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For all I care, Yorubas and Igbos are in a deep love relationship!!
You know that husband and wife that argues about everything in the day time and then at night they go to bed and produce babies all night long!!
Thas the exact case. They love themselves so much, they cant do without each other. But they argue about everything including who the children like better or who is finer than who just to say I'm more superior!!

Lovely relationship. You can't seperate these two.
The beautiful thing is they never get to fight!!

Yoruba and Igbo!!

[size=14pt]Tenacity!!
[/size]Nothing stopping us, we will always find a way!! That's the spririt

I ma not a Sanusi fan. But I totally agree with him on this. Higher denominations don't cause inflation except there is no other currency close by that could serve as interchangeability. All this talk about politicians and corruption and inflation. . . abeg una no sabi economics!!

The area that would have caused inflation is the lower denominations been changed to coins. But Sanusi addressed it succintly. The coins would run side by side the notes until we begin to value coins more. Thats brilliant!!

Nice piece!!
Looks like you finally understand your job description!!
Why do we always have to wait till when our job is threatened to act the part?? Ehn??

You guys have no idea how economics works!
I am not a fan of Sanusi and I think the policy is ridiculous, because it would have made more sense to introduce 2,000 Naira before jumping to 5,000 Naira.

However, most people have missed it. The introduction of 5000 Naira would not increase inflation. It is the coining of 10, 20 and 50 Naira that would cause catastrophic inflation.
Nigerians don't do coins. We have erased it from our psyche. Anytime you introduce coins they vanish out of circulation and stay somewhere under our carpet.

The new coins would make everthing now priced in 100 naira denominations. Botteled water that sells for 50 Niara would now sell for 100 box flat and stuff like that.

Higher currencies don't exactly cause inflation except there are no smaller currencies close enough to serve as interchangeability.

supertop7: Poster, pls answer d following questns.
1. What happen to d interns after d one year programm, will dey be left searching for job again, or will be posted to firms nd institutions of govt parastatals?
2. The stipends, will it be a reasonable amount dat can sustain a family man?

This is the problem I have with Nigerian graduates. Is Government supposed to employ everybody? And if they do, where will they now get money to construct roads and the likes. We currently have recurrent expenditures of 72% with salaries claiming majority of it all. Abeg, government should be thinking of reducing its workforce and not employing more people. Abeg, there many fellow graduates starting companies and employing people, you are here talking "will they be left searching for job again". Government na your papa??

This SURE scheme is meant to serve as a safety net. The scheme is giving incentives like tax breaks to companies that retain workers. It is an excellent scheme for both employer and employee. My belief is that if you give your best to your job and make yourself an asset to the company you work with, your employer would have no choice but to retain you.

These four most cardinal points would make this country move forward and yet all of them are been rejected by the Northern Elite for the simple fact that they fear the south would progress and eventually push for a split from their lazy asses. They are not interested in progress for themselves because they have zilch aspirations and it comes from their culture. But they want to prevent us from progressing also, that's the painful part!!

The only reason they reject state police is the fear that southerners would over equip them probably even better than the Armed Forces.

It just sad. Its like been stuck with a drunk who refuses to work, feeds on you and then puts all his energy into preventing you from making more progress so you don't get enough money to move into a new house. Sad. The thing though is that progress can be delayed but it cant be stopped.

@Auwal

You are right. Its all politics. But its a politicking that screams "Northern Governors don't understand their southern counterparts". If Sokoto has oil, the south would be the happiest. To think that claiming you have oil would make southerners have a rethink on their commitment to true federalism is absurd.

Southerners are seeking true federalism not because of oil, but because of their desire to unclog the wheels that have prevented progress over the last 50 years.Infact, most southern states don't have oil. Just 4 states benefit considerably from oil incomes and they are Rivers, Bayelsa Delta and Akwa Ibom.
Add that to the new argument they are bringing up on onshore/offshore dichotomy. I'm sure you are not aware that there are only two states in the whole country that benefit considerably for this- Akwa Ibom and Rivers.
So the big question the Northern Governors should ask themselves is this: Why is the whole of the south fighting for true federalism when majority of them don't benefit from oil revenues?? The answer is clear! Southerners are desirious of progress- simple. Its not about oil.

I personally don't think oil has been good for the country. Left to me, oil revenues should be used solely for infrastructure in these 3 area- Power, Tranport(Rail, Road, Sea) and Oil & Gas.

Eeele Sir!! Eeele!
Doesn't mean HE gives a hoot about you.

Tinubus posture speaks volumes. If I psychoanalyse that pose. . . .

Any wise man who looks carefully would tell that Buhari is about to be betrayed beyond his imagination.

I luv Tinubu. The guy is a master startegist, second only to OBJ.

Kobojunkie: Spare me the lies . . . . I have seen, and read many of your LIES on Nairaland and have learned never to take anything you say seriously.

Well, lies are a relative term! Your not believing my speech doesn't in anyway make it a lie. A large chunk of folks on Nairaland tend to believe my speech.

To be fair to you, you are actually one of the most distorted minds amongst the reasonable ones here on Nairaland. In other words, you are a reasonable person, but your reasoning is always distorted especially by your inability to grasp realities. Google the word Cognitive Psychology. . . thats your short coming!

Kobojunkie: Shortput head, a block industry supplying blocks DOES NOT EQUAL Upgrade of Public Schools in Delta State To international Standard. Have you seen the schools in question?

I have seen some of these schools. International standards in the mold of USA or Europe, Nooo! By Nigerian and African standards, very very impressive.

UYCO: @Blinks I attended Okotie-Eboh grammar school, if you cannot provide the name of the contractor then remain silent

I don't think there is need for much argument. If you have more pictures, just upload them. I assume you are in Delta States and there are schools everywhere been renovated. Simply snap them and upload here and there would be no more argument.
You posted one. What is the name of that school and where is it located??

ACN would do itself in if it merges with CPC. It would loose ground to PDP in its stronghold if it marries CPC.
Oshiomole knew better. The CPC candidate in Edo State dumped his ambition and threw his weight behind Oshiomole claiming that ACN and CPC are working together. He claimed Buhari was going to visit the state to campaign for Oshiomole.
The offer was rejected and turned down immediately by the oshiomole camp.
Buhari is a big liability in the south and the ACN should be ready to loose their fervour if they enter such a merger!

Wow!! This is excellent!! State schools are now better than private schools. Excellent.
And he is doing all the schools!! All of them!!

I have seen many of the schools. They are excellent. They should be the second best after the ones in Rivers!

@Poster, pictures speak louder than words. Just a few pictures would do the magic!!

bigboy3: make all of us dey carry gun dey threaten the peace of the nation be that, this my job no pay again o....but on a serious note your piece is interesting but i dont support your line of thought, in as much as it looks like the easy thing to do, it is not the ideal solution unfortunately. If our government keeps shying away and handling issues by bribing instead of trully addressing the fundamental problems and empowering them, then we can justify what Boko Haram is doing and get them paid too. This things don't end, they are quiet now because their brother is in charge, wait till the power shifts.....I fear for naija

Idealism and Reality are two different things. Idealism is what you say you would do before Reality hits you. Reality is what you actually and always get to do.
Forget ideals. Face reality. The immediate solution is what is pertinent. We can take of the resultant effects over the long run.
If you know the consequences of having these guys back in the creeks, you would forget idealism in an instant. Think about it. If a crises starts in the Niger Delta today, which soldiers are you going to send to protect the oil installations? We have just 80,000 troops most of whom aren't even trained in combat in a Mangrove Delta kind of environment.
So which is better? Face reality and pay them the $50 Million yearly or go for Idealism and collapse Nigeria? The choice is clear!

Ok so these guys are paid like 50million dollars yearly. How is that a big deal? Or should they go back to the creeks? When they were in the creeks they were earning much more. Nigeria was producing just 700,000 barrels daily. Today we have added 2 million barrels to that. Because these guys are paid 50 million doillars yearly, we are now earning approximately 200 million dollars daily which is 70 billion dollars yearly.
My brother, it is only common sense to pay them. The FG doesn't have the capacity to manage another Niger Delta crises. The country will collapse in a second if that happens again. Trust me, this era is different from 2008. In 2008, we didn't have 18,000 as minimum wage neither did we have the Boko Haram scourge!
Anything to keep them off the creeks is just fine. Trust me that figure is way below the real figures. Over 1 Billion dollars is spent to keep them off the creeks. But it is worth every penny as we can see in our improved oil earnings!

Why is Lagos always using interlocking stones to build roads? Is there scarcity of bitumen in the state??

How many kilometres? The cost sounds outarageous for an intra city road!!

The Nigerian land use system is the single biggest hindrance to the orderly development of this country!!
It has to be changed for any meaningful development to take place in the country.

I sincerely don't get why anybody would be against State Policing. Maybe folks don't understand how it works. Having state police doesn't eliminate the Federal Police system, the same way having the state house of assembly or the state judiciary didn't eliminate the need for similar national systems.

The key security issue we have in this country is not boko haram as it has immediate impact on only a tiny fraction of the population. Let the federal police system deal with such issues. Armed robbery, kidnapping, manslaughter and the simple task of maintaining law and order should be localized.

A state like Cross Rivers,a relatively peaceful state is entirely different from a state like Delta where every street urchin might be a commando with enough ammunition to take on the Mossad. The budgets for security in both state would be different. In a federal police system, budgets would be allocated not with regards to needs but with regards to equity. In a state policing system, the governor knows his security needs and deploys more resources as required.

Fashola explained this properly in his latest interview.

The truth be told, the only reason Northern Governors are afriad of State police is their fear of southern secession. Their reasoning is that if the south if given the freedom to arm their police force, such a force would become stronger than the army and when the time comes the southerners would secede with relative ease.

This is why I say the world is very unfair. If it were a white person screaming in that bus how they hate black people, every black person would be enraged calling her racist. But look at all them white folks, just calm, sitting in the bus not giving a hoot what she is saying! You just gotta love them!!

One thing I keep reminding folks is this. . . the white chap sitting next to you had nothing to do with slave trade, Maybe his great grandfather did, but not him.
Anybody still hung on the whole "free us black people" mentality is just some slowass lazy fella looking for food stamps!! Nobody is holding black folks or even Africa backward. It is the mentality that abhors cooperation that is holding blacks and Africa down!! The freedom that is needed is internal! The shackles are within!!

Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country?

Why is Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country? The most common explanation is a long history of sociocultural ties between Sudan and northern Nigeria, where most Nigerians in Sudan are from. Also, northern Nigerians who travel over land for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia go through Sudan, and many have settled there over the years.

In the 1993 Sudanese census, West Africans, under the label Nigerian tribes, were estimated to be about 1.4 million, or 7.4 percent of northern Sudan's total population. The Hausa in Sudan, who work mainly in agriculture, are believed to be the largest Hausa diaspora in the world. The Fulani among them can be divided into cattle owners and urbanized Fulani, while most of the Kanuri, believed to be among the earliest dwellers, have been fully Arabized.

Nigeria's ambassador to Sudan between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Dahiru Suleiman, was quoted in the Nigerian media as saying that Nigerians hold positions in the Sudanese government and the security services like the police but that most are subsistence farmers, poor and poorly educated.

Recent actions of the Sudanese government suggest concerns about the legal status of these settlers. In March 2010, it was widely reported that Sudan deported 58 Nigerians, all northerners, and most of them women. The Sudanese authority said that some of the deportees had fake/ expired travel documents. However, journalist Ajikanle Nurudeen reported that the deportees were sent home because they were a nuisance to Sudan, as most of the deported women were blind and were beggers.

In recent years, Sudan has become a destination for younger Nigerians for work and study. BBC Sport journalist Oluwashina Okeleji reported that Nigerian footballers play in the Sudanese league to get on the radar of European scouts and hope to ultimately move to Europe.

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very very wrong assumption.

Sudan hosts the highest number of Nigerians living in any country!


Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country?

Why is Sudan home to the largest Nigerian population of any destination country? The most common explanation is a long history of sociocultural ties between Sudan and northern Nigeria, where most Nigerians in Sudan are from. Also, northern Nigerians who travel over land for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia go through Sudan, and many have settled there over the years.

In the 1993 Sudanese census, West Africans, under the label Nigerian tribes, were estimated to be about 1.4 million, or 7.4 percent of northern Sudan's total population. The Hausa in Sudan, who work mainly in agriculture, are believed to be the largest Hausa diaspora in the world. The Fulani among them can be divided into cattle owners and urbanized Fulani, while most of the Kanuri, believed to be among the earliest dwellers, have been fully Arabized.

Nigeria's ambassador to Sudan between 2005 and 2007, Mr. Dahiru Suleiman, was quoted in the Nigerian media as saying that Nigerians hold positions in the Sudanese government and the security services like the police but that most are subsistence farmers, poor and poorly educated.

Recent actions of the Sudanese government suggest concerns about the legal status of these settlers. In March 2010, it was widely reported that Sudan deported 58 Nigerians, all northerners, and most of them women. The Sudanese authority said that some of the deportees had fake/ expired travel documents. However, journalist Ajikanle Nurudeen reported that the deportees were sent home because they were a nuisance to Sudan, as most of the deported women were blind and were beggers.

In recent years, Sudan has become a destination for younger Nigerians for work and study. BBC Sport journalist Oluwashina Okeleji reported that Nigerian footballers play in the Sudanese league to get on the radar of European scouts and hope to ultimately move to Europe.

[url]http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=788 [/url]

Hotel in dubai( Rose Reyhan By Rotana- Tallest Hotel in the world) : 26,000 per night.
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Hotel in LagosHomegate Hawker Resort, Victoria Island) 28,000 per night
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Two things contribute immensely to the illustrious and industrious nature of the Ibo.
1)Community.
Ibos congregate in one place to trade. By so doing they form a very cooperative ecosystem that allows them to pull resources together to achieve whatever goals and purposes they set out on. A good example would be Alaba, Balogun and Sabon Gari and all those kinds of places. They pull their moneys together to import goods. They assist each other with capital and a host of other benefits.

2)Master/Apprentice Model
The master-boy partnership is one of the most innovative models for entrepreneurship. An IBO trader brings a boy from his village to assist him in trading. In exchange he trains the boy with an offer to settle him into his own trade after an agreed number of years.
This model achieve 4 things with one strike.
First, it accords the businessman the opportunity of having workers without the stress of a regular monthly salary that sometimes can be a huge strain on especially new businesses.
Secondly, trust is guaranteed as there is a clause that ensures the apprentice gives his best to ensure he isn't shortchanged at the end of his service.
Third. Capital. The apprentice is guaranteed of adequate capital for his own business when the time is ripe.
Fourth. Training. The training and experience the apprentice gets puts him above the competition.


These factors by any count expand entrepreneurship and industriousness among the Ibo folk. Very excellent model. Comparable only to the jewish and korean models.

Abagworo: Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.

What a reasoning!!Abagworo, you know better than this!
So lets assume for a moment that by the genius of Donald Duke, Tinapa worked and so much money started flowing into Cross River State while other parts of Nigeria were in abject poverty, should we also stifle Cross River's growth so as to ensure balance and avoid future catastrophe??

This reasoning is backward. The money flowing in Rivers State has less to do with the Oil proceeds and more to do with the ingenuity of the people. Port Harcourt has been robust forever. The oil money is just an added input. Bayelsa State has more oil money per capita and yet the backwardness in the state is second to none.

Northerners have had this attitude that balance must be maintained.They think One region should not develop faster than another. If one is developing too fast, then it should be slowed down.Thats horrible and pathetic because these guys are holding this country back. We can't continue like this. Funding has nothing to do with the educational backwardness of the north. Its the parasitic attitude of the leaders in the region that is holding them back and in turn stifling the growth of the rest of the country.

Ok. So our average monthly spend(ARPU) on phone time is 1011 Naira. And the number of phones is 102 Million. Nice info. Luv it.

The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month.

Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot.

I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot.

In this order, the best three are:

1)Agriculture
The guy is doing wonders. This sector has never had it so good. In the next one year we will begin to reap the benefits of Adesina's work both in job creation, better farmer welfare and improved yields as well as increased foreign exchange earnings from agriculture.

2)Power
Barth Nnaji is working. We are feeling the results and many Nairalanders have attested to improved power supply accross the country. He has promised us a December date for radical improvement. Lets wait and see.

3)Aviation
The woman hit the ground running. As soon as she took over the aviation ministry, she immediately started the renovation of 11 of the nations airports. Something that hasn't been done since the inception of this complexity called Nigeria.

Okonjo,Aganga and Deizani are popular but I haven't seen their footprint. The others, literally speaking do not exist at least there is nothing to assess them about. Ok Sorry. The culture guy and the Communications lady are probably doing good. I always hear them saying good things, but no impact yet.

Abubakar is not a minister but he is doing excellently well as Inspector General of Police. I thought I should add that.

Then the drones would have to hit IBB in what is termed collateral damage!

All the [b]Chicken [/b]farmers in the house say yeaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
All the [b]Fish [/b]farmers in the house say Yaaaaaaaaaoooooohhhhhh!!
All the [b]Snail [/b]farmers in the house say ehen!!!
Go Chicken, Go Turkey, Go Fish, Go Snail, Go Grasscutter ehen ehen!!!