

Dnaz:
U had malaria and d doctor got d diagnosis right so what is ur problem. U walk into a doctor's office and expect him to automatically know what is wrong with u without asking questions, please do u think u came to see a native doctor ? We live in d tropics so 90% of fevers is due to malaria, but you want him to run tests that u cannot even afford. Later u curse him for billing you too much. It's people like you that get deceived by the quacks who use computers to ascribed funny diseases to people. Diagnosis involves history, physical examination and then investigation in that order but u want him to jump to the third. I am tired of Nigerian patients. U call ur Nigerian trained doctors quacks only to run abroad and be treated by the same Nigerian trained doctors. Pathetic nation

Bros, calm down, she's right. Doctors in Nigeria are quick to leap to Malaria and Typhoid. One diagnosed me as having Cerebral malaria, which was hilarious, as that form of malaria is common in children and young adults. I was old enough to be the mum of a young adult at that time. Cerebral malaria is a common misdiagnosis. http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/5/355

My sister got diagnosed with malaria and typhoid and got treatments for months. Depression apparently was NOT on the diagnostic list, which was what she had, an emotional breakdown combined with a physical breakdown.

I've registered on www.babycenter.com and it would be nice to have natural alternatives to multivitamins. I've already upped my egg intake and I'm taking more citrus fruits. Today is week 10.

shawlay:
Any June mama in the house hope that's not too far, a beg help me o my stomach is still mega flat that my husband look at me sometimes and say 'baby, are you sure there's someone there' thank God say we go do scan together even my colleagues at work dont know i am pregnant and i am 3 months gone . Abeg my craving is for moin moin and I v been eating it everyday, hope no side effect biko and I always feel bloated.By the way this thread was quiet for some time, come and be dropping birth stories for us o

Hello. June Mommy here (I know screams are going to follow this announcement )

Don't worry, I don't look pregnant. My tummy looks big recently because it seems I have an inflamed Appendix (got treatment for it) and I was constipated. I kinda thought I was a month pregnant (I can't count), then I went for malaria treatment and my OBGYN did a physical exam and insisted on a scan.

My little Over-Achieving Rockstar had strong visible heartbeats

No-one knows at work. I was super-lucky, I had mild breakouts (no more than 2 pimples at any given time) and no morning sickness. The constant urination is a drag. I keep getting random pains and feelings in my stomach, but I've read that that's your stomach adjusting to a growing child.

So far, no cravings. I started eating Gizzard like mad (and in a crazy development, my SO who wasn't close to me during that week developed a craze for Gizzard!). What I can't eat anymore is artificial sweet stuff (like cake, ice-cream etc). The urge for them just died (which is hilarious as I'm a sweet tooth).

Hoping to find a birthing class to join, where a few mommies get together with a midwife/birthing coach who can talk us through eating, exercise and preparing for our little ones, all in a safe, non-judgy environment. I don't know of any in Lagos sha.

SAMBARRY:
No na turkey remain o

I hate you so much right now. I can practically imagine the taste of that turkey in my mouth (which is tasting like a combo of Chloroquine, Ampliclox, Flagyl and 3 other drugs right now )

Kai.

SAMBARRY:
Perfect. Oya have this for q point well nailed

Sambarry, if you are pursuing Sophyrocks with these food pictures, I assure you other women are also interested in your love. As in, this must the most delicious one I've seen so far.

49cents:
The heart never lies........

This is the most soulful and sinvere yet to come out of the Nigerian music industry for a long time

This song makes wizkid and davido kinda songs sound gutter

Too true. Rather than the nonsense Kemi Adetiba did with Tiwa Savage (I struggled to finish watching it and the mistakes in it were so glaring, imagine a US marine uniform on a Nigerian soldier fron the 1960s, I can't even laugh and the song itself sounded like everything else Tiwa Savage release, no memory of it stuck in my head, wouldn't even recognise it played) and all the other crap I keep seeing people hype and scream about. I was talking to people who worked on the video and they showed it to me.

Flavour, you have a new fan!

I'm not even igbo, but the soulfulness of it, the video, that girl Anna Ebiere is a better actress than almost all the ones I've seen, the shots, this stripped-down piano version, EVERYTHING!

WEDDING SONG!! FIRST DANCE!!

Kai, everyone in my house usually hates Nigerian music videos but this one has all shouting, even my white friends got the concept and one is frantically looking for this stripped-down version of this single, another is wondering how it will sound on acoustic guitar, my cousin had to wake me up from sleep that he had played it 7 times already. Even my mom was smiling sweetly at it.

And as for Clarence Peters, Capital, well you're biggest fan is here as usual. 2015, we must do MOVIES OH!! It's time to shake up the industry and you're the man for it.

What a woman chooses to do with her life is her business and God's business. That is it.

A lot of people think abortions are easy, they're not, they are very emotionally damaging, especially to the woman. Don't let that brave face foo.l you. So please keep your opinions to yourself at that time, mind your own business. And as for sin or no sin, I think if I ever meet a young woman who is being harassed for having an abortion, I will locate her attackers, dig into their personal lives and air their dirty laundry.

People should stop complacently judging. We are so quick to identify others' sins and forget ours. Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged.

OP, Sophyrocks and Carefreewannabe have given you perfect advice. Please follow it and be strong inwardly, marriage and committed relationships are a constant work in progress.

Oya, 2 questions to everyone!

1. Why it there NO HUG EMOTICON on this forum, so I could have sent it to OP.

2. Abeg, is that fish still remaining?

CAMNEWTON4PRES:
The first man reached the moon people were dying and starving in Russia?

Do you know that when you want to call someone in Africa from Nigeria and other African countries,your call goes first to Europe or the USA before reaching the so called person? Africans or Nigeria owning ,building etc her own satellites will reduce the cost of telecommunications.
Furthermore tho I sympathize with our brothers dying in the north, we shouldn't stop our activities ...or maybe salaries too shouldn't b payed because people are dying in the north?

People were starving in several countries while technology was being advanced. But do we know what that satellite is for, is it for telecomms? And even if we reduce our telecomms cost (not a bad idea), how much impact does that make on an average business who is spending millions to power its gen set? Which is of more vital need, a stronger telecomms system or a working power grid?

No-one truly thinks this is a bad idea, but you cannot compare where Russia was to where we are now. Let's focus on the urgent no.1 on our to-do list rather than no.6

saymalcolm:
So we will be building satellites in Nigeria with imported materials because we don't produce metal and any of the things associated with it.

And oh, we still don't have light.

Hehehehe...

Apparently someone told this govt that we need jobs, we're going broke and we have to advance technologically forwars. So rather than sit down and plan longterm to create a strong diversified manufacturing base and stable numerous jobs, sit down to plan and aggressively implement a National Power overhaul, they're IMPORTING more stuff to give some hands to keep busy.

And patting themselves on the back.

Yep.

kennygee:
Jail?

When you can just settle the officers who caught you be the road?

Certainly not in Nigeria.

The only way we can have sane drivers on the road is if we adopt the American style of obtaining driver's license.

I'm not sure of how it works, but we can give it a try.

Americans have the technology to manage drunk driving on the road but we don't and I'm afraid corruption won't let us reach that point.

We have been copying the wrong things from the West, i think this is a right thing to adopt.

Anyone who goes to jail for an offense like that in a Nigeria of today is an OZUO.

Meh, can't work here. First, you have to attend Driving classes (theoretical for 2 weeks), then do the written test (usually computer-based) and if you pass that, you can do your road-test. After all that, they only give you a Provisional Driving license (PDL), for a year, before you get your Driver's license (if you've managed not to get any traffic violations or tickets under your PDL).

In Nigeria, everyone would want to jump the queue in impatience and not wait for a year. They will scream "I haff bin driving since u were born ni", even though they don't know basic driving laws such as Right-Of-Way at an Intersection or traffigating when changing lanes or speed limits, infact they will will blare their horns around schools and hospitals.

Already one poster above me has said nothing bad happens with drunk driving. Last Christmas, someone died at the intersection of Osbourne way at night, a drunk driver ran into his car, head-on collision. Every holiday, the number of drunk drivers on the island, particularly those morons who keep speeding on Ozumba Mbadiwe and having accidents at the corner of 1004 estate (if you stay on C or B blocks high-rise, you'll know what I'm talking about). Nigerians don't deserve good things.

pongwa:
it was a geologic field trip carried out to update the existing geologic map of the southwest region early produced in the 60's. one other animal that fascinated me was what is known as 'owawa' a kind of cat or dog that lives on trees. the sound it made in the night terrifies me. the only good memory I had of the area is their bush meat and palm wine

You have to go again, we need video and pictures, "the Flora and Fauna of Omo-Shasha-Oluwa forest". Print it as a coffee-table book and watch how well it does

olusogo:
Do not mind him my brother. He forgot to realise that Dr. Akingbola is a very strong member of Redeem Church, the same Church the C-In-C attends. Sanusi in his usual manner made noise, he even alleged that he was being shielded by daddy G.O. The Noly ghost "disgraced" him and he was sacked. Our judiciary discharged and acquitted Akingbola after the misappropriation of investors hard-earned money and nobody was responsible since business is risky it can either result into gain or loss.
Let this court understand that we are not happy with it. It is a decided case and Dr. Erastus Akingbola is one of us, he must be vindicated. He pays his tithe regularly, through him we fund many Micro-Finance Banks and the proliferation of our branches on every street of Nigeria, not to talk of several investments in real estate, schools, hospitals, to mention but few. We gave jobs to our graduates in our banks and other places, any "AOC" right at interview stage or those who luckily scale through are thrown out of the system. Our pastors at different parish are enjoying, our graduate members are easily get job through their churches. Thanks to Akingbola and his likes at the Corporate Heads. They are are loyal disciples and we can not afford to let anybody rubbish them.
Every evil fashioned against the ministry shall not prosper. We are in control. Very soon our dear president, one of us, will intervene. Akingola will be given presidential pardon, the government will do property exchange, prisoner exchange, no stone will be left unturned. We never fail. Many cases have been suspended and pardoned. We mention few in the cases of Alaiemesegha, Bode George, Ayo Fayose, Otedola, Faruq Lawan.
It is a matter of time your property shall be returned.

Ogbeni, untype this post right now. Because you are practically escorting several christians, who were worried about the scandals rocking the modern church, to the door of Atheism. As in, I assure you any RCCG member who has been concerned about a lot of things, is gonna up and leave, if this is the brand of morality you are preaching. Talk about Pharisees and Sadducee.

RCCG is beginning to get a reputation for turning a blind eye to ill-gotten wealth. A few weeks back, at some lady's wake, the RCCG pastor preached and asked her kids to not forget the generousity their mother had to the church. Which angered over half the people (whom I know were guilted and pleaded with by her family to show up). Reason being, she went into business with several people and swindled them, my family members included. The sitaution was hushed up as per Naija family-society affair. The church never once bothered to ask where those generous gifts suddenly came from, they were willingly blind.

To a lot of people disparaging Ladi Kwali, she showed resourcefulness, intelligence and creativity. She trained people and gave them a way to earn a living, both in Nigeria and other countries she taught in. She instructed foreigners in her local language (whilst nowadays, all of you go and do a 4 year course in UK and come back speaking like your passport is red and you went to school with Prince William). She kept a piece of Nigerian culture alive.

Nelson Mandela went to jail for decades fighting for what he believed in. Very inspirational. But I never felt his impact, as I'm no South African.

Ladi Kwali has impacted me more, as a Nigerian and someone who wants to earn a living, as a woman, in a society where I am forced to earn less to support myself.

The sad thing about this is that if you go to the National Museum in Lagos, I doubt you'll see her work there. Hers and a lot of historical works are in the hands of mostly foreigners and some Nigerians (like my humble self), most of whom are not planning on showing them publicly. And I'm pretty sure kids these days aren't taught about her and the other Nigerian female artists who were honoured by several international dignitaries. Yet we have a Minister of Culture and a Minister of Education. Fascinating.

ThaProphet:
I believe it borders 3 states. The name, Omo-Oluwa-Shasha actually comprises of 3 forest reserves with the three names.

The Omo forest reserve is in Ogun state/Onto

The Oluwa forest reserve is in Ondostate

and I believe the Shasha forest reserve is in Osun state.

I am sorry, I can't really help with the local government areas. My knowledge is limited to states only unfortunately. My little knowledge of the area also contributed to my inability to get information about visits to the reserves.Apparently, one of them used to be well developed with residential facilities in the form of shacks and cabins.

I am sure that the Nigerian Conservation Foundation can provide that information if you contact them.

There is an initiative to preserve forest elephants. It is called the "Omo-Shasha-Oluwa Forest Elephant Initiative"

Thats pretty much all I know about these forest reserves. Are you looking to visit the reserve? If you do find out more information about visiting the place, kindly alert me please.

Thanks for this info. I've never heard of it. Sadly, Ivory is still sold illegally in Nigeria. We may have to look for a Conservation group to follow up and help with funding for them.

If you do get any info on planned tours and visits, please let me know. Very interested.

sorry I just saw this right now.

OLADD:
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Let's assume the figure of 300 direct beneficiaries of the assemble plant is correct ( but I doubt its tenability), what about hundreds of dependants they stand to feed? On a larger picture, do you consider the enormity of the stove's impact on the lives of women who trek miles to fetch firewood? Is their life expectancy subject to improvement or otherwise? If you take care of women, you are indirectly catering for the welfare of the nation and no amount spent to that effect is a waste.

Osanobua. I cannot believe I'm explaining this.

If you feed 300 people through an unsustainable assembly plant (you admit that the project is unsustainable), you may help 20,000 rural women. If you start a manufacturing industry of creating Bricket which constantly needs to be manufactured, therefore the only way that industry is going is UP, to SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, you not only feed 1000 families minimum in 2 years, you educate their staff, who go on to start their own Bricket making facility to produce enough to keep up with the demand for it (since once they increase oil at the pump price, gas will go up and more families will need a cheaper source of fuel, which would have added benefits of being cleaner). So, let's recap:

Locally-sourced fuel
-cleaner source of fuel
-sustainable manufacturing growth
-economic growth for lower middle class
-technological advancements
-exports (which we badly need)
-renewable energy (less cuttinf down of trees and more usage of waste which does nothing on our landfills)

Compared to

Imported stove
-importation of products which is unsustainable in an economy that needs to stop spending foreign currency abroad
-jobs for about 300 people (which we cannot guarantee will remain even upto 2017)

Yup.

Oh I forgot, Govt would also have to buy radio and tv airtime as well as street advertisers, to sensitive rural people and the urban poor about the use of Brickets.

Just think of all those jobs we've lost and the technology we're ignoring with importing them from SA and assembling them here in Nigeria. Yup, smell that fresh air!!

OLADD:
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You are pathetic. You must have written written this rubbish while dosing. What is wrong with assembling cooking stove in Nigeria especially when it offers job opportunities for our citizens? The. scheme is meant to make life better for rural women who cannot afford cooking gas and should be commended. Must you criticize anything? Associate of too-knows.

The number of people to be hired to assemble this cannot be more than 300. Because they're no fabricating, they're joining already-made parts.

6 years ago, I saw at Trade Fair in Lagos and read several proposal submitted to Govt about BRICKETS, a clean fuel material made from sawdust and waste materials readily and freely available in Nigeria. These brickets burned cleaner than coal. These proposals and demos were all done by Nigerian lecturers (Uniben and some Polytechnics if I recall). If the govt had given them grants, we would need to hire scavengers at all our refuse dumps in 36 states (so let's say 100 per state). Then hire people to set up companies to collect sawdust from every logging facility in the SW (let's saw 10 people get the contract, they will use the model of PSP and hire 10 people minimum per PSP,) that's a 100 people. Then people to work in the Bricket manufacturing facility, another 100-150, minus the skilled technicians and mangers supervising them (50). So that's 400 people and they would still be unable to make enough for the country, so we would have Bricket-producing facilities in each state. Oh, I forgot, we need distributors and marketeers for selling the end-product.

Import= 300 people hired (a generous estimate)

Locally-sourced and made = minimum 600-1000 people in a manufacturing industry and we have not even thought of EXPORTING our clean-burning Bricket to nations like Gambia, Sierra Leone and countries where International Bodies are willing to pay and subsidise stuff for them (because their economy is so poor). Lord knows how much money Nigeria would have made.

I'm glad you've taken the time to read how your govt keeps making you poorer with your ignorance as an aid. Don't thank me, you're welcome

Crispels:
You hardly see them in private schools,This is a super rich school, My cousins went there and graduated last year,They all school in the States now,98percent of them school abroad!!! Money is good oo,And they mostly make it in life,That my cousin studying in USA now is already doing some mini jobs fetching him good money unlike we in govt schools!

We drive to the rough road to make it in life!

These kids fly first class private jets on their way to wealth!!!

The US is a great equalizer. The richest Nigerians there don't start with rich backgrounds. These kids have stepping stones less wealthy kids have. My friend at Accenture (posh background) worked with a guy from FGC Warri. I know KC boys doing well and I know Badure college kids buying their 3rd home in a really nice zipcode. Unlike UK (where having the right background will help you, depending on the colour of your skin). It depends on the child and the parent, there is such a thing as poverty mentality.

In Nigeria, however, I know the parent of one those kids in a super posh kindergarten, she was boasting about how her boy went to birthday parties in Banana Island. Sometimes that's the mentality of such parents, being able to say "my kids go to Lekki British" and watch others' eyes open in envy of the money they must be throwing around.

Sometimes, early wealth is a bad disability to a child. I've NEVER seen a very wealthy child grow up to exceed their father or mother. My dad constantly said so, that inherited wealth kills the drive in you, he would rather leave you something to survive on and get you the best (not the most expensive) education. There must be a correlation between why the world's richest men and women weren't necessarily the ones who attended Eton or Rugby.

I know Lekki British well. To this school, Corona, Grange, Whitesands and more, my only question is this?

How many of your alumni are on the top 20 list of best performing students at SAT, GSCE and other international exams to enter universities?

My nephews went to a kindergarten that, well, their schoolfees could pay an Engineering contract staff. Not that much follow-up at home. When the older one went to Primary school, he had to be taken back a class. He could barely read but had a pretty accent. A lot of these schools are giving cosmetic values. Show me the laboratories, show me the library, show me scores that are incredible when compared to the average Prep school in England, US or India. Show me the innovation entering those minds, show me the list of scholarships won by students, awards amongst their peers etc. Even the best music students rarely come from expensive Lagos schools (trust me on this, or better yet, attend one of MUSON's concerts).

For that N4mil, I'd send my daughter to QA's School and my boys to Harrow.

My kids will go to the kind of school where the teacher has to know more than me, I expect to see all sorts of Science, Arts projects. AP Calculus style, not speaking phonetics and carrying ipads to play and show off with your mates, while your parents feel smug for showing off to society that they can afford to pay for overpriced schooling.

paulshakur:
I have often said it that all these incessant strikes is not the solution. A round table dialogue is imminent if a lasting solution is needed to help curb these strikes.
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Fashola hasn't paid state doctors since August, they're still working but most of them are doing PP and leaving the General Hospitals for when they're free. Later, when you hear they're on strike, you people will be screaming insults at them. What more round table do you want to discuss, simple "pay my monthly salary", that now needs discussions.