₦airaland Forum

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Please, stay indoors and outta trouble

zik4ever:
Sorry sir. He is NOT a liar. DSS normally doesnt advertise publicly. Even its jobs are discussed on Nairaland and other fora, the source is usually informal like man know man. They may be exceptions but they rarely do that. Have a blessed weekend sir.

They do it...in 2013.
Secret recruitment is nothing but corruption.
And DSS is not alone in this.

bnovative:
Not just enough to shout " u are a lier", i challenge u to post any publication that advertised dss recruitment.

I called you a liar because you make it sound as if recruitment into the SSS should be a top secret. Friend secret recruitment into the DSS is not a norm, it's corruption.
That this has been going on for years doesn't make it right.
If later this year, Mr Daura recruites only Northerners- since it's supposed to be a secret and outsiders are not supposed to know about it- it's people like you that will complain of northernization and nepotism.

drsolob2:
U must be foolish to thinik that the recruitment into dss would be advertised on media.
Why is it called secret service

So you mind telling us how these people got to know?

Another secret replacement was to take place last month, but for the change in Leadership.
That this has been going on for years doesn't make it right.

bnovative:
Dss does not advertise for positions.

You're a liar

Until we start punishing looting of public fund by death sentence and forfeiture of assets, the fight against corruption won't subside.

In China, it's your family members that will buy the bullet for your execution.

If someone who stole and killed a fowl can be sentenced to death in Nigeria (it's a fact), why not for looters of public fund

ellechrystal:
R they to give u their profits or services?
Smh. Ignorance is bliss.
All just to defend trash

So it's ok to make money in Nigeria and spend the profit elsewhere?
Do you know the implication of that or you're just being ignorant or your hatred for Buhari/APC won't let you reason or both?

Give me the list of investors leaving Nigeria and I'll tell you how their presence makes no difference.

Buhari's emergence as the President has turned everyone to emergency economists.
*spits*

The ones leaving need to go to be honest.
Their presence never profited any Nigerian in the first place.
Before you quote me, please first find out where the profits they make doing business in Nigeria, go to.

freedom96:
Kaura u are right.My fulani friend,from gombe was trying to say rubbish abt hausa nd I tackled him easily.I asked him to speak fulani language,the dude couldn't.I told him in the next 100years fulani language will go to extinction nd hausa will prevail.

SMH

Not impressive. Looking up to the time when the landing cost will remain at N30/litre.

You're an idiiot for mentioning Baba Awo and Ojukwu in the same sentence.
There's no basis for comparison.

apart from the fourth request of N1billion, which he recollected though was granted, but could not be withdrawn by the governor based on the protest by the funds trustees
via the e-mail that, no list of expenditure was attached, to know what the projects would be executed for

From the above, I see that he couldn't withdraw without attaching the list of what the monies would be used for.
The Banker should be able to provide information on reasons given for previous withdrawals and the panel in turn, should invesstigate whether it was used judiciously or otherwise. Accusing him of stealing it based on this is defamation.

Anyone still wonder why Wike has been going from one church, one shrine to another?
The hand writing on the wall says "River State will be taken away from you and given to someone else, who is better".

I think it's time PDP shopped for another spokesperson before this Metuh finish them off. First, it was about Biu and now, Buhari's portrait.

The idiiot wasn't even sure APC didn't hang Jonathan's portrait in their offices. Just assuming. As bad as APC opposition was, they had Jonathan's portrait in their office- I know that of Abuja.

That's what talking before you think can cause you...shame.

Let Lai Mohammed give you tutorial on how to play opposition politics, you won't.
By the way, Metuh is a Morron.

biafranqueen:
No I am not actually NL is a frequent website that government officials visit. Not that they come for advise but to feel the pulse of the people and to learn about public opionions on certain issues.

So I think we have like 92 and I actually agree with you that we should have maybe only 1 in US and UK etc; As for Somalia I would have to agree on that as well. Your observation makes sense on some points. Kuwait and Iraq actually hire Nigerans and we are doing business with them as well as Bangladesh has thousands of Nigerians in school and working. Maybe North Korea is an option.

But this is not going to make a dent in our expenditures, the way elimanating ghost workers did. We need a sound fiscal policy, not quick fixer uppers that look like we are doing something. If he really wants to make a difference cut the Senators and Governors expenses and salaries in half, that will save billions right way and in the long run.

I totally agree with you.
But on cutting the expenses of the legislative and executive arms of Government, I think we need a legislation on that. We still need this same people who are there only for the money and fame, and not for the love of the people. I see no reason why any federal lawmaker should be earning more than N3 million per month, at this stage of our development.
We should be able to save at least N100 billion from cutting down the budget of the National Assembly in a year, but then, will our legislators agree to cutting their own pays?

I think it's time we had Consolidated National Assembly Salary Structure (CONNASS) which will make it impossible to increase their pay without the corresponding increase in the minimum wage.Otherwise, these people wouldn't mind grounding this country.

biafranqueen:
Trust me since we have no ministers Nairaland is where they come for advise so here is your big shot to land a advisory position, since all the slots are basically open

I know you're joking! But if by chance you mean it, nobody comes here for advice on how to run Nigeria o.


I'm aware we have more than one embassies in some countries (eg, USA, S. Arabia, S.A etc). I think it's in our best interest to have only one in these countries. Then the ones in Pakistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Bangladesh should also be closed. That of Somalia should be closed permanently. We should also close all embassies in any African countries without embassy here (if any).

biafranqueen:
Is that right? Name 5 countries where we should close the embassies down help them out it is obvious they desperately need it!

But you're not the President

Good move.

I can help the President with the list.

baralatie:
and the Govt does not even have a cabinet?

The President will form his cabinet this month certainly.

This shows we're doing something right.

If you're too blinded by hate and political difference to see what I'm seeing, then you're irredeemable.

ArodewilliamsT:
hahaha, what language of the land was changed? Igweocha remains Igweocha, Obigbo remains obigbo, Choba remains Chioba, Amadi remains amadi, amaechi remains amaechi,

Eze Ikwerre remains Eze ikwerre.
Did Oba of illorin remain Oba or Emir of illorin?
I heard the Sultan of sokoto has banned yoruba caps in illorin.

The Emir of a thing is just an official name.
The Ilorin people call him Oba Ilorin- and that's what he's being referred on Tv and Radios- and have Oja Oba in front of the palace just like an average Yoruba Town/city.
In the event of a break-up, the Emir will have to migrate to Sokoto with his fans if he doesn't want to be part of Yorubaland, because Ilorin is in the middle of Yoruba Towns with Yoruba Obas who move in opposite directions with the emirate.
But I don't expect someone who got to know about Kwara state and Ilorin by virtue of chanting State and capital in primary school.

And by the way, I've had many Ikwerre friend and all have denied being Ibo even though they have Ibo name and their language very similar.
My friend from Rumuola will disagree with you on Ikwerre people being Ibo.

Curlieweed:
Don't embarrass yourself by making up facts to suit your bruised ego. The Iwo-Ileru humanoid was anything but "advanced". Archeologists were just surprised to find such an "archaic" humanoid dating as recently as the date you mentioned. The conventional wisdom was that such hominids had disappeared at least 80,000 years previously. Technically, the Iwo-Ileru fossils weren't even modern Homo sapiens.

The other fable about Oramiyan smiths teaching people about stuff they already knew is equally embarrassing. I know you want to do a little "chest beating" but making up your own facts is a shameful way to go about it. The actual archeological evidence indicates that Igbo-Ukwu was the earliest evidence of bronze smithing in the whole of west Africa. The ancient mines that provided the ores were also discovered.

I am sure your ancestors probably had some kind of accomplishments. Stick to those and stop the wild claims.

Really? Who in his right senses learn things they already know? It must be that the method they are learning is better and advanced. If you have another reason why you should learn what you already know, pray tell?

baralatie:
the economic slide is politically based that is why it fell and as long as PMB is still not settled or not screaming that he is settled in office.the investors would be very caustious.
Dangote is right now in Kenya,south Africa and has signed the Chinese to build a whooping $4.3billion factory facility outside Nigeria.
I want an investor to sign a whooping $4.3billion investment facility in Nigeria alone and the investor is thinking out loud....why??even your president is yet to name his policies and cabinet.so why should he bring investment down to Nigeria?

You don't just assume the fall in investment is because the President hasn't name his cabinet members.

I just gave you a good reason, which if tested, will prove to be true.

Dangote is expanding his investments to other countries? Has he told you he's not going there to make profit, but because Buhari is yet to chart a course?
Why won't he look somewhere else when he's almost a monopoly here?
And I'm aware most of his investments are in Nigeria and didn't just plan expanding to other countries after Buhari was sworn in.
Adenuga has investments in Ghana. We have S. African businesses- mtn, shoprite, etc- in Nigeria, so what's wrong in Dangote doing business in SA and ending up repatriating the profit?
It's not as if Dangote is closing his factories in Nigeria to open it somewhere else.
Yes, Dangote met the President last month or so and I believe others like him are not waiting for Buhari's ministers to do business.
You don't expect investment to still remain at the same level in Nigeria after a 39% in oil price within few months, do you?

I hope you know that Nigeria has been in financial mess since oil price began to fall and investors are not immune to the system, because Nigerians are the ones patronizing them?

pazienza:
you never dominated non Yoruba neighbors, the Edos plummeted you, the Arewa and Nupe used you as football, Dahomey Amazons used your weak warriors for pepper soup, You couldn't mount any resistance to the Caucasian invaders, you were instead begging them to come and colonize you, you should be ashamed of your weak ancestors.

Ife art works were no match for those of Igbo ukwu and Nri, so what civilization are Yorubas talking about?

Even the Binis, who had yoruba language as their royal court official language until 1934, take the heads of their obas to Ife until recently and normally take permission from the Ooni to crown new kings, beat us?
If that's not colonisation of the Binis by the Yorubas, I wonder what it is.

It might interest you to know that a considerable part of what we know as Igbominaland in Kwara state today originally belonged to the Nupes. They've been pushed to the bank of the River Niger with yoruba language being their second language.
Even the Ilorin you love to talk about which was taken from Rebel Afonja have its territory sorrounded by Igbomina towns to this minute. And the Almighty Arewas were unable to go an inch into their land?

The Iwo-Ileru relic with carbon dating of 12000bc depicts an advanced human culture and civilazation. It's a known fact that the Ifes sent a bronze-smith to Benin during the 4th reign of Oranmiyan dynasty to teach them the art, who in turn, teach the Ibos.

If you don't know by now that the advanced system of government we have in yorubaland thousands of years before the Whites came is a sign of cultural seniority, I'm done with you.

deolumike:
there was absolutely no need to bring ethnicity into this. The guy messed up but his conduct doesn't define another Yoruba man. Has he in your view represented likes of Prof Yemi Osinbajo, BRF or Gani Fawehinmi? Drop the silliness.

My post is in response to someone trying to give the thread an ethnic coloration and I think my response to him is civil enough.

baralatie:
well,you are pointing at two general investors with funds
a,the ones already in the economy
b,the ones looking at the performance,financial reports of group (a) before making a decision to move into the economy

the ones already in the economy following the FDI are
1,portfolio managers
2,foreign construction companies
3,automobile assembly plants
4,oil and gas servicing companies

and the percentage of funds that has come in is still their as at 2014 was $1 billion
but as at march,2015 it is $730million

Now let us look at the local non oil export figures
at 2013 non oil export is $2.97billion the figures
2014 DEC non oil export was $2.714billion

Now these are Nigerian confirmed figures!
1,we are through with a very peaceful elections
2,but the fed govt is yet to FULLY ASSEMBLE ITS CABINET AND PUBLICLY CHART ITS COURSE.

the business environment is a community that shares information's and keeps pointers on the NEXT BIG DEAL.

PMB is either advocating Nigeria as the next BIG DEAL FOR INVESTORS BY Screaming about investment climate or the investors are waiting for him to do so!




Now concerning his diversification of the economy from being an oil based economy.let us break it down
1,Agriculture
2,Mining and Coal deposits
3,Iron and Steel industry
4,Real and Property
5,service companies
6,Heavy Engineering and allied industries
7,Aviation ,Instrumentation and special engineering
8,shipbuilding
9,Manufacturing industries
10,Textile and synthetic industries

10 I have listed and it goes on and on.I could open a thread to deal with diversification issues and the key is to sell the image of Nigeria in the positive and not to sit with an image that Nigeria elected president cannot constitute a vomplte executive cabinet!

Since you don't want to agree with me that this issue is purely an economic issue and not political, can you explain why there was a fall in non-oil export and FDI in 2014 compared to that of 2013?
If you were an investor, how exactly will the presence of ministers boost your confidence in the economy and in the absence of of that, would you cut down your investments when your profit is increasing? What course exactly are they waiting for him to chart and how is the absence of a course now affecting their profit?
I hope you realize that it's not rational for investors to cut their investments in the face of rising profits all in the name of watching the president's moves? I'm certain a Dangote- or any other major investors- won't do that. Nigeria is politically stable with no cause for fear of the unknown to necessitate that. The elections and transition have come and gone peacefully.

Like I said, our economy is still 70% oil and with a huge slide in oil revenue, a resultant slight fall in investment is the consequence of reduction in public expenditure. It won't make any difference even if we've had ministers since May 30.
The government needs time to settle down and plan and I think the delay in appointing ministers is justified.
Exercising patience for this government for this moment will guarantee comfort for years.

Evaromantik:
People are sycophants...............................................as for me,i will keep wailing till Buhari negotiates with me

This your joke is too strong.

blackpanda:
Not surprising. Typical yoruba behaviour

Then smile with you in front and stab u repeatedly at the back.

Anybody fighting against PMB is an enemy of progress and the God that rescued this nation will consume them by fire!

In all your gettings, get sense.

baralatie:
you still don't get it if PMB continues to reflect inactivity the investors with their money cravings move their port folio to your neighbouring states like Ghana or south Africa and Kenya!
so it does not pay Nigeria for PMB to be operating governance in a closed pattern.

if you don't want to borrow or be loan struck.Nigeria must and has no choice but to allow investors to continue to move and that is only possible when they can see your administrative govt make decision that sustains investments, growth and presents its ideas and is FULLY REPRESENTED.
Not where the investors have a "sense" of "one man king"

I get your point. True for potential investors. But I see no way an investor who means business and still making profits, will move out just because we don't have ministers yet- something they are certain we'll have. What they need is a favourable business climate, which in Nigeria, hasn't changed a bit.
A 39% fall in oil price in 4 month for a nation whose economy is heavily dependent on oil revenue, the little fall in investment is still a miracle.
The government is grappling with shortage of fund- something needed to stimulate investment.
Our economy is that which is centered on oil. And with this continuous fall in oil price, this report is not a surprise to me.
I'm more interested in how this government will get us out of it.

baralatie:
and the above my guy is why investors are doing sit down look to Nigeria economy.
"PMB moves,they move"
"PMB does not move,they find a solution to their money cravings"

And the solution to their money cravings is still doing their businesses.

You think investors are interested in body language?
There is a pattern; if the rate of GDP growth falls, investment falls too.

You'll soon realize that the slump in growth is majorly an economic issue, not political.
The full effect of the decrease in the global oil price is finally here and the government must find a way to bridge the gap- not by borrowing anyway.