₦airaland Forum

A faction candidate is bragging!

At least each farmer will get 280gms of the seed,

“The incessant blasting of rocks had forced soldiers to mobilise many times as if enemies were around.”.....

flowjoe:
pls who can transfer via skrill to a kenyan number, I'll transfer the equivalent of 1000ksh to u
cc anyone

Open a Skrill account and do the transfer yourself and a transfer of $10.45 should amount to 1,000ksh. l have money in my number (Mpesa) but l do not need money in Nigeria.

It has really lost value! 1 Kenyan shilling is equal to N4.20 and we still dey form boss!

Pidggin:
The last time I passed through the East all I heard was Igbo, every single person was speaking it. Your assumptions are exaggerated, please visit any town in the East and see for yourself

I lived and worked in the rural areas of Anambra and Enugu for some years, igbo is what is spoken there but how many of their relatives living outside the East communicate in Igbo with their Children? I have relatives who are my age mates, also born and raised in Lagos but cannot communicate with me in Igbo! English is what is spoken to kids in most igbo homes outside the East, l respect parents who still stick to having their children speaking igbo at home.

newacca:
Innovation will never end, if reasoning and research never stop.

So true but sad that so little is originating from our own part of the world.

Pidggin:
People are feeding their families from their knowledge of English language. We should feel sorry for the majority of Northerners who are missing out on these opportunities

Never mistake nor tie the level of proficiency in the English language to economic empowerment. BBC did a documentary titled Forgetting Igbo (which l had saved into my phone while it was airing) which reflects how the Igbos are loosing their linguistic identity.

https://player.fm/series/documentaries-bbc-world-service/forgetting-igbo

I and my siblings were born and raised in Lagos but my parents ensured that what was spoken at home was only Igbo and that instilled deep proficiency of both parents dialects. Growing up we the kids only got to communicate in Yoruba and English outside our home, having neighbours from Mbaise, Mbano, Owerri, Nnewi, Orafite and Onitsha enriched and diversified our spoken igbo.

My proficiency in both the Igbo and Yoruba languages has opened doors for me outside Nigeria. There is nothing wrong in understanding and communicating in English language but not at the loss of one's linguistic identity as Italian, Japanese, Spanish, German etc will never give way to the English language.

blackpanda:
It is completely impossible for people from a particular part of the country to see MONEY and not STEAL. These people worship money, they can sell their mama just for money, not to talk of when they hold the treasury of a state. Efcc should just stop wasting its time there, cos even if u vote 1000 people into that seat, they will do exactly d same thing!

List the parts of Nigeria where their past and sitting governors have not mismanaged state resources?

Mynd44:
But a Muslim governor going to Mecca will draw certain reactions from us that can at best be described as unsavory

This is about an ex-Governor who is in Rome in relation to what pertains to his Faith. So if a Muslim Governor, either serving or past goes to Mecca for his pilgrimage what will be the "certain reactions"?

Adminisher:
If the gold is mined below six feet. It belongs to the FG . Only surface mined or panned gold belong to the owners. Kano people are not contending over deep minerals ownership with the FG just as Lagos people are not.

Insightful.

Peter Obi should go defend his name.

ironheart:
Buy a manual, its fun to drive and keeps u awake. Its not as bad as it looks. I drive a company truck and its manual. Most of the time you do not have to keep the clutch depressed, learn engine braking and stuffs like that. As a matter of fact this is my 8th month in lagos and i want to tell you that i love it. I am looking to pickup a manual car for myself soon. What a man can do, a woman can do as well. It will only make you smarter on the road compared to lazying around applying makeup in traffic like most ladies with automatic car do.

The bolded part got me in stitches!

Cubeet:
This Sheriff was sent by APC to destabili PDP, I thought as much tho.

APC paid Wike and Fayose to bring Sherrif in, so he could destabilize PDP?

“I have said to my brother that I wish him well with the dying baby they have put on his laps because PDP is comatose and he was of course not in PDP, he has never been in PDP until now. When I was in PDP, I tried and encouraged him to come and join PDP, but he did not come, but the PDP they have given him now is a dying PDP, a dying baby, it needs to be in intensive care, otherwise, he will just be an undertaker,” .

elmisti:
u acnt win a war fighting on two fronts.........
but if dat exchange rate correct , i wan port ooooooooooooooo

Actually 1 kenyan shilling is N4.20.

flokii:
Chai! See Naija life outsyd

That small Kenya

Small ke? Dem get bad mouth, home and abroad!

months:

na lie Nigeria is yoruba, get backk in the ring and chop kenya masai warrior beating.

Which kain masaai warrior beating? Abegi!

AsoRockz01:
While his Nigerian counterpart is a lawyer.
What does he know about the dynamic ict in the century and can he cope with the changes there of?

This government just compensated their cronies with appointment.

Truth be told, that position should be for a tested IT Pro not for political patronage.

aresa:
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I've moved past your boring nonsense..

I gave you the links you thought did not exist, it now becomes nonsense.

No matter how Nigeria form boss, it can not outrun Kenyans in marathons and no matter how Kenya wan form reach, it can not surpass Nigeria's landmass or population! Everybody get where im carry first!

Do have a nice life!

aresa:
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I was expecting you to show us the documented facts, figures and links to back up your kenya sims with and not the same bait and switch irrelevant rubbish..


Never lie or post rubbish you can not back up with facts..

Cancelling out the post of another reflects infantility, an indication that in the outside world you can not deal with dissenting views!

Back to the matter.

I posted how ICT is being deployed in the Agric sector to help small holder farmers increase yield and market,l was expecting you to show how our farmers are being helped by IT Start ups to gain the same but rather you were busy boasting how Nigerians have become Paypal's 3rd highest spender as if it is an achievement! Why dollar no go pass the N400 mark.

If Mobile money was a resounding success in Nigeria, why did the Facebook boss had to go Kenya to feel how it works, abi l lie about this one?


Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money? (Mind you The Economist is not a gossip nor a propaganda blog )

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-18

Ten Days in Kenya With No Cash, Only a Phone

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-05/safaricoms-m-pesa-turns-kenya-into-a-mobile-payment-paradise

Kenya’s mobile money story and the runaway success of M-Pesa

http://www.orfonline.org/expert-speaks/kenyas-mobile-money-story-and-the-runaway-success-of-m-pesa/

Africa's mobile money makes its way to Europe with M-Pesa (Na CNN report this one, I no cook am up )

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/20/tech/mobile/tomorrow-transformed-m-pesa-mobile-payments/

Kenya's mobile wallet tech expands to Eastern Europe

http://fortune.com/2014/05/09/kenyas-mobile-wallet-tech-expands-to-eastern-europe/

naijaking1:
Why is Bunmi not the minister instead of that old, dirty, and nasty looking man, whatever his name

Na part of the thing way heat up the thread o. Bunmi works under the Baba Minister the OP was comparing the youngie Kenyan minister that ICT falls under his ministry!

aresa:
We are talking about $155 billion electronic transactions and some Kenya loving joker is talking about some Kenya village $30 million rubbish..


This is what you get when some self hating people hate their own country so much that they think insignificant and far behind countries are better than their own country...


What a shame

We are taking about mobile money network within a country and you are bragging about how Nigeria has become PayPal’s 3rd largest mobile e-commerce market with transactions of $819 million expected in 2016.....Money going out of the economy not coming in o and you think that is development?

Why is Paypal not allowing Nigerians to receive funds through their platform without some bothering themselves using VPNs?! Why won't the Naira loose value even to the "small Kenya's shilling" as one million Kenyan shillings which used to exchange for N1.9m now exchanges for N4.2m!

Look for those in the IT sector and ask them where it is easier to deploy.

aresa:
I did not ask for fact less opinion, I asked for documents facts and links to back up your views with about Kenya and your sim card business and how it makes them better than Nigeria in ICT.


Back up your argument with facts, not your own personal opinion.

Verifiable facts not views. Take time to go through this links as l focus only just on agriculture which is my homezone,

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/05/kenya-smart-greenhouse-tomatoes-watering-farming

http://www.farmdrive.co.ke

http://wefarm.org

http://www.innovationiseverywhere.com/real-time-stock-price-african-farmers-case-study-connected-agriculture-m-farm-kenya/

OBAGADAFFI:
Kenyan got better ICT startup system than Nigeria.
Just visit our so called silicone valley in Yaba, you will never know something is going on except you're a developer.

The last pitch i attanted will show you how backward ICT INDUSTRY.

Everything here is copy and paste.

Our so called Mobil market is no generating any good income for developers.

Most of our banking FINTECH applications are from foreign developers.

Just check out JUMIA and KONGA operations for some months now, everything is dropping.

I am glad you are within the field and know what is on ground. Mobile money which is indigenous to Kenya and independent of the banking system has put them on the world map. So once you have a sim card you are financially included. Going by their Central bank report, an average of $30m (which is about N12bn) is moved daily across the mobile money networks and their agencies network engage over 200,000 people.

Just as one cash money from the agents in the first picture so can one cash money sent by relatives in the U.S from the village agent in picture 2. No one is left out once you have a sim card.

aresa:
1. The above is your first quote which was ignorance about Nigerian's ICT minister that I've already discredited and proven wrong with facts and links.

Bunmi Okunowo is the person in charge of Nigeria's ICT so thank me for that knowledge.


2. I still don't see any documented facts and evidence in your initial post so kindly cut and paste it here..

That is not my first of you rather your first of me.

I will not thank you because you passed no knowledge as the thread is about the Ministers who has the ICT sector under their Ministry!

I repost my questions.

Pavore9:
I work in Nairobi and still comfortable with my Nigerian passport. You think Nigeria deploy IT more than Kenya?.....Let us work with facts not sentiments!

Answer the following questions.

1. Can you in Nigeria receive International money transfer such as Moneygram, WesternUnion, Worldremit etc into your phone number that is not linked to any bank account?

2. Can you in Nigeria go to a nearby kiosk and top up your phone line with money and use a visa card that is exclusive to your phone number, go online and shop on Amazon, buy flight tickets, pay Skype subscription etc?

3. Can you go to a nearby shop on your street to go and cash money sent from anywhere in the world without visiting a bank?

4. Can you go to a nearby shop on your street with your ATM Card and use the Shop's POS to withdrawal money from your account or can also deposit money into your bank account or someone's own?

5. Can you use a Nokia 3310 to send money to the phone number of someone in the rural area and the person walks not less than 2 mins to cash the money?

6. Can someone anywhere in the world send you money straight to your phone number, then you go to a nearby shop to buy groceries and you pay the owner by sending the total amount to the shop's code?

7. Do you use your Glo, MTN, Airtel or Etisalat line to pay for services such as Uber Taxi, that is also in Nigeria?

8. Can farmers in Nigeria who owns greenhouses use a phone as basic as Nokia 3310 wherever he/she is in Nigeria to control the temperature of their greenhouses or schedule when crops will be watered?

9. Why do IT giants prefer their regional base in Nairobi as against Lagos or Abuja?

I am Patriotic but facts are sacred!

aresa:
What was your question again?

Please post relevant facts about your Kenya sim cards and how because of this, Kenya's ICT is larger than Nigeria before I discuss that with you.


Documented facts first.

Check my first quote of you.

UrennaNkoli:
Sudan of all countries...

Shebi she don qualify as doctor?

aresa:
Pay strong attention to the red highlight about Kenya ICT. A lot of ICT noise in Kenya, but not a lot of success or successful ICT businesses.



That did not come from me obviously so what's your point..


And Nigeria is the largest mobile market in Africa and even more mobile presence than the entire population of Kenya..

While awaiting your answers to my questions in the first page, Kenya is not even up to 25% of Nigeria in terms of population, so expectedly there are more phone users in Nigeria but the value of a sim card in Kenya out weighs that of a sim card in Nigeria because outside data, calls and sms, it serves as a means to receive and send transfers, get loans from banks through credit ratings of the telcos operating the mobile money networks.

A Kenyan bank, KCB has within 2 years given out loans of about N42bn through the sim cards, what is the value of the sim card in Nigeria?

http://www.kassfm.co.ke/new/index.php/component/k2/item/1585-kcb-m-pesa-loan-disbursements-cross-ksh10b-mark

No victimization here as na dem they report themselves.

GBTYO:
Nigerians generally come out above average on the African scene but never always a leader in anything.

Our only comparative advantage in Africa is our population of majority illiterate northerners so that is not neccessarily a good thing.

We never seem to excel above board.

This is seen in the movie industry . While Nigeria produces on average annually about 10,000 films a year mainly shot with digital cameras, Mali and Senegal may only produce 2 to 3 films a year shot on celluliod tape and directed brilliantly enough that they are short listed for screening in Cannes film festival each year.


We bring a lot of quantity but not much quality.

[size=18pt]Our IT isn't innovative but replicative. [/size]

We just adopt IT models from the west and give it a 9ja tinge unlike Kenyans who are using their IT skills to improve the lives of their people.

At the end of the day, IT in Nigeria is restricted mostly to social media nonsense while we see Kenyans adopting solutions with IT applications in their daily lives and this is making a significant headway in terms of innovation

Why would I want to invest in scripters who are now a dime a dozen when I need problem solving individuals?

You captured my thought! We need unique solutions.

In an estate in Nairobi where l lived, the big supermarket there had an app from where l shop when l do not feel like going there myself. What l ordered for were delivered to my place by one of their dispatch guys, he comes with the receipt and l confirm it tallies with what was brought. I then send money (the amount on the receipt) to the Supermarket's code and get an instant confirmation sms of the payment, then forward the confirmation sms to the dispatch guy's phone and off he goes.

Kelechi2020:
Even the overhyped mark recognized Kenya as the leader in mobile money.... The difference is too clear...

Our arrogance don tire me! There are things we will have edge over others in while there are things others will be better than us in! Because of my credit history with one of their mobile networks am free to borrow about $500 at an interest of 6% for 30days. I see am collect for Nigeria?