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anonimi:
Very correct. We cannot wish our history away, no matter how bad it seems to us now.

In support.

[quote author=mrofficial post=27336704][/quote]Thanks.

Mehn...that guy got some business brain.
But without stations showing top football league matches on it, CONSAT won't go far.

...to offer satellite TV for middle and low income earners, by allowing subscribers to only pay for the channels they want to watch

^^
This is nice.

georgee:
The CEO of CONSAT was formally a high ranked staff of Multichoice.. The war has begun

Who owns CONSAT? A Nigerian?

Basildvalour:
Competitors emerged but they couldn't withstand the market pressure as well as buy rights to some foreign channels and programmes.

What will the government also do in this regard to make sure that others like HITV, CONSAT, StarTimes, etc. get these rights and also broadcast what people will be happy to pay for and watch just as DSTV is doing.

For someone like me who loves football in particular and sports in general, the best choice is DSTV because of their dedicated sports channels. If only others can beef up this aspect and a little more in other aspects, then, I don't see why we will have to give it all to the SA company

#MyOpinionThough

A start is to make it mandatery that only Nigerian dishes should have the right to view top foreign league sports in Nigeria.

There should also be a reasonable amount that any foreign dish displaying Nigerian movies(nollywood) must remit to the industry.

These are the two main reasons(nollywood & sport) Nigerians go for DSTV

I don't know how possible that is, but I'm sure no foreign organization is above our law when within our shores.

Another reasonable policy if implemented, just like that of high tarrif on vehicle importation.

It'll be best if thy can force the mulitchoice to charge as used, rather than the monthly subscription that expires after a month.

Thought Koro would be matured enough to retain his ministerial position and leave Agbaje do the governorship biding. It's confirmed PDP is not ready to govern Lagos with Koro as the party's flagbearer.

Wish him luck in his journey, but better luck for Lagosians.

anonimi:
The policy is very good no doubt.
However the relevant officers in government should be careful in reporting progress and impact to avoid giving figures that may be construed as non-factual if not supported by concrete, verifiable data.

That said, it'll even be more reasonable that government encourages these assembling firms to manufacture and not just assembly in the country, this would mean a lot to the economy.

Meanwhile, there are indications that Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan is exploring the possibility of producing vehicles in Nigeria.
Although details are still sketchy as at the
time of filing this report, it would be recalled
that last month, Johan van Zyl, president
and chief executive of Toyota South Africa
Motors, stated that the move had been
prompted by the imposition by Nigeria of
higher tariffs on imports of new vehicles into
the country.

^^
I pray it happens.

Finally, the implemetation of high tarrifs on imported goods should be effected on other goods and materials, with encouragement for indigenous manufacturers to prevent dominance of foreign investors like it is in SA.

One of the few reasonable policies the country has made in 5 years.

Leading to the increase in Vehicle assembling plants in the country.

Table of vehicle assembling plants in Nigeria.

click2cbn:
Lol at thread. One can easily add any red n underlined word to his Microsoft dictionary and it will never show red again in his computer.

Of course, but not encarter dictionaries.

GenScatt:
You have proved your point beyond any reasonable doubt. We hereby add "Oshogbo".

Alright.

oment3:
Oga nawah you oh.

I have typed my fingers out via bbm and whatsapp but its still underlined.

Just repeated same here, the app even suggested the word 'Oshogbo'.

GenScatt:
But I think "Osogbo" is the correct spelling!

You're right, but it is pronounced Oshogbo.

The Yorubas write their phonogram 'sh' as 's', but with a mark under the 's' to differentiate it from an ordinary 's'.(Can't type that here, because I don't have the yourba-English keyboard translator or app).

Same thing is applicable to letter 'e' and 'o'. There are two 'e' and 'o' in Yoruba, but with different pronounciation.

If one is to write Osogbo in English as the Yorubas pronounce it, it's written as Oshogbo.

Type 'Osogbo' on Microsoft student program or encarta dictionary, you won't get anything definition, but 'Oshogbo' 'll be suggested to you as the closest word. Clicking on the suggested 'Oshogbo', you'll get a description that matches the Osogbo of Southwestern Nigeria.

Suprisingly, Oshogbo is also recognised. I noticed it's never underlined as incorrect on Microsoft or any other app(Whatsapp, BBM...)

NB: Letter 'h' must be included.
osogbo with 'h' is not recognised.

Still wondering the possibility of first bank starting in 1894. Going by history or myth, the whites brought civilization to Nigeria in the 19th century. If we've been running a banking system since 18th century, does it mean illiterates and cavemen do banking?

stinggy:
Shameless mofo, isn't is too early to start making enemies?

I thought as much.

America usurped: China becomes world's largest economy - putting USA in second place for the first time in 142 years


*Figures show the Chinese economy is worth $17.6 trillion, compared to America's $17.4 trillion
*The IMF estimates China's economy will be worth a whopping $27 trillion in 2019
*The US has been the global economic performance leader since it overtook Britain in 1872
*White House seemed oblivious on Wednesday, crowing that 'the economic policies that this president put in place are the envy of the world'

China has toppled America to become the biggest economy in the world, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund.

The White House seemed caught flat-footed by the news, crowing on Wednesday about America's relative economic strength in comparison with the rest of the world.

The US has been the global leader since it overtook Britain in 1872, but has now lost its status as top dog.

The latest IMF figures show the Chinese economy is worth $17.61 trillion compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785905/China-overtakes-U-S-world-s-largest-economy-IMF-says-economy-worth-17-6trillion-America-falls-second-place-time-1872.html

Which one is Ewe again?! Too many Yoruba sub-groups jare

He said, “The Ewe people left Ile-Ife around 12th century.

Far back 12th century, how do they expect anyone to remember them?

They would have been recognised as true Yoruba subgroup, if they've always been at least present or represented at the annual Osun-Oshogbo festival like their likes in Benin republic, Cuba and Brazil, and other cultural events.

Ogbeni is just there mehn....

Not doing bad, at least he doesn't talk much anymore, unlike before the election. He has settled those he had issues with, the civil servants and private school owners. Renovations, beautifications and constructions are still on, but not as fast as they were before the election.

Seems he has bought the few oppositions left in the state(Oshogbo especially) to himself. This one that almost all the cars in town have at least an APC flag or Ogbeni sticker.

...Ridiculous

I'll rate him 7/10
State of Osun.

iamord: No am not saying that.. Like I said before. Nigeria should strive to get better institution . Its seems the song of giant of Africa has sank deep into the brains of a lot of people, instead of having a reality check.you are a nigerian and u know too well how the system operates..the economy will not go far with such .. GERALD710 made a few points that back up my claims..although I don't agree with some.

Nigeria's problem is not excalty what you stated above, it's more of leadership. When a person's tribe and ethnicity becomes a key factor over his/her personality and record in electing leaders, you have leadership problem. This leads to other problem of corruption and incompetence we're suffering from.

If with around 4000MW of power, Nigeria has a GDP of $510billion, I believe we'll have nothing less than a trillion dollars with a constant and stable power.

GERALD710: Quality is better than Quantity.
South Africa is a healthy muscular athlete while Nigeria is an unhealthy kid who pushes his weight around.
Giant of Africa My Foot!!
Nigeria's Electricity production at its peak is 6,000 MW
South Africa stands at 45,000 MW.
Nigeria is the only nation I have heard of where Power production rises and falls.
Kenya,Egypt and S.A have constant power production.The only issues are surges in high density areas(Kenya,Egypt) ageing Infrastructure(Western Kenya) and extremely high demmand(S.A) otherwise,you will not find production fluctuations on the scale of Nigeria.
A visit to Johannesburg Cairo and Nairobi.
No running generators in any neighbourhood.
While Nigeria has towns that get only 6 hours of power a day. Kenya gets only 45 blackouts averaging 3 hours a year.This is an average with Northern and Western Kenya as well as Eastern Nairobi getting the most blackouts while Central Kenya and Eastern Kenya as well as the Coast and Western Nairobi getting the least. Universities get 3 blackouts lasting 6 hours a year for maintenance.
South Africa used to get less than 20 blackouts but these days they have increased.
Manufacturing.South Africa and Egypt are by far the leaders.Both Kenya and Nigeria have issues with Manufacturing but Nigeria has worse.mainly due to power supply (Nigeria) Kenya is more of Power cost.The difference is how the two tackled their power problem.Nigeria comtinues with power issues while Kenya already reduced the cost of power by 30% in September as it added cheaper geothermal power.
Nigerian supermarkets are dominated by South African brands while Kenyan and South African supermarkets are dominated by local brands (or international brands that manufacture locally).
One interesting part.Despite a large population.Nigeria boasts of only 2 properly fuctioninge vehicle assembling plants ;Nissan and Peugeot.
South Africa has Toyota BMW Mercedes GM Nissan Renault and Volkswagen
Kenya has Toyota (3 plants and an Academy.The first of its kind in Africa) Hino GM Foton Mobius and and local assemblers Thika Motors(Hyundai) Marshalls East Africa Car and General. CMC and Associated Motors.
Toyota has a strong history in S.A and Kenya.It arrived in S.A in 1961 and Kenya in 1967 and has been the dominant brand in both nations. (Except in Kenya between 2010 and 2013) since then.
This is the time Toyota is thinking of an Assembly plant in Nigeria?Despite being the top brand there tooI presume all Toyota vehicles were being imported from S.A with Japanese Engines,South African spare parts and Kenyan bodies.
Shows how bad your manufacturing sector is!!!

While you made few points, many of your assertions ain't true. You know little about the present day Nigeria. I believe your facts and figures about Nigeria are outdated, just like we never knew Nigeria's economy dwarfed that of SA years back, because the GDP figure we relied on was outdated, but we got to know just this year when a new GDP figure was released by the bodies in charge of the calculation.

While I mostly have a minimum of 22hrs of power supply a day where in reside in Nigeria, you still hold onto the outdated fact that most places in Nigeria have 6hrs power in a day.

Another one is your view that Nigeria has just two functioning vehicle assembling plants. This assertion would have been true seven years back, and not this time. There are presently way more functioning assembling plants right now, and those whose body are even designed built/manufactured in Nigeria. The IVM is one of them, located in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra.

Here is the table of vehicle assembling plants in Nigeria.

The GDP of southern Africa's power house (SA), plus that of the East Africa's (Kenya), combined with that of Ghana is still lesser than Nigeria's GDP

Naija, truly the Giant of Africa
Ain't easy.

Never knew Ghana had a higher GDP over Kenya.

It appears the choice has been made. Babatunde Fashola(SAN) now has a potential successor with whom he has some issues. The Christians seem to have had their say and their way. The politicians appear to have lost again to the technocrats. Akinwunmi Ambode, a Christian and a former accountant general in Lagos state, is not your typical professional politician, he can only boast of one or two years post- resignation political experience.

The “oracle of Bourdillon”, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is watching the unfolding drama of selection with keen interest. Tinubu does not talk much when it comes to choosing his anointed. His body language is enough. He does not like to be predictable when it comes to his choice. He knows how to get the message across to his ‘structure’. And they know how to decode his message(s) especially when it comes to “oga, tala ma dibo fun” (Asiwaju, who are we voting for?)

Undisputably, the governorship slot has been zoned to Lagos east. But who is the most favoured candidate of Asiwaju in Lagos east? Is it Gbenga Ashafa, a first term senator representing the district? Is it Abike Dabiri, the only lady contestant from the zone? Is it Leke Pitan, a medical Doctor and a former commissioner in Tinubu’s cabinet? Is it Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the honourable speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly? Is it Tola Kasali, also a former commissioner in Tinubu’s cabinet? Or is it Akinwunmi Ambode, a former accountant general in Lagos state?

I will not want to flatter myself to assume that I know Asiwaju’s disposition towards everyone of these aspirants since we all served under him and were all “made” by him. But with all sense of modesty, I can say that with my twenty three years of “reading and studying” Tinubu (our first meeting was in 1991 through Dapo Sarumi and my uncle, Dr. Segun Machado of blessed memory), I know one or two of the aspirants that he will never touch with a long pole. Anyway, that does not matter anymore. The agitation by the Christians for a Christian governor since the time of Michael Otedola, has helped Asiwaju in doing the shortlisting. From all indications, the two Christians on the list, Leke Pitan and Akin Ambode seem to have been automatically shortlisted while a muslim aspirant of substantial social influence in the state was put on standby in case of any political eventualities. Though he has not openly excluded anybody from the list, the wise ones among the aspirants have reduced their spending and their consultations. This is why the tempo of night politicking has gone down.

By now, if you are on the list and Asiwaju has not called you for a tete-a-tete, positive or negative, you are on your own. To members of the structure the message is clear that Asiwaju is inclined to the Christians’ agitation for a Christian governor. And of the two Christian aspirants, Pitan and Ambode, the codes being received from the symbol of the structure, are pointing towards Akin Ambode as the anointed or the ‘special one’. If Asiwaju is opting for Ambode, and not Pitan, does that mean the Pitan is not his favourite? Absolutely No. Aside from being a commissioner in Asiwaju’s Cabinet, Leke Pitan has consistently represented Tinubu at every function he (Tinubu) could not attend. Pitan is a loyal and influential member of the Tinubu group. The only disadvantage (if any), in my view, would be his age. Leke Pitan is nearer Sixty years that Ambode who was born in June 1963. Besides, Ambode is seen as a neutral choice being a technocrat. The choice of a politician could have triggered envy, jealousy, ripples, malice and misunderstanding among fellow politicians. During Tinubu’s administration, Ambode proved to be a very diligent, hardworking, committed, loyal and intelligent officer who never betrayed trust reposed in him.

With less than two years post- resignation political experience, the politicians are wondering if Ambode would not behave like Fashola who had a very testy relationship with Asiwaju during his first term in office. The Fashola hostility was so strong that most Asiwaju supporters believed that it was because he was not really a politician and had nothing to lose. In a worst case scenario, he would dust his law books, dry clean his silk and gown and goes back to his law profession.

As expected, Asiwaju Tinubu has denied ever trying to impose any candidate. It was an unnecessary denial because nobody has ever quoted him on this. Those who know him very well know that he is too meticulous and circumspect to make a pronouncement on his choice. He has a way of revealing his ‘anointed’ to his own people.

As stated earlier, the core politicians are always suspicious of the technocrats because they feel they are not always loyal and committed since they have nothing to lose politically. As much as one can refer to Ambode as a political neophyte, his resignation from office was contingent upon his desire to contest for an elective position. Right from the moment he resigned, he had told his very close friends and associates that his target was the governorship. Immediately after his resignation he went to inform Asiwaju Tinubu of his political intention. Whether there was an understanding or agreement between the two on what position to vie for remains a secret between the two of them. If therefore Asiwaju has indeed chosen him, it must have been a fulfillment of a pledge made to him when he resigned.

The truth is that Ambode’s resignation was necessitated by a frosty relationship he had with Babatunde Fashola. His reasons were never made public but circumstances of his departure were strangely awry. The thinking is that being a very strong Tinubu boy in Fashola’s cabinet, there was no way he would have resigned his appointment without clearance from Asiwaju Tinubu.

Fortunately for Ambode, his christian faith gave him an added advantage over others. Besides, Ambode is a very rugged and dogged fighter who remained focused to his ambition and never allowed himself to be distracted by the contemptuous way the politicians treated him. Even the mere mentioning of his name was evoking unmerited mockery. If today the name Ambode is echoing in the political circles as being the anointed, it was because both Ambose and Tinubu were faithful to the covenant between them when Ambode resigned.

Will Fashola be happy with the choice of Ambode as his successor knowing how much the two of them loathe each other? In this instance, he has no option because he lacks the political structure that can counter the formidable political machine of his predecessor. Fashola’s preferred choice was never configured as a relevant aspirant hence his complete isolation from all political equations. It is in Fashola’s interest to begin to see Ambode as a friend and his possible successor if he is to avoid another collision with Asiwaju. This is the time he should be reconciling with all those he might have offended these past seven years. In politics, personal animosities are secondary to political expediencies.

This is why I believe that the choice of Ambode is strategic to a greater political interest. Political leaders hardly make concessions on benevolence no matter the intensity of the pressure. If Christians see Ambode’s choice as a victory, they should not be reluctant to pay a price for this victory when those, nay he that chose Ambode requires their alliance in achieving a greater political objective. Until the whole game is played out, Ambode’s choice remains inchoate and it may require extra prayers by the Christians to avoid a replay of the Hakeem Gbajabiamila scenario. Let those on standby know that the whole process is between God and man.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/brfs-successor-is-ambode-the-final-choice/

Welcome back to amala politics my honourable people of Ekiti. I pray it won't get worse for you people in the next four or eight years. You've made your choice.

I just pray Mr. Jonathan doesn't start forming one cool big brother that's wanna be apprecited for being peace-loving by the "world bodies", when the French start to claim this said Island for their puppet, just like Obasanjo did.

Just tired of people of no pride, standard and diplomacy ruling this country.
Leant our Eastern neighbour already have their eye on Obudu in Cross-River state.
May be our eye 'll open when we're just left with the the Atlantic.

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Brahms: You don't have to quote me to chop "Likes".

I was being sarcastic. Have a nice day, Omoluabi.

Oh, my bad. Me no know...o

You too.

Even though I see Ajimobi as the best governor Oyo state has ever had since '99, he remains the least performing governor of all the ACN(APC SW) governors, when one compares the resources Oyo has with his performance.

His performance is below average. Too bad I don't see his oppositions (Ladoja of Accord party & Akala of the PDP) as better options.

Brahms: Kumuyi be careful o!

He should be careful for being frank, and not playing the religious politics that many of our men of GOD are used to? or because of the word "incompetent" he used?

I think he has ALWAYS been carful that's why he's one of the few pastors with no controversies in the nation today.

barcanista: guy no drag Deeper life into CAN/PFN and others madness. The DLBC has never ever been signatories to any of these groups neither have they formed collabo.

I know this and I am 500% sure.

You may be right.

barcanista: While Adeboye is a Politician,a flying jet Pastor, anointing political aspirant and an active member of the DISGRACEFUL CAN with some scandals here and there. Kumuyi has maintained a modest lifestyle, has never been involved in politics nor fraternize with politician and is not and has never been a member of CAN/PFN nor PDP. The difference is clear.

Note: I am not a Deeper Lifer nor a MOG fan!!!!!

Well...I can't judge.
You wouldn't know if Deeper life is a member of CAN or not, or any of these christain organisations, because one hardly read anything on them in the news. They've been more concerned about the spiritual wellbeing of the people, which is the proper thing the scripture commanded.

Pastor Williams Folorunsho Kumuyi of the DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY and his wife, with the governor of the state of Osun; Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola.