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ThatAppleGuy:
Did you just buy the car? I don't trust some dealers

This is the most plausible scenario. The car may indeed have a tracker placed by the dealer and spare keys to go. Only waiting for the day you slip up.

Whoa.... Are you a Safari Park ranger....?!?&!

sokera:
I have said it and I will say it again … Ibo are the greatest beneficiary of this useless unitary system,try to check what ibo generated to the FG pocket and see what they get in return you will be shocked

Oga. I am not from the East but I have never seen one, one Igbo man who is scared of competition or is helpless in the face of his future. They are liberal minded and aspirational, the last people that fit into this unwieldly contraption called Nigeria, the least people who benefit from the status quo.

If it is so they will gladly raise the revenues to develop their communities. This has been their practice for decades. The reasons they ventured out in the first place after the civil war was the devastation to their communities and local economies and the fact that there Nigeria had no martial plan like the allies did to Germany, Europe, Japan and much of Asia to reconstruct and refire their economies a after the second world war.

That legacy is what has led to the under development in parts of the east, not the shortcomings in enterprise of the people as you can see all over Nigeria where they pay their fair share to the economies of states all over Nigeria.

Hmmm.... Is he not supposed to observe a sterile cockpit below 10,000 ft.
Someone is obviously not doing his job....
His hobby can become a major incident on a certain day....

Hmmm..... and banned on all Uber rides....

blasterman:
Even the so called 94 team with westerhoff everything was based on calculation. They mostly lose away or draw but at home was where they were shining.

94 world cup qualification we were looking for a draw at the last match to qualify , a loss and CIV would have qualified.

we qualified on goal difference

Oga. At the end of USA 94 we were ranked 5th in the world. How we did it is immaterial.
That is what we should be looking for. Anything else is NOT progress but management.
Continue along the path of management and the world will leave you behind, just as the rest of the Premiership has left Arsenal behind.
Sorry once again to use that example but the lines are just too similar. In any field of human endeavour standing still is retrogression.

For me it is clear. And this is how I conduct my life and business.
You must have a reference point to measure success. Use statistics, metrics, whatever., but you must anchor your decisons on set parameters of productivity in deciding how long a gaffer is to be given to meet up to the best possible results, the highest results you have attained previously.

If I was in that panel that interviewed Rohr I will have shown him where Nigeria soccer was when Clemens Westerhof (our most successful senior mens coach till date) started and where he took us to and the time-span, the means and methods he adopted and demand a replication at the least, if not a better outcome in the same time frame. That is what looking for success entails.

Westerhof started when the number of foreign based players could be counted on the palm of one hand. He single-handedly discovered, recruited, trained and improved a whole slew of talent. When he left our boys were playing in some of the biggest clubs in Europe's premier leagues.

How many players can we say today owe their stardom or career explosion or big club moves to Rohr or the national team. Are we better today that when he started....

In Westerhof's time our best players were made by the Green White Green. Today it is European clubs that make our national team tick and when they cough Covid restrictions, Rohr begins to tremble against.... Cape Verde.... kai... what a step down....

taiocol:
Nigerian is supposed to be winning trophy not being happy about qualifying for tournaments

Shows the level of degeneration.
You can imagine some here saying, for once we are not using 'calculators.'
Their poor mentality cannot see us wining trophies but celebrating qualifications... just as Arsenal did (sorry to use that example) start celebrating top four under Wenger, then top six under the next gaffer and today that is even a mirage.

It is called progressive degeneration, a deterioration into mediocrity.
This is a country that once competed with the biggest and the best in Africa consistently, wiping the floor with the likes of Cape Verde.
Can one remind these medicore thinkers that we were once ranked 5th best in the world, 5th, 5th, 5th..... In 1994 just 27 years ago, not in another generation oh, and the man that took us to such lofty heights is still alive...

What kind of nonsense do we keep on subscribing to. We should be looking for a Westerhof replacement and keep on firing until we get there, not settling for rubbish. Because it appears we are not interested in winning trophies just competing. Just look at how crestfallen the Super Eagle brand has become.... sad.

That is how Arsenal kept on 'managing ' Arsene Wenger's spotty results not seeing the general downward spiral but 'hoping' on the next season, the next tournament until the damage was done and the retrogression set in stone.

How do we qualify Rohr's success or otherwise, our constantly fluctuating global ranking or celebrating a win against a certain Cape Verde, a win the man himself was not confident he could pull off.

The signs are clear. Rohr is well past his sell-by date.

And when you come to think of the fact that the beef around which all this brouhaha is centred is the most unhealthy of all animal proteins is just mind boggling.

I think Nigerians are missing a great opportunity to improve their overall health and wellbeing. Just cut down on the damn thing and let the industry just die a natural death.

For me its down to just a couple of nuggets, a few paltry grams of red meat a week and within the next year red meat will be gone from my diet forever.

I just cannot see what benefits the rearing of cattle brings to this country.

YelloweWest:
I ordered a ride around 2am, I was in labour if not for Uber how I for do?

My daughter always works late atimes till 10pm. She'll leave her car and order Uber because she's too tired to drive....

Playing Russian Roulette with life. Actions have consequences. What is that job truly worth.?

Truthissupreme:
Akeredolu and wike too much

I don't know why udom dull, I don't know why dapo abiodun dull

Those two states are very important in resource control

Makinde just lost steam like erection

Only a clean engine can produce power. They must be in some sort of corruption net and open to secret blackmail and intimidation from the establishment.

Good morning this wonderful evening.....
Elections indeed have brain resetting consequences.... washing away sentiment like hypo.

valentineuwakwe:
It's not about who collect VAT or not but how its is unfairly shared........the northern states ban alcohol consumption, destroys brewing companies but want to share from the same VAT generated in the south from this items they destroy, is that fair?
Now look at these statement below by gov wike;
Rivers generated N15bn in June 2021 but got N4.7bn but “Kano produced N2.8bn in June but Kano also got N2.8bn. Sometimes you don’t want to believe these things exist”.

The F.G and FIRS are just shying away from the main issue here. If F.G can collect, let them share it failry too, its simple!

Indeed.
let us be very practical here as I shared on another post on what I hear is a rumour that started this whole thing.
Wike wants to build a flyover worth a billion naira (theoretically).
Berger submits a Bill which includes VAT amounting to 75 million (at 7.5%).
By your statement above, 23 and a half million comes back to Rivers State as VAT receipts directly from that bridge while 51 and a half million goes to other states some of which receive the equivalent of all the VAT they generate.

So in effect you are taxing Rivers State for trying to provide infrastructure and rewarding States that are either not doing much with their resources or not doing much to generate revenue.

Ordinarily when we say true Federalism means States supporting the centre (not the other way round), this has taken robbing Peter to pay Paul to a whole new unwholesome level. For this is States indirectly propping up other States or Sates robbing their fellow States.

And like I said, it is seriously funny if it happens while the States provides social services through public works contracts for which they make no profit. How can a bridge or sewer or public school or dispensary pay VAT in the process of its construction for heavens sake when it will not be tolled or expected to generate its own revenue. How does this encourage development.

Kai, Nigeria.

Bar1941:
Joseph Yobo and Vincent Eyanma reached the 100 match landmark before Musa, why were they not given thesame treatment?

And by the way FIFA says he's not played up to one hundred games as against NFA's claim, who is right here? Maybe our people added few matches from his Kano pillars record to hasten the process. Nice gesture from him anyways.

Perhaps not the same regime. NFF Presidency is pseudo political so policies and programmes will vary and hopefully improve. It has to if development is to be.

That is why Nigerians should clamour for certain appointed positions today to be opened up for elections, particularly those where their interests are sacrosanct and where appointees have serially failed such as the Heads of Paramilitary institutions for starters.

Cannot verify if this is a fact but speaking to someone this morning saying the origin of this brouhaha was Wike's alarm at the Bill of Quantities Julius Berger presents for the public works he has been undertaking and the humongous VAT attached.

Now I am fully aware VAT is paid by Civil Engineering firms since the scheme was introduced decades ago but when you sit back really think this through does it make sense for governments to indirectly tax one another and for heavens sake public work are non profit, social services whose value lie in enhancing the quality of lives.

It sounds ridiculous to pay VAT for the construction of roads to ease traffic or a bridge or culvert or drain system to preserve the environment. And then see the bulk of that taxation go elsewhere for the development of some other territory. Why punish a state for trying to develop. In this I can understand the angst.

While their counterparts in sane societies are charting the course to the next forward and upward step of humanity, the crumbling Ivory Towers of Nigeria that contribute next to nothing to the nation's development have time only for misdemeanours. What did they say again about idle minds....

I repeat for the umpteenth time, the best thing for higher education in Nigeria will be to go the way of developed nations.... commercialise it to make it competitive and its operators sit up to the demands and realities of qualitative service delivery.

When your degrees and certificates become worthless on account of nonchalance and poor performance and potential students vote with their feet leaving the halls of knowledge empty then your salaries will not be paid and you lose your jobs.

I repeat, nothing of value can ever be harvested from a social (ist) system. He can afford to 'he-goat' around because he is a beneficiary of the beast of mediocrity called 'Allocation'.

pickatyoubackup:
May be they want to be taught a lesson

Copy that. Pun intended...
Indeed elections have consequences.
See where politics of sentiment has led us.

Wow....
Well, like Fela said, 'Teacher, no teach me nonsense...'

How can a Professor die of hardship....how is this imaginable.... exactly what is the worth of his knowledge....

KingGBsky:
Imo government should be ashamed of themselves. In fact the whole south east government should be. I was in Anambra and Imo few weeks ago. Men the roads are an eye-saw. I mean Ibos are industrialists, so it should be showing in their hometown. The area is vast less developed. The whole of eastern Nigeria should be an industrialized hub of Nigeria. Common!

Eyesore you mean.

What exactly is the difference between this government and the one it accused of massive corruption and replaced after the fact....

aviara:
Imagine Wike becomes president of Nigeria, the restructuring will be so devastating to the north

But he won't get their vote and you and I know the sacred rule of elections.... at least two thirds in two thirds...
No one should be able to rule Nigeria taking an extremist position.
At least we have learn't that from the present government and sitting President.... that extremism is dangerous...

Though I am all for restructuring, it should be round a table, not at the tip of the sword.
This issue alone and his tough stance can make Wike unpopular in parts and so un-electable going forward in Nigeria.

But then, that is the beauty in the workings of democracy. Extremists should never win.

cocolacec:
The North and some states in the East will oppose the new VAT Ruling.After Vat collection by state the next should be decentralization of the Army and the police.

Most importantly, the role and the influence of the Central Bank needs to be domesticated so that States can run independent economies.... if the present system remains under the influence and total control of the Federal Government and the Governor is as subdued as the Head of a Federal Parastatal under the Executive.

He is not called a Governor for nothing if he is the lap dog of the Executive and his and their interests run contrary to the rest of the Federation.

And why not a Ministry for Grasscutter Affairs headed obviously by Bugs Bunny..... comedy in motion...

Arnold1:
Why? For speaking the truth?

Please explain what part of what I wrote is trash.

The previous Governors should be added to the banner as well for total neglect.

Why not vote them back into power then to come clear their mess.

You are not a serious citizen. You want to excuse the people who should do it here and now and go after those either voted out or expired.

Little wonder Nigeria is in a mess. Hope you are not a CEO or shareholder of any serious enterprise with this mindset.

This is what I keep on saying. Private capacity far, far outstrips what organised industry and government provides.

This is where the process of reforms towards stable national power supply should have started by a serious, wise and competent government to totally liberalise the industry/market by:

Organising the grid around capacity clusters and give then licenses to generate and distribute locally at micro to medium scale.

Encourage the trade in of older, polluting equipment for better, greener alternatives while establishing cooperatives to upscale equipment.

Once these small power clusters have become stable and proven to be profitable they can then be bought over by the large regional players on the carrot attraction of economies of scale and potential lower tariffs.

So that the big energy companies will be inheriting proper, functional and profitable structures and this will help the system work well from the get go.

Why the GSM network was speedily successful is because while the GSM companies owned the networks, individuals owned the phones. If they had to provide both, it will have been much more complicated and a lot less successful.

For power to succeed government needs to create a system by which caoacity is met in the middle so both the provider and the consumer invest.

....don't worry. The Right-wing Taliban and the AR-15 will settle the matter.

Banana Republic. His appearance alone is enough to set back that country for the next decade. What a mess of a nation.

But when sane minds ask for the restructuring that will enable State governments establish and control their own security institutions exclusively, they will oppose it out of sentiment.

Is is not better to engage the teeming youth of unemployed to secure the schools rather than shut them down further fuelling the vicious cycle of degeneration.

I just cannot understand why the government of Nigeria is so bereft of ideas and the people so ignorant of their rights to decent governance.

Suffering is good for the soul so that the knowledge that elections have serious consequences will be an established fact going forward.

They should not be filled with anything. The reason why hollow blocks are sometimes used in foundations is to present a moisture barrier between the soil surrounding the building which can get very moist under rainfall and the materials used in filling to grade which should remain stable.

Laterite which is a derivative of clay compounds has distinctive properties of water affinity. It attracts and bonds to water easiily and thus will cause two undesirable effects.

It will increase in volume and place tensile stresses within hollow block structure degrading its lifespan.
Secondly, it will act as a capillary to transmit moisture into the foundation leading to the degredation of the fill material.

Where foundations have to be reinforced to provide retention concrete is the best material for that purpose however alternative waterproofing regimes should be provided to protect the fill.