₦airaland Forum

May God punish all the brain behind this.... Causing more inflation thereby making it looks like everything is fine in this country.

Brendaniel:
That is you people who supported them to cage you, I hope you are satisfied with what you people have achieved supporting Tinubu...

yes am a full supporter and don't intend to back down now


But on this I don't like it all

Been a supporter and seen truth and ignored is the mediocrity of understand what you stand for

AmazingELixir:
Are you sure you read and understood what he said....i seriously recommend you read through again...this time slowly.

What did you read that the rest of us didn't. Keep quiet if you have nothing to write.
So the solution to stopping payment of hundreds of thousands for the passports is to increase the cost? 200k is not hundreds of thousands in your thinking.
Or you people want the rest of us to be as f00lish?

casualobserver:
Compare your productivity to those countries and you will see why you can’t afford most things in Nigeria.

For example, An average South African worker has an annual output 8 times that of a Nigerian worker. Yet the Nigerian wants to be at par with him. You spend all your time in church. Night vigil etc.

Nigeria is the only country I know where it takes 4/5/6 people to do the job of 1 person. Nigeria is the only country I have been to where you employ someone all day to sit down and tear receipts at supermarket exits. When 6 people are doing the work of 1 person, those six people will share the wages of 1 person.

All international passports are standardized, the machines that print them are all the same from the same companies like Delarue. The cost of production is almost the same. Delarue is not going to give Nigeria a discount on its printing machines or security papers used for passports because it takes 4 Nigerian workers to do the job it takes only 1 person elsewhere.

The standard of living Nigerians moan about is a reflection of the poor level of productivity of a Nigerian worker. It takes 4-6 workers to perform the task of 1 worker elsewhere. Poor education, poor skills, poor work ethic, poor culture, low productivity. If you produce a product in Nigeria using 5 workers instead of 1 elsewhere, you can’t charge 5x the price because you have 5 workers or your products won’t sell. You are competing with countries who produce the same product with 1 worker….so the 5 workers will share the salary meant for 1 person elsewhere. That is why your standard of living is low!

You tried very well.
Your analysis is from the standpoint that Nigerians need to be slaving like the way we are made to when working in some Indian/Chinese/Korean/Lebanese companies daily from Sunday to Sunday and from 9 to 6 and at the end of ones life's span, there's absolutely nothing to look back on because even the pay package is to ensure one remains a slave.


Every country has its way of operation and it works for them. The only issue we are having with ours is that the government and system has made it look like the people has refused to be unproductive.

Brendaniel:
When I was telling Tinubu supporters in 2023 that you guys don't know the damage you've just done to Nigeria [b]by making Tinubu president, they thought I was being political, you made an insane heartless human being your president because of tribal, religious or political affiliation just to hate on a certain people thinking you were doing them [/b]

BAT made himself president. If the elections were down to his supporters, he wont be where he is today. How will I burn the midnight candle to pass exams when the lecturer is my paddy ?

SwayG:
200k for a passport that doesn't have any value out there.

If you see the way they treated me when I got to ordinary South Africa, they searched all Nigerians like we were Thieves and detained us for hours asking us various questions.

Na only verification I dey use the passport do now

Tell your brothers and sisters to stop misbehaving in other people's land, then they will start treating Nigerians well worldwide

I have always supported every reformative policy by Minister Tunji-Ojo since he took office but this increase in passport price is counterproductive and more so his reason for the increase. It's simply preposterous to go from 35k to 100k for such an important document.

I think he should do a revisit of this decision because it's so unpopular no matter the political divide you are on as a Nigerian.

Na everybody go hear both APC ,LP, ADC, PDP Power no go for ever 100 % sure

"The increase comes barely a year after the Federal Government approved an earlier adjustment in August 2024, which raised the 32-page, five-year booklet from N35,000 to N50,000, and the 64-page, 10-year booklet from N70,000 to N100,000."
The Agbado sifu is really something
Ineptitude and recklessness ftom all angles

tunji ojo is not normal at all. He's not ok.

And this government is playing with Nigerians.. we have been taken for granted.

AmazingELixir:
Are you sure you read and understood what he said....i seriously recommend you read through again...this time slowly.

Tell us what you read and let's assess your own level of comprehension.

In the quest to justify and make a case for the increment, the controller or whoever it was said he himself paid XYZ to get his 12-year a passport. Mind you, the other reasons he stated were the same as those from one year ago when the prices were increased from 25 to 50k

Perhaps, you're the one that needs to reread the piece again.

SwayG:
200k for a passport that doesn't have any value out there.

If you see the way they treated me when I got to ordinary South Africa, they searched all Nigerians like we were Thieves and detained us for hours asking us various questions.

Na only verification I dey use the passport do now

Keep d marketing your country and expect to be treated as a King.
Learn to speak well of your country and leaders

bewla:
yes am a full supporter and don't intend to back down now


But on this I don't like it all

Been a supporter and seen truth and ignored is the mediocrity of understand what you stand for

Don't mind him. Some of them think because you support a government you shouldn't be objective on issues that matter.
That's why many of them did not believe that Hope Uzodinma of Imo increased minimum wage in his state simply because they don't like him but once it's a report about Alex Otti farting they call it cooking gas. Let the man change party today and watch them hate even the air he breathes.

jaxxy:
tunji ojo is not normal at all. He's not ok.

And this government is playing with Nigerians.. we have been taken for granted.

What do you need passport for?
If not for traveling.
100k for five years validity is not bad.

You have money that is why you want to travel.

Antoeni:
Japa is expensive.
Food is expensive.
Cars are expensive.
Rents are expensive.
Flights are expensive.
Ransom is expensive.
Passport is expensive.
Marriage is expensive.
Road trips are expensive.
Medical bills are expensive.

WHAT DID I FORGET?

Death, my brother,cus your relatives must squeeze out millions to give you a "proper" burial.

bixton:
You tried very well.
Your analysis is from the standpoint that Nigerians need to be slaving like the way we are made to when working in some Indian/Chinese/Korean/Lebanese companies daily from Sunday to Sunday and from 9 to 6 and at the end of ones life's span, there's absolutely nothing to look back on because even the pay package is to ensure one remains a slave.


Every country has its way of operation and it works for them. The only issue we are having with ours is that the government and system has made it look like the people has refused to be unproductive.

You are being emotional, I am giving you the reality.

We live in a global world, the price of most products is the same all over the world, ex shipping and taxes.. If the international price of crude is say $70 a barrel. The market does not care if it costs you $10 to produce a barrel like in Saudi or $30-40 in Nigeria due to insecurity, corruption, theft, inefficiencies etc. Both will get $70 for their crude, Saudi will pocket $60, Nigeria will collect $30-40 and then share that with its JV partners because it did not invest in its production capabilities. So for every barrel of crude Saudi pockets $60 while Nigeria is lucky to get $15-20.

You have a 1000ha field of rice or corn, A South African, American uses 1 machine and one trained skilled operator to plant, and harvest. The Nigerian uses 300 workers on the same acreage. The price of the corn or soya is the same on the international market. The wages of 1 American worker and 1 machine is shared amongst 300 Nigerian workers. That’s why the American worker is paid well and the Nigerian worker isn’t. Why is the Nigerian worker willing to work for such low wages? Because he hasn’t got the skills or the work ethic of the American worker.

Like I said if it takes 5 people to do the work of one person, those 5 people will share the wages of 1 person. The reason why the 5 workers agree to be paid such is because they are poorly educated, lack skills, have poor work ethic etc. otherwise they would quit and get a better paying job.

The reason why an able bodied man agrees to be paid peanuts to sit down all day tearing receipts in a supermarket is because he hasn’t got the education, skills, work ethic or innovation to get a better job. The reason why a supermarket employs him for such a mundane task is because that is his economic value. If he demands more he will be sacked because the employer will realise it is more economical to implement a technology based solution. Another good example are road sweepers. It is more efficient to deploy mechanical road sweepers but we employ humans because they are cheap, again they are cheap because they are unskilled. If they demand more, the local govt will sack them and employ machines.

Are you seeing the pattern? You have no education, no skills, no work ethic, no innovation and you compare your standard of life to countries that are the opposite of you?

That’s the harsh reality.

A few years ago, I went to the furniture shop at mega plaza and ordered some furniture. It was a Friday and He gave me a date for production and delivery on Monday and I asked the Lebanese if they could hurry it up and get is ready earlier. He said left to him he would, his words were “but you know your people have to go to church”. That sums up the Nigerian worker.

Insane........madness and unprofessional. I would explain only if u ask me but take it from me. That's what it is.

2tpick:
BAT made himself president. If the elections were down to his supporters, he wont be where he is today. How will I burn the midnight candle to pass exams when the lecturer is my paddy ?

But he needed evidence to back up his forgery, even if the lecturer is your paddy you still have to at least come to seat for the exam, that's what the supporters are were there for, more like attendance as evidence for forgery...

bewla:
yes am a full supporter and don't intend to back down now


But on this I don't like it all

Been a supporter and seen truth and ignored is the mediocrity of understand what you stand for

keep supporting ehn and keep crying from the damage you are doing to yourself

casualobserver:
You are being emotional, I am giving you the reality.

We live in a global world, the price of most products is the same all over the world, ex shipping and taxes.. If the international price of crude is say $70 a barrel. The market does not care if it costs you $10 to produce a barrel like in Saudi or $30-40 in Nigeria due to insecurity, corruption, theft, inefficiencies etc. Both will get $70 for their crude, Saudi will pocket $60, Nigeria will collect $30-40 and then share that with its JV partners because it did not invest in its production capabilities. So for every barrel of crude Saudi pockets $60 while Nigeria is lucky to get $15-20.

You have a 1000ha field of rice or corn, A South African, American uses 1 machine and one trained skilled operator to plant, and harvest. The Nigerian uses 300 workers on the same acreage. The price of the corn or soya is the same on the international market. The wages of 1 American worker and 1 machine is shared amongst 300 Nigerian workers. That’s why the American worker is paid well and the Nigerian worker isn’t. Why is the Nigerian worker willing to work for such low wages? Because he hasn’t got the skills or the work ethic of the American worker.

Like I said if it takes 5 people to do the work of one person, those 5 people will share the wages of 1 person. The reason why the 5 workers agree to be paid such is because they are poorly educated, lack skills, have poor work ethic etc. otherwise they would quit and get a better paying job.

The reason why an able bodied man agrees to be paid peanuts to sit down all day tearing receipts in a supermarket is because he hasn’t got the education, skills, work ethic or innovation to get a better job. The reason why a supermarket employs him for such a mundane task is because that is his economic value. If he demands more he will be sacked because the employer will realise it is more economical to implement a technology based solution. Another good example are road sweepers. It is more efficient to deploy mechanical road sweepers but we employ humans because they are cheap, again they are cheap because they are unskilled. If they demand more, the local govt will sack them and employ machines.

Are you seeing the pattern? You have no education, no skills, no work ethic, no innovation and you compare your standard of life to countries that are the opposite of you?

That’s the harsh reality.

A few years ago, I went to the furniture shop at mega plaza and ordered some furniture. He gave me a date for production and delivery and I asked the Lebanese if they could hurry it up and get is ready earlier. He said left to him he would, his words were “but you know your people have to go to church”. That sums up the Nigerian worker.

Just a simple question....


Is the USA budget as fixed by the POTUS or whoever does it based on the price of crude oil ?

OS is expensive too

Antoeni:
Japa is expensive.
Food is expensive.
Cars are expensive.
Rents are expensive.
Flights are expensive.
Ransom is expensive.
Passport is expensive.
Marriage is expensive.
Road trips are expensive.
Medical bills are expensive.

WHAT DID I FORGET?

bixton:
Just a simple question....


Is the USA budget as fixed by the POTUS or whoever does it based on the price of crude oil ?

Of what relevance is that? Every country bases its budget on projected revenue, whatever that source of revenue may be. In America, taxes are a major source of revenue, do you pay the same taxes as in America?

Please note, oil has not been a major source of revenue for Nigeria for a long time now. Oil is only relevant to Nigeria because it is our major source of foreign exchange. Infact it has been surpassed by diaspora remittances, though that is likely to revert due to increased production.

Oil is only about 15% of our economy believe it or not.

Oil is important to Nigeria mainly for forex, oil is important to America mainly for cost of living and inflation.

casualobserver:
Of what relevance is that? Every country bases its budget on projected revenue, whatever that source of revenue may be. In America, taxes are a major source of revenue, do you pay the same taxes as in America?

Please note, oil has not been a major source of revenue for Nigeria for a long time now. Oil is only relevant to Nigeria because it is our major source of foreign exchange. Infact it has been surpassed by diaspora remittances, though that is likely to revert due to increased production.

Oil is only about 15% of our economy believe it or not.

With your response I think you need to go and check the many faults in your previous post.

No one can solve any problem through the wrong patterns. The economics of solving problems in Nigeria is very very faulty and many so called economist are missing it whenever it has to do with Nigeria as a country and it gets worse when even people fromthe private sector are made to run and head over the Nigerian systems.

Technically, you want to reduce the number of people trying to run from this country, well it's good, let's see if the rush at their office will decline, we die here!!

bixton:
With your response I think you need to go and check the many faults in your previous post.

No one can solve any problem through the wrong patterns. The economics of solving problems in Nigeria is very very faulty and many so called economist are missing it whenever it has to do with Nigeria as a country and it gets worse when even people fromthe private sector are made to run and head over the Nigerian systems.

The problem with the Nigerian masses is they are poor educated, poorly skilled, lack good work ethic, too religious, lazy and most importantly have a sense of entitlement. If I can do something without employing a Nigerian I do. The average Nigerian worker generates more stress than any value or output they provide.

Passport is N100k, if you can afford it fine, if not too bad, work harder.

Argue with yourself on the rest. I am done here.

casualobserver:
The problem with the Nigerian masses is they are poor educated, poorly skilled, lack good work ethic, too religious, lazy and most importantly have a sense of entitlement. If I can do something without employing a Nigerian I do. The average Nigerian worker generates more stress than any value or output they provide.

Passport is N100k, if you can afford it fine, if not too bad, work harder.

Argue with yourself on the rest. I am done here.

I have been waiting for the bolded to come forth. The same people who don't even know what is hard work or working hard do that and make it like others don't do anything.
Kudos to your sensibilities. You are just the typical Nigerian politician who would turn around some day on their talk because they only talk for the present and not consider the future.

Alliswell248:
What do you need passport for?
If not for traveling.
100k for five years validity is not bad.

You have money that is why you want to travel.

it is criminal! poor and average people should be travel. it is not ment for only looting politicians abs their kids. What is ur minimum wage paid to ur citizens?

U can't give ur citizens the basic standard of living but u can taxes them to death?

When passport was #35k in 2023, I got my express for #80k. Now that it's #100k, express will now be #200k.with other sorting here and there.

Seems everyone is in agreement now that Tinumbu is strangulating Nigerians.... I thought some people will be exempted from the strangulation....so, finally we are all in it together... Good.

bixton:
I have been waiting for the bolded to come forth. The same people who don't even know what is hard work or working hard do that and make it like others don't do anything.
Kudos to your sensibilities. You are just the typical Nigerian politician who would turn around some day on their talk because they only talk for the present and not consider the future.

Blocked!

A passport is not a right it is a privilege go and verify. Govt is not a travel agency. You simply confirmed by previous comments about a Nigerian workers and their low productivity and entitlement mentality

NewHe:
Comprehension dey worry you!
He said in past, he had to pay extra just like other Nigerians to procure the booklet emphasising corruption in the systems!
The PCOs actually collected compulsory N5k aside the N35k i paid online when I went for capturing but I got it 2weeks later.

Na you comprehension dey worry
So you paid 40k overall to get it and now have to pay 200k to get it
How's it any better

badoh:
That's the only part you could point out. The innovations they are bringing to improve efficiency and curb corruption doesn't concern you. May be they should return to the old era where it'll take ages for people to get their passport. Sometimes, appreciate and encourage people that think outside the box to make things better, no be everything you go deh see from negative side.

You seem to want to force me to face your direction
Is cost not a legitimate concern?
How can Nigeria's passport fee compared to minimum wage be the highest in the world?
Even in the ages you were referring to, there were others who got the passport in 2 weeks as well. Why did you fail to see those ones to but lumped everyone together as "old era"? It seems you deh see the past from the negative side all the time as well