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These associations in Nigeria are a pressure group, and in many instances a means to enrich a few. See the Nigerian Legion, at a point they started acting as an arm of government , collecting revenues from truckers, issuing permits, truckers were paying this association to allow their trucks to be branded with the Nigerian Legion logo. Sometimes these association forget the fact that they are just a “mere” association.

Same with pure water association. You must pay them before you can have a pure water factory. These association in this part of the world are aimed at self-enrichment. They don’t protect anyone… may be in a few cases.

Where is NLC today? After all manner threats accepted under 100$ as salary for workers per month, and right in their face many governors rejected this deal and fired workers.

People who are actually running businesses in this country feel the futility of these unions. The essence is always about getting dues and nothing else.

How many unions is Dangote going to deal with? Truck drivers union, MAN, PENGASAN, and many more will arise, all suffocate this man. The only one who has risked it all to build a refinery in Nigeria, while the rest kleptocrats are buying houses in Dubai and London.. even. Florida.

We should all do our best to protect and stand for Dangote. No one amongst the ruling class shown this nation much love in deed. The rest are busy dinning in Monaco, flying private jet to Paris, riding Royce on pot-holed streets. The few who dare. only venture into banking and hotels.

Sometimes, we swallow some of these so called Democratic structures without understanding that they could be stifling growth. Come try union for Dubai or China… even Singapore when it involves a critical national asset. Many developing nations will not tolerate this level of threat in name of unionism against a critical national asset.

We should protect this refinery with all our strength.. because our government will never ever build one.

Country wey work no dey
You manage get work for refinery
You leave your priority, go join union.
Who Union help?

Millions dey wey dey do fasting and prayer for this job..

No go dey form ALUTA for common interest.
There is no common interest in this country.
At least Una OGas at the top have shown you.
YOU ARE ON YOU OWN

You are your NEPA
You are your water company
You are your own Emergency services

Those union leaders need you slaves to dey put their pressure to dey collect for their pocket.

For them you are just a means to an end.
They threaten, they get paid . Same union wey go negotiate 70k salary with government- money wey no fit buy bag of rice. On top a, some states me gree pay… some sack workers. Wey the union to help?

YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN

How far with Osho baba! Him don collect him own marry Ethiopian OBO. Enjoyment for heaven. Him don forget aluta…


YOU ARE ON YOU OWN IN THIS BONGO!


Up here, They are blaming Dangote; very typical of Nigerians.. misplaced priority. Have these unions ever helped you slaves? You propped up NURTW, the leaders got rich and turned around to be an instrument of the state. Now you bear the brunt just carrying a load in your own private car. RTEAN / NNAMORAL have never protested or demanded good roads from the state. They don’t care… all they care is collect from you slaves at every bus stop.

Lecturers, teachers are left unpaid for years… wey the union? Medicals Nko? Abia or imo did not pay medical workers for years… wey the union?

Omalicious1:
It's obvious that most Nigerians don't like good services because of their greed and selfishness

And that’s the trait that is destroying the country. NUPENG wants to feed off Dangote’s success.

Agberos everywhere, obtaining motorists. It costs a haulage driver with containerised body over 100,000naira to go from
volks to st. Patrick in Ojo; a distance of less than 5.5km. So called unionist in Green and Yellow and claiming royalties, including Op Mesa and Ojo police.


Drivers are free to join NUPENG, But not compulsory for all his drivers…simple enough! Freedom of association.

But NUPENG wants a compulsory sanction on DANGOTE’s drivers to be unionist. Same thing NURTW AND RTEAN are doing on our roads. Always their selfish interest. How many times have they gone on strike over dangerous roads. Poor road Maintenance etc..

IbrahimSola:
This one is deep. 8 officers and a civilian in one fell swoop?

Something has to be done about this kind of carnage. Its unheard of. And no Ungod known men was killed in the process?

E dey vex me to hear.

I think you should question the training of these guys. Using a sitting-duck SOP will get everyone killed.

You often see the same SOP at banks. The guards are all in the guard post ( a room near the gate). One dude with an AK can wipe out the bunch in the room.

hotseat:
Dangote and his cousin (Alhaji Sayyu Ali Dantata) are slave-drivers, exploitative and monopolistic in their insatiable greed for wealth and more wealth.

What they intend to achieve is to make unionism a "crime" so that all employees under both men could be enslaved without an avenue for agitation for their rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

Despite the several financial leeways accorded him by successive administrations, this is how he wants to repay Nigerians.

This is one battle that he and his cousin cannot win.

NUPENG must rise up to the occasion and put a stop to the Feudal Lords' cruel policy of forbidding unionism.

Enough of the shenanigans!

Aluta continua!

Victoria acerta!





@hotseat

It is important we (Nigerians) really sit down and decide what kind of society we want.

The same way NURTW is forcing motorists to pay up at every bus stop regardless of membership or not. Same thing NUPENG wants here. Dangote and Dantata are private entities, and they can freely decide not to join this association called NUPENG. What’s wrong with that? NUPENG is an association, isn’t it? It is not a regulatory body for drivers in the oil and gas sector. It is just an association!

davodyguy:
I had intention of doing Malta, but that has to be done via Italian Embassy in Nigeria.

It's best to just get France or Italy, then use that opportunity to visit Malta.

Just that their visa stamp would not be obtained, since you're visiting via another Schengen visa.

If it possible, one can get
Portugal, Netherlands, Germany Belgium, Italy, France and Spain visa stamps on your passport by respectively applying via their embassies, but the refusal rate will discourage one from this. Hence, people are stuck with France and Italy.


My next Schengen trips God keeping us alive are
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
Portugal

I want to apply via their embassies, but a bit skeptical due to visa refusal rates

Any idea of the refusal rate at the Spanish embassy for business visa?

SocialJustice:
This arrogant ignorance. You won't learn now. Over sabi carton.

It’s called Benign. Probably his enlargement was caused by cancer.


To all males. From age 40, do routine prostrate scan and PSA. Prostrate grows with age (BHP), and sometimes due to cancer.

Nigeria has a problem. Why do we often make policies based on selfish gain.

What happened to the yearly inspection at VIO? Is that not enough inspection to know if a vehicle is road worthy?

If the interior of a hailed ride is dirty, it is upto the customer to cancel the ride.. simple.

Why do we like to duplicate efforts and policies.

What is wrong with us?

I am tired.

Same duplication of efforts in all sectors:
Customs has releasing officer, CIU. Strike force,FOU, Valuation, Marine police, Compliance all chasing after one container.. Haba!!!

Police , VIO, FRSC all on the same road chasing motorists, but they all turn a blind eye to danfo.

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hatchy:
Your president just bought over 9Mobile.
It's now T2
What do you have to say about it?

Sure? 9mobile now T2?

Glimpsetv:
Summary:

Importers and freight brokers in Nigeria are protesting a new 4% Customs levy, warning it will raise clearing costs, worsen inflation, and hurt trade. The sudden fee hike has sparked outrage and calls for the policy to be suspended.

I think you forgot the mention the new unit setup to replicate the work of Examining officer and Releasing officer; called the compliance unit.

There are just too many units to deal with when freight forwarding or clearing a shipment: You have the releasing officer whose primary task to assess shipment declaration, duty paid, and confirm cargo through the examining officer. Despite this, there are other units whose task replicate these two previously mentioned. The CIU, Valuation, enforcement, Gate and compliance, not forgetting FOU on the roads.
Each of these units wants a pound of flesh.

Compliance units appears to be the recent one. They often leave a comment on the single window declaration, requesting to be invited for the container examination. After you are done settling and processing through the releasing officer, you have to repeat the same process at compliance unit.

The issue of network. Why is it that these offices barely have a functioning network? Most atimes one often hears from these officers.” No network!” I thought we have all overcomes the issues with the advent of starling and 5G?

The country is a mess, sorry to say. We keep repeating the same process hoping for a new outcome. From single window to Bodogwu… same process rinsed and repeated with new masters and their selfish interest.

It is difficult to do business here!

A report filled with “rumored,” “allegedly,” and name calling : tyrant, dictator etc.. it just too damn obvious that this is another of those reports that are part of the info war.

pufframmy:
do you have idea of their charges

Not much…

You can select to pay charges from your Niara account.

Greatphase:
Hi house,

Please, how can one transfer or send money electronically( NOT physical presence at bank) from a Nigerian savings account to a Brazilian bank account?

Will be expecting your response. Thanks

You’ll need to have a dormicilliary account at GTB and a hardware token to submit FX transfer on their internet banking platform.

- deposit your cash dollar into your dorm account
-log into the internet banking platform
-go to menu
-scroll down to FX transaction
- select fx to other banks
-fill in your beneficiary details with SWIFT CODE
-click continue
- put your token code
-GTB will process your fx transfer within 12hours
-Beneficiary will receive funds in 48hrs

This is a weird… very weird story.! Don’t believe this story. The politicians, EFCC, and Govt are upto something with this weird story.

Either they are trying to declare a loot as returned or cover a track, same as “Snake swallow money” kind of story

Think of it… think of the size of this consignment… funds are in trillions. Which Aboki will accept ZIM DOLLAR OR VIETNAMESE DONG?

Who in their criminal mind will use these “obscure” currencies to move or launder funds?

Story is bollocks!!!

smokinloud:
Putin has told Trump sef dat he's willing to have truce. Na Zekensky dey delay.

When did Putin say that?

All Russian officials have always stated that they will only stop when all objectives are met: No NATO in Ukraine, denazification of Ukraine and full liberation of Donbass.

If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.

- Chinese Embassy in US

Why do Europe, Canada and the US feel the need to impede Chinese economic prosperity and national development?

Except for Djibouti and Cambodia outposts which were built through bilateral cooperation, China does not have military bases outside China built from territorial acquisition, compared these former and current empires.

I support china’s stand. These First Nations are desperately trying to hold on to the levers of global power hegemony

happney65:
A country that kills members of the oppossition is not a rogue country? In terms of democratic norms and values Nigeria is even a better country that Russia

We can sit online and abuse Tinubu and our elected members office holders. Tell me if you can do that in russia. Tell me?

Some of you will just be supporting blindly

Haba!

Quite an interesting observation. If you permit me to use the term “opposition” broadly, I will list a few oppositions:

Martin Luther King (killed)
Robert F Kennedy (killed)

Gregory Lamar Nix ( jailed)
Nicholas Ochs (Jailed)
Robert Keith Packe (jailed)

Donald J. Trump ( judicial persecution)

More broadly,
Salvador Allende (killed)
Muamar Gaddaffi


We can even stretch this further by looking the persecution of nations just because they oppose US policy and influence, in many cases the US attempted assassination:
Cuba
Venezuela
Syria

happney65:
The World will be less safer. And rogue countries like Russia can wake up today and take over any country he likes.

There is a reason why there is NATO. The US and Western Europe coming from the effects of World War 1 and 2 swore never to allow mad people like Hilter behave anyhow again.

But it is unfortunate that in our life time,Another Hilter is almost here,together with the Russian stooge in the WH,the world just might be closer to World War 3

But some of you who just started reading the news yesterday,who are lovers of Dictators do not know which is which. You just follow the bandwagon here and there

Why do you think Russia is a rogue country?

iSense247:
I don't think so. Can you furnish me with pictures?

Does Nigeria have underground metro service?

tctrills:
I think you are confused. The only arrogant person yesterday was your man Zeelensky.
He was a guest of the white house yet he chose to make a spectacle in front of the media. He showed no respect for his host and he is not ready for peace.

Let’s get the fact straightened here:

Zelensky wants American support including security guarantee.. meaning American military presence with a coalition of EU states.

Russia will not accepts EU states and America that’s basically NATO in Ukraine, and will fight hard to prevent this scenario

The US can not give security guarantee because it may result in conflict with Russia (a fellow super power))

The European states like UK and France do not have the light to face Russia indignation in Ukraine with the military support of the US.

Trumps wants the honor as the leader that brought peace to this war, so the pressure on Zelensky to accept a ceasefire, accept Russian demands

The EU especially the Brits are urging Zelensky not to give in. Same way the Brits scuppered the Turkish settlement agreement between Ukraine and Russia.

Russia think Zelensky is an illegitimate leader since his 4 year tenure has expired. So any agreement he signs May be null and void.

What next?
Zelensky May be impeached?
Russia May March on to Dnipro ?

Where are those MOG’s that see tomorrow?
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Dogalmighty17:
You are a slowpoke. No one is scared of Russia. A country that needs north korea to help out can't be taken seriously. They can't even afford military logistics anymore and are depending on donkeys to move men and supplies to the front. Stop embarrassing yourself.

honestly don’t know why you’d have to insult him to make your point. Don’t dumb down the discuss here.. Nairaland is a great platform for sharing ideas and views.

Just to brighten things up for you, the USA has not gone to any war, from the balkans to Afghanistan, and recently Libya without a coalition.

A Russian T90 tank weighs 48tons -equivalent of 100 grown donkeys. The Russians must have millions of donkeys to transport all those hardwares around the battle field .

Think about it

SadiqBabaSani:
Seun please ban this Russian spy Monika

Why does he have to be banned? What has he done wrong ?

What he wrote about today’s meeting between Zelensky and Trump is a fact.

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iSense247:
What if they are actually not from NK. They could be Chinese disguising as North Koreans.

They have internet.. bro. Pyongyang’ with an underground subway looks far more developed than Abuja

think you should listen to the podcast “the heist” by BBC. This details the extent of the Koreans expertise on digital money and the internet. They are very good… very very good. Sony entertainment Ransome ware, Bangladesh Central Bank, crypto exchange raids, etc.

Many of the funds Hushpuppie was hauling in as Azaman were dividends of successful Korean hacks. And that was what made the FBI pay more much to Dubai ring.

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kenny714433:
If not that Nigerians are bunch of noise makers, we don't even come close to these countries in stealing.

The only difference is that we have the highest concentration of morons. So we lure, take a little and make so much noise.

Those guys are extremely intelligent. They hack, not fraud.

The difference is that the empty vessels make the noise while those who are extremely intelligent takes trillions without saying a word.

God1000:
somehow it's hard to imagine the motives of country A accepting citizens of country B as deportees from country C. All I can think of is to fill slave labor camps.

After pressure on retaking the canal, Panama appears willing to do anything to please Trump.

SmartPolician:
God has given us power to do everything unaided. Therefore, it's important to seek medical help first while fortifying it with prayers. When you go to a hospital and the tests show nothing, then it's clearly a spiritual issue.

Please… when you are sick and a test shows nothing.. then get a second opinion. medical tests are case specific. If you got typhoid and testing for malaria… it will be negative

Come to think of it, has any of these spiritualists won any major award on any discovery in health science?. I think the best they have come up with is handky and olive oil. … not to forget “blessed” water.

Nairadreams:
They won't be affordable


Except this

Bro, what do you attribute the lack of craftsmanship amongst our local gun makers to? Why aren’t they able to perfectly clone or yet still come up with a better design?

Why do all the local guns look like sticks and pipes strap together with rubber band?

It has been so hard for us to replicate “oyibo” technology even basic tech dey hard us, why?

No be the same brain GOD give us all… ?

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buttlover:
But honestly if I have like 10million I will look into importing electronics phone chargers with my logo with a all registered documents needed by the government. As in, I will swim into that field.

Brother… this business is well worn by those traders at Alaba. Don’t venture into this business. NewAge, FIL and many others are in those line of trade; and there many, many small traders doing the same trade.

Leobankx:
Fixing Ajaokuta is a waste of money, the money that'll be used to fix it can build a modern one. The Russian contractors who built it made it very hard for anyone else to fix it.

How did the Russians make it hard for anyone else to fix it?

Aren’t we to be blamed here? We handed the facility over to Indians and presidential cronies who stripped it of important hardwares. And we can’t sell the damn thing without paying them off

What would it have taken for us to go back to the original manufacturer to fix the mess?

We are terrible at looking out for our collective self.. everyone is selfish, and that’s why the country is so ”effed” up.

Three pages long and no one corrected her grammatical error:

I wish I were

Richtaiwo:
You clearly don't understand the signpost.

The contractor is: Oriba Global Services Ltd

Contractor is working for the client

The client is the iHorticultural Institute

The question:

Why is the National Horticultural institute installing street light on a state street far from the borders of the institute