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Very interesting analyses. I also deplore our moribund tax system. Many top-tier economies survive on taxation but in Nigeria the situation always needs be different. First, our tax officials are perhaps more corrupt than the thieves in government. More than once, I've witnessed how property rates are paid in Enugu: Pay for 3 -5 months and get your receipt covering the entire tax year. And there's no telling if the tax woman actually remits those funds to the right quarters, or whether she and her cohorts claim the citizens artfully evade tax. Also one time I went to the motor licensing office and a lady beckoned me into her office: "Don't enter the other office because you'll pay more there! I'll only charge you N****",she said in hushed tones. However, as I was then experiencing an epiphany over certain issues, I declined her offer. Our tax officials have become experts at fudging documents, and we need to fix these loopholes before we can reap the accruance from taxation. A friend once told me that this "tax holiday" is Government's way of looking the other way while her citizens evade their social responsibility, and that at some point her citizens will have to look the other way while she dips her hands into their treasury. Favor for favor!

Afam, kindly desist from making further comments on the thread or trying to explain your position. You have used strong words no doubt and even I am against you on that account. There are people who lost loved ones, properties and so on to the violence up north and you conveniently sit behind a computer and insult their collective sensibilities. I am from Enugu like you but I wish you never made those comments. Never forget that people have feelings and you have no right to insult those feelings the way you just did.

@ TS: No i don't have pics for you. I just wanna say this is quite innovative. I wish your team the best of luck.

Does Innoson have sedan models? I'm asking because I've seen his SUVs, Waste disposal trucks and Transit buses all over Enugu, but haven't ever seen an IVM sedan.

For those who claim the report contradicts previous studies, you're wrong, really. And this is why:

Benue State has the highest PREVALENCE of HIV, ie Percentage population of PLWHA per 100,000 people in Benue State is higher than the Percentage population of PLWHA per 100,000 people in Rivers State. Hence, the more popular report says that Benue had the highest prevalence of HIV.
But the index study focuses on the total population of PLWHA. Both studies have assessed different parameters: prevalence and population. (In Secondary school economics, you could liken this difference to the one between Gross Domestic Product and Income Per Head)

There is yet another parameter called incidence which I'm guessing the Adamawa report may have studied.

In conclusion, these are all merely statistical data. Even if you reside in an area with <0.1% HIV prevalence and have unprotected se.x with 1 infected person, then become infected, all the data lose all relevance and the risk for you is 100%! Do you see?Remember, if you no fit hold body, make you use con.dom!

PLWHA: People Living With HIV/AIDS

People, be careful about this curious method of meeting strangers in order to get apps...I can easily see this devolving to phone theft or suchlike. Call me cynical, but I don't think this is at all safe.

As there might be no Nigeria in 2015, my response to that question is moot because I won't like to say one thing now, and in 2015 say another...

[quote author=Neo-XVI]Bros check my previous posts. I never supported the SOE thing. It didn't work before so there's no guarantee it will work now. They say it's madness to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. The situation calls for new ideas but our govt is too lazy to think.[/quote]There are those who oppose government policies in the hope government will fail and they will get a chance to say "I told you so"... although they lack any original thinking of their own. These people are quick to call government unreasonable or "too lazy to think". However a wise man once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world while the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself, therefore all progress must depend on the unreasonable man". Enough said.

This ACN people self... an opposition party that opposes every policy. Cordoning off the border states still not enough for them. If BH has so far matched our security personeel, then common sense should tell us that to stand a chance at success, we have to upwardly review our security strength and staffing, but their eyes are unashamedly set on the 2015 presidency that they can't recognize a potentially successful policy anymore. Even suggesting that the President was intentionally limiting their sphere of influence in the coming elections and that government should mollycoddle terrorists--laughable! GEJ has plenty shortcomings, but should be commended when he takes a bold step--as he has just done. Being out of national affairs has turned ACN into a party of chronic whiners, nagging, desperately opposing, relentlessly making jest of themselves.

I have pictures of Osun from my visit last week... I've tried to upload them but the pictures are large... Will upload when I compress them... Heads up: the pictures are, to be kind to some people's sensibilities, unflattering.

Edit: that's it. I have more pictures of course.

This is by far the most interesting thread on NL. Couldn't stop laughing... Eko Ile my sister, I commiserate with you on your impending ban.

Dayokanu, Alj Harem - my condolences.

Ikenna, I'll be back in a week to see whether the bushmeat is now, contrary to expectation, hot on the hunter's trail.

Frankly, I used to ask everyone I met to register on NL, but over the past year I stopped doing that as I was actually introducing them to an evil they hitherto didn't know existed.
Nice move BTW.

livialives: Nigeria.
Where do we go from here?

This isn't where we intended to be...

Obinacu: Definitely, it seems i am gonna know you then. I have tried NIEPA but just changed my mind. I'm with Women Affairs N/P, the school under Local Govt. U ?

Wesley University

I'm still laughing...

I bought my first car August 2008, at age 21, a VW Golf Mk3. Cost N730k.


... And OP, thanks for reminding me I'm still owing my father N730k.

Gboliwe: I always thought you were from either Imo or Anambra.
By the way, is Aro in Abia? I also thought it was in Imo

Arochukwu is in Abia...Arondizuogu in Imo.

@ odumchi: interesting photo story. Keep it up sir.

@ moderators:
Shouldn't this be considered for front page? I've seen scores and scores of Tonto Dike's repulsive photos make front page without any effort...

...waiting to see if the Tonto blackmail still works...

I ran into an old friend...

'Izu, what's your PIN?'

'Oh, you're a BB user-- I don't have one.'

'Are you for real? idikwa backward!'

This happened about 3 years ago, and despite that I was using a mobile which cost three times my friend's Blackberry, he did insult me blithely 'You are quite backward!'

It hit me frontally: I had been caught up in the Android-iOS-?Symbian war that I had failed to notice the recent and rapid bourgeoning of RIM's Blackberry all around me; now I had to hear from an old friend that not having a Blackberry meant being backward. This puzzled me intensely, and so whetted my research. I became more attentive in the bus, in the park, in the bank.

Three Beautiful Girls with Blackberrys

I was getting back from the University one evening in a taxi with three young girls. Midway through, there is a beep and they all reach for their mobiles. One announces 'Kee BB'm? Ejirom BB'm! Echefum BB'm! Driver kwusi m, echefum BB'm'(Where's my BB? I don't have my BB! I forgot my BB! Driver stop me here, I forgot my BB!) I thought to myself, 'don't you just love to say BB?' The taxi pulled up, she whispered something to her friends and hurriedly got down. I thought to myself, my reserach in view 'I see...'

Blackberry has stolen the Nigerian phones market without much pomp or ceremony. I watched as the girls clutched their Blackberry which beeped every so often, and they had to type up a message--they seemed to be really having fun...

...I met a new friend on Yahoo! Chat

Blackberry is not just a mobile phone to the Nigerian. Yes, there's the sensationalism that comes with pinging--the only utility in so far as I can objectively assess-- but there is more. The Blackberry user expects that you be filled with respect, awe, even adulation when they announce they have a Blackberry--whether it has BIS or not seems irrelevant in the Nigerian situation. Even the monochrome screen versions are Blackberrys nonetheless and require no less respect. By now, my reasearch had taken a decidely other turn, the original research seemed humdrum and pointless now. The real reasearch was: 'Are Nigerians vain people?' The average Nigerian maintains we are not, but the facts remain that we are. We love attention, we love 'useless' little phones that cost big money, we love to 'spend money we don't have to annoy people we don't like'. While I'm typing this article, I'm on Yahoo! Chat. There's a beep:

'36qrt56p. What's yours?'

'Oh BB...I don't have one'

'emoticon: 'shocked' Izu you really need to get a life!'


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This is inspiring... I should probably take up blogging again. Time was when I received at least a hundred dollar check every month from AdSense. But now due to my own inattention to my blog, it probably takes half a year to accrue a hundred ddollars
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Wendyslim: why will you insult him becos he is sharing his opinion abi we no get freedom of speech again? Anyway demolishing 3000 schools out of 4000 is not a good idea cos to bring dem back it requires a lot of money and at the same time will leave so many people jobless.

Would you send your kid to one of those 3000 dilapidated school buildings? No? So let the man do his job. Not many Governors in Nigeria see education as a priority.

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One of the mischievous benefits of the North's highly-inflated population figures... how they use population to divert available positions to themselves. I hope we would address the real issues here.

It's amazing how the poster eventually excuses Ogbeni and instead pins the blame on eight years of PDP 'musrule' -- how convenient.

Nevertheless, we should cut our leaders some slack... Just pretend for a second that Ogbeni knows what he's doing. In the end, even your own education might be the better for it...

The video is actually not bad... May be non- conformist but not bad.

chino24: Anambra has since started receiving 13percent, because Orient have have been lifting the black gold from the Anambra Basin. I also noticed boisterous and heavy presence of visitors at the Orient Petroleum Head Qtrs in Awka

Chino na wa oh...the case is still with the Boundaries Commission, and the 6-month ultimatum has barely even gone 1/3 of the way.

You do raise an important point however. Now I recall how my Aunt used to make gallons and gallons of palm oil, and export them via train up north...this woman was able to pay for her children's university education with her palm oil business-that was the early 90s, before things got so bad.

Wadeoye: Stay there to eat electricity?

To get your FG-branded phone, farm, and then eat electricity.

[quote author=o'boy]you be olodo o,even Anambra folks pronouce it "lotenna" but it is spelled lotanna
dont spoil my name jare[/quote]Your name is what you call it, dude, not how Anambra people pronounce it. If my name were Iheanyi, and you called me 'Ifeanyi', I wouldn't hesitate to correct you...I have other examples of course but I believe I've made my point.