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Obiagu1: Yoruba people and hospitality

how far, wetin bring Yoruba come the matter now? Even this post don dey since 2010, shine your eye

Why won't he make such a statement? oh, I guess because of reasons like this: https://www.nairaland.com/1001488/nigerian-senators-earn-more-than

No wonder it's a do or die thing

A Nigerian senator earns more in Salary than Barack Obama of the US and David Cameron of the UK. I'll leave you to tell how much Nigerian president goes home with at the end of each month. An Indian lawmaker must work for at least 49 years to earn the annual salary of a Nigerian senator.

In the United States, while the minimum wage is $1,257 (N191, 667), a US lawmaker earns $15,080 (N2.3m) per month. In the United Kingdom, a lawmaker earns $8,686(N1.3m) monthly while the gross national minimum wage is $1,883 (N283, 333) per month. Also, Nigerian lawmakers earn higher than their counterparts in Sweden. With a monthly pay of $7,707 (N1.2m), a lawmaker in Sweden will need to work for over 12 years to equal what a Nigerian senator earn per annum.

The president of the United States takes home an anual salary of $400,000 (N64.156,0m), including a $50,000 expense allowance making the president the highest paid public servant in the US. The $400,000 includes everything and $350,000 out of it is taxable.

Selected States (salary per annum)
The prime minister of the United Kingdom......USD 226,627.00
French president......................................... USD 318,072.00
South African president................................USD 296,112.00
German chancelor........................................USD 296,112.00
The Prime Minister of Belgium.......................USD 174,804.00
President of the Republic of Korea.................USD 136,669.00
President of Russia.......................................USD 122,652.00
Prime Minister Portugal.................................USD 129,730.00
Prime Minister Namibia.................................USD 115,155.00
President of Angola......................................USD 60,000.00
President Argentina......................................USD 55,139.00
Prime Minister Ukraine..................................USD 61,254.00
President Zimbabwe.....................................USD 18,000.00
President of People's republic of China...........USD 10,633.00
President Liberia..........................................USD 90,000.00
Prime Minister Spain ...................................USD 102,960.00
Prime Minister Namibia................................USD 115,155.00
President Namibia.......................................USD 164,506.00
President of Colombia ................................USD 120,685.00
Prime Minister of the Netherlands.................USD 190,740.00
Prime Minister Ireland.................................USD 264,000.00
Prime Minister Denmark..............................USD 264,533.00
President Mexico........................................USD 328,839.00
USD 328,839.00 ........................................USD 427,886.00
President Austria........................................USD 422,231.00
President of the European Council................USD 508,916.00

NIGERIAN SENATORS
Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50

Hardship Allowanc: 50% of Basic Salary = N1,242,122.75

Constituency allowance: 200% of BS = N4,968,509.00

Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS = N7,452,736.50

Newspaper allowance: 50% = N1,242,122.70

Wardrobe allowance: 25% = N621,061.37

Recess Allowance: 10% = N248,424.55

Accommodation: 200% = N4,968,509.00

Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83

Domestic Staff: 35% = N863,184.12

Entertainment: 30% = N828,081.83

Personal Assistance: 25% = N621,061.37

Vehicle Maintenance Allowance: 75% = N1,863,184.12

Leave Allowance : 10% = N248,424.55

One off payments (Severance gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50

Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of BS = N9,936,982.00

Total per month = N29, 479, 749.00

A senator's anual salary = over N182 million
multiply by 109 senators (don't forget the House of rep, ministers, ambassadors, ...)

In addition to the regular and legitimate salaries and allowances of over N17 million ($113,333) and N14.99 million ($99,933) which senators and reps were collecting yearly and the irregular allowance of estacodes, duty tours etc, they were also collecting over N192m ($1.28m) and N140m ($0.93m) respectively in illicit quarterly allocation which is not provided for by RMAFC.

Effectively, a Nigerian senator was taking home at least $1.40m ($1.28m quarterly allocations + $0.113m regular salaries and allowances) as against the $0.174m an American senator takes home hence a Nigeria senator earns at least 8 times as much as an American senator and more than 3 times the American president.

Whereas a Senator in the U.S earns N21, 146,000, the same as a member of the House of Representatives; a UK Member of Parliament earn £64,766 (N14, 896,180)

In other words, a Federal Legislator in Nigeria is paid more than double what a Member of British Parliament earns per annum.

Senate President David Mark alone takes N250 million quarterly or N83.33 million per month. Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu gets N150 million per quarter or N50 million a month.

Mark and Ekweremadu earns in 4 months, six times what the UK Prime Minister earns in a year. David Cameron goes home with £190,000 per anum (N43, 700,000)

In a newspaper news article entitled ‘An Assembly for looting’ written by Musikilu Mojeed with Elor Nkereuwem, the authors rightly claimed that each of the 360 members of the House of Representatives were getting N35 million in cash money in quarterly allocation while each of the 109 Senators pockets N48 million each. These allocations have however been slashed by 20% to N27 million ($180,000) and N38 million ($253,333) respectively due to the 20% reduction requested by the late president.

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The will of GOD be done IJN, Amen

Willy7: My brother talking about hiding identities,it wont be easy because by their words u will be able to decifer who is who when communicating.For example,[b]if u should hear someone say Satelite pictures in d course of discussion,wouldnt u knw who is talking?[/b]Anyway its a good idea to hv such a get together but i doubt it ending peacefully sha,cos personally i hv some miscreant here i dnt want to meet or else,they may not live to tell d story

Musiwa of course

chucky234: This is a very good idea and a welcome one at that,please all Nairalanders should have their username written on a shit of paper and tag to their shirts for easy identification as that's the only way one easily spot his rivals and put them in their place.
Joke apart this is a welcome idea and I am 100% in support of the idea
Muson center in Onikan area of Lagos will be a perfect venue.
Can you imagine the so many surprise packages like Billyonaire being a poor church rat or Beaf being a Akin-Pawpaw size man with eddy(big head), this will be fun and I can't wait for the D-day, December will be a perfect month for the NL party.

espn: no 1 hate each oda here..we may differ in ideas..ideology,,buh we aint enemies..its al in d name of making dis country a better place..party or no party..dnt rily care..buh we nt enemies..if I v issue wif u it starts nd end here!

GOD bless you man

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igbo boy: Nothing do u as long as the pay good.....

But bros come, I fit bring ACN come east if una pay me correct ego, we go commot APGA and PDP. How you reason am?

you self won chop your own, chop make i chop

bashr8: mumuism

WTF , just searched for mumuism nothing like that. Any other word to qualify please?

Malawian: i have read on several sites now about how the present U.S president is not the son of an african immigrant from kenya but rather that of an african american rights activist named Frank mashal davies. Dont know how true this is, but if it were true, can we guess the origins of the said frank mashal davies? It has been documented that igbo slaves were the most rebelious of the lot and were always leadind any revolt against oppression. Could this right activist have been of igbo descent? What does that make of barak obama. Could an igbo man already be at the whitehouse without us knowing? Our GOD works in a mysterious way really.

Your user name defines you No be only Igbo. na Ijaw man, a fisherman indeed.

saxywale: OAU is a federal university. The poster was referring to states university.

Your head dey there. My mistake

chino11: Dagbo project. Where is any picture to show this fake project, well we know that its just one of those newspaper projects- courtesy of yoreoba party acn

Do you think you can survive without mentioning this people just for a day? . I doubt it

For this debate, I never ear PDP .

hahahaha PDP no enter top 2 leading party for Ondo, e don finish for them

sojiboy: i swear Mimiko will win.In education he has standout of d rest.D cheapest University in s/w today is AAU Akungba whch is less dan #30k compare Lasu(250k and above),EKSU(150k and above) Uniosun,OOU etc.sincerely,Tinbu is an emperor.i dnt knw why Yorubas re worshipin him.Mimiko work in Ondo state is d best in d history of Ondo and d best serving governor in s/w today.he will win.Truout my i.t in akure i ve seen alot in his development agenda.akure is beta dan lagos now cos Mimiko didnt put tolls fee on road like Fashola did.see Rinuba want to turn himself to commander in chief of southwest politics and it wont work.Iroko yi jooooo gbasibe

Bro you no do your research well o. OAU(Obafemi Awolowo University.A K A Oba Awon University ) is paying not up to [i]N[/i]8000 per year, go confirm.

bonna4u: Don't mind the ignorant fellow. They cancelled 4 zeros from the useless cedis. Ghanians still call 1 cedis 10000. When I visited that pithole in fabuary, the guy that changed my naira to cedis told me that N102=10000 (then 1cedi=N102). I was confused until he showed me that 10000 is 1cedi note to my amazement.

Tolexander: man u make sense jare. Continue publicising knowledge to nullify the handiwork of those publicizing ignorance

People here need enlightenment. You guys should do the simple maths, if one day Nigeria also re-decimalize s her currency, by cancelling two zeros(0). Then N83= N0.083, which is the same as 0.83kobo.
Then present 1GHc=0.83kobo, not up to a Naira.

dasparrow: @Post

That's good that the yoruba monarchs are reuniting. I wish the artificial boundaries once drawn in Africa by colonialists could be redrawn and this time by Africans. Let all those with same or similar cultural and linguistic ties share a country. If this was the case to begin with, we won't see all the ethnic strife we see on our continent today.

Very correct.

Bimfo: Thank God he dint make the trip to Nigeria... It would have been a disaster Btw Nigeria and Ghana... The two countries are not in good terms at all... But y should they be?? When 1 Ghana cedi, is equal to ₦83.
WHAT A FAILED STATE WE CALL NIGERIA... All those our Leaders should be tied to the Stake and Burnt to Nothin...

What Ghana did is called re-decimalization of their currency by cancelling 2-3 zeros(0) from it. That doesn't change the value of the currency. Last time I went to Ghana, I understood it better. The 1 Ghana cedi you're comparing with N83 has totally different value. What you can buy with that 1 Ghana cedi is not close to what you can buy withN83. If Nigeria also re-decimalize her currency, does that changes the value? It's not

OSOGBO—The need for a united Yoruba nation resonated when two of the three children of Okanbi, son of legendary Oduduwa, founder of Yoruba ethnic group, but rulers of different cities in Republic of Benin, paid a solidarity visit to their kith and kin in Ila-Orangun, Osun State, Monday.

The host, Orangun of Ila and paramount ruler of Igbominaland, Oba Wahab Oyedotun, set the tone in his welcome address as he emphasised on the need for closer ties among the people of the Yoruba nation.

Oba Oyedotun, who gave kudos to the Onisabe of Sabeland, Benin Republic, for initiating the visit, stressed the need for greater and tighter relationship, first among the monarch sons of Okanbi and other Yoruba in general.

The Orangun stated that a united Yoruba nation would be a catalyst for the growth and development of the race. Oba Oyedotun used the occasion to emphasis the sacredness of the position of Yoruba Obas and the strategic position they occupy in the governance and administration of their people and called on governments at all levels to accord them respect and proper recognition in all ramifications.

In his goodwill message, Asiwaju of Ila- Orangun and former governor of the state, Chief Bisi Akande, traced the history of Yoruba and established the existence of the seven sons of Okanbi whose father, Oduduwa, founded the Yoruba nation.

Akande, who quoted from books published by Professor Banji Akintoye and Rev. Samuel Johnson, emphasised that there was no doubt about the blood affinity of Olowu, Alaketu, Oba of Benin, Orangun, Onisabe, Olupopo and Oranmiyan of Oyo, saying it was heart-warming that they were re-uniting after they were artificially separated, first by a series of destabilisation and tribulations and later by colonialists.

Alaketu of Ketu and Olupopo of Popo expressed joy at the possibility of the reunion meeting, saying it was a dream come true to interact fully with their kith and kin who had been inaccessible due to the artificial boundary created by those who do not know their historical affinity.

The duo expressed happiness at the benefit of detailed history which established what they used to know on the periphery before now, stressing that it was the thick blood that set them to find a way of making the visit which has come to pay off and which will commence a new thing in the future of Yoruba nation.

wow

lagcity: aaahh! Igbo man wan push Yoruba comot for country! Why u wan make we leave na? the oil never dry , we sef neva ready, wetin be ur own?

Guy you no well o

So na oil dey make una dey preach one Nigeria Awo get brain o.
After oil dry una go won commot . But i think say una get for Lagos, Ondo & Ogun naa

youngies: Care too share data that supports your assertion?

When the whole of S/East is not more the landmass of Oyo state.

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odumchi: This is an accurate map of the Igbo-speaking territories of Africa. This area currently overlaps 9 Nigerian states.

[img]http://www.ub.uib.no/elpub/1996/h/506001/korieh/map2.gif[/img]

Bro if that's the case, don't forget that we have enough numbers of yourubas in Kogi, Edo and Delta(Itsekiri).

[quote author=Sky-walker]Religion and politics should never mix. Pastor Bakare should know that. He cant be talking down on the President live all in the name of religion.[/quote]When did talking down on the president become a sin? Only in Nigeria I guess. Bro it's not so anywhere

obxddon: I keep begging people on here not to smoke before they post anything.....Wet weed is bad for your brain..
The man in question is not speaking for the igbo people in Lagos,how many igbo people belong to his so-called organization in Lagos and some people should stop generalizing wen some one from a section of the country says anything,Don't use it to generalize and insult other people from that tribe because they said something.

I have met a lot of Yoruba people that are backstabbers and snitch,some that are dirty,some that are cowards....Dat does not mean that is how the rest Yoruba people are,..I have met Ibo men that can kill for money,sell their daughter during marraige and also enjoy kidnap business but not all the ibos do that,.......I have met warri and Binnin people who have no other jobs but 419 and are very fetish in nature yet that are hundreds of people from that area that are Godly and very nice.......

Once again people who write rubbish and try to tribalize and generalize..please stop smoking wet weed before you comment on topics on this site.

I had to sign in to like and quote your post. GOD bless you with this post, never knew we still have some reasonable people here on NL. Again, GOD bless you man.

kandiikane: Ileke vs anything igbo.


Isn't patisobe fstranger? Shymexx isn't fstranger- if that's what you meant.

Yeah, you're right.
I think this should also be in the list

Beaf VS all yorubas(most time Gbawe & Alj Hareem)
Bluetooth VS all igbos
Ileke idi, Ekt bear VS Beaf
Beaf VS anything relating to ACN

I doubt it if anyone who has ever been to NL(politics) in the three years doesn't know beaf. I give it to the guy.

peckhamboi: Is this man a Nigerian?/

Bro I tire o. That guy is not normal, u go say I talk am one day.

Eko Ile: Just look at the front page, it's Fashola commissions this and Fashola unveils that....


Eko o ni baje lai lai

O baje ti......

otumfour: ^^^ petro! abeg ask the bobo wht he go do u if u quote am.......kwasiaba, am sure he won't be able to reply now cuz his generator fuel got run out.......I can only picture how dark their neighborhoods wud look like @ night......tho I'v seen it a couple of times in their movies, its always obvious the house they shooting the movie in, is the only house wit light in the whole neighborhood....wit a an ocean of darkness @ the background

Good for you. you're happy now?

PetroDolla: My guy, you dey craze? Who are you, a nigerian, to tell me what to do and what not to do? You sound very fuellish. Fuc-k you!

Grow up and stop kidding. Those highlighted words are for little ones. My bro, be a man of yourself.
Peace....