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GAZZUZZ:
If BMW do you like this and you set it ablaze, what will you do to 2005 nissan altima?


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We will be using Nissans to roast bole and fish or to fry akara. Such a poorly constructed automobile.

miniziter:
Oga it's you people that need to learn how to read. It's simply written on our website that we should donate with our spare but Nigerians won't listen. Anybody donating a million above is already a thief and a greedy fellow. MMM is for the poor who couldn't afford children school fees and house rent. The reason why MMM is in a big mess is because many people donated millions in the past, get their profit and refused to recommit. And that is why we now have a new MMM that won't allow GH at once. The 100% is fabulous sir. In fact, you need to learn about the new MMM because it's carrying a sustainability features unlike before.
As for me, am stopping MMM the day the website closes. MMM is good only if we understand its ideology.

Oga, you speak about ideology but I will put it to you that everyone knows that the rates on offer and the unreasonably short tenure of the 'investment' will draw a lot more than 'spare money'. You see my man, corruption and criminality is imputed on both the 'taker' and 'giver' be it bribery or drug peddling, both sides are guilty. In this case it is more akin to fraud in which your subscribers are the victims of an inducement that overpowers their sense of propriety. That is a crime. That is why gambling is restricted in several societies and outlawed in others. It is overly enticing, compulsively addictive and financially retrogressive. Like your ponzi scheme it destabilizes and destroys legitimate financial and productive plans, processes and systems of individuals, families, organizations and even countries.

What can justify an unproductive individual prospering based on a scheme that takes from a legit source and gives to him. What is the motivation then to work (to exchange resources for effort, risk or skill). What is the motivation then to get an education or learn a trade. I cannot see what else is a ponzi except a criminal scheme of untold destruction, sorrow and mental and material retrogression.

osazsky:
there's is noting u will tell me about online biz dat I don't know, I have invested in a lot of shit, in fact I was among d first set of persons DST brought fotex trading to Benin city .we organised seminars in diff hotels but it crashed, I can go on and on b wise learn a trade or farm simple

Exactly. Just like the famed American gold rush. The only folks that made any money were those who sold digging tools and supplies along the way. Those that bought into the hype either ended up dead or broke. All financial services and products depend on confidence to gather momentum and grow from which the promoters skim profits. Nothing is produced so the system ultimately is as unstable as a bicycle or motorbike. It needs legs (fairy tales) to stand and forward motion to survive. Once that cannot be sustained and the tales are sour, the whole thing crashes. That is why you will never see me there.

My third principle of investing is simple. 'Be the first customer'. If I cannot consume what I invest in then it is not worth it. I cannot consume paper or coins but only re-exchange them for cash so I am ultimately at the mercy of another mug. That to me is just undesirable.

free2ryhme:
All her degree ends in waste

Typical african....monumentally wasteful.

igbsam:
At the bolded, i don't know what you are talking about. In a crowded and rowdy place, you should know that there will always be people with evil intentions. So please don't go about with that impression that all Nigerians are fraudsters. Before you pay for your spare parts, you have to certify that what you are buying is what you actually needed. If you are not sure of this, then you need to go with a trusted mechanic who would help you decide. Besides, why you sef go buy expired product in the first place.

Eh now, if you have to do all these then you have confirmed his assertion.

Well it should be expected but this is a very commendable step by the military and the COAS. Winning the hearts and minds is important in organizing operations in civilian theatres. This should have been done in Abia before the debacle past week. I am sure the turn out will improve with time and effort.

FrancisIgya:
For the information of IPOB loyalists, the fault is not with Buhari who gave bail-outs and Paris and London club refunds which Ortom cannot account for. Ortom is capitalizing on ethnic majority politics and people's ignorance to impovirish the people of Benue state.

Oga stop this nonsense, both the man who takes narcotics and the man fuelling his habit are both guilty. Bailouts were to keep the people from revolting. Revolt is the hair triger for real change. Anyone who seeks to maintain the status quo is an enemy of the people. The feds give you peanuts having taken a pound and here you are cheering.

If the Federal government wanted to help the people of Benue state it will identify the sources of the highest employment which naturally is agriculture and invest such huge funds. Trust me the billions going into agriculture will turn the state around. Get the beneficiaries to repsy such loans and encourage them to pay taxes to the state coffers. That is how economies work. People are put to work and taxed to fund government.

What did your Buhari led government do. It gave all the money for paying government workers who in any state are just a micro fraction of the population so have no economic significance. These same workers consume up to 70 percent on of the state budget and since no IGR comes in, once the bailout money is exhausted the whole system grinds to a halt again.

We need visionary leadership in this country to really change things. Am afraid the current occupier of that office is not doing anything different from his predecessors. The same failed structure, the same failed policies.

Terver90:
Honestly it is too much parents are even finding it difficult for their children to resume school as low industrial activities can be traced to the state majority of the people depend on the only thing that would have been a source of joy I.e the salary and they are denied of it

With all the agro industrial and mineral resources available....kai abeg poverty is in the mind before the body. That is why we need restructuring so that allocations come to an end, then you guys will hit rock bottom and the jolt hopefully will reset your minds.

Omeokachie:
Obstructing movement is an act of terrorism according to the nigerian army.


I foresee this union being declared a terrorist group, and operation Tolotolo twerk will be launched in Benue soon.

....tolotolo twerk indeed...you guys eh....anyway government na comedy central

A country without men....

AfroSisi:
All I see is emptiness

You ladies ought to tone down the over sexualisation of society. You cannot make credible arguments against the men folk in a quest for respect with people like these constantly undermining such efforts. Haba, where do you see men exhibiting their privates all over front page, social media. Its becoming highly corrosive.

Ishilove:
By 'socialite' you mean 'professional fvcker for hire'? The highest bidder gets access to those large mammary organs and wide punny made artificially tight by alum water/warm coke.

Mscheeew. Hopeless generation.

Hmmm...who taught you this...why na.

Childofaking:
Paying salaries will not stop any governor from executing other projects if they are serious. The problem with the wage bills is that the salary paid to ghost workers is more than the salary of living workers. States should trim down their salaries by purging them of ghost workers.

Story. They have been hunting and exorcising ghosts from government payroll since Murtala overthrew Gowon but the situation of the immoral imbalance between salaries and development has only worsened. And please don't bring the corruption slogan here because these governments are under the closest scrutiny in the history of Nigerian governance andunder a self acclaimed anti-corruption crusade(r). Yet the situation is the worst in the history of Nigeria.

So don't blame ghosts just as corruption's effect on tne economy is overrated. There is just no capacity to govern well simply caused by the structure of the system which has next to no accountability. Run the governments like corporations not like ancient feudal kingdoms and see everyone sit up and every naira efficiently used.

A couple of years ago we all laughed at a certain local government in Nassarawa that had a dozen or so drivers for just one servicable vehicle in its pool. Is that not disgusting to you. Can you run even your home like that. Even if you were a benevolent philanthropist won't you find sensible closure to that matter asap. But that is how our state has been run since independence. Wasted all our oil resources for decades and you are talking about ghosts. What is the average performance criteria by which civil service work is measured, none. The best the CEO's do is to monitor clocking in and out for a while. No one asks what is being done to justify billions of naira each month.

I bet you if they gave you that money to run your state you will sack half within a month. Just preposterous.

Childofaking:
But is he owing workers some months salary or not ?

The NLC is not talking about his performance in other areas, they are concern about workers welfare. No matter the amount of project he executes, one of the key areas he will be measured is workers welfare.

What are you performing when you cannot pay salaries ?

Oga, stop all these abeg. Do we all elect governments and pay taxes just for salaries. What is this mad desire to have only civil servants satisfied. Are they the only ones undegoing economic stress. Developmental projects are for the benefit of all the populace of that locality and whatever bailout funds are provided should meet both salaries and services in equal measure. I have said it countless times, this useless structure by which goverments at all levels spend upwards of 70 percent of revenues on recurrent expenditure is not acceptable. Civil servants are not more hardworking than the general populace and certainly not more important. They are there because there is a people to be governed and when the people suffer they should suffer as well. No institution or enterprise can and should guarantee jobs and salaries for life. If the wage bill is too high the workforce must be shed. We should stop all these abeg. It is killing this country.

If you own a company you will not invest, you will not build it, just be taking loans to pay salaries. What kind of future will you have if you will have one at all. Corporate law should be used in running states just like in the US permitting them to go bankrupt thus cutting all thses useless obligations by law. We need to urgently restructure.

Badluck:
LET TRUE FACTS BE TOLD, NO HAUSA HAVE RULED NIGERIA.

Nigeria got the independence in 1960 which is 57 years now.

Let's look at the records:

The longest serving president in Nigeria is a Northern Christian minority Yakubu Gowon 9 years. He's Angas by tribe from North Central.

Followed by a Nupe man another minority from North Central IBB. He ruled for 8 years.

A kanuri man from Borno, Abacha ruled for 5 years. Kanuri is another minority from North East.

Tafawa Balewa ruled for 6 years a Northern minority from Balewa North East as prime minister . While Zik was the president.

Murtala Mohammed from Auchi but Born in kano ruled for a year before he was assassinated.

Shagari a Fulani man from Sokoto, from core North ruled for 4 years.

Yaradua a Fulani man from Katsina, a core north ruled for 2 years

Abdulsalam a Gwari minority from Niger North Central ruled for 1 year.

Buhari ruled for 10 months(1st time) and now in his 3rd year(2nd time).

Obasanjo a Yoruba man from South West ruled for 3 and half years.

Same Obasanjo a Yoruba man ruled for 8 years.

Shonekan a Yoruba man from South West ruled for 6 months.

Jonathan a minority from South South ruled for 6 years.

Aquiyi ironsi for 7 months from guess where? Abia State.

If you check the whole record, Hausa man never ruled Nigeria.

All the 3 Fulani president, Buhari , Yaradua and Buhari again have ruled for 10 years to date.

Yorubas 12 years

Angas(present day Kanke) for 9 years

Nupe 8 years

Ijaw almost 6 years

Gwari 1 year

Kanuri 5 years

Ironsi : 7 months

Igbos zero month (if we say Ironsi is not an igbo man)

And if you look at the 57 years rule

Muslim rule for 29.5 years

Christian rule for 27.5 years ( Zik presidency not added).

But I keep wondering why some Nigerians keep calling Hausa - Muslim Born to rule.

Many are very economical with the truth, what Obasanjo spent in power is more than what the whole Fulanis spent even if Buhari finish this tenure.

And here is a shocker, the Hausas are actually a majority. Imagine if they begin to look at issues from tribal perspective and begin to emotionally blackmail us all with cries of marginalization which factually is true.

But the poor Hausa man is not. For one way, he understands that we all have been marginalized. Our war should be against the class marginalization. The rich versus the poor.

For it is the same thing that a poor man from Nupe, or the poor man from Efik, Igala, Kanuri, Fulani etc suffers that the poor Hausa man suffers likewise the poor Igbo man. That class disparity ought to be our war. Not the hate resulting from lies that an Hausa man have ruled us for 200 years when infact the true tally is zero.

We are better together. Yes we have grievances, but blackmail, lies, propaganda won't solve them for us. Only the truth can and will.

© Article compiled by Creatimo Senior Partners.

Stop being clever by half. Will you be willing to accept an Ijaw President from another party after Buhari's regime is over thoughtless of one from Bayelsa. Will you not rave and rant. Yaradua is from Katsina, Buhari is from Katsina, two Presidents from one state in less than a double term apart. Where else can this happen and you tell me Nigeria's geo-politics isn't skewed. When there is cross cultural advantage you will gladly hear the terms hausa-fulani, one north, etc but when pressure is placed on the region as in this secessionist drama you gladly delaminate. Shows that the people behind this movement actually know what they are doing in driving a wedge between northern groups.

The guv taking a cue from the centre.

DEBJOCH1:
Thank Chukwuabiama for the miracle, please brother what does your company produce that makes you mix an already corrosive Costic Soda with hot water. Please kindly share because
I also use hydrosulphat with hot water for tie and dye and also use it for dry cleaning.

You guys CANNOT be serious. What in the world are you payed to attempt suicide every working. That job is for machines to do not flesh and blood. Better quit while your ducks are still quacking.

Nice. I'd like to buy one and convert it to a mobile office, but the tyres...hmmm

See how this mess is snowballing The government just played into the hands of the seperatists. They should just hope these countries view the issue from a dispassionate perspective through their ambassadors who will have made independent observations on the brouhaha.

Evaberry:
Has she forgotten that there's a thing called divorce?



Why blast the lady when your husband is the real problem here.

Anyways no surprises here Men will always disappoint women

I'll keep saying men are scum who treats women like lesser beings and no longer have respect for women.

Na true. But what is your response to the other post earlier where a cheating lady broke the man's heart after certain life changing investments were made. Is she female scum too oh hypocritical ladies.

Cheating is unisex and done in equal proportions. It is one argument of the sexes that meets with unequivocal, universal quality.

Racists everywhere. This country is fast going intellectually bankrupt.

rexbuton:
I'm so disappointed that some people are rejoicing over this

It is so terrible to see what Nigerians are becoming. Leadership at all levels should condemn violence and find a negotiable solution. I said it right from the start. The Boko Haram question has no military solution. Violence begets violence. The government needs to de-escalate conflicts in every region. Draw Nigerians to talk to one another and find lasting peace. No one should hold onto set ideologies as to what this country should be. We are all stakeholders.

The military operation in the east this past week leading to chaos, destruction and death was clearly wrong. The government should be quick to remember that had it been that the Boko Haram leader was still in custody or under the law this monster will not have been created. The lessons must be learnt in dealing with all conflicts. Let them end in insults, not bloodshed.

abikerichard:
The Lagos State Government is committed to the safety of its citizens. If everyone is committed to vehicle safety, there will be less carnage on the roads and lesser griefs caused by defective vehicles on the highway. It is our responsibility to support the government to help reduce breakdowns, accidents and fatalities on the highways.

Everyone who makes laws say the same thing. And I agree, you cannot have a progressive society without proactive laws. That is why we advocate for the decoupling of instruments of state. My grouse is the hypocrisy with which it is being done. No one rolled out tanks when Lagos decided it needed new Local Government Councils. The law operated and Federal might prevailed. Instead they were called Local Government Authorities. Today states including Lagos have all sorts of laws and edicts tjat run contrary to the Federal Republic but no one says they are wrong. No one is in detention because of that. Why pretend about what is obvious. That this country needs restructuring. Why seek to hold others back when you do almost the exact thing through the backdoor or creep tjrough the window.

If I drive my car to Lagos what guarantees does the mighty Federal Government give me that it will not be impounded because I donot pay taxes to Lagos state (by proxy)

eyeview:
Lagos state should stop this nonsense. In a bid to make money off its people,they are always looking to duplicate the function of the federal govt.
The fed govt has a roadworthiness cert issued to cover the car on all nigerian roads, so why create another for just lagos. A certificate that will be useless once you drive into ogun state.
So what happens to motorists who stay outside lagos but just in lagos for a meeting, will they be impounded for not having this nonsense.
Am just waiting for the person that will clamp my car for not having it, rather than pay the fine,i will sue for damages in millions. Nonsense

So is Lagos not creating another country by default. Is this not a secessionist move. Can it enforce this, impound vehicles from other states and perhaos arrest its owners who violate (its laws). What is the Joint Tax Board saying about this.

We say no to state police but have the Hisbah operating in some northern states and all manner of paramilitary organisations all around Nigeria with real powers to apprehend, disrupt and even incarcerate Nigerians.

We say we are a non religious, circular democracy but we have sharia laws they say are for adherents to the faith.

When we say restructure so that these things can be understood, negotiated, mutually accepted and made lawful. But the hypocrisy in us will not allow that simply because we want Nigeria laws to hold others back while we need our own laws to forge ahead. We want to have our cake and eat it. We need the security of Nigeria but not the responsibility towards our fellow men.

These are the fault lines of injustice that cause unnecessary turbulence in this country, that makes this entity called a nation unworkable and we will continue to burn resources and shed blood needlessly from time to time to keep it from imploding.

Poverty loading. If West Africa Ceramics decide to leave or,.... if they increase the cost of security (including the IG's cut) or,..... if they decide to withdraw all expats and replace them with Nigerians.... anyway you look at it, Kogi state, the people and the country in general loses.

ProfCyber:
People who understimate Glo should move to an Areaa where the network is okay...cause Glo is still the Best so Far..

Indeed. Bought my tickets, moving house and office and I hope family and friends follow.... because I want a service that is supposed to be wireless.... too early for rubbish collection. That is done at night.

MohammedAlfa1:
Snail network

Slower than that.

Its your country. You want it that way so....enjoy.

Worldbest281:
over hyped neymar is rude,26 never won any major individual awards .so he thinks he can overthrow cavani.wen Ibra was there cavani wouldn't near either penalty or free kick despite the fact that he was a senior man at Napoli too, neymar just came yesterday and started behave childish....

Eh, eh, eh, hold it there. What is all the seniority stuff. Are football clubs secondary school dorms. Players are bought and sold to improve the squad so if Neymar was brought in it was certainly not to understudy anyone but to do stuff better than was seen before and this may or may not include free kicks so cut him some slack.

Thought it is the gaffer that decides that. Player power on display.

erico2k2:
The answer to your question is for government to implement robust Emergency Service . 3 en though you have all what it takes to put out a fire you might need training to put out a serious fire . If your car burst into flame run away.you got insurance to cover the cost however if you have a car you think you can die for by roasting yourself and you the owner did not deem it fit to Insure such car then the Owner's stupidly is way out of this world !

Read the second paragraph pls. It explains my inquiry. Typical car fires are totalled within two to three minutes. Even the best emergency services can only deal with a fraction of them. When victims are trapped in accidents, fire fatalities are near 100 percent anywhere in the world.

Structure is everything. We complain about the Judiciary but not that they are tied to the purse strings of the Executive which they are meant to judge. Which Governor, Council Chair or President will truly love to see a free, unimpaired, independent Judiciary, none. But we the people are quick to side with them against the theird arm and the guarantors of our civil liberties until we fall victims ourselves. If we love sports but have no regards for umpires or the governing bodies, just the players, how can we then participate or enjoy the game. Will there be a game at all.